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AIvUMNI NEWS

rHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO

FALL 1982

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Viewpoint

Toward the Future

by Chancellor William E. Mo ran

When the Chancellor welcomed freshmen and transfer students at the
traditional Opening Convocation this fall, he challenged them to use
the university experience to improve their vision for the future. This
well issued advice gives us an insight to Dr. Moran's personal convic-
tions and educational values.

Welcome to your University.
If you have not already
discovered it, you will soon find
it a hospitable, welcoming place,
a community in which members
are interested in one another and
care for one another. Faculty and
staff alike have been looking for-
ward to your arrival this fall, and
we are really delighted to see you
here.

The University to which you
have come is complex but not
large as public universities are
measured today. It might astonish
earlier generations of students,
were they present today, to hear
this one of 10,000 students
described as "not large." But size
is a relative thing, and measured
against campuses of 30,000 and
40,000 our own looks almost
folksy. Because the campus is
complex, however, each of us
must accept some special responsi-
bility to look after others when-
ever help is needed, and we do.
You have come from all parts
of the country and from all cor-
ners of the state of North Caro-

lina. Your program interests are
as varied as your geographical
background. So is the University
a place of variety: six professional
Schools and a large College of
Arts and Sciences, twenty-two
residence halls, a multitude of
extracurricular programming
(much of it student-operated), a
host of intramural and inter-
collegiate athletic programs, 633
faculty, and a wonderful library
with a million documents and
books. All of these varied
resources are here to your
advantage.

The College of Arts and
Sciences in particular and each of
the professional Schools vary
greatly, too. But I want to note
that these units have a great deal
in common as well. All are teach-
ing both undergraduate and grad-
uate students; all are concerned
with your personal growth; all are
staffed and equipped to help you
make the most of your time here;
all are saturated with the Univer-
sity's rich history and traditions
— traditions that bind the past to

the present and make the present
coherent in a way that a tradition-
less community can never under-
stand. With these roots in the
past, our College and Schools are
at the same time future-oriented,
as is the University itself. It is the
business of faculty and students to
be so disposed — to be explorers,'
jointly peering into the murky
future. The shadowy outlines that
are there are better read by the
well-educated, by those with an
intelligent comprehension of the
past and present.

The central task of the Univer-
sity to which you have come is to
improve your vision. Vision is the
capacity to see. It also means a
perceived, but as yet unrealized,
ideal. The improvement of your
vision in both respects is the
University's business, as it is your
own. An unflinching awareness of
what actually is and a lofty con-
ception of what may yet be are
signs that your education has
begun.

See Viewpoint, p. 30

ALUMNI NEWS

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO

FALL 1982

VOLUME 71, NUMBER 1

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

Lois Brown Haynes '54. Salisbury

President

Cathy Stewart Vaughn '49, Montreal

First I'ice President

Janice Atkinson Cutchin '59, Tarboro

Second Vice President

Diana Chatham Calaway '55, Mount Airy

Recording Secretary

Barbara Parrish '48, Greensboro

Executive Secretary- Treasurer

TRLSTEES

Clara Crumpler Bitter '65. Asheville

Asenath Cooke '34, Huniersville

Gerry Pearce Dunham '51, Birmingham, AL

Betty Crawford Ervin '50. Morganlon

Ruth Sevier Foster '53, Lenoir

Grace Evelyn Loving Gibson '40, Laurinburg

Cora Lee Warren Gold '53, Rocky Mount

Patricia Griffin '63, Sandy Ridge

Alma Ormond Husketh '39, Creedmoor

Dr. Rubin Maness '72, Goldsboro

Marilyn McCollum Moore '49. Reidsville

Mark Newton '81. Burlington

Lois Bradley Queen "60, Titusviile, FL

Susan McCallum Rudisill '70. Hickory

Patricia Shore '58, Washington, DC

Sherry Keeton Smith "80, Greensboro

Patty Walker '82. Pfafftown

Edna Earle Richardson Walson '40, Roscboro

Ellenor Eubanks Shepherd '52. Greensboro

Alumni Annual Giving Council Chair, ex-officio

Bronna Willis '62, Lynchburg, VA

Finance Committee Chair, ex-officio

THE EDITORLAL BOARD

Ruth Sevier Foster '53, Lenoir, Chair

Roxie Nicholson Guard '74, Washington, DC

Helen Morgan Harris '41, Raleigh

Lee W. Kinard, Jr. '74, Greensboro

James M. Lancaster '72, Greensboro

Martha Mitchell '76, High Point

Marie D. Moore '63. Raleigh

Carol Rogers Needy '52. Charlotte

Sue Thomas Watson '39, Greensboro

Ellen Strawbridge Yarborough '55,

Winston-Salem

Jim Clark '78 MFA, Faculty Representative

Kendra Smith '83, Student Representative

Lois Brown Haynes '54, Salisbury

President of the Association, ex-officio

Josephine Couch Walker '57, Winsion-Salem

Immediate Past Chair, ex-officio

Miriam Corn Holland '74, Greensboro

Editor of Ahimni Publications, ex-officio

Barbara Parrish '48, Greensboro

Executive Secretary-Treasurer, ex-officio

PUBLICATION STAFF

Editor: Miriam C. Holland '74

Editorial Assistant: Joseph Gainer '82 MFA
Photographer: Bob Cavin. Information Services

CONTENTS

ALl^MNI NEWS is published quarterly by
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*-^^ of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1000
Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC 21412.
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Viewpoint

Toward the Future

by Chancellor William E. Moran

is for Reading

Children's literature sets young minds toward
intellectual and personal growth

The Southern Woman

Three essayists consider the image of the
southern woman from different perspectives

Paper for Art

Dillard Paper Company renews support

for UNC-G's art program 12

Art for Paper

Three alumni offer statements on their works 13

The Centenary Project
From the Founder's Pen

Daily Labors that Built a University

by Dr. Richard Bardolph 14

On Campus

Spartan Sports

Coaches Lead Team Efforts

by Ty Buckner '84

20

The Classes

Personal notes, special achievements,
marriages, sympathies, deaths

22

Alumni Business

bv Barbara Parrish '48

A casual gathering of co-
workers hovered around the
office coffee pot last fall when the
conversation turned, as it often
did, to their current reading. The
usual quick synopses, critiques,
and recommendations followed,
but one young man, a new
employee named Joel, did
not contribute.

"Hey, Joel," the group
wanted to know, "what
are you reading these
days?"

Joel was a spring grad-
uate of a well-known jour-
nalism school, so his sug-
gestions would be par-
ticularly valuable. The
group expected the name
of an author or title of a
book he had read that
others would Hkely enjoy.

Joel responded without
shame: "Oh, I haven't
ever read anything that
wasn't assigned for a
class."

It is a true story. Joel is
a bright young man with
a promising future. He
has a quick wit, a winning
personality, and has
learned to expect a
reasonable degree of success in all
of his pursuits.

But he does not read. Is Joel
handicapped because of his lack
of reading, or does he support the
case for a deemphasis on reading?

Peggy McLarty Byrd '76 (MLS)
has a strong response. "In our

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reading, we are exposed to ideas,
opinions, and experiences that are
broader than our own limited
lives. We expand our horizons
through vicarious experiences that
we can only get by reading. We
open ourselves to new possi-

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Reading

browsing, they will be used. And
if adults and children can share
these materials, even firmer foun-
dations are set."

Before children can develop
their own interest in reading, they
must have positive experiences
with books and stories.
Reading aloud is one of
many significant techni-
ques for getting children
and books together.

"Our family has always
read aloud together," says
Peggy, mother of two
teenagers. "We use
reading as a family activ-
ity in which we can all par-
ticipate, each of us choos-
ing, reading, or telling
favorite stories. Now that
the kids are moving
toward young adulthood,
our reading-for-content
phase has passed and we
use reading as a vehicle
for solidifying family ties.
When we feel our good
humor beginning to fray a
bit, someone always
brings our Pooh or
Ramona or the Jack Tales
and we spend an hour
renewing these old friend-

bilities, new worlds. Those who
don't read seem to remain within
a narrow tunnel of thought.
Unfortunately, this lack of ex-
perience is passed on to children.
Non-readers beget non-readers
too frequently."

Peggy has taught courses in
children's literature at UNC-G for
eight years. She feels that reading
is fundamental in one's intellec-
tual and emotional development
and should therefore be encour-
aged from infancy. The responsi-
biHty of helping young ones form
a habit of reading falls first upon
the family. "If a pre-schooler sees
Mom, Dad, big brother, or big
sister reading, it's a more normal
activity to learn. If books and
magazines are available for

ships, remembering how we first
discovered them. It always brings
us closer together, and we've
grown to depend upon these times
as a family."

Last fall Peggy found an
unusual forum where she could
promote her belief in the value of

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For toddlers

The Mother Goose
Treasury

by Raymond Briggs.
My personal favorite.
An unusually compre-
hensive edition with
marvelous illustrations.
The helpful inde.x of
first lines makes this the
edition of choice.

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ecommended Children's Books

Alumni News asked Lois Winkel, nationally known authority on
children's literature, to develop a list of recommended children's
books for various age levels. She is currently editor of Brodart's
The Elementary School Library Collection, a collection develop-
ment guide for libraries, now in its I3th edition. She is married
to Dr. Theodore C. Hines, who serves on the faculty at UNC-G
in the School of Education. Lois is a doctoral candidate at
Columbia University's School of Library Science.

Grandfather Tales

collected by Richard
Chase.

Rich in the language of
the mountains of North
Carolina and Virginia,
these American versions
of English and Irish
folktales are exciting for
their humor and high
adventure.

Freight Train

by Donald Crews.

Stunning, boldly colored graphic illus-
trations identify the different cars that
comprise a freight train and follow it on
a journey.

Goodnight Moon

by Margaret Wise Brown.
I still haven't found a better bedtime
story. While a young rabbit says good-
night in rhyming verse to various objects
in his room, the young child follows
with delight the mouse who scampers
about the double page spreads.

The Nutshell Library

by Maurice Sendak.
These four little books in rhymed verse
— one a counting book, one an
alphabet, a third a calendar and the
fourth the story of a negative child —
delight listeners.

Max's New Suit by Rosemary Wells.
A brilliant board book celebrating the
determination to be independent.

For four to six year olds

Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak.
The ultimate picture story book. The
integral blending of rhythmic text and
dramatic illustrations combine to re-
count a young boy's fantastic escapade
with seemingly wild things.

Mr. Gumpy's Outing

by John Burningham.
Crosshatch watercolor illustrations help
tell the story of a man who willingly
takes individual animals along for a
boat ride. Though admonished not to
misbehave they forget, and to shouts of
joy from the young listener, the boat is
overturned.

Frog and Toad Are Friends

by Arnold Lobel.

Five short humorous and easy to read

stories relate the adventures of these two

best friends. The first in a very popular

series.

Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel.
Illustrated by Blair Lent.
In this humorous folktale, a young
Chinese boy suffers from having an
incredibly long name.

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.
Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.
The often wry adventures of a bear of

very little brain, a gloomy donkey, and
an exuberant piglet, and the ever
resourceful Christopher Robin is
justifiably one of the most beloved
children's books ever.

For seven to nine year olds

Tell Me a Mitzi by Lore Segal.
Illustrated by Harriet Pincus.
Three stories in skillful text and cartoon-
like illustrations tell the adventures of
Mitzi and her younger brother Jacob.
The first story, "Mitzi Takes a Taxi,"
told in hilariously detailed run-on
sentences, has never failed to bring gales
of laughter from the child listener or
reader.

Tailor of Gloucester, written and
illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Though Potter's books are usually con-
sidered for the very young child, this
most satisfying story about the mice
who help an ill tailor complete the job
that brings his fortune is really most
appreciated by slightly older children.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

by Shel Silverstein.

Verses, often wry, accurately reflect

young people's feelings and perceptions.

Wildly popular with both children and

adults.

Charlie Brown's Fifth Super Book
of Questions and Answers etc. About
All Kinds of Things and How They
Work by Charles M. Schultz.
The most recent title in this highly
popular series answers in clear text,
drawings and photographs how
numerous mechanical things function.

For ten to twelve
year olds

Beauty by Robin McKinley.

A considerably embellished retelling of

"The Beauty and the Beast." Brilliant

prose and character development and

delineation keep the reader thoroughly

involved.

Anno's Medieval World

by Mitsumasa Anno.
The deceptive picture book format
relates people's reaction to the challenge
of scientific knowledge that the world
is round to the long held belief that it
is flat.

Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon
Pickle, and Other Modern Verse,

compiled by Stephen Dunning,
Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith.
Probably the single anthology that has
done most to promote the appeal of
poetry to young people. Stunning
photographs and poems by a wide varie-
ty of artists touch on many themes,
some humorously, others thought-
provokingly.

The Great Gilly Hopkins

by Katherine Paterson.
Eleven-year-old Gilly has lived in foster
homes since she was three. Unwilling to
trust or lo\e, she persists in her belief
that her mother will come take her
away. Particularly noteworthy for the
memorably drawn characters.

Traveller in Time by Allison Uttley.
Probably the single best space and time
fantasy ever written. Penelope disco\ ers
that she has the capability of moving
back into 16th century England and is
involved in the plot to save Mary, Queen
of Scots.

Books for parents

Babies Seed Books

by Dorothy Butler.
A thorough explanation of the impor-
tance of reading to children before they
enter school, accompanied by the
descriptions of man> recommended
titles.

Parents' Guide to Children's Reading

by Nancy Larrick.

Describes the role of the parent in
encouraging reading, recommending
titles and delineating strategies to gain
access to materials.

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family reading. She offered a
series of workshops for parents on
children's literature through her
church. West Market Street
United Methodist in Greensboro.
She found that parents are hungry
for information on how to
encourage family reading. They
want lists of recommended books
for children at various ages and
reading levels. They want to gain
confidence in choosing and
evaluating children's materials.
And, while too often professionals
have assumed that mothers were
the prime movers in home
reading, Peggy found equally as
many fathers eager to participate
in family story times.

Most parents realize that help-
ing children develop good reading
habits is important. But so many
seem to think that once a child
gets off to a good start in reading,
he will continue to develop
without encouragement. "Along
about fourth grade," warns
Peggy, "a child has mastered
much of the basic reading pro-
cedures and techniques. Parents,
who very conscientiously sought
out books for their children as
pre-schoolers, often slack off in
their involvement with the child's
reading because they figure the
young reader is ready to be on his
own. But that's a mistake. Parents
should continue to read aloud to
help the child expand his listening
as well as reading skills, and to
provide this bank of vicarious
experience that will enrich his life
as he grows older. Reading alone
for pleasure across a wide range
of subjects should be encouraged,
but the fun of reading, the
fellowship of shared reading is the
dimension of the art that ensures
that reading will never stop."

Families have the luxury of
choosing from a selection of over
40,000 children's books currently
in print. School media specialists
and children's librarians can make
suesestions for familv readine.

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The Hughes Collection

Gladys Hughes '28 was a
dedicated education student at the
North Carolina College for
Women, now UNC-G. Her men-
tors were Ruth and Mary Fitz-
gerald at the Curry Demonstra-
tion School who remained her
advisors until death. Their inspira-
tion started young Gladys on a
lifelong love of children and
children's literature which would
ripple outward to enrich the lives
of hundreds of elementary school
teachers and thousands of their
young students.

After graduation. Miss Hughes
taught fifth grade in Greenville,
NC, then became fifth grade critic
teacher at East Carolina Teachers
College. She earned her MA in
Education in 1937 from George
Peabody. In 1938, she began her
life's service as Supervisor in
Teacher Training at Towson State

leaps and bounds. She bought new
books as they were added to
selected lists in professional jour-
nals, but she also scavenged
libraries and bookstores for
discarded children's books, which
she often mended herself. By her
retirement in 1974, her residence
was lined with books.

"So often a topic would come
up in conversation," remembered
sister Lee Ona Hughes Phillips,
"and Gladys would go straight to
a shelf to pull out a book that
related to it. She loved to talk
books; she had a book for every
problem. My children spent many
hours listening to her read aloud."

Along with her library of
children's books, Miss Hughes
amassed a large doll collection.
Many of the dolls are characters
from the books she loved. "Each
doll was placed next to the book
it characterized," recalled sister
Mary Florence Hughes of Greens-
boro. "She never stopped collect-
ing, even in her retirement."

Upon Miss Hughes' death in
December of 1981, her family, in-
cluding four sisters who attended

"A book should illumine the whole adventure of living. "

Lois Lenski

Teachers College, now Towson
State University, in Maryland. She
served there throughout her pro-
fessional life, finally as Associate
Professor of Childhood Educa-
tion.

"I find my work most inter-
esting here," she wrote Alumnae
Secretary Clara Byrd in 1939.
"Next to our [UNC-G] I think it
the finest teacher training insti-
tution in the United States."

Her collection of children's
books at Towson was a natural
outgrowth of her teaching. Start-
ing from a small group of selected
books, her personal library grew,
at first gradually, and then by

the University, saw that her wish
was fulfilled in giving her collec-
tion of over 1,000 children's
books to UNC-G's McNutt
Center for Instructional Media.
"We were so thrilled to receive
the collection," said Ms. Nanny
Foster '77 (MLS), librarian at
McNutt Center and herself a
teacher of children's literature.
"The Hughes Collection contains
hundreds of titles that strengthen
the selection offered in the Center
for use by students and teachers.
Some are now out of print; some
are very valuable. For example,
The Art of Maurice Sendak by
Selma G. Lanes, is a lovely book

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Mary Florence Hughes and Lee Ona Hughes
Phillips admire their sister's collection at
McNutt Center.

that we had been wanting to buy
since it was pubhshed; we simply
could not afford to purchase it.
Now we have the book, thanks to
the addition of the Hughes Col-
lection."

Most of the books are fiction
works that will be integrated into
the circulating collection. The
staff has begun the massive
cataloging project, and many of
the titles have already found their
places on the shelves of McNutt
Center. A special bookplate
designates each as a gift of Miss
Hughes. It was designed and illus-
:rated by Miss Hughes' lifelong
Friend, Isabel Wilner, a librarian
it Towson State.

The Hughes Collection, a rich
3art of Gladys Hughes' life, will
low enrich the lives of many more
■eaders.

