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We're  in  the  black  — 


again 


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Fund  exceeds  goal, 
Challenge  met 

Do  Sandcrabs  Live 
in  Condominiums? 
Graduates  urged 
to  ask  questions 

The  data  game 
3-2  computer 
program  developed 
with  SMU 


Many  alumni  remember  how  members  of  the  Math  Department  looked  in  the  late 
'50s  —  poodle  emblem  and  all.  You  may  want  to  try  to  imagine  how  these  folks  will 
look  today  —  surprise  and  all  —  when  they  see  this  in  print.  They  include  (left  to 
right)  Professors  Betty  Speairs,  Don  Danvers,  Virginia  Carlton,  and  Professor  Emeri- 
tus Fariebee  Parker  Self. 


Sports  for  your  life 
We've  got  winners 


New  Trustees 

Annual  Conference 
approves  four 

Alumni  Weekend 

Are  pictures 
worth  1000  words? 


On  the  cover 


Worn  for  the  first  time  at  the  Colleges  1981  Commencement  Exercises  were  the 
Trustees'  new  crimson  robes.  Modeling  the  academic  regalia  are  (left  to  right)  Presi- 
dent Donald  Webb,  who  designed  the  finery;  George  Nelson,  chairman  of  the  board, 
and  Mrs.  Peyton  Shehee. 


Many  thanks  to  Kirk  R.  LaVigne  and  Sistematik  Graphics,  Inc.,  who  provided  the 
cover  color-separations  at  cost  —  a  real  savings  for  us  and  a  real  treat  for  you! 


The  Centenary  College  magazine,  Cen- 
tenary, (USPS  015560)  July,  1981, 
Volume  "§,  No.  18,  is  published  four 
times  annually  in  October,  January,  April, 
and  July  by  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
2911  Centenary  Boulevard,  Shreveport, 
Louisiana,  71104.  Second  Class  postage 
paid  at  Shreveport,  La.  POSTMASTER: 
Send  address  changes  to  Centenary,  P.O. 
Box  4188,  Shreveport,  La.  71104. 


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Centenary  strives  to  create  an  understanding  of  the  mission,  plans,  and  progress  of 
Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  campus. 

Editor Janie  Flournoy  '72 

Special  Contributors Eric  Barkley 

Russell  Glasgow 

Production Rushing  Printing  Co. 

Alumni  Director Chris  Webb 

Photography Jeff  Blakeman 

Becky  Hilburn 
Don  McDowell 
Janie  Flournoy 


Highlights  of  1980-81.  .  .  fourth  consecutive  balanced  budget.  .  . 
$2  million  added  to  the  College  endowment.  .  .  largest  dollar  total 
for  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  ($720,500).  .  .met  the  $100,000 
Great  Teachers  Challenge.  .  .  fine  progress  on  campus  beautifica- 
tion  and  new  lights  for  the  tennis  courts.  .  .  299c  increase  in  mem- 
bership of  The  1825  Club.  .  .  establishment  of  the  Brown  Chair  of 
English.  .  .  over  $61,500  in  corporate  contributions  through  the 
Louisiana  Independent  College  Fund.  .  .  increased  membership  in 
the  Gents  Club  and  a  record  set  in  giving.  .  .  over  $40,000  in  addi- 
tional scholarships  through  the  new  Centenary  Church  Council.  .  . 
and  many  more  gifts  of  time  and  energy  where  no  value  can  be 
placed.  Jolly  good  show!  Thank  you. 


Dr.  Donald  A.  Webb 
President 


The  importance  of  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund 


Gifts  to  Centenary's  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund  are  unrestricted  contribu- 
tions to  the  College  which  assist  the  an- 
nual operating  budget.  As  such,  gifts  to 
Great  Teachers  are  the  only  kind  which 
are  gifts  to  Centenary  rather  than  to  a 
special  program  of  the  College.  Annual 
gifts  of  this  kind  strengthen  Centenary 
wherever  and  whenever  the  College 
needs  help. 

Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  gifts 
never  run  the  risk  of  obsolescence.  The 
gifts  are  available  for  uses  determined  by 
the  President  and  the  Trustees  in  the  an- 
nual operating  budget.  Funds  are  managed 
for  maximum  effectiveness  by  the  Busi- 
ness Manager. 

Without  the  annual  gifts  received  by 
the  College,  Centenary  would  be  a  strug- 
gling institution  of  higher  education. 
Without  the  generosity  of  our  donors,  the 


academic  excellence  of  the  College  would 
be  seriously  undermined. 

Centenary  College  exists  to  enhance 
the  quality  of  life  for  its  students  and  to 
provide  them  with  a  basic  understanding 
of  human  affairs  and  problems.  Education 
at  Centenary  emphasizes  the  wholeness 
of  human  life,  the  interrelatedness  of 
knowledge,  and  the  dignity  of  man.  An 
unrestricted  gift  to  the  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund  is  a  gift  in  support  of  this 
vital  mission. 

For  many  years.  Centenary  has  received 
gifts  for  many  specific  purposes  and  pro- 
grams. The  College  is  deeply  grateful  for 
these  gifts  of  money,  time  and  valuable 
objects.  As  Centenary  begins  the  1980s, 
gifts  to  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund 
are  the  most  important  way  individuals 
and  corporations  can  participate  in  the 
life  of  the  College. 


64  members 

Our  grateful  thanks  to  members  of  The 
President's  Club  who  contributed  $5,000 
or  more  in  unrestricted  funds  to  Cente- 
nary s  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  or 
the  President's  Matching  Fund. 


'Dr. 
'Mr. 
'Mr. 
'Mr. 
'Dr. 
°Mr. 
'Mr. 
'Mr. 
'Mr. 
Mr. 
'Mr. 
'Mr. 
'Mrs 


&  Mrs.  Charles  T.  Beaird  '66  &  '4 1 

&  Mrs.  Charles  Ellis  Brown  '48  &  '48 

&  Mrs.  Paul  M.  Brown  Jr.  47  &  H'75 

&  Mrs.  Harvey  Broyles  '36 

&  Mrs.  W.H.  Broyles  '45 

&  Mrs.  J.T.  Folk,  Jr. 

&  Mrs.  Bertrand  Greve  '47  &  '45 

D.P.  Hamilton 

&  Mrs.  O.D.  Harrison,  Sr. 

&  Mrs.  J.  Verne  Hawn 

&  Mrs.  Thomas  E.  Hogan  '66 

&  Mrs.  B.J.  Hollingsworth  '49 

.  Ed  Hurley  H'80 


'Mr.  &  Mrs.  G.W.  James  '29 
'Mr.  &  Mrs.  H.  Blume  Johnson  '36 
'Mr.  Clyde  E.  Love 

Mr.  David  Moore 
'Mr.  &  Mrs.  George  D.  Nelson 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  John  T.  Palmer 
'Mr.  &  Mrs.  Richard  L.  Ray  '37 
'Mr.  &  Mrs.  W.  Peyton 
Shehee,  Jr.  '40  &  '43 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Albert  Sklar 

Mrs.  James  E.  Smitherman,  Jr.  '40 
'Mr.  J. P.  Somner 

Mrs.  David  C.  Tyrrell 
'Mr.  &  Mrs.  Hoyt  Yokem 

'Bayou  State  Oil  Co. 
'Coca-Cola  Bottling  Company 
'Delta  Drilling  Company 
'Emerson  Electric  Manufacturing 

Company  Charitable  Trust 
'Exxon  Education  Foundation 


'Fabsteel  Company 

'R.W.  Fair  Foundation 

'First  National  Bank  of  Shreveport 

'Grayson  Company 

*Ed.  E.  &  Gladys  Hurley  Foundation 

'Ida  Gasoline  Company,  Inc. 

'T.L.  James  Company,  Inc. 

'Monsanto  Fund 

'Pennzoil  Company  (cmg) 

'Pickett  Food  Service 

'The  Scurlock  Foundation 

'Texas  Eastern  Transmission  Corp. 

'The  Wheless  Foundation 

'William  C.  Woolf  Foundation 

(cmg)  —  corporate  matching  gift 
'denotes  renewed  members 


145  members 

We  would  also  like  to  express  our  aprecia- 
tion  to  members  of  The  Founder's  Club 
who  contributed  unrestricted  gifts  of 
$1,000  to  $4,999  to  Centenary's  Great 
Teachers- Scholars  Fund  or  the  President  s 
Matching  Fund. 


"Mrs.  G.M.  Anderson 

"Mr.  &  Mrs.  William  C.  Anderson 

"Mr.  Douglas  Attaway 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Sam  Backus 

Mrs.  Lamar  Baker 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Harry  Balcom 
"Mr.  William  E.  Bancroft 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  W.R.  Barrow 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  George  N.  Brock 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Carl  W.  Bauer 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  W.F.  Bozeman  '28 

Mr.  Horace  Cabe 

Mrs.  Nancy  M.  Carruth 
"Mrs.  Katharine  R.  Caruthers  '50 

Mrs.  E.J.  Crawford 

Dr.  &  Mrs.  Walter  T.  Colquitt  '27  &  '30 
"Dr.  &  Mrs.  R.L.  Cooke  '36 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Paul  R.  Davis 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  James  F.  Dean  '41  &  '42 
"Mr.  John  Wesley  Dowling,  Jr. 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  George  Drake  '47 

Mr.  &  Mcs.  Marlin  Drake,  Jr.  '44 


"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Robert  Eatman  '44  &  '45 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  T.  Cole  Flournoy  71  &  72 

Mrs.  CO.  Foil 

Mrs.  Dorothy  H.  Gammill  '40 

Mr.  Henry  Goodrich 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Robert  L.  Goodwin 
"Mr.  J.W.  Hargrove 

Mr.  O.D.  Harrison,  Jr. 
"Dr.  Dayne  Hassell,  Jr. 

Mrs.  Sam  B.  Hicks 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Floyd  B.  James 

Mr.  Harold  D.  Johnson 
"Dr.  &  Mrs.  Melvin  F.  Johnson 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  J.E.  Kelly 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Norman  V.  Kinsey  '50 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Alex  Knight  '33 
"Mrs.  Glenn  E.  Laskey 
"Mr.  A.M.  Leary 
"Mr.  Charlton  H.  Lyons,  Jr. 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Paul  C.  McDonald 
"Mr.  Robert  A.  McKee 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Barney  Moore 
"Mr.  Edwin  Moore 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Loy  Beene  Moore 

Mrs.  Zelle  H.  Moore 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  H.L.  Mulford 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Jessie  W.  Outlaw  '80 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  John  W.  Owensby 
"Mr.  Tom  Peyton 
"Mr.  Leonard  W.  Phillips 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  W.C.  Pinson 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Cecil  Ramey  '43 


Mr.  W.C.  Rasberry 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Austin  G.  Robertson  '34 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Ben  Roshton  '33  &  '33 

Dr.  Noel  T.  Simmonds 

Mrs.  Austin  E.  Stewart 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Donald  E.  Walter 
"Dr.  &  Mrs.  Donald  A.  Webb 

Mr.  Donald  P.  Weiss 

Mr.  Jacques  L.  Wiener,  Jr. 

Mr.  Jacques  L.  Wiener,  Sr. 
"Dr.  &  Mrs.  Harvey  Williamson 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  George  A.  Wilson  '30 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Dalton  Woods 

"ARKLA  Gas 

"The  Atkins  Foundation 

W.F.  Beall  Corporation 
"Bird  &  Son,  Inc. 
"Blount  Foundation,  Inc. 
"Bolinger  &  Company 
"Bossier  Bank  &  Trust 
"Commercial  National  Bank 
"Crow  Foundation 

The  Davis  Foundation 

Dresser  Industries 
"Duggan  Machine  Company,  Inc. 
"The  Equitable  Life  Assurance 

Society  of  the  U.S. 
"Georgia-Pacific  Corp.  (cmg) 
"The  Henrietta  Hardtner  Hutchinson 

Foundation 
"Industrial  Steel  Products 


Justiss  Oil  Company 
"Kansas  City  Southern  (cmg) 

C.W.  Lane  Company,  Inc. 
"Layflat  Products,  Inc. 

Lincoln  National  Life  (cmg) 
"Louisiana  Bank  &  Trust 

The  Maryland  Company,  Inc. 

Montgomery  Engineering  Co.,  Inc. 
"National  Methodist  Foundation 
"The  Nelson  Foundation 
"Pasquier,  Batson  &  Company 

Perkins-McKenzie  Insurance  Agcy.,  Inc. 
"Petersen  Investments 
"The  Poindexter  Foundation 
"Querbes  &  Nelson 
"Richarson's  Plumbing  Company 
"Rohm  &  Haas  (cmg) 

SCM  Foundation  (cmg) 
"South  Central  Bell  Telephone 
"Southern  Builders 
"St.  Louis  Southwestern  Railway  Co. 
"SWEPCO 
"Terrell  Equipment  Company 

Transco  Companies 
"United  Gas  Pipeline 
"Universal  Oil  Products  (UOP) 
"Witt  Oil  Productions,  Inc. 
"Woolf  &  Magee,  Inc. 

(cmg)  —  corporate  matching  gift 
"denotes  renewed  members 


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Unrestricted  gifts  between  $156  and 
$999  given  to  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars 
Fund  between  June  1.  1980  and  May  31 , 
1981   -  a  special  (hanks. 


Miss  Dorothy  Jo  Allen  '48 
•Mr.  Otis  Glen  Allison  '30 

Mr.  Raymond  S.  Allison 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  L.E.  Allums 
•Mr.  Joel  11.  Anderson  '66 

Miss  Jean  Arthur  '44 

Mr.  Floyd  V.  Atkins 

Dr.  Leon  James  Bain,  Jr.  '59 
"Mr.  Ray  A.  Barlow   .54 
"Judge  &  Mrs.  Chris  T.  Barnette  '25  &  '28 

Dr.  Robert  P.  Bays  '30 

Mr.  Charles  O,  Beauchamp,  Jr.  '34 

Mrs.  B.R.  Bewley 

Mr  &  Mrs.  Bill  Binger 

Dr.  W.D.  Boddie  37 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Harold  J.  Bond  '56 
"Mr.  John  F.  Bookout.  Jr.  '47 
"Mr.  &  Mrs.  Roger  H.  Box  '62  &  '65 

Dr.  Joe  R.  Brock.  Jr.  '49 
"Mr.  Henry  A.  Bronner 

Mr.  Marshall  J.  Brooks  III  77 
"Mr.  Algie  D.  Brown  '34 
'Mr.  Emory  Clinton  Browne  30 

Mrs.  Clemerine  Browning 
"Judge  &  Mrs.  Eugene  W. 
Bryson,  Jr.  '63  &  '63 

Mr.  Ferrell  L.  Burgess  '49 

Mr.  George  H.  Calhoun 
"Dr.  Jack  E.  Carlisle 
•Dr.  &  Mrs.  David  M.  Carlton   47  &   47 

Dr.  Virginia  Carlton  .39 

Mrs.  L.W.  Carney  '30 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  A.  Phillip  Clarke 

Mrs.  Bruce  J,  Cohen  73 

Mr.  James  F.  Cook 

Rev.  Jack  Cooke  '38 

Mrs.  Robert  W.  Cooper  '77 
•Mr.  Thomas  O.  Cooper  '34 

Dr.  John  W.  Corrington  '56 

Mrs.  Annie  Stallcup  Culbertson  39 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Wayne  Curtis  '69  &  '69 
•Dr.  Dana  Dawson.  Jr.  '38 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  R.H.  Deas 
'Mr   George  J.  Despot,  Jr. 

Mr.  Gregor\  A.  Despot 
•Mr,  Walter  Dobie  .54 
•Mrs.  Eva  Keoun  Doty  '41 
•Mrs.  Ben  R.  Downing  42 
•Mr.  Perry  E.  Draper 
•Mr.  &  Mrs.  Frank  L.  Durham  '34  &  '29 
•Mr.  John  A.  Dykes 
•Mrs.  F.A.  Earle  '44 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Calvin  Stuart  Eason  .56  &  '60 

Mrs.  Brenda  Rogers  Ellis  72 

Mr.  Thomas  P.  Fitzgerald  '36 

Mrs.  Mary  Hodge  Fleming  '33 

Mr.  James  E.  Flowers  48 

Mrs.  Harry  Fox  .30 

Mr.  Jerry  M.  France 

Mrs.  Eloise  Adams  Frey  '2.5 

Mr.  Samford  C.  Fullilove  '28 
•Mr.  Jay  R.  Gammill,  Jr. 

Mr.  Hood  Goldsberry 
"Mrs.  John  A.  Goodson  50 
•Mr.  John  Pipes  Goodson  50 

Dr.  David  M.  Graham 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  William  T.  Green  71 

Dr.  Mark  Allan  Greve  74 

Mr.  John  Joseph  Gullo  '63 

Mr.  James  P.  Gunnels 

Mr.  Alfred  S.  Gunter 


Mr.  John  J.  Guth 

Dr.  Dorothy  B.  Gwin 
•Dr.  Robert  Haley 
•Dr.  &  Mrs.  Alton 

Hancock  54  &   72 

Col.  &  Mrs.  Henry  L.  Hand 
•Mr.  &  Mrs.  Edwin  C.  Harbuck  .56  &  .5.5 

Mr.  James  Joseph  Hardt  77 
•General  &  Mrs.  John  S.  Hardy  '38  &  '4.5 
"Mr.  Joseph  L.  Hargrove 

Mr.  O.  Delton  Harrison,  Jr. 

Dr.  W.H.  Haynie 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  William  R.  Hicks  '48  &  '49 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  R.D.  Hinton 
•Mr.  &  Mrs.  Wilbur  A.  Hirsch  .51  &   .51 

Mr.  Percy  V.  Hubbard  '64 

Mr.  Charles  Cooper  Hunter  '31 
•Mr.  Edward  H.  Jackson,  Sr. 

Mr.  George  A.  Jackson,  Jr.  '56 
•Mrs.  Marian  H.  Jackson 
•Mr.  T.D.  James 

Mr.  Harry  Marrs  Jarred  '49 
•Mr.  Robert  Floyd  Jenkins  '39 
•Mr.  Robert  M.  Jeter,  Jr. 

Mr.  John  B.  Johnson 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  John  1 1.  Johnson,  Jr.  49  &  42 

Mr.  William  C.  Johnson 

The  Doctors  Glanville-Kastl  71  &  71 

Mr.  Lee  L.  Kincade,  Jr.   50 

Mr.  Voi  is  King 

Dr.  Collier  A.  Kinnebrew   42 
•Mr.  Jack  Knauss 
•Dr.  Charles  D.  Knight   41 
•Mr.  Charles  Lee  '31 
"Mr.  Clyde  Vernon  Lee  '32 
•Mr.  Geroge  W.  Leopard  '32 

Mr.  Fred  L.  Loe 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Palmer  R.  Long 
•Dr.  &  Mrs.  Darrell  M.  Loyless 

Mr.  D.T.  MacRoberts  ,57 

Mr.  John  W.  Magee 

Mrs.  Melba  Fullilove  Maino  37 
•Mr.  Thomas  B.  Mann 

Mrs.  Lucille  Gibson  Mason   46 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  M.L.  Mason  '38  &  '38 

Mr.  John  E.  Maxwell 

Mr.  Charles  Lewis  Mayer  '26 
•Mr.  &  Mrs.  Ben  M.  Mayfield 
•Mr.  Brad  Mayo 

Mr.  Robert  Kirk  Mayo  50 

Mr.  Ray  Lambert  McCary  '54 

Mrs.  Martha  S.  McCaskill  7,5 

Mr.  A.  Ray  McCord 

Mr.  Robert  E.  McDowell 
°Mr.  &  Mrs.  Vernon  C.  McFarland  '42 
°Mr.  Joseph  C.  McGowan,  Jr.  '50 
°Dr.  Douglas  McGuire 

Mr.  T.W.  McGuire 
•Mr.  Waymon  R.  McMillon 

Dr.  Merlin  Merrill 

Mrs.  Joe  J.  Miekle 

Mr.  Robert  J.  Moffat 

Mr.  Boyce  C.  Monk 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  R.  Gary  Montgomery  '62 

Mr.  Robert  Moody  '42 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Randle  T.  Moore  III 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Charles  P.  Morn 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Ray  Morris 
•Mr.  John  Bernard  Ou/ts,  Jr.  79 
"Mrs.  Patrick  Parish  '65 
•Mr.  Ed  Parkes 

Dr.  R.L.  Parkman,  Jr.  .53 
•Mr.  &  Mrs.  John  T.  Parlette 

Mr.  G.  Allen  Penniman 
•Dr.  Webb  Pomeroy  '43 

Mr.  James  William  Poole  75 
•Dr.  Jack  W.  Pou 


Mr.  Edward  Railsback  '38 
•Mr.  Charles  A.  Ravenna.  Jr.  '32 

Mr.  Podge  M.  Reed 
"Mrs.  George  M.  Reynolds  29 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Donald  W.  Rhea  '34  &  '34 

Mr.  Donald  F.  Richardson 

Dr.  Leonard  M.  Riggs  II  64 

Dr.  &  Mrs.  Paul  L  Rogers  53  &   53 

Mr.  Oliver  IIP  Sample 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Jesse  Sanders 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Erwin  W.  Saye  '48 

Mr.  William  G.  Scarborough 
•Dr.  &  Mrs.  R.N.  Schwendimann 
'66  &  '67 

Mrs.  Eleanor  S.  Scott 
•Mr.  Robert  A.  Scale  '42 

Dr.  Rosemary  Seidler 

Mrs.  George  Sexton,  Jr. 
•Mr.  Gil  Sheffield 

Dr.  &  Mrs.  Charles  B.  Simmons  7  1  &  70 

Mr.  Shelb)  Lee  Smith 

Mr.  Adrian  R.  Snider  '34 

Mrs.  Richard  K.  Speairs 
•Dr.  &  Mrs.  Charles  J.  Stamper  '48  &  '49 

Mr.  William  E.  Steger '4  1 

Mrs.  Anita  Powell  Stevenson  '66 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Roy  C.  Stringfellow   .33  &  '33 
•Mrs.  Ruth  Anne  Ashby  Storey 
•Ann  W.  Stratton 

Mr.  Wallace  J.  Stroud   48 

Mr.  W.T.  Thagard 

Mr.  N.O.  Thomas,  Jr. 

