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CENTENARY COLLEGE

LUMNI
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VOLUME ONE

NUMBER ONE • JANUARY, 1969

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ALUMNI PRESIDENT'S REPORT

By WAYNE HANSON

With this issue of Alumni Magazine, the Centenary College Alumni Association
embarks on a new venture. The expansion to a magazine format is an indication of
the progressive changes which are occurring in your Alumni Association. We view
this move as a giant step forward.

The Board of Directors has been busy with the work of the Association since
the first of September. The main item of concern for the past two months has been
Homecoming. We have made an all-out effort to make this 1969 Homecoming one
of the biggest and the best. We think we have made another giant step forward in
obtaining a "big name" band that will have appeal for the visiting alumni. We have
booked the Tex Beneke Band for our dance. As you know, Tex took over the Glenn
Miller Band after the untimely death of Glenn Miller. The band features a mellow
and resonant sound and specializes in slow tunes and swing for those of us who like
to dance cheek to cheek. They intersperse their program with a hot brand of rock
and roll for the more agile alumni. All in all, they promise an exciting evening of
listening and dancing pleasure. In fact, it is an ideal way to celebrate Valentine Day.

The Alumni Office, under the leadership of Doug Mooty, has been actively
promoting Alumni activities in the several Chapters around the country. New Chapter
Presidents have been elected and they are now busily engaged in furthering the aims
and goals of your Association.

Dan Springer, the New Director of Development, is working very close with the
Alumni Association and is giving us the encouragement and assistance of his office.
We look forward to a very good year under this new leadership.

As you may have noticed, you did not receive any direct solicitation for donations
this fall. The Board of Directors decided that we needed to do more planning on this
project and that it would be best to let Dan get his feet on the ground a little more
before we launched into a full scale fund raising drive. We also decided, for the
same reason, to defer the implementation of a dues structure for the Association.
Beginning this year, the Association will work very closely with the Development
Office of the College. As another step forward, there will be a special Alumni
Division in all future activities.

Your Alumni Association and its activities are growing. All of us on the Board
of Directors are very excited about the future of the Alumni Association and of Cente-
nary College. We hope all of you will be as excited as we are about this growth
and development.

In order for its potential to be realized and for Centenary to become the truly
great College it is capable of being, the enthusiastic support of all Alumni is vital.
Join with us in this Venture for the Future.

Homecoming Schedule

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1969

10:00 a.m. -12 noon Registration,

Coffee, and Campus Tours from
the Moore Student Center

1 1:00 a.m Business Meeting —

Moore Student Center

12:00 noon Lunch — Centenary

Dining Hall

2:30 p.m Pre-game activities —

State Fair Coliseum

3:00 p.m Basketball — Centenary

vs. East Texas Baptist College —
State Fair Coliseum

5:00 p.m. -6:15 p.m. . . Class reunions —
class of 1944 and 1959 — Aqua-
cade Room, Shreveporter Motel

7:00 p.m Banquet —

Shreveport Convention Center

9:00 p.m.-12:00 midnite Dance —

Tex Beneke's Band — Shreveport
Convention Center

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1969

10:45 a.m. . . Alumni Worship Service —
Brown Memorial Chapel

CENTENARY

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

1968-69

President Wayne Hanson '50

1st Vice-President. Charles E. Brown '48
2nd Vice-President. . . .Patty Lindsey '60

Secretary Charles Ravenna '32

Treasurer James Goins '61

DIRECTORS

(Terms expire 1969)

Joyce Andrews '50, Charles E. Brown
'48, W. W. Bynum '40, Jack Elgin '43,
Delores Harbuck '55, Margaret Hickman
'35, Mitzi Middlebrooks '55, Nell Mur-
dock '37, Tyler Pirtle x42, Webb Pome-
roy '44, William Anderson '60, Leon
Bain, Jr. '59, Mrs. Norris McGowen, Jr.
x42, Justin Querbes, III '66, Harold Ros-
bottom '58.

(Terms expire 1970)

Virginia Carlton '39, Stuart DeLee
'38, James Goins '61, Wayne Hanson
'50, Flavia Leary '35, Patty Lindsey '60,
Charles Ravenna '32, Virginia Shehee
'43, Albert Stephens, Jr. '50, Ernest Tur-
ner, Jr. '55.

Area Chapter Presidents
Baton Rouge. .Dr. Moss Bannerman '33

Dallas Don Bush

Houston Gaylon White

Monroe Mrs. Travis A. Brown

Shreveport Edwin Harbuck

ALUMNI OFFICE

Director Doug Mooty '51

Secretary Marilyn Robbins

Alumni Magazine

Editor Maurie Wayne

Published four times a year in January,
April, July and October by Centenary College
of Louisiana, Shreveport, La. 71104.

Entered as second-class matter April 1,
1942 at the post office at Shreveport, La.,
under Act of August 24, 1912.

OMECOMING FEB. 15-16

Welcome Home Ladies and Gents

Homecoming officials hope for at least one
thousand attendance for the 1969 Homecoming
February 15 and 16.

Mrs. Nell Murdock, Homecoming General Chairman; Dr. Wayne Han-
n, president of the Alumni Association; and Mrs. Margaret Hickman,
omecoming Co-Chairman.

Mrs. Tom Hubble, class of 1959; Mrs. John P. Boyett, class of 1944;
obert Eatman, chairman of the 1944 reunion; and Mrs. Richard Johnson,
hairman of the 1959 reunion.

Miss Flavia Leary, chairman of the Alumni Tour Committee; Mitzi
Middlebrooks, and Mrs. Jean McGowen, in charge of the Past-President's
fable.

A big-name band, special reunions of the classes of 1944 and 1959, and
the presentation of a number of coveted awards, will highlight the annual
Centenary College Homecoming scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, February
15 and 16.

Wayne Hanson, president of the Alumni Association, has issued a
special invitation to all former students to gather in Shreveport for their
yearly reunion and to join in the activities which have been planned by
the various Homecoming committees.

Hanson recently announced that Tex Beneke and his band will play
for the Homecoming Dance at the Shreveport Convention Center on the
Red River waterfront following the annual banquet. The dance will last
from 9:00 until midnight. Beneke took over the old Glenn Miller band
when Miller was killed in a plane crash during World War II, and has
made a name for himself in the music world since that time.

Mrs. William L. Murdock is serving as the Homecoming chairman this
year and, according to Hanson, has done an outstanding job of arranging
everything to make this year's gathering of former Centenary students a
memorable occasion. A number of special awards will be made at the
banquet on Saturday night, including the naming of two Honorary Alumni,
the Teacher of the Year, and another name to the Alumni Hall of Fame.
The annual Alumni Scholarship recipient will also be introduced at the
banquet by the Master of Ceremonies, Shreveport attorney Cecil Ramey.
George D. Nelson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and president Jack
S. Wilkes will be asked to present some of the awards.

The Homecoming basketball game at the State Fair Coliseum will pit
the Gents against East Texas Baptist College in an afternoon contest that
starts at 3:00. A pre-game ceremony will feature the Homecoming Queen
and her court and also a Gymnastics meet featuring the outstanding Centenary
gymnasts coached by Vannie Edwards.

The 10 and 25 year anniversary reunions have been scheduled at the
Aquacade Room of the Shreveporter Motel near the State Fair Coliseum
to make it easy for the guests to get from the game to the reunion site.
Robert Eatman, Shreveport attorney, is the chairman for the reunion of
the class of 1944; and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson of Shreveport are in
charge of the class reunion for the 1959 graduates. Special tables for these
guests will be arranged at the banquet.

Mrs. Murdock said a registration table will be set up in the Moore
Student Center on the campus starting at 10:00 a.m. Saturday and those
guests registering at that time will be given a guided tour of the College.
She said this should prove interesting for those who have not visited the
campus in recent years.

The annual business meeting of the Alumni Association will be held
in the SUB at 11:00 a.m. with president Wayne Hanson in charge of the
meeting. Lunch will be served in the College dining hall at 12:00 for all
of those who wish to dine at the College during the noon hour.

A special worship service for all Alumni will be held in the Brown
Memorial Chapel Sunday morning at 10:45, and this will be the final official
event of the 1969 Homecoming.

A notice of the Homecoming has been mailed to all former students
of the College, along with a form to return indicating the events you plan
to attend. Mrs. Murdock said that it is most important that these forms
be returned to the Alumni Office just as soon as possible so that reservations
for the banquet can be completed.

President Hanson said he hopes that this year's homecoming will prove
to be the most successful yet. He said there are indications that many
former students will travel great distances to return to their old school for
this year's reunion, and he particularly urged those living within a 100-mile
radius of the city to make plans to drive into Shreveport for the day and
meet with their old college friends. He said that about 700 persons attended
the banquet and dance last year and he hopes for at least a thousand for this
year's event.

Tickets for the banquet are S6.00 each and are available from members
of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association or through the Alumni
Office, Centenary College, P. O. Box 4188, Shreveport, Louisiana "1104.
Mrs. Murdock said the banquet menu will include filet mignon, baked
potato, salad, vegetable, and all the trimmings.

Tex Beneke

Tex Beneke & Band Will Entertain 'Old' Grads

When band leader Tex Beneke sings "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and plays "Body
and Soul" on his masterful sax at the annual Homecoming Dance this year, many of
the old timers will feel a twinge of nostaliga and will remember Glenn Miller's "Music
in the Mood." And the younger alums who do not remember the World War II days
will none-the-less recognize Tex as a fresh talent in the music business with a style
and personality all his own.

The announcement by Alumni Association president Wayne Hanson that Beneke
had been chosen to appear for the Homecoming dance met with shouts of approval
from old and new fans alike. Hanson said he expects the Beneke appearance to swell
the banquet crowd to close to the thousand mark at the Homecoming banquet and
dance at the Shreveport Convention Center on the Red River waterfront on Saturday,
February 15.

When Glenn Miller, one of the top bands in the nation, needed a sax man, Gene
Krupa recommended Tex and two weeks later he joined the famous Miller band. He'd
been born Gordon Beneke, but he walked into a rehearsal and said, "he ya. fellas, I'm
glad to be heah!" Miller said with a smile, "Tex, get out your horn and let's hear
you play." And from that moment on it was "Tex" Beneke and not Gordon!

Tex is known for both his sax work, and his equally famous vocals. Tunes like
"Kalamazoo", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Ida", and his sax solo on "Body and Soul"
have sold millions of copies. Tex was also featured in two movies, "Orchestra Wives"
and "Sun Valley Serenade" with Glenn Miller and his band.

Dr. Hanson urged all Centenary alumni to make their reservations for the banquet
and dance immediately. He pointed out that if any alumni have friends who would
like to attend, they would be welcome, provided they have the proper ticket for the
event.

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Woodrow Pate Assesses College At Dallas Meet

Dr. Woodrow W. Pate, one of Centenary's veteran professors, recently gave his
personal assessment of the College in a speech before the Dallas Alumni Chapter
following a regular meeting of the group.

Dr. Pate suggests that the College is in excellent shape — is
happy with its progress — but still dissatisfied because it still wants
the super-best.

He pronounced the faculty in excellent shape, saying "I
think our faculty is in better shape than it has ever been — certainly
the best in my 20 years." He pointed to the large number of
terminal degrees among the faculty, to the number of old-timers
who are still teaching at the College, plus the 28 new faculty
members with less than two years service, which he said shows that we are not standing
still and fighting the status quo.

He spoke of the administration's concern with the development of the new
Master Plan which will culminate in 1975 with the celebration of the 150th anniversary
of the College. He mentioned an overhaul of the committee structure of the College
and an in-depth study of the core curriculum, with students joining in these delibera-
tions. "Unlike some other educational institutions around the country," he said, "the
faculty and administration at Centenary have welcomed this (student) participation,
and we have actively encouraged the students to join with us in making plans for
the College."

Dr. Pate concluded his remarks by stating that Centenary is continuing its pursuit
of excellence. "We think this can best be achieved through our chosen path of a
small, liberal arts college. We wish to establish in our students such things as a wide
view, curiosity, courage, self-discipline, enthusiasm, and energy. We recognize that
specialization is vitally important in the modern world, but it is unfortunately true that
for many individuals — particularly, we think, those subject to mass-production in
education — specialization is a dead end rather than an avenue to deeper and broader
understanding. We think the key position in all walks of life will go to those who
are educated broadly in a balanced way. Only they have the depth of judgment, the
sense of proportion and the large-minded comprehension to handle big affairs. The
bset thing we can give the graduate is capacity for continued growth."

Fifty-one alumni and prospective students attended the Dallas meeting which was
held at the Lucas B and B Restaurant on January 9. Dr. Wayne Hanson, President of
the Alumni Association, and Douglas Mooty, Director of the Association, accompanied
Dr. Pate to the meeting. Others attending the meeting were Mrs. James Hares, Rev.
and Mrs. Don Barnes, Nathan and Margaret Fox, Blanche and Earl Manning, Leon
Harris, Jack and Clara Gibson, Jimmie and Wynn Stanton, Robert D. Newsome, Mr.

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Reverend Roy Mouser Is
Homecoming Chapel Speaker

A member of the 25th anniversary
class of 1944 will be the guest preacher
at the Homecoming Worship Service at
the Brown Memorial Chapel on Sunday,
February 16, at 10:45 a.m. He is Rev-
erend Roy Mouser, pastor of the Simp-
son United Methodist Church of Lake
Charles.

Dr. Webb Pomeroy, Chairman of the
Department of Religion at Centenary
and also a member of the class of 1944,
is serving as Chairman of the Worship
Service Committee.

Reverend Mouser served as pastor of
the Cedar Grove Methodist Church in
Shreveport before going to South Lou-
isiana. He is a member of the Board of !
Ministry for the Louisiana Annual Con-
ference of the United Methodist Church.

Monroe Alumni Chapter
Schedules Meeting

The Monroe chapter of the Alumni
Association will hold its next meeting on
February 6 at the First Methodist Church
on Look Road at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Jack S.
Wilkes, Centenary president, will be the
main speaker at the meeting and all
alumni are urged to attend.

New officers recently elected by the
Monroe chapter are Mrs. Travis Brown,
president; Reverend James Walter Jones,
vice-president; and Mrs. Joe Adams,
secretary-treasurer.

EW MASTER PLAN FOR 1975 ANNOUNCED

By 1975 the Centenary College campus is expected to look like this
model, following a multi-million dollar expansion program. New construc-
tion is to include (1) Science Center; (2) and (3) concourses connecting the
New Science Center, Library and Humanities Building; (4) New Administra-
tion Building, Hamilton Hall; (5) addition to Student Center; (6) men's
dormitory; and (7) women's dormitory. Not shown is the Athletic Complex
across Kings Highway.

Special Reunions For Classes of 1944 - 1959

The classes of 1944 and 1959 will be given special recognition during the Cente-
nary College Homecoming this year with special open house ceremonies planned for
their tenth and twenty-fifth anniversaries.

Dr. Wayne Hanson, president of the Alumni Association, has extended a special
nvitation to all members of these two graduating classes to make a special effort to
attend this year to meet with all of their old classmates during the annual reunion.

Robert E. Eatrhan, a prominent Shreveport attorney, is serving as chairman of the
1944 class reunion and has named Mrs. John P. Boyett, Mrs. T. J. Ostendorff, Jr.,
Mrs. Robert L. Lindsey, Mr. Roland J. Achee, and Dr. Arthur A. Herold, Jr., all of
Shreveport, to serve as committee members.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Johnson of Shreveport are the chairmen for the 1959
dass reunion.

An open house for both groups wil be held in the Aquacade Room of the Shreve-
porter Motel on U. S. Highway 80 (Greenwood Road) near the State Fair Coliseum
at 5:00 p.m. Saturday. The event was scheduled for the Greenwood Road motel
because it is close to the Fair Grounds, where the afternoon Homecoming basketball
game will be played. The guests can go directly from the game to the open house
with little inconvenience.

These special class reunions have proved to be very successful in the past, and
the Homecoming officials hope that they will be well attended this year. The honored
classes will be given a special table at the banquet so they may remain together as
much as possible during the two-day get-together.

The 1944 class will, of course, remember the World War II days, and this will
probably be one of the main items of conversation during their reunion. Dr. Pierce
Cline served as President of Centenary during their college days; John A. Hardin was
the Dean of the College; and Mrs. Mabel Campbell will be remembered as the Dean
of Women. The Yoncopin for those years carried long lists of names of those serving
in the United States Army, and the College also played host to squadrons of Army
and Navy C. P. T. Trainees as well as the incoming freshmen.

The 1959 class coincided with Centenary's 50th anniversary in Shreveport and
participated in a number of events planned to celebrate the golden anniversary. The
remodeling of the Moore Student Center and construction of the Marjorie Lyons
Playhouse were recent additions to the college scene, and the new Library and the
Hurley Music Building were only plans on a drawing board. Dr. Joe J. Mickle served
as the President of the College during these days; Dr. Leroy Vogel served the College
as Dean; Charles A. Hickcox was Dean of Students; and Lenore Rees was Dean of
Women. This was the first year the College had a Pep Squad, which was organized
by Mrs. R. M. Nichols, and R.O.T.C. was still a going concern on the campus.

When Centenary alumni return home
for the 1975 Homecoming, it is hoped
they will be greeted with an entirely new
campus. Plans for an $8-$10 million
dollar long-range building program were
announced in November by George D.
Nelson, Chairman of the Board of Trus-
tees, Dr. Jack S. Wilkes, President, and
W. Russell Barrow, Chairman of the
Centenary Builders.

A model of the new look at Centenary
will be on display at the banquet at the
Shreveport Convention Center during
Homecoming, and all alumni are invited
to look over these elaborate plans.

For the past two years the architectural
firm of Somdal, Smitherman. Sorenson,
Sherman Associates has been working on
a master plan for the future development
of the College. It calls for the construc-
tion of a science center, administration
building, men's dormitory, women's
dormitory, an athletic complex and field
house, and expansion of the current
student center.

Plans for the construction of a new ad-
ministration building were announced
earlier in the year. The building, to be
known as Hamilton Hall, will be located
behind the Library. It is a gift of Mr.
and Mrs. D. P. Hamilton of Shreveport.
who donated $500,000 for its construc-
tion.

All of the plans are expected to be
completed by 1975, the 150th anniver-
sary of the founding of Centenary Col-
lege.

The new master plan envisions all of
the academic activities in one area of
the campus. The new science hall will
be located opposite of the present Mickle
Hall of Science, which will be renovated
for a Humanities Building. Thus, the
science building, the humanities building,
the Library, and Hamilton Hall will form
a quadrangle on the Woodlawn side of
the campus. A new men's dormitory
will be located roughly on the site of the
old Administration Building and Jackson
Hall, both of which will be torn down as
the building proceeds. The Field House
and athletic complex will be developed
on a tract of about 14 acres across Kings
Highway from the main campus.

ALUMNI EUROPEAN TOUR
PLANNED FOR MID-JULY

Friends of Centenary College alumni are welcome to join in the annual Alumni
Association European Tour scheduled for mid-July, 1969, according to Miss Flavia
Leary, Tour Chairman for the Association. Miss Leary said tour members do not
necessarily have to be former students of the College. She said reservations for the
tour are being accepted at the present time and anyone wishing to make the trip should
make their plans known as soon as possible.

Miss Leary announced that the tour would cover twenty-two days and visits to
France, England, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

The first three days of the tour will be spent in France following an overnight
trans-Atlantic flight from New York. Included in the French agenda are a day free
for sight-seeing and tours which will show the Louvre, Champs Elyssees, Arc de
Triomphe, and Eiffel Tower.

England will be visited during the fourth and fifth day of the tour with visits to
Buckingham Palace, Westminster Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, and the Tower
of London. There will also be a half day of leisure for sight-seeing, shopping, and
exploring.

The sixth day will be spent in Amsterdam, Holland and will include an afternoon
cruise on the winding canals by private launch. The next three days will be spent in
Germany and Austria after a motor-coach ride from Amsterdam to Cologne. The
German visit will be highlighted by a private romantic cruise on the River Rhine and
a drive up into the Bavarian Alps to visit Oberammergau, the site of the great German
Passion Play.

The next week will be spent in old Italy after a drive across the border and over
the historic Brenner pass. Here the travellers will visit Venice, Queen of the Adriatic;
Florence, the capital of the Renaissance, and on to Rome. Here the group will visit
St. Peter's, the Vatican, the Catacombs, the Appian Way, and other glories and
masterpieces.

Switzerland will occupy their time on the seventeenth day of the tour with an
excursion to Lake Lucerne, a drive through the chalet country, and a luncheon party
with entertainment by Swiss yodelers and dancers.

The Spanish visit will include trips to majestic Madrid and the ancient city of
Toledo. The Portugal part of the trip will be centered in Lisbon, from which the
group will fly home on a jet clipper, arriving back in New York twenty-two days
after the beginning of the tour.

Miss Leary said they are anxious for all persons interested in the trip to make
their reservations as soon as possible. This may be done by contacting Miss Leary at
422-7241, Mrs. A. R. Gamill at 423-1441, or the Alumni Office at Centenary College.

Dinner in Alfredo's Restaurant in Rome, Italy was one of the high points of the 1968 Alumni Tour
of Europe. Over 30 persons availed themselves of the opportunity to visit the historical spots of
Europe through the Alumni Tour sponsored by the Alumni Association. Shown here, clockwise around
the table are: Miss Janet Gammill, Mrs. A. R. Gammill, Jack Van Dorft, Miss Flavia Leary, Alfredo (the
restaurant owner), Mrs. Douglas Bryan, A. R. Gammill, Mrs. A. B. Herring and A. B. Herring. The
group was dining on a dish called "fettuccine".

Harbuck, Evans,
Wren Elected To
Shreveport Chapter

Edwin (Pete) Harbuck, a 1956 grad-
uate of Centenary, has been elected presi-
dent of the Shreveport Chapter of the
Alumni Association, succeeding James
Serra, who has headed the local chapter
for the past several years.

John J. Evans, a member of the class-
of 1962, has been named vice-president
of the Shreveport Chapter; and Mrs.
Gayle Wren, a 1965 graduate was elect-
ed secretary.

All of the new officers will be in- •
stalled at a Board of Directors meeting
held on Homecoming, Saturday, Feb-
ruary 15.

Harbuck, a Special Agent for the Pru-
dential Life Insurance Company, served
as president of the Centenary Alumni
Association in 1962. He is a C. L. U.
and a member of the Million Dollar
Producers Club for his firm. In 1961
Harbuck was named "Young Man of
the Year" by the Shreveport Junior
Chamber of Commerce and is a past-
president of the Retail Division of the
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce. Last
year he served as president of the Caddo
Bossier Community Council. He is a
Deacon of the First Baptist Church of
Shreveport. Mrs. Harbuck, the former
Del Threlkeld, is a 1955 graduate of
Centenary and is also a member of the
Board of Directors of the Alumni As-
sociation. The Harbucks have four
sons; Jonathan, 12; Seth, 10; and twins,
Adam and Christoper, 6..

The new vice-president of the Shreve-
port Chapter, John Evans, is a member
of the class of 1962 and holds a B. A.
degree in pre-law. He is Executive Vice-
President of the Evans Distributing Com-
panies of Shreveport and is considered
an expert in the field of management.
He is co-author of a marketing hand-
book published in 1966 by the Jax
Brewing Company of New Orleans and
has also taught management seminars in
St. Louis, Chicago, and New Orleans.
He is an alumnus of the Graduate
School of Sales Management and Mar-
keting of Syracuse University. He is a
director of the Shreveport Sales and
Marketing Executives Club, immediate
past chairman of the Shreveport-Bossier
Convention and Tourist Bureau; past
president of the Producers Club of the
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, and
in 1966 was awarded the Top producers
and Best Salesman award by the Cham-
ber. Evans is married to the former Jen-
nie Nutt, also a Centenary graduate, and

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Strictly Personal

1920's

MRS. IRMA NABORS JOHNSON

'29) died August 19, 1968.

1930's

FRANK L. DURHAM ('34) was re-
ently elected Senior Vice-President and
reasurer of American Petrofina, Incor-
orated in Dallas, Texas.

THE REV. GEO.
S. SIUDY, JR. ('35),
has joined the staff of
the United Church of
Christ Stewardship
Council as secretary
^—\ lor stewardship edu-

^ flfef cation.
L #1 M . C. KRENTEL

BJkfl ('39) has been pro-

Rev. Siudy moted to Hearing Of-

iver-Investigator of the Post Office De-
artment.

1 i.

1940's

C. E. MORRISON ('40) has been
romoted to Assistant to the Comptrol-
:r of the Financial Division of Texas
Eastern Transmission Corporation in
louston. Morrison joined Texas East-
rn in 1950 as a senior accountant.

GLORIA HAGOOD WHITTING-
ON ('46) received her M. A. from
ouisiana Tech in August of 1968.

DR. PADDY ANN DOLL ('48) has
een appointed Chairman of the De-
artment of Psychology at Loyola Uni-
ersity in New Orleans. She joined the
.oyola faculty in 1964 and was named
cting chairman in 1966.

JACK W. WILLIAMSON ('49) has
een promoted to Vice-President of
'ommercial National Bank.

1950's

THOMAS P. O'NEAL ('51) has been
amed Laboratory Manager of the UOP
'rocess Division, Shreveport Plant. Prior
D his promotion he served as UOP's
Recovery and Chemical Products Super-
itendent.

THOMAS M. ELGIN ('52) has been
romoted to Manager of the Rate and
egulatory Department of Arkansas
ouisiana Gas Company.

G. THOMAS BAUMGARDNER

'53) has been promoted to Assistant
ieneral Manager of Murphy Oil Corpo-
ation's Administrative Services Depart-
ment in El Dorado, Arkansas.

REV. AND MRS. LOUIS COPPAGE

if Coushatta adopted a baby daughter,
Martha Louise, in April, 1968. Rev.
oppage is a 1953 graduate of Cen-
enary.

ART FRANKLIN ('54) is now serv-
ing for his second year on the education
faculty of the University of Southwest-
ern at Lafayette, Louisiana after receiv-
ing his doctorate in Educational Admin-
istration and Supervision from the Uni-
versity of Southern Mississippi.

WILLIAM F. ALMOND, JR. ('56)
has been named President of Finance of
Bonanza International, Inc., a nationwide
chain of franchised steak restaurants.

NATHAN FOX ('58) was married
October 19, 1968 to Miss Margaret
Plaxco, formerly of Shreveport. Nathan
is currently a Merchandise Distributor
for the J. C. Penney Corporation in
Arlington, Texas.

REV. BYRD L. TERRY ('58) is the
new pastor of the Alabama and Beach
Grove United Methodist Churches of
Bernice, Louisiana.

M. LESTER RALPH ('59) has re-
cently been promoted to Vice-President
of Alverson Draughon Colleges, Inc., in
Huntsville and Florence, Alabama.

MR. AND MRS. JAMES J. MILLER
became the parents of a daughter, Lesley
Kathryn, born October 19, 1967. Mrs.
Miller is the former JAN COOK (x57-
59).

1960's

MR. AND MRS. JERRY HOUSTON

became the parents of a son, Hall Ger-
ard, on April 29, 1968. Mrs. Houston
is the former Paula Martin ('60). The
new boy is welcomed by two sisters:
Nancy, age 4, and Hope, age 2.

ALTON Mc-
^^?^ KNIGHT, JR. ('68),

m BfSlm nas k e e n commis-
^Witapr sioned a second lieu-

tenant in the U. S.
• - Air Force upon grad-

. - uation from Officer

' ' Training School at

J- ■-— Lackland AFB, Texas.

He was selected for
A. McKnight OTS through com-

petitive examination and is being as-
signed to Moody AFB, Georgia, for pilot
training.

FULLER W. BAZER ('60) received
his Ph.D. in Physiology from North
Carolina State University. He and his
wife, Elmire Ann Schaaf Bazer (x63),
are moving to Gainesville, Florida, where
Fuller is taking a position with the Uni-
versity of Florida as a physiologist in
the Animal Science Department.

PEGGY FOSTER COTTEY (x60),
now living in Helena, Arkansas, is teach-
ing Junior High English. Her husband,
Jim, teaches at the Phillips County Com-
munity College there.

K. Whitlow

MISS MILANCY HATTAWAY ('68 )
was married to Mr. William Patrick Mc-
Namara on Saturday, January 1 1 . The
couple will live in Shreveport for the
present while the bridgegroom pursues
his studies at Centenary College.

AIRMAN KEN-
NETH W. WHIT-
LOW ('68 ) has re-
ceived his first U. S.
Air Force duty as-
signment after com-
pleting basic training
at Lackland AFB,
Texas. The airman
has been assigned to
Scott AFB, Illinois for
training and duty as a musician.

CAPT. AND MRS. DAN RISIK are
the parents of a baby girl, Laurie Anne,
who was born September 23, 1968. Mrs.
Risik is the former Carole Anne Mc-
Donald ('64). They are stationed at
Clark Air Base in the Philippines.

MAJ. GENE H. LaCAZE ('61 ) has
been promoted recently to his present
rank and has recently returned to the
United States. He now resides in Balti-
more, Maryland, after serving with the
Army in both Europe and the Republic
of Vietnam for the past several years.

JACQUELINE ANN NICKELL was
married to JOHN DREW SALISBURY
('68 ) on December 23, 1968. Miss
Nickell will graduate from Centenary in
January of 1969.

MR. AND MRS. L. GLENN MASON
are the parents of a new son, Glenn
Randolph, born May 28, 1968. Glenn
(x62) is now a sales representative for
Mid-South Press of Shreveport. Mrs.
Mason is the former Jennifer Victory
(x67).

JAMES A. HUD-
SON ('68 ) is joining
his father, Carroll S.
Hudson, in represent-
ing Kemp Furniture
Company in south
Texas. He has been
^^ ^^ placed in charge of

-- M K e m p's warehouse
M ' . Mr operations in Hous-

J. Hudson ton.

DR. DAVID M. GRAHAM ('61)
was separated from the Air Force in
July of 1968 after spending his last year
of service in Vietnam. While in Vietnam
he received the Bronze Star for meritori-
ous service in working with Vietnamese
medical programs in the villages.

MR. AND MRS. JAMES M. GOINS

of Leesville have a new daughter, Marcy

(Continued on page 8)

Strictly Personal —

(Continued from page 7)

Jean, born May 31, 1968. Mrs. Goins is
the former Jean Netterville ('63).

LYNDA LOU REEVES ('68) was
married to William Thomas Markham on
June 2, 1968.

REV. AND MRS. RYAN HORTON,
JR. ('63) have a new daughter, Jenny
Revere, born June 23, 1968. Jenny is
also welcomed by her sister, Heather,
age 2.

JAMES R. MITCHELL ('64) has
been named Account Executive with
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith
in Shreveport, Louisiana.

MR. AND MRS. ALLEN FORD
('64) have a new daughter, Rebecca
Susan, born March 2, 1968. Mr. Ford
is now an Assistant Professor at Wash-
ington State University.

MR. AND MRS. ROBERT L.
BROWN, JR., of Beaumont, Texas have
a new son, Howard Louis, born Novem-
ber 17, 1968. Mrs. Brown is the former
Nancy Ruth Thigpen ('64).

NANCY MINTER ('64) is now
studying for a Master's Degree in Bio-
statistics in the School of Public Health
at U. C. L. A.

MR. AND MRS. JAMES E. WIL-
LIAMS ('64) are the parents of a new
daughter, Jan Elizabeth, born Novem-
ber 20, 1968.

ROY DUPUY ('65) is teaching Eng-
lish as a Foreign Language in Vientiane,
Laos. He is teaching under a Fulbright-
Hayes grant in connection with the Cul-
tural Exchange Program of the State
Department.

DENNIS BAUGHMAN ('65), Man-
ager of the Men's Clothing Department
of Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Shreve-
port, has been promoted to Personnel
Manager of the Sears Store in Amarillo,
Texas.

SHERMAN LOUIS CARROL (x65)
is now teaching Freshman English at
the University of Virginia.

MR. AND MRS. ALEXANDER
CAMPBELL ('65) of Santa Clara, Cali-
fornia are the parents of a son, Eric J.
Campbell, born January 4, 1969. Eric
is welcomed by his sister, Cara Elaine,
who is 2V2 years old.

The new minister at Sunset Acres
Baptist Church is GARY MELANCON
('66), who last month received his Mas-
ter's degree from Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Fort Worth,
Texas. He is married to the former
Patricia Gail Todd of Shreveport.

Miss Betty Joyce Crain and CHARLES
EDWARD LEE DUNN III ('67) were
married on Friday evening, December
27. Mrs. Dunn will graduate from Cen-
tenary this month with a B. A. degree
in education.

VIRGINIA S. MAYO ('66) is now
working on her Ph.D. degree at Florida
State University. She received a Mas-
ter's of Science degree in Genetics this
past past June.

AIRMAN JOHN R. ROGOZINSKI

('67) has completed basic training at
Lackland AFB, Texas. He has been as-
signed to Keesler AFB, Mississippi, for
training as a personnel specialist.

SUSAN SIGLER ('67) was married
to Donald Ray Updegraff of Monroe
on December 27, 1968.

Harbuck, Evans, Wren —

(Continued from page 6)

they are the parents of two children:
Todd, 4, and Karlyn, 2%.

Mrs. Wren is the former Reginj!
Muriell Levinson of Denison, Texas
and graduated in 1965 with a B. S. de-
gree in Education. She is married to
Thomas Gayle Wren, a Shrevepon
pharmacist who is also a graduate oi>
Centenary. Mrs. Wren has done some
teaching since her graduation from
Centenary.

Dr. Wayne Hanson, President of the
Alumni Association, congratulated thl
new officers of the Shreveport Chapte]
and thanked Jimmy Serra for his serv-
ices for the past few years.

Dallas Meet —

(Continued from Page 4)

and Mrs. Michael Oursler, Mr. and Mrs
William H. Oswalt, Mrs. Frankie Hou
chin, Penny Hawkins, Mrs. Donald L
Puriton, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Sandel, Mri
and Mrs. Howard F. Morse, Dr. anc
Mrs. J. H. Jackson, Jr., Fred and Caro;
Schwendimann, and Mr. and Mrs. Dor
Bush, Jr.

Prospective students who were at thfi
meeting were: John Wilson., Johii
Schrimpl, Charles Holmes, Chris Finlan
Hal Bodt, Haryette Oswalt, Lynn (Susan
Smith, Lanetta Hares, Laurie Harris:
Carol Lupton, Suzanne Fuqua, Francui
Roehrig, Patricia Rohde, and SharL'i
Dees.

Entered As Second-Class Matter

This is your copy of

Alumni Magazine

from

CENTENARY COLLEGE

Shreveport, Louisiana 71104

Mrs. Ann Trickett

RETURN REQUESTED

CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA

ALUMNI
MAGAZINE

VOLUME ONE • NUMBER TWO • APRIL, 1969

ALUMNI PRESIDENT'S REPORT

By WAYNE HANSON

Homecoming 1969 can only be described by such terms as smashing, tremendous,
and a gala occasion. The weather man at least called a halt to the rain early in the
day. The basketball team cooperated and gave us a resounding victory. Cecil
Ramey, as Master of Ceremonies, literally kept us rolling in the aisles. The food was
superb. And the music, to borrow a phrase from another band, was the sweetest
music this side of heaven.

We all had a small lump in our throat and a slight reddening of our eyes when
Dr. Bryant Davidson, retiring this year, received the Outstanding Teacher Award and
when Cheesy Voran was thrice honored. Cheesy was presented an Appreciation
Plaque from the Alumni Association and he was made an Honorary Alumnus. The
Choir Alumni then presented him with a Home Entertainment Center for some easy
listening pleasure. And then Jimmy Serra was inducted into that elite group known
as the Hall of Fame. All in all, it was quite a day and night!

Plans are already underway for Homecoming 1970. The date has been set at
February 21. Mark the date now and plan to attend. The basketball team plays
the University of Houston. Hopefully Hamilton Hall, a new administration building
donated by Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Hamilton, will be nearing completion and construction
on other new facilities should be starting. There will be a lot of changes on campus
if you have not been around in four or five years.

The Shreveport-Bossier Chapter of the Alumni Association is actively working
in the current Great Teacher-Scholar Fund Drive. We hope to be able to involve
the Alumni Association more and more in ventures such as this.

We hear a lot of talk these days about "Excellence" in colleges. All are engaged
in campaigns for excellence. Centenary has chosen to be in this group of institutions
which are seeking academic excellence. This goal can be achieved by the loyal support
of its alumni. Talk Centenary UP! Brag a little if you feel like it. Recommend
Centenary to good students and good students to Centenary. With strong alumni
support, with good students, good faculty, and good library facilities, Centenary College
can grow into that center of academic excellence it is destined to be. We can proudly
say that our alma mater is truly serving city, state, and nation through quality
education.

Join with me and many other of your fellow classmates and alumni in helping our
alma mater to continue and improve its outstanding educational program.

Homecoming Dates Are I
Announced For 1970 I

Next year's Centenary Alumni get-to- j
gether will be a week later than in 1969,
according to a decision reached at ji
business meeting held on campus during!
the recent Homecoming.

Dr. Wayne Hanson, president of the
Centenary Alumni Association, said the
dates for next year's reunion will be
February 21 and 22. He urged all)
former students to make plans to attendl
the 1970 meeting.

Hanson, and other members of the
Board of Directors gave a vote of
thanks to Mrs. William (Nell) Murdock.
and her committeemen for their diligent I
work in connection with the 1969 gather-
ing of Centenary students.

CENTENARY
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS
1 968-69

President Wayne Hanson '50

1st Vice-President . Charles E. Brown '48
2nd Vice-President .... Patty Lindsey '60

Secretary Charles Ravenna '32

Treasurer James Goins '61

DIRECTORS

(Terms expire 1969)

(Terms expire 1970)

Area Chapter Presidents

New Orleans Steve Victory

Baton Rouge.. Dr. Moss Bannerman '33

Dallas Don Bush

Houston Gaylon White

Monroe Mrs. Travis A. Brown

Shreveport Edwin Harbuck

ALUMNI OFFICE

Director Doug Mooty '51

Secretary Marilyn Robbins

Alumni Magazine

Editor Maurie Wayne

Assistant Mary Jane Byars

Published four times a year in January,
April, July and October by Centenary College
of Louisiana, Shreveport, La. 71104.

Entered as second-class matter April 1,
1942 at the post office at Shreveport, La.,
under Act of August 24, 1912.

CENTENARY GRADUATE
SERVES HIS COMMUNITY

Success stories among Centenary graduates are legion
^nd one runs considerable risk in singling out any one of
hese for special recognition. However, the amazing ca-
eer of John Woods, class of 1943, not only as Vice-
resident and General Counsel for Universal Oil Products
ompany, but as private citizen of the village of Arlington
Heights, Illinois, cannot be ignored.

The story came to the attention of the Alumni Maga-
zine through a feature article about Woods in the Arling-
ton Heights Herald written by Mary Dresser. His friends
say Woods has played an all-important role in the phe-
nomenal growth of UOP since 1950 but the newspaper
reporter was more impressed with his record as president
(mayor) of Arlington Heights, a job he is relinquishing in
April.

At the urging of his friends, he jumped into the hurly
burly of the political race in 1961, won the office of
president of the village council and plunged into his new
part-time job with his sleeves rolled up. His accomplish-
ments include a revised village code and building and
zoning ordinances; a fair housing ordinance; three new
wells; a new Post Office; a toll road entrance and exit;
a new memorial library; a new village hall; new storm
sewers; the establishment of an historical society; and
many, many more. During his eight years in office, he
saw his village increase from 30,000 to 60,000 inhabitants
with the annexation of some 4,000 acres and the assessed
evaluation grow from $100 million to $200 million.

Woods is a short, stocky man who is inherently shy,
but, who is learning to smile frequently and to move
quickly when attacking a problem. As you reel off the
accomplishments of the Woods Administration in Arling-

ton Heights, the president recalls that every bit of progress
was painful, but, well worth the effort.

Looking back on the accomplishments of his eight
years in office, Woods said he is amazed at the dispropor-
tionate amount of effort that is necessary to complete even
some simple things. Although there was opposition to
some of the moves made, Woods termed it "vigorous but
fair."

How does a man find the time to do all of these
things and still hold down his regular job? Woods credits
an understanding boss and a helpful wife. He says his
superiors at Universal Oil Products have been most tol-
erant in giving him the time to devote to village business,
and his wife, Mary, backs his activities enthusiastically,
even though it has kept him away from home for many
long hours. Mary believes that John has been happy in
this work and the entire family is proud of what he has
done. Even the children, as they grow older, realize the
importance of their father's position in the village.

Asked to sum up his eight years as president of
Arlington Heights, Woods wasted few words, "I guess
you can say that the things that needed to be done are
being done."

EDITORS NOTE

Alumni News welcomes information on all former
students and their activities. Material for this article was
supplied by John A. Hardin, Jr., also a Centenary gradu-
ate and also an employee of UOP. Address all corres-
pondence to Editor, Alumni Magazine, Centenary College,
P. O. Box 4188, Centenary Station, Shreveport, La.
71104.

Homecoming '69

Actually, it just wasn't a very good day for a homecoming!
weather was a complete bust; a typical late winter offering of r
wind, and cold. The "name" band leader hired for the homecom
dance was snowed in up in the wilds of Illinois. The referees thou
it was a night game and failed to show up in the afternoon. A
Mrs. Murdock couldn't find the tablecloths and candlesticks for
banquet.

This sort of thing might rattle an ordinary run-of-the-mill Hor
coming Committee Chairman, but Mrs. Murdock sailed through
grand fashion. She did pale and grab for a chair when (while wait
for the referees to show up for the Homecoming basketball game) i
was informed that band leader Tex Beneke was snowed in somewh
up in Illinois and wouldn't be able to make it for the dance that nig
But when she found out that only Tex was snowbound and the r
of the band would be here on schedule, she cheerfully trooped off
the Convention Center to look for the missing tablecloths and cand
sticks. (The tablecloths were finally found in an old storeroom in i
Convention Center, but the candlesticks never did show up and r>
had to buy a new supply since it's impossible to have a banquet with(
candles.)

Coach Joe Swank's Gents got off to a rough start against E
Texas Baptist College and were down 11-4 in the first six minutes
but they pulled it out and 3won easily 65-55, and from that point
things improved miraculously.

For starters, lovely Pam Byrd of Leesville was crowned Hor
coming Queen. The reunions at the Shreveporter Motel were
attended and enjoyable; and the banquet at the Convention C
provided just the right setting for the College to offer its than
a number of people who have served the institution with distinctn
Robert Eatman, Jr., the son of Shreveport attorney Bob Eatman
1944 graduate, was presented the annual Alumni Scholarship.

A Shreveport insurance executive, Jimmy Serra, a strong supporter
of his alma mater, was named to the Alumni Hall of Fame and joins
Paul M. Brown, G. W. James, and Edwin F. Whited on this select list.

The Alumni Association wanted to make it unanimous in the
Hamilton family and named Mr. D. P. Hamilton an Honorary Alum-
nus so that he could join his wife, the former Lucile Atkins, on the
alumni rolls. Mrs. Hamilton was the first woman to graduate from
Centenary in Shreveport and now serves as a member of the Board
of Trustees. The Hamiltons were out of town during Homecoming
and the award was accepted by their nephew, John Atkins, Jr. Dr.
David Kimball, who quietly and unobtrustively adds valuable paintings
and books to the Library so others may enjoy them as he does, was
also named an Honorary Alumnus with more fanfare than he probably
would have liked. A third Honorary Alum award was presented to a
Kingman County, Kansas lad who came here 32 years ago, liked what
he saw, and stayed. This award, plus a certificate of appreciation
and a Stereo Music Center, was presented to Dr. A. C. "Cheesy"
Voran who said he almost came "unglued" when the announcement
was made. "You always wonder what to say at a time like this," he
said, "but you have warmed my heart no end, and although I am not
in line for this much credit, I appreciate it very much. My interest
and affection for the members of this choir, past and present, is deep-
seated, for I would be nothing without them."

Dr. Bryant Davidson was presented the Outstanding Teacher
Award and also is credited with the best off-the-cuff remark. "As I
walked up here to accept this award," he said, "my mind went blank.
Which reminds me of a lot of my former students in the audience
tonight!"

And just one final note: A few days after Homecoming a friend
of the College sent Mrs. Murdock a clipping from an Illinois paper
stating that Tex Beneke had taken a new bride just a few days before
Homecoming!

John Walker and Vivian Gannaway fly a kite on "Wonderful Wednesday".

"WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY" CELEBRATION
CONTINUES OLD CENTENARY TRADITION

The Centenary administration and faculty proved that time-honored traditions
still hold in these hallowed halls when the students were granted a holiday for winning
the mythical Pine-Cone Basketball trophy.

Student Senate president John Walker presented his case for a holiday to a special
meeting of the faculty, and after considerable debate, they voted to grant the holiday
in the interest of student morale.

Thus was born "Wonderful Wednesday" and a number of activities which included
a kite flying contest — a student sponsored luncheon for the faculty and staff — and a
hootenanny in the SUB.

During the faculty debate preceding the holiday, it was established by the faculty
that the only thing traditional about the matter was the student petition for the free
day — and that the holiday itself was not to be construed as a "Centenary Tradition".

CENTENARY STUDENTS HEAR PLEAS FOR
OBJECTIVE AND RESPONSIBLE LEADERS

Centenary students have heard a call for responsible student leadership through
the channels of student government. Neal Wade, national chairman of the Southern
Universities Student Government Association, spoke to a hundred students gathered
from all parts of the state of Louisiana at a recent meeting on the Centenary campus.
Speaking out against militant actions and the 2.4% of the students involved in campus
riots, Wade said that much can be accomplished in the way of student rights through
an active and responsible student government.

"We must be willing to be objective in dealing with all questions," he said. "We
must be willing to put aside our prejudices and even our desires to rebel if we hope to
continue on the road to progress. We must show our willingness to listen and co-
operate with the administration, just as they must indicate a desire to co-operate with
the students."

Wade's talk came at the end of a two day meeting called by Centenary Student
Senate president John Walker to discuss the aims, purposes and functions of student
government.

The Centenary student government has been in existence for several years and
has become a moving force in campus affairs. Among their accomplishments this year
are the drafting of a new constitution and a revision of the housing rules.

ALUMNI DIVISION OF
GREAT TEACHERS FUND
ORGANIZED BY HARBUCK

The Alumni Division of the Greal
Teachers-Scholars Campaign is actively
working in support of the 1969 fund,
drive to support teachers salaries and
student scholarships.

Edwin Harbuck, the newly elected
president of the Shreveport Alumni
Chapter, is wearing another hat as Chair-
man of the Alumni Division of the
campaign.

Harbuck said there are about thirty-
five alumni actively engaged in this part
of the drive with Mrs. Victor Lagerson
and Mrs. O. L. Berry heading up twc
women's divisions; Dr. Marion Har-
grove, Jr. leading a doctor's division; Dr
A. L. Lindsay, Jr. serving as captain of |
a dentist's division; and Charles Clawson
and John Evans heading up teams ofi
businessmen.

A goal of $175,000 was set for this
year's campaign and it was expected to
be reached by the end of the drive in
April. William Rountree, a Shreveport
automobile dealer, is serving as General
Chairman and a Centenary graduate, at-t;
torney Cecil Ramey, is the Co-Chairman.i
Gordon May, president of Mid-Southl
Press of Shreveport heads the Advance;
Division.

NEW ORLEANS ATTORNEY
NAMED ALUMNI HEAD

A New Orleans attorney, James Vic-
tory, has been elected president of the;
New Orleans Chapter of the Centenary
Alumni Association. His election camei
at a recent meeting of the chapter in
which Dr. James T. Harris relinquished
the gavel after long and distinguished
service.

Jim Daigle was elected vice-president
and Mrs. Edna Earnest agreed to con-
tinue in the position of Secretary-
Treasurer.

Victory graduated from Centenary in
1960 and Daigle in 1961. Mrs. Earnest,
the former Edna Hardin, is a member oft
the class of 1937.

Dr. Bryant Davidson, a senior facultyv
member of the college, spoke to thet
meeting and outlined the aims and future]
plans of the college while detailing the|
advantages of attending a small liberal
arts college such as Centenary.

The group attended the Loyola-Cente-
nary basketball game following the
meeting.

Baton Rouge Meet April 18

The Baton Rouge Chapter of thei
Centenary Alumni Association will meel
Friday, April 18 at 7:30 P.M. at Mike;
and Tony's Restaurant.

Dr. A. C. Voran, Director of the Cen-
tenary Choir will speak at the meeting
All alumni are urged to attend.

Strictly Personal

1920's

DR. CLAUDE S. CHADWICK ('27),
Professor and Chairman of the Biology
Department of Emory & Henry College,
is listed in the first edition of World
Who's Who in Science. The publication,
released in late 1968, contains the names
af 30,000 notable scientists from an-
tiquity to the present.

1930's

MRS. LESLIE A. ROSS (Pauline T.
Ross) ('30), of Lehigh Acres, Florida,
is now serving as Director of the Volun-
teer Service Bureau of Ft. Myers, Flori-
da. She is also Secretary of the Wo-
man's Club, Vice President of A.A.R.P.,
a member of the Symphony Chorus, and
a soloist for the Eastern Star.

NICHOLAS OGBOURNE (ROCKS)
RAWLINSON ('39) died Wednesday,
March 5, at Schumpert Hospital in
Shreveport after a lengthy illness.

1940's

L. HERBERT BRITAIN ('49) has
?een promoted to Comptroller of Smith
Douglas Company of Norfolk, Virginia,
a subsidiary of Borden Company.

MR. CHARLES H. ROSE, JR. (x40)
was promoted to Vice President of In-
dustrial Steel Company of Shreveport.
Rose joined Industrial Steel in 1949.

DR. GAIUS N. HARDAWAY ('49)
of Bossier City has received the Doctor
of Education Degree from the Univer-
sity of Mississippi. He is married to the
former Pat Meadows of Shreveport.

1950's

ROBERT L. HOOD ('50), Director
of the Gas Lab and Assistant Professor
of Chemistry at Centenary, has been
awarded his Ph.D. degree by the Uni-
versity of Texas at Austin. He was em-
ployed by Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation from 1950 to 1954 and
then came to Centenary as Director of
the Gas Lab and part-time instructor.
He was later granted a leave of absence
from the College to attend the University
of Texas and returned in September
when he completed the work for his
Ph.D. degree.

CLARENCE E. KIRBY ('55) has
been promoted to Assistant Superinten-
dent with Halliburton Company of
Pampa, Texas. Prior to this he was
District Engineer in Perryton, Texas.

ROBERT L. ROSENFIELD ('54)
has been named as one of the vice presi-
dents of the 1969 Holiday in Dixie
spring festival in Shreveport. Rosen-
field is Vice President of The Fashion
in Shreveport.

C. L. SANDERS ('50), Principal of
Kerr Elementary School, has been ap-
pointed Personnel Director for the Bos-
sier Parish School Board. He has
served as principal at Kerr for 14 years
and was a teacher at Waller Elementary
for five years.

ROBERT L. (BOB) HORTON, for-
mer Centenary student, was recently
elected Commissioner of Public Works
for Shreveport, Louisiana.

SAM KILMAN ('59) of DeRidder,
Louisiana, who appeared as "Nanna" the
St. Bernard in "Peter Pan" while he was
attending Centenary, is now portraying
the lecherous, peeping-tom "Hogan" in
the Shreveport Barn Dinner Theatre pro-
duction of "Under the Yum-Yum Tree."

LARRY L. DAVIS (x58) has been
promoted to Assistant Vice President in
the Mortgage Loans Department of The
National Bank of Bossier. He has
been with the National Bank of Bossier
for the past 10 years and held the posi-
tion of Assistant Manager of the bank's
Central Office prior to being named
Assistant Vice President.

1960's

RANDY TALLMAN (x63) will ap-
pear on the televised presentation of the
Academy Awards on April 14. As a
member of the popular singing group,
the New Christy Minstrels, he will ap-
pear in a performance of one of the
songs nominated in the "Best Song"
category, "Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang",
from Dick Van Dyke's new movie of the
same name. He has been a member of
the New Christy Minstrels for about 14
months and not only sings, but also
backs up the group on guitar and banjo.

FIRST LIEUTENANT RALPH W.
HARKER ('66) has helped the 61st Air-
lift Wing earn the U. S. Air Force Out-
standing Unit Award. Lieutenant Har-
ker, an aircraft maintenance officer at
Kadena AFB, Okinawa, with a unit of
the 61st, will wear the distinctive ribbon
as a permanent decoration.

MISS HELENE FINNIN (x68) was
married to William Henry Waters on
Saturday afternoon, January 25, 1969.

MARY TULLIE (WYRICK) CRIT-
CHER (x67) has been chosen "Young
Career Woman" of Nelsonville, Ohio, in
a contest sponsored by the Business and
Professional Women. She is teaching
speech and English in the new York-
Nelsonville High School. Her husband,
LEONARD CRITCHER ('67), is a
speech consultant for five Ohio schools.

Miss Kay Toms and MR. CHARLES
DENNIS BAUGHMAN ('65) were

married on February 22 in the Bienville
Methodist Church.

a SECOND LIEU-

TENANT HARRY J.
COOKE ('67) has
been awarded the U.
S. Air Force silver
pilot wings upon
^^^ graduation at Webb
^A A ; AFB, Texas. The

Dli^l lieutenant is being
2nd Lt. Cooke signed to George
AFB, California for flying duty with
Tactical Air Command. He was commis-
sioned through Officer Training School,
Lackland AFB, Texas.

1st Lt. Ross

FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM R.
ROSS ('63) (left) receives the U. S. Air
Force Commendation Medal at Korat
Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. Lieutenant
Ross was decorated for meritorious serv-
ice as chief of the Management Analysis
Branch, 341st Combat Support Group at
Malstrom AFB, Montana. He was cited
for his extraordinary professionalism,
leadership, and initiative.

MAROLYN TONYMON ('61) has
been elected President of the Ladies
Auxiliary to the Fourth District Louisi-
ana State Pharmaceutical Association for
the year 1968-69.

FRANK W. TYLER ('63) was one of
three men who were appointed to school
official positions by the Caddo Parish
School Board. Mr. Tyler, now serving
as Acting Principal of Shreve Island Ele-
mentary School, was named principal of
University Elementary School, the new
Elementary School being constructed on
Highway 1, south of Shreveport.

B. G. LACROUTS,
JR. ('68), District
Marketing Manager
of South Central Bell
Telephone Company,
will serve as Chair-
man of the Commer-
cial Division in this
year's United Fund
Campaign in Shreve-
port. He began his association with the
telephone company in 1949 and his
previous posts included Shreveport cus-
tomer relations manager and district
sales manager.

B. G. Lacrouts

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VOLUME ONE • NUMBER TWO. • OCTOBER, 1969

President and Mrs. John Horton Allen

ALUMNI PRESIDENT'S REPORT

By WAYNE HANSON

At the outset, let me thank all the retiring members of the Board of Directors
for their faithful and diligent performance of assigned tasks during the past year.
Their service to the Centenary Alumni Association was truly outstanding and,
of course, this made the job of the president easier.

I also want to thank the members of the new Board for their confidence in
re-electing me president. The past year in this office has been a rewarding and
stimulating one.

We are starting the new year with several new faces around the College and
the Alumni Office. The College has a new president in Dr. John Horton Allen.
I have already had a short conversation with him about the role of the Alumni
Association and he is very eager to see that the Association grows and that it plays
a greater role in the life of the College. I look forward to working with him
toward this end.

In the Alumni Office itself, we have two new faces. Bob Holladay has been
appointed as Director of Alumni Relations, the office which has been held by Doug
Mooty for the past two years. Mrs. Nancy Metcalf has been appointed as an
assistant to Bob and will serve the College in other capacities as well. I look
forward to working with both Bob and Nancy during the coming year. With a
combination like Bob and Nancy (for those who were before Dick and Jane)
we can't lose.

We are planning some exciting things for the Alumni program this next
year. Of course, the success of the program will depend upon your support.

The Alumni Scholarship holders are all back after a most successful past
year. All made the Dean's list for the Spring Semester. Charles Williams is
back after a year's leave to study in England.

Again, the success and the effectiveness of the Alumni Association depends
on your support. Also, the success and effectiveness of Centenary depends upon
your support. Let us join together to make the coming year the best in the
life of the College and the Association.

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Secretary Sandra Harper '63 I

Treasurer lames Goins '61

(Terms Expire 1970)

(Terms Expire 1971)

Suda Adams '68, Ann Wyche '52,
Roland Achee '44, L. Calhoun Allen '43,
Dr. Leon Bain Jr. '59, Judy Butcher '65,
Robert Eatman '44, Sandra Harper '63,
Mitzi Middlebrooks '55, Harold Rosbot-
tom '58.

Area Chapter Presidents

Baton Rouge . Dr. Moss Bannerman '33

Dallas Don Bush

Houston Gaylon White

Monroe Mrs. Travis Brown

Shreveport Edwin Harbuck '56;

New Orleans Stephen Victory '60

Director Bob Hollady

Associate Director .... Nancy Metcalf

Staff Jan Hoffman (Secretary to

Public Relations) Maureen Myers
(Record Room)

Editor Nancy Metcalf '68

Reporters Jan Hoffman,

Maurie Wayne

Entered as second-class matter April 1, 1942
at the post office at Shreveport, La., under
Act of August 24, 1912.

—

Meet: Dr. J:H. Allen and His Family

By MAURIE WAYNE

Quietly and without fanfare Dr.
John Horton Allen took over as the
32nd president of Centenary College
on September 1, succeeding Dr. Jack
S. Wilkes as head of the 145 year old
institution.

Dr. Allen, who will divide his time
between Centenary and the University
of Southern Mississippi until Decem-
ber 1, was on the Shreveport campus
when he officially took over the new
office, but he passed up all formal
ceremonies to quietly watch the regis-
tration of new students for the 1969-
70 academic year.

President and Mrs. Allen are no
strangers to the north Louisiana area;
the new president is a native of Homer
and Mrs. Allen, the former Sidney
Mitchell Gremillion, was born and
raised in Shreveport. Their two chil-
dren, John H., Jr., 9, and Lisa Lane,

7, will enroll in Shreveport schools
when the family officially moves its
residence here in December. Dr. Al-
len will be winding up his duties as
Dean of the University at Southern
Mississippi during the next three
months.

Dr. Allen set the tone for the early
days of his administration when he
told the faculty at a pre-registration
meeting that he had no profound state-
ments to make. "I have much to
learn about the college — its great tra-
ditions and history — but I want to be-
gin immediately to share with you
your obvious enthusiasm for the fu-
ture," he said. "I am honored that
you would want me to come here and
join you in this educational enterprise
at Centenary. It is my feeling that it
is here, and at other private liberal arts
colleges, that the really exciting and
productive things will be happening in

higher education in the years ahead."

Dr. Allen attended Northwestern
State College at Natchitoches from
1940 to 1942 and then served in the
U. S. Air Force as a fighter pilot in
Italy, Africa and Okinawa. He re-
turned to Southeastern State College
in 1947 and graduated in 1949; re-
ceived his M. A. degree from L. S. U.
in 1951; and his Ph.D. degree from
Pennsylvania State University in 1954.
His first teaching job was at Penn
State in 1952 where he served as an
instructor in sociology. From 1953
to 1956 he was assistant professor of
sociology at the University of Southern
Mississippi; in 1956 he was associate
professor of sociology and economics
at his alma mater, Southeastern State;
and returned to Southern Mississippi
in 1957 as dean of the school of arts
and sciences and was named dean of
the university in 1961.

DR. WAYNE HANSON

Meet: Your Alumni
Officers

Not at all a "new" face to the Cen-
tenary alumni group is the 1969-70
president of the Alumni Association,
Dr. Wayne Hanson, Chairman of the
Chemistry Department at the college
and last year's alumni president.

The board approved the selections
made by the nominating committee
naming Hanson to head the former
student organization for the second
straight year.

Other officers elected are Miss
Flavia Leary, first vice president; Miss
Suda Adams, second vice president;
Mrs. Sandra Harper, secretary; and
James M. Goins, treasurer.

Wayne Hanson graduated from
Centenary and returned to teach at his
alma mater in 1959. He received his
Ph.D. degree from the University of
Houston in 1964 and shortly there-
after he was named chairman of the
Chemistry Department to succeed Dr.
John Entrikin's retirement.

Flavia Leary, a Shreveport school
teacher at Northwood High School,
received her B. A. degree in English in
1935. She has served several previ-
ous tenures on the Alumni Board of
Directors, and has held the positions
of recording Secretary of the Board,
Chairman of the Alumni Faculty Tea
in 1966, Alumni Tour Chairman and
Escort for Alumni European Tours.

Suda Adams, who holds a B. A. de-
gree in English from Centenary, is a
member of the class of 1968. She
was a member of the Maroon Jackets,
the Chi Omega Sorority and the Stu-
dent Senate, and was pianist for all
campus functions during her four
years at the college. Suda works at

SANDRA HARPER

Noel Methodist Church in Shreveport
as Director of Youth Ministeries.

Sandra Harper, a 1963 graduate, is
the former Sandra Poss. She was a
member of the Maroon Jackets, Who's
Who, editor of the Yoncopin, and
served as president of her sorority
Zeta Tau Alpha. She was the recipi-
ent of the Ellis H. Brown Leadership
Award and the Panhellenic Award.
She presently teaches in the Caddo
Parish School System at South High-
land School.

Jim Goins graduated from Cente-
nary in 1961 with a B. S. degree in
business administration. He was a
member of the staff of the Yoncopin
and also served as treasurer for the
Centenary Choir and the Student Sen-
ate. He is a branch manager for the
First National Bank of Shreveport. He
has served several years on the Board
of the Alumni Association.

The purposes of the Centenary Col-
lege Alumni Association are to pro-
mote the interests of Centenary Col-
lege by maintaining mutually benefi-
cial relations between the college and
its alumni.

JAMES M. GOINS

Meet: Your New
Alumni Board

May 1969 found Centenary College
with ten of its Board of Directors
whose terms of office were due to ex-
pire at the end of the month. An
alumni wide election was held and a
large number of ballots were returned
to the alumni office. Elected to
represent the general membership
were the following candidates: Roland
Achee '44, L. Calhoun Allen '43, Dr.
Leon Bain Jr. '59, Suda Adams '68,
Judy Butcher '65, Robert Eatman '44,
Sandra Harper '65, Mitzi Middle-
brooks '55, Harold Rosbottom '58,
and Ann Wyche '52.

Members appointed to the board by
the president for a one-year term of
office were Harriette Middleton '43,
Justin Querbes III '66, William G.
Anderson '60, Jerry Hartsfield '51
and Dorothy Gammill.

Meet: Your New
Alumni Staff

Holladay holds a B. A.
and Master's degree from
the University of Tulsa
I and a B. D. degree from
Southern Methodist Uni-
versity. He played pro-
fessional football with
the San Francisco 49'ers
for three years. He later
entered the Methodist
'ministry where he served
as Assistant Minister of
I the First Methodist
I Church in Monroe, Lou-
isiana from 1959 to
1962 and as Minister of
| the Trinity Methodist
Church of Shreveport
ROBERT HOLLADAY from 1962-64.

"What you have heard is true — I
lave been selected as your new Direc-
or of Church and Alumni Relations.
\s of this writing, I am trying to find
)ut just what makes for a good Direc-
or, or better still, how do you create
setter church and alumni relations
imong each of you and ultimately, a
nore meaningful relationship with
/our college.

"After some research, I find the
vork in this area lacks clear definition.
Tonsequently, I start by asking a favor
)f you. Please furnish me your ideas
^ remembering to include your gripes)
o that together we can cause your
Centenary relationship to be a lively
md rewarding experience for both
/ou and your college."

Mrs. Metcalf was em-
ployed by the Shreveport
Chamber of Commerce
prior to accepting the
Centenary appointment.

She attended Sophie
Newcomb Women's Col-
lege from 1957-1959
and received her B. A.
Degree from Centenary
in 1968. She was pre-
sented at the Demoiselle
Ball in 1959. She has
been active in the
Shreveport Junior League
and is presently in
charge of publicity for
the League.

"How pleased I am and what a
Challenge it is to be involved in this
/ery important part of the Centenary
College administration. My job as
/our Associate Director of Alumni
and College Relations is to be the liai-
son between Centenary College and
its alumni. My goal is to make Cen-
tenary College important to you per-
sonally today.

"I was quite fortunate to have been

sent by the college to the joint national
meeting of the American Alumni
Council and the American College
Public Relations Council in New York
City. I hope to incorporate some of
the many interesting ideas gained from
this convention into future alumni ac-
tivities at Centenary College."

NANCY METCALF

Four former Centenary
students, who have now
joined the college teaching
staff after receiving ad-
vanced degrees are: top,
from left to right, Dr. Ora
V. Watson '37, Visiting Pro-
fessor of Sociology, and
Jud H. Copeland '65, In-
structor in French; bottom,
from left to right, Charles
T. Beaird '66, Assistant
Professor of Philosophy,
and Marie Morgan '67, In-
structor in French.

Meet: Your Centenary College Faculty

One of the many things Centenary College is boastful about is the quality
of its faculty. Did you know that the national average for Ph.D.s as a percentage
of a college faculty is 38%? Centenary College has 55% of its faculty with
Ph.D.s and 63% possess terminal degrees.

Fifteen new faculty members have joined the Centenary College staff, includ-
ing nine who have received or are candidates for Ph.D.s.

Meet: Centenary College's New Freshman Class

Pleased as punch with the quality of the freshman class at Centenary this
year is the admissions office. Jim Schultz, Admissions Director, tells us that
almost 200 new freshmen have enrolled at Centenary and that approximately 90
students have transferred to Centenary from other colleges. The high school
grade point average of the class is 2.85 and the mean average on the S. A. T.
was 525.

Approximately 40% of the new students are Methodist, 15% Baptist, 12%
Presbyterian, 12% Episcopalian, 12% Catholic and 8% other. Twenty-nine
states have students at Centenary, and four foreign countries — Brazil, Puerto
Rico, Honduras, and Austria — are represented.

The admissions office has hired two additional members, bringing the staff
up to one full time director and three admissions counselors, together with an
additional three full time employees in the office.

A MAN TO REMEMBER

By Maurie Wayne

"Dr. Bruno Strauss, an earn-
est scholar, a popular and de-
manding teacher, and a kindly
friend, came here a refugee from
tyranny and found a haven."

These words, inscribed on a plaque
honoring the memory of the late Dr.
Bruno Strauss, can only begin to tell
the worth of this truly remarkable
man. The former Centenary College
professor of history and foreign lang-
uage died last May in his 80th year —
leaving behind a void in the college
community that will not soon be filled.
For he was, as friends phrased it, "a
gentleman of the old school who pre-
served some of the courtliness of a
vanished world."

Of German Jewish heritage, Dr.
Strauss and his wife, Bertha, were
wrenched from their home in Berlin
by the Nazi purge at the beginning of
World War II, and fled to America
without possessions or friends. Rela-
tives in Shreveport helped them re-
establish their lives here where Dr.
Strauss began a new teaching career at
Centenary College at the age of 50
years.

Of the many tributes paid to this
humble scholar, the greatest came
from his only son, Dr. Albrecht
Strauss, an English professor at the
University of North Carolina. Sorting
through his father's extensive library
(most of which has been given to Cen-
tenary College) Albrecht reminisced
about his memories of his father. In
a choked voice he recalled his father's
love of good books and remarked that
going through his library was like see-
ing him all over again. "His heart
was always in his books — it was his
whole life, almost — and his whole li-
brary, the range of it from James Bond
to the Bible in Greek — reflect him
completely," he said.

"I think my father was really the
happiest when he was lying back on
the couch, smoking a good cigar, and
thumbing slowly through a catalog of
old books," Albrecht said. All of his
beloved books showed the marks of
use, and many contained newspaper
clippings that would bring their text
up to date.

The younger Strauss obviously had
a deep respect for his father, and par-
ticularly for his ability to accept any
adversities cheerfully and without
complaint. Referring to the unheaval

in Germany that led to his parents'
flight from their homeland, he said,
"Although they were uprooted from
their comfortable life in an ideal aca-
demic community in Berlin, they were
not really shaken by this experience —
it didn't embitter them — in a way it
didn't touch them at all." He attrib-
utes this to a kind of old world sto-
icism which has almost completely
disappeared today.

"Another thing that always touched
me about my father was his great
sense of loyalty," the son said. "Until
the end he was extremely proud of
his German Jewish background," he
said, "and yet he also found a place
in his heart for Centenary, and Shreve-
port, and the South, and was equally
loyal to them."

Although Dr. Strauss accepted his
role in life cheerfully and optimistical-
ly, his son felt there was a certain
melancholy about him, particularly in
his later years, because he was not able
to do some of the scholarly things he
had hoped to do. In his native Ger-
many he found time to author several
important books but he was never able
to add to his writings after coming
here. "I think he had achieved the
task he had set for himself," Albrecht
said, "but I also believe there must
have been some sadness in the last
years of his life as he saw the end ap-
proaching knowing he could not com-
plete all of the dreams he had
dreamed."

To those who knew him best, his
greatest accomplishment was just be-
ing himself. His life was an inspiration
to all who were fortunate enough to
have crossed his path during his brief
sojourn here.

The feelings of those who miss Dr.
Strauss are all summed up in the quo-
tation from Hamlet that is inscribed
on his commemorative plaque. "He
was a man, take him for all in all; I
shall not look upon his like again."

Fees Boost Announced
At Centenary

Centenary College officials an-
nounced an increase in fees effective
the beginning of the 1970-71 school
session.

Dr. Thad N. Marsh, academic dean,
made the announcement to the faculty
and students during meetings in Sep-
tember.

The increases were approved by the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees.

Tuition was increased $100 — from
$500 to $600 — a semester.

Tuition for part-time students was
also hiked proportionately to $50 per
credit hour.

Also increased were room and
board and activity fees. Both room
and board was raised $15 a semester,
making the room fee $160 a semester,
and the board fee $275 each semester.
Students will pay $50 each semester
for the activity fee. The activity fee
now is $42 for the fall session and $32
for the spring session.

Centenary officials said rising opera-
tion costs caused the hike in fees.

High School Day

A special High School Day for Sen-
iors will be held at Centenary College
on Saturday, November 8.

This day devoted to seniors will
take the place of the Junior/Senior
Day that has been held in the past. A
special day for Juniors will be held in
the early spring.

Centenary alums are invited to send
their own children or to advise any
interested family of this very special
opportunity to see Centenary College
"in action".

Students should plan to arrive be-
tween 8 and 9 a.m. and signs will di-
rect them to the point of registration.

LET'S GO TO HAWAII!

A new Centenary Alumni tour has
been added to the Alumni Lagniappe
Agenda — an eleven day tour to Ha-
waii, including trips to six Hawaiian
islands. The tour leaves from Shreve-
port January 6 and returns January
17. Fare for two to a room is $600
round trip, including EVERYTHING
but meals; three to a room costs $550
round trip.

Make plans to join the group! Mail
a $25 deposit to Wayne Hanson, P. O.
Box 4188, Shreveport, Louisiana be-
fore December 6, 1969 if you plan to
attend. The perfect Christmas gift!!

The entire family of Dr. James T. Harris, Sr., pastor of Carollton United Methodist Church, New
Means, observed "Harris Family Sunday" on July 6. Family members are, rear row, left to right:
\ajor James T. Harris, Jr., Heath Curry, Frank S. Harris, Jr., Lee Curry, Tom Harris and Shelley Curry,
econd row, seated left to right: Mrs. James T. Harris, Jr. (holding little Amanda Harris), Mrs. Frank
Harris, Jr., Mrs. James T. Harris, Sr., Dr. Harris (holding Jamie Harris), and Mrs. Shelley Curry. Front
jw, left to right: Douglas Harris, Trey Harris, Stewart Harris and Leslie Curry.

Family Sunday was held July 6 at
'arrollton United Methodist Church
New Orleans.

But it wasn't the usual Family Sun-
ay .. . instead, it was Family Sunday
r the church's pastor, Dr. James
Harris Sr. '25.

His entire family — wife Cora, son
ames T., Jr. '52 and daughters Fran
50 and Judy '55, together with the
orresponding daughter-in-law and
ons-in-law and the nine Harris grand-
hildren — sat in two pews to hear his
1 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. sermons.

The three Harris children and

laughter-in-law Marilyn, the former

4arilyn Springer of Texarkana, Texas

ire all graduates of Centenary College

jtnd sang in the Centenary Choir as

jtudents. Dr. Harris is also a Cente-

Iary graduate and was a member of
le Centenary Glee Club and male
uartet as an undergraduate.
Major James T. Harris Jr. is an
>fficer in the U. S. Army now sta-
ioned at Washington, D. C. The
"rank S. Harris family is from Slidell,
^a. and the Shelley Currys are from
Wilmington, Del.

Dr. Harris is in his 43rd year as a
vlethodist minister.

"This makes me the senior minister
)n active service in the Louisiana Con-
erence," he says with pride.

And he says it with as much pride as
vhen he is talking about his family.

DR. GARLAND SMITH ('21)
Professor of English was among the
ten faculty members honored at a re-
tirement dinner at Emory Univ. on
May 10. While at Emory, Dr. Smith
served as Director of Graduate studies
in English and was director of the
Emory Players.

WILLARD L. ENT ('46) has been
appointed manager of the specialty gas
department of Air Products & Chemi-
cals, Inc. in Allentown, Penn.

RICHARD HAWKINS (X48) has
been promoted to administrative as-
sistant to the Vice President of Mar-
keting and Rates, Texas Eastern
Transmission Corporation.

DR. GLENN O. HILBURN, ('51)
Associate Professor of Church His-
tory at Baylor University has been
chosen as editor of The Circle, the
Omicron Delta Kappa Magazine at
Oklahoma State University. He was
also recently made chairman of the
honors program at Baylor.

DR. STEWART G. CARRING-
TON ('53) has completed residency
at the Mayo Clinic. Mrs. Carrington
(Ruby Jean Thomas) was selected
one of the 147 outstanding teachers in
the nation. She teaches disadvantaged
children.

PAUL GREENBURG (X56) won
the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial writing.
He is a former editor of the Conglom-
erate.

ARMY MAJOR JERRY P. ORR

('57) received his fifth award of the
Air Medal near Pleiku, Vietnam, May
17. He was commissioned through
the Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Program at Centenary, where he re-
ceived his B. S. Degree.

MRS. JOHN A. CLAUDIS, JR.
(Penny Todd '58) has been named
one of 6 delegates to the Girl Scout
National Council in Seattle, Wash.
representing Pelican Council in
Shreveport. She also serves Pelican
Council in Training Coordinator for
adult volunteer training.

DR. PAUL SNOW ('58) was pro-
moted to Major in the Medical Corps
and has become Chief of The Depart-
ment of Pathology, Dewitt Army Hos-
pital, Ft. Belvoir, Va. Born to Dr.
and Mrs. Snow, a daughter, Wendy
Ann, December 7, 1968.

DR. LEON BAIN, JR. ('59) and
Carol Johnson were married on March
22, 1969.

REV. OSCAR E. CLOYD ('58)
has agreed to serve as chairman of
the Services Division of this year's
United Fund Campaign.

STAFF SERGEANT WILLIAM
M. PRINGLE ('60) has re-enlisted in
U. S. Air Force at Barksdale.

WILL ANDRESS ('61) has ac-
cepted a graduate assistantship for this
fall at Florida State University to be-
gin work on the Doctor of Musical
Arts Degree.

HAROLD C. BOUNDS ('63) and
CHARLES E. SUTTON ('62), for-
mer graduates of Centenary have re-
ceived their doctoral degrees from
L. S. U.

ROGER D. JOHNS ('63) and his
wife Louise are going to the Univer-
sity of Tubinges in West Germany on
a Dempster Fellowship Program
(awarded by the Methodist Board of
Education). He will be doing re-
search for his Ph.D. Thesis which he
is working on at Duke.

WILLIAM C. DALTON, JR.
('64) became junior partner of Stand-
ard Sales Company Sept. 1.

DONALD G. SCROGGIN ('66)
was awarded graduate fellowship by
National Science Foundation. He re-
ceived a grant of $2600 for intermedi-
ate-level graduate study in Physical
sciences at Harvard University.

(Continued on page 8)

AROUND OUR CAMPUS

The Development Office reports
that the drawings and specifications
for the new administration and physi-
cal education complex have been de-
livered to the regional H. E. W. office
in Dallas, and the Comptroller Gen-
eral will set the date for bidding, which
was expected to be early October. The
completion date for both buildings is
still listed as November, 1970.

* * *

The 1969 National Conference for
the American College Public Relations
Association and the American Alumni
Council was held July 21-24 in New
York City at the New York Hilton.
Representatives from Centenary Col-
lege staff were Dan Springer, Director
of Development, and Nancy Metcalf,
Associate Director of Alumni and Col-
lege Relations. Nancy attended a
School for Educational Administrators
preceding the conference.

* * *

School started early this fall semes-
ter for the student body. Registration
for freshmen and transfer students was
held September 1st and upperclassmen
registered September 2nd. The fall
semester will now end on December
19. The new schedule eliminates
completing the fall semester after the
Christmas holidays — providing a "free
of studies" Christmas season for the
student body.

* * *

EXPLOSION '69 is the college
theme chosen by the Student Senate.
It will be a point of unification for
everybody on the campus and all
campus activities will revolve around
it.

♦ ^ %

President John H. Allen presided at
the Conference on Student Life Sep-
tember 19, 20, and 21 at the Lake-
view Methodist Assembly at Palestine,
Texas.

Included were representatives from
the Student body, faculty, and admin-
istration.

A full-house in the Student Union
Building greeted Coffee House per-
former Brian Carney, Saturday, Sep-
tember 13. Carney, the son of come-
dian Art Carney, made his second ap-
pearance at Centenary, having per-
formed here last year. His repertoire
included the popular sounds of the top

folk artists of the day.

* * *

Winston Goens '69 who has been
in Honduras assisting the work of the
Methodist Missionary Office there re-
ports that damage from Hurricane
Francelia was widespread on the
islands of Rotan and Utilla. A Cente-
nary Work Camp operated there in
the summer of 1968; Dean Augie
Aamodt is investigating the possibility
of organizing a work camp to travel to
the islands and assist with their re-
building program during the Christmas
Holidays.

% % ^

A long-time member of the English
department and member of the library
staff have retired. Dr. Edward Mur-
ray Clark, member of the faculty since
1946, and a former chairman of the
English department left the College
after the Spring Semester. Mrs. Cza-
rena Stuart, circulation librarian since
1960, retired at the end of the summer
session.

Strictly Personal

(Continued from page 7)

SPEC. 5 LAR-
RY OSTTEEN
(X66) has been
awarded a Bronze
Star and two Army
Commenda-
tion Medals for serv-
ice in Vietnam.
AIRMAN JOHN R. ROGOZIN-
SKI ('67) has graduated from a U. S.
Air Force technical school at Kessler
AFB, Miss.

JOHN T. SMITH ('69) has joined
A. H. Robins Co. as a medical serv-
ice representative.

Alumni Lagniappe

October

*9-l 1— "Look Homeward, Angel,"]
Playhouse, 8:30 p.m.

9 — Alumni French Market Coffee
House, Courtyard of Playhouse, after
the play.

* 13- 18— "Leaves of Gold" Con-
cert, Sub, 8:00 p.m.

* 14-1 5 — Management Seminar —
Sales Planning & Forecasting, Dining,
Hall, Centenary Room 9 — 4:30 p.m.

* 16- 18— "Look Homeward, An-
gel," Playhouse, 8:30 p.m.

16— Chapel, 10:40 a.m.

*21 — Management Seminar — First
Line Supervisors, Centenary Rm., Din-
ing Hall, 6:30-9:30 p.m. each week
for 8 weeks.

*28 — Grassroots Concert, Sub,!
8:00 p.m.

30 — Bishop Joseph Johnson, Jr.
4th Epis. Dist. Christian Meth. Epis.
Church, Chapel, 10:40 a.m.

31 — Miss Centenary Pageant.

November

8— High School Day, 8:00 a.m.

* 18-1 9 — Management Seminar —
Business Communication & Report
Writing, 6:30-9:00 p.m.

December

2 — Basketball — E. Texas Baptist,
Home game, Fair Grounds, 7:30 p.m.i

2— Pep Rally, 10:30 a.m.

3 — Choir — Festival of Lessons &'
Carols, Brown Chapel, 10:40 a.m.

4 — Centenary Choir, Chapel, 10:40(
a.m.

*6 — Basketball — Univ. of Houston,
Houston.

*9 — Basketball — Univ. of Tennes-
see, Knoxville.

11 — Basketball— La. Tech, Fain
Grounds, 7:30 p.m.

13 — Choir — Christmas Lighting!
Festival, Hodges Gardens.

*22 — Basketball • — Baylor, Fair:
Grounds, 7:30 p.m.

*23 — Basketball — Texas Christian,!
Fair Grounds, 7:30 p.m.

*30 — Basketball — Baylor, Waco.

*Fee Charged.

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& ALUMNI MAGAZINE

CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA

VOL. 1 • NO. 3 • FEB., 1970

THOSE

WERE

THE HAYS

1070 CENTENARY

HOMECOMING

FEB. 20, 21, 22

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President's
Report

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! To

use an oft repeated phrase these days,
"We are moving into a new decade."
This is a time when we pause to reflect,
not only on the past year, but on the
past ten years. It is a time when we
reflect on and collect those events we
wish to keep and treasure as well as
those events which cause us to look
toward the future with eager anticipa-
tion. For each of you, I wish many
fond memories of the past and many
happy days ahead in the future.

This past year has been a busy one
for the Alumni Association. We have
a new staff in the Alumni Office and 10
new members on the Alumni Board of
Directors. Since assuming their offices,
all have been working hard and diligent-
ly to make the Centenary Alumni Asso-
ciation one of the finest of its kind. All
have been working hard to make it a
more meaningful Association to the
present Alumni and to future Alumni.
New programs have been instituted and
more are to follow. New Alumni Chap-
ters are being organized in cities through-
out the country. The past ten years for
the Alumni Association have been years
of new ideas, new growth, and new in-
volvements. We on the Board of Di-
rectors look forward to more of the
same.

This is a good time to remind you
that Homecoming is not far away. Start
making your plans NOW to attend. It
almost seems trite to say that this year
promises to be bigger and better than
ever, but present indications are that this
is true. The Homecoming Committee
has been working long hours in planning
the events for this year's program. Some
new innovations will be tried and I think
you will find them stimulating and
rewarding.

The classes to be honored this year are
the Classes of 1945 and 1960. Some
exciting and special programs are being
planned for these two groups. The Choir
Alumni are planning a special program
which promises to be exciting and inter-
esting.

Dr. John Allen will be the principal
speaker at the Banquet. This will be
an excellent opportunity to hear him and
learn about his thoughts and plans for
the future of Centenary College.

Again, I wish each of you and your
loved ones a very happy and prosperous
New Year and Decade. I look forward
to seeing all of you at Homecoming —
1970.

1 969-70

CENTENARY

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

President Wayne Hanson '50

1st Vice-President .... Flavia Leary '35
2nd Vice-President .... Suda Adams '68

Secretary Sandra Harper '63

Treasurer James Goins '61

DIRECTORS

(Terms Expire 1970)

(Terms Expire 1971)

Suda Adams '68, Ann Wyche '52,
Roland Achee '44, L. Calhoun Allen '43,
Dr. Leon Bain Jr. '59, Judy Butcher '65,
Robert Eatman '44, Sandra Harper '63,
Mitzi Middlebrooks '55, Harold Rosbot-
tom '58.

Area Chapter Presidents

Baton Rouge. . .Dr. Moss Bannerman '33

Dallas Don Bush

Houston Gaylon White

Monroe Mrs. Travis Brown

Shreveport Edwin Harbuck '56

New Orleans Stephen Victory '60 8

ALUMNI OFFICE I

Director Bob Holladay E

Assoc. Director. . .Nancy Metcalf Cosse [

Staff Jan Hoffman (Secretary) P

Maureen Myers, Arden Ashley
(Record Room)

Alumni Magazine

Editor Nancy Metcalf Cosse

Reporters Jan Hoffman,

Maurie Wayne

Entered as second-class matter April 1, 1942
at the post office at Shreveport, La., under I
Act of August 24, 1912.

i WERE THE DAYS

Please complete and return to the Alumni Office, Centenary College, as soon as possible.
I'll be there for Homecoming the weekend of February 20, 21, 22.

Please reserve tickets ($6.00 each) for the Saturday evening festivities. Enclosed is my check.

I am a member of the Q 1945 Q 1960 graduating class. Count on me for lunch at Don's Seafood.

I need babysitter facilities for children; ages

I am an alumnus of Sorority/Fraternity.

NAME

ADDRESS

Class of

1970
HOMECOMING

'Hamburger Heaven'

A "Hamburger Heaven," sponsored
by the Centenary students and held in
the dining hall will be the delight of all
alumni not involved in the reunions.
How very many ways to fix a hamburger!
Cost: $1.00 for complete meal at Satur-
day's lunch. Noon Saturday.

Despujols Collection

Initial display of a selection of the in-
valuable Despujols collection of Indo-
China paintings, given to the college by
Centenary Alumnus Algur H. Meadows.
The opening reception will be Saturday
at 1 p. m. in the College Library Foyer.

Reunion Luncheon

25-year and 10-year reunions will be
hosted for lunch at Don's Seafood.
Reminiscing about old times and catch-
ing up on the latest news will be the
main item on the agenda. A short per-
formance by Reader's Theatre students
and a welcome by Dr. John H. Allen
will be additional highlights. 1 1:30 a. m.
Saturday.

'World in the '70s'

The World in the 1970's, will be the
theme of the after-lunch academic re-
union. Come hear of our future in such
fields as Economics, Religion, Science,
International Relations and Psychology
and Sociology. 2 p. m. Saturday.

Chuck Wagon Dinner

A Chuck Wagon Dinner, complete
with all the best in covered wagon grub
will be the kick-off for the evening's
activities. Honored speaker for the
gathering will be our new President, Dr.
John Horton Allen and a performance
by the Centenary Choir. 5 p. m. Satur-
day.

'Those Were the Days' Dance

"Those Were the Days" dance — The
highly recommended Mellowtones Dance
Band . . . Floor show — Arthur Murray
Dance Studio staff exhibiting dances
from the 1940's through the present day.
Bet you have even forgotten some of
those popular old steps . . . Buy ration
coupons for hors d'oeuvres, breakfast
tidbits, etc. Remember when they were
necessary for the basics? 9:30 p. m.
Saturday.

Choir Reunion

Former choir members will gather to-
gether for an all day reunion. Singing,
socializing and feasting is on the agenda!
8:13 a. m. until 2 p. m. Saturday.

Pep Rally

Rah! Rah! Rah! Pep rally led by
the cheerleaders will precede the eve-
ning's activities. 3:45 p. m. Saturday.

Bus Ride to Game

Your Chariot, my lady, to take you
to the basketball game. Chartered quality
buses to save you from parking prob-
lems, crowded freeways and allow you
to travel in comfort to the fairgrounds.
7: 15 p. m. Saturday.

Reserved Game Seats

Come on Gents! Sit together in seats
reserved for the Alumni Association.
Pre-game activities include presentation
of the homecoming court. Awards to be
presented by the Alumni Association at
half time. 7:30 p. m. Saturday.

Tea Honors Mrs. Mickle

The class of 1945, who are celebrating
their 25th year reunion, are honoring
Mrs. Mickle with a tea at the home of
Dr. Allen. 2 until 5 p. m. Sunday.

Something for Everyone

Making plans for Homecoming 1970
are, left to right. Homecoming chairman
Miss Suda Adams ('68) and 25 Year Re-
union chairman Mrs. Camp (Carolyn
Clay) Flournoy ('45), and 10 Year Re-
union chairman Wayne Stoddard Hf
('60). A "Those Were The Days" theme
was selected by the group for the Febru-
ary 20, 21, and 22 festivities.

Plans are "shaping up" for Homecom-
ing, as a result of the hard work of
Homecoming Chairman Suda Adams
068).

The Homecoming schedule was cre-
ated with the goal of offering all Cente-
nary alums items of special interest to
them.

Accepting the chairmanship of the
banquet and dance committee were Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Rosbottom ('58). On
their committee are Arrangements Chair-
man Mrs. A. J. Harper ('63) and Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Skipworth ('67) and Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Critcher ('67) who
are in charge of decorations. Mrs.
Thomas Gayle Wren ('65) will be in
charge of floral decorations throughout
Homecoming.

Mrs. Bruce Middlebrooks ('57), with
her vast experience in Homecoming ar-
rangements, has agreed to be Registra-
tion chairman; while Mrs. A. R. Gam-
mill ('40) has again accepted the job of
Publicity chairman.

James Goins ('61) and Jack Mulkey
('61) will create a plan for ticket sales.

Local architect George Jackson ('55)
is in charge of judging the fraternity and
sorority house decorations. Willard
Cooper ('47) is arranging an initial exhi-
bition of the Despujols paintings, which

will include a reception on Saturday af-
ternoon of Homecoming.

An academic program has been sched-
uled for Saturday afternoon, the 21st, to
be chaired by Robert Ed Taylor ('52).
His program will include such notables
as Dr. Woodrow Pate — Economics; Dr.
Leroy Vogel — International Relations;
Dr. Webb Pomeroy — Religion; Dr. W.
F. Pledger — Sociology and Psychology;
and Dr. Rufus Walker — Sciences.

It is hoped by the Homecoming Com-
mittee that a good response will be re-
ceived from Alumni to this "Homecom-
ing 1970." As Suda Adams, Homecom-
ing chairman, reminds us, "Centenary
College offered you a fine education
when you were here, whether it was
1919, 1940, or 1969. It still has a lot
for you. Come back and see!"

1945 And 1960
Reunions

The Silver Anniversary has arrived for
the class of 1945 and a decade has
passed since graduation for the class of
1960. Mrs. Camp (Carolyn Clay) Flour-
noy ('45) and Wayne Stoddard III ('60)
have assumed the chairmanships of the
25-year and 10-year reunions respec-
tively.

The honored classes will be guests at
a luncheon Saturday at Don's Seafood &
Steak House. The 25-year reunion class
has a private dining hall on the ground
floor of the restaurant, while the 10 year

reunion class has the whole upper floor.

A committee from each class is dili-
gently making preparations to make this
a most meaningful and worthwhile re-
union. Lots of memories are sure to be
awakened and it is hoped that the whole
class in each of these years will partici-
pate. Since this reunion should mean
something special for these two classes,
efforts will be made to keep each class
together throughout the weekend. This
will include a table for the class at the
Chuck Wagon Dinner, a bus ride on the
same bus to the game, seats together at
the game, and of course much informal
discussion can take place at the dance.

A special occasion for the class of
1945 is the tea at the home of President
and Mrs. Allen, where the silver anni-
versary group will honor Mrs. Joe T.
Mickle. Her husband, Dr. Mickle, as-
sumed the presidency of the College in
May 1945, the Reunion Year, and held
that office for 19 years.

Memo To All Choir

Alums: Reserve

8:13 A.M., Feb. 21

By Jim Montgomery

Amusements Editor of the Shreveport

Times

Did you ever wonder what has hap-
pened to Kayo? What about Buckie, !
Rusty, Dinkie, Weddie, Chucky, Butchy
and Speedy? Then there were Daisy
June, Mortimer, Gravel Gertie, Swamp
Rat, Peaches, Moonlight and Pipeline.
Did Great Shape ever find what she was
missing? How did Pinkie (who is in
the choir now) ever get his nickname?

All these questions and many more
can be answered first-hand when the
Centenary College Choir holds its first
homecoming celebration on Saturday,
Feb. 21. The activities begin at 8:13
a.m. in the choir rooms of the Mickle
Hall of Science's fourth floor. (That's
the plain old science building, in case
you've been out of touch for the past
few years.)

If you remember how things work!
with the choir (and who could forget?)
you'll know that 8:13 a.m. MEANS ex-1
actly thirteen minutes after eight o'clockj
in the morning. The day's events willj
start with coffee and goodies in the re-j
hearsal rooms, then a tour of those!
rooms. For anyone who hasn't seen the;
rooms, it's quite a layout. And forj
those who haven't been back in several^
years, there are enough new additionsi;
to keep you fascinated. Would you be-!
lieve closed-circuit television and a|
videotape recorder so you can watch I
yourself sing? Cheesy says it's a big]
help when it comes to explaining "radi-j
ating."

If you think the first choir homecom-|
ing is going to be limited to coffee and I
a few doughnuts in the rehearsal rooms,!
you must have forgotten how Cheesy j
operates. After an enjoyable morning,]
we'll board chartered buses (quite a|
switch from the "bucket o' bolts" of thej
past — these buses even have drivers thai
aren't Cheesy!) for a very special lunch.!

Once we've finished feeding our faces,!
the current choir members will perform j
for us. All three changes of costume!
will be used, and a representative show!
ing of clothes from the past will make)
an appearance. Remember the old ma-
roon cutaways? And those terrible!
gold dresses that looked so great backj
in the '40s? They'll all be shown.

Participation of the membership hajij
always been the key to the success of all;
choir activities, and this event will bfli
no different. Cheesy has been hoarding
music for the last several weeks so thaj
there will be enough for everybody. Car!

(Continued on Page 9;'j

Alumni Involvement 1969

A decided increase was seen in Cente-
nary Alumni activity in 1969. Out-of-
Shreveport activities included the follow-
ing:

December 6 found the HOUSTON
area Alumni Association hosting a post-
game party following the Centenary-
University of Houston basketball game.
Gaylon White, president of the Houston
chapter organized the event and a good
time was had by all.

The MONROE Alumni Association
held a board meeting luncheon on De-
cember 8, at which time plans were made
for continuing activities.

An organizational dinner meeting was
held December 12 in ALEXANDRIA.
in the form of a pre-concert dinner.
Warren Blakeman coordinated the gath-
ering, which preceded the Centenary
Choir performance in Alexandria.

Other areas of major alumni concen-
tration are Dallas - Tyler - Longview -
Little Rock - Baton Rouge and El Do-
rado. Bob Holladay, your Alumni Di-
rector, urges that he is ready to meet
with anyone who would like to organize
effective alumni groups in his area. How
about it!

As part of the goal to provide some-
thing for everyone in the Shreveport
community, the College Arts Committee,
headed by Mrs. Dorothy Gammill '40,
sponsored a series of "after the play"
coffee houses. "Look Homeward An-
gel" was performed by the college play-
ers and opened on October 9. An alum-
ni French Market coffee house was host-

ed in the courtyard of the playhouse, to
which alumni and their guests were in-
vited. French Market doughnuts and
New Orleans coffee were served. A
record group of theater supporters
turned out for the affair.

An English "Tea and Crumpets" af-
fair was given by the association follow-
ing the Reader's Theater production of
"Jane Eyre" in late November.

Following the student directed theater
productions in early December, coffee
was provided backstage to interested high
school drama students, who were invited
to attend the plays and tour the behind
the scene areas.

For "would be travelers," the Alumni
Association hosted European Tour and
a Hawaiian tour gatherings, announc-
ing the planned 1970 alumni excursions.
An enthusiastic group turned out to
dream, and many signed up to make the
trips.

An "Autograph Party" was held fol-
lowing the Centenary College-Louisiana
Tech basketball game, December 1 1 in
Shreveport. The varsity squad, the
coaches, and the cheerleaders were avail-
able for signatures on the 1969-70 bas-
ketball programs. This was an effort
to unite sports lovers and to bring alumni
children together in "family fun."

In an effort to expand College Alumni
activities, Bob Holladay, Director of
Alumni and Church Relations, recently
attended an American Alumni Council
meeting in Lubbock, Texas.

Europe Anyone?

So, you'd like to go to Europe at re-
duced rates, but you don't belong to a
group????

Sure you do — The Centenary College
Alumni Association! A quality three
week tour including such enthralling
countries as England, Austria, Italy, Ger-
many, Switzerland and France is being
planned by tour chairman, Miss Flavia
Leary.

A wonderful experience, offered only
once every ten years, is in store for 1970
Centenary travelers who attend the Pas-
sion Play at lovely Oberammergau, Ger-
many.

The tour begins in New York June 4,
terminating in New York, June 25, 1970.
The tour price is $935 for jet transpor-
tation, hotels, meals, sightseeing, taxes
and gratuities, transfers, and baggage
handling. The tour does not include all
those little specialties offered in each
country, which are so very hard to resist!

Interested persons are urged to write
the Alumni Office at Centenary College
for a full color brochure explaining tour
details.

"Of course we had a good time on
our Centenary Alumni Association tow-
last year". Miss Flavia Leary, tour es-
cort is shown in the foreground with
some of her happy 1969 travelers. An
equally good time is promised to all on
the 1970 circuit. Centenary offers a
tour for "everyone", appealing to fami-
lies and single people, young and old.

A Hansel and Gretel story with
a twist is the theme of the Febru-
ary 13 and 14 play entitled "The
Bad Children," to be given by the
Centenary College Rivertowne
Players at the Marjorie Lyons
Playhouse.

Mrs. William Fain is chairman
of the alumni children's party
which will be given by the Cente-
nary College Alumni Association
following the early evening play.

To the delight of the little ones,
a good witch will pass out goodies
from the candy cane tree. Punch
and gingerbread cookies will be
provided for the gathering.

Do come and bring the family.

Hawaii Bound

Centenary College alumni interested
in traveling to Hawaii have been invited
by American International Tour Service
(AITS) to join a flight leaving New Or-
leans April 12. A totally deluxe trip is
being offered at a nominal cost of $399.

Everything but meals is included in
this two week excursion. There will be
a three day stop off in San Francisco.
one week in Hawaii, and three days in
lavish Las Vegas.

For additional information, contact
the Alumni Office at Centenary, which
will forward your queries to AITS.

The Surprise Check

A most appreciated gift was received
by the Centenary Alumni Association
from the members of the 1969 Cente-
nary Alumni European Tour! After re-
turning from the European circuit, their
plane developed mechanical trouble in
the flight from Shreveport to New York.
The plane landed in Atlanta, where it
was necessary to secure other flights to
New York. Delta gave a voucher for
lunch to a portion of the group, but it
turned out they did not have time for
their lunch.

Mrs. Ruby Cochran of Cochran-Bates
Travel Agency wrote Delta asking them
to send the money to cover the voucher.

It was the wish of the group that this
extra money should come to the Associ-
ation and might possibly be used for the
scholarship fund!

Centenary's fund is now $67.50 richer
— our many thanks!

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An Appreciation of Old Centenary College

Written by Mrs. D. M. Pipes
Early 1900' s
Jackson, La.

I have been asked to write an appreci-
ation of old Centenary College, its his-
toric past and future prospects — for
the Woman's Enterprise, itself a delight-
ful innovation and timely deviation from
our old custom of going back and sitting
down.

From the data I have been able to
gather I find that a certain John Horton,
zealous to be of service to his generation,
purchased of the Spanish Kingdom (the
Florida Parishes then belonged to Spain)
the present site of Centenary and donat-
ed it to the Parish of East Feliciana,
which at that time stretched from the
Gulf to Mississippi, for educational pur-
poses. When the Florida Parishes were
admitted to the State, the public lands of
the parishes became state lands.

In the year 1825 the College of Louisi-
ana was situated upon Mr. Horton's do-
nation. It was the first institution of
its kind in the State and was not a suc-
cess. I can imagine why, after reading
an old government report which I
chanced to find. This report listed the
school's annual expenses for tuition,
board, laundry, room rent, fuel and lights
at $98.75 — this for a session of 45
weeks. An annual maintenance fund of
$7,000.00 was allowed the college by the
State. Compare this financial report
with the $7,000,000 recently voted for
the Greater Agricultural College and
$1,000,000 for yearly maintenance.

However, in the year 1845 this Col-
lege and its grounds were put up at pub-
lic auction by the State, and were pur-
chased by Judge Edward McGee of
Woodville, Miss, for the sum of $10,000.

It was planned to turn the College of
Louisiana into Centenary College, and
Judge McGhee erected the handsome]
building standing in the forefront of the]
historic campus, at a cost of $100,000.'
Centenary, then located at Brandon,
Miss., upon being offered this tempting!
site accepted it and was moved to Jack-!
son, Louisiana.

Judge McGhee, an ardent Methodist,1!
appointed a self-perpetuating board of>j
trustees from the Methodist Church and I
turned the College, not in ownership, but i
in trust, over to this Board. Thus it be-j
came the regular church college of the
Methodist Church, and was called Cen-i
tenary College, of Louisiana. This was
the pioneer College of the Southwest, j
and its annals would color the history of'
Louisiana for seventy-five years.

Before the Civil War it was a flour- j
ishing institution with three or four hun-j

dred students annually, but suffered as
all Southern institutions did suffer from
the hardships of the war, and the poverty
of the days of Reconstruction.

However, the school struggled along
and continued to do good work until
1906, when it was moved to Shreveport,
Louisiana.

Centenary College had an alumni of
about 400, among which number are to
be found men who have been disting-
uished in the affairs of the State, and the
South and the Nation.

Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, secretary of
state in the Southern Confederacy, re-
ceived his education at Centenary, and
Jefferson Davis took a special course in
Spanish there; Hon. Chas. Parlange, lieu-
tenant-governor of the state, and Hon.
C. J. Boatner, a brilliant lawyer and
member of Congress, were both students
at this school; also Hon. E. John Ellis,
U. S. Senator, and a national figure in
his day. Judge Ben Spencer was an
alumnus of Old Centenary, and proud of
it. He wrote some of his famous
speech while at school there. Judge J.
C. McVea and Judge Charles McVea of
East Feliciana, distinguishd jurists of
their time, took their degrees at Cente-
nary; also Dr. L. G. Perkins at one
time superintendent of the Insane Asy-
lum; Dr. C. W. Carter, one of the
brainiest men the Methodist Church
ever produced in Louisiana, graduated
here in 1855, and forty years later when
President of the College held a reunion
of his class (eleven out of the original
twenty-two attending it).

Judge T. C. Ellis of New Orleans car-
ried off laurels from this Institution, also
Judge Anothy Sambola, from the same
city.

Dr. Whythe G. Owen of Plaquemine,
Judge Charles Kilbourne and Judge
George Woodside of Clinton, Dr. J. C.
Ding of Atlanta, the Fullilove brothers
of Shreveport, Amos J. Ponder of Amite,
Judge A. J. Murff of Shreveport, and the
Pharr brothers of St. Mary's, all received
their degrees from Old Centenary. The
Holcombe brothers, too, A. R. and W.
P. now located in New York, one a
writer on a high New York daily, the
prominent electrical engineer graduated
at Centenary. Members of the recent
i Constitutional Convention who call Cen-
itenary their Alma Mater were, Paul G.
I Barron, Charles Holcombe, E. A. Pharr,
land O. H. Simpson, the latter being
'secretary of both State Senate and Con-
stitutional Convention. C. S. Babington,
a former state senator, and Ventress J.
'Smith of New Iberia, a member of the
present senate, were both graduated
from this school.

A roster of the prominent Methodist
preachers of the State lists these from

Centenary, N. E. Joyner, R. H. Harper,
R. H. Wynn, C. C. Miller, A. S. Lunz,
S. J. Davies, C. D. Atkinson, C. B. Car-
ter, P. M. Brown and others too numer-
ous to mention.

Prominent lawyers and doctors in
Baton Rouge who can claim Centenary
as their Alma Mater are T. J. Cross, I.
D. Wall, B. B. Taylor, Chas. Holcombe,
D. Cline, Sambola Jones, Dr. Phillip
Jones, Dr. W. H. Pipes and Dr. Arthur
Tucker. T. B. Baird, the leading offi-
cial of the Cumberland Telephone Com-
pany in the state, received his education
at Centenary. In fact, it would be diffi-
cult to find a section of the state where
men graduated from this classic old In-
stitution have not made good and risen
above their fellows. This college sent
the boys out with ideals. Who shall de-
fine the limitations of its influence for
good, or say that because of its lack of
modern equipment and endowment it
failed of its high mission to instruct and
elevate? Ask the sons of the men who
left its halls, what sort of ideals their
fathers have held up before them. It
should be hallowed ground to them.

As to the future prospects of the old
college, who shall say? For some years
after the removal of the school to Shreve-
port, the Church and the State each
claimed the property. And, as is the
history of every battle-ground, while the
combatants fought, the country suffered.
Priceless books, geological specimens and
records were stolen and destroyed.
Audubon's matchless drawings disap-
peared from the library, also a wonder-
ful edition of Shakespeare, imported
from England; and many a rare curio
and collection that had been bestowed in
love on the old College was rifled by
the hand of the despoiler and vandal.
Finally, in 1920 the Church sold its title
to this property to MR. W. B. McCOR-
MICK. of Shreveport, and shortly after-
ward a bill was passed by the Legislature
ceding the State's interest to the School
Board of East Feliciana Parish. Mr.
McCormick desired the plant as a site
for an orphan asylum, which project he
has not perfected up to the present time.
The East Feliciana School Board had a
plan to attract hither an Agricultural
High School, for which the place is ad-
mirably suited with its eighty acres of
fine land, and its location in the heart
of an extended farming section. But in
the meantime, those of the Alumni who
are living, and sons of the men who
loved their Alma Mater, who were proud
of this Old Pioneer that mothered the
classics and kept the sacred torch of edu-
cation alight until other institutions
snatched it from her, do not allow this
historic pile to fall into hideous and un-
sightly decay. This is a memorial of the
old South and its traditions that should
ever be preserved. The history of Cen-

tenary is commingled and interwoven as
warp and woof with the annals of Louisi-
ana. In 1844 the Constitutional Con-
vention met on this site, but only held a
session of ten days, and adjourned to
meet in New Orleans in 1845. During
the Civil War a company of soldiers was
organized from the student body of the
school, and most of those gallant young
lives were laid down in behalf of the
state and the South they loved so well.
In the rear, under the spreading branches
of great beeches a Confederate grave-
yard nestles. The College was used as a
hospital during the Civil War, and the
wounded soldiers who died were laid
away in this quiet and hallowed spot,
unknown and unsung now, save by the
mocking birds that trill their rhapsodies
from over-hanging boughs.

I live very near this grand old struc-
ture and love to feast my eyes daily upon
its dignity and harmony of outline — its
wonderful time-stained walls, and lofty
Doric Columns — its primeval trees, that
rival the centre building itself in majestic
stateliness — its acres and acres of undu-
lating campus that glow and flaunt and
thrill when the Spring wakes the yellow
jassamines that carpet the earth, run
riot through the trees, and wreathe each
bush and briar. If the giant oaks and
beeches that still tower like sentinels on
the campus, or lean in loving compan-
ionship toward the lonely old College
could speak, what a tale of chivalry and
valor and ambition and achievement
could they tell. This building is without
a rival in the State both for historic inter-
est and massive architecture. It has
earned a better fate than to be left as a
roost for bats and owls.

We were appalled during the world
war that the German soldiers, needless
and ruthless destruction of the great ca-
thedrals and public buildings of France
and Belgium. But here in a land of
peace and plenty, at our very door a
noble creation of the architect's brain
and the builder's skill has been left by
those to whom it was presented as a gra-
cious gift, without protection or defense
from the ravages of the tramp, the scav-
enger, and the thoughtless small boy.
Who shall answer for this crime? Mr.
Sinclair Lewis in his great book, "Main
Street," censures Americans for their in-
sensitiveness to beauty, and holds up to
ridicule the monotonous plainness of
American towns, their general poverty
of architecture, and lack of distinction.
Here is a concrete illustration of the
small value we place upon the beautiful.
The saving of this bit of architecture
should appeal to the State at large.

If a drive were put on to raise money
to restore the main building of Old Cen-
tenary who would respond? Sons and
daughters of the men who revered and
cherished this "sermon in stone" come to
its rescue and come quickly.

IiiMemoriam...
Dr.Jaek S.Wilkes

Editor's Note: Dr. Jack S. Wilkes, the immediate past presi-
dent of Centenary College, died of a sudden heart attack Sat-
urday, November 8, while attending the SMU-Texas A & M
football game in Dallas, Texas. He was vice-president of
SMU at the time of his death. The following are excerpts
of eulogies given Dr. Wilkes at a service in his memory at
Centenary College:

"There is a natural rebelliousness of the spirit that resents
the necessity of saying goodbye to Jack Wilkes so soon after
we had done so. This piecemeal departure, and the physical
distances involved in our separation, make his untimely death
shocking as well as saddening . . .

Dr. Jack S. Wilkes
President, Centenary College, 1964-69

"It is too early, and our loss of him too fresh, to say any-
thing that is not entirely tentative. He was a man of great
strength and complexity of character, not easy to know, and
not easy to forget . . .

"It was our great good fortune that he was a man of im-
mense learning though his credentials were not primarily those
of academe. But because he cared profoundly about edu-
cation, he read voraciously, and like Miniver Cheevy, thought,
and thought, and thought about it . . .

"We really have Jack Wilkes to thank that we now stand
ready and able to grow to the kind of distinction he coveted
for Centenary ..." Eulogy by Thad Marsh, Dean of the
College.

"Dr. Wilkes provided a shield for the College so that the
faculty and students could enjoy the academic freedom so
necessary to education and yet so subject to misinterpretation
sometimes on the campus and in the community . . .

"He had a marvelous sense of humor. He loved a good
joke and wrote down any he heard. His wit was exemplified
in a conversation soon before he left Shreveport. The Shreve-
port Journal had run an editorial on him and it was so good
I called him and said, 'Jack, that was a beautiful editorial you
wrote on yourself for the Journal.' He replied, 'George, I
didn't write it . . . my mother did.'

"Jack Wilkes did a wonderful job in representing Centenary
to the Trustees, to the Church, and to the community . . .

"We have lost a true friend and he will be missed by all
of us." Eulogy by George D. Nelson, Chairman, Board of
Trustees.

"Jack Wilkes was a man of numerous talents and abilities.
He had a strong personality and an abundance of convictions.
He chose in early manhood to channel these qualities through
the Church and its ordained ministry . . .

"For him, the responsibility of every Christian was to serve
God and his fellow man through many avenues. He saw the
church college as embodying this value and promoting it in
all vocations. He was eminently effective in the pulpit. When
he preached, we heard the promise and demand of the gospel
in the context of a knowledgeable and penetrating analysis of
our needy world . . .

"He believed in the brotherhood of all men; he worked
toward the fulfilment of that goal. Under his leadership,
the College was integrated. Despite opposition and hesitancy
from others, he pressed forward quietly and firmly to open
the doors of Centenary to all qualified students. He did this
not only as an act of educational statesmanship, but as a ful-
filment of Christian conviction and concern.

"Jack Wilkes had a very real and strong faith in God. He
chose to be a steward of that faith in areas that were often
complex and difficult. He was willing to make fresh strides
into uncertain territory. He was no stranger to controversy.
He was a determined protagonist. Often, he did not allow
himself the luxury of easy decisions. He did not relish con-
flict and struggle, but he did not run from them. He was a
builder . . . and gave of the energies so necessary to building
. . . whether it be human life and character or college campuses.

"In all of this he understood himself to be exercising his
faith, serving his Lord and his fellow man. In this ... we
rejoice. We find our lives and the life of our college stronger
because he shared that faith and that stewardship with us."
Eulogy by Robert E. Taylor, Chaplain of the College.

CONTRACT LET

A $1,951,300 contract was signed by
Centenary College president Dr. John H.
Allen for a new administration building
and a physical education complex.

Whitaker Constructon Company, Inc.
of Shreveport was the successful low
bidder for the project.

Work on both projects will start im-
mediately and the proposed completion
date is mid-December 1970.

The Administration Building, Hamil-
ton Hall, will be of Georgian architec-
ture to blend with the rest of the campus
and will contain 26,000 square feet. It
will be a two story building and base-
ment with a circular staircase connecting
the two upper floors and an elevator
serving all three. The offices of the
(president and his administrative council
aqd staff will occupy the second floor,
and those offices directly serving the stu-
dents, including the business office, reg-

istrar, and admissions office will be lo-
cated on the first floor.

The geodesic dome, which will be used
for the physical education department,
will contain 51,000 square feet on three
levels. There will be a clear span, with-
out posts or pillars, for 195 feet in all
directions under the dome. It is said
to be the largest such structure ever built
in the United States. One unique fea-
ture of the dome will be the indirect
lighting. Eighteen fixtures with 1,000
watt metalarc lighting, mounted in four
positions on the top of the stairwells will
bounce the light off the domed ceiling
of the building, eliminating the glare
from the bright lights. Offices for the
athletic department and classrooms for
the physical education department are
included in the plans. The contract al-
so calls for the installation of a Tartan
floor.

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you imagine the sound of a 500-voice
Centenary College Choir? That's what
we'll have if everyone shows up for
homecoming!

The only hitch for the return trip to
the campus is that you must board a
different bus (or at least one on which
the people are different) so that you'll
have chat time with people you haven't
had a chance to talk to. This time
jaround you might be riding with Speck,
iWhisk, Sunset, Pluto, Deadend, Jo-Jo,
.Messy or Fungus. Heaven knows WHO
jyou might ride back with!

Following lunch, your time will be
jyour own to attend the Academic Re-
union, browse around the campus or re-
main with fellow choir alums.

The whole beautiful package comes
for only $2.00 a person, so send your
reservation card back to Cheesy P.D.Q.
so there'll be a place reserved for you!

See you at 8:13!

Buns

P.S. — Wouldn't you like to hear the
story behind THAT one?

Back From Honduras

Twelve Centenary College students
and two administrators, spent two weeks
of the Christmas vacation on the island
of Utila off the coast of Honduras. The
purpose of the trip was to assist the peo-
ple of the island in repairing the damage
done to their church and mission house
by Hurricane Francelia earlier this year.

Some forty students applied to make
the trip and those selected were chosen
on the basis of an interview to determine
if they were capable of meeting the
physical, mental and emotional demands
that were placed upon them. Due to
limited facilities, only twelve students
could attend the camp.

Dean August Aamodt conducted the
workcamps. The projects on the island
primarily involved carpentry and paint-
ing. Training sessions in these skills
were held at the college prior to depar-
ture for the island. Other sessions held
in advance of the trip included back-
ground briefings on the history of the
country, as well as the history of the
Methodist mission work in that area.

Dr. Allen In Residence

Dr. John Horton Allen, who was
elected president of Centenary College
last summer succeeding Dr. Jack Wilkes,
moved into the president's office full
time on December 1. He was Dean of
the University of Southern Mississippi in
Hattiesburg at the time of his appoint-
ment as Centenary's 32nd president.

His B.A. degree was completed with
honors at Southeastern Louisiana Col-
lege. He holds a Masters degree in so-
ciology from L.S.U. and the Ph.D. de-
gree from Penn State in sociology and
agricultural economics.

He taught at the University of South-
ern Mississippi from 1953-56; at South-
eastern Louisiana College from 1956-57;
and was named Dean of the School of
Arts and Sciences at Southern Mississip-
pi in 1957. He was promoted to Dean
of the University in 1961, and remained
in that position until his appointment to
Centenary College.

A Legacy Of Books

The granddaughter of one of the orig-
inal members of the Board of Trustees
of Centenary College has left her library
collection to the college under the terms
of her will recently made public. Miss
Claribel Drake was the daughter of Rev.
J. Perry Drake and Mrs. Clara Bell Wailes
Drake, who resided at the old family
home at Mt. Ararat Plantation near
Church Hill, Jefferson County, Miss.

Miss Drake died in Natchez in 1968
and willed her entire collection of about
1,000 books to the Centenary library.

Her grandfather, the Rev. Benjamin
Michael Drake, was one of those men in-
strumental in founding Centenary Col-
lege at Brandon Springs, Miss., and was
a member of the first Board of Trustees
of the college. He served temporarily
as president of Centenary in 1853, and
was a member of the Board until his
death in 1860. Four of his sons (Miss
Drake's uncles) graduated from Cente-
nary and Miss Drake's oldest brother.
Winbourne Magruder Drake was also a
Centenary graduate.

Miss Drake was a cousin, once re-
moved, of Marlin Drake of Shreveport,
who is presently a member of the Board
of Trustees of Centenary College.

Centenary's lettermen on the 1969-70
basketball team are (top, from left) Don
Louis, a junior from Dallas, Tex.. Lee
Mansell, a senior from LaMirada, Calif.,
(bottom, from left) Rick Courtney, a
junior from Baker, Calif., Jesse Mar-
shall, a senior from Princeton, La., and
Mike Tebbe, a junior from Shreveport.
Mansell and Marshall served as team
captains. Tebbe, a forward, was forced
to miss the entire season when he suf-
fered a knee injury in preseason prac-
tice and underwent surgery.

1969-70 Centenary Basketball

Rick Woodson

Coach Joe Swank's Centenary basket-
ball team hopes for a strong finish, with
the 1969-70 season coming to a close
with seven games scheduled in February,
four of them at Hirsch Youth Center.

The Gents' first 10 games were
marked by three impressive victories, but
four straight road losses left them with
a 3-7 record going into a Jan. 13 date
with University of Southern Mississippi.

Centenary met USM and then had
contests scheduled with Miami Univer-
sity, Jan. 15, Hardin-Simmons, Jan. 22,
Loyola of Chicago, Jan. 24, University
of Hawaii, Jan. 26, Louisiana Tech,
Jan. 29, and Oklahoma City University,
Jan. 31.

The Gents' February schedule includes
home contests against Lamar Tech, Feb.
9, Miami, Feb. 12, Houston, Feb. 21,
and Loyola of New Orleans, Feb. 23/
Road games during the month will be
at Loyola of New Orleans, Feb. 6, Har-
din-Simmons, Feb. 16, and Oklahoma
City, Feb. 18.

Swank's ball club opened the season
in fine style by racing past East Texas
Baptist College, 83-71. Senior center
Jesse Marshall matched his highest scor-
ing output at Centenary by hitting for
28 points, while Marshall Crawford (15),
Fred Zitar (14) and Lee Mansell (10)
also scored in double figures. In addi-
tion, Marshall grabbed off 10 rebounds.