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literature written for young people
as central to a child's education.
In 1921, he proposed to the Amer-
ican Library Association his idea
for a medal to honor an outstand-
ing work each year. He explained
that an award would serve multi-
ple purposes:

• To encourage original and
creative work in the field of books
for children.

• To emphasize to the public
that contributions to the literature
for children deserve recognition as
do poetry, plays, and novels.

• To give those librarians who
make it their life work to serve
children's reading interests an
opportunity to encourage good
writing in this field.

The American Library Associ-
ation was convinced and agreed to
sponsor the annual award.
Melcher named the medal in
honor of John Newbery, an
eighteenth-century bookseller and
the first known Enghsh publisher
of children's books. Newbery
translated Mother Goose from
French and may have been the
first to identify a potential
"market" in children's books.

the membership of ALSC, spend
a year reading, evaluating,
rereading, nominating, and
reading yet again the children's
books written by American
authors published within the
previous year. The effort culmi-
nates at the awards ceremony in
July when the winners are publicly
announced.

Lucy Cutler '77 (MLS) is media
specialist at the Forsyth Country
Day School in Lewisville, NC. She
was chosen to serve on the award
committee for the selection of the
1982 Newbery Medal, an exper-
ience she considers the most
stimulating and perhaps the most
instructive responsibility in her
professional experience.

"During the past year I've read
more intensively than I had been
able to since my childhood sum-
mer vacations," she writes. "As
a member of the Newbery Com-
mittee, which awards this coun-
try's most important prize for a
book written for children, I finally
had an unarguable excuse to put
reading children's books first on
my list."

In January of this year, the

We expand our horizons through vicarious experiences that wt
can only get by reading.

Selecting the Newbery

Frederic G. Melcher, an Amer-
can publisher and avid supporter
3f children's books, envisioned

Through the years, the award
has grown to be a prestigious
honor of enormous importance in
the field of children's literature.
It has not strayed from Melcher's
original intent.

The burden and delight of judg-
ing book nominations for the
annual award rests on the Associ-
ation for Library Service to
Children (ALSC), a division of
the American Library Associ-
ation. The award committee uses
its collective judgment to name the
winners from the hundreds nomi-
nated. Participants, chosen from

committee met in Denver to make
its final decision for the award.
The Newbery Medal Award for
1982 was given to A Visit to
William Blake's Inn: Poems for
Innocent and Experienced
Travelers by Nancy Willard.
Honor Books were Ramona
Quimbly, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
and Upon the Head of the Goat:
A Childhood in Hungary 1 939-1 944
by Aranka Siegal. "When we
realized that we'd selected poetry,
fiction and non-fiction," recalls
Lucy, "we really did feel that we
had something for evervone."

Fall 1982 Alumni News / 5

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Lois Lenski's Regional Books

'The big event of the 1940s,"
wrote Lois Lenski in her auto-
biography, "was the award of the
Newbery Medal to Strawberry
Girl in 1946. No one was more
astonished than I to receive it."

The famous children's author
and illustrator had not expected to
receive such high recognition so
soon for a book that represented
a new direction in children's liter-
ature. Strawberry Girl was part of
a series that Lois Lenski called
Regionals. "I had taken my
material and my characters direct
from real life instead of from the
imagination," she wrote.

Lois Lenski had written and
illustrated other children's books:
The Little Family, the "Davy"
books, the "Mr. Small" books,
the Roundabout America Series,
and historical fiction. "But un-
doubtedly her most distinguished
contribution to the field of
children's literature has been her
regional fiction," wrote Dr.
Eugenia M. Hunter, UNC-G Pro-
fessor of Education, Emeritus,
and long-time teacher of chil-
dren's literature. "Because of Lois
Lenski's belief that books must
grow out of life itself, she has
gone to the regions she writes
about; she has talked to the peo-
ple, she has eaten in their homes,
she has made sketches from real
Ufe, she has taken photographs of
the locale and the people; she has
tried to 'stand in their shoes' and
feel as they feel."

Strawberry Girl was published
only after Lois Lenski spent
months in the strawberry fields of
Florida; Cotton in My Sack grew
out of her first-hand research in
Arkansas; Prarie School, in South

l,ois Lenski al the druwinii hoard .

Dakota; Bayou Suzette, in New
Orleans; Blue Ridge Billy, in Ashe
County, North Carolina.

Her insistence on authenticity in
the Regionals led to a colorful use
of colloquial speech. By reproduc-
ing the dialect of the area, she
hoped to make the characters
more vivid to readers unfamiliar
with the region. But her use of
dialect was questioned by some
critics of the day for "corrupting"
young readers into using non-
standard English.

In her defense of folk speech,
she wrote the American Dialect
Society, whose president was Dr.
George P. Wilson, a Professor of
English at the Woman's College.
In a letter to Dr. Wilson in 1946

she confessed, "I had been fight-
ing a 'one-woman' dialect battle
until I accidentally learned of your
Society." Dr. Wilson checked
Lois Lenski's use of collo-
quialisms for accuracy. He add-
ed support to her use of local
speech patterns by citing other
writers who had employed dialect:
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens,
and others. He wrote in her
defense, "Had she turned the
speech of these people into stan-
dard English, she would not have
been true to facts — important
facts — that reveal people. A chile
who reads one of her regional
books gets the impression that he
has visited the inhabitants
portrayed."

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Lois Lenski continued her
dialect wortc with the hope that
she would promote greater under-
standing of different kinds of
people. Eventually, the objections
subsided.

In the fall of 1958, Lois Lenski
again asked George Wilson for his
help. She wanted his recommen-
dation for a library in which she
could deposit some of her draw-
ings, books, manuscripts, letters,
and related materials gathered
during her career as author and
illustrator of children's books.
Professor Wilson suggested the
Walter Clinton Jackson Library
of the Woman's College, not
because of his own association
with the library, but because of
the library's prior commitment to
children's literature. Outstanding
collections had already been
acquired for the library at the
prompting of the School of
Education, the School of Home
Economics, and the Department
of Art.

Lois Lenski was impressed. She
presented to College Librarian
Charles M. Adams two separate
collections: The Lois Lenski Col-
lection of her own works, and her
collection of Early American
Children's Books. Both have
become prized holdings of the
library's Special Collections divi-
sion, and, although placed in pro-
tected chambers, may be enjoyed
and studied by students, alumni,
and friends.

The Lois Lenski Collection in-
cludes 225 books, mostly first edi-
tions, all signed by the author.
Twenty-nine bound manuscript
volumes, original drawings,
sketches, photographs, letters,
and notes chronicle her work and
her life. One can trace the devel-
opment of Blue Ridge Billy from
her early sketches, scribbled notes
on mismatched paper scraps, and
quickly jotted phrases in moun-
tain dialect that she collected dur-
ing her extended visits to Ashe

County, NC, in 1945. Her young
mountain hero, Billy Honeycutt,
takes shape in her sketchbooks,
her working manuscript, and her
final ink drawings. Out of these
materials, books were born. One
can read Lois Lenski's own
account of how her books were
produced in her autobiography,
Journey Into Childhood, and
return to these rnanuscripts and
sketches with a keener appreci-
ation.

Many people, both children and
adults, loved Lois Lenski. One of
her avid fans. Dr. Eugenia
Hunter, was instrumental in
seeing that in June, 1962, the
Woman's College of North
Carolina conferred upon Lois
Lenski the honorary degree of
Doctor of Humane Letters. Dr.
Hunter had the honor of present-
ing her at commencement and
wrote the citation:

LOfS LENSKI, D.H.L.

Lois Lenski, author, illustrator,
huiuunitariati, recipient of the Newbery
Medal in 1946 and of the National Child
Study Association Award in 1948, is
known to thousands of children, parents,
teachers, and librarians in the United
States and throughout the world.

Her works have been published in
European, Asian, and Latin American
countries: and her regional stories have
attracted the attention of specialists and
scholars interested in folklore and dialect.

Her interest in the Woman 's College is
attested by her presentation to the Col-
lege Library of a collection of first edi-
tions of her works, and of a valuable
collection of papers, letters, and
illustrations.

Lois Lenski, for your distinguished
work in the field of children 's literature,
for your warm and sympathetic feelings
for and descriptions of North Carolina,
and for your interest in and contributions
to the Woman 's College Lbrary, by vote
of the Faculty and that of the Trustees of
the University of North Carolina, [the
H 'oman 's College] confers upon you the
honorary degree of Doctor of Humane
Letters with all its rights and privileges.

. . . and surrounded by her UNC-G friends in 1962
Eugenia Hunter, and Dr. George Wilson.

fl-r) College librarian Charles Adams. Dr.

Fall 1982 Alumni News / 7

The Southern Woman

In one version, she is rocking on a porch swing, sipping mint juleps,
and fanning herself with a discarded church program. Her father's first
name is Colonel and her mother organizes church socials. Her favorite
sentence is "Well, I nevah," and her favorite pastime is fainting in the
arms of a handsome gentleman in military uniform.

In another version, she is gowned in a long dress and good manners.
Her hands — which have cooked, prayed, and washed laundry and
children — remain soft and supple players of the piano.

In a third version, her curled hair is hidden under a beauty parlor
hair dryer while she gossips about the woman who has just left the shop.
She is at the mercy of a husband who drives a pick-up truck cluttered
with rifles, confederate flags, and chewing tobacco.

The term, "southern woman," evokes a multitude of images which
have been provided by our literature, movies, and popular myths. When
compared with half the population of the South — white, black, young,
and old — the images quickly shatter. In fact, when confronted with
these images, alumnae of a southern school once called the Woman's
College probably ask, "Who, me?"

In the following series of essays, three writers reflect on the
southern woman," identifying what the term has meant for them in
their individual experience and how southern women have related to
the image culture has created for them.

Surviving the Stereotype

by Joseph A. Gainer (MFA) '82

This essay is his first

Mr. Gainer is a recent graduate of the UNC-G creative writing program,
as a permanent staff member of the .Alumni A'en'i.

Several writers, among them Anne Firor Scott in her book. The Southern
Lady, have pointed out that the image culture imposed on nineteenth
century southern women was an image no human could reproduce.
According to Scott and others, women were expected to be chaste sexual
magnets before marriage, devoted wives and mothers after marriage,
perfect hostesses, proficient cooks, and pious churchgoers. As one
southern writer described his ideal southern woman, "Everything under
ler care went on with perfect system."

Certainly this image survives today in one form or another, and
certainly it, like any stereotype, is inevitably flawed and tragically unfair
to the individuals it attemps to describe. A destructive conflict must
have existed between what was expected of the model southern woman
and what most humans are capable of supplying, and between a
woman's predetermined role and what she may have wished for herself.
In reflecting on the term, "southern woman," I think of my most per-
sonal contact with nineteenth century southern women.

A vivid memory of my childhood is sitting on my grandfather's front
porch in summer evenings and hearing mixed the crickets the slow,
deliberate voice of my grandfather as he told me stories that were almost

8 / Alumni News Fall 1982

like legends to me, of names of people who were my ancestors: Aunt
Nannie, Aunt Rendy, Uncle Willy, Aunt Mamie. For me, these names
were on an equal plane with Zeus, Hercules, and Athena.

These ancestors lived on what could be called a transplanted plan-
tation named Ferndale and built on the South Branch of the Potomac
River. In spirit and allegiance, the Ferndale family was southern.
Although they were poor, they held to the customs of aristocracy. The
etiquette of the southern lady and gentleman shared with the Ten
Commandments as the governing principles of Ferndale.

My personal image of a "southern lady" is in the likeness of the
ancestral matriarchs of Ferndale. I look at the discolored photographs
taken of them at the turn of the century and see these women in their
long dresses covering their massive petticoats and corsets. I am told
they sat perfectly vertical, never touching the backs of their chairs, and
that the corsets in which they strapped themselves shrunk their waist
size to a diameter only slightly larger than a two-year-old sapling. They
were impeccable hostesses and crackerjack cooks whose tables were
glutted with corn, sweet potatoes, green beans, ham, chicken, and wild
game.

The stories of these women were told to me with such warmth, I
can only think of them with fondness and nostalgia, and yet I know
their lives were struggles and their choices were limited. According to
my grandfather, the women were forever preparing food. When they
salvaged free moments, they toiled over quilts, they crocheted, they
knitted. They also bore and raised children; they made their clothes,
directed them to do their evening chores, and read the Bible to them.
Their role was to serve the men and children with the devotion, profi-
ciency, and cheerfulness characteristic of a southern lady.

When I look at their photographs, I cannot imagine these stiff,
formal women openly revoking against the roles and manners expected
of them, but as I see their eyes gazing at the camera, I wonder if deep
beneath all the garments and propriety, there were some unspoken
aspirations and unrealized revolutions. I look at the figure of Aunt
Rendy, who later moved to Wheeling and who, I was told, "was a little
wilder and didn't mind her mother." And I look at Aunt Mamie, who
was widowed in Nebraska and "took up art" to support herself and
her child before moving back to Ferndale. Perhaps they did not confess
it to their families or even to themselves, but I suspect these women
did at some moment dream of foreign places, different lives for
themselves.

While I don't want to over-generahze or over-ideahze, when I think
of the Ferndale women — and through them, the broader population
of nineteenth century southern women — I am struck by their resihence
and enduring strength. My only living contact with them was when I
was three-years-old, and my mother took me to visit Aunt Mamie.
Reaching her ninety-nine-year-old hands through the bars of a nursing
home bed. Aunt Mamie touched my hair and called me her "baby
chick." Although I was frightened of her ancient, wavering voice and
hands, I could see beneath her grey eyes a love capable of transforming
generations, a hving, growing, enduring human, a human in spite of
the roles, duties, and corsets which had bound her all her long life. For
me that memory sustains a faith in human nature. Individual southern
women — and other victims of unjust stereotype — have, are, and will
continue to survive and rescue their lives from the images and models
imposed on them by their society.

Fall 1982 Alumni News / 9

This Citizen-of-the-World is First a Soutlierner?

by Candace Lambeth Flynt (MFA) '74

Ms. Flynt is a Greensboro writer. Her first novel, Chasing Dad, was published by Dial Press
in 1980. Irredeemable Acts is the working title for her new novel, which she is now completing.

When my first novel appeared, I was surprised to hear people
comment how southern it was. Although I have lived most of my life
in Greensboro, I have really considered myself — as most writers seem
to — first a citizen of the world or at least of this country. By fact, I
belong to certain economic, social, regional, and racial groups, but I
have always felt as if I existed outside those divisions. When I traveled
to another part of the country, I could be identified by my southern
accent, but I believed that the way I talked was the only thing about
me that wasn't "universal." Then my book was reviewed. One reviewer
called it "as southern as a shattered Coke bottle on a bank of red clay."
The others echoed her. "Southern?" I wondered. This citizen-of-the-
world is first a southerner?

We best understand personalities and events when we are at some
distance from them, either the distance of time (which is the way we
evaluate our history) or the distance of space. I am told that living
elsewhere brings home, and what home is like, into startling focus. But
I have never lived outside the South, never traveled away from North
Carolina more than three weeks at a time. Is there a prototype southern
woman? Am I one? Is she the Scarlet of the movie. Gone with the Wind,
or of the book, Gone with the Wind? Is she Zelda before madness or
after?

I grew up in a family in which there were three daughters. My mother
was a magnetic, forceful, and dynamic woman. My father gave no
inkling to any of us that we were of less value or had less potential than
a son. The idea of our equality was never questioned. We grew up in
an atmosphere of expectation which the three of us met by being rela-
tively high achievers. It never occurred to me that I couldn't be anything
I wanted to be.

Someone might claim that this unusual breeding ground was lucky
for the three of us but only a fluke. But I see southern women everywhere
who are strong-willed, hard-working, and clever enough to get what
they want. They may want to be wives and mothers. Many want a job;
others, a career. Those who have not had such a felicitous upbringing
have educated themselves as to their own potential. After this self-
education, in the case that they are married, they have begun educating
their husbands to their rights and needs.

A close woman friend of mine visited the South recently for the
first time. I had prepared her as well as I could for what we were "like"
down here. Before she met any southern women, she had always thought
of us as a cross between Scarlet and Zelda, "but I didn't know what
that was, except both basically strong." After she had met a number
of southern women, her assessment was this:

"Southern women are extremely feminine, but that is really a velvet
glove for the fact that they are smart and strong and really the ones
in control not just with their men but with the household, the economy,
and their careers. They are strong accomplishers, more fun than I
expected, and more verbal than I'm aware of women being elsewhere.
They talk about what they're doing, thinking and feeling — not the
psycho-babble and pseudo-emotion of Californians — but more matter-
of-fact. They're better educated and better read than you tend to find

10 / .Alumni News Fall 1982

in a random sampling. They also seem to establish stronger, longer-
lasting, and more intimate friendships into which they rope their
husbands to form couple friendships."

In my writing I have created numerous southern women in a wide
range of personality and behavior. The novel that I am working on
now presents two of the most widely divergent female characters there
could be. But they are both, I believe, identifiably southern. Creating
individuals is almost easier than offering a few remarks about what
all southern women are like.

My friend offered no negative remarks. I asked her if she thought
we were manipulative, often a criticism of women, of southern women
in particular. She gave me a qualified no. "I believe in the southern
belle syndrome to a certain extent. But I always thought that a belle
was a belle to keep men down on the farm. Nothing I saw on my visit
changed my mind. You southern women manage to manipulate in an
honest rather than devious way. ' ' I wondered to myself if that was just
northeastern double-talk. Maybe it was just another woman talking
about the universality of us all, which I believe is where I began . . .

Let Us Now Praise Famous Women

by Emily Herring Wilson '61

Last year, Ms. Wilson completed her book, Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of North
Carolina, which she researched and wrote with a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
Her book of poems. Arise Up and Call Her Blessed, was published last spring by Iron Mountain
Press.