Mr.  George  L.  Thompson  '64 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Terry  N.  Tomlin  '65  &  '65 

Mrs.  Carolyn  Lunny  Toops  '43 
•Mr.  Leo  VanderKuy  76 
"The  Honorable  Joe  D.  Waggonner,  Jr. 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  John  W.  Warnock 

Dr.  &  Mrs.  W.  Juan  Watkins  '57  &  '57 

Mr.  Jack  M.  Webb  .57 

Dr.  A.L.  Wedgeworth,  Jr.  '45 

Mr.  Robert  William  Welch  .52 

Mr.  John  P.  Wiggin,  Jr.  76 

Mrs.  Marv  Jane  Peace-Wiggin,  Jr.  76 
•Mrs.  Jack' Wilkes 

Mr.  Robert  L.  Williamson 

Mr.  Fred  Wilson 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Witt 

Mr.  John  Woods  43 
•Mr.  &  Mrs.  Herbert  B.  Wren,  Jr.  '27 
•Dr.  &  Mrs.  Herbert  B.  Wren,  III 

Mrs.  Grace  Collins  Yarri  '31 

°ACF  Foundation 

"Akins  Nursery/Landscape 

Alcoa  Foundation  (cmg) 

Alexander  &  Alexander  (cmg) 
•Allen  Millwork 

Alloy  Piping  Products 
"Alpha  Construction 
"American  Bank  &  trust 
•American  Oxygen 

Angle  Company,  Inc. 
"Arthur  Andersen  Co.  Fund  (cmg) 

Ashy  Enterprises,  Inc. 
"Bank  of  Benton 
"Bank  of  Commerce 
°Beal  Locke  &  Associates 

Bingham-Willamette  Co. 

Blaylock  Investment  Co. 
•Bronner  Associates 

Butler-Johnson,  Inc. 

Calm  Electric  Co.,  Inc. 

Central  &  Southwest  Foundation  (cmg) 

Chateau  Motor  Hotel 

Cities  Service  Foundation  (cmg) 

Columbia  Gas  Dev.  Corp.  (cmg) 


"Dealers  Truck  Equipment 

DeRiddcr  First  UMC 
"Delhloll  Jordan/Etc. 
"First  Federal  Savings  &  Loan 
"Frank's  Construction 

General  Electric  Co. 
"Gillord  Hill/Co..  Inc. 

Greene  Plumbing  &  Heating 
•Gull  Oil  Foundation  (cmg) 

Harris  Insurance  Inc. 

Harriss-Jambor  Co. 

Haynes  Investments 
•Heard/McElroy/Vestal 
"Hica  Corporation 
"Home  Federal  Savings  &  Loan 

Hutches  Sheet  Metal  Co. 

Hutchinson  &  Green  Inc. 

IBM  (cmg) 
•Industrial  Roof/Sheet 

Jet  Drilling  Company 

Key  &  Associates 
"Kwik  Kopy 

Lagersen  Drilling  Co. 

Libby  Glass 

Lipper-Stutsman  Co.,  Inc. 

Manville  Corporation  (cmg) 
"Marathon  Oil  Co.  (cmg) 
"McCain  Foundation 

McElroy  Metal  Mill  Inc. 

Melton  Truck  Lines 
°Merrill,'Lynch/Etc. 
"Mid-South  Press 

N  &  C  Drilling  Corp. 
"National  Bank  of  Bossier 

Norlleet  &  Company 

Norvvel  Equipment  Co. 
•Ogilvie  Hardware  Co. 

Peden  Steel  &  Charitable  Fund  (cmg) 

Pepsico  Foundation  Inc.  (cmg) 
•Peytons  Ladies  Apparel 
•Pioneer  Bank  &  Trust 

Prudential  Foundation  (cmg) 
•Red  River  Valley  Bank 
•Regan  Enterprises,  Inc. 
•Ross  Production  Co. 

Rothschild  Boiler  Tank  Works 
•Rountree  Olds-Cadillac 
•Rushing  Printing  Co. 

Santa  Maria  Wholesale  Produce 
"Sears  Roebuck  &  Company 

Selber  Brothers 

Shell  Companies  Foundation  (cmg) 

Shreveport  Refrigeration 
•Somdal  Associates 

Southern  Bolt  &  Fastener 

Southland  Corporation 

Stephenson  Floor  Coverings,  Inc. 

Storer  Equipment  Sales/Service 

Sun  Company,  Inc. 

Syntex  Laboratories 

Texas  Instruments  (cmg) 
•Times  Publishing  Company 
"Tucker/ Martin/Etc. 
"Union  Oil  Company  (cmg) 
•United  Mercantile  Bank 

Upjohn  Company 
•Werner  Company,  Inc. 
•Western  Electric  (cmg) 

Wilson  Foods  Corporation 


(cmg)  —  corporate  matching  gilt 
"denotes  renewed  member 


Gifts  to  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  by  Classes 
June  1, 1980  -  May  31, 1981 


Number  of 

Class 

Number  of 

Class 

Class 

Alumni  Donors 

$  Total 

Class 

Alumni  Donors 

$  Total 

1917 

1 

$   150.00 

1952 

15 

1,210.00 

1922 

1 

100.00 

1953 

16 

1,083.50 

1925 

2 

706.00 

1954 

19 

9,887.00 

1926 

4 

320.00 

1955 

17 

695.00 

1927 

5 

1,655.00 

1956 

18 

1,436.00 

1928 

4 

1,500.00 

1957 

22 

12,740.00 

1929 

5 

439.00 

1958 

16 

1,740.00 

1930 

9 

2,436.00 

1959 

12 

1,593.50 

1931 

13 

978.00 

1960 

36 

5,869.50 

1932 

9 

1,042.00 

1961 

17 

1,425.00 

1933 

11 

1,575.00 

1962 

23 

1,247.50 

1934 

16 

6,144.00 

1963 

18 

938.50 

1935 

8 

1,235.00 

1964 

30 

2,442.50 

1936 

22 

22,990.00 

1965 

25 

882.50 

1937 

13 

6,211.00 

1966 

30 

7,016.00 

1938 

22 

1,898.00 

1967 

19 

1,347.50 

1939 

17 

2,152.50 

1968 

32 

1,060.00 

1940 

19 

16,857.34 

1969 

33 

4,255.33 

1941 

19 

3,238.50 

1970 

39 

1,408.00 

1942 

20 

3,251.50 

1971 

30 

1,104.00 

1943 

25 

6,292.50 

1972 

32 

1,610.50 

1944 

22 

9,072.09 

1973 

28 

865.50 

1945 

16 

1,632.50 

1974 

31 

4,266.33 

1946 

13 

1,117.50 

1975 

24 

867.50 

1947 

24 

7,278.00 

1976 

16 

1,584.00 

1948 

24 

20,664.50 

1977 

15 

634.00 

1949 

45 

10,665.43 

1978 

13 

245.00 

1950 

28 

6,022.50 

1979 

20 

363.50 

1951 

31 

2,792.50 

1980 

12 

1,547.50 

The  1980-1981  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund 


The  Great  Teachers-Scholars 
Fund  Volunteer  Leadership 


Gifts  to  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  are  unrestricted  and 
are  used  for  the  ongoing  operating  expenses  of  the  College. 
These  totals  reflect  cash  contributions  between  June  1,  1980 
and  May  31,  1981  which  is  Centenary's  fiscal  year. 


TRUSTEES 
ALUMNI 
PARENTS 
FRIENDS 
CORPORATIONS 
FOUNDATIONS 
FACULTY  and  STAFF 
GRAND  TOTAL 


DOLLARS 

$152,437.51 

115,145.16 

7,232.00 

89,602.55 

246,497.00 

102,405.00 

7,184.50 

$720,503.72 


Alumni  participation  -  15% 

Totals  do  not  include  gifts  to  The  President's  Matching  Fund. 
Some  donors  who  contribute  generously  to  this  fund  are  alumni. 


GENERAL  CHAIRMAN 

DIVISION  CHAIRMEN 
Banking  and  Investments 
Professional 
Petroleum 
Manufacturing 
Retail,  Sales  &  Services 
General 

PARENTS  DIVISION 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 
Chairman 

Chairman,  Development 
Committee 


John  T.  Palmer 


J.  Hugh  Watson 
Robert  K.  Mayo 
William  G.  Anderson 
Don.  H.  Duggan 
Leo  VanderKuy 
Paul  C.  McDonald 

Tom  Bateman 


George  D.  Nelson 
H.  Blume  Johnson  36 


Commencement  '81 


I  WONDER 

I  wonder  if  the  waves  get  weary 

With  the  surf  and  surgers  on  their  backs 

Or  if  the  wind  is  angry  when 

It  throws  the  rain  against  my  window 

I  wonder  if  the  mountains  are  lonely 
or  only  sad? 

I  wonder  if  the  gulls  are  sick  of  eating  fish 

If  the  sandpipers  get  tired  of  dodging  waves? 

•  •  • 

I  wonder  silly  things  —  like: 

Do  sandcrabs  live  in  condominiums? 


James  Kavanaugh 


Man's  most  humane  inclination,  says 
Dr.  E.  Grady  Bogue,  is  his  inclination  to 
wonder  —  to  inquire,  to  search,  to  probe, 
to  construct  problems.  Our  questions  are 
the  instruments  with  which  we  construct 
tomorrow. 

Dr.  Bogue,  Chancellor  of  Louisiana 
State  University  in  Shreveport,  shared 
these  thoughts  with  the  156th  graduating 
class  of  Centenary  College,  Sunday,  May 
17,  in  the  Gold  Dome. 

"Wise  graduates,"  he  said,  "leave  college 
more  impressed  with  the  immensity  of 
their  ignorance  than  when  they  began  — 
but  filled  with  the  thrill  of  expectation 
that  there  is  so  much  left  to  know." 

Dr.  Bogue  charged  the  graduates  and 
guests  to  look  at  the  kinds  of  questions 
they  ask,  as  well  as  the  discretion,  the 
power  of  artistry  in  the  how,  when,  and 
where  they  ask  questions. 

"My  hope  is  that  your  questions  and 
mine  will  reveal  in  our  lives  the  three 
humanizing  qualities  essential  to  lives  of 
meaning  and  purpose: 

—  the  quality  of  curiosity,  the  learning 
man 

—  the  quality  of  courage,  the  daring 
man 

—  the  quality  of  compassion,  the  loving 
man. 

"I  salute  those  parents,  friends,  and 
family  who  assisted  and  encouraged  you," 
said  Dr.  Bogue.  "But  most  of  all,  I  salute 
the  men  and  women  of  the  Centenary 
faculty  who  —  through  good  questions 
—  nurtured  your  minds  and  spirits  to  this 
point,  who  enlarged  and  elevated  your 
vision  of  self,  whose  caring  and  concern 
will  launch  you  into  tomorrow. 

"Do  sandcrabs  live  in  condominiums?" 
I  never  thought  about  that!  I  wonder  if 


"Do  sandcrabs 
live  in 
condominiums?' 


they  can  still  get  fixed  term  level  rate 
mortgages." 

Of  the  155  undergraduates  receiving 
degrees,  14  graduated  with  honors,  in- 
cluding Keith  Dollahite  of  Longview, 
Texas,  holding  a  perfect  4.0  average; 
Elsa  Karen  Kapitan  of  Bossier  City,  and 
Kathy  Teague  Penfield  of  Marshall,  Texas, 
summa  cum  laude;  Craig  Ames,  John 
Caskey  III,  Douglas  Caulkins,  Steve 
Honley,  and  James  Keith  McClelland,  all 
of  Shreveport;  Timothy  Bruster  of  Hen- 
derson, Texas,  and  Susan  Snyder  of 
Slidell,  magna  cum  laude;  and  Barbara 
Bullock  and  Mary  Beth  Lott  of  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  Debbie  Hetrick  of  Mansfield, 
Ohio,  and  John  Holcomb  of  Ft.  Smith, 
Ark.,  cum  laude. 

Seventeen  students  received  the  Master 
of  Business  Administration  degree  and 
fourteen,  the  Master  of  Education  degree. 

Centenary  College  President  Donald 
Webb  and  Dean  Dorothy  Gwin  also  pre- 
sented honorary  degrees  to  Mrs.  Gertrude 
Feazel  Anderson,  the  Rev.  Stone  Caraway, 
both  of  Shreveport,  and  Joseph  Boring 
Bramlette  of  Longview,  Texas. 

Recognized  for  their  many  years  with 
the  College  were  members  of  the  faculty 
and  staff  including  Professors  Willard 
Cooper,  Ronald  Dean,  Donald  Danvers, 
Earle  Labor,  Robert  Ed  Taylor,  and 
Stanton  Taylor,  20-24  years;  Professors 
Virginia  Carlton,  Elizabeth  Friedenberg, 
Lee  Morgan,  Webb  Pomeroy,  Nolan  Shaw, 
and  staff  member  Dorothy  Hall  and 
Bessie  May  Taylor,  25-29  years;  and  Pro- 
fessors B.P.  Causey,  Edmond  Parker, 
Betty  Speairs,  and  William  Teague,  and 
staff  member  Cornelia  Brown,  for  30  or 
more  years  of  service. 


Dr.  Donald  Webb,  Dr.  Grady  Bogue 


'Twenty 
problems 
more  or 
less' 


A  society  which  demands  a  technology 
based  on  mathematics  that  it  cannot 
comprehend  is  in  trouble,  says  Dr.  Virginia 
Carlton.  "Our  world  tends  to  think  of 
itself  as  non-mathematical,  if  it  thinks  of 
mathematics  at  all.  .  .  we  have  no  con- 
ception of  the  impact  that  mathematics 
has  on  science  and  society." 

Dr.  Carlton,  Class  of  '39,  and  Chairman 
of  the  Department  of  Mathematics  at 
Centenary  since  1957,  addressed  the 
Founders'  Day  Convocation  Thursday, 
April  23.  Her  subject:  "Twenty  Problems 
—  More  or  Less." 

Actually,  Dr.  Carlton  said,  there  are 
other  problems  which  have  produced  the 
main  danger  of  mathematical  ignorance . 

The  number  one  problem  is  the  history 
of  mathematics.  It  takes  quite  a  bit  of 
study  and  learning  for  a  high  school 
student  to  plow  through  calculus,  geom- 
etry, and  advanced  math,  developed  in 
the  17th  and  18th  centuries.  Is  there 
hope  for  us  to  get  into  the  20th  century  in 
our  high  school  and  freshman  college 
curriculum  in  mathematics? 

The  language  of  math  can  also  be  a 
problem.  "Mathophobia"  may  be  epito- 
mized by  the  statement,  "I  was  never  any 
good  at  mathematics."  Another  real  lang- 
uage problem  is  that  of  communication 
concerning  what  is  happening  in  20th- 
century  mathematics,  Dr.  Carlton  said. 
"Mathematicians  are  in  last  place  in  com- 
municating with  the  general  public." 

The  final  problem  she  discussed  was 
the  shortage  expected  in  mathematics 
and  computer  science  personnel  in  the 
next  decade.  There  is  an  exodus  from  the 
schools  to  business  and  government,  a 
situation  which  is  creating  a  real  need  for 
teachers. 

"So  what  are  our  solutions?"  she  asked. 
"There  are  some  immediate  things  that 


Dr.  Virginia  Carlton  has  been  chairman  of  the  Department  of  Mathematics  since  1 957. 


can  be  achieved.  .  . 

1.  High  school  counselors  can  inform 
students  correctly  about  the  world 
into  which  their  students  are  going, 
namely,  that  they  need  as  much 
mathematics  as  they  can  master 
during  their  four  years. 

2.  Efforts  can  be  made  to  encourage 
trained  high  school  mathematics 
teachers  to  stay  in  the  field. 

3.  People  from  the  junior  high  school 
level  on  up  can  quit  discouraging 
women  from  entering  the  scientific 
and  mathematical  fields. 

4.  We  can  face  the  fact  that  with  the 
growing  need  for  mathematically 
trained  people  in  this  country  one  of 
our  greatest  untapped  resources  are 
black  males  and  women  of  any  color. 
(Up  to  this  point  the  mathematical 
and  high  technology  fields  have  been 
dominated  by  white  males.) 

5.  Students  can  begin  to  realize  that 
making  an  A  in  an  easy  mathematics 
course  does  not  compare,  as  far  as 
making  himself  ready  for  any  field, 
with  making  a  C  or  better  in  a  course 
that  strengthens  his  understanding 
of  what  mathematics  is  all  about. 

"Man  has  a  rational  power,"  Dr.  Carlton 
said.  "It  is  as  much  a  part  of  his  nature 
and  history  as  language,  art,  or  religion. 
But  it  is  not  a  greater  part." 


From  math  to.  .  . 

Actuary 

Artist 

Astronomer 

Business 

Chemist 

Commercial  Aviator 

Computer  Scientist  and/or 

Engineer 
Economist 
Energy  Specialist 
Engineer 
Homemaker 
Lawyer 
Medicine 
Military 
Minister 

Personnel  Management 
Physicist 
Statistician 

Teacher  -  College  and  University 
Teacher  -  Secondary 


8 


Mrs.  John  Hendrick,  Jr. 


Mrs.  John  A.  Hendrick,  a  lady  of  many 

utstanding  accomplishments,  will  be  a 

duable  asset  as  a  new  member  of  the 

entenary  College  Board  of  Trustees. 

Born  Patricia  Ewing,  daughter  of  the 

te  Isabelle  and  Robert  Ewing,  Jr.,  she 

tended  Harcum  Junior  College  in  Bryn 

[awr.  Pa.,  where  she  graduated  with 

mors  in  Liberal  Arts. 

Mrs.  Hendrick  has  been  very  active  in 

e  arts,  especially  The  Shreveport  Civic 

|    pera  where  she  was  on  the  board  and  is 

life  time  member  of  the  guild.  She  is 

;    so  a  lite  time  member  of  the  Shreveport 

l./mphony  Women's  Guild. 

During  Dr.  Edgar  Hull's  leadership  as 
Dean  of  L.S.U.  Medical  School,  Shreve- 
port, she  was  one  of  the  leaders  in  the 
formation  and  development  of  the  Birth 
Defect  Center. 

Mrs.  Hendrick  is  also  involved  in  various 
other  civic  organizations  such  as  the 
March  of  Dimes,  Heart  Fund,  and  Cancer 
Fund. 


Ronald  Sawyer 

Centenary  College  has  appointed  Mr. 
Ronald  L.  Sawyer  as  a  member  of  the 
schools  Board  of  Trustees. 

Mr.  Sawyer  is  the  President  of  Sawyer 
Drilling  &  Service,  Inc.  He  holds  a  bache- 
lor of  science  degree  in  Petroleum  Engi- 
neering from  the  University  of  Houston. 

He  is  past  President  of  the  Centenary 
Gents  Club,  Director  of  the  International 
Association  of  Drilling  Contractors,  and 
Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
American  Bank  &  Trust  Co. 

He  is  also  an  active  member  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Shreveport  serving 
as  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Deacons 
and  as  a  trustee  for  the  First  Baptist 
Church  School. 


New 
Trustees 


fctf 


Rev.  Kenneth  Fisher 

The  Rev.  Kenneth  M.  Fisher  has  been 
named  a  member  of  the  Centenary  College 
Board  of  Trustees. 

The  Rev.  Fisher  is  pastor  of  the  St. 
Mark  United  Methodist  Church  in  Baton 
Rouge.  He  graduated  from  Centenary  in 
1970  with  a  bachelor's  degree  in  religion 
and  philosophy  and  received  his  masters 
of  divinity  from  the  Gammon  Theological 
Seminary  in  Atlanta,  Ga. 

While  serving  as  pastor  in  New  Orleans, 
the  Rev.  Fisher  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Orleans  Black  Chorale  and  a  trom- 
bonist in  the  "Civic"  Symphony  Orches- 
tra. 