Nationally-ranked Houston was next

for the Gents and, despite 27 turnovers,
they almost pulled off a major upset
only to lose, 70-64. Zitar had 19 and
Mansell 18 to lead Centenary.

Swank's ball club then went to Knox-
ville, Tenn., to meet the powerful Ten-
nessee Volunteers. Forward Al Dean
scored 17 and Zitar 14 as the Gents
came near another upset, 66-62.

Always-tough Louisiana Tech was
next, and the Gents lost a 40-32 half-
time lead in the final 20 minutes and
dropped a 66-60 decision — their third
loss by a total of 16 points. Three play-
ers scored in double figures for Cente-
nary, Marshall, 16, Dean, 15, and Man-
sell, 14, and Zitar pulled down 1 1 re-
bounds.

Then, with a 1-3 record, the Gents
appeared to be on their way. Southwest
Conference kingpin Baylor came to town
and the Gents played a superb game in
taking a 78-74 win in overtime. Five
Gents hit in double figures, led by
Crawford's 21, and Marshall controlled
the backboards with 13 rebounds.

Texas Christian became Centenary's
third victim the next night as the Gents
won going away, 69-58, behind Craw-
ford's 25 point effort and 11 rebounds
each by Zitar and Dean.

With their record even at 3-3, the
Gents hit the road for four games and,
mostly due to poor free throw shooting,
lost to Baylor, 86-60, University of Ne-
vada at Las Vegas, 84-71, Lamar Tech,

65-62, and Northwestern State, 78-75.

Through 10 games, Crawford, a junior
college transfer from Brownsboro, Tex.,
was the Gents' leading scorer with a 16
point average. Marshall was second at
15.4, followed by Zitar, 12.4, Mansell,
9.9, and Dean, 9.5.

As a team, Centenary averaged 68.4
points a game for 10 contests, and
ranked among the nation's leaders ini
field goal percentage with 48.9 per cent
from the floor. The team's leading re-
bounders were Zitar, 8.6, and Marshall,
8.3.

The Gents were beaten badly in only
one of their first 10 games, and showed
flashes of brilliance they will hope to put
together for a fast finish and a winning
record.

While the varsity was trying to put to-'
gether a winning streak, Coach Larry j
Little's freshman team won five of its
first 11 games, with Shreveport's Larry-
Davis leading the team in scoring with
15 points a game.

In addition to basketball, the Cente- j
nary golf team hosted its second annual j
invitational tournament, which was won
by NCAA powerhouse Houston. The
Gents' tennis squad also played in one j
tournament, at Henderson State College;
in Arkadelphia, Ark., with a full sched- j
ule of meets for both teams this spring.

The Centenary baseball team, coached |
by Larry Little, is also looking forward
to a successful season this spring.

1940's

Henry M. Shuey ('41) director of tech-
nical Liaison for the Redstone Labora-
tories will serve as Chairman of the con-
ference session entitled "Propulsion Sys-
tems Status." He has served as con-
sultant on propulsion on a number of
missile systems, including the Sprint,
Spartan, Polaris and Lance systems. He
is co-inventor of cast double base propel-
lant.

Albert E. Hyde ('49) former executive
Secretary of the North Louisiana Roof-
ing and Sheet Metal Contractors Associ-
ation in Shreveport has assumed the po-
sition of Executive Director of the Hous-
ton Sheet Metal Contractors Association
in Houston, Texas. Albert and his wife,
Barbara Jean have four children.

1950's
A. E. (Al) Johnson, a 1952 graduate
of Centenary College with a B.S. degree
in Geology, was recently promoted to
the professional position of Exploration
Geologist by Humble Oil & Refining
Company. He is working in Humble's
Western Division Exploration Depart-
ment in Los Angeles. He and his wife,
Marilee, and their two children — a
daughter, Druya, age 13, and a son
Thomas, age 21 — reside in Newbury
Park, California.

Ann T. West, the former Ann Turnage
('54) has been appointed as Director of
Public Relations for the Carpet and Rug
Institute in New York. Mrs. West was
formerly Publicity and Advertising co-
ordinator for Crow, Pope & Carter En-
terprises of Atlanta. A native of Shreve-
port, Mrs. West now resides in Dalton
with her son and mother.

O. Frank Agee, M. D. ('54) is chief
of the diagnostic division of the Depart-
ment of Radiology at the University of
Florida School of Medicine. Dr. Agee
and his wife Barbara Hood Agee ('55)
welcomed a new son, Mathieu Franklin
on July 8, 1969. They have one other

child, a daughter Marie Delaney, age
2Vi years old.

Warren A. Smith ('55) has been
named group insurance representative at
Kansas City, Mo., for Aetna Life & Cas-
ualty. Smith joined Aetna in 1955 at
Nashville, Tenn. and later served at
Shreveport and Monroe before being as-
signed to Kansas City post. He is a
member of the American Society of
Chartered Life Underwriters. He is
married to the former Ann Dillon C54).

Robert L. (Bob) Lane ('56), U. S.
Corps of Engineers, has been promoted
to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He
is presently assigned as Author/Instruc-
tor on the faculty of the Command and
General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth,
Kansas. He is married to the former
JoAnn DeBate of Bunkie and has two
sons, Bob, 13 and Doug, 10.

Dr. David Swanzy ('58) a music edu-
cation major has recently authored a
textbook. The book, intended for use
in the elementary methods sections in
undergraduate schools, is titled Toward
Classroom Music. Dr. Swanzy is pres-
ently a professor of music education and
assistant chairman at Edinboro, Pa. He
is married to the former Ann Rice ('60).

1960's

Mary Ann DeNoon (X66) has begun
her fifth season with the internationally
known outdoor drama "The Book of
'Job," in Pine Mountain State Park, Pine-
ville, Kentucky. She is playing the lead-
er of the women's chorus in "Job," writ-
ten by Orlin Corey of Shreveport.

Joseph M. Loupe ('68) was one of
twelve candidates for the Rhodes Schol-
arship from the six state Gulf Region.
He was nominated by the Louisiana State
Committee for Selection for Rhodes
Scholarships at a meeting at Tulane Uni-
versity in New Orleans. However, he
was not one of the four chosen by the
Gulf District Selection Committee.

William McNamara's ('69) writing
ability has kept pace with his painting;
he was named regional winner in the
Book of the Month Club writing contest
in 1968, for a series of his short stories.
During his college career he has held 2
private shows and several others in con-
junction with the art fraternity. Two
years ago, he won first prize in the
graphics division in the Shreveport Art
Club Show for a color woodcut entitled
"The Terrors of War." He is currently
teaching part-time at Centenary. He is
married to the former Milancey Hatta-
way ('69).

Charles Grigsby (X69) a standout per-

former for Centenary's baseball Gentle-
men has been signed as a pitcher with
the Houston Astros. A 6 ft. 1 in., 190
pound right hander posted a 6-3 pitch-
ing record with a 1.30 earned run aver-
age last spring in helping Centenary to
a sparkling 21-9 record.

BIRTHS
MR. AND MRS. J. E. CARPENTER,

JR. (Nell Forsyth X62) announce the ar-
rival of a daughter, Leslie Karen, on
April 7, 1969. The Carpenters have an-
other daughter. Holly, who is 2 years old.

MR. AND MRS. LESTER RALPH
('59) (Mary Robinette X57) are very
proud to announce the arrival of a new
daughter, Robyn Rene', who was born
December 31, 1968. She was welcomed
by brothers, Gary 3, and Gregory, 16
months.

Michael Joseph, born September 1,
1969, to MR. AND MRS. GERALD
MARTELLO ('60). The Martellos
have 3 other children, Vince 7, Chris 6,
and Michelle 3. Gerald is Assistant
Principal at Baker High School in Baker,
Florida.

MR. AND MRS. HAROLD ROS-
BOTTOM ('58) (Patricia Oliver '58) wel-
comed Amy Elizabeth on October 19,
1969. Amy joins a brother Harold. Jr.

James Scott, born September 2, 1969.
to MR. AND MRS. L. K. HERLONG
('49). L. K. is manager of the Hunts-
ville, Texas J. C. Penney Store.

Catherine Claire, born August 2, 1969
to DR. AND MRS. FRANK L. SET-
LIFF (Carolyn Carver '62).

Alicia Zillana, born August 3, 1969
to MR. AND MRS. CLAUDE BUR-
SON ('68) (Helen Giessen '66). Alicia
joins a sister Laura.

DR. AND MRS. NOLAN SHAW
('57) (Nancy Tuggle X58) are the proud
parents of a boy, Scott Christopher, who
arrived September 26, 1969. The tot
weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Dr. Shaw
is on the Centenary College faculty.

MARRIAGES

HUGH O. HAMMOND ('68) and
Charlene Rae Barnhill were married in a
ceremony at Las Vegas, Nev. on August
21, 1969. Mr. Hammond is employed
by United States Fidelity and Guaranty
Co.

WAYNE CURTIS ('69) and DONNA
BANKS ('69) exchanged vows on De-
cember 20, 1969 in New Orleans. They
spent their honeymoon in Hawaii and
are now living in Shreveport. Wayne
is working with the Admissions Office
here at the College.

Strictly Personal

continued

DR. SPIRO COSSE ('60) and NAN-
CY PFEIFFER METCALF ('68) were
married in St. George's Greek Orthodox
Church, December 6, 1969. Dr. Cosse
is engaged in the practice of Orthodon-
tics in Shreveport.

The daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Wood-
row Pate, JUDY ('68) was married to
William L. Townsend, Jr. in Jackson-
ville, Florida on October 4, 1969. They
exchanged vows at a ceremony in the
Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Bill was
wounded in Vietnam in August and was
discharged from the hospital two days
before the wedding.

JEFFERSON D. STEWART II ('69)
and CAROL ANN BORNE ('69) ex-
changed vows on June 4, 1969 at Christ
Church Cathedral in New Orleans.
While at Centenary Carol held the title
of "Centenary Lady" while Jeff was
named "Centenary Gentleman."

WILLIAM A. BYRD ('69) and Bever-
ly Jo Fertitta were married in the First
Baptist Church of Leesville on January
3, 1969. After a honeymoon to Las
Vegas, they will make their home in
Shreveport.

MILITARY

MAJOR HORACE B. BREWSTER

(X58), U. S. Army 240 Quartermaster
Battalion has been presented the Army
Commendation Medal with "V" device
for heroism in Vietnam. The award was
made to Maj. Brewster for his "excep-
tionally" valorous actions on March 20,
1969, when an enemy Viet Cong sapper
team satchel charged the petroleum stor-
age tanks at tank farm No. 2 . . . with
complete disregard for his own personal
safety immediately exposed himself to
hostile small arms fire, and along with
the battalion commander, initiated a fire
fighting effort.

U. S. AIR FORCE CAPTAIN WIL-
LIAM R. ROSS ('63) has received the
Bronze Star Medal at Offutt AFB, Neb.
Captain Ross was decorated for meri-
torious service as a management analy-
sis officer at Korat Royal Thai AFB,
Thailand. He was cited for his outstand-
ing professional skill, leadership and de-

votion to duty. He was commissioned
in 1966 upon completion of Officer
Training School at Lackland AFB, Tex-
as. He is married to the former Joyce
Camerer ('63).

SECOND LIEUTENANT ALTON
A. McKNIGHT JR. ('68) has been
awarded U. S. Air Force silver pilot
wings upon graduation at Moody AFB,
Ga. Lieutenant McKnight is being as-
signed to Cam Ranh Bay AB, Vietnam,
for flying duty with the 483rd Tactical
Airlift Wing.

AIRMAN PAUL M. COOK ('68) has
graduated with honors at Sheppard AFB,
Texas from the training course for U. S.
Air Force medical specialists. Airman
Cook is being assigned to England AFB,
La. for duty with a unit of the Tactical
Air Command.

IN MEMORY

THOMAS EDWARD VICTORY

('26), an attorney and an ad valorem
tax specialist employed by the Arkansas-
Louisiana Gas Co. died August 16,
1969. The Victory family was cited by
the late Dr. Jack Wilkes last year as the
largest immediate family to attend Cente-
nary College. Mr. and Mrs. Victory
and all seven children attended here
where Mrs. Victory and six of the chil-
dren received their degrees. Mr. Vic-
tory was a member of the American Bar
Association, the Louisiana Bar Associ-
ation, Shreveport Bar Association, Na-

tional Accountants Association and was
past member of DeMolay.

EDGAR LEA CARTER ('56) died on
February 4, 1969. He was an Area
Sales Representative for Dresser Indus
tries in New Orleans, Louisiana. He
was a member of the AIME, AAODC,
API, Timberlane Country Club, New
Orleans Petroleum Club and various
other organizations. He is survived by
his wife and one son, Edgar Lea Car-
ter, Jr.

MAURICE "KIKE" MORGAN,.

a former Centenary College football starj
died last September in Thibodaux, La. J
He was a World War II Veteran and a
member of the American Legion. Sur-j
vivors include his widow, the former
Camille Martin; two sons, seven brothers
and four sisters.

DR. CHARLES LEONARD ODOMi

('21), a former psychology teacher at
Centenary for 17 years, died in New Or-
leans August 15, 1969. He was foun-
der of the Psychological Research Foun-i
dation in New Orleans and remained asi
chief counselor until his death. He alsoi
taught at Peabody College for teachers,
Tulane University and LSU. He wasi
active in and a former board member'
of the Louisiana Society for Mentah
Health. He was active in the KiwanisJ
Club in N. O. and served as a member
of its Educational Guidance Committee.
He was a member of the Masonic Louisi-
ana Lodge 102 A&FM; Grand Consis-
tory of Louisiana; and the Round Table
Club of New Orleans. He is survived
by his widow, the former Lilla Genevieve
Reed of New Orleans and one daughter,!
Mrs. Robert O. Pruyn.

DR. PERCY FRANK APGAR JR.
('52) a Shreveport dentist was burned to.
death on December 21 in a fire thati
swept his home. Dr. Apgar was a na-i
tive of Shreveport, attended Byrd High
School and Centenary College and re-
ceived his dental training at Loyola Uni-
versity School of Dentistry at New Or-
leans. He was a member of the Ameri-
can Legion, the American Dental Asso-
ciation and the First Presbyterian
Church.

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VOL. 1 • NO. 4 • APRIL, 197C

ALUMNI PRESIDENT'S REPORT

By Wayne Hanson

A bit of poetry has been changed to
"In spring, a young man's fancy turns
to things he has been thinking about all
winter." This paraphrasing applies to
your Alumni Board of Directors as well
as to the young man.

It is obvious that spring has come to
Centenary Campus. This is indeed one
of the most beautiful times of the year
on the campus. A touch of new life is
in the air and there is a resurgence of
new spirit and enthusiasm.

The revitalization of the Alumni Asso-
ciation has come in the form of an ac-
tive involvement in the "TOWARD AT-
TAINMENT" CAPITAL GIFTS CAM-
PAIGN. This year marks the first time
in quite a few years that there is an
Alumni Division. We have two very
capable leaders in Mr. Paul Brown and
Mr. Bill James. They are very enthusi-
astic about the involvement of the Alum-
ni as such in this campaign. They are
equally enthusiastic about the success of
the Alumni Division in obtaining the
goal which has been set.

All of us realize that these are trying
times for colleges and universities. Many
campuses are being plagued with strife
and disruptive actions. According to a
recent study, the 1970's have been av-
eraging one campus riot per day. When
this type of activity has been going on
across the country, we can truly saythat
Centenary has been blessed with cool
heads and capable leadership in students,
faculty, and administration. This is not
to imply that the boat has not been
rocked a little and controversial subjects
brought up for discussion. But, the fact
that there has been more singing of "Hail
to thee, our alma mater" than there has
been of "Tear it up, burn it down," is a
good sign.

Institutions, such as Centenary, which
can maintain their integrity when they

approach controversial and unpopular
ideas deserve and must have our support.
This support must be substantial in ma-
terial form as well as in spiritual form.
This is why each of us, as alumni, must
get behind the TOWARD ATTAIN-
MENT program and push our goal over
the top.

The respect which your degree de-
mands if you are a graduate, and the re-
spect your few years demand if you are
an ex-student, is only as good as the
reputation Centenary has today and to-
morrow. How good that reputation
stays and becomes is greatly dependent
on your support. When each of you is
contacted, either in person or by mail,
think about it. Be a part of our prog-
ress in the 70's. Let us all contribute
our time, our efforts, and our monies to
help Centenary become the great educa-
tional institution that it can and should
be.

1969-70

CENTENARY

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

President Wayne Hanson '50

1st Vice-President .... Flavia Leary '35
2nd Vice-President .... Suda Adams '68

Secretary Sandra Harper '63

Treasurer James Goins '61

DIRECTORS

(Terms Expire 1970)

(Terms Expire 1971)

Suda Adams '68, Ann Wyche '52,
Roland Achee '44, L. Calhoun Allen '43,
Dr. Leon Bain Jr. '59, Judy Butcher '65,
Robert Eatman '44, Sandra Harper '63,
Mitzi Middlebrooks '55, Harold Rosbot-
tom '58.

Area Chapter Presidents

Baton Rouge. . .Dr. Moss Bannerman '33

Dallas Don Bush

Houston Gaylon White

Monroe Mrs. Travis Brown

Shreveport Edwin Harbuck '56

New Orleans Stephen Victory '60

ALUMNI OFFICE

Director Bob Hollady

Assoc. Director . . . Nancy Metcalf Cosse

Staff Arden Ashley (Secretary)

Maureen Myers (Record Room)

Alumni Magazine

Editor Nancy Metcalf Cosse

Reporters Arden Ashley

Maurie Wayne

2nd class postage paid at Shreveport, La.

ALUMNI LAGNIAPPE

28 — Formal pre-play Open House at Canterbury House. ($5.00 each) (Proceeds to

send cast to International Thespian Competition.)
28 — Student Recital — Hoffmeister — Hurley Auditorium — 8:15 p.m.
28- May 2— "Stop The World, I Want To Get Off"

Marjorie Lyons Playhouse — 8:30 p.m.
30 — Honors Chapel — Brown Memorial Chapel — 10:40 a.m.

MAY

1 — Student Recital — Garrison — Hurley Auditorium — 8:15 p.m.

4 — Festival Arts Trio — Hurley Auditorium— 8 : 15 p.m.

8 — Faculty Recital — Hobbs — Hurley Auditorium — 8:15 p.m.
16 — Hodges Gardens — "By Summer Starlight"
17 — Baccalaureate Service — Brown Memorial Chapel — 2:30 p.m.
17 — Graduation — Hargrove Memorial Theater — 8:00 p.m.

JULY

2- 4
9-11
15-18 — "The Prince Who Became a Lion"

*"The Lion In Winter" — Marjorie Lyons Playhouse — 8:30 p.m.
"The Lion In Winter" — Marjorie Lyons Playhouse — 8:30 p.m.

-Marjorie Lyons Playhouse — 2:00 p.m.

AUGUST

5- 8 — *"Mame" — Marjorie Lyons Playhouse — 8:30 p.m.
12-15 — "Mame" — Marjorie Lyons Playhouse — 8:30 p.m.
*Cast to be drawn from the community

TOWARD ATTAINMENT

Campaign leaders from left to right, Emmett R. Hook and J. Hugh Watson,
discuss the master plan of the college with George D. Nelson, Chairman of the Board
of Trustees, on the site of the forthcoming Physical Education Building.

CLIMAX 75, the Centenary College
fund raising campaign which began in
1965 with a goal of raising $20,497,000
by 1975 has entered its "Toward Attain-
ment" phase, according to George D.
Nelson, Chairman of the Board of
Trustees.

1975 will culminate the 150th year of
Centenary College as an institution of
higher learning. The Climax 75 cam-
jpaign was developed to provide the funds
necessary to achieve the primary objec-
tive of the college — continued excellence
in education.

A sum of $3,978,000 was raised
toward the Climax 75 goal from 1965-70;
an additional sum of $1,522,000 is the
goal of the "Toward Attainment" phase
of the campaign.

Funds raised during this portion of the
campaign are to be used in three areas
of the college development: ( 1 ) to help
defray the cost of current construction;
(2) for general campus improvement;
and (3) to assist in the payment of

teacher salaries and student scholarships
through the Great Teachers-Scholars
Fund which will be included in this
campaign.

Dr. John H. Allen, president, and
George D. Nelson, chairman of the
Board of Trustees, have announced that
J. Hugh Watson, president of the First
National Bank, will serve as general
chairman, and Emmett R. Hook, presi-
dent of the Commercial National Bank,
as co-chairman. Both men are members
of the Board of Trustees of the College.

The campaign is being divided into
five major divisions for solicitation: Pat-
tern Investments, Advance Investments,
Community Investments, College Family
and Alumni.

Chairman of the Pattern Investments
Division, which will be responsible for
attaining the major share of the goal, is
Mr. J. Robert Welsh. His section chair-
men are James C. Gardner, Sam P.
Peters, and Donald Weir.

Shreveport businessman Russell Bar-

row has agreed to serve as chairman of
the Advance Gifts Division. Section
chairmen to assist Mr. Barrow are Wil-
liam F. Rountree, Charlton Lyons, Jr.,
and Charles Ellis Brown.

Accepting the chairmanship of the
Community Investments Division will be
Claude W. Holmes, a Shreveport auto-
mobile dealer. Serving as section chair-
men will be Ray Tipton, James Goins,
George N. Gray and Robert McLean
Jeter, Jr.

Chairman of the College Family Divi-
sion is Dr. John Horton Allen, president
of the college. Dean Thad N. Marsh
will head the faculty section of the drive;
Dean August E. Aamodt will head the
administration section and Comptroller
C. L. Perry will be in charge of the staff
section. All full time employees of the
college will be asked to contribute to the
campaign fund.

Paul M. Brown and G. W. James have
agreed to head the Alumni division.

$3 50000- AN ALUMNI
CHALLENGE

Paul M. Brown

A $350,000 solicitation from Cente-
nary College alumni is the goal of the
Alumni Division of the "Toward Attain-
ment" campaign.

Two of Centenary College's most illus-
trious alumni have been named to head
the Alumni Division. Paul M. Brown,
chairman of the Board of Trustees and
G. W. "Bill" James, president of T. L.
James and Co., Inc. of Ruston, have
accepted the co-chairmanship of the di-
vision responsible for the solicitation of
former Centenary students. Both of the
co-chairman have been selected to the
Centenary College Alumni Association
"Hall of Fame."

The Alumni Division Co-Chairmen
stated the following: "Your Alumni
Association proposed as a project in
1967 the building of a Field House at
Centenary. We made preliminary plans
for the campaign and were very enthusi-
astic about this alumni project. How-
ever, it was decided, and we think proper-
ly so, that this should be delayed and
made a part of the Greater Centenary
Campaign to be conducted in 1970.

"We are now in that campaign. The
Field House and a new Administration
Building are a reality, now being con-
structed and to be paid for out of this
capital campaign.

"We of the Alumni Association want
to have a definite part in this program
and have set as a goal for the alumni
$350,000. We are making a special ap-
peal to each of you to participate. How-

G. W. "Bill" James

ever, more than dollars, we want every
Centenary Alumni to have at least a
part in this special project."

For the first time in a Centenary Col-
lege capital campaign, the alumni of' the
college will be given full credit for their
support to their alma mater. In this
campaign, all alumni gifts from other di-
visions will, at the campaign's end, be
reported to the Alumni Division for a
final alumni giving tabulation which will
accurately measure total support by
former students.

REACTION

By Bob Holladay,
Alumni Director

The much talked about and greatly
needed Capital Campaign is now in mo-
tion. What will your reaction be as the(
movement reaches you? Will you react:
positively with a gift which demonstrates
true appreciation for what Centenary;
means to you? Will you react negative-
ly and make no gift, thus expressing little i
or no appreciation for your college? Or
will you react neither positively nor nega-
tively and express your appreciation in>
a half-hearted manner?

Your college desperately needs your
financial support — Now! Your positive >
reaction to its request will set the pattern'
for its ultimate triumph. React now
with an enthusiastic response of appre-
ciation. Be proud that your reaction (
helped bring $350,000 to your college.

A JOB WELL DONE

Hats Off! to fifteen distinguished
members of the Centenary Alumni Asso-
ciation who are at the end of their terms
as members of the Board of Directors.

Present Board members whose two-
year terms expire May 31 are Dr. Vir-
ginia Carlton ('39); Dr. Stuart DeLee
('38); James M. Goins ('61), treasurer;
Dr. Wayne Hanson ('50) president for
two years; Miss Flavia Leary ('35), first
vice president; Mrs. Patty Lindsey ('60);
Charles Ravenna ('32); Mrs. Virginia
Shehee ('43); Dr. A. L. Stephens Jr.
('50); and Ernest H. Turner Jr. ('55).

Noteworthy are the five members ap-
pointed for one year terms by Dr. Wayne
Hanson, president of the Association.
They are Mrs. Dorothy Gammill ('40),
Jerry Hartsfield ('51), William G. An-

derson (X'60), Justin R. Querbes III
('66), and Mrs. Harriette Middleton
('43).

Ballots will be mailed to the entire!
alumni association listing the twenty
candidates selected by the nominating!
committee. Members will be instructed
to vote for ten persons to represent them j
on the Alumni Board of Directors. Five
more members will be appointed by the
new president.

Members remaining on the board for
another year are Roland J. Achee ('44),
Miss Suda Adams ('68), Calhoun Allen
Jr. ('43), Dr. Leon J. Bain Jr. ('59),
Mrs. Judy Butcher ('65), Robert E. Eat- 1
man ('44), Mrs. Sandra Harper Jr. J
('63), Mrs. Mitzi Middlebrooks ('55), j
Harold Rosbottom ('58), and Mrs. Ann
Wyche ('52).

In the decade between now and then, our colleges and
universities must face some large and perplexing issues

nineteen eighty! A few months ago the date had a comforting re-
moteness about.it. It was detached from today's reality; too distant to
worry about. But now, with the advent of a new decade, 1980 sud-
denly has become the next milepost to strive for. Suddenly, for the
nation's colleges and universities and those who care about them, 1980
is not so far away after all.

§®©P

between now and then, our colleges and uni
versities will have more changes to make, mor
'D major issues to confront, more problems to solve
more demands to meet, than in any comparable period in their historj
In 1980 they also will have:

► More students to serve — an estimated 1 1 .5-million, compared I
some 7. 5-million today.

► More professional staff members to employ — a projected 1.1
million, compared to 785,000 today.

► Bigger budgets to meet — an estimated $39-billion in uninflatec
1968-69 dollars, nearly double the number of today.

► Larger salaries to pay — $16,532 in 1968-69 dollars for th
average full-time faculty member, compared to $11,595 last year.

► More library books to buy — half a billion dollars' worth, com
pared to $200-million last year.

► New programs that are not yet even in existence — with an an;
nual cost of %A.l-billion.

Those are careful, well-founded projections, prepared by one of th,
leading economists of higher education, Howard R. Bowen. Yet the
are only one indication of what is becoming more and more evider
in every respect, as our colleges and universities look to 1980:

No decade in the history of higher education — not even the eventfu
one just ended, with its meteoric record of growth — has come close t;
what the Seventies are shaping up to be.

Campus disruptions:

a burning issue

for the Seventies

Had

, . disrmp- Had

Last year s record tive violent

protests protests

Public universities 43.0% 13.1%

Private universities 70.5% 34.4%

Public 4-yr colleges „. 21.7% 8.0%

Private nonsectarian 4-yr colleges. 42.6% 7.3%

Protestant 4-yr colleges 17.8% 1.7%

Catholic 4-yr colleges 8.5% 2.6%

Private 2-yr colleges 0.0% 0.0%

Public 2-yr colleges A 10.4% 4.5%

before they can get there, the colleges an

universities will be put to a severe test of the:

'D resiliency, resourcefulness, and strength.

No newspaper reader or television viewer needs to be told wfr
Many colleges and universities enter the Seventies with a burdensom
inheritance: a legacy of dissatisfaction, unrest, and disorder on the:
campuses that has no historical parallel. It will be one of the gre<
issues of the new decade.

Last academic year alone, the American Council on Educatic
found that 524 of the country's 2,342 institutions of higher educatic
experienced disruptive campus protests. The consequences ranged fro]
the occupation of buildings at 275 institutions to the death of one c
more persons at eight institutions. In the first eight months of 196!
an insurance -industry clearinghouse reported, campus disruptions cause
$8.9-million in property damage.

Some types of colleges and universities were harder-hit than others-
but no type except private two-year colleges escaped completely. (St
the table at left for the American Council on Education's breakdow.
of disruptive and violent protests, according to the kinds of institutic
that underwent them.)

Harold Hodgkinson, of the Center for Research and Developmei
in Higher Education at the University of California, studied more tha
1,200 campuses and found another significant fact: the bigger an institi
tion's enrollment, the greater the likelihood that disruptions took plac
For instance:

► Of 501 institutions with fewer than 1,000 students, only 14 pf
cent reported that the level of protest had increased on their campus>
over the past 10 years.

► Of 32 institutions enrolling between 15,000 and 25,000 students,
f5 per cent reported an increase in protests.

► Of 9 institutions with more -than 25,000 students, all but one
■eported that protests had increased.

This relationship between enrollments and protests, Mr. Hodgkinson
liscovered, held true in both the public and the private colleges and
miversities:

"The public institutions which report an increase in protest have a
nean size of almost triple the public institutions that report no change
q protest," he found. "The nonsectarian institutions that report in-
Teased protest are more than twice the size of the nonsectarian institu-
ions that report no change in protest."

Another key finding: among the faculties at protest-prone institu-
tons, these characteristics were common: "interest in research, lack of
nterest in teaching, lack of loyalty to the institution, and support of
lissident students."

Nor — contrary to popular opinion — were protests confined to one
>r two parts of the country (imagined by many to be the East and West
Toasts). Mr. Hodgkinson found no region in which fewer than 19 per
ent of all college and university campuses had been hit by protests.

"It is very clear from our data," he reported, "that, although some
treas have had more student protest than others, there is no 'safe'
•egion of the country."

No campus in any
region is really
'safe' from protest

Some ominous

reports from

the high schools

what will be the picture by the end of thi
decade? Will campus disruptions continue — an;
'O perhaps spread — throughout the Seventies? N
questions facing the colleges and universities today are more critical
or more difficult to answer with certainty.

On the dark side are reports from hundreds of high schools to th
effect that "the colleges have seen nothing, yet." The National Assc
ciation of Secondary School Principals, in a random survey, found th<j
59 per cent of 1,026 senior and junior high schools had experience
some form of student protest last year. A U.S. Office of Education
official termed the high school disorders "usually more precipitous

spontaneous, and riotlike" than those in the colleges. What such
rumblings may presage for the colleges and universities to which many
of the high school students are bound, one can only speculate.

Even so, on many campuses, there is a guarded optimism. "I know
I may have to eat these words tomorrow," said a university official who
had served with the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention
of Violence, "but I think we may have turned the corner." Others echo
his sentiments.

"If anything," said a dean who almost superstitiously asked that he
not be identified by name, "the campuses may be meeting their difficul-
ties with greater success than is society generally — despite the scare
headlines.

"The student dissatisfactions are being dealt with, constructively,
on many fronts. The unrest appears to be producing less violence and
more reasoned searches for remedies — although I still cross my fingers
when saying so."

Some observers see another reason for believing that the more de-
structive forms of student protest may be on the wane. Large numbers
of students, including many campus activists, appear to have been alien-
ated this year by the violent tactics of extreme radicals. And deep
divisions have occurred in Students for a Democratic Society, the radical
Organization that was involved in many earlier campus disruptions.

In 1968, the radicals gained many supporters among moderate stu-
ients as a result of police methods in breaking up some of their demon-
strations. This year, the opposite has occurred. Last fall, for example,
;he extremely radical "Weatherman" faction x>f Students for a Demo-
cratic Society deliberately set out to provoke a violent police reaction
n Chicago by smashing windows and attacking bystanders. To the
Weathermen's disappointment, the police were so restrained that they
von the praise of many of their former critics — and not only large
lumbers of moderate students, but even a number of campus sds chap-
ers, said they had been "turned off" by the extremists' violence.

The president of the University of Michigan, Robben Fleming, is
imong those who see a lessening of student enthusiasm for the extreme-
adical approach. "I believe the violence and force will soon pass,
>ecause it has so little support within the student body," he told an
nterviewer. "There is very little student support for violence of any
dnd, even when it's directed at the university."

At Harvard University, scene of angry student protests a year ago,
i visitor found a similar outlook. "Students seem to be moving away
rom a diffuse discontent and toward a rediscovery of the values of
vorkmanship," said the master of Eliot House, Alan E. Heimert. "It's
is if they were saying, 'The revolution isn't right around the corner,
o I'd better find my vocation and develop myself.' "

Bruce Chalmers, master of Winthrop House, saw "a kind of anti-
oxin in students' blood" resulting from the 1969 disorders: "The dis-
uptiveness, emotional intensity, and loss of time and opportunity last
ear," he said, "have convinced people that, whatever happens, we must
void replaying that scenario."

A student found even more measurable evidence of the new mood:
At Lamont Library last week I had to wait 45 minutes to get a reserve
>ook. Last spring, during final exams, there was no wait at all."

Despite the scare
headlines, a mood
of cautious optimism

Many colleges have

learned a lot

from the disruptions

^r0m/m

PARTIALLY UNDERLYING THE CAUTIOUS OPTIMISE

is a feeling that many colleges and universities—
'p which, having been peaceful places for decades
were unprepared and vulnerable when the first disruptions struck — hav<
learned a lot in a short time.

When they returned to many campuses last fall, students were greetec
with what The Chronicle of Higher Education called "a combination o:
stern warnings against disruptions and conciliatory moves aimed a
giving students a greater role in campus governance."

Codes of discipline had been revised, and special efforts had beer
made to acquaint students with them. Security forces had been strength
ened. Many institutions made it clear that they were willing to seel
court injunctions and would call the police if necessary to keep th(
peace.

Equally important, growing numbers of institutions were recognizinj
that, behind the stridencies of protest, many student grievances wen
indeed legitimate. The institutions demonstrated (not merely talke(
about) a new readiness to introduce reforms. While, in the early day
of campus disruptions, some colleges and universities made ad ho*
concessions to demonstrators under the threat and reality of violence
more and more now began to take the initiative of reform, themselves!

The chancellor of the State University of New York, Samuel B. Gould
described the challenge:

"America's institutions of higher learning . . . must do more thai
make piecemeal concessions to change. They must do more than mere!;
defend themselves.

"They must take the initiative, take it in such a way that there i
never a doubt as to what they intend to achieve and how all the compo
nents of the institutions will be involved in achieving it. -They must ca
together their keenest minds and their most humane souls to sit am
probe and question and plan and discard and replan — until a ne\i
concept of the university emerges, one which will fit today's needs bu
will have its major thrust toward tomorrow's."

The need now:
to work on reform,
calmly, reasonably

IF THEY ARE TO ARRIVE AT THAT DATE in improve

condition, however, more and more colleges am
universities — and their constituencies — seem to b<
saying they must work out their reforms in an atmosphere of calm anf
reason.

Cornell University's vice-president for public affairs, Steven Mulle
("My temperament has always been more activist than scholarly")
put it thus before the American Political Science Association:

"The introduction of force into the university violates the ver
essence of academic freedom, which in its broadest sense is the freedom
to inquire, and openly to proclaim and test conclusions resulting fror
inquiry. . . .

"It should be possible within the university to gain attention and t
make almost any point and to persuade others by the use of reasor
Even if this is not always true, it is possible to accomplish these end
by nonviolent and by noncoercive means.

"Those who choose to employ violence or coercion within the uiffl
versity cannot long remain there without destroying the whole fabri

of the academic environment. Most of those who today believe other-
wise are, in fact, pitiable victims, of the very degradation of values they
are attempting to combat."

Chancellor Gould has observed :

"Among all social institutions today, the university allows more
dissent, takes freedom of mind and spirit more seriously, and, under
considerable sufferance, labors to create a more ideal environment for
free expression and for the free interchange of ideas and emotions than
any other institution in' the land. ...

"But when dissent evolves into disruption, the university, also by its
very nature, finds itself unable to cope . . . without clouding the real
issues beyond hope of rational resolution. ..."

The president of the University of Minnesota, Malcolm Moos, said
not long ago:

"The ills of our campuses and our society are too numerous, too
serious, and too fateful to cause anyone to believe that serenity is the
proper mark of an effective university or an effective intellectual com-
munity. Even in calmer times any public college or university worthy
of the name has housed relatively vocal individuals and groups of widely
diverging political persuasions. . , . The society which tries to get its
children taught by fettered and fearful minds is trying not only to
destroy its institutions of higher learning, but also to destroy itself. . . .

"[But] . . . violation of the rights or property of other citizens, on
or off the campus, is plainly wrong. And it is plainly wrong no matter
how high-minded the alleged motivation for such activity. Beyond that,
those who claim the right to interfere with the speech, or movement, or
safety, or instruction, or property of others on a campus — and claim
that right because their hearts are pure or their grievance great — destroy
the climate of civility and freedom without which the university simply
cannot function as an educating institution."

Can dissent exist
in a climate of
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THAT "CLIMATE OF CIVILITY AND FREEDOM" ap-
pears to be necessary before the colleges and uni-
D versities can come to grips, successfully, witfc
many of the other major issues that will confront them in the decade,

Those issues are large and complex. They touch all parts of the
college and university community — faculty, students, administrators,
board members, and alumni — and they frequently involve large seg-
ments of the public, as well. Many are controversial; some are poten-
tially explosive. Here is a sampling:

► What is the^ students' rightful role in the running of a college oi
university? Should they be represented on the institution's governing
board? On faculty and administrative committees? Should their evalua
tions of a teacher's performance in the classroom play a part in til
advancement of his career?

Trend: Although it is just getting under way, there's a definite move
ment toward giving students a greater voice in the affairs of man;
colleges and universities. At Wesleyan University, for example, thi
trustees henceforth will fill the office of chancellor by choosing frori
the nominees of a student-faculty committee. At a number of institu
tions, young alumni are being added to the governing boards, to intrb
duce viewpoints that are closer to the students'. Others are addinj
students to committees or campus-wide governing groups. Teache
evaluations are becoming commonplace.

Not everyone approves the trend. "I am convinced that representa
tion is not the clue to university improvement, indeed that if carrie
too far it could lead to disaster," said the president of Yale Universitj
Kingman Brewster, Jr. He said he believed most students were "nc
sufficiently interested in devoting their time and attention to the runnin
of the university to make it likely that 'participatory democracy' will b
truly democratic," and that they would "rather have the, policies of tfa
university directed by the faculty and administration than by their class
mates."

To many observers' surprise, Harold Hodgkinson's survey of studer
protest, to which this report referred earlier, found that "the hypothesj

that increased student control in institutional policy-making would
result in a decrease in student protest is not supported by our data at
all. The reverse would seem to be more likely." Some 80 per cent of
the 355 institutions where protests had increased over the past 10 years
reported that the students' policy-making role had increased, too.

► How can the advantages of higher education be extended to
greater numbers of minority-group youths? What if the quality of their
pre-college preparation makes it difficult, if not impossible, for many
of them to meet the usual entrance requirements? Should colleges
modify those, requirements and offer remedial courses? Or should they
maintain their standards, even if they bar the door to large numbers
of disadvantaged persons?

Trend: A statement adopted this academic year by the National
Association of College Admissions Counselors may contain some clues.
At least 10 per cent of a college's student body, it said, should be com-
posed of minority students. At least half of those should be "high-risk"
students who, by normal academic criteria, would not be expected to
succeed in college. "Each college should eliminate the use of aptitude
test scores as a major factor in determining eligibility for admission for
minority students," the admissions counselors' statement said.

A great increase in the part played by community and junior colleges
is also likely. The Joint Economic Committee of Congress was recently
given this projection by Ralph W. Tyler, director emeritus of the Center
for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, Cal.: "[Two-
year colleges] now enroll more than 20 per cent of all students in post-
high school institutions, and at the rate these colleges are increasing in
number as well as in enrollment, it is safe to predict that 10 years from
now 3-million students will be enrolled . . . representing one-third of
the total post-high school enrollment and approximately one-half of all
first- and second-year students.

"Their importance is due to several factors. They are generally
open-door colleges, enrolling nearly all high school graduates or adults
who apply. Because the students represent a very wide range of back-
ground and previous educational experience, the faculty generally
recognizes the need for students to be helped to learn."

What about the
enrollment of youths
from minority groups?

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Negro institutions:

what's their future

in higher education?

► What is the future of the predominantly Negro institutions of
higher education?

Trend: Shortly after the current academic year began, the presidents
of 111 predominantly Negro colleges — "a strategic national resource
. . . more important to the national security than those producing the
technology for nuclear warfare," said Herman H. Long, president of|
Talladega College — formed a new organization to advance their institu- -
tions' cause. The move was born of a feeling that the colleges were:
orphans in U.S. higher education, carrying a heavy responsibility for
educating Negro students yet receiving less than their fair share of
federal funds, state appropriations, and private gifts; losing some of
their best faculty members to traditionally white institutions in the rush
to establish "black studies" programs; and suffering stiff competition
from the white colleges in the recruitment of top Negro high school
graduates.

► How can colleges and universities, other than those with pre-
dominantly black enrollments, best meet the needs and demands of non-
white students? Should they establish special courses, such as black,
studies? Hire more nonwhite counselors, faculty members, adminis-,,
trators? Accede to some Negroes' demands for separate dormitory
facilities, student unions, and dining-hall menus?

Trend: "The black studies question, like the black revolt as a whole, ^
has raised all the fundamental problems of class power in American life,
and the solutions will have to run deep into the structure of the institu-
tions themselves," says a noted scholar in Negro history, Eugene D.
Genovese, chairman of the history department at the University ofj
Rochester.

Three schools of thought on black studies now can be discerned in
American higher education. One, which includes many older-generation
Negro educators, holds black studies courses in contempt. Another,
at the opposite extreme, believes that colleges and universities must go
to great lengths to atone for past injustices to Negroes. The third,
between the first two groups, feels that "some forms of black studies are
legitimate intellectual pursuits," in the words of one close observer,
"but that generally any such program must fit the university's tradi-
tional patterns." The last group, most scholars now believe, is likely
to prevail in the coming decade.

As for separatist movements on the campuses, most have run into I
provisions of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimi-
nation in housing and eating facilities.

*»- What should be the role of the faculty in governing an institution I
of higher education? When no crisis is present, do most faculty mem-
bers really want an active part in governance? Or, except for supervising |
the academic program, do they prefer to concentrate on their own J
teaching and research?

Trend: In recent years, observers have noted that many faculty i
members were more interested in their disciplines — history or physics ^
or medicine — than in the institutions they happened to be working fori
at the time. This seemed not unnatural, since more and more faculty
members were moving from campus to campus and thus had lessl
opportunity than their predecessors to develop a strong loyalty to one!
institution.

But it often meant that the general, day-to-day running of a college
or university was left to administrative staff members, with faculty
members devoting themselves to their scholarly subject-matter.

Campus disorders appear to have arrested this trend at some colleges
and universities, at least temporarily. Many faculty members — alarmed
at the disruptions of classes or feeling closer to the students' cause than
to administrators and law officers — rekindled their interest in the institu-
tions' affairs. At other institutions, however, as administrators and
trustees responded to student demands by pressing for academic re-
forms, at least some faculty members have resisted changing their ways.
Said the president of the University of Massachusetts, John W. Lederle,
not long ago: "Students are beginning to discover that it is not the ad-
ministration that is the enemy, but sometimes it is the faculty that drags
its feet." Robert Taylor, vice-president of the University of Wisconsin,
was more optimistic: student pressures for academic reforms, he said,
might "bring the professors back not only to teaching but to commit-
ment to the institution."

The faculty:

what is its role

in campus governance?

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of teaching

be improved?

► How can the quality of college teaching be improved? In a sys-v

tern in which the top academic degree, the Ph.D., is based largely on|
a man's or woman's research, must teaching abilities be neglected? In|
universities that place a strong emphasis on research, how can students
be assured of a fair share of the faculty members' interest and attentionl
in the classroom?

Trend: The coming decade is likely to see an intensified search fori
an answer to the teaching-"versus"-research dilemma. "Typical Ph.D.]
training is simply not appropriate to the task of undergraduate teaching
and, in particular, to lower-division teaching in most colleges in thi
country," said E. Alden Dunham of the Carnegie Corporation, in
recent book. He recommended a new "teaching degree," putting "a
direct focus upon undergraduate education."

Similar proposals are being heard in many quarters. "The spectacular!
growth of two- and four-year colleges has created the need for teachers!
who combine professional competence with teaching interests, but who«
neither desire nor are required to pursue research as a condition of their 1
employment," said Herbert Weisinger, graduate dean at the State!
University of New York at Stony Brook. He proposed a two-trackl
program for Ph.D. candidates: the traditional one for those aiming torn
teach at the graduate level, and a new track for students who want to!
teach undergraduates. The latter would teach for two years in commun-1
ity or four-year colleges in place of writing a research dissertation.

► What changes should be made in college and university curricula?
To place more emphasis on true learning and less on the attainment o
grades, should "Pass" and "Fail" replace the customary grades of a, b
c, d, and F?

Trend: Here, in the academic heart of the colleges and universities
some of the most exciting developments of the coming decade appea
certain to take place. "From every quarter," said Michael Brick an
Earl J. McGrath in a recent study for the Institute of Higher Educatio
at Teachers College of Columbia University, "evidence is suggestin

that the 1970's will see vastly different colleges and universities from
those of the 1960's." Interdisciplinary studies, honors programs, inde-
pendent study, undergraduate work abroad, community service proj-
ects, work-study programs, and non-Western studies were some of the
innovations being planned or under way at hundreds of institutions.

Grading practices are being re-examined on many campuses. So are
new approaches to instruction, such as television, teaching machines,
language laboratories, comprehensive examinations. New styles in class-
rooms and libraries are being tried out; students are evaluating faculty
members' teaching performance and participating on faculty committees
at more than 600 colleges, and plans for such activity are being made
at several-score others.

By 1980, the changes should be vast, indeed.

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BETWEEN NOW AND THE BEGINNING of the next

, ^rsT' I I u decade, one great issue may underlie all the others

Jv_yV__yV_^/D — and all the others may become a part of it.
When flatly stated, this issue sounds innocuous; yet its implications
are so great that they can divide faculties, stir students, and raise pro-
found philosophical and practical questions among presidents, trustees,
alumni, and legislators:

► What shall be the nature of a college or university in our society?

Until recently, almost by definition, a college or university was
accepted as a neutral in the world's political and ideological arenas;
as dispassionate in a world of passions; as having what one observer
called "the unique capacity to walk the razor's edge of being both in
and out of the world, and yet simultaneously in a unique relationship
with it."

The college or university was expected to revere knowledge, wher-
ever knowledge led. Even though its research and study "might provide
the means to develop more destructive weapons of war (as well as life-
saving medicines, life-sustaining farming techniques, and life-enhancing
intellectual insights), it pursued learning for learning's sake and rarely
questioned, or was questioned about, the validity of that process.

The college or university was dedicated to the proposition that there
were more than one side to every controversy, and that it would
explore them all. The proponents of all sides had a hearing in the
academic world's scheme of things, yet the college or university,
sheltering and protecting them all, itself would take no stand.

Today the concept that an institution of higher education should be
neutral in political and social controversies — regardless of its scholars'
personal beliefs — is being challenged both on and off the campuses.

Those who say the colleges and universities should be "politicized"
argue that neutrality is undesirable, immoral — and impossible. They say
the academic community must be responsible, as Carl E. Schorske,
professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote in
Publications of the Modern Language Association, for the "implications
of its findings for society and mankind." "The scholar's zeal for truth
without consequences," said Professor Schorske, has no place on the
campus today.

Julian Bond, a Negro member of the Georgia state senate, argued

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the point thus, before the annual meeting of the American Council on
Education:

"Man still makes war. He still insists that one group subordinate its
wishes and desires to that of another. He still insists on gathering
material wealth at the expense of his fellows and his environment. Men
and nations have grown arrogant, and the struggle of the Twentieth
Century has continued.

"And while the struggle has continued, the university has remained
aloof, a center for the study of why man behaves as he does, but never a
center for the study of how to make man behave in a civilized
manner. . . .

"Until the university develops a politics or — in better terms, perhaps,
for this gathering — a curriculum and a discipline that stifles war and
poverty and racism, until then, the university will be in doubt."

Needless to say, many persons disagree that the college or university
should be politicized. The University of Minnesota's President Malcolm
Moos stated their case not long ago:

"More difficult than the activism of violence is the activism that
seeks to convert universities, as institutions, into political partisans
thumping for this or that ideological position. Yet the threat of this
form of activism is equally great, in that it carries with it a threat to
the unique relationship between the university and external social and
political institutions.

"Specifically, universities are uniquely the place where society builds
its capacity to gather, organize, and transmit knowledge; to analyze
and clarify controverted issues; and to define alternative responses to
issues. Ideology is properly an object of study or scholarship. But when
it becomes the starting-point of intellect, it threatens the function
uniquely cherished by institutions of learning.

". . . It is still possible for members of the university community —
its faculty, its students, a\d its administrators — to participate fully and
freely as individuals or in social groups with particular political or ideo-
logical purposes. The entire concept of academic freedom, as developed
on our campuses, presupposes a role for the teacher as teacher, and
the scholar as scholar, and the university as a place of teaching and
learning which can flourish free from external political or ideological
constraints.

". . . Every scholar who is also an active and perhaps passionate
citizen . . . knows the pitfalls of ideology, fervor, and a priori truths
as the starting-point of inquiry. He knows the need to beware of his
own biases in his relations with students, and his need to protect their
autonomy of choice as rigorously as he would protect his own. . . .

"Like the individual scholar, the university itself is no longer the
dispassionate seeker after truth once it adopts controverted causes
which go beyond the duties of scholarship, teaching, and learning. But
unlike the individual scholar, the university has no colleague to light the
fires of debate on controverted public issues. And unlike the individual
scholar, it cannot assert simply a personal choice or judgment when
it enters the field of political partisanship, but must seem to assert a
corporate judgment which obligates, or impinges upon, or towers over
what might be contrary choices by individuals within its community.

Should colleges
and universities take
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"To this extent, it loser its unique identity among our social institu-
tions. And to this extent it diminishes its capacity to protect the climate
of freedom which nourishes the efficiency of freedom."

WHAT WILL THE COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY be like,

if it survives this tumultuous decade? If it comes
to grips with the formidable array of issues that
confront it? If it makes the painful decisions that meeting those issues
will require?

Along the way, how many of its alumni and alumnae will give it the
understanding and support it must have if it is to survive? Even if they
do not always agree in detail with its decisions, will they grant it the
strength of their belief in its mission and its conscience?

Illustrations by Jerry Dadds

The report on this and the preceding 15 j
pages is the product of a cooperative en-
deavor in which scores of schools, col-
leges, and universities are taking part. It
was prepared under the direction of the
persons listed below, who form edi-
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with the American Alumni Council. The
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themselves and not for their institutions;
and not all the editors necessarily agree
with all the points in this report. AH
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Norton Co., Mass.
W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.
John Nuveen & Co., Inc.

Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.
Olin Matheison Chemical Corp.
Oneida Ltd.
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.

PPG Industries, Inc.

Parker-Hannifin Corp.

Paul Revere Life Ins. Co.

Pennsalt Chemicals Corp.

Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.

Penton Publishing Co.

Petro-Tex Chemicals Corp.

Phelps Dodge Corp.

Philip Morris, Inc.

Phillips Petroleum Co.

Pickands Mather & Co.

Pillsbury Co.

Pilot Life Ins. Co.

Pitney-Bowes, Inc.

Pittsburgh Nat. Bank

Plainfield Cytology Lab, Inc.

Polaroid Corp.

Preformed Line Products Co.

Price Waterhouse & Co.

Provident Life and Accident Ins. Co.

Provident National Bank

Prudential Ins. Co. of America

Pullman Inc.

Putnam Management Co., Inc.

Quaker Chemical Corp.
The Quaker Oats Co.

Ralston Purina Co.

Reader's Digest

Reliance Ins. Co.

Rex Chainbelt, Inc.

R. J. Reynolds Foods, Inc.

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

Riegel Paper Corp.

Riegel Textile Corp.

Rio Algom Mines Ltd.

Rochester Germicide Co.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.

Rockefeller Family & Associates

Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for

Music, Inc.
Rockwell Manufacturing Co.
Rockwell-Standard Div.
Rohm & Haas Co.
Rust Engineering Co.

SCM Corporation

SKF Industries, Inc.

Sadtler Research Laboratories, Inc.

St. Regis Paper Co.

Sanders Associates, Inc.

Schering Corp.

Science Research Associates, Inc.

Scott Paper Co.

Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.

Sealright Co., Inc.

Security Nat. Bank of Long Island

Security Van Lines, Inc.

Seton Leather Co.

Sherwin-Williams Co.

Shulton, Inc.

Signal Oil & Gas Co.

Signode Corp.

Simmons Co., N. Y.

Sinclair-Koppers Co.

Sinclair Oil Corp.

Singer Co.

Smith Kline & French Laboratories

Smith-Lee Co., Inc., N. Y.

Sperry & Hutchinson Co.

Squibb Beech-Nut, Inc.

Stackpole Carbon Co.

Standard Oil Co. (Ind.)

Standard Oil Co. (N. J.)

Standard Oil Co. (Ohio)

Standard Pressed Steel Co.

The Stanley Works

Stauffer Chemical Co.

Sterling Drug. Inc.

J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc.

Stone & Webster, Inc.

Suburban Propane Gas Corp.

Sunray DX Oil Co.

Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.

Taylor Corp.

Tektronix, Inc.

C. Tennant, Sons & Co. of N. Y.

Tenneco, Inc.

Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.

Textile Machine Works

Textron Inc.

J. Walter Thompson Co.

J. T. Thorpe Co.

Time, Inc.

Times Publishing Co. &

Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc
Towmotor Corp.
TRACOR, Inc.
Trans-World Airlines
Travelers Insurance Companies
Turner Construction Co.

Union Commerce Bank

Union Electric Co.

Union Oil Co. of California

Uniroyal, Inc.

United Aircraft Corp.

United-Carr Inc.

United Engineers & Constructors, Inc

United Fruit Co. Foundation, Inc.

United Illuminating Co.

United Life & Accident Ins. Co.

United States Borax & Chem. Corp.

United States Trust Co. of N. Y.

Upjohn Co.

Varian Associates
Victaulic Co. of America.
Vulcan Materials Co.

Wallace-Murray Corp.
Wallace & Tiernan Inc.
Wallingford Steele Co.
Warner Brothers Co.. Conn.
Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co
Warner & Swasey
Washington Nat. Ins. Co.
Watkins-Johnson Co.
C. J. Webb, II
Welch Foods, Inc.
Wellington Management Co.
Western Publishing Co.
Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
V/estinghouse Electric Corp.
Weyerhaeuser Co.
Whirlpool Corp.
White Motor Corp.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Williams & Co., Penn.
Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
Wolverine World Wide, Inc.
Worthington Corp.
Wyandotte Chemicals Corp.

Xerox Corporation

Young & Rubicam, Inc.

THOSE WERE THE DAYS
HOMECOMING 1970

Record crowds turned out during the
1970 Homecoming weekend to view the
initial display of the Jean Despujols col-
lection of Indo-China paintings and to
honor Mrs. Joe J. Mickle on the anni-
versary of her 25th year since her late
husband's assumption of the presidency
of the college.

Thirty-four paintings from the collec-
tion of the late Despujols were exhibited
in the library gallery, the first public
showing of the works in eight years. The
paintings were part of a collection given
the college by Centenary alumnus, Algur
H. Meadows of Dallas, Texas. Mr.
Willard Cooper, Chairman of the Art
Department, arranged the showing.

The reception honoring Mrs. Mickle
was hosted by the 25th reunion class at
the home of the president of the college
and his family. Mrs. Phillip Day
served as reception chairman, assisted by
the 25th reunion chairman, Mrs. Camp
Flournoy.

Centenary College, as an institution of
excellence, was very evident at the aca-
demic session held during Homecoming.
Highly regarded professors discussed the
"World in the 1970s" in their particular
fields. Educators participating were Dr.
Woodrow Pate — economics; Dr. Leroy
Vogel — international relations; Dr. Ru-
fus Walker — science; Dr. Webb Pomeroy
— religion; and Dr. W. F. Pledger — soci-
ology and psychology. Robert Ed Tay-
lor served as moderator.

Saturday evening activities began
early wih a 5 p.m. chuck wagon dinner,
award presentations, and a performance
by the choir; a bus trip to the University
of Houston basketball game and the
"Those Were the Days" dance.

Reunion Lunches held at Don's Sea-
food were well attended by the classes
of 1960 and 1945. The Reader's The-
atre performed a segment of their note-
worthy "The People Yes" for the group
and Dr. Allen greeted the group.

Student participation included the
hosting of "Hamburger Heaven" to
honor college alumni, the decorating of
houses, and participation in the evening
activities. The student Homecoming
queen was Miss Judy Morcom, a senior
math major from East Baton Rouge, La.
A member of the 1969 Homecoming;
Court, she was president of the Zeta
sorority and a cheerleader.

Many persons participated in Home-
coming 1970. The consensus is that the
weekend was a success!

Honored by the Centenary College Alumni Association at the annual Home-
coming Banquet were from left to right, Mr. Cecil Ramey, Hall of Fame Award;
Dr. Wayne Hanson, Outstanding Teacher Award and receiving the Hall of Fame
Award for Algur Meadows of Dallas, Texas was his sister, Mrs. Keith Acton. Dr.
John H. Allen presented the awards to the group.

The Homecoming 1970 banquet was
the scene of several annual presentations
by the Centenary College Alumni Asso-
ciation. These awards included the
fifth annual presentation of the Hall of
Fame award, the Outstanding Teacher
award and the selection of Honorary
Alumni.

Hall of Fame
The highest honor given by the Cente-
nary College Alumni Association to its
alumni, the Hall of Fame award, was
bestowed on Dallas businessman Algur
H. Meadows and Shreveport attorney
Cecil Ramey Jr. during the annual
Homecoming banquet.

Meadows is a native of Vidalia, Ga.
and came to Shreveport in his early
twenties to work for the Standard Oil
Co. During these years, he attended the
Centenary Law School in the evenings
and received his degree from the college
in 1926. In 1929, he became vice presi-
dent of the General Finance Co. He
|was subsequently named vice president
lllof the General American Finance Co.
j land the General American Oil Co. of
I Texas. He was named president of this
firm in 1941 and is presently chairman
jof the board of the firm. Mrs. Keith
Acton, Meadow's sister, accepted the
: laward for him.

Ramey is a native of Shreveport and
a graduate of Centenary College. He is
a partner in the law firm of Hargrove,
- Guyton, Van Hook and Ramey. He was
j named Shreveport's Outstanding Young
Man of the Year in 1956; received the
Yale Law School Colby Townsend
Memorial Award following his gradu-
ation from the Yale University Law

School in 1943 and was named Mr.
Shreveport in 1968.

Past recipients of this coveted award
are 1966— Paul M. Brown; 1967— G.
W. James; 1968— Edwin F. Whited and
1969 — James Serra.

Honorary Alumnus

Introduced at the banquet were three
Shreveporters who were selected by the
association as Honorary Alumni of the
college. Those named are Mrs. G. M.
Anderson, Mrs. Joe J. Mickle, and
George D. Nelson.

Mrs. Anderson was named to the
Board of Trustees of Centenary College
in 1968 to fill the post held with distinc-
tion by her husband, the late G. M.
"Jake" Anderson. She is a native of
Monroe and attended Gulf Park College
in Gulfport and the King Smith Studio
in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Anderson is
a member of the Board and Charge Lay
Leader of the Broadmoor Methodist
Church, a representative of the Ecumen-
ical Council for the Louisiana Methodist
Conference and a member of the Cente-
nary College Mother's Club.

Mrs. Mickle, the former Maida
Works, was the first lady of Centenary
College for many years, while her hus-
band, the late Joe J. Mickle, was presi-
dent of the college. She has been an
active worker for the Methodist Church,
where she taught a couples class, named
in her honor, for 20 years. She is pres-
ently a member of the Administrative
Board of the First Methodist Church
and has served on the board of the
YWCA for six years and was president
for two years.

Nelson was named chairman of the

ANNUAL

ALUMNI

AWARDS

Centenary College Board of Trustees in
1965 and has been a member of the
Board since 1957. He is a graduate of
LSU Law School and is president of the
Shreveport insurance firm of Querbes
and Bourquin, Inc. He is serving his
second term as president of the Council
for a Better Louisiana and is the former
vice president of the Public Affairs Re-
search Council.

Previous recipients of the Honorary
Alumni award are 1968 — Bonneau
Peters and Charlton Lyons; 1969 — Dr.
David Kimball, Dr. A. C. Voran and
Mr. D. P. Hamilton.

Outstanding Teacher

Dr. Wayne Hanson, president of the
Centenary College Alumni Association
and chairman of the Chemistry Depart-
ment, was honored as the "Outstanding
Teacher of the Year."

Dr. Hanson, born in Longstreet, La.,
is a graduate of Centenary College and
received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the
University of Houston. He is a member
of the American Chemical Society,
American Institute of Chemists, Ameri-
can Association for Advancement of
Science, Sigma Pi Sigma, and Omicron
Delta Kappa. Publications include pa-
pers in the Journal of American Chem-
ical Society, Journal of Physical Chem-
istry, Journal of Analytic Chemistry, and
Journal of Chemical Education.

Former recipients of the Outstanding
Teacher Award are 1963 — Dr. Mary
Warters; 1964 — Dr. John B. Entrikin;
1965— Dr. Woodrow W. Pate; 1966 —
Dr. Walter Lowery; 1967 — Dr. Webb
Pomeroy; 1968 — Dr. Wilfred Guerin;
and 1969 — Dr. Bryant Davidson.

Strictly Personal

1940's

Mrs. Ruby Fitzgerald ('41) has been
named to membership in the Interna-
tional Platform Association, an organi-
zation devoted to bettering the quality of
American platform, particularly as it re-
lates to school assembly programs for
children. She was also included in the
1969 "Personalities of the South."

Russell H. McCIain ('44) is presently
Chairman of the Departments of Social
Sciences at Ocean County College in
Toms River, N. J. From Columbia
University, he received his MA. in 1945
and his Ph.D. in 1955. He spent 14
years on the New York Times, taught at
New York University 7 years, was a
fund administrator 5 years and has been
in his present position since 1966.

1950's

C. W. McCormick ('51) has been
named chairman of the administrator's
supervisory team on the Caddo Parish
School Board. In 1968, he was ap-
pointed acting principal of Woodlawn
High School after a year's sabbatical
leave studying for the doctor's degree at
East Texas University. He is expected
to receive the doctor's degree from North
Texas State University in January, 1971.

Robert L. Rosenfield ('54) has been
named the new executive vice president
of the 1970 Holiday in Dixie spring
festival. For the past two years, he has
served as vice president of HID.

Edwin C. Home ('57) and James F.
Dykes ('51) have been named vice presi-
dents of the 1970 Holiday in Dixie spring
festival. This is their second consecutive
year as officials. Home is a mortgage
banker and is vice president of Aulds,
Home & White Investment Corp. and
Aulds, Horne & White, Inc. Dykes is
stockholder and senior account executive
with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &
Smith, Inc.

Peter R. MacRoberts ('58) has been
promoted to the position of manager-
Systems Evaluation and Development for
Pennzoil United, Inc.

1960's
Robert D. Daily ('63) was named
Youth Group Chairman for Brotherhood
Week in Shreveport. Daily is youth
secretary of the Central Branch of the
YMCA.

Dr. Charles Lowrey ('63) and Dr.
Wayne Hanson ('50) have been named
officers in the Ark-La-Tex Section of the
American Chemical Society. Dr. Low-
rey was named Chairman-Elect. He re-
ceived his Ph.D. from the University of
Houston and is presently an Assistant
Professor of Chemistry at Centenary.
Dr. Wayne Hanson was named Coun-
cilor for the group. He is head of the
Department of Chemistry at Centenary.
He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from
the University of Houston.
NEW ARRIVALS

MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM N. NEL-
SON ('63) welcomed a daughter, BETH,
who was born on November 28, 1969,
at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in
Portsmouth, Va. Lt. JG Nelson is in
the Navy and is presently stationed at

Norfolk, Va. His wife is the former
Judy Carden of Atmore, Alabama.

DR. AND MRS. LOMA L. LAIRD
('55) (Beverly Norman) announce the
birth of a daughter, DANA DE LAYNE,
February 4, 1970. She was born at the
Memorial Hospital in Nacogdoches,
Texas. The baby joins a brother, Trey,
5.

MR. AND MRS. ROBERT M. LIND-
SEY (Patricia Owens '60) are the proud
parents of a new baby. The boy, ROB-
ERT M. LINDSEY, JR., was born on
March 23, 1970.

MR. AND MRS. JERRY BUTCHER
(Judy Thurmon '62) welcomed a daugh-
ter, JULIE THOMAS BUTCHER, on
October 25, 1969.

MILITARY

MAJ. ROBERT S. SNEAD ('59) has
received the meritorious service medal
for outstanding performance of duty as
assistant secretary of the general staffi
of the Army Strategic Communications!
Command at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona.

CAPTAIN BARRY HOPE ('64) is
presently a communications officer with
the 11th Armored Calvary Regiment
called the "Black Horse Regiment" sta-
tioned at Tay Nenh, Viet Nam. During
the Christmas season, Capt. Hope put
on a "Hope Christmas Show" in areas1
that Bob Hope couldn't reach because of
danger. There were ten others in th&
show besides Hope, and they were given
the commanding officer's blessings and
helicopter transportation to carry the
show to the troops in these areas.

AIRMAN BRIAN T. MOFFATT
('69) has completed his basic training at
Lackland AFB, Tex. He has been
assigned to Keesler AFB, Miss, for train-
ing in the communications field.

IN MEMORY

JAMES WIMBERLY TOOKE ('30);

died on December 23, 1969. He was]
a graduate of Centenary College where
he received his B.S. in Chemistry. Hei
is survived by his widow who resides in
Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

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Alumni Magazine

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CENTENARY COLLEGE

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ALUMNI MAGAZINE

CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA vol i • no 5 • july 1970

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President John H. Allen proudly presented Helen Jean Coburn her diploma
graduation night. An outstanding young woman partially paralyzed by polio, she
graduated at the head of her class with a 3.88 average. She had attended classes
through a telephone hook-up between her home and the college.

BOARD OF
TRUSTEES

George D. Nelson, who has served as
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of
Centenary College for five terms, was
re-elected Chairman by unanimous vote
at the recent annual meeting of the
Board.

James C. Gardner was re-elected Vice
Chairman and Charlton E. Lyons, Jr.
was re-elected Secretary.

Colonel S. Perry Brown and Mrs. E.
E. Hurley were elected to Life Member-
ships to the Board.

Five Centenary College faculty mem-
bers were promoted in rank and three
were granted continuous tenure by the
board. The promotions went to Dr. A.
C. "Cheesy" Voran, Director of the Cen-
tenary College Choir, to Professor of
Music; Ronald E. Dean to Associate
Professor of Music; Dr. Robert N. Hall-
quist to Associate Professor of Educa-
tion; Clifford W. Holloway to Assistant
Professor of Theatre and Speech; and
George W. Treese to Assistant Professor
of Mathematics.

Appointments to continuous tenure
were given to Dr. John Berton, Profes-
sor of Economics; Dr. Dorothy Bird
Gwin, Professor of Education and Psy-
chology; and Dr. Robert N. Hallquist,
Associate Professor of Education.

Dean
That/ N, Marsh

Thad N. Marsh, Dean of Centenary
College, has been named secretary of
the Louisiana Selection Committee for
the Rhodes Scholarships.

Dean Marsh, himself a 1948 Rhodes
Scholar, will be responsible for receiving
and processing all applications for
Rhodes Scholarships from students at
colleges and universities in Louisiana and
students from Louisiana studying at in-
stitutions in other states.

The state committee is responsible for
nominating two young men to the Gulf
District Committee which annually se-
lects four Rhodes Scholars from the six
state region.

Dean Marsh spent the years 1949-51
and 1952-54 at Oxford University,
where he took three academic degrees
in English and History. He is professor
of English as well as academic dean at
Centenary College. He came to Cente-
nary College in 1966.

Cover Picture

The 1970 graduating class is pictured
in procession to the Baccalaureate
service in the Brown Chapel.

ALUMNI RECEIVE
NEW MEMBERS

The Centenary College Alumni Asso-
ciation received 210 new members Sun-
day, May 17, when the 1970 graduating
seniors received their degrees from
President John Horton Allen. George
D. Nelson, chairman of the Board of
Trustees and Dean Thad N. Marsh as-
sisted the President in awarding the
degrees.

The Honorary Doctor of Divinity de-
gree was awarded to the Reverend Har-
mon Barry Bailey, pastor of the Broad-
moor United Methodist Church of Baton
Rouge, and the Honorary Doctor of Hu-
mane Letters to Professor T. Harry Wil-
liams, an LSU historian whose recent
biography, "Huey Long," won him a
Pulitzer Prize.

Dr. Bryant Davidson, a senior history
and government faculty member, was
named "Professor Emeritus." Dr. Allen
said the title had been approved by the
Board of Trustees at their recent annual
meeting.

Three members of the class were
awarded their degrees magna cum laude;
they are Helen Jean Coburn of Shreve-
port; Clarence Lynn Tucker of Bossier i
City; and Ruth Kruger Frazier of .1
Shreveport. Eight others who graduated
cum laude are Joan Blakie Frazer of
Dallas, Barbara Ann Miller of Shreve-
port, Elise K. White of Lake Charles,
Charles Dallas Williams of Monroe,
Margaret Ellen McKinley of Hot j
Springs, Arkansas, Nancy Jean Boone of
Dallas, Priscilla Pardue Briggs of Vivian
and Ruth Davidson Johnson of Shreve- '
port.

Speaker at the Baccalaureate Services
Sunday afternoon was the Reverend j
Douglas L. McGuire, pastor of the |
Trinity United Methodist Church of
Ruston.

Dr. T. Harry Williams delivered the
commencement address to the 145th
graduating class.

ALUMNI OFFICE

Director Bob Holladay

Associate Director .... Nancy Cosse

Staff Arden Ashley (Secretary)

Maureen Myers, Donna Evans
(Record Room)

Alumni Magazine

Editor Nancy Cosse

Reporters Arden Ashley

Maurie Wayne

Entered as second-class matter April 1, 1942
at the post office at Shreveport, La., under
Act of August 24, 1912.

j Rev. Alfred M. Brown

Dr. Jack Cooke

Mrs. Ann Covington Querbes

Mrs. Katherine Turner Cheesman

New Members of the
Board of Trustees

Five new Trustees, three of them wom-
en and two who are recent graduates
of the college, have been named to the
Board at Centenary. Their nominations
were approved at the recent meeting of
the Louisiana Annual Conference of the
United Methodist Church in Shreveport.

They are Reverend Alfred M. Brown,
pastor of the Mangum Memorial Meth-
odist Church of Shreveport; Mrs. Kath-
erine Turner Cheesman, a former Dean
of Women at Centenary; Dr. Jack Cooke,
District Superintendent of the Shreve-
port District of the Louisiana United
Methodist Church; Mrs. Elise Wheless
Hogan, daughter of N. H. Wheless, Jr.,
a present member of the Board of Trus-
tees; and Mrs. Ann Covington Querbes,
a 1965 graduate of Centenary.

Reverend Brown is a Centenary grad-
uate and joined the Louisiana Annual
Conference in 1939 and has served
many churches in the Shreveport District.
One daughter, Rebecca, is also a Cente-
nary graduate; one son, Stephen, is a
junior at the college, and a daughter,
Cindy, will enter as a freshman next
September. The Brown's have one other
child, Ellen, at home.

Mrs. Cheesman is a summa cum
laude graduate of Centenary with a
B. A. degree in English. She was named
Assistant Dean of Students in 1948 and
the following year was promoted to the

position of Dean of Women, a position
she held until 1955. Her husband is
Beynon S. Cheesman, a Shreveport ge-
ologist. They have two children, Dan,
11, and Kay, 9.

Dr. Cooke is a native of Minden and
received his early education in the Web-
ster Parish schools. He received a B.
A. degree from Centenary in 1938. He
was named Superintendent of the Shreve-
port District last year. His two sons,
Jonathon and Paul, have attended Cente-
nary, and a daughter, Martha Ruth, is
presently a student.

Mrs. Hogan's appointment to the
Board makes her the first woman to
serve at the same time as her father.
She is a graduate of Byrd High School,
attended Oklahoma University; and
graduated from Centenary in 1966 mag-
na cum laude. She is married to Thom-
as E. Hogan, treasurer of Southern
Builders. They have two children, Tra-
cey Elise, 3, and Mary Emily, 1.

Mrs. Querbes is the daughter of Mrs.
Gilbert W. Covington and the late Mr.
Covington of Sulphur, La. She attend-
ed Centenary and was graduated in 1965
with a B. S. degree in business education.
She is married to Shreveport business-
man Justin R. Querbes, III, and they
have two children, Marjorie Louise, 3,
and Elizabeth, 1.

Mrs. Elise Wheless Hogan

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The first gift to the "Toward Attainment" phase of the Climax 75 capital
campaign was received soon after kick-off from Pennzoil-United. C. C. Barnett
(center), Senior Vice-President of Gas Management at United Gas Pipe Line
Company is pictured presenting the check to Centenary President John Horton Allen
(left) and Director of Development Daniel C. Springer (right). The campaign to
raise $1,522,000 is still under way.

A first for the Centenary College
Alumni Association! . . .

For the very first time in a Centenary
capital campaign, the alumni of the col-
lege will be given full credit for their
support to their alma mater. In this
campaign, all alumni gifts from other di-
visions will, at the campaign's end, be

reported to the Alumni Division for a
final alumni giving tabulation, which
will accurately measure total support by
former students.

Your college needs your support. Mail
your pledge to Centenary College Alum-
ni Giving, Shreveport, Louisiana 71104.

Fifth faculty Visitation

Lake Charles was the scene of the
fifth Centenary College faculty visitation
program in March. The purpose of the
visitation was to better acquaint the
members of the United Methodist
churches of the state with the college.
Past years have seen the group travel to
New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Alexandria
and Monroe.

Twenty-nine Centenary College repre-
sentatives spread out over the Lake
Charles district and spoke to members of
the United Methodist churches in the
area. Dr. John H. Allen, president of
Centenary College, headed the group and
spoke at the regular worship services at
the First Methodist Church in Lake
Charles.

The visit was arranged by the Rev.
Harvey G. Williamson, district superin-
tendent of the Lake Charles District and
Bob Holladay, Director of Church Rela-
tions for the college.

Dr. George Pearce, pastor of the First
Methodist Church in Lake Charles and
Mrs. Pearce (left) welcome President
Allen and Bob Holladay for the annual
Faculty Visitation program in Lake
Charles.

Memorial Gifts

Recent memorial gifts received by
Centenary College have included a 4,000
volume library collection in memory of
the late Joseph Walker Elston III of
Shreveport and a $1,000 scholarship
contribution by the family of the late
Joseph Olliphant Lambert Jr.

The family of the late Joseph Walker i
Elson HI donated a part of his large and
valuable collection of books to the Cen-
tenary College library. Mr. Elston, who
passed away in 1968, was an avid book
collector with varied interest in history,
philosophy, literature, the sciences and
the arts.

Mrs. Joe O. Lambert, Sr. of Shreve-
port made a $1,000 memorial gift to
Centenary College in memory of her son
Joseph Olliphant Lambert, Jr. who re-
cently passed away. The scholarship,
established by Mrs. Lambert in 1967 in
honor of her husband and another son,
has been re-named the Joe O. Lambert I
and sons Edwin Ruffin Lambert and
Joseph Olliphant Lambert, Jr. Memorial
Scholarship.

Mrs. John B. Atkins

Mrs. John B. Atkins, the wife of one
of the men responsible for bringing Cen-
tenary College to Shreveport in the early
1900's, died at her home in Shreveport,
Tuesday, June 9. She was the daughter
of a pioneer North Louisiana family,
James Herron and Carrie Gordon Adger
of Alden Bridge.

She passed away at her Shreveport
home following a sudden illness. She
had resided in Shreveport for more than
50 years and was an active member of
the First Methodist Church.

One of her sons, John B. Atkins, Jr.
is presently a member of the Board of
Trustees of Centenary College. She is
survived by two other children in
Shreveport, Mrs. E. J. Crawford, Jr. and
William J. Atkins.

The Inauguration

President John Horton Allen

32nd President of the College

has been scheduled

for

Wednesday, October 21, 1970

The Educational Situation

at Centenary

By T. N. Marsh
Dean of the College

It is, of course, the prerogative of the
President of the College to issue public
statements on the "State of the College"
— and this he does, frequently and well
(particularly in these perilous fund-rais-
ing days), to the various constituencies
of the College: trustees, faculty, students,
alumni, church, and community. But
it is surely permissible, and even appro-
priate, for the "chief academic officer"
(the august title by which I am known
to the federal government and other col-
lectors of statistics) to offer a report on
the "Academic State of the College" —
and not only appropriate, but especially
timely, in view of recent developments
in the curricular structure of the Col-
lege's educational program.

"Chief academic officer" is not an
appellation I value nearly as highly as I
do that of Dean — and I have at least
twice resisted to the point of refusal the
apparent exaltation of the title "academic
vice-president." One reason for my
conservatism on this point is that it
would ruin one of my favorites among
all the many definitions of a dean
(which I'm sure all but a few freshmen
have already heard) — that he is a person
who. while not smart enough to be a
professor, is too smart to be a president
— particularly in these perilous fund-
raising days.

The academic state of the College is
good. As you know, it would be a good
academic state for a considerably greater

number of students than we are at pres-
ent serving — but that, too, is going to
change, though not as rapidly as we
might wish. I am bold to say that the
quality of the Faculty in this oldest of
all trans-Mississippi colleges has never
been better. Its credentials are far more
impressive than those of most of the
private colleges and universities in the
South and Southwest, and simply beyond
comparison with any of the public insti-
tutions. Our terminal degrees derive
from Harvard, Yale, Wisconsin, North-
western University, Michigan, Chicago,
New York University, Illinois, Kansas,
Indiana, Penn State, Vanderbilt, Tulane,
Emory, Texas, Case Western Reserve,
Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas,
LSU, Florida, Oklahoma — and Heidel-
berg, Edinburgh, Madrid, and Oxford.

Well over half the academic deans of
the country would like to be able to say,
as I can, that 55% of this Faculty hold
doctoral degrees — because that is getting
on for twice the national average in all
institutions of higher education. But we
can add four more members of this
Faculty who are, in the current academic
jargon, ABD — having finished all the re-
quirements for the doctorate but the
writing of the dissertation; and another
eight who have terminal professional de-
grees in areas that have not normally
offered or required the doctoral degree
as the final credential. And that gives
us 70% of the entire Faculty with, or
within spitting distance of, the final pro-
fessional qualification. Further, if (as
many colleges choose to do) you count
the credentials of the "senior faculty" —
those in the permanent appointment
ranks — we reach 95%. Most colleges
count themselves superbly staffed at
80%.

A representative of a granting founda-
tion once told me that one of his princi-
pal criteria for assessing the quality of
a college was the level of its faculty sal-
aries. This Faculty is not paid as much
as it should be; we reached this year the
"C" grade on the national salary survey
by the American Association of Uni-
versity Professors. But that survey pits
us against Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
Michigan, and California — and you know
that at California they have to pay well
to get anybody to stay! If you instead
compare us with all the private liberal
arts colleges in the country, our "A"
grade Faculty looks a little better —
somewhere within the upper 15% of
salaries.

A better criterion from the point of
view of the attractiveness of the College
to students and to the best teachers seek-
ing positions on faculties is the produc-
tivity of the Faculty in terms of profes-
sional work. The recent publication of
a pacemaking volume of literary study,
Mandala, by the three senior members
of the English department is only the
latest in a long history of important
scholarly and professional work by the
Centenary College Faculty. Not all of
it has taken the form of publication,
but a lot of it has been influential. Dr.
Overdyke's work on the ante-bellum
South; Dr. Pearson's studies in the eco-
nomics of public finance; Dr. Shaw's
continuing work in the geology of the
Southwest; Dr. Walter Lowrey's analyses
of Louisiana history; Dr. Beck's critical
annotations of modern French literature;
Dr. Guerin's work on Malory; Dr.
Pledger's research on criminology and
penal rehabilitation; Dr. Hancock's es-
says on the German Reformation; Dr.
Labor's original views of the work of
Jack London; Dr. Warters' contributions
to the genetics of drosophila at Oak
Ridge; Dr. Wilkins' careful work on the
region's arthropods — I abbreviate the
list only to avoid inducing boredom, not
because I have exhausted it — these take
the name and prestige of Centenary far
beyond the bounds of our locality and
region.

But we should add the cultural and
professional contributions of the Faculty
besides their pure scholarship — Dr. Vo-
gel's analyses of political and historical
trends and their significance; Dr. Gallo-
way's sensing device for the measurement
of solar magnetism (which, if NASA
were still flying unmanned experiments,
would be flown by NASA); Dr. Gwin's
widely sought expertise in educational
psychology; Dr. Wayne Hanson's mem-
bership in the national council of the
American Chemical Society; Dr. Carl-
ton's worldwide fame in mathematics
education; Mr. Buseick's national (and
soon to be international) influence in
educational theater; Professor Cooper's
and Miss Friedenberg's widely noted
paintings; Mr. Holloway's growing repute
at the Ashland, Oregon, Shakespeare
Festival; the deplorably growing demand
for Mr. Harrington's services as a con-
sultant in Latin American libraries; Mr.
Teague's international concert reputa-
tion; and the unanimous acclaim for Dr.
Berton's unrestrained Shreveport booster-
ism. Even Dr. Voran and the Choir are

occasionally heard of outside the Brown
Memorial Chapel.

Having said so much about the Facul-
ty, I have not said the most important
things about them: first, that they are
primarily, devotedly, and excellently
teachers. In those institutions where the
credentials of the faculties even ap-
proach ours, more times than not the
freshman and sophomore classes are,
taught by graduate assistants. Here, the
very people I have just been talking
about are those who spend most of their
time, most of their effort, and all of their
enthusiasm in teaching. And they
teach both in and outside the classroom.
Dr. Pate never stops. What undergrad-
uate at any university would not, if he
could, choose to be advised by Dr. Seid-
ler, Dr. Guerin, Dr. Warters, Dr. Charles
or Dr. Walter Lowrey, Miss Alexander,
Mrs. Bissell, Dr. Hallquist, Mr. Little,
Dr. Carroll, Dr. Pomeroy — the list could
go on and on — almost up to the total
number. Second, they are academically
free teachers. Shreveport is widely be-
lieved to be the last bastion of reaction,
as it was of the Confederacy, yet this
Faculty has not, and need not have, the
slightest qualm about speaking its mind
and publishing its truth, inside or out-
side the classroom. The Faculty, in
every important sense, runs the College:
Dr. Allen and I and the rest of the ad-
ministration try to keep three things: the
books, the house, and out of the way of
the fulfillment of the central educational
purpose of the College.

The students, too, have an extraordi-
nary amount of freedom and responsi-
bility— if you like to think of it that
way, an extraordinary amount of power
— in the setting of educational policy
and direction (I am trying to confine
myself primarily to academic and educa-
tional considerations). This College
gave full voting membership to students
on all major College committees before
such a thing became a clamorous de-
mand on other campuses. This College
consulted students on the appointment
of a new President while other campuses
were fighting for the right. This Col-
lege gives qualified students — who can
accept both the freedom and the respon-
sibility— the right after one year of
course work to be freed of all further re-
quirements and to design the educational
program they think best suited to their
needs and desires. It provides other
qualified students with a growing num-
ber of opportunities for independent
study and high-level honors work.

Centenary provides physics, chemistry,
biology, language, and computation lab-
oratories that are no better than those at
any major university — the only differ-
ence is that here, undergraduates are
allowed to use the costly and sophisti-
cated equipment, because undergradu-
ates are our only concern.

Next year, Centenary will offer a most
astonishing and eclectic and fascinating
array of enrichment courses in a January
Interim, from a comparative education
tour of the Ark-La-Tex to colorimetric
studies in biology to SIMSOC (simulated
societies) to flying saucers, and from
radiobiology at Oak Ridge to religious
themes in modern films to existential
themes in modern drama. I saw an ad
recently in one of the leftist journals for
a College that claimed to be "where the
action is." The "action" was occupa-
tion of ROTC and administration build-
ings. I'd rather be here, where the ac-
tion is such that age cannot wither nor
custom stale, and where, as I have some-
times announced, any student that wants
to occupy the administration building
can have it! (I may take a narrower
view when Hamilton Hall is opened.)

Really, though, the most exciting
thing that has happened around here in
a long time, as far as I'm concerned, is
the new curriculum. (The ethos of this
place is such that we seem to be required
to be very quiet about what does happen.
But I'm going to talk about it anyway.)

A recent study published in the Chron-
icle of Higher Education revealed what
a good many of us already knew: that a
rather large majority of college and uni-
versity faculty members are very liberal
in matters social, economic, and political,
and extremely conservative in matters
academic. This Faculty is no different
from the rest. And on the whole I think
that is a good thing. We used, alto-
gether, nearly two whole years in the
process of rethinking the nature and pur-
pose of the Centenary program; it took
as long as it did precisely because that
is what happened: we started from
scratch and debated the whole philoso-
phy of liberal education, and I think a
good many of us are even more com-
mitted to the principle than we were be-
fore we started trying to find arguments
for it. | (Anyone who has argued with
Dr. Pomeroy knows he had better have
his points in good order.)

The Faculty has scrapped a perfectly
good core curriculum, and has produced
one that is far better. The guiding prin-
ciple was a profound commitment toHn-
creased freedom and responsibility for
a new generation of students, better pre-
pared in many ways than the generations
that have gone before. In the process,
however, the Faculty also committed it-
self to a much heavier task of advising
and personal guidance than it had need-
ed to give when the curriculum was
more prescriptive. The whole thing
seems to me to be a finely balanced blend
of flexibility and openness with gently
compulsive requirements. There is an
effort to develop students' breadth of in-
terest by guiding them into areas of study
previously not required in the curricu-
lum, but at the same time to provide

them with many more options for choos-
ing precisely how they will meet the re-
quirements. There is in the new pro-
gram* the beginning of resistance against
premature specialization, at the same
time that recognition is given to the de-
mands of "advanced study and prepara-
tion necessary for it.

I believe that the new curriculum re-
flects another trend in Faculty thinking
that is not (and should not be) entirely
complimentary to the generation of stu- 1
dents we find in front of us. The some- 1
what greater generalism of the new pro-
gram, combined with the hope and the
opportunity for more exploration in
areas outside the major interest, seems
to me to recognize the fact that young
people are in greater need of the human- 1
izing effect of education than ever be?
fore. My own thinking on this matter
has been greatly influenced lately by M
remarkable book to which I strongly <
recommend your attention — particularly
those on the Faculty, but with some over- i
optimism to students as well — John W.
Aldridge's In the Country of the Young,
published in February by the Harper's
Magazine Press. Emphasis sometimes
leads Aldridge into some unfairness to
young people, but in general the analysis "
seems to me sympathetic, balanced, and
just. One of his principal points is that
children born after World War II grew
up in a physical environment so comfort-
able, so bland, and so ignorable, and a
social environment so unresisting, so
committed to their placation and satis-
faction, and in addition agglomerated in-
to such massive and impersonal social
structures, that they come to college and
university without ever having had the
opportunity or the necessity for forming
identifiable selves in the process of re-V
sistance or rebellion — without, in a
word, having begun to grow up.

Aldridge understands the protests and
demonstrations on some campuses in re-
cent years in these terms: that students,
not having had the experience of either
conforming to or resisting parental au-
thority, find at college the first authority
against which their identity can be test-
ed. Institutions do indeed have authority,
if only because they have a necessary
structure and usually at least vaguely
identifiable goals. Those charged with
their operation, though they do not al-
ways readily admit it, are also charged
with their preservation, so at some point,
sooner or later, the institution must re-
sist the belated rebelliousness of those
whose goals are dimly perceived but
which generally are related to the instan-
taneous gratification of momentary
whim, which is what, in many cases,
their childhood taught them to expect
of life.

There are two passages from this
book that I should like to quote directly,
but not before emphasizing that I do so
not because I think them descriptive of
our situation at Centenary, but because
I think this Faculty has developed a
curriculum of a sort that is likely, if any-
thing can, to forestall the rise of such
conditions here. "One of the more
popular demands at the larger universi-
ties," Aldridge writes, "is that students
be allowed to choose their own curricula
and have a major voice in determining
which will be the courses required for a
degree in a particular field of concentra-
tion. It is possible to sympathize with
any student who wishes to have some
control over the content of his education,
particularly if he suspects, often quite
rightly, that his education is in the hands
of cretins. But one ought also to be
aware that the notion of educational self-
determination is a perfectly logical out-
come of a childhood experience in which
few or no restrictions were placed on
the child, and parents habitually made it
a point, in moments of choice, to let the
child cast the deciding vote. Such dele-
gation of authority occurring at an early
age is hugely flattering to the young ego
and is conducive to either megalomania
or a wonderful independence of mind.
Unfortunately, very few children are
gifted enough to derive high intellectual
strength from this sort of freedom. The
great majority are conditioned by it to
become capricious, self-indulgent, and
drunk with the glory of their incontest-
able omnipotence. Thus they enter the
universities convinced that whatever is
required is wrong. Any exercise of au-
thority, any imposition of laws, is a vio-
lation of their civil liberties as well as
their divine rights as members of the
new royal family of adolescence ... But
behind it all, of course, the process of
probing for the limits of adult permis-
siveness continues, and must continue, to
operate. For not even the most thor-

oughly spoiled child actually believes
that the game will always be played on
his terms and to his advantage, nor does
he desire that it should be. His sense
of his own identity and authority, if it
is to be real to him, requires a sustained
dialectical relationship with an adversary
. . . The equally popular demand that
university instruction be made "relevant"
— relevant, that is, to the problems and
issues of immediate contemporary con-
cern to the young — is closely related to
the demand of educational self-determi-
nation and is also rooted in the child-
hood experience. To understand this,
one needs to recognize that the most cru-
cial problem facing the promiscuous re-
producers of the forties and fifties was
the problem of keeping the child from
being bored to death . . . Whenever ex-
istence threatened to become routine or
in the least deficient in the creature ex-
citements, a bribe or reward immediately
pleasing to the child had to be offered
to prevent him from going berserk and
distracting the mother from her own dis-
tractions. One did not pursue a diffi-
cult or monotonous task because it might
eventually prove to be interesting, or was
interesting precisely for the reason that
it was difficult, or because the final re-
sult might be eminently worth working
for. One at once sought relief from it
because monotony and difficulty were
unpleasant, and everyone had long ago
agreed never to find life unpleasant."

This Faculty has agreed upon a cur-
riculum that has some requirements, and
has extended a curriculum that has al-
ways had some difficulty. It has intro-
duced some elements of compulsion not
previously there, even though the amount
of requirements has been reduced. The
Faculty has wisely chosen to bring new
emphasis to those areas which are resist-
ant either to technological or social engi-
neering, and students in the future will
have to come to terms with humane
studies in the arts and the humanities
that will surely have some effect on atti-
tudes toward man in isolation as well as
in society, man in his selfhood, man in

a context that society seems determined
to legislate out of existence. This is
merely another way of saying that this
College is determined as never before
to be a place where a person can really
grow up, to understand the principles of
deferred gratification, the principles of
sequential logic rather than those of non-
verbal communication, whatever that
may be.

This brings me to the second of the
passages from Aldridge's book that I
wanted to quote: "It would seem that to
the abstracted only abstractions are real,
just as modes of procedure are more real
to them than concrete goals, and the ad-
ministration of universities is more im-
portant than the content and quality of
the ideas generated within them. Clearly,
the young are suffering from a massive
dissociation of sensibility, a loss of rela-
tionship with the living realities of the
world. And the fact that such connec-
tion as they have with experience is so
largely theoretical and verbal, as tenu-
ous as the language on which it is based,
may be the best evidence we have that
their crusade represents not so much a
vital engagement of imperative issues as
a failure on their part to cut through the
opaque tissues of their rhetoric to the
real dark center of American life, where,
if they could keep their courage, they
might encounter provocations worthy of
their outrage and learn the right names
for whatever forces may be tyrannizing
us."

I believe that this is the kind of ex-
perience this Centenary curriculum of-
fers— an opportunity for growing up, an
opportunity for learning the right names,
which is another way of saying learning
to recognize and to tell the truth, instead
of talking about "systems," "technolo-
gies," and "esablishments." Procedure
was not so important in the development
of this curriculum except that this
Faculty is quietly devoted to democratic
action, and its willingness to hear, and
heed, all elements of the College com-
munity in this formulation is but a vari-
ation on the theme that Centenary exists
for the service of humanity and of this
nation.

An address delivered in Brown Me-
morial Chapel April 16, 1970.

DR. DAVIDSON RETIRES

Professor and Mrs. Bryant Davidson
relax at their Shreveport home following
his recent retirement from Centenary
College at the end of a distinguished
teaching career that dates back to 1928.
The Board of Trustees has bestowed the
title of "Professor Emeritus" upon the
veteran educator. (Photo by Skipworth)

The one man who is credited with
teaching more Centenary College stu-
dents than any other in the long history
of the college still maintains his great
faith in young people despite the many
disturbances on campuses today.

Dr. Bryant Davidson, professor of
history and government, retired from ac-
tive teaching this May at the end of an
academic career that spans 42 years and
dates back to 1928. Centenary has
honored him with the title of "Professor
Emeritus" — the alumni showed their ap-
preciation by naming him "Outstanding
Teacher of the Year" at their Homecom-
ing banquet last year — and President
John H. Allen has presented him with
an inscribed silver goblet as a reminder
of his many years of faithful service to
the college.

Although Dr. Davidson obviously ap-
preciates all of these outward signs of
the institution's esteem, he believes his
last class in American Foreign Policy
gave him his best moment. On their
final exam they were asked a question
about the recent American intervention
in Cambodia. "Not one of the 60 stu-
dents in the class was critical of the
President of the United States," he said,
"and I interpret this to mean that at
Centenary emotion has not replaced
reason as it has on so many campuses
in the nation today. This only serves
to confirm my faith in today's college
student," he said.

The slightly built, almost shy professor
has endeared himself not only to the stu-
j

By Maurie Wayne
dents' and his colleagues at Centenary,
but to the Shreveport community as well.
He has long since forgotten the number
of speeches he has made on American
government, but the community remem-
bers the one he made predicting World
War II long before the war clouds had
gathered on the horizon.

A native of Conway, Arkansas, he
holds degrees from Hendrix College and
Columbia University. In 1960 his alma
mater at Hendrix awarded him the hon-
orary Doctor of Law degree.

Dr. Davidson and his wife "Tip" have
literally been "close" to Centenary most
of their adult lives. With the exception
of their first and last years at Centenary
they have resided in a home on the
campus proper. Because they are the
kind of people they are, they have al-
ways enjoyed the impromptu visits from
students who dropped in unannounced
at all hours of the day and night. In
fact, Dr. Davidson recalls that one of
his most interesting classes was a phi-
losophy class he held in his living room
in the evenings from 7-10. They re-
cently moved into town when their
former home on the campus was torn
down to make way for a new admin-
istration building. They appear to be
pleased with their new abode, although
they admit they will miss the casual
visits with the students.

If Centenary College was always the
Davidson's first love, their zest for ca-
noeing in the great out of doors was
always a close second. Their canoe trips
have taken them on excursions through-
out their native Arkansas, into the wilds
of Idaho, and up into the wastelands of
Canada. More often than not they
would take students along on the trips,
usually on a "them that works, eats"
basis.

It was on one of^these outings that Dr.
Davidson gained his reputation as a
weather forecaster. At the beginning of

a five day excursion, one of the students
asked the professor if he thought it
would rain. He replied in the negative.
During the night, a heavy rain set in,
and continued for five days. Since that
time, Dr. Davidson sometimes predicts
world events, but never the weather.

Noted for his wry humor, the popular
professor was not above directing his wit
at the students. When he accepted the
"Outstanding Teacher of the Year"
award at the Homecoming banquet, he
was obviously struggling for words at
the surprise announcement. "As I
walked up here to accept this award, my
mind went blank," he said. And then
with a grin, "Which reminds me of a
lot of my former students in this audi-
ence tonight!"

Although he admits to some concern
about the present upheavals on college
campuses, the veteran educator believes
the worst may be over. "We must real-
ize that these young people today have
so many distressing problems to face,
problems such as no generation before
them has faced," he said. "But I have a
strong conviction that college students
are already beginning to adopt more
constructive approaches to these prob-
lems."

As a fitting finale to a great teaching
career, Dr. Davidson was named "Pro-
fessor Emeritus" by Dean Thad N.
Marsh at the Commencement Exercises i
on May 17. Dr. Davidson stood with
bowed head as they gave him a rousing j
standing ovation. The Dean then read i
this fitting tribute to a good teacher:
"He came to Centenary when it was ||
barely a century old, and served it faith- ,,
fully until the eve of its sesquicentennial,
during which time he taught more of its j
students than any other teacher in its
history. They in turn have loved him jl
as a teacher, scholar, friend, and guide.
We wish him happy haven and long
years."

Professor Bryant Davidson receives a standing ovation as President John H-
Allen (left) and Dean Thad N. Marsh (right) bestow the honor of Professor Emeritus
on the distinguished Centenary teacher. The presentation was made at the graduation
exercises in May. (Skipworth photo)

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Founders Day Picnic

FOUNDERS
DAY

The annual Founder's Day convoca-
tion was held April 2nd in the Haynes
Memorial Gym. President John H.
Allen presided at the gathering, which
was attended by students, faculty, staff,
members of the Board of Trustees and
guests.

Dr. N. Bond Fleming, a former dean
of the College, was the guest speaker for
the occasion. Dean Fleming is now
dean at Oxford College of Emory Uni-
versity in Georgia, a position he has held
since leaving Centenary College in 1966.
Before beginning his academic career,
he served as pastor of the Charlton City
and Spencer, Mass. Methodist Churches.
He was named professor and head of
the Department of Philosophy at Mill-
saps College in Mississippi in 1945 and
remained there until he became dean at
Centenary in 1962.

He holds the B. A. and the B. D. de-
grees from Emory University and the
S.T.M. and Ph.D degrees from Boston
University. He has done post graduate
work at Columbia and Yale and was a
Ford Scholar at Harvard in 1953-54. He
is a member of the Woodrow Wilson Na-
tional Fellowship Foundation Selection
Committee and the Alumni Council of
Emory University.

Following the program, a picnic lunch
was held on the campus at which all who
attended were guests of the college.

The annual all college convocation is
held to honor the founders of the insti-
tution which dates back to the old Col-
lege of Louisiana established at Jackson,
La. in 1825.

INHERITORS AND
CREATORS

A tribute was made to the early
founders of the College by Dean N.
Bond Fleming, speaker at the annual
Founder's Day Convocation. Excerpts
from Dean Fleming's address follow.

"Along with expression of thanks to
and for the founders, and thanks for the
privilege of this great heritage, we should
recognize our responsibility; 'Old Cente-
nary' is a great name in education. You
and Centenary are joined; your futures
are entertwined. It is our opportunity

Dean N. Bond Fleming

and our responsibility to say what will
become of Centenary. Your degree, or
your status as teachers or alumni of
Centenary, has great worth. Cherish it.
But it may lose in value unless Centenary
remains stable, and enjoys growth."

Students were urged to dedicate them-
selves to "serious study" and to take
advantage of their opportunity to asso-
ciate with Centenary's "unusually fine
faculty, superior in training to the facul-
ty of any small college I know."

"A second way of expressing thanks
to our founders and of helping Cente-
nary to remain strong and to grow is for
you to be or to become a proud and
loyal alumnus . . .

"Recommend Centenary to prospective
students . . . Your recommendation
means more than for a representative of
the admissions office, or for the dean,
or for the president to speak of Cente-
nary's attractions. Resolve now to be
understandably loyal to the college, and
to defend it against unjust attacks from
outsiders, or from other alumni. Take
the trouble to find out the facts when
there are rumors and criticisms . . .

"Hold up the hands of future genera-
tions of students who demand that edu-
cation be relevant for their lives even as
you want your instruction to be relevant
in your lives. And hold up the hands of
the administration, as it may deal with
angry, unappreciative publics while Cen-
tenary tries to develop the minds and
lives of students. It is the difficult task
of education, and of the college, to help
students gain visions of an open-ended
and self-renewing society.

"A third way to help Centenary grow,
and to enrich the worth of your degree,
is through generous financial support. I
admit to you, and/or warn you, that the
future of private education is uncertain.
Whether private education shall survive
depends upon the interest and support of
alumni. Centenary has a strong endow-
ment, better than many small colleges,
but her needs are serious and constant . . .

"There is a fourth way in which you
can strengthen Centenary and thus im-
prove the worth of your degree. This
is by serving society, in honest and noble
toil . . . People will come to know your
college by knowing you, and they will
appreciate it or scorn it in terms of the
impression you make.

"Inheritors and Creators. We are
debtors to the past for what we are and
for what we have, and for the goodly
heritage of Centenary College. We are
the creators of the Centenary that is to
be in the future ... By what you are,
and by what you do for Centenary, I
hope that you will put the future in debt
to you."

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provide a "clipping" service! News-
paper clippings about outstanding high
school students in your community, to-
gether with their addresses, will allow
the college to contact the students with
a message of congratulations and with
information on Centenary College. Help
us do a better job- by keeping us aware
of potential students. After all, a con-
tinuation of outstanding students reflects
with credit on your degree!

"INSIGHTS"

A magazine published by Kappa Epsi-
lon Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta at Cen-
tenary College.

Poetry — Prose — Art.

$1.50 — Order from the Alumni Office.

1970 ALUMNI ELECTION

The following were recently elected to 2-year terms on the Alumni Board of Directors:

Cecil E. Bland, Jr.

'42

John J. Evans
"62

Dwight M. Brown, Sr.

Dorothy Gammill
'40

Harriet Middleton

.^«8s*g

Ned W. Prothro

'45

Juanita R. Rembert
'41

Wayne F. Stoddard

B. C. Taylor

'22

Janet Ilgenfritz West
'61

AROUND OUR CAMPUS

The National Science Foundation has
provided a grant of $11,035 to Cente-
nary College. The local grant will be
used in eight different areas at the col-
lege, with the major portion, $5,500 go-
ing for improvements to the computer in

the college's computation laboratory.

* * *

The Rev. Robert Ed Taylor, chaplain
of Centenary College, has been awarded
the Master of Sacred Theology degree
from Southern Methodist University in
Dallas. The degree is the culmination
of three years' work by Mr. Taylor at
the Perkins School of Theology. His
dissertation topic was "A Course in the
Undergraduate Curriculum on the Con-
temporary Church."

* * *

Five out of the six drama awards for
1970 presented by The Shreveport Times
went to the Centenary College River
Towne Players. Paul Boatright received
best actor; Becky Smiser, best actress for
their roles in "Stop the World, I Want to
Get Off;" Camille Young was named
best supporting actress for her role in
"Marat/Sade." Gary Corn accepted
the award for best technical production
for "Marat/Sade" on behalf of the col-
lege. In addition, playhouse director
Robert Buseick received the award for
the best production of the season for his

direction of "Marat/Sade." The col-
lege received fourteen out of the thirty
available nominations for 1970.

Dean of Students August E. Aamodt
has scheduled a summer work-camp trip
to Sitka, Alaska August 7-26. Students
selected to make the trip with Dean
Aamodt will conduct a Vacation Bible
School for a large class of Sitka natives
and will also assist in repairing and
painting the Methodist Church in this
Alaskan city.

This A-Frame Chapel was built in
Whale Pass in 1967 by the summer work-
camp for loggers working in this area.

Dr. William G. Cole, executive direc-
tor of the Chicago Council of Foreign
Relations, was the Willson Lectures
speaker for 1970. His lecture topic was
"The New Theology and the New Mo-
rality."

* * *

Forums speakers for the spring semes-
ter were William Harrison, Associate
Professor and Director of the Program ,
in Creative Writing at the University of
Arkansas; U. S. Congressman Joe D.
Waggonner; and Roxanna Dunbar, a
worker in the female liberation move-|

ment from New Orleans.

* * *

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand J.i
Greve of Shreveport, Mark Allen Greve,;
has been accepted as a freshman at Cen-j
tenary College under the Early Admis-j
sions Program, which permits certain
outstanding students to enter college'
without completing their senior year oij
high school work. Mark will be a pre!
med student with a chemistry major
He has been given a $2,000 scholarship!
by the Department of Chemistry at the;
college.

The English Department sponsored i
lecture and poetry reading by Roble]
Wilson, editor of the North Americat
Review, April 20.

trictly Personal

1930's
Mrs. Tom McClellan (Ouida Fortson

'30) retired June 1, 1970. She was an
employee of the Caddo Parish School
Board for 38 years as a Classroom
Teacher.

1940's

Cullus Z. Walker (x41) is presently
serving as a Securities Broker for West-
america Securities in Denver, Colorado.

Calhoun Allen, Jr. ('43) has announced
that he will be a candidate for mayor of
the city of Shreveport in the August 15th
Democratic primary election. He was
elected as Commissioner of Public Utili-
ties in 1964 and has held this position
since that time.

L. J. Madden, Jr. ('47) represented
Centenary College at the inauguration of
Dr. Robert Aldine Davis as President of
Brevard College on May 2.

1950's
Mrs. T. O. Perry, Jr. (Lynda Davis

'53) was recently elected corresponding
secretary for the Junior League of
Shreveport.

A. Sumner Riddle ('56) has been ap-
pointed Plant Controller of the Stillwater,
Oklahoma, Plant of Swan Rubber Divi-
sion of Amerace-Esna Corporation.

Mrs. John A. Claudis, Jr. ('58) has
been named director of Camp Wawban-
see, Pelican Council of Girl Scouts, for
the 1970 summer camping session.

R. E. Holtzclaw ('59) represented Cen-
tenary College at the investiture of the
new Howard University President in
Washington on April 25.

1960's

Robert Edward Steward ('62) has as-
sumed the position of Sales Representa-
tive for Consolidated Marketing.

Eddie Knight ('63) has been promoted
to assistant eastern division manager for
Drilco.

Hoyt D. Bain ('63) who is the Officer
in charge of BankAmeriCards at the
Bossier Bank & Trust Co. was nominated
for Outstanding AIB Member.

James D. Henderson ('64) is one of
the recipients of the Woodrow Wilson
Dissertation Fellowships for 1970-71.

Mary Ann Honaker Grodzicki ('65)
employed by the U. S. Army Audit
Agency in St. Louis, Missouri was se-
lected "Honorable Mention Trainee of
the Year."

Mrs. Robert S. Hahn (Jacqueline Mc-
Intyre '66) is presently employed -as a
psychiatric social worker with emotion-
ally disturbed children at Our Lady of
Grace Child Center in St. Louis, Mis-
souri.

Edwin E. Walker (x66) has been
named secretary-treasurer and special as-
sistant to the president and administra-
tive manager for the Public Relations
Council, Inc., of Nashville, an industrial
and entertainment industry public rela-
tions firm.

Mary Sue Sanders (x66) is serving as a
professor at Texarkana College in Tex-
arkana, Texas.

James Edward Moore ('67) received
his M.A. from Penn State University in
Slavic Languages and Literature in 1969.

Milton Evan Lindsey ('68) has recent-
ly accepted the position of Assistant
Dean at the Tulane Graduate School of
Business where he will also be working
on his Ph.D. in Management Science.

Jane Fleming Keene ('68) has as-
sumed the position of librarian at Emory
University in Atlanta, Georgia.

1970 Provisionals named to the Junior
League of Shreveport were Alumni Mrs.
W. A. Beaird (Anne Carter Bullock —
'67), Mrs. James Russell Lang, Jr. (Sara
Ann Hitchcock — '62), Mrs. Alan Miller
(Ann Beaird— x68), Mrs. Robert Neff
(Pamela Blanchard McArthur — x69),
Mrs. Ralph W. Parnell (Martha Nell
Plumley — x63), and Mrs. Justin R. Quer-
bes, III (Anne Olene Covington — '65).

Larry L. Liles ('69) a new sales repre-
sentative for Pfizer Diagnostics, has re-
cently completed a training course held
at Pfizer World Headquarters in New
York.

IN MEMORY

William Walter Johnson ('48) passed
away on March 7, 1970. At the time
of his death, he was serving as a Min-
ister and Professor at the Austin Presby-
terian Theological Seminary. He was
41.

James B. Mathews ('49) passed away
on August 5, 1969. At the time of his
death he was employed as a teacher by
the Caddo Parish School Board.

Mrs. William A. Charleville (Elizabeth
Burns Cassity '47) died suddenly on De-
cember 10, 1969. She was a resident of
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

MILITARY

Captain John L. Hill, Jr. ('64) is a
member of a unit that has earned the
U. S. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
for the fourth consecutive year in Viet-
nam.

Captain Jere R. Barnes ('66) has re-
ceived his second award of the U. S. Air
Force Commendation Medal at Scott
AFB, Illinois.

(Continued on page 12)

Robert E. Kepke ('27)^is retiring after
40 years in the business community, the
past 29 being spent in the petroleum in-
dustry. He has been president of Gulf
Refining Company since 1964. From
1941 until 1964, he was associated with
British American Oil Company in Dal-
las, serving as President from 1953-1964.

In addition to heading Gulf Refining
Company, Mr. Kepke has also been serv-
ing as president of West Texas Gulf Pipe
Line Company, Laurel Pipe Line Com-
pany, Dixie Pipe Line Company and
Four Corners Pipe Line Company.

While attending Centenary, Mr. Kepke
was an outstanding athlete and played
football under the famed Bo McMillan
and later under Homer Norton. He
graduated from law school at the Uni-
versity fo Texas in 1930 and began
private practice in Dallas. From 1939
to 1941, he served in the office of the
Texas Attorney General at Austin in
charge of the Division of Public Lands
and Minerals.

Dr. Richard Prindle ('44) has been
selected as the new chief of Health and
Population Dynamics of the Pan Ameri-
can Health Organization of the World
Health Organization.

In his job, Dr. Prindle is concerned
with family planning in sixteen coun-
tries. His department will also be in-
volved in research "of the whole busi-
ness of reproduction."

He served as assistant surgeon general
for the U. S. Public Health Service from
1966 until March of this year. As as-
sistant surgeon general, he was chief of
the bureau dealing with air pollution,
chronic and communicable disease, radi-
ologic health programs and urban and
industrial programs.

Strictly Personal

continued

(Continued from page 1 1 )
Martin D. Allain, Jr. ('68) has arrived
in Korea to serve as an assistant field
director in the Red Cross Service at
Military Installations.

Captain Henry C. Miller, Jr. (x65) has
been awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross for "heroism in aerial flight evi-
denced by voluntary action above and
beyond the call of duty" in South Viet-
nam. He was cited for using his heli-
copter to draw intense enemy fire away
from rescue choppers.

NEW ARRIVALS

Mr. and Mrs. Rubert Thompson
(Phoebe Volentine '61) announce the
birth of a son, Philip Worth Thompson,

who was born on March 30.

Major and Mrs. Ralph A. Mason, Jr.,
('62) are the proud parents of a new
baby. The boy, David Adams Mason,

was born on April 29.

Rev. and Mrs. James Garrett (Betty
Bentley '57) announce the arrival of a
son, Bentley Todd, December 23, 1969.
Bentley joins a brother, James, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren West ('59) (Jane
Ilgenfritz '61) are the proud parents of
a new baby girl. Jennifer Lee was born
January 5 and joins two older sisters,
Elizabeth, 5, and Katherine, 3.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Alexander
(Nancy Kay Pennington '63) welcomed
a daughter, Lesleigh Marie, on Decem-
ber 10, 1969.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nelson White-
hurst (Olivia Nell Bott '40) are the proud
parents of a son, John, born April 14.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Penney (Di-
ane Holloway '59) adopted a son,
Stephen Charles, born February 16.

Mr. and Mrs. Billy A. Eubanks ('60)
welcomed a daughter, Virginia Brooke,
on May 24.

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Cox (Linda

Hope '65) are the proud parents of a
new baby. The girl, Cynthia, was born
on May 4.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Teague ('58) (Mar-r
garet Poss '56) are the proud parents of
a new baby girl. Jennifer was born on
February 20.

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nance ('66) (Violet
West '66) welcomed a baby boy, Jona-
than, on March 24.

Mr. and Mrs. John Whiteley (x63) an-
nounce the arrival of a son, Richard
Frederick, born February 9.

Mr. and Mrs. Roland Miller (June*
Anderson '68) are the proud parents of
a new baby boy. Roland Warren, Jr.,
"Chip," was born on January 18.

Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Byrd ('60);
(Linda Walters '60) welcomed a son.
James Patrick, on February 15.

Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Simpson, Jr. ('65)-
(Nancy Padgett '65) announce the arrival
of a daughter, Rebecca Anne, born
March 20.

Outstanding Young Men

Five Centenary College alumni have
been named to the 1970 edition of the
Outstanding Young Men of America,
published by the nonprofit Outstanding
Americans Foundation of Chicago.
Those selected are John O. Williams,
Shreveport '61; Herb Fackler, Natchi-
toches '64; Edwin C. Harbuck '56,
Shreveport; Hoyt Duggan, '60, Char-
lottesville, Va.; and Don Scroggins, '66,
Cambridge, Mass.

Selections were made by a 16-man
Board of Advisory Editors and were
based on the men "having distinguished
themselves in one or more fields of en-
deavor to the point of being outstand-
ing." Those chosen are between the
ages of 21 and 35.

Williams graduated from Centenary
with a B.A. degree in mathematics. He
received his master's degree from the
University of Texas in astronomy. Pres-
ently he is an instructor at Centenary
College in physics.

Fackler holds an M.A. degree in
English from New Mexico Highlands
University and is a candidate for the
Ph.D. degree from the University of
Northwestern in Natchitoches.

Harbuck is a Chartered Life Under-
writer with Prudential Life Insurance
Company of Shreveport. He graduated
from Centenary in economics and has
been a member of the Shreveport Cham-
ber of Commerce Board of Directors

and was named "Young Man of the
Year" in 1961 and was president of the
Centenary College Alumni Association.

Duggan now holds the Ph.D. degree
from Princeton University. He is pres
ently an assistant professor of English a
the University of Virginia in Charlottes
ville. He was Centenary College's firs
Rhodes Scholar and earned the B. Lit
degree at Oxford.

Scroggins is in his second year o:
teaching at Harvard University, where
he is a candidate for the Ph.D. degree hi
physical chemistry. He was named ill
Woodrow Wilson fellow, a Danfortl
fellow and won a National Scienc*
Foundation Fellowship.

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Summer Days

Summer days were tranquil but far
from lazy at Centenary College. Al-
though the academic pace slowed a bit
with most students away for vacation,
the campus buzzed with many special
activities.

Summer School enrollment was up al-
most 20% and a wide variety of courses
was offered.

Robert Buseick, Director of the Mar-
jorie Lyons Playhouse offered three
dramas this summer. Two of the pro-
grams, "The Lion In Winter" and the
musical "Mame" were open for com-
munity involvement. One, "The Prince
Who Became A Lion," was cast with
only Centenary students.

The annual Pops Concert was again
given every Tuesday evening in the Har-
grove Amphitheatre by Mr. Bill Causey,
drawing large crowds.

Approximately 2000 persons visited
the campus in June, July and August,
as the result of participation in non-
college related conferences. Among this
group were many young visitors, includ-
ing 450 with the B'Nai B'Rrith Youth
Organization; 200 with the Methodist
Youth Fellowship and almost 100 with
the Evelyn Thurmond Baton Twirlers.

Construction activity heightened as the
contractor took advantage of good
weather to forge ahead on the Admin-
istration Building and the physical edu-
cation complex. The placing of the
gold dome began in late August.

Faculty members broadened their ho-
rizons in a number of ways this summer:

Dr. Stanton Taylor, Associate Profes-
sor of Chemistry, was one of 25 college
teachers of physical chemistry invited to
attend a summer institute at Tufts Uni-
versity, Medford, Mass. Participants
studied and discussed modern aspects of
physical chemistry, particularly as it ap-
plies to quantum and statistical mechan-
ics and modern theories of chemical
bonding.

Dr. Wilfred L. Guerin, professor of
English at Centenary College, was named
a member of the Visiting Faculty for the
Intensive Summer Studies Program at
Harvard University this summer. The
program is co-sponsored by Harvard,
Yale, and Columbia Universities and
provides an opportunity for fifty college
faculty members to pursue serious stud-
ies in their field of academic interest.

John O. Williams, physics instructor,
received a faculty grant to attend the
Fourth Summer Institute for Astronomy
and Astrophysics at State University of
New York at Stony Brook, New York.
This marks the third year that Williams
has been given a grant to attend the
institute. The central topic of this year's
institute was "Physics of the Solar Sys-
tem" with special emphasis on the results
of the recent "in-situ" exploration of the
moon.

Dr. Robert Hood, Assistant Professor
of Chemistry, received an NSF grant for
special summer study at Texas Woman's
University.

Dr. Wayne Hanson, Chairman of the
Chemistry Department at Centenary
College, was selected to be one of 25
science teachers throughout the country
to participate in a summer science
seminar at Stanford University. He
was also notified by the American
Chemical Society of his appointment to
a three year term on the Chemistry Cur-
riculum Committee of the Division of
Chemical Education. Third on the list
was a two week program on "Environ-
mental Assessment" which was held in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Dr. Robert Deufel, chairman of the
Biology Department at Centenary, was
named visiting professor at the University
of North Carolina this summer.