When I think of the "southern woman" I think of women I have
known. I think of my Grandmother Allen in Columbus, Georgia —
mild and dreamy, writing verses and raising six children. I think of
her sister. Great Aunt Edna, who never married and became the head
of the house where I lived with my parents and sister and Grandmother.
She read Dickens and disciplined children and rarely left her front porch,
except for a weekly visit to the bank, where she saved frugally and wisely,
providing a small inheritance for her family. I think of my Aunt
Catherine, who taught school in Columbus, joined the Red Cross and
served in Guam during World War II, came home with suitcases smelling
of distant and compelling places, earned her doctorate, and became
a national leader in physical education and recreation, now graceful
and productive in retirement "in the North." I think of my mother,
witty, hard-working, who taught school and valued education for her
daughters. I think of my sister, beautiful, ironic, who follows the family
trade, school teaching.

And I think of Woman's College, that lovable and now distant place,
and of her faculty and students. In the years I was there, 1957-1961,
I learned the heritage of Dean Harriet Elliott and Miss Louise Alexander
and their commitment to the liberal (and political) education of young
women. And I came to know other women whom I grew to respect
and to love. Let us now praise the famous women of Woman's College
and thereby reflect upon the life of the "southern woman."

Dean Katherine Taylor, herself a graduate of Woman's College,
carried the torch passed to her from Dean Elliott. She left, as far as
I was concerned, the lengthened shadow of one woman, which in
Emerson's words, defines an institution. (Emerson, of course, spoke
of the lengthened shadow of one man.) For me. Dean Taylor represented
the College: Intelligent, articulate, handsome, and purposeful. She

continued, inside back cover

Famous women of the H omen's College:
Katherine Taylor, Jane Summerell, and t era
I. argent.

Fall 1982 Alumni News ' 11

IVospectiis

Paper for Art

"Paper" is a watchword at the
University's Weatherspoon
Gallery. There is good reason:
On display is the annual Art on
Paper exhibition, sponsored by
Dillard Paper Company, con-
sisting entirely of works
rendered or composed of
paper.

But another piece of paper
attracting considerable atten-
tion will never hang on gallery
walls; it will help to build walls.
A check for $100,000, signed by
John H. Dillard, President of
the Greensboro-based Dillard
Paper Company, was presented
to Chancellor William E.
Moran at the Art on Paper
preview showing on November
13th. The gift was offered as
part of the Prospectus III cam-
paign for the construction of a
proposed Art Center to house
the University's art collection
and to support the instructional
programs of the Art
Department.

"When economic conditions
are unfavorable," commented
Mr. Dillard, "it is easy to pull
back support; however, it is in
these times that the support is
most needed by the Arts. Our
corporate involvement in the
Arts, especially as it relates to
paper, makes a lot of sense.

The Art on Paper exhibit brings
together fine art and business
for the benefit of the com-
munity and helps ensure its
economic prosperity. The new
Art Center is an exciting
enhancement to this concept
and represents a tremendous
addition to Greensboro and to
the University."

Made in memory of Mr. and
Mrs. Stark Dillard, the gift
brings the total contributions
made by the Dillard Paper
Company to the University to
$342,000.

Dillard Paper Company initi-
ated the first Art on Paper
exhibition at the Weatherspoon
Gallery in 1965. An annual
event since that year, the show
has brought to campus for
public viewing a range of over
2,000 works by American
artists. Well-known artists
represented include Frank
Stella, Alex Katz, Willem de
Kooning, and Philip Pearlstein.
Local artists, alumni, and
members of the UNC-G Art
Department faculty have been
featured in the exhibition. All
of the pieces are original,
unique, contemporary works
which utilize paper; they repre-
sent a variety of media and
approaches to imagery.

A number of the Art on Paper
selections each year are pur-
chased, either by the gallery or
by the benefactors, to become
a part of the prestigious Dillard
Collection, the largest single
collection of the Weatherspoon
Gallery's permanent holdings.
To date, 359 pieces have been
placed in the Dillard Collection.
It is considered to be one of the
nation's finest groups of one-
of-a-kind twentieth century
American artworks.

"Dillard Paper Company's
continued patronage," said
gallery curator James E.
Tucker, "has resulted in a col-
lection of modern art works
which are a source of con-
siderable pride in our region
and which add to the cultural
advantages of the University
community."

The new gift from the Dillard
Paper Company is added to an
earlier donation made by the
late Mr. Benjamin Cone. The
contribution adds impetus to
the overall Prospectus III cam-
paign goal of $12 million. The
$5.5 million Art Center is one
of the five high-priority needs
that the Prospectus III cam-
paign addresses as the Univer-
sity prepares to enter its second
century of academic service.

12 / Alumni News Fall 1982

Art for Paper

A number of UNC-G alumni are honored among (he 135 artists exhibiting
in the eighteenth annual Art on Paper Show this fall at Weatherspoon
Gallery. Three of them shared statements about their works.

Richard A. Fennell (MFA) '82

Mr. Fennell was a teaching assistant in watercolor and sculpture at
UNC-G during 1980-82. He has been represented in galleries, art com-
petitions, and private and corporate collections throughout the
Southeast, including the North Carolina Museum of Art, the
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Spring Mills Art Show,
and Miller Breweries Competition.

'"Whitsett Landscape' was painted in July, 1982. Because vegetation
is lush and in various shades of green at that time of year, trying to
convey the true shapes of forms presents a rather difficult problem.
I found that mid-day light created greater contrasts of value, allowing
me to see the forms more clearly. The landscape was painted quickly
in the morning light. My main interest was to convey the three-
dimensional shapes of the forms in their space and to show the varying
shades of color at that particular time of day and year."

W'hilsell Lundscapc

oil on paper

Kathryn N. Taylor (BFA) '79

A native of Winston-Salem, Ms. Taylor came to UNC-G as an art major
specializing in painting and print-making. She now devotes her off-work
time to oil painting. She began exhibiting her works in the spring of 1981.

"In all of my paintings, I consistently try to convey what I see as directly
and simply as possible, with an emphasis on color quality and tone.
But in 'Quiet Afternoon' the end result was a bit different due to the
fact that instead of observing my subject matter directly, I was actually
observing a distorted reflection of the room on the blank screen of a
television. I don't think it is obvious what I was doing, but it is obvious
that many of the painting's lines are unnatural, and that is the
explanation."

Quiet Afternoon

oil on paper

! David Curtis Smith (MFA) '80

Mr. Smith is currently the Visiting Artist at Central Carolina Technical
College in Sanford, NC. He began his professional career ten years ago,
receiving national recognition for the top award in Marietta National
'79, an annual juried competition.

!"'Preflight' was a very fun painting for me. I've always been fascinated
|by aircraft, and occasionally they surface as a subject in my paintings.
[ "Instead of painting the entire subject — in this case, an airplane — I
often zero in on just an area that I find interesting. I play upon the
lambiguity caused by this cropping to draw the viewer into a new
jSituation — one in which he encounters a familiar subject presented in
such a way that he must look carefully to understand what he is seeing.
I "So this painting is really about visual perception — about our ability
;to clearly see that which is around us. And if the viewer senses my
[Pleasure in painting the aircraft, that's like icing on the cake."

alkyd on paper

Fall 1982 Alumni News / 13

^he Centenary Project

From the Founder's Pen

Daily Labors that Built a University

by Dr. Richard Bardolph

For this installment we rely
chiefly on Charles D.
Mclver's collected papers, a
marvelously rich historical record
assembled and expertly organized
by Marjorie Hood '26 (retired
1973). They now comprise the
core of the University Archives in
the Library's Special Collections,
over which Emilie Mills, Jim
Rogerson, and Blanche Jantzen
preside with that inspired profes-
sional competence and imagina-
tive solicitude that account so
largely for the Library's place in
the affections and respect of stu-
dents and faculty.

What follows is mainly ex-
tracted from Mclver's cor-
respondence for the late summer
of 1894, as the school prepares to
re-open for its third year of oper-
ations. On August 9 we find the
34-year-old president with his
customary ebullience restrained,
and his normal portliness visibly
reduced, by a protracted fever. He
is, in fact, spending his fourteenth
consecutive day of elevated
temperatures on a sickbed in the
official residence just inside the
college gates.

Despite his illness, he is digging
into the correspondence that he
feels he can put off no longer. The
school's lanky young bursar, E. J.
Forney, is sharing the chore with

him, taking dictation in the short-
hand of which he is a master. First
a letter goes to a prospective stu-
dent in Warrenton who hopes to
enroll if only she can find the
financial means. Now he writes to
say that he has "been offered $86
to lend you," and that "this, you
know, would pay [all] your ex-
penses at the institution." He is
offering the loan without interest,
he says, and "if at the end of three
years you do not feel able to
return it, you can consider the
debt cancelled; but if you return
it, it can be used to help some
other young woman . . . We are
overrun with applications for
admission."

Next the Founder dictates a
note to be dispatched across the
campus to Miss Sue May
Kirkland, the "lady principal,"
regretting that he would probably
have to disappoint an eager out-
of-state candidate. He would, he
said, write the girl's mother to say
"that if she can claim that North
Carolina is as much her
daughter's home as Georgia, we
would probably manage to get her
in; otherwise I see very little hope
for it."

Another letter pleads with a
prospective instructor to accept a
teaching position at the school for
$500 a year, the absolute max-

imum that the Board had set for
the appointment. "It is for only
eight months work," he says in an
attempt to beguile her, "and for
only a little more than three hours
a day. It may be that we will have
a summer school here next year,
and that we could give you addi-
tional pay for an extra month's
work." These soothing assurances
fail to win her over, for she neither
accepts nor declines — yet.

Other notes go out on the same
day, and many more on the days
immediately succeeding, most of
them to aspiring Normal students.
In some cases the girls are urged
to try for one of their county's
allotted places in the dormitories.
Another would-be scholar is in-
formed that students under sixteen
years of age are not eligible, and
others are sent the disappointing
news that all dormitory spaces
over and above the county-
allotted appointments had been
snapped up by August 1 . To some
Mclver wrote that "the chances
are not . . . bright ... to get
board in dormitories with free
tuition which is granted to those
who were planning to teach, as the
number applying for these places
is very la^ge." Still others are re-
minded that all students who sign
the pledge to teach after gradu-
ation would be exempt from pay-

14 / Alumni News Fall 1982

ing tuition, and that although dor-
mitory space was all but fully
committed, there was still the
option of boarding in private
homes in Greensboro.

To one inquirer who had the
means to pay only for a three-
month period, Mclver wrote "I
will make you a proposition . . .
You ought not to come here for
less than a year, and if you can
furnish the money for three
months, I will loan you the
balance for one year from the time
your three months give out, with-
out interest. In all probability by
that time, you will be able to
secure a good position and can
pay it back easily."

The president's assurances that
a student could find a good
teaching post after a single year of
training at the Normal may seem
astonishing; but the record shows
that not a few of the school's
trainees were out in the field after
a mere year or two on the campus,
embarked on careers before they
were nineteen years old — careers
destined in some cases to stretch
out to thirty and even forty years.
There was for those planning to
teach after but a single year at the
Normal a special course in
methods "if their general scholar-
ship is sufficient to allow them to
take it," as the catalog put it.

As the month of August waned,
Dr. Mclver, still confined to his
bed, continued to cope with the
flood of applications and the
problems of finding living accom-
modations off campus, to say
nothing of soothing the feehngs of
those who were disappointed over
failure to win dormitory space in
the county competitions.

Much of the president's time
was taken up with patient explan-
ations about payment options
available to applicants, nearly all
of whom came from homes in
pinched financial circumstances.
The 1894/5 catalog explains that
the school was then equipped to

accommodate 400 students, but
that dormitory space was limited,
so that some of the matriculants
would be obliged to find boarding
accommodations at private
homes, in most cases available
from $9 to $12 a month. Dormi-
tory space actually aggregated
about 300 places, so that about
100 were either boarders in
Greensboro homes or were
themselves Greensboro residents
living at home.

The majority of boarding ac-
commodations were reserved for
free-tuition students pledged to
become teachers. The other places
went to those who preferred to

provided her work was satis-
factory.

Under this plan, free-tuition
students paid $90 per year (for
board, laundry, medical and
physical culture fees, book and
apparatus fees, and a registration
fee); tuition-paying girls who were
boarded in dormitories paid an
additional $40, bringing their total
expenses to $130 a year; students
with free tuition who lived off
campus paid the school $14 a
year; and off-campus students
who paid tuition were charged
$54. A modest quantity of loan
funds were also available; the in-
stitution made every effort to find

/•^r

Dr. Mclver usually worked in his office from a roll-top desk.

pay tuition, whether they intended
to become teachers or not. The
regulations further prescribed that
150 of the dormitory places were
to be allotted by county appor-
tionment, 52 of the 96 counties
being entitled to one place each;
35 larger counties to 2 each, and
the largest counties to 3 each,
except that Buncombe was to have
4. If, as proved true in many
cases, the number of applicants
from a county who sought dor-
mitory places exceeded the coun-
ty quota, the several candidates
were to compete in an examina-
tion, supplied by the Normal's
faculty, and administered in their
home counties. Once awarded, a
dormitory assignment was re-
tained by a student during her
campus stay, up to four years,

self-help jobs for students wishing
them, in the dining hall, the
dormitories, and the general
administration.

The $8.00 monthly board-and-
room figure was a maximum,
fixed by law. Actually, the cost in
the first several years was held to
less than $8.00. So conscientiously
parsimonious was the oversight of
the dining hall that the catalog
carried the announcement that "at
the close of each annual session
the supplies left over will be sold,
and whatever surplus is left in the
hands of the bursar and matron
will be distributed to the students
. . . The actual cost during the
past year was $7.87 a month,
$1.04 having been returned to
each student who spent eight
months in the dormitorv."

Fall 1982 Alumni News / 15

There were other administrative
problems, large and small. On
August 22, 1894, the president
wrote with some embarrassment
to a school equipment firm in New
York to explain that the micro-
scopes which he had ordered
could not be paid for before
October 1, 1895, when the next
budget year began. Next, he
returned to the problem of the
temporizing teacher in Goldsboro
whose $500 salary offer he had
made on August 9. The prospect,
a primary grade teacher, had
made a counter offer, proposing
to accept the $500 "on condition
that you give me a room alone in
one of the dormitories and furnish
me board of $8.00 a month."
Relying on this, Mclver notified
other candidates that the place
was now filled, only to fall back
once more into consternation
when yet another letter from the
vacillating nominee introduced,
for the first time, the consider-
ation that she was still under con-
tract for the coming year with the
Goldsboro Public School Board,
who seemed eager to keep her.

Containing most, though not
all, of his exasperation, Mclver
fired back a letter that "your
change of mind puts me in rather
an awkward situation," and
pointed out that "the Goldsboro
Board has been in the habit of
releasing any of its teachers, when
they desired to resign, for the sake
of promotion." Pressing his case,
he argued bluntly that, of course,
the Goldsboro people would want
to keep her. "If I had thought that
they did not desire this, we would
not want you here." Then, prod-
ding her to confront the Board
again, and to wire him at once, he
added: "If they release you . . .
telegraph me 'Yes'; if not 'No'
... If you do not come, I shall be
obliged to look around immedi-
ately for some one else, though it
is much harder to secure a first-
rate primary teacher now than it

was a month ago ... I do not
doubt that they will release you.
It is probably because your Board
thinks that you will stay with them
willingly if not gladly that they
refuse to release you."

Subsequent catalogs do not list
the Goldsboro woman on the
school's faculty roster.

Another challenge to the presi-
L dent's good temper came
from parents and school officials
whose pet candidates for county
dormitory appointments failed to
win acceptance because, as some
of them complained, Mclver exer-
cised favoritism in making selec-
tions when the credentials of two
or more candidates for a par-
ticular slot were submitted to him
for final choice.

Another exchange of corre-
spondence involved a citizen's
request for information about the
school's annual budget for faculty
salaries, motivated, one suspects,
by hostility to the institution on
the grounds of its extravagant cost
to the taxpayers. Mclver at first
took the position that this was
privileged information made
public only in reports to the legis-
lature, but eventually he disclosed
that the figures for the year ending
September 30, 1894, stood at
$14,922.55. The then current
catalog reported that "The faculty
consists of seventeen teachers
besides assistants and tutors."
One wonders if the less-than-$800
average salary provided the critics
with the ammunition they sought.
Once the term was under way,
the president was sometimes called
upon to reassure anxious parents
that their daughters were equal to
the college's expectations. On
Christmas Eve he took pains to
write Thomas D. Boone, of Win-
ton, that while it was not possible

to say positively how his child's
work would fare, "she has pro-
duced a good impression upon all
ever since she has been here. Her
work is satisfactory so far, and
while her course is a little heavy
this year, I see no reason for
thinking that she will not be able
to graduate with her class in May
[1895] unless her heaUh should
fail. While she does not look very
robust and never has since I have
known her yet she seems able to
stand a good deal of work. I have
had a talk with Miss Lucy and I
think she is rather over anxious
about the matter." The president
proved right, for the catalog for
1895/6 shows that Lucy Antoin-
ette Boone of Hertford County
graduated in good standing in
1895. "The truth is," Mclver con-
cluded, "that the whole class is
very heavily loaded because of the
irregular way in which most of
them entered."

What was obscured behind that
dark and disconcerting sentence?
Much of it can be guessed. The
class of 1895 was the last who
would spend less than four years
on campus; thereafter the four-
year cycle was permanently estab-
lished, so that '95 was the last to
undergo the special hardships of
being classified by examination, at
the time they entered, under the
peculiar conditions that made it
necessary to accelerate the curricu-
lum in some respects, to change
the normal sequence of courses,
and generally to accommodate
matters to the unique start-up
problems with which the Normal
struggled in 1892-1895.

Moreover, the faculty, most of
all the Presidential Powerhouse,
was determined to move as rapidly
to full college status as possible.
(The goal of awarding bona fide
college degrees was achieved by
statute in 1901 .) But, constrained
also by popular pressures to keep
the Normal's cost at the lowest
level and to attract a thoroughly

16 / Alumni News Fall 1982

democratic student corps recruited
on the basis of ability and the
state's desperate need for
teachers, Mclver wali<:ed a
precariously high wire.

"Nothing is required for admis-
sion," he wrote in the 1893/4
catalog, "which is not taught in
the public schools because to
make the requirements for
scholarship higher than that
would exclude from the advan-
tages of the institution altogether
a large class of ambitious young
women who have very few educa-
tional opportunities except those
offered by the public schools." He
is speaking here, of course, of
public elementary schools.