He  is  a  former  member  of  the  U.S.  Air 
Force  where  he  served  as  a  specialist  in 
police  and  law  enforcement  and  heavy 
equipment  operation. 


■ pp" 


'^w*^ 


Herman  Williamson 

Herman  Williamson  Jr.,  president  of 
Hurley  Petroleum  Corporation  since 
1959,  has  been  named  to  the  Centenary 
Board  of  Trustees. 

Williamson,  a  graduate  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Arkansas  with  a  B.S.  in  busi- 
ness administration,  also  serves  as  a 
member  of  the  Centenary  Church  Council. 

Even  with  such  a  busy  schedule,  the 
Camden,  Ark.,  native  also  finds  time  for 
church  and  civic  activities.  Using  his 
experience  as  a  former  accountant,  Wil- 
liamson chairs  the  Finance  Committee  of 
Noel  Memorial  United  Methodist  Church. 

He  is  also  vice  chairman  of  administra- 
tion for  the  Multi-Faith  Retirement  Ser- 
vices, advisor  to  the  Shreveport  Desk 
and  Derrick  Club,  and  a  member  of  the 
Shreveport  District  Finance  and  Admin- 
istration Committee. 


The  data  game 


Centenary's  new  pre-professional  com- 
puter science  program  is  on-line  with  the 
world  of  business. 

That's  the  word  from  the  Department 
of  Mathematics,  which  has  just  added  a 
3-2  program  with  Southern  Methodist 
University  in  Dallas. 

Dr.  David  Thomas,  Associate  Professor 
of  Mathematics  and  Director  of  the 
Computer  Science  Program,  explained 
in  this  way: 

"A  student,  by  taking  certain  courses 
during  his  or  her  three  years  at  Centenary 
can  continue  at  the  junior  level  at  SMU 
and  finish  there  in  two  years.  The  student 
earns  two  degrees  —  a  B.A.  in  Mathematics 
from  Centenary  and  a  B.S.  in  Computer 
Science,  Computer  Engineering,  or  similar 
areas  from  SMU. 

But  our  alumni  math-majors  are  doing 
great  in  the  computer  science  field  without 
that  second  degree. 

The  advantage,''  says  David,  "is  that  in 
today's  job  market,  everything  else  being 
equal,  the  candidate  with  two  degrees 
would  probably  be  more  desirable.  He's 
got  the  liberal  arts  background,  which  is 
really  important,  as  well  as  the  technical 
knowledge.  People  in  computer  science 
have  to  know  a  little  about  a  lot  of  things." 

High  school  students  interested  in  the 
3-2  program  should  plan  early.  "They 
need  to  take  four  years  of  high  school 
math,  including  advanced  math,"  said 
David.  "And  when  they  come  to  Cente- 
nary, they  need  to  work  closely  with 
their  adviser  —  it's  definitely  an  accelerated 
course." 

Students  in  the  3-2  program  at  Cente- 
nary are  required  to  take  27  hours  of 
math,  the  two  computer  programming 
courses  -  COBAL  and  FORTRAN  - 
and  an  advanced  programming  course, 
in  addition  to  art,  music,  English,  history, 
and  other  liberal  arts  courses. 

The  Market 

Job  opportunities  are  wide  open  for 
men  and  women.  "There  was  an  unbeliev- 
able boom  five  years  ago,"  said  David. 
"Now  there  is  a  heavy  demand.  There 
are  more  jobs  than  people  to  hold  them." 

David  also  feels  —  and  statistics  show 
—  that  a  computer  course  in  your  back- 
ground really  makes  you  more  desirable 
to  an  employer.  "So  many  businesses  are 
buying  or  leasing  computers  these  days, 
and  they  need  employees  who  can  operate 
them." 

Centenary  averages  about  40-50  stu- 


10 


dents  per  year  in  the  computer  courses. 
Open  to  the  public,  the  courses  may  also 
be  audited  as  well  as  taken  for  credit. 

For  the  first  time  in  several  years,  a 
programming  course  will  be  offered  in 
the  evening  to  enable  participation  from 
the  members  of  the  community.  "Even  if 
they  audit  (take  the  course  without  a 
grade),  they  will  have  access  to  the  new 
computer  to  run  programs,"  David  said. 
"That  is  one  very  nice  thing  about  Cente- 
nary —  students  here  can  spend  as  much 
time  running  programs  as  they  want." 

The  new  computer  is  Centenary's  Bur- 
roughs 1900  (July,  1980),  which  is  grad- 
ually replacing  the  antiquated  IBM  1 130. 

To  date,  information  has  been  entered 
via  five  terminals  on  alumni,  current 
students,  financial  aid,  and  much  of  the 
business  of  the  College. 

The  computer  not  only  holds  much, 
much  more  information,  but  also  prints 
five  to  ten  times  faster  than  the  old 
machine,  and  can  run  up  to  20  programs 
at  once,  compared  to  one  on  the  old 
computer.  It  is  much  more  efficient, 
saving  lots  of  steps  —  literally  and  figura- 
tively. 

"Most  important,"  says  David,  "is  that 
our  information  is  so  current.  We  can 
correct  information  on  the  new  computer 
in  an  instant;  this  took  days  on  the  old 
machine." 

This  enables  the  busines  office  to  see  a 
weekly  income-expense  report,  or  the 
alumni  office  to  have  a  list  of  all  the 
alumni  in  Jackson,  Mississippi,  or  the 
registrar's  office  to  call  up  Russ  Hodges' 
grades. 

Of  course,  there  is  security.  Not  just 
anyone  is  privy  to  that  information.  "You 
have  to  know  a  code  to  get  access  to  cer- 
tain information,"  David  explained.  "Once 
you  get  on,  the  program  prompts  you  to 
do  the  rest.  Terminals  are  no  harder  to 
use  than  a  typewriter." 

Word  Processor 

An  IBM  System  6  is  the  newest  addition 
to  the  office  of  admissions.  "With  the 
word  processor,  we  can  reach  more  pro- 
spective students  more  efficiently,"  said 
John  Lambert,  Director  of  Admissions 
and  Financial  Aid.  "We'll  use  it  to  write 
letters  and  to  produce  print-outs  of  students 
according  to  geographic  location,  majors, 
etc.  It  will  free  up  our  counselors  to 
spend  more  time  with  their  students." 

And  isn't  that  what  Centenary  is  all 
about? 


llill* 


Mickle  Hall,  Room  103,  has  seen  Centenary  studn 
Speairs,  who  was  recognized  as  Outstanding  Tec  f ' 


PM  Magazine  featured  Don  Danvers  as  "The 
College.  (Photo  by  Becky  Hilburn) 


•me  and  go  in  the  Department  of  Mathematics.  Gathered  there  are  members  of  the  Department  including  (left  to  right)  Michael  Manes;  Betty 
>r  1980-81  at  Alumni  Weekend;  David  Thomas,  Virginia  Carlton,  and  Don  Danvers. 

n  Danvers.  .  .  the  human 

computer 

What  started  out  as  a  programming 
game  on  the  old  IBM  computer,  has 
turned  into  a  "That's  Incredible"  type 
hobby  for  math  Professor  Don  Danvers. 

To  play  the  "game,"  Don  memorized 
every  county  and  county  seat  in  the 
United  States.  The  number  fluctuates; 
today  there  are  3,071. 

But  that's  not  all. 

For  fun,  Don  learned  to  figure  out  the 
counties  and  county  seats  when  the  letters 
and  their  names  are  scrambled.  That's 
right.  Would  you  ever  guess  that 
VADREOCDSEROTHP  is  Shreveport, 
Caddo? 

But  wait,  there's  more. 

Don's  latest  challenge  was  to  memorize 
the  scrambled  versions  of  all  3000-plus 
sites  without  the  vowels.  And  he's  done 
it. 

Now,  that  is  incredible! 


i  Computer"  in  a  segment  filmed  at  Centenary 


Sherry  Barefield,  manager  of  the  Com- 
puter Center  ar  Centenary,  enters  in 
data  on  the  new  Burroughs  1900.  While 
much  has  been  done  to  transfer  data 
from  the  old  computer  to  the  new,  there 
is  still  a  lot  of  work  to  be  done. 

11 


From  a  tennis  game  to  the  auto  industry 


Though  halt  a  world  apart,  Centenary 
College  and  Toyota  Motor  Sales  share 
the  friendship  of  a  premiere  Centenary 
couple  —  President  and  Mrs.  J.J.  Mickle. 

The  story  of  that  friendship  is  fascin- 
ating, recited  just  this  year  in  "My  Years 
with  Toyota,"  by  Seisi  Kato,  chairman  of 
the  board  of  Toyota,  the  wonder  com- 
pany of  the  automotive  world.  And,  even 
as  this  magazine  goes  to  press,  Mrs. 
Mickle  Maida  is  journeying  to 

Japan  to  visit  family,  and  rekindle  friend- 
ships made  60  years  ago,  when  she  lived 
there  as  a  newly  wed. 

Young  Dr.  Mickle  was  teaching  foreign 
business  correspondence  and  English 
bookkeeping  at  Kwansei  Gakuin  Univer- 
sity when  he  first  met  Seisi  Kato,  a  stu- 
dent. 

Mr.  Kato  recalled  those  days  just  after 
his  graduation  in  1930,  as  Japan  fell  into 
the  "chasm  of  the  Great  Depression." 

"Professor  Mickle  loved  tennis,  and 
after  a  while  it  became  one  of  my  regular 
assignments,  so  to  speak,  to  serve  as  his 
court  partner  after  class.  Being  able  to 
play  tennis  with  him  was  something  I 
took  considerable  pride  in. 

"My  employment  hunt  had  kept  me 
from  seeing  Professor  Mickle  for  some 
time.  Finally  one  day,  though,  we  had  a 
chance  to  get  out  on  the  courts  and  work 
up  a  gobd  sweat.  During  a  short  break  in 
the  game,  he  asked  me  how  my  job  hunt 
was  progressing.  I  told  him  I  was  still 
unemployed,  and  then  proceeded  to  relate 
with  chagrin  my  failures  to  date.  When  I 
finished,  Professor  Mickle  invited  me  to 


his  house,  where  he  wrote  for  me  a  letter 
of  introduction  —  to  GM  Japan,  a 
company  I  had  never  even  considered  as 
a  job  possibility. 

".  .  .  Apparently  the  letter  of  introduc- 
tion did  the  trick,"  continued  Mr.  Kato, 
"for  in  less  than  a  week  I  received  a  tele- 
gram notifying  me  of  my  acceptance.  .  . 

"This  unexpected  entry  into  the  auto- 
motive industry  marked  the  beginning  of 
a  half  a  century  of  personal  devotion  to 
motor  vehicles,  and  a  devotion  to  the 
Mickle  family." 

When  Mrs.  Mickle  lands  in  Tokyo,  Mr. 
Kato  will  be  there  to  meet  her  at  the 
airport.  "It's  a  three  hour  drive  from  his 


place  of  business,  but  he  insisted  on 
doing  it,"  said  Centenary's  former  First 
Lady . 

She  is  traveling  with  her  daughter, 
Margaret  Tregoning,  via  Thai  Airlines, 
quite  an  improvement  over  the  transpor- 
tation in  1921  —  one  of  those  slow  boats 
to  China.  They  will  be  spending  three  or 
four  days  in  Tokyo,  then  traveling  to 
Kobe  where  Dr.  Mickle  taught.  The  last 
few  days  of  the  trip  will  be  spent  in 
Iwakuni,  where  granddaughter  Becky 
Timmis  and  her  family  live. 

Tennis,  anyone?  "Not  for  me,"  says 
Mrs.  Mickle,  "but  Margaret  is  taking 
along  her  racket!" 


TOYOTA 


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However  you  write  it,  Toyota  means  business.  In  Shreveport,  the  franchise  is  owned 
and  operated  by  Hoyt  Yokem,  a  member  of  the  Centenary  Board  of  Trustees.  One  of 
the  top  dealers  in  the  five-states  area,  Mr.  Yokem  began  11  years  ago  with  only  10 
employees  and  less  than  $1  million  in  sales.  Today,  the  sales  figure  is  up  to  the  $15 
million  mark,  with  45  men  and  women  on  the  payroll.  Two  of  his  employees,  Terry  and 
Donna  Moore  are  Centenary  alumni.  A  future  graduate  is  the  Yokems' son,  Alan,  who 
will  begin  his  second  year  at  Centenary  in  the  fall. 


Th 


e  way  we  were 


Life  begins  at  40,  they  say,  and  Maida 
Mickle  agrees. 

"We  were  up  in  New  Jersey,  just  back 
from  our  20  years  in  Japan.  The  girls 
were  teenagers,  and  I  didn't  want  to 
leave  the  country  again.  One  day ,  Joe  got 
a  call  that  a  Centenary  College  —  way 
down  in  Louisiana  —  needed  a  president. 
When  he  came  back  from  the  interview, 
he  said  it  was  the  most  God-forsaken 
place  —  but  a  good  location  for  a  liberal 
arts  college.  So  we  came." 

That  was  in  1945.  During  his  19-year 
term,  the  College  campus  grew  by  almost 
as  many  buildings,  and  earned  a  reputa- 
tion as  one  of  the  outstanding  liberal  arts 
colleges  in  the  South,  a  reputation  it 
maintains  today. 


12 


Financially  Speaking 


The  Committee  of  the  Campus  Im- 
provement Program  of  Centenary  College 
has  announced  plans  to  construct  a  new 
campus  identification  symbol  which  will 
be  dedicated  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  V. 
Balcom. 

The  marker  will  be  situated  on  the 
corner  of  Centenary  Blvd.  and  Kings 
Highway.  According  to  Townsley  Schwab, 
a  landscape  architect  in  Shreveport,  the 
brick  and  limestone  marker  will  be  six 
feet  high  and  nearly  nineteen  feet  wide. 
It  will  be  built  into  two  retaining  walls 


Trustee  Harry  V.  Baleom  shows  a  student 
drawings  of  Centenary's  new  indentifica- 
tion  symbol  which  is  under  construction. 
The  marker  will  be  dedicated  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Balcom  who  have  spearheaded  the 
Campus  Improvement  Program. 


with  special  plantings  to  be  added  in  the 
future. 

Mr.  Balcom,  a  member  of  the  Centenary 
Board  of  Trustees,  is  chairman  ot  the  Im- 
provement Committee  and  has  spear- 
headed the  campus  improvement  drive. 

The  idea  for  the  symbol  came  from  Dr. 
Lee  Morgan,  Associate  Dean  and  Brown 
Professor  of  English  at  Centenary.  Fund- 
ing for  the  $32,000  structure  will  come 
from  the  Improvement  Committee.  Acme 
Brick  Company  has  donated  the  bricks 
to  be  used  in  the  project,  which  will  be 
built  by  H  &  H  Contracting  Co. 


Four  Shreveport  area  nurserymen  have 
donated  100  dogwood  trees  to  be  planted 
in  Centenary's  Crumley  Gardens.  The 
trees  will  be  planted  among  the  azaleas, 
which  bloom  at  just  about  the  same  time. 
Those  who  have  donated  the  trees  are 
Clyde  Gorum,  Gorum  Nursery  and  Land- 
scaping; Charles  Garrison,  Garrisons 
Greenwood  Gardens;  Frank  Akin,  Akin  s 
Nursery  and  Landscape  Co.,  and  Kenneth 
Fitzgerald,  Evergreen  Nursery  and  Land- 
scape, Inc. 

According  the  the  Farmer's  Almanac, 
the  gardens  will  be  blooming  in  April. 
What  a  sight  that  will  be! 


Erik  Newton,  who  worked  at  Centenary 
last  summer  for  the  Campus  Improve- 
ment Program  has  graduated  with  honors 
from  the  School  of  Landscape  Architec- 
ture at  LSU. 

During  his  senior  year,  Erik  earned  a 
Certificate  of  Honor  from  the  Louisiana- 
Arkansas  Chapter  of  the  American  Society 


of  Landscape  Architects  (ASLA)  and  was 
invited  to  submit  a  project  for  national 
competition.  He  entered  some  of  the 
work  he  has  done  for  Centenary,  which 
includes  a  four-panel  master  drawing  of 
the  campus;  a  50-page  booklet  detailing 
the  development  of  the  campus  and 
grounds,  an  overall  conceptual  design,  a 
schematic  design,  and  several  detailed 
designs.  We  hope  it's  a  winner! 

A  copy  of  the  booklet  is  available  by 
contacting  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
Centenary  College,  P.O.  Box  4188, 
Shreveport,  La.  71104. 


The  Athletic  Department  raised  over 
$20,000  at  the  Women's  Athletic  Auction 
held  in  April  at  the  new  LeBoss'ier  Hotel. 
Later  in  the  spring,  members  of  the  com- 
munity teamed  up  with  student  athletes 
for  days  of  golf  and  tennis  playing  — 
another  successful  fund-raising  event. 


A  gift  of  $56,238.66  has  been  left  to 
Centenary  by  the  late  Miss  Agnes  A. 
Allen.  The  money  will  be  used  to  estab- 
lish an  endowed  scholarship  fund  for 
students  studying  for  a  church  career. 


The  Mary  Warters  Chair  fund  has 
been  designated  for  gifts  in  memory  of 
Gary  A  Snow,  son  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Paul 
Snow,  who  died  in  April  of  this  year.  Dr. 
Snow  ('58)  writes  that  he  "truly  enjoyed 
studying  with  Dr.  Warters,  1954-1958, 
and  still  keeps  in  contact  with  her.  Best 
of  luck  in  this  fine  project."' 


13 


Potpourri 


The  College  was  deeply  saddened  Friday, 
March  6,  with  the  news  that  a  fire  had  broken  out 
in  the  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse.  Damage  was 
restricted  to  the  dressing  rooms  and  backstage 
area,  although  the  entire  playhouse  suffered 
smoke  damage.  Repairs  are  to  be  completed  by 
mid-summer. 

The  Department  of  Mathematics  furnished  the 
questions  for  the  1981  Mathematics  Bowl  held  at 
Southfield  High  School  for  the  sixteen  middle 
school  teams.  DR.  DAVID  THOMAS  ( Math)  was 
master  of  ceremonies  and  judge. 

Several  Centenary  students  will  be  studying  in 
France,  thanks  to  scholarships  from  CODIFIL. 
ROGER  GATHMAN  and  ELISE  SHELL  will  go 
to  Montpellier  for  an  academic  year's  study;  and 
JAY  ALLEN,  DANIELLE  JOHNSON,  and 
SHARON  JONES  will  go  to  Montpellier  and 
Angers  for  the  month  of  July.  DR.  VICKIE 
GOTTLOB  (French)  says  that  Centenary's  per- 
centage of  scholarship  winners  was  very  high. 
(VICKIE  and  husband  MARK  are  the  proud 
parents  of  a  baby  girl,  REBECCA  NEELY,  born 
May  26.) 

PRESIDENT  WEBB  hosted  the  Meadows 
Museum  volunteers  at  a  special  luncheon  Monday, 
May  11.  On  Wednesday,  May  13,  he  installed  the 
new  officers  of  the  Centenary  Women's  Club, 
where  RENEE  WEBB  was  made  a  lifetime 
member. 

MISS  KATHY  BROWN  ( Library)  attended  the 
AMIGOS  Technical  Session  and  Membership 
meeting  in  Dallas  May  14-15. 

DR.  DON  EMLER  (Religion)  conducted  a 
workshop  entitled  "The  Church/Synagogue  and 
the  Older  Adult"  Wednesday,  May  13. 

The  Church  Careers  Certification  Service  was 
held  Saturday,  May  16,  in  Brown  Memorial 
Chapel. 

DR.  EARLE  LABOR  (English)  has  authored 
two  articles  to  be  included  in  a  forthcoming 
volume  entitled  CRITICAL  ESSAYS  ON  JACK 
LONDON. 

"Know  What  You  See,"  an  exhibit  about  the 
treatment  of  painting  and  conservation,  was 
installed  at  the  Meadows  Museum  in  mid-May. 

DR.  VIRGINIA  CARLTON  (Math)  spoke  to 
the  Vivian  Book  Review  Club  on  Africa. 

DR.  WEBB  POMEROY  (Religion)  has  been 
accepted  for  a  summer  workshop  at  Rice  Uni- 
versity to  work  on  the  "Problems  of  Objectivity  in 
Ethics  and  Science";  MR.  JOE  KOSHANSKY 
( History  and  Political  Science)  will  be  attending  a 
workshop  in  the  area  of  "Public  Policy,"  and  DR. 
ROYCE  SHAW  (History  and  Political  Science) 
will  participate  in  a  workshop  on  the  subject  of 
international  political  economics.  All  of  the  work- 
shops funded  by  a  grant  from  the  Mellon  Founda- 
tion. 

DR.  JOE  GARNER  (Education)  will  participate 
in  a  pre-testing  program  designed  to  provide  data 
on  proposed  changes  in  the  common  examinations, 
such  as  the  National  Teacher  Exam  (NTE). 

DR.  MARY  BETH  ARMES  (Music)  was  selected 
for  the  National  Endowment  for  the  Humanities 
Summer  Seminar  "Late  Medieval  Fictions"  to  be 
held  at  Stanford  University. 