Mrs. Anna White, head of the circula-
tion department of the Centenary Col-
lege Library, was invited to attend a
federally sponsored librarian training in-
stitute on "Planning and Implementing

1970-71 Centenary Alumni Association

Officers

President Mitzi Middlebrooks '55

Vice President .... Harriett Middleton '43

Vice President Robert Eatman '44

Secretary .... Juanita Ryland Rembert '41
Treasurer Dwight M. Brown, Sr. '49

Directors

(Terms Expire 1972)

Cecil E. Bland, Jr. '42, Dwight M. Brown,
Sr. '49, John J. Evans '62, Dorothy H. Gam-
mill '40, Harriett C. Middleton '43, Ned W.
Prothro '45, Juanita Ryland Rembert '41,
Wayne F. Stoddard '60, B. C. Taylor '22,
Jane Ilgenfritz West '61.
(Terms Expire 1971)

Suda Adams '68, Ann Wyche '52, Roland
Achee '44, Calhoun Allen '43, Dr. Leon

Academic Library Automation Pro-
grams" in June. She was one of only 20
participants chosen from throughout the
U. S. to attend the meeting.

Mr. Bob Buseick, Chairman of the
Department of Speech and Drama, took
the River Town Players to Indiana where
they presented "Stop the World, I Want
to Get Off." Also, he attended the an-
nual meeting of the American Educa-
tional Theatrical Association in Wash-
ington, D. C.

Mr. C. L. Holloway, an instructor in
the Speech and Drama Department,
spent his summer at the Oregon Shake-
speare Festival.

Dr. Leroy Vogel, Professor of History
and Government at Centenary, took a
group of ten college students to Monter-
rey, Mexico to attend an International
Summer School. He also made a cul-
tural study of Eastern Europe. This in-
cluded stops at Leningrad, Prague, War-
saw, East Berlin, West Berlin, and Frank-
furt. He attended an International Con-
gress of Historical Sciences in Moscow.

Dr. Virginia Carlton, head of the
mathematics department at Centenary,
has received a Fulbright grant to the
University of Liberia in Monrovia. Li-
beria, West Africa for 1970-71. She
will lecture in mathematics and assist in
curriculum development.

President John Allen was the guest of
the U. S. Navy aboard the aircraft car-
rier, The U. S. S. Hancock, and he
sailed the West Coast for seven days.

Dr. Thomas S. Hickey, Professor of
Business and Psychology at Centenary,
served as a consultant for CAP-CAB
and for the Mental Health Center this
summer.

Dr. Woodrow Pate, Professor of Eco-
nomics, and Dr. Roy Pearson, Associate
Professor of Economics at Centenary
conducted an Economics Workshop for
high school teachers.

Dr. John Berton acted as a consultant
for Southwestern Electric Power Co.

Bain, Jr. '59, Judy Butcher '65, Robert Eat-
man '44, Sandra Harper '63, Mitzi Middle-
brooks '55, Harold Rosbottom '58.

Area Chapter Presidents

Baton Rouge . . . Dr. Moss Bannerman '33

Dallas Don Bush

Houston Gaylon White

Monroe Mrs. Travis Brown

Shreveport Edwin Harbuck '56

New Orleans Stephen Victory '60

Alumni Office

Director Bob Hollady

Assoc. Director Nancy Cosse

Staff Arden Ashley (Secretary)

Maureen Myers (Record Room)
Donna Evans (Record Room)

The Centenary College Alumni Maga-
zine, Centenary, September 1970, Volume
2, Number 1, published four times a year
— in September, December, March and
June by the Centenary College Alumni
Association, Shreveport, La. 71104. Second
Class postage paid at Shreveport, Louisiana.
Published for members of the Alumni
Association and friends of Centenary Col-
lege of Louisiana.

Alumni Magazine

Editor Nancy Cosse

Reporters Arden Ashley

Maurie Wayne

2nd class postage paid at Shreveport, La.

The Liberal Arts Education

by Martha West '70

Whatls education but beccr

of the knowledge of yesterday and

today and learning how it c;

joy and understanding to tomorrow.

Such may be experienced bv

"student" at Cen

-in th'classroo

...

— through self expression

— or the creative expression of others

to be involved

to be part of . . . community

Martha West '70

Who's Who in American Colleges

and Universities, Centenary Lady, Coed

Vice-President of Student Senate, Cencoe,

Pledge Trainer of Chi Omega, Presently,

employed as secretary to

the Dean of Women.

. . . college

. . . one other person

to understand that four years is

preparation for BEGINNING

Alumni Officers

Mrs. Robert Middleton

Mrs. William E. Rembert, Jr.

Dwight M. Brown

The Centenary College Alumni Asso-
ciation Board of Directors has elected
Mrs. Bruce Middlebrooks '55 President
of the Association for 1970-71. Other
officers are Robert Eatman, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Robert Middleton, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. William E. Rembert, Jr.,
secretary; and Dwight M. Brown,
treasurer.

Mrs. Middlebrooks succeeds Dr.
Wayne Hanson who has served as the
head of the Centenary ex-student organi-
zation for the past two years.

Ten new members were also elected
to the Board of Directors of the Associ-
ation; they are Brown, Mrs. Middleton,
Mrs. Rembert, Cecil E. Bland, Jr., John
H. Evans, Mrs. A. R. Gammill, Dr. Ned
W. Prothro, Wayne F. Stoddard, Dr. B.
C. Taylor, and Mrs. Warren C. West, Jr.
All new board members will serve terms
expiring in 1972.

Appointed for a one year term of of-
fice by the new president were: William
A. Fain, James M. Goins, R. Mac Grif-
fith, Mrs. Orvis Sigler and Dr. Juan W.
Watkins.

Mrs. Middlebrooks, a 1955 graduate
of Centenary College, is presently a co-
ordinator at Valencia Junior High
School. She has served in various ca-
pacities with the Caddo Teachers Associ-
ation, is an officer of the State Associ-
ation of Classroom Teachers and is listed
in "Outstanding Young Women of
America." At Centenary she was a
member of the Choir, Maroon Jackets,
Who's Who, junior and senior Class
Favorite and vice president of the student
senate.

Eatman is a Shreveport attorney who
graduated from Centenary in 1944. He
received his law degree from LSU in
1949. He is a member of the Louisiana
and American Bar Associations, the
American Judicature Society, the East
Shreveport Rotary Club, the Chamber of
Commerce, and the American Legion.

Mrs. Middleton is a housewife, mar-
ried to a local architect. She is a mem-
ber of the class of 1943. She was
named Miss Centenary in 1942 and
presently has a daughter attending Cente-
nary.

Mrs. Rembert is head librarian at the
Shreve Memorial Library. She gradu-
ated from the college in 1941 and also
has a child, Gregory Lee Rembert, pres-
ently attending Centenary. She is listed
in "Who's Who in American Women."

Brown is a graduate of the old Cente-
nary Law School and has had a career
as attorney and C. P. A. He is a mem-
ber of the Shreveport, Louisiana, and
American Bar Associations and the

Shreveport, Louisiana, and American
C. P. A.'s. He is a member of the
Shreveport Kiwanis Club and the Broad-
moor Baptist Church.

Homecoming

February 12-14
Centenary College Campus
Reunions: 1946, 1961

Alumni
Coffee House

(After the Play)
October 1, 1970
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

The staff of the 1971 Yoncopin is
making a limited number of compli-
mentary copies of the annual available
to former students. For a fee of $10.00
they will list you as a patron in the book
and will mail you a copy when it is pub-
lished next May. If interested, please
send your name, class, address, and check

for $10.00 to: Alumni Patron
1971 Yoncopin
c/o Alumni Office
Centenary College
Shreveport, La. 71104

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION, Dr. John Horton Allen

Wednesday, October 21, 1970, 10 O'Clock in the morning, Civic Theatre, Shreveport, La.

I plan to attend Dr. John Horton Allen's Inauguration on Wednesday, October 21, 1970

Name:

Address:

Will guest's spouse be attending the Inauguration?

Please complete and return this blank before October 13

Strictly Personal

30 's

The son of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Mar-
shall ('32) of New Orleans, Keith C. Mar-
shall, has completed his two year study
at Oxford University on a Rhodes Schol-
arship and will return to London in Oc-
tober where he will attend Courtauld In-
stitute of Art, and the University of Lon-
don also on a Rhodes Scholarship.

40's

Dr. Val F. Borum ('41) was recently
elected president of the Texas Society of
Anesthesiologists. He was also re-elected
to a second three-year term as a delegate
to the American Society of Anesthesi-
ologists.

Dr. Charles Knight was recently ap-
pointed President of the Confederate
Memorial Medical Center's Visiting Staff.
He is also a staff surgeon at Highland
Clinic and Hospital.

Mrs. Lucretia Klockenkemper ('44)
was presented with a sterling silver Bulle-
tin charm for one year's service on the
magazine staff of the Officer's Wives
League in Pensacola, Florida. In addi-
tion, she was recently named President
of the Pensacola Music Study Club for
which she served as Program Chairman
during the past year.

William A. Liddell ('47) has been re-
elected President of the Shreveport Sym-
phony Society for the 1970-71 season.
He will be serving his third consecutive
year in this position.

50's

Glenn O. Hilburn ('51) was recently
re-elected as Editor of The Circle at

Baylor University.

Robert P. McEIroy ('56) has received
his Master of Arts in Teaching from the
University of Redlands in Redlands,
California.

60's

Dr. S. D. Morehead, Jr. ('61) is pres-
ently serving on the staff of Case West-
ern Reserve Medical School as a clinical
psychologist in Cleveland, Ohio.

James A. Van Hook, Jr. ('65) who is
an associate of Hargrove, Guyton, Van
Hook and Ramey Law Firm, will be the
chairman of the Special Accounts divi-
sion in this year's Shreveport United
Fund Campaign.

Joseph A. DeFatta ('66) received his
Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Ac-
counting from Louisiana State University
this summer. This fall, he will assume
the post of assistant professor of account-
ing at Wichita State University, Wichita,
Kansas.

Sara Burroughs ('60) received her doc-
torate in English this summer at Okla-
homa University. She will serve as
assistant professor at Oklahoma Baptist
University at Shawnee.

In Memory

Dr. C. R. Gentry (x47) died of a sud-
den illness on August 17. He had served
as medical director of the Florida State
University Hospital in Tallahassee for
the past seven years. He is survived by
his wife and two daughters.

New Arrivals

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mayer (Judy
Downes x59) announce the arrival of
Michael Bradley on August 7. Michael
has two older sisters, Judith 7 and Mar-
got 4.

Dr. and Mrs. Fred Willis ('60) (Mary
Beth Bomar '60) welcomed a baby boy,
Christopher Sterling, on August 11th.

Mr. and Mrs. Billy Eubanks ('60) (Jen
Houchin '61) are the proud parents of a
baby girl. Virginia Brooke was born on
May 24th.

Marriages

PAULA BOYD ('70) and RICHARD
WATTS ('70) were united in a ceremony
on May 23rd. They spent their honey-
moon in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

MARTHA WOODS ('70) and MAC
GRIFFITH ('69) were married on July
25th and flew to the Grand Bahamas on
their wedding trip.

PEGGY SIMPSON ('70) and BOBBY
MONSTEAD ('70) were wed on August
3rd. They visited Sea Island off the
coast of Georgia on their honeymoon.

SUE COUVILLION ('70) and JOHN
SCHEEL ('70) were united in a June
ceremony.

VIVIAN GANNWAY ('69) and
JOHN WALKER ('69) were married in
January.

PATTY VERLANDER ('70) and
BRYAN MOFFATT ('69) exchanged
vows in May. They are presently living
in California.

POLLY POOLMAN ('70) and RON-
ALD BRYSON were married in an April
ceremony.

DEBBIE RODRIGUEZ ('70) and
ALAN WILLIAMS exchanged vows on
May 30th. They are presently living in
New Orleans.

JANE BOSTICK ('70) and BILL
BEARDEN ('70) were united in marri-
age in a June Ceremony.

GAYLE FRENCH ('70) and BILL
BOYD ('69) were wed on August 16th.

ELLIE RAY ('70) and WALTER
MANNING ('70) exchanged vows in
June. They are presently residing in
Dallas.

LICE WHITE ('70) and KERRY
KELLER (x69) were united in a June
ceremony. They are living in Carbon-
dale, Illinois.

MARY FRANCES BACKSTROM
('70) and BILL STOWE ('69) were mar-
ried in August.

SUSAN BROWN ('70) and TURNER
GUIDRY ('70) exchanged vows in June.

CAROL MITTELSTAEDT ('70) and
DOUG KOELEMAY ('70) were married
in June.

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The Inauguration Story

The official Inauguration of Dr. John
Horton Allen as the 32nd President of
Centenary College took place on Wed-
nesday, October 21st, at the Shreveport
Convention Center.

Invitations to the event were sent to
some 450 Shreveport friends of the col-
lege, representatives of the local Cham-
bers of Commerce, schools, labor organi-
zations, churches and government offi-
cials. Some 1600 senior colleges and
universities in the United States, together
with approximately 100 representatives
of learned societies were also included.

Invited from the United Methodist
Church were Bishop Aubrey G. Walton,
the ministers of the Louisiana Annual
Conference, and the Council of Bishops
of the United Methodist Church.

The Inaugural ceremony included an
academic procession, at which more
than 250 colleges and universities were
represented, many by the institution's
president.

Greetings were extended to the gath-
ering and Dr. Allen by Dean Thad N.
Marsh, from the college; Bishop Walton,
from the United Methodist Church; Pro-
fessor Leroy Vogel, Ph.D., from the
faculty, Mrs. Bruce Middlebrooks,
President of the Alumni Association,
from the Alumni, and Fred Miller, Pres-
ident of the Student Senate, from the
students.

Dr. Willis M. Tate, president of
Southern Methodist University gave the
Inaugural Address, entitled "If I Could
Start All Over Again." Dr. Tate said
the refinement of values was the most
important product of his personal col-
lege life and he listed three marks of
maturity which presidents and admin-
istrators hope are results of the student's
educational experience: becoming a per-
son whose judgment and decisions are
enormously influenced by their ability
and willingness to reason; a commitment
to human values over material values;
and finding or refining- "a faith to live
by."

In discussing college finances, he said
"the cost of putting a student through
college is growing and will keep growing
for the foreseeable future." However,
he said, "some things are more easily

funded in higher education than others.
Programs of technology, in business, in
theology, and even in the arts seem to
find more available donors.

"But the needs for basic general, lib-
eral education are largely ignored. It
is hard to sell a donor on the importance
of helping a youth understand man and
his world. It's easier to, get someone to
help you get a computer!"

George D. Nelson, chairman of the
Board of Trustees, invested Dr. Allen
with the bronze presidential medallion,
the first to be used in the 145-year his-
tory of the college, and gave him the
charge of office.

The medallion is in the form of the
college seal and carries the Latin inscrip-
tion "Sigillum Officiae Praesidie," which
translated means "The Seal of the Office
of the President." It will become a part
of the president's academic dress for all
ceremonial occasions, and will be handed
down through the years to succeeding
presidents.

A number of related events were held
in conjunction with the Inauguration.
Beginning Tuesday with an afternoon In-
augural Reception for Students, Faculty
and Staff in the Student Center followed
by a formal dinner party for family and
close associates of Dr. Allen at the
Shreveport Club, the festivities were con-
cluded Wednesday with the Investiture
and the Inaugural Luncheon for all in-
vited guests at Bain Hall of the First
United Methodist Church.

Dr. Allen, a native of Homer, La., was
elected President of Centenary by the
Board of Trustees September 1, 1969,
following the resignation of the late Dr.
Jack S. Wilkes, who left to accept a Vice-
President's position at S.M.U. in Dallas.

Dr. Allen was Dean of the University of
Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg when
he was chosen for the Centenary presi-
dency. His academic career includes
teaching positions at Southeastern Lou-
iana State and Penn State, as well as
at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Since coming to Shreveport, Dr. Allen
has been active in community affairs in
addition to his duties at the college. He
has worked on behalf of the Chamber of
Commerce where he serves on the Board
of Directors, the Shreveport Rotary Club,
and the American Heart Association. He
has also been elected Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the Louisiana
Foundation for Private Colleges and
Universities.

The Centenary College president's
chair has been filled by many nationally
recognized educators during its long his-
tory in higher education, including such
men as the late Dr. Wilkes, Joe J. Mickle,
Pierce Cline, and George Sexton during
recent times. The progression of presi-
dents has sometimes been clouded by a
loss of college documents, and some ar-
gue that Dr. Allen is actually the 33rd or
34th president rather than the 32nd. One
historian says that the short term of
former Board Chairman Paul M. Brown
as acting president between the term of
Dr. Cline and Dr. Mickle is not reckoned
in the present 32nd designation.

Reverend Jeremiah Chamberlain, a
Presbyterian Minister, was elected as the
first President of the College, founded
as a state institution in Jackson, La. in
1825. Records show that Reverend
Chamberlain was elected to the presi-
dency in 1826 by a vote of 8 to 3.

Although Dr. Allen's term actually be-
gan in September of 1969, he did not
move to Shreveport from Hattiesburg un-
til January 1, 1970 since he had to com-
plete his term as Dean at Hattiesburg.
So he began his first full academic year
this September.

When he assumed the post at Cente-
nary he said he believed that the exciting
things in education in the future would
be happening at the smaller private lib-
eral arts colleges such as Centenary and
he wanted to be a part of this phase of
higher education.

The Centenary College Alumni Magazine,
Centenary, December 1970, Volume 2, Number
2, published four times a year — in September,
December, March and June by the Centenary
College Alumni Association, Shreveport, La.
71104. Second Class postage paid at Shreve-
port, La. Published for members of the Alumni
Association and friends of Centenary College
of Louisiana.

1970-71 Centenary College Alumni Association
Officers

President Mitzi Middlebrooks '55

Vice President Harriett Middleton '43

Vice President Robert Eatman '44 Juanita

Secretary Juanita Ryland Rembert '41 '60, B.

Treasurer Dwight M. Brown, Sr. '49 Dr. Jua

Sigler

Alumni Staff (Terms

Director Bob Holladay Suda

Assoc. Director & Editor Nancy Cosse Achee

Reporters Arden Ashley Jr. '59,

Maurie Wayne Sandra

Directors Harold
(Terms Expire 1972)

Cecil E. Bland, Jr. '42, Dwight M. Brown, Sr.
'49, John J. Evans '62, Dorothy H. Gammill '40,
Harriett C. Middleton '43, Ned W. Prothro '45,

Ryland Rembert '41, Wayne F. Stoddard
C. Taylor '22, Jane llgenfritz West '61,

n Watkins '57, William A. Fain, Jo Anne

54, Mac Griffith '69, James Goins '61.

Expire 1971)
Adams '68, Ann Wyche, '52, Roland ;

'44, Calhoun Allen '43, Dr. Leon Bain, ;
Judy Butcher '65, Robert Eatman '44, I
Harper '63, Mitzi Middlebrooks '55, I

Rosbottom '58. I

The Inauguration Story

Official Inaugural Greetings

FROM THE COLLEGE

Mr. President, Bishop Walton, Dr. Nel-
son, President Tate, Distinguished Dele-
gates of the academic community, my
esteemed colleagues on this Faculty, hon-
ored guests of Centenary College of Louisi-
ana : it is my high privilege and honor this
morning to welcome you to these cere-
monies in which we celebrate the accession
of a new President.

An inauguration is perhaps always an
auspicious occasion ; in the life of a College
approaching its sesquicentennial, it is in
these days an occasion of rejoicing — per-
haps of thanksgiving for mere survival.

It is moreover an occasion on which it
is possible to give honor to our friends and
our family: we have — and Dr. Allen has —
greetings and felicitations from those we
cherish as friends, benefactors, and well-
wishers. I should like to read you the
foremost of such messages now :

To Dr. John H. Allen, President,
Centenary College of Louisiana : My
congratulations to you on your inaugu-
ration as thirty-second President of
Centenary College of Louisiana. The
intellectual and moral strength this
fine institution has imparted to gen-
erations of students has immeasurably
enriched the quality of life in our soci-
ety. And under your able leadership,
I am confident that Centenary's out-
standing reputation will be even fur-
ther advanced. You have my best
wishes for a successful administration.
(Signed) Richard Nixon.
It is true that Centenary College has had
an illustrious record in the service of this
region and this nation. Our men and
women have gone into the professions and
graced them and advanced them. Our
students know here the best of the life of
learning, and it sends them into the fore-
front of the life of action.

We of Centenary College of Louisiana,
and our thirty-second President, are hon-
ored by your presence. We welcome you
to our festivities and are highly gratified
by your participation. Before moving on
with these ceremonies I should like to call
your attention to certain special guests at
this convocation : we are specially pleased
and honored by the presence of one of the
College's most effective friends, and one
of this region's most justly prized public
servants, the congressman from Louisi-
ana's fourth district, the Honorable Joe D.
Waggonner, Jr. We are equally graced on
this memorable occasion by the family of
our new President : his wife, Sidney Gre-
million Allen, and their children, Jay and
Lisa; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Baker Allen, of Homer, Louisiana.

Finally, I should like to mention the
presence of some among the delegates who
are faithful in their attendance : the late
President Wilkes chose not to be formally
inaugurated as the 31st president, so we
have not had one of these affairs since the
inauguration in 1946 of Dr. Joe J. Mickle.
The Georgia Institute of Technology was
represented at that inauguration 24 years
ago, as it is today, by our good friend Mr.
W. Murray Werner. The University of
Chicago was represented then, as it is to-
dav, by Mr. Grover C. Koffman.
Welcome, then: Gaudeamus Igitur.
Thad N. Marsh
Dean of the College

FROM THE FACULTY

The last time I participated in the eleva-
tion of someone to the presidency of an
institution, I had a rather unnerving ex-
perience. The occasion was the inaugura-
tion of Dr. Longenecker to the Presidency
of Tulane University. I chanced that year
to be president of the Conference of Louisi-
ana Colleges and Universities, and in that
capacity I was one of five speakers at the
luncheon which followed hard on the for-
mal ceremonies. That evening, at the
formal dinner at the country club, my wife
and I encountered one of the dignitaries, a
long-time acquaintance of mine, who intro-
duced his wite to us, and I introduced my
wife to them. His wife immediately pro-
ceeded to make small talk, and asked me:
"Were you at the luncheon this noon?",
and when I said I had been, she continued,
"Weren't the speeches wonderful!"

I expect that my remarks today will be
no less memorable.

Perhaps the last place where any person
would expect to speak for his colleagues
would be in an academic community,
where a mandate is never given, and where
tenure is enjoyed, not by the employer, but
by the employed. So I can respond at this
time, only as an individual, albeit as a
professor with considerable senority and
with close association with the illustrious
body, in relation to -whom you have accept-

ed a position of leadership. No group is
more interested in your success, no one be-
lieves more in your qualifications, no one
is more determined that this be the dawn
of a golden age, than the faculty for whom
I have been asked to speak. Within this
framework I would like to read with all
respect and personal commitment, a his-
torical pledge.

You are a sociologist, sir, and know that
throughout history men have taken assert-
ed pledges to those whom they recognized
as their leaders and associates. They run
from the maiden's "Whither thou goest I
will go, thy people shall be my people, thy
god, my god, where thou diest, I will die
and be buried," to a man's vow of fidelity
for richer or poorer, to the founders of our
independence who mutually pledged "to
each other our lives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honor," to the Roman soldier's
death-invitation: "Dulce et decorum est
pro patria mori." All of these are apt, but
none is entirely appropriate. I have an-
other that is a favorite. It is quoted in the
book by Lewis Mumford, THE CULTURE
OF THE CITIES (New York, 1938, page
78) ; and this is the Medieval oath which
the dukes and the squires and the other
citizens of Aragon took to the King of
Aragon. It reads :

"We who are as good as you, swear
to you who are not better than we, to
accept you as our king and sovereign
lord, provided that you observe all our
liberties and laws ; but if not, then
not."

At first glance this sounds impudent; but
it was not and is not so intended. It takes
into account conditionals, and these condi-
tionals are a historic and realistic fact of
life. I am probably safe in saving that
your faculty will not only subscribe to this
pledge; I think they will probably, vocally
or silently, insist oh it; and I venture that
you too will insist on this as the desired
and surely fruitful relationship; in this
spirit we will work, with work which "con-
quers all," (Labor omnia vincit) together.
Leroy Vogel
Secretary to the Faculty

exemplified all of the pre-requisites and
especially a dedication to keeping Cente-
nary an outstanding college. We wish you
the best in all of your endeavors as presi-
dent and want you to know that the alum-
ni are always ready to heed your call.

Mrs. Bruce Middlebrooks
Alumni President

FROM THE STUDENTS

Dr. Allen and Honored Guests :

I must admit I feel rather ill at ease
speaking to you this morning. First of all,
I'm a student speaking about an admin-
istrator. Also I'm a member of the "now"
generation speaking about a member of the
"then" generation. It seems like it would
be almost blasphemous for me to say any-
thing nice. On the other hand, I couldn't
think of anvthing bad to say, and if I
could, I wouldn't sav it for fear we'd have
to go back to class this afternoon. I guess
I'll use some advice mv mother once gave
me, "When you're really confused tell the
truth."

Dr. Allen has been at Centenary for
about a vear now. In that time, the stu-
dents of Centenarv have come to know him
in a number of the roles he fills on
campus. We've come to know him as an
administrator, and we have a great deal
of respect and admiration for him in that
capacity. The problems we bring him are
some of the most minor with which he
must deal, but we find that he is always
ready to listen to us and help us in any
wav he can. That means a lot to us.
We've come to know him as a teacher, and
we've learned much from him, not only in
the classroom, but in conversation with
him in his office and on campus. But most
important of all, we've come to know him
as a warm, friendlv, intelligent human be-
ing. I guess all I'm trying to sav thi<5
morning is. Dr. Allen, we're proud and
honored to have you as our President, our
teacher, and our friend.

Fred Miller

President, Student Senate

FROM THE ALUMNI

It is my privilege on this occasion to
bring greetings from all of the students
who have passed through the doors of
Centenary prior to this time — the alumni
of Centenary.

Centenary's history is an old one and
through the pages of its history there are
names which stir the hearts of alumni and
bring a glimmer to their eyes. You ask,
"Whose names are these?" They are the
names of professors at Centenary who
were dedicated not only to education, but
to the welfare of students, and to making
Centenary a good college. These people
are the heart of the college.

President Allen, the alumni of Centenary
are already convinced that your name will
be one which will bring a glimmer to many
eyes of future alumni, for you have already

FROM THE CHURCH

It is my high privilege and my pleasant
responsibility to bring greetings from the
Methodist Church to Centenary College on
this occasion of the inauguration of John
Horton Allen as president.

It is most appropriate that the church
should extend its congratulations to the
college at this time, for there is a close re-
lationship between the church and the col-
lege. I am not referring now to that con-
ception which we often nave when we call
attention to the relationship of the church
and the college. When in speaking of the
college we use the term "church related,"
many people are apt to think that we are
implying that the church owns or controls
the college. I am concerned with a rela-
tionship between the church and the col-
lege that is entirely different and much
more meaningful.

What I am saying is that the church and
the college are really engaged in the same
task — and that task is the development of
better human beings and the molding of a
better society. Therefore, the church and
the college ' are often working together
toward the attainment of a common end.
This may be a new thought to some, but
it is a matter which is well worth our
consideration.

Roughly speaking, education is con-
cerned with all of life. It is important that
one should know about the tools that are
available and how to use them, but this is
not enough. The purpose for which they
are used and the motivation which impels
the one who is using them are also im-
portant. Education is concerned not only
with how the student may develop intellec-
tually, but also with the contribution that
he makes to society. And I submit to you
that this is what' a great many of our
young people are trying to say to us by
their insistence upon involvement on the
campus and elsewhere in attempting to
bring about the changes which they deem
so necessary. Dr. Myron Wicke, of the
General Board of Education, lifted up this
conception of the close relationship be-
tween the church and the college working
together to improve the future when he
spoke recently to a group of college presi-
dents and bishops. Dr. Wicke said :

"Surely the future will not be finally
improved on the streets, by mobs, or
conversely by an all-powerful even fas-
cist-type government. The future is
not likely to be shaped by noise, by
guns, or, more important,' by ignor-
ance . . .

"Nothing is so obviously and pain-
fully necessary for the future of the
world as a transformed human spirit.
To say it is to suggest the visionary
and the impossible. Yet it is today, as
through the ages, the root problem.
By spirit is meant the prevailing drive,
the governing attitude, the posture a
man takes toward himself, his fellow
beings, his God."
No, the future will not finally be im-

E roved by confrontation that divides, but
y transformation which reconciles, renews
and realizes the highest good for the indi-
vidual dedicated to the attainment of the
highest good for human society.

The task of the college is not only to
direct the student in the way of academic
excellence, but also to instill within him a
social consciousness and a moral concern;
not only to assist him in his search for
truth, but also to touch and to inspire him
in the direction of the use of his life that
through him and his fellows the world may
be transformed.

This is also the task of the church. In
an effort to achieve this goal the church
established the first colleges and continues
to maintain such institutions of learning
until this day. For over two hundred years
the Methodist Church has been in the fore-
front in all this momentous effort. John
Wesley established a school before he
erected a church building, and we recall
his prophetic words :

"Let us unite these two so long divided,
knowledge and vital piety."

Therefore, the church sends greetings to
the college on this occasion, praying God's
blessings upon the college, upon the new
president, upon all associated with him in
administration, upon the faculty and the
student body, and above all praying for the
realization of these highest goals by the
college and the church working together at
this glorious task.

If I Could Start All Over Again . . . .

Dr. Willis M. Tate, President,
Southern Methodist University,
October 21, 1970

"If I could start all over again, I be-
lieve I would try never to lose sight of
what should be the job of Commence-
ment Day for each graduate, and for
the University as it sends its youth out
into the world . . .

"I remember my own traumatic ad-
justment in college . . . Looking back I
now realize it was refinement of my
values that was the important product of
my college life . . . The maturity, the
growth that came to my life during my
college years . . . this was the real stuff
that made commencement a day to re-
member . . .

"Let me suggest at least three marks
of maturity which we hope are a direct
result of the student's educational experi-
ence.

"First: We desire that our students
have become persons whose judgment
and important decisions are enormously
influenced by their ability and willing-
ness to reason ... To reduce the num-
ber of adherents to the irrational voice
is one of the goals of higher educa-
tion . . .

"Second: Of great importance to me
in keeping in sight the joy of fulfillment
for both the student and the institution,
is a commitment to human values over
material values ... It is my sincerest
hope that our students learn to choose
between material and human values be-
cause spelling them out in the world of
business, public and private life later on
will demand great courage and ingen-
uity . . .

"Third: It is my hope that while stu-
dents are on our campuses, they will
find — or have refined — a faith to live
by. If they have no such faith, their
lives lack a dynamic center and they
have no basis upon which to select the
values by which they will live . . .

"Each generation must be responsible
for the validation of the true and the
throwing off of the irrelevant. I believe
we must provide the opportunities for
students to seek validations, to discover
the rich heritage of our many civiliza-
tions and to find what speaks to them
today as eternal. What are some of
these eternal values?

"I have found that:

"Freedom of the human spirit is an
eternal value. I believe that without this
freedom, no society can ever hope to
have political and economic freedom.

"Intellectual integrity is an eternal
value. Without intellectual integrity,
the mind of man can be held captive by

passing ideologies.

"Beauty is another eternal value.
Beauty in line or form or color or tex-
ture, motion or tone — these things which
give the highest delight to the senses —
they are eternal.

"Love is an eternal value. Love, not
sentimentality. Love that shows com-
passion for others simply because they
exist as human beings.

"These then are some of the values I
believe are essential for students to en-
counter and to appropriate for their own.
With a center to their lives, which they
seriously acknowledge as a faith to live
by, they will be prepared to build a life
of meaning and service which can only
end in deep fulfillment . . .

"If I were really 'starting all over
again,' a second area I would like to
know a great deal more about would be
the economics of higher education . . .

"The cost of putting a student through
college is growing and will keep growing
for the foreseeable future. Some things
are more easily funded in higher educa-
tion than others. Programs for tech-
nology, in business, in theology, and
even in the arts seem to find more avail-
able donors.

"If this college, with the united coop-
eration of its students, its faculty, its ad-
ministration, its alumni, and its trustees,
and under the leadership of your new
president, can find ways of clearly de-
fining this college's purpose and goals,
you will have taken a big step forward.

"If in addition, you can work together
in a genuine shared relationship to make
your institution fulfill its purpose and
not become splintered into polarized
factions, you will have taken a bigger
step forward to help him succeed.

"If also, the friends and supporters of
this college will know that this school
can never pay for itself, and must be
supported if its goals are to be realized,
then all of you will have taken the kind
of leap forward so essential to private
education today.

"I congratulate your new president up-
on the challenge of his office, and wish
him all of the help and cooperation it
has been my experience to know."

Focus on the Departments

Sociology ....

Involved With Mankind

Sociology is the scientific study of
human relationships. It is a body of
knowledge concerned with what is, not
what ought to be, in society. The goal
of Sociology is to understand, as accu-
rately as possible, human social behavior.

The faculty members in the Depart-
ment of Sociology at Centenary College
are in agreement with the above state-
ment. "We are social scientists respon-
sible to our discipline, dedicated to ex-
amining with honesty the society in
which we live.

"We are Sociologists, but we are also
teachers. It is our primary purpose to
challenge the minds of students, to give
them tools that will help them in view-
ing society, to cause them to think.

"We believe this challenge can only be
met through involvement. Further, we
feel we meet 'that challenge. Learning
is not, therefore, limited to the class-
room, though involvement occurs there.
We require our students to .go into the
society they are studying, to see it as it
is. So, in Criminology, students are in-
volved with the law enforcement agents
of the area; in Introduction to Social
Work, they are involved with the many
welfare institutions of the city and par-
ish; in Methods of Social Research, they
are involved with interviewing local resi-
dents; and in Majority-Minority Rela-
tions, they are involved with the political
leaders of society. Examples are end-
less, yet the point is clear. The Depart-
ment of Sociology at Centenary College
of Louisiana meets the challenge of So-
ciology and education by being a Depart-
ment of Involvement.

Sociology 302: Introduction to Social Work
Instructor, Dr. W . F. Pledger
Department Chairman

Sociology 414: Methods of Social Research
Instructor, Charles E. Vetter

Religion ....

Challenge of the Liberal Arts

The Department of Religion at Cente-
nary College attempts to lead students in
the serious philosophical and religiqus
consideration of the questions of man's
origin, destiny, meaning and purpose.
The basic assumption of the courses is
that these questions are best dealt with in
the Jewish-Christian history and writings.

The department stresses the liberal arts
approach to religion. Although most of
the people majoring in religion go on to
church-related vocations, the religion
curriculum at Centenary is designed to
confront any student with these impor-
tant issues.

A successful experiment in the teach-
ing of religion at the college level was
implemented at Centenary last year, with
the introduction of a new course, Con-
temporary Church 209, into the curricu-
lum of the department. It was designed
to help students look critically and
holistically at the modern day church in
its many forms and expressions.

The first part of the course dealt with
an analysis of the church in modern
American society; the second, with the
biblical, historical, and theological foun-
dations of the church; and a third with
the possibilities and strategies of the re-
newal of the church. As part of the
student's assignment, audio visual aids
were prepared, papers that focused on
particular problems in society were writ-
ten, and a dramatic reading was present-
ed by members of the class. Guest
speakers representing the many facets of
the church spoke and students made a
field trip to the Perkins School of The-
ology at SMU, where they were given in-
formation on the new curriculum devel-
oping there for training for the ministry.

Possibly one of the most rewarding
courses is offered jointly by the Depart-
ment of Religion and the Department of
Sociology at Centenary. It is the
Workcamp program, which features mis-
sionary work in deprived areas through-
out the world. The summer of 1970
found a group of work campers at Sitka,
Alaska, where they taught in the Vaca-
tion Bible School of the First Methodist
Church of Sitka and performed some
church-related carpentry. A workcamp
is presently being planned to British
Honduras during the interim session,
January 4-22, 1971. Plans are to build
a school in the southern part of the
country.

Several courses of interest to the stu-
dent are Understanding Religion, Direct-
ed Study in Christian Thought, Philoso-

phy of Eastern Religions, Theology of
the New Testament, Philosophy of Re-
ligion and the basic courses of Old and
New Testament Survey.

The challenge of the liberal arts ap-
proach to religion is the confrontation
of the student with the questions of
meaning, destiny, origin and purpose.

Philosophy ....

Strives For A Unique Goal . . .

Even philosophers cannot agree on a
commony accepted definition of the dis-
cipline "Philosophy." Traditionally, phi-
losophy was considered the queen of the
sciences; etymologically, "philosophy"
meant "love of wisdom;" historically,
philosophy has been the origin of all
science.

Today, however, "philosophy" returns
to the "Midwifery" of Socrates' philoso-
phy and no longer sees itself as legislat-
ing truth for other other disciplines. In-
stead it analyzes, clarifies, and correlates
the basic ideas produced by the other
disciplines.

Philosophy's unique goal, therefore, is
UNDERSTANDING rather than de-
scribing as in the sciences or prescribing
as in religion. Philosophy must analyze
fundamental concepts and presupposi-
tions with questions such as "what do you
mean?" "How do you know?" "What
difference does it make?"

For this reason, the faculty from the
department of philosophy believe that
the study of philosophy is an essential
ingredient in the general liberal arts pro-
gram of the college. Philosophy courses
assisting with problem areas in the other
academic disciplines include Introduc-
tory Problems in Philosophy, Ethics,
Logic, Esthetics and Philosophy of
Science.

Other upper level classes such as His-
tory of Ancient and Medieval Philoso-
phy, History of Modern Philosophy,
Philosophy of Religion, Contemporary
Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics,
Symbolic Logic and Philosophy of East-
ern Religions are also benefiical in the

quest for knowledge.

An innovative aspect of the philoso-
phy program is the heavy emphasis on
seminars, specializing in group study of
historical topics or problems. Papers
are presented by the seminar students to
the class, where they are critiqued for
their content. Another innovative aspect
is the opportunity of the student to do
independent study on a topic of his own
choosing, in a one to one relationship
with his professor.

Philosophy is the discipline; logical
analysis is the process; UNDERSTAND-
ING is the goal!

Philosophy 203: Symbolic Logic
Instructor, Dr. Charles Beaird

Religion 399: Independent Study
Instructor, Dr. Webb Pomeroy
Department Chairman

Religion 209: Contemporary Church
Instructor, Robert Ed Taylor

Philosophy 402: Seminar
Instructor, Dr. Hughes Cox
Department Chairman

Continuing Educational Opportunities

An innovative program initiated by
the Centenary College faculty for the
1971 January semester break is a series
of specialty enrichment courses, which
are not normally offered during the gen-
eral academic year.

The Interim Studies Program was
established by faculty vote last year "as
an enrichment of the student's educa-
tional pursuit." It will also serve as a
continuing education medium for adults
in the community.

Tuition will be at the usual $50 per
semester hour rate. A full course will
cost $150 and a half-course $75.

Although a complete list of offerings
is available in the Dean's office, the fol-
lowing is a sampling of courses:

Concern with pollution inspired two
courses being offered, one in Chemistry
entitled "Environmental Assessment,"
studying the types of pollution occurring
in man's environment, the causes of the
pollution, the effects of the pollution,
and some possible solutions to the prob-
lems, and the other course is entitled
"Ecological Problems and Solutions," an
interdisciplinary approach to the prob-
lem of pollution, given by the Depart-
ment of Economics and the Department
of Biology.

"Poverty in Shreveport," offered by
the Department of Economics and Soci-
ology, is an interdisciplinary study of the
causes of and possible strategies for re-
duction of poverty in the Shreveport
area.

The Philosophy Department is joining
with the Department of Theatre and
Speech to give a "comparative analysis
and workshop production of scenes from
Sophocles' and Anouilh's Antigone." It
is entitled "Existential Themes in Classi-
cal and Contemporary Tragedy."

Trips scheduled include a Missions
workcamp in British Honduras, a course
in Mexican Culture and Civilization in
Saltillo, Mexico, offered by the Spanish
Dept., and attendance for two weeks at
the Centro Intercultural, Cuernavaca,
Mexico and one week of study and travel
to the famous Indian and colonial areas
for a study of Latin American Culture
under the History Department.

Northwest La. in 70's

The Economic Outlook in the 70's:
Problems and Prospects for Northwest
Louisiana will be the topic of a lecture
series being offered by the Department
of Economics and Business to the com-
munity on January 12, 13, 19 and 20, in
the Hurley Music Building Auditorium.

The series of four lectures will be open
to the general public at no charge. Titles

of the individual lectures are "Population
and Housing Characteristics," "Employ-
ment and Income Patterns," "Overall
Preview of the Economy of the 70's"
and "Public Needs and Problems of the
Shreveport Area in the 70's." The first
three lecturers are from Louisiana Tech.
The last lecture will be given by Dr. Roy
Pearson of the Centenary Department of
Economics and Business.

New Faculty
Members Named

Three new faculty members were
named to the Centenary College staff for
the 1970-71 academic year. They are
Mary Beth Armes, assistant professor of
music; Wesley P. Garvin, instructor in
government; and Charles E. Vetter, in-
structor in sociology.

Miss Armes holds the B.M. degree
from the Eastman School of Music with
a major in piano and 'a minor in voice
and a M.M. degree from Arizona State
University. She has taught voice at
Arizona State since the receipt of her
Masters degree in 1966. Additionally,
she has studied music during the summer
since 1964 at Northwestern University,
the Central Opera Company, the San
Francisco Opera Company, the Chau-
taugua Opera Company and Kent. State
University. Miss Armes is the recipient
of many awards in music.

Mr. Garvin has been an instructor of
political science at Fredrick Community
College, Portsmouth, Virginia since
1967. He received his B.A. degree in
government from the University of Vir-
ginia in 1968.

Garvin is a charter member of Pi
Gamma Mu, and holds membership in
Omicron Delta Kappa, the American
Political Science Association. In addi-
tion to his academic activities, he has
participated in the work of the Tidewater
Civic Choral Society and college and
community dramatics.

Mr. Vetter has held teaching positions
at Stephen F. Austin State University
and Tyler Junior College in Texas and
served as a teaching assistant at North
Texas State University while completing
work for his masters degree in 1965. His
B.A. degree was earned at Southwestern
University in Georgetown, Texas.

Vetter is a member of Phi Delta Theta
Fraternity, the American Sociological
Association and the Southwestern Soci-
ological Association.

MANDALA

a Centenary Product

Mandala, a book of "literature for

critical analysis," written by three Cente-
nary English professors and a former
Centenary professor, has been published
by Harper & Row Publishers.

The men are Dr. Wilfred L. Guerin,
Dr. Earle Labor, and Dr. Lee Morgan,
who is also chairman of the English De-
partment of Centenary, and Dr. John R.
Willingham, professor of English at the
University of Kansas.

Mandala follows "A Handbook of
Critical Approaches to Literature," also
written by the men, which has sold
50,000 copies in colleges in the United
States and Canada.

It is an anthology composed of four
types of literature — the short story,
poetry, drama, and the novel. It in-
cludes well known works, as well as se-
lections which have never been published
in book form.

The anthology includes "Moonlight"
by Guy de Maupassant, which was trans-
lated by Centenary professor Theodore
Toulon Beck and "Pastoral" by former
Centenary student John W. Corrington.

The selections deal with such themes
as initiation, space-time concepts, prob-
lems of social change, race relations, and
rebellion against the establishment.

Edward Huberman, president of the
College English Association said of
Mandala: "Not often can an editor (or
even 4 of them) introduce literary ma-
terial so adeptly to young students; not
often can be so convincingly shown the
relevance, the exciting quality of a work
of art at the moment he induces and
encourages his reader to apply his own
mind and heart to the story, the poem,
the play just read, or about to be read."

The title of the book, according to the
preface, means "a circle enclosing a
square. It is a religious symbol that
dates back to prehistoric times and has
been found among all peoples and all
cultures . . ." The center focal point of
the circle represents unity and the need
for order.

Director of Church
Relations Appointed

Grayson B. Watson,
from West Monroe,
Louisiana, was recent-
cently appointed Di-
rector of Church Re-
lations for Centenary
College.

He graduated from West Monroe
High School in 1957 and received a B.A.
degree from Centenary in 1961 in his-
tory and government. His theological
training was received from Duke Uni-

versity, where he earned his B.D. in 1964
in systematic theology.

He was ordained deacon in 1962 and
ordained elder in 1964 in the Louisiana
Annual Conference. He served as the
associate pastor at Rayne Memorial
Methodist Church, New Orleans; pastor
of St. Claude Methodist, Arabi; and pas-
tor of Memorial-Beekman Methodist
Church in Bastrop. Watson was former
member of the Conference Commission
on Worship and is presently a member
of the Conference Board of Pensions
and is on the Board of Managers of the
pastor's school.

Grant Given Police

Centenary College has received a grant
of $7,000 to pay tuition for law enforce-
ment officers for college work under the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968.

The grant was appropriated by Con-
gress in 1968 to "provide for and en-
courage training, education, research,
and development for the purpose of im-
proving law enforcement." Dr. W. Fer-
rell Pledger, administrator of the pro-
gram at Centenary, said that law enforce-
ment officers and probation officers from
the five parish area of Caddo, Bossier,
Red River, Webster, and DeSoto, are
eligible for the tuition grants of up to
six hours ($300) per semester, provided
they meet certain requirements, which
are completion of high school, submis-
sion of an application to Centenary and
payment of the non-refundable applipa-
tion fee.

Officers selected for the grants may
take the courses at any time they choose
with the approval of their supervisors,
either in the regular college classes or
in the Evening Division at Centenary.
Any course that leads toward a degree is
acceptable, even though it does not deal
directly with law enforcement.

Enrollment Picture

An increase in freshman enrollment
this fall is viewed by college officials as
an encouraging sign in the overall enroll-
ment picture. President John H. Allen
announced a freshmen registration of
235, a modest increase over last year's
figure of 190.

The overall enrollment was down from
last year, due primarily to the gradu-
ation of an unusually large class last May
and because of smaller freshmen classes
in 1968 and 1969. Total attendance
this year is 929 compared with 1037
last year.

The coveted Western Electric Scholarship this year was presented to Stephen
Echols Locke, a business and accounting major in his freshman year at Centenary.
Locke (second from left) accepted the scholarship from Western Electric officials
(left to right) H. W. Wilkening, "Assistant Manager for Industrial Relations; J. A.
Rosengrant, Department Chief for new and changed apparatus and the company's
University Representative for Centenary College; and Virgil D. Jessup, Department
Chief for College Relations for Western Electric. The Western Electric Scholarship
is awarded annually to a deserving student by the Western Electric Fund. Locke
receives an annual scholarship valued at $1400.

Checks totaling $1600.00 were presented to Centenary recently by the Sears-Roebuck
Foundation as part of a national program to assist colleges and universities. Leo
Burns, manager of the Shreveport Sears store (right) presented a check to Dean Thad
N. Marsh (left) for unrestricted use by the college, and to Charles Harrington,
Librarian, (center) for new books in the Library. The Sears-Roebuck Foundation has
made grants this year to colleges and universities totaling more than $2,000,000.

Three firms were recently recognized by the Louisiana Foundation for Private
Colleges for their long record of support to the Foundation. Dr. John H. Allen,
Centenary president (left), presented certificates of appreciation to executives of the three
firms at a recent meeting of the Foundation at Centenary. They are (left to right)
C. C. Barnett, Senior Vice President of United Gas Pipeline Company, a
subsidiary of Pennzoil United, Inc.; Carl M. Morris, District Operations Manager
of Marathon Oil Company; and Floyd C. Boswell, General Manager of
Western Electric Company's Shreveport Works.

Around Our Campus

The semi-annual President's Confer-
ence on Student Life was held Sept. 18
at the Southwestern Electric Power Com-
pany Lodge in Avenger, Texas. Repre-
sentatives from the faculty, administra-
tion and student body attended. No de-
cisions are rftade at Presidential confer-
ences, although information is exchanged
and the topics discussed are frequently
sent through channels for action.

The first black history course offered
at the college level in Shreveport was
presented during the fall semester, by
Mr. George P. Hendrix. Entitled "His-
tory of the Negro in America," it was a
300 level History course.

The Center for Management Develop-
ment conducted a two-day seminar on
cost reduction in October. Management
consultant Lee Grossman from Illinois
conducted the seminar, which covered
planning and control of costs in all
phases of business.
In Drama . . .

Successful productions of the drama
department for fall 1970 were "The
Apple Tree," a three-play musical com-
edy and "Spoon River Anthology," a
Reader's Theatre production. "Antig-
one," a tragedy by Jean Anouilh is sched-
uled for December 1-5. "The Night
Thoreau Spent in Jail" will be the opener
for the spring semester Feb. 25-27 and
March 4-7.

The River Towne Players headed
overseas with "The Apple Tree" produc-
tion, in order to perform in the Azores
on November 10. The comedy was also
performed for the soldiers at Fort Polk
and in Springhill, La., where they opened
the new Civic Center.
In Religion . . .

An innovative chapel program was
initiated by the college in Fall 1970.
Chapel attendance, for the first time
since the conception of the college, was
no longer mandatory. The new free-
dom of attendance was marked by an
interesting program designed to appeal
to the college student. Dr. Ernest Gor-
don, Chaplain at Princeton University,
Monsignor Alexander Sigur, Rector
Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans
and the Howard Hanger Trio from At-
lanta, Ga. with their "An Experiment in
Jazz" were all scheduled on the fall
Chapel agenda. The latter included a
sprinkling of jazz, pictorial essays of life
in the twentieth century, drama and a
plea for involvement of the audience,
during the program and in their dealings
with their fellow man.
In Music . . .

The Centenary College Choir season
opened this year with their presentation
of "Rhapsody in View," which was spon-

One of the nation's outstanding experts on drug problems recently spent a full
day on the Centenary College campus talking to students about the seriousness of the
current trends in drug use and abuse. Swen Nielsen (I) chief security officer for
Brigham Young University and a Guest Lecturer for the U. S. Department of
Justice Bureau of Narcotics is shown here talking to (I to r) Sherry Lewis and Cathy
Knighton. Nielsen appeared at an all campus assembly and in smaller question
and answer sessions. He also met with the religious groups on campus to
discuss the moral and ethical views of drug abuse.

sored by the Downtown Shreveport
Lions Club on Nov. 2 and 3. "Rhap-
sody in View" is the only full choir con-
cert presented to Shreveporters and the
Centenary College student body.

The Choir bombed the campus from
an airplane in mid-October with some
three hundred ping pong balls, as publi-
city for the "Rhapsody in View" concert.
Some two hundred and ninety-seven of
the balls were redeemable at the Student
Union snack bar for five cents worth of
merchandise each, while one ball entitled
the holder to a ride in the airplane and
the other two bonus balls were redeem-
able for $1 in snack bar merchandise.

In commemoration of the 200th birth-
day of Beethoven, a series of 5 concerts
were scheduled throughout the fall se-
mester. Among the most exciting of
these was the Opera Theatre's presenta-
tion of an opera for children, "Little Red
Riding Hood." With pure child psy-
chology in mind, the "mean ole' wolf"
ambles onto the stage pre-curtain and
casually puts on his wolf makeup. The
production, which was also taken to a
number of elementary schools in Shreve-
port, was accompanied by a full orches-
tra composed of students and members
of the Shreveport Symphony.
In Student Activities . . .

The Forums programs, sponsored by
the Student Government Association,
presented Mr. S. Z. Abranmov, a mem-
ber of the Israeli Parliament, who spoke

on "The Middle East Crisis" in October.

The incorporation of a Coffee House
Circuit booked from New York in the
spring of 1969 has brought a trouping
of many personable young entertainers
to the Centenary campus. Completing
a successful engagement at Centenary
this fall have been Folksinger Dave
Bradstreet, and folksingers Maggi and
Terre Roche.

The "Friends of Distinction" appeared
in Oct. as part of the big name entertain-
ment series.
In Faculty Circles . . .

Dr. Alton Hancock, Associate Profes-
sor of History and Government, has been
elected president of the Centenary Col-
lege Faculty Club.

Three Centenary senior faculty mem-
bers are traveling some 40-odd miles
each week to Marshall, Texas, where
they are teaching on the campus of
Wiley College. Wiley, a small Method-
ist-affiliated college, has received a fed-
eral grant to aid through the department
of Health, Education and Welfare, in its
attempts to upgrade the institution. They
are Dr. Wayne Hanson, chairman of the
Dept. of Chemistry; Dr. Lee Morgan,
chairman of the Dept. of English, and
Dr. W. W. Pate of the Economics Dept.

Four other schools are involved in the
cooperative program, including South-
ern Methodist University and North
Texas State.

Gents-1970-71

by Jeff Victor

Despite the fact that the Centenary
Gents Varsity Basketball team for 1970-
71 will play some of their games in the
new geodesic dome, there is better reason
to go see the cagers in action this year.
The Gents, more than ever, will live up
to their steep competition, with returning
lettermen and former members of a
very successful freshman team.

First, there are outstanding returning
lettermen. Marshall Crawford and Fred
Zitar come back after successful seasons.
Crawford (6'3") had. a scoring average
of 14.6 to boast, while Zitar (6'8") had
a 14.4 point average, a 56% shooting
average, plus a 10.8 rebounding average,
to lead the Gents in these three important
departments. Other key returning re-
serves are Allen Dean (6'7"), Claudell
Lofton (6'2"), Tamek Stremel (6'7"), Don
Louis (6'5"), Rick Courtney <6'5") and
Jeff Victor (6'3").

Secondly, the upcoming stars from the
fast-breaking, sharp-shooting freshman
team offer their winning techniques to
the Gents credentials. Melvin Russell, a
6'1" quick moving playmaker, Benny

DePrang (5' 10"), a smooth shooter, Mike
McGovern (6'3"), a consistent perform-
er, and Wayne Fontenot (6'2"), a fine
outside shooter, supply the varsity with
depth at the guard position. The for-
ward position is characterized by John
Murphy's (6'6") strength, John Hicker-
son's (6'5") driving ability, Larry Davis'
(6'4") offensive play and Elton Odom's
(6'5") balanced game of scoring and
rebounding.

Coach Swank displays cautious optim-
ism to loyal Gent supporters who talk
with him about the coming season.

1970-71
Centenary College Basketball Schedule

Dec. 1 — U. of Corpus Christi . . Home

Dec. 5 — Lamar Tech Home

Dec. 7 — U. of Nevada-Las

Vegas Home

Dec. 12 — N. Texas State Home

Dec. 19 — U. of Arkansas Home

Dec. 21 — California Poly Home

Jan. 5 — U. of Southern

Mississippi Hattiesburg, Miss.

Jan. 9 — LeTourneau Home

Jan. 11 — Texas-
Arlington Arlington, Tex.

Jan. 16 — University of Houston . Home
Jan. 19 — Oklahoma City

University Oklahoma City

Jan. 21 — Hardin-Simmons

University Abilene, Tex.

Jan. 25 — University of

Houston Houston, Tex.

Jan. 27 — Lamar Tech . Beaumont. Tex.
Jan. 29 — N. West Louisiana .... Home
Feb. 2— Oklahoma City

University Home

Feb. 4 — Long Beach Home

Feb. 6 — Eastern Michigan Home

Feb. 8 — Hardin-Simmons

University Home

Feb. 13— U. of Southern

Mississippi Home

Feb. 16 — Texas-Arlington Home

Feb. 18 — Loyola University .... Home

Feb. 20 — Stanislaus State Home

Feb. 26-27— U. of

Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii

Mar. 2 — Long

Beach Long Beach, Calif.

Alumni President's Report

by Mitzi Middlebrooks

The alumni of Centenary are standing
on the threshold of a new decade — one
in which we could see great things hap-
pen at our alma mater. But things don't
just happen. They have to be brought
about by the concerted effort of many
people. In order for Centenary to con-
tinue to go forward the alumni board has
adopted a progressive program for 1970-
71. This program contains events to
interest every aspect of our community
of alums.

The year has gotten off to a good start
with a coffee house at the Marjorie
Lyons Playhouse after "The Apple Tree."
Patty Lindsay was in charge and will
organize another one after "Winnie the
Pooh" in March.

Each month a small group of ladies
are invited by Joanne Sigler to attend an
informal coffee on the campus. At these
coffees, the ladies are informed on vari-
ous aspects of campus life and they also,
of course, socialize.

So the men won't feel left out, a
monthly luncheon for a small group of
men is held in the Audubon Room. Pres-
ident Allen attends these to provide in-
formation about the college.

John Evans is spearheading a commit-
tee on Alumni-Student Interaction. Stu-
dents are to be invited into the homes of
various alums in order to have better
communication between the two groups.
This should be a great asset in closing
the communication gap.

Generating enthusiasm for Centenary's
program and the Gents Club is Ned Pro-
thro. With the near completion of the
new physical education complex, enthusi-
asm is on the rise.

Dorothy Gammill and Flavia Leary
have already begun their work toward
the 1971 tour to Europe. The itinerary
is great and you'll be hearing more about
it.

February 6 should be placed on your
calendar now for that is Homecoming,
1971. Harriett Middleton has many
things planned for us and you will find
more detailed information in this maga-
zine.

The alumni enjoyed the Continuing
Education program last year so much
that it is being expanded this year.
Wayne Stoddard is in charge of this pro-
gram.

Jack Williamson is coordinating the
Century Club and Annual Giving pro-
grams. The scholarships provided by
the alumni association are an excellent
investment in the future of our college
and our country.

I have touched briefly on the major
facets of the board's plans for the alumni

association for 1970-71. Each one will
be explained more in detail later. Can
you see that your board is working hard
to make things happen for Centenary?
Let's give them our support and all pull
together toward the goals we have for
our college.

Homecoming '71

"Enthusiastic" is the word for describ-
ing committee members planning Home-
coming '71. Chaired by Mrs. Robert C.
Middleton ('43) and her able co-chair-
man Mrs. Jerry Butcher ('65), a bevy of
meetings were held through summer and
early fall making plans for a "Home-
coming to remember."

Among the most important chairman-
ships are those belonging to the 25th and
10th reunions. Serving in this position
for the class of 1946 is Mr. Robert G.
Pugh and for the class of 1961 is Mr.
A. L. Daily, Jr.

Accepting the chairmanship of the
Banquet and Dance committee were Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Viskozki ('57), assisted by
Dr. and Mrs. Juan Watkins ('57) as
Decorations chairmen and Mrs. A. J.
Harper Jr. ('61) as Arrangements Chair-
man. Mrs. Warren West ('61) will be in
charge of floral decorations throughout
Homecoming.

Miss Flavia Leary ('35) will serve as
Ticket Sales Chairman, assisted by Miss
Edith Elliott ('62). While the art chair-
man will be Mr. Willard Cooper ('47),
chairman of the college Department of
Art, Mr. Cecil E. Bland Jr. ('42) will

supervise art work and publications for
the occasion. Publicity will be handled
by Mrs. Arthur R. Gammill ('40).

The committees responsible for mak-
ing the annual Alumni Awards at Home-
coming will be chaired as follows:

Outstanding Teacher Award, by Dr.
Leon J. Bain Jr.; Honorary Alumnus, by
Mrs. Orvis Sigler and Hall of Fame
Award by Mr. Edwin C. Harbuck.

The Master of Ceremonies for the
evening will be Mr. Cecil Ramey.
February 15 is Homecoming.

The first monthly businessman's
luncheon for alumni was held October 6
in the Centenary College Audubon
Room. The small group of business-
men gathered to hear Dr. John H.
Allen, president, tell of college plans.
Seated from left to right with Dr. Allen
are alums Edwin F. Whited ('43)
and Charles Beaird ('66).

A Louisiana Historical Marker designating Centenary College as the oldest privately
owned liberal arts college west of the Mississippi River was dedicated on the campus
Nov. 8. The marker was unveiled by (center) Mrs. Lucille Atkins Hamilton,
the first woman to graduate from Centenary in Shreveport. Looking on are (left)
Mrs. D. H. Perkins, a representative of the North Louisiana Historical Association,
and (right) Tony Sansone, fourth congressional district Tourist Commission member.

Come Back to the Campus .... Feb. 6

Homecoming '71, February 6
Nostalgia from the old and excitement
from the new await you during Home-
coming '71 ...
Much of the old is still here —

But something new has been added . . .
A magnificent gold dome dominates the
treetops

A stately Georgian Colonial form rises

among the wooded hills.
Yes, there is a reason to return ... a
memory to revive,

friendships to renew . . .
But, more than this —

To welcome the new . . . Together!

10:30 a.m.
Coffee honoring Maroon Jacket Alum-
nae on the occasion of their 40th anni-
versary. Faculty and Alumni are cor-
dially invited.

Campus tour of two new buildings — the
Physical Education Complex and ' the
new administration building, Hamilton
Hall.

12:00 noon
Lunch available in dining hall for alum-
ni, faculty and students

2:00 p.m.
Game with Eastern Michigan

6:00 p.m.
Reunion Receptions — 25th (1946)

10th (1961)

7:30 p.m.
Dinner and Dance

Featuring Alumni Awards —
Hall of Fame
Honorary Alumnus
Outstanding Teacher

Homecoming chairman, Mrs. Robert
C. Middleton and Reunion chairmen
Robert G. Pugh from the class of 1946
and A. L. (Buddy) Dailey from the
class of 1961, gather on Memorial Row
to discuss alumni activities for
Homecoming '71.

Annual Giving

When was the last time you made a
contribution to Centenary College
through the Alumni Association? Per-
haps most of you are unaware of the ur-
gent need for your financial support to
the Alumni Association. I say this be-
cause the Alumni Association did not
receive enough income from its mem-
bers to pay the annual cost of publishing

Alumni Scholarships 1970-1971

the Alumni Magazine, to say nothing
about salaries and expenses for the
Alumni Office and the Alumni Scholar-
ship Program.

We are urgently in need of funds for
the five scholarships which the Associ-
ation grants to the College. We must
have $3,000 for this program before the
spring semester begins. Currently, we
do not have sufficient funds to meet our

commitment to these young people. The
first $3,000 received will go directly to
the Alumni Scholarship Fund.

You will receive a request in the near
future to make a contribution to the
College through the Alumni Association.
Be one of many who contribute some
measure of financial support. It is im-
perative that you do so.

Robert Lynn Home

Shreveport, Senior

Grade Point Average: 4.0 Spring 1970;

3.95 Cumulative, Major: Chemistry

Virginia Ann Johnson Mary Ann Garrett

Shreveport, Junior Shreveport, Junior

Grade Point Average: 3.63 Spring 1970 Grade Point Average: 3.19 Spring 1970;

3.55 Cumulative, Major: Biology 3.49 Cumulative, Major: Chemistry

Robert Emerson Eatman

Shreveport, Sophomore

Grade Point A verage:

3.47 Spring 1970;

3.67 Cumulative,

Major: Mathematics

Freddy Vandon Cabaniss
Lewisville, Ark., Freshman
Grade Point A verage:
3.58 High School

1971 Hall of Fame Awards

This year, as in every year since 1966,
you are invited to submit your nomina-
tion for the 1971 Hall of Fame Award.
Nominations for the award recipient
must reach the Alumni office before
Jan. 15.

Past winners have been Algur H.
Meadows and Cecil Ramey — 1970;
James J. Serra — 1969; Edwin F. Whited
— 1968; G. W. James— 1967; and Paul
M. Brown — 1966.

Nominations should be based on the
following criteria: The recipient must be
a former student; the date of termination
of attendance at Centenary, must have
preceded the award by at least ten years;
the recipient must have made a distinc-
tive contribution to his particular profes-
sion, and must have evidenced his con-
tinuing interest in and support of Cente-
nary College.

Centenary College 1971 Hall of Fame Ballot

Nominee

Class

Achievement

Why nominated

(Send to Alumni Office, Centenary College of Louisiana)

Strictly Personal

Military

Airman First Class Gary W. Johnson

('69) has graduated at Goodfellow AFB,
Texas, from the technical training course
for U. S. Air Force Communications
Analysis Specialists.

Jeff Stewart ('69) is an engineer in the
Navy, stationed in Pensacola.

Col. William E. Steger ('41) is cur-
rently base commander in Bien Hoa,
Vietnam. He received the Legion of
Merit — one of this nation's highest deco-
rations.

Paul D. Blackmon ('70) has been com-
missioned a second lieutenant in the U.
S. Air Force upon graduation from Of-
ficer Training School at Lackland AFB,
Texas.

John Walker ('69) was selected the
"top" trainee out of 2,500 men at Ft.
Polk in a special ceremony on October
2nd. His wife, Vivian, (the former
Vivian Gannaway '69) and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Walker, attended
the ceremony.

Edwin L. Cabra ('67) was recently
commissioned a second lieutenant after
graduating from the Louisiana Army Na-
tional Guard Officer Candidate School.
He will be entering his junior year at
L.S.U. Law School in September.

Lt. Jonathan Cooke ('67) was a wel-
comed guest of several old classmates re-
cently while on R & R from duty in
Thailand.

Lt. Elmo Cox, Jr. ('68) was recently
assigned to Vietnam for a tour of duty.

First Lieutenant Robert E. Gillan
('64) was presented the Vietnamese Cross
of Gallantry in a 6th Army of the Re-
public of Vietnam Regional Ceremony.

Marriages

Robin Keeth Kavanaugh (x63) and
Sharon Ann Luckette were united in a
September ceremony. After a wedding
trip to Las Vegas, they returned to
Shreveport where they are presently re-
siding.

Dorislyn (Dee) Jackson (x68) and
James Bustillo ('70) were married on
June 20th in Shreveport where they are
residing following a Florida honeymoon.

Ralph Guy Bent II ('70) claimed his
bride, Diane Thomas, on November 27th.

In Memory

Letcher G. Marsalis ('30) passed away
in September of a brief illness. Mr.
Marsalis was athletic trainer during the
famous Gent Teams under coaches, the
late Homer Norton and Curtis Parker.

He had been retired from Humble Oil
Co. since 1966.

Earl M. Venable, Jr. ('34) died after
a lengthy illness, in October. Mr. Ven-
able was a native of De Quincy and was
former records supervisor in the person-
nel department of Pennzoil United, Inc.

Ruth George Connell (x32) passed
away this past August. She was living
in Dallas at the time of her death. She
is survived by one daughter and three
granddaughters.

One of the stars of Centenary's great
football teams of the late 1920's and
early 30's has returned to Centenary Col-
lege as an Admissions Counselor. He
is Daniel Finch, a 1931 graduate, shown
here with Asst. Librarian Kathleen
Owens, looking at some of the yearbooks
that tell the story of Centenary as a na-
tional gridiron power. Finch was one
of the fleet backs on the 1928, 1929, and
1930 teams. Finch now lives in Middle-
town, New York where he recently re-
tired as vice principal of the high school
there. He will help Centenary recruit
students from the northeast area of the
United States.

In recent city and parish elections,
five Centenary alums were elected by
the voters. L. Calhoun Allen ('43),
former Public Utilities Commissioner for
the city, was elected Mayor. Other top
administrative officials selected by the
Shreveport voters were George D'Artois
(x50) as Public Safety Commissioner and
William A. "Bill" Collins as Public Utili-
ties Commissioner.

Caddo Parish voters selected two Cen-
tenary alums for positions on the School
Board. They are Oscar Cloyd ('58),
former Director of Church Relations at
Centenary and Claude Dance, Jr. ('51).

The alumni, along with the faculty
and staff of Centenary College extend
congratulations to this outstanding group
of men upon their election.

Births

Dr. and Mrs. William S. Bundrick, Sr.

(Anne McLaurin '61) welcomed John
McLaurin Bundrick on July 24th.

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Strictly Personal

Rev. and Mrs. William I. Eubanks

('56) are the proud parents of a new baby
girl. Sara Jane was born on July 23rd.

Mr. and Mrs. John Lawrence (Betty
Schmitt '62) have a new daughter, Eliza-
beth Anne, born July 10th. She is a
delight, not only to her parents, but also
to brothers John, 5, and Douglas, 4.

Mr. and Mrs. lames T. Law (Louise
Minter '65) are the proud parents of a
new baby. The girl, Krista Elizabeth,
was born April 14th and joins her sister
Karen, age 3.

Dr. and Mrs. Bob R. Perry (Barbara
Hemphill '65) welcomed a son, Robert
Andrew, on September 8th.

Mr. and Mrs. Loren Wallace ('67) are
the proud parents of a new baby boy,
Timothy Dean.

Mr. and Mrs. Roland Warren Miller
(June Anderson '68) welcome a baby
boy, Roland Warren, Jr. (Chip), born on
January 18th.

Mr. and Mrs. John Butcher ('60) (Kay
Woodruff '59) are the parents of a new
baby girl, Susan Kimberlin.

Theus Nicholson Armistead ('40), Wil-
liam Delton Covington ('49), John Paul
Goodwin ('29) and Algur H. Meadows

(x26) were recently named to Volume 36
of Who's Who in America.

30's

Mrs. Harry A. Johnson, Jr. (Grace
Ellen Slattery x38) will serve as Secre-
tary of the Friends of the Shreve Me-
morial Library.

Dr. Thomas V. Holmes, Jr. ('39) is
listed in the forthcoming London, Eng-
land edition of Dictionary of Internation-
al Biography.

40's

Mrs. Ruby Baremore Fitzgerald ('41)
is listed in Personalities of the South —
7969 Edition.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year

From Your Centenary College Alumni Association

Cecil E. Bland, Jr. ('42) was conse-
crated as a Lay Worker in the United
Methodist Church in June.

Dr. David M. Carlton ('47) is presi-
dent-elect of the Rapides Parish Medical
Society.

Sam J. Talbot (x47) will serve as chair-
man of the Board of Directors of the
First Baptist Church and as chairman of
the Advisors Board for the Salvation
Army Boys Club.

50's

Jack Swor ('51) was recently employed
as Vice-President of the First Bank and
Trust of Lufkin, Texas.

T. R. Monk, Jr. ('53), a member of
the public relations staff for Gulf Oil
Corporation in Houston, Texas, has been
appointed Public Relations Representa-
tive for the firm's Port Arthur, Texas
refinerv.

Benjamin E. Achee ('55) is serving as
chairman of the Brooks Street Breakfast
Program of Holy Cross Church in
Shreveport.

Don Bush ('59) received his Masters
degree from S.M.U. and was transferred
from Dallas to Birmingham by Westing-
house Electric Corporation as District
Treasury Manager.

60's

Mrs. Raymond T. Furr, Jr. (Mary
Lucy De Spain '63) received her M.Ed,
from Northwestern in May of 1970.

Mrs. Charles Smith (Kathy Gardner
'64) was chosen from 200 teachers to be-
gin a pilot program in Learning Disabili-
ties in Grandview, Mo.

Tom Kerlin ('64) is on assignment to
Texas Instruments for Geophysical Serv-

ices of Dallas. He will visit Australia,
Singapore, and Thailand.

Dr. and Mrs. Bob R. Perry (Barbara
Hemphill '65) have recently moved to
Socorro, New Mexico, where Dr. Perry
has taken the position of high school
principal. They had lived in Fayette-
ville and Bentonville, Ark. while Barbara
completed a M.Ed, and Bob completed
a M.Ed, and an Ed. D. He is the
youngest person in Arkansas to have re-
ceived an Ed.D.

Charles R. Miller ('65) was recently
employed by Dupont Chemical as a re-
search scientist. He received his Ph.D.
from Georgia Tech.

Clarence R. Gutteridge, Jr. ('65) was
recently employed by I.T.T. Semicon-
tractors as a Senior Engineer.

Marvin Lawrence Collins ('66) has en-
gaged in the practice of law with Don C.
Gladden of Ft. Worth, Texas.

Dr. Sammy Mac Smith ('66) is an in-
tern at Allegheny General Hospital.

Maureen Buckley Burford ('68) is a
Public Relations Secretary in the Royal
Coach Motor Hotel in Dallas.

Christopher C. Prince ('69) has re-
ceived his M.S. degree in Student Per-
sonnel and Guidance. He is presently
employed as a counselor in the office of
Counseling Services at Lamar State Col-
lege of Technology, Beaumont, Texas.

70's

Miss Suzanne Van der Leur ('70) is
presently employed as a Medical Library
Assistant at the L.S.U. School of Medi-
cine in Shreveport,

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College Offers Associate Business Degree

Dr. John L. Berton discusses new Associate Business degree with local businessmen.

A new "Associate of Science in
Business" degree to be offered in the
Evening Division at Centenary has
been approved by the faculty as a part
of the College's new efforts to strength-
en its continuing education for adults.

The new program was designed by
and will be under the general super-
vision of Dr. John L. Berton, Chair-
man of the Department of Economics
and Business.

The Associate degree will be of-
fered in the Evening Division begin-
ning with the fall semester of 1971.
Requirements for the degree are a ten
course core, and two ten course op-
tions with a concentration in either
business administration or accounting.
The degree would be offered for the
satisfactory completion of a 20 course
program.

Dean Thad N. Marsh, in announc-
ing the new program, said it would be
possible for persons to qualify for the
Associate degree in from three to five
years.

"We would expect this program to
attract two kinds of students: 1) young
people just out of high school or just
out of the service for whom a full-time

4-year degree program at a good
private college would be financially
unfeasible, but who aspire to a career
in business; and 2) more mature peo-
ple who have reached the junior man-
agement level who feel a need of shar-
pening their tools for further admin-
istrative responsibility," Dean Marsh
said.

He said he would expect that busi-
nessmen would value these degrees as
validation of advanced skills and
knowledge in the fields of business ad-
ministration and accounting.

The Dean pointed out that nearly
all of the courses constituting the
Associate degree are courses already
offered by the College; and nearly all
of these in the program would be
creditable towards a regular Bachelors
degree at the College.

"This is an attempt by Centenary
to make the Evening Division, or "The
Other Centenary" as we like to refer
to it now, more serviceable to the com-
munity, and particularly to the busi-
nessman," Dean Marsh said. "The
Evening Division will, of course, con-
tinue to offer the regular baccalaureate
program courses as in the past.

Dr. Jones Sees
End to Violence

Dr. Jameson Jones

"The trend has changed — we are in
the last days of violence."

This welcome prediction was one of
seven made recently by a lecturer on
the Centenary campus — Dr. Jameson
Jones, President of the Iliff School of
Theology, in Denver, Colorado.

Dr. Jones said that generation gaps
and campus revolutions have always
been present and are nothing new to
those who study history. He said this
generation needs to learn the differ-
ence between communication and
agreement. "People keep saying that
they are unable to communicate with
one another, when what they really
mean is that they are unable to agree,"
he said.

He said many of the problems of
the present generation stem from bore-
dom and he listed three classes into
which most people fit: 1) the
(Continued on page 7)

The Centenary College Alumni Magazine,
Centenary, March, 1971, Vol. 2, No. 3, pub-
lished four times a year — in September, Decem-
ber, March and June by the Centenary College
Alumni Association, Shreveport, La. 71104.
Second Class Postage paid at Shreveport, La.
Published for members of the Alumni Associ-
ation and friends of Centenary College of
Louisiana.

Alumni Director Bob Holladay

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Arden Ashley

Assistants Maureen Gorman

Donna Evans

1970-71 Centenary College Alumni Association
Officers

President Mitzi Middlebrooks '55

Vice President Harriett Middleton '43

Vice President Robert Eatman '44

Secretary Juanita Ryland Rembert '41

Treasurer Dwight M. Brown, Sr., x56

Directors

(Terms Expire 1972)

Cecil E. Bland, Jr. '42, Dwight M. Brown, Sr.
x56, John J. Evans '62, Dorothy H. Gammill '40,

Harriett C. Middleton '43, Ned W. Prothro '45,
Juanita Ryland Rembert .41, Wayne F. Stod-
dard '60, B. C. Taylor '22, Jane West '61, Dr.
Juan Watkins '57, William Fain, Jo Anne Sigler
'54, Mac Griffith '69, James Goins '61.

(Terms Expire 1971)

Suda Adams '68, Ann Wyche '52, Roland
Achee '44, Calhoun Allen '43, Dr. Leon Bain, Jr.
'59, Judy Butcher '65, Robert Eatman '44.
Sandra Harper '63, Mitzi Middlebrooks '55, Har-
old Rosbottom '58.

Centenary On The Move!

Young Shreveport police officers are attending day and night classes at
Centenary College under the provisions of the Safe Streets Act of 1968 —
another area in which Centenary provides good citizenship and partnership
with the community it serves.

Students and faculty members have
combined their efforts (and strong
backs) to hew a playground from a
densely wooded area owned by the
College. Eventually they hope to provide
a play area for underprivileged
children who live in the area of
the college.

Seven senior students from Fair
Park High School, Shreveport,
are attending classes at Centenary
as Centenary Junior Fellows.
The high school and the College
are co-operating in the program to
provide enrichment for those
students who have proven
themselves to be independently
motivated toward learning.

During January, fourteen Centenary
students and Dean August Aamodt
traveled to the British Honduras where
they constructed a school in the
wilderness for the native children of
this jungle area. The people are poor
and there would have been no school
except for the help of the Centenary
work-camp group.

Nine chemistry students are studying fundamental nuclear chemistry at
the birthplace of atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This is a part of the
Interim Program which offered courses for student enrichment during the
mid-semester break.

At press time, soprano Margaret
Williams (standing) was in New York
City at the finals of the Metropolitan
Opera Auditions. A student of Mary
Beth Armes (seated at piano) of the
School of Music faculty, Miss Williams
was the winner of the regional Met
auditions in New Orleans.

President Speaks Frankly About Finances

The Association of American Col-
leges has released a preliminary report
which shows the nation's private colleges
plunging into debt. Prepared by Wil-
liam Jellema, the report shows the small
colleges and those with more than 4,000
enrollment to be in the deepest trouble.
According to the report, the average
private college had its best year in 1968,
finishing with a surplus. Since then fi-
nancial deficits have appeared and have
grown larger each year.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1/10/71

(In the light of the preceding news
article and other recent publicity about
the financial plight of colleges and uni-
versities, Dr. John H. Allen, President of
Centenary College, agreed to answer the
following questions about his institution
for the editor of Centenary Magazine.)

QUESTION: Dr. Allen, what is Cen-
tenary's present financial condition?

ANSWER: Beginning three years
ago, Centenary felt the pressure of the
inflated dollar, decreasing enrollment,
and general rising expenses more than
at any time since World War II. The
College in this instance is no different
from the majority of other institutions
of higher education throughout the
country, for the national trend in the
last several years has been one of in-
creasing financial problems. Last year
the College operated at a slight deficit,
and this year again there will be a defi-
cit. We anticipate making adjust-
ments and have begun making those
adjustments that will reduce the deficit
next year; and we hope by the follow-
ing year, or, at the least, in two years,
to have the budget back in balance.
If I had to explain our financial prob-
lems in one sentence, I think I would
say they are due largely to the inflated
dollar, increased costs for all goods
and services, and the decrease in stu-
dent enrollment.

QUESTION: Since enrollment seems
to be tied in with the financial condition
of the College, what is being done to
recruit students?

ANSWER: With the aid of a foun-
dation grant, we have begun a concert-
ed and organized effort to improve
our recruiting activities. We have ex-
panded the geographic territory to
which admissions counselors go, and
we have likewise increased the number
of high schools which they might visit.

A completely new and fresh approach
to printed materials has been incorpo-
rated into the recruiting program. We
think we have materials that more
clearly and effectively speak to the
high school students about Centenary
than we had before. Additionally,
we were fortunate enough to receive a
new foundation grant this year for the
purpose of recruiting students into the
premedical, science, and business
areas of the College. We think this
is particularly important since Shreve-
port's role as a medical center is well
known and one which Centenary
should serve with outstanding grad-
uates. Members of the Alumni Asso-
ciation are going to find, if they have
not already done so, that we will be
asking them to help us in the location
of and recruitment of students in the
areas where our alumni live and work.

QUESTION: Are there any other
means of increasing income? What ac-
tion is being taken to step up these activi-
ties?

ANSWER: Besides student fees,
our major sources of income are from
gifts of friends, alumni, businesses and
industry, and foundations. We also
receive some federal monies for use
in work-study programs for students
and student loans. We are moving
very strongly in the area of gifts from
friends and business and foundations.
Currently there is a three-year cam-

paign taking place within the Louisi-
ana Conference of the United Meth-
odist Church to raise $600,000 to go
into endowment. We have just be-
gun a campaign in the Shreveport area
to raise $225,000 for the Great Teach-
ers-Scholars Fund. The Develop-
ment Office and your President are
very active in seeking gifts from foun-
dations and business. We are par-
ticularly anxious for the business com-
munity in our region to know our
story and to appreciate the contribu-
tion the College makes to the area
and its economy.

QUESTION: How much financial
support is received from the United
Methodist Church?

ANSWER: On a regular basis the
United Methodist Church, in its or-
ganization known as the Louisiana
Conference, has a program called the
"Dollar per Member" obligation; that
is, each church in the Conference is
expected to contribute one dollar for
each of its members annually to the
College. In recent years the Church
has had difficulty financing all of its
programs; this, in turn, has been re-
flected in a reduced sum coming to
the College. We sincerely hope that
the Church is successful in its attempts
to achieve its financial goals so that
Centenary will receive the full sum
from the Church. Not so well known
or so apparent is the financial support
received from individuals in the
Church who contribute as individuals
and who no doubt show their interest
in the College because it is a Method-
ist institution.

QUESTION: Is there any attempt be-
ing made to cut expenses during the cur-
rent economic pinch?

ANSWER: Definitely. We have re-
duced all departmental budgets from
ten to fifteen per cent for this year and
have carried that reduction over to
next year's budget. We have already
reduced staff and faculty on the
campus this year and will continue re-
ductions until such time as we achieve
a balanced budget and an effective
work force.

QUESTION: Will these retrenchments
affect the quality of education at Cente-
nary, either now or in the future?

ANSWER: We are taking every pre-
caution to see that whatever cutbacks
and budget readjustments are made
will not affect the quality of education
at the College; for instance, as we sur-
vey our campus for possible reduc-
tions, we are very carefully protecting
the academic integrity of the institu-
tion and its teaching effectiveness.
With our present enrollment we are
already numerically overstaffed in in-
structional departments and therefore
we can make judicious reductions
without affecting in any way our effec-
tiveness.

QUESTION: Have you given any
serious consideration to an increase in
tuition?

ANSWER: Yes, this is a continuing
question. There was a sizable in-
crease in tuition last year. There is
currently a proposal from the appro-
priate faculty committee that we in-
crease tuition again next year by
$100.00. This will be discussed by
the Board of Trustees this spring and
decisions will be made. I must add,
however, that simply increasing tuition
is not the best way to increase your
income and it should be undertaken
with the utmost caution.

QUESTION: Your current endow-
ment is approximately $10,000,000. Are
there any immediate prospects for in-

creasing this amount or the income from
these funds?

ANSWER: We are constantly seek-
ing new funds for the endowment and
it grows somewhat each year. There
have been no dramatic increases re-
cently and we have no prospect in the
immediate future for a large increase.
We receive constant and regular finan-
cial advice from professional people,
plus our own Board of Trustees' En-
dowment and Investment Committee,
as to how we might best use the en-
dowment funds Our earnings from
this source are, in our opinion, very
good compared to earnings in general
throughout the country. We expect
to put particular emphasis on gifts to
the endowment fund in the future be-
cause in our opinion this is where a
healthy financial situation can be
established.

QUESTION: Are the auxiliary enter-
prises— the bookstore, cafeteria, and dor-
mitories— paying their way?

ANSWER: In general, yes. Of
course, you must understand that the
income from the auxiliary enterprises
is directly related to the College en-
rollment. As the enrollment has de-
creased, so has the income from these
various enterprises. A major concern
of ours is maintenance of the dormi-
tories as well as the payment of in-
debtedness on them. So far we have
been able to take care of the indebted-
ness, but we have allowed maintenance
to fall behind a level we think is best.

QUESTION: Has the current reces-
sion had any effect upon your income
(gifts from donors or income from in-
vestments)? I guess what I am really
asking is, would an upturn in business
activity help the financial situation of
the College to any appreciable degree?

ANSWER: Without question the
current concern with the economy of
the nation has affected our gifts and
income from investments. We hear
from many of our friends that they
are apprehensive about being able to
keep up their gifts to the College or
that they are having to make slight re-
ductions in gifts due to reductions in
their own business activities and in-
come. Our income from the endow-
ment fund has reflected the market-
place in the last two or three years

also. Last year's recession in the mar-
ket was quite definitely reflected in
our endowment income. At the pres-
ent time the healthier stock market has
made a healthier endowment fund for
us. We hope this continues.

QUESTION: Do you foresee any aid
from federal or state sources that might
help private colleges such as Centenary?

ANSWER: As everyone knows,
there is a great deal of conversation
taking place on both the federal and
state levels concerning the role of gov-
ernment in financing private and inde-
pendent institutions. I would prefer
to see some state participation in sup-
port of independent colleges rather
than increased federal participation.
This preference is based on my desire
to keep local people as involved as we
possibly can in the affairs of the inde-
pendent college. A number of states
currently have programs of tuition
grants or other student-aid systems for
helping their students attend private
colleges. I believe this form of assist-
ance would be most helpful to the in-
dependent college and would not inter-
fere with its educational program.
Louisiana, for instance, would be hard
put to finance the education of the
thousands of students who attend
private and independent colleges in
this state if they suddenly had to be
placed in public institutions. It
would be much more economical to
provide some assistance to those stu-
dents through a state agency.

QUESTION: Finally, Dr. Allen, what
is the long-term economic outlook for
Centenary College?

ANSWER: We are optimistic about
Centenary's financial future. We are
organized and are improving our or-
ganization for efficient operation and
effective education and increasing our
income potential. We are confident
that enrollment is moving up and that
our friends and other sources of finan-
cial support are aware of our needs
and are going to respond quite gen-
erously to those needs.

Homecoming '71

Thank you, Harriett Middleton, for

making Homecoming a memorable

occasion for us all!

Thank you for giving us Dr. Virginia Carlton
as the Outstanding Teacher and Alumni Hall
of Fame winner. Thank you for giving us
Dr. Mary Warters as our Honorary Alumni.
Thank you for giving us Kathy Stephenson as
our lovely Homecoming Queen. Thank you
for giving us Barbara Allen as our scholarship
winner. THANK YOU!

Teachers Drive Seeks $225,000 for 1971

Edwin F. Whited,

General Chairman

F. H. "Buss" Delaney,

General Co-Chairman

The 1971 Great Teachers-Scholars
Fund campaign is underway with
Shreveport businessman and Cente-
nary Alumni Edwin F. Whited serving
as Chairman. The goal is $225,000.

F. H. "Buss" Delaney, a former
coach and Assistant to the President at
Centenary, and now a Shreveport
businessman, is Co-Chairman of the
current fund raising effort, and Ar-
mand Daigle, whose five children have
all attended Centenary, has agreed to
serve as Chairman of the important
Advance Division.

Whited said he sees in this year's
campaign an opportunity to bring
Centenary and the surrounding com-
munity closer together. "The dy-
namic new leadership of the College
in the person of Dr. John H. Allen
speaks well for the future of this in-
stitution," Whited said.

"I am particularly impressed with
the new directions in which he is point-
ing the College and the new programs
he is developing to better serve our
community."

"The businessmen and all who have

Armand Daigle,

Advance Division Chairman

supported Centenary in the past may
take pride in what they have done, but
we have an even greater opportunity
to do more now. I think this can best
be accomplished through your support
of the Great Teachers-Scholars Fund."

"Your generous support of this
community effort is an investment, not
only in the education of our young
people, but the future of Shreveport,
Bossier City, and the Ark-La-Tex as
well."

The Great Teachers-Scholars Fund
was initiated in 1961 to enable the
College to raise faculty salaries and to
offer scholarships to worthy students.
Since that time, more than a million
dollars has been collected through this
community effort.

Last year the Great Teachers-
Scholars Fund was included in the
"Toward Attainment" phase of the
Climax '75 capital fund campaign.

Other civic and business leaders who
are assisting in the campaign are Robert
A. Seale, co-chairman of the Advance
Division; William Russell Barrow, James
N. Fritze, Emmett R. Hook, Robert F.
Scott, and J. Hugh Watson, captains of
the Advance Division; James N. Patter-
son, chairman of the Special Division;
Ray A. Barlow, Charles Ellis Brown,
Edwin C. Harbuck, Dr. Charles D.
Knight, and Glenn Welsh, captains of
the Special Division; and Oscar Cloyd,
chairman of the General Division.

At press time, the first report meeting
of the Advance Division showed a total
of $35,650 in gifts and pledges. Chair-
man Whited said he was pleased with
this initial report of support for the Col-
lege and urged all of the workers to con-
tinue making their calls so the campaign
could be concluded on time in April.

Dr. Jones Speaks On
End to Violence
In Willson Lecture

(Continued from page two)
renouncers — those who renounce ev-
erything including our way of life — a
small minority who get most of the
attention in the mass media, 2) the
outsiders who want in — the poor, the
black, the Indian, and other minorities
who feel "out of it" and want in, and
3) the insecurely in who are afraid of
losing their place — those who are in,
but just barely, and see threats to their
position. The third group he sees as
the greatest threat to future peace.

Dr. Jones said he looked forward to
six great expectations for the future
and he listed the first of these as the
end of violence, on the campus and in
the nation. "There is still an active
minority who want violence," he said,
"but the trend is changing and I be-
lieve we are in the last days of
violence."

"The youth culture is very much
alive and will continue," he said.
"However, the culture is threatened
now by becoming too established."
And he predicted that youth might
even turn to such things as crew cuts
to gain attention in the future.

Another of his expectations con-
cerned unity. "I think we will find
that the unity we have sought for so
long is not possible. We have always
thought we could achieve this unity
but I think we must now admit that we
are a pluralistic society," Dr. Jones
said.

He predicted a greater permissive-
ness (the right of the individual to do
his own thing) and a greater search to
understand ones own self.

"My final expectation is that the
revolution will continue," Dr. Jones
told his audience in Brown Memorial
Chapel, "but I think it has slowed
down. Its new characteristics will be
patience!"

Dr. Jones' talk at Centenary was
one of the Willson Lecture series,
sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Will-
son of Floydada, Texas. Prior to ac-
cepting his present position at Iliff, Dr.
Jones served seven years on the staff
of the General Board of Education of
the United Methodist Church.

Strictly Personal
Military

Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Lucian £.
Larche, Jr. ('52) — completed the U. S.
Air Force advanced course for Chap-
lains at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

Major David E. Mills (59)— re-
ceived Bronze Star Medal, Nha Trang,
Vietnam.

Captain John L. Hill, Jr. ('64)—
member of unit that has earned its
sixth consecutive U. S. Air Force Out-
standing Unit award and the second
straight "V" device for valor.

Captain Jere R. Barnes ('66) — at-
tending Air University's Squadron
Officers School, Maxwell AFB, Ala-
bama.

Captain Harry J. Cooke ('67) — ar-
rived for duty, Carswell AFB, Texas,
where he is assigned to a unit of the
Strategic Air Command.

Ensign Edwin M. Causey ('69) —
serving aboard the USS Wood County,
LST 1178, as Assistant First Lieuten-
ant and as Boat Officer in the Deck
Department.

Mr. and Mrs. Jay Stewart ('69)
(Carol Borne '69) — moved to Wash-
ington (state) where Jay is stationed
with the Navy.

Herbert Pearce ('71) — received
B.A. in Philosophy at mid-term. En-
listed in Navy; in boot camp at Orlan-
do, Florida. Will attend Technical
School in Florida.

Marriages

Dale Cox ('70) and Becky Hull

('70) were married on January 8. Dale
is in Graduate School at Northwestern
State University.

Ballard Lee Smith and Alice Mc-
Connell ('70) were married on Janu-
ary 9.

In Memory

James H. Weaver ('30) passed away
last July. He is survived by his widow
and a daughter.

Dr. Lynn Martin Tooke ('55) and
his wife, Gayle, died in a fire in their
home in Freer, Texas on December
14. Daughter, Kelly, escaped harm
when rescued by a neighbor.

Rev. Robert Lytton ('59), his wife,
and daughter were killed in a plane
crash shortly after the first of the year.

Warren Pagel (x71) passed away on
January 9. He died of a heart attack.

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CENTENARY COLLEGE

Shreveport, Louisiana 71104

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Births

Shreveport in the November city
elections.

Dr. and Mrs. Spiro Cosse ('61)
(Nancy Pfeiffer Metcalf '61) welcomed
a son, Christopher Constantine, on
Friday, December 1 1 . Christopher
joins sister, Marianne, who is 6 years
old.

Dr. and Mrs. Juan Watkins ('57)
(Bonnie Harrel '57) are the proud par-
ents of a new baby. The boy, James
Brent, was born on November 2.

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Williams
('64) welcomed a boy, James "Jay"
Jorgen, on November 9.

Mr. and Mrs. Gayle Wren (x64)
(Regina Levingston '42) announce the
arrival of a new baby boy. William
Blake was born November 28.

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hay ('68) are
the proud parents of a new baby girl.
Heidi Lyn was born on November 29.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Humphries
('71) announce the arrival of a baby
girl. Karen Renee was born on New
Year's Eve.

Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Pledger ('69)
are the proud parents of a baby girl.
Kelly Elaine was born on September
17.

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Thiele (Cath-
erine Leggat '69) are the proud par-
ents of identical twins. Gregory Allen
and Douglas Allen were born on No-
vember 21.

50's

James F. Dykes ('51) has been
named a Vice President for Holiday-
In-Dixie 1971.

B. D. Lagrone ('54) is presently
serving as a researcher with the U. S.
Rubber Reclaiming Company.

Robert L. Rosenfield ('54) has been
elected President of the 1971 Holiday-
In-Dixie spring festival.

Bob Durand ('57) is presently serv-
ing as President of ZBS Media, Inc.
which produces radio programs (music,
comedy and dramatic serials).

R. Warren Goss ('59) is residing in
Djakarta, Indonesia, where he is em-
ployed by Cities Service Oil Company.

60's

30's

Mrs. Pauline Ross ('30) was crown-
ed Senior Queen of the Lehigh Acres,
Florida, Chapter of AARP. She has
served as a director with the Red
Cross, member of the Lehigh Acres
Women's Club, the Hospital Associ-
ation and played the role of Mother
Abbess in "Sound of Music," present-
ed by the Lehigh Players.

40's

Cecil Ramey ('43) was nominated
for the position of Director of The
Shreveport-Bossier Foundation.

Dan Sawyer ('49) was elected to the
Judgeship, Division C, for the city of

Charles W. Proctor, Jr. ('66) is
studying in the Department of Ento-
mology at the University of Georgia.
He is working towards his Ph.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Billy McNamara
('68) (Milancy Hattaway '68) have just
recently returned from a month's visit
in Dublin, Ireland with Mr. and Mrs.
David Hoskins ('70) (Martha Pickens
'69). David is studying Irish litera-
ture at the University of Dublin.

Michael Lamont Kidda, Jr. ('69) is
a student at the School of Theology,
University of the South.

Wendall Robison ('69) served a 60-
day period for the Armed Forces In-
stitute of Pathology in the Clinical
Clerkship Program. He was assigned
to the Cardiovascular Pathology
Branch in New Orleans, where he par-
ticipated in a project with Dr. William
C. Manion, Chief of the Branch.
Wendall is to be assigned to the same
Program during the summer of 1971,
to continue his project.

70's

Robert D. Daily ('70) is studying at
the University of Houston and should
receive his Masters in Sociology in De-
cember of this year.

• Howard K. Smith gets a love note «A $50,000 grant from Western Elect

• Hamilton Hall dedicated to enlightenment

Great Teachers Exceeds Goal

Development Director Dan Springer (r) congratulates (I to r) James Patterson,
Edwin Whited, F. H. "Buss" Delaney, and Armand Daigle at end of
Great Teachers-Scholars Campaign.

The annual fund-raising campaign at
Centenary, the Great Teachers-Scholars
Fund, reached the $235,000 mark just
before press time in a push that stressed
greater service to the surrounding
community.

The drive was concluded in late April
when contributions totaled $226,798.43,
just over the projected $225,000 goal for
1971. Pledges and gifts that have come
in since that time have brought the total
to $234,685.93.

Two men with close ties to Centenary
College headed the 11th annual drive:
Edwin F. Whited, president of Frost-
Whited Company and a 1943 graduate
of Centenary; and F. H. "Buss" Delaney,
executive vice president of Kinsey In-
terests, Inc., and a former head coach
and assistant to the president at Cen-
tenary.

Both men attributed the success of the
campaign to the caliber of the volunteer
workers and the captains who led the
teams: Armand E. Daigle and Robert
Seale, advance division; James N. Patter-
son, special division; and Oscar Cloyd,
general division.

The appeal for funds this year was
based on Centenary's increased aware-
ness of its role in the local community.
Workers stressed many areas of local
cooperation, a new business degree, spe-

cial training for Shreveport police offic-
ers, and a pledge by President John H.
Allen to bring the College and the com-
munity closer together.

The Great Teachers-Scholars Cam-
paign has been conducted by the area
business community on behalf of Cen-
tenary College since 1961, adding well
over a million dollars to the College
budget since that time.

LATE NEWS

Homecoming Moved
To December For '71

"There will be some changes made"
might well be the theme for the 1971
Homecoming at Centenary this year.
Mrs. Jerry (Judy) Butcher, '62, has been
named Homecoming Chairman and re-
leased some tentative dates just before
press time for the Magazine. Homecom-
ing has been moved to Saturday, Decem-
ber 4, from the usual spring date, and
with the exception of the Tasting Tea
on Friday night, December 3, it will be
a one day affair. Mrs. Butcher listed
this tentative schedule for Saturday:
Coffee honoring retired and present fac-
ulty in the morning; a play (hopefully)
at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse and the
1962 and 1947 class reunions in the
afternoon; the banquet in the College
Dining Hall at 6:00 and a night basket-
ball game in the Gold Dome. Mrs.
Butcher said the planned changes are in
line with suggestions made by alumni.
They hope to send out a questionnaire
about Homecoming in the near future.
Mrs. Butcher is a coordinator at Eden
Gardens Elementary School in Shreve-
port and also teaches in the P. E. Depart-
ment. She and her husband have two
children, Jay, 6, and Julie, 2. Her co-
chairman for Homecoming will be Mrs.
Juan (Bonnie) Watkins.

Z?*

George Edwin Miller, Jr.,
Associate Dean, Graduate
School of Human Behavior,
United States International
University, San Diego, Cali-
fornia, has been named Dean
of Students at Centenary,
succeeding Rev. August E.
Aamodt, who has been ap-
pointed director of confer-
ences and work camps. Dr.
Miller is 29 and a native of
Natchitoches, La.

Mrs. Jerry Butcher, '62

The Centenary College Alumni Magazine,
Centenary. June, 1971, Vol. 2. No. 4, published
four times a year — in September, December,
March and June by the Centenary College
Alumni Association. Shreveport La. 71104.
Second Class Postage paid a+ Shreveport, La.
Published for members of the Alumni Associa-"
tion and friends of Centenary College of
Louisiana.

1970-71 Centenary College Alumni Association
Officers

President Mitzi Middlebrooks '55

Vice President Harriett Middleton '43

Vice President Robert Eatman '44

Secretary Juanita Ryland Rembert '41

Treasurer Dwight M. Brown, Sr. x56

Alumni Director Bob Holladay

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Anne Shaver

Assistant Donna Evans

Directors

(Terms Expire 1972)

Cecil E. Bland, Jr. '42, Dwight M. Brown, Sr.

x56, John J. Evans '62, Dorothy H. Gammill '40,
Harriett C Middleton '43. Ned W. Prothro '45,
Juanita Ryland Rembert '41, Wayne F. Stoddard
'60, B. C Taylor '22, Jane West '61, Dr. Juan
Watkins '57, William Fain, Jo Anne Sigler '54,
Mac Griffith '69, James Goins '61.

(Terms Expire 1971)

Suda Adams '68, Ann Wyche '62, Roland
Achee '44, Calhoun Allen '43, Dr. Leon Bain,
Jr. '59, Judy Butcher '65, Robert Eatman '44,
Sandra Harper '63. Mitzi Middlebrooks '55,
Harold Rosbottom '58.

Hamilton Hall Dedicated

George D. Nelson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees (center) officially
accepts Hamilton Hall from Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Hamilton.

"We present this building to be dedicated
to the glory of Almighty God and for
His service in the enlightenment of His
children."

With these words, Mr. and Mrs. D. P.
Hamilton of Shreveport officially pre-
sented the new administration building
to the Board of Trustees of the College
in a brief dedication ceremony May 4,
1971.

Named Hamilton Hall in honor of the
Hamilton family, the new administration

building, forming a third side of a plan-
ned quadrangle with the Mickle Hall of
Science and the Library, was occupied
in the early part of 1971. The old ad-
ministration building on Centenary Boule-
vard is closed, awaiting word of its fate.
The Hamilton ties with the College go
back to the turn of the century when
Mrs. Hamilton's father, J. B. Atkins, Sr.
and other businessmen in the city pre-
vailed upon college officials to move the
Methodist college here from Jackson,
Louisiana.

Mrs. Hamilton enrolled at Centenary
and has the honor of being the first
woman to graduate from the Shreveport
campus. She served many years as a
valuable member of the Board of Trus-
tees and is presently an Honorary Life
Member of the board.

The Hamiltons have said their gift to
Centenary was motivated not only by
sentiment for the College, but by a
strong urge to support private independ-
ent education.

commencement

Baccalaureate speaker
Grayson B. Watson (r)
accompanied by President
Allen and "Cheesy" Voran.

Rev. E. L. McGuire receives
Doctor of Divinity degree.

Howard K. Smith was worried about his suit. The
good suit he had brought south with him was all
rumpled in the suitcase, the victim of a hectic week-
end in Austin at the dedication of the LBJ library.
The motel failed to provide the requested iron for
Mrs. Smith. Smith's only suit was the one he had
on his back — a blue seersucker wash and wear.
"Would this possibly be all right for the commence-
ment dinner and graduation?" He was assured it
would be, and it was!

The Smiths (he of the ABC Evening News fame)
had arrived at the Shreveport airport just a short
2Vi hours before he was to address the 1971 graduat-
ing class.

Over and above the suit problem, Mrs. Smith was
loaded down with a huge box, a Texas cactus she
had procured in the Lone Star state for her daughter
back in Washington. "Could someone possibly mail
this to her?" She was assured someone could, and
they did!

Rev. Rex Squyres receives
Doctor of Divinity degree.

Dr. Mary Warters retii\

What kind of people were these TV celebritii
Smith was unable to steer away from his favot
subject of politics. Waiting in line for the acadei
procession to begin, he assured Board Chairrji
George D. Nelson, President John H. Allen and D 8
Thad N. Marsh that the two top contenders for |i
Democratic presidential nomination would be Hurri
rey and Kennedy.

He was concerned about his old friend Lyndor E
Johnson, whom he visited the day before during 1
dedication of the LBJ library. "He's put on too m i
weight, and now that he's finished his book j
opened his library, I wonder what he will do to occ >;
his time," Smith mused.

Smith broke into a broad grin as Dean MaS
intoned a citation accompanying his Honorary E c
tor's degree praising his dedication to reason, tn
justice and freedom as "infinitely more convin<
than preening postures of passion." Taking their h
from Smith, a ripple of laughter went up througr J
the crowd at the Marshian prose.

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Another of the TV commentator's virtues is his
inerosity — he returned his honorarium as a gift to
e college!

*Mrs. Smith, a red-head named Benedicte, was a
Hal charmer. Of Scandanavian origin, she spoke
toudly of her recently acquired American citizen-
slip. Mrs. Sidney Allen, the wife of President Allen,
s>ked about her recollections of Mrs. Smith said,
Veil, she seemed so interested in us and asked so
nany questions about the College and the people, we
rjally didn't have time to ask her very much about
Ijrself." Mrs. Allen remembers her as a delightful
Ijdy who was direct and sincere.

Due to a seating mix-up, Mrs. Smith, along with
Brs. Allen and Mrs. George D. Nelson, were seated
tgh up in the rafters of the golden dome where the
sats seemed to sway uncomfortably. A little alarmed,
Irs. Smith, seated between the two young Allen chil-

Dr. G. Leon Netterville, president of Southern
University, accepts the Doctor of Laws degree —
Pianist Van Cliburn accepts the Doctor of
Humane Letters degree.

dren, Jay and Lisa, was assured by Jay that "I don't
think my father would let us sit up here if it weren't
safe."

While awaiting for the men to don their academic
robes in the President's Office, Lisa took over her
father's outer office and scrawled a short note on
some of Dad's stationery. She later pressed the folded
paper in Mrs. Smith's hand. The note read, "We are
glad that you are here. And we hope that you have
a good time. Love, Lisa." Which sort of summed
it all up for everyone.

Except for Mrs. Pat Marsh, who recalled that Mr.
Smith wore a "beautiful blue ice-cream suit!"

Centenary Receives $50,000 W. E. Grant

Floyd G. Boswell, Western Electric Shreveport GM, presents grant to
Trustee Chairman George D. Nelson and Dr. John H. Allen.

Centenary College was one of the first
colleges in the nation to receive a $50,000
gift under a new program of unrestricted
grants being made by the Western Elec-
tric Fund.

The Centenary grant was announced
by Floyd C. Boswell, general manager of
the Western Electric Company's Shreve-
port Works. The first payment of
$10,000 was presented by Boswell to
Centenary President John H. Allen and
Trustee Chairman George D. Nelson.
The entire grant will be paid out over a
five year period.

The Trustees of the Western Electric
Fund selected Centenary for the grant
from a category headed, "Highly Aca-
demically Rated 4-Year Colleges of
Smaller Universities."

In presenting the first installment to
Centenary today, Boswell said, "The
Trustees recognize that private colleges
and universities play a most significant
role in the field of higher education.
Consequently, they began this new pro-
gram this year, and Centenary, I am
happy to say, is one of the first to be
named a recipient."

"It is our hope that this grant will in
some measure demonstrate our confi-
dence in Centenary College and its ad-
ministration. We also hope it will reflect
the pride we have for this community
which possesses so much latent poten-
tial," he said.

In implementing this new program,
the Western Electric Fund Trustees took
into account the role of the private sec-
tor of higher education in the United
States. They also recognized that many
private colleges and universities have
come under financial strain in recent

years, so they decided the schools should
decide where the monies will be used.

President Allen said the funds would
be placed in the general operating budget
of the College and would be used in all
phases of college operations. "I know I
speak for everyone at Centenary College
in expressing our gratitude to Floyd Bos-
well and the Western Electric Fund for
this gift to the College," he said. "This
is, I think, further evidence of their con-
cern for the dual system of higher educa-
tion in the state of Louisiana."

The Western Electric Fund is a mem-
bership organization with assets contrib-
uted by the Western Electric Company.
Its sole purpose is to receive, administer
and distribute money or other properties
for charitable, scientific and educational
purposes. Fund contributions to date
have been confined to such organizations
as the Community Chest, American Red
Cross, youth activities, hospitals and
colleges.

They have included Centenary in their
scholarship program for a number of
years. Since 1966, the College has re-
ceived $8,700 under this program.

Estate Seminars
Scheduled For Major
Areas of Louisiana

The Centenary College Development Of-
fice, in cooperation with the Louisiana
Annual Conference of the United Metho-
dist Church, has scheduled a series of
"Estate Planning Seminars" in the major
population centers of Louisiana. Pre-

sented in cooperation with the Board of
Laity and the WSCS, the seminars will
feature experts in the field of law and
finance who will discuss all phases of
estate planning, particularly those chang-
es brought about by the Reform Act
of 1969.

Dr. John Allen, president of Cente-
nary College, said this state-wide pro-
gram has been designed principally for
women who have questions about plan-
ning their estates. "Through these sem-
inars we hope to assist those who need
help and at the same time benefit Cen-
tenary College and other serving institu-
tions of Louisiana Methodism, including
the local churches," Dr. Allen said.

The seminars will be conducted by
experts: an attorney, C. P. A., a life
insurance C. L. U. and an investments
counselor. Robert B. Holladay, Director
of Alumni and Deferred Giving, at Cen-
tenary has been appointed by Dr. Allen
to head up the new program.

Holladay said tax savings intended for
an estate may be jeopardized unless a
will is changed to conform to the new
1969 Tax Act. "Deductions for char-
itable gifts may also be disallowed for
tax purposes unless the new rules are
followed," he said.

"The primary purpose of this service
is to assist families to save on federal
estate taxes; to conserve existing prop-
erty; and to protect your loved ones,"
Holladay said. "The amount left from
your estate for your family, after taxes,
can vary dramatically, depending on how
well you have planned for the future,
particularly in regard to the new tax
regulations."

President Allen emphasized that the
College does not presume to represent
either legal or tax counsel. "These sem-
inars are for information only and we
hope they will stimulate further conversa-
tions with attorneys and other experts in
these fields," he said.

Further details of the seminars will
be released as soon as the dates have
been approved, he said.

Rodemacher Heads Louisiana Foundation

W. D. Rodemacher, Pineville (second from right), meets with three
college presidents (I to r), Sister Mary Ursula, Dr. John H. Allen,
and Dr. G. Earl Guinn.

W. D. Rodemacher, newly elected chair-
man of the Louisiana Foundation for
Private Colleges (LFPC), has announced
a two year goal of $180,000 to be raised
from Louisiana corporations in support
of independent colleges.

At Centenary for its 18th annual meet-
ing, Rodemacher, president of Central
Louisiana Electric Company, Pineville,
said that the fund raising campaign will
correspond with the 20th anniversary of
the Louisiana Foundation. "Presidents of
the member colleges will join business-
men in calling on some 650 businesses
in the next two years. Last year, over
320 firms were visited. Contributions
totaling $77,000 were received from 103
corporations, foundations and individu-
als," he added.

Elected president of LFPC was Dr.
i G. Earl Guinn, president of Louisiana
College, Pineville. Other officers elected
were: George D. Nelson, Shreveport, vice
president; Ted Tuminello, treasurer, New
Orleans; and Sister Mary Ursula Cooper,
secretary.

Thirteen members of LFPC's Board of
Advisors were installed during the meet-
ing. They are: Joseph Andrus, vice presi-
dent, International City Bank; Charles A.
Gogreve, Jr., general manager, New York
Life Insurance Co.; J. S. Mathews, gen-
eral personnel manager, South Central
Bell; Lewis C. Moulton, regional vice
president, Louisiana and Southern Life
Insurance Co.; and Steve Sibley, director
of sales, The Monteleone Hotel, all of

New Orleans. Also, Virgil Shaw, divi-
sion manager, Gulf States Utilities Co.
and Warren N. Waggenspack, treasurer,
State National Life Insurance Co., Baton
Rouge; Parrish Fuller, Fuller Forests
Products, Oakdale; Walter B. MacKen-
zie, president, Plantation Pipe Line Co.,
Atlanta; J. P. Owen, Jr., Owen Drilling
Co., Lafayette; J. Edward Murray, presi-
dent, The Muller Co., Lake Charles;
B. N. Strong, manager, IBM Corp.,
Shreveport; and J. M. Pinkstori, per-
sonnel manager, Olinkraft, Inc., West
Monroe. All will serve three year terms.

New Coach Sees
Bright Future
For Gent BB

Centenary College's new head basketball
coach, 31 year old Larry Little, doesn't
think his youth will prove to be a handi-

cap in his new position. The oppor-
tunity for a head coaching job obviously
came earlier than he had expected in
his career, but, he believes he can make
up for any lack of experience with hard
work and long hours.

Little was named to succeed Joe Swank
at the end of last season after serving as
assistant basketball coach and head base-
ball coach since coming to Centenary
in 1968.

The first question for the new coach
is always, "How do things look for next
year?" And Little doesn't hesitate when
he says the outlook is "fairly bright."
"We have five good lettermen returning
next season — Melvin Russell, Larry
Davis, John Hickerson, Claudell Lofton,
and Jeff Victor, plus three junior college
transfers — center Lonnie Le Fevre and
the Home cousins, Milton and James."

"We'll fill out the 13 or 14 man var-
sity squad with other boys, but right now
it looks as though these eight will be the
nucleus of our '71 team," he said.

Little thinks there are some other
things working in the Gent's favor, too.
The new Gold Dome where the home
games will be played figures to be a big
boost to the team. "I think it will help
our recruiting, and also our attendance,
both of which should be great morale
factors for the team," Little said. "Most
people don't realize what a fine facility
this is until they actually get inside and
see it. The playing surface is the best,
and the lighting is perfect with no sha-
dows or glare."

The new coach also thinks talk of the
Gents joining a conference may affect
the future of the basketball picture at
Centenary. College officials have en-
gaged in a series of meetings with other
major independent schools in the South,
but as of this writing nothing definite
has been decided.

The 1971 schedule offers considerable
challenge to the talents of the new coach,
with home and home games against such
worthy opponents as the University of
Texas, Houston University, Lamar Tech,
and Arkansas State. The first home
game in the new dome will be against
Lamar Tech on December 1 .

Little, a 1962 graduate of Illinois State
University, had a 74-49 record in five
years as basketball coach at Litchfield,
III. High School and coached one year
at Winston Churchill Junior College in
Pontiac, Illinois before joining the Cen-
tenary staff.

Little is married to the former Diana
Jacobs and they have two daughters.

DeBusk

Strictly Personal
Military

Second Lieutenant
Robert F. DeBusk ('68)
has been awarded his
silver wings at Williams
A F B, Arizona, upon
graduation from U. S.
Air Force Pilot Train-
ing.

Michael C. Strausser ('69) has recently
been promoted to Special Fourth Class
at Ft. Hood, Texas, where he is serving
with the 2nd Armored Division. The
Lieutenant's wife, Cynthia, is the daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Waldorf,
Coral Gables, Florida.

Rodger D. Wedgeworth ('68) has been
promoted to sergeant in the U. S. Air
Force where he is a motion picture
camera specialist. He is now stationed
at Andrews AFB, Md., in a unit of the
Aerospace Audio-Visual Service.

Captain Jere R. Barnes ('66) graduated
from the Air University's Squadron Of-
ficer School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
The captain is being assigned to Scott
AFB, 111., as an administrative officer.

Sergeant Robert A. Inguaggiato ('69)
has arrived for duty at Taegu AB, Re-
public of Korea. Sergeant Inguaggiato
is an accounting and finance specialist
with a unit of the Pacific Air Forces,
headquarters for air operations in South-
east Asia, the Far East and Pacific areas.
U. S. Air Force Captain John L. Hill,
Jr. ('64) has been decorated with the
Bronze Star Medal for meritorious serv-
ice while engaged in military operations
against Viet Cong forces. He was pre-
sented the medal at Lindsay Air Sta-
tion, Germany, where he is assigned to
a unit of the Air Force Communications
Service.

Marriages

Donald Gilbert Easterwood and Sylvia
Ann Snyder ('71) were married June 19,
1971.

James Frederick Roth ('71) and Mar-
tha Blann West ('70) were married on
June 12, 1971.

James W. Riley II ('71), trainer for
Centenary and assistant trainer for the
Houston Oilers, married Sue Ellen Ben-
sey ('68).

Fred Goza, Jr. and Martha Louise
Sneed ('66) were married on June 18,
1971, at the Highland Baptist Church in
Shreveport.

In Memory

Mrs. Fannie Lee Lauter ('37) passed
away May 8, 1971 in New York while
vacationing with her husband, Edward
E. Lauter.

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Dr. Robert Petrie Walton ('24) dis-
tinguished pharmacologist of the Medical
University of South Carolina, passed
away March 27, 1971, at the age of 66
in a local hospital following a stroke.

Major David Lee Fort ('60) was killed
in an automobile-motorcycle accident at
Fort Rucker, Alabama, where he was
stationed. He is survived by his wife,
two sons and one daughter.

Mr. Morris Barron ('27) died at the
Guest House Nursing Home following
an extended illness.

Mr. Lamar Baker, Sr., a member of
the Board of Trustees at Centenary Col-
lege, passed away after a lengthy illness.
He is survived by his widow, the former
Anna Mae Gandy.

W. Crawford Fullilove, Jr., prominent
oil man and civic leader, died June 30,
1971, after a long illness. He was a
trustee of Centenary College for many
years.

Births

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Goins ('61)
(Jean Netterville '63) are the proud par-
ents of a baby boy, Mark James Goins,
born Feb. 5, 1971. Welcoming the new
brother are his sisters, Miriam, 5 years,
and Marcy, 3 years.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sawyer (Ginger
Rodgers '68) welcomed a son, April 4,
1971. They named the baby, Douglas
Clayton Sawyer.

40's

Mr. Charles Ellis Brown ('48), mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees at Cente-
nary College, has been renominated to
serve on the Louisiana Council of Eco-
nomic Education (LCEE) Board of
Directors.

Mrs. W. Peyton Shehee, Jr. ('40), has
been elected chairman of the Women's
Advisory Board of BB&T — "Bank of
the Mid South." Mrs. Shehee is also the
president of the Shreveport Symphony.

Katherine Oxford Fulton ('45) has re-
ceived her master of science degree at
the University of Southern Mississippi.

Mr. Tom F. Brown (x48), vice presi-
dent of the Shreveport Central Trades
and Labor Council, has been named to
Ward 4 of the Police Jury.

50's

Mr. Thomas N. Bunn ('54) has been

appointed personnel manager of Wood- '

Misaic Corporation,, Louisville, Ky. He ]

and Mrs. Bunn, the for- ;

mer Doris McKenzie j

also of Shreveport, La., I

have three daughters, j

^ Mrs. William Chmylak \

of Galveston, Texas,

Bunn

Elissa and Jenness.

Alwynelle Self AM ('61) has been hon-
ored with a Teacher-Scholar Award
based on primarily undergraduate teach-
ing at Michigan State University.

Mrs. Mitzi Middle-
brooks ('55) was elect-
ed president of the
Caddo Teachers As-
sociation and also hon-
ored as "Educator of
the Year" by the
Shreveport Times and
the Caddo Teachers Association.

Middlebrooks

60's

Jack Mulkey ('61), head of the Shreve
Memorial Library reference department,
has been named coordinator for the
$5,000 Northwest Louisiana Library
Planning study. He is married to the
former Mary Lynn Shepherd.

James Goins ('61) has been named
president of South Shreveport Lions
Club.