The specific (and only) require-
ments for admission as listed in
the catalogs during the first
decade were these: The scholar
must be able (1) "to analyze any
ordinary arithmetic problem"; (2)
"to read any ordinary English
page fluently at sight"; (3) "to ex-
press thoughts accurately in
writing"; and (4) "to show
reasonable familiarity with
English Grammar, Geography,
History of the United States, and
History of North Carolina." In
addition, the applicant must be at
least sixteen years old, in good
health, and have the endorsement
of her most recent teachers. Once
admitted, students were given an
examination, shortly after their
acceptance and arrival, to deter-
mine the class (freshman, soph-
lOmore, etc.) to which they were
lassigned.

The official application form
concluded with a straightforward
baution from Mclver: "We do not
desire any students who do not
come without compulsion from
Iparents, and who are not deter-
mined to do earnest, faithful
|Work. There are so many good
jstudents who want the places here
jthat we do not wish them to be
prowded out by those who regard
[their opportunities lightly."

The competing pressures gener-
ated by the school's high aspir-
ation and the desire for maximum
enrollment could hardly have
failed to throw students into occa-
sional panic. The first catalogs
also disclose that the overwhelm-
ing majority of students came
from farm homes or were the
daughters of plain working-class
folk; two-thirds of the whole
number, responding to a question-
naire, declared that they could not
have gone to college at all if the
Normal had not been created to
receive them. Moreover, only 18
of the 391 students on the campus
in 1893/4 were graduates of public

found them, and pushed them
forward energetically to the
diploma and the teaching certifi-
cate. One senses that the season-
ing process was not easy and
began to relax only when the
school had found its pace and
direction with a degree of sure-
foot edness.

Nor was there a lack of other
hobbling factors to challenge the
straining pilgrims. In 1894, class-
room facilities, dormitories, the
dining hall (capable of feeding
only half the dormitory students
at a sitting) were cramped and
overtaxed. Instructional equip-
ment and apparatus were scanty

■fy%.\K r

^

Main Building (I) and Brick Dormitory (r) were the first sinictitres hiiilt jo
Industrial College.

the \or/ttul and

high schools. The state had as yet
no "system" of public high
schools; it must be presumed that
the other 373 students had had
only a year or two of secondary
education at the rare subscription
schools and academies that admit-
ted girls, or, not infrequently, that
they had no secondary education
at all. And yet 104 of them had,
before entering the Normal,
already been teachers!

More than a third of the young
women earned nearly all their ex-
penses, and almost 80 or 85 per
cent, apparently, were free-tuition
students, pledged to become
teachers. In the first decade the
school simply picked up the
students at the level on which it

and library resources distressingly
small. Textbooks were in short
supply — the rental revenues
proved unequal to the needs, and,
besides, came in too late in the
semester to permit supplementary
purchases. The Practice and
Observation School did not yet
have a building of its own. There
was as yet no infirmary. More
than a hundred students were
forced to live in private homes and
were thus deprived of some of the
educational benefits of campus
hfe.

And yet, from its very first
year, the Normal began sending
out teachers who promptly set in
motion a remarkable educational
renaissance in the State.

Fall 1982 Alumni Sews / 17

Happy Birthday, UNC-G

To celebrate the University's
90th year of academic service,
Founder's Day activities culmi-
nated on October 5th with an
address by Dr. James Fisher.
Dr. Fisher is president of the
Council for the Advancement
and Support of Education and
a leading spokesman for higher
education. Over 300 faculty,
students and guests assembled
for dinner and the Mclver
Lecture, commemorating
Charles Duncan Mclver's
guidance as UNC-G's first
president.

Dr. Fisher extolled the value
of higher education and the
purpose of a University: To
pursue truth, to interpret it,
and to create and appreciate

beauty. He suggested that a
student's values may not
change after four years at a
university, but he leaves with
the capacity to explain them.
But, he warned, beware of
"articulate superficial. " They
were described as "existential-
ists who use big words but who
don't know what those words
mean."

"Your administration is
actually confident," he said of
Chancellor Moran and Univer-
sity leaders regarding their atti-
tudes toward the first-ever
major gifts campaign. Prospec-
tus in. "There is no impli-
cation of failure," he said,
offering that there is reason to
feel that the goal of $12 million
will be reached.

He continued, "We have
never before needed private
support more than at this
minute."

"Yes, We Do Have A
Student Government"

Emerging from what he calls
"one of the worst times in the
history of Student Govern-
ment," new SG President Jon
Hensley is working to make the

student governing body vital
again.

Last year's Student Govern-
ment was victimized by scan-
dals and the resulting student
apathy. Seven elections were
necessary before a president
was chosen who survived more
than a few weeks in office.
In the first months of his
administration, Hensley has set
the machinery of recovery in
motion. A
senior
political
science
major from
Round Hill,
VA, he is
determined
,,^^ ^ to make
A /jPJ^^ Student
^^^ ^^^J^JI Government
^^^ f^H *^^H an organi-
jon Hensley zation de-

serving students' respect and
trust again. With the
"Jonogram," his weekly col-
umn in the student newspaper,
with visits to the residence
halls, and with pumped-up
publicity, he has tried to make
Student Government a more
visible, accessible, and effective
organization.

Faculty Notes

Dr. Jacqueline Voss is the new dean of the
School of Home Economics, succeeding Dr.
Naomi Albanese who retired after twenty-four
years at the position. Widely published in pro-
fessional publications, Dr. Voss was previously
dean of the College of Home Economics at
North Dakota State University and an associate
professor of human development and family
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has
received two outstanding professor awards and
a distinguished teaching honor.

Dr. Gilbert Golllieb was named an
Excellence Foundation Professor and head of
the Department of Psychology. Previously a
research scientist with the NC Division of
Menial Health and an adjunct research pro-
fessor at UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. Gottlieb is
internationally known for his research in
behavioral embryology, or the study of
prenatal factors inlluencing behavior after
birth.

Dr. Jarretl Leplin was appointed head of the

Department of Philosophy. A UNC-G facul-
ty member since 1971, Dr. Leplin teaches logic,
philosophy of science, and history of science.

Dr. Harvey Herman is the new head of the
Department of Chemistry. He is an analytical
chemist and has been a UNC-G faculty
member since 1969.

Dr. Edgar Shroyer (Communication and
Theatre) has written a 433-page sign language
textbook. Signs of the Times, which contains
almost 1 ,200 signs used by deaf people. A step-
by-step approach for sign language classes, the
book fills the void between sign language
dictionaries and ."Xmerican Sign Language
books . . . Dr. David Meyers (Political
Science) has returned from a leave of absence
in which he served as a principal analyst and
policy adxisor on South .Africa for the
Secretary of Defense. His expertise in the
region quickly brought him into a central
policy-making role . . . Dr. Karl Schieunes
(History) presented a research paper in Paris
last summer at the International Conference
on the Holocaust.

Dr. Arnold Rincover (psychology) co-
authored a new book. Educating and Under-
standing A iiiistic Children, which will be used
by colleges and by parents and teachers of
autistic children.

Dr. Richard Jaeger (Education) is author of
Statistics as a Spectator Sport, a consumer
handbook for people in administrative and
evaluative positions who must interpret statis-
tical information . . . .Associate Professor Paul
Courtwright (Religious Studies) was selected
to be an associate editor of the .American
.Academy of Religion's "'Academy Series" of
books. He will edit book manuscripts relating
to the history of religions.

Dr. Sheron Sumner (Foods and Nutrition)
was elected president-elect of the 52,000-
member national Omicron Nu home economics
honor society ... On October 8th, .Associate
Professor of Piano Inga Borgslrom Morgan
played a piano recital in Carnegie Recital Hall
in New York City. Her program included com-
positions by Bach, Shumann, Copeland and ,
others.

18 / Alumni News Fall 1982

Among the areas that have
received Hensley's attention is
residence Hfe. His cabinet has
formed the UNC-G Chapter of
BACCHUS (Boost Alcohol
Consciousness Concerning the
Health of University Students).
Hensley stated, "We can no
longer ignore the problem of
irresponsible drinking."

He is also concerned with
race relations and safety of
women on campus. Through
programs sponsored by the
Presbyterian Council, the Neo-
Black Society, and the History
Club, he is attempting to im-
prove the dialogue between
campus racial groups. His in-
terest in the safety of women
has lead him to propose a
walking escort service.

To improve the functioning
of SG, Hensley has formed a
task force of students, faculty,
and administrators to re-
analyze and and clarify the
purposes of the Student Gov-
ernment. He wants to let
students know, as he said in a
recent address, that "yes, we
do have a student government,
and yes, we are working for
them."

Food and Shelter

"We want to put the student
in the classroom under opti-
mum conditions for learning,"
said Director of Residence Life
Robert T. Tomlinson this fall.
"We don't want their academic
performance marred by worry
over dirty residence hall condi-
tions, disagreeable roommates,
or an unsatisfactory food
service."

Dr. Tomlinson is charged
with the administration of
housing and food services for
the University's resident
students, now numbering 3,800
in 22 residence halls. He spoke
to alumni at the 6th annual
Mclver Conference and

explained the responsibility of
his staff for making UNC-G a
pleasing place to live and learn.

"We have a fiduciary rela-
tionship with students — a trust
relationship; they assume when
they arrive here that the
University will provide a safe
and comfortable environment."

The Office of Residence Life
identifies the needs of mainte-
nance and operation of the

pursuing the business and data
processing concentration.
Among other campus computer
users, a business and distribu-
tive education major can work
on her class exercises using a
computer keyboard and a video
display terminal connected to
the Academic Computer
Center's VAX 11/780 system.
A physics student can compare
data on star images collected

Dr. Tomlinson spoke lo alumni at Mclver Conference I /. Assembled in the parlor oj Gray Hall,
the gathering was reminiscent of house meetings.

residence halls and dining
service. In addition to pro-
viding these physical needs, it
also seeks to promote personal
well-being through special pro-
grams, both social and
academic.

Computer Age

Campus computers are not
only used to store ID numbers,
help with the billing, and
operate video games. Their use
now touches virtually every
academic department on cam-
pus. Students line up to register
for computer courses, and
terms such as byte, microchip,
disk drive, and BASIC crop up
in collegiate conversations.

According to Dr. Michael
Willett, director of the com-
puter science concentration in
the Department of
Mathematics, "There's prob-
ably more growth in general
computer use on this campus
than in any other area."

Over one hundred people are

by low-light television at the
Three College Observatory,
stored on computer disk, and
analyzed through the VAX
system.

The VAX computer system,
located in the Academic Com-
puter Center in the Business
and Economics Building, is the
heart of academic computer
use. Four satellite centers on
other parts of campus connect
with the VAX system, and a
fifth satellite center is planned.
"There is no school on campus
in which the faculty and
students are not using the VAX
computer," according to Dr.
Theodore Hildrbrandt, director
of the Academic Computer
System.

Dr. Stanley Jones, vice
chancellor for academic affairs,
has closely watched the expan-
sion of computers in education.
He says computer development
and use at UNC-G is now "a
high priority item and it will
continue to be."

Fall 1982 Alumni News ' 19

spartan Sports

Coaches Lead
Team Efforts

by Ty Buckner '84

Sports Information Director

*i<f"

Aside from being a capable teacher and having enthusiasm for soccer.
Coach lierticelli has a sincere interest in his athletes as students.

Good teams are made of indi-
viduals who know how to con-
tribute separately to produce a
group effort. But it takes a strong
coach to hold a squad together so
that its members operate as a
single unit.

Berticelli

Soccer

When Coach Mike Berticelli
arrived at the University in the
summer of 1980, the Spartan
soccer team had produced only
one winning record in nine
previous seasons of play.

Two years later, the UNC-G
team has not only posted back-to-
back winning records, but has also
become one of the top squads in
Division III of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA).

After developing tiny Thomas
College of Maine into a soccer

power in the National Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA) in four years there, Berti-
celli came south and had an
immediate impact on the Spartan
program. His 1980 team was
12-3-3 overall, the best record in
UNC-G's history.

The 1981 team was 16-2-1 over-
all— one of the best collegiate soc-
cer records in the country — and
it ranked as high as No. 4 in the
NCAA Division III. In addition,
UNC-G won the Di.xie Conference
championship for the first time
and participated in the national
playoffs.

Following that banner cam-
paign. Coach Berticelli was named
Southern Region Coach-of-the-
Year by his peers in the National
Soccer Coaches Association of
America.

The 1982 team had another im-
pressive regular season, compiling
a 14-3 overall record and taking
a share of the Dixie Conference

Other highlights of the season
included victories over Division I
teams Wake Forest University,
Appalachian State University, and
East Carolina University, and a
runner-up finish in the Clemson
Invitational.

UNC-G's home game with the
University of Notre Dame, which
attracted almost 5,000 spectators,
was delay-telecast on a local
station. The Spartans lost in over-
time to the Fighting Irish 3-1.

At press time UNC-G was
preparing to play Bethany
College of West Virginia for
the NCAA Division III na-
tional soccer championship.
The Spartans were the No.
1-ranked team, according to
the Intercollegiate Soccer
Association of America.

20 / Alumni News Fall 1982

Dail

Women's Volleyball

Under the direction of fourth-
year coach Tere Dail, the women's
volleyball team had its best regular
season ever. The Lady Spartans
fashioned a 31-9 overall record
and won the Dixie Conference
championship with a 9-1 mark.

Three UNC-G players were
named to the first team All-
Conference, including senior
Brenda Suits of Charlotte, and
sophomores Lisa Beverly of Mt.
Airy and Maggie Hayes of
Greensboro. In addition, soph-
omore Shirese Moore of Winston-
Salem was named to the second
team.

Coach Dail was named Coach-
of-the-Year in the conference for
the second straight season.

Agee

Women's Basketball

Improving on the 1981-82 sea-
son will be a difficuh task for
Coach Lynne Agee and the
women's basketball team at
UNC-G.

In her first year at the helm,
Agee guided the Lady Spartans to
a 25-3 overall record and a runner-
up finish in the first NCAA Divi-
sion III Women's Basketball
Championship. In addition, the
Lady Spartans won the Dixie
Conference regular season and
tournament titles.

Most of the players on the No.
2-ranked squad will return, but
UNC-G will be without American
Women's Sports Federation Ail-
American Carol Peschel, a for-
ward who paced the team in scor-
ing and rebounding. Peschel
graduated in May.
I Senior Jody Mangus, a 5-8 for-
; ward from Burlington, NJ, and a
I first-team All-Dixie Conference
j selection last year, heads the list
I of returning players. Mangus, the
\ second-leading scorer on the team
last year, is approaching the all-

time scoring record for UNC-G
women's basketball.

Mangus

Blazevich

Sydney

Also returning are 6-2 junior
center Michele Blazevich from
Sterhng, VA, who led Division III
in field goal percentage most of
last season, and 5-11 sophomore
forward Sherry Sydney from Fay-
etteville, who was named to the
All-NCAA Tournament Team
along with Peschel.

Other returning players include
6-1 sophomore center Renee Col-
trane from Colfax, 5-9 senior for-
ward Marie Cawley from Scran-
ton, PA, and 5-8 sophomore point
guard Wendy Engelmann from
Manassas, VA.

UNC-G is facing a challenging
25-game regular season schedule
that began November 20. Contests
were slated against one division I
opponent and ten NAIA and
NCAA Division II opponents, in
addition to the six other Dixie
Conference teams.

In mid-December, the Lady
Spartans will participate in the
University of Northern Colorado
Invitational at Greeley, CO.

Douma

Men's Basketball

First-year head coach Ed
Douma has an experienced men's
basketball team for this season,
and the Spartans will need every
bit of that seasoning as they tackle
a difficult schedule with hopes of
bettering last year's performance.

UNC-G will attempt to improve

on its 14-10 overall record as well
as its 9-5 (third place) Dixie Con-
ference mark of 1981-82, the last
campaign under Coach Larry
Hargett. Hargett left UNC-G
earlier this year to become an
assistant men's basketball coach
at Baylor University.

Douma, formerly head men's
basketball coach at Kent State
University, has a nine-year
coaching record of 146-92. He is
a proven tactician on the court
and has been successful in
coaching at all levels of college
basketball.

Senior Esker Tatum, a 6-3 for-
ward from Trenton, NJ, heads the
returning players. Tatum was the
leading scorer for the Spartans
and was named first team All-
Conference. Also back is the top
rebounder from last season,
Kelvin Huggins, a 6-6 center from
Green Cove Springs, FL.

Other returning players include
6-3 senior forward Hubert
Mitchell of Orange, NJ, 6-5 junior
forward Steve Hoyme of
Hillsborough, 6-0 sophomore
point guard William Powell of
Smithfield, and 6-1 senior guard
Chris Sloan of Maplewood, NJ.

UNC-G's 24-game regular sea-
son slate includes two small col-
lege tournaments, contests against
two Division I teams (Appala-
chian State and Mercer, home
dates with area NAIA members
Elon College and Guilford Col-
lege, as well as games with the
seven other conference teams.

Fall 1982 Alumni New / 21

The Classes

Class notes are based on information received
by letter and news clippings. Material received
prior to December 15, 1982 will appear in the
winter issue. Information received after the
deadline will appear in the spring issue.

The Tens

A new UNC-G endowed scholarship honoring
Janet Weil Bluethenthal '12 was established by
her children to recognize her 90th birthday. The
award will be based on outstanding scholar-
ship and leadership. Her son .Arthur said the
scholarship was not only established to honor
his mother, but to perpetuate "the values which
her life has always exemplified — a love of
learning and an expression of commitment to
community through service." She now lives at
Friends Homes in Guilford College.

By a provision of Emma Lossen's '14 will,
a tract of land in New Hanover County has
been donated to N. C. Lutheran Homes Incor-
porated to establish retirement and nursing
home facilities.

One project of Greensboro Beautiful this
year is the development of a planting at the
memorial that honors Alma Rightsell Pinnix
'19. It is located at the intersection of Pem-
broke Road and Battleground Avenue.

The Twenties

Josephine Setzer Cornelius '24 lives at 9401
Gaither Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20760.

Anna Jean Hallman Guion '28 and her hus-
band celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary
in October. They have one grandson; their
daughter is math teacher and director of finan-
cial aid at Peace College.