Louisiana  Annual  Conference  was  held  June  1- 
4  in  the  Gold  Dome.  Hundreds  of  ministers  and 
their  families  assmbled  for  the  annual  meeting. 

DR.  WEBB  POMEROY  has  been  notified  that 
his  paper,  "Egyptian  and  Jewish  Antecedents  to 
the  Parable  of  the  Sheep  and  Goats,"  has  been 
accepted  for  reading  at  the  national  meeting  of 
the  American  Academy  of  Religion.  The  Academy 
will  meet  in  San  Francisco  in  December. 

MRS.  JUDY  GODFREY  (Meadows  Museum) 
attended  the  Governor's  Conference  on  the  Arts 
and  Humanities  in  Baton  Rouge  and  was  elected 
to  the  state  board  of  the  Louisiana  Association  of 
Museums. 


Recipients  of  the  Outstanding  Teacher  Awards  presented  during  Alumni  Weekendare 
Professor  Betty  Speairs  and  B.P.  Causey.  Mrs.  Speairs  has  been  a  member  of  the  De- 
partment of  Mathematics  for  34  years,  and  Mr.  Causey  retired  this  spring  after  40  years 
in  the  School  of  Music. 


Trustee  TOM  H.  MATHENY  has  been  elected 
chairman  of  the  board  of  the  First  Guaranty  Bank 
in  Hammond. 

MRS.  ANNE  ROGERS  (English)  attended  the 
meeting  of  the  National  Council  of  Teachers  of 
English  in  Dallas,  Texas,  March  26-28. 

PRESIDENT  WEBB  addressed  the  University 
Assembly  at  Dillard  University  in  New  Orleans, 
Tuesday,  March  31. 

In  conjunction  with  his  work  with  the  resident 
assistant  staff,  DR.  MARK  DULLE  attended  the 
Sixth  Annual  Group  Leaders  Conference  in  Chica- 
go, March  18-20.  He  reported  that  there  was  some 
snow,  some  good  food,  and  lots  of  spirit  renewal. 

DR.  JOE  GARNER  attended  a  Congressional 
Luncheon  with  the  Louisiana  Congressional  Dele- 
gation and  the  Secretary  of  Education.  On  April 
2,  he  attended  the  Louisiana  School  Board 
Association's  Board  of  Directors  meeting  in  Baton 
Rouge. 

DR.  JO  ALLEN  BRADHAM,  Director  of  Re- 
search and  Writing  at  College  Concepts,  Inc., 
spent  two  days  on  campus  to  interview  faculty, 
staff,  trustees,  and  students  about  Centenary 
College. 

PRESIDENT  WEBB  was  the  keynote  speaker 
at  the  Louisiana  Lions  Club  state  meeting  April  4, 
after  which  he  and  DR.  WEBB  POMEROY  at- 
tended the  Cadwallader  Lectures  in  New  Orleans. 

MR.  WALT  STEVENS  (Development)  hosted 
the  Third  Annual  Scholars-Donors  Luncheon 
held  Tuesday,  April  7,  in  the  South  Cafeteria. 
NEWT  HIELSCHER,  "America's  Humorist  with 
a  Message,"  gave  the  program. 

SIR  JOHN  and  LADY  BARBARA  HEDGES 
and  DAVID  GILLIES,  London  barristers,  were 
the  guests  of  PRESIDENT  WEBB  and  DR. 
HUGH  URBANTKE,  former  Dean  of  the  School 
of  Business,  Friday,  April  10,  for  a  luncheon 
meeting.  They  discussed  new  directions  for  Ameri- 
can and  British  Government. 

DR.  ROYCE  SHAW  (History  and  Political 
Science)  was  a  participant  on  the  Open  Panel  of 
the  22nd  Annual  Convention  of  the  International 
Studies  Association  held  March  18-21  in  Philadel- 
phia. "Integration  and  Fragmentation  in  a  Global 
System"  was  the  topic  of  the  convention. 

DR.  CHARLES  E.  VETTER  (Sociology) 
conducted  stress  seminars  for  a  number  of  agencies 
in  Shreveport  during  thhe  year.  He  attended  a 
Family  Law  Conference  in  New  Orleans,  April 
13-14. 

DR.  DONALD  G.  EMLER  (Religion)  attended 
the  Louisiana  Christian  Educators  Fellowship 
Conference  in  Alexandria  with  six  Centenary 
students. 


DR.  FRANK  CARROLL  (Music)  conducted 
the  Longview  Symphony  Orchestra  this  spring, 
once  with  his  wife  CONSTANCE  KNOX 
CARROLL  as  the  soloist. 

MISS  DOT  RAMBIN(  English  Language  Center) 
was  elected  second  vice  president  of  LaTESOL 
and  the  August  issue  of  their  newsletter  will  con- 
tain an  article  by  her. 

DR.  BRAD  McPHERSON(  Biology)  is  teaching 
histology  at  LSU-BR  this  summer  and  will  conduct 
research  on  bats  in  Costa  Rica.  DR.  BETH 
LEUCK  (Biology)  will  also  be  doing  research  — 
hers  on  lizards  —  and  will  attend  a  meeting  of  the 
American  Institute  of  the  Biological  Sciences  in 
August.  Husband  DR.  ED  LEUCK  will  be  looking 
into  the  chromosomes  of  cacti  and  will  also  attend 
the  AIBS  meeting. 

DR.  LEWIS  BETTINGER  (Phychology)  attended 
the  Southwest  Regional  Conference  on  the  Rela- 
tionship of  Assessment  to  Education  improvement 
held  in  the  spring. 

The  Council  for  the  Advancement  and  Support 
of  Education  (CASE)  has  announced  that  Centenary 
College  has  won  an  Exceptional  Achievement 
award  in  the  Improvement  of  Public  Relations 
category  of  the  CASE  Recognition  Program. 
ENGLISH  DEPARTMENT  NEWS: 

Professors  MICHAEL  HALL  and  BARRY  NASS 
have  been  awarded  the  Alumni  Association's 
Faculty  Research  Grant  to  work  on  a  literature 
anthology,  LIT:  Literature  and  Interpretive  Tech- 
niques, for  Harper  and  Row.  Two  other  members 
of  the  English  Department,  Professors  EARLE 
LABOR  and  LEE  MORGAN,  are  also  LIT  editors. 

MICHAEL  HALL'S  article,  "Searching  and 
Not  Finding:  The  Experience  of  Donne's  Essays 
in  Divinity,"  has  been  accepted  for  publication  in 
Genre.  It  will  appear  in  the  fall,  1981  issue. 

ANNE  ROGERS  is  attending  the  Wyoming 
Conference  on  Freshman  and  Sophomore  English, 
July  6-10,  1981,  at  the  University  of  Wyoming  in 
Laramie. 

EARLE  LABOR  left  June  26  to  make  his  an- 
nual pilgrimage  to  Jack  London  Country.  Con- 
tinuing his  work  on  the  Jack  London  letters,  he 
and  Professor  ROBERT  LEITZ  of  LSUS  will  be 
visiting  research  centers  at  Utah  State  University, 
the  Jack  London  Museum  and  Ranch  in  Glen 
Ellen,  California,  and  the  Huntington  Library  in 
San  Marino. 

PROFESSOR  LABOR  contributed  the  Jack 
London  essay  in  Fifty  Western  American  Writers, 
soon  to  be  published  by  The  Greenwood  Press. 

PROFESSOR  LABOR  was  recently  appointed 
as  consultant  for  the  new  series:  Literary  Classics 
of  the  United  States. 


14 


Wayne  and  Donna  Curtis  ('69 )  host  recep- 
tion after  "Sim. " 


Mrs.  C.B.  Oliver  of  Houston,  Tex.,  gets  a  hug  from  Mary  Bozeman  ('52)  who  played 
the  role  of  Sim,  Mrs.  Oliver's  mother.  Also  on  hand  were  President  Donald  Webb  and 
Mrs.  Horace  Ladymon,  Sim's  granddaughter. 


Alumni  Weekend  a  success 


People,  plaques,  and  parties 


Jim  Johnson  accepts  the  Hall  of 
Fame  Award  on  behalf  of  his 
father.  Blume  Johnson  ('36). 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Howard  Sutton  visit  with  Dr.  Webb 
before  the  awards  luncheon.  Mr.  Sutton  was  named 
an  honorary  alumnus  of  the  College. 


1971  graduates  Herb  Pearce  (left)  of 
Brookline,  Ma.,  and  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Lynn 
Home  of  Belle  Mead,  N.J.,  get  reac- 
quainted. 


Dr.  Henry  M.  Shuey  (left)  of  Huntsville,  Ala.,  catches  up  with  former  class- 
mate Frank  A.  Word  of  Leesville.  Both  were  1941  graduates. 


Baymond  S.  Morris  is  congratulated  on  being  named 
an  honorary  alumnus  of  the  College.  He  was  given 
this  distinction  at  the  awards  luncheon  during  alumni 
weekend. 


L5 


Sports  for  your  life 


Huge  muscles  and  blazing  speed  are 
not  required  here.  Outstanding  athletic 
skills  are  the  exception,  not  the  rule.  The 
only  attributes  needed  are  a  willing  mind 
and  a  competitive  spirit. 

Lifetime  sports  encourage  active  partic- 
ipation trom  young  and  old  alike.  They 
not  only  provide  exercise,  but  also  a 
diversion  from  everyday  life.  Some  people 
make  a  sport  of  their  hobby  much  the 
way  others  collect  stamps  or  watch  birds. 

Interest  in  lifetime  sports  can  begin 
anytime  —  during  childhood,  in  high 
school  or  college,  or  even  after  graduation. 
At  Centenary  College,  the  Intramural 
Department  has  tentatively  scheduled  a 
program  of  activities  with  an  emphasis 
placed  on  lifetime  sports  for  its  students. 

The  program  will  consist  of  approxi- 
mately 35  different  activities,  with  indi- 
vidual, dual,  team,  and  coeducational 
sports  offered.  Tentative  program  offer- 
ings will  be  as  follows:  Team;  Football, 
Soccer,  Volleyball,  Basketball/Trm.,  Soft- 
ball, Track  &  Field;  Individual/Dual; 
Archery,  Badminton,  Bowling,  Horse- 
shoes, Golf,  Billiards,  Table  Tennis,  Aerial 
Jarts/Darts,  Freethrow  Trm.,  Shoot  the 
Hoop,  Bocci  Ball,  Tennis,  Frisbee  Golf, 
One  on  One,  Turkey  Trot,  Checkers/ 
Chess,  Racquetball,  Shuffleboard,  Wres- 
tling; Co-ed;  Volleyball,  Basketball,  Soft- 
ball, Archery,  Horseshoes,  Badminton, 
Golf,  Tennis,  Frisbee  Golf,  Racquetball. 

"The  fall  of  1981  at  Centenary  College 
should  provide  a  rather  interesting  di- 
mension in  each  of  the  students'  lives  (be 
it  man,  woman,  or  beast)  upon  their 
return  to  campus,"  says  Dr.  Russ  Glasgow, 
director  of  intramurals.  Dr.  Glasgow  and 
14  student  intramural  directors  are  now 
making  plans  for  as  "broad  and  varied  an 
intramural  program"  as  the  College  has 
ever  known. 

According  to  Dr.  Glasgow,  plans  have 
been  in  the  making  for  several  months  to 
revive  and  revitalize  the  intramural 
program  by  starting  at  the  ground  level 
and  going  up.  Attention  has  focused 
upon  enhancing  the  basic  values  and/or 
objectives  of  the  program,  quantifying 
and  qualifying  the  various  leadership 
positions,  expanding  the  program  of 
activities  in  team,  individual,  dual  and 
coeducational  sports,  and  upgrading  the 
quality  of  officiating.  Attention  has  also 
been  given  to  the  need  for  improving  the 
fields,   courts,   and  other  performance 


areas. 

At    present, 


the   recognized    values 


and/or  objectives  that  Dr.  Glasgow  plans 
to  establish  as  the  foundation  of  the  intra- 
mural program  are  as  follows: 

1 .  Development  of  physical  and  mental 
health 

2.  Development  of  emotional  health 

3.  Development  of  social  skills  and  in- 
teraction 

4.  Development  of  physical  fitness 

5.  Development  of  sports  skills 

6.  Development  of  a  "sports-for-all" 
concept  emphasizing  lifetime  sports 
skills. 

In  quantifying  and  qualifying  the  lead- 
ership positions  prerequisite  to  the  suc- 
cessful administration  of  any  intramural 
program.  Dr.  Glasgow  has  selected  the 
following  student-intramural  directors  for 
the  1981-82  school  year:  Jerry  Lipscomb, 
Sr.,  Clearwater,  Fla.;  Laurie  Pullen,  Sr., 
Hugo,  Okla.;  Greg  Haddox,  Sr.,  Ruston, 
La.;  Charlotte  Blakely,  Sr.,  Metairie,  La.; 
Dave  Knight,  Sr.,  San  Antonio,  Tx.; 
Marcus  Suhar,  Sr.,  Shreveport,  La.;  John 
O.  Moore,  Jr.,  Texarkana,  Ark.;  Jay 
Kelly,  Jr.,  Shreveport,  La.;  Davina  Yates, 
Jr.,  Melbourne,  Australia;  Steve  Wren, 
Jr.,  Texarkana,  Ark.;  Susan  Keller,  Jr., 
Shreveport,  La.;  Michelle  Finly,  Jr. Hous- 
ton, Tx.;  Charlene  Cook,  Soph.,  Shreve- 
port, La.;  Brenda  Owen,  Soph.,  Shreve- 
port, La. 

Student  intramural  directors  were  se- 
lected according  to  character  references, 
academic  standing,  leadership  ability, 
emotional  control,  major,  and  year  in 
school.  Dr.  Glasgow  is  most  optimistic 
that  with  the  increased  number  of  student- 
intramural  directors  "communication"  will 
be  improved  campus  wide  with  emphasis 
being  placed  at  the  student  to  student 
interaction  level.  He  additionally  felt  that 
the  in-service  experience  that  the  student 
directors  would  receive  would  be  an 
invaluable  experience  to  them  profession- 
ally. 

Dr.  Glasgow  also  said  that  an  all  out 
effort  will  be  made  to  improve  the  quality 
of  officiating  in  all  activities  by  first, 
selecting  the  best  possible  prospects; 
second,  increasing  the  amount  of  mon- 
ey paid  to  student  officials;  and  third, 
training  the  officials  as  thoroughly  as 
possible,  within  whatever  limitations  of 
the  college  that  exist. 

And  finally,  Dr.  Glasgow  has  been 
most  optimistic  about  improving  playing 
areas  such  as  Hardin  Field  and  the  soccer 
field  by  the  addition  of  back  stops  to  both 
fields.  In  addition  to  back  stops,  field 
markings  will  be  improved  and  home 
plate  areas  will  be  leveled  in  hopes  to 
improve  the  quality  of  play  and  to  insure 
student  safety. 


16 


We  compete  nationally  —  and  win ! 


Centenary  College  has  always  prided 
itself  on  the  wide-ranging  list  ot  successes 
and  accomplishments  to  its  credit  —  and 
the  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  spring  sports 
teams  have  definitely  been  a  plus  to  the 
glowing  ranks. 

The  grades  have  all  been  As  for  the 
men's  golf  and  women's  tennis  and  gym- 
nastics squads.  Collectively,  the  list  of 
honors  by  the  three  teams  would  impress 
even  a  neophyte  sports  fan:  a  national 
championship  for  the  fourth  consecutive 
year  (gymnastics),  conference  crown  for 
the  third  straight  time  as  well  as  NCAA 
invitations  for  two  springs  running  (golt) 
and  No.  f  finishes  in  state  and  regional 
meets  with  two  more  consecutive  national 
tournament  trips  (tennis). 

The  Ladies  —  both  in  gymnastics  and 
tennis  —  starred  on  the  national  level. 
Both  teams,  in  Division  II  of  the  Associa- 
tion of  Intercollegiate  Athletics  for  Women 
(AIAW),  put  the  Shreveport  school  at  the 
head  of  the  list. 

Centenary  s  all-star  gymnastics  pro- 
gram was  again  headed  by  internationally 
famous  coach  Vannie  Edwards.  And 
Edward's  proteges  rose  to  the  top  in  a 
talented  tournament  in  Williamsburg, 
Va.,  in  early  April. 

The  top-seeded  Ladies,  streaking 
through  another  undefeated  dual-meet 
regular  season  and  outclassing  their  re- 
gional opposition,  won  the  national  team 
competition  for  the  fourth  straight  year. 
Starring  individually  were  All-Americans 
Kim  Strauss,  Margot  Todd,  Jennifer 
Forshee  and  Jill  Brown.  Just  sophomores, 
the  quartet  was  joined  at  nationals  by 
sophomore  Pam  Landry  and  freshman 
Jessica  Soileau. 

The  tennis  Ladies  took  up  where  the 
gymnasts  left  off.  Centenary  had  a  9-0 
dual  record  finally  snapped  at  Ole  Miss 
and  went  on  to  finish  the  semester  with 
an  impressive  15-6  won-loss,  17-6-1  on 
the  year. 

After  winning  state  and  regional  crowns 
for  the  second  year  in  a  row,  the  Ladies 
traveled  to  the  '81  nationals  June  10-13 
in  Charleston,  S.C.,  to  improve  on  a  fifth 
place  last  year  in  Los  Angeles. 

The  team  includes  Shreveport  senior 
Valerie  Harrison  at  No.  1,  junior  Zora 
Tumbas  (No.  2),  senior  Blanka  Blazetic 
(No.  3),  Davina  Yates  from  Melbourne, 
Australia,  at  No.  4,  Lake  Charles,  La., 
sophomore  Missy  Moore  at  No.  5  and 
Sandra  Duncan  at  No.  6. 


For  the  fourth  consecutive  year  the  Centenary  Lady  gymnasts  carried  away  the  AIA  W 
National  Championship  trophy  for  their  division.  With  Coach  Vannie  Edwards  are 
team  members  (left  to  right)  Jennifer  Forshee,  Margot  Todd.  Kim  Strauss.  Sue  Haney. 
Jill  Brown.  Pam  Landry,  and  Jessica  Soileau. 


Centenary's  golfers,  led  by  athletic 
director/coach  Floyd  Horgen,  have  been 
successfully  popping  up  on  links  all  over 
the  country. 

The  Gents,  who  claim  the  unique 
honor  of  having  won  the  Trans  America 
Athletic  Conference  every  year  of  the 
championship  event,  extended  the  streak 
to  three  to  climax  their  spring  tour. 
Centenary  had  all-conference  golfers  in 
seniors  Guy  Kennen,  Peter  Winkler  and 
junior  Del  Gorski.  Gorski  placed  third  in 
the  TAAC  meet  while  Kennen  and  Wink- 
ler were  a  stroke  back  in  a  fourth-place 
tie. 

Other  members  of  the  team  were 
Shreveport  senior  Jimmy  Odell,  and 
juniors  Kirk  Jones  and  Frank  Howington. 
Jones  and  Odell  were  the  individual 
Gent  stars  at  the  NCAAs  in  Palo  Alto, 
Calif.,  May  27-30.  While  Centenary  missed 
the  54-hole  team  cut,  Jones  placed  10th 
overall  and  Odell  also  scrambled  into  a 
top  20  finish,  in  20th  place. 

With  a  winning  combination  in  all  the 
spring  sports,  it  is  easy  to  see  why 
Centenary  has  been  a  familiar  sight  in 
sports  circles  locally  and  nationally  this 
spring.  With  talented  new  recruits  and 
plenty  of  coaching  optimism,  those  sights 
of  Centenary  at  the  top  won't  change  any 
time  soon. 


Basketball  star  center  Cherokee  "Chief 
Rhone  holds  up  his  warmup  jacket  for 
close  inspection  at  the  April  24  auction 
benefiting  women  's  athletics.  Over  1 00 
items  —  including  golf  lessons  by  All- 
American  Hal  Sutton  and  a  new  BMW 
automobile  —  were  auctioned  off .  netting 
over  $20,000.  Mike  Carroll  assistant 
athletic  director,  coordinated  the  event. 


17 


Strictly 
Personal 


1930s 

MARJORIE  BROWN  HARPER  (36)  writes  that 
after  14  years  as  librarian  at  East  Lincoln  Ele- 
mentary School,  Tullahoma,  TN,  she's  retiring. 

1950s 

ANN  HODGES  OGLETREE  (50)  has  been 
named  Woman  of  the  Year  by  the  Port  of  Shreve 
Chapter  of  the  American  Business  Women's  As- 
sociation. She  and  her  husband.  Art,  have  two 
daughters  and  two  grandchildren. 

BETH  SENTELL  PARKER  (54)  was  recently 
featured  in  a  full-page  article  in  The  Shreveport 
Times  in  connection  with  the  Shreveport  Opera 
Guild's  show,  which  she  hosted. 

PAT  BRITTAIN  LANGLEY  (55)  writes  she's 
now  teaching  at  Sam  Houston  Elementary  School 
in  Groves,  Texas. 