Mr. Wendell Ray Phillips ('62) has re-
ceived his master of arts degree at the
University of Northern Colorado.

Miss Jacqueline Rosett ('63) of Los
Angeles, California, has received the
1971 Honorary Service Award as the
Outstanding Educator of the Year in the
Alabama City School District.

Miss Marietta Burckett ('69) has com-
pleted requirements for her M.A. degree
at Louisiana Tech this summer and has
accepted a teaching assistantship at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to
work on her Ph.D.

Dr. Don George Scroggin ('66) has
received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard
University and has accepted a teaching
position at Williams College in Williams-
town, Mass.

centenary

Nice Words About the Dean... Centenary's Best Freshman Class

...Homecoming Under the Dome.

Jane West

Judy Butcher

Nancy Cowley

Homecoming '72 was planned in working sessions such
as the one pictured above.

Homecoming '72 . .
Under the Dome

Homecoming arrives early on the Centenary Campus
this year . . . and "Under the Dome" at that!

Saturday, December 4, is the date, with all activities
scheduled on the campus to show off the new Hamilton
Hall and the Gold Dome Center. The schedule:

Registration &
10:30 Faculty-Alumni
Reception

12:00 Lunch

2:00 A comedy play

Reunion for the
5:00 classes of

1947 & 1962

6:00

Alumni Awards
Banquet

8:00 Basketball

Hamilton Hall

Dining Hall

Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Hamilton Hall and
Dining Hall

Dining Hall
Gold Dome

9:45 Victory Reception Gents Room — Gold Dome

Watkins is new
Alumni President

A shreveport physician, Dr. Juan W. Watkins, Jr., has
been elected president of the Centenary College
Alumni Association for the 1971-72 term. He succeeds
Mrs. Mitzi Middlebrooks in the position.

Other officers who will serve with Dr. Watkins are:
Dr. Ned Prothro, a dentist, first vice-president;
Mrs. Dorothy Gammill, second vice-president; Flavia
Leary, a school teacher, secretary; and Dwight Brown,
C.P.A., treasurer.

Ten new board members elected by the association
this year are: Dr. Watkins, Miss Leary, Dr. Whitney
Boggs, Jr., Jack Elgin, Dr. John Graham, James
Koelemay, Mrs. Jerry Loe, James Montgomery,
Jack Mulkey, and Peyton Shehee.

Five board members will be named by the new
president at the next regular meeting of the board.

Dr. Watkins, a 1957 graduate of Centenary,
received his M.D. degree from Louisiana State
University Medical School. He is a member of the
Shreveport Rotary Club, the Century Club and the
Gents 100 Club at the College, and the Noel Memorial
United Methodist Church.

The Centenary College Alumni Magazine, Cente-
nary, September, 1971, Vol. 3, No. 1, published four
times a year — in September, December, March and
June by the Centenary College Alumni Association,
Shreveport, La. 71104. Second Class Postage paid at
Shreveport, La. Published for members of the Alumni
Association and friends of Centenary College of
Louisiana.

Alumni Director Bob Holladay

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Anne Shaver

1971-72 Centenary College Alumni Association Of-
ficers

President Juan Watkins, M.D. '57

Vice President Dorothy Gammill '40

Secretary Flavia Leary '35

Treasurer Dwight Brown '54

Directors

(Terms expire 1973)

H. Whitney Boggs, Jr. M.D. '47, Jack Elgin '43, John

Graham '59, James M. Koelemay '41, Flavia Leary

'35, Mary Kathryne McCain Loe '60, Jim Montgomery
'68, Jack Mulkey '61, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40, Juan
Watkins, M.D. '57.

Directors

(Terms expire 1972)

Cecil E. Bland, Jr. '42, Dwight M. Brown '54, John J.
Evans '62, Dorothy Gammill '40, Harriett C. Middle-
ton '43, Ned Prothro '45, Juanita Ryland Rembert '41,
Wayne F. Stoddard '65, B. C. Taylor '22, Jane llgen-
fritz West '61.

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Something to build on . . .

The Centenary College freshman class, with a
generous sprinkling of Frost and Trustee Scholars, is
probably the best prepared, academically, ever to
enroll at the College. Dean Thad N. Marsh said today.

Citing the results of a series of Science Research
Associates tests administered to the class during
registration, Dean Marsh said their average I.Q. score,
121.6, is in the 90th percentile in educational ability.

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"Ninety-nine members
of the freshman class
have been designated
Frost or Trustee Scholars

"In addition, 24 members of this class are in the
99th percentile of educational ability, and 7 reached
the extremely high score of 140," he said.

The tests also showed that 66% of the class scored
1 20 or above on the test. Dean Marsh explained this
means they have I.Q.'s equal to that of the top ten
per cent of the population of the United States.
"Those with a 1 20 or better score would definitely be
described as extremely bright people," he said.

In other areas, the tests show that 39% of the class
scored in the 90th percentile or above in English
usage; 47% scored in the 90th percentile or above

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in reading ability; and 30% scored in the 90th
percentile or above in math ability.

Ninety-nine members of the freshman class have
been designated Frost or Trustee Scholars which
denotes both scholarly achievement and academic
aptitude. The Frost scholarships, provided by the
Frost Foundation, and the Trustee scholarships are
offered to freshmen students who have a 3.0 high
school average supported by proof of exceptional
aptitude through one of the two major national
testing programs.

The class as a whole had an outstanding high school
record, also. Their grade point average for high school
work is 3.0 on a 4.0 scale; 43% of the class fell in the
90th percentile or above in terms of the National
Standardized College Entrance Examination test
scores; and 86% are in the 50th percentile or above.

In the department of English, 40 incoming
freshmen were deemed eligible to take an English
proficiency test because of their high entrance exam
scores. Of this group, 27 elected to take the test, and
of these 1 1 were exempted from freshman English and
given advanced placement without credit, while six
were granted credit; three of them six hours.

Chemistry majors were given an exam equivalent to
the final exam for first year college chemistry, and two
students made a passing grade; one (who missed only
one question on the test) was permitted to take
sophomore chemistry and was given credit for
freshman chemistry, while the other student chose
to take the freshman course. Nine others made good
grades on the test, but were not considered good
enough for exemption from the first year course.

In history, one freshman girl received six hours
credit for beginning history courses and was permitted
to enroll in classes of sophomore standing.

"This could be described, in the best sense of the
word, as an academically conservative Faculty,"
Dean Marsh said. "We have customarily awarded
credit for college-level work done before admission
only on the basis of the formal Advanced Placement
Program of the College Entrance Examination Board,
of which Centenary is a member. This means that our
usual inclination is to use such work as a means of
enriching a student's undergraduate program rather
than accelerating it."

The College librarian, Charles Harrington, said he
has noted an increasingly sophisticated use of the
Library by freshmen students. "The ability to find and
use materials is improving, and the nature of the
questions they ask are more mature, reflecting a more
alert class," he said.

(Opposite page) — Two of the outstanding students in
the new freshman class of Centenary, Cythia Yeast,
Lafayette, and Jeff Hendricks, West Monroe, pause for
a quiet chat in the Hargrove Memorial Amphitheatre.
Both are freshmen student senators. (Bottom) — Robert
Ruello, New Orleans and Tobin McSween, Franklin,
discuss college life over cokes at the Moore Student
Center. (Left) — Richard Hilborn, Shreveport, an
outstanding chemistry student, was given college credit
for courses after taking special exams equal to the
final tests for freshman chemistry.

Dr. George Edwin Miller, Jr.

He prefers "Eddy" with a "y"

When Eddy Miller accepted the job as Dean of
Students at Centenary College last September he was
just 29 years old. He said at the time that his youth
might work both for and against him. He told a
reporter, "the fact that I'm still under 30 for a few
months might provide an opportunity not otherwise
available.

"On the other hand the students might not see me
as one of the guys and identify too closely, while
the faculty members might think me too young and
inexperienced for the position," he said.

At the time he asked that they both look at him
without hasty judgement to give him an opportunity
to prove himself.

A recent editorial in the student newspaper,
The Conglomerate indicated that the students had
begun their judgement. The editorial written by the
student staff of the paper said in part, "The
Conglomerate is pleased to note that the 1971-72
school year seems to hold more promise for the
Centenary Community than previous years.

(Left) — Dr. Miller does the honors to the "fateful'
30th birthday cake.

"Not only have students presented proposals by
which people can become involved in worthwhile
projects, but a member of the administration has
presented ideas which, should they receive sufficient
student and faculty support, could radically change
life at the College.

"Dean Miller is the administrator referred to, and
we feel that Centenary has acquired a very unusual
Dean in this man. Those who have come in contact
with him since his arrival have all been impressed with
his seemingly boundless enthusiasm and sometimes
amazed at the energy he possesses. He appears to be
genuinely interested in the life of students at
Centenary and willing to work to improve that life
in those areas that need improvement.

"... this might be
the last nice thing
that's said about him.

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"We urge Dean Miller to continue in his efforts to
improve the College and we especially urge the
students and faculty to give their support to both his
and other projects designed to make this a better
place to live," the editorial concluded.

From the beginning, Dean Miller said that his
program at Centenary must center around co-operation
between his office and the students, "rather than
one which in the traditional sense waits until the lid
blows off to cope with the fallout."

He admits that many persons are moving away
from student personnel work "because it is an
unpopular and difficult office to hold in these days
of anxiety and campus unrest."

Because of this, though, Dean Miller also believes
that it affords him and other student personnel officials
a greater opportunity to serve a serious need on the
campus.

One of his projects that prompted the Conglomerate
editorial was a Miller plan to renovate the Moore
Student Center. Arriving on campus, the new Dean
said he sensed a lack of participative activities among
the students and proposed the SUB program so
that all might pitch in and help to brighten up the
students regular meeting place.

At press time, a steering committee composed of
independents ( Greeks, on-campus residents,
off-campus residents, art students, theatrical students,
and business majors was seeking ideas for the
renovation and financing of the project.

If the present enthusiasm continues, the students
can look forward to an improved Student Union
Building before the 71-72 year is over.

Dr. George Edwin Miller, Jr. is a native of
Natchitoches, La., and a graduate of Northwestern
State University in 1963. While earning his B.A.
degree in sociology at NSU, he served as president
of the student body.

After graduation he received a M.S. degree in
education at Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale, Illinois, and the Ph.D. degree from the
U. S. International University in San Diego, California.
He served as Associate Dean of Students at the
former Methodist University in California before
accepting the Centenary position in September.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Miller, Sr. of
Natchitoches and is married to the former
Linda Watkins Miller of Shreveport. They have
one daughter, Laura, who is now one year old.

When Dean Miller's appointment to Centenary was
announced by President John H. Allen, he asked a
reporter to say something nice about the Dean "since
this might be the last nice thing that's ever said
about him," referring to the precarious position of
student personnel workers in present day college life.

The President may have been wrong — as they
continue to say nice things about Dean Miller!

"I guess we would still be running . . ."

The Summer Theatre production of Fiddler on the
Roof at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse ranks with the
all-time dramatic successes in Shreveport. Scheduled
for eight performances, the play was sold out two
weeks before opening, so five additional performances
were scheduled.

When these five performances were sold out before
they began, the cast was asked to extend the run

again, which they did after a two week vacation. The
1,790 available seats were sold in 2l/i hours after
the box office opened.

After 18 performances, director Bob Buseick,
chairman of the speech and drama department at
Centenary, said, "I guess we would still be running if
the cast had not had to return to their normal pursuits."

Martha Stobaugh, Little Rock, Arkansas was among 200 students who volunteered to serve in the cafeteria during
peak hours to permit the College to open up a second serving line. When the Student Senate asked for volunteers,
they were bowled over by the response.

Student Life, . . .1972 Style

Scholarship . . . combined with "good clean fun"
might sum up student life at Centenary during the early
days of the new semester. Two valuable scholarships,
the Western Electric Fund Scholarship, and the
Grace Mims Allums-Mary Mims Scholarship, were
awarded to two outstanding students on the strength
of their outstanding academic qualifications.

Students turned in a few good turns, also. When
long lines started developing in the dining hall, over
200 students volunteered their help to open up a
second serving line, and turned out to be pretty fair
hash-slingers.

When campus communications broke down, the
Student Senate called on an old-timer to help them out.
They resurrected the old "town crier" who now
roams the campus shouting announcements of
campus events.

All campus weekend saw a return to such college
hi-jinks as the pie-eating contest that turned into a
"pie in the face" contest and an old-fashioned
tug-of-war!

(Opposite page)
(Bottom left)

The "Town Crier" draws a crowd wherever he goes.
(Top left) — Sophomore business major Stephen Locke
(right) accepts the Western Electric Fund Scholarship
from J. A. Rosengrant, Western Electric University
Representative. (Bottom right) — Miss Mary Van Sant of
Shreveport, a pre-med freshman, accepts the Grace
Mims Allums-Mary Mims Scholarship from Mrs. R. E.
White, representing the Southern Literary Club.
(Bottom left) — The tug-of-war proved to be as popular
as ever with today's Centenary Students.

20'S

Dr. W. B. Worley ('22) has been award-
ed the "Mr. Shreveport Award" for 1971
by the Optimist Club of Shreveport dur-
ing a club luncheon meeting at Conven-
tion Hall Annex on River Parkway. Dr.
Worley has been a pediatrician in Shreve-
port for many years.

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Mrs. Ruth L. Hughen ('34) has been
named principal of Baptist Christian
Academy for the 1971-72 school year.
For the past two years, Mrs. Hughen has
taught at Baptist Christian College in
Shreveport.

50's

Mrs. J. D. Caruthers ('50) a veteran
United Fund Volunteer worker, will head
up the geographic division in this fall's
drive, according to Enoch T. Nix, vice
chairman of the 18th annual united
appeal.

Mr. R. A. Stuart

('55) has been ap-
pointed assistant ex-
ploration manager
for Texas Gas Explo-
ration Corporation,
W. J. Wooten, presi-
dent, has announced.
He was formerly ex-
ploration manager
for Texas Gas Exploration Corporation
Gulf Coast Division. Stuart now assumes
a position with responsibilities on a com-
pany-wide basis.

Mr. John M. Jeter ('59) has been ap-
pointed to the position of vice president
of the Louisiana Bank and Trust by the
Board of Directors.

Stuart

60's

Mr. Lee E. Shirley has been promoted
to assistant regional manager of the
Shreveport group insurance office of Oc-
cidental Life of California.

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Evans

Lowrey

Shreveporter Drew Hunter ('71) who
left the city last July to film a safari in
Africa has recently returned with tales
and experience to last a lifetime.

Seven Centenary
College graduates
have been chosen
for inclusion in the
1971 editions of
the OUTSTAND-
ING YOUNG
MEN OF AMER-
ICA and the OUT-
STANDING
YOUNG WOMEN
edition. They are:
John J. Evans,
David Hoskins, Dr.
David R. Simmons,

Rick Hebert, Leonard Critcher, and Dr.
Charles Lowrey, while Miss Suda Adams
was named as a Centenary representa-
tive in the OUTSTANDING YOUNG
WOMEN edition.

cMarriages

John David Dent ('70) and Eleanor Ca-
mille Greve ('71) are to be married Jan-
uary 8, at Brown Memorial Chapel on the
Centenary College campus.

James Robinson Tinsley ('66) and Mary
Stella Markrides were married at St. Al-
ban's Episcopal Church in Morehead,
Kentucky.

Charles Carroll Beard, Jr. and Justa
Suda Adams ('69) are to be married De-
cember 18 at 7:00 p.m. in Noel Memorial
Methodist Church.

Jeffery Scott Pender ('71) and Virginia
Ann Johnson ('71) were married August
14 at North Highland Methodist Church.

Bruce Henley Morgan ('72) and Pa-
tricia Jack ('72) were married August 12
at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Shreve-
port.

^Deaths

Mrs. Nellie Kilpatrick, one of the most
prominent business women in Shreveport,

died in an airplane crash in Bossier City
on October 29. Mrs. Kilpatrick was a
trustee of Centenary College and treas-
urer of the Church Women United in
Louisiana.

James W. Camer-
on ('62) passed away
at his home in Min-
den, Louisiana from
acute heart failure.

Mr. Tom Hubble

Cameron

passed away at his home in Shreveport.

Jerry Sellers, principal of Bussey Jun-
ior High School since 1 949, died in a
Garland Hospital August 2 after a lengthy
illness.

Mrs. John Spencer Hardy, wife of Lt.
Gen. (ret.) John S. Hardy, died unexpect-
edly at their home August 8. Her death
was believed to have been caused by a
stroke.

^Births

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Aldin of

Shreveport are the proud parents of a
baby girl, Olivia Hirsch. The mother is
the former Janis Jinks and a 1969 grad-
uate of Centenary College.

Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Halliburton

('66) announced the birth of their fifth
child and first daughter, Manon Lee, born
July 3, in Lexington, Virginia.

cMilitary

Harry J. Cooke ('67), son of Dr. and

Mrs. Jack Cooke, 839 Monrovia, has been
decorated with the Distinguished Flying
Cross for aerial achievement in South-
east Asia.

U. S. Air Force Captain Ralph W.
Harker ('66), son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren
L. Harker of West Monroe, Louisiana,
has received his M.S. degree at the Air
Force Institute of Technology (AFIT),
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

centenary

A Tug at the Heartstrings
A Look at Scholarship Recipient Barbara Allen

A MESSAGE FROM
THE LOYALTY CHAIRMAN

Until 1971 I was the typical Centenary alumnus.
I enjoyed the benefits of being a Centenary graduate,
as well as sharing the pleasure of seeing Centenary
receive recognition from many sources.

In 1971 I became a member of our Alumni
Association Board and accepted the job as Chairman
for the 1971-72 Annual Alumni Loyalty Fund.
The financial plight of private education, Centenary
College in particular, became very personal.

I discovered that for three years Centenary
had operated with an annual financial
deficit exceeding several hundred thousand
dollars. I became concerned that the cost
of our four alumni scholarships, the Alumni
Magazine, and Homecoming expenses in ex-
cess of ticket receipts amounted to about
$12,000.00. This concern compounded
itself when I considered the additional cost
of salaries, travel, printing, office equipment,
postage, etc. I really became alarmed
when I found out that we alumni of
Centenary continue to add to the deficit
because we do not pay our way.

HELP SAVE $175.00 BY CUTTING OUT THIS CARD AND RETURNING IT WITH
YOUR PLEDGE.

It would have cost the alumni association $175.00 to include a stamped, return envelope
with this issue of the "Centenary". Use this card and your stamp to help us apply that mon-
ey to other projects.

I Pledge to the Centenary Alumni Association

_For the purpose of making the 1971 Scholarships and present ac-

W. Peyton Shehee, Jr.

It goes without saying that throughout her
history, Centenary College has been generously
supported by dedicated alumni. Most of the college's
physical plant has come as the result of alumni gifts.

Last year 9 1 Centenary Alumni contributed
$4,118 directly to the Alumni Association. During
the same year almost one hundred alumni contributed
to the college in some other manner (Gents Club,
the Great Teachers etc. ) , an amount less than

$5000. When both contributions and
cost became evident, I simply decided to
really get involved in the Alumni Loyalty
Fund for 1972.

We have approximately 6500 Centenary
alumni. If 10% gave a measure of financial
support, we could begin to take pride in our
Association and become a strong arm of our
Alma Mater, rather than a current burden.
I have committed myself to help lighten
Centenary's financial load by carrying my
fair share. I encourage you to join me in
this task by generously supporting your
alumni association.

tivities self-sustaining.
Name

A gift of $100.00 or more
entitles you to membership
in the Century Club.

Members of the Century Club
will receive a beautiful repro-
duction of James Dormitory.
This is a beautiful work of art
that would be a beautiful and
meaningful decoration for your
office or den wall . .

City and State.

I will send this amount by May 31st, 1972
Check enclosed.

Zip.

The Centenary College Alumni Magazine, Cen-
tenary, September, 1971 Vol. 3, No. 2, published
four times a year — in September, December,
March and June by the Centenary College Alu-
mni Association, Shreveport, La. 71104. Second
Class Postage paid at Shreveport, La. Published
for members of the Alumni Association and
friends of Centenary College of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Bob Holladay

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Bliss Clark

1971-72 Centenary College Alumni Association

Officers

President Juan Watkins, M.D.

First Vice President Ned Prothro D.D.S.

Vice President Dorothy Gammill

Secretary Flavia Leary

Treasurer Dwight Brown

Directors

(Terms expire 1973)

H. Whitney Boggs, Jr. M.D. '47, Jack Elgin

'57
'45
'40
'35

'54

'43,

John Graham '59, James M. Koelemay '41, Flavia

Leary '35, Mary Kathryne McCain Loe '60, Jim
Montgomery '68, Jack Mulkey '61, Peyton She-
hee, Jr. '40, Juan Watkins, M.D. '57.

Directors

(Terms expire 1972)

Cecil E. Bland, Jr. '42, Dwight M. Brown '54,
John J. Evans '62, Dorothy Gammill '40, Harriett
C. Middleton '43, Ned Prothro '45, Juanita Ry-
land Rembert '41, Wayne F. Stoddard '65, B. C.
Taylor '22, Jane llgenfritz West '61.

AN OPPORTUNITY
THAT WON'T BE WASTED

Don't worry. Your children and grandchildren
will be in good hands.

Remember helping them dress for that first big
day in school, waving goodby with mixed emotions
as they skipped down the sidewalk? You were filled
with pride and anxiety, happiness and nostalgia,
anticipation and, maybe, even a queezy stomach. Six
is such a young, tender age; you know. Yet, so
is sixteen.

During those beautiful years of learning,
discovering, maturing and becoming aware of life . . .
you've had to share your child with several
teachers. And those teachers had to be someone
special, someone you could really trust because, into
their hands, you were placing your most precious
possession ... a life.

Barbara Allen is becoming a teacher.

She's a soft-spoken, 18 year old redhead from
Iowa, Louisiana bursting with determination. Barbara
wanted to be a teacher, and just because her
family couldn't afford to send her to college, was no
reason to sit back and let a dream disappear.

Barbara said, "If I had not received the Centenary
Alumni Association's Scholarship, I would have
worked a year, gone to school a year, worked a year,
gone to school a year, until I had worked my way
through, no matter how long it would have taken."

With that kind of determination, combined with a
4.0 grade average in high school and a financial need
that couldn't be overlooked, we're not surprised
Barbara was chosen to receive one of the four

"I can remember what my
teachers have meant to me
. . . and I would like to
mean that to other people/'
Barbara reflected.

Centenary Alumni Association Scholarships.

When asked why she wanted to go to Centenary,
Barbara replied, "The faculty is outstanding." (More
than half of Centenary's instructional staff has its
terminal degree). "And it shows concern for the
students, always willing to help with any problems
they may have, academic or otherwise."

The student body, on the whole, is highly
respected for its above-average educational ability.
In fact, results from a series of Science Research
Associate's tests revealed the college's freshman class
had an average I. Q. score of 121.6, which is equal
to that of the top 10% of the population of the
United States. Barbara further stated, "Centenary's
student body forms a close knit community for a
unique academic experience and a rewarding social
life." Barbara is proud to have been given the
opportunity to attend such a highly respected
institution through the Alumni Association
Scholarship.

When asked why she wanted to become a teacher,
Barbara said, "Education is one of the best fields
you can go into .... because you help people."
And that's what it's all about, according to Barbara,
helping people, being the kind of teacher that will
influence a student's life, encouraging him when he's
searching for direction, and just "being there"
when he turns to you for guidance. "I can remember
what my teachers have meant to me . . . and I
would like to mean that to other people", Barbara
reflected.

Even though education played an important role
during her Iowa High School days, Barbara still
found time for many extracurricular activities. She
was an officer in the Science Club, officer in the
Spanish Club, officer in the Speech Club and officer
in the 4-H Club, as well as being a class officer.
Barbara was also actively involved

in the National Honor Society,
TAPS (March of Dimes), Chorus, Student
Newspaper Staff, and Future Teachers of America,
to mention only a few. You'll find her name in
Who's Who at Iowa High School, Who's Who in
American High Schools, Society of Outstanding
American High School Students, Who's Who Among
Louisiana High School Seniors. She has won many
awards such as the DAR Certificate of Award,
Readers' Digest Award, Betty Crocker Award,
Spanish Award, Math Award, English Award,
Science Award, and valedictorian.

Now a freshman English major at Centenary,
Barbara finds herself involved in a whole new world
of extracurricular activities. She serves on the
Worship Committee, belongs to the Academic
Affairs Committee, the Kappa Chi Fraternity, Sigma
Tau Delta (national writing fraternity) and also
works as a volunteer for Open Ear, the crisis
telephone answering and referral service.

Barbara also works parttime as secretary to Dr.
Robert Deufel, professor and chairman of the
Department of Biology.

And, if this busy gal doesn't have enough to keep
her involved, Barbara likes to spend her spare time
walking through the woods, collecting wild flowers,
pine cones, acorns, (unusual ones, not the regular
kind) colorful fall leaves and berries. You'll also
find her reading, writing prose, playing the piano,
riding bicycles or cooking in her few spare minutes.

Someday, after graduation from Centenary and
after graduate school, Barbara would like to put her
teaching abilities to work in the mission fields. "For
several years now, I've felt that working in the
mission field, or some similar service organization,
would fulfill my goal of leading a worthwhile life."

Barbara Allen is becoming a teacher you can
trust. She's a good example of the kind of teacher
you'll be proud to have teaching, guiding and
influencing the lives of your children and
grandchildren. So, you needn't worry. With
teachers like Barbara entering into the education
field, your children and grandchildren will be in very
good hands.

Even though she's swamped with hours of studying
and a "million things to do," let the sun shine and you'll
find Barbara out enjoying her favorite pasttime, bicycling.

(pictured at left) Bright, redheaded Barbara brings a
little sunshine to the winter scene at Crumley Gardens.

The Centenary College Annual European Alumni Tour
has been scheduled for June 7-28 and will include visits
to France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, and
Denmark.

For further information contact, Flavia Leary, tour
escort or the Alumni Association Office at Centenary,
869-5141.

A TUG AT
THE HEARTSTRINGS

If Homecoming is supposed to give you a tug at
the old heartstrings, Centenary's annual reunion this
year was eminently successful.

There were few dry eyes in the house as Dr. Leroy
Vogel accepted the Outstanding Teacher Award and
Mrs. Virginia Shehee accepted the Honorary Alumni
Award for her mother, the late Mrs. Nellie P. Kilpatrick
Add to that the proud moment when Judge Chris
Barnette was named to the Hall of Fame, the picture
was complete.

Some three hundred persons attended the Home-
coming banquet in the College
Dining Hall after a full day of
activities including a faculty-
alumni reception in Hamilton Hall,
a special performance of the play,
"You Can't Take It With You" at
the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse and
special reunions of the classes of
1947 and 1962.

To complete the day, the Gents
pulled off a 95-79 basketball
victory over East Texas Baptist
College in the Gold Dome Athletic
Center.

A Crowley beauty, Miss Terry Martin, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Martin, reigned
as the Homecoming Queen. She's a physical
education major and a member of the Centenary
College Choir.

President John H. Allen, Alumni Association
President Juan Watkins, M.D., and Homecoming
Chairman Mrs. Jerry Butcher welcomed the guests.
Mrs. Jay Lang was chairman of the 1962 class
reunion and Mrs. Beynon Cheesman hosted the
1947 class reunion.

Dr. John Graham presented the
Outstanding Teacher Award to Dr.
Vogel. After outlining his many
accomplishments, Dr. Graham said
of Dr. Vogel, "Our selection was
made on more than awards, or the
number of grants, or the number of
ribbons pinned on his chest. Our
award is made for the man himself.
For over the past 25 years
countless students and faculty are
able to attest to the love and
character of this man."

Characterized as a man, "who

Homecoming Queen, Miss Terry Martin.

in the face of illness has shown courage and service
to both student and colleague alike," Dr. Graham
concluded, "Certainly he has received awards but I
seriously doubt if any previous award has carried
as much love as there is in this one."

Dr. Ned W. Prothro paid high tribute to the late
Mrs. Kilpatrick in his presentation of the Honorary
Alumni Award. As Mrs. Shehee accepted the honor,
he told the former students, "She was certainly a
very warm, sincere, and dedicated Christian person,
loved and respected by all who were privileged to
know her. Her untimely death was surely a great
loss to her friends at Centenary, our entire
community, state and nation. Our deepest sympathy

is hereby extended to her family. Her memory will
long live in our hearts."

Mrs. Kilpatrick was killed in a plane crash in
Bossier City on October 28 while enroute to
Alexandria, Louisiana for a Methodist Church
meeting.

The honor of naming the Alumni Hall of Fame
recipient went to Mrs. Mitzi Middlebrooks, past-
president of the Alumni Association. As she
presented the award to Judge Chris Barnette, a 1925
graduate of Centenary, she said, "This man has
truly served his profession with honor. He has
shown a continuing interest in the College and has
conducted himself in all areas of life in such a manner
that the College can justly be proud of him. He is
loved by all those who know him and respected and
admired by his associates."

Judge Barnette served most of his lifetime as
Juvenile Judge in Caddo Parish and recently retired
from the bench of the Fourth Circuit Court of
Appeals in New Orleans.

(Top left) Mrs. Nellie P. Kilpatrick.
(Bottom left) Judge Chris Barnette
(Below) Dr. Leroy Vogel.

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4o's

Dr. William E. Swyers, ('42) a pro-
fessor of accounting, has been appoint-
ed chairman of the LSU accounting
department. He is a graduate of LSU's
Ph.D. program in accounting and an
MBA recipient. He received his bache-
lors degree in accounting from Cente
nary College.

50>s

The daughter of a former Centenary
College student took the top prize in
the Louisiana State Fair essay contest
for 1971. She is Miss Jean Wong, a
Fair Park High School senior and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe S. Wong.
Mr. Wong ('51) was editor of the
Centenary newspaper, The Conglom-
erate. The Wongs have eight children,
five girls and three boys. Three of the
other Wong girls were finalists in the
same contest in their various grades,
with 10 year old June copping the
second-place prize in the fifth grade
and honorable mention citations were
won by Ruth Elaine in the sixth grade
and Judy in the third grade. All three
are students at Queensborough.

Dr. John K. Graham, 1959, has
written and directed a play for the
inmates of the Caddo Parish penal
institution, the Caddo Correctional In-
stitute. The play, "The Axion Experi-
ments" is a fictional drama about man,
his place on earth, and his search for
truth. Dr. Graham wrote it several
years ago "just to see if I could do it,"
and then decided to produce it at CCI
when he became involved in rehabili-
tation work at the prison. One of the
prisoners involved in the play said, "it's
the only constructive thing I have ever
done." Another Centenary graduate,
James Montgomery, 1948, Amuse-

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featured the play and Dr. Graham in
a Sunday Magazine article.

60's

James David Falls ('62) will re-
ceive his M.B.A. Candidate degree in
May 1972 from Northeast Louisiana
University in Monroe, La.

Paul D. McMahan ('62) is a gradu-
ate student at the University of Ala-
bama, and will receive his Masters
degree in June 1972.

Kay M. Young (Cooper, '62) is now
a librarian at San Jacinto Intermediate
School in Pasadena, Texas.

Edwina E. Hubert ('62) received
her Ph.D. in Education from Univer-
sity of North Carolina in 1969 and is
now Assistant Professor of Psychology
and Education at the University of
Albuquerque in New Mexico.

George A. Hamilton ('62) is now a
prominent attorney in Shreveport and
part owner and vice president of Caddo
Abstract and Title Co., Inc.

Virginia Transue (Bobbitt '62) ac-
tively sought election to the State Board
of Education of the 3rd District, but
was defeated. She is still active in the
theatre besides being a housewife and
mother.

John J. Evans, 1964, a Shreveport
businessman, is the subject of an article
in Shreveport Magazine entitled "A
Young Man's Advice to a Young
Man." In the article John gives at
least partial credit to his success to

Centenary College. "Centenary Col-
lege has been a major influence on me,"
he said. "Some of the happiest and
most fruitful days of my life have been
spent there, not only as a student but
also as a participant in many facets of
the school. It is an outstanding insti-
tution and I am very proud to be one
of its graduates."

^Military

Cdr. Harold L. Bassham, MC, USN
('56) presently Staff Radiologist at the
Naval Hospital, was recently elected
to membership in the Undersea Medical
Society by vote of the Executive Com-
mittee.

cMarriages

Miss Susie Wilkes ('72) and Chris
Blanchard ('72) have announced their
engagement to be married, January 15,
1972.

births

Dr. and Mrs. Paul Snow ('58) are
the proud parents of a baby boy, Gary
Atkinson Snow, born October 6, in
Alexandria, Virginia.

^Deaths

Charles Fletcher Allbright ('38) of
Jennings, La., passed away on
November 28, 1971, after a very brief
illness. He is survived by his widow,
two sons, Dr. G. Havard Albright,
class of '64 and Gary Erwin Albright,
class of '68, both at Centenary College.
He is also survived by one daughter,
Mary Charlotte Albright.

centenary

Best In the Nation for the Gents
Cheesy Says Good-bye Alumni Fund Nears $10,000

Alumni Fund Report

Bv Bob Holladay Alumni Director

May 31, 1972 gave the Alumni Asso-
ciation a reason for rejoicing because
Centenary alumni expressed their loyalty
in dollars and cents like never before.
The final tabulation of the Annual Loy-
alty Fund revealed 312 alumni gave
$9,687.70. By comparison with last year,
this represents a 340% increase in Alumni
participation and a 230% increase in

money given. This year five percent of
Centenary's alumni showed their loyalty
by financially supporting the Associa-
tion's work. Already, we look forward
to next year's Loyalty Fund Campaign
and an even greater number of partici-
pants.

The following list are those alumni who
demonstrated their loyalty with a gift to

the Alumni Association. The names with
an asterisk represent those who gave at
least $100 and are designated members
of the Century Club. They will receive
a handsome picture of James Dormitory,
the first in a series of campus prints.

Miss Ann Allen '67

Miss Dorothy Jo Allen '45

Miss Glennie Scott Allen '64

Miss Alline Allgood '31

•Mr. Otis Allison '30

•Mr. Charles E. Anderson '55

Dr. & Mrs. Will Andress '61

Mrs. Hazel A. Apgar X

Dr. & Mrs. Dale Armstrong '48-'50

*Mr. John B. Atkins '47

Virginia K. Ayer '34

Miss Ney Bailey '58

Mr. John D. Baker '57

Mrs. Sarah W. Baker '63

Mr. Gerard Banks '27

Dr. Patsy k. Barber '57

Mr. & Mrs. Ray Barlow '54

•Rev. Donald Barnes '51

'Judge & Mrs. Chris Barnette '25-28

Lt. & Mrs. D. W. Ban '65

Dr. Richard J. Barry '48

Mary Lou Barton '48

Mr. Joe H. Baughman '61

Mr. Norman Bering '67

Rev. Moujon Biggs, Jr. '62

Mr. & Mrs. Louis Blankenbaker '56-'57

Rev. W. D. Boddie '37

'Dr. H. Whitney Boggs, M.D. '47

♦Dr. Jeanne R. Bonar, M.D. '54

Mrs. Mary R. Booker '41

Mr. C. R. Boudeau '51

Rev. & Mrs. J. Henry Bowdon '21

Mrs. Frances Bowers '7(1

Mr. Roger Box '64

Mr. Anthony S. Brandon '69

Miss Ruth Brener

Mr. & Mrs. Algie Brown '34-'38

Mrs. Davidson Brown '33

Mrs. Donald R. Brown '68

'Mr. Dwight Brown '49

"Mrs. J. Theron Brown '29

'Mr. Paul Brown 17

*Mrs. Travis Brown '27

*Mr. Harvey Broyles '36

*Mr. & Mrs. M. M. Buchanan .34

Mrs. Ethel F. Burgess '47

Mrs. M. Lucille W. Burke '64

Mr. Tom Burton '71

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry A. Butcher '62

Mr. Phillip A. Butcher '63

Mrs. Enid G. Butler '65

Mr. Rodney Cage '66

Dr. Jack T. Cappel, Jr. '49

*Dr. & Mrs. David Carlton '47

Mrs. L. W. Carney '58

Mr. Owen Carter '35

Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Clark '36-47

Mr. R. B. Clarke '56

Dr. & Mrs. R. B. Clifton '47-50

Mrs. Joe E. Colburn '58

Mrs. UmaS. Collins '42

*Dr. Walter T. Colquitt, D.D.S. '66

Dr. Jack Cooke '38

Mr. Thomas O. Cooper '34

Dr. & Mrs. Larry Cowley '64

Mrs. James E. Crosslin '60

•Mr. P. E. Crowe '33

*Mrs. Allman T. Culbertson '39

Mrs. A. B. Culliton '54

Mr. Walter Daniels, Jr. '39

Miss Glennell Davis '52

Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Davis '51

•Mr. & Mrs. James F. Dean '41-'42

Mr. Morgan K. Deare '67

•Lt. & Mrs. Robert F. Debusk, III '69

Miss Dorothy Dixon '41

Mr. & Mrs. L. P. Dixon '30

Mr. Charles W. Dobie '54

Mr. Willis B. Dobson '28

Miss Margery Doxey '54

Mr. Robert P. Dugar '56

Mrs. T. E Dunn '49

Mr. Lake Dupree '27

'Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Durham '34-'39

Major James Durham '37

Mr. Lee Edward Eanes '63

Lt. Col. Charles Eisen '59

Mrs. Robert A. Elder '44

Miss Edith Mourine Elliott '62

Mr. Fred R. Emswiller. Jr. '60

Mr. Jonas Epstein '45

Mr. John H. Evans '47

1 Mr. John J. Evans '64

Mrs. William S. Evans '33

Mr. Albert Farnell '38

Mr. D. M. Finch. Sr. '31

Mr. & Mrs. Camp Flournoy '42

Mr. Mertis Foster '30

Mrs. Beatrice Carktib Frazer '4(1

Mrs. Elizabeth Z. Friedenberg '55

Mr. Rick Friend '70

*Mrs. Dorothy H. Gammill '40

Milann F. Gannaway '68

Mr. & Mrs. C. Henry Giessen. Jr. '69

Mr. & Mrs. George Gilmer. Jr. '63

Mr. John P. Goodson '50

Mr. Joseph A. Gowan '49

Mrs. Phylis L. Green '56

Mr. Richard Grisham '67

Mr. L. O. Grounds '21

Mr. Clarence R. Gutteridge '23

'Mr. John A. Hardin, Jr. '28

Mr. A. C. Hardman '36

*Lt. Gen. John S. Hardy '38

Capt. Ralph Harker '66

Mrs. Helen V. Harper '33

'Dr. & Mrs. William S. Harwell '47

Mrs. Sherry Hayslip '64

Mr. John H. Heame '42

Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Hebert '69

Mr. & Mrs. Russell Herron '66

Mrs. Margaret Hope Hickman '35

Mr. Melvin R. Hicks '48

•Mr. Jack Hodges. Ill '58

•Dr. Sam Holladay X

Mrs. W. B. Hood '52

Mr. Lynn Home '71

Mrs. G. H. Houston '60

Mr. Richard S. Hruska '66

Robin M. Hubert '59

Mrs. Huey P. Hudson '65

'Mr. Charles C. Hunter '31

Mrs. Tinye D. Irion '31

*Dr. J. H. Jackson '44

Mr. J. M. Jackson '69

Dr. George Jacobson '43

*Mr. G. W. James '29

Mr. Albert E. Johnson '52

Mr. Joe A. Johnson '58

Mrs. Mildred Johnson '42

Mr. Robert D. Johnston '61

Mrs. William H. Kastl '36

♦Dr. & Mrs. C. W. Kennar '43-44

' Dr. John Kennard '52

Mr. Thomas E. Kerlin '64

Cathy Knighton '71

Rev. & Mrs. John B. Koelemay '40

Mr. M. C. Krentel '39

♦Miss Isabella Leary '33

Mrs. Robert O. Leath '51

Mrs. Sarah L. Levy '51

Mr. Sam P. Liberto '30

Mrs. R. M. Lindsey '60

Mr. F. L. Lowe, Jr. '44

Dr. & Mrs. James H. Lutchg '57

Mrs. Charles W. Lyman. Ill '61

Mrs. C. R. Lynds

♦Mr. C. H. Lyons. Sr. (Hon)

Mr. Robert L. Manley '62

Mrs. Frances P. Marshall '37

Mr. H. K. Marshall '32

Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mason '38-'4.3

Major Ralph Mason. Jr. '61

Mrs. W. E. Maxwell '62

Mr. & Mrs. F. M. May '56

Mrs. Michael H. Mayer '59

Mr. Bradford Mayo '60

•Mr. A. H. Meadows '26

Rev. Jerry Means '53

Dr. J. Ralph Meier. M.D. '51

Mr. Frank P. Merriit '48

Mrs. J. R. Merryman '60

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Middlebrooks '53-'55

♦Mrs. Evelyn B. Moore '40

Mr. Taylor West Moore '42

Mrs. Howell Morgan, Jr. '38

Mrs. Diana C. Morison '53

Mrs. Edward Morris '47

Mr. Jack Mulkey '61

•Mrs. Elizabeth K. McBride '44

Mrs. Joseph W. McClain '35

Mr. & Mrs. James C. McClure "27-'34

♦Dr. Mary Lou Mcllhany, M.D. '32

•Mr. & Mrs. A. M. Mcllwain '4l-'33

Mr. T. Chalmers McKowen '36

Mrs. Mary Noe '64

Mrs. Cornelia C. Nordahl '62

Mrs. Genevieve R. Odom '25— '28

Mrs. J. M. On '58

Mrs. Kathleen Marshall Owens '31

♦Dr. & Mrs. M. L. Owens '43

Mrs. Diane H. Penny '59

Frances M. Perkins '44

♦Mr. Bonneau Peters (Hon)

Mr. J. R. Phillyaw '48

Rev. Delton Pickering '57

Mr. John S. Pickett '28

Mr. Lee T. Popejoy, Jr. '57

•Mr. Allen F. Prickett '38

Dr. Richard A. Prindle '44

Mr. Clovis E. Prisock '51

Dr. Ned W. Prothro, D.D.S. '45

Mr. Harold Quinn '50

Billie Jo Rains '48

Miss Chris Randall '68

Mrs. Derek Redmore '61

Mrs. John C. Renshaw '59

Mrs. George M. Reynolds '30

•Mr. Austin G. Robertson '34

Mrs. F. D. Roemer '69

Mr. John R. Rogozmiski '67

•Mr. & Mrs. Ben Roshton '33

Mrs. David O. Rubenstein "60

Miss Marianne Salisbury '71

Mr. Richard W. Schmidt '68

Mr. Joel Sermons '58

Mrs. Charlotte Newson Shedd '43

•Mr. Peyton Shehee. Jr. '40

•Mrs. Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40

Mr. Henry M. Shuey. Jr. '70

Mrs. C. R. Skidmore '33

Mrs. Grace Smith '41

Mrs. W. R. Smith. Jr. '41

Mr. Adrian R. Snider '34

Dr. Jack Snow X

Dr. Rex Squyres '46

Rosemary Spalding '71

Miss Marie Spivey '40

Mr. E. W. Staser '61

Mrs. Claude Stone '42

Mrs. Vivian Tate '49

Dr. B. C. Taylor '22

Robert Ed Taylor '52

Carol Winning Tiffin '60

Mrs. Lucile Althar Tindol '33

•Jo Ann Toland '68

Mr. H. E. Townsend '06

Mrs. Hall Trichel '35

Mr. John J. Tuminello '46

Mrs. Dorothy F. Turner '30

Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Upshaw '64

Mrs. Olga Miller Wagner '53

Mr. & Mrs. Riley Wallace '64-63

•Dr. & Mrs. Juan Watkins '57

Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Watts '70

Mr. Robert Webster '41

Mr. Rodger D. Wedgeworth '68

•Mr. James T. Welsh '31

Mrs. John D. Whitaker '55

Mrs. J. Tim White. Ill '61

Mr. Loren J. White '60

Mrs. Carolyn C. Wilbite X

Ann Wilhelm '71

Mr. Jack Wilkerson '38

Mrs. Elise H. Wilier '27

Mr. Charles D. Williams '70

June A. Williams X

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Williamson '49

Mr. & Mrs. Henry I. Winegeart, Jr. '47

Elaine C. Wischan '56

Mrs. Jerome M. Wolf '44

•Mr. Joe S. Wong '51

Mrs. Betty Woodruff '47

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Word '40

Edna S. Worley '55

Mrs. Helen Heath Wray '42

Miss Eleanor Wren '42

Miss Virginia Wren '42

Mrs. F. H. Wright '36

Dr. Rod M. Yeager '61

Mr. Robert A. Young. Jr. '49

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Zimmermon '39

If your name does not appear on this list,
but should, please notify the Alumni Office.

"Annabelle"

"I'll always remember that little
girl as she followed our car down
the road. She kept waving as she
pressed her face against the fence,
sobbing, 'Oh, Annabelle, please
come back' as we drove out of
sight."

This is one of the vivid memories
of Jack Mulkey, Systems Director
of the Green Gold Library System,
following a performance of the chil-
dren's play "Annabelle Broom" at
one of the six stops on a recent tour
of North Louisiana towns. The little
girl was so impressed with the play,
probably the first live theatre pro-
duction she had ever seen, that she

was obviously distressed at the
departure of the kindly witch.

And there were other expressions
of appreciation that have encouraged
Mulkey to make plans for an
extended program this summer.

It all started two years ago when
Mulkey, a Centenary graduate, and
Robert Buseick, Chairman of the
Speech and Drama Department at
Centenary College, discussed the
possibility of using the productions
of the Children's Summer Theatre
Workshop at Centenary to replace
the traditional "Children's Story
Hour" in the Shreveport libraries.
Their discussions resulted in the pre-
sentation of "The Prince Who
Became A Lion" in the branch lib-
raries in the city. It was an instant
success.

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' «

At about this same time a $ 100,000
federal grant was approved for a
Green-Gold Library System for
eight North Louisiana parishes pro-
viding some special programs in
addition to interlibrary loan and
other cooperative efforts to improve
library service.

Under the heading of special pro-
grams in his original proposal for the
grant, Mulkey included this para-
graph: "The Right to Read Program
will include a special series of chil-
dren's theatre presentations that will
travel throughout the system and will
be designed to stimulate verbal skills
of pre-school and elementary age
children.

The success of the "Prince" in the
Shreveport library system and the
travel proposal in the new grant were
a perfect marriage. Following the

regular campus presentation at the
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse, the
seven member cast of "Annabelle
Broom" went on tour — to Cou-
shatta, Minden, Arcadia, Homer,
Mansfield, and Many where they
played in libraries and schools to
large and appreciative audiences
made up mostly of children. But in
many cases, parents were as
enthusiastic as the youngsters. The
performances were scheduled out-
side regular school hours to give all
students an opportunity to attend.

The little girl who pleaded for
Annabelle to come back was only
one of many whose life was touched
by the touring troubadors who
traveled under the Green Gold Lib-
rary banner . . . they came forward
to touch her costume ... to wait for
the touch of her hand or a kind word.
"We had a wonderful response from
the townspeople, too," Mulkey
recalls, "and they asked us time and
time again to come back soon."

"In one community we played to
a group of children who had never
before seen a live stage play," he
said. "At first they were shy and
inhibited but they turned out to be
a great audience and were delighted
when Annabelle stopped to chat with
them after the show."

The story is even more remarkable
when you consider that the members
of the cast, Centenary College stu-
dents Leslie Conerly, who played
Annabelle, Adonna Sowers, Cece
Russell, Betty Blakely, Jackie
Schafner, director Buseick, and the
children played by Kay Abramson
and Monte Glorioso donated their
time for this community effort. The
Green Gold System provided pro-
duction costs, transportation and
incidental expense money but that
was all. The applause for the actors
was not measured in dollars and
cents.

Buoyed up by their initial suc-
cesses , Buseick and Mulkey are now
planning to double their perform-
ances in the outlying areas of the dis-
trict this summer... maybe even
twenty performances. "Earlier we
went only to the county seats of the
parishes in the system, but we now

Annabelle Broom has his undivided
attention

hope to visit many other small com-
munities, " Mulkey said.

As he continues plans for the
future of the Green Gold System in
North Louisiana, the traveling chil-
dren's theatre is one of his top
priorities.

"I personally feel a program of
this educational caliber and creativ-
ity is one of the most worthwhile
projects with which a Library can
be involved. Because of the interest
and the favorable comments, we will
continue with a similar program
throughout the year, starting this
July, with the Centenary Children's
Theatre Workshop," he said.

Remembering the face of the little
girl who cried for Annabelle Broom,
Mulkey says, "Needless to say, we
plan to go back there."

Leslie Conerly, the nice witch who

hates black clothes (top) enthralls

her small-fry audience (bottom)

NOTICE

MAKE PLANS NOW

1973 HOMECOMING

MARCH 3, 1973

BONNIE WATKINS,
CHAIRMAN

parish

by Mamie Wayne

Below, seven-foot Robert Parish sits alone in the Gold Dome as he ponders his future as a Gent while on the opposite page
(left) he climbs the stairs to the Dome, a path Gent fans hope will lead to national recognition. At right top, Parish towers
over Coach Larry Little (right) and Associate Coach Riley Wallace while below, Little makes a point as he talks to Parish.

At the end of a Monday morning administrative council meeting in Hamilton Hall on the
first of May, President John Allen leaned back in his chair and announced, "I have something
to tell you which may have considerable effect on the future of this institution!"

Obviously enjoying his little intrigue, he paused for effect.

"This is a highly confidential matter and I hope you will treat it as such," he continued.
Another long pause.

"AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON ROBERT PARISH WILL SIGN A LETTER
OF INTENT TO ENTER CENTENARY NEXT FALL!"

,.,.:.

Thus ended the guessing game that
had started four years earlier when
seven-foot high school basketball
star Robert Parish was a freshman
at Union High School in Shreveport.
Some 300 colleges and universities
across the nation had attempted to
sign Robert, but he was staying
home and would play his collegiate
basketball for the Gentlemen of
Centenary College.

That afternoon, in a small room
off the cafeteria at Woodlawn High
School, reporters and photographers
gathered as Parish, with his mother
and father by his side, signed an
NCAA National Letter of Intent to
play for the Gents. After the signing
the writers tried to draw him out.
Why Centenary? When did you
make up your mind? How many
schools did you consider? How
about the pressure?

Bob Parish is a quiet sort of guy
who never uses two words when one
will do. When pressed, he said the
final choice narrowed down to three
schools, Centenary, Florida State
and Jacksonville, and he chose
Centenary "Because it's close to
home and I think they can do more
for me academically."

And that was it. It seemed almost
too simple. You expected a drumroll
or a trumpet fan-fare. But, within a
few minutes it was over and done.
The towering Robert Parish went
back to his classes at Woodlawn
High, and the reporters were left to
write about the recruiting coup
pulled off by Coach Larry Little,
Athletic Director Orvis Sigler, and
Associate Coach Riley Wallace.

Coach Little had learned of
Parish's decision only the night
before. "I had told Robert I would
drop by to see him Sunday afternoon
when he returned from an out-
of-town trip," Little recalls, "and I
went by and talked with Robert and
his mother for about ten minutes. As
I always did, I asked Robert if he
was getting close to a decision and
he sort of stunned me when he said
he had made up his mind. I didn't
know whether to grab my hat and
get up and leave or what to do, but
I finally worked up enough courage
to ask him and he said he had decided
to come to Centenary."

"It was a wonderful feeling," Lit-
tle said simply.

Robert's parents seemed pleased
with the decision that would keep

their son at home. Robert Parish,
Sr., an employee of a Shreveport
manufacturing company said, "It's
his decision. He's got to be satis-
fied." And his mother, a cafeteria
worker in the Caddo Parish School
System said, "I kinda expected it.
He seemed like he knew what he
wanted from the beginning. We told
him what he wanted was what we
wanted."

The fact that Centenary had stolen
the march on hundreds of other col-
leges was not lost on the writers.
Nico Van Thyn of the Shreveport
Times wrote, "It was a day to
remember for Larry Little and Riley
Wallace. They haven't neglected
other prospects, but they have spent
plenty of hours planning, talking,
hoping, waiting for this day. Robert
Parish was worth waiting for."

Jerry Byrd, sports editor of the
Shreveport Journal said, "Nearly
three months ago ... I said the
((Woodlawn) Knight's seven-footer
isn't the type of player that could
help a program. He's the type who
could BE a program. Today, Cen-
tenary has the franchise. Robert Par-
ish will be the Gent's basketball
program for the next four years ..."

Rick Woodson, writing in the
Journal said, "Centenary has waited
for the good big man longer than the
Jews waited for Moses . . . but with
Parish in the line-up you can't help
but have visions of grandeur for the
long suffering Gents. Past records
will show that the quickest way to
build a national championship team
is get a seven-foot center and
Centenary has one. This could be
the start of something big."

Just how good is this tall, quiet
young man? Most experts believe
he's the best in the country. He
finished his high school career at
Woodlawn with 3,562 points — a
record for the state's top classifica-
tion. Howie Garfinkel's HSBI
scouting report says, "Best in the
country." LSU's new coach, Dale
Brown, said "I think he's further
ahead at this stage than a lot of guys
who are doing well in pro basketball,
including Tom Payne and Artis Gil-
more." Jerry Gottlieb of Kansas
State sees Robert Parish as "the
next dominating force in college bas-
ketball— Jabbar, Walton, and Par-
ish."

Obviously realizing the responsi-
bility this places on his shoulders,

Coach Larry Little has become
almost as quiet as his new star. "This
may be the answer," he says, "for
the first time this gives us something
to build around. This is something
every coach strives for. A lot of
coaches are in the profession for a
long time before they have an oppor-
tunity like this. But if you want to
be the best at what you're doing, you
have to accept the pressure that goes
along with it."

Although some will caution that
Gent fans should not get their hopes
too high, it's hard to be pessemistic
about a team that includes Parish,
6'-5 Leon Johnson, a sophomore
who set a whole new book of records
for the freshman team's 20-4 season
last year, plus ten returning juniors
from the 1971-72 team, including
Larry Davis, Melvin Russell, John
Hickerson, and Roadrunner and
Skeeter Home. Like the sports writ-
ers say, "This could be the start of
something big!"

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,

June. 1972. Vol. 3, No. 3, published four
times a year — in September, December.
March and June by the Centenary College
Alumni Association. Shreveport, La. 71104.
Second Class Postage paid at Shreveport,
La, Published for members of the Alumni
Association and friends of Centenary Col-
lege of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Bob Holladay

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Bliss Clark

1971-72 Centenary College Alumni
Association

Officers

President Juan Watkms, M.D. '57

First Vice Pres. . . .Ned Prothro D.D.S. 45

Vice President Dorothy Gammill '40

Secretary Flavia Leary '35

Treasurer Dwight Brown '54

Directors

(Terms expire 1973)

H. Whitney Boggs. Jr. M.D. '47, Jack Elgin
'43, John Graham '59, James M. Koelemay
'41 , Flavia Leary '35, Mary Kathryne McCain
Loe '60, Jim Montgomery '68, Jack Mulkey
'61, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40, Juan Watkins,
M.D. '57.

(Terms expire 1972)

Cecil E.Bland. Jr. '42, Dwight M. Brown 54,
John J, Evans '62, Dorothy Gammill '40. Har-
riett C. Middleton '43. Ned Prothro '45.
Juanita Ryland Rembert '41 , Wayne F. Stod-
dard'65, B.C. Taylor '22, Janellgenfritz West
'61.

(1971-72 Appointed Members)

Judy Butcher '62, Mike Ellis '54, George
McGovem '48, Joel Sermons '58, Grayson
Watson '61.

cheesy

"I don't want to fill the cup too full."

by Jim Montgomery

What on earth do you say about a man like Cheesy ... I mean.
Dr. A. C. Voran? When the founder and veteran director of the Cente-
nary College Choir announced his retirement from that position earlier
this week, I knew this story would have to be written ... a story
that tells something about the man himself, not merely a clinical, just-
the-facts listing of places been, concerts sung and honors won.

There's the problem of writing
about Cheesy telling something
about this remarkble man, without
making the story sound like an
obituary. He's very much alive and
kicking. Matter of fact, with a little
more time on his hands in retirement,
it's likely he'll be kicking a little
higher.

But some small part of Cheesy's
story must be written now, to explain
to everyone that this man is not "just
a choir director" and that the
organization he guided to interna-
tional fame in the course of 30 years
on the job is so much more than "just
a choir."

There are endless statistics — the
concerts, tours, television shows,
performances in the Far East, sing-
ing at Radio City Music Hall — and

they're all important, but it's the
thousand little stories behind each
of them that tell so much about
Cheesy and the choir.

What I write here will be of a very
personal nature. I was a member of
the Centenary College Choir — in
fact, came to Centenary because of
the choir and stayed in Shreveport
as the result of having gone to Cen-
tenary. Obviously, Cheesy Voran
has had a fairly substantial influence
on my life. And I'm just one of about
600 who have passed through the
ranks of singers he's directed over
the years.

When I talked to him last Tuesday
shortly after he announced his retire-
ment, he was a little shaken. He had
just told "the kids," the current
choir members, about his plans and

had been met by stunned silence.

"I've never heard 'em that quiet,"
he said, wrinkling his brow in confu-
sion. After he had finished his brief
announcement. Cheesy had told the
kids they could go. Nobody moved.
Finally, he turned and left the
rehearsal room. "My legs feel like
they're made outta paper mache,"
he said.

"Well, you old crepe hanger," I
joked, pointing to the downpour out-
side, "you picked the dreariest day
of the year to deliver the news."

He grinned then, and started talk-
ing a little more freely of his decision
to retire. As he talked. 1 started
remembering all sorts of things,
recalling that there was a time when
conversation had not always been so
easy for the two of us.

Cheesy Voran in three of his

favorite roles (top) conducting the

Centenary Choir (center) leaving

for Hodges Gardens and (bottom)

rehearsing for a TV show.

It was in late August of a year that
now seems long ago but only yester-
day. After the long weeks of waiting
for a letter that would tell me
whether or not my audition for the
choir had been successful, I was at
last a member of the Centenary Col-
lege Choir — and found myself won-
dering how in the world I'd been
accepted into such an organization.

We had boarded the chartered
bus, gone the miles from Shreveport
to Hodges Gardens — that fabulous
4,000-acre Eden which opened its
doors to the choir on countless occa-
sions — and now we were gathered,
for the first time, in the spacious
lakeside lodge which the late A. J.
Hodges Sr. had set aside for the
choir's use.

After the introductory meeting, I
found myself in need of asking the
director a question. As I walked up
to this mountain of a man, green as
grass and absolutely terrified it sud-
denly occurred to me that I didn't
know what to call him. (I knew I
was supposed to call him Cheesy,
of course. EVERYBODY calls him
that. But me? Little old, 18-year-old,
scared-to-death me?).

Within a few days, though, every-
thing had changed. I was happily
calling him Cheesy, singing away as
if I actually knew what I was doing,
and feeling for all the world like a
full-fledged member of the choir.

Choir camp always did that. In ten
days, secluded from the rest of the
world — no telephones, television, or
other interference — Cheesy and the
older choir members brought in the
green, young freshmen, giving them
a sense of belonging and instilling in
them a firm respect for all the Cen-
tenary College Choir stands for.
Things like the ideas of working
together for a common goal; of estab-
lishing order and control without
being overbearing ("We try to love
our people into doing good things,"
he says); of establishing a personal
discipline and becoming a self-
starter, not waiting for someone else
to prod or scold; of learning to
respect another human being's feel-
ings and his privacy.

I start thinking about the places
— so many places we saw that we
never would have seen on our own.
Like the experience of working
— and being paid for it — as perform-
ers at Radio City Music Hall, that
vast showplace where Rockettes and
moving stages reign supreme.

I don't know that I'll ever feel any-
thing quite like the thrill of singing
with that full orchestra, then stand-
ing in the glare of spotlights as the
roar of 6,200people applauding came
up over the stage. It happened four
times a day, seven days a week. We
also got to know the midtown section
of Manhattan during that stint — get-
ting lost on subways, dashing
through traffic, startling salesgirls
with our Southern accents and just
generally having the time of our
lives. All because Cheesy had the
contacts and the personal finesse to
get us there in the first place.

And the people we met. The
people he knows so well — people of
wealth and influence who have sup-
ported the choir through the years
— whom he has willingly shared with
us, when a more jealous director
might have guarded them, keeping
them away from a bunch of kids.

There are so many others, too, not
wealthy or influential, but fine,
warm, loving people, the ones who
opened their homes to college kids,
welcoming us as overnight guests
when the choir was on tour. There
are friendships formed then that are
still active, in some cases even more
meaningful now with the passage of
years.

All because of this man. Cheesy.
When he organized the choir more

than 30 years ago, one acquaintance
in town chided him, "Don't waste
your time on that choir . . . it'll never
amount to a tinker's damn." Cheesy
paid no attention to him, thank
heaven.

I was snapped back from my
reverie by Cheesy's voice, talking
of retirement plans. He would con-
tinue to direct music at Noel Memo-
rial Methodist Church, maybe con-
duct a few choral clinics.

He'd have more time to be with
Rosalie, the quiet, gentle lady who
has kept home and hearth through
all the times he was shepherding us
around the country. They'd have
time to visit their son and his wife,
Dick and Kay Voran, in Baytown,
Tex.

I'm 66." he was saying, "It's time
for a younger man to take over the
job. In about six weeks, you can see
me shuffling down the sidewalk and
point at me. saying. 'Look at that
old hasbeen over there.'

A lot of us choir alumni and cur-
rent choir members, were long-faced
and gloomy when he made the
announcement last week. Cheesy?
Retiring? Oh, no.

There's another remark he's
always making that's entirely appro-
priate here. At the end of a concert,
after a couple of encores (no conceit
intended; it's just a fact that we

One of Cheesy's greatest triumphs
. . . with the choir and officials
of Radio City Music Hall in New-
York at their second appearance at
the famous Broadway theatre.

always got encores), he'd turn to the
audience, all smiles and humility,
and say, "You're a marvelous audi-
ence, and we'd love to go on singing
for you all night, but we don't want
to fill the cup too full. We'd rather
quit while we're ahead."

And now he's applying his concert
philosophy to his own career —
stepping aside while he's still at the
top. careful never to overstay his
welcome, and leaving more than a
few people still applauding, always
begging for more.

(Editor's note-The author of this
article is James Montgomery,
amusements editor of the Shreve-
port Times and aformermember of

the Centenary College Choir.
Originally published in the Times,
the paper has given us per-
mission to print excerpts in the
Centenary Magazine.)

40's

Toby W. Adair, Jr. ('47) is a student
at Golden Gate Baptist Theological
Seminary in Mill Valley, California. He
is working toward the Master of Divinity
degree.

50's

Ernest Douglas Peterson ('55) received
the Doctor of Arts degree from the
University of Mississippi recently.

Cdr. Harold L. Bassham ('56), MC
USN, was recently elected to member-
ship in the Undersea Medical Society by
vote of the executive committee. The
society is affiliated with the Aerospace
Medical Association.

Army Major Jerry P. Orr('57) received
the meritorious service medal for his out-
standing work during his assignment with
the U.S. Army Field Artillery School at
Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

Mrs. Penny Todd Claudis ('58) is listed
in the 1971 edition of Outstanding Young
Women of America.

Miss Jerry M. Malone ('58) was
recently named Outstanding Educator of
the Year in Caddo Parish by the Shreve-
port Jaycees.

Oscar Cloyd ('58), a Shreveport realtor,
has been re-elected Chairman of the
Administrative Committee of the Caddo
Parish School Board.

Bill Bryant ('59) is completing his doc-
torate in art education at Pennsylvania
State University in State College, Penn-
sylvania.

60's

Glenn F. Armstrong ('60) of Bossier
City was recently appointed Assistant to
the Bossier-Webster Parish District At-
torney's office.

William C. Baker ('61) received the
Ed.D. degree from Louisiana State
University in Baton Rouge last Decem-
ber. Currently he is the Director of Infor-
mation for the Louisiana Teacher's
Association.

The Reverend Mouzon Biggs ('62),
assistant pastor-administrator of the First
United Methodist Church in Houston,
received the honorary Doctor of Divinity
degree of Texas Wesleyan College in Ft.
Worth, Texas.

i_enienary

from

CENTENARY COLLEGE

Shreveport, Louisiana 71 104

Entered As Second-Class Matter

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T'LA 71-

G. Patrick (Pat) Solis

('65) recently received
the doctor of medicine
(M.D.) degree from
Washington University
School of Medicine in
St. Louis.

USAF Captain Ralph W. Harker ('66)
is a member of the Thailand based 8th
Tactical Fighter Wing that has earned the
Pacific Air Force's Outstanding Mainte-
nance Award for 1971.

Warren R. True ('69)
has accepted a teaching
assistantship in the Eng-
lish Department at the
University of Tennes-
see to begin doctoral
work in the fall.

Army 1st Lt. William O. Wissman, Jr.

('69) recently received the Bronze Star
Medal for heroism peiformed in ground
combat in Vietnam.

70's

Margaret McKinley ('70) received the
Master of Music degree in Organ Per-
formance in September of 1971 at the
University of Cincinnati.

Army Specialist 4th class Donald A.

Wills ('70) is serving with the U.S. Army
Strategic Communications Command
Signal Group at Ft. Richardson, Alaska.

Second Lt. Ralph G.
Bent ( '70) has been
awarded his silver
wings upon graduation
from USAF pilot trainT
ing school at Reese
AFB, Texas.

Mrs. Barbara Walker Ray ('71)
recently accepted a teaching assistant-
ship at the University of Arkansas in
Fayetteville to work on her masters
degree in English.

Mrs. Kay Trevathan
Shelton ('72) was
awarded a full tuition
scholarship to Southern f
Methodist University
to study for an M.A.
degree in English.

MARRIAGES

Miss Susanna Ruth Wilkes, daughter of
the late Dr. Jack S. Wilkes who was a
past president of Centenary, was married
January 15 to Chris Arnold Blanchard.

Miss Nelrose Anderson ('69) and Hoyt
D. Sims were wed November 24, 1971,
in Rayville, Louisiana.

Wedding vows were exchanged by
Nancy Jeanne Boone ('70) and Frank
Brown Word ('72) May 13 in Dallas.

Miss Deborah Irene Pomeroy, daughter
of Dr. Webb D. Pomeroy, was married
to Charles Stacy Rainwater March 30 at
Centenary.

Miss Susan J. Johns ('69) will be wed
to the Reverend Thomas Bridges Peyton,

III. ('68) July 8 in Monroe, Louisiana.

Marriage vows were exchanged by
Carolyn Suzanne Blanton ('72) and
Stephen George Jenkinson ('69) June 6 in
Oklahoma City.

BIRTHS

A son, Teighlor Simon, was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Simon of Fayetteville,

Arkansas on November 20, 1971. Mrs.
Simon is the former Lucienne Bond('67).

A second daughter, Heather Lynne,
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter E.
Nordahl September 30, 1971 in South
Weymouth, Massachusetts. Mrs. Nor-
dahl is the former Connie Cooper('61).

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Warmath

announced the birth of their third child
and first son, Richard Hyde, December
2, 197 1 in Tampa, Florida. Mrs. Warmath
is the former Barbara Ann Hyde ('60).

DEATHS

Chester M. Angel, Jr. passed away
April 23 in Canton, Ohio.

Mrs. D. P. Hamilton,

long-time resident of
Shreveport and bene-
factor of the new Cente-
nary Administration
building, died April 7.
Mrs. Hamilton was the
first woman to graduate
from Centenary after its
re-location in Shreve-
port.

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Clinical-Tutorial Education an unqualified success— page 8
tc A belated thank you to Mr. Haynes and Mr. Bynum— page 6.

Admissions asks for help from Alums— page 2.

50'S After 28 years of active duty in
the Navy, Chaplain Jacob A. S.
Fisher ('50) recently retired in cere-
monies held at Key West, Florida . Dur-
ing World War II. he was an enlisted
man and has been a chaplain in the
Navy for 19 years. He now resides in
Shreveport with his wife and children
at 6229 Santa Monica Drive.

Zeak M. Buckner ('56), assistant
professor of English at LSU-
Shreveport, was recently awarded a
doctor of philosophy degree from the
University of Texas. Buckner authored
The Selber Story, a history of the Selber
family, in 1966. He taught at Centenary
in the English Department from 1962
-68.

Army Major Jerry P. Orr ('57)
recently completed the regular ten
month training course at the U.S.
Army Command and General Staff
College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in
preparation for duty in the field. His
wife, Jean, was with him at Ft. Leaven-
worth. He holds the Bronze Star
medal, the Air medal, the Meritorious
Service medal, the Army Commenda-
tion medal, and two awards of the
Purple Heart.

60'S Dr. Sara Burroughs ('60) will
become an associate professor of En-
glish at Northwestern State University
in Natchitoches this month. She was
awarded her Ph.D. degree in English
from the University of Oklahoma in
1970.

Dr. Vilas V. Likhite ('60) recently
became an assistant professor at Har-
vard Medical School in the Department
of Hematology at the Thorndike
Memorial Laboratories with a minor
role at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospi-
tal . He is in charge of a sub-department
of leukemia, solid tumor and
immunology at the laboratories. Dr.
Likhite holds both the M.D. degree
and the Ph.D. degree in his field.

Army Major Merrill E. Monk ('60),
registrar of the Reynolds Army Hospi-
tal at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, attended a

workshop for campus advisors
recently in Denver, Colorado. He and
his wife, "Torchie", reside at 6406
Arrowhead in Lawton, Oklahoma. He
holds the Army Commendation medal
and the Bronze Star medal.

Army Major Richard W. Miller ('61)
recently completed the regular ten
month training course at the U.S.
Army Command and General Staff
College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in
preparation for duty in the field. His
wife, Martha, lived in Kansas City
while he attended the school. He was
last stationed in Vietnam and holds
three awards of the Bronze Star medal,
four awards of the Air medal, and three
awards of the Army Commendation
medal.

James G. Potter ('62) has been ap-
pointed manager of hospital sales for
the Stuart Pharmaceuticals Divi-
sion of ICI America,
Inc., in Wilmington,
Delaware. In his new
position he will plan
programs for the
division's pharma-
ceuticals sales to hos-
pitals. Potter

m *:<m m

70's Herb Pearce ('71) is home
(Shreveport) on leave after being
stationed in Morocco. He will report
back for duty on the USS Intrepid air-
craft carrier in Quonset Point, Rhode
Island.

Army Captain William L. Tillman
('71) is in Germany attached to Battery
A, 1st Battalion of the 32nd Field Artil-
lery. His wife, Gayla, is with him. He
was last stationed at Ft. Sill,
Oklahoma, and holds the Distin-
guished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star
medal, and forty-three awards of the
Air medal.

Deaths

Reverend John F. Kilpatrick, 60, pas-
tor of the Broadmoor United Methodist
Church in Shreveport
and member of the
Board of Trustees of
Centenary College,
died July 15 of an
allergic reaction to a I

bee Sting. Kilpatrick

Vogel

■'

Dr. Leroy Vogel, 62, Chairman of
the History and Government Depart-
ment at Centenary
College, died of can-
cer June 23. He had
been at Centenary
since 1946, beginning
as a history and gov-
ernment teacher and
rising to the position
of Dean of the College in 1954. He held
this position until 1962 when he was
forced to retire due to ill health. He
continued, however, as Chairman of
the Department of History and
Government and maintained his
teaching schedule through this past
academic year. With this in mind, the
Centenary students dedicated the 1972
yearbook to him for his courage and
determination in the face of illness and
for his devotion to the college.

Mrs. Rosemary Eubanks,56, Director

of Financial Aid at Centenary College,
died July 19 of cancer.
She had served the
college since 1964,
first as assistant to the
Evening Division

Director, then Schol-
arship Fund Director,
and finally as Finan- Eubanks

cial Aid Director, a position which she
held for 8-1/2 years.

Mrs. Emory C. Cameron ('04), the
former Regina Lane May, passed away
June 30 at the age of 88 in Temple Ter-
race, Florida. She had the distinction
of being the first female graduate of
Centenary College. Mrs. Cameron
attended Centenary College Academy
in Jackson, Louisiana, from 1900 to
1904 (the college was re-located in 1906
in Shreveport) and was awarded a
Bachelor of Science degree. She later
received her M. A. degree from Phillips
University in Oklahoma in 1926 and
taught school at various levels from
elementary through college in seven
states. She was an ordained minister
of the Disciples of Christ Church, and
besides preaching and teaching, had
various other occupations including
working for the Ration Board during
World War II. and for the Internal
Revenue Service until her retirement
in 1952.

(continued page 9)

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary, Sep-
tember, 1972, Volume 3 No. 3 published four times a
year — in September, December, March and June by the
Centenary College Alumni Association, Shreveport, La.
71104. Second Class Postage paid at Shreveport, La.
Published for members of the Alumni Association and
friends of Centenary College of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Bob Holladay

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Bliss Clark

1972-73 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS:

President W. Juan Watkins, M. D. '57

First Vice President Jack Mulkey '61

Second Vice President Jim Montgomery '68

Secretary Flavia Leary '35

Treasurer Dwight Brown '54

DIRECTORS (Terms expire in 1974)
Dwight Brown '54, Gene Bryson '63, Judy Butcher '62,
Dorothy Gammill '40, Jean Goins '63, Carolyn Gray '55,
Jack Hodges, III '58, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki '58,
H. W. Worley, D. D. S. '57.

(Terms Expire in 1973)
H. Whitney Boggs, Jr., M. D. '47, Jack Elgin '43, John
Graham, M. D. '59, James M. Koelemay '41 , Flavia Leary
'35, Mary Kathryne Mc Cain Loe '60, Jim Montgomery
'68, Jack Mulkey '61, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40, W.Juan
Watkins, Jr. '57.

(1972-73 Members Appointed by President)
Joel Anderson '66, Wayne Curtis '69, Bob Schulman
'59, Joel Sermons '58, Gayle Wren '64.

A plan for increased

enrollment

By Warren Levingston , Director of Admissions

Admissions Director Warren Levingston (seated) checks the major areas

of concentration for Centenary recruiter Ken Weaver. Levingston was

named to head the Centenary student recruitment office on June 1.

have a firm conviction.
My conviction is that Cen-
tenary College has played
an important role in higher
education and will continue
to do so. That belief is the
foundation upon which the
structure of the student
recruitment program of Centenary will
be built.

Private education was for a long time
all there was in America. Then as the
political process began to overshadow
the early religious strength in the col-
onies, public education came on the
scene. Today we see public junior col-
leges and community colleges, four
year state colleges, state universities,
technical schools, professional
schools, vocational schools, specialty
schools ... in addition to private
education. Yet private education
serves an important role in this diver-
sity of education, one that is essential
to the overall effectiveness of Ameri-
can education. It serves a role that, in
fact, no other type of institution offers
today ... an emphasis upon the
growth of the total person, intellectu-
ally, socially, and spiritually.

Yet a serious problem exists. It con-
cerns the financial plight of higher
education in general, and of the
private institutions in particular. At
Centenary we are faced with skyrock-
eting costs at the very time enrollment
levels off and turns down. And it hap-
pened most innocently. Let me
describe the problem as a way of plac-
ing a perspective on our recruiting
plans for the future.

In the year 1%4, Centenary enrolled
296 new entering students, 507 return-
ing students, and 836 part time stu-
dents for a head count of 1,639 (or a
full time enrollment of 1,037). But
someone spotted the difficulties that
lie ahead. A directive was given to the
admissions office to find several
hundred new full time students as
quickly as possible. So a program was
devised to attract students, especially
from the northeastern corridor of the
United States, and a summer remedial
program was established to meet the
needs of those students who were
academically marginal. The next year,
1965, some 351 new students were on
the books, and then 447 and 451 . These
figures were encouraging.

Then three things happened at once
that destroyed the base that was being
established: 1) Centenary lost the con-
tract to teach classes at Barksdale, 2)
LSU-Shreveport was established, and
3) the northeast recruitment ended on
a disappointing note.

Fat Jones mails 35,000 copies of "Dimensions" to high school students.

The immediate problem of the loss
of income due to the decrease of enroll-
ment was compounded by the fact that
a Master Plan had been worked out
at the height of the encouraging enroll-
ment growth and it committed the col-
lege to a growing faculty and the con-
tinuation of the campus building
plans.

Now add to those problems the
trends of the day that were causing
financial difficulties in all segments of
American education. Government
reports indicated a demographic
lag . . . the school-going population
was decreasing. The cost differential
between public and private education
spread rapidly. The draft law changed
and many young men were no longer
frightened into the college sanctuary.
Tensions of the 60's on college cam-
puses were reflective of a new mood
that questioned whether the college
could produce that Utopia that it had
seemed to promise. A counter culture
was established; between that and the
many new opportunities for personal
participation in social programs, new
options for young people became
available .

So here we sit, squarely in the midst
of financial difficulty that is common
to so many, with an enrollment figure
that is not encouraging. Yet my convic-
tion is that Centenary has a meaning-
ful place in the milleau of American
higher education, and upon that con-
viction a student recruitment program
is being built. I am not so naive as
to believe that building the enrollment
is the only answer, but it can offer sta-
bility as the college community tackles
the interlocking problems. Let me try,
briefly, to describe our plans for the
future, an eight point program.

First, we plan to make the South and
mid-South the main base of opera-
tions. This year 35% of all applications
are from the immediate Shreveport
area, 54% are from within the state of
Louisiana, and 78% are from
Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan-
sas, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Florida. Within this area alone there
are some 24 metropolitan areas, and
a couple with over one million resi-
dents. This area is hardly over
saturated with private education in
comparison with the Midwestern
states such as Ohio, and the mid-coast
areas like Georgia and the Carolinas.
Our admissions staff will spend
75%-80% of their active travel time
within this 300 mile radius.

Second, we will spend the other

A young staff to recruit young students: Mark McMurray,
Vivian Walker and Mary Ann Garrett.

20%-25% of our time developing inter-
est in those areas where the cost of
private higher education is high and
where public education cannot handle
the need within the state. For example,
a well known private, residential, sec-
ondary school in New York costs
$3,800 a year . . . Centenary costs
$2,500; their representative was on our
campus this summer looking for col-
leges like Centenary to recommend to
his students. In the state of New
Jersey, it is estimated that over 50%
of high school graduates planning to
attend college have to attend colleges
outside that state.

Third, we recognize that the sphere
of influences are many that surround
a young person as he chooses the col-
lege that seems right for him. He will
be offered advice by his parents,
friends, pastor, school guidance coun-
selor, friends of the family, teachers,
brochures he has read, and by direct
contact with a college representative.
We hope to tap as many of these
resources of influence as are available
in each community we visit. No longer
will we count a visit to a local high
school as our number 1 point of contact
with students; we may see 1,000 stu-
dents a year in schools, but even the
mail brings us three times that many
contacts. We want to develop broad
contacts.

Fourth, we will emphasize at all
points that we want the student to visit
the campus, stay overnight, and meet
the faculty and students. It is my per-
sonal experience that 75%-80% of
those students who visit the campus
ultimately enroll at Centenary. All the
verbal description by word of mouth
and printed material can't touch what
one campus visit will do. We are going
to develop as many means of attracting
young people to the campus as are pos-
sible. We are returning to a High
School Day for juniors and seniors that
should annually attract 250-300 stu-
dents and more. We are encouraging
faculty to develop seminars and fel-
lows programs and competitive meets.
We want to develop special summer
programs to attract high school stu-
dents to the campus. We will be con-
stantly encouraging families and pro-
spective students to visit our campus
at their convenience and will extend
to them the courtesies of housing and
meals while at Centenary. We encour-
age presently enrolled students to
invite their friends to spend a
weekend.

A fifth emphasis will be the inclu-
sion of students at more points in the
recruitment area. We hope to find stu-
dents willing to travel with our staff

in the Ark-La-Tex area, who will be
willing to write applicants as an addi-
tional point of personal contact with
the college, who will host open houses
for prospective students in their
homes during the longer holiday
periods, and who will return to their
own high schools while home as
ambassadors for Centenary.

A sixth emphasis, and a new one
of interest, hopefully, to alumni will
be pilot projects in Houston, Dallas,
New Orleans, and Shreveport. We are
looking for alumni who will volunteer
to take the responsibility of contacting
five students within their city . . . and,
hopefully, their geographical area . . .
and serve as a guiding influence as the
young people progress through their
senior year in high school. The admis-
sions office will provide the names of
those students who apply from that
city, showing a reasonable interest in
the college. Yearly we show at least
a 50% loss of all applicants; some col-
leges have reduced that figure to 35%
with the help of alumni. The volunteer
will be informed of the progress of the
individual until he enrolls or with-
draws. The alumnus will make per-
sonal contact with the students and
their families in their homes and will
try to bring his group of five together
at least once.

Seventh We will operate on a "no
bull" basis. We are going to be com-
pletely honest in our description of
Centenary. There is nothing worse
than a student finding out after enroll-
ing that the school is not what he
thought it was. We want to retain
students.

Eighth We will continue to build our
permanent mailing list. We are send-
ing our admissions publication "Di-
mensions" to some 35,000 youth. We
will place a young person's name on
the list as early as the nineth grade.

I believe that we can stabilize our
enrollment immediately through the
focusing of our energies in these eight
areas and that we can begin to climb
the long road back to growth in overall
enrollment at Centenary.

How you
as an alumnus
can help.

ISend us the names of the chil-
• dren of personal friends or co-
workers who you know are looking
for a school like Centenary. Or, as
a matter of fact, send us your own
children's names . We will be pleased
to put them on our permanent
mailing list, send them materials,
and make personal contact with
them whenever possible.

2 If you request it, we will send
• directly to you a packet of current
materials to be placed in your local
school guidance office, your local
church library, or in the public
library, etc.

3 Clip from your local newspapers
any names of young persons in
your community who are particularly
outstanding and who have won
awards in their schools. Send them
to the Director of Admissions
here at Centenary.

4 Volunteer to be a part of the
pilot projects in New Orleans,
Houston, Dallas and Shreveport. We
would like to expand in the future to
include Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Little
Rock, Memphis, Jackson, Baton
Rouge, St. Louis, the Washington,
D.C. area, Atlanta, and the south
Florida triangle.

5 Tell your friends about Cen-
tenary . . . why you went . . . and
what you found. Buildings, faculty,
administration, and students all
change but the heritage of a sound
educational program and a personal
interest in people hasn't changed
a bit. When you return to Shreveport
the next time, take time to visit
the college. We would like to show
you the campus and fill you in on
the changes that have taken place.

6 In some areas where students
attending Centenary currently
are unable to host open houses for
prospective students, you may want
to help host such an informal
gathering . If you will let us know of
your willingness to help . . . we will
contact you and keep you informed
from year to year.

Creating Centenary's Futuri

Statement By Bishop Paul E. Martin

he remarkable will executed thirty-three months
before the death in January 1956 of Mr. Robert Jesse Bynum of
New Orleans, indicated an insight into the great institutions of
Methodism and an appreciation of the service rendered by them.
Mr. Bynimis bequest to Centenary College attests to his extra-
ordinary sense of stewardship and his conviction that this excel-
lent Christian College was giving to the students enrolled there not
only sound instruction but also direction in character building so
desperately needed for our day.

JLJL

(top) This statement by Bishop Paul E. Martin
appeared in a Centenary College publication following

the death of Mr. Bynum in 1956
(bottom) W. A. "Arch" Haynes

by Grayson Watson, Director of Devi
ment

In the 147 years of her life, Center
has survived the effects of yellow fe
Civil War, Reconstruction, and m
other upheavals. But survival wa:|
mere happenstance. A future does
simply happen. It is created. And <
tenary's future has been created
and again by the generosity and
rifice of countless persons. Thi
primarily the story of two men lai
responsible for Centenary's life-sa
multi-million dollar endowment fi

One of the significant factors in!
life of any private college is its enc
ment. Without tax support, a private
lege must always seek a growing enc
ment to provide for its fiscal he;
Private higher education in Ameri
hard pressed today as never before,
while money alone cannot assure
future, it is obviously one of the cru
gritty factors contributing to the pre
crisis. Colleges presently in the gres
difficulty, many of whom won't sum
are those without sizeable endowrr
It portends well for Centenary's ft
that her endowment is strong, but i
must grow significantly.

In her early days there was little
manent endowment. The rec
indicates that in 1866, among the a:
of Centenary was an endowmer
$10,000. Then, as now, faithful trui
nurtured this fund and created a I
tious plans for its expansion. There!
even an attempt in 1874 by a groiS
brave women to raise "The Las
Christmas Endowment of Centel
College" for the purpose of raisirjj
least $1500 to pay back salaries of pr 9
sors. Rather than waste their Chris I
money for frivolous gifts, they ,H
their money to Centenary.

After the move to Shreveport in '. I
financial troubles still plagued the I
lege due to the diminutive endownj
But January, 1921 was a turning pji
Centenary was about to close! Buc<
men of Shreveport made a decision
the office of Mr. E. A. Frost) to ell

uture for the College. They pledged
ong themselves $315,000 for Centen-
, and persuaded Dr. George S. Sex-
, pastor of First Methodist Church,
become president. The future of the
lege was assured by the decision of
iple who believed in the educational
< of private, Christian higher educa-
i.

i 1921 productive endowment was
led at $90,000, but under Dr. Sexton
> changed dramatically. In 1924 this
d grew to $654,000 and in 1929 stood
i772,000.

i modern times, two men made deci-
is that again helped create the future
Centenary. The single largest gift ever
Centenary's endowment was that
ling from the estate of Mr. W. A.
rch" Haynes, a Shreveport oilman
'o supported Centenary in many
irs. In addition to the gymnasium and
!jid College property, this generous
fp's love for Centenary involved the
tjimitment of a written will (see cover).
j| bequest (1951) totalled over two
(lion dollars, making Mr. Haynes
;«!ttenary's single greatest benefactor.
t)he other single largest bequest to the
Wlege's endowment was that of the
Bey of Mr. Robert Jesse Bynum of
IW Orleans, who never laid eyes on
njcampus. In 1953 he notified his pas-
HDr. A. M. Serex of Rayne Memorial
Ithodist Church, that he was revising

will to include Centenary. The origi-

value of the stock, upon Mr.

urn's death in 1956, was $450,000.

^ix months it increased to over
,000 and has continued to grow

zingly throughout these years.

any people have helped create Cen-
Bjary's future with gifts large and
pill. But they have never given money

entenary because the College simply
ed money. These gifts have come

Centenary because people have
lejeved that something important, sig-
iicant, distinctive and exciting was
Mpening here.

Centenary has always stressed quality
education that is intellectually demand-
ing and creative. It has complemented
that educational process with the values
and ethics of religion. Mr. Haynes and
Mr. Bynum apparently felt that knowl-
edge must be linked to religion if educa-
tion is to be complete. They believed
that intelligence should be informed
with high ideals. They and many others
decided to include Centenary in their
wills, and by these acts helped create
Centenary's future. Their decisions con-
tinue to influence and shape that future
yet.

(above) Robert Jesse Bynum

reat!" "Really a neat
program!" "Nocom-
plaints!" "I feel
ready to teach!"
These were some of
the comments a group
of educators re-
ceived from Cen-
tenary College
education students
fhen they came re-
cently to examine the Centenary
education program. This team of
evaluators had appraised other college
education procedures in the state but
were amazed at our student responses .
They observed that it was impossible
to get one student to voice a negative
comment about our college's teacher
education curriculum.

The Centenary College Education
Department was not surprised because
many favorable remarks have returned
from people who work in the program
and from persons who hire our educa-
tion majors. They are convinced that
the education tutorials are here to stay
at Centenary.

Many individuals have asked just
what the tutorial concept of education
is and how it got started. The answer
to these questions takes us back to the
year 1968 when Northwestern Univer-
sity in Evanston, Illinois had been
receiving national acclaim for their
clinical-tutorial approach to teacher
education. Dean Aubrey Forrest of
Centenary invited one of the
originators of the idea, Dr. William
Hazzard, to our campus to explain the
concept. Dr. Hazzard accepted the
invitation and gave a presentation to
the Centenary Education Department
highlighting the background, present
state and future hopes for the plan.
Our staff unanimously agreed that this
proposition had merit not only for
Northwestern but for Centenary.

In February of 1969, three members
of the Centenary Education Depart-
ment and Dean Forrest travelled to
Evanston to see their design in action.
A few days were spent talking to many
persons involved in all phases of their
project. Upon returning to Shreveport,
it was decided to adapt a variation of
The Northwestern procedure.

The major points of difference
between their idea and one modifica-
tion are: (1) We give our majors the
choice as to method of being taught.
Northwestern gives their students an
opportunity to elect either the tradi-
tional or the tutorial way of instruc-
tion. (2) Northwestern employs
clinical-tutorial professors who teach
part time in the public school system
and part time in the University. Our

situation does not warrant this. (3) We
decided to start the tutorials in the
sophomore year rather than in the
freshman year, as advocated by
Northwestern.

The Centenary education cur-
riculum of 1969 consisted of lectures,
one textbook for each course and little
time in public schools viewing first-
hand what was taking place. These
ideas were phased out and sophomore
education students found themselves,
even as they do now, in a course called
Sophomore Tutorials 211. We
endeavor to keep each tutorial to fif-
teen members but presently have
around twenty in each group. One
class period per week meeting on Mon-
day afternoons for 150 minutes meets
our needs better than three class
periods per week for fifty minutes
each. Most class periods are spent vis-
iting a variety of school and commun-
ity learning situations such as: a school
board meeting, a Caddo Teacher's
Association meeting, a speech center,
an instructional media center, a
Catholic school, a vocational-technical
center, a kindergarten class, a School-
Away-From-School, a private school
for mentally retarded and a teacher
development center. There is no basic
textbook but students are required to
do independent study in assigned
areas. The tutorials enable the future
teachers to discuss their readings and
observations in small group settings.

This type of instruction continues in
Sophomore Tutorials 212 where educa-
tion majors visit such educational set-
tings as: an open-spaced school, a
school for exceptional children, special
classes for youngsters who have read-
ing disabilities, a mental health center,
a juvenile court and a Montessori
School.

Those individuals who wish to con-
tinue beyond the sophomore educa-
tion sequence have a good idea of
educational endeavors in the local

clinical-tutorials successful

area. Those who wish to discontinue,
voice appreciation for finding out early
in their college experience that teach-
ing is not for them, get credit for two
course electives and leave to find
another major.

Junior Education students take
either Junior Tutorials 331 or 431
depending on whether or not they are
an elementary or a secondary educa-
tion major. These courses continue to
emphasize no one basic textbook.
Twenty-five hours of observation in
public school classrooms are also
required. The college classes stress the
following items: grouping, evaluation,
library services, guidance services, the
role of supervisors, the role of special-
ists, team teaching and accountability.

Second semester Junior pupils take
Tutorials 332 or 342 where methods
and materials in the various subject
matter disciplines are discussed. They
complete twenty hours of observation
in public school classrooms while tak-
ing this course. Students present les-
sons to their Centenary Education
peers under simulated classroom con-
ditions and these lessons are video-
taped. Each lesson is evaluated for self
improvement.

Senior Tutorials 431 and 441 follow
the Junior year. This is the student
teaching semester where each teacher-
to-be is placed in a public school class-
room under the guidance of a super-
vising teacher who works closely with
the Centenary Education Department.
Many of our students do much more
than the 90 hours of actual classroom
teaching that is prescribed by the
Louisiana State of Education. Super-
vising Teachers are thrilled to have our
pupils to assist them with their daily
work.

One of the innovations of which we
are most proud is our Internship 432
and 442 for it is in this semester that
the senior student gets to see what
things go on in school other than class-

"I feel ready to teach"

by Dr. Robert Hallquist

room teaching. Approximately 90
hours are spent with such persons as:
the counselor, the librarian, the read-
ing specialist, the music specialist, the
speech teacher and the coordinator.
Our students also attend in-service
training, faculty meetings and PTA
meetings.

The education program is evaluated
yearly by students and staff and
changed where it is felt the student
will benefit. New "visits" are added
where arrangements can be made and
some "visits" are removed when there
seems to be a duplication or where a
better "visit" can be found.

Centenary is proud to be one of the
few schools in the nation which has
abandoned the traditional approach to
teacher education in favor of the tutor-
ial plan. Our education graduates are
good teachers. They are aware of that
which goes on in schools, have spent
many hours viewing education in
action and are ready to go to work and
to do a good job. One supervising
teacher noted, "It is a privilege to have
student teachers who appear so confi-
dent. One had lined things up in her
lesson plan for me to do rather than
for me to tell her every move to make . ! "

Education majors Martha Cooke and
Cynthia Scott visit Juvenile Court as a
part of their clinical-tutorial training in
teacher education at Centenary. Chief
probation officer Al Mazur shows them
the docket in the court.

Dr. Dorothy B. Gwin (standing)
conducts a round table discussion with
the aid of a video tape recording for
students in the education department.
Dr. Gwin, chairman of the education
department, has been a moving force
in the establishment of the highly suc-
cessful clinical-tutorial method of train-
ing future teachers

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Marriages

Junie Sue Havard ('72) and Richard
Jamison were wed June 23 at the First
United Methodist Church in Zwolle,
Louisiana. They reside in Natch-
itoches where both are continuing
their studies at Northwestern State
University.

Mary Katherine Berry ('72) and
Byron Ober Garner ('72) were united
in marriage June 24 in the Brown
Memorial Chapel at Centenary Col-
lege. Mr. Garner is the son of Dr.
Joseph Garner of the Centenary Educa-
tion Department. The couple spent
part of the summer at the University
of Angers in France studying French
under a special program sponsored by
CODOFIL. They are now at home in
Athens, Georgia, where Mr. Garner
has a graduate assistantship to the
University of Georgia to work on his
Masters in French. Mrs. Garner has
also enrolled to complete her Bachelor
of Science degree in Education.

Noon rites on July 29, performed by
the bride's father at the Lake Charles
University Methodist Church, united
in matrimony Marilyn Kay
Williamson ('72) and Roger Glenn Bur-
gess of Lake Charles. The couple will
reside in Baton Rouge.

Marriage vows were spoken July 8
uniting in marriage Susan Slagle
Johns ('69) of Monroe and Reverend
Thomas B. Peyton, III. ('68). The cere-
mony took place in the First United
Methodist Church in Alexandria
where Rev. Peyton is associate pastor.

July 8 also marked the marriage of
Jane Dean Brady ('71) and Charles
Morris Thrasher of Henderson, Texas,
at the First United Methodist Church
in Winnfield. Mr. Thrasher holds a
degree in architecture from Texas
.A&M University.

Joy Craig Geisenberger ('72) and
Larry Charles Ludwig of Dallas were
married July 29 in Brown Memorial
Chapel at Centenary College. Mr. Lud-
wig was an instructor in physics at
Centenary in 1970. The couple will
reside in Irving, Texas.

Sally Elizabeth Sigler ('72) and
Richard Bruer were united in marriage
July 30 at Kings Highway Christian
Church in Shreveport. She is the
daughter of Coach Orvis Sigler, Direc-
tor of Athletics at Centenary.

To be married September 23 at the
Springhill United Methodist Church at
7:30 p.m. are Charlotte Susan
Holloway ('72) and Stephen Russell
Law ('72). The couple will reside in
Conroe, Texas following their mar-
riage.

Births

A daughter, Kathering Goehle, was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Eagle ('71)
of Zachary, Louisiana, on June 1,
weighing 7 pounds and 8 ounces. Mrs.
Eagle is the former Henrietta Price
('71).

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be interested in seeing.

J/ you were at Centenary during the late 50' s you may find yourself in this photo taken from the 1958 Yoncopin.
If you have an old photo you think might be of interest in our "Remember When?" corner, please send it to the editor.
This one was entitled, "The Sophs Almost Won."

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Dr. Jack K. Carlton

"I think that any one of us has the time
to participate in dialogue with students if
they are interested in rational discussion."

That's how Dr. Jack K. Carlton answered
the traditional question about student par-
ticipation in the governance of an institution
when he was appointed chancellor of West-
ern Carolina University, Cullowhee, North
Carolina, August 1. His appointment was
announced by board chairman Wallace N.
Hyde of Asheville who described Dr. Carlton
as an educator with a "distinguished career
as a teaching and research scientist and
academic administrator."

The fifty year old, 6 foot 4-1/2 inch chancel-
lor received his B.S. degree in chemistry
from Centenary in 1942 and subsequently
earned the Ph.D. degree, also in chemistry,
from LSU in 1951 . He is married to the former
Mary Ellen Petree of Shreveport and they
are the parents of two sons and two daugh-
ters. President Carlton is the brother of Dr.
Virginia Carlton, chairman of the depart-
ment of mathematics at Centenary.

Dr. Carlton was president of Macon Junior
College in Georgia prior to his appointment
and has taught at the University of Arkansas
and at Georgia Tech, and has served as dean
of the college of sciences at both the Univer-
sity of West Florida and at LSU-New
Orleans.

He assumes his post under the new
University of North Carolina system which
brings WCU into the state system under the
administration of the board of governors.
Under the new system, he said he "thinks
there is a very strong possibility of a rebirth
of an institution of the age of WCU, and that
holds some excitement for me too."

Beverly Beilby Newman

Mrs. Bill Newman of Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, has parlayed a B.S. degree in
home economics from Centenary College
into a unique career ... as a resident home
economist and food consultant for a major
grocery chain. Because she was the first
woman in Oklahoma to hold such a position,
she was the subject of a recent article in the
Oklahoma Journal by Sharon Carter entitled
"Home Economist Helps Shoppers."

Mrs. Newman is the former Beverly Ellen
Beilby, a 1949 graduate of Centenary. The
Yoncopin lists her as a member of the Chi
Omega Sorority and Cenhomec, with inter-
ests in biology and chemistry as well as home
economics . Her husband, Bill, is an indepen-
dent geologist and they have five children,
Mrs. Bruce Myers, Bill, Jr., Connie, Sue, and
Joyce.

In the newspaper article Mrs. Newman
describes her new job as exciting and chal-
lenging. "No day ever brings the same prob-
lems," she says. From her office in the super-
market in the new French Market Mall on
North May she answers questions about spe-
cial recipes, diet menus, the preparation of
special foods, and food budgets.

Another challenge for Mrs . Newman came
recently when she was asked to help plan
the menu for a pack trip for forty boys for
five days; and another when a young woman
called and said her husband liked spaghetti
but not tomatoes. The story doesn't indicate
how she solved the pack trip problem, but
for the young housewife she suggested a
spaghetti sauce using cheese and onions.

When not working, Mrs. Newman enjoys
cooking and housekeeping, naturally!

(The Distinguished Alumni column will be a regular feature of the Centenary Magazine. If you know of someone who
should be considered for this honor, please contact the Editor, Centenary Magazine, Centenary College, Shreveport, La.
7U04)

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President John H. Allen has spelled
out the dorm visitation policy for
Centenary College. The policy was
established following a meeting of stu-
dents, parents, and faculty during the
summer. "Although the committee
was unable to reach a consensus on
the issue, I am satisfied that all points
of view have been expressed, attacked,
and defended by all of our constit-
uency," Dr. Allen said. "Centenary
College takes the official position that
no need for opposite sex visitation has
been established. We have available
recreational facilities and lounges as
well as study areas which are easily
accessible without having to resort to
our bedrooms for such uses. Since we
do not believe opposite sex visitation
is needed, it will be permitted only
at the request of both student and par-
ents and on the following schedule:
Monday-Friday 3:00-5:00 p.m. and
Saturday and Sunday 3:00-10:00
p.m.," Dr. Allen said.

Eight new faculty members join the
Centenary teaching staff this fall, six
of them holding the Ph.D. degree.
They are Barbara Frances Acker,
instructor in theatre and speech,
replacing Ruth Alexander; Rafael de
Acha, assistant professor of voice and
director of the opera workshop, replac-
ing Mary Beth Armes who is working
for a Ph.D. degree at North Texas State
University; Dr. William Joseph Bal-
lard, associate professor of music and
director of choral music, replacing Dr.
A. C. "Cheesy" Voran who retired this
year; Dr. Theodore R. Kauss, associate
professor of education who comes to
Centenary from a career at Northwest-
ern University in Evanston, Illinois,
and as a member of a management con-
sultant firm in Chicago; Dr. Arnold M.
Penuel, associate professor of Spanish,
from the University of Georgia,
Athens; Dr. Jeffrey F. Trahan, assistant
professor of physics, who received his
Ph.D. degree from LSU in Baton Rouge
in June; Dr. Lewis A. Bettinger,
associate professor of psychology from
Vanderbilt University; and Dr.
Edward F. Haas, Jr., assistant profes-
sor of history, who recently received
his Ph.D. degree from the University
of Maryland.

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Shreveport physician has been re-
elected president of the Alumni
Association for the 1972-73 term.
Other officers elected include Jack
Mulkey, first vice president; James
Montgomery, second vice president;
Flavia Leary, secretary; and Dwight
Brown, treasurer. Dr. Watkins is a 1957
graduate of Centenary.

Centenary College has entered into
a 3-2 dual degree program in engineer-
ing with Stanford University. Stanford
has such an agreement with only ten
other schools in the nation and Cen-
tenary is the first college to be added
in the past ten years. Under the pro
gram, students will receive the Stan
ford B.S. degree in engineering and
the Centenary B.A. degree simultane-
ously upon completion of three years
at Centenary and two years at Stan-
ford. Centenary presently has similar
programs with Columbia University,
the University of Arkansas, Texas
A&M, and Louisiana Tech University.
With a 3.0 average, certain minimum j
scholastic aptitude test scores, and a
good recommendation from the Cen-
tenary faculty, students receive an I
"automatic" transfer to Stanford under
the agreement signed by Centenary
president Dr. John Allen and President
Richard Lyman of Stanford.

Have you heard the latest rumor i
about Centenary College. That many
students have been involved in con-
structive "people projects" such as a
weekly breakfast program for under-
nourished children, creating a park
in a poverty area, working in crisis
counseling (Open Ear) and drug pre-
vention programs with local youth,
etc.

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Business and
the Liberal Arts

An Experiment

Strictly
Personal

20'S Claude S. Chadwick (27) retired
from the chairmanship of the Depart-
ment of Biology at Emory and Henry
College in Emory, Va., recently. He
served three institutions during his 45
years as a teacher: Vanderbilt in
Nashville, Tenn., for 24 years; George
Peabody, in Nashville, for 12; and
Emory and Henry College for 9 years.
He has had two yearbook dedications
and has been awarded two excellence
in teaching awards at the colleges.

30'S Dr. Carl F. Lueg (30) is the

new superintendent of the Louisiana
Conference of the United Methodist
Church's Shreveport District. Until
September, when the new appoint-
ment became effective, he was the
pastor of the First United Methodist
Church in Monroe.
Dr. Jack Cooke (38), district superin-
tendent of the Shreveport District of
the Louisiana Conference of the
United Methodist Church for the past
four years, has been appointed to
serve as pastor of the Broadmoor
United Methodist Church in
Shreveport. He is married to the
former Mary Ruth Smith of Durham,
N.C., and has two sons, both of
whom graduated from Centenary, and
one daughter who is presently a
senior at Centenary.

40'S C. E. Morrison (40) has been
named assistant comptroller in the
Shreveport office of Texas Eastern
Transmission Corporation.
Beverly Duerson English (47) of Little
Rock recently received a master's
degree from State College of Arkansas
in Conway.

George Head (49) has been appointed
vice president and manager of the
land department of Transcontinental
Oil Corporation in Shreveport.

50 S Rev. Jerry M. Green (50) has

resigned as pastor of Brookwood Bap-
tist Church in Shreveport to accept the
pastorship of the First Baptist Church
of Denham Springs.

Rev. Jacob A.S. Fisher (50), Navy Lt.
Commander (retired) has been named
the first full time chaplin for Confeder-
ate Memorial Medical Center in
Shreveport. Rev. Fisher is married to
the former Nell Davidson of Shreve-
port.

Henry C. Mullins (51) has been
appointed by Gov. Edwin Edwards to
the Caddo Parish Board of Election
Supervisors. Mr. Mullins, married to
the former Diane Webb, is vice presi-
dent of the Edwin Jones Insurance
Agency in Shreveport. They have two
children.

Herbert E. Jennings (53) has been
named general purchasing agent for
Southwestern Electric Power Com-
pany in Shreveport.
C. Ed Nelson (X53) of Shreveport,
agricultural and livestock director of
the Louisiana State Fair has been
elected general manager of the Fair,
effective January 1, 1973. He also
holds the positions of secretary of the
Fair Association and executive direc-
tor of the Ark-La-Tex Agricultural
Council, Inc. He is married to the
former Catherine Passantino of
Shreveport and they have three sons.

IF YOU HAVE NEWS

And you live in the follow

Edmond C. Salassi (55) of New

Orleans has been appointed Federal
Administrative Law Judge in New
Orleans. Until the time of his appoint-
ment, he was a practicing trial lawyer
handling primarily, admiralty and
maritime cases.

Eugene W. Bryson, Jr. (63) of

Shreveport was recently sworn in as
the seventh assistant district attorney
for Caddo Parish.

60'S Olan O. Dickerson (60) has

been named as the new principal of
Hillsdale Elementary School in
Shreveport. He was formerly an ad-
ministrative coordinator at Moore-
town Elementary School.
Joan Hilburn Crawford (61) and her
husband James are living in London,
England. Mr. Crawford is a geologist
for Sun Oil Company, and they have
been living abroad for several years
in Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Scotland.
Robert D. Johnstone (61) has been
elected national president of the Soci-
ety of Flight Test Engineers. He has
been associated with the flight testing
of aircraft for the past eleven years,
and also received recently an M.B.A.
degree from Golden Gate University
in San Francisco.

Dr. Rod M. Yeager
(61), chief of cardiac
surgery for the LSU
Medical School in
Shreveport, has
been named the
first medical direc-
tor of Confederate
Memorial Centerin
Shreveport. He was formerly the chief
resident and assistant clinical director
of New Orleans' Charity Hospital and
was an instructor in surgery at Tulane
University Medical School.

Cora Matheny Dorsett (63) of Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, recently received her
Ph.D. degree in the field of Higher
Education and Student Personnel
from the University of Mississippi.

Paul Hogan, III.
(63) of New Orleans
has been named an
assistant vice presi-
dent of the Whit-
ney National Bank
of that city. He has
been with the bank
since 1965 and has
completed two °8an

years of study at the School of Banking
of the South at LSU in Baton Rouge.

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The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
December 1972, Volume 3 No. 4 published four times
a year — in September, December, March and June by
the Centenary College Alumni Association, Shreveport,
La 71104. Second Class Postage paid at Shreveport,
La. Published for members of the Alumni Association
and friends of Centenary College of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Bliss Clark

1972-73 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS:

President W. Juan Watkins, M. D. 57

First Vice President Jack Mulkey 61

Second Vice President Jim Montgomery '68

Secretary Flavia Leary '35

Treasurer Dwight Brown '54

(Terms Expire in 1973)
H. Whitney Boggs, Jr., M. D. '47, Jack Elgin '43, John
Graham, M. D. '59, James M. Koelemay '41, Flavia
Leary'35, Mary Kathryne Mc Cain Loe '60, Jim Mont-
gomery '68, Jack Mulkey '61, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40,
W. Juan Watkins, Jr. '57.

(1972-73 Members Appointed by President)
Joel Anderson '66, Wayne Curtis '69, Bob Schulman
'59, Joel Sermons '58, Gayle Wren '64.

The Good Life
— A Matter
of Opinion

by Eddy Miller, Dean of Students

Conversation in front of

Hamilton Hall, (I to r) Dean

Eddy Miller, Cindy Yeast

and Charles Watts.

Few of us can agree of the compo-
nents of the "good life" even though
we may be almost equal in intelli-
gence. Throughout history there have
existed not only different views of the
components of the "good life", and
different reasons for the selection of
these components, but also different
societal institutions with which people
have affiliated themselves in order to
enhance their prospects for achieving
their view of the "good life".

In his book entitled, Varities of
Human Value, Charles Morris
describes three components found to
be present in personal life styles:

" 'The dionysian component is made
up the tendencies to release and
indulge existing desires. . . . the pro-
methean component of personality is
the sum of . . . active tendencies to
manipulate and remake the world. . . .
the buddhistic component of personal-
ity comprises those tendencies in the
self to regulate itself by holding in
check its desires.'

In order to actually become one's
view of the "good life" people have
affiliated themselves with various

institutions of their societies. The con-
templative person seeking solitude
may see the monastic existence of a
religious order as desirable and so
affiliates himself with the clerical
institution.

For many, affiliation with societal
institutions become a sequential pro-
cess. A person whose view of the
"good life" consists of exerting
influence and instituting change in the
world may pursue studies in law at
an educational institution, then enter
politics in the hope of achieving a posi-
tion of power in government.

The choice of an educational institu-
tion is often made with a view to the
relationship between the experiences
it provides and a person's view of the
"good life". Some see the freedom
reflected in flexible curricula, indepen-
dent study opportunities, non-
compulsory attendance, and other
open-ended procedures as desirable.
Others covet the directness of a
highly specific list of courses, the lec-
ture format, and structured academic
requirements.

In order to gain some perspective
on the "good life" as viewed by mem-

bers of the Centenary student body
four students selected on the basis of
informal evaluations of their positions
along a conservative to liberal dimen-
sion, were asked to respond to two
questions:

"What are the components of the
"good life" as you view it, and on what
bases have you chosen these compo-
nents?"

"What has been the relationship
between your Centenary College
experiences and your view of the
"good life"?"

The ensuing paragraphs contain the
responses of these four students fol-
lowed by a summary statement.

Edith Shepherd,
sophomore sociology
major from Houston,
Texas, and Women's
Student Government
Association repre-
sentative.

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My idea of "the good life" is one in
which one must work for "the good
life". One who is possessor of my idea
of "the good life" feels free to make
his own commitments and to express
them, but he also feels his responsibil-
ity toward himself and his fellowman.

These responsibilities branch into
several areas. One's responsibility for
himself involves responsibility, in all
circumstances, for his own behavior;
and his responsibility to better him-
self. One's responsibility for others is
really responsibility for and responsi-
bility to others. For me responsibility
to and for others entails being willing
to do all humanly possible to help
others in need whether it be financially
or simply "lending an ear" and then
doing one's best to help the other with
his situation. This responsibility also
includes the acceptance of another per-
son's authority. I don't feel that it's
necessary to accept unconditionally
and without legitimate resistance the
wishes of a person in authority, but
there must come a point where
legitimate authority must make the
final decision and rule. Involved
directly with this is my feeling that
those in authoritative positions
deserve and must receive respect and
courtesy in any situation.

I see this more strongly than ever
before in my college life. My main pur-
pose at Centenary is to get an educa-
tion, not to promote unrest. In the
scope of things, recent campus unrest
has centered on issues which I feel at
most, are of second class importance.
That we all get a good education, a

Centenary education, should be pri-
mary in everyone's mind. I feel that
if one clouds the primary purpose of
the institution, he's not only doing
himself an injustice, but also the other
students, the Faculty, and the adminis-
tration.

My idea of "the good life" can really
be summarized by saying that having
"the good life" means being mature
enough to be an active, responsible
individual in this life — with other
individuals and with society. To be
willing to take life as it comes, with
all the bad and good experiences it
holds — and still be able to hold out
one's hand to another, be dignified
and be able to smile through it all.

I have chosen to base my philosophy
on these tenets because of several
reasons. The first reason is that I was
taught these things by two responsible
and well adjusted individuals. The sec-
ond and really more influential reason
is that I have, through personal experi-
ence, found these to not only be the
most satisfying practices but the most
helpful in dealing with people, and
honestly the most effective.

My experiences at Centenary Col-
lege have helped me to formalize these
opinions. I know more than ever that
relationships with other people are an
integral part of life. For one of the first
times in my life I've had meaningful
relationships with people who care
simply because I am another human
being. I feel as though I could go to
either Dean Rawlinson's Office or
Dean Miller's Office and have them
talk to me not as a lesser person,
because of their positions but as a
human being. I really don't think they
talk to me just so I'll stay and Cente-
nary will get my money. I have found
this true with professors also . As a Res-
ident Assistant in one of the dorms
I have found too an opportunity to help
other people and I know that this is
a great part of life too.

Centenary College has helped me to
find myself academically. I suddenly
realized about six months ago that I
had found something that I enjoy
studying, and I think I have flowered
academically in this field. Education
has become rewarding and enjoyable
for me at Centenary.

I said in discussing my idea of the
"good life" that I felt that authority
rightfully deserved respect. At Cente-
nary I've found few exceptions to this
rule.

Perhaps all these things aren't so evi-
dent to other students, but I came from
a high school that had nearly a
thousand students and I know what
it's like to be another face in the crowd,
and I'm glad I'm not that at Centenary.

There are things I don't like about
Centenary — the "double standard"
between men and women — it offends
my sense of freedom — but I under-
stand why it has to be, for security,
etc. so I can accept it.

Charles Watts, senior
history major from
Franklinton, La. and
president of the
Inter-Fraternity
Council.

My idea of the good life is to possess
the moral strength, force of will, and
ambition necessary to channel and
direct my thoughts, actions and
abilities to the accomplishment of a
worthwhile goal without falling prey
to the weakness of human nature.
Many times it is dangerously con-
venient for me to simply forget my
work and concentrate on nothing but
enjoying myself. But, self-indulgence
is no adequate rationale for existence.
A life based on the pleasure principle
produces nothing but an emptiness
that is conspicuously void of any con-
structive meaning or purpose . I am not
able to see how such a life could possi-
bly produce a feeling of achievement
or self-respect which for me is essential
in attaining the good life. In short, the
good life is being satisfied with myself,
and this means having the inner
strength to exercise self control and
discipline. I feel that these virtues are
vital in the process of achieving any-
thing worthwhile; and only through
achievement can I satisfy my need for
self-esteem and respect. Self-esteem in
turn leads to self-satisfaction and inner
peace. For me, this is the essence of
the good life.

Centenary provides each student a
chance to fail or succeed. There is con-
cern for the student, but no coercion.
The college rightfully realizes the
impossibility of forcing anyone to
achieve . It simply cannot be done . But,
if the individual decides that his goal
is to gain a feeling of self-esteem which
comes from a sense of accomplishment
and success, Centenary offers the pos-
sibility for its fulfillment. The
academic challenge of Centenary Col-
lege can be met and overcome only
through discipline, self-restraint and
control. In the social realm this college
provides the opportunity for a student
to assume a position of respect and
leadership. But, this too requires
responsibility and a degree of self con-
trol. In other words, Centenary has
given me the opportunity to reach my
idea of the good life by presenting me
with an academic and social challenge

which can be successfully overcome
through self-discipline, inner control,
and restraint.

Cindy Yeast, a
sophomore from
Lafayette, major
undecided, Student
Senate senator for
sophomore class.

Until I was approached about writ-
ing this article, I never had thought
about my personal definition of the
"good life". In order to develop my
ideas as to what the components of
the "good life" are, I had to reach into
my mind and decide just what it is
that I myself want from life.

I consider life to be the greatest gift.
I also consider life on earth to be only
a snap of the fingers as compared to
the vast infinity that flows ahead. This
is my reasoning for taking a hold of
life and making it into an experience
that can include all the other gifts that
are ours during this earthly life.

I am saying, then, that life should
include all those pieces which will
eventually fit together to form a unique
individual. First, this would include
a person and his relationships with his
fellowmen. He cannot live without
these relationships, and life seems to
broaden with every new contact with
other humans. Second, a person must
develop himself to meet the fullest of
his potentials — this includes educa-
tion, talents, personality, and any
other developments that can only be
accomplished by starting with a want
or a need from within. Third, a person
must also seek a purpose. This is not
meaning a goal or goals, but a "reason
for being". For some this would
include a relationship with their god,
for others, maybe an understanding
with the elements of life. Fourth and
last, there must be a balance in a per-
son's life, for if he becomes too
weighted in one area, all of life
becomes a meaningless and day-to-
day drudgery.

How does Centenary fit into my
view of the "good life"? Mainly,
Centenary is a preparation for the full
responsibilities of adulthood. I like to
look on my life at Centenary as a transi-
tion stage, maybe better termed as a
sort of "limbo". I am neither a depen-
dent child, nor am I a responsible
adult.

Centenary's contributions to my
conception of the "good life" are these:
I have the opportunity to develop
many responsible relationships with
other individuals. I also have the

Charles Watts and Edith Shepherd.

opportunity to develop myself as an
individual, especially since the pur-
pose of coming here to Centenary is
to obtain an education. I am also seek-
ing out my overall purpose in life,
starting here.

There are a few obstructions here at
Centenary to the "good life". I have
a difficult time establishing a balance.
Things, especially concerning school-
work, have a tendency to be blown
out of proportion. I sometimes lose a
little bit of life due to apprehension
about tests, grades, and the overall
results of my four years at Centenary.
It causes me to forget that life is for
every day and not just for four years
from now. Another obstruction con-
cerns adult responsibility. We need to
have the "apron strings" cut here, not
drawn tighter. I must admit that dur-
ing the last few years this has been
made an aim of Centenary. Examples
are non-compulsory attendance, visi-
tation, liberal curfew hours, and other
changes made; also the opportunities
to become involved as a student in the
life processes of this college. But we
can always progress in this area of
acquiring adult responsibility operat-
ing under the system of trial and error.
We must be treated as adults before
we can ever begin to assume an adult's
role in life.

Over all, Centenary fits into my view
of the "good life". There can be
improvements made, and each of us

doing his part can make these
improvements.

Jess Gilbert, senior
English major from
Sicily Island, La.,
member of the Honor
Court.

A participant in the "good life" is
he who seeks to improve the lot of his
fellow man. This idea may be express-
ed in various ways: to work toward
the freeing of the enslaved (which may
involve a transformation of society); to
fight manipulation of people; to allow
them to make, and to accept the con-
sequences of, their own decisions.
Essentially the good life is that life
which serves humanity.

Honesty toward oneself is a pre-
requisite for the "good life". If I pos-
sessed an abundance of creative talent,
I'd have little hesitation in devoting
my life to art. Then I would be honest
with myself. If I were doing social
work involving a degree of personal
sacrifice beyond my capabilities, in
that case I would be dishonest with
myself. My life can be fulfilled, I think,
by an active concern for the welfare
of others, while considering my own
desires and limitations.