1930

REUNION
1985

Mary Lois Ferguson Fulton reports that she is
"now a happy member of the Methodist
Home" at 3420 Shamrock Dr., Charlotte.

1931

REUNION
1986

SYMPATHY is extended to Eloise Ward
Phelps whose husband died last April. Eloise
works with the hospice program in Pueblo,
CO, where she lives and is "still putting into
practice all the things she learned in college."
Her daughter has a PhD. Both her son and his
wife are in medical practice; he is an
anesthesioloaist, and she, a doctor.

1932

REUNION

1987

Marj Pinnix Gamble and her sister traveled to
Scandinavia with Lee Kinard's Channel 2
WFMY-TV 25th anniversary group. Mary lives
in Greensboro . . . Grace Winders Marion
lives in Jacksonville. Her granddaughter
graduated from the United Nations Inter-
national School in New York in June.

Margaret Chester Freeland Taylor is no«
editing a newsletter for Greensboro jewelry

A Woman of History — During
her forty-six years of history teaching,
Maxine Taylor Fountain '25 urged her
students to include family stories in
their papers and reports. After retir-
ing in 1968, she took her own advice,
compiling a history of her family for
her descendants in a recently published
book, Nine Taylor/ Moore Fa/vilies of
Halifax and Edgecombe Counties,
North Carolina. The book collects
biographical sketches, photographs,
reminiscences, and newspaper articles
of her parents, siblings, cousins and
their families, and includes a dozen or
so UNC-G alumnae. Two are Weil
Fellowship recipients: Mattie Moore
Taylor '30 and Marcia Taylor Foun-
tain '64.

firm Carlyle & Co. Wanting to do the best job
possible, she enrolled this fall in a UNC-G jour-
nalism class. "I was really psyched-up to get
right into the middle of things," she reports.
"Coming back to school made me feel so
young." But in her attempts "to do
everything," she fell and broke her arm.
Luckily, she continues to attend class and edit
the newsletter.

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1933 1983

Claire Hartsook Dailey's gazebo at her
Sedgefield home was featured in a recent
Greensboro Daily Sews article. Claire says she
loves to sit under the ornate, wrought iron
gazebo and read the newspaper with her morn-
ing coffee.

After serving sixteen months as a volunteer-
in-mission for the Presbyterian Church, Julia
Watson Maulden has returned to the United
States. She was a bilingual secretary and assist-
ant business manager at a hospital in Haiti.
Last summer she lead the Mecklenburg Youth
Work Project in a mountain area agricultural
mission.

1936

1935

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1985

Anne Wortham Cone opened "Voila," a new
dress shop, in August.

Merle Smith Dodd completed her degree in
business administration at Pfeiffer College in
1972 — after becoming a grandmother! One of
her three children, William Douglas Stewart,
is an assistant news editor for the Washington
Post. Merle worked for Pfeiffer College until
her retirement in 1977, lastly as placement
director. She now serves as parttime interviewer
with the North Carolina Employment Security
Commission. Albemarle is home for Merle,
where she is involved in numerous professional,
civic, and church activities.

Blanche Newsome Hardy represented UNC-G
at the inauguration of Dr. Curtis L. McCray
as President of the University of North Florida
in Jacksonville, FL, where Blanche lives.

1938

After graduating from UNC at Chapel Hill,
Helene Person Youse's son, Don, is in his third
year of medical school at the U. of Florida in
Gainesville. Helene lives in Sarasota, FL.
SYMPATHY is extended to Marie Hudnell
Magee whose husband died in September, and
to Mary Boney Sheats w hose husband died on
September 19. Mary heads the Bible depart-
ment at Agnes Scott College and has a
distinguished reputation in education. She
received her master's at Emory, her PhD at
Columbia, an LLD at Presbyterian College in
Clinton, SC, and at Austin College in Texas.

1939

Grace Sharpe Draper and husband Harold
acquired two daughters-in-law this year. Last
February, their son Tom married Holli
Hutchins '78, and in September, son Harold
married an employee of Washington Univer-
sity, where he just received his doctor of science
in technology and human affairs . . . After her
husband's retirement from the Pullen
Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, Mary
Purvis Finlator and husband Bill took a
month's vacation in Europe . . . Elizabeth
Phillips, a professor of English at Wake Forest
University, recently published a book on the
poet Marianne Moore.

1940

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1985

As a member of the Weatherspoon Art Gallery
Guild, Deborah Londner Schandler heads the
Guild's Twelve Docents organization. ;

1941

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1986

Helen Fondren is director of field services for
the Tarheel Triad Girl Scout Council.

1943

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1983

Margaret Sherill Sloop, whose husband Joe

died a year ago, retired from teaching in

October.

SYMPATHY is extended to Esta Leonard

Draper, whose husband Robert died after a
long illness.

1945

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1985

Dorothy Arnett Dixon, who lives in St. John,
MO, compiled her mother's poetry in a book

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The Poetry of Ethel Stephens Arnett. Her
mother is widely known in Greensboro for her
historical works.

Ruth Crowder McSwain, whose husband
retired after 32 years as a research agronomist
with the NC State Dept. of Agriculture, has
a new address: 4609 Norwich Rd., Wilmington.
Ruth was recently elected to the American
School Counselor's Governing Board, which
represents members in forty-nine states. Her
first responsibility on the Board has been to
develop a national counselor retreat to
encourage the personal and professional
growth of American School Counselor's
Association members. The retreat will be held
in Colorado in 1983.

Julia Taylor Morton was re-elected for a
two-year term as vice chairman of the UNC
Board of Governors.

1947

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1987

Jean Adams Mabry was promoted to banking
officer in the Corporate Banking Adminis-
tration Group at Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company in Winston-Salem . . . Rebecca Mc-
Culloch Smith, who teaches child development
and family relations at UNC-G, co-authored
a high school textbook titled Family Matters:
Concepts in Marriage and Personal Relation-
ships.

1948

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1983

SYMPATHY is extended to Nancy Osteen
Quigley and Barbara Quigley Forsythe '76,

whose daughter/sister died in September.

1950

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1985

As an associate professor in UNC-G's School
of Education, Elisabeth Bowles regularly visits
high schools in Greensboro, Guilford County,
and High Point.

1951

William Edwards (MSBA) retired from
jWinston-Salem's Children's Home, where he
ilived as a child and later served as a teacher,
coach, principal, and assistant superintendent
before becoming superintendent in 1969.

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I

iiVhen Peggy Johnston Alspaugh, husband
Tom '77, and their children drove Peggy's
|Tiother to Raleigh in July, they were taking her
10 a surprise 80th birthday party. Sixty-six
felatives attended, and her mother received a
j'ard from President and Mrs. Reagan . . .
i^aomi Hanna McCIuskey and husband Robert
telebrated their golden wedding anniversary
|vith a reception at the Alumni House in
|ieptember. They have five grandchildren by
ivay of their daughter, Patricia McCIuskey
Mann '54.

A Woman of

Vision— Although
Nancy Hope Willis

'48 is without
sight, she has a
vision for Camp
Dogwood, a Lions
Club resort for the']
blind. Nancy is
responsible for ar-
ranging a con- ^''■'•'*'-
tribution from Cone Mills to the arts
and crafts building at Camp
Dogwood. She was also Honorary
Chairman for the 37th Annual
National Blind Golf Tournament
hosted by the Greensboro Jaycees,
who contributed the proceeds to Camp
Dogwood. On a recent visit to the
resort, Nancy had some new exper-
iences. She piloted a launch around the
lake and rode a bicycle built-for-two.
She calls the Camp "a real eye-
opener."

1953

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1983

Warren Brandt's (MFA) art was featured with
the work of two other North Carolina artists
in a show at Greensboro's Green Hill Art
Gallery this September. Warren has studios in
Mexico and New York . . . Sally Beaver
Buckner is a current director of the NC Literary
and Historical Association.

1954

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1984

Last summer, seven of Maud Gatewood's

works were displayed at the Greenville County
Museum for Art in South Carolina. The
exhibit, "Southeast Seven V," featured recip-
ients of National Endowment of the Arts
Fellowships given annually to seven South-
eastern artists. Maud's work also appeared last
summer at the High Point Theatre Galleries'
exhibit "The Human Image: New Defini-
tions."

1955

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1985

Terry Gaulden Battle opened the Greensboro
Chamber Orchestra's 1982-83 season as a co-
performer of Bach's "Double Concerto for
Two Violins" ... In August, Jerrine Steifle
Taylor traveled from her Wilmington home to
Greensboro to help celebrate her parent's
golden wedding anniversary.
SYMPATHY is extended to Zora Fay Daniel
Bunin, whose fifteen-year-old son Sam died in
September.

1956

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busy. Her oldest daughter Laurel was married
in October to Don Honbarrier of Belmont. Son
David graduated from UNC-CH last May and
has entered paralegal school in Atlanta, GA.
Son Gary is a sophomore at NC State, and
daughter Tammy is a freshman at Meredith
College.

Lee Hall was among the three former North
Carolina artists featured in a fall show at
Greensboro's Green Hill Art Gallery. In paint-
ing a featured work on the Mount St. Helens
eruption — some of which she witnessed — she
added some volcanic dust into her paints to add
to the work a sense of violence in nature. She
is now president of the Rhode Island School
of Design.

1957

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1987

Doris Crews Enochs helps operate the Pied-
mont Indoor Tennis Center in exchange for
court time for her son Stephen, winner of the
National 14 Hardcourts Tournament. Stephen
went to Australia for the McDonald's Inter-
national Tennis Challenge this summer.

1958

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1983

Now living in Washington, NC, Elizabeth
Braddy Eastman owns an art gallery and frame
shop . . . When students "graduate" from
Laughlin Primary School, where Peggy Brewer
Joyce (MEd) is principal, they enter Summer-
field Elementary, where Peggy's husband Jesse
'57 (MEd) is principal.

Suzanne Glenn Lucas' new home (424
Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles) is across the street
from UCLA, where she hopes to work once
settled. She has a studious family. Her hus-
band, on leave from the surgery department
of Stanford, is working on his doctorate in
public health on the international level.
Daughter Lori is a graduate student in
epidemiology, and son Derek is an
undergraduate at Oregon State University.

Joan Forester Padley and husband Harry
live in North Wilkesboro, where Joan was
recently named to the local board of directors
of First Citizens Bank. She is also a co-owner
and chairman of the board of Forester
Beverage Corp. . . . Margaret Tillett Williams
received her master's in supervision and human
relations from George Washington University
recently. She teaches history and English in the
Virginia Beach, VA, public schools.

1959

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1984

Beverly Adams Swann's children are staying

Jayne Ackerman is now assistant director of
the Student Health Center at UNC-G . . .
Gloria Putnam Newman is the chief court
counselor of Juvenile Services in Cleveland and
Lincoln counties. She and husband George
have a nine-\ear-old son, Jason . . . .Ann
Sloan Thompson's family moved from Farm-
ville. VA, to 3033-F Dorner Circle, Raleigh
27606. Ann is a visiting lecturer in interior
design at Meredith College's home economics
department.

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I960

Barbara Smith Jordan is tlie new treasurer of
North State Clievrolet in Greensboro . . .
Mollie Baldwin Trosper is the Assistant Direc-
tor of School Food Services for Gaston
County.

1961

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1986

Reginald May Humphrey Durham directs the
Lee County Council on Aging and lives in San-
ford ... As community relations director for
the High Point schools, Sandra Green Frye
keeps long hours publishing newsletters,
preparing annual reports, and keeping the com-
munity informed. Sandra says her job, which
was changed from a volunteer to a paid posi-
tion in 1978, has been her "hobby in the last
few years."

Louise Saute Wade teaches part-time in the
education department at Bridgewater College,
Bridgewater, VA. Her area is special educa-
tion . . . Emily Herring Wilson's collection of
poems. Arise Up and Call Her Blessed, was
published by Iron Mountain Press last spring.

1964

Charlotte Vestal Brown has completed a year
of research in which she helped produce the
booklet "Architects and Builders in North
Carolina: A History of the Practice of
Building." This year she is the new curator of
art at NC State University . . . Joyce Hawkins
N'orris teaches French at Page High School in
Greensboro . . . Lllla Culpepper Robinson
was elected president of the Family Life Coun-
cil of Greater Greensboro, and Nina Kennedy
Starr was named a new board member.

1965

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1985

The food services director for the Rocky
Mount City Schools, Jane Bradshaw Bass, was

named president of the NC School Food
Service ."Association . . . Felice, the first novel
by Angela Davis-Gardner (MFA), is the current
featured literary selection of the North
Carolina Book Club. A Raleigh resident,
Angela won a NC fellowship award for creative
writing last year . . . Elaine Bell McCoy's pool
house was described on a recent Greensboro
Daily News article as "one of the most
elaborate of Piedmont gazebo adaptations."
Overlooking pool and lake, the house is
rimmed with a porch and contains a fireplace,
bar, kitchen, and two half-baths.

Cissy Trott Parham, husband Bill, and their
children moved from Greensboro to their new
home at 5 1 8 Tremont Ave. , Westfield, NJ . Bill
was promoted to Director of Operations for
the Apparel Area of Burlington Industries. At
a Greensboro farewell party, friends gave them
two caps to take north. On one was printed:
"Howdy"; on the other: "Y'all" . . . Janice
Purgason is a marriage and family counselor
living in Hickory . . . After earning a MS
degree in clinical psychology from the Univer-
sity of Central Florida last December, Judith
Kartt Schwartz now lives in Tampa, FL.

Sisters of Mercy— Sister Mary
Michel Boulus (Jumela Boulus) '47
and "Libby" Boulus '52 take seriously
the unemployment rate in their native
Gaston County. When the local paper
ran an Erma Bombeck column joking
about "students who go to college
because there is nothing else to do,"
Sacred Heart College — where Sister
Michel is president and Libby is direc-
tor of student activities — turned the
joke into a serious program. The Col-
lege, which is operated by the Sisters
of Mercy, established a tuition-free
semester for unemployed high school
graduates. "In their frame of mind,
they need some guidance and
something to make their lives look up
a bit," said Libby. The sisters soon
found others agreeing with them. They
received a check of $50,000 from
Greensboro philanthropists Joseph
and Kathleen Price Bryan to support
the program.

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1966 1986

This was the sixth summer that Barbara Barney

Crumley's family participated in the American
Host Program. A schoolteacher from Zurich
stayed with them this summer . . . Sandra
Hopper Forman, a lecturer in UNC-G's com-
munication and theater department, was
named vice president of the Carolinas Speech
Communications Association ... As a resi-
dent of Augusta, GA, Diane Griffin Griffin
was able to represent UNC-G at the inaugura-
tion of the new president of Paine College in
Augusta . . . Minta McCollum Saunders has
joined a Greensboro psychologist in a clinical
psychology practice.

As a commissioner of Greensboro Housing
Authority, Ginger Grier Booker is helping to
rewrite zoning ordinances. She, husband Ed,
and their four-year-old daughter Greer enjoy
working on their beach house and landscaping
their yard with tlowers and a shade garden.
. . . Barbara Billings Pugh and Clarence Wyatt
Clarke were married in July and live in Gary.
Barbara is an administrative assistant at George
Smart Architects, and her husband is an elec-
trical engineer at Data General.

Wanda Holloway Szenasy was chosen from
among ninety applicants to be the new prin-
cipal at Guilford County's Millis Road Elemen-
tary . . . Jane King Teicki (MSHE) is the new-
head of the Department of Child Development
and Family Relations at East Carolina Univer-
sity. Her doctoral research on parental
behavior in families segmented by divorce
recently received national recognition.

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1968 1983

Gail McBride Barlh moved to Kingston,
Jamaica, where her husband was promoted to
Technical Manager of the Kingston, Jamaica

Refinery of Esso West Indies, Ltd. Their new
address: J. F. Barth, Esso Caribbean and
Central America, c/o Employee Relations
Dept., 396 Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables, FL.
Frances Daryl Brown and Phil McBrayer '80
will have their first wedding anniversary New
Year's Day, 1983. They met at Kayser Roth
Hosiery in 1978. Frances is now the Manager
of Accounting for the Parts and Service Divi-
sion of Volvo White . . . Brenda Moore
Harlow and John Jordan were married in July
and live in Raleigh. Brenda is a member of
Wilson Active Artists and John is an attorney
and chairman of UNC's Board of Governors.

1969

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1984

Ann Kesler Doyle is teaching piano by the
Suzuki method at Greensboro College this
year. . . . Deborah Brown Eaves lives in
Greenville and is a consultant for Red Cross
Blood Services . . . Living in Ramseur, Anna
Rae Hodgin has two granddaughters, April and
Bobbie. Her son LeAnder is a sophomore at
NCSU and son Jon is a senior at Eastern Ran-
dolph High School.

Joey Smith McDonald and family moved
from Burlington to Southern Pines last June.
Her husband Joseph is vice president and
general manager of the insurance division of
Ganger, O'Neal, & Saunders, Inc. They have
a four-year-old daughter, Katie, and a one-
year-old son, Neil ... In September, singer
Ruth Anne White Millikin (MM) joined poet
Dr. Elizabeth Sewell to present "Voice and
Verse" in Greensboro.

1970

Although Charles Austin's choral students
received superior ratings in state competition
last year, he was among 1 15 Greensboro City
School teachers dismissed because of lack of
funds and decline in enrollment. He now works
part-time as a data processor for Blue Bell and
as music director at Greensboro's Buffalo
Presbyterian Church . . . Carolyn Biggerstaff
(MA) is a leader of the single living commit-
tee of the Family Life Council of Greater
Greensboro, and "Tillie" McLaughlin Rice
(MEd) heads the mid-life committee.

This September Virginia Budny (MFA)
lectured to the Weatherspoon Guild on her
porcelain sculpture, "Summer Flower," which
was added to the gallery collection last year.
A companion piece to "Summer Flower" is in
the Smithsonian Institute . . . Cynthia Cham-
pion is a systems officer at Society for Savings
in Hartford, CT . . . Gail Broadway Curry
(MAT), who lives in Greensboro, passed the
Uniform Certified Public Accountant E.xam in
May . . . Diane Holding is a school counselor
at Winston-Salem's Dalton Jr. High School.