CLYDE  BOWERS  (57)  and  wife,  Peggy,  announce 
the  arrival  of  a  daughter,  Lori  Michelle,  on  18 
March,  1981.  Brother  Doug  is  now  9*/2  years  old. 
CLYDE  is  Director  of  Engineering  and  Chairman 
of  the  Safety  Committee  at  Wadley  Hospital  in 
Texarkana,  Texas. 

JAN  COOK  ISENBERGER  (57 )  has  been  selected 
as  recipient  of  the  California  Community  College 
Archery  Coach-of-the-Year  award  for  1981.  She 
teaches  at  Cypress  College,  Cypress,  California. 

PAUL  G.  DURBIN  (58)  has  been  named  chaplain 
for  the  State  Headquarters  of  the  Louisiana  Army 
National  Guard.  To  top  it  off,  he's  recently  been 
promoted  to  Lt.  Colonel. 

JAMES  M.  DURHAM  (59)  holds  the  rank  of  Col- 
onel and  is  Commander  of  the  U.S.  Army  Depot 
in  Mainz,  Germany. 


Also  from  Colonel  Durham  comes  word  of  two 
more  grads:  COL.  WALTER  RATCLIFF  (53), 
the  first  person  to  be  commissioned  through  Cen- 
tenary's Army  ROTC  Program,  is  also  in  Mainz. 
They  were  recently  visited  by  COL.  ROBERT  S. 
SNEAD  (59)  who  is  the  Army  Training  and  Doc- 
trine Command's  System  Manager  for  Automatic 
Test  Equipment.  WALT  commandes  the  Corpus 
Christi  Army  Depot,  and  BOB  is  stationed  at  Ft. 
Gordon,  GA. 

1960s 

MARY  LOU  LOW  HUGHES  (60 )  is  now  in  Frank- 
furt, Germany  teaching  for  DODDS  (U.S.  Govern- 
ment). She  and  Col.  Hughes  have  3  children. 

GRACE  JACKSON  BAUCUM  (63)  is  also  living 
in  Germany  —  in  Munich  —  where  her  husband 
is  an  engineer.  GRACE  has  been  busy  learning 
German,  substitute  teaching  and  singing  in  a 
Christian  contemporary  choral  group.  The 
Baucums,  with  daughters  Tiffany  and  Stacey, 
have  been  traveling  all  over  Europe. 

ALLEN  FORD  (64)  has  been  named  recipient  of 
the  Henry  A.  Bibb  Award  for  Distinguished 
Teaching  in  Business  at  the  University  of  Kansas. 

HERB  FACKLER  (64)  has  also  received  an 
award  —  he's  one  of  three  professors  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Southwestern  Louisiana  to  receive  the 
1981  USL  Foundation  Distinguished  Professor 
Award. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

T.J.  McClain  (29)  -  August  13,  1980 

Joe  Holloway  (30)  -  March  1,  1981 

Catherine  R.  Guice(  30)  -  March  11,1981 

Clarence  L.  Harmon,  Jr.  (41 ) 

Leon  L.  Getz(50)  -  April  11,  1981 

Charles  R.  Lace  (71)  -  April  1,  1981 


ALEXANDER  "SONNY  CAMPBELL  (65)  is 
currently  Operating  Service  Manager  at  the  new 
Texas  Instruments  plant  in  College  Station,  TX. 
His  employment  at  TI  has  included  a  3-year  ten- 
ure in  England. 


Several  of  the  life  members  of  the  Centenary  Women's  Club  gather  at  the  Club's 
annual  luncheon  meeting.  They  include  (left  to  right)  Mrs.  Austin  Robertson,  Mrs. 
R.L.  Berryman,  Mrs.  PaulReinowski,  Mrs.  Abram  Ginsburg,  Mrs.  Donald  Webb,  Mrs. 
PaulE.  James,  Mrs.  A.E.  Blizzard  Jr.,  Mrs.  Lee  Ford,  Mrs.  Warren  Fuller,  Mrs.  Richard 
Speairs,  Mrs.  Lamar  J.  Otis,  Mrs.  Edward  L.  Hullett,  Mrs.  Dorothy  Gammill,  Mrs.  A. 
Stone  Palmer. 


Chris  Webb 


Centements 

When  the  computer  produced  its 
report  of  gifts  to  the  College  in  the 
past  year,  I  read  the  figures,  pleased 
that  Centenary's  goals  had  been 
met,  indeed  exceeded. 

But  the  significance  of  those  fig- 
ures was  not,  at  first,  apparent! 
Alumni  gifts  in  f  980-81  totaled 
$115,145.16,  not  counting  the  gifts 
of  Alumni  Trustees.  This  is  virtually 
double  the  amount  of  the  previous 
year!  And,  15  percent  of  the  Alumni 
participated  in  giving  —  an  increase 
from  9  percent.  That  figure  repre- 
sents an  increase  in  involvement 
(nearly)  four  times  what  it  was  four 
years  ago! 

This  wave  of  enthusiasm  is  en- 
couraging, astonishing.  Its  expression 
in  the  form  of  your  gifts  is  vital  to  the 
life  and  work  of  the  College.  With 
your  support,  Centenary  continues 
its  work  with  confidence. 

New  life  in  the  Alumni  Association 
is  expressed,  too,  by  new  programs. 
President  Wayne  Curtis  and  mem- 
bers of  our  board  of  directors  are 
working  energetically  in  four  areas 
of  need:  class  agents  will  be  installed 
in  many  alumni  classes  this  summer; 
on  the  drawing  board  are  plans  for 
involving  alumni  recruitment;  a  pro- 
gram to  match  alumns  with  students 
to  advise  them  in  careers  is  in  the 
works;  and  thoughtful  planning  of 
upcoming  on-campus  alumni  events 
is  underway. 

The  commitment  which  so  many 
of  you  are  expressing  (more  and 
more  these  days!)  —  to  your  Alma 
Mater  and  to  each  other  —  is  essen- 
tial and  it's  growing  .  It  is  a  commit- 
ment of  which  we  can  all  be  proud. 


18 


Strictly 
Personal 


CATHY  BAILEY  WEAVER  (66)  has  been  promoted 
to  credit  reviewer  by  the  Federal  Land  Bank  of 
Omaha,  Nebraska.  She  will  review  credit  quality 
of  the  Federal  Land  Bank  Associations  in  the 
Eighth  Farm  Credit  District. 

J.  SIDNEY  MONTEGUDO  (68)  and  wife  ELLEN 
BUFORD  (68)  not  only  have  a  new  daughter, 
Katherine  Estelle  born  24  January,  1981,  but 
also  a  new  business.  They're  the  owners  of 
"Country  Squire  Fashions  for  Men  in  Zacharv, 
LA. 

JIM  DAVIS  (69),  tennis  pro  at  Texarkana  Racquet 
Club,  received  the  Education  Merit  Award  by  the 
Arkansas  Tennis  Association.  He  also  was  named 
the  Arkansas  Tennis  Pro  of  the  Year  by  the 
United  States  Professional  Tennis  Association. 

1970s 

MITCHELL  BRANDMAN  (70)  is  the  new  area 
representative  for  Voltex  in  New  York  and  New 
Jersey. 


Many  thanks  to  Weenie  Bynum 
'40  and  daughter  Mary  Ann  Ylipelto 
77  of  Astoria,  Ore.,  who  have  given 
the  College  12  football  films  from 
that  glorious  pigskin  era.  The  father- 
daughter  team  restored  the  films 
found  in  their  attic  and  donated 
them  to  Chris  Webb,  director  of 
alumni  relations,  last  spring. 


CHRIS  CREAMER  (75)  is  back  in  the  States. 
He's  working  as  a  studio  photographer  with  free- 
lance photography  and  does  some  writing  on  the 
side  in  Federal  Way,  WA.  CHRIS  would  like  to 
hear  from  members  of  the  1971  TKE  Pledge 
Class  and  invites  serious  inquiries  from  those  in- 
terested in  an  extended  tour  of  Europe  during  the 
summer  of  '82. 

C.B.  "CHRIS''  ERICKSON,  III  (76)  has  graduated 
with  honors  from  LSU  School  of  Dentistry  in  New 
Orleans.  CHRIS  received  the  Louisiana  Dental 
Association  Award,  and  also  served  as  president 
of  the  school's  Honor  Society. 

SALLY  HUNTER  (77)  and  MARK  JOSEPH 
KEDDALL  (78)  will  return  in  June  from  the  Fiji 
Islands  after  completing  a  stint  with  the  Peace 
Corps. 

SUSIE  SUBLETT  MARTIN  (77)  and  husband 
are  living  in  Houston.  SUSIE  is  teaching  3rd  and 
4th  grades  at  Southampton  School. 

VICKI  GORGAS  MATHERNE  (77)  graduated 
from  LSU  School  of  Law  in  May. 

ROBERT  PARISH  (77),  besides  having  a  fantastic 
year  with  the  world  champion  Boston  Celtics, 
was  featured  in  an  article  in  the  International 
Herald  Tribune  which  is  published  in  Switzer- 
land. 

DAVID  SCHALLER  (77)  graduated  this  May 
from  Austin  Presbyterian  Theological  Seminary. 
He  and  his  wife  have  a  new  little  girl,  Genevieve 


Stella,  born  3  December.  1980.  Big  brother 
Jeremy,  3'/2,  is  very  excited  about  his  sister. 
David  is  presently  seeking  a  call  tor  the  ministry. 

RODNEY  STEELE  (77)  graduated  from  Iliff 
School  of  Theology  in  June  1980  and  is  now 
pastor  of  the  United  Methodist  Church  in  Mineral 
Springs,  AR.  His  wife,  Becky,  also  attended 
Centenary. 


Copies  of  the  "Dean  Smith  Years  —  Cen- 
tenary College,  Four  Square  Bible  Class" 
by  Dr.  Bentley  Sloane  are  available  from 
the  Four  Square  Bible  Class,  First  United 
Methodist  Church,  head  of  Texas  Street, 
Shreveport,  LA.  71101.  Hard  back,  $7.00; 
paper  back,  $4.00.  It's  an  interesting  story 
of  Centenary  during  the  Roaring  Twenties. 


MARIE  H.  BAIN  (41)  writes  that  Dr.  Barret  G. 
Haik  (73)  received  his  M.D.  from  LSU  Medical 
School  and  is  now  Assistant  Professor  of 
Ophthalmology  at  Cornell  University  Medical 
Center  and  attending  physician  at  New  York 
Hospital  while  seving  his  residency  at  Columbia 
Presbyterian  Hospital  in  New  York  City.  Dr. 
Haik  is  married  to  former  Shreveporter  Mary 
Bain. 

JANET  GAMMILL  ANDREWS  (74)  is  selling 
real  estate  in  Hawaii  and  recently  incorporated 
as  Financial  Strategies,  Ltd.  in  Honolulu. 

EILEEN  MARTIN  (78)  is  now  a  member  of 
Actor's  Equity  Union.  She's  performed  in  The 
Sound  of  Music  and  Carou.se/in  North  Carolina. 
Eileen  also  sends  word  that  DUB  KARRIKER 
(77)  and  GRACE  RIGGIN  (78)  are  working  for 
"Musicana.  EILEEN  hopes  to  join  them  this 
summer. 

MARSHALL  TAYLOR  (79)  is  working  for  J. 
Walter  Thompson  Advertising  in  New  York  City 
writing,  of  all  things.  Burger  King  ads! 

RANDY  PACE  (70)  has  moved  to  Amarillo, 
Texas,  where  he  s  employed  with  Santa  Fe 
Energy  Company  as  Assistant  Manager,  Lease 
Administration. 

1980s 

SHIRLEY  ARNOLD  (80)  has  been  appointed 
Director  of  Christian  Education  at  Gretna  UMC, 
Gretna,  LA.,  has  been  elected  President  of  LA. 
Christian  Educators  Fellowship,  and  in  June  will 
begin  as  District  Youth  Coordinator  for  New 
Orleans-Houma  District.  She's  also  an  at-large 
delegate  to  the  Methodist  Annual  Conference. 


Jean  Flowers  Clarke  ('56)  of  Benton, 
Wash.,  (foreground)  and  Mary  Jane  Price 
Collins  ('69)  of  Montgomery,  Ala.,  pur- 
chase prints  of  the  Jackson,  La.  campus, 
featured  in  the  April  issue  of  CENTE- 
NARY. While  Mary  Jane  ivas  in  town, 
she  did  a  little  research  and  found  out 
that  it  was  her  husband's,  Thomas  M. 
Collins,  mother's  great  uncle,  Alfred  H. 
Horton,  who  donated  the  land  in  Jackson, 
on  which  the  college  was  built.  The  color 
prints  are  available  for  $15  plus  $1  for 
postage  and  handling  from  The  Office  of 
Alumni  Relations,  Centenary  College, 
P.O.  Box  4188,  Shreveport,  La.  71104. 
Remarqued  prints  arc  available  for  $50 
each. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.F.  Wilkins,  (left),  visit  with  fellow  Centenary  graduate  Dr.  Collier  A. 
Kinnebrew.  All  are  residents  of  Shreveport. 


19 


Centenary 

from 

CENTENARY  COLLEGE 

Shreveport,  Louisiana  71  104 


Second-class  postage  paid  at  Shreveport,  La. 


Planning 
Ahead 

July  13-15  -  Pastor's  School 

July    20-26    -    United    Methodist 
Women's   School   of  Mis- 
sions 

August  29-30  —  New  student  orien- 
tation 

Sept.  1  —  Registration  for  fall  classes 

Sept.  2  —  Fall  classes  begin 

Sept.  7  —  Labor  Day  Holiday 

Sept.  10  —  Church  Council 

Sept.  17  —  President's  Convocation 

Oct.  1-31  -  North  Louisiana  Folk 
Craft,  Meadows  Museum 

Oct.  10  -  Parents' Day 

Nov.  1-Dec.  31  -  Cut  Glass  of  the 
Brilliant  Period,  Meadows 
Museum 

Nov.  14  —  High  School  Career  Day 

Nov.  25-Dec.  1 —Thanksgiving  Re- 
cess 

Dec.  5  —  Symposium  for  Indepen- 
dent Schools 

Dec.  18  —  End  of  final  exams 

Dec.  25  —  Merry  Christmas! 

Jan.  1  —  Happy  New  Year! 

Jan.  4-22  —  Interim 

Jan.  25   —  Registration  for  spring 
classes 

Jan.  30-Feb.  28  -  Olga  Hirschhorn 
Collection,  Meadows  Mu- 
seum 

March    1-31    —    Carnival    Masks, 
Meadows  Museum 

April  2-13  —  Spring  recess 

April  11-May  16  —  Theodore  Wores, 
Meadows  Museum 

May  15-June  13  —  American  Draw- 
ings III,  Meadows  Museum 

May  23  —  Commencement 


CEHTDUWY'S 

Energy  Is 

Mnipowei 


A  strong  and  vital  system  of  higher 
education  must  be  maintained  if  this 
country  is  to  retain  its  position  in  the 
world  in  the  complex  years  ahead. 

This  is  the  message  which  the  Council 
for  Advancement  and  Support  of  Educa- 
tion (CASE)  brings  to  the  nation  in  an 
unprecedented  year-long  campaign.  With 
the  support  of  all  the  national  education 
associations  and  most  state  education 
agencies,  CASE  is  uniting  all  of  its  members 
and  friends  to  demonstrate  that  "America's 
Energy  Is  Mindpower." 

The  Mindpower  Campaign  begins  on 
July  16  during  the  special  National  Support 
Higher  Education  Day,  which  celebrates 
and  recognizes  the  contributions  of  higher 
education  to  American  society. 

The  period  between  October  3  and  1 1 
has  been  designated  as  Mindpower  Week, 


a  time  for  colleges  and  universities  through- 
out America  to  remind  the  public  that 
our  educational  institutions,  if  strong  and 
vital,  will  produce  the  Mindpower  neces- 
sary to  revitalize  our  country. 

"The  force,  power,  vigor,  strength, 
might,  and  energy  to  solve  these  problems 
has  always  emerged  from  the  minds  of 
educated  people,"  says  Charles  M. 
Helmken,  vice  president  of  CASE  and 
director  of  the  Mindpower  Campaign. 
"America 's  Energy  Is  Mindpower,  and 
it's  up  to  educators  to  demonstrate  that 
this  will  continue  to  be  true  in  the  years 
to  come." 

Centenary  College  will  be  participating 
in  the  Mindpower  Campaign  in  many 
different  ways  during  the  year.  Watch 
for  details  and  how  you  can  be  a  part  of 
this  very  special  event. 


Inside 


Enrichment  is  a  natural  extension  of 
the  liberal  arts.  In  this  issue,  Centenary 
takes  a  look  at  enrichment  opportunities 
both  on  and  off  campus.  If  "Centenary's 
Energy  Is  Mindpower,"  perhaps  its  sus- 
tainer  is  enrichment. 


President's 
Convocation  launches 
157th  year 


Paul  Brown  dies; 
book  honors  his  'era' 


Symphony, 
Centenary  make 
beautiful  music 


Parenting  —  what 
if  you're  blind? 


Homecoming  is 
December  5  — 
save  that  date! 


Enrollment  has  reached  an  all-time  high  at  Centenary  with  some  1300  students  reg- 
istered for  fall  classes.  This  includes  950  undergraduates,  250  graduates,  30  in  the 
English  Language  Center,  and  70  special  audits.  They  come  from  29  states  and  13 
foreign  countries  with  an  average  ACT  score  of  20.7,  two  points  above  the  national 
average.  This  optimum  number  of  students  enables  Centenary  to  continue  its  selec- 
tive admissions  policies,  thus  ensuring  a  quality  education  in  the  liberal  arts. 


On  the  cover 


Shreveport  artist  Richard  White  is  the  talent  behind  this  color  illustration,  commis- 
sioned for  Centenary's  new  admissions  materials.  The  artwork  is  used  on  the  general 
information  brochure,  poster,  viewbook,  and  catalogue.  The  Development  Office  is 
also  using  the  colorful  design  on  a  scholarship  brochure. 


Tie  It  Up 


The  color  print  of  Centenary's  Jackson,  La.,  campus  may  be  just  the  Christmas 
present  you've  been  looking  for.  The  9  by  21  inch  graphics  are  on  sale  for  $15  (plus$l 
for  postage  and  handling)  from  the  Alumni  Association,  Centenary  College,  P.O.  Box 
4188,  Shreveport,  La.  71104.  Prints  remarqued  by  the  artist,  Ron  Hooper,  are 
available  for  $50. 


The  Centenary  College  magazine.  Cen- 
tenary, (USPS  015560)  October,  1981, 
Volume  9,  No.'JlS,  is  published  four 
times  annually  in  October,  January,  April, 
and  July  by  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
2911  Centenary  Boulevard,  Shreveport, 
Louisiana,  71104.  Second  Class  postage 
paid  at  Shreveport,  La.  POSTMASTER: 
Send  address  changes  to  Centenary,  P.O. 
Box  4188,  Shreveport,  La.  71104. 


Centenary  strives  to  create  an  understanding  of  the  mission,  plans,  and  progress  of 
Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  campus. 

Editor Janie  Flournoy  '72 

Special  Contributors Don  Danvers 

Dr.  Lee  Morgan 

Production Rushing  Printing  Co. 

Alumni  Director Chris  Webb 

Photography Jeff  Blakeman 

Janie  Flournoy 


Prayer-power :  the  partner  of  mindpower 


President  Donald  A.  Webb  officially 
launched  the  157th  academic  year  ot 
Centenary  College  Thursday,  Sept.  17, 
at  the  annual  President's  Convocation. 

Brown  Chapel  was  filled  to  capacity 
with  students,  faculty,  staff,  trustees, 
alumni,  and  friends  of  the  College  for  the 
11:10  a.m.  event. 

President  Webb  spoke  on  "Prayer- 
power  —  the  Partner  of  Mindpower," 
which  also  launched  Centenary's  role  in 
the  national  campaign  "America's  Energy 
is  Mindpower."  That  campaign  is  being 
sponsored  by  CASE,  the  Council  for  the 
Advancement  and  Support  of  Education, 
to  spotlight  the  contributions  of  higher 
education  to  American  society. 

In  his  convocation  address,  reprinted 
in  its  entirety  in  this  issue.  Dr.  Webb 
struggles  with  the  issue  of  prayer.  What 
might  prayer-power  have  to  do  with 
what  really  goes  on  in  a  mind-powered 
community  like  Centenary? 

President's  Convocation  Address 
Sept.  17,  1981 

I  want  to  speak  of  power.  It  is  a  central- 
enough  concern  in  our  lives:  there  are 
kinds  of  power  for  almost  every  letter  ot 
the  alphabet  — from  atomic  power,  black 
power,  candle-.  .  .  to  electric-.  .  .  to  horse- 
.  .  .  to  man-,  to  presidential,  on  to  will-, 
and  youth,  and  zodiacal. 

A  new  one  has  caught  our  imagination 
of  late:  "mindpower."  "Centenary's  energy 
is  mindpower."  That  is  a  sentence  we've 
put  before  ourselves  this  year,  the  better 
to  understand  our  task.  Because  mind- 
power is  more  than  a  catch-phrase; 
mindpower  is  the  basis  of  education;  it  is 
the  aim  of  education!  Mindpower  is  the 
ability  to  think,  to  reason,  to  learn,  to  dis- 
cern, correlate,  decide;  mindpower  is 
making  sense  of  life. 