Jess Gilbert

I cannot rationally defend my choice
of a philosophy of life (any better than
someone else can defend his). So, why
do I choose it? The fundamental reason
for the above outline of the good life
is pragmatic: It makes me feel good.

The relationship between my view
of the "good life" and my experiences
at Centenary College is ambivalent.

On the positive side, Centenary in
large measure is responsible for my
conception of the "good life". A few
professors, particularly, enchanced
and clarified the rather vague idea
which I had developed chiefly through
the United Methodist Church during
my high school years. Also, people at
Centenary continue to question my
interpretation of the "good life",
thereby forcing me to bring it into

sharper focus. Secondly, while here at
college, I have learned some of my per-
sonal limitations in striving toward the
"good life". Fellow students have
played a big role in my realization of
such personal incapabilities. Third, I
am pleased with the academic climate
at Centenary. The intellectual stimula-
tion is excellent, offering me avenues
that approach the "good life". And
finally, through my experiences here,
I've gained an appreciation for the
limits of the intellect, for the fact that
rationality alone is not sufficient in
generally dealing with people.

Now, from the negative perspective,
I believe that Centenary College has
not freed itself in a number of areas.
Having achieved admirable breadth of
choice in the academic sphere, Cente-
nary students nevertheless lack some
important social freedoms. A double
standard is manifested in the yet-
surviving social regulations for coeds
only. Another example of reluctance
to give responsibility to students was
the handling of the opposite sex dor-
mitory visitation issue this semester.
A number of fellow students found the
reasons enumerated by college officials
against reinstatement of last year's vis-
itation hours almost incomprehensi-
ble, and, further, an illustration of the
difference in thought processes.

In other words, then, there is too
much control over students outside the
classroom, leading to the excessive
manipulation. (Ironically, Centenary,
by its retaining of outmoded tradi-
tions, has furnished me with real situa-
tions against which I can test my
beliefs; it makes for good practice.)

To sum up, Centenary College has
instilled in me a concept of the "good
life", and it has given me opportunity,
by the rigidity of the educational
institution itself, to act upon that ideal .

Summary

While there are a number of dimen-
sions which interlace these students'
views of both the "good life" and the
relationship of Centenary experiences
to that "good life", one of the most
significant of these dimensions in my
estimation is that of the locus of
accountability.

Edith portrays her position very
clearly in her discussion of authority
and commitment to tolerant persis-
tance . The authority of another person,
of that person's right to make decisions
about your life and then implement
those decisions, is important and

acceptable to Edith. She believes also
in committing oneself to helping
others cope with life within the context
of existing conditions rather than in
making a commitment to change those
conditions.

Charles sees the good life as the
inner peace and self-satisfaction which
results from the achievement of a
worthwhile goal. Implicit here is the
view that there exists opportunities
which provide a person with chal-
lenges that can be met by dedication
and self-control. For him accountabil-
ity is to himself within the context of
existing conditions. To him Centenary
has provided such a challenging con-
text where he has been rewarded for
his efforts with the successes that he
desires.

The focus of accountability is located
internally for Cindy. She believes that
in order to experience the "good life"
she must be provided with a context
in which personal, trial-and-error
learning is permitted. Freedom from
external guidelines or directions is
desirable to Cindy if adult responsibil-
ity is to be acquired, and thus the
"good life" reached. This view is evi-
denced by her references to the cutting
of apron strings and her favorable
views of non-compulsory attendance,
visitation, liberal curfews and partici-
pation in the decision-making process-
es of the college.

To Jess the "good life" consists of
both a personal and a contributive
side. Although Jess does not spell out
his position in detail, it seems reason-
able to assume that he believes he can
best serve humanity only when he is
making a contribution which is true
to his values and to his abilities. The
Centenary experience has been one of
clarification of his own strengths and
weaknesses as evidenced by his refer-
ences to the role that faculty members
have played in clarifying his values
and that students have played in help-
ing him to identify his strengths and
shortcomings. For him the focus of
accountability is internal even to the
point of attempting to transform the
societal context in his efforts to serve
his fellowman.

It is a constant, many times over-
whelming, challenge at Centenary to
understand the complexities of the
unique personality which is each stu-
dent and to respond to him in ways
that will quicken his sensibilities
rather than allow them to become
stunted or to lie fallow. Hopefully, the
potential richness of such a diverse
student body will not be overshad-
owed by the difficulties associated
with meeting the needs of such differ-
ent persons.

• •

Something

Gold

Something

New

If you haven't been around the Cente-
nary Campus in the last year ... or so;
you will especially enjoy attending
Homecoming on February 3, 1972.

As you take your nostalgia walk
through the halls and over the

sidewalks, your memories will be
punctuated with new sights. . . . they
may even make you wish you were
a Freshman again.

Don't expect the students you meet
to fit the stereotypes of the past. The
"something new" at Centenary can be
seen in buildings, students, and
facilities, but mostly it is something
you feel. You won't want to miss this
opportunity to get the "feel" of the
Centenary of today, mixed with the
renewal of old friendships from your
period in Centenary history.

If you haven't watched the Gents in
Action in the fantastic new Gold
Dome, you have a double treat in store
at the Homecoming Game in Feb-
ruary. The building is a show in itself;

but when the whistle sounds, you'll
see something you never saw before
this season A seven-foot Gentle-
men that makes the vast oval roof look
just a little bit lower.

You can read the list of activities for
yourself, but be sure to read between
the lines. Then come see something
GOLD and something NEW and
(something tall) at your Homecoming
February 3, 1972.

(Left) Try to block this shot
by the 7-foot Centenary
Gentleman. Robert Parish
and the rest of the Gents
will show you some real
excitement at the Home-
coming Game.

(Center) It's not brand new,

it's certainly not old, but

it's something GOLD. . . .

and exciting at game time

on February 3.

(Right) It's the same old

bridge, but the students

that cross it are part of

Centenary's "Something

New". You'll see, when

you come "home" for a

visit on February 3.

HOMECOMING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Saturday, February 3, 1973

10:00 AM Faculty Alumni Coffee, 11:00 AM Alumni Century Club, Gathering at the Dome, 11:30 AM
10th (1963) and 25th (1948), Reunions, 12:00 NOON Luncheon, Afternoon Art Exhibit, 2:00 PM Play,
3:30 PM Open Houses, 6:00 PM Banquet, 8:00 PM Basketball Game, Post Game Reception

□ Yes, I plan to attend the Centenary Homecoming activities.

□ No, I do not plan to attend the Centenary Homecoming activities.

NAME:

TICKETS: $6.00 per person.
Please return this card to:

Centenary Alumni Association

P. O. Box 4188

Shreveport, Louisiana 71104

"Modest in scope but excellent in quality"

Business and the Liberal Arts

by Dr. John L. Berton, Chairman
Dept. of Business — Economics

In a news release dated May 19, 1967,
Centenary announced the receipt of a
grant which "will enable Centenary to
attempt what many believe will be an
important experiment in economics
and business in a liberal arts college."
Five years later with a strengthened
academic program in economics and
business, with some twenty-six semi-
nars having been presented by the
Center for Management Development,
with additional strength in the faculty,
and with a vastly improved library of
economics and business books and
periodicals the experiment can be
called an unqualified success.

The seeds of this experiment were
planted when Dr. Jack Wilkes, the past
president of Centenary, invited Dr.
Aaron Sartain, Dean of the College of
Business at SMU, Dr. Ross Trump,
Dean of the College of Business at
Washington University, St. Louis, and
Dr. Eugene Swearingen, Vice Presi-
dent and Dean of the College of Busi-
ness at Oklahoma State University to
study the Economics and Business
program at Centenary and make
recommendations concerning its
future.

This Committee's report, dated June
25, 1965, stated that "it believes that
a program in business administration
should be built on a strong liberal arts
foundation, that the program should
not unduly emphasize vocational
preparation, and that it should avoid
overspecialization in the business
area." As if to clarify this statement
the Committee continued "... we
accept the philosophy that in a church-
related school predominantly devoted
to liberal arts education, a business

(left) Lee Grossman, a man-
agement consultant from
Willmette, Illinois, conducts a
seminar for Shreveport
businessmen, (right) Dr.
Berton lectures before a class
in economics.

Edwin F. Whited, Presi-
dent Frost Foundation.

program should be rather modest in
scope but excellent in quality." "In
fact," the report continues, "an under-
standing of our economic society, of
the production and distribution of
goods and services, and of the financial
operations of a modern complex soci-
ety are all parts of the liberally
educated person."

With this strong recommendation
from the visiting committee that a
business program is not only compati-
ble with but complimentary to a liberal
arts education, the college began
planning and working toward that
end. In wrestling with the problem of
strengthening the department,
another idea began to germinate. Why
not do something to aid the business
community which had so generously
supported the College? Thus was born
the idea for establishing the Center for
Management Development.

With these two basic ideas in mind,
a proposal was submitted to the Frost
Foundation for a grant which would
allow the College to strengthen the
faculty, improve our library holdings,
and establish a Center for Manage-
ment Development. The proposal was
accepted and the announcement of a
$270,000 grant over a 5 year period was
made by Mr. Edwin F. Whited, Presi-
dent of the Frost Foundation, on the
above mentioned date.

The most pressing problem after the
receipt of the grant was the revitaliza-
tion of the Department of Economics
and Business in keeping with the
recommendations of the visiting com-
mittee of distinguished deans. In view
of the strength which existed at Cente-
nary in virtually all departments, it
was not difficult to restructure the
course offerings in the Department of
Economics and Business based upon
"a strong liberal arts foundation" as
recommended by the Committee. The
recommendation was also in line with
the suggestions of the Gordon-Howell
report, published in 1959 on Colleges
of Business Administration which
recommended a greater emphasis on
the arts and sciences in business train-
ing.

With this liberal arts philosophy as
a guiding principle, the course
descriptions of established courses
were rewritten and new courses were
introduced which emphasized the
behavorial and decision-making sci-
ences approach in the Department.
Such new courses as Managerial
Economics, Government and Busi-
ness, Human Relations, Consumer
Analysis and Behavior, and Quantita-
tive Decision Making were intro-
duced. To bolster the Department's
basic philosophy, the courses outside
the Department which would improve
the students' analytical and communi-
cations ability, and courses which
would give the student a better under-
standing of himself and others in rela-
tionship to his environment were
either required or strongly recom-
mended. And finally, new faculty were
recruited who held terminal degrees
and believed in the basic philosophy
established for the Department.

The results have been gratifying.
The quality of the students has been
upgraded in the Department and the
number enrolled in the Department
has remained relatively stable con-
sidering the overall trend in the col-
lege. Initially enrollment declined but
then began to increase as the strength
of the Department began to be recog-
nized by the students. A gratifying
aspect of the changes has been the
increasing number of non-majors tak-
ing business courses as electives.

Graduates have been successful in
finding jobs after graduation and
many have gone on to graduate school
at L.S.U. Baton Rouge, L.S.U. New
Orleans, Southern Methodist Univer-
sity and Tulane.

The Center for Management
Development which was established
in September, 1967 to assist the busi-
ness community of Shreveport, has
held 26 seminars in the past five years.
There have been 885 participants in
the 26 seminars representing virtually
all the large companies in the
Shreveport area and many of the

smaller ones. Participants have come
from East Texas, South Arkansas, and
from as far away as Beaumont, Missis-
sippi, Alabama and Georgia.

The Center has attempted to offer
the business community a variety of
seminars which appeals to their inter-
ests. Some of the more successful semi-
nars have been "Leadership and
Motivation," "Cost Reduction and
Productivity Improvement," "New
Approach to Profitable Retail Manage-
ment," and "Managing Management
Time." One seminar, "Better Supervi-
sion for First Line Supervisors" has
been so successful that it has been
offered every semester for the past four
years.

The Shreveport Business Commu-
nity has responded well to the semi-
nars which have been offered . Average
attendance has been thirty-four. The
Center has attempted to maintain
interest by bringing in outstanding
authorities in different areas and by
offering programs which have been
suggested by the businessmen them-
selves.

In addition to strengthening the
Department of Economics and Busi-
ness and funding the Center for Man-
agement Development, the Frost grant
provided funds for improving the li-
brary holdings in economics and busi-
ness periodicals and books. As a
result, some $17,000 has been spent
in the past five years for books and
periodicals which have given Cente-
nary the best Economics and Business
library in the Shreveport area.

As the person who was responsible
for the development of these new pro-
grams, I can honestly say that it could
not have been done without the grant
from the Frost Foundation. To a "non
academician" it is impossible to
explain how a "grant for excellence"
can revitalize and generate enthusiasm
in an academic department. For the
opportunity to build a strong Depart-
ment of Economics and Business for
Centenary and Shreveport, I wish to
thank publicly our benefactor, Mr.
Edwin Whited and the Frost Founda-
tion.

VisfwguiskedyMhtMHi

Dr. Robert E. Goodrich, Jr.

Centenary College and the Methodist Church have been directly related
to each other since 1839, and for the first time in that long history an alumnus
of the College has been elected to the episcopacy of the Church. Dr. Robert
E. Goodrich, Jr. attended Centenary from 1925 to 1928, and for one semester
in 1931. In recognition of his service to the Church, Centenary conferred
upon him the honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1948.

Bishop Goodrich was a very active student at Centenary. The 1927 and
1928 editions of the "Yoncopin" reveal his participation in Kappa Alpha
social fraternity and the football team. That 1928 Centenary team of "Gen-
tlemen" was the only major college squad in the entire nation with a ten-game
schedule that was undefeated and untied!

As a pastor, lecturer and author, Bishop Goodrich has received national
attention. He was pastor of First Methodist Church, Dallas, for 26 years,
this congregation being one of the very largest in all of Methodism. He
has written four books on religion, and has on several occasions been the
speaker for the international radio series, "The Protestant Hour." On this
series he has invited the famous Centenary College Choir to provide the
choral sacred music.

During July, 1972, at the session of the South Central Jurisdictional Confer-
ence in Houston, Dr. Goodrich was elected a bishop of the United Methodist
Church, and was assigned to serve as bishop and "chief pastor" of the
Missouri Conference. Centenary College and her alumni are proud to ac-
knowledge his accomplishment.

Ed Kennon

"A benchmark win for the new politics in North Louisiana" — that's how
the Shreveport Times sees the election of former Centenary student Ed Ken-
non of Minden to the office of Public Service Commissioner from the 3rd
Public Service District. Kennon was elected to the post on Sept. 30 following
a hard fought campaign against the incumbent commissioner, John Hunt.
A newcomer to Louisiana politics, Kennon ran a strong third in a ten man
race for Lt. Governor in 1971.

Kennon attended Centenary from 1956 to '59 and even then was launching
a successful business career that now sees him as head of the Kennon Con-
struction Company, Webster Inns, Inc. (Ramada Inn, Minden, La.), and
co-owner of the Minden Concrete Company with four other plants in
Louisiana. A major real-estate developer, his firm now employs over 100
people.

Stanley R. Tiner, writing editorially in the Shreveport Times following
Kennon's election noted that it was a "day that people scrawled out a succint
epitaph to the old politics, and repudiated the mud-slinging demagoguery
of the past."

And he concluded, "His election is also important because it means a
new star is born on the political horizons of North Louisiana politics. The
Public Service Commission seat to which Ed Kennon has been elected has
been a legacy of importance. Huey Long, JimmieDavis, and John Mc Keithen
have preceded him in that seat and each has been elected governor. Ed
Kennon is not unaware of that. He is an ambitious young man and he
is now riding the crest of the new politics in the state."

10.

Robert H. Blankenship (63) joined the
Charlotte, N.C., office of Cargill, Wil-
son and Acree, Inc., advertising firm
as an account executive.
Dr. Newell O. Pugh, Jr. (X65),
assistant clinical director at Charity
Hospital in New Orleans, has been
serving as coordinator and organizer
of health services at the Orleans Par-
ish Prison.

Lolly A. Tindol (67) has been awarded
a Fullbright Grant for a year's study
abroad in Spain to complete work for
a Ph.D. degree from the University of
Texas. She will be researching mater-
ial on contemporary Spanish drama at
the University of Madrid.
Gus M. Athas (69) recently received
his Master of Arts degree in Guidance
and Counseling during the September
commencement at Rider College in
Trenton, N.J.

70'S Mary Eliza-
beth Pate (72) is
now a stewardess
with Delta AirLines
and is based in
Chicago.

Linda Marie Miller
(72) and Martha
West Roth (70) are

Pate

both students in the School of Social
Work at Tulane University in New
Orleans.

BIRTHS

A son, Samuel Logan, was born to Jack
M. Webb (57) and his wife Diane in
Houston May 28, weighing 8 pounds
and 12 ounces.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Monstead, Jr.,
(70-70) have a new baby girl, Caroline,
born August 14 in New Orleans. This
is the first child for the couple. Mrs.
Monstead is the former Peggy Simp-
son.

DEATHS

Mr. H. C. McCool (26) of Hattisburg,
Miss., passed away in July. He was
a resident of Hattisburg for twenty-
two years.

Mr. Francis H. "Buck" Eubanks, 62,
died in Shreveport October 12. He was
the husband of the late Mrs. Rosemary
Eubanks who was the Financial Aid
Director at Centenary for 8 1/2 years.
Mrs. Eubanks passed away in July.
Mrs. Helen Ruffin Marshall, Assistant
Professor Emerita of Voice at Cente-
nary, passed away in September. She
served the College from 1941 to 1959
and then retired from teaching to live
with her daughter in Indiana. Inter-
ment was at Hope, Ark.

MARRIAGES

Nuptial vows were pledged in October
by Margaret Lucinda Boddie (66) of
Natchitoches and James David Clark
of Clarence, La.

Betty Sue Barnes (68) of Atlanta and
Capt. David R. McAdoo of Savannah
exchanged vows September 9 in the
United Methodist Church of
Keithville, La.

Mary Beth Tucker (X70) of Baton
Rouge and Tandy Wilson McElwee,
Jr. of Natchitoches were united in mar-
riage August 12, in the Chapel of the
First United Methodist Church in
Houston.

On August 19 at the Lakeshore Baptist
Church of Shreveport, Christine
Annette Leach (X71) of Shreveport and
Gregory Francis Bickham of Blanchard
were wed.

Charlotte Susan Holloway (72) of
Springhill was married to Stephen
Russell Law (72) of Conroe, Texas,
September 23 at the Springhill United
Methodist Church.

Elizabeth Carter Ilgenf ritz (72) of New
Orleans and Gary Lynn Murphree (72)
of Dallas exchanged marriage vows
August 18 in the Chapel of Trinity
Episcopal Church in New Orleans.
Teresa Lee Springer (72) of Racine,
Wise, was married to Mac Donald
Oliver, III. (71) of Dallas in St. John's
Lutheran Church in Ft. Wayne, Ind.,
August 12.

The engagement of Mary Ann Garrett
(72) to Taylor Liddell Caffery of New
Orleans has been formally announced.
The wedding will take place Saturday,
December 16, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Lakeview United Methodist Church.

If you are in your middle 50' s you may remember this classic pose of the 1935 version of the Kollege Kapers. It
comes from the scrapbook of Edith Bailey Barison who now lives in Overland, Kansas. She gave the entire
scrapbook of her college days to the Cline Room of the college about 2 years ago. Bill Grabill, the photogra-
pher, remembers the picture well . . . he was a member of the band for the Kapers. Describing the home
concert (tickets were 15 and 25c) the Conglomerate wrote "Kollege Kapers consists of 10 varsity acts, includ-
ing a girl's trio, a feminine monogolist, a crayon artist, a 10 piece orchestra, the 'Two Goopy Goops' , a
magician and ventriloquist and other specialty acts. Dr. Morehead and Mattie Lee Pate are on the extreme
left and Mr. Shaw and Mr. Quattlebaum are on the right.

The Alumni Loyalty Fund which offi-
cially opens December 1, will be
headed by Dr. H. Whitney Boggs, Jr.,
Shreveport. Last year former students
contributed $9,760.70 to the fund. Of
this $5,200 went for scholarships and
the remainder for other alumni pro-
grams including research into the pos-
sibility of transferring alumni records
to the college computer for more
effecient operation.

Buckley Blasts Liberals Reid Buckley,
the younger brother of editor William
F. and Senator James Buckley of New
York, speaking before a Forums audi-
ence, said if he ran his business like
the U. S. Government handled the
social security program, "I'd be
thrown in jail!" Buckley was the first
Forums speaker invited to the campus
this year by the Student Government
Forums Committee. Speaking
eloquently for the conservative point
of view, Buckley said individual free-
dom is being gradually eroded away.
He told the Centenary students that
each individual should advance his
own opportunities and resist the
federal handouts that erode dignity
and cause complacency.

Classes for the Elderly Over 150 per-
sons over the age of sixty have joined
the campus set at Centenary . . . attend-
ing special classes offered to them as
a public service by the college and the
Caddo Council for the Aging, Inc.
Over 20 subjects were offered in a spe-
cial six-weeks course including a study
of wills, estates and trusts, creative
writing, and Louisiana and Shreveport
history. Millard Jones, assistant pro-
fessor of English, has one of the most
popular classes, creative writing, and
spends long hours after class in serious
discussion with his students.

Griffith Named Alumni Director Mac

Griffith, a 1969 graduate of Centenary,
has suceeded Bob Holladay as Director
of Alumni. Since his graduation,
Griffith has been teaching at Captain
Shreve High School in Shreveport. He
is presently working on future plans
for the Alumni Association and we
plan to carry an interview with him
about these plans in the next issue of
the Centenary Magazine.

Centenary

from

CENTENARY COLLEGE

Shreveport, Louisiana 71104

Entered As Second-Class Matter

Coach Little Opens Practice The 1972
basketball team at Centenary should
provide some excitement on the cam-
pus. Everyone will be watching Robert
Parish, the 7 footer from Woodlawn
who was sought by some 300 colleges
in the nation. However, Coach Little
reminds everyone that Parish is just
a freshman. In a recent newspaper
interview Parish said he hoped the
team would lose only four games.

CALENDAR

Dec. 17-Jan 3 Christmas Recess

Jan. 25, 26, 27

Feb. 1, 2, 3 "The Me Nobody Knows"

Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Feb. 3 HOMECOMING

Feb. 6 Forums, Conor Cruse O'Brien

Feb. 9 .Faculty Recital, Donald Rupert, Pianist
Mar. 8,9,10,15,16,17 . ."The Good Woman of Set-
zuan"Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Mar. 16 Michigan State University Trio

Hurley Memorial Music Bldg.

Mar. 30 Opera Theatre

CENTENARY COLLEGE

1972-73 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

NOVEMBER

*28-Southwestem-Georgetown, Texas
DECEMBER

1-2-Sports Foundation Tournament

(SMU, La. Tech, Houston Baptist, Cente-
nary)

* 5-East Texas Baptist College

* 9— Indiana State

* 15-Northem Colorado

11-Lamar University

JANUARY

4-University of Arkansas

* 6-University of Texas

11-University of Southern Mississippi

13-Northwestern Louisiana

*15-Louisiana State University-New Orleans.

18-University of Texas-Arlington

*20-Virginia Commonwealth

24-Indiana State University

*27-University of Southern Mississippi

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Alumni Tour The Centenary Alumni
Grand Tour of Europe under the direc-
tion of Miss Flavia Leary will depart
on June 7, 1973 and will visit the
Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland,
Italy, France, and England. The total
price is $1079 and includes transporta-
tion from Dallas to Dallas. Reserva-
tions should be made through the
Alumni Association Office or with
Flavia Leary, 1536 Stephens Street,
Shreveport, La. 71101.

DORM HOURS Following a review by
the student-faculty-trustee Student
Life Committee guest hours in the dor-
mitories have been revised to include
some student requests for change. The
3:00-5:00 p.m. weekday and 3:00-10:00
p.m. weekend hours remain for first
semester freshmen with parental con-
sent. For upperclassmen, boys dorm
hours are 2:00-12:00 midnite Sunday
through Thursday and 2:00 p.m.-l:00
a.m. Friday and Saturday. Upperclass
girls dorm hours are 2:00-10:30 week-
days and 2:00 p.m.-l:00 a.m. week-
ends.

Willson Lecturer Talks to Pre-Meds

Dr. Harmon L. Smith, professor of
moral theology at Duke University,
and the author of a book entitled
"Morals and Medicine: Periphery to
Center" discussed "Bio-Ethics and the
Future of Man" in a session with pre-
med students at Centenary. Dr. Smith,
whose special interest is in the ethical
questions raised by new and continu-
ing developments in the field of
medicine, said that organ transplanta-
tion, with the exception of kidneys,
should be termed experimental rather
than therapeutic. On the subject of
abortion he said that one must not
assume that because the procedure is
legal it is therefore right. "If we have
a cultural disregard for the human
species at the beginning, could we
have a disregard for the human species
at the end ...">." he asked. The annual
Willson Lectures are made possible
through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Willson of Floydada, Texas who
sponsor the series in colleges,
churches, and civic clubs.

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30's

Rev. Dr. D. L. Dykes (38), pastor of
First United Methodist Church in
Shreveport, was recently presented The
Brotherhood Citation by the Shreve-
port Chapter of the National Confer-
ence of Christians and Jews. Dr. Dykes
is married to the former Sue Ellen
Brown (x38).

40's

Dr. Charles W. Armistead (41), a
Shreveport psychiatrist and neurolo-
gist, was recently named by Gov.
Edwin Edwards to the 15-member
Louisiana Department of Health, So-
cial and Rehabilitation Services.

Mrs. Uma Collins, RN, (42) was re-
cently honored in recognition of her
20 years of teaching practical nursing
at the Shreveport-Bossier Vocational-
Technical Center. She received a degree
in biology from Centenary, and has
attended Tri-State Hospital School of
Nursing and graduate school at North-
western State University, the University
of Pittsburgh, and the University of
Pennsylvania.

Rev. (44) and Mrs. James W. Spitkeit,

Methodist, missionaries, are enjoying
some time off between assignments.
Rev. Spitzkeit has just completed his
previous assignment of teaching at
Taijon Methodist Seminary in Taijon,
Korea. He received his B.D. degree
from Duke University.

Dayton H. Waller, Jr. (46), Shreveport
businessman and planter, has been
elected to the board of directors of
Pioneer Bank and Trust Company.

Glen F. Graves (48) was recently pro-
moted to superintendent of the trans-
mission services of Trunkline Gas
Company in Houston.

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
March 1973, Volume 4 No. 1 published four
times a year— in September, December,
March and June by the Centenary College
Alumni Association, Shreveport, La 71104.
Second Class Postage paid at Shreveport,
La. Published for members of the Alumni
Association and friends of Centenary College
of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Bliss Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Patterson Benner (ne'e:
Gretchen Elston '48), Methodist mis-
sionaries, are currently stationed in
Tokyo, Japan, where Mr. Benner is a
professor of English and linquistics at
Aoyama Gaukin University.

Dr. Robert Plants (49) received his E.
Ed. degree from the University of
Arkansas in 1962 and is now head of
the Elementary Education Department
of the University of Mississippi.

50's

D.G. White (50) was recently promoted
to manager of economics and fore-
casts, a new position in the Products
Division of Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation in Shreveport.

Dr. Claud L. Sanders (50), a resident
of Shreveport and personnel director
for the Bossier Parish School Board,
was installed in November as president
of the Louisiana Teachers' Association.

Rev. (51) and Mrs. Carlos Welch,

Methodist missionaries, have just fin-
ished an assignment in Vellore, India.
He was director and teacher at the
newly created Christian Counseling
Center.

Thomas H. Abney, Jr. (5 1) was recent-
ly presented a resolution of apprecia-
tion by the Shreveport Chamber of
Commerce for contributions to the
economic development of Shreveport.
Currently he is manager of community
development with SWEPCO in Shreve-
port.

Sue Cothran Hughes (51) and her
husband, Ben, now live in Richardson,
Texas. She earned her masters degree
in Guidance and Counseling from SMU
and is presently a counselor at West
Junior High School in Richardson.

Dr. Richard P. Crowder (52) was

recently promoted to professor of edu-
cation at Grambling College in Gramb-
ling, La.

Dr. Thomas V. Holmes (55), a Shreve-
port dentist and colonel in the Army
Reserve, recently completed the final
phase of his army reserve training at
the U. S. Army Command and General
Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth,
Kansas.

1972-73 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI

ASSOCIATION OFFICERS:
President . . . . W. Juan Watkins, M. D. '57
First Vice President . . . . Jack Mulkey '61
Second Vice President Jim Montgomery '68

Secretary Flavia Leary '35

Treasurer Dwight Brown '54

DIRECTORS (Terms expire in 1974)
Dwight Brown '54, Gene Bryson '63, Judy
Butcher '62, Dorothy Gammill '40, Jean
Goins '63, Carolyn Gray '55, Jack Hodges,
III '58, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki '58,
H. W. Worley, D. JD. S. '57.

Alfred K. Francis (52) has resided in
Shreveport for the past 25 years. He
is a well known artist and is listed in
the 1973 edition of Who's Who in
American Art.

Phillip B. English (56) has his own
insurance agency in Little Rock, Ark.
He is married to the former Beverly
Dan Duerson (47).

Rev. and Mrs. Melvin Ray Holt (58,
x58), Methodist missionaries, have been
in the Philippines since 1965. Rev. Holt
is currently district missionary for
church development in the Bulacan and
Nueva Ecija districts.

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Keith J. Simmons

(61) has been pro-
moted to partner-
ship in Golemon
& Rolfe Archi-
tects of Houston.

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John Robert Swor (x61) is vice-presi-
dent of the Frank Lyon Company in
Little Rock, Ark.

Percy V. Hubbard

(64) has been e-
lected chairman
of the board and
president of the
Red River Valley
Bank in Bossier
City.

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continued on pg. 15

(Terms Expire in 1973)
H. Whitney Boggs, Jr., M. D. '47, Jack Elgin
'43, John Graham, M. D. '59, James M.
Koelemay '41, Flavia Leary '35, Mary Kath-
ryne Mc Cain Loe '60, Jim Montgomery '68,
Jack Mulkey. '61, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40,
W. Juan Watkins, M. D. '57.

(1972-73 Members Appointed by President)
Joel Anderson '66, Wayne Curtis '69, Bob
Schulman '59, Joel Sermons '58, Gayle Wren
'64.

Not Just Another Little Speech on Pollution

SHALL THIS PLANET BECOME UNFIT FOR HUMAN LIFE?

By Bishop Finis A. Crutchfield

(Editors note - - Bishop Crutchfield
presented the foil owing address at the
President's All-College Convocation in
Brown Memorial Chapel on Thursday,
November 16. It is reprinted here with
the permission of Bishop Crutchfield.)

Needless to say, I am honored and
pleased to be included in this convoca-
tion program and am gratified to ap-
pear today on a campus which for
many years has represented academic
excellence at its best. Centenary Col-
lege, though never large in enrollment,
has always been outstanding in the
private sector of education in this na-
tion. As a few of you may know, I
have been a citizen of this state for less
than four months, and before coming
here heard many persons comment
upon the resources, the strengths, and
the many assets of the state of Lou-
isiana. Not the least of these was the
excellence of Centenary College. A-
cross this nation this college has a
reputation for excellence in education
that far exceeds anything that its num-
bers or physical plant could suggest.

As American higher education de-
velops, the best results will be achieved
in a planned balance between private
and/or church-related higher education
on the one hand and public or tax-
supported institutions on the other.
One system is able to emphasize the
education of the great masses of peo-
ple; the other can concentrate on se-
lect communities of educational pur-
suit and interest; the two systems may
complement one another. Perhaps the
chief source of strength in American
higher education just now is this plu-
ralism. The variety of institutions, the
large number of sponsors, the various
commitments of the schools of higher
learning have all contributed to a di-
versity that has made American higher
education rich and productive. His-
torically, there has never been one
single monolithic system, and there
never should be. In this country the
private sector and the public sector
have contributed substantially to each
other, and each has served as a helpful
corrective to the other. The result is
beneficial to individual persons and to
the nation. If either should become
weak, the results would be disastrous.

Since there is no danger today that
tax-supported public universities may
become weak and since there is no
possibility that all education would
come under the control of churches
or private groups, current efforts
should be made toward strengthening
the private sector. The health of the
nation may be at stake in this. Your
presence here is an affirmation of your
commitment to the private sector, and
many of us undoubtedly feel that
schools such as Centenary now have
not only a significant place in the
total scene, but also a unique duty to
perform, an important role to enact.
We ought to consider some elements
in that role.

It has always been that in the pri-
vate sector more highly personalized
learning experiences are provided. Stu-
dents are not digits in great masses,
but are persons. The faculty-student
ratio here is such that one may have
an intimate academic experience and
may be known as a person. Further-
more, in the private sector, the ulti-
mate questions may be raised more
quickly and without apology. Here
there is an open concern for life's
values and a reasonable commitment
to them. Also, in the non-public col-
leges one may be assured that public
political forces in no way control ad-
ministrative procedures. Schools in the
private sector may stress the value of
the individual in a way and to a degree
that is not as likely elsewhere. There-
fore, it is encouraging to recognize the
place of Centenary in the total picture,
noting Centenary's historic commit-
ments not only to academic freedom
and excellence, but noting as well the
commitment toward the development
of a morally responsible and socially
relevant person.

It is in this context that I wish to
raise two questions, both of which
have something to do with the ratio-
nale for the existence of this college.

The first of these questions was
posed by Barbara Ward at the recent
United Nations Convocation on the
Human Environment. The question is
not new; it has been increasingly posed
over the past twenty years, but now
raises itself with a new, desperate
urgency. Simply put, the question is
this: Shall this planet become unfit for
human life? Someone may say, "Oh,
here's another little speech on pollu-
tion," but such is not altogether the
case. We are not thinking of mild ef-
forts to tidy up the town and make the
landscape a little more attractive. The
question of whether this planet shall
become unfit for human habitation is
deadly serious and will be answered
with finality in this generation, or
likely, will not be asked again.

We all know that air, soil, and water
form a totally inderdependent, world-
wide system or biosphere sustaining all
life, transmitting all energy, and is, in
spite of its rugged power of survival,
full of very delicate and vulnerable
mechanisms such as leaves, plankton,

catalysts, levels of dissolved oxygen,
thermal balances - - all of which per-
mit the sun's energies to be transmuted
and life to carry on. We also know
that this entire process is now being
threatened, and, therefore, human ha-
bitation is threatened. For the first
time there seems to be the possibility
that this planet may become unfit for
human life with little or no ability to
sustain it. Actually, we can deaden the
planet with small steady accumulations
of long lasting poisons and pesticides,
of chemicals and tailings, or eroded
soil and wastes, and then reach plane-
tary disaster. To cite one obvious area,
we always have had a blind faith that
water itself is self-renewing, but the
steady deterioration of rivers and
streams, and more important, the ir-
reversible damage being done in the
oceans, teaches us that there are limits
to water's self-cleansing powers.

Now add to the thought of physical
pollution the fact that separate nations
on this planet have not yet learned to
act in concert and with trust on truly
global issues and concerns. Well, as a
total society we are at the point of
final decision. The problem is so enor-
mous and complicated that we are apt
to refuse to face it fully and continue
with the blind belief that the planet
and its inhabitants will again muddle
through. But the wisest voices today
tell us we cannot count on that any
more.

I have to submit this morning that
the problem is ultimately a spiritual
one, for its solution requires mankind
to act without rapacity, using know-
ledge with wisdom and faith, respecting
the interdependence of all things, and
operating without pride or greed. Bar-
bara Ward says that this is an accurate
scientific description of the means of
survival:

In these latter days the planet
itself in -its underlying physical
reality repeats the witness of the
sages and prophets. Our collec-
tive greeds can degrade and des-
troy our basic sources of life in
air and soil and water. Our col-
lective injustice can continue to
create an intolerable imbalance
between rich and poor. Envy and
fear can unleash the nuclear
holocaust. At last in this age of
ultimate scientific discovery, our
facts and morals have come to-
gether to tell us how we must
live. (Stockholm Int. Conf. of
Env.)

That this is true is a part of the
rationale for the existence of this col-
lege.

A second question has to do with a
word that people keep on saying is

obsolete, but a word that somehow
won't stay in obsolescence. That word
is God. The question is, what are we
going to do about the notion behind
that word?

We all know what has happened to
the God concept. The traditional an-
thropomorphic concept of God disap-
peared a long time ago. Most thought-
ful persons in this generation welcome
the demise of that and some other
ancient ideas, no longer acceptable,
tied to a belief in a three-storied uni-
verse. There are others today who see
God as irrelevant to the modern world.
The concept of deity seems no longer
needed to explain man or the universe,
to answer human needs, or to meet
immediate personal problems. Some

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may not know what their real personal
needs and problems are, but they think
they do and somehow they reject the
idea of God as no longer being useful.

Still, to others the notion of a
transcendent God, acting to influence
human history or human experience, is
an untenable notion. They see in mod-
ern history evidence of chaos and
catastrophe unrelieved by signs of a
just and saving God, and so they say
the notion of God is unreasonable.
There is also the problem of images
and models; man can't picture God in
his mind. And this is coupled by a
problem of semantics when we discuss
the notion of God and don't commu-
nicate well. Among some thoughtful
people there is an overwhelming des-
pair about the end of life. They see
themselves trapped in an absurd and
chaotic universe and view the future as
only a yawning void. To say there is
confusion and uncertainty about what
a person means when he utters the
word, "God," is to state the matter
mildly.

But the task of each generation is
the development of a worthier under-
standing of God. And this, too, may be
a part of the rationale for a private or
church-related college.

What do you think of when the
word "God" is uttered? Wieman says
God is a suprahuman event. Niebuhr
said God is transcendent self and
source. Karl Heim speaks of God as
transcendence in a dimensional meta-
phor. Tillich thinks of God as the
transcendent ground, and Hartshorne
approaches God as the dynamic whole.
Others see God becoming, in the total
process, the source of creativity in life.
When one man says "God," he may
mean a life-force pervading an or-
ganism. When a good old-fashioned
Freudian says "God," if he uses the
term at all, he may mean the projec-
tion of man's fondest wishes. A mate-
rialist may think of God as a system
of loose particles knit together in some
loose physical relationship - - though
as a materialist, he would choose not
to use the term at all probably. Perhaps
an ethicist will say that God is a system
of truths bound up in one another like
the truth of Euclid. A Christian usual-
ly thinks of God as being rational in-
telligence and purposeful will that is
wholly good and therefore intending
what is good.

But what do you mean when you
use the term? Most people really can't
say today. God has not left us without
some signposts, some suggestions of
His being, some tantalizing evidences
of His pathway through our lives. He
hasn't stacked the evidence in such a
fashion that we are compelled to be-

lieve, but He seems to have given us
just enough to elicit faith. Let us look
deep inside ourselves. Deep down there
is a capacity for giving oneself in faith
and trust to someone or somebody
greater than ourselves, and we ask the
question, "What does the presence of
this capacity point to? What does it
mean?" In every person's life there is
some sense of oughtness or of obliga-
tion to his fellows and to higher stan-
dards in his own living. No one can
escape thinking in terms of obligation
to the present, to the future, and to
others. We say, "What is the source of
this oughtness?" Then just about the
time we think we've outgrown any
notions of God, we look inside our
lives and discover signs of an order that
we cannot confuse with ourselves, and
we utter the term "God" again. When
a person asks, "What intimations of
any living God have ever been present
in my own spirit?" he becomes amazed
at the evidence. When he says, "What
experiences have I had that suggest to
me that there is love, strength, and

power not of human making or de-
sign?" or "What in my inmost nature
makes me respond to thoughts of
courage and purity?" or "What is that
within me that makes me forgive when
I don't have to or gives me patience in
the presence of unreasonable provoca-
tion?" He begins to find traces of an
order that he cannot confuse with him-
self, and every step he takes in trying
to know himself more fully brings him
face to face with a reality he did not
begin with and that human beings can-
not create. Some of us have to say the
word "God."

As we study the lives of those who
have found unusual fulfillment, we be-
gin to know why Jesus never debated
God with anybody. He merely em-
bodied in His own life a great love that
he said was the love of God, and that
was his argument. If one is generous,
compassionate, understanding, and
open today, he is on the road to some
kind of belief in God. If, in addition,
he will become obedient to that which
he believes, he will take gigantic steps

toward some satisfying understanding
of God.

Several times in the last two thou-
sand years the word "God" 'has been
up for grabs. We're going through one
of those periods again when everything
related to this word has been chal-
lenged and questioned.

This isn't the first time we human
beings in western civilization have had
to struggle with the word "God," and
it isn't the last. Every generation has to
work at a worthier understanding, and
then that generation has to decide
whether it will live by its faith or its
doubts. The raising of this question
also is a part of the rationale for the
existence of Centenary College. May
you be richly blessed in your pursuit
of the answer.

Dr. Webb Pomeroy and Dr. Lee Mor-
gan lead the Academic procession at
the President's Convocation to hear
Bishop Crutchfield.

Alumni Association Ready to Tackle Problems

Mac Griffith, a 1969 graduate of
Centenary, was appointed Alumni Di-
rector October 1, 1972. He was an
outstanding student at Centenary as
was his wife, the former Martha Woods,
and the College is glad to welcome
him back into the fold.

QUESTION: You have now been
Alumni Director at Centenary for
about four months. During this brief
period what have you found to be the
main strengths and weaknesses of the
Alumni Association?
ANSWER: I don't really know how
much insight one can acquire in four
months. However, I consider the en-
thusiasm and dedication of those active
in the Association at present to be its
main strength. As for its weaknesses, I
would think that our lack of communi-
cation, especially with those outside
the Shreveport area, to be the number
one problem. Unless he has taken the
initiative to find out for himself, the
average alumnus has no idea what is
happening at Centenary. From now on
the Association and the College is
going to take the initiative to keep
alumni informed about Centenary.

QUESTION: How much influence
should the Alumni Association exert
on the Administration? What is your
relationship with the rest of the College
Staff?

ANSWER: First, let me answer your
question concerning my relationship
with the College staff. I feel very
fortunate to be working with such a
fine staff. The departments are no
longer isolated from one another in
the functions they perform for the
College. Instead, each department is
working with every other department
in developing their ideas relative to the
workings of the entire administration
and College. Now the first question.
If you're referring to the making of
College policies I would say no. The
main and most positive influence the
Association should exert, in my opin-
ion, is that of a respected and highly
concerned organization whose sugges-
tions would be considered when
making policy.

Mac Griffith

QUESTION: I have heard it said that
the Alumni Association's purpose is
only to raise money. How do you feel
about this?

ANSWER: The Association's purpose
for being is not to raise money, but to
raise and maintain the interest of the
alumni of Centenary in their College. I
am not saying, however, that the
raising of money is not an integral part
of the Association. Why? Well, for one
thing, to keep alumni informed costs
money. Also, the Association's pro-
grams cost money, scholarships, money
to re-decorate the SUB, Homecoming,
etc. Also, money is one of the main
indicators of interest, the other being
time given.

QUESTION: Two of Centenary's main
problems today are enrollment and
finances. Is the Alumni Association
ready to address itself to the solution
of these problems?

ANSWER: I believe we are readying
ourselves for the problems. As far as
the finances are concerned, our Loyalty
Fund has for the first time a realistic
goal ($20,000) in an effort to support
the Association and not let the College
do it completely. The problem of

enrolling new students has already been
tackled by the Association. In February
of this year a group of Shreveport

alumni assisted the Admissions Depart-
ment in contacting prospective stu-
dents. When the area Alumni Clubs are
active, this will be one of their primary
objectives.

QUESTION: In addition to working on
these two problems, what other new
programs are you planning?

ANSWER: I think I could take up four
pages of the magazine on that one. I
can give a brief recap of the programs:
establishment of Alumni Clubs in most
cities where there are sufficient alumni,
publication of an Alumni Directory,
selection of class agents (anyone who
is willing to be one let me know),
yearly class news letters, increased
numbers of scholarships, Parents' Clubs
which will be organized from within
the Alumni Clubs, Continuing Educa-
tion programs both on and off campus,
reorganization of the Alumni Board,
a Senior Alumni Day (for Centenary
seniors), and a more expanded Loyalty
Fund.

QUESTION: I frequently hear the
complaint that the Alumni Association
is designed only for the local Alumni
in the immediate Shreveport vicinity.
What do you say to this?

ANSWER: I believe that because of
the size of the interested group this
has been true in the past. But it will
most definitely not be true in the fu-
ture. The programs outlined above will
give all alumni an opportunity to be-
.come as involved as they wish. Also,
the reorganization of the Alumni Board
will include representatives from area
Alumni Clubs, and the Board of Gov-
ernors, when formed, will meet once
a year at Homecoming to consider
additional changes in the Association.

QUESTION: You have made a couple
of out-of-town trips recently. What sort
of response are you getting from out-
of-town Alumni?

ANSWER: The opportunities that I
have had to visit with our out-of-town
alumni have provided some of my
most valuable experiences since I have
been at Centenary as Alumni Director.
Their suggestions have helped me in
evaluating and setting up my programs
for this year. The primary complaint
that I encountered while visiting was
that the only time that the College
ever really informed them of things
was when there was to be a fund
raising drive. It is because of the fre-
quency of responses such as this that I
have geared my entire program to try
and improve communications and
involvement between the alumni and
Centenary, the Alumni Association,
and other alumni. I believe that the
alumni can become the driving force
the Association and Centenary need if
we are all well informed.

QUESTION: Have you set yourself a
time-table for the accomplishment of
the goals you have outlined for us here?

ANSWER: Most definitely. Ideas do no
one any good on the drawing table.
Eighty percent of the programs will be
in effect by December of 1973.

New Alumni Director Mac Griffith (left) and Dr. W. Juan Watkins,
president of the Alumni Association, discuss the future of the Association.

Homecoming 73

A Shreveport businesswoman, Mrs.
Peyton Shehee, has been named the
ninth member of the Alumni Hall of
Fame by the Centenary College Alumni
Association. The award was made at
the Homecoming banquet at the Col-
lege dining hall Saturday, February 3.

One of the youngest professors
holding the Ph.D. degree on the Cen-
tenary faculty, Dr. Rosemary Seidler,
received the Outstanding Teacher A-
ward from the alumni and Kathy Call
of Searcy, Arkansas, was crowned the
Homecoming Queen.

Several hundred former students of
the College attended most of the events
scheduled throughout the day includ-
ing a morning Faculty-Alumni Coffee
in Hamilton Hall, a noon luncheon
which featured a "faculty meeting"
skit by the students, open houses
throughout the campus and the post-
game reception in the Gold Dome fol-
lowing the basketball game with Ar-
kansas State University.

Special reunions were held for the
Century Club members and the classes
of 1948 and 1963.

Shreveport physician Dr. W. Juan
Watkins, the president of the Cente-
nary Alumni Association presided over
the Homecoming events and his wife,
Bonnie, served as Homecoming chair-
man for the 1973 reunion.

One year ago at Homecoming 1972,
Mrs. Shehee accepted the Honorary
Alumna award for her late mother,
Mrs. L. B. Kilpatrick, who lost her life
in a plane crash earlier in the year. This
year Mrs. Shehee was honored in her
own right for her contributions to the
College and community. The Hall of
Fame Award goes only to those Cente-
nary students who have gone on to ex-
ceptional achievement. Past winners
are Paul M. Brown, G. W. James, Ed-
win F. Whited, James J. Serra, Algur
H. Meadows, Cecil E. Ramey, Dr.
Virginia Carlton, and Judge Chris Bar-
nette. In addition to her business in-
terests where she serves as president of
Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company
and Rose Neath Funeral Home, Inc.,
she is involved in a h'ost of civic and
cultural affairs. She is a member of the
Board of Trustees of Centenary College
serving in the position held for many
years by her mother. The award was
presented by Mrs. Mitzi Middlebrooks,
chairman of the Hall of Fame Com-
mittee.

Shreveport bank executive Jack Wil-
liamson presented the Outstanding
Teacher Award to Dr. Seidler. He said
the alumni had selected her for the
award because of genuine interest in
the students and the College. Dr.
Seidler received her Ph.D. degree from
Tulane University when she was only
27 years of age, joined the Centenary
faculty that same year and is now a
respected member of the chemistry
department. Her choice for the award
was obviously a popular one with both
alumni and faculty who attended the
awards banquet.

The Homecoming Queen, Kathy
Jane Call, is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. K. Call, III., of Searcy, Ar-
kansas. She is a senior psychology
major who has attended Centenary
since 1969. In addition to her regular
activities she has been an active parti-
cipant in the Open Ear program on the
Centenary campus.

The first maid of the Queen's Court
was Roslyn Papa of Shreveport, and
the other members of the court were
Susie Gates and Joan Medina of Shreve-
port, Pam Sargent of Annandale, Va.,
Pam Solomon of Monroe, and Sherri
Washington of Houston.

Dr. Rosemary Seidler gets Outstanding
Teacher Award from Jack Williamson and
Oscar Cloyd.

<!» left) Gents complete Homecoming with win over Arkansas
t e (center) Alumni leave the Playhouse following Buseick
ma (bottom) Oscar Cloyd entertains at Homecoming
aquet.

(top right) Margaret Teague and daughters register guest at
faculty reception, (center left) Dean Miller, Chaplain Taylor
and student Mike Marcell poke fun at the faculty, (center
right) Zeta Tau Alpha sorority wins Greek decoration contest
(bottom left) Senior Kathy Call is named Homecoming Queen
(bottom right) James Dorm welcomes old grads

making one thing perfectly clear

THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT:
Bulwark of Excellence

by Lee Morgan, Ph. D., Professor of English and Chairman of the Department

Pat Brameyer, physics major, gets some professional assistance as she

studies Johnson's Dictionary (1755) for her Interim course in

Lexicography. Lending a helping hand are Professor Lee Morgan

(center and the author of this article) and Professor Millard Jones.

If the second part of the title of
this article sounds vain and boastful,
then I had better begin by making one
thing perfectly clear: it isn't. It is true
and can be verified. I begin the docu-
mentation by citing the record of a
number of the readers of this magazine
- - the alumni who majored in English.
Perhaps you remember the story from
Roman history of Cornelia, daughter
of Scipio Africanus and mother of the
Gracchi, those two famous statesmen
and patriots. At a party once, Cornelia
listened patiently to a wealthy Roman
matron boast of her jewels. When the
boaster finally finished, Cornelia turned
and with quiet dignity pointed to her
sons saying, "These are my jewels."
Without wishing to be maudlin, I must
say that that is the way we Centenary
professors feel about you graduates.
You are the proof of the excellence
of the academic program. I suppose
any cynics among you might say the
achievements of the English majors,
whom I'm about to speak of, came in
spite of the program at Centenary; but
it is a charge that will not stand up.
No haphazard, mediocre, or inferior
program could produce these results.
Look at what you've done since 1951.
Sixteen of you have gone on to take
the Ph. D. in English, and five have
completed all the requirements except
the dissertation. Thirty of you (and
this does not include the sixteen Ph.
D.'s) have taken Master's degrees in
English. Many of you have taken ad-
vanced degrees in divinity, religious
education, law, library science, journa-
lism, and education. You took this
training at such universities as Alabama,
Arkansas, Bowling Green, California,
Duke, Emory, Exeter (England), Har-
vard, Kansas, LSU, Massachusetts, Mi-
ami of Ohio, New Hampshire, New
Mexico Highlands, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Oxford (England),
Princeton, Rice, Sam Houston State
University, SMU, Stanford, Stephen F.
Austin State University, Sussex (Eng-
land), Texas, TCU, Tulane, UCLA,
Wisconsin, and Yale. You number in
your ranks a Rhodes Scholar, seven
Woodrow Wilson Fellows, a Fulbright
Scholar, a Rotary Scholar, several Na-
tional Defense Graduate Fellows, many
winners of departmental assistantships
to university graduate schools, and two
distinguished poet-novelists wbose
work has been reviewed in Time and
Saturday Review and is regularly an-
thologized in university textbooks.

This recital may be tedious to some,
but to alumni and lovers and supporters
of Centenary it ought to be impressive
and highly gratifying. More now than
in the past, English majors are electing

careers other than teaching and related
fields. Increasingly, they are going into
business, medicine, civil service, law,
journalism, social work, and agricul-
ture. It is true that the English major
who went into agriculture was the heir
to a great fortune, but my point about
English majors going into more varied
fields remains the same. This is as it
should be, and I hope the trend will
continue. Certainly, English as a major
at Centenary emphasizes the liberal arts
aspects of the discipline rather than
those of any special profession. In that
connection, let me bring you up to
date on some changes in the English
program. Upper-division courses still
deal with historical periods and great
figures, but sophomore offerings are
considerably changed. Instead of having
to take Major British Writers, students
may choose from among such offerings
as The American Dream, Science Fic-
tion, Tragedy, Satire, Comedy, The
Literature of Social Protest, The Lit-
erature of Utopia, Black Literature,
Myth and Archetype, The Literature
of the Absurd, Major American Writers,
and others. Topics change from semes-
ter to semester. Obviously, courses are
organized around rationales other than
the chronological survey of a national
literature. This last is a time-honored
way of presenting literature, and we
retain it as an option; but there are
other lively, engaging, and respectable
approaches also. Furthermore, there
was something a little smug about
implying that only English literature
merited study by all students. These
new courses cut across countries,
historical periods, and genres. In the
January Interim Program, which comes
between semesters, five additional
courses not regularly offered have been
taught: The Art of the Cinema; A
Literary Trip to England and Ireland;
The Contemporary Christ-figure: Fic-
tion, Drama, and Film; Western Man
as Seen in Literature and Art; and
Problems in Lexicography. The En-
glish Department also pioneered the
College's Junior Fellows Program
whereby gifted high school seniors
audit courses without charge.

The present staff members of the
English Department are striving to
continue Centenary's tradition of
excellence in teaching and scholarship.
Their doctorates are from Florida, Tu-
lane, and Wisconsin (2); one staff mem-
ber will complete a dissertation at the
University of Kansas at the end of this
summer. There are in the department
a Rhodes Scholar and three Phi Beta
Kappas. Four staff members have re-
ceived post-doctoral study grants to
Harvard; other post-doctoral and re-
search grants have permitted study ,at

Duke, North Carolina, and the Hunt-
ington Library. While teaching is the
primary responsibility of the members
of the English department; research,
publication, professional, and editorial
activities are also pursued, and a mem-
ber of the department is the editor of
the official journals of the College
English Association.

The picture I have sketched here
does not suggest a run-of-the-mill de-
partment in an outdated, provincial
institution, void of achievement and
influence, a description which doom-
sayers are trying to give the liberal arts
college in America. Quite the contrary.
It demonstrates excellence on a very
high plane, points with pride to the
past and with confident anticipation
to the future. It describes a college
worthy of the sacrifice and support
of those who love and respect it.

Intently previewing the BBC film "Civilisation," based on Kenneth Clark's
now-famous book, are three English Department professors, (1-r) Dr. Fer-
gal Gallagher, Dr. Wilfred Guerin, and Dr. Lee Morgan. The film was shown
to students in an Interim course entitled "Western Man as Seen in Litera-
ture and Art."

THE KEEN CHAIR: A Gift from an Old Friend

Dr. Cornelius D. Keen

A childless Shreveport couple with
a deep and abiding love for young
people has left a legacy that will help
provide scientific knowledge for Cen-
tenary College students in the years
to come.

An endowed chair in physics with
Dr. Louie Galloway, chairman of the
department of physics, as the first in-
cumbent has been established by the
Board of Trustees of Centenary College
through the generosity of the late Dr.
and Mrs. Cornelius D. Keen.

A trust fund which now totals
almost a quarter of a million dollars
established by Mrs. Keen fourteen years
ago will provide a permanent source
of income for the salary of the pro-
fessor. According to the terms of the
trust set up by Mrs. Keen at the death
of her husband in 1958, it "shall have
perpetual duration with the principal
retained by the trustee, the First Na-
tional Bank of Shreveport, and the
income to be paid annually to the
College. . .and that a chair or profes-
sorship be endowed with the income
. . .for the purpose of paying the
salary of the professor."

When Dr. Keen died in 1958, Mrs.
Keen established the fund, known as
the Cornelius D. and Florence Gillard
Keen Trust, with a $10,000 gift and
she faithfully added to it for thirteen
years preceding her death in April of
this year. When the will was read,
Mrs. Keen had generously added
another $100,000 to the trust, bring-
ing the total to $240,000.

Dr. Louie Galloway

Carrying out her wishes, the Board
of Trustees at a recent meeting accepted
her gift and named Dr. Galloway as the
first Keen Professor of Physics in what
the College hopes is the forerunner of
other endowed chairs which may be
established as a part of the sesquicen-
tennial celebration marking the 150th
anniversary of the College in 1975.

The stories of the Keens' generosity
toward Centenary are legion. When Dr.
Keen taught at the College he refused
to accept any salary for his work; both
he and Mrs. Keen hired Centenary
students to drive them about town
and actually helped many of them pay
their way through school; his workshop
and library are both gifts to the
College; and Mrs. Keen, while quietly
building up the Memorial Trust Fund
at the First National Bank, gave gen-
erously to the annual Great Teachers-
Scholars Campaign.

Close friends remember another
generous offer from the couple. In
1956 Dr. Keen enrolled in a nuclear
engineering course in California and
when they left Shreveport they left
their home at 529 Robinson Street as
a gift to the College. While in Califor-
nia, Dr. Keen's health did not permit
him to finish the course and they
returned to Shreveport. Anxious to
return to their old home, they refused
to take it back, but bought it from the
College for more than they had
originally paid for it.

Both Dr. and Mrs. Keen were quiet
and unassuming by nature. Those who

knew them best remember him as a
tall, handsome man who was constantly
seeking new knowledge in the field
of science; and they recall Mrs. Keen
as a small, quiet, dignified woman,
gracious to all who knew her. Although
they had no children of their own,
they were always interested in young
people, as was evidenced by their gen-
erous gifts to the Shriner's Hospital for
Crippled Children where they hoped to
relieve the suffering of little children.

The first incumbent of the Keen
Chair in Physics, Dr. Galloway, has
taught at Centenary since 1966 and
was named chairman of the physics
department the following year.
Through the generous support of
Trustee W. Russell Barrow, the College
labs are exceptionally well equipped
for undergraduate teaching.

The Inaugural Lecture for the Keen
Chair was delivered by Dr. Galloway
at the Brown Memorial Chapel on the
evening of March 14. His address dealt
with the energy crisis facing the United
States today, a topic in which Dr.
Keen would certainly have expressed
a deep interest.

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Judge John A. Dixon, Jr.

Even distinguished Supreme Court Justices play the role of the proud grand-
father! When The Editor recently asked Judge John A. Dixon, Jr., Associate
Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court in New Orleans, for information for
this sketch, he included this note in a letter, "Diana, (his daughter who
graduated in 1971) who was editor of the Conglomerate for one semester, is
now the mother of a year old son, whose name happens to be John."

Judge Dixon has served on the Supreme Court since January 1, 1971
following his election without opposition from the 1 1 north Louisiana
parishes that make up the Second Supreme Court District.

Born in Orange, Texas in 1920, he was the first of five children of John
A., Sr. and Louella Stark Dixon. The family moved to Haynesville in 1926
and to Shreveport in 1930 where Judge Dixon graduated from Fair Park
High School in 1936 and received his B. A. degree from Centenary in 1940.

He received his law degree from Tulane in 1947 and practiced with the
firm of Booth, Lockard and Jack and in private practice with his brother
Neil Dixon until elected District Judge in 1957. He served on the bench
of the Second Circuit Court of Appeal until his election to the Supreme Court.

He is married to the former Imogene Shipley of Hindsville, Arkansas and
there are two other daughters, Stella and Jeanette in addition to Diana men-
tioned above. Although living in New Orleans, the judge returns to Shreveport
as often as his schedule will permit, some say, to visit his grandson.

John Paul Goodwin

From editor of the Yoncopin in 1928 to interviewer of the Paramount stars
on the NBC network in the 1940's! That's the success story of John Paul
Goodwin who attended Centenary 1924-1929 (illness prevented completion
of the few courses needed for degree) and now Chairman of the Board
of Goodwin, Dannebaum, Littman and Wingfield, Inc., Houston, Texas, one
of the largest advertizing and public relations firms in the Southwest.

An honor graduate of the Old Shreveport High School (the only high
school in Shreveport then) Goodwin's activities at Centenary as yearbook
editor, dramatic club member, and senior class play actor, laid the basis for
a career that brought fame as one of the best radio voices in the nation.

StartingatKTBSin 1930 he moved to KPRC in Houston in 1935 and went
into the advertizing agency business in 1938. He founded his own company
in 1 949, the forerunner of the present agency he serves as board chairman.

He is best remembered for his interviews with the stars on NBC including
Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Betty Grable, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy
Lamour. He was also heard nationally as an actor and announcer on the
Horace Heit Show, the Rudy Vallee Show and the U. S. Steel Hour.

Indicating a continued interest in higher education, Goodwin serves as
a Lecturer at the University of Houston on Theory of Broadcasting.

Many years after his climb to NBC, the initials "JPG" carved in the
old control panel of KTBS served as an inspiration to fledgling announcers
in Shreveport.

Anderson

continued from page 2

Joel Anderson

(66) was recently
elected vice-presi-
dent and cashier
of Red River Val-
ley Bank in Bos-
sier City. He is
also a member of
the board of di-
rectors of that bank, is secretary-
treasurer of Key Properties, Inc., and
is listed in Outstanding Young Men of
America.

Herbert V. Fackler (64) recently re-
ceived the Ph.D. degree in English from
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.

Dr. Jerry Clinton O'Dell (64) received
his Ph.D. degree from Stanford Univer-
sity.

Robert P. Inguaggiato (69) was honor-
ably discharged from the U.S. Air
Force in July.

Edwin L. Cabra (67) received his Juris
Doctor degree recently from LSU Law
School.

70's

U.S.A. F. Sgt. Michael S. Carrington

(70) of Monroe, La., has been named
Outstanding Noncommissioned Officer
of the Year in the Military Airlift
Command's 62nd Aerial Port Squad-
ron.

Richard Pane (70) recently completed
his masters degree in economics at
SMU. After a semester of teaching at
Texas Lutheran College in Seguin.

Robert Eagle (71) is attending the
U.S. Army National Guard Officer
Candidate School at Pineville, La., and
will receive a commission as a 2nd Lt.
in August of this year. Mrs. Eagle
(nee: Henri Etta Price '71) is now
attending LSU on a stipend from the
State Department of Hospitals and will
receive a Master of Social Welfare de-
gree in the spring of 1974.

BIRTHS

Mr. (71) and Mrs. Steven F. Beard are

the parents of a baby girl, Kelly
Christine, born November 1 1, 1972, in
Houma, La. Mrs. Beard is the former
Nancy McDonel of Dallas. Mr. Beard
is employed by Mil-Chem, Inc. in
Houma.

Mr. and Mrs. Rupert G. Thompson have
announced the arrival of their first
child, Virginia Elaine, born October
24, 1972, in Baton Rouge weighing 6
pounds and 7 ounces. Mrs. Thompson
is the former Phoebe Louise Volentine
(61).

DEATHS

Sherman E. Matthews (67) 27, of
Shreveport, died November 24, 1972,
of injuries suffered in an auto accident.
He was one of 32 initial students at
the LSU-Shreveport School of Medi-
cine, and would graduated with the
first class of med students from LSU-S
this May. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Sandra Slack Matthews, and his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Matthews
of Sarepta.

Mrs. Charles L. Odom (nee: Lilla
Genevieve Reed '28) widow of Dr.
Charles L. Odom, a prominent psycho-
logist, educator and guidance counse-
lor, recently passed away in New
Orleans after a brief illness.

Mrs. Carl Clifton Watkins (x50), the
former Mary Frances Kennington of
Alexandria, La., passed away Septem-
ber 14 at the age of 43 in Sa<ita Moni-
ca, California, after a brief illness.

MARRIAGES

Patricia Brigid MacCormac recently
wed James Eugene Kurzweg (70) in
New Orleans at the Church of the
Most Holy Name of Jesus.

Deborah Gates (x72) was married to
Mark William Owen in a ceremony
held November 25 in the Chapel of
Highland Baptist Church in Shreveport.
The couple will reside in Shreveport.

Vows were exchanged by Gladys Irion
De Rouen (71) and Richard Randall
Hawkins at Our Lady Queen of Heaven
Church in Lake Charles November 25.
They will live in Shreveport.

Mary Ann Garrett (72) of Shreveport
and Taylor Liddell Caffery of New
Orleans were united in marriage
December 16 in the Lakeview United
Methodist Church in Shreveport. Mrs.
Caffery is a recruiter for the Centenary
Admissions Office, and Mr. Caffery, a
student at Centenary, is editor of the
Conglomerate. He spent three years
in the Navy and is a Vietnam veteran.

Just ten years ago, on February 8, 1963, Dean Bond
Fleming led the "bookwalk" from the old Library in
Jackson Hall to the new Library on Woodlawn Avenue.
In an exercise that required logistics comparable to the
Normandy Invasion, students, faculty and staff carried
books from the old library to the new in perfect order
and without a hitch. Students of this era will remember
Dean Fleming's chapel address prior to the move when
he asked everyone to help because "the Library belongs
to all of us." In a lighter vein, the Dean thought some
students may have had more to do with books that day
than at any other time in their college career.

Centenary in Time Extolling the vir-
tues of Centenary College is an ad
entitled "No President of the United
States Ever Graduated From Centenary
College" in the January 23 issue of
Time Magazine. The full-page ad, paid
for by a friend of the College, is de-
signed to recruit students and improve
the image of the College. Another ad-
vertizing campaign conducted in con-
nection with the Great Teacher-Schol-
ars Campaign is based on the theme,
"One Stands Out" and features the
pre-med program, teacher training pro-
gram, the Junior Fellows Program for
high school students and the classes
for the elderly citizens of Shreveport.

GTS Goal is $300,000 The annual
Great Teachers-Scholars Campaign is
underway with a 1973 goal of
$300,000, the largest in the 12 year
history of the fund drive. Shreveport
businessman J. Pat Beaird, Jr. is the
chairman of the campaign which stress-
es the need for a balance between
private independent higher education
and the state universities. The Trustees
have asked donors to raise their pledge
to take into account their contribu-
tions to past periodic capital cam-
paigns no longer planned by the col-
lege.

Gents on Probation In the middle of
their most successful campaign in his-
tory, Centenary's basketball team was
slapped with an indefinite probation
by the NCAA. The infractions com-
mittee charged that Centenary used a
conversion table to convert ACT scores
to SAT scores for predicting at least
a 1 .6 scholastic average for entering
freshmen athletes. The conversion in
question has been used by the college
for all entering freshmen for the past
three classes and there appeared to be
no problem until the college signed "a
highly recruited" athlete last August.
The fact that the NCAA voted out the
controversial 1 .6 rule 48 hours after
they placed Centenary on notice has
had no effect on the Centenary proba-
tion. The probation period is for a
minimum period of two years after the
College complies with the rule and in
effect until the college declares the
athletes involved ineligible. (Which the
college says it has no intention of do-
ing.) At press time the College was
checking with legal counsel to see what
further steps might be in order.

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Prof Gets Prestige Grant Dr. Earle G.
Labor, professor of English, has re-
ceived what is believed to be the first
grant ever offered in this area by the
prestigious American Philosophical So-
ciety, founded by Benjamin Franklin
in Philadelphia. The grant was made to
Dr. Labor to continue his Jack London
studies at Huntington Library in Cali-
fornia. He made the trip to California
over the Interim period in January and
included a visit to the London Ranch
in California on his itenerary. He was
the principal speaker at the annual
Jack London Banquet in Jack London
Square in Oakland, California. Dr.
Labor is considered one of the leading
experts on Jack London.

CALENDAR

Mar. 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 "The Good
Woman of Setzuan" Marjorie
Lyons Playhouse

Mar. 14 Inaugural Lecture for the
Keen Chair in Physics Brown
Chapel

Mar. 16 Michigan State University
Trio Hurley Music Building

Mar. 30 - April 1 Opera Theatre "Dido
and Aeneas" and "The Child and
the Fantastic Happenings" Mar-
jorie Lyons Playhouse

April 5 Founders Day

April 8 Harpsichord Recital (tenta-
tive) Hurley Music Bldg.

April 10-11 Choir Holiday in Dixie
concert Civic Opera Theatre

May 1 1 Opera Workshop Concert
featuring excerpts from Broadway
Stage Plays Hurley Music Building.

May 27 Commencement

June 4 Summer session registration

June 21-23, 27-30 "Little Mary Sun-
shine" Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

July 26-28, July 30-Aug. 4 "The Music
Man" Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Beaird Director of Fed Bank The ap-
pointment of Dr. Charles T. Beaird as
a director of the Federal Reserve Bank
of Dallas was announced at year's end.
Beaird, assistnat professor of philoso-
phy at Centenary and board chairman
of Beaird-Poulan, Inc. of Shreveport,
will meet monthly with the board at
their regular meetings in Dallas. This,
in addition to his full time teaching
duties at Centenary and the direction
of the multi-million dollar chain saw
firm in Shreveport.

NASM Renews Accreditation Music
School Director Dr. Frank Carroll has
been notified that the accreditation
from the National Association of
Schools of Music has been renewed for
a ten year period. The renewal fol-
lowed an on-campus visit by officials
of the NASM and interviews with
Music School faculty.

Last Call for Tour Flavia Leary's A-
lumni Grand Tour of Europe leaves
Dallas June 7. It's only $1079 Dallas
to Dallas. Reservations must be made
at once with Miss Leary, 1536 Ste-
phens Street, Shreveport, La. 71101.

20% on Dean's List Almost 20% of
those students eligible made the Dean's
List during the Fall semester. Dean
Marsh said this was an unusually high
number of students on the Honor Roll,
even for Centenary students who nor-
mally rate high scholastically. A stu-
dent must have a 3.5 or better average
in at least four courses to qualify for
the honor.

William Carpenter, Tiff Foster, and Pierce Cline

by Dr. Walter M. Lowrey

James Jones ... a Courageous Man

by Maurie Wayne

A Special Feature: Education Begins at Sixty

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Woodall

40's

William L. Murdock (x40) has been
named senior trust officer for Com-
mercial National Bank in Shreveport.
He already holds the office of vice-
president of the bank.

Dr. William M. Allums ('41) was re-
cently installed as president of the
Louisiana Society of Internal Medicine
at ceremonies during the society's
annual meeting. Dr. Allums is a prac-
ticing internist and cardiologist in
Shreveport. He is married to Barbara
Johnston, sister of Senator J. Bennett
Johnston, and is the father of four
children.

Sidney W. Woodall
('47), president and
general manager of
AMF Western Tool
divisioninDes
Moines, Iowa, has
been named corpo-
rate vice-president
and group executive of the South
Products Group of the company.

C. A. Davis, Jr., ('48) of Shreveport
Bank & Trust Company will serve as
chairman of the board of directors for
the Northwest Louisiana Bankers As-
sociation for 1973.

Snider A. Gandy ('48) has been pro-
moted to systems manager in the
comptroller division of Texas Eastern
Transmission Corporation in Houston,
Texas.

Jim G. Gibson ('48) has been named
one of Shreveport's "great business-
men" for 1973 by the local Massa-
chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Com-
pany Agency.

W. H. Snow ('48)
was recently elected
to the board of di-
rectors of South-
west Electric Power
Company in Shreve-
port.

Snow

E. B. Noland, Jr. ('48) has been
appointed to the executive committee
of the Louisiana Bicentennial Commis-
sion by Secretary of State Wade O.
Martin, Jr.

50's

Robert E. Pease,
Jr., ('52) has been
named sales engi-
neer for the Fluid
Packed Pump Sec-
tion of Armco
Steel's Machinery
and Equipment Di-
vision. He will be based in New Orleans
and will oversee sales of the company's
new line of production test manifold
equipment.

USAF Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Lucien E.
Larche, Jr., ('52) recently began his
tour of duty at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska.
He is married to the former Marce
Barber of Bastrop, Louisiana.

Sam S. Pittman ('52) has been elected
vice-president of Selber Brothers, Inc.,
in Shreveport. Prior to his election by
the board of directors, he was manager
of one of the branch stores.

Margaret Wade Campbell ('54) is on
leave from the Board of Missions and
is currently working with the United
Bible Societies as administrative assis-
tant to the Regional Translations
Coordinator in the Regional Center for
the Americas in Mexico City.

William F. Reed (x55) has been named
director of data processing for the
Pennzoil Company which is based in
Houston. He began his company career
in 1955 in the Shreveport offices.

R. A. Stuart ('55)
has been elected
vice-president of
Texas Gas Explora-
tion Corporation
and will also serve
as administrative as-
sistant to the presi-
dent whose office is in Houston. He is
married to the former Peggy Weeks of
Shreveport and they are the parents of
three children.

Dr. Zeak M. Buckner ('56) was re-
cently promoted from Assistant Pro-

Stuart

fessor of English to Associate Professor
of English, at LSU-Shreveport. Dr.
Buckner taught at Centenary from
1962-68 and has been at LSU-S since
1969.

Rev. and Mrs. Melvin Ray Holt ('58 -
Elizabeth Jones x58) Methodist mis-
sionaries, have been living in Jonesville,
La., and are visiting churches in Louisi-
ana that supported them in their 10
year mission work in the Philippines.
They returned to the U.S. this past fall,
and this month Rev. Holt plans to begin
work within the Louisiana Conference.
The couple has four sons.

Horace G. Hines, Jr., ('59), associate
professor of social welfare at LSU in
Baton Rouge, was recently selected,
along with fourteen others, as "Out-
standing Educators of America" for
1972.

60's

Richard Everett Harrman ('61) recently
received his Ph. D. degree in religion
from Emory University in Atlanta. He
is married to the former Jeanette
Crocker ('61).

USAF Captain Ralph W. Harker ('66)
has graduated from the Air University's
academic instructor course at Maxwell
AFB, Alabama. He received his M.S.
degree in management in 1971 from
the Air Force Institute of Technology
at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He will
now return to his permanent assign-
ment at Chanute AFB, Illinois.

USAF Captain Charles D. Sullivan ('68)
recently visited his mother, Mrs.
Ludweka Doll Sullivan (x40) in Shreve-
port. Charles was awarded the Distin-
guished Flying Cross after a seven
month tour of duty in Vietnam.

Jack O. Freeman ('68) was recently
named principal of Queensborough
Elementary School in Shreveport.

70's

USAF Sergeant Michael S. Carrington
('70) of Shreveport has been named
Outstanding Air Transportation Spe-
cialist at McChord AFB, Washington.
He was selected for his leadership,
exemplary conduct and duty perform-

continued on page 1 1

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
June 1973, Volume 4 No. 2 published four
times a year— in September, December,
March and June by the Centenary College
Alumni Association, Shreveport, La 71104.
Second Class Postage paid at Shreveport,
La. Published for members of the Alumni
Association and friends of Centenary College
of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Bliss Clark

1972-73 CENTENARY COL LEGE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS:

President . . . W. Juan Watkins, M. D. '57

First Vice President Jack Mulkey '61

Second Vice President Jim Montgomery'68

Secretary Flavia Leary '35

Treasurer Dwight Brown '54

DIRECTORS (Terms expire in 1974)
Dwight Brown '54, Gene Bryson '63, Judy
Butcher '62, Dorothy Gammill '40, Jean
Goins '63, Carolyn Gray '55, Jack Hodges,
III '58, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki '58,
H. W. Worley, D. D. S. '57.

(Terms Expire in 1973)
H. Whitney Boggs, Jr., M. D. '47, Jack Elgin
'43, John Graham, M. D. '59, James M.
Koelemay '41, Flavia Leary '35, Mary Kath-
ryne Mc Cain Loe '60, Jim Montgomery '68,
Jack Mulkey '61, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40,
W. Juan Watkins, M. D. '57.

(1972-73 Members Appointed by President)
Joel Anderson '66, Wayne Curtis '69, Bob
Schulman '59, Joel Sermons '58, Gayle Wren
'64.

They perpetuated the greatness of our heritage

William Carpenter, Tiff Foster, and

by Walter M. Lowrey, Ph.D., Professor of History and Chairman of the Department

Cline

(Editor's note - - - Dr. Lowrey was
warmly applauded for an address be-
fore the students, faculty, administra-
tion and Trustees during a Founders
Day ceremony, Thursday, April 5. Ex-
cerpts from the speech are published
here for the benefit of those who were
not able to attend.)

Of the over 2,000 higher educa-
tional institutions in the United States,
only 42 were chartered before Cen-
tenary, and all of these are east of the
Mississippi River. Most of these early
colleges were church-developed, were
primarily for the select few, and em-
phasized the teaching of the classics as
their basic curriculum. Early in the
19th Century the states of the new na-
tion began to provide tax-supported
institutions in areas where church col-
leges were not available.

Centenary combines these two
strains in its beginnings - - church-re-
latedness and state-support, for this
college actually might be said to have
dual origins. The older was the College
of Louisiana, founded by the state in
the small town of Jackson, near Baton
Rouge, in 1825. Despite a fine faculty,
generous financial support from the
state, and a beautiful group of build-
ings, the college failed to attract many
students because of its isolated loca-
tion and the lack of an educational tra-
dition in Louisiana. So unpromising
seemed its future that in 1845 the state
was happy to turn over the property
to the Methodist Church in return for
its agreement to operate it as a non-
sectarian college. The Methodists,
meanwhile, had founded a college at
Brandon Springs, Mississippi, which
they had named Centenary in honor of
the 100th anniversary of the founding
of Methodism. As the Louisiana prop-
erty was the more highly developed,
the faculties and resources of the two
institutions were merged into a new in-
stitution at Jackson combining the two
names into Centenary College of Lou-
isiana, the name which it still bears.

Under Methodist leadership, the col-
lege prospered, with a distinguished
faculty, a magnificent physical plant,
and a pleasant, easy way of life. Most
of the students were sons of planters
or professional men, and brought with
them to the college their servants, their
favorite horses, their hunting rifles,
and in some instances their favorite
hounds.

The faculty, in academic robes,
hear their fellow teacher at
Founders Day convocation.

The day began with an hour of
preaching, praying, and declamation in
the chapel at 7 a.m., and ended with
the candles snuffed out at midnight.
Each student was required to give a
public recitation before his fellows
every week. Once the term began,
classes met on every day but Sunday,
with two exceptions - - Christmas Day
and New Years Day.

The trustees not only had authority
from the charter to regulate student
morality, but also the duty to protect
the innocence of their charges through
regulations they imposed upon the
town of Jackson. The citizens there
were far more rigidly regulated than
those in most other communities in
fun-loving Louisiana. They were denied
such amenities as horse races, circuses,
billiard parlors, and liquor, except, as
they put it, "in cases of absolute
necessity." Perhaps in rebellion against
these rules, the students seldom let a
day go by without causing some troub-
le. It was the duty of the faculty, in
concert, to serve as a disciplinary court,

and the College records are replete
with vivid descriptions of their activi-
ties. I will quote a few:

Thomas Lockridge appeared be-
fore the faculty. He was conversing
and eating in the study - - was de-
sired to study his lesson. He an-
swered in a very insulting manner
that he was studying, upon which
he was asked if that was a proper
manner of speaking. He was again
impudent, and by his gestures e-
vinced an insulting bearing. He was
desired to leave the study, at first
refused, but at length complied in a
very insulting manner. When out of
the door, he stampt upon the floor
with rage, and uttered insulting ex-
pressions.

Warfield appeared before the fac-
ulty on a charge of having been in-
toxicated, and of having ridden a-
round town in a riotous manner on
July 4.

The quality of the food provided
students at college has been a subject
of complaint since time immemorial,
and so it was at old Centenary.

Masters White, Smith, Maurin,
York, Gillespie, M. Edwards, Cano,
Miles, & Kirkland appeared before
the President, and collectively said
"that the steward does not give
them victuals enough - - that the
coffee is not good - - that the
bread is often old and hard - - that
they have scarcely any variety in
their food, having little more than
bread and meat - - that the dessert is
often Indian and minute pudding,
which many of the boys do not
like - - that they are not permitted
to call for anything that is not on
the table - - that the fare is getting
worse and worse.

The faculty made these students
apologize, and some resigned from the
College rather than do so. And while
food was the subject of many com-
plaints, it could also be dangerous, as
young Laurence Boatner could attest.
The Tutor reported to the Presi-
dent Hypolite Decoux and H. Davis
of the Preparatory Department for
throwing stones at Laurence Boat-
ner in his room. The President re-
commended them to receive a
"whipping with a rod/' The Tutor
acted according to the recommenda-
tion of the President. Some of the
students were dissatisfied that the

boys had been punished on Boat-
ner's account. They showed their
dissatisfaction by throwing biscuits
... at Boatner as he came out from
Supper in the evening and hurt him
considerably.

By dwelling too long on the esca-
pades of students, I may have given the
impression that no work of conse-
quence was done, but from every mea-
sure available to us today, it appears
that the Centenary educational per-
formance was excellent. Among the
faculty, for example, was Dr. William
Carpenter, an internationally recog-
nized authority on natural philosophy,
who entertained, instructed, guided
and won the admiration of Sir Charles
Lyell, founder of the modern science
of geology, when he visited Louisiana.
Other faculty members were equally
distinguished. Comments of faculty
and official examiners on the work of
the students, together with some of the
orations delivered by them, as well as
the accomplishments of the students
when they graduated all tend to indi-
cate a high quality of academic per-
formance.

In 1861, when Louisiana seceded
from the Union, the student body and
faculty melted away to join the army,

or in some other way to participate in
the Civil War. The College was closed.
Skirmishing on the campus and neglect
did great damage to the buildings, the
library, and the equipment, and five
years passed before the College re-
opened in 1866. Its endowment, in-
vested in Confederate bonds, was
worthless, its buildings and equipment
in disrepair, and its clientele in distress.
Where it had previously been in an area
of rich plantations, it was now in a
true pocket of poverty. Seldom able to
pay the faculty, isolated from popula-
tion centers, and unable to match the
low tuition of the tax-supported state
university, the college flickered and
struggled for life. Rumors of the im-
minent death of the college were re-
peated year after year, until in 1892
one President was moved to deny
them in this way:

The old college is not dead, nor

is it dying; on the contrary, it will

be flourishing and doing its good

work in its own quiet way a long

time after we are all sleeping with

the clods of the valley.

In the 1890's, only the heroic work of

Bishop J. C. Keener kept the college

alive. He raised money, sent students,

found Presidents, and gave them advice

such as:

It has come to my attention, that
some of the young gentlemen are
stabling and feeding their horses in
the rooms of the West Dormitory.
This will cease summarily.

Among the students who attended
Centenary in those dark years, I would
like to mention one. His name, Tiff
Foster. Born in DeSoto Parish, son of
a farmer, and with only a rudimentary
education, at age twenty he was called
to the ministry. He then went to Cen-
tenary. It took him eight years to pro-
gress through the preparatory school
to a college diploma in 1877. If you
will look at the commencement pro-
gram on display in the Library, you
will see that he not only presented the
Salutatory Address in Latin, but also
gave an oration entitled, prophetically,
"The End of Life; or, the Destiny or
Man." At the next Annual Conference,
the Church assigned the Reverend Fos-
ter to Moreau Street Church, New
Orleans. In his first year there, a great
yellow fever epidemic struck the city,
and he was advised to flee for his life.

The Founders Day speaker, Dr.
Walter M. Lowrey (center) poses at
the time capsule at Centenary prior
to this address to faculty, students
and guests. With him are Centenary
President John H. Allen (left) and
G. W. James, Jr., a trustee and
member of a family with historic
ties to the College.

He stayed, ministering to the sick of
his congregation and the city, only to
die in agony. His name is not given a
line in any history of the college, or of
the Methodist Church in Louisiana, but
to me he is the true embodiment of
the spirit of Centenary of the dark
years.

In 1906, a group of public-spirited
citizens of Shreveport determined to
establish a college in this booming
North Louisiana city. The Methodists
here, convinced that Centenary must
move from Jackson or die, persuaded
the Church to accept a gift of land and
financial support and move the college
to Shreveport. With regret tinged with
hope, the college abandoned its old lo-
cation and began operations on its
present campus in 1908.

If the struggle in Jackson had been
to the death, that in Shreveport began
with less than auspicious circum-
stances. As the Jackson property rot-
ted away, a new but underfinanced
Jackson Hall began to rise on the
Shreveport campus. This building
housed the students, the faculty, pro-
vided classrooms, laboratories, library
and dining hall - - all in one. Few stu-
dents enrolled in the new institution
despite the admission of women, and
the $6,000 annual cost of operating
the college could not be met by tuition
fees. The college decided to carry a
great campaign to the Church in Lou-
isiana, to provide something like
$6,000 annually as a sort of living en-
dowment. With great fanfare, resolu-
tions at annual conference, sermons in
every church in the state, special issues
of the New Orleans Christian Advocate,
and support from the secular press the
day of the drive came. Six weeks later,
the college announced the result: a
total of $1,569.80 had been contri-
buted. That the college survived this
overwhelming vote of no confidence
can only be called miraculous.

While the college persisted in the
face of adversity, it made its first great
leap forward in enrollment under Presi-
dent George Sexton in the 1920's. The
big drawing card was not the aca-
demic program, but the institution of
a football team, rather incongrously
called the "Centenary Gentlemen,"
which was, as they said, the best team
that money could buy. The great 'Bo'
McMillen was brought to the campus
as coach, followed by a rash of mys-
terious applications for admission from
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Nebraska, Cali-
fornia, and other such unlikely hunting
grounds for Centenary student recruit-
ers.

Coach McMillen, whose stature in
his day would surpass that of Ara
Parseghian today, was assisted by

Coach Homer Norton, who later a-
chieved comparable fame at Texas A.
& M. "Coach Norton," said Dean R.
E. Smith, "is doing a fine job. He goes
to church every Sunday and sings
hymns without a book."

Centenary's Gentlemen played in
the big leagues, whipping such stalwarts
as LSU, Tulane, Texas, Boston College,
and the like. The winning team at-
tracted a large student body, more
endowment, and national recognition.
But the Great Depression of the 1930's
caused financial support to fade, as did
the team, leaving the college with un-
paid bills, a faculty paid in paper pro-
mises, and students who paid their
tuition in virtually worthless bales of
cotton. Again it seemed that the end
was near. Frugality, hard work, and, I
am sure, a lot of prayer, under the
leadership of President Pierce Cline
and Board Chairman Paul M. Brown,
brought economic order out of the
chaos of great expectations.

Since the times I have talked about,
virtually a new campus has been con-
structed. As you see it today, few of
the buildings in use on the campus
existed before World War II, but the
spirit of old Centenary remains, un-
changed and strong, living in you and
me. We are the Centenary of today,
Like all private institutions, Centenary
College has seen dark days when some

despaired of its future. But with a
vitality which continues to inspire us
as we look back, the college has always
risen from adversity with renewed life,
vigor, and spirit. As long as those of us
involved in the educational process
here are truly committed to excellence
and do our jobs well, I believe that the
college will thrive.

Innovation will be helpful in the
future as it has been in the past, and
we must continue to be in the van-
guard of thought. We must exercise
care in the husbanding of our re-
sources, and dedication in supervision.
But if I as a faculty member, and you
as a student, do not feel a sense of ad-
venture, of excitement, a challenge to
the mind as we enter our classrooms,
the most exotic course title, the most
artfully drawn map, or the most spec-
tacular piece of scientific equipment
will not set learning in motion there.

Let us all - - students, faculty, ad-
ministrators, and trustees - - seek this
excitement, this adventure, this dedi-
cation, and thus perpetuate the great-
ness of our heritage. We may then be
worthy of placing our names with
those of William Carpenter, Tiff Fos-
ter, and Pierce Cline in the list of
founders.

Seniors listen attentively to Founders Day address by Dr. Lowrey.

Academic procession of the President's party for Founders Day Observance. (1-r)
Dr. William Ballard, director of the choir; Dr. Walter M. Lowrey, President John
H. Allen, Chaplain Robert Ed Taylor, and Dean Thad N. Marsh.

They came from all walks of life.
Some came in Cadillacs, some in Fords.
One man came in a wheel chair. Some
studied serious subjects like Louisiana
History, poetry, taxes and social secur-
ity; others took more exciting offerings
like ballroom dancing, ESP, beginning
chess and the techniques of bridge. All
were members of a class of 309 "boys
and girls" who took a series of special
six-week courses offered to those over
sixty years of age by Centenary College
and the Caddo Council on Aging during
the spring semester. Former deputy
sheriff W. A. "Jack" Walton, who lost
both legs in an auto accident, didn't
miss a class despite his 79 years
(Centenary students volunteered to
help him from his home to class.)
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse Director
Robert Buseick and his drama class of
silver-haired thespians entertained with
a seven-minute skit at the graduation
banquet in the Centenary Dining Hall
on April 13. Speaking at the banquet
at which each "student" received a
Certificate of Educational Achieve-
ment, President John H. Allen said
the College was delighted to co-operate
with the Council on Aging to present
these courses as a public service to the
community. "I can't tell you how good
it has been to have you here, and I
hope you will all be back next year,"
he said.

'Never too old to learn'

EDUCATION BEGINS AT SIXTY

photos by Lawrence Lea and Mel Robinson

James Jones ... A Courageous Man

By Maurie Wayne

There is no empty desk at Centenary
College to mark the passing of student

James Thomas Jones but there is

an emptiness in the hearts of the
teachers and students who helped him
with his education. James's life ended
in an iron lung at the Confederate
Memorial Medical Center early on the
morning of Monday, February 5,
following 20 years of confinement
with crippling polio. Death came to
James just a few courses short of his
bachelor's degree in sociology from
Centenary ... an education earned
through pure grit and determination
as he lay flat on his back in the iron
lung that had been his home since the
age of eight years.

James "attended" classes through a
two-way telephone hookup between
his hospital room and the classrooms
at Centenary. The instructor who
taught his classes spent many other
hours with him at the hospital and his
fellow students made frequent visits
to his bedside to help him prepare his
papers.

Members of the campus community
were shocked in quiet disbelief as word
of James' death was passed through
the classrooms. The faculty quickly
approved a resolution to award the
honorary degree of bachelor of arts
posthumously to James' mother at
the May commencement. In recom-
mending the degree Dean Thad N.
March said, "James' heroic courage
in pursuing a college degree course,
and in doing so with better than a B
average through six years of work
deserves this public recognition. The
College family was devoted to him, and
many faculty members and many
students gave unselfishly of their time
and effort to help his academic
progress."

James' faculty adviser, Dr. W. F.
Pledger, was one of several who spoke
at the young student's funeral at the
Galilee Baptist Church. "I have heard
it said that James never complained,"
he said, "but, he did. He complained
about poverty, about injustice, about
racism, about social strife and about
apathy."

Wes Garvin, an instructor in govern-
ment, who was close to James, wrote
an editorial in the Centenary Con-
glomerate, part of which is quoted
here: "It is ironic that the man who
best represented what any college
should be never set foot on the campus.

Such was the nature of the man that
he was constantly expressing his thanks
for what people would do for him
(little as it was in retrospect). What
was done all too infrequently was for
us to thank him . . . thank him for
showing us what life and courage are
all about. It is, as it usually is, too late
for us to say thank you - - so it must
simply suffice to say goodbye. We will
miss you."

A Shreveport police officer, Ser-
geant Jere T. Joiner, wrote Dr. Pledger
following James' death and expressed
his sense of loss. "James had ... no
idea of how much an inspiration he had

been to me. Perhaps it was selfishness
to borrow so much from another, but
a visit with James would place all my
problems back in their proper per-
spective. I only regret that, upon
reflection, I realize how much more I
could have done for him before he died.
Every once in a while there comes a
life on this earth who becomes a
monument and a revitalizing force in
the life of others. James Jones was
such a man."

Centenary College is a better place
for having known James Jones, but
it still misses his presence "even though
he never set foot on the campus."

This photo of James Jones, in his iron lung at the Confederate Memorial Medical
Center, was taken just a few weeks before his death on February 5. His mother,
Mrs. Willie Lee Jones, stands at his side, as she did throughout his 20 year battle
with crippling polio.

1973 Alumni Loyalty Fund Contributors

(as of April 18, 1973)

*Mrs. Paul Adams
Ann Allen
Alline AUgood
*Charles E. Anderson
*Mr. and Mrs. Joel H. Anderson
*John B. Atkins, Jr.

Edwin Baker
*John D. Baker
Mrs. Sarah W. Baker
Gerard Banks
Dr. Patsy K. Barber
*Don Barnes

*Judge and Mrs. Chris Barnette
Mary Lou Barton
**Dr. Charles T. Beaird
Rev. Mouzon Biggs, Jr.
*Rev. Dr. W. D. Boddie
*Dr. H. Whitney Boggs, Jr.
Mary B. Booker
Major William T. Bowen
Mrs. Allan Boyles
Steve Bradley
Mrs. Ruth Brazzil
Mrs. M. J. Brooks, Jr.
*Mr. and Mrs. Algie D. Brown

Mrs. Davidson Brown
*Mrs. Travis A. Brown
* Emory Browne
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W.
Bryson, Jr.
Ruth Bryson

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry R. Buckley
Mrs. W. S. Bundrick
Mrs. Lucille W. Burke
Philip H. Butcher
Edwin L. Cabra
Douglas L. Cain
Herman F. Cannon
*Dr. Virginia Carlton
*Mrs. L. W. Carney
Mrs. John W. Clark, Jr.
Mrs. R. B. Clarke
Dr. Walter T. Colquitt
Thomas O. Cooper
Dr. and Mrs. Larry Cowley

Rev. and Mrs. Robert B.
Crichlow
*P. E. Crowe

*Mrs. Allman T. Culbertson
Walter Daniels, Jr.
Glennell Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Davis
*Lt and Mrs. Robert F.

DeBusk, III.

Mrs. Lula Hughes DeWitt

Dr. and Mrs. Frank T. Dienst,

Jr.

Dorothy Dixon
*Charles W. Dobie
*Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Durham
*Mrs. O. J. Dykes, Jr.
*Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Eason
*Robert E. Eatman, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Emswiller,
Jr.

Jonas Epstein
John H. Evans
Albert B. Farnell
Camp R. Flournoy
William B. Fowler
Elizabeth Friedenberg
*Mrs. Arthur R. Gammill
Mrs. Claude F. Geiger
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Gilmer, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Goins
Joseph A. Gowan
*Mr. and Mrs. George N. Gray
Mrs. Phyllis L. Green
Donald C. Griffin, Sr.
*Mr. and Mrs. Mac Griffith
Richard B. Grisham
Dr. Wayne Hanson
Helen V. Harper
*Mr. and Mrs. D. Bryan Harwell
*Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Harwell
William L. Hattaway
Dr. James D. Henderson
Dr. J. V. Hendrick
Mrs. Charles B. Hill
Mrs. Gordon P. Hogan
*Dr. and Mrs. Sam S. Holladay,
Jr.
*Jack Hodges III
*Charles C. Hunter
Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, Jr.
J. M. Jackson
Dr. George Jacobson
**G. W. James

Mrs. Charles H. Jeter
Mrs. John H. Johnson, Jr.
Mrs. Tom R. Johnson
Jane F. Keene
*Clarence P. Keese
*Dr. and Mrs. John W. Kennard
*Curtis W. Kinard
John B. Koelemay
Harold E. LaGrone
Dr. and Mrs. Jay Lang, Jr.,
Flavia Leary
Nancy Lenz
Warren Levingston
*Preston R. Lewis
Sam P. Liberto
Mrs. W. E. Looney
Mrs. Herbert C. Loyd
Mae Lucky

Mrs. James H. Lutschig
Loryne Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm L.
Mason

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Maxwell
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. May
Dr. J. Ralph Meier
H. G. Miracle
*F. Kennon Moody
*Mrs. Evelyn Beene Moore

*Taylor Frost Moore
Dr. and Mrs. Mallan G.
Morgan

Walter E. Murphy
Dr. and Mrs. W. M. McCaa, Jr.
Mrs. L. F. McCormick
*Dr. Mary L. Mcllhany
Chalmers McKowen
Mrs. Mary O. Noe
Mrs. Cornelia C. Nordahl
Mrs. William C. Norman, Jr.
Mrs. Grace J. Norton
Mrs. James M. Owens
*M. L. Owens, Jr.

Mrs. Patrick B. Parish
*James N. Patterson
Rev. and Mrs. George Pearce,
Jr.

Mrs. Diane H. Penney
Dr. W. Edgar Percy, Jr.
Frances Mary Perkins
Rev. Delton Pickering
Dr. Joel B. Pollard
Clovis E. Prisock
Dr. Ned W. Prothro
Mrs. D. L. Purinton
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Rands
H. F. Rector, Jr.
Mrs. John C. Renshaw
Mrs. Vincent Rice
John David Roberts
*Austin G. Robertson
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Dale
Robertson
*Dr. James L. Robins
Judy Roemer

Di. and Mrs Paul L. Rogers
*Mr. and Mrs. Ben Roshton
Marianne Salisbury
Ronald D. Schorr
*Charlotte Newsom Shedd
*W. Peyton Shehee, Jr.
*Mrs. W. Peyton Shehee, Jr.
*Benjamin C. Sheppard
Mrs. Vesta Dey Shows
Rev. and Mrs. Alvin P. Smith
Mrs. Grace Ingersoll Smith
Mrs. William R. Smith, Jr.
Mrs. Miriam C. Snelling
Lee H. Snow, Jr.
Marie Spivey
William B. Strange, III.
NoelM. Tipton, Jr.
*Jo Ann Toland
H. E. Townsend
Milton C. Trichel, Jr.
Mrs. John J. Tuminello
Stephen T. Victory
Mrs. Olga Miller Wagner
Grayson B. Watson
*Dr. and Mrs. W. Juan Watkins
Jack M. Webb
Roger D. Wedgeworth

L. J. White

H. L. Wiggins
*Mrs. John A. Wild

Ann Wilhelm

Mrs. Carolyn C. Wilhite

Charles D. Williams

Mrs. Jerome M. Wolf
*Joe S. Wong

Mrs. Helen Heath Wray
*Charles R. Yarbrough
*Mrs. Grace C. Yarn
*Dr. Rod M. Yeager

Joseph A Zimmerman
*Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Keenan
(1972 Loyalty Fund
Contributor)

If your name does not
appear on this list, but
should, or is mispeUed,
please notify the Alumni
Office.

indicates Member of
Century Club
**Indicates Member of
Presidents Club

tyu&faJj/tiifMtii

RODM. YEAGER, M. D.

At 32 years of age, Dr. Rod M. Yeager has undertaken one of the most
responsible jobs in the city of Shreveport, the directorship of the sprawling
Confederate Memorial Medical Center on Kings Highway. And already he is
making his mark. A recent headline in the Shreveport Times read, "CMMC
Begins to Sparkle and Shine." The accompanying article referred to Dr.
Yeager's energy in tackling the problems of the Center. "I can't institute or
justify new medical programs unless I clean this place up," he is quoted as
saying. "How can we have, for instance, an open heart program unless we
clean up?" he asked. At the time this was written, Dr. Yeager was asking for
funds to institute a number of new programs at the Shreveport hospital.

Dr. Yeager was born September 11,1 940 at Texarkana, Arkansas, graduated
from Centenary in 1961 and received his M.D. degree from Tulane University
School of Medicine in 1965. Following his internship and residency in New
Orleans, he was appointed Chief, Cardiac Surgical Section at the LSU School
of Medicine in Shreveport last year and later was named director of the CMMC-

Asked about his best memories of his undergraduate days at Centenary, Dr.
Yeager replied, "The opportunity for intellectual growth was unlimited. The
emphasis was on intellectual stimulation as a mode of learning rather than
"spoon feeding" the individual. This was a concept which paid dividends later
on in medical training when a physician's education was directly dependant
upon individual effort. I am both grateful and proud of the groundwork laid
for me by the faculty at Centenary College during those formative years."

R. ZEHNTNER BIEDENHARN

"Biedenharn was a tower of strength in the line!" Thus did the 1931
Yoncopin describe the play of senior guard and line captain R. Zehntner
Biedenharn in the crucial gridiron contest with Big Ten rival Iowa. That
team won eight games, tied one, and was beaten only by Texas A & M, 7-6.

Mr. Biedenharn is now a "tower of strength" in the Shreveport business
community, serving as president of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of
Shreveport and on the board of directors of the Coca-Cola Companies in
Vicksburg, Mississippi; Wichita Falls, Texarkana, San Antonio, Temple, and
Uvalde, Texas.

The Biedenharn family has historic ties with the Coca-Cola Company. Mr.
Biedenharn's father, O. L. Biedenharn, purchased the Shreveport plant in
1913, and an uncle, Joseph A. Biedenharn, is credited by the official company
records as being the first man ever to bottle Coca-Cola (in Vicksburg in 1894.)

Mr. Biedenharn was born February 5, 191 1, in Vicksburg and moved here
with his family at the age of two. He attended South Highlands School and
the old Centenary Academy. Finishing high school at the young age of 17,
he complied with his parents wish to attend college at home and entered
Centenary in 1927.

His pleasant memories of old Centenary center around one of his favorite
professors, Dr. Pierce Cline. "He was a great professor, a great teacher," he
said. "He was very formal in class, and sometimes it took a half hour, but he
always made his point."

Both Mr. Biedenharn and his father before him served on the Board of
Trustees of Centenary College. The family has generously supported the
College through the years.

10.

continued from page 2

ance in this unit of the military airlift
command. He is married to the former
Nina Shipp of Welsh, La.

Steve Brown ('72) is working with the
Neighborhood Youth Corps, under
VISTA, in Baton Rouge.

Nancy Lenz ('72) is working in Ever-
green, Colorado, at the Singing River
Ranch as a counselor.

DEATHS

Mr. William "Centenary" Honeycutt
('22), 85, passed away in March at

St. Joseph's Home in Monroe, Louisi-
ana. His middle name was adopted
while an undergraduate at Centenary.

According to the Shreveport Times,
"One of Centenary's former football
greats," Mr. Glen Eugene Letteer (x26),
died this past January 1 9 in Lake
Jackson, Texas. Many 1 925-26 alumni
will remember him as he was the first
Centenary Gentleman to receive the
Ail-American Award. Prior to his re-
tirement, he had worked for an oil
company.

Homecoming 1974
Saturday, Feb. 16

Another football great at Centenary,
Thomas J. (Tim) Moran ('19), passed
away in Shreveport in March after a
long illness. He was a former coach and
athletic director at Jesuit High School.

CENTENARY COLLEGE

urges you to protect your family,
plan your estate, minimize your
taxes, and support your College.

Development Committee
The Board of Trustees
Centenary College
Shreveport, La.

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These old photos by Shreveport photographer Bill Grabill
recall the glory days when Centenary was a national foot-
ball power. According to Grabill, the top photo shows the
1932 team whose perfect season was marred only by a tie
with Arkansas in their final game. The bottom photo shows
the LSU-Centenary game won by the Gents 6-0. Then assis-
tant coach Curtis Parker recalls the exact spot where Ralph
Murff scored the winning touchdown. Parker and Grabill
furnish the following identification for the upper photo:
(front row, 1-r) Coach Homer Norton, Trainer Letcher
"Unc" Marsalis, Harold Oslin, Wood Osborne, Louis
Glumac, Ben Cameron, Maurice "Kike" Morgan, Joe
Guillory, Milford Allums, Buddy Parker, Manning Smith,
"Crock" Parker, Fred Williams, Jerry Sellers, Tommy
Wilson, Pryor Gibbons and Assistant Coach Curtis Parker,
(top row, 1-r) Ralph Murff, Edward T. Townson, John
Henry Blakemore, Dewey Brown, "Lefty" Taylor, Joe
Oliphant, Paul "Hoss" Geisler, Chester Weidman, Milton
Levy, Morse Harper, Colter Mathews, Robert Hunter,
Richard Young, Sam Pernici, Tom Smith and J. B. Storey.
Some of the names are obviously nicknames and Grabill
and Parker were unable to recall their correct given names.

11.

Great Teachers Fund At $261,105 The

largest amount of money ever raised in
an annual campaign was reported at
the final meeting of the Great Teachers-
Scholars fund drive this year in March.
Reports made to General Chairman J.
Pat Beaird, Jr. totalled $261,105.
Beaird said that additional gifts from
out of town foundations, companies
and individuals, plus the donor cards
that have not been completed, should
push the total figure closer to the
$300,000 goal. Certificates of apprecia-
tion were presented by President John
H. Allen to Beaird, Ray S. Morris,
chairman of the advance division; Will
H. Jackson, chairman of the special
division and Leonard Selber, Leo
Vander Kuy and Ray A. Barlow,
chairmen of the three general divisions.

Gents Sue NCAA: Await Decision Five
Centenary basketball players filed suit
against the NCAA seeking to have the
now defunct 1.6 rule declared uncon-
stitutional. The action came after the
NCAA placed the College on indefinite
probation for alleged violation of the
rule. The five players, including 7 foot
Robert Parish, asked Federal Judge
Ben C. Dawkins of Shreveport to
declare the rule unconstitutional there-
by restoring the college to full eligibil-
ity in the NCAA. After two days of
hearings, Judge Dawkins took the case
under advisement on April 6 and gave
the interested parties six weeks to file
briefs. The Executive Director of the
NCAA, Walter Byers of Kansas City,
appeared at the hearing. No matter
what the final ruling, an appeal is
likely.

Centenary Has Danforth Fellow A 21

year old Centenary senior, James
Donald Moss, 1817 Jenkins Street,
Shreveport, has been elected to the
1973 class of Danforth Fellows, an
academic honor awarded to only 100
graduating seniors in the United States
this year. Under the terms of the
fellowship, Moss will pursue graduate
work for his Ph.D degree in Philosophy
at the university of his choice. He is
the first Centenary student to receive
a Danforth Fellowship since Donald
Scroggins was elected in 1966.

Western Electric Presents Gift J. A.

Rosengrant, Western Electric Compa-
ny's university representative for Cen-
tenary at the Shreveport Works, re-
cently presented two oscilloscopes to
the physics labs at the College. The
presentation was a part of the compa-

Centenary

Entered As Second-Class Matter

from

CENTENARY COLLEGE

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ny's College Gifts Program which do-
nates surplus equipment to colleges
having specific needs and which re-
quest the items from a catalog pub-
lished annually. Assistant Professor of
Physics Jeffery F. Trahan accepted the
gift on behalf of Centenary.

Dr. Ballard Featured In Shreveport

Magazine Centenary's new professor
of choral music and director of the
choir, Dr. William Ballard, was the
subject of an article in the April issue
of Shreveport Magazine. In the article,
Dr. Ballard praised his predecessor,
Dr. A. C. "Cheesy" Voran for the

CALENDAR

June 4 Summer session regis-
tration
June 8-10 YMC A Junior

Olympics
June 8-20 B'nai B'rith Youth

Organization
June 13 Senior Recital,

Robert Hallquist, Jr.,

Pianist
June 21-23, 27-30 "Little

Mary Sunshine" Marjorie

Lyons Playhouse
June 24-30 Regional Youth

Enterprise
June 26-28, July 30-Aug. 4

"The Music Man" Marjorie

Lyons Playhouse
July 8-13 Quarterback Camp

& School for Receivers
July 21-22 Weekend of

Christian Mission
July 24-27 WSCS School of

Christian Mission
July 28-29 Methodist Lay

Retreat
July 30-Aug. 2 Methodist

Pastor's School
Aug. 3 End of Summer

session
Aug. 27-28 Registration for

fall term

heritage he has left at Centenary. "It
is a heritage I value and esteem, and
one I hope to perpetuate with as much
success as he did," Dr. Ballard said. "I
have no desire at all to make basic
changes in the choir, but only to adapt
their traditions in such a way that I will
feel comfortable with the choir and
that they will feel comfortable with

me as my own personality and interests
emerge."

Dr. Kauss Authors "Fastback" Dr.

Theodore R. Kauss, associate professor
of education at Centenary, has been
asked to serve as the author of one of a
"fastback" series on leadership in
education. The booklet, entitled "Lead-
ers With Crisis" is sponsored by Phi
Delta Kappa, a professional education
fraternity dedicated to the promotion
and improvement of education.

Dr. Haas Wins NLHA Award The North
Louisiana Historical Association's
annual award for the best published
article on Louisiana history has gone
to Dr. Edward F. Haas, assistant pro-
fessor of history at Centenary. His
article, "New Orleans on the Half
Shell: the Maestri Years 1936-1946"
appeared in the Summer 1972 issue
of "Louisiana History" the official
publication of the Association.

Varied Speakers Appear One of the

nation's leading Old Testament schol-
ars, Dr. Davie Napier of the Pacific
School of Religion, was the Willson
Lecturer on campus during the spring
semester. Other prominent lecturers
who appeared during the semester were
Rabbi Richard A. Zionts, of the B'Nai
Zion Temple of Shreveport and the
Reverend Carole Cotton, associate min-
ister of the Rayne Memorial United
Methodist Church in New Orleans. She
discussed "The Right and Future of
Women."

Degrees Presented To 175 Bachelor
degrees were conferred upon 175
members of the class of 1973 at
Commencement Exercises on the cam-
pus Sunday, May 27. Baxter D. Good-
rich, chairman of the board of Texas
Eastern Transmission Corporation,
Houston, Texas received an Honorary
Doctor of Laws degree and Dr. Edgar
Hull, retiring Dean of the LSU School
of Medicine in Shreveport received the
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
degree. Twenty-seven members of the
class of 1923 were honored on the
fiftieth anniversary of their graduation,
accepting certificates from President
John H. Allen.

12.

centenary

September. \m\

BEYOND CHEMICAL SALVATION

by L. Hughes Cox, Ph.D.

New Academic Chief

Maurie Wayne

Special Place

the Scheme of Things

Frank M. Carroll, Ph.D.

Latest addition to the School of Music is a new harpsichord donated to the College by Mrs. Gladys Hurley
The instrument is the only one of its kind in the region.

Strictly
Personal

10'S

Mr. and Mrs. Whittington

Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ligon Whittington,
Memphis, Tennessee, 1913, were spe-
cial guests of the college at Commence-
ment in May. Mr. Whittington' s best
memories of old Centenary revolve
around the football feats of the Gents.

20'S

Phipps, Mc Clenaghan, Napier

Members of the 50th anniversary class
of 1923 were honored guests at the
commencement this year. The three
who were able to attend were Miss
Mary Bernice Phipps, Miss Mattie
Adelle Mc Clenaghan, and Mrs. Loyd
Napier, all of Shreveport. They were
special guests of the Alumni Associa-
tion at a dinner in their honor prior to
the graduation exercises.

King Smith ('28) was recently elected
treasurer of the Greater Tulsa Council
which is the official citizen's advisory
group to the Tulsa Metropolitan Area
Planning Commission, City and County
Commissions of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

30'S

W.C. "Cowboy" Hohman ('38) of
Baton Rouge retired last June from
the State Department of Education.
He was a former Dean of Students at
Centenary College.

40'S

Dr. Ike Muslow ('43), a Shreveport,
La., psychiatrist, has been appointed to
the State Board of Medical Examiners

by Governor Edwards. Dr. Muslow is
the Associate Dean for Clinical Ser-
vices at the LSU-Shreveport Medical
School and is also acting head of the
Family Medical and Comprehensive
Care Center at the medical school.
Jack M. Elgin C43) was recently
named assistant vice-president of Mer-
rill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith,
Inc., of Shreveport, Louisiana. The
announcement was made in New York
by the chairman of the board of the
world's largest securities firm.
Toby Adair ('47) received the master
of divinity degree from Golden Gate
Baptist Theological Seminary in June.
He is retired from the U.S. Air Force
and attended Centenary before entering
the Seminary.

John Woods C43) was recently the
recipient of the Distinguished Service
Award given by William Rainey Harper
College in Palatine, Illinois, for his
service to the community, state,
profession, and college. He was a
delegate to the Illinois Constitutional
Convention from the Third District.

50'S

Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel) Luciene
E. Larche, Jr., ('52) has received his
fourth award of the USAF Commenda-
tion Medal at Elmendorf AFB in
Alaska. He serves as chief of the
professional division in the Alaskan
Air Command's Chaplain Office and
has been selected for promotion to
colonel in the USAF. He is married to
the former Marce Barber.

Pototo Ramirez (x5 3) is one of the
executive supervisors of Shell Oil
Company, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He
is a member of the Basketball Hall of
Fame in Puerto Rico and is an assistant
commissioner for semi professional
basketball there. He and his wife
Miriam have two daughters, Karen, 17,
and Arlene, 8. He recently visited
Houston to address the Shell em-
ployees.

60'S

Mrs. Lorine Crenshaw Gibson C63) of
Dallas is writer, producer, and star of
Channel 13's public affairs show called
"Inside Education." She was the re-
cipient of one of the Annual Media
Awards from the Red Cross recently

Gibson

for her sponsorship
of the Red Cross
water safety program
on the show. She is
married to David
Gibson ('62) who is
Vice-President and
General Manager of
Peter Wolf Associates, the Dallas In-
terior and Theatrical Design Company.
Allen Shaffer (x64) has opened his
own shop in Dallas' new craft shopping
center Olla Podrida on Coit Road. His
specialty is hand forged silver jewelry.

70'S

Spencer H. Lindsay, Jr., ('70) recently
received his masters of divinity from
Seabury Western Theological Seminary
in Illinois, and has been ordained as a
member of the Order of the Deacons.

Lynn Home ('71) is now in St. Louis
at Washington University's School of
Medicine for his third and fourth years
of medical school.

DEATHS

Lake Dupree ('27) recently passed
away at the age of 66 in Crowley,
Louisiana.

Mrs. Martha Spooner died June 1 1 in
Mannheim, Germany, where her hus-
band was stationed as an Air Liaison
officer. Services were held in Shreve-
port for her.

A prominent Atlanta, Texas, business-
man, Hershel N. Hanner (x29), was
killed in an auto accident in June. He
was the past president of the East
Texas Funeral Director's Association.
Roy H. Knapp (x42) suffered a fatal
heart attack in June in Marshall, Texas,
at the age of 57. At the time of his
death he was the finance and adminis-
tration director for Thiokol Chemical
Corporation in Karnack, Texas.

The Reverend Thurmon Spinks (x46)
of Shreveport passed away recently
following a brief illness. He was a
member of the Louisiana Methodist
Conference for 30 years before his
retirement from the active ministry in
1960.

Miss Cynthia Ann Haug ('66) of Atlan-
ta, Ga., died of pneumonia earlier this
year. At the time of her death she was
doing graduate work in the School of
Political Science at Emory University
and working on her dissertation for
the doctorate degree which was to have
been completed this year.

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
September, 1973, Volume 4 No. 3, published
four times a year— in September, December,
March and June by the Centenary College
Alumni Association, Shreveport, La 71104.
Second Class Postage paid at Shreveport,
La. Published for members of the Alumni
Association and friends of Centenary College
of Lou isiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Bliss Clark

1973-74 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI

ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
President .... W. Juan Watkins, M. D. '57
First Vice President .... Gene Bryson '63
Second Vice President Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40

Secretary Judy Butcher '62

Treasurer Jack Elgin '43

DIRECTORS (Terms expire in 1975)
Dr. H. Whitney Boggs, Jr. '47, Miss Flavia
Leary '35, Jack Elgin '43, Jim Montgomery
'68, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40, Mrs. Margaret
Teague '57, Mrs. Nancy Cowley '63, Mrs.

Mary Ann Caffery '72, Bill Causey, Jr. '68,
Thurman C. Smith '50.

(Terms expire in 1974)
Dwight Brown '54, Gene Bryson '63, Judy
Butcher '62, Dorothy Gammill '40, Jean
Goins '63, Caroiyn Gray '55, Jack Hodges,
III '58, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki'58,
H. W. Worley, D. D. S '57.

( 1973-74 Members Appointed by President)

Martha Snead Goza '66, Dave White '61,
Jack Mulkey '61, Larry Johnson '59, Gayle
Wren '64.

discipline of spiritual technique

BEYOND

CHEMICAL

SALVATION

by L. Hughes Cox, Ph.D. chairman, department of philosophy

I admit that I am a member of the
turned-off college generation of the
1950's. But, to me, the present drug-
abuse epidemic has the same senseless
self-destructiveness as the lemmings'
suicidal march to the sea. So I suspect
that drug-abuse and alcohol-abuse are,
below the surface, attempts to remedy
the deterioration of the quality of
American life and culture.

Fred Davis, a contemporary sociol-
ogist, relates drug-abuse directly to
one of the problems afflicting our
establishment culture - - the problem
of time-scale consciousness. The
problem begins with the fact that we
must defer immediate satisfaction in
order to develop a technology and

culture which can maximize overall
satisfaction both qualitatively and
quantitatively. The problem lies in the
paradoxical fact that satisfaction de-
ferred becomes satisfaction denied;
that is, deferred satisfaction become
remote ideals forever relegated to some
far off future or to heaven. The puritan
work ethic which is necessary to
reinforce the original reason for satis-
faction deferral comes to make us
suspicious of all immediate satisfactions
as unmanly and immoral indulgences.
In short, our means have become our
ends, and getting there is juM the fun.

Davis asks this question, Do hippie
attempts to intensify the present by
cancelling all references to the future

offer us a counter life-style which can
solve the problem of time-scale
consciousness? The hippies' most
dramatic technique is drug-use. Davis
states: "Denied by our Protestant-
Judaic heritage the psychological means
for experiencing the moment intensely,
for parlaying sensations and exoticizing
mundane consciousness, the hippie
uses drugs where untutored imagination
fails." The crucial question is whether
drugs are a temporary or permanent
means of salvation. "A topic of lively
debate among hippie intellectuals is,"
Davis writes, "whether drugs represent
but a transitory phase of the hippie
subculture to be discarded once other,
more self-generating, means are dis-
covered by its members, or whether

some events which
bridge the gap
between my turned-
off college generation

and the present
college generation

drugs are the sina qua non of the
subculture." But before I consider
this question directly, let me chronicle
briefly some events which bridge the
gap between my turned-off college
generation and the present college
generation.