Darvl Kay Martin married Thomas Riddle
in August. Both work in Wilson County
Schools; she is a counselor and teacher, and
he, a coach . . . The subject of a recent
Greensboro Daily Sews article was Linda
Wilson McDougle's (MEd) style as principal
of Dudley High in Greensboro. She is described
as "a .iiother awav from home," creating a

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climate in wliich students feel free to call her
"Miss Mac."

Douglas Sykes works for the secret service
and lives in Fairfax, VA . . . Gwen Bellamy
Varsamis helped husband Kimmon in his home
improvement business during the summer and
returned this fall to her seventh year as a math
teacher at Greensboro's Jackson Junior High.
. . . Mary Lee Williamson is in private prac-
tice as a social worker in Greensboro.

1971

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After returning from a nine-concert tour of
Norway in August, Larry Allen performed a
solo recital at the Immanuel Congregational
Church in Hartford, CT, where he is director
of music and organist. He lives in Farmington,
CT . . . Before her August wedding to James
Alvie Hall, Gloria Jeanne Brisson was a career
;ounselor at Fort Bragg and a business pro-
fessor at Pope Air Force Base. They now live
in Atlanta, where her husband works for First
Atlanta Corporation.

Ann George married John Charles Peal, a
West Columbus High School teacher, in July.
They have settled in Lake Waccamaw . . .
Edith Hambright lives in Atlanta, where she
,s a therapist for alcohol/drug and psychiatric
Dutpatients . . . Marie Crews Harris is the new
issistant principal at Lincoln Junior High in
Greensboro . . . June McLaurin Jeffers was
;lected president of the Funeral Directors and
Morticians Association of NC, the second
.voman to hold this position. She and husband
Leonidas operate the McLaurin Funeral Home
n Reidsville.

Sue Grose Lawson met a familiar person in
•Naples, Italy — Gail McCarty Voss. Sue's hus-
band is stationed there as commanding officer
jf the Marine Barracks, and Gail's as a lawyer
.vith the Naval Legal Services . . . Nancy Jean
Ramsay, a PhD student in Religion and
Personality at Vanderbilt University, will join
he faculty of Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
n the fall of 1983.

1972

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1987

Eric Hoekstra and Martha Read, both
;mployees of Greensboro City Schools, were
Tiarried in July. Martha's mother is Martha
rhomas Read '36 . . . After serving a year as
in instructor with UNC's extension program,
lleborah Lou Kirkman this fall joined the
English faculty at Presbyterian College in
riinton, SC . . . As a primary prevention
:ounselor in Statesville, Beverly Anderson
Lawry recruits and trains telephone crisis-line
/olunteers. She, her husband, and three sons
ive in Mooresville.

Linda Thompson Owens married Bohdan
Fymciw in July. Living in Reston, VA, Linda
s department head secretary for General
Research Corporation and is studying com-
puter programming at Northern Virginia Com-
nunity College. Her husband is a systems
;ngincer . . . Constance Shinn is a librarian
md dog trainer living in Charlotte . . . Jim
Stratford, chief photographer for the
3reen3boro Daily News, lectured at the
^eatherspoon Art Gallery in a series on

Musical Note — On October 5,
Herbeil Hazelman '53 (MEd) lifted his
hands and musical history was revived
in Aycock Auditorium. He conducted
the North Carolina Symphony in an
anniversary re-enactment of his own
composition "Moronique Dance,"
which the Symphony performed in its
debut concert fifty years before.
Herbert was a seventeen-year-old
oboist in that first concert. He later
became a maestro music teacher in the
Greensboro Public Schools. Two days
after the North Carolina Symphony
Concert, he was again conducting.
This time he directed the Greensboro
Concert band in a perfortnance
saluting him as a composer and
arranger.

photography as an art form . . . For her work
in the Greensboro Public Schools, Dee Brewer
Tucker (MEd) received the School Psychology
Award for 1982 from the NC School Psychol-
ogy Association. The award recognized Dee's
contributions in establishing a support program
for children with cancer. Now in its second year
of operation, the program offers two support
groups — one, for children with cancer,
another, for their parents. Dee is currently
completing her master's in psychology at
UNC-G and is, herself, a mother of a child with
cancer.

Ifli 1983

Hervey Ashe writes that she is "single and
loving it and going strong!" After working as
a bookkeeper for eight years and serving in
USMC-OCS in 1979, she is now in sales for
Consolidated Coin Caterers Corporation, a
division of Coca-Cola . . . Karen Gerringer is
the new assistant principal at Greensboro's
Joyner Elementary School . . . Camille
Galarde Lancaster was presented a citation
from the Guilford County Area Mental Health,
Mental Retardation and Substance Board
recognizing her outstanding job performance
as a teacher in the infant program at Kendall
Center.

Jacqueline Smith Latia is directress at The
Montessori Hou.se in Tampa, FL. She and hus-
band William, a training manager for Metro-
politan Insurance Companies, have two
sons — Jason, 6, and Jonathan, 3.

Harold McLeod and wife Ruthie live in
England, where Harold is Burlington Indus-
tries' Director of Personnel and Training in
Europe . . . Greensboro artist Gretchen Van
Loon Williams is teaching parent-child
workshops based on Muriel Silberstein-
Storfer's book Doing An Together, in the
Community Arts program at Greensboro
College.

SYMPATHY is extended to Emma Rose
Colmer Herr and Charles Herr '78, whose hus-
band/father died in September. Emma is presi-
dent of the Community Theater of Greensboro
Guild.

1974

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1984

Marceia Bartlett's new home in Stuart, VA,
overlooks a panoramic view that includes, on
clear days. Pilot Mountain. Marceia teaches
fifth grade and is the school's yearbook coordi-
nator. After Girl Scouts, lifeguarding, and
church activities, she has time for a dog and
two cats.

Jo Ellen Bradley was promoted to banking'
officer with Wachovia Bank . . . Elbert
Brigman (MEd) is the new assistant principal
at Greensboro's Mclver School . . . Sandy
Crater Brown (MSBE) was chosen from among
1,442 business and office educators in the state
to become North Carolina's 1982 Business
Teacher of the Year. She teaches at West
Forsyth Senior High School and directs a work-
study program for seniors. She and her hus-
band, head football coach at R. J. Reynolds
Senior High, live with their two children in
Winston-Salem.

Eva Duggins Haywood is the new children's
services librarian at Stanly County Public
Library. She and husband Kent live at Mt.
Gilead with their six dogs, one cat, and two
cows ... As the Stokes County Extension
Chairman, Susan McCaskill Hilton received
the Distinguished Service Award from the
National Association of Extension 4-H .Agents
this November. She has a four-year-old
daughter and li\ es in Walnut Cove . . . Laura
Ellen Inabinett and Michael Valpey Gage were
married in August and live in Greensboro,
where she teaches and he is a sales represen-
tative for Ram Graphics Company.

Kathryn Bender Mundorf was promoted to
banking officer with Wachovia Bank last sum-
mer . . . Janice Poore Petrea and husband
Pete have a new addition to their home — Erin
Danielle, their second child ... Jo Anne
Deans Rayle is vice president of the American
Association of Critical Care Nurses, Greens-
boro chapter . . . Work by Denton artist
Robbie Tillotson appeared in the show "The
Human Image: New Definitions" at the High
Point Theatre Galleries.

Vicki Troutman, a teacher and coach at
Mooresville Junior High School, completed her
master's in physical education at .Appalachian
State University this summer . . . kermit
Turner (MFA), an associate professor of
English at Lenoir Rhyne College, was one of
four first book novelists appearing on a panel
at the annual NC Writers' Conference at
Chapel Hill in July . . . After earning her doc-
torate at U. of Wisconsin, Kathleen Williams

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moved to Norman, OK, where she is an assist-
ant professor at U. of Oklahoma.
SYMPATHY is extended to Rhonda Chillon
Wagoner, whose husband died in September
after falling from a trampoline.

1975 1985

Mary Lee Gold Bales (MA) is the new assist-
ant principal at Greensboro's Gillespie Park
Junior High School. Linda McCoun Branch

(MEd) teaches social studies there ... .As a
Language/Captioning Specialist, Betty Kay
Ezzell captions educational television programs
for the state of Florida. She lives in St. Augus-
tine, FL.

Claudia Gill Green was a leader in a gourmet
foods workshop sponsored by the Friends of
the Eastern Music Festival in September. She
discussed wines, hors d'oeuvres, and holiday
pastries . . . Samuel Hudson (MFA), .Assistant
Professor of Art in Sculpture at Rochester,
NY's Nazareth College, exhibited an artwork
at the 1982 National All-On-Paper Show al the
Terrance Gallery, Palenville, NY. He was also
selected to show one of his sculptured heads
at NYC's Salmagundi Club First Non-member
Juried Sculpture Exhibition. In October, he
was a juror in the 13th Annual Greensboro
Artists' League Competition.

George Keck, who works at the UNC-G
library, designed a logo for the 75th anniver-
sary celebration at First Lutheran Church in
Greensboro ... Art by Greensboro's William
Mangum appeared in the juried exhibit "The
New Realists," a show at Chicago's Monger-
son Gallery which represented the work of
fifty-seven artists from twenty-three states.
. . . Yvetle Mcintosh, a counselor at Manatee
Junior College in Florida, married Louis
Robison in July. Her husband works for the
Central .'\dmmistrative Office of the Sarasota
County (FL) School System.

Kalhy Simmons McPherson, husband Tom,
and their year-old son Richmond moved
recently to 1959 Fernside St., Redwood City,
CA. Tom is now Director of Simulation
Engineering and co-owner of Picture Element
Ltd. of Palo Alto, CA. Kathy stays busy tak-
ing care of Richmond "on a full-time basis."
. . . Kathryn Duke Nelson is a speech
pathologist and audiologist at the Guilford
County Health Department Speech and Hear-
ing Clinic . . . Karen Allen Reed (MFA)
organized the "Ceremonial Garments" exhibit
at the High Point Theatre Galleries this
summer.

Kalhryn Fisher Robison, now living in
Salisbury, is a revenue officer for the Depart-
ment of Revenue, and husband Peter is a pro-
fessional golfer . . . The paintbrushes of Wen-
dy Travis Wallace remain wet with paint. She
has completed a painting of the Hatteras Light-
house, which will be used to raise funds to save
the beacon, now endangered by the encroach-
ing Atlantic. Wendy also supervised forty
volunteers who painted a wall mural during
Greensboro's City Stage Celebration.

A pencil drawing by Richard Stenhouse
(MFA) was selected to show in the 1982 Art
on Paper exhibition this fall. The piece, en-
titled, "Vise Grip," is not the first of Dick's

A Voice That Travels Well —

Last year Cynthia Donnell '70, coor-
dinator of the voice department at
Virginia Common\\'ealth University,
traveled 5,000 miles commuting from
Richmond to Norfolk where she per-
formed with the Virginia Opera Asso-
ciation. Although she has toured
nationally and internationally as a
singer, she had little opera experience
before last year. Cynthia jokingly says
her director "didn't know whether I
could walk across the stage without
falling down." The director soon
discovered that not only could Cyn-
thia's voice carry, but she could carry
herself as well. She was the only artist
to perform in all four Association
productions.

works to be chosen for this annual show ; he's
been selected in years past.
SYMPATHY is extended to Dale Windsor,
whose wife Debra Fink Windsor '76 died in
September.

1976

REUNION
1986

John Carter (MA) of Eden teaches at Holmes
Junior High School ... To honor her mother.
Rose Marie Cooper (PhD) wrote and per-
formed an original service of gospel hymns and
readings in Greensboro this fall . . . Karen
"Lane" DeHaven, a Greensboro City School
employee, married Richard .Arthur Grubar,
who works for W. H. Weaver Construction
Company, in July.

Lynn HIghfill Donovan was a committee
member organizing the successful reunion of
Greensboro's Grimsley High class of '72 . . .
Laura Flowers married UNC-G student Kent
Diffendal in July. Laura works for A. M.
Pullen and Co. . . . Tim Gallagher is study-
ing electronic engineering technology at
Guilford Technical Institute . . . Edna Mae
Lipe married Kent Harkey in August and lives
in Albemarle, where they are members of the
Stanly County Chorale and Stanly County
Mental Health Association. Edna Mae is Pro-
gram Head for Fashion Merchandising and
Marketing Technology at Stanly Technical
College.

Douglas McDowell has a new address: P.O.
Box 832, Asheboro 27203 . . . Nancy Swaim
Miller of Wilson has two sons, Davie (age 3)
and Adam (age 1';) . . . Carolyn Moffitt
married Carl Vincent Tomeo in September. She
is an employee of Associated Industrial Rubber
and a student at Guilford Technical Institute.
Her husband works for Walter Kidde Company
. . . William Gary Ogburn (MEd) passed the
NC Bar Exam in July and lives in Winston-Salem.

Roslyn Sue Pollard and Darryl Jay Konter
were married in August and live in St. Louis,
where she is a nursing instructor at St. Louis
Children's Hospital and he is a reporter for
KMOX-TV . . . Janice Marlene Purnell, a
software engineer at Harris Corporation,

married Jerry Glenn Brooks, a dental
laboratory technician, in August. They live in
Melbourne, FL . . . Joyce Nuckolls Sasser
(MAE) was appointed head of New Garden
Friends School in Greensboro; she had been
acting head of the school's lower division since
last January . . . Lucy Spencer's (MFA) work
was included in the Greensboro Artists' League
show at the Greensboro Arts Center this fall.

1977 1987

Last summer Mary Anne Ryan Busch's family
included a thirteen-year-old boy from Belfast,
Ireland. A participant in the Irish Children's
Summer Program, this was his second summer ;
in Mary Anne's home . . . Helen Ginn (MA)
was appointed Visiting Associate Professor of
Sociology at St. Mary's College of
Maryland ... At a meeting of the Guilford
County Area Mental Health, Mental Retarda-
tion and Substance Board, Jo Anne Fox Mason
was awarded a citation for her outstanding
work as a social worker for the children's
services program at Kendall Center.

Barbara Von Oesen, a social worker with the
Durham County Department of Social
Services, has completed a training program in
the treatment of child sexual abuse . . . Lane
Ridenhour sang in a major role in the
Greensboro Opera Company production of
Lucia di Lammermoor thh October . . .Jack
Stratton's work "Exotic drink/Nasty ashtray,"
which was displayed in High Point Theatre
Galleries this summer, was described in a
review as "one of the most intriguing" pieces
in the exhibit.

M.\RRIAGES: Ann Brooks married Glenn
Younts in .'\ugust. Ann is a nurse with the
Crawford Alcoholic Treatment Center, and
Glenn, a Soabar Graphics employee . . .
Thomas Buller married Diane Elaine Owsley,
a business administration student at UNC-
Chapel Hill, in .'August and lives in Pittsboro.
Thomas w orks for Space Builders of Carrboro.
. . . Martha Crotts married Joe Spainhour in
.August. They work for Rex Plastics in
Thomasville and Hartford Insurance Com-
pany, respectively . . . Karen Francis and Jim
Smith were married in June and moved to
.Atlanta, GA, in September. Jim is a Jefferson
College graduate and Navy veteran.

Doris Knight, who is now studying in UNC-
Chapel Hill's School of Dentistry, married
Donald Thorne. a Rexham Corporation
employee, in July. They live in Graham ...
Sherrie Marie McKinnon and Joseph Martin
Reising, who is affiliated with a Houston, TX
oil firm, were married in .'\ugust . . . Melia
Ann Mooney married Edwin Peter Pavoris in
August. She works for the Employment
Security Commission in Winston-Salem, and
her husband is vice president of sales for No-
Nonsense Fashions. Inc. . . . Elaine Stafford
and Marcus Putnam were married in .August.
Elaine works for Automated Fleet Services,
and Marcus is self-employed by Putnam
Woodcraft.

In August. Alice Terry married Kyle Pearce,
a dye process engineer at Milliken and Com-
pany in Spartanburg, SC, where they now
li\e . . . Connie Rence Williams worked for

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the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School
System before marrying Alan Siris in July.
They now live in Long Island, NY, where her
husband is self-employed . . . David Willis
Wrenn, a student at Central Carolina Technical
College, married Mary Patricia Wieland. a
student at Sandhills Community College, in
August. They live in Southern Pines and work
for Holiday Inn.

1978

REUNION

1983

Janice Joyner Alexander received her master's
in Public Health in Nutrition from UNC in
August and is now a nutritionist at NC
Memorial Hospital . . . Bobbie McGuire
Atwell (MEd) is a new instructor in community
medicine at the Bowman Gray School of
Medicine of Wake Forest University. In her
new position, she will direct the Cancer Patient
Support Program at Bowman Gray . . . Ivan
Battle, who expects to soon complete his doc-
torate in music, is the artistic director of the
new Greensboro Music Academy. He and two
other Academy faculty members met as
graduate students at the University of Kansas.

Barre Burks, who lives in Greensboro,
passed the Uniform Certified Public Account-
ant E.xam in May . . .Evelyn Brady Cheek
(MEd), an employee of Guilford County
Department of Social Services, attended a
workshop for child-care personnel held at
UNC-Chapel Hill . . . Margaret Cox is the
consumer education representative for Duke
Power in Chapel Hill.

Having served the past four years in the
intensive care unit of Wesley Long Hospital.
Myra Fisher Ellis was elected president of the
Greensboro chapter of American Association
of Critical Care Nurses. Susan Transou was
elected treasurer . . . Walter Mullinkin is a
post-doctoraie fellow doing research at U. of
Pennsylvania in neuro-science . . . Robah and
Jeannie Buchanan Ogburn have a new address
in Winston-Salem (4912 Pippen Rd., 27105)
and a new daughter, Stacy Gray, born May 13.
MARRIAGES: Susan Arey Best married
Richard Wayne Stone and lives in Beckley,
WV, where her husband practices law . . .
Cinderella Bratcher, an employee of Mecklen-
burg County Department of Social Services,
married Ervin Dexter Blakney in June. They
reside in Charlotte, where her husband works
for City Parks and Recreation . . . After their
August wedding, Paula Glenn Cogdell and
husband Stanley Carlton Melvin settled in
Kinston. She is an educational specialist at
Caswell Center, and he works for the Dobbs
School Recreation Department.