But  I  have  to  admit  that  normally 
when  I  am  in  this  Chapel,  it  is  not  mind- 
power I  hope  for,  but  another  kind  of 
power:  prayer-power.  My  day  usually 
begins  here,  in  prayer,  early  in  the  morn- 
ing. And  it  occurred  to  me,  in  preparing 
for  today,  that  my  being  an  habitual 
pray-er  might  disbar  me  from  the  ranks 
of  the  reasonable.  Prayer  is  based  on 
faith;  mindpower,  on  intellect:  what  on 
earth  —  or  what  on  campus?  —  might 
prayer-power  have  to  do  with  what  really 
goes  on  in  a  mind-powered  community 
like  Centenary? 

—  So,  here  is  the  opening  Convocation 
of  our  157th  year,  an  important  occasion, 
and  one  deserving  the  most  serious  under- 
standing: and  the  President  is  going  to 
talk  about  prayer?  Ho-hum?  Who  cares? 
Ah!  —  but  what  if  a  man  who  makes 
decisions  about  life,  believes  prayer- 
power  guides  him,  would  you  not  want  to 


Dr.  Donald  A.  Webb  officially  opens 
the  157th  academic  year  at  Centenary 
College  at  the  President's  Convocation 
Thursday,  Sept.  17.  in  Brown  Memorial 
Chapel. 

know  a  bit  about  it,  for  safety's  sake? 
Ayatolla  Khoumaini  acts  out  of  his  prayer. 
The  suicides  of  Jonestown  come  out  of 
prayer.  For  safety's  sake,  would  you  not 
want  to  know  a  bit  about  it? 

Anyway,  it  is  my  Convocation!  And 
this  is  the  question  I  would  like  to  strug- 
gle with  at  the  opening  of  our  year  togeth- 
er. It  is  important.  And,  mindpower  at  its 
best  includes  openness,  surely? 

A  while  ago.  Bishop  Robinson  expressed 
rather  touchingly  the  predicament  of 
many,  even  religious,  people,  when  he 
admitted  that  prayer  seems  to  him  like 
an  "impressive  roundabout"  which  he 
was  not  on,  and  did  not  feel  the  need  to 
be  on.  But  his  uncle,  Forbes  Robinson, 
was  "on";  Uncle  Forbes  used  to  say,  "I 
have  to  go  and  see  so-and-so  to- 
day, to  help  him.  I  must  put  aside  an  hour 
to  pray  for  him  first.  In  fact,  I  could  help 
him  more  if  I  didn't  see  him  at  all,  but  set 
aside  the  whole  time  I  would  have  seen 
him,  to  pray  for  him  instead. " 

But  for  the  Bishop,  it  is  just  the  reverse. 
He  finds  he  is  "really  praying  for  people," 
not  when  he  has  drawn  apart  from  them, 
and  is  talking  to  God  about  them,  but 
precisely  as  he  meets  them  and  helps 
them  and  shares  his  love  with  them. 

Well,  he  is  identifying  a  real  problem 
tor  me,  too.  Uncle  Forbes  means  to  influ- 
ence God  by  talking  to  Him  —  urging 
Him  to  do  something,  or  quit  doing  some- 
thing He  is  already  doing;  and  God,  in 
that  He  knows  what  we  need  better  than 
we  do,  sometimes  answers  "Yes,"  some- 
times, "No",  and  sometimes,  "Wait." 


I  find  myself  as  uneasy  about  that  as 
the  Bishop  is.  For  example,  when,  before 
a  football  game,  both  sides  pray  for  vic- 
tory, what  is  God  expected  to  do?  On  the 
other  hand,  the  Bishop,  in  my  view,  ef- 
fectively abolishes  prayer,  because  pray- 
ing surely  involves  speaking;  and  what 
he  does  instead,  is  already  covered  by 
other  verbs  such  as  "counselling,"  or 
"caring,  or  "helping.  So  ii  mindpower 
is  making  sense  of  life,  what  sense  can 
one  make  of  praying,  nowadays? 

I  would  like  to  suggest  that  we  put  our- 
selves, for  a  moment,  in  a  posture  ot 
openness,  like  that  of  the  tollowers  of 
Jesus,  who,  we  are  told  in  St.  Lukes 
account,  asked  Him  about  prayer— though 
they  all  knew  about  prayer,  of  course. 
They  had  been  brought  up  on  prayer. 
But  they  asked!  And  He  replied,  "When 
you  pray,  say,"  "Our  Father,  hallowed  be 
thy  name,"  and  so  on,  in  the  now-fam- 
iliar words  of  the  "Lord's  Prayer." 

It  would  seem  that  Jesus  meant  to  give 
a  new  way  of  praying.  Even  though, 
scholars  tell  us,  none  of  the  Lord's  Prayer 
was  original  with  Jesus:  Israel  was  well 
accustomed  to  each  individual  phrase,  in 
various  ways.  So  the  difference  must  be 
in  him  who  speaks  them. 

Now,  St.  John,  in  his  account  of  that 
difference,  explains  it  from  an  understand- 
ing based  on  the  way  language  works. 
And  since  nowadays  we  also  are  interested 
in  how  language  works,  it  is  something 
we  can  get  our  teeth  into  — use  a  little 
mindpower  on,  perhaps!  Jesus  s  followers 
believed  He  let  Himself  be  so  attuned  to 
the  Spirit  of  Trust  in  the  Universe  — so 
surrendered  Himself  to  what  He  believed 
were  Gods  thoughts,  God's  will,  as  He 
understood  them  — that  when  Jesus  spoke, 
it  was  the  truth  that  was  speaking  in 
Him.  Indeed,  John  dared  call  Him  "the 
Word  of  God,  dwelling  among  us,  full  of 
truth."  So  far  as  they  could  tell,  just  this 
once  in  history,  a  man  risked  opening 
himself  totally  to  truth. 

In  this  understanding,  from  the  first 
beginnings  of  humanity,  the  deep  Spirit 
of  Truth  has  spoken  in  the  depths  of  men 
and  women.  "Deep  calls  to  deep,  in  the 
organ-notes  of  Psalm  42:  God's  thoughts 
moving  across  the  depths  of  a  human 
soul,  inspiring  (which  means  "breathing 
into,"  like  a  holy  wind),  leading,  illumina- 
ing;  giving  a  glimpse,  deep  down,  of 
what  might  be  and  ought  to  be;  sowing 
an  idea,  a  clue;  toughing  with  awe,  with 
a  sense  of  integrity,  with.  .  .  truth. 

Time  and  again  in  the  Old  Testament, 
for  example,  a  man  would  be  flung  into 
his  life's  work  with  the  realization,  "The 
word  of  the  Lord  came  upon  me!"  or 
"Thus  says  the  Lord." 
(Continued   on    page  16) 

3 


Paul  Brown  succumbs  September  1 


"He  was  a  man  for  all  of  Shreveports  seasons.    And  while  his 
family  and  friends  mourn  his  loss,  they  are  left  with  a  proud  legacy. 
Eighty-seven  years  of  service  and  giving  is  something  very  special. 
And  something  to  remember. 

The  Shreveport  Journal,  Sept.     9,  1981 


Paul  Marvin  Brown,  Jr.,  "Mr.  Cente- 
nary," and  the  vital  force  in  the  College's 
recent  history,  died  Monday,  Sept.  7, 
following  a  lengthy  illness. 

He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Willie 
Cavett  Brown;  his  daughter,  Eleanor 
Brown  Greve;  his  son,  Charles  Ellis 
Brown;  his  brother,  Col.  S.  Perry  Brown, 
and  numerous  grandchildren  and  great- 
grandchildren. 

The  College  was  deeply  saddened  at 
his  death,  but  comforted  to  know  that 
the  magnificent  story  of  "Mr.  Paul"  will 
live  on  in  his  memoirs,  published  just 
this  month.  The  book  recalls  the  many 
years  of  his  devotion  to  Centenary  College. 

The  Paul  Brown  era  was  that  great 
period  in  Centenary  s  history  when  this 
man  helped  save  the  College  from  the 
Depression,  served  25  years  as  its  chair- 
man of  the  board,  and  was  its  elder 
statesman  and  chief  philanthropist  for 
decades  thereafter. 

"Paul  Brown  was  for  50  years  its 
loving  mentor,"  writes  President  Donald 
Webb  in  the  foreword  to  a  Centenary 
College  publication,  The  Paul  Brown 
Era  at  Centenary:  Years  of  Growth. 
"What  was  best  about  the  College's  life 
in  those  decades  was  in  the  main  elicited 
or  nurtured  or  built  by  this  primus  inter 
pares  —  this  first  among  equals  — 
indeed,  this  primum  mobile  —  this  "first 
mover." 

The  90-page,  hard-bound  edition,  with 
some  two  dozen  photographs,  recounts 
Mr.  Pauls  years  at  Centenary  through 
his  own  brief  written  reminiscences  and 
through  taped  conversation  with  the 
late  Dr.  Walter  Lowrey,  professor  of  his- 
tory at  Centenary. 

"We  are  very  fortunate  that  we  could 
persuade  Mr.  Paul  to  let  us  do  this 
book,"  said  Dr.  Darrell  Loyless,  vice 
president  of  the  College.  "It  is  definitely 
a  historical  document  and  will  be  quite 
an  asset  to  the  school." 

A  limited  number  of  books  will  be 
sold  through  the  Centenary  Bookstore 
and  may  be  ordered  by  writing  the 
Centenary  Bookstore  or  calling  Centenary 
at  (318)869-5278. 


Mr.  Paul's  devotion  to  Centenary  College  began  as  a  student  (top  photo 
in  the  early  1 900s.  One  of  the  highlights  of  his  association  with  Centenar 
was  the  occasion  of  his  retirement  as  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  fo  i 
24  years.  Gov.  John  McKeithen  came  to  Shreveport  to  honor  Mr.  Paul  fo 
that  distinction  (middle  photo).  The  bottom  photograph  was  taken  last  yea\ 
when  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  established  the  Willie  Cavett  and  Paul  Marvt] 
Brown  Jr.  Endowed  Chair  of  English. 


The  arts 
are  alive 
ind  well 
it  Centenary 


Meadows  Museum  of  Art 


An  exhibit  of  some  of  the  finest  cut 
and  engraved  ^;lass  in  the  world  will  be 
on  exhibit  in  Centenary's  Meadows  Mu- 
seum of  Art  during  the  months  of  Novem- 
ber and  December. 

"Reflections  —  A  Centennial  Celebra- 
tion of  American  Cut  and  Engraved 
Glass"  will  contain  70-100  pieces  gathered 
from  private  collections  throughout  the 
Ark-La-Tex.  Among  the  pieces  on  display 
will  be  lamps,  clocks,  punch  bowls,  cigar 
lolders,  a  lady's  cuspidor,  unusual  stem- 
ware, and  a  call  bell  of  which  only  two 
are  known  in  the  United  States. 

An  award-winning  film,  "Assignment 
in  Excellence,"  produced  by  Steuben 
Glass  of  New  York  will  be  shown  daily 
at  2:30  p.m.  An  Appraisal  Session  will 
)e  held  Sunday,  Nov.  15,  from  2-5  p.m. 
so  that  persons  may  brings  pieces  of  cut 
and  engraved  glass  to  be  identified  and 
appraised  by  local  experts.  A  tee  of  $5 
will  be  charged  for  each  appraisal. 

For  more  information,  contact  Mrs. 
fudy  Godfrey  at  the  Museu,  869-5169. 

Other  exhibits 

On  display  this  month  at  the  Meadows 
"Doing  It  Right  and  Passing  It  On: 
Jorth  Louisiana  Folk  Craft"  from  the 
Uexandria  Museum.  "A  Collector's  Eye- 
he  Olga  Hirschhorn  Collection"  from 
he  Smithsonian  will  be  on  exhibit  during 
ebruary,  and  in  March  a  collection  of 
Carnival  Masks  from  the  Goethe  Institute 
n  Houston  will  be  on  view.  In  April  and 
arly  May  the  Meadows  will  host  an 
xhibit  from  San  Francisco  entitled 
Theodore  Wores  Retrospective  Exhibit," 
nd  in  May  and  June,  another  Smithsonian 
xhibit  of  American  drawings. 


This  turn-of-t he-century  pedestal  punch  bowl  with  matching  ladle  and  stemmed 
punch  glasses  will  be  on  display  in  the  Meadows  Museum  during  "Reflections  --  A 
Centennial  Celebration  of  American  Cut  and  Engraved  Glass.  "  The  exhibit,  featuring 
70-100  pieces  of  the  finest  cut  and  engraved  glass  in  the  world,  will  be  on  view  during  the 
months  of  November  and  December. 

Hurley  School  of  Music 

Oct.  23 Patricia  Warren,  soprano,  Senior  Recital,  8  p.m. 

Oct.  30 Dr.  Schuman  Vang,  Voice  Recital,  8  p.m. 

Nov.  6 Robert  Harper,  baritone.  Junior  Recital,  8  p.m. 

Nov.  8 Gale  Odom,  soprano.  Friends  of  Music,  8  p.m. 

Nov.  13 Janis  Jones,  piano,  8  p.m. 

Nov.  15 Shreveport  Symphony  Chamber  Orchestra,  3  p.m. 

Nov.  20 Darryn  Walker,  baritone.  Senior  Recital,  8  p.m. 

Dec.  2 Ralph  Evans,  violinist,  8  p.m. 

Dec.  3 Opera  Centenary,  1 1  a.m..  Brown  Chapel 

Dec.  3 Richard  Cass,  piano.  Friends  of  Music,  8  p.m. 

Dec.  5 Opera  Centenary,  8  p.m..  Brown  Chapel 

Dec.  6 Opera  Centenary,  3  p.m..  Brown  Chapel 

Dec.  13 Shreveport  Symphony  Chamber  Orchestra,  3  p.m. 

Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse 

October  15-18,  22-24 MADAME  de  SADE 

December  3-6,  10-12 MEDEA 

December  27-Jan.  10 PETER  PAN 

Jan.  21-24 AN  EVENING  WITH  LERNER  AND  LOEWE 

March  11-14,  18-20 AS  YOU  LIKE  IT 

April  5-11 THE  DANCING  FLEA 

May  6-9,  13-15 ROSHOMON 


On  The  Road  With  Dr.  Webb 

Traveling  is  second  nature  to  President  Donald  Webb,  who  as  a  speaker  is  in  constant 
demand  throughout  the  state.  Visitors  are  welcome  at  all  of  these  events  —  please  join 
Dr.  Webb  if  you  are  in  the  area. 

Oct.  18,  1981 

Preaching  at  DeRidder,  La. 

Oct.  30,  1981 

Preaching  in  Tyler,  Texas 

Oct.  31,  1981 

Preaching  in  Tyler,  Texas 

Nov.  6.  1981 

Speaking  at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Shreveport 

Nov.  15,  1981 

Speaking  at  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  Shreveport 

Nov.  29,  1981 

Teaching  the  Co- Wed  Class  at  First  Methodist,  Shreveport 

Dec.  6-8,  1981 

Preaching  at  Minden,  La. 

Corporate  Profile 


Enrichment :  Fabsteel  is  in  focus 


Enriching  the  lives  of  others  comes 
naturally  at  Fabsteel. 

Under  the  direction  of  its  president, 
Centenary  trustee  Fletcher  Thorne- 
Thomsen,  Fabsteel  employees  are  helping 
to  find  and  process  energy  around  the 
world  not  only  in  the  areas  of  petroleum 
and  paper,  but  also  in  opera  and  the 
arts. 

For  more  than  25  years,  the  Fabsteel 
name  has  been  closely  associated  with 
superior  structural  fabrication  designed 
expressly  for  giant  petroleum,  chemical, 
and  petro-chemical  installations.  Today, 
they  also  count  installations  for  coal, 
nuclear  power,  and  other  energy-related 
industries.  Fabsteel  structural  steel  is  in 
place  throughout  the  United  States,  Eu- 
rope, the  Middle  East,  and  Latin  America. 

Corporate  headquarters  are  located 
in  Shreveport,  where  Fabsteel  has  taken 
pride  in  participating  in  community  en- 
richment endeavors. 

The  Fabsteel  Music  Hour,  aired  Sunday 
evenings  on  Shreveport's  KCOZ,  is  now 
in  its  fifth  season.  Two  hours  are  devoted 
to  classical  music,  and  the  third  hour  is 
given  to  opera,  with  Robert  Murray, 
general  director  of  the  Shreveport  Opera, 
as  emcee. 

The  Fabsteel-Centenary  Quiz  Bowl, 
begun  in  1975,  was  modeled  after  the 
G.E.  College  Bowl.  Hundreds  of  high 
school  students  representing  over  30 
Ark-La-Tex  high  schools  participate  an- 
nually. Aired  in  the  spring  on  KSLA-TV, 
the  Quiz  Bowl  is  a  very  competitive 
match  of  quick  recall.  Winning  teams 
are  awarded  scholarships  to  Centenary. 

Fabsteel  is  also  well-known  for  under- 
writing photography  seminars  at  Shreve- 
port's Red  River  Revel  Arts  Festival, 
now  one  of  the  largest  arts  festivals  in 
the  United  States.  Over  the  years,  Fabsteel 
has  sponsored  numerous  seminars  by 
representatives  of  Nikon,  Canon,  and 
other  well-known  companies. 

Through  Mr.  Thorne-Thomsen,  Fab- 
steel is  also  active  in  the  Shreveport 
Symphony,  Shreveport  Summer  Music 
Festival,  and  the  Shreveport  Regional 
Arts  Council.  An  avid  photographer, 
Mr.  Thorne-Thomsen  has  had  a  number 
of  one-man  shows  throughout  the  country, 
including  one  at  Centenary's  Magale 
Library. 

Enrichment  —  through  developing 
energy  resources  or  through  the  visual 
and  performing  arts  —  is  what  Fabsteel 
is  all  about. 


.v 


4  MM 


nkmnmm 


Laughter  —  music  to  our  ears 


Centenary  College  President  Donald  A.  Webb  (left)  and  Fabsteel  Presiden 
Fletcher  Thorne-Thomsen  share  a  laugh  in  front  of  the  Logan  Mansion,  home  o 
Shreveport  radio  station  KCOZ.  The  station  is  host  every  Sunday  to  the  Fabstee 
Music  Hour,  now  in  its  fifth  season. 


6 


Potpourri 


New  faculty  and  staff  for  the  1981-82  academic 
year  include  RICHARD  SCOTT  (Business);  DR. 
DAVID  JACKSON  (English);  DR.  ROBERT  FREY 
(Geology);  DR.  DAVID  BEDARD  (Health  and 
Physical  Education);  DR.  FRANK  BAGLIONE 
(History);  DR.  DAVID  THROGMORTON  (So- 
ciology); JOHN  TANNER  (Business);  MRS.  CORA 
SEDLACEK  (Senior  Adult  Education);  BILL 
TICE  (Assistant  Business  Manager); '  BILL 
ROBERTS  (Sports  Information  Director);  DR. 
MICHAEL  WILLIFORD  (Director  of  Bands); 
and  DEBBIE  MITCHELL  (Cafeteria). 

BECKY  STRICKLAND  and  CHUCK  SMITH, 
hosts  for  Shreveport's  PM  Magazine,  used  the 
Smithsonian  Exhibit  of  shopping  bags  on  display 
at  Centenary's  Meadows  Museum  as  the  setting 
for  their  July  17  show.  The  exhibit  drew  thousands 
of  Ark-La-Texans,  the  largest  number  to  visit  an 
exhibit  at  the  Museum. 

Ministers  and  lay  people  of  the  United  Methodist 
Church  met  on  the  Centenary  campus  for  Annual 
Conference,  Pastor's  School,  and  the  United 
Methodist  Women's  School  of  Missions. 

DR.  NOLAN  SHAW  (Geology)  has  been  elected 
president  of  the  Shreveport  Geological  Associa- 
tion. 

The  25th  season  of  the  Shreveport  Summer 
Band  Pops  Concerts  were  held  on  Tuesday  even- 
ings during  the  summer.  They  are  sponsored  by 
the  City  of  Shreveport  Local  Musicians  Union 
1 16,  and  Centenary  College.  BILL  CAUSEY.  SR. 
(Music),  who  originated  the  series  and  who  has 
conducted  them  for  the  past  25  years,  was  the 
subject  of  several  newspaper  articles  and  editorials 
this  summer  on  the  occasion  of  the  band's  silver 
anniversary  and  his  retirement  from  40  years  of 
teaching. 


Trustee  TOM  H.  MATHENY  was  elected 
Conference  Lay  Leader  for  the  17th  consecutive 
year  by  the  Board  of  Laiety  of  the  United  Metho- 
dist Church. 

DR.  DONALD  G.  EMLER  (Religion)  has  held 
workshops  and  preached  at  several  churches 
during  the  summer.  He  also  has  an  article  in  the 
August  issue  of  CHURCH  SCHOOL,  "Your  Per- 
sonal Communion  With  God. 