Most of us are familiar with Timothy
Leary's religious experimentation with
LSD in the context of eastern religions.
But few, I suspect, are familiar with
Ken Kesey's religious experiments with
LSD within the context of American
culture. And yet it was Kesey's group
which initiated the whole psychedelic
cultural phenomenon with its acid
rock and electronic music, strobe and
black light art, dayglo paint and poster
art. Tom Wolfe graphically describes
Kesey's movement in his book, The
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

During graduate school at Stanford
University, Ken Kesey became a guinea
pig for early experiments in the medi-
cal uses of LSD. Wolfe describes Kesey's
psychedelic revelation in these words:
"All of us have a great deal of our
minds locked shut. And these drugs
seem to be the key to open these
locked doors." The human brain is
like a "reducing valve." "In ordinary
perception, the senses send an over-
whelming flood of information to the
brain, which the brain then filters down
to a trickle it can manage for the
purpose of survival in a highly com-
petitive world. ... It is efficient, for
mere survival, but it screens out the
most wondrous part of man's potential
experience without him ever knowing
it. We're shut off from our own world."
In this way, man loses his ancient
heritage. "Primitive man once experi-
enced the rich and sparkling flood of
the senses fully. Children experience it
for a few months - - until 'normal'
training, conditioning, close the doors
on this other world, usually for good."
But through drugs man can reopen
"these ancient doors" and "rediscover
his divine birthright." Kesey left gradu-
ate school, and he wrote his immedi-
ately successful novel, One Flew Over
The Cuckoo's Nest. The novel was
written while under the influence of
LSD.

they called themselves
the Merry Pranksters
because they tried to
turn America on

Soon an LSD cult formed around
Kesey; they called themselves the
Merry Pranksters because they tried to
turn America on by blowing people's
minds with their public pranks and
exotic appearance. Then the Merry
Pranksters tried to turn America _on
directly with LSD and acid rock con-
certs and light shows. But all these
methods failed. And Kesey concluded
that one had to graduate from acid:
"Beyond acid. They have made the
trip now, closed the circle, all of them,
and they either emerge as Superheroes,
... or just lollygag in the loop-the-
loop of the lag." So the acid test is
"either make this thing permanent
inside of you or forever just climb
draggled up into the conning tower
every time for one short glimpse of
the horizon." Here then is Kesey's
answer to Davis' question. At best,
drugs are only a temporary substitute
for more permanent techniques for
intensifying present experience. We
must graduate from acid; we must go
beyond chemical salvation.

But what if the puritan work ethic
is merely seducing us again. Let
another part of American culture speak.
"Better things for better living - -
through chemistry," goes the Dupont

pill-popping instant
chemical solutions has
certainly become an
accepted part of the
American way of life

slogan. Suppose we could produce
psychedelic chemicals that do not have
destructive side-effects. After all, pill-
popping instant chemical solutions to
all our problems, both physical and
social, has certainly become an ac-
cepted part of the American way of
life. Even a cursory viewing of tele-
vision advertisements will prove that
this is true. Perhaps we really don't
have to graduate from chemical salva-
tion.

It is a well known fact that religious
cults among the American Indians have
used psychedelic plants such as peyote
in their rituals. It is also theorized,
Huston Smith reports, that "perhaps
5000 years ago, our European ancestors
. . . worshipped a psychedelic mush-
room, their descendents dividing
according to whether they picked up
on the attraction or taboo ... of its
holy power." But the best documented
evidence concerns the origins of
Hinduism in the ritual use of the
sacred psychedelic mushroom soma,
and its later abandonment. The im-
portant question raised by all this is:
If the great religions began this way,
why did they give up the ritual use of
psychedelic drugs? Smith suggests this
answer to the question in reference to
Hinduism. "Three thousand years in
advance of us, India may have found
herself on the brinks of a psychedelic
mess like the one America stepped into
in the 1960's. ... At a critical moment
the Brahmins did everything they could
to prevent such abuse. They would
rather forego physical identification
with their god forever than subject
him to such profanation." Smith thinks
that his hypothesis explains "why the
Buddha felt strongly enough about
drugs to list them with murder, theft,
lying, and adultery as one of the Five
Forbidden Things;" and Smith thinks
that his theory "could also throw light
on Zarathustra's angry excoriation of
those who use (psychedelics) ... in
their sacrifices."

Smith concludes that the use of
psychedelic drugs is dangerous because
their results are capricious and poten-
tially destructive. "Opening the gates
of heaven at the start, there comes a
time when they begin to open either
onto less and less, or onto more and
more by including the demonic." Smith

chemical salvation,
although initially full
of promise, has
always been a self-
defeating blind-alley
in the long run

finds the following fact particularly
significant: "the book that introduced

psychedelicsto the contemporary west,
Huxley's Doors of Perception, was
followed - - quickly - - by his Heaven
and Hell." I contend that the lesson
from the history of religions is that
chemical salvation, although initially
full of promise, has always been a
self-defeating blind-alley in the long
run.

Jacob Needleman holds that chemi-
cal salvation is a peculiarly disastrous
spiritual dead-end for contemporary
Americans. He describes the contem-
porary upsurge of interest in eastern
religions and their techniques for
achieving personal wholeness and
intensifying immediate experience.
Needleman charges that the seculariza-
tion of western religions has robbed
them of their own traditional tech-
niques for achieving these psychological
goals in life. But more particularly he
sees chemical salvation as the latest
chapter in the agony and fantasy that
western man has about the powers of
his technology. Needleman makes the
startling claim that work, not drugs, is
the central problem. He states, "We
are born whole and with the capacity
for intensity of experience." Physical
needs require work, but our technology
reduces work to only a fraction of our
total time. Hence, Needleman states
that the "problem of psychological
growth is the problem of discriminating
between what is required of us to live
on Earth and what is possible for us as
bearers of a higher energy."

But Needleman insists that the nub
of the problem is not western man's
inability to see that he has spiritual and
psychological needs as well as physical
needs. The real problem is the fantasy,
the naive conviction, that we can use
our advanced technology to fulfill both
physical and spiritual needs without
effort or discipline. So he sees the
"allure of drugs" as "only one more
chapter in this fantasy." Needleman
concludes, "It is quite the same thing,
really, to search for wholeness without
work as it is to work without searching
for wholeness." In other words, drug-
abuse is no solution for the lack of
quality and depth in American life
and culture; it is simply an extension
of this problem.

I conclude that just as our physical
needs cannot be met without work, so
also our spiritual needs cannot be met
without the discipline of spiritual
techniques which alone can make
personal wholeness and intensity of
experience a permanent personal

we must graduate
from a passive
dependence on
technology to achieve
the good life for us

possession. In short, we must graduate
from a passive dependence on technol-
ogy - - whether the opiate be meaning-
less work, television, alcohol, or drugs
- - to achieve the good life for us.

But the disciplines and techniques
of spiritual renewal are aesthetic as well
as religious in the narrow sense of the
word; in other words, spiritual renewal
is just as much a matter of art as it is a
matter of religion. For example,
Douglas Morgan argues that our spec-
ializations in accurate information have
reduced the richness of immediate
experience to nothing more than a set
of reliable sensory cues and environ-
mental signals. The function of art,
Morgan insists, is to recapture, inten-
sify, and enrich our original birthright
of sensory immediacy in all its mani-
fold vividness. And John Dewey argues
that all significant experiences - -
whether practical or theoretical - - have
an aesthetic quality in the coherence
and unity which makes them a signifi-
cant experience. Dewey insists that the
fine arts are unique only because their
sole aim is the production of vivid
experiences possessing aesthetic whole-
ness.

(Editors note: Dr. Cox

delivered the above address

at a regular chapel service

last spring and it is

published here with

his permission. MW)

I close my discussion with this
parable about America's present spiri-
tual condition. Mr. Brown was an
American industrialist who had made a
fortune because he manufactured the
best widgets in the world. But the
worldly rewards palled on Mr. Brown,
and he sought a higher meaning for
his life in religion. But he found the
western religions sterile and boring. So
he went to India and joined a cult
of navel-gazers. After a while, Mr.
Brown got tired of gazing at his own
navel, and he tried gazing at the navels
of the other persons in the circle. But,
after all, when you've seen one navel,
you've seen them all; and Mr. Brown
quickly tired of this. He started making
flower petal arrangements in his navel
in order to have something interesting
to look at. He became so good at this
that soon everyone else in the cult was
gazing at his navel. Eventually, the
other members of the cult prevailed on
Mr. Brown to make flower-petal ar-
rangements for their own navels. And
now Mr. Brown is president of the
New Delhi Flower-Petal Navel-Arrange-
ment Manufacturing Company, and
he is making a mint.

The most apparent moral of the
above story is that you can't keep a
good man down. But the frightening
moral of the story is seen in this
question. Are we so conditioned by
and dependent on our technology, and
the ease and convenience it affords us,
that we cannot graduate and go beyond
chemical salvation?

His name is usually mispronounced
so perhaps it might be well to start
with a short exercise in articulation.
It's Kauss, rhymes with house; Dr.
Theodore Rodney Kauss, new Dean of
the College at Centenary as of June 1.
Promoted from the ranks of the faculty,
Dr. Kauss succeeds Dean Thad N.
Marsh, who, after serving as Dean since
1966, asked to be relieved of his
administrative duties to return to
teaching full-time as a professor of
English.

Interviewed by Centenary after
occupying the Dean's chair for less
than two weeks, Dean Kauss offered
a quick platitude to the status quo, "I
expect to maintain the excellence of
the educational programs offered at
Centenary," and then checked off a
quick list of his hopes for the future.
"With the approval of the faculty, of
course, 1 would like to see us introduce
graduate programs in business, educa-
tion and music, and perhaps a high

good management and
faith in hard work

DR. THEODORE KAUSS:
NEW ACADEMIC CHIEF

by Maurie Wayne

quality law school. I would like to
see an intern experience developed
for every academic major patterned
after our highly successful clinical-
tutorial program in teacher education.
In addition, I think we should re-
emphasize independent study for our
students and should push harder for
programs for our students to study at
other campuses including those in
foreign countries.

Pausing to catch his breath, he
continued, "I believe Centenary should
develop a Career Counseling Center on
campus to serve our students and the
community. It is important that we
strive to attract more people from
the community into our academic
offerings.

Exhibiting the practical side of his
nature, Dr. Kauss turned to economics.
"I am convinced we must institute a
system of merit raises for those faculty
members who make substantial con-
tributions to the Centenary program
through superior teaching, outstanding
committee and advisory work on
campus, scholarly contributions out-
side the college and dedicated public
service to the community. We simply
have to find the money to support
these merit increases to ensure the
continued growth of the institution,"
he said.

Dean Kauss, at 42, is a pleasant yet
serious man, a Yankee from Wisconsin,
a sports fan, a scholar, and perhaps
first and foremost, an administrator.
He held the title of Senior Associate
with the management consulting firm
of Cresap, Mc Cormick and Paget, Inc.
of Chicago before joining the Centenary
faculty last fall as associate professor
of education. He was hired by the

Chicago firm following a distinguished
teaching career as principal of the
St. Francis, Wisconsin public schools,
superintendant of schools at Water-
ford, Wisconsin, director of student
teaching, director of master of arts in
teaching and assistant professor of
education-administration at the School
of Education, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois. With this experience,
he was a logical choice when CMP
started looking for an education expert
for their Chicago office.

After 15 months of travelling from
New York to San Francisco and from
Fairbanks, Alaska to Beauregard Parish,
Louisiana, Dr. Kauss stopped to take
stock. He saw a future in which he
was travelling more and liking it less.
"I was too family oriented to pay this
price to stay with the management
firm," he said. "My children were
growing up and I seldom saw them."

At this crossroads, Dean Kauss took
the path that brought him back to
teaching. Through some friends at the
Evanston campus of Northwestern
University he found the job he wanted
- - in the education department at
Centenary College.

He found the Louisiana college a
little more formal than what he was
accustomed to on the North Shore of
Chicago, with professors wearing coat
and tie in the classroom and students
answering "Yes, sir," and "No, sir."
However, it was not so formal that
there was a lack of honest give and
take in the classroom. "I was very
impressed with the tradition of ex-
cellence and the high quality of the
students and faculty," he said.

When the search for a new Dean
began last spring, the name of Dr.
Kauss kept cropping up in the highly
active and extremely reliable Centenary
grapevine. "Yes, I was interested," he
said, "I had ambitions of someday,
somewhere becoming a Dean. And
after a conference with President Allen,
I was optimistic. Then, when Dr. Allen
went out of town several times, my
optimism waned - - I thought he was
probably looking outside the college."
On Tuesday, May 8, however, he

(right) Daughter Nancy's

picture is on his office desk

(top right) A quiet

moment at home with

Mary and wife Vonnie (bottom

right) Fast basketball

action with Bill (left) and Randy

responded to a call from the President's
office and was told the decision had
been made in his favor.

Dr. Kauss was born in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, April 8, 1931, the youngest
of three children of Mr. and Mrs.
George Kauss. His father, now de-
ceased, was chief inspector for the
Wisconsin Motors Corporation; his
mother still lives in Milwaukee. He
graduated from Solomon Juneau High
School in 1949, received the B. S.
degree (lc)55) and the M. S. degree
(1958) from the University of Wis-
consin-Milwaukee and the Ph.D. degree
from Northwestern University-Evan-
ston in 1^68. He served as Special
Agent for the U. S. Army Intelligence
Corp in Baltimore and Chicago in 1953
and 1954.

When you meet Dr. Kauss' family
you begin to understand why he re-
fused to be separated from them. He
met his wife Vonnie in college and
they were married while he was in the
service and she in her senior year at the
University. Also a teacher, she taught
in the fourth grade in the Caddo Parish
school system last year. Their first
child, Bill, 19, a sophomore at the
University of Illinois, was voted out-
standing freshman in his dorm and was
selected for Phi Eta Sigma honor
fraternity. Nancy is 17, a senior at
Captain Shreve High School, art and
picture editor of the school paper and
interested in art and creative writing.
Fourteen year old Randy, a ninth
grader, inherited his Dad's interest in
sports, winning the 9th grade free-
throw trophy at Coach Larry Little's
summer basketball program at Cente-
nary hitting 198 of 250 shots. The
youngest Kauss, Mary, at 7 years lists
among her accomplishments the com-
pletion of a Centenary College Interim
course in Outdoor Education in Colo-
rado last winter.

The Dean enjoys a good "one on
one" basketball game in the driveway
or an occasional duck-hunt with the
boys. He admits to a rather high score
on the golf course, but likes to try
anyway.

Dr. Kauss subscribes to the Ameri-
can work ethic: if you work hard you
will be successful. "I think it is im-
portant that the individual strive to
reach the limits of his capability; he
must realize he can make a contribution
and must never feel that he is unim-
portant," he said.

A firm believer in the role of the
private liberal arts college, the new
Centenary Dean believes the College
should be primarily concerned with the

intellectual development of the in-
dividual. "To stimulate this develop-
ment we must provide experiences and
assignments which require critical and
creative thinking and demand literate
and articulate writing and speaking.
We believe that the skills and com-
petencies developed through our
rigorous liberal arts program will pre-
pare our graduates for leadership roles

in a variety of professional, occupa-
tional and social settings."

With this background in education
and management, a belief in the value
of the liberal arts, and faith in hard
work, Dean Kauss begins a new career
presiding over the academic destinies
of Centenary College at a critical time
in the history of the institution.

From the many enthusiastic com-
ments that come through my office
in an almost continual flow, it would
seem that the School of Music has
reached a level of achievement that
leaves little room for growth. Those
of us who have been directing our
ideas and energies toward the develop-
ment of a first class department are
gratified by this manifestation of pub-
lic support that our efforts have
generated. In many respects these
comments are fully justified as the
stability of our faculty and enrollment
of majors would seem to imply. Those
of you who have attended some of
our faculty, student and ensemble
programs are well aware of the artistic
level which we have set. In many cases
the programming has reached a plateau
which places it on a par with that of
the best professional and commercial
musical activity in the community. In
some cases it has gone beyond that
point.

The School of Music enjoys a rather
special place in the scheme of things
at Centenary. While firmly committed
to the liberal arts ideal and happy to be
a part of this venture, as a department
offering a professional degree in music
we are also able to encourage that
degree of specialization necessary for
the development and training of fine

on a par with the professionals

The School of Music:
A Special Place in the
Scheme of Things

by Frank M. Carroll, Ph.D., Professor
of Music & Director of the School of
Music

musical talents. I believe that you can
share my pride in how well we are
doing both things at Centenary. In
addition to the course offerings that
make such an arrangement possible
and productive, we have developed a
spirit, a student body and a faculty
that is dedicated to achieving significant
musical and artistic success within the
framework of a liberal arts institution.
No group of students or faculty better
possesses the talents and motivations
that it is my privilege to encounter
daily. Each member of this faculty
fully involves himself in the educational
process whether it be as a teacher,
conductor, performer, composer or
advisor. A brief rundown on the
activities of this staff reveals an amazing
variety of musical presentations of
high quality here on campus. Recitals
by Dr. Donald Rupert, pianist; Rafael
de Acha, bass-baritone; Leonard
Kacenjar, violinist and violist; and a
harpsichord program utilizing the tal-
ents of Ronald Dean, Constance
Carroll, William Ballard, Donald Rupert
and Rafael de Acha represent a por-
tion of the performing activity of the
faculty. Under faculty direction, our
ensembles and organizations have
presented "The Nativity" of Randall
Thompson, an evening of opera scenes,
four band concerts and presentations
by the stage band, "St. Nicolas" by

Benjamin Britten, Holiday in Song
during the Holiday in Dixie celebra-
tions, television appearances, and
special music in the chapel for both
Christmas and Easter. Students have
been presented in twelve solo recitals
and nineteen Thursday afternoon
recital hours. A master class by Adele
Marcus and a program of chamber
music by the Michigan State University
Trio manifest still other events and
musical opportunities which have been
made available to both the campus and
community.

The School of Music undoubtedly
possesses the most important aggrega-
tion of pedagogical and musical ex-
pertise in the community. The impact
of our faculty and students on the
musical life of the area goes beyond
our campus. The touring of the choir,

Frank M. Carroll, Ph.D.

musical leadership and organ posts in
many area churches, orchestral con-
ducting, and out of town solo and
recital appearances are but a few of
the things done by School of Music
faculty and students which carry the
name of Centenary. When a school the
size of ours can number among its staff
three faculty members who were Ful-
bright scholars, three with earned
doctorates and one in the final stages
of completion, winners in both national
and international performing competi-
tions, concert artists of regional and
international stature, teachers whose
students regularly win or place in
state, regional and even national
competition and a summer band series
of long and popular standing it is no

wonder that we have achieved what
we have and that our enthusiasm stays
at such a high peak.

While having been here only since
1969 and having fallen heir to the
already prestigious reputation of our
department, I have seen a marked in-
crease in the number and quality of
our music students. Their accomplish-
ments after all are what our efforts are
all about. Within the past few years we
have had students who have either
placed or been winners in state and
regional competitions, Metropolitan
Opera Auditions, New Orleans Sym-
phony auditions, Shreveport Sympho-
ny auditions and Louisiana Music
Teachers Association state and regional
auditions. Among the institutions that

most recently have accepted and in
several cases awarded scholarships to
our graduates are the College-Conserva-
tory of Music at the University of
Cincinnati, SMU, Indiana University,
LSU-Baton Rouge, North Texas State
University, the University of Texas at
Austin and Union Theological Semi-
nary.

Having attained so much, one might
well ask if there is still something left
to be done. I can assure you that
indeed there is. Those of us who are
responsible for the development of the
School of Music have not lulled our-
selves into complacency by our
successes. New concentrations in
Sacred Music, Music Therapy and asso-
ciate in arts programs are currently
under study and consideration. The
enlargement of our ensembles and the
creation of new ones (a School of
Music orchestra, percussion ensemble,
Collegium Musicum, string quartet,
etc.) are immediate goals which are
possible within the foreseeable future.
The addition of staff to include full-
time appointments in strings and wood-
winds would greatly strengthen an
already strong and viable program. We
only hope that those things which
have already been done will open the
eyes and ears of our students, col-
leagues and public as to what can be
done. We look upon the task of
creating the best department in the
best liberal arts college in the country
as a continuing challenge which will
demand our best. We know, of course,
that there will always be one more
mountain to cross but perhaps that
is the nature of an artistic pursuit or for
that matter, an educational one. We
hope that you will share our goals
and vision with us. Attend some of our
concerts during the coming year and
see how we are doing!

(top left) Faculty Orchestral Concert
(bottom left) Chamber Singers in
Concert

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Irene Kuhn Wright

A chance field trip to the First National Bank during her college days
at Centenary led to a highly successful banking career for Irene Kuhn Wright,
a member of the class of 1938, now vice president and trust officer of that
same bank.

Mrs. Wright was born in Shreveport, graduated from Byrd High School
and majored in mathematics and economics at Centenary. A member of
Alpha Chi, Alpha Xi Delta Sorority, Southern Intercollegiate Mathematical
Society and the Choir, she worked as an assistant in mathematics and geology
to help with college expenses. She studied mathematics under Dean John
A. Hardin and William Gerard Banks, and economics under Dr. S. D. Morehead.
It was "Doc" Morehead who arranged the tour of the First National Bank
which created the interest in banking for Mrs. Wright.

She began her career as a secretary (the only job open to women at the
time) in 1941 and was elected assistant trust officer in 1951, trust officer in
1957 and was promoted to vice president in January, 1972. Remembering
that she needed help in college, Mrs. Wright says she particularly enjoys
handling personal trust accounts, estates and foundations that furnish
assistance to college students.

Like many busy executives, Mrs. Wright finds relaxation in art, especially
watercolor painting. Her paintings, shown in a number of exhibitions, have
won numerous awards. She has served as president of the Hoover Watercolor
Society on three occasions, the latest in 1972.

Although she disavows any interest in "women's lib" Mrs. Wright is a
living example of what the American woman can accomplish when she sets
her mind to it.

William D. Covington

The man who directs the accounting, auditing, corporate and ad
valorem tax, computer and corporate forecast operations for the far-flung
Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation from his office in Houston, Texas,
is William D. Covington, class of '49. Mr. Covington joined the firm after
receiving his bachelor's degree in January of 1949, has served in various
positions in the comptroller's division and was elected vice-president and
comptroller in 1971. He was primarily responsible for installing the first
two computers used by Texas Eastern and today supervises an expanded data
processing program for the entire Texas Eastern organization.

Born in Franklinton, Louisiana, on June 24, 1919, the son of a school
teacher, he was one of those who had his education interrupted by the war;
graduating from Byrd High School he entered the service and spent much of
his time at Whitehorse Air Force Base in the Yukon. He left the military
to enroll at Centenary in 1945 and earned his degree in accounting with a
double minor in economics and history. He is married to the former Ora
Mae Thorn of Shreveport and they are the parents of one daughter, Mary Del,
a student at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

Mr. Covington's favorite teachers were Dr. A.M. Shaw, Jr., and Dr.
W. Darrell Overdyke. "I can recall how much I enjoyed sitting in Dr. Shaw's
English classes and how earnestly he taught. I also recall how very interesting
Dr. Overdyke could make history, no matter the era. He could make it all
come alive in the classroom," he remembers. Another fond memory - - the day
he received his diploma, "the culmination of much work and study."

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Dr. W. Darrell Overdyke, a 1928
honor student and Professor Emeritus
of Southern History at Centenary, died
at the age of 65, Thursday, June 21.
He retired in 1971 because of failing
health. In his early years at Centenary
he served as adviser to pre-law students,
director of debate and forensics and
faculty member of the Student Senate.
He was instrumental in the conversion
of Dodd College campus from a girl's
school to a military barracks where
servicemen studied and trained during
World War II. In his later years he
concentrated on his specialty, Southern
history and was the author of two
major works, "The Know Nothing
Party of the South" and "Louisiana
Plantation Homes." One of Dr. Over-
dyke's former students, Dr. Webb D.
Pomeroy, now chairman of the depart-
ment of religion at Centenary, gave
the eulogy at his funeral. "No other
professor ever spent more time with
students. No student who seriously
studied with him could .ever say, 'he
doesn't like me.' We come together in
sadness now, but it is not the sadness
of the faithless but the sadness of
love. He lives on in our faith and in
our lives. Today we celebrate his life
and give thanks to God for it." (Hun-
dreds of memorial gifts have been sent
by friends and former students to the
Overdyke Fund at the Centenary Col-
lege Library. Anyone wishing to so
remember Dr. Overdyke may send their
contribution to The W. Darrell Over-
dyke Fund, Centenary College, Shreve-
port, La. 71104.)

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Sept. 13-15 All Campus weekend

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Oct. 4-6
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Nov. 8-10
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Nov. 9-10

Nov. 13

Houston Alumni Club
Meeting

Roar of the Grease Paint
Smell of the Crowd
(Playhouse)

Pre-Medical Education
Conference

Dallas Alumni Club
Meeting

Nov. 21-25 Thanksgiving vacation

Nov. 27 New Orleans Alumni Club

Meeting

Children's Show (River-
town Players)

Daniel & Boyce Sher, duo-

Dr. Beck Retires Dr. Theodore
Toulon Beck, chairman of the foreign
language department for 12 years,
retired at the end of the term. The
Board of Trustees has conferred upon
him the title of Professor Emeritus of
Foreign Language. During his career at
Centenary, Dr. Beck became known as
one of the outstanding French scholars
of this region. Many of his articles
were published in scholarly journals
across the nation.

New Trustees The President of the
Alumni Association, Dr. W. Juan Wat-
kins, has been elected to the Board
of Trustees of the College by the
Louisiana Annual Conference of the
United Methodist Church. He was one
of two new members added this year,
the other is 27 year old Reverend Kent
A. Kilbourne, associate pastor of the
Munholland United Methodist Church
of Metairie, La. Dr. Watkins, 38, is
associated with the medical corporation
of Dr. Pou, Quinn and Watkins of
Shreveport. He graduated from Cen-
tenary in 1957 and received his M. D.
degree from Tulane in 1962.

NLHA AWARD Graduating senior
Robert J. Miciotto of Shreveport
(center) received the North Louisiana
Historical Association's award for the
best article written by an undergraduate
college student on some phase of
North Louisiana history. He was pre-
sented a Savings Bond by NLHA
president Tom Ruffin (right) as his
faculty adviser, Dr. Walter M. Lowrey
looks on. His article selected from
those submitted was about the yellow
fever epidemic in Shreveport in 1873.
On the strength of this paper, Robert
has been accepted in the Ph.D. program
in the history of medicine at Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine,
the only person accepted without an
M. D. degree.

Pre-Medical Tradition Continues

Ten Centenary students have been
accepted at medical schools continuing
a long tradition of excellence in pre-
medical training at the College. This
number is considered unusually high
for a small liberal arts college in light
of the higher standards being set for
entrance. Four of the students, Galen
Sanders, Mark Greve, John Waterfallen
and James Cotter, all of Shreveport,
have been accepted at the LSU School
of Medicine, Shreveport; Barrett Haik,
New Orleans and Fredrick Bentley,
Shreveport have been accepted at the
LSU School of Medicine, New Orleans;
James Salisbury, Monroe and Walter
Steinmet?, Shreveport, have been
accepted at Tulane School of Medicine;
Hugh Gilmore, Dallas will enter the
University of Texas School of Medicine
at Houston and Pat Speck, Houston,
has been accepted at the Texas Tech
School of Medicine at Lubbock.

centenary

December. 1973

a friend of Audubon

CENTENARY COLLEGE
DISCOVERS
PIONEER SCIENTIST
IN ITS PAST

a winning combination

PERCEPTIONS,
PROPOSALS,
CHALLENGES
AND CHARGES

the Centenary Library

AN OLD LADY
IN NEW CLOTHES

Centenary has re-discovered one of its
most famous faculty members. Dr. William
Marbury Carpenter. Story on page 3.

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Strictly
Personal

20's

Gortha G. Ware (x27), assistant trea-
surer and cashier of Arkansas Louisiana
Gas Co., recently retired after com-
pleting a 45-year career in the gas
industry.

40's

A Shreveport insurance executive, Mrs.
Virginia Shehee ('43), has been ap-
pointed to the citizens' advisory board
of the Governor's Council on Environ-
mental Quality.

Robert Pugh ('46), a Shreveport attor-
ney, was recently appointed by Gov.
Edwin Edwards as an at large delegate
to the 1973 Constitutional Convention.

Marshall Martin ('49), has been elected
vice president for Louisiana of the
Southwest Warehouse and Transfer
Association. He is president of Murphy
Bonded Warehouse and has been affili-
ated with Murphy's since 1955.

50's

A Bossier City, La. businessman,
Raymond J. (Jerry) Hartsfield ('51),

was recently elected to the board of
directors of United Mercantile Bank
here. He is president and chairman of
Mid-South Service Corp., Mid-South
Underwriters, Inc., Mid-South Premium
Finance Co., Mid-South Insurance
Services, National Alliance Life Insur-
ance Co., and Louisiana Agency Devel-
opment Co.

Daniel Homza ('53), has been named
Assistant Administrator of Finance
and Administrative Services at Provi-
dence Hospital in Seattle, Washington.
At Providence he will be responsible
for Admitting, Purchasing, Data Proces-
sing, Business Office and Accounting
and Payroll departments.

Dr. Douglas Peterson ('54), was re-
cently selected as dean of the Bossier
Parish Community College. Peterson
also serves as the Airline High School
Band director. He has been at Airline
since the school opened in 1964.

Arnold Martin (x55), a native of Many,
La., was recently named chairman of
the Irving, Texas, 1974 United Way
Campaign. He is vice president of
Darr Equipment Co., and vice president
of the Irving Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Judith W. Krupka ('57), assistant
professor at the Michigan State Univer-
sity Counseling Center, has been named
director of admissions at the MSU
College of Human Medicine.

Jack Hodges, III ('58), Shreveport, has

been named first vice
president of the
Northwest Louisiana
Heart Unit. The unit
is the area organiza-
tion of the Louisiana
Heart Association, Hodges

whose purpose is to combat premature
death and disability by cardiovascular
diseases.

60's

The doctor of education degree has
been recently awarded to Robert E.
Hearn ('60), by Louisiana State Univer-
sity. Hearn is a Shreveport native and
director of the A. E. Phillips Laboratory
School at Louisiana Tech.

Carol Borne ('69) and Jay Stewart ('69)

are returning to New Orleans where
Jay will enter Tulane Law School.

Beverly Fertitta Byrd ('70) and Billy
Byrd ('69) have a daughter born this
spring.

Vivian Gannaway Walker ('69) re-
cently started a Masters program in
Sociology at Memphis State University.
John is in Law School there.

70's

Eddie Glassel ('71), is presently at-
tending Oklahoma University Graduate
School in the Department of Radiolog-
ical Sciences. He is working as a
research technician in the laboratory
of G. Mark Kollmorgen, Ph. D., in the
cancer section of the Oklahoma Medical
Research Foundation in the Medical
Center in Oklahoma City. The research
is based around the treatment of
neoplastic disease by use of radio-
therapy, chemotherapy, surgery, and
immunotherapy.

Cathy Knighton
('71), recently ad-
dressed the National
Association of Psy-
chologists at its an-
nual meeting in Mon-
treal, Canada. She is
in the doctoral pro- Knighton

gram of the LSU Graduate School of
Psychology.

Chris Carey ('72), is working at the
Oklahoma Medical Research Founda-
tion in the Lipoprotein Lab.

Steve Sutton ('70) and wife Julia
Hutchinson Sutton ('72) are living in
Houston where Steve is working on a
Ph.D. in Philosophy at Rice.

Linda Miller ('72) received a stipend
for her Masters in Social Work at Tulane
from Family Service Society in Baton
Rouge.

Sharon McCallon ('73) and Roy Cage
were married on August 1 1, 1973.

DEATHS

Mrs. James C. Hollingsworth (x42),
the former Marian Earle Christian Par-
due, recently passed away at the age
of 48. Mrs. Hollingsworth had been a
lifelong resident of Shreveport and she
was a descendant of prominent Caddo
Parish pioneer families.

Mrs. Jean Jackson Hook ('44), wife of
trustee Emmett Hook, passed away
recently at the age of 48. She was a
lifelong resident of Shreveport, where
she was active in cultural and civic
affairs.

A Lansdale, Pa., resident, James A.
Robinson Sr. ('50), died in Shreveport
after a lengthy illness. He was a native
of Shreveport. Robinson was a certified
public accountant for Sperry-Reming-
ton in Blue Bell, Pa., and a partner in
the firm of Levere and Robinson
Home Builders.

Frank W. Tyler ('63), Shreveport,
principal of Linear Junior High School,
died at the age of 42. He joined the
Caddo Parish school system in 1963.

Fred Mellor, 84, Shreveport, a long
time friend and supporter of Centenary
died recently following a lengthy ill-
ness. Mr. Mellor had resided in Shreve-
port for the past 44 years.

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
December, 1973, Volume 4 No. 4, published
four times a year— in September, December,
March and June by the Centenary College
Alumni Association, Shreveport, La. 71104.
Second Class Postage paid at Shreveport,
La. Published for members of the Alumni
Association and friends of Centenary College
of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Cindy Williamson

1973-74 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI

ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
President . . . . W. Juan Watkins, M. D. '57

First Vice President Gene Bryson '63

Second Vice President Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40

Secretary Judy Butcher '62

Treasurer Jack Elgin '43

Mary Ann Caffery '72, Bill Causey, Jr. '68,
Thurman C. Smith '50.

(Terms expire in 1974)
Dwight Brown '54, Gene Bryson '63, Judy
Butcher '62, Dorothy Gammill '40, Jean
Goins '63, Carolyn Gray '55, Jack Hodges,
III '58, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki '58,
H. W. Worley, D. D. S. '57.

(1973-74 Members Appointed by President)

Martha Snead Goza '66, Dave White '61,
Jack Mulkey '61, Larry Johnson '59, Gayle
Wren '64.

a friend of Audubon

Centenary Discovers Pioneer Scientist In Its Past

By Lynn Stewart, Times Education Writer

Centenary College has recovered a long-lost portion of its past.

When college officials set about planning the school's upcoming 150th anniversary, they had no idea that
they would chance upon such a significant chapter.

And chance was exactly how they discovered 19th century professor Dr. William Marbury Carpenter- a
man whose history is filled with such names as John James Audubon, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Sully and Sir
Charles Lyell, and a man who was a pioneer scientist in Louisiana.

Although Carpenter was listed in college records as a professor in the early 19th century, little else was
known about him at the college until recently.

A chance mention of Carpenter's name in a dinner with an out-of-town lawyer resulted in a casual inquiry
by a staff member and the subsequent uncovering of facts bearing witness to an unexpectedly distinguished
alumnus and professor.

Working most closely with the research of the history of Dr. Carpenter were Kathleen Owens, librarian;
Dr. Walter Lowrey, professor of history; and Grayson Watson, director of development and church relations
at Centenary.

"To me the significance of Carpenter is that he is really a kind of pioneer medical scientist and educator,"
Watson said.

Rare old books from the original
library at Jackson, La., still in the
Centenary collection, may have
been purchased by Dr. Carpenter.

FORTUITOUS DINNER

It was Watson who had dinner one
evening with a Baton Rouge lawyer
and history buff who was interested
in Professor Carpenter's early geological
surveys of the Mississippi River.

Dr. Lowrey and Mrs. Owens re-
searched records and discovered local
and area descendants who filled in
needed information about the dis-
tinguished professor.

Dr. Carpenter, who was a professor
of natural history, Watson said, was "a
major figure in the early years of the
college and probably its most dis-
tinguished professor of the time."

"It was most unusual to have some-
one teaching specialized areas of science
this early." Dr. Lowrey said. "Usually a
professor of natural history would not
teach chemistry or geology . . . and
Carpenter was probably one of the
early professors to specialize," he
added.

Carpenter was appointed professor
of natural history by the trustees of
the college, whose minutes show that
he "commenced the duties of his
office" on April 13, 1837. He re-
mained on the faculty until 1843 when
he moved to New Orleans where he
practiced medicine and became pro-
fessor of materia medica at the Uni-
versity of Louisiana, which later be-
came Tulane University. He served as
dean of the medical school there in the
period 1845-46, records show.

A FRIEND OF AUDUBON

Watson said Dr. Carpenter was a
boyhood friend of John James Audu-
bon, went to West Point at the same
time Edgar Allen Poe was there, was an
alumnus of Centenary Academy and
was made an honorary M.A.

"He Was also important historically
in the development of geology," Wat-
son said.

Mrs. Owens, whose diligent research
resulted in a surprising number of
details about the long-lost professor,
found numerous mentions of Carpenter
in works by Englishman Sir Charles
Lyell, who was an associate of Charles
Darwin and who is known as the
father of the science of geology.

Her research showed that Lyell
visited Dr. Carpenter in 1 846 on his
second visit to the United States. "Dr.
Carpenter had already made an inter-
national reputation in geology and
Sir Charles described his expeditions
in different parts of Louisiana with
Dr. Carpenter," Mrs. Owens said.

A 1914 thesis on Dr. Carpenter by
R. S. Cocks, a Tulane graduate student,
lists Lyell's comments about the ex-
peditions: "Before my arrival at New
Orleans I had resolved to visit the

Kathleen Owens, assistant librarian,
checks the minutes of Trustees
meetings where references to Dr.
Carpenter came to light.

mouths of the Mississippi and see the
banks of sand, mud and drift timber
recently formed there during the an-
nual inundations. Dr. William Carpen-
ter, although in full practice as a
physician, kindly offered to accompany
me, and his knowledge of botany and
geology, as well as his amiable manners,
made him a most useful and agreeable
companion."

Carpenter made two trips with
Lyell, according to the thesis titled
"William M. Carpenter, a Pioneer
Scientist of Louisiana." One trip was
to Belize, at the mouth of the Missis-
sippi River, where they hired a boat
to examine the bayous and channels
between the mud banks. The second
was to Port Hudson to examine the
bluffs there, where, some years before,
Carpenter had discovered a submerged
forest, the Cocks report states.

"Sir Charles Lyell seems to have
agreed entirely with Carpenter's view

regarding the formation of this bluff
and included in his journal an abstract
of the paper," Cocks said.

Watson said Lyell would refer to
the expertise of Carpenter in his
speeches years later. "Carpenter to me
is the epitome of the 19th Century
intellectual," Watson said. "Here is a
medical doctor and a teaching medical
scientist visited by a world famous
geologist."

Watson said Centenary in its early
days had a distinguished and rather
well-known Museum of Natural His-
tory, which is believed to have had its
origin with Carpenter. He said it was
broken up when the college was moved
from Jackson to Shreveport after the
turn of the century.

INFLUENCED COLLECTION

Dr. Lowrey attributed Centenary's
rather extensive collection of science
and geology books of the early 19th
century to Carpenter's influence.

Carpenter's association with Audu-
bon was apparently a close one too,
according to Mrs. Owens' research. She
said he was instructed in taxidermy by
Audubon and that some of the speci-
mens still exist. Carpenter's sisters,
Mary, Ann and Louisa, attended a
private school kept by Mrs. Audubon
near their home in West Feliciana
Parish.

Although Carpenter died at the
early age of 37 and left no children,
Mrs. Owens was able to obtain much
valuable information through the
descendants of his sisters.

Finding'them was also "a streak of
luck," Mrs. Owens said.

After she had verified in her early
research the fact that Carpenter was
on the faculty, Mrs. Owens discovered
that his middle name was Marbury.

"It was just a streak of luck - the
fact that I had lived in Shreveport for
the last 1 00 years and could recognize
some of the names," she joked.

MIDDLE NAME HELPED

But the middle name did help
immensely. Mrs. Owens contacted Mrs.
Helen Marbury Raymond of Shreveport
who, as it turned out, is a great niece
of Dr. Carpenter.

"She told us about a portrait of
Carpenter owned by another relative,
John B. Dunlap Jr. of New Orleans,
who is a consulting paleontologist and
geologist," Mrs. Owens said.

She added that Mrs. Raymond is
descended from Mary Carpenter and
Dunlap from Louisa Carpenter.

Through Dunlap the college ob-
tained permission to photograph the
portrait, and the print has now been
hung in a place of honor in the library.

Although the portrait is unsigned,
Mrs. Owens said that according to
family tradition, the portrait was
painted by the distinguished American
painter Thomas Sully.

Perhaps one of the most interesting
items turned up by the Centenary
researchers is a letter written by Car-
penter himself to the college's board
of trustees. Dated 1 846, after Carpenter
had left the college, he asked that
the college sell him its volumes of the
"Annal du Museum d'History Natur-
elle," which had been ordered by the
board at Carpenter's request. "As it is
a work of no value to students or
general readers and but little to any
one excepting such as pursue the
particular branches to which I devote
myself, I would be glad if the board
of trustees would authorize the sale
of it to me," Carpenter wrote.

KEPT FOR LIBRARY

Records show that the board later
turned down the request, preferring
to keep the books in the college
library.

Officials have noted the oddity that
the memory of a man of Carpenter's
stature could be lost over the years.

Although the information about
him was there, it took some digging
and careful research to retrieve the
details of the professor's distinguished
life.

But now that it is done, there is
assurance that he won't be forgotten.
Dr. Carpenter will be among those
included in Dr. Lowrey's historical
writings for the college's 150th anni-
versary in 1975 and thus preserved in
the college's history.

As Watson put it: "We're really
glad to get him back - he was a chapter
we had lost."

(top right) A copy of a portrait of

Dr. Carpenter, unveiled during

a recent convocation, now

hangs in its rightful place in the

Centenary Library.

(right) This letter, dated 1846, in

the hand of Dr. Carpenter lies

in the College archives in the

Cline Room.

EDITOR'S NOTE

(The following article appeared
in the Sunday Magazine of the
Shreveport Times, October 7,
1973, and is reprinted here with
the permission of the Times. Ed.)

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PERCEPTIONS, PROPOSALS,
CHALLENGES AND CHARGES

by Dean Theodore R. Kauss

(The following article is composed of excerpts from a speech

delivered by Dean Kauss at the Presidents All-College

Convocation Thursday, September 6, at Brown Memorial Chapel. Ed.)

resident Allen, distin-
guished colleagues,
honored guests and
'my good friends. I wish
^to present to you a pot-
pourri of thoughts including
(1) my perceptions of the
I role of the Academic Dean,
(2) some proposed programs for prog-
ress, (3) challenges to education in
Louisiana, and (4) charges to the stu-
dents, faculty, alumni and other sup-
porters of Centenary.

Many of you, no doubt, are inter-
ested in the role of Centenary's Aca-
demic Dean since my actions may have
a direct influence upon your success,
satisfaction, price and productivity. It
is the responsibility of the Dean to
remove all obstacles from the path of
the educational process. He must clear
the way - to do this effectively, he
must be out in front. He must provide
students and professors with the facili-
ties, materials, supplies and equipment
they need. Although at times the Dean
must run the place, most often, his
job is to keep it running; especially
this institution which has existed for
149 years.

We know that all institutions must
change if they are to grow - indeed,
if they are to survive. Let me share
with you some of my ideas regarding
academic programs for growth and
progress.

First of all I'd like to take a new
look at some successful but sometimes
ignored components of Centenary aca-
demic life: the honor system and chapel
programs.

The honor system is a workable and
wonderful tradition at Centenary. It
means your word is your bond. It means
the acceptance of trust and responsi-
bility on the part of students. I would
like to see this extended as a philoso-
phy, not another signed statement, to
guide the behavior of all of us in
- settings outside of the classroom. This
guiding philosophy would demand per-
sonal standards of conduct and ethics
based not just upon what is legal, but
based upon what is right.

Most institutions of higher learning
including Centenary have abrogated

regulations which require attendance at
chapel programs. This is in step with
the times and I support the change to
optional attendance.

However, we have somehow gone
too far in the other direction. Many
students have decided that not required
means it's square to attend and cool
to avoid. How unfortunate that many
of the outstanding speakers and pro-

grams are missed by those who won't
invest an hour every few weeks in new
ideas and new insights.

Because of student rejection or
apathy we have dropped our annual
honors convocation. It's a shame that
an institution which is so proud of its
academic excellence does not set aside
one hour a year to recognize and honor
those who have achieved the highest

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Dean Theodore Kauss (2nd from rt.) stands with President John

Allen (rt.) prior to his address at the President's All-College Convocation.

academic levels and those who have
offered special services and dedication
to classmates, college and community.
You won't hear me issue too many
orders around here, but here is one
directed to the appropriate faculty
committees and student organizations -
reinstate the honor program and
schedule the next one for sometime
in May 1974.

Some important programs which the
faculty and trustees should consider
immediately are:

1. Senior internships for credit of-
fered as electives by all of our
departments. These internships
will provide our seniors with
practical work experience, im-
portant business contacts, and
first-hand opportunities to evalu-
ate career goals.

2. A career counseling center at
Centenary to test, guide, and
to advise present and prospective
students and interested mem-
bers of the community.

3. A study to determine the feasi-
bility of offering graduate pro-
grams at Centenary. There ap-
pears to be an interest, need,
and market for programs such
as: the masters in business ad-
ministration (MBA), the master
of arts in education and school
administration, the master of
science in music, and the masters
of arts in library science. In
addition, there is definitely a
demand in this area for a high
quality law school situated at
Centenary.

4. The trustees should produce a
merit raise plan to reward pro-
fessors for outstanding teaching
and other significant contribu-
tions to Centenary and the
community.

Let's look at these programs now.
All of us. The faculty and trustees
can't do it alone. We need students,
alums and community representatives
to serve on existing and proposed
curriculum committees. Not only to
work behind the scenes, but we invite
you to present your reports and views
at our faculty meetings.

(At this point Dr. Kauss at-
tacked some of the priorities of
education in Louisiana. He was
critical of the commitment to
spend over $161 million for a
Superdome while a Shreveport
state hospital had difficulty ob-
taining funds for an emergency
generator. He also challenged the
wisdom of career education pro-
grams for Louisiana school chil-
dren when basic education pro-
grams need strenthening. Ed.)
Just as I believe vocational-techni-

cal training is not for everyone, I also
feel that a college education is not for
everyone. However, I must confess
that in the past a number of respected
educators advocated college for all.

During the sixties many educators
not only encouraged all high school
graduates to go to college, but com-
pletely ignored their interests and capa-
bilities. These educators insited that
colleges lower or eliminate entrance
standards and initiate the practice of

EDITORIAL
SUPPORT

Stanley Tiner, chief editorial writer
for the Shreveport Times, was quick
to support Dr. Kauss's call for a
quality law school. In an editorial in
the Times on September 22, Mr.
Tiner said, in part:

A law school for Centenary ... is
deserving of the full support of local
off icials, the business community and
the people of North Louisiana as a
whole.

A law school curriculum would
wonderfully complement the impres-
sive educational structure now grow-
ing in Shreveport. It would be most
useful in helping to establish Shreve-
port as one of the top educational
centers in this hub area that serves
both the Southwest and Southeast
United States.

A Centenary law school for the
1970's is obviously a proposition to
ultimately be dealt with by the school
itself, but it is a possibility that de-
serves the encouragement and support
of the people of this area if the
decision is made to institute a first-
rate law school in Shreveport.

awarding degrees based primarily upon
attendance rather than academic
achievement. A college degree was
confused with a college education. By
the end of that decade many graduates
were disillusioned because they were
unsuccessful in their challenging jobs.
Their employers became dissatisfied
with the poor performances of these
college grads and, unfortunately, with
college programs in general.

I am pleased to say that Centenary
has always maintained its standards. We
will not encourage or accept a student
who we believe cannot be successful in
our rigorous academic environment.
Centenary has also guarded its rich

tradition as a liberal arts college. Al-
though we are proud of the high
percentage of our graduates who have
attained high level positions of respon-
sibility in business, government, the
professions and community affairs, we
take a special pride in knowing that
each Centenary grad has a great appreci-
ation for and understanding of litera-
ture, the theater, music, art, philoso-
phy, nature and . . . other human
beings.

I also charge you to work with our
administration to improve our pro-
grams and to maintain our image. Let's
bring together the best of our past
and present to help us determine our
future. Help us recruit new students
and new supporters for Centenary. I
am a firm believer in the self-fulfilling
prophecy. If we all think positively and
believe in the value of our brand of
liberal education, our success is guar-
anteed. I also subscribe to the American
work ethic and attempt to follow a
slogan my friend George Nelson shared
with me: "The harder you work, the
luckier you get." It's good advice for
all of us. It can help us be winners.

Just a brief word about the church.
This college belongs to the Methodist
Church which has given and is giving
us various kinds of support, including
financial assistance. To my knowledge
there are no strings attached. The
relationship between Centenary and
the church is certainly beneficial to
our college.

Permit me a few more moments
of your time to share with you a per-
sonal anectdote and to make a point.
Several years ago when our family
resided in the Chicago area we became
T. V. sports addicts. Our set was able
to pick up all Chicago channels and
several from Wisconsin. During the
Christmas Holidays the Ted Kauss
family had ten delightful and delirious
days and nights of watching the Chicago
Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks in NBA
basketball, the Chicago Black Hawks
in hockey, the National Football
League championship playoffs, and all
of the major bowl games. Then on
January 2 the "orgy of the eyeballs"
was over. We had to return to our
classes and routines. At ten minutes to
seven I made the rounds to get our four
children out of bed. Our two sons
shared bunk beds and I shook eleven
year-old Randy who was sleeping very
soundly in his top bunk. He muttered,
"What's the matter?" I replied,
"Randy, it's ten to seven." He lifted
his head from the pillow, opened one
eye and asked, "Who's winning?"

It has taken me almost four years
to come up with an answer. But
I have one now. Who's winning?

We are! Centenary College!

In he Centenary Libra-
« ry is the crossroads
where students and
faculty meet in their
search for knowledge. It
is a busy place and very
much the center for
the exchange of ideas and intellectual
ferment on the Centenary Campus.
The Library is also a grand old lady,
who with the college will soon be 150
years old! Rejuvenated with the face
lifting of the new building, which
was completed in 1 963, she plans to go
on swinging in the manner of Dolly
Gallagher Levi of the Matchmaker or,
if you prefer, Hello Dolly fame.

The early records of the College of
Louisiana at Jackson indicate that this
ancestor of modern Centenary estab-
lished a library for the use of the
students and faculty soon after it
began operations in 1825. Following
the merger of Mississippi's Centenary
College with the College of Louisiana
in 1845, the Library of the new
Centenary College of Louisiana pros-
pered and by 1860 was one of the
most distinguished libraries in the
South. The Civil War and Reconstruc-
tion years were dismal. The college
closed and the Yankees occupied the
campus. Many books were lost. A
large part of the collection, however,
was saved, and after the war, the
Library continued to grow. When Cen-
tenary moved to Shreveport in 1908,
the library moved too and provided the
nucleus for the present library
collection.

At least for libraries, age does have
its advantages. Many of the books
from the Jackson Campus are still in
use, often marked with the bookplates

of the Union or Franklin Literary
Societies. The Library has one of the
few surviving copies of the first edition
of the Encyclopedia Americana which
was published in the 1830's. Long
runs of eighteenth and nineteenth
century periodicals, often acquired as
they were published, form valuable
period research materials and are the
envy of many newer libraries.

In Shreveport, the Library was
housed in various locations on the
Centenary campus. Students of the
1 950's and the early 1 960's will remem-
ber the Main Library on the third floor
of Jackson Hall and the Science Library
in what was later named the Mickle
Hall of Science. On February 8, 1963,
the students and faculty of that time
participated in the famous Bookwalk
to move the library to the new
building.

Since the move the Library has
doubled in size. The collection now
counts 110,000 books and bound
periodicals plus music recordings and
numerous added volumes in microfiche,
microcard, and microfilm. In addition,
the Library has developed an efficient
interlibrary loan service to provide
rapid access to needed materials that
are not in the Centenary collection.
A TWX speeds the messages for help
to borrow books or request Xerox
coDies.

The art gallery in the foyer of our
modified Georgian building, is one of
the most attractive features of the
Library. No one can enter or leave the
building without being exposed to the
rotating exhibits. The Library owns an
extensive permanent art collection
which is displayed in the building and
in other buildings on the campus.

Dr. David C. Kimball, a Shreveport
physician, is the donor of many of
these works of art. The Library also
houses the 300 plus paintings from the
Indo-China collection by Jean
Despujols, which Algur Meadows of
Dallas recently gave to the College.

The Pierce Cline Memorial Room
honors one of Centenary's most dis-
tinguished Presidents and houses the
library collection of rare books and
manuscripts. The choice primary source
items include the faculty and trustees
minutes for the early years of the
College and various materials on Louisi-
ana history ranging from the colonial
period through Huey Long and the
modern era. We have a Babylonian
Cone which dates from 3,000 BC and
an incunabulum, a book published
during the first half century following
Guttenberg, in this case a religious
work printed in Basel in 1488.

The College budget provides for
the library staff, supporting services,
and approximately two-thirds of the
funds used for the purchase of books
and periodicals each year. Outside
sources and gifts of books make up the
extra shrimp in the gumbo that enables
the Library to acquire many important
books and periodicals that it otherwise
would not be able to add to the
collection.

(left) Periodicals (bottom)

Circulation Desk (opposite page)

Chief Librarian Charles Harrington

demonstrates the use of the

microfilm reader for pre-medical

student, Mary Jane Van Sant.

The Friends of the Centenary Col-
lege Library, through dues and gifts,
provide for the purchase of a new
encyclopedia each year, microfilm edi-
tions for two newspapers, and several
newspaper and periodical indexes. They
also promote direct gifts to the Library
in the form of cash or books.

Individuals also help by setting up
library endowments in memory or
honor of friends and relatives. Five
hundred dollars is the minimum gift
required for investment with the libra-
ry endowment funds. The interest
earned each year is used to purchase
books, which are marked with a book-
plate appropriate to the purpose of the
endowment.

Memorial books form another way
to help the Library grow. The donor
sends a check to the Library with
instructions to purchase a book in
honor of or in memory of a relative
or friend. The Library sends the donor

The Centenary College Library

an acknowledgment card which helps
support income tax deductions. It
also notifies the person being honored
or the family of the person for whom
the gift is a memorial. Finally, the
Library selects a book that corresponds
to the value of the gift and marks it
with a suitable bookplate as a perma-
nent honor or memorial for the individ-
ual concerned.

At any given moment, the volume
of activity at the Library can be
astounding: An artist setting up an
exhibit in the gallery. Students bor-
rowing books at the Circulation Desk.
Others using the Card Catalog or the
periodical indexes to locate materials
that they want to borrow or Xerox.
The Reference Librarian seeking infor-
mation requested by a member of the
faculty or one of the Shreveport news-
papers. A meeting of the Friends of
the Library in the Faculty Study.
Research in progress in the Cline Room.
An interlibrary loan request on the
TWX. The unpacking of the latest

An Old Lady In New Clothes

by Charles W. Harrington
Head Librarian

shipment of books in the Technical
Processes Room. Student groups using
the study rooms. The receipt of a gift
in the Librarian's Office. A Library
tour for a Freshman English group. A
class listening to Shakespeare in the
Music Listening Room. A request to
see a newspaper on microfilm for the
Civil War years. The arrival of the
Green Gold book van from the Shreve

Memorial Library Or boy meets

girl in the book stacks and a date for
Saturday night.

The Centenary Library is indeed
an old lady in new clothes. If we did
not brag a bit, you possibly would
not know that it is the oldest library
in Louisiana and one of the oldest in
the United States. That face-lifting job
that came with the move to the new
library building in 1963 has done
wonders. The Library meets the stan-
dards for library service set by the
American Library Association and the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools. Fewer than half the academic
libraries in the Nation can make such
a statement. We think we are good! We
also have long lists of books that we
need to buy and new services that we
hope someday to provide for our
students, faculty, and friends. With
time and encouragement, we will con-
tinue to improve and be an even
better library.

Vkfk)t4i?kdjM(?ntii

NEIMAWIDEMAIM

The Centenary College School of Music has turned out hundreds of fine
musicians, but none whose light has shone brighter than that of Mrs. Nena
Wideman. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Centenary in 1934
and then earned the Master of Music degree from the Chicago Music College
where she studied under Dr. Rudolph Ganz and received the Ganz piano
scholarship in competition for two consecutive summers.

She has taught music at Homer High School, Judson College in Marion,
Alabama; Southern State in Magnolia, Arkansas; Northwestern State Univer-
sity, Louisiana Tech University, at her own Wideman School of Music, and is
presently a member of the faculty of the Centenary College School of Music.

Mrs. Wideman was one of the organizers of the Shreveport Symphony,
is an Honorary Member of the Symphony Board and had the honor of
performing as the first soloist of the symphony.

Since 1959 she has presented the Annual Benefit Concert with the
Symphony, affording over fifty students an opportunity to play with a
symphony orchestra.

Mrs. Wideman has pleasant memories of LeRoy Carlson, the director
of music when she attended Centenary, and Mrs. Carlson, who often enter-
tained students in their home, then located where the College Dining Hall
now stands. Mr. Carlson remembers Mrs. Wideman with equal fondness. He
recently wrote in the Piano Guild Notes, "My, what a success she has made of
her professional life and blessed many with her good fortune and her personal
abilities."

Her two sons, Dr. John Wideman, orthopedic surgeon in Fort Smith,
Arkansas, and Dr. Ronald Wideman, a dentist in Dallas, both received their
pre-medical training at Centenary College.

ROBERT G. PUGH

You will probably find him in front of the TV set when the Pittsburg
Steelers are playing . . . checking on his friend and client, Terry Bradshaw, the
premier quarterback for the steel city NFL entry. Recently his television
viewing has been interrupted by the Louisiana Constitutional Convention
where he was named a delegate by his old Law School room-mate, Governor
Edwin Edwards.

Robert G. Pugh, a member of the law firm of Pugh and Nelson of
Shreveport, graduated from Centenary in 1946 . . . completing his course
work for a degree in accounting in 2 1/2 years. While in college he was drum
major for the band, manager of the Conglomerate, and a member and officer
of both the Commerce Club and the Veterans Club.

His schooling was interrupted by the War when he served as a navigator
with the Army Air Force with a Pathfinder Group; and he again served his
country during the Korean War as an intelligence and security officer for the
352nd Bomb Squadron.

Mr. Pugh has practiced law in Shreveport since 1949 following gradua-
tion from the LSU School of Law. He was president of the Shreveport Bar
Association in 1971 and also holds membership in the State Bar Association.
He drafted the legislation for the Governor's Committee for the Study of
Capital Punishment and was the author of The Juvenile Laws of Louisiana -
Their History and Development and its Supplement.

He has maintained his interest in Centenary and served as chairman of
his 25th class reunion. He is married to the former Jo Ann Powell, and they
have three children, Robert Jr., Jean Ann and Lamar Powell Pugh.

Forward, Forward Centenary Homecoming 1974

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

CLASS REUNIONS:

Boy have you changed! The classes of
1969, 1964, 1959, 1954, 1949, and
1924 will be reminiscing about times
past, as they meet with friends of days
gone by.

OLD TIMERS:

Hit the courts once again. Bring out
the oxygen and your best cheering
voice for the battle of the decade, as
the Old Timers take on the Junior

Varsity.

LETTERMEN & MAROON JACKETS:

Will be seeing if the old uniforms still
fit. They will be meeting following
the Old Timers game.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

10:00 a.m. Registration Faculty-
Alumni Coffee (Hamilton Hall)

1 1 :00 a.m. Class Reunions

* 12:00 Noon Luncheon (Cafeteria)

*2:00 p.m. Old Timers vs. Jr. Varsi-
ty (Dome)

Lettermen and Maroon Jacket Re-
union following game.

*6:00 p.m. Banquet

8:00 p.m. Centenary vs. Lamar
University Cardinals

Post Game Party (Place to be
announced)

*NEED TICKET

FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT:

Good food and good entertainment
will be the order of the day for the
Luncheon, Banquet, and Post Game
Party. A special treat will be provided
for us at the Banquet, as the Centenary
Stage Band provides us with some
"foot stomping" and "memory lane"
music.

FOR TICKETS

Write

ALUMNI OFFICE

Centenary College

Shreveport, Louisiana 71 104

S6.00 ALL EVENTS
$3.50 ANY ONE EVENT

Memories of 1950 and 1965
are portrayed in these two
photos from our files. On the
left, the group that gathered
in the amphitheatre for Home-
coming 1950 and on the right
the "crew-cut bunch" at the
Zeta Slave Sale in 1965.

Dr. Charles Beaird and his wife
Carolyn enjoy informal conversation
with President John Allen (far right)
and Dr. Juan Watkins (far left) at the
ALUMNI LOYALTY FUND
PRESIDENT'S CLUB dinner held at
President and Mrs. Allen's home
September 19.

We Get Letters Margaret Mc Kinley
Moore of Dallas writes: "I was delighted
to see the cover and story featuring
the School of Music. I am quite proud
of my degree in music from Centenary
and am pleased to see the department
grow and offer new realms of educa-
tional and professional activities for
its students." And Virginia K Shehee
sends along a pat on the back: "People
are prone to complain when something
doesn't suit them, but are likely to
omit praise. I have just finished reading
the September issue of the Centenary
magazine. I want to commend you for
its excellence. The cover was striking
and the articles informative and
thought-provoking. Keep up the good
work."

National Television A five minute
feature on the Centenary College
Despujols Indo-China art collection
was carried on national television on
the NBC Today Show, Tuesday, Sep-
tember 20. Barbara Walters outlined
the history of the collection up to
recent times when it was presented to
Centenary by a former student, Dallas
art collector Algur Meadows. A series
of 36 of the paintings were shown to
depict Indo-China as it was before it
had been devastated by years of war.
The collection of more than 300
works on Indo-China is expected to be
of considerable value to future histori-
ans in the study of this part of the
world that has been changed by decades
of war.

Centenary

from

CENTENARY COLLEGE

Shreveport, Louisiana 71 104

Entered As Second Class Matter

CALENDAR

Dec. 2 Festival of Lessons and
Carols (Brown Memorial Chapel)

Dec. 4 Daniel Pankratz, cellist -
Donald Rupert, pianist (Hurley
Memorial Music Building)

Dec. 7 Daniel and Boyce Sher,
duo-pianists (Hurley Music Build-
ing)

Dec. 1 8 Christmas recess begins

Dec. 19 Centenary-NSU Basket-
ball (Gold Dome)

Jan. 3-24 INTERIM

Jan. 28 Registration - Spring
Semester

Feb. 8 Ronald Dean, organist
(Brown Chapel)

Feb. 9 John Lowdermilk (SUB)

Feb. 15 Donald Rupert, pianist
(Hurley Music Building)

Feb. 16HOMECOMING

Feb. 25-26 Mardi Gras holiday

Feb. 28-Mar. 2 - Mar. 7-9 "The
Birthday Party" (Playhouse)

Mar. 5 Arturo Delmoni, violinist
(Hurley Music Building)

June 7 GRAND TOUR OF
EUROPE (ALUMNI)

July 18 ALUMNI TOUR OF
EUROPE

CENTURY CLUB THEATER PARTY:

Members of the 1973 ALUMNI
LOYALTY FUND CENTURY CLUB

were entertained at a theater party
held in their honor, October 4th. The
play was George Bernard Shaw's
"Arms and the Man."

Centenary Women's Club New Life
Members appointed to the Centenary
Women's Club are: Mrs. Robert F.
Roberts, Mrs. John H. Allen, Mrs.
C. D. Gwin, Mrs. Paul Dale Waller,
Mrs. Roger J. Reynolds, Mrs. John H.
Murrell, Mrs. G. Avery Lee, Mrs.
Clinton H. Aslin, Mrs. L. S. Cunning-
ham, Mrs. Fred Marceau, Mrs. Albert
Bicknell, Mrs. Harry K. Chalmiers, Mrs.
Hugh C. Ilgenfritz, Mrs. John B. Atkins,
Jr., Mrs. H. T. Traylor and Mrs. David
E. Olson. The new appointments bring
the number of Life Members to
seventy-five. The club is made up of
women who are mothers of students,
alumnae, faculty members and friends
of the College. Their goal is to enrich
the lives of the students. They sponsor
several scholarships and the Maroon
Jackets.

Former Registrar Dies Mrs. Nell
W. Brown, registrar of Centenary Col-
lege from 1947-1968, passed away at a
Shreveport hospital September 28 at
the age of 73. She
cameto Centenary
in 1943 as mana-
ger of the PX for
the College Train-
ing Detachment,
was named assi-
tant registrar in
1944 and replaced

Brown

Amanda Wilson as registrar in 1947.

centenary

March, 1974

A Unique Experiment
Pre-Medical Seminar

Pre-Law Council Charts
New Course for
Future Attorneys

Corporation Executive
Harllee Branch Visits

l?fiflM

Strictly
Personal

20's

Dr. W. B. Worley ('22) was recently
awarded the Shreveport Medical Soci-
ety's ninth annual Distinguished Service
Award. The honor is given to the
person who has made an outstanding
contribution to the advancement of
medicine in this area.

Lillian Nelson ('27) has retired from
the Haughton, La. Branch Library.
She served as Branch Assistant at the
library since 1955.

Judge Chris T. Barnette ('28) was
recently assigned as the 6th Caddo
Parish District judge by the Louisiana
Supreme Court. Judge Barnette served
as Court of Appeal judge in New
Orleans but retired from the bench in
1971. He was named to the Centenary
Hall of Fame in 1971.

30's

John M. Shuey ('38) was recently
elected president-elect of the Shreve-
port Bar Assn. He belongs to the firm
of Shuey, Smith and Carlton.

40's

Charles W. Keenan ('43) professor of
chemistry at the University of Tennes-
see has been named associate dean of
the College of Liberal Arts.

Cecil E. Ramey, Jr. ('43) an attorney
and civic leader was elected president
of the Shreveport Chamber of Com-
merce for 1974. He is a past president
of Centenary's Alumni Association,
was named to the Centenary Hall of
Fame in 1970 and is now serving on
the College's Board of Trustees.

A Shreveport oral surgeon, Dr. Joseph
Cush ('46) was recently named to the
board of United Mercantile Bank of
Shreveport. He holds memberships in
the American Dental Association,
Louisiana and Northwest Louisiana
Dental Societies, and American Dental
Society of Anesthesiology.

Robert G. Pugh ('46) a Shreveport
attorney was recently elected as Presi-

dent of the Louisiana State Bar Associa-
tion for 1974-75. Pugh has also been
selected to serve as chairman of the
41st annual Brotherhood Week and
Citation Dinner for the National Con-
ference of Christians and Jews, and is
the newly-elected treasurer of the LSU
Law Alumni Association. He is a
member of the law firm of Pugh and
Nelson.

Dr. H. Whitney Boggs, Jr. ('47) was

recently elected vice president of the
Schumpert Memorial Hospital medical
staff in Shreveport. Dr. Boggs is chief
of the surgery department at Schum-
pert.

Charles L. Westley ('48) has been
named assistant controller of South-
western Electric Power Company in
Shreveport. He will be responsible for
four general office departments: bud-
gets and statistics, tax, plant accounting
and stores accounting.

Dr. R. R. Forbing ('49) has been
named president-elect of the Bossier
City General Hospital Medical and
Dental Staff.

The National Academy of School
Executives invited Dr. Gaius Hardaway
('49) to present a seminar on the
continuous progress program developed
and implemented in Bossier Parish
Louisiana, at its annual meeting. Harda-
way is director of curriculum and
research for the Bossier Parish schools.

50's

Albert W. Charles ('50) has been named
vice president of Industrial Relations
for Golden West Savings and Loan
Association in Oakland, California. He
is a member of the American Society
for Personnel Administration, Acade-
my of Management, and American
Management Association.

Judd Perkins ('51) recently resigned
from the Panola, La., Chamber of
Commerce after serving five years as
manager. He is now on the staff of
Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe.

W. Edward Carter ('54) is the new

president of Peoples Bank and Trust
Company of Blanchard, La.

The Reverend Warren Blakeman ('56)

served as Guest Chaplain in the United

Long Blakeman

States Senate in Washington, D. C,
Wednesday, Nov. 28. Senator Russell
Long, shown on the left greeting Rev.
Blakeman, was managing a Social Se-
curity bill on the Senate floor while
the Senate was also preoccupied with
the confirmation of William Saxbe as
Attorney General the day he appeared.
Rev. Blakeman is pastor of the Henning
United Methodist Church in Sulphur.

A Bossier City, La. pathologist, Dr.
Michael Ellis ('54) was recently elected
president of the Bossier City General
Hospital Medical and Dental Staff.

60's

Paul Hogan III ('63) has been elected
vice president of the Whitney National
Bank of New Orleans, La. He joined
the Whitney Bank in 1965.

Don Easterwood, Jr. ('64) of Shreve-
port, was recently appointed 4th Dis-
trict state highway commissioner.

Assistant professor of philosophy at
Centenary, Charles
T. Beaird ('66) has
been named deputy
chairman of the
board of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dal-
las for 1974.

Lt. Richard T. Cole Beaird

('69) has recently graduated from the
Military Justice Course at the Naval
Justice School in Newport, Rhode
Island.

William A. Fain, Jr. ('69) recently
resigned as District 1 2 representative
on the Caddo Parish police juror. Fain's
resignation resulted from his accep-
tance of the office of consultant for
the Shreveport branch of Peat, Mar-
wick, Mitchell and Co. Certified Public

Accountants.

continued on page 1 1

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
March, 1974, Volume 5 No. 1, published
four times a year— in September, December,
March and June by the Centenary College
Alumni Association, Shreveport, La. 71104.
Second Class Postage paid at Shreveport,
La. Published for members of the Alumni
Association and friends of Centenary College
of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Cindy Williamson

1973-74 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI

ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
President .... W. JuanWatkins, M.D. '57
First Vice President. . . . Gene Bryson '63
Second Vice President Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40

Secretary Judy Butcher '62

Treasurer Jack Elgin '43

Mary Ann Caffery '72, Bill Causey, Jr. '68,
Thurman C. Smith '50.

(Terms expire in 1974)
Dwight B,rown '54, Gene Bryson '63, Judy
Butcher '62, Dorothy Gammill '40, Jean
Goins '63, Carolyn Gray '55, Jack Hodges,
III '58, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki '58,
H. W. Worley, D.D.S. '57.

(1973-74 Members Appointed by President)
Martha Snead Goza '66, Dave White '61,
Jack Mulkey '61, Larry Johnson '59, Gayle
Wren '64.

A Unique Experiment - - The First Annual Pre-Medical Educational Seminar

by Charles B. Lowrey, associate professor of chemistry

One hundred seventy-eight junior
and serior high school students from
the states of Arkansas, Florida, Missis-
sippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas,
and Louisiana gathered at Centenary
College on November 9th and 10th,
1973 for the First Annual Pre-Medical
Educational Seminar. The responses of
the high school students to the unique
experiment reflect its success: (1) fif-
teen of the students (and either their
friends or relatives) who attended the
program filed applications for admis-
sion to Centenary College by January
10, 1974; and (2) more than 98% of
the participants, responding to a ques-
tionnaire circulated one month after
the seminar had taken place, stated
they would recommend their friends
attend the Second Annual Pre-Medical
Educational Seminar to be held in the
Fall of 1974.

The Pre-Medical Seminar held last
fall was undertaken as a result of two
seemingly unrelated experiences.

First, as Chairman of Centenary's
Pre-Medical Advisory Committee since
the retirement of Dr. Mary Warters in
the Spring of 1971, I had found it
difficult to advise freshmen pre-medi-
cal students because of their apparent
ignorance regarding the purpose of
pre-medical education. Each advisee
seemed to have his own idea of what
a pre-medical curriculum should or
should not entail. Most pre-meds were
in a hurry to get the drudgery of the
undergraduate requirements over and
get into medical school as quickly as
possible. As a result, this type of stu-
dent wanted to take only science
courses plus a few other courses re-
quired by the medical schools, such
as English and foreign languages. It
was virtually impossible to force the
student into recognizing that this type
of logic would lead him down one of
two inevitable paths - both of which
could be psychologically destructive.
In the first place, a student in a rush
would have an excellent chance of not
making the necessary grades for medi-
cal school acceptance. Furthermore,
if he did make the grades and obtained
his M.D. Degree, he would feel ill at
ease in a world which "looks up" to the
physician as a learned person, one
capable of expressing himself clearly
and intelligently on such varied sub-
jects as music, art, drama, politics,
religion, ethics, economics, govern-
ment, philosophy, and sociology. This
hasty and superficial type of education
ultimately results in a frustrated physi-

Time out for dinner in the Centenary Dining Hall

cian and disappointed pre-medical
advisor. One objective of the seminar
was then to inform the high school
student of the pitfalls ahead in order
to produce a more satisfied physician.

Secondly, in the Spring of 1973,
several department chairmen, including
myself as the Pre-Medical Advisor,
were asked by the Director of Develop-
ment, Rev. Grayson Watson, and the
Admissions Officer, Mr. Warren
Levingston, to present short informa-
tive seminars on our various disciplines
that would be directed primarily
toward the junior or senior high school
student.

The result was the institution of the
First Annual Pre-Medical Educational
Seminar, whose purpose was twofold:

(l)To inform superior high school
students of the purposes and goals of
pre-medical and medical school educa-
tion, and

(2) To acquaint high school students
with, and to interest them in Centenary
College's own pre-medical program,
including the faculty, facilities, and
past and present pre-medical students.

The Centenary Chapter of Alpha
Epsilon Delta, the National Honorary
Pre-Medical Fraternity, under the
leadership of President Charles Leach
rallied to my aid in constructing a
program, securing the necessary
speakers for the program, and providing
the required manpower for registering
an estimated 150-200 students. The
dates for the seminar were set for
Friday, November 9 and Saturday,

November 10, 1973.

Early in October an invitation was
extended to high schools in Shreveport,
Alexandria, Monroe, Lake Charles, Sul-
phur, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Dal-
las, Fort Worth, Houston, Oklahoma
City, Tulsa, Little Rock, Memphis, and
Jackson as well as several others. Our
expectation of 150-200 registrants was
fulfilled as the final count was 178
with the distribution being:

City Number of Registrants

Louisiana

Alexandria

Baton Rouge

Clinton

Hall Summit

Haughton

Jennings

Lake Charles

Minden

Monroe

New Orleans

Natchitoches

Rayville

Shreveport/Bossier

Stonewall

Sulphur

Vivian

Arkansas

El Dorado

Little Rock

Magnolia

Texas

Dallas

San Antonio

Oklahoma

Tulsa

Mississippi

Pass Christian

Florida

Pensacola

Tennessee

Memphis

Total Number of
Registrants

178

There were two unexpected but
interesting results of the registration:
(a) there were 10 more women than
men registered, and (b) there simply
was not enough room in the men's
dormitories to house 55 out-of-town
males overnight. After a short time of
hysteria, arrangements were made for
housing the men at the Captain Shreve
Hotel in downtown Shreveport for the
night of November 9. Dr. Brad Mc-
Pherson, Steve Archer, Ronnie Gaert-
ner, and myself volunteered to chaper-
one for the one night - - a decision we
were later to regret since the on-
campus entertainment ended at 1:00
a.m. and sleep did not arrive until
sometime after 2:45 a.m. the morning
of November 10.

The big day finally arrived and the
program opened with a dinner in the
cafeteria, after which President John
Allen formally welcomed the visitors
to our campus.

It was felt the first formal presenta-
tion to such a gathering at Centenary
College should reflect upon the strong
connection between religion and medi-
cine. Consequently, Dr. Juan Watkins,
a local practicing physician and Presi-
dent of the Centenary College Alumni
Association, was asked to speak on the
topic: "Religion, Ethics, and Medi-
cine."

Dr. Watkins opened his speech by
stating that:

Some people ask, What has religion
to do with my life? How is it revelant
to my happiness? Well, whenever man
ponders the ultimate questions of life,
death, and meaning, whenever he asks,
How shall I live, what shall I do to
find fulfillment? He is already in the
realm of religion and ethics.

Dr. Watkins went on to say that the
use of the Golden Rule in medicine
today is complicated by the fact "that
all too often we do not know how we
ourselves (as physicians) wish 'to be
done unto!' This, of course, makes
'doing unto others' quite difficult."

In relation to whether or not ethical
guidelines should be legislated, Dr.
Watkins replied that there may be too
much legislation in this area now and
further indicated that the present

Dr. W. Juan Watkins, (left) president of the
Centenary Alumni Association, talks
informally to students and counselors during
a break in the pre-medical conference.

guidelines adopted by the AMA in
1957 have "many gray areas which do
not fall under these guidelines. Since
the great scientific developments of the
20th Century, many more problems
face us than before." He continued by
saying this is due in particular to the
great technological advances in the
areas of abortion, organ transplants,
and artificial life-support systems.
Dr. Watkins closed by saying:

It is appropriate that a conference of
this type be launched with thoughts on
Religion, Ethics, and Medicine, be-
cause these thoughts are the basis
of our relationship with people who
eventually become our patients.

This portion of the program closed
with a lively discussion on the implica-
tions and effects recent medical tech-
nological advances have had on our
society. The panel was composed of
Dr. Watkins; Dr. Hughes Cox of the
Philosophy Department; Dr. Webb
Pomeroy and Rev. Robert Ed Taylor
of the Religion Department; Rev.
Grayson Watson; and President John
Allen.

Afterwards Dr. Rosemary Seidler,
present Chairman of the Centenary
College Pre-Medical Advisory Commit-
tee, outlined the purpose of the seminar
for the registrants and introduced them
to the members of the Alpha Epsilon
Delta Fraternity, who conducted tours
of Mickle Hall of Science - - whose
laboratories were literally radiant with
experiments ranging from a laser to an
atomic absorption demonstration. The
demonstrations were due to the efforts
of Centenary's gracious students and
science faculty.

After the tour of the Science Build-
ing the participants returned to the
cafeteria for refreshments. At this

time, three Shreveport physicians, Dr.
H. Whitney Boggs, Dr. Michael Ellis,
and Dr. Juan Watkins were present to
discuss informally the life and duties
of a physician with individual partici-
pants. Dr. Mary Warters as well as
several medical students from LSU-S
and Tulane were present at this time
and provided the registrants with fur-
ther insight into the whole medical
educational process.

The second day's program opened
with Dr. Robert Deufel, Chairman of
the Biology Department and Alpha
Epsilon Delta Advisor, introducing the
speakers, all of whom were Centenary
Alumni.

Dr. John Salisbury, a recent graduate
of Tulane Medical School, spoke on
the topic, "Upon Choosing a Pre-
Medical College," stressing the impor-
tance of obtaining a liberal arts back-
ground in the pre-medical educational
process. During his speech, John also
outlined the advantages and disadvan-
tages of attending small and large
undergraduate schools, concluding that
he felt the advantages of small classes
and personal contact with his teachers
at Centenary far outweighed any of
the advantages of a large institution.

Steve Heard, a senior at Tulane
Medical School, continued with a dis-
cussion of "Choosing a Medical Col-
lege." Location, research interests,
financial considerations, reputation,
and the facilities of the medical school
all were cited as important factors in
selecting a medical school.

Following Steve, Charles Leach, a
current senior at Centenary majoring
in Biology, outlined the "Selection
Factors Used by Medical Schools."
College grades, particularly those in the
sciences; faculty recommendations;
personal interviews at the medical
schools; and the results of the Medical
College Admissions Test (MCAT) were
listed as the primary factors presently
used by the medical school admissions
committees in their selection pro-
cedures.

Peter Kastl, a junior at Tulane Medi-
cal School, then presented a contro-
versial but nonetheless stimulating
lecture on the advantages of majoring
in Chemistry. He stressed the ad-
vantages of the problem-solving situa-
tions, particularly in advanced mathe-
matics and physical chemistry, for
preparing the pre-medical student for
the intensive study required for success
in medical school.

An outline of Centenary College's
3-1 Pre-Medical Programs in Biology
and Chemistry was presented by Mary
Jane Van Sant, a junior pre-medical
student. Miss Van Sant indicated that
the program was primarily designed
for superior students who desired to

enter medical school after completing
their junior year, and yet still wanted
to receive a bachelor's degree from
Centenary, and with it the broad
liberal arts education so necessary for
the complete physician.

Charles Lace, a junior at Louisiana
State University Medical Center in
Shreveport, completed the morning's
program by presenting an in-depth
view of the medical school curriculum.
In general, he said the curriculum
consisted of two years of study in the
basic sciences, followed by two years
of supervised experience in patient
care.

At the noon luncheon, Dr. Rod
Yeager, an alumnus who is Director
of the Confederate Memorial Hospital
in Shreveport and graduate of the
Tulane Medical School, spoke on the
"Genesis of the Physician: What It All
Means." According to Dr. Yeager, the
objective of his talk was "to tie all
of the various aspects of medical
training together, put them in their
proper perspective, and indicate exactly
the purpose of each step in the ladder
leading to an M.D. Degree, and then
indicate what is necessary to prepare
for the practice of medicine after
graduation."

During his speech Dr. Yeager recom-
mended, from his personal experience,
that the student not rush through his
pre-medical program in three years, but
instead complete that portion of his
education in four years; this approach
would have the effect of producing a
more knowledgeable physician, as well
as requiring a less demanding curricu-
lum, resulting in a more pleasant and
diversified undergraduate experience.

Dr. Yeager further indicated that
the potential physician is a "problem
solver" and scholar and therefore
should possess "the attributes of a
scholar, which are curiosity, persever-
ance, initiative, originality, and integ-
rity."

Dr. Yeager went on to say:

that there are many of you who are
wondering whether you have the men-
tal capability to digest the amount of
information thrown at you during
medical school. It was my impression
going through medical school that if
you had the intelligence to finish the
college years, then you had the neces-
sary intelligence to finish medical
school. It was not the I.Q. which
determined whether an individual fin-
ished medical school, but quite frankly,
whether he had the perseverance and
the drive to spend the necessary num-
ber of hours that it takes to cover the
material.

The desired results of a medical
education, according to Dr. Yeager,
are threefold in nature:

(l)The acquisition of knowledge
in the basic sciences.

(2) The acquisition of skills in treat-
ment of patients.

(3) The acquisition of the proper
attitudes of a physician.

Dr. Yeager then stated that despite
the wide publicity in the various media,
he could not justify in his own mind
exactly where there is a "crisis in
American medicine." He cited a steady
increase in the ratio of doctors to
patients in the United States for the
past several years; the fine state-sup-
ported medical facilities in the State

of Louisiana and other states; and the
unequaled technological contributions
of American medicine in comparison
with that of the rest of the world as all
proving the non-existence of any such
"crisis."

In concluding, Dr. Yeager told the
group that:

/ have tried to relay some of the
apprehensions and anxieties that you
may have concerning the academic
pursuits of an M.D. Degree and allay
some of your apprehensions concerning
the future of American medicine. But
most of all, I have tried to give you
some insight into the rewards and
satisfactions that lie at the end of the
rainbow - - perhaps not material re-
wards, but rather what must be self-
satisfaction in the superlative.

The program concluded with the
students attending three 30-minute
panel discussions on a rotating basis.
The three panels were composed of
science professors; medical students
who completed their pre-medical edu-
cation at Centenary; and undergraduate
pre-medical students of Centenary. The
consensus of opinion seemed to indi-
cate that these panel discussions pro-
vided the most stimulating and re-
warding experiences of the entire pro-
gram.

As the program ended at mid-after-
noon Saturday, I could sense a feeling
of satisfaction and accomplishment
pervading the registrants, the faculty
members, and the whole Alpha Epsilon
Delta Chapter, without whose dedica-
ted efforts the seminar would never
have been possible and to whom Cen-
tenary will remain ever grateful.

Dr. Rosemary Seidler addresses the group in Mickle Hall of Science.

pre-law advisory council

ATTORNEYS

TO ADVISE FUTURE LAWYERS

AT CENTENARY

In the early 1940's President
Francis P. Gaines of Washington and
Lee University was visiting in Shreve-
port at a dinner with a group of alumni
from the University. During the course
of the dinner the conversation turned
to the Washington and Lee School of
Law. The then president of Centenary
College, Dr. Pierce Cline, who was a
guest at the dinner, was heard to re-
mark, "So long as there are schools
like Washington and Lee University,
we need have no fear of our govern-
ment ever being destroyed."

One of the alumni who overheard
that conversation was Colonel John H.
Tucker, Jr., a distinguished Shreveport
attorney. Col. Tucker still believes
today that' private colleges like Wash-
ington and Lee (and he includes Cen-
tenary College in that category) are
"absolutely essential" to this nation.

Which is one of the reasons he has
accepted the chairmanship of a new
Pre-Law Advisory Council for Cente-
nary College composed of attorneys
and professors who will advise the
college in all phases of its undergraduate
program in pre-law. The Council was
organized in December at a meeting
of lawyers and college officials who

have agreed to serve at the invitation
of Centenary President John H. Allen.

Dr. Allen said the formation of the
Council represents a renewed effort
on the part of the College to seek the
counsel and help of professional people
in the community in preparing Cente-
nary students for future careers. He
said the College hopes to develop
similar advisory groups in other areas.

At its first meeting the Council
agreed to look at all areas of the
current pre-law instruction at Cente-
nary and to make recommendations
for the future course of this training.
It will include such things as curricu-
lum, library resources and the possibil-
ity of an internship program.

Although the Council is to be a
continuing organization, Col. Tucker
said the group intends to publish a
formal report on its findings, possibly
by the end of 1 974, which might serve
as a model for pre-law programs else-
where in the nation. Dr. Walter Lowrey,
chairman of the history and govern-
ment department at Centenary, said it
is hoped that some of the Council's
recommendations can be put into
practice by the beginning of the 1974-
75 term next September.

Darrell Loyless, assistant professor of government, (seated)
meets with pre-law students in the Library.

President Allen's invitation to the
attorneys to serve on the council said,
in part, "We are preparing for Cente-
nary's 150th anniversary in 1975 and
are laying solid, exciting plans for the
event which include more than cele-
bration and ceremony. We intend to
establish a blueprint for the college that
will set new goals, purposes and pro-
grams for the future."

Col. Tucker said he hopes the
Council can formulate "the logical
basis for pre-legal education." He said
he would hope the Council "could
write a statement of the components
of the work of a lawyer, and from
that consideration, devise the know-
ledge he should have to carry out the
functions of a lawyer. We should see
what specific subjects he needs, and
the extent to which he should go into
these disciplines, so that when he gets
to Law School he will be well equipped
to take up this study."

Colonel Tucker said his first task
would be to call a meeting of the five
attorneys who are members of the
Council to make a preliminary state-
ment. "I think the attorneys should
spell out what we think a lawyer ought
to be able to do to discharge best
his obligations and duties as a member
of the legal profession," he said. "Then
we should sit down with the academic
members of the council to see how
and to what extent Centenary can
provide this knowledge by its pre-law
curriculum."

He said the Pre-Law Council would
not get into the question of a Law
School for Centenary College ... a
proposal under study by the College.
"However, I would say the Board of
Trustees ought to get a very strong
committee together to explore this
very thoroughly," he said.

Two Centenary College alumni are
members of the Council: Cecil E.
Ramey, Jr., a former president of the
Alumni Association, a member of the
Board of Trustees, and a partner in the
law firm of Hargrove, Guyton, Ramey
and Barlow; and Eugene W. Bryson,
a member of the Board of Directors
of the Alumni Association and an
assistant district attorney for Caddo
Parish. The other two attorney mem-
bers of the council in addition to Col.
Tucker are, Clarence L. Yancey of the
law firm of Cook, Clark, Egan, Yancey
and King; and Robert Roberts, Jr., of
the firm of Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin
and Roberts.

Centenary College representatives
on the council are Dr. Lowrey, and
Darrell Loyless, assistant professor of
government. Dean Theodore R. Kauss,
Development Director Grayson Watson
and President Allen are ex-officio
members.

NATIONALLY KNOWN CORPORATION EXECUTIVE

HARLLEE BRANCH IS WILSON FELLOW

Harllee Branch, Jr., of Atlanta, a
former chairman of the board of the
Southern Company, one of the nation's
largest electric utility holding com-
panies, was selected as the first Wood-
row Wilson Senior Fellow to appear
on the Centenary College campus.

Centenary was one of 50 liberal
arts colleges in the United States named
to participate in the program funded
by a three-year $1 million grant from
the Lilly Endowment and administered
by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Under the terms of the grant, repre-
sentatives of business, industry and
the professions will visit college cam-
puses across the nation for terms
ranging from one to three weeks talking
with students about their particular
field of endeavor.

H. Ronald Rouse, National Director
of the Woodrow Wilson National Fel-
lowship Foundation, during a visit to
the Centenary campus, said Centenary
was selected on the basis of its academic
excellence and its past relationship
with the Foundation. Many former
Centenary students have received
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships including
Charles Beaird (Ph.D. Columbia), pro-
fessor of philosophy at Centenary;
Hoyt Duggan (Ph.D. Princeton), pro-
fessor of English at the University of
Virginia (and Centenary's first Rhodes
Scholar); Don Scroggin (Ph.D. Har-
vard), professor of chemistry at Wil-
liams College; Jerry O'Dell (Ph.D.
Stanford), professor of English at
California State College; and Thomas
Head (Ph.D. Stanford), professor of
English at the University of Colorado.

In order to meet the deadlines of
Centenary Magazine, this article was of
necessity written before Mr. Branch
appeared on the campus during the
week of February 4, but he outlined
some of his hopes for his visit with
Dr. Lee Morgan, the Centenary coordi-
nator for the program, prior to his
arrival.

Mr. Branch, who currently serves on
the board of General Motors and U. S.
Steel, said he would particularly like
to talk to history, philosophy and
humanities classes in order to interpret
the realities of the business world and
to possibly correct any misconceptions.
He said he would prefer to talk about,
the overall influence of American busi-
ness rather than restrict himself to a

discussion of interest rates or current
market trends. He expressed a keen
interest in English and communication
as having a special place in the world
of business and industry.

During his Centenary visit Mr.
Branch was scheduled to talk to a
general assembly, to individual classes
and to smaller groups in informal
sessions.

Mr. Branch served as chairman of
the board of the Southern Company
from 1969 to 1971, following an
earlier twelve years of service as presi-
dent of the company. He was chief
executive officer of the company from
1957 to 1970 and continues to serve
in an advisory capacity today.

He was born in Atlanta, June 21,
1906. He attended the public schools
of Atlanta and graduated from David-
son College in 1927. He received the
bachelor of laws degree from Emory
University Law School in 1931. He
worked as a reporter on the Atlanta
Journal from 1928 to 1930 while
attending Emory Law School, and.
was publicity director for Radio Station
WSBfrom 1930 to 1932.

Prior to being named president of
the Southern Company, Mr. Branch
served seven years with one of its
operating subsidiaries, Georgia Power
Company, first as vice-president and
general manager and later as president.
Before that, he was a member of the
law firm of McDougald, Troutman,
Sams and Branch. He served as presi-
dent of the Atlanta Bar Association
and has continued his membership
in the Georgia Bar Association.

Mr. Branch is a graduate member
of the Business Council, a group of
65 of the nation's leading businessmen
who advise departments of the federal
government on policy matters. For
two years during President Johnson's
administration, he served as a member
of the Federal Advisory Council on
Employment and was appointed by
President Nixon, in 1970, to the Na-
tional Commission on Productivity.

He is a trustee of Emory University,
Davidson College and Georgia Tech
Research Institute and a director of the
Columbia Theological Seminary. In
1968 he received the annual brother-
hood award (Georgia region) of the
National Conference of Christians and
Jews.

He is a past director of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, and
presently serves as a director of the
Atlanta Arts Alliance and the Atlanta
Symphony Guild.

Mr. Branch is an elder in the Trinity
Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

He was married June. 8, 1932, to
the former Miss Katherine Hunter of
Atlanta, and they have four children,
Harlee III, Katherine (now Mrs. Harold
McKenzie), Barrington and David.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PROGRESS REPORT

by W. Juan Watkins, president

The Centenary College Alumni
Association was formed several years
ago for the purpose of providing a
meaningful method of communication
between the College and its Alumni.
Since that time it has had many
significant accomplishments under the
capable leadership of its past presidents
and board members.

Approximately 2 1/2 years ago I
was elected president of the Associa-
tion. With the help of the Alumni
Director, Board of Directors and the
past presidents, certain goals were
established in order to guide our prog-
ress. I hope that now we are on a
steady path to accomplish some of
these goals.

It is the purpose of this report to
bring you up-to-date, and to tell you
of other projects that we, as alumni,
hope to complete in the near future.

Centenary is a part of the ever
changing education circle and meets a
need that state schools are unable to
provide. We excell in giving the stu-
dents a quality education with individ-
ualized, personal instruction. The Alum-
ni Association, as an arm of the College
has two major goals; creating programs
that will enhance Centenary's reputa-
tion as a leader in education and
serving the alumni of the College
better.

For over a year a concentrated
effort has been made to get our
records up-to-date and transfer the
information to computer disk. This
task has almost been completed and
already is helping us to serve you
better by making related groups, Let-
termen, classes, etc., readily available.
Don Danvers, a math professor, and
Mac Griffith have donated many hours
to see this project through.

In 1973 the Alumni Board estab-
lished a Centenary College Alumni
Association Grant to be awarded to a
faculty member working on a scholarly
project involving original research. The
grant of $1500, equal to a summer

stipend, we hope will encourage mem-
bers of the faculty to accomplish
more writing for publication.

We have continued to provide a
student at each level with a full
tuition scholarship. This scholarship
is one of the most sought after by
prospective students and thus one of
our most worthwhile projects.

Alumni Clubs were re-established
in Houston and Dallas and plans are
made to start chapters in Monroe,
Little Rock, and New Orleans this
year. Alumni Chapters can be a vital
part of our Association and can be
an even greater aid to the College by

providing names of potential students,
a most needed service.

A senior career counseling seminar
for graduating seniors will be held this
Spring. We feel this program will
greatly aid those young men and
women who will soon be leaving Cen-
tenary.

Also, in the near future, your Assoc-
iation will begin a Continuing Educa-
tion program for adults. These courses
will be of short duration, approxi-
mately one month, and will provide
useful information in areas such as
business, law for the layman, taxes,
and many other interesting areas.

To continue and expand its pro-
grams to serve both Centenary and
you, the Association needs to become
a financially independent organization.
This has been one of my foremost
goals. For the past years the magazine,
homecoming, salaries of the Alumni
Director and a half-time secretary,
mailing expenses, and many other
services to alumni have been funded
by the College. The expenses of our
present programs and the above are
approximately $30,000 per year. Four
years ago the Alumni Loyalty Fund,
a year to year effort to raise money,
was started. From 1968 through 1971
only $10,900 was raised. In 1972 a
total of $10,090 was given. In 1973
$11,250 was raised through the mail
campaign. As you can see the totals
are increasing, however, we are far
short of what is needed.

Centenary needs the support of all
its family. Only with our support will
the College be able to maintain and
develop programs that make her one
of the strongest links in the educational
field.

The past 149 years for Centenary
have been years of distinction. It is
my hope, as I leave office this June,
that the alumni and its Association
will assume its proper role to ensure
that the next 149 years are even more
distinctive.

Vk&igufckdj4isMti

EDMOND C. SALASSI

Edmond C. Salassi is a Federal Administrative Law Judge in New
Orleans, Louisiana. He was a 1955 graduate of Centenary College as an
English Major. He attended Tulane University Law School and graduated
in 1961. At Tulane, he was Chief Justice of the Moot Court and worked as a
law clerk for one of the larger law firms in New Orleans. After graduation,
he became an associate and later a partner in the firm of Jones, Waechter,
Carrere and Denegre, specializing in the trial of admiralty cases.

He is a member of the Louisiana, New Orleans and American Bar
Associations; the American Judicature Society and the Maritime Law
Association.

His recollection of Centenary is of the excellent English Department
that stressed a close relationship with the professors with personal attention
as a major factor in the learning process. He recalls Centenary had by far
and away the finest English Department when compared with two top
universities that he had attended before he "saw the light" and took his last
two years at Centenary. "The liberal arts curriculum was well-rounded and
Dr. Ford's suggestion to be "creative" in life was a worthy goal to achieve,
if possible," he said.

As a former Marine Corps reservist, he has been active in the fostering
of interest by law students in the Marine Corps Legal Officer Program.

Judge Salassi is married to Margaret Anne Head, formerly of Shreveport.
They have three children. His main hobbies are tennis and fishing, hunting
and camping with his 10 year old son, Edmond, Jr.

A. RAY McCORD

The Executive Vice President of Texas Instruments, Inc. of Dallas,
A. Ray McCord, still uses some of the quotes and tactics he learned in the
classroom of Dean R. E. Smith in his business dealings today.

McCord was elected to the post of Executive VP of TI in 1972 high-
lighting a career that includes engineering and management experience at all
levels of the organization. He is currently responsible for the growth and
development of the Equipment and Services segment of the business.

He completed his course work in three calendar years for the B. S.
in chemistry degree in 1949 and then spent two years in graduate study in
electrical engineering at SMU in Dallas.

His first job at TI in 195 1 was project engineer on a variety of military-
oriented reconnaissance and surveillance programs. In 1961 he was named
manager of the Surveillance Department and in 1965 he became manager of
new program development with responsibility for the direction of all
marketing activities and internally funded development programs. He was
named a vice president of the firm in 1967 and a year later was elevated to
Group Vice President.

McCord says his best memories of his years at Centenary have to do
with the classroom of Dean Smith. "He was by far the greatest individual
that I have ever known, and even today I use some of his quotes and tactics
to make a point. I think that all of us who were in Dean Smith's classes will
always feel fortunate for having been exposed to him and his work," he
said.

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Personal

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70's

Martha West Roth ('70) has accepted
a position as clinical (psychiatric) social
worker in two counties for the Ozark
Regional Guidance Center. She is living
in Berryville, Ark.

Charles D. Williams ('70) worked for a
year with the Baton Rouge urban
renewal agency after receiving his M.A.
from LSU. He has recently moved to
southwest Virginia where he is em-
ployed by the Planning Department of
the City of Roanoke, Virginia.

United Methodism's 1973-74 scholar
and recipient of the grant for the Third
World participation in the Bossey pro-
gram is Charles B. Simmons ('71) of
Franklinton, La. He is a student at
Candler School of Theology at Emory
University, Atlanta, Georgia.

BIRTHS

David D. Sistrunk and Norma Jones
Sistrunk ('67) of Shreveport are the

parents of a third son, Adam Hugh. He
weighed in at 11 lbs. and 9 1/2 ounces
and was born June 24, 1 973.

Mr. & Mrs. Mike Freeman, (Bennie
Wright, '70) of Houston, Tx., are the
parents of a baby girl, Sara Claire born
October 19, 1973.

Earhard Meir (x70) and Cora Lee
Hanson Meir ('71) are the parents of a
baby girl, Lyda. They are presently
living in Austria.

Rev. Joe Rice ('70) and Angie Hoff-
pauir Rice ('71) of Vinton, La., are the
parents of a baby girl, Holly Virginia.
She weighed in at 5 lbs. and 13 1/2
ounces on Nov. 16, 1973.

DEATHS

Dewey A. Somdal,

75, Shreveport, a
long time friend of
Centenary died re-
cently following a
sudden illness. Som-
dal was a partner in
the firm of Somdal-
Smitherman-Sorensen
man-Associates.

Somdal

Sher-

attendcd Centenary in Jackson, La. for
4 years.

Lake Dupree ('27) passed away on
May 26, 1973 in Crowley, La.

Dr. Will Eubank ('35) passed away at
the age of 59 at his Kansas City
residence. Dr. Eubank helped establish
Baptist Memorial Hospital in Kansas
City, Mo.

Walter B. Jacobs, Jr. ('42) died recently
of a heart attack. Jacobs was chairman
of the board and chief executive officer
of the First National Bank of Shreve-
port. He was a member of one of
Louisiana's most prominent banking
families. He was elected president of
the Northwest Clearing House Assn. in
1955 and was director, vice president
and president of the Louisiana Bankers
Assn. Jacobs was 53 years old.

A Shreveport surgeon, Dr. Herbert H.
Vaughan, Jr. died at the age of 59.
Dr. Vaughan had practiced medicine
here since 1946 and had studied at
Centenary.

Mrs. John A. Ard, the former Mary
Fishburn passed away on October 8,
1973 at the age of 86. Mrs. Ard

KATHLEEN

MARSHALL

OWENS

1911-1973

Assistant Librarian Mrs. Kathleen
Owens suffered a cerebral hemorrhage
in her office at Centenary just before
the school closed for the Christmas
holidays, and passed away at the
Schumpert Hospital on Sunday, De-
cember 23. She was 62 at the time of
her death. Well-loved and highly re-
spected, Mrs. Owens joined the Library
staff in 1961. The widow of the former
rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church
in Shreveport, she received her Cente-
nary B.A. degree in 1931 and the M.S.
degree in library science from LSU in
1961. Mrs. Owens was a member of a
pioneer north Louisiana family and a
well known scholar of the history of
this region and Centenary College. She
was an honored member of the board
of directors of the North Louisiana
Historical Association and was instru-
mental in building and keeping the
Cline Room Archives on the Centenary
campus. Her cheerful, helpful presence
will be sorely missed by the entire
Centenary community.

Kathleen Marshall Owens
Alumni Memorial Fund

To honor the memory of Mrs.
Kathleen Marshall Owens - - alumnus,
faculty member and librarian of Cente-
nary College - - the Alumni Association
will assist in the creation of a memorial
fund dedicated to her particular in-
terest, the Cline Room of the Centenary
College Library. Mrs. Owens was vitally
concerned with preserving the docu-
ments, records, mementos and rare
books and publications relating to
Centenary's great past and to the

history of North Louisiana. She ex-
pended not only her own personal
funds on archival projects, but also
found time beyond her busy schedule
to inspire others with her love for the
College and the area.

Centenary has discovered only re-
cently a cache of copies of the only
published history of the first one
hundred years of the College, William
Hamilton Nelson's A Burning Torch
and a Flaming Fire, published in 1931.
These are new, rare, perfect copies,
and rather than sell them, the College
has made them available to the Alumni
Association. We propose to present as
a gift a copy of this work to each
person who contributes to the Kathleen
Marshall Owens Alumni Memorial
Fund. The number of copies is limited,
and they will be given in order of
receipt of gifts to the Alumni Memorial
Fund. Donors should specify they wish
a copy of the book. Rather than
specifying an amount which would
qualify one for the gift, the Association
has decided to leave this to the discre-
tion of the giver.

This project will have a manifold
impact - - getting Nelson's history to
those who most desire it and thought
it unavailable, honoring the memory
of a most devoted member of the
Centenary family, and aiding in keeping
l he Cline Room a center for College.
area, and church historical archives.

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Parents Only. // this issue is addressed
to your son or daughter who no longer
maintains his or her permanent address
at your home, kindly notify the Alumni
Association Office of the new mailing
address.

Entered As Second Class Matte

Interim Registers 296 Centenary
students and faculty fanned out over
the entire world during the January
Interim period at the college. The
Interim offers courses in specialized
subjects not normally taught and is
designed as enrichment for the regular
liberal arts curriculum. Ninety-three
students and faculty, including the
Centenary College Choir and its direc-
tor Dr. William Ballard flew a char-
tered flight to Europe for specialized
studies in music, art, theater and
history. Another group of 41 traveled
to Colorado for a course in "Outdoor
Education" at the Singin' River Ranch
near Denver. Other special courses
offered included consumerism, school
law, linguistics, demography and math-
ematical games with an IBM computer.

Prestigious Grant Dr. Earle Labor,
professor of English at Centenary, is
the recipient of a prestige grant from
the National Foundation on Arts and
Humanities in Washington D. C. in
the amount of $18,000, for the 1974-
75 academic year, to complete work
on a book. The volume, entitled "Jack
London and the Valley of the Moon"
is a critical biography of the author
during the years he lived and wrote
at his California ranch called Valley
of the Moon. Currently Dr. Labor is
serving as a Fulbright Professor in
Denmark. He will be granted a leave
of absence from Centenary next year
to work on his book.

Psychoanalyst Hits Pornography Dr.

Ernest van den Haag, a social philoso-
pher from New York, told a Forums
audience at Centenary, "Pornography
erodes feelings central to culture and
erodes feelings of mutual sympathy
even if you yourself do not participate
directly." A common misconception
is that beauty is in the eye of the
beholder just as obscenity is in the eye
of the beholder, Dr. van den Haag said.
"But if that is true, why has no one
ever confused me for Miss Universe,"
he asked. The speaker said he did not
favor censorship but believed laws
should be made to control pornog-
raphy.

Energy Symposium Over 200 per-
sons, including students, businessmen
and interested citizens attended an
energy symposium at Centenary, spon-
sored by the college and the Shreveport
chapter of Sigma Xi. Dr. Otto Zinke,
professor Of physics at the University
of Arkansas, said the fuel shortage
could be seen coming for at least four
years and maybe longer. "For eight
years now we have paid no attention
to the country we live in. We have
been worrying about everybody else,"
he said. He discounted theories of a
conspiracy among energy controlling
factions.

CALENDAR

Feb. 28 - Mar. 2 - Mar. 7-9 "The
Birthday Party" (Marjorie Lyons
Playhouse)

Mar. 5 Arturo Delmoni, violinist
(Hurley Music Building)

Mar. 30 Concerto Evening (Hur-
ley Music Building)

April 4 Founders Day

April 23-24 Holiday in Song -
Choir (Civic Auditorium)

Apr. 25-27 May 2-4 "Vivat
Regina" (Marjorie Lyons Play-
house)

May 5 Friends of Music Ensemble
Program (Hurley Music Building)

May 26 Commencement (Gold
Dome)

June 7 Alumni Grand Tour of
Europe

July 1 8 Alumni tour of Europe

1975 HOMECOMING - Feb. 15

Chapel Attendance Up Chaplain
Robert Ed Taylor is pleased at an
increase in chapel attendance. "Aver-
age attendance at the eight Thursday
chapel programs during the spring
semester was 161! Let this put to
silence and shame those pessimists who
hawk the snide rumor that we have
'only a handful of 15-20 at chapel'!
Thanks be to God - - and Dean Theo-
dore Kauss' admonition at the opening
fall convocation! A significant portion
of that attendance has been from the
faculty. Congratulations and thank you
colleagues."

Sacred Music Major The Educational
Policy Committee recently approved a
major in Sacred Music which is carried
as an additional concentration under
the Bachelor of Music degree. Three
new courses were approved; liturgical
music and hymnology, organ and choral
literature and church music manage-
ment and internship. Professor William
Teague, adjunct professor of music,
will assist in the new program.

New Internships In addition to the
intern program in education and the
proposed internships in pre-law men-
tioned elsewhere in this magazine,
Centenary is establishing practicum
courses in other fields as well. "Practi-
cum for Foreign Language Majors" has
been approved whereby students will
be involved in the practical application
of their education to: tutoring and
help-sessions for fellow students; pre-
sentations to lower level courses; trans-
lations for the community and similar
activities. The faculty has also approved
an internship program in Sociology
providing supervised field training for
students in the social welfare field.

Guaranteed Tuition The Board of
Trustees of Centenary has passed a
resolution guaranteeing a student that
tuition will not be raised during his or
her regular term as a consecutive full-
time student of the College. The move
was made, according to George D.
Nelson, chairman of the Board, to
help parents better plan ahead for
their children's college education. The
guaranteed tuition plan will be effective
at the beginning of the 1974-75 term
in September.

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GOOD BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

by John H. Allen

Strictly
Personal

30's

Mrs. Pauline
Tilleux Ross ('30)

of Lehigh Acres,
Florida has re-
cently been elect-
ed to the Lehigh
Acres Communi- fm

ty Council. Mrs.
Ross and her hus- **oss

band were recently honored as "Out-
standing Citizens of Lehigh Acres."

Edgar Z. Friedenberg ('38) is the au-
thor of a newly published book, "R.D.
Laing, " the 24th volume in Modern
Masters series published by the Viking
Press in New York. Professor Frieden-
berg is with the department of educa-
tion at Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia.

40's

Edwin F. Whited ('43) was recently
elected Chairman of the Shreveport
Airport Authority (SAA). Whited has
been SAA vice chairman for the past
year.

Ashton Glassell ('46) a retired Shreve-
port contractor, has been elected presi-
dent of the Caddo Council on Aging,
Inc. Glassell was one of the signers of
the charter when the council was form-
ed.

Toby Warren Adair, Jr. ('47) pastor of
South Reno Baptist Church, Reno, Nv.,
has graduated from Golden Gate Bap-
tist Theological Seminary, with a mas-
ter of religious education degree.

Vernon D. Rigdon ('49) has been pro-
moted to the position of Vice Presi-
dent and Treasurer of Panhandle East-
ern Pipe Line Co. & Trunkline Gas Co.

50's

Hershel H. Chandler (x51) Shreveport,
has been promoted to manager of rates
in the rates and regulatory affairs de-
partment of United Gas Pipe Line Co.

Richard M. Schultz ('53) Shreveport,
has been elected to the board of direc-
tors of the American Bank and Trust
Co. Schultz is a vice president of
Southwestern Iron Corp.

Mary Jane Hitchcock Gibson ('54) has

recently been elected to the Belmont,
Mass., School Committee. Mrs. Gibson
is an instructor at the Reading Insti-
tute in Boston.

Billy Joe Bryant ('55) has received his
DEd, art education, at Penn State Uni-
versity.

John W. Corrington ('56) and his wife
Joyce, New Orleans, were authors of a
recent ABC Movie of the Week, "The
Killer Bees."

Michael W. Eiser ('56) has been pro-
moted to senior technical sales repre-
sentative in the oil field chemicals di-
vision of Exxon Chemical USA with
headquarters at Houma, La.

Charles E. Gleason ('58) has been pro-
moted to assistant cashier and manager
of the Westwood branch of the Shreve-
port Bank and Trust Company.

60's

Norman O. Williams, Jr. (x60), has

been named manager of the newly-es-
tablished General Motors Parts Divi-
sion Zone in Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Rod M. Yeager ('61) Shreveport,
has recently resigned as director of
Confederate Memorial Medical Center.
Yeager said his resignation was prompt-
ed by his desire to concentrate more of
his efforts in the practive of thoracic
and cardiovascular surgery.

John S. Lemmons ('62) has joined the
staff of the American Chemical So-
ciety's Chemical Abstracts Service
(CAS) in Columbus, Ohio. Lemmons
is working as a staff editor in the pub-
lications division at CAS.

Mrs. Lynda McCalman Tabor ('64) has

been chosen by the Bossier City Jay-
cees as the Bossier Parish Young Edu-
cator of the Year for 1973-74.

Paul Skipworth
('67), Shreveport,
president of Skip-
worth, Inc., was
the featured
speaker at the
recent Rocky
Mountain Profes-
sional Photo- Skipworth
grapher Association convention in Den-
ver, Colorado. He spoke on "Environ-
mental Portraits," explaining the ad-
vantages and problems of photograph-
ing people at their home rather than
the studio.

Bill Causey, Jr. ('68) Shreveport, was
named vice president of Holiday in

Dixie. His special duties included act-
ing as chairman of the Classic Parade.
He is a staff photographer for the
Shreveport Journal.

U. S. Air Force Captain Robert F.
Debusk, III, ('69) has arrived for duty
at Randolph AFB, Tex. Captain
DeBusk, an instructor pilot, is assigned
to a unit of the Air Training Com-
mand. He previously served at Williams
AFB, Arizona.

Frances Hodges Simkus ('69) is work-
ing at the University of Montana in the
Business Office. Her husband, Albert
A. Simkus, is a graduate student in so-
ciology and a teaching assistant at the
University of Montana.

70's

Michael S.
Carrington ('70)

has been commis-
sioned a second
lieutenant in the
U. S. Air Force
from the School
of Military Sci-
ences for Officers Carrington
at Lackland AFB, Texas. He is being
assigned to Chanute AFB, 111., for duty
as a transportation officer with a unit
of the Tactical Air Command.

Bill ('71) and Barbara (Treat) Green

('71) have moved to Laurel, Miss.,
where Bill has accepted a position as
treasurer of Central Oil Company.

Robert J. Miciotto ('73) has been a-
warded $10,000 by Josiah C. Macy
Foundation of New York to continue
his studies in the history of medicine
at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
Baltimore, Md. The grant is automatic-
ally renewable for a three-year period.

Pam Sargent ('73) is working for the
Committee on Interior and Insular Af-
fairs, U. S. Senate. She plans to enter
law school at the University of Rich-
mond in August.

DEATHS

Mrs. Verona Hendrick Hobbs ('31) of

Winter Park, Florida, passed away re-
cently at the age of 63.

Mrs. Mary Mullen Ward ('39), New

Orleans, recently passed away at the
age of 69. She was a former Caddo
Parish school teacher.

Mrs. Floy Sumner Riddle ('55), Cotton
Valley, La., died recently after a brief
illness. Mrs. Riddle was 67 years old
and a retired school teacher.

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
July, 1974, Volume 5, No. 2, published four
times a year— in October, January, April and
July by the Centenary College Alumni Asso-
ciation, Shreveport, La. 71104. Second Class
Postage paid at Shreveport, La. Published
for members of the Alumni Association and
friends of Centenary College of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Cindy Williamson

1974-75 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMN I
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President Gene Bryson '63

First Vice President . .Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40
Second Vice President. . . Judy Butcher '62

Secretary Jean Goins '63

Treasurer Dave White '61

DIRECTORS (Terms expire in 1976)
Gene Bryson '63, Judy Butcher '62, Jean

Goins '63, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki
'58, Dave White '61, Gayle Wren '64,
Chatham Reed '64, Jim Mitchell '64, Paul
Cooke '68

(Terms expire in 1975)

Dr. H. Whitney Boggs, Jr. '47, Miss Flavia
Leary '35, Jack Elgin '43, Jim Montgomery
'68, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40, Mrs. Margaret
Teague '57, Mrs. Nancy Cowley '63, Mrs.
Mary Ann Caffery '72, Bill Causey, Jr. 68,
Thurman C. Smith '50.

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GOOD BUSINESS

MANAGEMENT

By John H. Allen, Ph.D.
President of the College

As we approach the 150th anniver-
sary of Centenary College in 1975, it is
my hope that we can leave behind
more than just a few moments of cere-
mony from the celebration of this his-
toric occasion. Our plans for the ob-
servance of the sesquicentennial are
already well underway, including the
invitation of national and international
figures to our campus, plans for spe-
cial art exhibits, musical events and
dramas, projections for appropriate
commemorative ceremonies at Home-
coming, Founders Day, and Com-
mencement, and even a proposal to is-
sue an old-time Latin diploma to the
class of 1975.

But there are other plans now in
progress which I believe are far more
significant for the future of the Col-
lege. A new planning system, involving
Trustees, administrative personnel, fa-
culty and students, and dedicated, not

merely to the survival of the College,
but to a future of distinction and lead-
ership, is now in operation. The pur-
pose of the system is to assure that we
are making the best possible use of our
current resources, and at the same
time, developing new and appealing
academic programs for Centenary. The
system suggests that we project our
plans, in as complete detail as possible,
for five consecutive years, adding a
new year as we complete each year of
the cycle. This forecasting of require-
ments provides a useful means of eval-
uating what we are doing and gives us
the ability to adjust to changing condi-
tions.

We are following closely a manual
entitled "Planning, Budgeting and Ac-
counting" published by the National
Association of College and University
Business Officers. The stated purpose
of the system is to achieve greater op-

erational efficiency and to improve the
academic programs of the College.
Through the use of this program plan-
ning cycle, we can evaluate the priority
use of all our available resources in a
systematic, ongoing manner and de-
rive from that a long range plan for the
development of the College.

To carry out these functions we
have formed a Planning Team and an
Analytical Review Committee. The ba-
sic responsibilities of the Planning
Team are to manage the overall plan-
ning for the College, to review all de-
partment programs to make sure they
are reasonable and feasible and to sup-
port changes that will enhance the Col-
lege operations. As president I serve as
the chairman of the Team. The other
members are Dr. Theodore Kauss, Vice
President for Academic Affairs and
Dean of the College; Grayson Watson,
Vice President for Development; James

Allen, Vice President for Financial Af-
fairs; Dr. Charles Lowrey, the Planning;
Assistant; Dr. Arnold Penuel, Vice
Chairman of the Educational Policy
Committee; R. Johnson Watts, Chair-
man of the Faculty Organization Com-
mittee; and Maurie Wayne, Director of
College Relations and Secretary to the
Administrative Council.

The Analytical Review Committee
is a faculty dominated group whose re-
sponsibility is to analyze the Planning
Team's actions to assure that they are
within the goals and objectives of the
College and are financially feasible.
The members of this group are Dr.
Virginia Carlton, Dr. Stanton Taylor,
Dr. Charles Lowrey, Dr. Frank Carroll,
Dr. Nolan Shaw and Chaplain Robert

years ago to see if they were still valid.
Following endless committee meetings,
a new statement of Goals and Purposes
was approved by the faculty at a meet-
ing in March, 1974 and later adopted
by the Board of Trustees at their April
meeting.

At the same time the Planning
Team and other members of the Col-
lege community were preparing a series
of projection papers in the areas of stu-
dent enrollment trends, philanthropic
giving, government support of higher
education, economic conditions, etc.
Only if we had reasonable predictions
of the future could we be expected to
make competent judgements five years
ahead. We have also prepared detailed
job descriptions for each position on

and professional development is one of
the results of the planning system to
date. Our faculty will now be making
more personal contacts with the gradu-
ate and preprofessional schools to
make sure that our students are accept-
ed. As the direct result of the planning
activity, we are improving our pre-pro-
fessional studies in law and medicine.
A Pre-Law Advisory Council composed
of some of the leading attorneys of this
area is already making recommenda-
tions to strenghten our pre-law studies,
and a similar Council is at. work in the
pre-medical field. A new church careers
program is being offered in the fall and
should help the overall enrollment sit-
uation in September.

Recently the Planning Team re-
sponded to requests from the Board of
Trustees for specific actions in student

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Ed Taylor, Librarian Charles Harring-
ton, Comptroller Ronald Stephens and
two student members recommended
by the Student Senate and appointed
by the President. (A diagram of the
workings of this system appears on the
front cover of the magazine.)