Janet Lee Ernst and John Thomas Lemons
were married in July and live in Winston-
Salem, where she is an interior designer and
he is an electrician . . . Ellen Fairfield and
James Parsons '80 were married in August.
James is a law student at Wake Forest Univer-
sity and Ellen works for the Center for Creative
Leadership . . . William Freeman married
Catherine Ozburn in September. William
works for Metropolitan Insurance Company
and Catherine for Mobil Land Development
Corporation . . . Shannon Kaye Gilley and
new husband Lawrence Robert Like, married

Business on the

Go — Nine years
ago Marge Butter-
field Michel '76

(MEd) and her
husband Jake sat
down on their den
floor and began
assembhng hovv-t6
kits for teachers.
Recently, they sold
their millionth educational item
through their Greensboro business,
now known as The Education Center,
which currently operates with an
annual gross of $2 million. Through
the Center, the Michels create nearly
400 mail order products ranging from
student activity books to bulletin
board displays. They also conduct
teacher workshops and publish an idea
magazine called The Mailbox. This
year, when the Michels go to West
Germany to conduct a workshop,
what was once a den floor business
will go international.

in August, live in Lubbock, T.\. She is an inter-
preter for the deaf at South West Collegiate
Institute for the Deaf, and her husband is a
chemical engineer.

Deborah King married Mark Kaplan in the
Alumni House in July; Deborah works for
Community Dialysis Clinic in McKeesport,
P.A, and .Mark, for Burlington Handbags . . .
Ruth Renee Littleton and David Warren Neal
were married in August and live in Charlotte.
She works for the NC Department of Adult
Probation and Parole and he is associated with
Fidelity and Deposit Co. . . . Beth Pendergrass
married Fred Burkey in July. Beth is a UNC-G
graduate student, and her husband works for
Service Master Industries, Incor-
porated . . . Karen Mailin Sox married Robert
Pearce, an employee of Graham's County
Ford, in July. They live in Burlington, where
Karen teaches in the citv schools.

1979

Kay Caviness is a personnel officer for
Wachovia Bank & Trust and lives in High
Point ... In her new position as production
manager for Donnelley Marketing. Marjorie
Guilford manages a staff of 250 people at the
Coupon Redemption Service Center in Elm
City . . . Kristin Howell (MBA) teaches
business administration and economics at High
Point College and German at Guilford
Technical Institute.

Alan Mark Kaplan and Jeffrey Mabe. both
living in Greensboro, passed the July NC Bar
Exam . . . Keith Martin directed "Guys and
Dolls" for the Community Theater of
Greensboro in October. He will direct "The
Real Inspector Hound" next spring. One of

Keith's productions last year, "Inherit the
Wind," was voted best show by season ticket
holders.

Ellen Boles Olson (MPA) chairs the library
and resources committee of the Family Life
Council of Greater Greensboro . . . Larry
Upchurch is the new assistant principal at
North Moore High School, where his wife Nina
Williams Upchurch '76. teaches English,
M ARRL\GES: F'ugene Bowman and Jane
Ranisciir had an .August wedding. Eugene
works lor Small System Services, and Jane, for
Skulpiiir Form . . . Ben and Linda DeBoer
Clodfelter, who were married in May, live in
Greenville. Ben is in broadcasting in New
Bern . . . Lynn Graham married David
Church in August. Lynn teaches in Guilford
County and her husband is a branch manager
of Community Bank . . . Sarah Morgan
married Reinerio Berroa in August. She
received her master's at University of Pitts-
burgh, where her husband is a PhD candidate.

Ruth Ann Watson, a teacher at J. Sam
Gentry Middle School, married David Vernon
McKnight, an employee of R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company, in August. They have a
King address . . . Annette White, an English
teacher at Randleman High School, wed John
David Byrd in July. Her husband works for
the City of Greensboro ... In July, Shawn
Wilson married Zan Fortune, a student at St.
George's University School of Medicine . . .
Debra Zauber married Michael DiMuzio, an
employee of Jamison Steel Rule Die, in July.

1980

REUNION
1985

Margaret Beck was promoted to news staff
writer for the Rocky Mounl Telegram and now
covers Rocky Mount City Council meetings
and other city events. She was editor of the
paper's Life section before her promo-
tion . . . Jonathan Berkelhammer, a Greens-
boro resident, passed the NC Bar Exam in July.
. . . Mary Turner Byrnes (MEd) married
Gregory Lon Baldwin in August. She works
for the New River Mental Health Center, and
he. for Darryl's Restaurant.

Paulette Marbray Duke (MEd), a teacher at
Rockingham County senior high school, is
rejoicing over the successful bone marrow
transplant performed at Johns Hopkins on her
nine-year-old daughter. The risky operation
became necessary when Paulette learned that
it was the only chance of survival for her
daughter who was suffering from leukemia.
. . . Betty Brower Hardin and Jeanne Fesper-
man Morrisette were among the Greensboro
area residents passing the Uniform Certified
Public .Accountant Examination in .May . . .
Jane Tyree Jaworski (CS) joined Wachovia
Bank's Systems Development as a
programmer.

Combining grant money and jazz talent. Bob
Montgomery, a television news editor, formed
the new Greensboro Jazz Orchestra . . . Fran
Nolan (EdD) is the new assistant principal at
Greensboro's Jackson Junior High . . . Phyllis
Gruff Prescott (MA) directs research and
evaluation for the Guilford County Depart-
ment of Mental Health . . . Cherry Smith
Seagraves and husband Spencer '78 had their

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second anniversary in October. Their address:
10302 Delray Road. Glen Allen, VA 23060.

Diana Smith Stephenson played Miss
Adelaide in the Community Theater of
Greensboro production of "Guys and
Dolls" . . . Kathleen Musholl Ward was hired
as chief accountant of Guilford College.
. . . Travis V\'riuht joined Cellu Products Com-
pany as a packaging engineer.
MARRIAGES: While working on his master's
in geology at Washington State University,
James Bailey and wife Shelia Elaine Murray,
who he married in August, are living in
Pullman, WA . . . John Coble (.MS) married
Teresa Weaver in August. John works for
Mental Retardation Services and Teresa, for
Leggett Department Stores.

Leslie Culbertson, who works for the
National Speech and Hearing .Association,
married Vaughn Ralph Leland in July and lives
in High Point. Her husband works for Sechrest
Funeral Service . . . Steven Engebretsen and
Teresa Bell, both teachers at Durham Acad-
emy, were married in July. Ste\en coaches and
Teresa teaches French . . . Catherine Elizabeth
Faulkner, a nurse at Greensboro's Moses Cone
Hospital, married William Randolph Mathews,
an employee of M. L. Eakes Company, in
September . . . Deborah Woolsey Fix (MEd)
married Richard Wayne Casey, an employee
of Globe-Union Battery, in July. They live in
Winston-Salem.

Janet Guest and Timothy Wayne Gilbert
were married in August and live in Charlotte.
Janet works for IBM, and her husband is an
attorney . . . Harriet Lynn Haltiw anger and
husband Roger William Horn, married in July,
live in Forest City . . . Ellen Penny Hare and
William Tazewell Morris were married in
August and live in Charlotte, where she is a
radiologic technologist and he is branch
manager of Biomedical Reference Labor-
atories.

Patricia Havnes, who works for Greensboro
City Schools, wed Brano Coleman, an
employee of Cone Mills, in September . . .
Kitty Hester, who works for Booke & Co. in
Winston-Salem, married Joseph Patrick in
August. Joseph works for Fire Protection
Systems . . . Ellen Hickey and Leon John
Backes were married in July in Dallas. TX.
Ellen is a dietician in the Dallas County school
system and her husband is a real estate broker.
. . . Before marrying Charles Thomas Bayne
in June, Julie Sharon Johnson taught in the
hearing impaired program in Charleston
County (SO schools. They now live in Smyrna,
GA, where her husband teaches math.

Now working at Bardy's Diamond Center,
Teresa Keiger married Robert Miller in
September. Robert works for Greensboro
Hospital . . . Robin Kirkpatrick, a speech
pathologist for Asheboro City Schools,
married Mark Seders in July. He works for
Southern Fabrics Company . . . Lisa Kogul-
kiewicz and James Hines, who works for
Appalachian Power Company, were married
in July . . . Joan Little (MEd) and Robert
Westmoreland, both doctoral candidates ai
UNC-Chapel Hill, were married in July. Joan
is studying administration, and Robert,
philosophy.

Cheryl McCoy, a UNC-G graduate student

Traveled Teacher— when Daphne
Rupard '78 (MEd) teaches her courses
on African and Asian Cuhures, she
speaks from personal experience. Dur-
ing her summer vacations from
teaching at Northwest Guilford Junior
High School, Daphne has traveled to
Nepal, India, Kenya, and Nigeria, and
last summer she spent seven weeks at
the University of Hawaii where she
wrote a curriculum on Japan. Arti-
facts and photographs from her travels
make these countries more than just
te.xtbook facts for her students to
memorize. "I want to make these
countries come alive for students," she
says. "And if you can show them a
picture of yourself on a camel next to
the pyramids, or trying on seed bead
jewelry from Masai, it becomes real
for them."

and special education teacher, wed Allen Earl
Greene in July. He is a pharmacist with Rite-
Aid Drug Stores . . . Donna Denise Messick
(MEd). a Greensboro Public School employee,
married UNC-G graduate student James Starr
Kimmel in July . . . Sonya Minler, a coronary
intensive care nurse at Greensboro's Moses
Cone Hospital, married Hugh Montgomery in
.August. He works for Transcontinental Gas
Co. His mother is Martha Fulcher Mont-
gomery '56 . . . Kim Neve married Mike Cran-
ford in August. Kim works for Central NC
School for the Deaf and Mike, for City
Motors.

Ola .\lene Payne married Franklin Ward in
June. They live in Williamston, where she is
an interviewer for the Employment Security
Commission and he works for Charles H.
Jenkins & Company . . . Francis Sciolino,
who is in his third year of dental school at
UNC-Chapel Hill, married Danielle Borda-
garay in July . . . Willis Thomas Scott married
East Carolina University senior Bernadette
Burton in July. They settled in Raleigh, where
he is an accountant . . . Sylvia Thomas
married George Hutcherson in September.
Both studying at USC-Columbia, Sylvia is an
elementary school teacher, and George, an
internal auditor for Springs Industries. Sylvia's
mother is Mary Batty Thomas '53.

Nancy Teagarden and Stephen Jackson were
married in August. Nancy works for First
Telco Credit Union of North Carolina and

Stephen is a partner in Renovations Unlim-
ited . . . Connie Wagner, a Western Electric
employee, married a practicing attorney at law,
Tony McLaughlin, in September . . . Berrye
Worsham (MBA), an employee of J. 1. Case,
married Donna Weston in July.

•y»l 1986

Stan Allison (.MEd) is the new principal at
Rockwell Christian School ... As a project
leader in Management Services at Integon, Ann
Shelton Angel (MS) conducts projects in pro-
ductivity improvement . . . Margaret Baker
(MFA) returned to UNC-G with The Road
Company, a touring theater ensemble that per-
formed in .Aycock .Auditorium in September.
They presented "Little Chicago," a musical
based on the popular legends of Johnson City,
TN, during the '20s.

.After traveling in California with friends this
summer, Clara Bond Bell returned to Summer-
ville, SC, to begin her second year of kinder-
garten teaching . . . Terry Christian Buchanan
helped with choreography and played Sarah
Brown in the Community Theater of Greens-
boro production of "Guys and Dolls." Off-
stage, Terry is executive director of accounts,
instructor and model with Marilyn's Model-
ing and Talent Agency . . . Cathy Lynn
Clayton teaches three-year-olds at Ocean View
Teachine-Learnins Center in Mvrtle Beach,
SC.

Frank Ernest is a law student at Campbell
College . . . Teresa Burrage Jackson's new
address is L-4 Easthampton Gardens, Mount
Holly, NJ 08060 . . . Larry Patterson passed
the Uniform Certified Public .Accountant
Examination in May . . . Mark Thomas Payne
(MM) is the new band director for Williams
High School and Turrentine Middle School in
Burlington . . . William Rankin received a
Herbert and Virginia Howard Scholarship to
continue his graduate study in art at UNC-G.

Susan Reese joined Duke Power as a con-
sumer education representative in North
Wilkesboro . . . Mary .Anne Robil has moved
to Gaithersburg, MD (P.O. Box 2441, 20879).
. . . Living in Greensboro, Felixa Sommer is
now Felixa Sommer Nielson . . . Jeff Scott is
the new Group Underwriting service section I
supervisor for Integon. .Among his respon-
sibilities is supervising the operation of the
Group's computer terminals . . . Second
Lieutenant Alton James Tallenl's new address
is 2427 Woodside Lane, Apt. 4, Colorado
Springs, CO 80906.

MARRIAGES: Beverly Jo Barnes and George
Allen Cranford, who were married in May. live
in Greensboro, where George is general
manager of Chemical and Solvents, Incor-
porated . . . Debra Beckwith and Doug Huriey
were married in July and live in Greensboro,
where Debra works for First Home Federal
Savings and Loan, and Doug, for Maintenance
Supply Co., Incorporated . . . Lavicia
Bigelow. an employee of Greensboro's Wesley
Long Hospital, married .Anthony Morgan in
August . . . Genny Sue Cox and Vann Harris
Ziglar were married in .August and live in Eden,
where they work for Stone-Eden Christian
School and Owens-Illinois, respectively.

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Vicki Diggs and Estridge Everett Watkins
were wed in September and live in Durham,
where Vicki is a nurse at Duke University
Medical Center. Her husband works tor Boyco
Landscape Maintenance in Wilson . . .
Deborah Dotson married Robert McMillan, a
marketing supervisor at Marketing and
Research Counselors, in August. Deborah
works for Greensboro's Parks and Recreation
Department . . . Elaine Ferrell married
Stephen Smith in August; they live in Burling-
ton. Elaine is assistant director of the Child
Development Center and vice president of
Alamance County Association of Education of
Young Children. Her husband works for J. M.
Holt and Sons . . . Sabrina Goode, an
employee of Ivey's Carolina's Central Buying
Dffice, married Avance Richards in September.
'Skvance is a second lieutenant in the Army.
Randy Greeson married Mary Ann Moretz
n September. Both work for NC National
Bank . . . Kathnin High( and Johnny Bullock,
^ho were married in June, live in Thomson,
jA, where she is a high school special educa-
ion teacher and he works for Two-State Con-
itruction Company . . . Joyce Lowe married
rhomas Summers in July. Joyce works for
raswell County Schools, and Thomas, for
Carolina Quality Block and Concrete . . .
Martha Susan O'BrianI and James Lanier
Javis, both elementary education teachers in
Drange County Schools, were married in July.
Mark Lee Palmer married a student at Wake
"orest University, Terrie Lynch, in August.
Jving in Clemnions, Mark is an accountant.

. . Robin Puckett, a Ciba-Geigy employee,
ind Danny Gregory had an August wedding.

. . Kathy Jean Rowe, a teacher at Playworld
rhild Development Center, and Staley Gates
Ceener, a cost engineer at Leathercraft Inc.,
lere married in August and live in Hickory.

. . "Darden" Shackelford married David
roe in August. They live in Raleigh, where she
I'orks for Hudson-Belk, and he, for IBM.
)arden's mother is Mary Brewer Shackelford
58.

Beth Tale, a nurse at Wesley Long Com-
nunity Hospital in Greensboro, married
vobert Linville in August. Robert works for
he Cardinal Golf Shop . . . Sharon Welker
nd Morris Mole '82 were married in Julv.
haron works for Wilcox Walter Furlong
'aper Company . . . Barbara Lee York and
'hilip Raiford were married in May and live
1 Reidsville. Barbara is a UNC-G graduate
Indent in textiles, and Philip is a management
rainee for the Karastan Division of Fieldcrest
lills. Incorporated . . . Cathy Annette
'aughan. a speech therapist for Person County
chools, married Authur Waddell in August
nd lives in Durham. Authur is a corrections
fficer at NC Department of Corrections.

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1987

Beth Boiling's mixed media works were
isplayed in July at Elliott University Center
n campus . . . While she works toward a MM
egree in applied piano at Louisiana State U.
1 Baton Rouge, Regina Bridges has a graduate
ccompanying assistantship in music . . .

Mills Makes the
Grade — When

she sat down last
May to take the
certified public ac-
countant exam for
the first time,
Susan Mills '82')
said, "All I was in- . if j
terested in was '.?■ |
passing." Not only
did Susan pass, but her score was the
second highest among the 65,537
aspiring CPAs in the nation who took
the May exam. Her average score of
96.5 earned her the Katherine Guthrie
Memorial Gold Medal for posting
North Carolina's highest score, the
Elijah Watt Sells Silver Award for
achieving the second highest national
score, and a raise and bonus from her
employer, Barker-Ward & Co., a
Greensboro accounting firm. On
weekends, Susan puts down her
calculator and picks up her softball
glove to play third base for a team that
finished fifth in a state tournament.

Suzanne Ozment Edwards (PhD) is an assist-
ant professor of English at The Citadel, the
military college of South Carolina.

Lynne Frutchey received a full tuition
scholarship to work on her master's in Urban
and Regional Planning at Florida State Univer-
sity at Tallahassee, FL . . . Jill Dorsett Reiser
(MLS) is the new assistant librarian-media at
High Point College.

Martha Moschler joined the Stokes County
Agricultural Extension staff in August; she will
coordinate 4-H Club activities and work in
food nutrition . . . Jeff WiLson opened his pro-
fessional theatre debut as the lieutenant in the
Barn Dinner Theatre production of "Shenan-
doah" . . . Jaime Zickl has joined the facul-
ty of the Karen Gibson School of Dance.
MARRIAGES: Sheryl Rose Aycock and
Richard Max Bauer '81 were married in
August. They live'in Mooresville, where he
works for Burlington Industries . . . Wendy
Beal Banner and Donald Gene Hamilton were
married in July and live in Greensboro . . .
Cheryl Benfield and Christian Stokes were
married in May and live in Charlotte, where
Christian is a structural draftsman . . . After
their June wedding and a honeymoon in the
Bahamas, Teresa Brittain and husband Edwin
Turner, a Wake Forest graduate, made their
home at 21-G Hiltin Place, Greensboro.