DR.  CHARLES  E.  VETTER  (Sociology)  attended 
the  Annual  Conference  on  Sex  Equity  Among 
Educators  in  Aspen,  Colo.,  and  was  a  speaker  at 
the  Louisiana  Conference  of  Chamber  of  Commerce 
Executive  Vice  Presidents  and  for  the  Conference 
of  Louisiana  Home  Economics  Teachers. 

JANIE  FLOURNOY  (Public  Relations)  attended 
the  meeting  for  members  of  the  Fourth  District 
Advisory  Committee  for  Louisiana  Public  Broad- 
casting, held  in  Baton  Rouge  August  21. 

CHRIS  WEBB  (Alumni  Relations)  attended  the 
Summer  Institute  in  Alumni  Administration  spon- 
sored by  CASE  (Council  for  the  Advancement 
and  Support  of  Education)  held  at  the  Ohio  State 
University  in  mid-August. 

DR.  WEBB  POMEROY  (Religion)  led  the 
Bible  study  on  Isaiah  at  the  Alexandria  District 
School  of  Missions  Sept.  18  and  the  District  Fall 
Mission  Conference  in  Lake  Charles  on  Aug.  30. 

WALT  STEVENS  has  been  named  Athletic 
Director  at  Centenary.  Taking  his  place  as  Direc- 
tor of  Scholarships  Development  is  BOB  BROWN. 

DR.  BARRY  NASS  has  recently  had  his  article 
"  Of  One  That  Loved  Not  Wisely,  But  Not  Too 
Well'  Othello  and  the  Heroides"  accepted  for 
publication  in  English  Language  Notes.  It  will 
appear  in  December,  1981. 


On  top  of  the  world 


Centenary  Choir  members  (left  to  right)  Kay  hedges,  Jenny  Piner,  and  Elberta 
McKnight  enjoy  a  stunning  view  of  the  Swiss  Alps  while  on  tour  in  Europe  last  summer. 
Centenary's  singing  ambassadors  performed  for  NATO  dignitaries  on  the  Fourth  of  July 
at  the  invitation  of  Gen.  Richard  L.  Lawson  during  their  three-week  visit.  Next  summer 
the  Choir  will  make  a  tour  of  America's  East  Coast;  contact  director  Will  Andress  for  the 
complete  itinerary. 


Faculty  members  attending  summer  seminars 
includes  HAROLD  CHRISTENSEN  (Economics) 
Research  in  Applied  Economics;  '  JOE  KOSHAN- 
SKY  (History  and  Political  Science)  "Public  Pol- 
icy;" L.  HUGHES  COX  (  Philosophy)  "Economic 
Justice;"  ROYCE  SHAW  (History  and  Political 
Science)  "The  Business  of  Energy;"  WEBB  POM- 
EROY (Religion)  "Problems  of  Objectivity  in 
Ethics  &  Science;  "MICHAEL  HALL  and  BARRY 
NASS  (English)  Lit:  Literature  &  Interpretive 
Techniques;  MARY  BETH  ARMES(Music)  "Late 
Medieval  Fictions,"  and  EDDIE  VETTER  ( Sociol- 
ogy), Louisiana  s  Humanist  in  Residence. 

MISS  KATHY  BROWN  (Library)  attended  the 
meeting  of  the  Louisiana  Library  Association 
April  8-10,  here  in  Shreveport. 

DR.  MICHAEL  HALL  (English)  read  a  paper 
entitled  "Drawing  Myself  for  Others:  The  Ethos 
of  the  Essayist,"  at  the  South-Central  Renaissance 
Conference  at  the  University  of  Texas  in  Arlington. 

Opera  Centenary  presented  three  soap  operas 
during  April.  They  included  Rita,  The  Audition, 
and  Gallantry,  and  were  directed  and  produced 
by  DR.  MARY  BETH  ARMES  and  MR.  WILLIAM 
RILEY. 

MR.  JIM  PERKINS  (Development)  attended 
the  Board  of  Directors  meeting  for  the  National 
Society  for  Fund-Raising  Executives,  held  in 
New  Orleans. 

MR.  B.J.  BUCKNER  (Buildings  and  Grounds) 
was  in  our  thoughts  and  prayers  as  he  underwent 
open  heart  surgery.  SONNY  RANEY  came  back 
as  assistant  director  of  buildings  and  grounds 
while  MR.  BUCK  recuperated.  .  .  down  at  Toledo 
Bend.  Where  else?! 

Over  one  hundred  students  were  recognized 
Thursday,  April  30,  at  the  annual  Honors  Convoca- 
tion in  Brown  Memorial  Chapel.  JAN  CARPENTER 
and  KEITH  DOLLAHITE  were  the  recipients  of 
the  ELLIS  H.  BROWN  LEADERSHIP  AWARD, 
the  highest  student  award  given  at  the  College. 

A  consumers  Energy  Conservation  Seminar 
was  co-sponsored  by  the  LSU  Cooperative  Ex- 
tension Service  and  Centenary  College. 

DR.  WEBB  POMEROY  (Religion)  has  written 
a  series  of  thirteen  church  school  lessons  on  the 
Parables  of  Jesus  which  will  be  used  in  churches 
of  several  denominations  throughout  the  South- 
west. DR.  DON  EMLER  and  the  Rev.  BERT 
SCOTT  have  made  television  tapes  which  will  be 
shown  in  conjunction  with  the  lessons  as  they  are 
studied  in  local  churches. 

DR.  RUSS  GLASGOW  (Physical  Education) 
presented  a  paper  entitled  "An  Analysis  of  Ex- 
tremity Muscular  Endurance/  Strength  Per- 
formance of  Boy  and  Girls  Ages  Six  Through 
Eleven  Years"  at  the  Southern  District  Convention 
of  the  American  Alliance  for  Health,  Physical 
Education,  Recreation,  and  Dance,  held  in  February 
in  Orlando,  Fla. 

DAVID  MIDDLETON  (Art)  exhibited  ink 
drawings,  wood  sculpture,  and  clay  forms  in  the 
foyer  of  Magale  Library  during  March. 

PRESIDENT  DONALD  WEBB  and  other  presi- 
dents of  private  educational  institutions  met  with 
GOV.  DAVE  TREEN  in  Baton  Rouge,  March  12. 
On  Friday,  March  13,  he  honored  DR.  LESLIE 
MITCHELL,  a  distinguished  Oxford  historian, 
at  lunch. 

Trustee  HARRY  BALCOM  has  streamlined 
his  photography  interests  into  a  new  business 
with  the  theme,  "Expanding  Human  Awareness." 
He  provides  high  quality  original  works  on 
subjects  ranging  from  travel  experiences  to  wild- 
life. 

MRS.  ANNE  ROGERS  (English)  served  on  a 
panel  at  the  annual  Conference  of  Colleges  and 
Universities,  which  she,  MRS.  BETTY  SPEAIRS 
(Math)  and  DR.  BRAD  McPHERSON  (Biology) 
attended. 

7 


Dr.  Lee  Morgan 


Attention:  All  alumni?  alumnae?  alumnuses?  alumnas? 


By  Lee  Morgan 

Willie  Cavett  and  Paul  M.  Brown,  Jr., 

Professor  of  English 

All  right,  what  do  we  call  "two  or 
more  graduates  of  a  college  or  university"? 

Chris  Webb,  our  intrepid  director  of 
affairs  for  the  above-mentioned  persons, 
thought  that  it  might  be  instructive  for 
any  who  are  uncertain  about  the  terms 
in  question  it  I  dashed  off  some  kind  of 
explanation.  The  answer  is  not  as  simple 
as  one  might  think.  And  its  complexity 
could  drive  those  who  have  need  for 
such  a  term  to  welcome  any  workable 
suggestion,  even  a  chauvinist  one. 

To  begin  with,  we  are  dealing  with 
Latin  nouns;  and,  as  anyone  with  any 
pretension  to  learning  knows,  all  Latin 
nouns  have  gender:  they  are  masculine, 
feminine,  or  neuter;  but  these  distinc- 


tions do  not  necessarily  have  anything  to 
do  with  sex.  (For  example,  causa,  "cause," 
is  feminine;  so  is  luna,  "moon.")  At 
least,  our  problem  is  not  that  complicated. 
Alumnus,  "male  graduate,"  is  masculine 
singular;  alumna,  "female  graduate," 
feminine  singular.  The  plural  of  alumnus 
is  alumni;  that  of  alumna  is  alumnae. 
The  anglicized  pronunciation  of  alumni 
rhymes  the  last  syllable  like  "nigh,"  but 
then  so  does  the  Latin  pronunciation  of 
alumnae.  On  the  other  hand,  the  Latin 
pronunciation  of  alumni  rhymes  the  last 
syllable  like  "knee,"  the  anglicized  pro- 
nunciation of  the  last  syllable  of  alumnae. 
Clear  as  mud?  Just  about.  No  one  has 
yet  proposed  anglicizing  the  plurals  as  I 
jocularly  did  in  the  last  two  words  of  the 
headline.  I  am  expecting  any  day  to  see 
"alum-person"  vulgarly  splashed  across 
the  headlines  of  the  publication  of  some 


school  that  has  abandoned  education. 
(Surely,  taste  will  never  have  sunk 
lower.)  However,  for  once  sanity  seems 
to  have  prevailed  —  so  far. 

Alumni  (last  syllable:  "nigh")  is  uni- 
versally accepted  as  the  inclusive  plural, 
and  I  have  even  heard  bright,  unaffected 
young  women  refer  to  themselves  as  an 
"alumnus"  of  such  and  such  a  college.  I 
have  also  heard  many  speakers  say 
alum  (accent  on  second  syllable;  rhymes 
with  "bum")  as  an  abbreviated  form,  and 
I  myself  regularly  use  the  term  in  conver- 
sation. But  I  am  uneasy  about  seeing  it  in 
print.  In  reading,  there  is  always  the  pos- 
sibility of  momentary  confusion  with  the 
chemical  compound.  Can't  you  just  see 
the  lead  article  in  the  next  issue  of  this 
magazine,  "Alum  Needed  for  Fund-Raising 
Drive"?  or  "$25,000  to  Centenary  from 
Alum"? 


Phonathon 


Don't  call  us, 
well  call  you 


.  .  .  for  the  third  annual  Centenary 
College  Alumni  Phonathon,  Oct.  26 
through  Nov.  6. 

Scores  of  volunteers  —  alumni,  students, 
faculty,  and  staff  —  will  be  dialing  for 
dollars  which  last  year  raised  over  $30,000 
for  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund. 
The  goal  for  this  year's  fund  is  $35,000. 

The  calls  will  be  made  Monday  through 
Friday  from  6-9  p.m.  Pledges  can  be 
made  from  $5  up. 


"This  is  a  great  —  and  easy  —  opportun- 
ity for  Centenary  alumni  to  support  their 
College,"  said  Jim  Perkins,  director  of 
development  and  chairman  of  the  phona- 
thon. "With  a  balanced  budget  for  the 
past  four  consecutive  years,  increased 
endowment,  and  increased  scholarships, 
we've  tried  to  show  that  we  are  a  financially 
responsible  institution.  We  hope  our  alumni 
will  invest  in  that." 


Financially  Speaking 


How  do  you  spell  relief  tor  Centenary 
students? 

S-C-H-O-L-A-R-S-H-I-P-S 

And  relief  for  the  Development  Office 
came  with  the  addition  of  a  new  Director 
of  Church  Relations  and  a  Director  of 
Scholarship  Development.  Since  their 
arrival  in  March,  thousands  of  dollars 
have  been  Riven  to  the  College  for  schol- 
arship aid. 

The  Rev.  Don  McDowell,  Director  of 
Church  Relations,  lists  scholarship  devel- 
opment as  one  of  his  top  priorities.  He 
works  with  churches  throughout  the 
Louisiana  Conference,  with  the  Centenary 
Church  Council,  and  with  Methodist  lay 
people  to  establish  and  maintain  scholar- 
ships at  Centenary. 

Bob  Brown,  who  has  recently  been 
appointed  Director  of  Scholarship  Devel- 
opment, works  with  the  business  com- 
munity, foundations,  social  organizations, 
families,  or  any  other  groups  —  both  in 
and  out  of  town  —  who  would  like  to 
establish  a  scholarship  at  the  College. 

So  far.  .  . 

A  scholarship  has  been  established  to 
honor  Bill  Causey,  Sr.,  who  retired  this 
year  after  40  years  of  teaching  at  Cente- 
nary. 

The  Ark-La-Tex  Landmen's  Association 
will  give  a  yearly  scholarship  for  a  stu- 
dent in  Centenary's  new  petroleum  land 
management  program. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Eggerton  of  New 
Orleans  have  established  a  $10,000  en- 
dowed scholarship. 

Caldwell  Parish  United  Methodist 
Churches  will  give  S  f  ,300  a  year  in  schol- 
arship. 

University  Church  in  Lake  Charles  has 
established  a  scholarship  for  $500. 


Cole  and  Janie  Flournoy  (70  and  72) 
have  established  a  $5,000  endowed 
scholarship  honoring  Shreveport  developer 
N.O.  Thomas  lr. 

The  Nichols  Oil  &  Gas  Cor]).  Scholar- 
ship was  established  tor  a  needy  geology 
student. 

The  John  T.  Palmer  Scholarship  pro- 
vides halt-tuition  for  lour  male  students. 

A  scholarship  tor  a  needy  chemistry 
student  has  been  established  by  Pennzoil. 

A  $500  scholarship  honors  Betty  T. 
Pollock. 

The  Marlin  Drake  Sr.  Scholarship  has 
been  established  in  his  memory  by  the 
Drake  family.  Mr.  Drake,  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  1917,  served  on  its  Board  of 
Trustees  for  many  years. 

The  Harrison  M alloy  Scholarship  was 
established  tor  any  needy  student. 

An  anonymous  gift  of  $100,000  was 
used  to  establish  an  endowed  scholar- 
ship fund  for  worthy  students  in  need  of 
financial  assistance. 

Students  from  the  Wesley  United  Meth- 
odist Church  in  DeRidder  are  eligible 
for  that  church's  new  scholarship. 

The  Baton  Rouge/Lafayette  District 
has  established  a  scholarship  for  students 
of  that  district. 

The  Baton  Rouge/Hammond  District 
Scholarship  has  been  set  up  for  any 
student  of  that  district. 

Employee  dependents  of  Petro-Log 
Co.  may  use  its  new  scholarship. 

The  Asbury  United  Methodist  Church 
in  Latayette  has  established  a  scholar- 
ship for  their  students. 

Aldersgate  United  Methodist  Church 
heard  about  the  federal  cuts  and  doubled 
its  annual  scholarship  to  Centenary  School 
of  Church  careers. 


Bob  Brown  has  been  named  Director 
of  Scholarship  Development  at  Cente- 
nary. With  65  percent  of  the  student 
body  receiving  financial  aid,  scholarships 
are  of  vital  importance. 

First  United  Methodist  Church  of  Min- 
den  has  given  the  school  $10,000  for  an 
endowed  scholarship.  Their  goal  is 
$20,000.  It  began  when  Davidson  Brown, 
a  member  of  that  church,  caught  a  vision 
of  what  Centenary  is  and,  along  with 
Marcus  Wren,  spearheaded  the  drive  in 
Minden. 

An  anonymous  lay  person  has  given 
the  school  an  unrestricted  endowed  schol- 
arship of  $25,000. 

First  United  Methodist  Church  in  Mon- 
roe has  included  three  scholarships  in  its 
annual  budget. 

The  Shreveport  District  has  increased 
its  number  of  District-sponsored  scholar- 
ships from  one  to  two. 

The  Baton  Rouge/Hammond  District 
as  voted  a  $1,000  scholarship. 

Hubert  Blanchard  heard  about  the 
federal  budget  cuts  from  his  son,  Chris, 
who  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Higher 
Education,  and  responded  with  a  scholar- 
ship. 

The  Louisiana  Foundation  has  given 
both  Centenary  and  Dillard  $6,050  from 
undesignated  funds  to  help  offset  the 
federal  cuts. 

Scholarships  do  make  a  difference. 
For  more  information,  contact  Don 
McDowell  or  Bob  Brown,  Centenary 
College,  P.O.  Box  4188,  Shreveport, 
La.  71104,318-869-5143. 


A  big  check  for  Centenary  College  is  held  by  (left  to  right)  CMSgt.  Jan  Boyd:  CMSAF 
and  Mrs.  James  M.  McCoy;  CMSgt.  Kenneth  A.  Black;  Walter  Stevens,  former  Director 
of  Scholarship  Development  at  Centenary,  and  CMSgt.  James  Forman.  The  money, 
contributed  by  the  men  and  women  of  Barksdale  Air  Force  Base  was  used  to  establish 
the  James  M.  McCoy  Scholarship  Fund  at  Centenary.  McCoy  is  a  graduate  of  Cente- 
nary. 


The  Austin  Robertsons  Jr.  were  inad- 
vertently left  oil  the  list  of  1980-81  mem- 
bers ol  the  1825  Club  as  printed  in  the 
Jul\  issue  of  Centenary.    We  re  so  sorry! 

The  Louisiana  Conference  voted  a  15 
percent  raise  in  Centenary  s  decimal 
asking. 


Centenary  Interim 
gives  January  a  lift 


Centenary's  Interim  is  a  refreshing 
change  of  pace  —  a  sure  way  to  beat  the 
winter  doldrums. 

The  January  courses  -  not  offered 
during  the  regular  fall  and  spring  semes- 
ters —  have  always  been  enticing,  and 
this  year  is  no  exception. 

They  range  from  the  Economics  of 
Professional  Sports  to  be  held  in  Boston, 
Chicago,  or  Denver  to  Christianity  and 
the  Arts  to  be  held  on  campus. 

Registration  is  being  held  through 
November  24  in  the  Registrar's  Office  in 
Hamilton  Hall.  The  courses  can  be  taken 
for  three  hours  credit  or  can  be  audited, 
and  are  open  to  the  public. 

In  Myths  and  Legends  of  Art  students 
will  examine  selected  myths  and  legends 
from  various  cultures  of  the  world  in- 
cluding classical  and  primitive. 

An  Introduction  to  the  Health  Pro- 
fessions will  expose  students  to  a  variety 
of  professions  in  the  health  care  fields 
such  as  medicine,  physical  therapy,  den- 
tistry, medical  technology,  and  their  sub- 
specialties. Students  will  visit  various 
laboratories,  hospitals,  and  care  centers, 
and  observe  methods  and  work-environ- 
ment. 

The  objectives  of  the  Economics  of 
Professional  Sports  are  to  promote  under- 
standing of  the  principles  of  economics 
and  to  apply  economic  theory  to  a  real 
world  situation  as  seen  in  the  operation 
of  professional  sports  franchises.  Students 
will  travel  to  a  major  city  to  see  the  fran- 
chises in  action. 

A  study  of  Women  Writers  of  the  20th 
century  will  include  short  stories,  poetry, 
drama,  films,  and  novels  by  women. 

An  Introduction  to  Linguistics  offers 
an  introduction  to  the  principles  and 
methods  of  descriptive  linguistics  applied 
to  the  student's  field  of  interest,  with 
some  attention  to  their  application  to 
comparative  and  historical  problems. 

Literature  and  Psychology  is  an  explor- 
ation of  the  nature  of  the  relationship 
between  literature  and  depth-psychology 
as  exemplified  in  selected  masterpieces 
of  Hispanic  literature  in  translation,  in- 
cluding Valera,  Galdos,  Benavente,  Lorca, 
Cela,  and  Borges. 

The  objective  of  Field  Geology  of  the 
Southern  Rockies  in  New  Mexico  and 
Colorado  is  to  acquaint  the  student  with 


From  Broadway 

A  very  special  Interim  offering  in 
the  1981-82  academic  year  will  be 
"An  Evening  With  Lerner  and 
Loewe,"  a  joint  production  of  the 
Department  of  Theatre  &  Speech, 
the  Centenary  College  Choir,  The 
Hurley  School  of  Music,  and  the 
Shreveport  Symphony. 

The  Broadway  musical  revue  will 
include  showtunes  from  Camelot, 
My  Fair  Lady,  Brigadoon  and  Paint 
Your  Wagon.  Bob  Buseick  will 
stage  the  revue  with  music  from  a 
20-piece  orchestra  provided  by  the 
Shreveport  Symphony. 

Performances,  open  to  the  public, 
will  be  given  Thursday  through 
Sunday,  Jan.  21-24  at  the  Marjorie 
Lyons  Playhouse.  Tickets  will  be 
available  in  mid-January  and  may 
be  reserved  by  calling  the  Playhouse 
(869-5242)  at  that  time. 


field  methods  normally  used  by  geologists 
to  understand  the  regional  geology  of  a 
geologic  province. 

Graphs  as  Mathematical  Models  ana- 
lyzes elementary  concepts  of  graph  theory, 
with  applications  to  transportation  prob- 
lems, connection  problems,  party  prob- 
lems, games  and  puzzles,  and  social 
psychology. 