When this planning cycle began
more than a year ago we were forced
to ask ourselves a number of questions.
"Why are we here as a private college?
What are our goals and objectives for
the future? What are the limits of our
resources?" The Planning Team began
a study of the existing Goals and Pur-
poses of the College published several

the College staff, from the president on
down. And we are making sure that all
of our policies are spelled out in black
and white so that everyone knows ex-
actly where we are heading.

I am determined that the new Goals
and Purposes of the College, published
elsewhere in this article, will not just
appear in the front of the catalog and
be forgotten. The Planning Team is
now following through trying to con-
struct a long range plan based on these
objectives within the limits of our re-
sources. We are moving from a rather
casual commitment to the Goals and
Purposes of the College to a strict ad-
herence to these principles.

A new emphasis on pre-professional

aid, tuition rates, and admissions prac-
tices. A study has been authorized by
the Planning Team to determine the
feasibility of initiating a new journa-
lism program in our curriculum. A Ca-
reer Counseling Center and an Office
of Placement for those students who
want to go to work immediately will
be in operation by the fall of 1975,
and will work closely with all gradua-
ting students to place them in the posi-
tions they are seeking. Some actual
economies, including a reduction in
student aid and better use of person-
nel, have been effected by the Planning
Team.

The Planning Team will continue to
work during the summer months to de-
velop our first five-year plan which we
hope will be a realistic and honest pro-
jection of what we hope to do within

that time span. I believe we are now
approaching the time when we can pre-
pare our annual budget with the pro-
per consideration of all programs in-
volved - with plenty of lead time - and
knowing what the future impact on the
College will be.

I have been favorably impressed
with the campus attitude toward our
new planning system. As we have
moved through the first phases of the
project, I have been pleased with the
willingness of everyone to devote what-
ever time is necessary to the accom-
plishment of this task.

It is no secret that Centenary Col-
lege, like most private independent in-
stitutions, is struggling to meet the
rising cost of higher education. It is im-
portant for our friends and supporters
to know, however, that we are not
just trying to hold our own; that we
are not just trying to save the old Col-
lege; but, that we are trying to build
the best institution that is possible
within the limits of the resources that
are available to us. We are willing to de-
vote whatever time and effort it takes
to do this job.

If we are successful, it will mean
increased support from our alumni
and friends who believe in what
we are doing. If there ever was
a time for our supporters to rally
to our cause, with both moral

and financial help, it is now.

As we prepare to celebrate the
150th birthday of Centenary College,
we must plan a secure future for this
great institution. I firmly believe that
the role of the private college, with its

emphasis on a truly superior academic
program and a personalized college ex-
perience, will be of inestimable value
to future generations. If we can leave
them a strong and vigorous Centenary
College, we will have done our job
well.

GOALS AND PURPOSES OF THE COLLEGE

Centenary College is a liberal arts
institution which provides superior
education for students capable of
intellectual leadership and for those
who can benefit from study in an
academic community where excel-
lence is encouraged and individual-
ity is respected. Such a community
is fostered by the residential nature
of the campus, an important factor
in the development of the Centen-
ary educational experience. Centen-
ary seeks to provide its students
with a basic understanding of hu-
man affairs and problems; to moti-
vate and equip them to think clear-
ly, honestly and constructively, and
to communicate effectively; and to
introduce them to the arts and sci-
ences, that they may enjoy the best
of the heritage of civilization.

Centenary places emphasis on
preparation for various professions,
both those for which a student can
be prepared during his undergradu-
ate career and those which require
further graduate and professional
study.

Centenary College, as an institu-
tion of the United Methodist
Church, believes that knowledge
and religious faith have to be linked
if one is not to destroy the meaning
of the other. The College strives to
challenge its students to serve soci-
ety by exemplifying the highest
Christian ethic. Our educational phi-
losophy thus is supported by anfl
founded on a Judeo-Christian heri-
tage which emphasizes the whole-
ness of human life, the interrelated-
ness of knowledge, and- the dignity
of man.

Members of the Planning Team are: (L - R) Grayson Watson, Wilfred Guerin, Maurie Wayne, James Allen, President John H.
Allen, Dean Theodore Kauss, R. Johnson Watts, Charles B. Lowrey and Arnold Penuel.

"I don't believe we are in a reces-
sion, but I would be less than honest
if I didn't admit we were in a serious
situation. "

"A peaceful coexistence of the
world's peoples would be possible if
our government would abandon its
'missionary zeal' now prevalent in our
political philosophy. "

"To think we can preserve the dem-
ocratic system of government without
working for it is a mistake we have
tended to make in the past. "

These varied opinions were express-
ed by three nationally recognized au-
thorities who appeared on the Centen-
ary campus during the spring semester
as Senior Woodrow Wilson Fellows.
Each spent one week at the College,
appearing before classes and engaging
in private conversations with students
and faculty. In the order of their ap-
pearance they were Harllee Branch, Jr.,
a former chairman of the board of the
Southern Company, a giant utility firm

in Atlanta; W. Walton Butterworth,
former ambassador and U. S. Minister
to China, the United Kingdom, Swe-
den, Canada, and the European Com-
munity; and Milton Viorst, a political
columnist for the Washington Star Syn-
dicate.

Harllee Branch will be remembered
at Centenary as a learned, articulate
and entertaining spokesman for Amer-
ican business. Lee Morgan, the Centen-
ary coordinator for the program set a
grueling pace for Branch, but he never
hesitated as he dashed from classroom
to faculty lounge to cafeteria to stu-
dent dormitories to a press conference
to evening social events in the homes
of Shreveport businessmen.

Branch appeared on campus at the
time the energy crisis was at its height.
"I have trouble with the word reces-
sion," Branch said, preferring to say
the economy was in a decline and
blaming the energy shortage for most
of the economic woes of the country.

He said it would serve no purpose to
name scapegoats in. the energy crisis.
"Part of the blame can be laid on the
shoulders of industry, government, reg-
ulatory agencies, research communi-
ties and environmentalist groups," said
Branch, "but, the public, because of
its wastefulness must also bear part of
the blame." A strong advocate of well
rounded liberal arts education, Branch
told Centenary students, "Sensitivity,
compassion, humaneness - these are
the qualities that must be present in the
people who run the machines that run
our society today. These are the char-
acteristics which are nourished by your
liberal arts education at Centenary Col-
lege."

Ambassador Butterworth was ac-
companied to Shreveport from his
home in Princeton, New Jersey, by his
charming wife who was completely
fascinated by spring in Louisiana.
Shreveport gained a real friend and ad-
mirer as she admired the beauty of the
flowering azaleas, redbuds, and dog-

WILSON FELLOWS

AMBASSADOR, BUSINEJ

Ambassador W. Walton Butterworth

Business^

wood. The Ambassador, in the Foreign
Service during the days of World War
II, and Minister to China during the
Communist take-over, told his audi-
ences that the United States must stop
trying to be "the big brother to the
world." "If we continue to pour mon-
ey into developing countries and con-
tinue to become involved in civil strug-
gles, at some time a choice must be
made as to which countries are worth
saving and which deserve American
aid," he said.

Butterworth said there will never be
a political philosophy to which all
world powers can subscribe. "How-
ever," he added, "peaceful coexistence
would be possible if political factions
would omit their missionary zeal, and
stop assuming that it is the mission of
Communism to destroy Capitalism and
vice versa."

Since their departure, Centenarians
have found two references to the
Butterworth's in two recently publish-
ed books. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy re-

fers to Mrs. Butterworth's assistance at
a reception for the King and Queen of
England at the American Embassy in
London in 1938 in her book Times to
Remember; and Margaret Truman
scolds the Ambassador for not taking
her side in an argument between the
Secret Service and the Swedish police
during her visit to Scandanavia in her
recently published book about the
presidency of her father, Harry S.
Truman.

Milton Viorst, political columnist
for the Washington Star-News Syndi-
cate, talked mostly of politics during
his week at Centenary in April. Viorst
said most young Americans remember
only the Kennedy assasination, the
riots of the Johnson administration,
the Vietnam War and Watergate and
should be pardoned if they do not
have great faith in the American gov-
ernment. "But," he said, "the worst
sin of all is passivity. The democratic
system is vulnerable only as long as the
citizens of the United States allow the
people who run it to have their own

way." He believes the system will re-
spond to provocation.

Viorst was a little surprised that
many of the questions asked him were
about the economy. Protesting that he
was a political writer and not an econo-
mist, he said he believes there are safe-
guards built into the system which
would prevent a crash similiar to 1929.
He was hesitant to name a possible
Democratic presidential nominee for
1976, but did offer the opinion that
Senator Edward Kennedy has forfeited
his right to the presidency because of
the Chappaquiddick incident.

The Woodrow Wilson Senior Fel-
lows program, funded by the Lilly
Foundation, sends representatives of
business, industry and the professions
to college campuses to bring the two
into closer contact. At Centenary it
has done just that.

IAN, JOURNALIST

CENTENARY COLLEGE

urges you to protect your family,
plan your estate, minimize your
taxes, and support your College.

Development Committee
The Board of Trustees
Centenary College
Shreveport, La.

uBranch, Jr.

Journalist Milton Viorst

OUTLOOK GOOD

GENTS 21 - 4 & COUNTING

The 1973-74 Centenary College Bas-
ketball team enjoyed its best season in
many years this past winter. The 21-4
record of the Gents is the best mark of
any team since 1958, the first year the
team competed in Division I. The sea-
son was highlighted by the Gents win-
ning the Shreveport Sports Foundation
Tournament and an outstanding home
court record of 12-0. Impressive road
victories came over Southwest Confer-
ence champion Texas, the University
of Arkansas, and highly-regarded
Southern Illinois University. The Gents
blended excellent team shooting with a
strong fast break attack to finish 12th
in the nation in scoring.

After his third year and a 53-24 re-
cord, Athletic Director and Head
Coach Larry Little has every reason to
be optimistic about next year's cam-
paign. Only Dave Deets, a starting
guard, will be absent from this year's
varsity squad. Again the Gents will be
headed by two genuine All-American
candidates. Robert Parish the TV
giant from Shreveport will be back for
his junior year and Leon Johnson a
6'5" forward from Newark, New
Jersey, will enter his final year of com-
petition. Both players are being active-
ly sought after by the pros. Parish will
completely rewrite the scoring and re-
bounding records during the next two
seasons and Johnson's style of play is
as exciting as any player in this section
of the country. Two other starters will
return along with two players who fall
into the "super-sub" category. Barry

McLeod, a 6'1" playmaker from
Bridgeport, Connecticut, and 6'8" Cal
Smith from Normal, Illinois, will be
the returning starters this fall. Nate
Bland a 6'2" sharpshooter from
Albany, New York, and steady 6'5"
forward Jerry Waugh from Oklahoma
City will be seeking starting jobs next
winter after an outstanding year in the
role of substitutes.

Centenary's basketball future con-
tinues bright despite a nagging and un-
just probation by the NCAA. The in-
definite probation is based on the 1972
conversion of test scores to determine
eligibility under the now defunct 1.6
rule. The Ohio Valley Conference is
under close scrutiny by the NCAA for
the same conversion, and the commis-
sioner of that conference, Art Guepe,
is planning a blanket appeal as soon as
the schools in the conference deter-
mine how many athletes were admitted
under the converted test scores.

Larry Little says the Ohio Valley
case is very important to Centenary.
"With the talent we have coming back
we feel we may have a shot at post-sea-
son play if we can get some relief from
the NCAA probation," he said. There
is speculation that as many as 72 ath-
letes may be involved in the Ohio Val-
ley case. And Little reasoned, "Perhaps
a closer look might be taken (by the
courts) if that many people were con-
fused."

The Centenary athletes involved
filed suit against the NCAA asking that
the probation be lifted. They lost the
case in the district court, but have tak-

en it to an appeals court in New
Orleans where a decision is expected
soon.

The key to the future success of the
program obviously lies in the recruit-
ing of new prospects. Associate coach
Riley Wallace is in charge of bringing
new talent to the Gents. The Gents
thus far have landed Bobby White, a
6'6" forward from Springhill, Louisi-
ana; Leroy Hoggs, a 6'1" guard from
Albany, New York; Sam Roberts, a
6'4" forward from Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma; and Randy Tilner, a 5'11"
guard from Sherman Oaks, California.
These players have an impressive array
of honors and should contribute tre-
mendously in the near future. Certain-
ly these players blended in with eight
returning lettermen make the future
for Centenary basketball bright.

TOUR TO HAWAII WITH THE GENTS

Dates: February 16 - February 24
Seven days in Hawaii

Cost: Approximately $500

For information call or write:

Mrs. Terry Finklea
Athletic Department
Centenary College
Shreveport, La. 71105
(312-869-5275)

Reservation on a first come basis

Vkfifflu&kdjMttntii

GEORGE A. WILSON

George A. Wilson, president and chairman of the board of the Lone
Star Steel Company of Dallas, a 1930 summa cum laude graduate of Centen-
ary, still remembers the College as an institution that provides a quality lib-
eral arts education combined with an awareness of the importance of develop-
ing good moral character. His favorite teachers were Dean John A. Hardin,
"a most lucid teacher, a sincere preceptor and an excellent leader of young
people, albeit a firm disciplinarian," and Dr. George Sexton, "the most per-
suasive individual I have ever encountered."

Wilson is a native of Mansfield, La., and attended Centenary from 1926-
30. He received the L.L.B. degree from Tulane in 1933 and was admitted to
the Louisiana Bar that same year, and to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar in 1938.
He practiced law in New Orleans where he served as a member of the Tulane
Law School faculty from 1933-40. He was Special Assistant Attorney Gener-
al for the Louisiana Department of Conservation from 1940-41; counsel for
Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana and Carter Oil Company 1941-45; director and
president of Interstate Natural Gas Company 1946-53; director and president
of TXL Oil Corporation 1955-62; and was named director, president and
chairman of the board of Lone Star Steel in 1962. He is also director of the
American Iron and Steel Institute, American Petrofina, Inc., Employers In-
surance of Texas, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Northwest
Industries, Inc., and Texas Manufacturing Association.

Wilson attended Centenary during times of financial strain not unlike
those experienced by private colleges today. He recalls "the resourcefulness
of the college administration on 'making do' with a bare minimum of facili-
ties and available funds."

Vff

MRS. DEAN CHAPMAN

Mrs. Dean Chapman of Tyler, Texas, the former Marilee Rabb of
Atlanta, is the author of a new children's book, "The Shocking Pink Duck"
published by the Taylor Publishing Company of Dallas. The book was inspired
by two ducks, Daisy and Dandy, who were Easter gifts to the Chapman child-
ren five years ago. The pair have become regular tenants on a pallete-shaped
lake that borders the Chapman home "Happy Hills" in Tyler. Their feathered
friends abode is a small castle on an island in the center of the lake, built for
them by the Chapman family.

Mrs. Chapman's book is written in "duckanese" and is designed to teach
children about God's love, the meaning of Christmas, the joy of Easter, the
secret of happiness, and the story of the United States of America. The book
is illustrated with water color paintings by Mrs. Chapman. "The Shocking
Pink Duck" is her first attempt to write a full length children's book, although
she has been interested in teaching young people all of her life.

Graduating from Centenary in 1947 with a major in elementary educa-
tion, she taught at the Creswell Street School in Shreveport for several years
before moving on to schools in San Antonio and Tyler, Texas. She recently
completed work for her Masters Degree from East Texas State University at
Denton. The daughter of Col. and Mrs. W. E. Rabb of Atlanta, Mrs. Chapman
is also the niece of Dr. Otha King Miles, professor emerita of education and
psychology at Centenary. Mr. Chapman is a prominent petroleum industry
attorney in Tyler.

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1973 ALUMNI LOYALTY FUND CONTRIBUTORS

(Contributions received as of June 10, 1974)

Due to the increased participation in the Loyalty Fund the Association has been able to implement many of its proposed pro-
grams. Centenary College is appreciative of your interest.

If your name does not appear on this list, but should, or is misspelled, please notify the Alumni Office.

* Indicates Member of Century Club
** Indicates Member of Presidents Club

'Mrs. Paul Adams

Alwynelle Self Ahl

Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Allen

Glennie Scott Allen

Alline Allgood
"Otis G. Allison
•Charles E. Anderson

William H. Anderson

Dr. and Mrs. Dale Armstrong
•John B. Atkins, Jr.

Mrs. Irene Baker

Mrs. Katie C. Baker

Mrs. Sidney Johns Baker

Dr. William Gerard Banks

Dr. Patsy K. Barber
•Rev. Donald E. Barnes
•Judge and Mrs. Chris Barnette

Dr. Richard J. Barry

Mary Lou Barton

Joe J. Beard

Ernest E. Bennett

Dr. Mouzon Biggs, Jr.

Chris Blanchard

Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Boddie

Dr. H. Whitney Boggs, Jr.
•John F. Bookout, Jr.

Rev. J. Henry Bowdon

Bill B. Boyd

Mrs. Ethel Boyett

Dr. James T. Boykin

Mrs. Ruth Brazzil

Mrs. M. J. Brooks, Jr.
•Mr. and Mrs. Algie D. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Brown

Mrs. MattieGray Brown
•Paul M. Brown
•Mrs. Travis A. Brown
•Emory C. Browne
* Harvey Broyles

Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bryson, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry R. Buckley

Mrs. William S. Bundrick

Mrs. Lucille Burke

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Butcher

Mrs. Enid G. Butler

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Cabra

John E. Cady
•Dr. J. T. Cappel

Chris Carey
•Dr. Virginia Carlton

Owen Carter
•Mrs. John D. Caruthers, Jr.
•Dr. ClaudeS.' Chadwick

Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Cheesman
•Fred E. Chippendale

Mrs. Eloise Christian

Mrs. John W. Clark, Jr.

Mrs. R. B. Clarke

Mrs. Penny Todd Claudis

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Cloyd

Uma S. Collins

Walter T. Colquitt
•Sidney L. Conger

Dr. Jack Cooke

Mildred Cooke

Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Cooke
•Thomas O. Cooper

Dr. and Mrs. Larry Cowley

H. N. Crawford, Jr.
•P. E. Crowe

Mrs. A. B. Culliton

Walter Daniels, Jr.
MissGlennell Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Davis
Mrs. Phyllis V. Davison
Amelia Lucas Day

•Capt. Robert F. DeBusk, III

Bickham Dickson
•Walter Dobie

Mrs. Jane L. Donaldson
•Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Downing

Robert P. Dugas

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Dunlop
•Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Durham

LTC James M. Durham
•Robert R. Eagle
•Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Earnest

• Robert E. Eatman, Sr.
Mrs. Everett Eaves
Mrs. Wanda B. Edwards
Mrs. Mary Elford

•Jack Elgin

♦Dr. Michael Ellis

Mrs. Albert N. Elmer

Jonas Epstein

John H. Evans

Albert B. Farnell

Mrs. Blanche K. Ferguson

Charles G. Fitzpatrick

Mr. and Mrs. Camp Flournoy

Elizabeth Friedenberg

W. W. Fuller

Julius A. Gamm
•Mrs. Dorothy Gammill

Milann F. Gannaway

Byron O. Garner

Mrs. Alta M. Gavin

David Gibson

Mr. and Mrs. George M. Gilmer, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Goins

Stella Goodbee

Mrs. Ida F. Goodman

• Bonnie Goodson
Mrs. Dot P. Goodson
Mrs. Joann H. Goodwin

••John P. Goodwin

Grimsley Graham

Mrs. H. Boyd Gramling

Mrs. George N. Gray

Mrs. Phyllis Laplean Green

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Green

Donald C. Griffin
•Mr. and Mrs. R. Mac Griffith

Richard Grisham

Paul L. Gunn

James W. Hammet

Miss Charlie Hampton

Harold J. Hanson, Jr.

Wayne Hanson

Dr. Francois Haravey

Edwin C. Harbuck
•John A. Hardin, Jr.

Gen. John S. Hardy

A. J. Harper, Jr.

Mrs. Baskin T. Harper

Helen V. Harper
•Dr. and Mrs. Erie W. Harris, Jr.

Rev. James T. Harris

L. H. Harris
•Dr. and Mrs. William S. Harwell

Mrs. C. J. Hatcher

Martha Hawkins

Robert K. Hawkins

James D. Henderson

Dr. R. S. Hendrick

Mrs. Margaret Hope Hickman

Mrs. Charles B. Hill

Mrs. Thomas E. Hogan
•Dr. Sam S. Holladay, Jr.

Mrs. Lee Ellen Holloway

Mrs. Huey Hudson
•Charles C. Hunter

Mrs. Robert P. Hunter

Mrs. Tinye D. Inion

Mrs. Ann M. Jackson
•Mrs. Edward H. Jackson
*Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, Jr.

Dr. George Jacobson
•*G. W. James

Mrs. Charles H. Jeter

Doris Jeter

Mrs. A. C. Johnson, Jr.

Joe A. Johnson

Mrs. Leila M. Johnson

Raymond L. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jones, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Jouett

Mr. and Mrs. Tom M. Keith

Mrs. Bonnye B. Kelley
•Curtis W. Kinard

Cathy Knighton

John B. Koelemay

Mrs. J. R. Lang, Jr.

Mrs. Carney G. Laslie, Jr.

Mrs. R. Clyd Lawton

A. M. Lazarus

Flavia Leary

Isabella Leary

Mrs. RobertO. Leath

Warren Levingston

Sarah L. Levy

Sam P. Liberto

Mrs. R. M. Lindsey

Mrs. W. E. Looney

Mrs. Herbert C. Loyd

Patricia M. Lucas

Mrs. James H. Lutschg

Dr. J. R. Martin

Rogers W. Martin

Maj. Ralph A. Mason Jr.

F. M. May
•Dr. J. Ralph Meier

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Meldrum, Jr.

Frank P. Merritt

Robert J. Miciotto

Mitzi L. Middlebrooks

P. A. Montgomery
•Mrs. Randle T. Moore, Jr.
•Taylor F. Moore

Ouida Fae Morris

Mary K. Mosley

Walter E. Murphy

Dr. and Mrs. W. M. McCaa, Jr.

Janelle L. McCammon
•William E. McCleary

Mrs. Louis F. McCormick

Linda Beaird McEntee

Mrs. Margaret T. McFadden

T. Chalmers McKowen

Mrs. Priscilla McLean

Lalon Neely

Mrs. Mary Noe

Mrs. Cornelia C. Nordahl

Grace J. Norton

Mrs. Keith O'Kelley
•Mrs. Kathleen Owens
•M. L. Owens, Jr.

John M. Parsons
•James N. Patterson

Rev. George Pearce, Jr.

PN3 Herb Pearce

Mrs. Robert E. Pecunia

Diane H. Penney

Frances Mary Perkins

Mrs. Lynoa Phillips

Rev. Delton Pickering

Fred M. Pippen

Joel B. Pollard
•Allen F. Prickett

Clovis E. Prisock

Mrs. Donald L. Purinton

E. H. Railsback

Carolyn C. Randall

Charles A. Ravenna
•Mrs. D. A. Raymond

Mrs. Fred L. Reagor

H. F. Rector, Jr.

Mrs. Derek Redmore

C. H. Reed

Doug Reeder
•Mrs. Amanda M. Reynolds

Mrs. Ron Rice

Mrs. John Richardson

Mr. and Mrs. J. David Roberts
•Austin G. Robertson

Judy Roemer
'Dr. and Mrs. Paul L. Rogers
• Ben Roshton

LaMoyne Salter

Robert L. Savory

Cecile Schaefer

Richard W. Schmidt

James P. Schweitzer

Don Scroggin

Joe E. Sedberry, Jr.
•W. P. Shehee, Jr.
•Ben Sheppard

Henry M. Shuey, Jr.
•Mr. and Mrs. John M. Shuey

James R. Sledge

Mrs. Minnie Smiley
•Thurman C. Smith

Lee H. Snow, Jr.

Rosemary Spalding

Mrs. Charla Corwin Sparks

Miss Marie Spivey
•Mr. and Mrs. Wynn G. Stanton

E. W. Staser

Mrs. A. E. Swanson

Robert Ed Taylor

Mr. and Mrs. Larry H. Teague

Dorothy F. Thurner

James R. Tinsley

William H. Towery
*Dr. and Mrs. Frank B. Trice

Mr. and Mrs. Ed B. Trickett

Robert G. Turnbull

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Viskozki

Loren Wallace

Mercer Inez Wansley
*Dr. and Mrs. Juan Watkins

Grayson Watson

Jack M. Webb

Mrs. John D. Whitaker

Mrs. Edna S. White
•Edwin F. Whited

Earle L. Whittington

Nena Plant Wideman

Charles Wilder

Ann Wilhelm

Mrs. Carolyn C. Wilhite

Jack C. Wilkerson

Charles D. Williams

Louis G. Williams, Jr.

Robert Dean Williams

Mrs. J. G. Wimberly

Mrs. Jerome M. Wolf
•Joe S. Wong

James Eugene Woods

Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Worley, Jr.

Edna S. Worley

Helen Heath Wray

Eleanor Wren

Virginia Wren

Sherrell W. Wylie, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Young, Jr.

Joe A. Zimmerman

CedyS,

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Over one fifth
of the 147 seniors

graduated with
honors this year
at the Commence-
ment Exercises,
Sunday, May 26.
Three seniors gra-
duated summa *
cum laude, Curtis Welborn of Shreve-
port with a 3.968 average, Zack Galen
Sanders of Bossier City with a 3.962
average, and John Hardt of Beaumont,
Texas with an average of 3.948. John
Logan, president and chairman of the
board of Universal Oil Products Com-
pany of Des Plaines, Illinois, told the
graduates to resist the lure of the "in-
stant answer" in making future deci-
sions. Logan, who received the honor-
ary Doctor of Laws degree, said "We
must identify long term solutions that
provide durable answers, and then we
must have an enduring commitment
to those answers."

A Pre-Medical Advisory Council

made up of prominent physicians and
educators has' been organized to
strengthen the pre-medical program at
Centenary College. Dr. Rod Yeager, an
alumnus, has agreed to serve as chair-
man of the council. All of the members
of the council have accepted enthusi-
astically and are already at work on a
schedule that will examine all areas of
pre-medical education at the College.
Other members of the council are: Dr.
C. G. Grulee, Dean of the LSU School
of Medicine, Shreveport; Dr. Eugene
St. Martin; Dr. Charles Black, Sr.; Dr.
W. Juan Watkins; Dr. Michael Ellis; Dr.
G. Peyton Kelly; Dr. H. Whitney
Boggs, Jr.; Dr. Paul D. Ware; Dr.
Joseph Lowenstein; Dr. Marcellus
Pearce, Dr. Charles D. Knight; Dr.
Mary Warters, professor emeritus in
biology at Centenary College.

Dr. Will K. Andress, a former presi-
dent of the Centenary College Choir,
has been named director of the famous
Centenary Choir, succeeding Dr.
William Ballard, who is leaving to be-
come director of the San Francisco
Boys Choir. Dr. Andress will retain his
duties as Minister of Music at the First
United Methodist Church in Shreve-
port in addition to his duties with the
choir.

Centenary

from

CENTENARY COLLEGE

Shreveport, Louisiana 7 1 1 04

Parents Only. If this issue is addressed
to your son or daughter who no longer
maintains his or her permanent address
at your home, kindly notify the Alumni
Association Office of the new mailing
address.

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UtfAYEM SQUABS biAxi^r

Dr. Arnold
Penuel, associate
professor of for-
eign language, has
been named the
recipient of the
Centenary Alum-
ni Association's
annual $1500 a-

Penuel

ward for special study. He will spend
the summer studying the works of the
19th Century Spanish writer, Benito
Perez Galdos. The award is made to en-
courage and support scholarly research,
writing and expert performance by a
Centenary faculty member.

The opening ceremonies for the ob-
servance of the 150th anniversary cele-
bration of the College will coincide
with Homecoming in 1975. The date is
Saturday, February 15th . . . make
plans now to attend.

CALENDAR

June 3-July 27

Summer session

July 4-July 27

"The Sound of

Music" Playhouse

August 27

Registration for

fall semester

Nov. 27-Dec. 2

Thanksgiving re-

cess

Jan. 6-Jan. 24

Interim

February 15

Homecoming

The Centenary College School of
Church Careers will open this fall, com-
bining Centenary's liberal arts educa-
tion with the only comprehensive, su-
pervised, on-the-job intern church ca-
reers program in the nation. The pro-
gram is designed to train lay workers
for active work in the churches of all
denominations. The unique program
makes it possible for any dedicated
young man or woman to attend, re-
gardless of financial condition. Infor-
mational brochures are available from
Centenary College, Shreveport, La.
71104.

In an effort to increase participa-
tion in the Loyalty Fund, alumni
volunteers recently held a phone-a-
thon. The outcome proved that the
gifts of many alumni working together
can provide the margin for success.
Approximately 300 new contributions

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HEW 0RUAUS, LA»

MOVED. jLEFT M0 XDVVme
were made (average gift $10.00) bring-
ing us very close ($14,900) to our goal
of $20,000. (Contributions may be
sent to the Alumni Office, Centenary
College, Shreveport, La. 71 104

Daniel Richard
Edmund, ' who

ranks 7th in his
class of 116 at
Benjamin Frank-
lin High School in
New Orleans, has
received the
Alumni Associa- Edmund

tion Scholarship for next year.
Edmund, senior class president at his
high school, has been active in all
phases of school life at BFHS. The As-
sociation offers four full-tuition
scholarships to deserving students, all
renewable for four years.

Jackson

Galloway

The Louisiana Annual Conference

approved two new members of the
Board of Trustees at Centenary College
on May 29. They are Will H. Jackson,
vice-president of the Commercial Na-
tional Bank of Shreveport, and Dr.
Benedict Galloway, pastor of the Noel
Memorial United Methodist Church.
Jackson was chairman of the 1974
Great Teachers Scholars Campaign
which has now exceeded its goal and
reached an all time high of $305,000.
Dr. Galloway has served churches in
Zachary, Baton Rouge, Franklinton.
Natchitoches, Houma and New
Orleans. |

A total of $66,000 has already beer
subscribed for the renovation of the
Mickle Hall of Science during the sum-
mer of 1975. Present plans call for the;
expenditure of a quarter of a milliori
dollars to completely modernize the
chemistry laboratories. Funds for the
project are being sought from founda •'
tions, firms and individuals.

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An Earle Labor photo of Aarhus University, Denmark, in the winter . . . story on page 3

THE GREAT DANISH ESCAPE by Earle Labor

TURNING THE CORNER . . . ENROLLMENT UP

HISTORY IS HUMAN by Grayson Watson

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Strictly
Personal

30's

Dr. Preston B. Allison ('34), has re-
cently returned from Southeastern
Louisiana University, where he was
Dean of the College of Education. He
is now serving as Professor of Religious
Education at Mid-America Baptist The-
ological Seminary in Little Rock, Ar-
kansas.

40's

Mrs. Virginia K. Shehee ('43) has been
named the General Chairman of the
third annual "Blitz Membership Drive"
of the Shreveport Chamber of Com-
merce.

Robert G. Pugh ('46), a Shreveport
attorney has been appointed by Gov-
ernor Edwin W. Edwards to the Louis-
iana Coordinating Council for Higher
Education for a six-year term.

Dr. H. Whitney
Boggs, Jr. ('47), has

been elected presi-
dent of the Confed-
erate Memorial Medi-
cal Center Hospital
Staff for the coming
year in Shreveport.
He is certified by the
American Board of
the American Board of Colon and Rec-
tal Surgery and is a fellow of the Amer-
ican College of Surgeons and the Amer-
ican Proctologic Society.

Dr. Betina C. Hilman ('48), has been
elected president of the American Tho-
racic Society of Louisiana, the medical
section of the American Lung Associa-
tion of Louisiana. She is also the first
pediatrician to be elected as president
of the 30-year-old medical specialty
society. Dr. Human is assistant profess-
or of pediatrics and chief of the allergy-
pulmonary section of the department
of pediatrics at the LSU School of
Medicine in Shreveport.

50's

Thurman Smith ('50), Shreveport, was
awarded the "Master of Photography"
degree by the Professional Photograph-
ers of America during the association's
national convention in Los Angeles
early in August.

Boggs

General Surgery,

T. R. "Bob" Monk,
Jr. ('53), public re-
lations director for
the Port Arthur Re-
finery and South-
Texas areas of Gulf
Oil Company-U. S.
will move to New
Orleans, La., to as- Monk

sume the position of Director, Public
Relations, for the Louisiana, Mississippi
and offshore Gulf of Mexico area.

Dr. Alton O. Hancock ('54), and his
wife Jane B. Hancock ('72), spent
eight weeks of this summer at the
Goethe Language Institute in Prien,
Bavaria Germany. While there they
took a Swiss Alpine hike with Professor
and Mrs. .Martin Antone Schmidt (he's
on the theology faculty at the Univer-
sity of Basal Switzerland). They also
visited Earhardt (X7 1 ) and Corky ('71)
Meir in Austria.

James D. Holcomb ('55), has been
named Dallas, Texas branch manager
for architectural and home building
products by the Owens-Corning Fiber-
glass Corp. He has been assistant
branch manager in Oklahoma City.

Mrs. Betty T. Peterson ('57), has been
chosen president of the Phi Beta alum-
nae group in Shreveport

Major James C. Bean, Jr., ('58) has
completed a 36-week Chaplain Officer
advanced course at the Army Chaplain
School, Ft. Hamilton, N. Y. The course
is designed to prepare Army Chaplains
for staff and supervisory assignments
and includes subjects ranging from
psychological counseling and financial
management to command and staff
procedures.

Lt. Col. James M. Durham ('59), has

been assigned to the 3rd Infantry Di-
vision in Germany. He is assistant
Chief of Staff, G4, Logistics of the Di-
vision at Wurzburg.

Lawrence M. Johnson ('59), assistant
district attorney in Shreveport, has
been promoted from sixth assistant to
fourth assistant.

60's

Suzanne Pelton ('60), of Richardson,
Texas has recently published a book
of poetry called "Insights." For nine
years after her graduation she followed
a career in the medical professions.
Since that time she has devoted her
life to homemaking and the pursuit
of painting, writing, and photography.
The illustrations and cover design for
the book are her own.

Charles W. Hembree ('61), has been

1974 75CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President Gene Bryson '63

First Vice President . Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40
Second Vice President . . . Judy Butcher '62

Secretary Jean Goins '63

Treasurer Dave White '61

DIRECTOR (Terms expire in 1976)
Gene Bryson '63, Judy Butcher '62, Jean
Goins '63, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki
'58, Dave White '61, Gayle Wren '64,
Chatham Reed '64, Jim Mitchell '64, Paul

awarded the Ph.D. degree in English
at Oklahoma University in Norman,
Oklahoma. He is a professor of English
at Central State University.

Tom ('63) and Phyllis (X61) Carter

are now living in London, England
where Tom is working for Baroid Di-
vision of National Lead. He is in charge
of mud sales in Great Britain, Scotland
and the North Sea.

John J. Evans ('64), has been named
vice president and secretary of Lee
National Life Insurance Company of
Shreveport. He heads his own manage-
ment consulting firm and has served in
a number of corporate positions, in-
cluding those of chief executive and
chief operating executive.

William N. Nelson ('64), has been ap-
pointed head librarian at Mobile Col-
lege. Nelson and his wife are the par-
ents of a boy, Christopher William
Nelson, born April 19, 1974.

Jimmy Culp, (X65), has been asked to
play the first in a series of Alumni Con-
certs sponsored by the Centenary
School of Music. Jimmy is now organ-
ist-choirmaster-for St. Luke's United
Methodist Church, Kilgore, Texas. He
was included in the 1970 edition of
Outstanding Young Men of America.

Joyce Dean Burnette ('68), recently
received her master of religious educa-
tion from Southwestern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary.

James E. Moore ('68),, has been pro-
moted to Vice President of Training
and Technical Assistance at Prome-
theus College in Tacoma, Washington.

Ron Di Iulio ('69), has been named as
musical director of Hayride U.S.A. in
Bossier City. He will be in charge of
the weekly auditions for performance
on the Friday night talent shows in
the auditorium. Di Iulio has appeared
in concert with B.J. Thomas ("Rain-
drops Keep Falling on My Head") and
he has worked with the Lawrence Welk
and Jerry Van Dyke shows as a pi-
anist.

70's

Rev. Spencer H. Lindsay, Jr., ('70) was
recently ordained to the Sacred Order
of Priests at St. Luke's Church in Baton
Rouge. He is serving as the Curate of
St. Luke's Church under the Rev.
Clarence C. Pope, Jr. ('50). Rev. Pope's
wife is also a graduate of Centenary
and the organist of the church.

Steven Mayer ('70) has been awarded
a teaching assistantship in Political
Continued on page 11

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
Oct., 1974, Volume 5, No. 3, published four
times a year— in October, January, April and
July by the Centenary College Alumni Asso
ciation, Shreveport, La. 711 04. Second Class
Postage paid at Shreveport, La. Published
for members of the Alumni Association and
friends of Centenary College of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Cindy Williamson

Cooke '68

(Terms expire in 1975)

(1974-75 Members Appointed by President)
Martha Goza '66, Carolyn Gray '55, Larry
Johnson '59, P.L. McCreary '62, Elizabeth
Yeager '61

1MWHIIIIIIIWIIPII t IHIII 'r

1"^hey say it's good for the soul-
so I might as well start with a
confession. I figured my Ful-
ybright year in Denmark would
be my Great Escape. I would teach a
few simple courses to the Danes-a bit
of literary criticism, a modest survey
of the modern American novel, and in-
evitably a good strong dose of Great
Short Works of Jack London. I would,
of course, pitch my lectures very slow-
ly and very deliberately to an audience
hard pressed to understand anything
more complicated in the English lan-
guage than primer sentences. Some-
where in the back of my mind lurked
a scene from an old Tarzan movie and
the words, "You Danish students-me
Fulbright Professor. Teachemericanlit
good, you betcha!"

I knew I had miscalculated the first
day I met my criticism seminar and be-
gan with the safe generalization that
what was new and different about mo-

dern criticism was the large collection
of nonliterary tools the critic has ac-
quired from other disciplines.

"But don't you think a nineteenth-
century critic like Matthew Arnold also
used 'nonliterary' tools?" inquired a
voice in flawless Queen's English. The
speaker was an intense, ascetic-looking
young man in his mid-twenties.

"Hmm," I confessed, startled, then
tried to regain my authority by out-
lining the basic critical approaches we'd
be applying during the semester.

"I expect we'll stick pretty close to
our texts," I said, smiling crookedly. . .

The truth is, I was a bit awed by
this unexpected sophistication. I learn-
ed in passing that most of my students
spoke, excellent English because they
had been studying English for about
ten years on the average-as well as Ger-
man and French. I also soon discovered
that Danish students are older than our

THE GREAT DANISH ESCAPE

By Earle Labor

Dr. Labor is professor of American literature at Centenary College. During the
1973-74 year he served as a Fulbright lecturer at Aarhus University, Denmark, where
he wrote this article for the "Conglomerate". Dr. Labor is considered one of the fore-
most authorities on Jack London and is the author of a recently published volume on
his life, "Jack London", a part of the Twayne United States Authors Series. This year
he has been named a Senior Fellow by the National Endowment for the Humanities
and will collaborate with London's nephew and executor, Irving Shepard, on a volume
about London as a farmer, rancher and ecological visionary. Ed.

undergraduates, usually entering the
university around the age of twenty.
They have completed three years in the
gymnasium (roughly equivalent to our
last year in high school and first two
years in college) before they are admit-
ted to the university. They spend two
years in what is called "First Part,"
then after passing several written and
oral examinations on language and lit-
erature, they are admitted to "Second
Part," which is about the same level as
our M.A. programs in the United
States.

But there are subtler differences
than age. Our students tend to be
much less inhibited in expressing their
ide^s; they tend to talk while they're
thinking (sometimes to talk before
thinking)-i.e., Americans seem to use
vocal expression not merely as a means
of communicating ideas but also as a
way of formulating ideas ("How do I
know what I think until I say it?")
Furthermore we are generally less wor-
ried about making fools of ourselves
than the Danes seem to be. My Danish
students were very reluctant to state
their opinions about literary questions
until they had had time to carefully
formulate them; hence I found that it

was almost impossible to get any "gut
reaction" out of them. In short, Danish
students tend to be substantially more
analytical than our own, and I suspect
this may indicate a basic difference be-
tween our two cultures generally. The
Danes-notwithstanding their physical
openness have a very strong sense of in-
tellectual and emotional privacy.

I guess this characteristic is enforced
by their educational system as well as
by the general social and cultural
milieu-I should say "has been enforced
in the past" because the system is
changing now. The lower grades are
very permissive in their approach, and
I gathered from what my own children
told me that the kids are allowed to
have things pretty much their own
way. But this attitude has only recent-
ly reached the gymnasium and univer-
sity.

Until about four years ago the
Danish university system was run by
professors-a very different rank from
what we know here. The Danish
equivalent to our professorial ranks is
the "Lektor"; the Danish "professor"
is a research scholar of the old school,
and he is awarded the office only after

many years of demonstrated scholarly
virtuosity. His status is such that stu-
dents address him in conversation not
with the conventional second-person
"you" but with the formal third-person
as "the Dr. Professor"; also his salary
is almost twice that of the highest paid
lektor. I should mention that although
my own title was "Fulbright Professor
of American Literature," the students
knew the difference; they had no
qualms about addressing me in the
familiar second-person.

As I say, until quite recently the
professors ran the system. They set the
academic policies, the curricula, the
standards-and they enforced these
with an iron hand. It was a tough, de-
manding program, fiercely competitive
and highly selective-and only the fit-
test were awarded degrees. It was clear-
ly an elitist system.

But in 1970 the professors were
legislated out of authority. The state
political leaders, influenced by popular
demand (and by examples of student
revolt at UC/Berkeley and other Amer-
ican universities), decided that such a
totalitarian educational approach was
a glaring anachronism in a socialist-
democratic country. The professors
were not ousted from office, but sim-
ply ^from power, through state laws
which stipulated that the business of
the university would be conducted
through a democratic committee sys-
tem, with strong student representa-
tion.

As might be guessed by any veteran
committeeman (Who was it. observed
that "Cynics aren't born-they're just
optimists who've been recycled
through committees"?), this Paradise
of Academic-Democracy-at-Work has
already discovered a few snakes. The
following, while not necessarily the
most venomous, seem to be the most
worrisome:

1 . Though designed to provide bet-
ter representation for the students, the
committees do not in fact represent
the student body at large but only cer-
tain tightly organized cliques within
the student body. There are more than
900 students in the English Institute,
for example, but only a third of them
vote in campus elections.

2. Because of the4 - 4 composition
of the Studienaevnet (the executive
committee of the English Institute),
voting on many crucial issues is stale-
mated. One of the faculty representa-
tives who resigned from the group last
semester told me that the students vote
en bloc according to prearranged plans
regardless of the issue at hand and that
on issues where student opinion differs
from faculty opinion, no action results
except when the vote is split among
the faculty representatives.

3. Discontent with the traditional
curriculum has led to such new stu-
dent proposals as the following: (a)

drastic reduction of conventional lan-
guage and literature requirements; (b)
replacement of these by required cours-
es which have greater "social and his-
torical relevance" to enable students
in English "to see the larger context";
(c) a more liberal substitution of papers
(themes) for written and oral exami-
nations; (d) the replacement of tradi-
tional literary periods and genres with
"topics" of the student's choosing (this
proposal stirred up a hornet's nest
among the teachers when "topic"
was defined to mean not only the
works of one author but also a single
work-thus, at least in theory, it might
be possible for a student to complete
his Second Part by reading a total of
eight literary works).

4. Because so much of their time is
consumed in committee meetings, stu-
dents and teachers alike find them-
selves hard pressed to maintain a pro-
ductive scholarly regimen.

5. The absence of clearly centered
authority, along with the disappearance
of any sharply defined pattern of pro-
fessional responsibilities, has had an
unsettling effect upon both permanent
staff and student teachers. The latter
are most obviously affected because
they work without contract on a sem-
ester-to-semester basis. But I have seen
a number of signs of anxiety among the

"The professors were not ousted
from office, but simply from
power. "

teachers themselves whose professional
status is undermined by the political
instability of the present system. One
symptom is despair; another is cyni-
cism.

I should make it clear that here I am
discussing tendencies as they appeared
to me personally-filtered through my
own professional biases. Granting this,
I think the academic situation will
deteriorate further in Denmark before
the politicians realize that "higher edu-
cation" is by definition non-egalitarian
and that the very nature of the teacher-
student relationship implies different
levels of knowledgeability and judg-
ment.

But lest I give the impression that I
myself had anything less than a reward-
ing Fulbright year, let me mention a
few very positive impressions of my
Aarhus University adventure.

As I hope my photographs reveal,
the campus is one of the most beautiful
I have seen anywhere, and each season
revealed to me a new beauty in the
place.

Still more important, the faculty of
the English Institute is truly first-rate.
Most of the permanent teachers are
publishing scholars as well as dynamic
teachers. For example, my Fulbright
sponsor, Erik Hansen, an Ivy Leaguer
with a Yale Ph.D., is a widely publish-

ed scholar/ critic whose encyclopedic
knowledge encompasses American in-
tellectual and cultural history as well as
literary criticism, philology, and Shake-
speare. Donald Hannah, a Glasgow
Scotsman, lectures with a brilliance
that is legendary; and students flock to
his classes by the hundreds-literally.
He has published essays in such pres-
tigious journals as the Sewanee Review,
and his fine critical biography of Karen
Blixen(Isak Dinesen) was recently pub-
lished by Random House. Anna
Rutherford, an incredibly energetic
Aussie, is a world famous authority on
Commonwealth literature: she spent
the mid-year break in Africa at a con-
ference on Third World Literature;
during the brief week's recess preceding
Easter she delivered a paper at Brussels,
then flew to Montreal to deliver anoth-
er. Karl-Heinz Westarp comes closer to
being the universal scholar than any
person I've known since our own
Bruno Strauss (if Centenary students
haven't heard about Dr. Strauss, the
Conglomerate ought to publish some-
thing just to remind us that a college,
like an individual human being, may
grow in greatness and nobility through
association). Darl-Heinz, a native of
Cologne, easily commands a half-dozen
languages; he is a master of philosophy
and an expert in modern drama and
Yeats. He is also a priest at the only
Catholic Church in Aarhus.

The situation among the students
themselves is perhaps more ambiguous.
Kim Schroder, one of the brightest I
ever taught, who also happens to be a
member of the Studienaevnet, said to
me one day, "We think of our univer-
sity students as the bloom of our
youth-but it is not a very pretty flow-
er." He explained that because it is so
easy for anybody to get money from
the state for attending the university,
many students take English because
they have^nothing else to do; he esti-
mated that at least one-fifth of the cur-
rent crop in the English Institute had
already tried other fields and dropped
out. I should mention that the new
democratizing of academic politics has
been accompanied by legislation provi-
ding funds for virtually everybody who
wants to attend the university, regard-
less of academic qualifications. More-
over, the university registrar does not
keep a list of courses taken by each
student (there are no transcripts and
no course grades); the students sit in
on any courses they choose (courses
are designated for Part One and Part
Two students, and teachers may set
limits for enrollments in seminars: oth-
erwise there are no restrictions); and
there is no official record of class en-
rollments, courses taken, or class atten-
dance (the teacher may keep his owfi
informal record if he chooses, but even
this is optional).

I myself encountered several note-
worthy manifestations of this open
system. As might be imagined, it can

wreak havoc with a tightly planned
seminar where so much depends on
student preparations and participation.
My Jack London seminar began with
three students last term, grew to twice
that size by mid-semester, then drop-
ped back to five by December. My
literary criticism seminar started with
four, briefly grew to five, then settled
down to three steady participants after
the first month. My lecture course in
the modern American novel attracted
40-50 students for the first month or
so, then I noticed the number begin-
ning to dwindle. By the end of Novem-
ber, the attendance had fallen to about
20. My morale was badly shaken. I
knew I'd had a few less-than-brilliant
lectures, but I didn't feel I'd been so
consistently bad. One day at lunch I
complained about the decline to
Michael Black, one of several Britishers
on the faculty.

"Oh if you still have twenty, you're
lucky," he remarked; Go'rdon Camp-
bell has only three now in his Milton
class-and he started with nearly thir-
ty."

But the situation was reversed in my
spring semester on "The Archetypal
Woman in American Literature." Most
of my pedagogical hopes and fears for

the semester revolved around this
course. I had been told in advance that
it had generated an unusual amount of
interest among the students and that I
should anticipate a heavy enrollment-
futhermore that I might expect par-
ticularly heated interest from the Red
Stockings, Denmark's active feminists.

"You had better be ready for
them," was the disquieting tip one
friendly student gave me.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Oh, nothing really, except they are
very tough."

"Well, I'll just start the first class by
confessing I'm an incorrigible male
chauvinist pig," I chortled, hoping he
hadn't detected the slight tremor.

I wasn't sure how I was going to be
"ready for them," but I did know I'd
better put some kind of limit on the
size of the class. I couldn't remember
how many people it took to make a
mob, but I knew that no seminar
could function effectively with more
than twenty students. So I tacked a no-
tice on the Institute bulletin board
announcing a maximum enrollment of
20 and asking those who planned to
attend to sign their names and address-
es in the 20 numbered spaces on. the
notice sheet. I'd say it was like waving
a red flag in front of a bull, but it.
would be a faulty metaphor. Anyhow,
a couple of days later my son Royce
said.

"Dad, have you looked at that no-
tice you put up about the Archetypal
Woman seminar?"

"No, why?"

"It's sure got a lot of names on it."

The next morning I counted 29.

More than 30 were waiting when I
showed up for the first class meeting.
Only four were males. There weren't
enough seats. The air was worse than
the L.A. freeway. ■ Cigarette, smoke^
pipe tobacco and cigar smoke. More
Tike the third day of a weekend poker
marathon. None of the men were
smoking. I began to understand what
my friend had meant when he said
they were a tough bunch.

Too tough for me, I decided. I
threw myself on the mercy of the
court.

"You might as well know this is the
first time I've ever taught this course,"
I confessed. "We'll all be learning to-
gether, and I'll be depending on you to
make the venture succeed."

"Would you mind asking for no
smoking during class?" one of the four
males wheezed.

They knocked out the pipes, stub-
bed the cigarettes and cigars, we open-
ed the windows, and the air cleared-

and remained clear throughout the
semester.

But what pleased me the most was
that they took me at my' word and
made the class work. After I put the
course into their hands, they organized
into subgroups to make weekly reports
on our assigned novels. Full class dis-
cussion followed the formal reports,
which were remarkably perceptive and
articulate. It was one of the best classes
I ever had. The window shoppers and
idlers dropped out after the first week-
except one: a gorgeous blonde knitter
who stayed until mid-term, never re-
porting, never entering class discus-
sions, just knitting. A couple of snap-
shots taken over her shoulder show
that the notepad on her desk is abso-
lutely clean and the book opened be-
side it is not one of our texts-but a
book of knitting instructions.

So now, in retrospect, I think
Danish students are not so different
from our own after all. Some are ex-
ceedingly bright and conscientious;
some are dull and conventional; some
are more interested in the science of
political maneuvering than in the less
practical art of learning for its own
sake; a few have managed somehow to
enjoy the rigors of higher education on
their own terms, discovering that even
the airy thinness of Henry James's Por-
trait of a Lady can be transmuted into
something warm and functional-per-
haps a sweater or a scarf.

Would I want to do it again-ex-
change Centenary for Aarhus? Sure I
would. For a semester. Maybe even for
another year sometime. Permanently?
No way.

Is Centenary better than Aarhus?
Yes. Some ways. No in other ways. The
question does not apply, really. You
don't put that kind of comparative
value on home. Not better. Not worse.
It's home.

Besides, I couldn't find my name
anywhere on the Aarhus University
seal.

HISTORY IS HUMAN

By Grayson Watson
Vice Pres. — Development

T^he Cline Room, located in the beautiful Centenary College Library, houses
the archival and historical materials of the College. In it one will find valu-
able books, maps, diaries, reports, letters, bills of sale, and other things that
help give the flavor of history. Included in its official collections are the sep-
arate archives for Centenary College (dating back to 1825), the North Louisiana
Historical Association, and the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church.

Over the last decade the Cline Room collection grew immensely in both quantity
and quality due especially to the labor of love of the late Kathleen Marshall Owens,
assistant librarian, and Dr. Walter Lowrey, chairman of Centenary's history depart-
ment. In terms of the library staff presently, the Cline Room is now the special re-
sponsibility of Ella Edwards, assistant librarian, who already has demonstrated her
ability for securing distinctive additions to the collection.

History is on everybody's mind at Centenary this jubilee year because the Col-
lege is celebrating 150 years of educational service. In terms of the American ex-
perience, that is a lot of history! Centenary has grown up with this nation and mag-
nificently survived ruinous economic depressions, yellow fever, the Civil War, Re-
construction and almost every other serious upheaval imaginable. But" why is history
important? And more specifically, what do the materials in the Cline Room mean
to us?

History is not the wooden recitation
of dates, battles and treaties. And while
no final definition is possible, it is nec-
essary to understand that nothing hu-
man is alien to history. Wherever hu-
man beings act and interact, there is
history. As one philosopher wrote,
"History is at every point life." This is
the clue to the importance of the Cline
Room.

To some, the Cline Room houses
musty old records of value to no one.
But to the intelligent, this collection
is a precious resource to assist man's
understanding of himself. It was R. G.
Collingwood who suggested that if his-
tory if "for" anything, it is for human
self-knowledge and understanding. Be-
yond the joy of antiquarian curosity,
the materials in our archives are valu-
able because they are helping genera-
tions of students know themselves,
their society and culture, better. And
what better way to study American
history than through the use of pri-
mary documents? By showing what
man has done, these resources help us
know who man is.

History involves research, and the
discipline of inquiry-finding things
out. That is why there must be a Cline
Room, with its growing collection, ade-
quate space and equipment, and a
trained staff to classify materials and
to assist qualified researchers. Here the
accredited scholar, and students work-
ing under faculty direction, have direct
access to protected materials.

In the Cline Room one will find:
An 1817 letter from an anxious
father worried about his son's con-
duct. "I received yesterday through
the Post Office here a letter from Mr.
Shannon (the President of the Col-
lege) touching the circumstances of
(as he says) a great change in your
morals, industry and good standing
as a dilligent scholar, etc. I do not
wish to reproach you with unkind
language or wish you to believe my-
self or your mother are impressed by
the circumstance with any unkind
feelings: to the reverse, I feel hurt . . .
we have too much confidence in the
indefatigable and nobleness of your
heart to believe you would inflict so
deep a wound on your parents as to
turn prodigal. We say to you with all
the kindness of our natures to return
with determination to your studies-
and should you have some improper
associates you know it-and break
off."

An unfinished and unaddressed
letter found on a dead Union soldier
in 1862 after the battle of Shiloh.
"Dear Brother We are Now in pitsburg
Landing in West Tenisee and it is
Warm as yo Ever see August thare
Wee Landed this morning Wee Have
been on the steam Boat 6 days I am
Well and Hope yo are the Same there

is 170 thousand of Federil troops
Here and in aboute the same of the
enemy Wee Will Have A Big Battle in
A few Days and it Will Be Fun"

From the Leary-Jones papers re-
cently donated to Centenary signs of
the dissoloution of the shattered Con-
federacy from an original copy of a
Special Order from Major F. M.

Raxdale at Brookhaven Mississippi in
1865. "Tou will proceed at once to
Clinton, La. and vicinity for the pur-
pose of arresting and returning all De-
serters and Absentees without leave
from the Louisiana Brigade ... in
compliance with circular order from
General Forrest's Hdqs. dated Macon
Mississippi, February 1, 1865."

Extracts from the faculty minutes
of old Centenary at Jackson, Louisi-
ana, April 4, 1837: Mark
was called before the Faculty on
charge of asking permission to go
home and afterward going to some
other place in the community-of
visiting the tavern without permission,
and of associating with a suspended
student. The circumstances of the
case were such as to induce the Fac-
ulty to suspend him from good stand-
ing until he show satisfactory evi-
dence of a disposition to regard the
College Laws.

There is much more to discover in
the Cline Room, and materials are
being added constantly. This is why
the College needs your help. If you
possess historical materials in your old
trunk, attic or vault, consider donating
them to the College so they can be
protected and used wisely. And if they
are in any sense controversial, they can
be sealed from use for a determined
period of years. Those who want items
evaluated for possible donation, or
who wish to contribute financially to-
ward the support of this special work,
should contact Dr. Walter Lowrey,
Centenary College.

Centenary has the advantage of 150
years of history. As the College con-
tinues to make history, the value of the
Cline Room collection will grow in sig-
nificance. It is one more reason why
Centenary College is such a special
community of learning.

Recent donations of old papers
to the Centenary College archives
include a group of letters, docu-
ments and photos known as the
Roland Jones Papers given to the
College by Mrs. A. M. Leary, 20
Dudley Square on behalf of Mrs.
Ashford Jones; and a Republic
of Texas Land Grant signed by
Sam Houston donated by Mrs.
John B. Greer, Sr., 802 Trabue
Street, Shreveport.

A letter found on a Civil War battlefield and a Special order from General Forest
are a part of the Roland Jones Papers donated to the College by Mrs. A. M. Leary.

Registrar Dr. Charles B. Lowrey registers a portion of the 784 students enrolled at Centenary (top) while Barbara Miller,
Carolyn Carlton and Pattie McKelvy relax in the girl's dormitory complex where occupancy is up 20%.

TURNING

THE

CORNER

ENROLLMENT
UP 9%

DORMITORY

OCCUPANCY

UP 20%

The mood at Centenary College this fall might be described
as one of genuine optimism. The outlook stems from an en-
couraging fall enrollment figure and plans that augur well for
future student recruiting.

Final enrollment figures from the Registrar's Office total
784 students, compared to 722 at this same time last year, for
an increase of 9%. Included in the count were 338 new stu-
dents, a jump of about 40% over the same figure last Septem-
ber.

The occupancy rate in the dormitories, for both men and
women, is also up a healthy 20 per cent with 446 living on
campus this year compared with 370 last year. College offi-
cials were pleased with this figure since it stresses the residen-
tial nature of the College.

The increase in enrollment at Centenary comes in the face
of a national downward trend at private colleges, and a level-
ing off or a decrease in the enrollments of many state colleges
and universities.

President John H. Allen attributed the welcome increase to
hard work and planning, and a new emphasis on career-orien-
ted programs including church careers, pre-law and pre-medi-
cine.

The School of Church Careers has attracted more than 100
students in its initial year on the Centenary campus. The new
program will qualify students as professional lay-workers in the
nation's churches through a combination of the liberal arts
curriculum and a suprevised internship providing practical ex-
perience in selected areas of church administration including
sacred music, youth work and Christian education.

A successful pre-medical weekend (reported in Centenary
Magazine in March) will be repeated again this year. Last year
the program attracted 178 high school students from a wide-
ranging area interested in medicine . . . twenty of whom later
enrolled at Centenary in September. A pre-law weekend, de-
signed along similiar lines and featuring LSU Law School Dean
Paul M. Hebert and Supreme Court Justice John Dixon, is
scheduled for the weekend of October 26.

Other career-oriented programs, including one in journalism,
are under study by the Centenary Planning Team.

Even as the new class was registering, Warren Levingston,
director of admissions, and his staff were already at work re-
cruiting the students that will enter in the fall of 1975. Pleased
with the upturn in enrollment, Levingston said if the college
can continue to recruit larger entering classes, while they are
graduating the smaller classes of the past few years, the enroll-
ment picture should show some steady gains in the future.

Levingston and his staff will be working in six areas as they
plan for 1975.

The Admissions Office will continue to serve as the catalyst
for the special weekends (pre-law and pre-medicine) and will
make follow-up contacts with students.

They will continue to cooperate with a national testing ser-
vice in what is known as a Student Search for applicants who
have indicated they are looking for a college similiar to Cen-
tenary. They hope to get as many as 1 500 returns on recruiting
materials sent to these prospects.

Other successful programs will be continued and expanded;
wall hangers in high schools will be sent out, the staff will con-
tinue visiting high schools within a 300 mile radius, contacts
will be increased with the churches and small communities,
and personal interviews with students and their parents in their
home will be increased.

The Shreveport-Bossier community took note of the Cen-
tenary enrollment statistics. Business and professional people
in the city congratulated Dr. Allen, and Stanley Tiner, Editor
of the Shreveport Journal, in an editorial entitled "Growing
with Shreveport," called the development "encouraging since
the nationwide enrollment in private colleges has been drop-
ping."

The increased enrollment comes as the College prepares to
celebrate its 150th anniversary in 1975, and adds a positive
note to that historic observance.

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JAMES S. NOEL

James S. Noel, Class of '34, president and property manager for five cor-
porations including the Noel Estate, Inc., a bibliophile, collector, and the own-
er of a rare book library of some 30,000 volumes, was no mean athlete in his
college davs and for years thereafter. He was city handball champion as early
as 1931 and as recently as 1967 and once held the Southwestern AAU cham-
pionship in wrestling.

Noel, a polished prose stylist in his own right, recorded for us his best
memories of Centenary teachers and leaders. "For unrivalled polish in history
lecturing, Dr. Bryant Davidson; for intellectual energy and mathematical com-
petence, Dr. I Maizlish; the unique and instructive styles of Dean Mable
Campbell, and Drs. A.M. Shaw, Katherine French and S.A. Steger in English;
the encyclopedic interests of Dr. E.L. Ford, and his unfailing assurance that
'you could do better'; the earnest and joyful enthusiasm of the ART-FULL
Morgans; the classicism of Professor William Phelps; the labored diligence
of Dr. A.B. King and Professor C.L. Odom, both big on special note-
books and personal investigation; the homespun wisdom and vital insights
of Pierce Cline; the phenomenal presentations and personality of Dean
Emeritus R.E. Smith; the good looks and teacher-maker-dedication of Dr.
Robert R. Ewerz; the inflexible discipline of librarians Lucille Althar and
Dorothy Moss; and that exceptional man who had earned everyone's respect,
Dean John Hardin. I recall the measured earnestness and gentleness ot Dr.
George Sexton and the vibrant thunder of Bishop-to-be Angie Smith! And
who can forget Coach Curtis Parker, whose football paragons ran 23 consecu-
tive giant-killing wins, and our S.W. Conference basketball champs?"

THOMAS O. COOPER

The Centenary College ties are strong for a Des Moines, Iowa banker.
Thomas O. Cooper, president, trust officer and director of the South Des
Moines National bank, and his wife, Lois, returned for Homecoming last year
to renew old memories and plan to return again this year for the February
reunion honoring the 150th anniversary of the College.

Cooper is a Shreveport native and received his A.B. degree from Centenary
in 1934. He began his banking career in the credit department of the North-
west Bancorporation in Minneapolis. Today in addition to his affiliation with
the South Des Moines National Bank, he is director and vice president of the
Brenton Banks, Inc. of Des Moines, and a director of four other Iowa banks at
Indianola, Emmetsburg, Glarion and Eagle Grove.

Cooper has remained a friend of education. He is a faculty member at the
Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University and is a member of
the board of directors of the University of Dubuque.

"One of the great things about Centenary," Cooper recalls, "was the devo-
tion of the administration and faculty to the student body and each individual
student. It was a period of economic stress and many pay checks were in the
form of script, redeemable in stores in Shreveport. It is a spirit such as this
that makes a College great."

"My fondest recollection of Centenary is the fact that throughout the
entire student body everyone was with his peers-there really was no distinc-
tion between the affluent and the ones who had to scrape along. The social re-
gister had no great standing and there was a feeling of togetherness."

Strictly
Personal

Science from the University of New
Orleans. He will concentrate his studies
on the Multi-National Corporation in
the European Common Market.

Douglas Koelemay ('70), has been
named Foreign Service Officer, an
Economic/Commercial post in Malawi
in East Africa. He is married to the
former Carol Mittelstaedt ('70).
Koelemay said, "J. was the only one of
more than two dozen students from
South Carolina who took the foreign
service test and passed the test. Two of
my professors told me the reason was
my liberal arts education." He worked
this past summer as press secretary to
Congressman William Jennings Bryan
Dorn during his campaign for governor
of South Carolina.

Henry M. Shuey, Jr. ('70), has gradu-
ated from the University of Alabama
School of Medicine. He will do his re-
sidency in neurosurgery at the Univer-
sity of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

Susan Kunnemann Shuey (X71), has

finished her first year of Law School
at Cumberland Law School, Samford
University, Birmingham, Alabama.

LITTLE GENTS

Dwayne ('69) and Sally McAfee are the
parents of a baby boy, Mathew
Dwayne, born August 15, 1974 in
Shreveport. He weighed 8 lbs. and 9
ozs.

Pat ('68) and Carol Ann ('69) Caraway

have announced the arrival of Patrick
Q.uinn, born July 30, 1974 in Shreve-
port. He weighed 8 lbs. and 3 ozs.

Leonard ('67) and Mary ('68) Critcher

are the parents of a baby boy, Leonard
Warick, born August 1, 1974 in Shreve-
port. He weighed 7 lbs. and 9 ozs.

Sonny ('70) and Betsy ('71) Moss are
the parents of a baby boy, Mathew
David, who weighed in at 8 lbs. and 13
ozs. He was born August 14, 1974 in
Shreveport.

Joseph Stephen ('71) and Pam (,71)
Heard are the parents of a baby boy,
Stephen Cooper, born March 30, 1974.
He weighed 7 lbs. and 6V/2 ozs.

DEATHS

Mary F. Trant ('38) recently passed
away on July 6, 1974.

Sybil Moore ('31) passed away July 3,
1974.

Richard Alan Millar of Dallas, Tx.
died recently after a long illness. He
was a senior attending Centenary at

the time of his death. Millar was a
member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Memorial contributions may be made
to the Richard Alan Millar Scholarship
Fund at Centenary.

Bonneau Peters, hon-
orary alumnus, died
recently in Shreve-
port at the age of 87.
Peters was affiliated
with professional
baseball as president
of the Shreveport
Texas League fran-
chise for more than two decades.
He was once cited as the nations
"Mr. Baseball."

Peters

Prior to the 150th anniversary
of the College next year, a pic-
torial history of Centenary will
be published for friends and
alumni. Dr. Walter Lowrey, chair-
man of the history and govern-
ment department is now collect-
ing information and pictures for
the publication. Anyone having
an old picture or other memora-
bilia of old Centenary at Jackson,
or of the early days in Shreve-
port are asked to contact Dr.
Lowrey at 318-869-5185 or
through the Centenary Library.

HOMECOMING 1975

SATURDAY; FEBRUARY 15

Homecoming— Charter Day Weekend will be the "kick-off celebration for Centenary's 150th birthday. Although the birth-
day celebration will continue throughout the year with special events, you will want to make plans to be here Saturday and
Sunday for the opening ceremonies.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
10:30- 11:30 a.m.

11:30- 12:15 a.m.
12:15- 1:45 p.m.

1:45 - 4:15 p.m.
TBA

4:00- 5:00 p.m.

6:00- 7:15 p.m.

8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
10:00- 12:00 midnight

Registration-Faculty -Alumni Coffee

Class Reunions (1925, '30, '35, '40,
'45, '50, '55, '60, '65, '70)

Luncheon

Campus Capers

Play

Old Timers Game

Open House-Art Exhibit

Banquet

Centenary vs. Southern Illinois

After Party

Hamilton Hall

Cafeteria
Amphitheater
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
Gold Dome

Haynes Gum
Gold Dome
Petroleum Club

Centenary

from

CENTENARY COLLEGE

Shreveport, Louisiana 7 1 1 04

Entered As Second Class Ms

Promotions Three top members of
the College administration have been
named vice-presidents. Dean Theodore
Kauss has been named executive vice-
president; James Allen is vice president
for financial affairs; and Grayson Wat-
son becomes vice president for devel-
opment. Dr. Charles B. Lowrey has
been promoted to assistant Dean of the
College, and Ronald Dean is acting di-
rector of the School of Music, replac-
ing Dr. Frank Carroll who is now chair-
man of the music department at Appa-
lachia College in North Carolina. Dr.
Robert Hallquist, chairman of the edu-
cation department, has been named
acting chairman of the physical educa-
tion department.

Centenary College Choir The Cen-
tenary College Choir, under the direc-
tion of Dr. Will K. Andress, will return
to the "Rhapsody in View" format
for their annual show sponsored by the
Downtown Lions Club of Shreveport.
The event will be presented Nov. 5 and
6 at the Shreveport Civic Theatre. This
season marks the 25th anniversary of
the Lions Club sponsorship of the
Choir's annual Shreveport show, an
association that started in 1949 during
the 125th anniversary of Centenary
College. Choir alum James Goins is
serving as chairman of the presenta-
tion. Both Dr. Andress and Goins sang
in the choir when it was under the di-
rection of Dr. A. C. Voran. The pro-
ceeds from the "Rhapsody" show are
divided between the Choir and the
Lions Club's Crippled Children's Camp
near Leesville.

New Funding Dr. Fred E. Harris,
associate general secretary of the Board
of Education of the United Methodist
Church, speaking at the President's
Convocation, September 5, said new
funding for private colleges and univer-
sities must be found, "but, we must do
this without surrendering our free-
dom." "Without Centenary College and
other private institutions, we have no
real safeguard against an overpowering
state," Dr. Harris said.

Western Electric Grant The West-
ern Electric Fund has made its fourth
$10,000 installment on a $50,000 un-
restricted grant to Centenary. Ron B.
Butterfield, Jr., general manager of the

Shreveport Works of the Western Elec-
tric Company recently presented the
check to President John H. Allen.

UOP Donates $10,000 For Lab The

UOP Foundation of Universal Oil Pro-
ducts Company of Des Plaines, Illinois,
through the manager of its Shreveport
Process Division, Jack R. Schoenfeld,

CALENDAR

Oct. 13-24 Pat Williams art ex-
hibit

Oct. 17 Dr. Don Harbuck

Oct. 18 Aiko Onishi, pianist
(Friends of Music Series)

Oct. 25-26 PRE-LAW WEEK-
END

Oct. 27-Nov. 7 LSUS Faculty
Art Exhibit

Nov. 7 Rabbi Stanley Greenstein

Nov. 8-9 PRE-MEDICAL
WEEKEND

Nov. 8 Ralph Dowden, tenor
(Friends of Music Series)

Nov. 10-30 Shreveport Sculptors
Exhibit

Nov. 21 Sacred Advent Music -
Choir

Nov. 29-Dec. 1 THANKS-
GIVING RECESS

Dec. 1 - Jan. 2 Graphics by Cen-
tenary Students

Dec. 6 William Teague, organist
(Friends of Music Series)

Dec. 13-Jan. 6 CHRISTMAS RE-
CESS

Jan. 6-24 INTERIM

has made a grant of $10,000 to Cen-
tenary to help in refurnishing the
chemistry laboratories in Mickle Hall.

New Library Gift Shreveport attor-
ney Irwin I. Muslow has donated his
entire law library, containing more
than 700 volumes and valued at more
than $6,000 to Centenary College.
Muslow told President Allen, "I want-
ed Centenary to have this library be-
cause, as a Methodist school, the col-
lege has opened its doors to all reli-

gions and offered them an opportunity
to get an education."

Tulane Accepts 3-2 In Engineering
Tulane University is the sixth univer-
sity to accept Centenary's 3-2 program
in engineering which permits students
to attend Centenary 3 years and the
cooperating school 2 years, and receive
a diploma from both. Other universi-
ties already in the program are Louisi-
ana Tech, Texas A and M, Columbia,
Arkansas, and Stanford.

Bryson Heads Alumni Eugene W.

Bryson, Jr., assistant district attorney
for Caddo Parish, has been elected
president of the Centenary Alumni
Association, succeeding Dr. W. Juan
Watkins, Jr., who has completed a 3-
year term in office. Bryson is a mem-
ber of the class of 1963. Other officers
are W. Peyton Shehee, Jr., first vice
president; Judy Butcher, second vice
president; Jean Goins, secretary; and
Dr. David White, treasurer.

GTS Fund Exceeds $300,000 The

Great Teachers-Scholars Fund for 1974
has reached $305,000 exceeding the
$300,000 goal. This is the largest a-
mount of money ever raised in an an-
nual campaign since the GTS Fund was
started in 1961. Will Jackson, vice pres-
ident of the Commercial National Bank
and a recently appointed Trustee of
Centenary, was chairman of the suc-
cessful campaign.

Bynum Commons The Centenary
Cafeteria has been named The Bynum
Memorial Commons in honor of the
late Jesse Bynum, a New Orleans busi-
nessman and United Methodist layman
whose bequest to the College accounts
for a large percentage of the current
endowment. The Board of Trustees
officially changed the name at their
summer meeting.

Honorary Life Member Shreveport
oilman D.P. Hamilton has been named
an Honorary Life Member of the Cen-
tenary Board of Trustees. His wife,
the late Lucile Atkins Hamilton, was
the first woman to graduate from Cen-
tenary after its move to Shreveport in
the early 1900's. Hamilton Hall, the
administrative headquarters for the
College, bears their name.

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January, 1975

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CENTENARY COLLEGE
OF LOUISIANA

Founded 1825 at Jackson, La., b
the State of Louisiana, the college
was transferred to the Methodist
Church in 1845. Relocated at
Shreveport in 1908, Centenary Is
the oldest privately operated liberal
arts college west of the Mississippi.

ERECTED BY THE LOUISIANA TOURIST COMMISSION, 1970

PAUL BROWN REMEMBERS

THE SESQUICENTENNIAL CALENDAR

lt THE CONGLOMERATE - Righteous Indignation and Faint Praise

Strictly
Personal

20's

Lois Kay Weston (X27), has been
elected assistant secretary of Arkansas
Louisiana Gas Co. She is the first
woman to be elected by the board of
directors to an official position with
the gas company. She is a member of
the Desk & Derrick Club of Shreve-
port.

40's

Rev. Otis Carl Edwards ('49) has been
elected Dean of Seabury-Western The-
ological Seminary, Evanston, 111. He
is at present Professor of New Testa-
ment Exegesis at Nashotah House The-
ological Seminary, Nashotah, Wis. He
holds an S.T.B. from General Theol-
ogical Seminary in New York City,
and S.T.M. from Southern Methodist
University, and a Ph.D. from the Uni-
versity of Chicago. He is a recognized
authority and scholar on the New
Testament, his speciality being the
patristic period of the Church.

50's

Robert L. Goodwin ('50), president
of Exchange Oil & Gas Corp., New
Orleans, has been elected to addition-
al positions of chairman of the board
and chief executive officer.

John P. Hess ('55) retired from the U.
S. Army on August 1, 1974, after a
four-year assignment at the Pentagon
and is now Chief, Management Office,
Fairfax County Public Schools in
Northern Virginia. John received a
Masters Degree in Education from
Tufts University in 1968 and a Mas-
ters Degree in Business Administration
from Syracuse University in 1970. He
and his wife Janet (Redden) ('54) and
their children. Laura and Paul, live in
Vienna, Virginia.

Rev. Harry H. Horton, Jr. ('56)

Palatka, Fl., has been promoted to
Crew Chief Compliance Officer with
the Department of Commerce of the
State of Florida. In this position
Horton will travel 20 counties (about
1/3 of the state) and enforce the farm
crewleader registration law. Horton is
pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church
he and his wife founded with five
other people in 1972.

Mrs. Nelda McDowell Hooker ('58) of
Casa Grande, Ariz., has been awarded
the professional designation of Certi-
fied Professional Secretary.

60's

Raymond L. Johnson ('60) Shreve-
port, has been elected vice president
of M. L. Bath Co., Ltd. Johnson will
assume duties of general sales manager
in his new capacity as vice president.
He is a veteran of the U. S. Air Force.

Those individuals who attend-
ed Centenary College for three
years and now hold a MD, LLB,
LLD, or DDS may be eligible for
a degree from Centenary. Al-
though the commencement cere-
mony will not be held until May,
these individuals who are eligible
will receive special recognition
during Homecoming in February.
For further information contact
Dr. Charles B. Lowrey, Assistant
Dean and Registrar.

Howard (X61) & Sandra McCuistion
Elder, Jr. ('63) are now living in Bay-
shore, South Carolina where Howard is
employed by Deering-Millipen. They
have three sons.

Dr. Leonard M. Riggs, Jr. ('64) has

been named Director of the Emergency
Department of Baylor Hospital in
Dallas. He has assumed medical and
administrative responsibility for the di-
rection of activities in that area of
the hospital. Dr. Riggs received his
M. D. degree from Texas Southwest-
ern Medical School in Dallas in 1968.

He is the son of Leonard M. Riggs, a
1928 graduate of Centenary and the
grandson of the beloved Reverend S.
L. Riggs, who ran the Book Store at
Centenary for a long time.

Richard C. Heard ('65) has been elect-
ed to the board of the Louisiana Bank-
ers Association. He is president of The
Bank of Winnfield & Trust Co.

Edwin L. Cabra ('67) has been elevated
to the position of a full partner in the
law firm of Simms, Leach & Cabra in
Leesville, La.

70's

Jeanne Pruden ('72) has been accepted
in Officers Candidate School in the
United States Navy and will be com-
missioned an Ensign when she com-
pletes the course in May. She was rank-
ed second of all women in the United
States as a candidate for flight training
in the Navy but was disqualified on
her physical examination. Following
her graduation she served as a Revenue
Agent for the Internal Revenue Service
in Shreveport before applying to the
Navy.

WE GET LETTERS!

A friend writes "I. was surprised to
find the write-up on James S. Noel
didn't mention that he was a teacher
for many years. As a teacher, Mr.
Noel's impact on his students was
tremendous." And the letter conclud-
ed, "His friends know him as a ver-
satile, learned individualist; a man
of great wisdom who has devoted
his life to study, not for degrees or
recognition, but for the sake of learn-
ing itself."

Jerome "Skinny" Scanlon, '30, writes
from Deltona, Florida, "I read in your
October issue of the passing of
Bonneau Peters. I am happy he came
my way for I am much better for it. He
and Dr. Sexton cushioned many bumps
of life for me and others. It's nice to be
important, but it's more important to
be nice."

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
Jan., 1975, Volume 5, No. 4, published four
times a year— in October, January, April and
July by the Centenary College Alumni Asso-
ciation, Shreveport, La. 711 04. Second Class
Postage paid at Shreveport, La. Published
for members of the Alumni Association and
friends of Centenary College of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Cindy Williamson

1974-75 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMN I
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President Gene Bryson '63

First Vice President . Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40
Second Vice President . . Judy Butcher '62

Secretary Jean Goins '63

Treasurer Dave White '61

DIRECTORS ( Terms expire in 1976)
Gene Bryson '63, Judy Butcher '62, Jean
Goins '63, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki
'58, Dave White '61, Gayle Wren '64,
Chatham Reed '64, Jim Mitchell '64, Paul

Cooke '68.

(Terms expire in 1975)
Dr. H. Whitney Boggs, Jr. '47, Miss Flavia
Leary '35, Jack Elgin '43, Jim Montgomery
'68, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40, Mrs. Margaret
Teague '57, Mrs. Nancy Cowley '63, Mrs.
Mary Ann Caffery '72, Bill Causey, Jr. 68,
Thurman C. Smith '50.

(1974-75 Members Appointed by President)
Martha Goza '66, Carolyn Gray '55, Larry
Johnson '59, P.L. McCreary '62, Elizabeth
Yeager '61.

(Editor's note: When Paul M.
Brown, Jr., retired as chairman of the
Board of Trustees of Centenary College
in 1965, he had served on the Board
for 33 years. At that time, Edwin F.
Whited, another long-time friend of
Centenary, wrote, "Both the quality
and the duration of Paul Brown's ser-
vice to Centenary can have few par-
allels in the history of higher educa-
tion." He undoubtedly remembers
more about Centenary's history than
any other living person today. So, it
was natural that we asked him to re-
call his best memories of Centenary
as we begin the sesquicentennial cele-
bration of the College in 1975. Mr.
Brown wrote answers to our questions
and they are printed here as he gave
them to us. We shall always be grate-
ful that he took the time to do this
for Centenary College.)

QUESTION: Your family has been
associated with Centenary College since
the early days at Jackson, Louisiana.
Can you recount this history of the
Brown family for us?

ANSWER: According to Mr.
William Hamilton Nelson in his Story
of Centenary a contract was made by
the College of Louisiana with Robert
Perry in 1831 to furnish 500,000
brick to be used for College buildings.
This Robert Perry was my great grand-
father. Later his name appears as a
Trustee of Centenary College of
Louisiana on the Charter of the Col-
lege issued in 1845 signed by Charles
Gayarre, then Secretary of State of

Louisiana. Robert Perry's son Sanford
Perry, my maternal grandfather, gradu-
ated from Centenary in 1853. Thomas
Walthal Brown, my paternal grand-
father, graduated in 1850.

My father Paul M. Brown, graduated
in 1890. He became a member of the
Board of Trustees in 1906 and was
chairman for a short while. Both he
and his father were Methodist min-
isters. Sanford Perry was a physician.
He died at an early age. My younger
brother, the late Ellis H. Brown, and I
received B.A. degrees in 1917. My
older brother Sanford Perry Brown re-
ceived his degree in 1926. World War I
caused an interruption in his educa-
tion which was completed, as to re-
quirements, at Rice Institute some
years later. Dr. George S. Sexton, then
President, awarded his degree in 1926.
In 1949 he received the honorary Doc-
tor of Law degree from the College.
He was then National Commander of
The American Legion.

Perry Brown's daughter, Jimmye
Conway Brown graduated in 1943. My
daughter Eleanor, now Mrs. Betrand J.
Greve, graduated in 1945 receiving her
diploma summa cum laude from Dr.
Joe J. Mickle. It was the first degree
awarded by him as President of Centen-
ary. My son, Charles Ellis Brown, grad-
uated in 1948. As chairman of the
Board, I was given the privilege of pre-
senting his diploma. My daughter's
husband Bertrand J. Greve and my
son's wife Alice Curtis Brown both are
graduates of Centenary.

In 1972 my granddaughter, Eleanor

Camille Greve, now Mrs. John David
Dent, received a Centenary diploma.
David Dent had received a degree in
1970. In 1974 Mark Alan Greve, a
grandson, was graduated. Both Camille
and Mark are children of my daughter
Eleanor. Charles Ellis Brown, Jr.,
another grandson, is now enrolled as a
freshman at Centenary.

This completes five generations of
Centenary graduates.

QUESTION: You were named
chair/nan of the Board of Trustees in
the 1930's during times of financial
stress. Tell us what you remember of
these difficult days.

ANSWER: In early 1933 Dr. W.
Angie Smith, (later Bishop Smith)
urged me to become the President of
the College. Fortunately for the college
I declined. I did agree to serve as a
member of the Board and met with
the Board soon thereafter. The meet-
ing was held at the parsonage of the
First Methodist Church. Dr. John L.
Scales was then chairman. I was elected
Secretary and Treasurer and Dr. Pierce
Cline became President. The College
was in financial difficulties and there
was some doubt as to its opening in the
fall. A motion was made by Walter B.
Jacobs that a "Rough House Com-
mittee" be appointed to reorganize the
College so as to eliminate the annual
deficits. Dr. Scales appointed me as
chairman of that committee. After
some three months work with the help
of Dr. Cline, Dr. Morehead, and Mr.
W. G. Banks, Jr. a budget was drawn

within which the College could live. It
called for reducing the faculty by some
nine members. That budget was pre-
sented to the Board and approved. The
College was heavily in debt to the
banks and to the faculty, and was
embarrassed by a bonded indebtedness,
which the Louisiana Conference of the
Methodist Church had issued to pay
off prior deficits. The depression, be-
sides reducing tuition income, had all
but wrecked the endowment, which
had lost half its value.

It was impossible to reduce the fa-
culty without paying back salaries to
those who were leaving. A letter was
written to the Rockefeller Foundation,
a large donor, explaining the situation
and in effect asking for permission to
sell some items from the endowment
so as to make these payments. The
reply was that the Foundation expect-

the ministers of the Conference an a-
mount equal to one month's salary.
Many other members of the Church
and of the community assessed them-
selves, and in spite of the desperate
financial condition of the nation and
the whole world, the plan of Mr. James
succeeded.

At the end of the five years, Mr.
C. O. Holland of Minden was brought
to the College as Vice President and
Comptroller.

QUESTION: Why did you give so
much of your time, your wealth and
your leadership to the College?

ANSWER: Time and leadership was
all I had to give, there was no wealth.
Because of the long family connection,
there was an inbred love for the Col-
lege and a great ambition to see it grow
and succeed.

business world of banking and petro-
leum refining.

It may interest you to know that
my great uncle, Professor George H.
Wylie, taught Latin and Greek at old
Centenary in Jackson for forty-one
years. I think that was the reason for
my young ambition. Anyway I became
a "dropout".

QUESTION: Many of the faculty
members at Centenary remember you
as a strong supporter of academic free-
dom. What was your attitude toward
this?

ANSWER: I do support academic
freedom. Faculty minds should not be
confined to a narrow groove that is
tied to the past. We should never as-
sume that all the truth has been dis-
covered. To do so would be to enforce
academic stagnation. This is a world

GOVERNOR JOHN McKEITHEN was among the dignitaries
that honored Paul M. Brown, when he retired as chairman of
the Board of Trustees in 1965.

Our Bishop's Letter

Shreveport, Louisiana
January 8; 1966

Dear Louisiana Methodists:

Mrs. Walton and I came to Shreveport yesterday to attend the dinner at the
Shreveport Country Club last evening in honor of Mr. Paul M. Brown. This was
a delightful and impressive occasion. Over five hundred of Mr. Brown's friends
from Louisiana and adjoining states gathered to pay tribute to him for his years
of devoted and effective service in the interest of Centenary College. Mr. Brown
was a member of the Board of Trustees of Centenary for thirty -two years and was
the Chairman of the Board for twenty -four years. His contributions to the college
in thought, time, talents, influence and material substance cannot be properly enu-
merated, for in all these areas he has given of himself unselfishly and generously
across the years . Last evening we tried to express to Mr. and Mrs . Brown our
genuine affection and appreciation.

Sincerely yours,

BISHOP AUBREY WALTON praised Mr. Brown for his unsel-
fish and generous support of Centenary College down through
the years.

ed the Trustees to keep the College
running.

It fell to the lot of the Chairman of
the "Rough House Committee" to
break the news to the departing faculty
members, and he became most unpop-
ular! To Dr. Cline a budget was a bud-
get and he not only lived within it but
saved enough to gradually pay off all
outstanding indebtedness except the
Bond issue, much of which was held by
local banks.

During that five years I served as
business manager and College Treasurer
and received full cooperation from the
President. Mr. T. L. James of Ruston
was then Chairman of the Board and
it was he who developed plans for the
retirement of the Bonds. As a part of
the fund raising plans he persuaded the
Methodist Conference, at a special ses-
sion, held in Alexandria to assess to

QUESTION: / believe you once
taught some classes at Centenary and
I wonder if you could recall this part
of your career for us?

ANSWER: Yes, for a short time I
did teach classical languages at Cen-
tenary, and I am glad now for every
hour I devoted to the study of Latin
and Greek. I have no regrets, though it
took World War I to get me out of the
classroom. I don't know whether to be
glad or sorry. I have a theory, and it is
only a theory. To translate a sentence
from a classical language one must
carry a large number of rules as his
tools. Likewise to solve an economic
or business problem, one must know
many basic rules and bring certain
applicable rules to the problem for its
solution. One rule may not be relevant,
another may. Perhaps my study of lan-
guages has been of help to me in the

that is changing, and changing drama-
tically. Our very best minds should be
at the heart of this change. They
should be open and alert to new ideas
and new theories. I believe that much
truth has been revealed by intuition.
Such revelations can only come to the
mind that is open and free. How else
can we account for the great discover-
ies by ancient minds who were without
our modern facilities for scientific re-
search?

The one trouble with academic free-
dom is the fact that it sometimes be-
comes confused with academic license.
The instructor has every right to pre-
sent theories but they should be pre-
sented as theories until they become
proven facts. Bright young minds are
entrusted to the instructors for train-
ing and this fact should be a challenge
to build and not destroy. I am con-
cerned that academic license may lead

to destruction. By strictly observing
the difference between academic free-
dom and academic license the faculty
members can preserve their freedom.

QUESTION: What are the qualities
of a good trustee?

ANSWER: That is a big question.
Some years ago I was asked to give
the key-note address at a conference
of Trustees of Church Related Colleges
and Universities held at Lake
Junaluska, North Carolina. At that
time I consumed an hour trying to an-
swer this question. This was an inter-
denominational conference and well
attended. I'm sure even in that length
of time I did not do justice to the
subject, nor can I here.

A trustee should have clear under-
standing of the purpose of the College,
and should be in sympathy with that

even the study of classical languages
is a training for business and for find-
ing the most in life. Making a living is
important; and making a life is far
more so. This is the real value of
the Liberal Arts College.

QUESTION: What are your favor-
ite memories of Centenary College?

ANSWER: My favorite memories
of my association with Centenary as a
student, instructor and trustee are too
many to count. I saw it grow from its
meager beginnings to a College of un-
questioned standing with adequate
buildings and an endowment which for
the time was adequate. Of course times
have changed and buildings should be
updated and the endowment greatly
increased. This is an opportunity for
many people of good will to immorta-
lize their influence. To such people the

tions. Then too philanthropy brings
the highest degree of satisfaction to
the donor. One feels sorry for the in-
dividual who has never learned to give
and to give liberally and cheerfully.

Centenary came into being and
lives through the interest and liberality
of its friends. The College should re-
cognize such friends with great ap-
preciation.

QUESTION: As we approach the
150th Anniversary of the College, what
are your hopes for the future. What
kind of a college would you like to see
Centenary become?

ANSWER: Centenary opened in
Shreveport in the fall of 1908. I en-
rolled in the preparatory department
in January 1909. The College of today
is so far ahead of those early days that
there is no possible comparison. 1 hope

CHAIRMAN BROWN is flanked by J. G. O'Brien (left)
and George D. Wray and Charlton Lyons, Sr. in this trustees
photo taken in the mid-1940's.

SCULPTOR ARTHUR MORGAN (left) helped dedicate this
bronze bust of Mr. Brown in 1968 as the subject and his
daughter Eleanor looked on.

purpose. He should be informed of the
adequacy of the management and of
the financial operations. He should try
to know the members of the faculty
and have some understanding of their
problems. Too, he should have an in-
terest in the welfare of the students.
There should never be a chasm be-
tween "town and gown." No college
trustee should ever take his responsi-
bilities lightly. There is a real obliga-
tion involved.

QUESTION: What influence has
the College had on your life and your
career?

ANSWER: Centenary trained my
mind and taught me to think. The
curriculum and faculty of the early
days were both limited, but the faculty
was dedicated. We had no business
training per se, but mental training -

College is a fine opportunity. It has
existed longer than any other institu-
tion in this entire area, a century and a
half. In the words of Dr. Pierce Cline,
and to paraphrase Tennyson "She
thinks she was not meant to die."

QUESTION: Do you have any
particular message for the alumni and
friends of the College?

ANSWER: The alumni have re-
ceived in educational values far more
than they have paid in tuition. They
have an obligation to support the Col-
lege by contributions so that the same
or better educational values will be
available to young people during the
years ahead. I think this is a moral
obligation to both the College and
the Community which makes the Col-
lege possible. This is true not only for
private colleges but for public institu-

and expect that "the past is prologue."
I would like to see Centenary become
a great center of education of the
highest quality. She should draw su-
perior faculty members and highly
qualified students from the city, state
and nation, and from the world. She
should be a leader in the world of
change, fashioning, not following, such
dynamic advances.

At the same time Centenary should
be and remain a great moral force. In
this facet of education the hands of the
State Colleges and Universities are tied.
If Colleges like Centenary fail to em-
phasize these qualities (as they may
with no legal restraint) I see a nation
in decline. Financial values fade, moral
values, or character, are eternal. Per-
manent values should be Centenary's
goal.

1975 - ^tzqmtmtmnw

February 9-27

Early Views of the Vieux Carre by William Woodward on loan from the
Delgado Museum of New Orleans - sponsored by the Shreveport Art
Guild - Library Art Gallery

February 1 4-16 Homecoming - Charter Day Weekend

Friday - Centenary's 150th Year Celebration Luncheon - Convention
Center - Honorable Joe D. Waggoner, Jr., U. S. Representative

Saturday - Homecoming

9:30 - 1 1 :00 Faculty Alumni Coffee
10:30 — 11 : 30 Class Reunions (5th-50th)
10:30-11:30 Group Reunions
11:30-12:15 Luncheon
12:15- 1:30 Campus Capers

Hamilton Hall

Cafeteria

A revival of an old
tradition in the Am-
phitheatre

1 :45 - 3:15 "Alumni Musical Review" Marjorie Lyons Play-
house

3:30- 4:30 Old Timers Game

4:30- 5:00 Letterman's Reunion

6:00- 7:30 Homecoming Banquet

8:00 - 1 0:00 Basketball - Gents vs.
Southern Illinois

1 0:00 - 1 2:00 Homecoming Party

Gold Dome
Gents Club
Haynes Gymnasium
Gold Dome

Petroleum Club

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Sunday - Charter Day

11:00

2:30

Collegiate Service of Worship - Rev. Robert E.
Goodrich, Bishop of the Missouri Area - Brown
Memorial Chapel

Sesquicentennial Convocation - nationally prom-
inent speaker - Gold Dome

February 14—15
February 23-28

March 2-21

March 1 1

March 21 -April 10
April 9

The Great River Legacy - Louisiana Arts Traveler - Library Art Gallery

Margaret Chase Smith - former U. S. Senator from Maine - will spend a
week on campus as a Wilson Senior Fellow

"An American Sampler" - art exhibit on loan from Library of Congress -
Library Art Gallery

Festival Organ Recital with special early American music by William
Osborne, Denison University, Ohio - Brown Memorial Chapel

Louisiana Artists, Inc., art exhibit - Library Art Gallery

Founders Day Convocation with 18th Century Scholar, Dr. Mary Hyde as
special lecturer - Brown Memorial Chapel

Commencement Convocation - seniors will be presented special Latin
diplomas - Gold Dome

Prints by Joan Miro, "Mallorca" - Library Art Gallery

"1 776" Musical Production at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Selection of etchings by Goya from the "Disasters of War" series from the
Algur Meadows Collection of Southern Methodist University - Library
Art Gallery

President's Convocation - Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt, President, Woodrow Wil-
son National Fellowship Foundation, speaker - Brown Memorial Chapel

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RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION AND RARE PRAISE

THE CONGLOMERATE

By Maurie Wayne

If you are a serious student of the
history of Centenary College I refer
you to an article about Paul M. Brown
which appears elsewhere in this maga-
zine, or a pictorial history of the Col-
lege edited by Dr. Walter M. Lowrey
which will be published by the Alumni
Association for the sesquicentennial
celebration next year. But, if you are
interested in reading of the life and
times of the Centenary College student
through the eyes of the student editors
who have published the Centenary
Conglomerate for the past fifty-odd
years, you may want to read on. A
close scrutiny of the ups and downs,
the humor, the righteous indignation,
and even the rare praise meted out by
the student press since the Conglomer-
ate was born in 1922 may give you a
more intimate look at the Centenary
student.

The Conglomerate is the successor
of the Maroon and White, which pub-
lished its final edition during the 1921-
1922 term. The last editor of the
Maroon and White, Vice President
Emeritus B. C. Taylor, recalls that the
students of that day thought the name
too bland and changed the title to
"The Conglomerate" the next year

No copies of the Maroon and White
newspaper are known to exist although
there are copies of a Maroon and White
Magazine from the early 1900's. The
earliest edition of the Conglomerate
available in the Cline Room Archives is
dated 1923.

As you turn back through the pages
of the Conglomerate, you cannot help
but recoil at the college humor of the
1920's. The 1925 "Pearls from Many
Seas" column included this gem, "Once
I knew a girl who was so modest she
wouldn't even do an improper frac-
tion," and an almost prophetic joke,
" 'I'll never get over it' sighed the boy
as he looked at the moon." The
February, 1927, paper was even poetic,
"There are meters of time and meters
of tone, but the best meter of all is to
meet 'er alone." The tongue-in-cheek
humor was somewhat better as demon-
strated by this example from a 1927
edition: "A bit of consternation was
caused in the boys' dormitory last
week when someone swept a room.
Authorities have tried to censor ac-
counts of the matter but there is fear
the practice may become widespread.
Dean Hardin made a personal inspec-
tion."

The advertising is almost as interest-
ing as the news, at least in retrospect.
Benson's, Ltd., advertised in 1923 that
their "$37.50 two-pants suits are just
right for Centenary boys," but Win-
ter's at 615 Texas topped that with
"Blue Serge Suits with two pants,
$29.95." The Palace Barber Shop at
410 Milam boasted "twelve American
barbers." (Obviously, no problems
with "Long-Hairs" then.)

The Conglomerate has fought an un-
ending battle for freedom of the press.
And although faculty and administra-
tive advisors have struggled to keep a
balance between freedom and responsi-
bility, the right of the student editors
to speak their mind remains untram-
meled. A former state legislator and
now Shreveport attorney, Algie Brown,
the 1931 editor of the Conglomerate,
bristled at criticism of the paper.
"The bare statement that the Conglo-
merate is 'rotten' gives less than no
help. If you can't give us any sugges-
tions, quit squawking" he wrote. An
earlier editor, Gerard Banks, actually
congratulated the college for its hands-
off policy in 1927. "Throughout the
year the relations between the adminis-
tration and the management of the
paper have been most harmonious . . .
we have not been told we must print
this or that," he said. But, in 1928 the
faculty Publications Committee order-
ed the Conglomerate to print a petition
signed by the members of the com-
mittee calling for the abolition of the
weekly Chapel programs. The editor
reluctantly complied, but on the ed-
itorial page publicly called the edict
from the committee "an outrage." In
1955, Paul Greenberg, who was later
to win a Pulitzer Prize for his out-
spoken anti-segregation editorials in
Arkansas, published as his statement
of policy, "The newspaper that ducks
controversial questions in order not to
offend its readers will soon discover
that it has no readers to offend. And it
will deserve none."

The editorial stands of the Conglo-
merate range from the 1927 R.O.T.C.
shoot-out between editor Banks and
the "Shoot Straight-Think Straight"
military officers, to the "Thanks for
the Sidewalks" plaudit from Ann
Byrne in 1948. In between was the
1955 Alma Mater fracas in which the
editor complained that the "sleepy sil-
ver bayou sounds like a parody on
Cayuga's Waters." In 1974, John
Hardt, seeking more student repre-
sentation on the Publications Com-
mittee, asked why students could be
trusted with thousands of dollars in
student fees, but not with the printed
word. Administration officials still get

a warm glow all over when they read
Miss Byrne's 1948 sidewalk editorial.
Believe it or not, she wrote, "We take
our hat off to the administration!"

It may seem contradictory that a
chapel service should be controversial,
but the compulsory chapel program at
Centenary probably received more edi-
torial ink than any other issue down
through the years. As early as 1928
there was the published petition (men-
tioned earlier) in which the Publica-
tions Committee said, "Chapel as it
exists today is a mere farce. The hack-
neyed themes have been dealt with to
such an extent that we are tired of
them to the nth degree." Five years
later the issue seemed to have simmer-
ed down. Editor Myriam Smith wrote,
"Humor, music, spiritual food-what
more could be requested. Give us more
of the same order." But by 1937 a
Student Forum column again com-
plained that "the really interesting cha-
pel programs of the past term could
easily be counted on the fingers of one
hand." In 1973, when Chapel was no
longer mandatory, this letter to the
editor appeared without student com-
ment. "I would like to thank the Cen-
tenary faculty for its continuous sup-
port of the weekly lectures that are
held in Brown Memorial Chapel, des-
pite the general lack of support from
the student body."

The editors of the Conglomerate
have always felt a compulsion to in-
form their readers of events outside
the immediate campus. In 1931 there
was a rather lengthy report on a lec-
ture which indicated that "television is
not just around the corner, as many
people believe." Following that lec-
ture, reported the paper, the group re-
paired to the physics labs on campus
where their electronic equipment was
used to brew hot chocolate and toast
sandwiches. A 1932 edition considered
"some of the basic facts underlying the
depression" and concluded "The blame
for the inflation of values rests with
the people-and the 'bulls' - do not let
us forget that, gentlemen!" In 1930
the Conglomerate assured its readers
that "the levee caving at Shreve Island
is practically over."

The "police reporter" was very vigi-
lant for news of dire deeds to excite his
readers. The crime news of the day on
October 9, 1931 read "A five dollar
bill was borrowed without permission
from Bob Huf faker of Room 104
Rotary sometime Sunday night or
Monday." A campus fire in 1927
brought this eye-witness account,
"Sometime about the middle of the
afternoon the brooding silence of the
dormitories and the pseudo-studious

air of the library was rent asunder by
the roar of a fire truck." The report
went on to describe in some detail a
grass fire in a pig pen on the eastern
edge of the campus and concluded,
"No casualties were reported except
that Mr. Reynolds (apparently a stu-
dent) broke a good pair of Christmas
suspenders in his rush to the fire."
That same year the Conglomerate turn-
ed up the world's meanest thief. The
"Musings of the Editor" column scold-
ed, "I hope the person who saw fit to
appropriate my Bible notebook while
it was lying on the desk in Dean
Smith's room during examinations will
get benefit from it in porportion to the
care and labor that I expended on it."

Student apathy on the Centenary
campus has been somewhat like the
weather with considerable discussion
and little action but the student press
has always kept close tabs on this
phenomona. In 1927 Editor Banks felt
he was wasting his time but urged cam-
pus organizations to become more ac-
tive. "Either the members should build
up an organization that is really active
and worthwhile, or consign it, without
a sigh, to oblivion," he wrote. Ten
years later Editor John Carstaphen was
a little more blunt. He entitled his ti-
rade against campus apathy, "Decline
in 'Pep' Must Stop."

There have been complaints that the
Conglomerate dwells on the bad news;
and that its comments are always nega-
tive. I refer these cynics to a letter to

the editor in the April 10, 1974 issue.
"Some people write to complain, we
write to appreciate. Since Tuesday, our
friend (Chaplain) Robert Ed (Taylor)
has been in the hospital. May he have
a speedy recovery and be back soon,
(signed) Suite J." In an open letter to
the students of Centenary in October
of 1973, Ellen Misch and Karen
Schmidt poured out their grateful
hearts, "We would like to thank every-
one here at Centenary for not electing
us to the Yoncopin Beauties for the
fourth year in a row. We couldn't have
done it without your non-support.
After all, not every woman doesn't
get to be a Yoncopin Beauty."

Finally, I think a word of special
recognition is due the crusading editor
who took on a major Ivy League uni-
versity and won. Under a 1927 edi-
torial entitled "Ha, Ha," Tom Bridges,
Jr., confided in his readers that he had
sent a copy of the Conglomerate to
Yale University asking their editor to
exchange papers, a common practice
among campus newsmen. "All I got in
reply," Bridges stormed, "was a polite
note to the effect that their subscrip-
tion rate was $6.00 per year. Now they
needn't be so high hat! They have
never beaten S.M.U. and, what's more,
I don't believe they could if they were
to try it. So there!"

I'm convinced if the Conglomerate
can tell Yale where to head in, it
can't be all bad!

John Wiggin (left) the current editor of the Conglomerate enjoys a recent copy
of the student newspaper with Dr. B. C. Taylor, who edited the Maroon and White
in 1921.

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ROBERT L. GOODWIN

Robert L. Goodwin, Class of 195 0, has been associated with Exchange
Oil and Gas Corporation of New Orleans since 1962. He joined the firm as
vice president, then served as executive vice president, and in June, 1974 was
named president and chief operating officer. On Nov. 11, he was elected
chairman of the board and chief executive officer, and retains the title of
president.

Prior to joining Exchange Oil, he served in responsible positions with
Shoreline Exploration, Inc., New Orleans; Seaboard Oil Company, New
Orleans; and Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation, Shreveport. He is presi-
dent of the New Orleans Petroleum Club, a director of the Independent
Petroleum Association of America and a member of the Mid-Continent Oil
and Gas Association, the American Association of Landmen and the Petrole-
um Landmen's Association of New Orleans.

Goodwin graduated from the Evening Division in 1950 and his wife, the
former Jessica Harris of Shreveport, also attended Centenary.

He remembers with affection the Evening Division of the College and the
man who at that time headed the department of business and economics, Dr.
Woodrow W. Pate. "Centenary had the foresight to establish a combination
day and evening school that afforded me and many others the opportunity
to receive an education that might otherwise not have been possible.

Goodwin remembers Dr. Pate as "tough, but an outstanding educator. He
had a keen knowledge of his field and an unusual ability to communicate that
knowledge. Centenary is indeed fortunate to have retained his services for so
many years."

BETTDMA C. HILMAN, M. D.

Dr. Bettina C. Hilman, who graduated from Centenary College in 1949
summa cum laude, has a medical career that matches her brilliant under-
graduate performance. A native of Shreveport, she received her M. D. degree
from the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1955 and has since
earned an international reputation as an authority in the field of cystic
fibrosis. She is presently Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Pro-
fessor of Microbiology and Immunology at the LSU School of Medicine in
Shreveport.

Dr. Hilman has been accorded many high honors in her profession, in-
cluding her election as the first woman president of the American Thoracic
Society of Louisiana; and the Louisiana Public Health Association's Barton
Memorial Award for significant achievement in research and scholarship in
the field of public health. Her husband, Dr. Daniel H. Mattson, is Chief of
Medicine at the Shreveport Veterans Administration Hospital. Their daughter,
Melanie, 14, does not appear to be following in their footsteps, but is interest-
ed in music.

Dr. Hilman says she has nothing but fond memories of her days at Cen-
tenary, which she recalls as "a fine Christian school". She remembers Dr.
Mary Warters, pre-medical advisor at Centenary for many years, and the late
Dr. John B. Entrikin, as having a lasting influence on her life. She also remem-
bers playing the tympani in the concert band. (One cannot help but wonder
where she found the time while completing the rugged pre-medical courses
and graduating summa cum laude!)

The columns brought from
the interior of the old Cen-
ter Building at Jackson in
1935 were destroyed in a
tornado which hit the cam-
pus in 1940. Legend has it
that the remains were used to
build a chicken coop.

In the 1920's, a highlight of graduation was a luncheon for seniors in the Crystal Ballroom of the Washington Youree Hotel.
The date of this photo is unknown.

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Entered As Second-Class Matter

Pre-Law Seminar LSU Law School
Dean Paul M. Hebert told a group of
high school students attending Centen-
ary's Pre-Law Educational Seminar that
it was probably "the first seminar of
this scope on pre-law matters ever as-
sembled in Louisiana." The event was
designed to give interested high school
students a realistic look at the educa-
tional requirements of a practicing
attorney. The Dean told the students
that new fields, particularly in the area
of preventive legal action, are opening
up to young lawyers. Centenary gradu-
ate Louisiana Supreme Court Justice
John A. Dixon delivered the keynote
address at the closing banquet for the
seminar. He told the aspiring young
attorneys that "the final function of
the judicial system in the United States
is the preservation of a free society."

Pre-Medical Seminar Over 200 high
school students interested in medicine
as a career attended the second annual
pre-medical educational seminar on the
campus in November. A Shreveport
physician, Dr. G. Peyton Kelley told
the students that becoming a doctor
is expensive, but urged them to borrow
the money, become a doctor, and pay
the money back. The students also
heard from five physicians who sit on
the admissions committees of major
medical schools: Dr. Robert Bowlin,
University of Arkansas Medical School;
Dr. John W. Coughlin, LSU School of
Dentistry; Dr. Clifford Newman, Tu-
lane University School of Medicine;
Dr. R. Gibson Parrish, University of
Oklahoma School of Medicine; and Dr.
William McElroy, LSU School of Medi-
cine in Shreveport.

School Of Music Gets Good Reviews

The Shreveport Times critic Mark
Melson gave high marks to two pro-
grams sponsored by the School of
Music. The Centenary Choir, returning
to the "Rhapsody in View" theme,
gave two performances at the Shreve-
port Civic Theatre to large crowds. Dr.
Will K. Andress, the director, told the
audience, "We hope for a warm won-
derful evening together." Critic Melson
said all of the purple prose he could
write could not improve on that sum-
mation of the evening. The Friends of
Music series also received an "A" from

Melson. Writing about the opening con-
cert by Japanese pianist Aiko Onishi,
Melson said, "The recital was an aus-
picious season-opener for the Centen-

CALENDAR

Jan. 5-Feb. 7 Paintings by Cen-
tenary Students
Jan. 6 Christmas Recess Ends
Jan. 6—24 Interim Session

Jan. 24 "Dark of the Moon"
(Marjorie Lyons Playhouse)

Jan. 25-31 "The Crucible"
(Marjorie Lyons Playhouse)

Feb. 8-14 "The Crucible" (Mar-
jorie Lyons Playhouse)

Jan. 27 Spring Semester Regis-
tration

Jan. 30— Mar. 20 Developing Su-
pervisory Leadership Skills
Seminar

Feb. 1-2 High School Day

Feb. 1, 7 & 15 "Dark of the
Moon" (Marjorie Lyons Play-
house)

Feb. 8 Future Business Leaders
of America

Feb. 10-11 Mardi Gras Holidays

Feb. 25 Madrigal Singers from
Oklahoma City

Feb. 28 Edward Brewer, Harp-
sichordist (Friends of Music
Series)

Mar. 7 Nancy Skoog, pianist
(Junior Recital)

Mar. 13 Sales and Marketing
Management Seminar

Mar. 13-15 & Mar. 20-22 "Tom
Paine" (Marjorie Lyons Play-
house)

Mar. 15-16 CSCC Pioneer II

Mar. 2 1 Spring Recess Begins

April 4 The Alabama String
Quartet

April 22 Self-Improvement and
Interpersonal Skills Develop-
ment for Executive Secretaries
Seminar

ary Friends of Music Series. If the re-
maining concerts are on the same
plane, Shreveport music lovers have a
lot to look forward to."

Olympic Star Jesse Owens Visits

Track star Jesse Owens, who won four
gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in
Berlin, drew a large crowd at the first
Forums program of the year. The sixty
year old athlete told the Centenary
audience that there are plenty of prob-
lems in modern times, but he wouldn't
trade any of it for the old days. "They
talk about the good old days," he said,
"but they really weren't. We are better
off economically, spiritually and racial-
ly today than ever before." Adolph
Hitler left the Berlin stadium rather
than congratulate Owens on his record
accomplishments at the Olympics. On
that subject, Owens said, "There are
battlefields on which to fight battles,
but the Olympics is not the place."

Pfizer Official Visits John J. Powers,
retired chairman of the board of the
huge multi-national Pfizer Drug Com-
pany, visited Centenary as a Woodrow
Wilson Senior Fellow in October. The
nationally respected businessman said
he sees no easy cure for inflation
which he predicted would continue for
several years. He listed the energy shor-
tage and the devaluation of the dollar
as the two main reasons for continu-
ing high prices.

Loyalty Fund The 1974 Alumni Loy-
alty Fund headed by G. W. "Bill"
James now totals $20,063 and includes
gifts from 530 alumni of Centenary.
Both the amount and the number of
donors set new records for the annual
fund used to support Alumni Associa-
tion projects.

Hall of Fame Nominations for the Hall
of Fame Award and the Honorary
Alumnus Award are now being accept-
ed by the Alumni office. Those nom-
inated for the Hall of Fame Award
must be an alumnus of the College.
Nominations should include the name
and why you feel that he or she is de-
serving of the recognition. Nomina-
tions should be sent to the Alumni
Office, Centenary College, Shreveport
La. 71104.

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May, 1975

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

February 11, 1975

Dear Dr. Allen:

I am very pleased to congratulate Centenary College on
its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Its long history
spans an era of profound change in education in our
country. We have faced and met many severe challenges
and the progress of our country is in large measure due to
men and women like those who have been associated with
Centenary who have worked with devotion and integrity to
build excellence in academic education.

I know that the achievements of those who have guided
Centenary in the past will be an inspiration for its present
and future leaders, and I send my very best wishes to you,
its staff and students.

Sincerely,

&r*tf/$ wd

Dr. John H. Allen
President
Centenary College
Shreveport, Louisiana 71104

Strictly
Personal

W. P. Shehee, Jr. ('40), has recently
been elected one of nine new directors
of the Louisiana Bank and Trust Co.,
in Shreveport. Shehee is executive vice
president of the Alumni Association.

Dr. Charles D. Knight ('41), Shreve-
port surgeon, has been elected to the
Board of Governors of the American
College of Surgeons. Knight will serve
a three-year term as representative for
Louisiana and he is the first Shreveport
surgeon to be elected to the post. The
board consists of about 100 represen-
tatives from the United States and
Canadian provinces and foreign coun-
tries in which the fellows of the college
reside.

Dr. Val F. Borum ('41), of Fort Worth
has been installed as President of the
750 member Tarrant County Medical
Society. He is also a member of the
Council of Legislation of Texas Med-
ical Political Action Committee.

William Lockhart Morris, Jr. ('46),

passed away recently in Monroe, La.
at the age of 56. He was a field rep-
resentative with the State Employ-
ment Security Division.

Dr. Ike Muslow ('43), will serve as act-
ing dean of the Louisiana State Univer-
sity Medical School in Shreveport until
a new dean is appointed. Dr. Muslow is
medical director at Confederate Memo-
rial Medical Center.

Dr. George Roberts
('43), has been pro-
moted to assistant to
the vice president in
charge of outlying
plants and foreign
operations at the
Hilton-Davis Chemi-
cal Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, a subsidiary
of Sterling Drug, Inc. One of Dr.
Robert's duties will be to manage for
Hilton-Davis the engineering project
for the fluorescent dye manufacturing
facility being built in the Soviet Union.
He obtained his Ph. D. from the Uni-
versity of Texas in Austin.

C. R. Hudson ('45), has been elected
vice president of The First National
Bank of Shreveport.

Jim Gibson ('48), has recently been
elected as one of nine new directors of
Louisiana Bank & Trust Co., in Shreve-
port. He is an agent for the Massachu-
setts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Charles D. Rogers
('49), has been
named Los Angeles
Regional Manager
for the newly-formed
AC-Delco Division of
General Motors. The
division unifies GM's
marketing of AC and Delco replace-
ment parts to the independent auto-
motive aftermarket.

Thomas A. Wilson ('52), a Shreveport
attorney, has been installed as master
of W. H. Booth Masonic Lodge 380,
F& AM.

Wishy Nolan ('54), former alumni di-
rector, has been elected president of
the Shreveport Ministerial Association.
He is currently serving his eighth year
at Lakeview United Methodist Church
in Shreveport.

Mitzi L. Middlebrooks ('55), Shreve-
port, has been appointed the first
North Louisiana field representative of
the Louisiana Teacher's Association.
Mrs. Middlebrooks will become the
first full-time employee of the LTA in
North Louisiana in its 82-year history.
She will be responsible for working
with local units in the northern por-
tion of the state. She was selected as a
recipient of The Shreveport Times Ed-
ucator of the Year Award in 1971, the
Kappa Kappa Iota scholarship and a
member of Outstanding Young Women
of America in 1966.

John P. Hess ('55), retired from the
U. S. Army on August 1, 1974, after a
four-year assignment at the Pentagon
and is now Chief, Management Office,
Fairfax County Public Schools in
Northern Virginia. He and his wife
Janet (Redden) ('54) and their chil-
dren live in Vienna, Virginia.

John R. Halliburton ('55) Belo
Horizonte, Brazil has been appointed
general manager of Collins Radio
Limitada. Collins Radio Limitada is a
subsidiary of Rockwell International
Corp. Halliburton holds degrees from
Southern Methodist University School
of Law and the National Law Center

of George Washington University. Be
fore his promotion he was director o
government relations and contrac
policy and manager of tactical data syi
terns sales in Collins Washington, D.C
office.

W. Warren Fuller ('56), has been elec
ted president of Commercial Nations
Bank in Shreveport. Fuller is secretar
to the board of directors and serves a
a member of the loan and discoun
committee and the investment con
mittee. He is a certified public accour
tant.

Lt. Col. James M. Durham ('59), re

cently received command of the 703>
Maintenance Battalion in Kitzinger
Germany.

Stephens M. White, Jr. ('60), has bee:
elected president of Aulds-Horn
and White Investment Corp. in Shreve
port. White serves as treasurer of th
Louisiana Mortgage Bankers Associs
tion.

James M. Goins ('61), and Robin K
Kavanaugh ('63), have recently beei
elected assistant vice presidents of Th
First National Bank of Shreveport
Nicholas J. Roppolo ('63), was alst
elected assistant vice president am
trust officer.

Capt. Joe Boddie ('62), of the Cadd<
Parish Sheriff's Department, has beei
named vice president of Southern Re
search Co., Inc. Boddie was named th<
outstanding law enforcement office
by the Shreveport Exchange Club h
1967.

Dr. Larry Cowley ('63), Shrevepor
physician, has been elected presiden
of the Centenary College Friends o
the Library for 1975. He is married t<
the former Nancy Lee Lecky ('64) am
they are the parents of three children.

Women in Davidson County, Tn., ma

be carried on voter registration roll
under their maiden names if they d
not choose to take their husband:
names at marriage thanks to Ros<
Palermo ('65). After the Davidso!
County Registrar purged her nam'
from the rolls because she continue!
to use her maiden name, Ms. Palermj
went to court. Ms. Palermo practici;
law in Nashville with her husbar!

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
April 1975, Volume 5, No. 5, published four
times a year— in October, January, April and
July by the Centenary College Alumni Asso-
ciation, Shreveport, La. 71104. Second Class
Postage paid at Shreveport, La. Published
for members of the Alumni Association and
friends of Centenary College of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Cindy Williamson

1974-75CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President Gene Bryson '63

First Vice President . Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40
Second Vice President . . Judy Butcher '62

Secretary Jean Goins '63

Treasurer Dave White '61

DIRECTORS ( Terms expire in 1976)
Gene Bryson '63, Judy Butcher '62, Jean
Goins '63, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki
'58, Dave White '61, Gayle Wren '64,
Chatham Reed '64, Jim Mitchell '64, Paul

Cooke '68.