Kevin Brown married Beth Snider in
August . . . Maria Buster and Jeff Riddle '81
were married in July. Jeff works for Burlington
Industries . . . Renee Busick, a student at
Moses Cone School of Medical Technology in
Greensboro, married Kenneth Troxler in June.
... In May, Renne Garden and Jon Patter-
son were married. Jon is an Armv lieutenant

serving with the 7th Special Forces Group at
Fort Bragg.

Cindy Kay Capps and Michael David
Warren, an employee of the Orange County
Board of Education, were married in June and
live in Burlington . . . Kathleen Capron and
Thomas Paul Graham, an Airwick Profes-
sional Products employee, were also married
in June. They live in Harrisburg . . . Marilyn
Cockman and Paul Braxton (MBA) were
married in August and live in Eden. Paul's
mother is Nancy Burke Braxton '57.

Deaths

FACULTY

Viva Playfoot, who was a member of the home
economics faculty for nearly thirty years, died
October 11 in Winston-Salem. She received
undergraduate and graduate degrees from
Columbia University and was a supervisor of
home economics in Middlesex County, NJ,
before coming to "The College," where she
was responsible for teacher training. She was
a state president of the North Carolina Home
Economics Association and a member of the
American Home Economics Association and
North Carolina Education Association.

Barbara Terry, professor of French from
1967 to 1973, died on October 1 1 following a
lengthy illness. An assistant professor of
French at .Mississippi State University before
her appointment at UNC-G, she received her
BA at Duke, her MA at Western Reserve
University, and her PhD from the University
of Alabama. She published several articles on
French literature and played the flute and
violin.

ALUMNI

After a brief illness, Lucy Hamilton Little '12
died at her home in Thomasville on September
12. A Carteret County native and former
schoolteacher, she had nine grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren. Among the surviving
daughters is Lucy Little .\yers '63 (.MEd).

Martha Biggers '17, a resident of Monroe,
died on September 10. She did advanced study
at New York's Julliard School of Music and,
at one time, was the director of music at Mars
Hill College.

Nina Tate Foust '19, who taught school in
her nati\e Randolph County, died on
September 24. Among her survivors are her
eight grandchildren and eight great-grand-
children.

At her death on August 5, Claytor Cardwell
Hansen '24 was a resident of Friends Home
m Greensboro. She left part of her estate to
UNC-G.

Estelle Aycock Ballance '25 died on October
4. She was a native of Fremont.

The Alumni Office was notified that Ethyl
McLamb Dunn '25, a Roseboro resident, has
died. Marilyn Dunn Roberts '51 is her
daughter.

Fall 1982 Alumni News / 29

Deaths, continued

Ruth McLean '26 died on September 24.
During her distinguished career as a
bacteriologist, she worked as chief technician
at the UNC School of Medicine and as a
research bacteriologist for the U.S. Department
of Agriculture. She w as awarded an MA degree
from Duke and a PhD in microbiology from
the University of Pennsylvania. She was an
avid traveler and bird watcher, hobbies she
enjoyed with her sister Cora McLean '30, who
survives her.

Brooks Johnson Silvelle '26, a resident of
Stanardsville, VA, died of a heart attack on
September 4. After earning her master's at
Columbia University, she was an art instruc-
tor at St. Anne's-Beifield School and, later, at
the University of Virginia school of
architecture.

Glenn McDougald '30 died at her home in
Greensboro on September 6. She taught at
Greensboro's Irving Park School and was sister
to Juanita McDougald Melchior '17 and
Dorothy McDougald Lennon '37, who survive
her.

Evelyn Wellman '32, a native of Rowan
County, died on September 26. She had been
an executive secretary for the Rowan Chapter
of the .American Red Cross.

Carroll Stoker '39, who for ten years was
known to the Greensboro area as the hostess
of WFMY-TV's "Second Breakfast," died on
October 15. While hosting the community
affairs program, which was originally called
"Carroll's Corner," she interviewed many
well-known personalities, including then actor
Ronald Reagan. Carroll first went on air in
1952, after joining WFMY-FM radio in 1948.
After leaving the TV station in 1965, she
became promotion director of Summit Shop-
ping Center in Greensboro. Continuing an
interest that developed in college, she was an
organizer of what is now Greensboro Com-
munity Theater.

Nell Daly Sutton '49 died at her Greensboro
home on September 10.

Emmalynn Gettys Corn '51 died at her home
in Potomac, MD, on August 19. A Bostic
native, she earned a master's at Yale Univer-
sity school of nursing and moved to
Washington, DC, where she became a nurse
with Suburban Hospital and with the Red
Cross Bloodmobile. She joined Georgetown
University's department of physiology in 1979.
After a long battle with cancer, Shirley Tegg
Parker '52 died on September 21. Before her
illness she was a teacher and guidance
counselor in the Charlotte school system.
Recently, she worked with several cancer
counseling groups and was on the YWCA
Board of Directors.

Kathleen Embler '54 (MEd|, a High Point
nati\e and a retired professor at Central
Wesleyan College, died on September 22.

Dcbra Fink Windsor '76, a resident of Clem-
mons, died September 13 in Forsyth Memorial
Hospital, where she had been in a coma for
si,\ months. Until she became ill last March,
she taught at Philo Junior High School. In the
summers, she combined her love of children
with her love for art by teaching a course
through the Arts Council. Her husband Dale
Windsor '75, and their son Justin, survive.

Viewpoint, continued

I am sure that the future is very
much on your mind. Your aim
may be a professional degree or a
liberal arts education. In either
fashion, you are preparing your-
self for what is to come — for the
workplace, for beginning families,
for children unborn, for victories
and celebrations, for losses and
occasional sleepless nights. All of
that lies ahead in variable mix, a
mi.x which the choices you make
will in some degree influence.

If you are troubled by the sus-
picion that everyone around you
has a firmer grasp upon the future
than you, relax a bit. It is true, of
course, that many who come here
have firm and clear plans about
programs and even careers.
Others do not. Do not be troubled
excessively by the absence of such
plans if you lack them. The Uni-
versity is a very good place to
prepare a plan, to think carefully
about the design of strategy for
life and work. And of those who
have already charted a course for
themselves, I suspect that more
than a few will rethink earlier deci-
sions on the basis of self-knowl-
edge and new information gained
here. And if the University dis-
turbs a few plans in that way, that
is as it should be.

Personal growth is possible here.
Indeed, it is more than possible;
it is Ukely if you choose well. I re-
mind you, however, that growth
was not a painless process else-
where; it will not be so here. Sub-
mitting a carefully prepared paper
and having it returned filled with
sharp, critical comments can be
hard. A new friendship that goes
awry perversely is hard. The col-
lapse of comfortable preconcep-
tions and assumptions, and their
replacement with new thought, is
hard. But you do not come here
as novices; you know that these
things are true, and you will not

be surprised by the short-term
sense of loss which often accom-
panies personal growth. You've
come here for that. You will
encounter it here along with the
satisfaction, pleasure, and con-
fidence that also accompany
growth.

Having acknowledged the many
dimensions of growth with which
the University is concerned, it
must be said in candor that mat-
ters intellectual are especially con-
sequential. Original and clear
thought is prized here, as are
graceful and effective speech and
writing. These abilities are
deliberately sought, encouraged,
measured, and rewarded. Growth,
in these respects, is especially
honored. If you have gotten by
elsewhere occasionally, as we all
have, with the assurance that you
understand something but could
not explain it, you will encounter
a bit more skepticism here. Lay-
ing claim upon understanding
something at this University
means being able to explain it, and
to do so with increased detail if
challenged. Depend upon it, you
will be challenged. Whatever you
set out to learn, as Samuel ■
Johnson observed in the 18th Cen-
tury, clear your mind first of cant
and cliches. It was good advice
then. It is no less now. Original
thinking, clearly expressed, will
serve you well here.

Each fall the world seems ai
more turbulent place in which to
make plans. Beyond the borders
of America in the Middle East, in
Asia, in South and Central Amer-
ica are conflicts that have already
touched the personal plans of
many and may do so again. Peace
and justice are infrequent com-
panions in such places.
Thoughtful people everywhere are
troubled by these conflicts and
I'm sure you are among them.
Technological changes of the most
extraordinary kind are before you,
ranging from new developments

30 / Alumni News Fall 1982

1 computing science to stunning
ossibilities in genetic engineering
nd the health sciences. The pace
f this technological revolution
lows no sign of slowing, nor can

be slowed by anyone's choice,
'hange, in destabilizing and un-
redictable fashion, is upon all of
s.

The choice of your own aca-
emic program is an intensely per-
anal matter. There is no evidence
lat I know of to suggest that, in
le long term, one choice is intrin-
Ically superior to others. Your
wn program when well designed
'ill take into account who you are
nd what your gifts and interests
re — as well as external condi-
ons, or it will run the risk of
relevance. There are no for-
lulas, no infallible rules for
laking these program decisions
'ell. In the last analysis you will
are best by relying upon your
wn good judgment after, and
nly after, becoming well in-
ormed.

Generations of students before
ou have flourished here. Com-
ig, as you have, in the fall of the
ear, they found the University to
e at the same time a demanding
nd a refreshing experience. So,
jam sure, will you, for personal
ireedom in tandem with self-
Inposed discipline yield wonder-
Ul returns. If you have come to
|nprove your vision, you have
[ome to the right place.

You re on Page 31 *•'

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TRAVEL AND STUDY

USSR

AND

CHINA

UNC-G and Guilford College announce

SUMMER SEMINAR ABROAD, 1983

June 8-August 10

Two consecutive courses in the cultural and political history of the USSR
and China. Travel and study for eight weeks as vou maintain a personal
c:hronicle of your experiences. Attend on-site lectures and tours. Si.x hours
of undergraduate credit are optional.

Seminar leaders

Dr. lames Cooley, Associate Professor of History. UNC-G.
Alumni tour leader to China in 1981.

Dr. Martha Cooley, Professor of History.
Guilford College. Seminar leader to
Russia in 1976.

Seminar Itinerary

New York, Amsterdam. Berlin,
Warsaw, Leningrad, Pushkin,
Novgorod. Moscow, then (via Trans-
Siberian Railway) Ulan Bator. Peking,
Hsian, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou. Guilin,
Guangzhou, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York.

For brochure and atitiifiorKiJ informotion. contact:

Dr. lames Coolev (919) 379-5910 or 272-2755

Dr. Martha Cooley (919) 292-5511. e.xt. 225 or 272-2755

Fall 1982 Alumni News / 31

Alumni
Business

by Barbara Parrish '48
Director of Alumni Affairs

Current Candidates

Marilib Barwick Sink '44 of
Winston-Salem and Ellen Shef-
field Newbold '55 of Greensboro
have accepted nomination as can-
didates for President-Elect of the
Alumni Association for a term to
begin next July. The candidate
receiving the higher number of
votes in balloting scheduled for
the spring will serve as Presi-
dent-Elect for a year and then will
succeed Lois Brown Haynes as
President of the Association. (The
actual presidential term of service
is two years.)

On the same ballot Kim
Ketchum '70 of Greensboro and
Martha "Marty" Washam '55 of
Charlotte will be candidates for
the position of Second Vice Presi-
dent of the Association. The win-
ning candidate will serve on the
Alumni Board for three years and
during that time will chair the
Association's Nominating Com-
mittee. Janice Atkinson Cutchin
currently holds the position.

Five Trustees will be elected in
1983 balloting. Leon Chestnut '74
of Ruffin and Betsy Suitt Oakley
'69 of Greensboro will be candi-
dates for the District Six
trusteeship which is currently held
by Marilyn McCollum Moore of
Reidsville. Alysmae Fuller Honey
'34 of Charlotte and Mary Lou
Howie Gamble '53 of Monroe will
be candidates for the District Nine

trusteeship which Asenath Cooke
of Huntersville presently holds.

Dot Shiver Hubbard '52 of
Wilkesboro and Nancy Trivette
Martin '62 of Hudson will be can-
didates for the District Ten
trusteeship currently held by Ruth
Sevier Foster of Lenoir. Frances
Harman Burwell '53 of Ruther-
fordton and Betty Lou Mitchell
Guigou ' 5 1 of Valdese will be can-
didates for the District Eleven
position which Betty Crawford
Ervin of Morganton holds.

Sadye Dunn Doxie '57 of
Washington, DC, and Anne
Holmes Jones '44 of Clover, SC,
will be candidates for an out-of-
state trusteeship, the winning can-
didate to succeed Gerry Pearce
Durham of Birmingham, AL.

Ballots will be mailed next
spring to alumni of active
membership (those who are cur-
rently supporting the University
through Annual Giving). Results
of the voting will be announced at
the 1983 annual meeting of the
Association on May 14.

A Month More

Announced earlier as November
30, the deadline for receipt of
nominations for Alumni Service
Awards for 1983 is being extended
to January 5.

Frankie Herman Hubbard '54,
chair, and the members of the
Service Awards Committee are
seeking names and supportive
credentials for alumni who "have
made significent contributions to
the liberal arts ideal in Service."

A nomination form, which cites
education, religion, politics, fam-
ily service, the arts, medicine,
nursing, research, recreation,
creative writing, journalism, and
law as likely fields of service, is
available in the Alumni Office.
When completed, forms should be
returned to the Committee in care

of the Alumni Office.

Competitive Awards

The deadline for the receipt of
complete applications for the
Competitive Scholarships which
will be awarded by the University
to entering freshmen for the
1983-84 session is January 1 . The
application — a common form for
Katharine Smith Reynolds ($1,500
per year), Alumni ($1,500 per
year), Jefferson Standard ($1,000
per year), and Ferguson ($2,000
per year) awards — is available in;
the Student Aid Office at the
University. Advising academically
promising high school seniors with
whom we are acquainted about
the Competitive Scholarship
opportunities will be of mutual
benefit to the prospective students
and the University. \

Winter Leave

Because walking tours and gather-
ings at North Carolina's Historic,
Sites are better scheduled in
warmer weather. Dr. Richard Bar-
dolph is on sabbatical leave this
winter from his history classes for
alumni at the sites. Scheduled to
resume in late March, three classes
are already calendared: at Town
Creek Indian Mound near Mount
Gilead on March 26, at the Reed
Gold Mine near Concord on Apri'
9, and at Duke Homestead ir
Durham on April 23. Alumni whc
live in the respective geographic
areas and those who have re-
quested information about al
classes will be advised about thf
spring programs in time to mak(
plans and reservations.

Threes & Eights

Contrary to superstitious behef
Friday, May 13, promises to be ":
lucky day" for classes ending ii
3 and 8. On that day in 1983-
and the Saturday following-

32 / Alumni News Fall 1982

reunions for those classes are
scheduled at the University.

Current name-and-address lists
[lave been mailed to members of
;he reunioning classes in the hope
;hat classmates will get in touch
during the upcoming holiday
season about getting together on
he campus in May.

Reunion activities will be con-
:entrated on May 13 and 14. The
Jniversity's graduation exercises
A'ill be held on Sunday, May 15.
details of time and place will be
nailed during the spring.

Great Escapes

Dates have now been established
"or the 1983 Alumni Tours. The
jreece and Greek Isles tour, to be
iccompanied by Dr. Andreas
^omikos, professor of Com-
nunication and Theatre at the
Jniversity, will depart May 14
after class reunions) and return
vlay 28. The tour to Austria
Vienna and Salzburg), to be
iccompanied by Dr. Robert
Blocker, dean of the School of
vlusic, will depart June 6 and
eturn June 20.

In July travelers may choose a
veek in the Italian Lake District
July 18-26) or a week in Holland
July 25-August 1), or they may
;tay two weeks and visit both
ocales. From September 8-16 —
between St. Louis and St. Paul —
Dr. Richard Bardolph, professor
;meritus, will teach American
Tistory to alumni travelers aboard
'The Mississippi Queen." The
/ear's final tour destination will
36 Great Britain (England and
Gotland); departure is scheduled
'or September 17 with return on
October 1.

As they become available, bro-
;hures describing the individual
ours will be mailed to those who
idvise the Alumni Office of their
nterest.

The Southern Woman, from page 11

taught me more than anyone else the meaning of liberal arts; her learning
was broad and her standards were high. She was a tough administrator
who won and lost many fights at Woman's College. She never wavered
in her own opinions, and she is still a determined woman; at home,
in book clubs, in town meetings, she continues to share new knowledge,
whether teaching herself Japanese or studying lyrics from "Hair." She
keeps up; rather, she stays ahead; she is a strong and brave and intelligent
woman.

Miss Jane Summerell had retired from the English faculty when I
arrived, but I was invited to her lovely home near the campus, where
we had coffee and pastries and conversations wide-ranging. She knew
the mind and poetry of Emily Dickinson, she raised thoughtful
questions, and she moved with a grace and a refinement befitting any
"southern lady," but she was no decorative piece; she was and is a
woman of substance.

I studied Literary Criticism in the English Department with Dr. May
Bush, who, like Miss Taylor and Miss Summerell, never married, but
cared for her aging mother. A PhD from Johns Hopkins University,
she was also once President of the Greensboro Junior League. Her mind
was sharp, her nervous, high-pitched voice was commanding, her
requirements were severe. Later, married, with children, 1 took my fami-
ly to visit her in her retirement. We drank sherry and talked about books
in the dim shadows of a southern parlor.

And I think of Miss Vera Largent, who, as Dean Taylor remarked
to me, "died with her boots on," ever working for Woman's College,
remaining in contact with her students, attending concerts and lectures.
She was small, and her speech was explosive. She wrote on my freshman
history paper, "You have said none of the things I hoped you might
have said, but your questions are the right ones. I want you to be a
scholar." I'worked for her, to please her, and in the process I learned
how to think.

I have named only four of the women from our beloved Woman's
College. They are representative, I think, of our best. Intelligent,
dedicated, proud, it would never have occurred to any one of them that
as a woman she was not capable of achieving excellence through the
strength of her own mind. They bore none of the signs of the ancient
stereotypes fixed upon women — they are not men-haters, they were
not whiners and weepers, they were not screamers and apologists. I could
not have foreseen the feminist movement from my perspective in 1961
because women seemed to me already in charge. These women I have
named planted in us the notion that we could do anything we wanted
to do.

I celebrate them and Alma Mater.

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