(Terms expire in 1975)
Dr. H. Whitney Boggs, Jr. '47, Miss Flav;
Leary '35, Jack Elgin '43, Jim Montgomej
'68, Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40, Mrs. Margar
Teague '57, Mrs. Nancy Cowley '63, M ;
Mary Ann Caffery '72, Bill Causey, Jr. 6|
Thurman C. Smith '50.
(1974-75 Members Appointed by Presiderj
Martha Goza '66, Carolyn Gray '55, Lar j
Johnson '59, P.L. McCreary '62, Elizabe'
Yeager '61.

CHARTER DAY HOMECOMING

A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE
FOR EDUCATION IN LOUISIANA

"This is truly a significant milestone
for education, for Centenary, for
Shreveport, for Louisiana and for the
nation . . . not because Centenary has
reached the ripe age of 150 years or
because it marks . . . perhaps as well as
any single moment can . . . a new and
even more challenging beginning. "

These were the words of U. S. Rep-
resentative Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., as
he addressed a crowd of 650 persons
at a downtown luncheon honoring the
150th anniversary of Centenary Col-
lege on Friday, February 14th. He
concluded his address with words of

encouragement for the future, "In the
coming years, if God be willing, may
Centenary carry forward with all her
might the great work in which she is
engaged, building upon the firm found-
ation erected by our predecessors . . .
every striving for excellence . . . ever
alert to the problems of the changing
world around us, that we might, in our
time, bring vision and light to our
youth, eternal strength to our state
and Nation, and peace to a war-weary
and troubled world."

Congressman Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.

A highlight of the Homecoming banquet was the presenta-
tion of awards shown at left, from top to bottom: George
Nelson presents the Hall of Fame Award to Dr. D. L.
Dykes, pastor of the First United Methodist Church: Dr.
Juan Watkins presents the Honorary Alumna Award to Mrs.
Paul M. Brown; Charles Ellis Brown congratulates Dr. Earle
Labor as the Outstanding Teacher; and Dr. Walter M.
Lowery and student Margaret Fischer receive a special
award from Alumni Association President Eugene Bryson
for the publication of the history of the college. (Above)
Faculty and alums chat during an open house, and (below)
a letter of congratulation from Vice President Rockfeller.

PHE VICE PRESIDENT

WASHIN GTON

February 10, 1975

Dear Dr. Allen:

Please accept my warmest congratulations on
the Sesquicentennial anniversary of Centenary College.

Since its founding in 1825, Centenary has
continued to maintain its high quality education
program in the liberal arts field. You can be justly
proud of that record, and it stands as a tribute to
the United Methodist Church whose financial support
over the years has helped provide a higher education
to thousands of young men and women. As President
James Garfield noted: "Next in importance to freedom
and justice is popular education without which neither
freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

My personal best wishes to you, the faculty and
the students of Centenary as you gather to celebrate
this memorable occasion.

Sincerely,

Dr. John Horton Allen
President
Centenary College
Shreveport, Louisiana 71104

CELEBRATION

BEGINNINGS

Governor Edwin Edwards (above) participates in the Sunday Worship Service at
Brown Chapel. A former student, Bishop Robert Goodrich, (above left) was the
principal speaker.

MARGARET CHASE SMITH

A SYNONYM

FOR

POLITICAL

INTEGRITY

rhen Centenary College looks back on its sesquicen-
tennial celebration, one of the high points will be a visit by
Woodrow Wilson Senior Fellow Margaret Chase Smith.
Senator Smith and her long-time aide and associate, Major
General William Lewis (ret.), were on campus during the
week of February 23-28, The Wilson Visiting Fellows pro-
gram, funded by the Lilly Foundation, draws representa-
tives of business, industry, government and the professions
to college campuses as distinguished professors.

Now 78 years of age, Senator Smith kept up with a busy
schedule of meeting classes, talking informally to students
and faculty, a press conference, several social engagements;
and won the hearts of all she met. Her honesty at a press
conference, (she believes in drilling for oil off the east coast
even though she is from Maine) made her a favorite with
the press. And her candor with students and faculty won
her additional friends on campus.

General Lewis, with a background in both government
and the military, added a second dimension to the discus-
sions of government, politics, ethics and wide range of other
topics. The highlight of the visit, however, came at Thurs-
day chapel when Senator Smith was presented with the 78th
honorary doctor's degree of her long and illustrious career.
Accepting the honor from President Allen and Dean Kauss,
she told the Centenary family that her week had been
"pleasant, rewarding and challenging." She said it was very
important to her to become a member of the Centenary
College family.

And she closed by quoting from the now famous lines
from her book, Declaration of Conscience, from a chapter
entitled "This I Believe."

"This I do believe — that life has a real purpose — that
God has assigned to each human being his role in life —
that each of us has a purposeful task — that our individual
roles are all different but each of us has the same obligation
to do the best he can.

"I believe that every human being I come in contact
with has a right to courtesy and consideration from me. I
believe that I should not ask or expect from anyone else
that which I am not willing to grant or do myself.

"I believe that in our constant search for security we can
never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul
And this I believe above all, especially in times of discour-
agement— that I must believe in my fellow man — that I
must believe in myself — that I must believe in God — if
life is to have any meaning."

Senator Smith receives honorary degree
from Dean Kauss (left), the Senator and
General Lewis at a press conference (above),
Pap Dean and Stanley Tiner present a car-
toon from Sigma Delta Chi (right), and
Senator Smith talking to students (bottom).

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Two professorial chairs, both endowed with a $400,000
donation, were received by Centenary College during the
month of March. The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston,
Texas, announced a gift of $400,000 to Centenary for the
establishment of a chair in engineering: while the T. L.
James and Co., Inc. of Ruston revealed a $400,000 dona-
tion to the College for the establishment of a chair in re-
ligion.

Early in the month of March, the College was informed
by George R. Brown, president of the Brown Foundation
and board chairman of Brown and Root, Inc., and Herbert
J. Frensley, vice president of the foundation and president
of Brown and Root, that the foundation had approved a re-
quest for $400,000 to establish the chair in engineering at
Centenary.

The grant is a permanent endowment with the earnings
to be used to underwrite the salary of the professor and
other expenses for the engineering program at the College.
President John H.Allen said a search will be launched in the
near future to select the first incumbent of the chair, prob-
ably beginning in the fall of 1976. The professor and the
name for the chair will be designated following agreement
between the president and the executive committee of the
foundation.

Edmond Parker, the retiring head of the engineering de-
partment'at Centenary, and Grayson Watson, vice president
for development, were the authors of the proposal submit-

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THE T. L. JAMES COMPANY AND THE BROWN
FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON ENDOW CHAIRS IN
RELIGION AND ENGINEERING.

Centenary College officials study an engineering problem in the laboratories of the college in the department that has received a $400,000 endow-
ed professorial chair from the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, Texas. They are (1-r) George D. Nelson, chairman of the board of trustees:
W. Russell Barrow, trustee chairman for the Fund for Independance, a long-range effort to add $20 million to the endowment: and President John
H. Allen.

ted to the Brown Foundation.

The engineering department at Centenary offers a com-
bined liberal arts-engineering program, sometimes called the
3-2 program, in which a student studies the liberal arts and
basic engineering courses for three years at Centenary fol-
lowed by two years of specialized courses at cooperating in-
stitutions. These include Stanford University, Columbia
University, Tulane University, Louisiana Tech University,
Texas A and M University, Vanderbilt University and the
University of Arkansas

At the end of the five years of study, the student re-
ceives the B.A. degree from Centenary and the B.S. degree
from the coperating university.

Students at Centenary must maintain a B average to be
accepted at the engineering school from the cooperating
university.

The donor of the engineering professorship, the Brown
Foundation, Inc., was established in 1951 by Herman and
George R. Brown as a non-profit, charitable foundation, the
total income of the foundation to be used for the better-
ment of mankind.

In 1962 Herman and Margarett Brown, George R. and
Alice Brown, gave approximately 80% of their resources to
the Brown Foundation, Inc. In 1963, upon the death of
Herman and Margarett Brown, their estate was given to the
Foundation.

From 195 1 through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974,
the trustees of the Brown Foundation, Inc., had authorized
$31,553,523 in grants to education; $13,810,300 to health
organizations: $13,152,098 for the arts and humanities; and
$2,217,140 for social benefits for a total of $60,733,061.

The T. L. James Chair of Religion, to establish an end
dowed professorship in the Centenary College School of
Church Careers was announced on March 28th following a
meeting of college officers and officials of the Company at
their headquarters in Ruston. The chair, honoring the mem-
ory of T. L. James, the founder of the Ruston firm and a

member of the board of trustees of Centenary, will be fund-
ed by a $400,000 gift approved by the stockholders of
T. L. James and Co., Inc., of Ruston. The grant was reveal-
ed by G. W. (Bill) James, chairman of the executive commit-
tee and a Centenary alumnus; Floyd James, chairman of the
board; and J. C. Love, senior vice president. G. W. James
and J. C. Love are presently members of the board of trust-
ees of Centenary College, and Floyd James served on the
board following his father's death in 1941 but later relin-
quished his seat to his brother. The elder James, for whom
the chair is named, served as chairman of the board of
trustees of Centenary for several years.

Other members of the firm who were present when the
announcement was made include J. T. Folk, Jr., senior vice
president; G. W. James Jr., president; Ben James, vice presi-
dent; and Jimmy Love, secretary.

Representing the college, in addition to president Allen
were trustee chairman George D. Nelson, chairman emeritus
Paul M. Brown Jr., and Grayson Watson, vice president for
development.

The James gift is a restricted, designated fund within the
College's general endowment portfolio, and only the earn-
ings from the $400,000 will be used to apply toward the
salary and other costs of the professor occupying the chair

The two James brothers and J. C. Love, speaking on be-
half of the company, said they felt this was an ideal time
during the 150th anniversary of the College to remember
their father in this manner. "Because of his interest in the
Methodist Church, Centenary College, and education in
general; because of the company's philosophy of supporting
religious, charitable and educational institutions; and be-
cause of our own interest in the Church Careers program at
Centenary, the stockholders have unamiously approved
this project."

"When we presented the proposal to our board you
could see their faces light up around the table," they said,
adding that their approval was immediate and enthusiastic.

George D Nelson, chairman of the board of trustees of Centenary (center) accepts a gift of $400,000 from G. W. (Bill) James (second from rt) on
behalf of the T. L. James and Co., Inc. of Ruston. The funds will endow the T. L. James Chair in Religion at Centenary in honor of the late T. L.
James, whose portrait is shown in the background. Looking on are President John H. Allen of Centenary, (left) Floyd James, chairman of the board
of the Ruston firm (second from left) and J. C. Love, senior vice president (right).

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RICHARD L. RAY

Richard L. Ray, a General Partner in Fair Oil Company, Ltd., of Tyler,
Texas, graduated from Centenary in 1937 with a B.A. degree in economics.
He has been in charge of exploration and oil operations of the Fair Interests
since 1952. He is also a Director and a member of the Executive Committee
of the R.W. Fair Foundation; President of Workreation, Inc.; Director of the
Independent Petroleum Association; and a Steward in the Glenwood United
Methodist Church. He is a past President of the Petroleum Data Library and
the Smith County Child Care Welfare Unit.

Asked to recall his favorite memories of Centenary College, Ray said he
recalls the warm friendly attitude of the students and faculty on the campus
during the mid 30's. He said four individuals at the College, President Pierce
Cline, Dean John A. Hardin, Dr. S.D. Morehead, and Mrs. W.F. French, had a
lasting influence on his life.

He is married to the former Mary Marie Taylor and they are the parents of
two children, David Ray and Janet Hills. There are two grandchildren.

GEORGE R. SCHURMAN

George R. Schurman received the B.S. degree in geology from Centenary
College in 1957. He founded the Schurman Oil and Gas Company in 1963
and is actively engaged in petroleum exploration in Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and two foreign countries. In 1965 he founded
the Schurman Realty Company and is the managing realtor of the firm. He is
a member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Administrative Board
of the Lakeview United Methodist Church and is a member of the English
Speaking Union, the National Trust for Historical Preservation and the
Smithsonian Associates.

Schurman says Shreveport is lucky to have Centenary College. "The whole
spectre of education is there," he said, "and a well rounded education is avail-
able to anyone willing to work." He said he also believes the Church affilia-
tion of the school has had a tremendous affect on its graduates.

Schurman is married to the former Aline Spence and they are the parents
of 5 children, Rankin, 21, a history major at Centenary, Lisa, 17, Stephen,
15, Lori, 12, and Bonnie Susan, 6.

1975 ALUMNI ELECTION

CANDIDATES FOR ALUMNI BOARD

According to the Constitution of the Alumni Association, the general member-
ship shall elect, from at least 20 candidates, 10 directors for a 2 year term.

The Board of Directors for the new year, at their first meeting, shall elect by
secret ballot their new officers for the ensuing year.

Subject to the new Board's approval, an additional five directors may be ap-
pointed to one-year terms by the newly elected president of the board.

The following 20 candidates are presented for the 10 vacancies of the 1975—77
terms.

Please vote for 10 on the ballot and return to Alumni Office, Centenary Col-
lege, P.O. Box 4188, Shreveport, La. 71 104.

MRS, MARY ANN CAFFERY '72: In business with husband, past
Admissions Counselor, presently on Alumni Board.

BILL CAUSEY' JR. '68: Realtor and photographer with Shreveport
journal, presently on Alumni Board.

MRS. NANCY COWLEY '64: Homemaker residing inTexas, past
Homecoming Chairman '74, presently on Alumni Board.

JACK ELGIN '43: Senior Account Executive, Merrill, Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner and Smith; worker in the Centenary Great Teachers Cam-
paign, presently on Alumni Board.

MISS FLAVIA LEARY '35: Algebra teacher at Northwood High
School, escort for Centenary alumni European tour, presently on
Alumni Board.

JIM MONTGOMERY '68: Editorial writer, Shreveport Times, pres-
ently on Alumni Board.

PEYTON SHEHEE '40: Vice President of Kilpatrick Life Insurance
Co., presently on Alumni Board.

THURMAN SMITH '50: Photographer in Shreveport since 1953,
presently on Alumni Board.

MRS. MARGARET TEAGUE '56: Mother of 5 children and part
time asso. woman's ed. for Shreveport Journal, presently on Alumni
Board.

P. L. (MAC) MCCREARY, JR. '62: Marketing Representative,
Honeywell Information Systems, presently on Alumni Board.

HOYT BAIN '63: Commercial Real Estate Developer, worker in the
Centenary Great Teacher's Campaign.

RON INDERBITZIN '67: Attorney, with Shreveport Law firm of
Mayer, Smith and Roberts.

MRS. MICHELLE Q-PETERSEN '74: Housewife, Alumni Loyalty
Fund Phone-a-thon Committee 1974.

ED SHAW '64: Partner, Penn and Shaw, Certified Public Accoun-
tants, President Exchange Club.

MRS. MARTHA GOZA '66: Bank Loan Officer, presently on
Alumni Board.

JOHN H. MELDRUM, JR. '70: Account Manager, Burroughs Corpo-
ration.

A. L. "BUDDY" DAILY' JR. '61: Dist. Sales Rep., Kerr McGee
Chemical Corp.

MRS. BETTY GILMER '62: Elementary school teacher, Home-
coming 1975 Committee member.

MRS. JOY S. GRAHAM '75: Homemaker, member of executive
committee and Board of Directors of Open Ear, Inc.

MRS. CAROLYN GRAY '55: Homemaker, worker in the Centenary
Great Teacher's Campaign, presently on Alumni Board.

Detach along dotted line and return to Alumni Office

OFFICIAL BALLOT

| [ CAFFERY
]J CAUSEY
COWLEY
ELGIN
! J LEARY

] McCREARY
| | BAIN
] GRAHAM
] INDERBITZIN
] Q-PETERSEN

] SHAW
| | GOZA
] MELDRUM
] DAILY
] GILMER

(PLEASE RETURN BY JUNE 6, 1975)

A/kixat&k

Centenary

from

CENTENARY COLLEGE

Shreveport, Louisiana 71 104

Entered As Second-Class Matter

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REPORT

Washington Semester A junior gov-
ernment major at Centenary, David B.
Deufel, has been selected to participate
in the Washington Semester Program at
American University in Washington
D. C. The purpose or the program is to
provide students with an opportunity
to observe their government in action,
to perform research work under care-
ful supervision, and to exchange ideas
with students from other colleges and
universities from around the nation.

Fulbright— Hays Finalist Fredric
"Jeff Hendricks of Monroe has been
selected as a finalist in the competition
for the Fulbright-Hays Grant for
study in Germany. Hendricks applica-
tion was approved by the screening
committee and has been forwarded to
the Board of Foreign Scholarships ap-
pointed by the President of the United
States. During the 1973-74 academic
year, Hendricks studied English litera-
ture, history and philosophy at the
University of Kent in England.

High School Day Approximately 325
high school students and their chapcr-
ones visited Centenary College during
High School day in February. The ma-
jority of the students came from
Louisiana and many were sponsored
by United Methodist churches from
New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake
Charles, Monroe and Alexandria. An-
other church bus brought students
from Dallas. Other visitors came from
the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Florida.

Friends of Music The Friends of
Music Series at Centenary has reached
new heights this season. The latest con-
cert in the series, a harpsichord recit-
al in February, was an unusual musical
evening. Edward Brewer charmed a
large audience with the beauty of the
music from the Centenary harpsichord
recently donated to the School of
Music by Mrs. Ed. E. Hurley. Dr.
Donald Rupert is in charge of the
Friends series this year.

Chep's Biography Published Dr.

Edward F. Haas, assistant professor of
history, is the author of a new book,
deLessep S. Morrison and the Image of
Reform: New Orleans Politics, 1946—
1961. The book was published by the
L. S. U. Press in Baton Rouge and has
received excellent press reviews around
the state. The book focuses on
Morrison's career as Mayor of New
Orleans.

CALENDAR

May 7— Joseph Heller, Forums
speaker

May 8, 9, 10-"The Last of Mrs.
Lincoln" (Marjorie Lyons
Playhouse

May 8— Scott Prince, organist
(Sophomore Recital)

May 11— John Dosher, composer
(Junior Recital)

May 16— Class work Ends

May 19—23 Semester Exams

May 25-Baccalaurette, 2:30
p.m. Commencement, 8:00
p.m.

June 2— Registration for Summer
Session, 9:00 a.m.— 4:00 p.m.

June 3— Classwork Begins

Dr. Taylor At Oak Ridge Dr. Stanton
A. Taylor, a member of the chemistry
faculty at Centenary is serving as a vis-
iting professor at the Atomic Energy
Commission Laboratories at Oak
Ridge, Tennessee this semester. Dr.
Taylor will teach and participate in
research work with students from the
Southern College and University
Union, a consortium of nine Southern
colleges and universities of which
Centenary is a member. Centenary
granted Dr. Taylor a leave of absence
to permit him to take advantage of the
opportunity at the AEC Labs.

Political Science Association The

Political Science Association of

Louisiana met on the Centenaiy
College campus March 7-8 with about
50 professors from throughout Louisi-
ana in attendance. Centenary alum Su-
preme Court Justice John Dixon was
the principal speaker at the annual
banquet of the organization, and
Darrell Loyless, assistant professor of
government at Centenary delivered a
paper entitled "The Role Orientations
of Louisiana's State Legislators: Some
First Impressions."

Texas Instruments Grant A. Ray

McCord,a 1949 graduate of Centenary,
and now executive vice president of
Texas Instruments, Inc. of Dallas, re-
turned to the campus recently to pre-
sent a grant of $30,000 from his firm
for the purchase of new equipment for
the chemistry laboratory. McCord,
shown in the center with President
John Allen on the right, and chemistry
department chairman Wayne Hanson
on the left, now holds one of the top
mananagement posts in the Texas firm.

Great Teachers-Scholars The 1975
Great Teachers— Scholars Fund reach-
ed $280,000 during March with all in-
dications that the $300,000 goal would
be met. Austin Robertson, who head-
ed the drive this year, said at the offi-
cial close of the campaign that the goal
could be easily attained if every volun-
teer would complete the calls assigned
to him.

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Graduation was another highlight of the sesquicentennial year at Centenary College as the 150th anniversary class received Latin diplomas from
President John Allen. Tom T. Matheney (lower left) was the Baccalaureate speaker, and honorary Doctor's degrees were conferred upon Floyd
Boswell, the Commencement speaker (upper right), Dr. David Kimball (lower right), and Oral Roberts (upper left), who received his degree at An-
nual Conference.

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
July 1975, Volume 5, No. 6, published four
times a year— in October, January, April and
July by the Centenary College Alumni Asso-
ciation, P.O. Box 4188 Shreveport, Louisiana
Published for members of the Alumni Asso-
ciation and friends of Centenary College of
Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Jewel Morse

1974-75 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President Gene Bryson '63

First Vice President . Peyton Shehee, Jr. '40
Second Vice President . . Judy Butcher '62

Secretary Jean Goins '63

Treasurer Dave White '61

DIRECTORS ( Terms expire in 1976)
Gene Bryson '63, Judy Butcher '62, Jean
Goins '63, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki
'58, Dave White '61, Gayle Wren '64,
Chatham Reed '64, Jim Mitchell '64, Paul

Cooke '68.

(1974-75 Members Appointed by President)
Martha Goza '66, Carolyn Gray '55, Larry
Johnson '59, P.L. McCreary '62, Elizabeth
Yeager '61.

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by JOHN H. ALLEN

L or a College that has known war, depression, good times

P and bad for 150 years, it should be expected that one

J would find some difficulty in citing the events of a

particular year as being out of the ordinary. Yet 1974—75,

the 150th year of Centenary, gives evidence of being such a

year and that is what this report is all about.

It has been a very good year. It probably has been the
best year at the College in over five years.

Last fall, for the first time in several years, enrollment
increased by nearly ten percent. Much of the increase was the
result of the introduction of the Church Careers Program,
which attracted a great deal of interest and favorable response
from friends of the College.

Another feature of the sesquicentennial year was the
remarkable (25—4) record of the basketball team which
achieved national recognition by being rated in the top
twenty teams in the country.

For the first time in the history of the. College, during
a one-year period two endowed professorships were establish-
ed. A chair in engineering science was given by The Brown
Foundation of Houston, Texas, and The T.L. James Chair in
Religion was given by the James family of Ruston, Louisiana.
Each professorship is funded in the amount of $400,000.

To be completed in the fall is the Meadows Museum
which will feature the works of Jean Despujols. The old ad-
ministration building on Centenary Boulevard is being remod-
eled for this purpose, thanks to Mr. Algur H. Meadows who

is financing the renovation and who also purchased the
Despujols collection.

The achievement of our graduates continued at a high
level this year as evidenced by the large numbers of them who
are entering medical schools, law schools, other professional
programs, and graduate schools. We firmly believe that the
activities and support of thePre-Medical Advisory council and
the Pre-Law Advisory Council are important factors in our suc-
cess at developing students who succeed in professional
schools.

During the course of the past year the campus was visit-
ed by a number of illustrious persons who added a great deal
to the general air of celebration. Representative of their fame
and diversity were Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Jesse
Owens, and Oral Roberts.

One of our favorite campus activities, the classes con-
ducted for persons "over 60" in cooperation with the Caddo
Council for the Aging, continued to be very popular with
hundreds of our older friends in attendance both semesters.

The Fund for Independence to ensure Centenary's in-
dependence in the years ahead was begun this year. Its goal of
$20,000,000 for endowment will provide the College a mar-
gin for excellence in the future and a personal heritage for all
those who participate in its growth.

Truly it has been a year to remember— maybe for an-
other 150 years.

by DAN RAMSEY

Director of Admissions

STEVE HOLT

Dean of Students

new generation of Centenary Col-
lege students entered the College
during its 150th anniversary
year— students who appeared to be
more interested in improving them-
selves than in changing society, perhaps
realizing that in bettering themselves,
social change would automatically fol-
low.

The new class upheld the aca-
demic traditions of Centenary, all
placing in the top fifty per cent of their
respective high school classes, having
an overall grade point average of 2.93
on a scale of 4, and placing in the top
forty percent of students taking the
college board examinations nationally.

In reviewing the new students'
performance it is interesting to com-
pare their abilities and actions with the
information they provided in a ques-
tionnaire on why they chose Centen-
ary. Of the 87 students polled, 32 stu-
dents said they applied only to Centen-
ary. Of the 55 remaining students who
applied to Centenary and another
school, almost every one was accepted
at the other school, including such in-
stitutions as the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, the U.S. Air Force
Academy, American University, and
Wake Forest College. Curiously, only
four students applied to both Centen-
ary and Louisiana Tech., only two at
Centenary and L.S.U.-Shreveport, and
only four at Centenary and the Univer-
sity of Texas.

The questionnaire also investi-
gated factors in the student's choice of
Centenary. Again, student comments
came as a surprise! Asked to rank the
most important persons in their deci-
sion to attend Centenary, the students
produced the following ranking: (1)
parents, (2) Centenary College Admis-
sions Staff, (3) Friends (not at Centen-
ary), (4) Centenary College students.

Ranking parents as number one came
as no surprise, but the next three were
not expected in the order they appear-
ed. The Admissions Office was very
pleased to learn that students' percep-
tions of our efforts have been good.
We were puzzled by the fact that
"friends" were more important than
current Centenary students until we
began to consider the strength of the
high school student grapevine, and
the effect of Centenary's academic rep-
utation.

Factors which made the College
attractive to the student were ranked
in the following order: (1) size, (2)
small classes, (3) personal concern for
students, (4) good faculty.

Working on the basis of what it
has learned during the past year and
the results of its surveys, the Admis-
sions Office is seeking to actively in-
volve current students and alumni in
the recruiting program. Already alumni
from the New Jersey, New York, East
Texas, and Southern Louisiana areas
have volunteered their services to aid
the admissions effort.

Centenary, it seems, is in pace
with the national trend toward a more
relaxed college atmosphere. In contrast
to the campus several years ago, there
are certainly fewer issue-oriented activ-
ists visibly working for social change.
While the Centenary student might be
considered apathetic to the casual ob-
server, when one studies the situation
he will find that students are now
working on their own internal goals.
Instead of changing society, students
are striving to improve themselves,
hoping social change will follow.

Participation in both formal and
informal social activities is high, yet
one seldom finds the student body in-
tact, except at basketball games or dur-
ing an all-campus weekend. Each stu-
dent has his or her own interests to fol-
low and in fact must operate on a real-
ly tight schedule of classes, work, and
study.

Taking the above into account,
the stereotyped Centenary student of
1975 is one who is seeking to improve
himself, not only intellectually but so-
cially as well. He is also aware of the
necessity of a career orientation and
the reality of a tight job market.

However, both formal and infor-
mal student activities at Centenary are
changing form. The trend has been to
develop more small and participative
programs.

Student Union events are devel-
oped by the Director of Student Activ-
ities with help from informal student
groups. They are generally low-budget
activities, but have had a high partici-
patory response. Membership is open
to any student, making the programs
flexible and constantly changing. Dur-
ing the past academic year Moore Stu-
dent Center's main floor was complete-
ly renovated by Centenary students,
staff, and faculty. Another program

developed on Sunday evening partially
because the Centenary cafeteria is
closed at that time. The program was
named Sunday Night Follies and
changed each Sunday night. A meal
was served for a nominal break-even
charge. Programs included classic films,
a cheese tasting party, a bingo night,
and square dancing.

Because of the success of the
Student Union activities this past year,
plans are being made for an expansion
of such programs next year. Special
non-credit mini-courses and lectures
will be organized in such areas as per-
sonal finance, photography, pottery
making, cooking, and any other areas
which might be of interest to students.

Over the years the majority of
student activity programs, especially
those that require funding, have been
planned by the Student Government
Association. This past year was no ex-
ception. The Student Government is
funded through student activity fees
collected during each registration.
These fees were orginally passed by the
student body in a general election. The
activities funded this past year were
varied and presented a mixed bag of
activities and programs. All student
groups were considered before each
program was planned. Some examples
of programs were visits by Jesse Owens
of Olympics fame and Joseph Heller,
author of Catch 22; concerts featuring
Dan Fogelberg, Colours, and Harts Is-
land; All-Campus Weekends, planned
each semester with activities such as
egg tossing and pie-eating contests, and
tug-o-war over a mud hole; an ice skat-
ing party; a campout in Crumley Gar-
dens; a street dance; and of course, the
Homecoming dance.

Another large group of student
activities are centered around campus
organization. The most visible orga-
nizations on campus are the fraternities
and sororities which still maintain a
large proportion of the Centenary stu-
dent body on their membership ros-
ters. The Greeks generally have social
functions each weekend and in the
spring their formals are major campus
events.

Religious life at Centenary is
centered not only around the weekly
chapel programs, Willson Lectures, and
Sunday morning worship, but also the
campus religious organization. The
Methodist Student Movement is per-
haps the largest and meets for pro-
grams each Thursday night that school
is in session. MSM is advised by the
Chaplain who coordinates all religious
activities. Other chartered religious or-
ganizations include the Baptist Student
Union, Centenary Catholic Students,
Centenary Jewish Students, Kappa Chi,
and the Episcopal Canterbury Associ-
ation.

Intramural programs are major
events at Centenary. Greeks, indepen-
dents, and the faculty all compete for
the intramural sweepstakes champion-

ship. For the men this was a very suc-
cessful year since 247 men participated
in the program. Unfortunately, partic-
ipation was low for the Women's Rec-
reation Association. It will be given
special attention next year as plans are
now being made to improve women's
intramurals.

There are several programs on
campus that are designed to provide
the student opportunities to attend
cultural and intellectual programs. Re-
citals are held frequently in Hurley
Music Auditorium and prominent guest
performers are often on campus. Sev-
eral plays are presented each semester
at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse. They are
attended by a majority of Centenary
students. Plays presented this past year
were, "Two by Two," "The Crucible,"
"Dark of the Moon," "Tom Paine"
and "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln."

As always on a college campus,
the dormitories are centers for many
informal activities. This past year the
dormitory lobbies of Cline, Rotary,
James, and Hardin were improved. The
lobbies in the men's dorms were com-
pletely renovated. Because of the im-
provements in these areas, the lobbies
were used more heavily than in past
years.

A major step was taken this year
to improve medical service. The Col-
lege arranged for a physician to be
available on campus three afternoons
each week. An examination room is
furnished in the James Dormitory. The
physician's services are free to all full-
time students, but the students must
pay for lab fees at cost and must pur-
chase the prescribed drugs off campus.
Virtually all routine lab tests are avail-
able to students. This service has been
exceptionally well received by the stu-
dent body. From February 10, 1975 to
May 23, 1975, the physician examined
294 students, an average of 7.35 stu-
dents per visit.

One of the concerns of some
graduating students is finding a job. In
response to this need, the College is es-
tablishing a Career and Placement Of
fice to begin operation in the fall of
1975. The primary function of the of-
fice will be to develop a career aware-
ness on the part of the entire student
body. The Career and Placement Office
will act as a clearing house for positions
and prospective employers and as a re-
source center where students may learn
about interviewing, resume develop-
ment, and other job-hunting skills.

In retrospect the academic year
1974—75 has been an active and prom-
ising one. Programs for the student
body are gaining positive impetus. With
time, energy, and thought next year
holds tremendous potential. To insure
the development of Centenary's poten-
tial we will need the creative thought
and energetic assistance of the entire
College community— alumni, students,
staff, faculty, and friends.

by THEODORE R. KAUSS
Executive Vice President
and Dean of the College

he Sesquicentennial year at Cent-
ary has been an especially inter-
esting and exciting one for our
faculty and students. New programs
have been implemented, new courses
have been initiated, and new professors
have been introduced. Veteran profes-
sors recieved special recognition, and
records were set for the placement of
our graduates in professional schools.
Nationally recognized authorities in
politics, religion, and education visited
our campus and worked with members
of our campus community.

A program for training educators
for Church-related assignments, the
Centenary School of Church Careers,
and its innovative format has had a
dramatic impact upon our enrollment.
CSCC is a new concept in education
which through a blending of liberal
arts coursework, specialized teaching
methods and techniques classes, and
"on-the-job" training in selected
church settings prepares individuals for
full-time church careers.

Another new curricular offering
which has generated great enthusiasm
on campus and in the surrounding
community is the internship for pre-
medical students which was conducted
for the first time during Interim 1975.
The purpose of the course, planned by
the Premedical Advisory Council at
Centenary, is to acquaint premed stu-
dents not only with doctors' work, but
to introduce them to allied professions
in the health-care field.

Also new to Centenary is the
dance program which will be initially
offered this fall under the auspices of
the Theatre-Speech Department.

OUR REVISED MISSION

The Centenary School of Church
Careers, other career oriented programs
which are under consideration, and in-
ternships now offered for credit in the
premed program and in almost all aca-
demic departments, are a direct result
of recent decisions regarding new di-
mensions for the College. These deci-
sions are reflected in the Statement of
Purpose which was approved in Spring
1974 by the Trustees and Faculty of
Centenary. The statement includes as
part of Centenary's mission the desire
to embrace pre-professional and career
training as integral components of a vi-
brant liberal arts program.

We will open in September a
Career and Placement Center to better
meet the needs of our students for
career counseling and job opportuni-
ties. This office will be situated in
Hamilton Hall and will be staffed by a
part-time Director and a full-time Ex-
ecutive Secretary.

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Centenary is considering the ex-
pansion of academic programs to in-
clude those which lead to graduate de-
grees in several areas of education and
business administration. We have for
the past year been studying the feasi-
bility of offering Master of Science De-
grees in Elementary Education and in
Educational Administration and Super-
vision. We have also been surveying
the need for a Masters in Business Ad-
ministration (MBA) program. It is ex-
pected that "go or stop" decisions on
these proposed graduate programs will
be made before January 1, 1976.

We in academe are cognizant of
the fact that new and different doesn't
automatically mean better or more ef-
fective. Centenary is proud of its stan-
dard liberal arts courses which for a
century and a half have instructed stu-
dents in basic and sophisticated com-
munications's skills and have helped
thousands cf our graduates to gain an
appreciation for and an understanding
of literature, theatre, music, art, phil-
osophy, and ecology.

STUDENT SUCCESSES

A record nember of eleven mem-
bers of the 1975 graduating class were
accepted at medical schools and nine
were granted admission to law schools.
In addition to the 1975 class, three
members of the 1974 class were also
granted admission to medical schools
this fall. This year's great success in
placement of students in professional
schools can be attributed to the plan-
ing, guidance, and direction provided
by the premedical and prelaw advisory
committees of the College.

THE FACULTY

Centenary's professors are noted
as skillful and dedicated teachers and
advisers. We truly respect and attempt

to reward our great teachers. However,
we do not expect our outstanding edu-
cators to ignore research, publication,
or other professional activity. In fact,
many Centenary teachers have made
significant contributions in these areas
and have generally found that they can
relate them meaningfully to their
classes. In the Spring and Summer of
1974, Dr. Robert Deufel in biology
taught at the Oak Ridge National Lab-
oratory and this past Spring, Dr.
Stanton Taylor in chemistry served as
a visiting professor there. Dr. Earle
Labor, an internationally recognized
authority on Jack London, was on
leave this year as a Senior Fellow of
the National Endowment for the Hu-
manities to complete work on a second
book on London. Dr. Edward Haas in
history, published a book, deLesseps
Morrison and the Image of Reform:
New Orleans Politics 1946-61.

Dr. Bradley McPherson, biology,
will spend most of this summer in
Costa Rica and Columbia to continue
his research of the jungle rodents
which carry the deadly pichinde vi-
rus. The Hemenway Grant of $900 was
awarded to Dr. Lee Morgan who is
working in the libraries of Harvard and
Princeton to find source material for
his book on the Eighteenth Century
scholar, Samuel Johnson. Dr. Joseph
Garner, Education, now serves as vice
president of the Caddo Parish School
Board and Dr. Charles Beaird, Philos-
ophy, was recently elected to member-
ship on the Board of Directors of the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Some of our most admired and
respected professors retired in 1975
and were recognized at the graduation
exercises. Joining the ranks of Centen-
ary's Emeriti Professors are Dr. W.
Ferrell Pledger, Sociology; Charles A.
Hickcox, Geology; and Fariebee Parker
Self, Mathematics.

VERY SPECIAL PROFESSORS

The 1974—75 academic year was
the second year of our participation
with the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fel-
lows program. John J. Powers, former
Chairman of the Board and President
of Pfizer Company, Inc., Senator Mar-
garet Chase Smith, and Major General
William L. Lewis (USAF ret.) became
short-term lecturers and long term
friends of Centenary.

Recently a great deal of excite-
ment has been generated in our aca-
demic community by appointment of
Dr. Webb Pomeroy, Chairman of reli-
gion Department, to the T.L. James
Chair of Religion.

The Brown Chair in Engineering
has been provided for the College
through the generosity of the Brown
Foundation, Houston, Texas. A selec-
tion committee is interviewing candi-
dates for this position.

Other outstanding educators/ad-
ministrators who have been elected to
our Faculty and will join us in August

1975 are Dr. Harlan Snow, who will
become the Dean of the School of Mu-
sic, and Dr. Hugh Urbantke, a nation-
ally recognized authority in business,
who will become Chairman of the De-
partment of Economics and Business,
Director of the Center for Management
Development, and Director of the Ca-
reer Planning and Placement Center.
Dr. "Eddy" Vetter returns to us after
the completion of his Ph.D. work to
become the new chairman of our Soci-
ology Department and an associate
professor in that discipline.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Centenary during the past year
has emerged as a major center in the
South for continuing education.

Centenary offered short-courses
for the Caddo Council on Aging, co-
sponsored the First Annual Deep South
Summer School of Alcohol Studies,
hosted a number of professional con-
ferences, and will be the meeting place
of the state convention for Head Start
personnel which will be held in mid-
August.

Last year we presented to hun-
dreds of persons over sixty years of age
short-courses on subjects ranging from
"How to Play Bridge" and "Wills and
Estates" to "Creative Writing" and
"U.F.O's." Each semester during the
74-75 school year, the Caddo Council
on Aging Classes enrolled over 400 stu-
dents.

A truly unique partnership was
developed in order to bring to our re-
gion the First Annual Deep South Sum-
mer School of Alcohol Studies. Co-
sponsors are a private liberal arts insti-
tution, Centenary; a public supported
university, Northwestern State Univer-
sity; and a unit of the Federal Govern-
ment, the V.A. Hospital, Shreveport.

Another organization brought
football back to Centenary after a
lapse of thirty years. Unlike the
"glory" days under Coach Bo McMil-
lan, this year's team admits to being
comprised of non-students and profes-
sionals. The Shreveport Steamer of
the World Football League (WFL) con-
tracted with Centenary for the use of
the College's facilities for their training
camp during June and July.

THE CHALLENGE

It is obvious that Centenary Col-
lege is designing, developing and de-
livering educational and community
programs and services for the seventies.
The scope of these programs goes well
beyond that of a "traditional" liberal
arts college of the past hundred fifty
years, but we believe that we're creat-
ing a climate for innovation and estab-
lishing an attitude for change which
will become the new traditions for
scholastic achievement and human ser-
vices of our College in the year 2000
and beyond.

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THE COLLEGE DOLLAR

Federal
Government
Grants

REVENUES

—Library 3.36%

Student
Services 4.59%

_General

Administra-
tion

3.37%

EXPENDITURES

by GRAYSON WATSON

Vice President for Development

JAMES L. ALLEN

Vice President Finance

hartered by the Louisiana legisla-
ture in 1825, and this year cele-
brating 150 years of distin-
guished service Centenary College has
preserved the religious ideals of its
founders, as well as their zeal to be in
the forefront of higher education in
the South.

Centenary is proud of its tradi-
tion as a church-related, independent
college. And yet, independent higher
education in this nation is under severe
pressure. The crisis today represents
both danger and opportunity. The dan-
ger is the loss of the independent sec-
tor which will leave higher education
as a monoply of the state— as it already
is in most of the world. The opportu-
nity before us is to restate the case for
independent higher education by reaf-
firming the basic priniciples for which
it was founded: (1) to reflect the pre-
sence of Christian faith in higher educa-
tion, (2) to provide high academic stan-
dards within a personal environment of
learning, and (3) to retain our commit-
ment to the liberal arts ideal while of-
fering some special programs of in-
struction. This process is under way at
Centenary, and combined with the re-
newed financial and moral support of
all its constituencies, will mean a bright
and exciting future for the College. To
quote Russell Kirk, "In fine, the inde-
pendent college that endures must ex-
cel, not under bid, in its competition
with Behemoth U."

Like almost all private educa-
tional institutions, Centenary has felt
the blow of spiraling inflation during
the past few years, and especially dur-
ing the 1974—75 year. Continuing ef-
forts have been made to hold the line
on expenditures and to reduce them
where possible. These efforts made it
possible to reduce expenditures in both
1972-73 and 1973-74 from the
1970-71 and 1971-72 levels. During
the past year, escalating costs made it
impossible to hold expenditures to lev-
els of the preceding year, and the Col-
lege was forced to continue its practice
of recent years of covering operating
deficits by withdrawals from unre-
stricted endowment funds— (unrestrict-
ed endowment funds are those not re-
stricted by the donor as to their use by
the College.)

But in spite of inflation and the
resulting increases in operating costs,
many good things happened during
1974—75 to brighten the financial out-
look of the College and give us hope a-
gain for balanced budgets within a few
years:

*The 1974 annual fund campaigns
raised $320,583

* Support from the United Meth-
dist Church of Louisiana this
year amounted to $156,000— an
increase of 240% compared to
past averages! And the signs for
1975—76 are for even greater
church support.

* Contributions to the endowment
fund this year were greater than
the combined totals for the past
six years. Of special note were
the Brown Foundation
(Houston) gift of $400,000 to
establish a chair in engineering
science; the $400,000 T.L. James
Chair of Religion given by the
T.L. James and Company, Inc.
of Ruston, Louisiana; and the
$150,000 gift of Algur H.
Meadows of Dallas to endow the
operation costs of the new
Meadows Museum of Art.

* Contributions by foundations
and corporations for the renova-
tion of the chemistry laboratories
on the third floor of Mickle Hall
of Science totaled almost
$75,000. At this time the general
chemistry laboratory has been
completely renovated, and ranks
as one of the most modern in the
area. As an example of the need
for this project, it can be noted
that the laboratory desks re-
placed equipment which dated
back to the 1930's. The next
laboratory earmarked for renova-
tion will be that used for organic
chemistry. Another gift of
$30,000 from Texas Instruments
Inc., Dallas, Texas will enable the
the department to purchase a
nuclear magnetic resonance spec-
trometer. Centenary College will
be one of the few undergraduate
colleges in the nation to possess
this valuable instrument for stu-
dent and faculty research.

For the future, it may be that
the independent colleges of Louisiana
will receive some limited support from
the state itself. Presently, 39 states
have authorized public support for
private institutions of higher education
in one form or another. The state has
a financial interest in the preservation
of the private sector which serves two
million students nationally at a savings
of at least $2.8 billion every year. The
dual system of higher education,
private and public, encourages high
standards of quality, ensures freedom
of choice, and innovative approaches
to education. This diversity blunts po-

litical domination of the educational
process. Legislation is under consider-
ation presently which, if authorized
and funded, would pay private colleges
and universities an amount for each
graduate who is a citizen of Louisiana.

This past year has also seen the
launching of the Fund For Indepen-
dence, a long-term effort over the next
five years to raise $20,000,000 in new
endowment for Centenary College. En-
dowment is the lifeblood of any inde-
pendent institution, and it is the goal
of this effort to keep Centenary inde-
pendent and operating at a high level
of quality in the future. During the
first year over $1,285,000 has been
funded or authorized for payment.
This is a major effort which will be di-
rected by the Board of Trustees of the
College. Trustee chairman is William
Russell Barrow.

The support of all the alumni
and friends of the College is needed
now. This is the time to convincingly
indicate your interest in the future of
Centenary. If you wish to receive in-
formation about the Fund For Inde-
pendence, or want to discuss it confi
dentially with a representative of the

College, please contact President John
H. Allen; Shreveport, Louisiana 71 104.

Progress made in the financial
position of Centenary College during
the past year is encouraging . Long-term
prospects look encouraging. But
enough support must be secured in the
short-run to eliminate the deficit oper-
ation of the College. Every effort is
being made to do this. With the sup-
port of the friends of the College the
prospect of a balanced budget within
the next few years appears realstic. It
must and will be achieved !

We hope you will join us in ac-
cepting the challenges Centenary faces
in the coming years. If ever there was
need for colleges like Centenary, the
time is now. To everyone who is sup-
porting and encouraging Centenary,
our heartfelt thanks. It is a dream
worthy of our sacrifice. Your support
is reflected in the progress being made
by your College and in the advances
you are enabling it to move toward to-
morrow. What we all do now is very
important to the life of Centenary Col-
lege, for, in the words of Samuel
Johnson, "The future is purchased by
the present."

' i gar*

mm tr* «.r r «„

The Meadows Museum of Ait, formerly the Old Administration Building, has been made possi-
ble by the generosity of an alumnus, Algur H. Meadows of Dallas, Texas. In addition to pur-
chasing the Despujols Indo-China collection for the College, Meadows has also provided the
funds for the renovation project and an endowment which will provide funds for the operation
of the Museum.

fin

Ml In

by EUGENE W. BRYSON, JR.
President — Alumni Association

Eugene W. Bryson, Jr., president of the Centenary College Alumni Association, (left) chairs a
meeting of the officers of the association in the Board Room of Hamilton Hall. Shown here
with President Bryson are (L-R) W. Peyton Shehee, Jr., 1st vice president; Mrs. Judy Butcher,
2nd vice president; Mrs. Jean Goins, secretary; and Dr. Morris D. White, treasurer.

he One Hundred Fiftieth Anni-
versary of Centenary College
marks one of the most successful
years of the Centenary Alumni Associ-
ation. During this year, the alumni have
successfully initiated and completed
more projects, received more contri-
butions to the Loyalty Fund and es-
tablished a closer relationship with its
members than any time in its recent
history.

The year began with a flurry of
fall activities. Members of the Alumni
Association were instrumental in the
establishment of two special recruiting
projects. In October, alumni partici-
pated in the programs of the Pre-Law
weekend and the Pre-Med weekend. As
a result of these projects, over four
hundred prospective students visited
the Centenary campus.

The Alumni Association contin-
ued its annual project of awarding four
full time scholarships to outstanding
Centenary students. These scholarships
are valued at one thousand five hun-
dred dollars ($ 1 ,500.00) each or a total
of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00)
per year.

In commemoration of the One
Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary, the Alu-
mni Association published its pictorial
history of Centenary College. This pub-
lication was given to each alumnus in
order to preserve the rich tradition and
heritage of Centenary College.

In February, the Alumni Associ-
ation sponsored and directed this year's
Homecoming Activities. The weekend
included an alumni sponsored concert

with popular singer, Olivia Newton-
John, as well as the most successful
Homecoming to date, which brought
over one thousand people to the cam-
pus.

During the spring, the Alumni
Association continued its sponsorship
of a Career Counseling Seminar for
Centenary Students and renewed its
sponsorship of a one thousand five
hundred ($1,500.00) faculty research
grant. This summer the Alumni Associ-
ation will again sponsor special alumni
tours abroad.

One of the strongest indications
of alumni interest in the Association is
the participation in the Alumni Loyal-
ty Fund. In 1972, there were 151 part-
icipants who contributed $6,770.87. In
In 1973, there were 350 participants
who contributed $11,202.20. In 1974,
there were 355 participants who con-
tributed $20,028.39, and therefore
achieved the 1975 alumni goal of
$20,000.00

Thus for the past three years, the
number of participants and the amount
of contributions to the Alumni Loyalty
Fund have almost doubled each year.
Without this continuing support of the
alumni, the projects supported by the
Alumni Loyalty Fund could not be
maintained.

The Alumni Association has set
forth new challenges for the coming
year. Among these challenges are to in-
crease the number of scholarships for
qualified students by increasing the
Scholarship Fund from six thousand

dollars ($6,000.00) a year to twelve
thousand dollars ($12,000.00) a year.
In addition, the Alumni Association
proposes to initiate an annual donation
of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) to
the Centenary Library for the purchase
of additional books.

In order to fully accomplish
these goals, the Loyalty Fund contri-
butions must continue to grow. Be-
cause of the increased interest in
alumni support, we are confident that
this year's Loyalty Fund goal will be
reached and that these challenges will
be met.

Today, we are in a time in which
we see many private institution de-
clining in their influence with some
even closing their doors because of
financial problems. And yet today, we
see Centenary College growing stronger
and withstanding the tide of failure of
private institutions. It is the opinion of
the Alumni Association that the magic
ingredient keeping this institution
strong is the continued interest of the
college alumni and friends.

What is the future of Centenary
College? Will it continue to exist for
another one hundred fifty years? Will
its traditions be carried on? This is the
responsibility that confronts the alum-
ni of Centenary College. The challenge
is made to each alumnus to maintain a
continuing interest in this institution.
Without this continuing interest, the
College will surely fail. The challenge
and responsibility rest upon you, the
alumni of Centenary College.

Vfcfhjufckedj/tijMii

HARVEY BROYLES

Shreveport attorney and oil man Harvey Broyles, a 1936 graduate of
Centenary College, was the first of 14 members of the Broyles family to at-
tend the College; the 14th member, Michael O. Broyles of Leesville is cur-
rently enrolled.

Broyles is a native of Winn Parish, the son of Mrs. Mattie Broyles of
Leesville and the late Anderson H. Broyles of Shreveport. He attended LSU
Law School and practiced law in Shreveport until 1948 with the exception
of the years 1942—1945 when he served as a Naval Officer. He was Public Ser-
vice Commissioner for North Louisiana from 1948—1954 and since that time
has been an independent oil and gas operator in Shreveport.

Among the members of the Broyles family to attend Centenary were
Harvey's three brothers, the late Dr. Joe Broyles, Dr. William H. Broyles, and
attorney Ted R. Broyles, all of Leesville, and a sister, Mrs. John Livingston of
Bossier Parish. The current Broyles at Centenary, Mike, is the son of Dr.
William Broyles and the brother of Debbie Broyles, who graduated in 1974.
A nephew, Stephen Broyles, who graduated from Centenary in 1969, received
his degree from LSU Law School this year.

Harvey and Mrs. Broyles, the former Alberta Erskine of Shreveport, are
the parents of three children, all of whom attended Centenary for at least a
part of their college education. They are John and Allen of Oklahoma City,
and Mrs. Ken (Joyce) Hawkins of Dallas.

Harvey Broyles believes in the value of independent colleges. "The
greatest value of a small college I believe is its ability to teach something about
integrity and character. The large universities apparently do not have the time
or inclination to attempt the more important things in education for people
of college age," he said.

WILLIAM P. ALSTON, PH.D.

Dr. Willaim P. Alston received the Bachelor of Music degree from Cen-
tenary in 1942, then switched his field to philosophy, and is now professor of
philosophy at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
When he graduated from Centenary, he served in the U.S. Army until 1946
and then undertook graduate work in philosophy at the University of Chicago
(although he had never had an undergraduate course in the subject). He re-
ceived his Ph.D. degree in philosophy in 1951.

He was a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor (1946-1971), and has served as visiting professor at Harvard, U.C.L.A.
and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was named to his present
position at Rutgers University in 1971. During the past year he was granted a
year's leave for study at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England.

Professor Alston says his favorite memories of Centenary are of the
School of Music, "Despite the markedly unprepossessing decor, it was a warm
and friendly place . . . where students and faculty mixed freely . . . there was
much animated conversation at Weber's root beer parlor across Kings High-
way."

"There are other fond memories as well," he said, "Football games with
the accompanying festivities, interminable bridge games at the SUB, raking
leaves on campus for 35 cents an hour under the NYA program. Nevertheless
since the Bachelor of Music program involved little work outside music we
were largely absorbed in our own communal pursuits. I am afraid I have not
found any community in later life that quite matches the old crowd at the
Music School."

Centenary

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CENTENARY COLLEGE

Shreveport, Louisiana 71 104

Entered As Second-Class Matter

New Trustees The Louisiana Annual
Conference of the United Methodist
Church has approved the appointment
of four new members to the Board of
Trustees of Centenary College.

Two long-time members of the Board
were named Honorary Life members:
Marlin W. Drake of Shreveport and Dr.
Bentley Sloane, a retired minister now
living in Shreveport.

The new members are:

Dana Dawson, Jr.,

f \ pastor emeritus of

of the First United
Methodist Church,
Baton Rouge, who
has previously served
on the Board. He is
the son of the late

Bishop Dana Dawson and a graduate of

Centenary College.

H. Blume Johnson,

president of Butler-
Johnson, Inc. Drill-
ing Contractors,
Bossier City, is also a
Centenary graduate.
A native of Homer,
Louisiana, he is a
member of the board of directors of
the International Association of Drill-
ing Contractors.

f^^T

Richard L. Ray, a

general partner in the
Fair Oil Co., Ltd. of
Tyler, Texas, gradu-
ated from Centenary
^^ ^^^ in 1937. He worked
M ■Mfj I in the oil fields as a

■ I roughneck, joined

Arkansas Fuel Oil Company in 1941,
and has been in charge of exploration
and drilling for the Fair Oil Company
since 1952.

Austin G. Robertson,

is a partner in David
Crow Interests of
Shreveport. He is a
lifelong resident of
Shreveport, a CPA,
and is secretary and
a board member of

Crow Drilling Company of Shreveport.

He is a member of the administrative

board of the Noel Memorial United

Methodist Church.

Posthumous Degree

Richard Millar, who
died of cancer on
June 9, 1974, just a
few days after reg-
istering for the sum-
mer term, was award-
ed a bachelor's de-
gree posthumously at Commencement,
Sunday, May 25. His parents, Dr. and
Mrs. Howard Grimes of Dallas, Texas,
accepted the degree from President
Allen.

CALENDAR

July 4-26 "1776" (Marjorie
Lyons Playhouse)

Ending July 22 Band Concert
(Amphitheatre)

Ending July 30 Steamer Train-
ing Camp

July 6—11 School for Alcohol-
ism

July 7-12 Basketball Clinic
(boys)

July 12 Historic Preservation
Society

July 13-18 Basketball Clinic
(girls)

July 13 National Guard Band
Concert

July 15-20 United Methodist
Women's Conference

July 21-24 United Methodist
Pastor's School

August 18—26 Choir Camp
(Hodges Gardens)

September 3 Registration, fall
semester

Bankers Award

James M. Goins
assistant vice presi-
dent of The First
National Bank of

Shreveport, has been
given the Lois
Jackson Memorial
Award for outstanding banking stu-
dents. The award was made by the
Shreveport— Bossier chapter of the
American Institute of Banking.

Deaths

Dr. Alvin Claude Hoffpauir ('25) pass-
ed away recently in Corpus Christi,
Texas at the age of 70.

Dr. James T. Boykin ('29), a Mur-
freesboro, Tn., internist since 1946,
has passed away at the age of 66.

John Lyles Dowell ('29), died in Mans-
field, La. recently. He was 70 years
old.

Leroy Carlson, a former Director of
the School of Music at Centenary,
passed away December 4 at his home
in Whittier, California. In addition
to his duties as head of the music
school, the Carlson's attractive home
was a stopping-off place for students.

John A. Carstarphen Jr. C37) died
recently after a long illness. He lived in
Shreveport from 1945 until he joined
the legal staff of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration in
Washington D. C, in 1958.

Dr. Wyeth Bodine Worley ('57), died
recently at the age of 70. Dr. Worley
was a prominent Shreveport physician
and a past president of the Caddo
Parish School Board and Shreveport
Medical Society.

Jess Thompson, former Centenary
football coach died recently in New
York of an apparent heart attack.

Births

Paul ('68) and Jane ('69) Cooke are

the parents of a baby girl born
March 3, 1975. Martha Elizabeth
weighed in at 81bs., 2oz.

Ray ('69) and Kay Gammill are the

parents of a baby boy born December
25, 1974. Christopher Ray weighed in
at 71bs., 14V4oz.

As of February 27, 1975 a future
Centenary Gent joined the happy
home of Mac ('69) and Martha ('70)
Griffith. Richard Eugene was born
February 17.

Ted ('70) and Kathy McLanahan are

the parents of a baby boy born Octo-
ber 17, 1974. Michael Christopher
weighed in at 91bs., 8oz.

Diane ('70) and Robert A. Collier
(X69) are the parents of a baby girl,
Michelle Yvette, born May 28, 1975.

centenary

October, 1975

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,yf enrenniaL iar>

CHURCH CAREERS SUCCESS

A FIVE YEAR FACELIFT . .

THEATRE WITH A PURPOSE

BOB HOPE APPEARANCE OCTOBER 31

JAMES RELIGION CHAIR INAUGURATED

. . AND A SALUTE TO THREE OLD FRIENDS

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Strictly
Personal

20's

Judge Chris Barentte

('25) has been as-
signed by the
Louisiana Supreme
Court to the First
Circuit, Court of Ap-
peal in Baton Rouge
for the remainder of
of this year. Judge Barnette is a retired
juvenile court judge from Caddo Parish
and served seven years on the New
Orleans court of appeal bench, and has
also served as a Caddo Parish District
Court judge. He was named to the Cen-
tenary Hall of Fame in 1971.

Miss Lois Kay West-
on (x27), assistant
secretary for Arkan-
sas — Louisiana Gas
Co., recently retired
after 47 years with
Arkla Gas and prede-
cessor companies.
She was the first woman to be elected
by the Arkla Board to an official posi-
tion with the company.

40's

Dr. Ike Muslow (x43)

was recently con-
firmed by the LSU
Board as dean of the
School of Medicine
in Shreveport. Dr.
Muslow had been ser-
ving as acting dean
since April 5.

L. J. Madden, Jr. ('47) has been elected
senior vice-president and a member of
the board of directors of Frost-Whited
Co., Inc. Madden recently retired from
the Olin Corporation where he was
group vice-president for finance and
administration of Olin's Fine Paper and
Film Group.

Mrs. Mary K. Looney ('48) recently re-
tired from her position as assistant pro-
fessor of library science and assistant
librarian at Southern State College,
Magnolia, Ark.

Rogers W. Martin
('48) has received his
Doctor of Education
degree from Walden
University in Naples,
Fla. Martin has
taught mathematics
in Caddo Parish for

19 years, and is presently teaching at

Woodlawn High School in Shreveport.

His son, Rogers, Jr., is a sophomore at

Centenary this fall.

^0. Beverly T. Lynds

^\ ('49), assistant to the

P "M director of Kitt Peak

4ff\^^L\ National Observatory

^ W in Tuscon, Arizona,

was recently featured
/ ^/ y as one of the growing

number of women in-
terested in astronomy in the Griffith
Observer published by the city of Los
Angeles. She is the author of a basic
text book on astronomy which is in use
in some local high schools and colleges.
Mrs. Lynds earned her B.S. degree in
three years and later received the Ph.D.
degree in astronomy at the University
of California in Berkley. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Turner, former Shreveporters who are
now living in Berkley, Ca. Mr. Turner
is believed to be the only graduate of
the College in 1918, because of the
war.

50's

Ben F. Brown, Jr. ('50), vice-president
and former manager of the Fairfield
Branch of Commercial National Bank
in Shreveport, has been appointed a
commercial lending officer at the
bank's main office. Brown has been
with CNB since 1947.

Shreveport insurance executive Harold
K. Quinn ('50) has been elected to the
board of directors of Occidental Life
Insurance Co., of Ca. Quinn has earned
the life insurance industry's prestigious
designation "Chartered Life Under-
writer" and has been with Occidental
since 1954. In Shreveport, he is chair-
man of the Confederate Memorial Med-
ical Center and president of the Insti-
tute for the Development of People.

Shreveport native Nelse A. Davis ('51)
has been named manager, ad valorem
taxes for Pennzoil Co. and will transfer
to the corporate headquarters in
Houston later this year.

Cecil Fanes ('51) was recently install-
ed as chef de gare of La Societe Des 40
Hommes et 8 Chevaux, Voiture Locale
137, of Shreveport, at the 40 and 8
clubhouse on Cross Lake. Faries is a
sales representative for the Louisiana
State Fair.

Harry W. Brown ('52) of Houston,
Tx., is serving on the advisory commit-
tee of Lamar University's oil and gas
drilling institute at Beaumont, Tx.
Brown is director of personnel for ex-
ploration and production, Pennzoil Co.

Dr. Oscar L. Berry,

Jr. (x52) was recent-
ly named to the Con-
federate Memorial
Medical Center ad-
visory board by Gov.
Edwin Edwards. Dr.
Berry, newly elected
president of the CMMC medical and
dental staff, is a clinical assistant pro-
fessor of obstetrics— gynecology at the
Louisiana State University School of
Medicine in Shreveport.

Dr. Jack R. Arvin ('52) has accepted
appointment as area coordinator in
Texas Christian University's residential
living and housing department. He has
been associated with TCU since 1968
as campus minister for the churches of
Christ, and was previously minister for
Church of Christ congregations in
Tennessee, Louisiana, and Baytown,
Tx.

Kenneth Marshall Manning (x59) is

presently living in the Province of
Alberta, Canada. Since 1964, Manning
has traveled from Africa to Alaska and
has lived in the Canadian Arctic.

Howard M. "Buddy" Bonner (x59),

of Shreveport, is the new president of
the Louisiana Chapter of the Telephone
Pioneers of America. Bonner is fore-
man for South Central Bell Telephone
Co., and has been with the company
since 1940.

Esther Hielscher ('62), formerly a
a teacher at Broadmoor Junior High
and Arthur Circle Elementary School
in Shreveport, has been named assis-
tant professor of education and direc-
tor of women's intramurals at Louisiana
College in Pineville.

The Centenary College Magazine, Centenary,
October 1975, Volume 5, No. 7, published
four times a year-in October, January, April
and July by the Centenary College Alumni
Association, P.O. Box 4188 Shreveport,
Louisiana. Published for members of the
Alumni Association and friends of Centenary
College of Louisiana.

Alumni Director Mac Griffith

Editor Maurie Wayne

Associate Editor Jewel Morse

1975-76 CENTENARY COLLEGE ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President Gene Bryson '63

First Vice President Dave White '6 1

Second Vice President . . . Jim Mitchell '64

Secretary Judy Butcher '62

Treasurer Paul Cooke '68

DIRECTORS (Terms expire in 1977)
Hoyt Bain '63, Mary Ann Caffery '72, Bill
Causey, Jr. '68, Jack Elgin '43, Betty
Gilmer '62, Flavia Leary '35, P.L. McCreary
'62, Jim Montgomery '68, Thurman C.
Smith '50, Margaret Teague '57.

(Terms expire in 1976)
Gene Bryson '63, Judy Butcher '62, Jean
Goins '63, Jay Lang '61, Emily Viskozki
'58, Dave White '61, Gayle Wren '64,
Chatham Reed '64, Jim Mitchell '64, Paul

Cooke '68.

(1975-76 Members Appointed by President)
A.L. Daily, Jr. '61, Martha Goza '66,
Carolyn Gray '55, Michele Q-Petersen '74,
Ed Shaw.

CHUZCH CAZ6£1&-AN IDEA
WHOSE 11 MB HAS COMB

Being permitted to paraphrase a line
paraphrase a line from Dr. R.L. Lating's
The Politics of Experience. I should
say of the following and other candid
reports; the only justifiable or legiti-
mate candid opinion may be the blank
stare or the blank page. It has been my
experience that candid remarks are sel-
dom appreciated even if they are inter-
esting. So the following article will

hopefully belong, at least, in the latter
category.

-David Dykes

Looking back, the development of
the Centenary School of Church Ca-
reers has had a great deal to do with the
relationship between necessity and in-
vention. In the Fall of 1973, the Trust-
ee's Committee on Admissions became

concerned about the decreasing num-
bers of students applying for admission
to Centenary. Such a concern was his-
torical with the College as it has been
with most schools, but recent years
had reflected disturbing declines in en-
rollment figures. The mood was not
panic, but definitely, serious concern.
The attitude was: find out why: find
out what can done; do it.

OBVIOUS NECESSITY

Bishop Finis Crutchfield, chairman
of the Trustee's Committee on Admis-
sions called a meeting with the inten-
tion of considering the possibilities for
solutions. That Committee was com-
posed of six members. They were D.L.
Dykes, Jr., Mrs. Thomas E. Hogan,
Rev. Kent Kilburn, Mrs. Justin R.
Querbes, III, and Dr. W. Juan Watkins.
So, on an October night in 1973, the
Committee met in the home of Mrs.
Thomas E. Hogan. The mood was, not
surprisingly, one of anxiety. The neces-
sity was obvious. Do something to at-
tract more students; i.e., invent some-
thing. Invent something that will work.

there were other related discussions
taking place around the campus and
throughout Shreveport. Faculty mem-
bers were talking about the declines,
analyzing causes, and proposing reme-
dies. Some saw the loss of the liberal
arts identity as the cause. "We have,"
they said, "lost a grip on who we are.
No one is willing to pay the price of
Centenary if they think it has nothing
unique to offer." There were some
new voices. "Students are demanding
more attention to professional goals.
We must offer them pre— professional
programs which will adequately pre-
pare them for medical school, law
school, graduate school and business."
Here were two distinct answers to the
problem facing the Liberal Arts College
in general and Centenary in particular:

one, to reclaim traditional identities

and directions; the other to create new
images, purposes,
debate was, and
tense.

and resources. The
continues to be, in-

PROPOSAL DRAFTED

As it turned out, the Trustee's
committee meeting led to the very kind
of innovation that was intended. D.L.
Dykes came away from that session
with an idea. His idea was intended to
be in part a solution to the problem
facing Centenary and in part an answer
to the professional dilemma confront-
ing the Church. The concept was sim-
ply to take the liberal arts community
and using this traditional format as the
arena, put together a program for ed-
ucating professional, unordained peo-
ple for specialized careers in the
Church. The rationale appeared to be
based on a pragmatic consciousness
which supposedly characterizes the
1970's. According to this rationale,
students can be attracted to the liberal
arts college which promises not only to
give them traditional forms of educa-
tion but also provides them with pro-
fessional and pre-professional training
for the career which they are pursuing.
Dr. Dykes maintained that at the same
time, Centenary would be providing a
service to the Church by filling its de-
pleted ranks with well-rounded pro-
fessionals.

The idea found a ready audience

among those already convinced of the
utility of the "pre-professional" model.
The Executive Committee of the Board
of Trustees asked that the idea be pre-
sented in the form of a proposal at the
November meeting of the Trustees. The
proposal was to include a description
of the idea; a general plan for the
structuring of the school within the
parameters of the College; and outlines
for curriculum for the specialized areas
of Christian Education and Sacred
Music. Dr. Dykes commissioned sever-
al members of his staff of First Metho-
dist Church of Shreveport to draft the
proposal. This involved interpreting the
original idea, innovating an appropriate
language and structure for the concept;
and defining a workable plan for im-
plementing the idea within the frame-
work of the College.

TRUSTEES APPROVE

Within weeks the proposal was
ready and presented at the Trustee's
November meeting. It was discussed at
length and finally adopted as a program
to begin "immediately." "Immediate-
ly" turned out to be the beginning of
the Fall semester, 1974. It would be
erroneous to imply that the discussion
over the proposal that day did not gen-
erate some objections. Many serious
questions were raised. "Should Cen-
tenary branch out into professional ed-
ucation?" "Is there really a demand a-

The author, David Dykes, (center) meets with students from the School of Church Careers in an informal seminar session
at Centenary College.

mong churches for the un-ordained
professional?" "Are we getting into the
rightful area of the seminary?" "Are
we sacrificing liberal arts tradition for
a glorified trade school?" "How can
we plan, structure, and implement such
a program in nine months?" "Are there
really interested students?" By Christ-
mas that year, the news had begun to
spread about campus. The news was
considered in many campus quarters to
be, if not bad, at least ominous. A my-
thology soon developed which purport-
ed that the Methodist Church, at the
hands of Bishop Finis Crutchfield
and the pastor of First Methodist
Church, was turning Centenary into a
Bible college. It should not be difficult
to imagine the consternation caused by
such rumors. Even sympathetic faculty
and administration were skeptical. By
May, the end of Spring semester, the
student newspaper had reported ex-
pressed fears of students, faculty and
administration alike. The rumor had
the floor. There was talk about Bible-
totin' students, a separate "School of
Church Careers" dorm and pietistie
religious cults.

THE WORK BEGINS

In those months following the direc-
tive by the Board, the work began.
While original proposals for curriculum
and structure were defined and rede-
fined, the very real challenge of recruit-
ment was begun. David Stone, minister
to youth of First Methodist Church
for five years, was appointed as special
recruiter for the new program. He be-
gan traveling across the nation meeting
students and professionals through the
format of weekend seminars and work-
shops in the fields of Christian Educa-
tion and communication. The Church
Careers concept appeared to have a
wide appeal. Inquiries began to flow in-
to the College. Applications for Fall
term began to filter in. Stone was
saving that by Fall, 100 new students
would be enrolled in the Church Ca-
reers program at Centenary. The 100
figure appeared to some to be apoca-
lyptic. When registration was com-
pleted that Fall, 1 13 students had been
admitted to the College in the program
for Church Careers. Some skeptics
were satisfied with the delivery of the
promised number. Some were not. The
anxieties of "Bible College" and "trade
school" education were still present
when classes began Fall semester.

ACCEPTABILITY

As Church Careers faced its inaugu-
ral year, it was not only confronted by
the problems inherent in accomodating
113 students into a new program, but
it also was challenged by an even more
essential task, i.e., becoming an accept-
able part of the Centenary community.
That acceptability, in large measure,
was accomplished because of two phe-
nomena. Both have to do with image

and identity. Faculty fears that Church
Careers would be the first in a series
of programs which would water down
the classical forms of education began
to gradually abate as it became evident
that Church Careers was solidly com-
mitted to the values of the Liberal
Arts curriculum. It is noteworthy to
point out that some Church Careers
personnel have this year advocated an
extension of the core curriculum re-
quirements. Student fears that had an-
ticipated a campus under seige by
Bible— thumping evangelists soon began
to disappear as they realized that
Church Careers students were, in every
significant way, no different than them-
selves. Among Church Careers students
there is the wide diversity of thought,
style and opinion which characterizes
the atmosphere of the liberal arts com-
munity.

To be sure, there are those who
still question the Church Careers pro-
gram either because of its relationship
with the Church, or because of its pre—
professional concerns. But Church Ca-
reers is a real part of Centenary. For
the most part, it is a well— respected
part of the Centenary community. Its
contribution to Centenary can only be
measured as it continues to develop as
a positive expression of that which Cen-
tenary College is about.

LIBERAL ARTS

The Church Careers program takes
very seriously those ideals and princi-
ples to which it must be committed if
it is to be a legitmate part of Centenary
College. Because of this commitment
to the College and an authentic concern
for the student, the program require-
ments are strenuous and demanding.
The quality of this demand is grounded

in a solid, thorough— going liberal arts
education that guards the integrity of
the program. The student is expected
to wade through the best of the tradi-
tional disciplines. History, literature,
the pure and behavioral sciences, phi-
losophy, and language, as well as reli-
gion and theology are all essential in
the Church Careers curriculum.

The Church Careers perspective also
includes the notion that the truly ed-
ucated person is not made simply by
reading, research and examination a-
lone. Because the program has recog-
nized this, it has developed an exten-
sive, clinical intern program which adds
another important dimension to edu-
cation.

Each Church Careers student is
required to participate in a four— year
clinical intern program the goal of
which is to develop an existential a-
wareness and understanding of self
and others. Each student will be re-
quired to observe first— hand social, ec-
onomic and political as well as church
or church— related institutions. The
aim here will be to enable each student
to see man in society in his wholeness.
Opportunities will be given for con-
stant reflection and evaluation of what
is observed. Training will be provided
in the professional skills of counseling.
Students will observe the psychologist
and the psychiatrist in actual counsel-
ing situations. Hours will be spent with
faculty, staff and other professional
people in discussion about the way
people work, how they think, how they
feel and what they need.

The Church Careers student will
be given the opportunity to perfect
skills in specialized areas of profession-
ministry. Beginning in the freshman
year, the intern will be given limited
range and responsibility within the
programs of the church and parish.
Through the sophomore and junior
years, this responsibility will be in-
creased until as a senior, the student
will be given full responsibility for a
particular ministry in his chosen, spe-
cialized area.

Facing the second year, Church Ca-
reers has a great deal more confidence
and a more solid, clear picture of what
it is about. An estimated 200 students
will participate in the program begin-
ning this fall. In some ways the near
doubling of enrollment will present
new hurdles, but the experience of
the first year will minimize these re-
lated pressures. If Church Careers is to
become any kind of model for other
pre— professional programs, then this
second year will be especially signifi-
cant. Having claimed to be about the
authentic business to which Centenary
College is committed, Church Careers
will be expected to broaden the param-
eters of liberal arts education as well
as make a convincing case for "profes-
sional" consciousness as a part of the
concerns which characterize Centenary .

by David Harner
Building and Grounds Superintendant

crp he Buildings and Grounds Com-
mittee of the Board of Trustees
u has been quite active during the
past six months, touring campus facili-
ties and planning for future campus
improvements. The Committee is lead-
ing a concerted effort to improve the
aesthetic and physical qualities of the
seventy acres and eighteen buildings
comprising the Centenary campus.

What are the results of this work?
Improvements to the grounds have
been made. Drainage projects to stop
soil erosion, top soil, and sod have
helped to add a lush green appearance
to the gently rolling, tree dotted cam-
pus. Magnolia and White Oak trees
have been added to enhance the beau-
ty of the grounds. This year, land-
scaping was completed between the
Hurley Music Building and the Library,
around Hamilton Hall, and between
Mickle Hall and the Moore Student
Union Building. Future landscaping
plans include the areas surrounding
Cline and Rotary dormitories and the
area south of Mickle Hall.

CARE OF BUILDINGS

Emphasis has also been placed on

the maintenance and custodial care of
buildings. Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
and Rotary dormitory recently received
new roofs. Extensive repair to the cor-
nice work on Rotary has also been
completed.

The trim and metal work on all
dormitories has been painted. A great
deal of outside painting has been com-
pleted during the summer and our
painter will move inside during the win-
ter months.

Efforts have been made to upgrade
maintenance and custodial staffs. Two
new maintenance men have been em-
ployed. Most maintenance problems
are now corrected in less than 24 hours
and very few problems require the as-
sistance of outside contractors.

IN-SERVICE TRAINING

In— service training has improved the
skills and attitudes of the custodial
staff and has resulted in cleaner and
more pleasant living and working con-
ditions for students in the dormitories
and academic buildings. Modern sched-
uling techniques and a systems ap-
proach have helped to accomplish this
improvement in custodial care. The in-
service training for custodians will be
a continuing process.

Students moving into dormitories
this fall found that the rooms were
thoroughly cleaned and the floors
waxed. It is hoped all rooms will be
maintained in this high state of clean-
liness.

Something new will be found in the
dormitories this year. Each will have a
carpeted study suite with individual
study carrels and tables and chairs.
These study suites will provide a con-
venient, comfortable, and attractive
place for academic pursuits.

$136,000 EXPENSE

Centenary College has the potential
to be one of this country's most beau-
tiful campuses and efforts are being
made to see this potential becomes a
reality. The Board of Directors of the
College has embarked on a five year
program to attain this goal. During the
upcoming year the Board has agreed to
expend an additional $136,000 on
buildings and grounds. Several College
benefactors have already offered to
provide funds and plants to further the
grounds. We have a very positive feel-
ing that buildings and grounds will im-
prove greatly over the next five years
and that the campus' full potential
be reached.

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Dr. Webb D. Pomeroy

Dr. Webb D. Pomeroy was inaugurated as the first incum-
bent of the T.L. James Chair of Religion at a ceremony in
Brown Memorial Chapel, Thursday, September 25, at 10:30
a.m. Students, faculty, administrative staff and friends of the
college were present for the inauguration presided over by
President John H. Allen and Executive Vice President
Theodore R. Kauss.

The James Chair was established in March of this year with
a $400,000 endowment from T.L. James and Company, Inc.,
of Ruston by unanimous approval of the stockholders of the
firm. The Chair has been named in honor of the founder of
the Ruston construction company because of his interest in
the United Methodist Church, Centenary College, and educa-
tion in general. Under his leadership the company established
a philosophy of supporting religious, charitable and educa-
tional organizations, and that policy has been continued
through his descendants who now head the company, in-
cluding G.W. (Bill) James, chairman of the executive commit-
tee and a Centenary alumnus; Floyd James, chairman of the
board; and J.C. Love, senior vice president and a member of
the Board of Trustees of Centenary College.

In his inaugural address, Dr. Pomeroy asked the question,
"Is there meaning, relevance, importance or truth for the
world in the 20th and 21st century?"

"In the struggle to survive with meaning, a significant and
influential segment of the human race has proposed biblical

faith as the answer to the fundamental question of existence,"
he said.

Dr. Pomeroy said that faith is radically different from
theology or dogma "and when the Church substituted theol-
gy for faith it made a grave error. One can never complete a
systematic theology, that is, one can never explain everything.
If one thinks or writes long enough about theology, he will
contradict himself," he said. "An attempt has been made
through philosophy to give understanding to life, but it has
always ended in failure.

"The simple meaning of faith is trust in God and it deals
simply with the human situation. Where there is sickness, one
should heal; where there is hunger, one should share his food;
and where there is thirst, we should provide water.

"Faith is a way of life and a way of living, and the results
of faith must be self-evident. You cannot prove that feeding a
hungry man is right, but it is self— evident.

"I think the Church will become more of an influence and
a power in the world as it discards the importance of its dif-
ferences in dogma and theology, and learns to live together
with its differences.

"The Church will gradually lose those who see the Church
simply as a way to heaven or as a means of solving problems.
It must come to represent the obvious good way to live."

mistorically there has been a very
special relationship between the
people whose lives have been
-I LI touched, in one way or another,
by Centenary College. For the students
there is an ever— growing realization
that they have been a part of a unique
learning experience. For the faculty
there is a feeling of respcet and affec-
for an institution that has stood the
test of time in both good days and bad
days for 150 years. And for the Ad-
ministrative staff there is a deep feel-
ing for Centenary that goes far beyond
"just another job."

This affection for Centenary is not
limited to the "old timers," but em-
braces more recent friends as well. I
call you attention to three.

W. Walton Butterworth, a retired
career diplomat from Princeton, New
Jersey, along with his charming wife,
Virginia, was on the Centenary campus
less than one short week in 1974 as a
Visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Yet
when the college community learned of
his death last spring there was a feeling
of the loss of one near and dear. In-
deed, many felt the deep personal loss
of an old friend.

At the time of his visit, he was asked
to help persuade Dr. Mary M. Hyde, a
distinguished 18th Century literary
scholar, and a fellow resident of New
Jersey, to visit Centenary during its
Sesquicentennial celebration during
1975. She subsequently came to Cen-
tenary in April and was equally ad-
mired for her quiet grace and charm as
well as her intellect.

Shortly after the death of Ambassa-
dor Butterworth, Dr. Hyde wrote Dr.
Lee Morgan at Centenary, "I have been
thinking ever since I left you, of what
a privilege it was to come to Shreveport
and of what pleasure I had there— being
with all of you. I have also been think-
ing about Walt Butterworth, that won-
derful person, who was in a way our
contact.

"To show my appreciation of him,
and my appreciation of all you are
doing at the Library, I would like to
send you a contribution, in honor of
Walt Butterworth, to be used for the
benefit of the Rare Book Department
of the College Library. May I do this-
I want to very much."

Among the visiting scholars at the
time of Mary Hyde's visit was Dr.
Albrecht B. Strauss, the son of the late
beloved Dr. Bruno Strauss who left an
indelible mark on Centenary. The
younger Strauss, now teaching at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, was mailed a copy of the sesqui-
centennial history of the College and
later replied, "I was particularly touch-
ed at being included in the mailing.
Long before that memorable April visit
I was in the habit of thinking of myself
as a member of the Centenary family.
So now it warms my heart to have this
indication that you at Centenary think
of me in that way, too."

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W. W. Butterworth

Dr. Mary Hyde

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Dr. Albrecht Strauss (1) and Dr. Mary Hyde (r) join Shreveport businessman James
M. Noel in a perusal of some of Noel's priceless volumes in his 1 8th century library.
Noel and Dr. Butterworth were instrumental in bringing Dr. Hyde to Shreveport
for a major address at a Centenary convocation.

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by Robert Buseick

Chairman, Dept. of Theatre and Speech

and Director of the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

ryirrhy a Theatre Program on the
\ V V / college level? Many believe the
\ A / primary purpose of such a pro-
vJU gram is to train young people for
the professional theatre in Hollywood
or on Broadway. One cannot deny this
is not an ultimate dream of many, but
becomes an actual reality for few.
However, even with the odds against a
career in the professional theatre, there
is still a real and important need for
such programs at all levels of ed-
ucation, and although this article is not
addressed to the pre— school and ele-
mentary level, that is where theatre ex-
perience should begin and should con-
tinue on into adult education. Within
the soul of every person is the need for
artistic— creative expression; some find
this outlet in music, while for others
the satisfaction is found in the many
medias of art or through literature, but
for others that fulfillment is to be
found only in theatre and its related
areas of expression.

For the past six years, anyone who
attended any of the productions at the
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse or read their
programs has seen a continuing repeti-
tion of "A Theatre With a Purpose," a
five part commitment on behalf of the
theatre staff and their dedication and
belief in the value of theatre, 1) to the
individual, 2) to the college, and 3) to
the community. All five statements be-
gin in exactly the same way, with the
words, "Educational Theatre is a cre-
ative ..." This repetition is very im-
portant for it clearly establishes the
commitment mentioned earlier.

ONE LEARNS BEST BY DOING

"Educational Theatre is a creative,
practical activity," and to be practical
is to be "actively engaged in some
course of action or occupation." Our
department is production oriented be-
cause it is my belief that one learns
best BY DOING. What is learned in the

course offerings is put into practice in
the productions. There are three areas
that require utilization and growth in-
volved in theatre activities. These are
the intellect, the voice, and the body.
The voice and the body are the two
tools which the actor has to work with
and the intellect is the instrument that
allows the person to expand the range
of vocal and physical expression.

of vocal and physical expression.
Therefore, whether a person is on stage
or in the world of business, it is hoped
that through this practical activity he
has learned to express himself more
clearly and communicate more effec-
tively. Much of what each of us must
learn cannot be learned until we have
thoroughly studied ourselves. Then,
when we know ourselves (honestly as
we are, and not just as we would like to
be) it is possible to better understand
others, be it in the process of creating
a role in a given play or playing a role

in the process of our everyday associ-
ations in our business or profession.
"Educational Theatre is a creative,
democratic activity," meaning demo-
cratic in the sense of favoring social
equality and appealing to the broad
masses of the people. This therefore
means that ANYONE can find a place
for self— expression in Educational The-
atre. Through the Summer Musicals
over the past six years many communi-
ty people have had the opportunity to
find an outlet for their artistic expres-
sion, and every year non— theatre ma-
jors have been given a place at Cen-
tenary to explore this need they felt
within. All one needs to become in-
volved is to show an interest and be
willing to make a commitment, and a
place will be made for him to become
involved at the Marjorie Lyons Play-
house.

NOT WITHOUT CRITICISM

"Educational Theatre is a creative,
culturally enriching activity " for the
individual, the community, and the col-
lege. It has been our commitment to
present wide and varied programs of
productions over the past six years
with a representation of many genres
and dedication to the highest quality
possible. Not all of our productions
have pleased everyone, and we have
certainly not been without criticism.
However, we have presented question-
able subject matter and allowed pro-
fanity on our stage, not to advocate
certain actions and words, but to rep-
resent truth and honesty in depicting
humanity as seen by the playwrights
who have mirrored the society they
represented.

For several years The Shreveport
Times has annually presented a series
of awards for outstanding achievements
in theatre on the non— professional
level covering all theatre groups in
Shreveport. One area covered is called
BEST PRODUCTION, and for the past
seven years this plaque has gone to a
production at the Marjorie Lyons Play-
house: 1968-69 "Roshomon," 1969-
70 "Marat/Sade;" 1970-71 "Spoon
River Anthology;" 1971-72 "Fiddler
on the Roof;" 1972-73 "Desire Under
the Elms;" 1973-74 "Vivat! Vivat!
Regina!;" 1974-75 "The Crucible."
During that same period of time a
total of forty— nine productions were
presented on stage at the Marjorie
Lyons Playhouse on the Centenary
College Campus. The most recent pro-
duction, "1776," played to nearly
eight thousand people with a total run
of twenty— four performances. Not
since the summer musical days of the
late Joe Gifford has a single production
played such a long run. And it is im-
portant to note that the cast and crew
performed without pay, other than the
pleasure they gave to their audiences.
And further it is important to point
out that all but a few were individuals
who worked full time at regular jobs or
occupations.

ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITES

"Educational Theatre is a creative
activity which has personal and thera-
peutic values" that can help an individ-
ual better understand himself and his
relationships with others. The process
of developing a character and study for
role has helped many students to deal
with their own personal selves in ac-
cepting their responsibilities. Of course,
it must also be pointed out that expe-
rience in the theatre has also had ad-
verse effect on some students by
causing them to give all their time and
efforts to the theatre at the expense of
neglecting other areas of their liberal
arts education. But generally we have
found that the busier a student is, the
better off he is in all he attempts. Phys-
ical and emotional problems have been
dealt with by students through their
involvement in theatre and almost al-
ways with positive results.

Anne Welch plays Martha Jefferson opposite
Robert Young as Thomas Jefferson in the
summer musical "1776."

PROFESSIONAL POSSIBILITIES

"Educational Theatre is a creative
activity which has definite vocational
and professional possibilities." Of all
five "purposes," this is probably the
easiest to understand and /or explain.
Considering only the majors who have
graduated with a Theatre degree from
Centenary College, our students have
been accepted at graduate school at
Southern Methodist, University of
Ohio, University of Illinois, University
of Iowa, and Louisiana State Univer-
sity.

Our graduates are also working pro-
fessionally in television, not only in
Shreveport, but also in Los Angeles,
Houston, and Dallas; while several are
pursuing careers in professional theatre
in New York, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Chicago, and Tulsa.

Michael Hall, a 1971 graduate, has
spent two years at the Alley Theatre in
Houston, two years at American Con-
servatory Theatre in San Francisco,
two summers with the Ashland Shake-
speare Company, and will be returning
to San Francisco this fall as a journey-
man with ACT. Tom Wilkerson and his
wife, Kathy, both graduated in Theatre
from Centenary, and Tom then gradu-
ated from SMU in theatre management
and is now professionally associated
with theatre in Tulsa. Many of our stu-
dents have gone into teaching on the
elementary and secondary level, while
some are now making their livings in
advertising and sales. At least two Cen-
tenary students have gone to profes-
sional schools in Chicago or New York
and one student, David Beaird, who
began his career at Centenary, now has
his own professional theatre in
Chicago. Other students who graduated
have used their training as an avocation
in community theatre in Shreveport
and elsewhere, including Camille
Young, Lee Ellen Pappas Holloway,
Rick Hawkins, Charlie Brown, Michelle
Willingham, Kenneth Curry, Jan
Pitman, and Nicki Nichols.

SERVING THE COMMUNITY

While the Theatre/Speech depart-
ment is dedicated to the students
and to Centenary College, it also serves
a valuable service for the community
of Shreveport and the Ark-La-Tex by
providing not only a cultural outlet for
the public, but also as a place for ac-
tors and actresses to participate in the
summer musicals. Summer Musicals
were originally begun in the 50's by
the late Joe Gifford and were revived
in the summer of 1970. Since that
time, the following shows have brought
pleasure to thousands: "Mame,"
"Fiddler on the Roof," "Gypsy,"
"The Music Man," "Little Mary Sun-
shine," "The Sound of Music," and
"1776." Of equal importance is the
opportunity the summer program has
provided for the people who like to act
and work backstage.

The department has been growing in
numbers during the past six years and
indications are that there will be fif-
teen new freshman majors at Centenary
this fall semester. With the addition of
students and the many activities at the
Marjorie Lyons Playhouse, the only
problem seems to be the lack of space.
Three years ago a program of Demon-
stration Laboratory Productions was
begun and are held at 2 o'clock on
Friday afternoons. These are short
plays and scenes that are directed and
staged by the students, but supervised
by the faculty. Many times faculty-
members even appear in these pro-
ductions. This program, although not
publicized, has become a favorite of
many local citizens and many a Friday
afternoon Dem Lab has played before
an audience of a hundred or more
people.

RADIO AND TELEVISION

Other additions to the department
are two classes in communications
which have proven popular with stu-
dents outside of the department as well
as for majors. Through the co-opera-
tion of KEEL/KMBQ radio and its
manager, Marie Gifford, a course called
Communication Media: Radio is offer-
ed each fall semester with at least half
of the classes being held in the studio
with working professionals giving in-
struction and guidance to the students.
Each spring semester a similar course
in television is conducted at KSLA-TV
using this studio as a laboratory
through the co-operation of its manag-
er, Winston Linam. As a direct result
of both of these courses several of the
students have gone on to jobs in radio
and television while still in school.

This fall the department will offer
another new program in dance. This
has been made possible with the coop-
erative efforts of the Shreveport Sym-
phony who will share on a half— time
basis with Centenary an effort to form
a local company and create an exten-
sive range of courses for students at-
tending college. Ginger Darnell Folmer
has been hired to build this program,
and it is great to welcome her back
since she received her undergraduate
degree from Centenary in the sixties
and has spent the past fiye years in
New York City with her husband
Richard and son Sloan. This past sum-
mer she directed the choreography in

"1776" at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
and the dancing in "Cabaret" for the
Shreveport Little Theatre. She has also
worked on "Gypsy," "Little Mary
Sunshine," and "The Music Man" at
Centenary.

Although the program at Centenary
comes first, the members of the depart-
ment have also been busy with speak-
ing engagements for educational and
civic organizations, directing and act-
ing with community groups, and ad-
vising whenever called on, as well as
being involved locally, regionally, and
nationally with professional organiza-
tions.

CHILDREN'S THEATRE

Other programs growing out of the
Theatre Department include the travel-
ing children shows produced by the
Rivertown Players for the Green Gold
Library System. Each fall and spring
semester there has been at least one
production prepared to travel to the
northern Louisiana branch libraries.
These plays, lasting no longer than an
hour, have played to audiences of up
to five hundred elementary school
children. The number of performances
per show has been as high as twenty-
four, but never fewer than eight. Dur-
ing this past year, a Mime Troupe was
established under the direction of
James Hall, a professional in Mime who
artist in residence. At this writing we
are not sure if he will be returning
to Shreveport, but if he and his family
do return, the program will be contin-
ued.

To help the community and the Col-
lege to celebrate their respective Bicen-
tennial and Sesquicentennial year, the
productions at the Marjorie Lyons
Playhouse have centered on American
themes and playwrights. The season
for 1975 - 76 will be "J.B.," a modern
look at the book of Job by playwright
Archibald McLeish; "Member of the
Wedding," by Carson McCullers;
"Dames at Sea," a musical spoof of the
thirties; and "Summer and Smoke," by
Louisiana playwright Tennessee
Williams. In addition, four nights of
short plays and scenes are planned to
represent outstanding work by Ameri-
can playwrights.

During the past six years the Cen-
tenary College Theatre Department has
represented American colleges with a
production at the International Thes-
pian Association and a three-month
USO tour to the Azores and Germany.

Theatre Interim programs have in-
cluded a theatre tour to London, a rep-
ertory season, a combined Interim
with sociology, and a planned theatre
tour to New York in January of 1976.

Yes, this is a Theatre With A Pur-
pose that has been and will continue to
be, fulfilled in its efforts to bring the
best theatre possible to Centenary and
to Shreveport by providing the oppor-
tunities for growth in the students
through a total involvement in all as-
pects of theatre. We are doing every-
thing possible with what we have, but
could do so much more with additional
TIME, SPACE, and MONEY.

On the set for "1776" designed by Clifford L. Holloway, are Robert Stewart, Gregg Flowers, Brian Gahen, Robert Weimar, Robert Young, Anne
Welch, Jim Montgomery and Elizabeth Abramson.

1975 ALUMNI LOYALTY FUND

(Contributions received as of August 29, 1975)

Thanks to you, the Alumni Assoc, has been able to expand its base of support for Centenary College. Your participation is gratefully appreciated.
If you name does not appear on this list, but should, or is misspelled, please notify the Alumni Office.
* Indicated Member of Century Club ** Indicates Member of Presidents Club

Mrs. Olivia D. Acosta

Mr. Don J. Adair

Mr. William L. Adams, Jr. *

Mrs. AlwynelleS. Ahl

Mr. Glennie Scott Allen

Mr. H. F. Allen, Jr.

Miss Alline Allgood

Mr. Otis G. Allison *

Mr. Charles E. Anderson **

Mr. William H. Anderson

Mr. H. H. Andrews

Dr. and Mrs. Dale Armstrong

Mr. John B. Atkins, Jr. *

Ms. Irene Baker

Mr. J. D. Baker

Mr. William L. Baker

Mr. Gerard Banks

Ms. Patsy K. Barber

Rev. Don Barnes *

Judge& Mrs. Chris Barnette *

Dr. Richard J. Barry

Ms. Mary Lou Barton

Mr. W. H. Baten

Mr. Zack H. Bennett, Jr.

Ms. Mary Ann W. Bethe

Mr. Chris A. Blanchard

Mr. Cecil E. Bland, Jr.

Rev. & Mrs. Louis Blankenbaker

Dr. W. D. Boddie *

Dr. H. Whitney Boggs *

Ms. Ruth Bonner

Mr. J. F. Bookout *

Mr. John William Booth

Mrs. Elizabeth S. Booty

Dr. & Mrs. Val F. Borum

Rev. Henry Bowden, Jr.

Rev. Henry Bowden, Sr. *

Mrs. Ruth Brazzil

Mr. Joe Breithaupt

Mr. Stuart Briscoe

Mr. Algie D. Brown *

Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Brown *

Mrs. Mattie Gray Brown

Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Brown •

Mrs. Rolene R. Brown

Mrs. Shirley M. Brown

Mr. & Mrs. Eugene W. Bryson, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry R. Buckley

Miss Sara Burroughs

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Butcher

Mr. Phillip H. Butcher

Mr. & Mrs. J. Warren Butler

Dr. 81 Mrs. Charles R. Byrd

Dr. J. T. Cappel, Jr.

Mr. Chris Carey

Dr. & Mrs. David M. Carlton *

Dr. Virginia Carlton *

Mrs. L. W. Carney *

Mr. Owen Carter

Mrs. Ann Allen Cavanaugh

Dr. ClaudeS. Chadwick *

Mr. F. E. Chippendale *

Mrs. Jean Clarke

Mrs. Ruth H. Cohenour

Dr. & Mrs. Walter T. Colquitt

Rev. Jack Cooke

Mr. Paul M. Cooke

Mr. Thomas O. Cooper *

Dr. Si Mrs. Larry Cowley

Mrs. Elizabeth Cox

Mr. P. E. Crowe *

Mrs. Allman T. Culbertson

Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Culliton

Mr. William Cunningham

Mrs. Ruby Dart

Mrs. S. D. David, Jr.

Mr. A. A. DeLee

Dr. & Mrs. Stuart DeLee

Mrs. Lula DeWitt

Mr. & Mrs. B. W. Dinwiddle *

Mrs. Dorothy J. Dixon

Mr. Charles W. Dobie *

Mrs. Jane Donaldson

Miss Margery Doxey

Mr. H. A. Duque

Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Durham *

LTC James M. Durham

Mrs. O. J. Dykes, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Eagle *

Mr. Robert E. Eatman, Sr. *

Mr. Joseph C. Ebling

Mrs. Alice Edwards

Dr. Michael Ellis *

Mrs. Albert Elmer

Mrs. Lionel W. Eltis

Mr. Jonas Epstein

Mr. John H. Evans

Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. Farnell

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Farrell

Mr. Guy Feducia

Mrs. Pauline W. Fennell

Mr. & Mrs. Camp Flournoy

Mrs. Elizabeth Fox

Miss Elizabeth Friedenberg

Ms. Sylvia Gallagher

Mrs. Dorothy Gammill *

Miss Milann Gannaway

Mr. Si Mrs. Fred D. Garrett

Mrs. Helen F. Garrett

Dr. & Mrs. D. J. George

Mrs. David Gibson

Mr. & Mrs. G. M. Gilmer, Jr.

Mr. Edwin C. Glassell

Mrs. Phyllis P. Glover

Mr. & Mrs. James M. Goins

Mrs. Evaline M. Gomersall

Mrs. Bertha W. Goodbee

Mrs. Bonnie Rich Goodson *

Mr. John P. Goodson

Mr. John P. Goodwin **

Mr. Robert L. Goodwin *

Mr. Joseph A. Gowan

Mr. Si Mrs. George N. Gray

Mrs. Phyllis L. Green

Mr. William Trimble Green

Mr. Bertrand J. Greve *

Mr. & Mrs. R. Mac Griffith

Mr. Richard Grisham

Mr. Paul L. Gunn

Mr. James W. Hammett

Miss Charlie Hampton

Mr. Wayne Hanson

Mr. J. A. Hardin, Jr. *

Miss H. V. Harper

Mr. David Harrell

Mrs. Marion L. Harrison

Dr. Si Mrs. W. S. Harwell *

Miss Penny R. Hawkins

Mr. William L. Hattaway

Dr. Steve Heard

Rev. Si Mrs. Richard Hebert

Mr. Winston Hedges

Dr. James F. Henderson

Dr. Si Mrs. R. S. Hendrick

Mrs. Margaret Hope Hickman

Mrs. Charles B. Hill

Capt. John L. Hill, Jr.

Mrs. Elise Wheless Hogan

Dr. Sam S. Holladay, Jr. *

Mr. R. T. Holleman

Mrs. Lee Ellen Holloway

Mrs. Ruby Holloway

Miss Mary Ruth Hoye

Mrs. Fay D. Hudson

Mr. Charles C. Hunter *

Mrs. Robert P. Hunter

Mrs. Tinye D. Irion

Dr. J. H. Jackson, Jr. *

Dr. George Jacobson

Mr. G. W. James **

Mrs. A. C. Johnson, Jr.

Mr. Joe A. Johnson

Mrs. Tom R. Johnson

Mrs. Linda W. Johnston

Miss Bessie Mae Jones

Mr. Bob R. Jones

Mrs. J. B. Jones, Jr.

Mr. G. G. Joyce

Mr. J. T. Joyner

Mrs. C. W. Keenan *

Mr. Clarence P. Keese

Mrs. Diann Kennedy

Mrs. Loraine J. Kent

Mr. Curtis W. Kinard *

Mrs. Mary M. Wright Kinsey

Rev. Lothar Kleinhans

Mr. Coan I. Knight, Jr.

Mr. John B. Koelemay

Mr. Malcolm C. Krentel

Mr. S< Mrs. K. K. Kunzman

Mrs. Margaret R. Lagerson

Mr. & Mrs. M. D. LaGrone

Dr. 8i Mrs. James Lang, Jr. *

Mrs. Carney Laslie

Ms. Mary G. Lawton

Mr. William T. Lea *

Miss Flavia Leary *

Miss Isabella Leary

Mrs. Robert O. Leath

Mr. Charles G. Lee

Mr. Guy LeGendre

Mr. George W. Leopard *

Mr. J. L. Leopard

Mr. O. W. Lewis, Jr.

Mr. Francis H. Ligget

Rev. Spencer H. Lindsay, Jr.

Mrs. Mary K. Looney

Mrs. W. E. Looney

Mrs. Christine Melton Loyld

Miss Patricia Lucas

Mr. Stuart D. Lunn

Mrs. James Lutschg

Mrs. Frances Palmer Marshall

Dr. Rogers W. Martin

Maj. Ralph A. Mason, Jr.

Mr. Pete Matter

Mrs. Judith Anne Mayer

Ms. C. Judith Mayo

Mr. Robert K. Mayo

Dr. 8i Mrs. W. M. McCaa *

Ms. Janelle L. McCammon

Mr. A. Ray McCord *

Mrs. L. F. McCormick

Mr. P. L. McCreary, Jr.

Mr. Truly W. McDaniel

Mrs. Linda B. McEntee

Mr. Darrell McGibany

Ms. Mary Lou Mcllhany

Mr. T. Chalmers McKowen

Dr. J. Ralph Meier *

Mr. Joes T. Meriwether

Mr. Robert J. Miciotto

Mrs. Mitzi L. Middlebrooks

Mr. Garon Miracle

Mr. Carl Mitchell

Mr. James R. Mitchell

Mrs. Evelyn Beene Moore *

Mr. Taylor F. Moore *

Mrs. Diana C. Morison

Mr. Si Mrs. Glen Morse

Mr. 8i Mrs. Ira L. Moss

Mrs. C. B. Moyer

Mr. Si Mrs. H. L. Mulford

Mr. John C. Munday

Mrs. Carolyn S. Murphy

Mr. Walter E. Murphy

Mr. H. R. Nicholson, Jr.

Mr. C. J. Nickel

Mrs. M. O. Noe

Mr. Si Mrs. James S. Noel •

Mr. Earl D. Nolan

Mr. Marvin L. Owens, Jr. *

Mr. G. Randle Pace *

Dr. Robert Parker *

Mr. Lawrence W. Parmeter

Mr. John M. Parsons

Rev. George Pearce, Jr.

Mrs. Diane H. Penney

Miss Frances Mary Perkins

Mrs. Frances Bowers Perlman

Mr. Fred Peters

Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Peterson

Mr. William James Phillips

Ms. Bernice Phipps

Mr. J. Delton Peckering

Dr. Joel B. Pollard •

Mr. Chester N. Posey *

Mr. Allen F. Prickett *

Mr. Richard A. Prindle *

Mr. Clovis E. Prisock •

Mrs. Jon Qvistgaard-Petersen

Mr. Robert T. Raley

Mrs. P. W. Ramsey

Mr. William J. Rands

Ms. Elizabeth M. Ray

Mr. H. F. Rector, Jr.

Mrs. Derek Redmore

Mr. C. H. Reed

Mr. W. D. Reeder

Mrs. Jerome V. Reel

Mrs. Chrystine Moore Reeves

Mr. Max H. Renov

Mrs. John C. Renshaw

Miss Lillian Reynolds

Mrs. Priscilla C. Rice

Col. & Mrs. John H. Richardson

Dr. Leonard Riggs, Jr.

Mr. Si Mrs. J. David Roberts

Mr. Austin G. Robertson *

Mr. I. B. Robertson

Dr. J. W. Robison

Dr. Robert W. Rockefeller

Mrs. Judy Roemer

Dr. & Mrs. Paul L. Rogers *

Mr. Si Mrs. Ben Roshton *

Mrs. Pauline T. Ross

Mrs. Marian D. Ryan

Judge & Mrs. Edmond Salassi

Ms. Marianne Salisbury

Dr. M. L. Salmon

Mrs. LaMoyne Salter

Mr. James P. Schweitzer *

Mr. Don G. Scroggin

Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Shaffer, Jr.*

Mrs. Donald P. Shedd

Mr. W. P. Shehee, Jr. •

Mrs. Suzanne Hanks Shelton

Mr. Benjamin C. Sheppard *

Mr. John M. Shuey *

Mrs. Joanne Sherrod Sigler

Mrs. Lina Siefert

Mr. L. E. Sills

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Sleamaker

Mr. J. R. Sledge

Mrs. Colleen N. Smith

Mrs. Grace I. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. I. Henry Smith, Jr. •

Mr. Thurman C. Smith *

Mrs. William R. Smith, Jr.

Mrs. David B. Snelling *

Mr. Adrian R. Snider

Mr. Lee H. Snow, Jr.

Mrs. Glenn Sparks

Mr. Sidney C. Spiegel

Mrs. Mary L. Spinks

Miss Marie Spivey

Mr. Lawrence C. Spohn

Mr. E. W. Staser

Mrs. Curt F. Steib •

Mrs. Joy D. Stephenson

Ms. Matilda B. Stoer

Mr. Bill Strange, III

Mrs. A. J. Sulzer

(continued on page 15)

VkfiMufckdj/fithttii

CHARLES M. SCHWARTZ

Charles M. Schwartz is Divisional Vice President, Union Oil Co. of
California located in Los Angeles. His responsibilities include supervision over
all international exploration activities for the company. A native of Kentucky,
he attended his first year in college at University of Louisville in 1940 and
entered the Navy as a naval aviator in 1942. Following the war he enrolled at
Centenary College and received a B.S. degree in Geology in 1949. After grad-
uation, Union Oil assigned him to various positions as a geologist principally
in domestic operation until 1965 when he was transferred to Sydney,
Australia with the title of Vice President and Resident Manager of Australia.
Following this in 1970 Union transferred him to Singapore where he was re-
sponsible for all operations in S.E. Asia. During this period he moved the
company into Indonesia where they now produce approximately 115,000
barrels per day.

His present assignment as Manager of Exploration, International Divi-
sion, began in 1975. His responsibilities include the supervision of all explora-
tion and development activities in Union's overseas operations. The firm pre-
sently has production in Iran, Venezuela, and Indonesia.

Speaking of Centenary College, Schwartz said, "My decision to attend
Centenary was based on the excellent record the geological department had
attained over the years and on the personal recommendations of several out-
standing Gulf Coast geologists. I have never regretted that decision. It not
only afforded me the opportunity to start my career in Shreveport with Union
Oil Company but also gave me an excellent base from which I advanced to my
present position with the Company."

He has been married to his wife Carolyn for 30 years and they presently
live at 601 Westover Place, Pasadena, California. They have two children,
Michael and Suzanne, both of whom are married.

JOHN WILLIAM CORRINGTON

John William Corrington graduated from Centenary with a B.A. in En-
glish in 1956. He took his M.A. from Rice University, his Ph.D. from the Uni-
versity of Sussex, in Brighton, England, and his J.D. from Tulane University
School of Law.

He taught modern literature at Louisiana State University, Loyola Uni-
versity, and, as a visiting professor, at The University of California, Berkeley.
He was Chairman of the Department of English at Loyola University, and lec-
tured at a variety of schools, including The University of Chicago, Ithaca Col-
lege, and The University of Kansas.

His published work includes three novels, And Wait For The Night, The
Upper Hand, and The Bombardier; a collection of short stories; and criticism,
scholarship, poetry, and fiction in some sixty journals in the U.S. and abroad.

With his wife, Dr. Joyce H. Corrington, he has written six screenplays,
including The Omega Man and The Battle for the Planet of the Apes. He is
now associated with the New Orleans law firm of Plotkin and Bradley.

"My years at Centenary were formative in every sense. The faculty, the
student body, the whole ambiance, helped me find the way I wanted to go. 1
can remember hours spent with Dr. E.M. Clark, John Willingham, Lee Morgan,
Bryant Davidson-over coffee in the SUB, at their homes. Education at Cen-
tenary was a hand— crafted, person-to— person thing, and it is not surprising
that Centenary's graduates have gone so far and done so much. What Cen-
tenary gave us was simply not available at any price in the large state univer-
sities, or even in the large private schools. Given all I know now, and the
many schools I have attended, if I were going to begin again, I would return to
Centenary. My daughter, Shelley, who is now in high school, has said she
would like to attend Centenary, and I heartily support her choice."

Strictly
Personal

Carol Mangham Golemon ('62) recent-
ly received her Master of Arts degree
in Educational Psychology and Coun-
selor Education from Tennessee Tech-
nological University, Cookeville, Tn.

Mrs. Ginger Darnell
Folmer ('64) has

been named dance
instructor at Cen-
tenary College and
artistic advisor for
the Shreveport Sym-
phony. Mrs. Folmer,
a Shreveport native, has been involved
in various productions across the coun-
try as dancer, actress, and director. She
choreographed "1776" at the Marjorie
Lyons Playhouse and "Cabaret" at
Shreveport Little Theatre last summer,
and will teach basic dance and acting
courses at Centenary this fall. She and
her husband Richard have one son,
six— year- old Sloan.

Captain Ralph W.
Harker ('66) has

been awarded the Air
Training Command
Master Instructor rat-
ing at Chanute AFB,
111. He was honored
for outstanding ser-
vice as a technical instructor in the air-
craft maintenance field at Chanute.

Walley Burge ('70) has finished his in-
ternship at Confederate Memorial Med-
ical Center in Shreveport. He and his
wife Babbs Miller Burge ('70) are
moving to Vivian, where he will set up
private practice.

Barbara Frisbie Bildner ('70) recently
received her Master of Arts degree in
Special Education: Learning Disabili-
ties from the University of Northern
Colorado, Greely, Co.

Tommy Burton ('71) recently assumed
the position of Director of Marketing
for UNICOM, Ltd., publisher of the
Bossier Press and The South Shreveport
Shopper. Burton was also recently
elected president of the Exchange Club
of Shreveport and is the editor of the
Southern Exchange Magazine, the offi-
cial publication of the Arkansas -
Louisiana District Exchange Club.

Kathy Parrish ('72) recently received
her Master of Science degree in Phar-
macology form Northeast Louisiana
University in Monroe, La.

Deaths

Marvin Ardis "Hoot"
Gibson ('34) recent-
ly died at the age of
66 after a long ill-
ness. A colorful and
X^y controversial figure,

— ^ Gibson served as

' Jr assistant superinten-
dent of recreation in Shreveport for
27 years and as an athletic trainer at
Centenary from 1934—41, during the
school's years as a football power.

Mrs. Marjorie Boyett Bryson ('41) re-
cently died in Shreveport at the age of
53. She was a native of Haynesville,
but had lived in Shreveport for several
years and had taught school in Bryan,
Tx.

Silvio V. Marino (x52) died in
Franklin Square, Long Island at the
age of 46. He was a vice president of
Pinkerton's Inc., in New York City.

Births

Rosemary Casey Wander ('64) and her

husband, Dr. Wander, are the parents
of a baby girl, Pandora Lucretia, born
August 31, 1974.

Bryan Ardis Robison II ('69) and
Suzee Segall Robison ('72) are the
parents of a baby boy, Bryan Ardis
Robison III born April 20.

Richard ('71) and Cindy ('71)
Skarsten are the parents of a baby girl
born March 29. Catherine Terese weigh-
ed in at 7 lbs. 9 oz.

Marriages

Stephen Louis Olschner ('75) and
Christine Virginia Gresham were
married on July 26. They will reside in
Baton Rouge, where Olschner will at-
tend the LSU School of Law.

Stanley Thomas Welker ('75) and
Vicki Louree Philson were married on
August 9. They will reside in Bossier
City.

ALUMNI FUND

Mrs. A. E. Swanson

Mr. Vincent M. Taglavore

Mr. San J. Talbot

Ms. Margaret C. Tamplin

Mr. David F. Tarver

Dr. B. C. Taylor

Mr. & Mrs. Larry H. Teague

Mrs. Don Thomas

Mr. J. Robinson Tinsley

Mrs. Harriet H. Towery

Mr. H. E. Townsend *

Mr. Robert G. Turnbull

Mrs. James E. Upton

Miss Suzanne Van Der Leur

Mr. Stephen T. Victory

Mr. Apolo Garcia Vilanova

Mr. Riley Wallace

Mr. Frederick D. Walters

Dr. Paul D. Ware

Dr. & Mrs. W. Juan Watkins *

Mr. Maurie Wayne

Mr. Jack M. Webb

Col. Robert L. Webb

Mr. Robert W. Webster

Mr. James T. WelSh *

Miss Lois Kay Weston

Mr. Loren J. White

Mr. William A. Whitley

Mr. Earle E. Whittington

Mrs. Nena Wideman

Mr. B. H. Wierick

Mr. H. L. Wiggins

Mrs. Carolyn Wilhite

Mrs. Jack S. Wilkes *

Dr. W. C. Wilkins, Jr.

Mr. Charles D. Williams

Mrs. Edith Williams

Mrs. Imogene B. Williams

Mr. Jack W. Williamson

Mr. William Edward Wilson

Rev. & Mrs. Lorris Wimberly *

Rev. W. Perry Winterrowd

Mrs. B. Witherspoon

Mr. James Eugene Woods *

Mrs. Charles W. Wray

Miss Eleanore Wren

Miss Virginia Wren

Mrs. Monty M. Wyche

Mr. Sherrell W. Wylie, Sr.

Mr. Charles R. Yarborough *

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Young, Jr.

Mr. Tom C. Young

Mr. J. Dee Youngblood, Jr.

Mr. Joe A. Zimmerman

WetusBAfefa

Meadows Museum Work continued
at a good pace during the summer on
the renovation of the Old Administra-
tion Building into the Meadows Muse-
um of Art. The Museum will house the
Jean Despujols Indo China collection
when it is completed in the late fall.
Plans for the dedication of the Muse-
um will be announced shortly.

Student Senate
major, Bob

A senior government
Edwin Dodson of
Texarkana, will serve
as president of the
Student Government
Association at Cen-
tenary this year,
served as treasurer of
the SGA last year, is
a member of the Tau
Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was ac-
tive in intramurals. He is the son of Dr.
and Mrs. Edwin B. Dodson of
Texarkana and his father is pastor of
the First United Methodist Church of
Texarkana.

Bicentennial Senior Forum Some
300 persons over sixty met at Cen-
tenary College in July to update the
Declaration of Rights and obligations
of the 1961 White House Conference
on Aging. The group met to discuss
several areas of interest to the aging
Americans, including physical and
mental health, jobs, federal tax exemp-
tions, housing, transportation, and
voting by mail. Dr. Theodore R. Kauss
executive vice— president and Dean of
Centenary talked to the group on adult
education.

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Entered As Second-Class Matter

ify for the gift. The installation of the
equipment makes Centenary one of the
few private institutions of higher learn-
ing with a student body of less than
1,000 that has access to this type of
sophisticated equipment.

The Centenary College School of
Music has been named the Gladys F.
Hurley School of Music in honor of
Mrs. Hurley shown above in a recent
photo with President and Mrs. Allen
on her left and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F.
Whited on her right. The actions was
taken by the Board of Trustees who
cited Mrs. Hurley as a "loyal faithful"
friend of the College. The Trustee re-
solution referred to her "continuing
support of the College in its efforts
and commitment to excellence, espe-
cially in the field of music."

State Funds The Louisiana State
Legislature voted this year to provide
state aid to private colleges in
Louisiana. Under the terms of the new
legislation, private colleges will be paid
$125 per student per semester for each
student who is a resident of the state.
The legislature also provided $1.6 mil-
lion to fund the bill. Proponents of the
legislation said the private schools
should receive funding because they
are taking an economic load off the
state by educating students which the
state would otherwise be forced to ed-
ucate.

Chemistry Equipment Installed A

$30,000 nuclearmagnetic resonance
spectrometer, the gift of the Texas In-
struments Company of Dallas, was in-
stalled in the chemistry labs during the
summer. The instrument will permit
students to study the structure of hy-
drogen molecules through the use of an
800 pound magnet which is the heart
of the equipment. A. Ray McCord, an
alumnus of the College and presently
executive vice president of TI, was in-
strumental in helping the College qual-

CALENDAR

October 2-4, 9-11 "J.B."

(Marjorie Lyons Playhouse)
October 5-23 Vincent DeFatta

art exhibit
October 10 Government Career

Information Day
October 26— November 14

Jerome Bushyhead art exhibit
October 28, 29 "Rhapsody in

in View," Centenary Choir

(Civic Center)
October 31 Centenary College

Alumni Association and

Friends Present Bob Hope

(Hirsch)

November 7—8 Pre-Medical

Weekend
November 13-15, 20-22 "A

Member of the Wedding"

(Marjorie Lyons Playhouse")
November 14—15 Bi-Centennial

Weekend
November 21, 22 "Gianni

Schicchi" (Opera Theatre of

Centenary College)
November 16- December 5

Hooked Rug exhibit by Don

Danvers
November 21-23 LAHPER

Women's Basketball Clinic
November 24 LTA Convention;

Centenary Choir (Civic Cen-
ter)
November 26— December 1

Thanksgiving Recess

December 5 Ronald E. Dean,

organist (Friends of Music

Series)
December 12, 13 Evening of

one— act plays by American

playwrights (Marjorie Lyons

Playhouse)
December 19— Jan. 5 Christmas

Recess
January 5—23 Interim Session
January 6 Italic Script exhibit

by H. Keith Melton begins

New Music Chairman Tenor soloist
and conductor Dr. Harlan Snow has
been appointed chairman of the Cen-
tenary School of Music. Before coming
to Centenary, Dr. Snow was an associ-
ate professor of music at Beloit College
in Beloit, Wis. where he conducted the
Beloit Masterworks Chorus and the
Beloit Chamber Choir.

New Business Head Dr. Hugh
Urbantke, who received wide recogni-
tion for his outstanding programs in
marketing and advertising and innova-
tive planning at the University of
Arkansas, has been named chairman of
the department of business and eco-
nomics at Centenary College. He will
also head the Center for Management
Development and the projected Stu-
dent Placement Center. Accepting the
position, Dr. Urbantke said, "The
Shreveport business community ap-
pears to be receptive to innovation,
and from my impartial observation and
appraisal, would work well with a col-
lege which has a desire to work with
it."

The Shreveport Steamer Shreveport's
entry into the pro football ranks, the
Shreveport Steamer in the World Foot-
ball League, used the Centenary cam-
pus as their training headquarters dur-
ing the summer. The team used the
College dormitories and athletic facil-
ities and worked out on a practice field
laid out near the Gold Dome athletic
complex.

Summer School For Alcohol Studies

Two hundred and ninety-nine persons
received certificates of completion for
a one week intensive course on alcohol
studies at Centenary College during the
week of July 6—11. The program was
offered through the cooperation of
Centenary, Northwestern State Univer-
sity, and the Veterans Administration
Hospital. Credit for the course was of-
fered through Northwestern for those
who desired it. Among the panel of ex-
perts appearing on the program were
movie stars Rod Cameron and Richard
Webb. Dr. Sam Thomas from the VA
Hospital in Shreveport, the director of
the school, said the school was more of
a success than he had ever dreamed
possible, and is now planning for next
summer's session.

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