The  place  of  sports  and  athletics  in 
present  day  society  will  be  examined  in 
the  Sociology  of  Sports. 

Students  will  journey  to  South  Florida 
to  study  Christian  Education  Outdoors. 
This  course  provides  study,  combined 
with  field  experience,  in  the  philosophy, 
objectives,  planning,  and  implementation 
of  outdoor  programs  within  the  context 
of  the  church's  Christian  Education  course. 

The  purpose  of  Christianity  and  the 
Arts  is  to  study  some  of  the  masterpieces 
of  art,  architecture,  and  music  that  are 
directly  related  to  the  Christian  heritage. 


■'!§&*&' **"*'-: 


Taking  part  in  the  special  "Evening  w 
director  of  the  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse 
Symphony;  Debbie  Hicks,  technical  dirt 
Professor  of  Music;  Dr.   Will  Andress,  c 

Shreveport 

The  Shreveport  Symphony  is  right  at 
home  at  Centenary  College. 

And  it's  been  that  way  for  all  of  the 
Symphony's  33  years. 

The  two  institutions  have  shared  build- 
ings, professors,  musicians,  vocalists,  even 
members  of  their  boards.  It  all  started  in 
1948  when  young  John  Shenaut  came  to 
Shreveport  to  organize  and  conduct  the 
city's  first  symphony  orchestra. 

"Centenary  was  the  beacon  of  culture 
in  the  city,"  said  Maestro  Shenaut,  now 
music  director  emeritus  of  the  Symphony. 
It  was  the  logical  point  to  bring  together 
the  musical  group. 

"At  that  time,  my  salary  was  $4,000  a 
year,"  Shenaut  reminisced.  "Half  of  it 
was  paid  by  the  Symphony,  and  half 
was  paid  by  the  College  in  the  form  of 
teaching  commissions.  I  taught  just  about 
everything  —  violin,  music  theory,  sight 
singing,  orchestration  —  you  name  it!" 

In  these  early  beginnings  and  through- 
out the  later  years,  the  College  served 
as  a  resource  for  Symphony  musicians. 
Alumni  of  both  institutions  can  now  be 
found  in  the  orchestras  of  San  Antonio, 
New  Orleans,  Dallas,  and  Amsterdam. 


; 


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,oewe"  are  (left  to  right)  Bob  Buseick, 

executive  director  of  the  Shreveport 

ter:  Dr.  Mary  Beth  Amies,  Associate 

Centenary  College  Choir,  and  Ginger 


Folmer,  who  will  choreograph  the  show.  Not  pictured  is  Dr.  Frank  Carroll,  Dean  of  the  Hurley 
School  of  Music.  Performances,  open  to  the  public,  will  be  given  Thursday  through  Sunday,  Jan. 
21-24,  at  the  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse. 


phony,  Centenary  a  good  combination 


They've  also  served  as  the  heads  of 
music  departments  at  Loyola,  North- 
western, and  LSU. 

A  scholarship  program,  begun  by  the 
Symphony  to  bring  outstanding  student 
musicians  to  the  College,  was  in  its  hey- 
day during  the  mid  1950s,  when  there 
were  23  students  on  scholarships.  Prize 
winners  from  all  over  the  world  came  to 
Centenary's  music  school,  enticed  by 
the  opportunity  to  play  with  a  symphony 
orchestra. 

"In  those  early  days,  one-third  of  the 
orchestra  were  students,  one-third  towns- 
people, and  one-third  professionals,"  Mr. 
Shenaut  explained.  "We  rehearsed  in 
the  old  music  building  where  the  parking 
lot  tor  the  Smith  Building  is  located 
now.  Our  offices  were  in  a  little  frame 
building  next  door." 

Apparently  that  wasn't  good  enough 
for  Mrs.  Patty  Thigpen,  who  spearheaded 
the  effort  to  move  the  old  Scofield  home 
to  the  Centenary  campus  to  use  as  head- 
quarters for  the  Symphony  and  its  guild. 
With  the  approval  of  Dr.  Joe  Mickle  and 
the  Centenary  Board  of  Trustees,  the 


home,  now  listed  on  the  National  Register 
of  Historic  Places,  was  moved  to  its  pre- 
send  location  on  Woodlawn.  The  property 
is  owned  by  the  College;  the  house,  by 
the  Symphony  Guild. 

By  1964,  the  doors  of  the  new  and 
spacious  Hurley  Music  Building  were 
opened  right  across  the  street  from  the 
Symphony  headquarters.  The  facility 
was  a  gift  from  Mrs.  Ed  Hurley  in 
memory  of  her  husband,  a  longtime  sup- 
porter of  the  College  and  Symphony. 

The  building  houses  Symphony  rehears- 
als and  classes  taught  to  Centenary 
students  by  Symphony  players.  Centenary 
students  and  professors  also  use  practice 
rooms  to  prepare  for  performances  as 
musicians  and  as  guest  soloists. 

This  year,  under  the  leadership  of 
Nick  Cassizzi,  the  Shreveport  Regional 
Symphony  will  begin  its  34th  season 
with  12  Centenary  College  alumni,  three 
honorary  alumni,  live  Trustees,  and 
President  Donald  A.  Webb  participating 
on  the  Symphony  Board  of  Directors. 

They  have  helped  plan  an  exciting 
season  of  seven  classical  concerts,  three 


pops  concerts,  and  special  performances 
by  the  Hartford  Ballet  Company  and 
the  Atlanta  Ballet  Company.  Season 
tickets  are  now  on  sale  for  all  concerts. 

"We  will  also  offer  for  the  first  time  a 
series  of  chamber  orchestra  concerts," 
said  Nick.  "We  have  planned  a  winter 
series  and  a  spring  series,  and  hope  the 
music  will  be  quite  a  surprise."  Using 
music  written  specifically  for  chamber 
orchestras,  the  performance  in  the  aud- 
itorium of  the  Hurley  Music  Building 
will  be  free  to  Centenary  students.  A 
very  nominal  fee  will  be  charged  to  the 
public. 

Centenary  students  will  also  be  en- 
couraged to  compete  in  the  Nena  Plant 
Wideman  Piano  Competition  to  be  held 
Dec.  4  and  5  in  Hurley.  The  winner 
receives  a  cash  prize  of  $1,000,  and  will 
appear  with  the  Symphony  as  a  guest 
soloist.  Deadline  for  entry  is  Nov.  16; 
interested  persons  should  contact  the 
Symphony  for  more  details. 

The  friendship  between  Centenary 
College  and  the  Shreveport  Symphony 
is  deep.  Thirty-three  years  means  a  lot. 


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Perspectives 


Dr.  W.  H.  Broyles 


Golf  is  a  favorite  hobby  of  Centenary  Trustee  W.H.  Broyles 
'44. 

With  a  handicap  of  only  eight,  Dr.  Broyles  plays  as  much  as 
he  can.  And  as  a  matter  of  fact,  he  is  the  owner  of  a  golf  and 
tennis  resort. 

The  resort  is  one  of  several  ventures  the  good  doctor  has 
participated  in  since  his  retirement  from  medicine  in  1976. 
He  is  presently  active  in  the  oil  and  gas  industry  as  an  inde- 
pendent operator  and  is  an  officer  in  WHB  Exploration,  Inc., 
and  New  Castle  Development,  Inc.  Dr.  Broyles  has  also  been 
involved  in  a  marina,  banking,  race  horses,  farming,  and  real 
estate  development. 

The  Broyles  tradition  at  Centenary  is  a  long  one.  Seventeen 
members  of  the  Broyles  family  have  attended  the  College. 
Four  of  Dr.  Broyles's  five  children  have  attended.  William  H. 
Broyles  II  is  the  latest  to  have  attended. 

Dr.  Broyles  was  named  to  Centenary's  Board  of  trustees  in 
1978,  and  has  served  on  the  Development  and  Public  Rela- 
tions Committee.  An  active  member  of  the  Gents  Club,  he  is 
particularly  interested  in  Centenary's  golf  team.  And  this  may 
be  just  the  season  we've  all  been  waiting  for. 


Tom  Kerwin 

Tom  Kerwin  ('66)  was  sporting  a  special  smile  when  he 
visited  Centenary  this  summer. 

The  College  was  one  of  his  first  stops  after  a  trip  to  Baton 
Rouge,  where  he  was  inducted  into  the  Louisiana  Basketball 
Coaches  Hall  of  Fame. 

The  campus  visit  brought  back  some  golden  memories  of 
"The  Hook."'  While  at  Centenary,  Tom  held  the  record  for  the 
top  number  of  points  averaged  per  game.  In  24  games,  he  shot 
over  30  points  per  game  —  unequaled  at  Centenary.  His  total 
number  of  points  scored,  1910,  is  second  only  to  Robert  Parish, 
and  Tom  played  only  three  of  his  four  years.  It's  no  wonder  he 
was  selected  as  the  Helms  Foundation  All-American  in  1966. 

After  graduation,  Tom  was  drafted  by  the  San  Francisco 
Warriors,  but  never  played  for  them.  He  later  played  semi-pro 
basketball  for  the  Phillips  66  AAU  League  and  professional 
basketball  for  the  Pittsburgh  Pipers'  1967-68  season. 

Today  Tom,  his  wife,  and  two  children  live  in  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  where  Tom  teaches  reading  and  remedial  reading  at 
Shady  Side  Academy.  He  must  be  some  teacher  to  look  up  to! 


12 


Enjoy 


our 


athletes 


New  members  of  the  Athletic  Staff  are  (left  to  right)  Bill  Roberts,  director  of  sports 
information:  Terry  Moores,  golf  coach,  arid  Walt  Stevens,  athletic  director.  They  and 
other  members  of  the  Centenary  "family"  are  looking  forward  to  another  championship 
year.  For  complete  schedules  in  women's  basketball,  men's  and  women's  tennis,  men's 
golf,  soccer;  baseball,  or  gymnastics,  contact  the  Gold  Dome,  P.O.  Box  4188, 
Shreveport,  La.  71104,  1-318-869-5275. 


CENTENARY  COLLEGE  BASKETBALL 

1981-82 

Schedu 

e 

DATE 

OPPONENT 

SITE 

TIME 

Nov.  28 

Montana  State 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Nov.  30 

Southeastern  Louisiana 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Dec.  5 

#  Louisiana  Tech 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Dec.  10 

Mississippi  College 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Dec.  12 

Arkansas 

Fayetteville,  Ark. 

7:30 

Dec.  14 

"Univ.  of  Arkansas  — Little  Rock 

Little  Rock.  Ark. 

7:30 

Dec.  19 

California  State 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Jan.  4-5 

Hatter  Classic  (Stetson, 
nary.  Morhead  State,  U 
of  New  Orleans) 

Cente- 

liv. 

Deland,  Fl. 

TBA 

Jan.  9 

"Northeast  Louisiana 

Monroe,  La. 

7:30 

Jan.  11 

Louisiana  Tech 

Ruston,  La. 

7:30 

Jan.  15 

"Houston  Baptist  University 

Houston.  Tex. 

7:30 

Jan.  19 

"Northwestern 

Natchitoches,  La. 

7:30 

Jan.  21 

"Univ.  of  Arkansas-Little 

Rock 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Jan.  23 

"Harclin-Sinimons 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Jan.  25 

^Georgia  Southern 

Statesboro,  Ga. 

7:30 

Jan.  27 

"Mercer 

Macon,  Ga. 

7:30 

Feb.  1 

Southeastern  Louisiana 

Hammond,  La. 

7:30 

Feb.  4 

"Samtord  University 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Feb.  6 

"Georgia  Southern 

Shreveport 

3:00 

Fel).  8 

"Northeast  Louisiana 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Feb.  13 

"Houston  Baptist  University 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Feb.  18 

"Hardin-Simmons 

Abilene.  Tex. 

7:30 

Feb.  22 

"Northwestern 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Feb.  25 

"Mercer 

Shreveport 

7:45 

Feb.  27 

"Samtord 

Birmingham,  Ala. 

7:30 

March  4-6 

TAAC  Tournament 

Monroe,  La. 

TBA 

#  Homecomi 

ng 

0  Trans  America  Athletic  Conference  G 

ame 

Athletic  success,  like  scholastic  success,  de- 
pends on  the  mindpower  of  the  athlete.  Dr. 
James  C.  Farrar,  head  of  the  Department  of 
Physical  Education  and  coach  of  varsity  base- 
ball, says  that  successful  athletes  must  develop 
discipline,  be  willing  to  sacrifice,  and  to  work 
hard.  But  most  importantly,  athletes  at  Cen- 
tenary College  are  there  to  get  an  education, 
graduate,  and  become  productive  members  of 
our  society.     (Photos  by  Jeff  Blakeman) 


l  r> 


Parenting  —  what  do  you  do  whet 


(Editor's  note:  The  United  Nations  has  designated 
1981  as  the  Year  of  the  Disabled,  and  we  are  all 
being  urged  to  a  new  awareness  of  the  necessity 
of  allowing  all  people  to  participate  fully  in 
society.  That  message  is  very  real  to  Karen 
Everitt  Brown  ('68),  who  suddenly  became  blind 
five  years  after  her  graduation  from  Centenary. 
Her  story  is  serious  and  moving,  sometimes  told 
with  humor,  and  always  with  courage.) 


After  graduating  from  Centenary  in 
1968,  I  married,  and  my  husband,  Don, 
and  I  spent  our  first  year  living  in  Germany 
while  he  served  in  the  U.S.  Army.  We  re- 
turned to  Brevard  County,  Fla.,  in  1969 
where  I  taught  junior  high  English  for  the 
next  four  years  while  Don  finished  hi« 
undergraduate  degree. 

It  was  during  this  time  while  I  was  teach- 
ing school  that  I  began  to  have  eye  pro- 
blems. In  1973  my  uveitis  and  secondary 
glaucoma  grew  dramatically  worse,  and 
despite  drugs  and  surgery  by  June,  1973, 
when  Don  and  I  moved  to  Chicago  I  was 
already  legally  blind.  Although  I  could  no 
longer  read  regular  print,  I  could  still  see 
large  objects  and  travel  independently. 

Even  with  some  of  the  best  medical 
facilities  available,  our  two  years  in  Chi- 
cago saw  my  conditions  grow  steadily- 
worse.  While  living  in  Chicago  I  took 
steps  to  try  and  regain  some  of  my  lost  in- 
dependence by  entering  a  rehabilitation 
center  for  blind  adults.  There  I  studied 
Braille,  mobility,  which  involved  learning 
to  travel  with  a  white  cane,  and  everyday 
living  skills.  In  1975  when  Dons  em- 
ployer, The  Travelers  Insurance  Company 
transferred  us  to  Jackson,  Miss.,  I  went  to 
work  for  the  Mississippi  Vocational  Re- 
habilitation for  the  Blind.  My  career  was 
a  short  one,  however,  as  in  August,  1976, 
our  son,  Paul,  was  born.  Since  that  time  I 
have  not  worked  outside  the  home,  but 
rather  have  enjoyed  the  roles  of  wife  and 
mother. 

At  home 

I  do  not  have  outside  help  in  my  home 
and  do  most  of  my  own  cooking,  cleaning, 
laundry,  etc.  However,  Don  and  I  have 
always  shared  responsibilities,  and  I  can 
always  depend  on  him  for  help,  especially 
if  it  involves  some  task  where  sight  is  es- 
sential. I  enjoy  cooking  and  entertaining. 
Because  organization  is  very  necessary,  I 
am  pretty  fussy  about  my  kitchen  and 
want  everything  in  its  place  so  that  I  do 
not  have  trouble  finding  things.  I  have 
my  spices  and  other  containers  marked 

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Karen  and  Don  Brown  enjoy  vacationing  in  Florida  with  son  Paul.  Karen,  who  lost  her 
sight  after  college,  has  never  seen  her  son. 


with  Braille  and  have  favorite  recipes 
also  in  Braille.  My  latest  toy  is  an  Amana 
microwave  oven  which  has  Braille  mark- 
ings on  the  dial  which  allows  me  to  do  my 
own  cooking.  The  company  even  furnished 
the  complete  cookbook  on  cassette  tapes. 
This  is  one  indication,  I  believe,  of  how 
industry  is  becoming  aware  of  handicaps 
and  providing  the  necessary  adaptations. 
Parenting  is  another  area  where  Don 
and  I  have  shared  responsibilities.  In  my 
home  where  I  know  the  lay  of  the  land, 
so  to  speak,  I  always  depended  on  my 
hearing  when  taking  care  of  Paul  when 
he  was  a  small  infant  and  toddler.  Outside 
of  home,  however,  Don  usually  had  to 
take  over  in  unfamiliar  places.  I  used 
small  bells  on  Pauls  shoes  from  the  time 
he  could  crawl,  and  as  every  mother 
knows,  you  always  go  investigate  when 
things  get  too  quiet  when  you  have  a 
toddler.  I  also  discovered  that  disposable 
diapers  make  a  crinkly  sound  when  a 
child  walks.  There  was  one  time  when 
Paul  got  away  from  me  after  a  bath  and  I 
had  a  hard  time  finding  him.  I  suppose 
since  Paul  has  never  known  me  any 
other  way  but  as  a  blind  mother,  he 


learned  early  to  accept  this.  As  a  sms 
toddler  he  would  bring  things  and  pla 
them  in  my  hands  when  he  wanted 
show  them  to  me.  He  learned  to  tat 
early,  probably  because  pointing  at  ti 
cookie  jar  never  brought  results  with  m 

Since  Paul  is  a  little  older  now,  I  enji 
having  more  free  time.  I  have  gotten  i 
volved  in  community  and  church  activitk 
I  play  bridge  once  or  twice  a  month 
have  always  enjoyed  reading,  and  ha 
learned  to  enjoy  reading  through  recoi 
ings  available  through  the  Library  for  t 
Blind  and  Physically  Handicapped  whi 
furnishes  free  of  charge  to  eligible  patro 
books  in  Braille,  on  records  and  tap* 
Often  called  the  talking  book  prograi 
this  federally  funded  program  does  . 
excellent  job  of  providing  current  boo 
and  magazines  to  its  subscribers.  Oil 
by  the  time  a  best  seller  is  in  paperback 
has  been  recorded  and  is  available  to  r 
so  I  do  not  feel  I  am  far  behind  in  keepii 
up  with  current  trends. 

I  prefer  the  recorded  form  for  most 
my   reading   because   although   I   ref 
Braille,  I  am  quite  slow  and  the  reading 
tedious.  I  use  Braille  mostly  for  sho 


u're  blind? 


reading  such  as  recipes,  telephone  num- 
bers, addresses,  etc. 

I  feel  in  many  ways  that  I  live  a  very 
normal  and  average  life  just  as  many  ol 
the  mothers  do  that  live  up  and  down  my 
street.  Yet  1  know  that  my  blindness  has 
changed  my  life  in  main  ways.  1  have 
had  to  change,  adapt  and  cope  in  many 
ways  that  most  people  do  not  and  never 
will  have  to.  It  is  frustrating  not  to  be 
able  to  drive  a  car.  We  live  in  a  very 
mobile  society  and  few  cities  are  like 
Chicago  with  excellent  public  transporta- 
tion systems.  It  is  hard  always  to  have  to 
depend  on  someone  else  to  take  me  shop- 
ping or  to  the  doctor  or  dentist.  It  would 
be  great  to  hop  in  the  car  and  run  to  the 
grocery  store  on  a  weekday  morning  all 
by  myself,  but  that  is  impossible.  Don 
and  I  usually  do  our  grocery  shopping  on 
Saturday  mornings  together  with  Paul. 
As  any  mother  of  a  normal  four-year-old 
can  tell  you,  this  is  not  exactly  the  ideal 
situation. 

I  miss  seeing  the  faces  of  those  I  love, 
like  my  husband  and  my  parents,  and 
especially  Paul,  whom  I  have  never  seen 
with  my  eyes.  Yet,  perhaps,  1  have  a 
heightened  awareness  and  appreciation 
of  voices.  There  is  nothing  that  can  com- 
pare to  a  small  child's  laugh  of  utter  de- 
light in  something. 

The  United  Nations  has  designated 
1981  as  the  Year  of  the  Disabled.  We  are 
all  being  urged  to  a  new  awareness  of  the 
necessity  of  allowing  all  people  to  partici- 
pate fully  in  society.  This  means  provid- 
ing educational  opportunities,  meaningful 
work,  and  removing  certain  physical 
barriers  from  our  buildings  and  recreational 
facilities.  Whatever  the  handicap,  most 
people  want  to  be  accepted  as  individuals 
with  wants,  needs,  and  aspirations.  It  is 
up  to  each  one  of  us  to  reach  out  even  in 
unfamiliar  situations  to  learn  more  about 
each  other.  From  this  knowledge  will 
come  understanding  and  acceptance.  My 
advice  to  you  if  you  are  confronted  with  a 
situation  with  a  blind  person,  or  with  a 
deaf  person,  or  with  a  person  in  a  wheel- 
chair, is  to  reach  out  to  him  or  her.  Ask 
how  you  can  be  of  help.  Occasionally  you 
may  be  uncomfortable  or  receive  a  cool 
reception,  but  probably  you  will  discover 
a  person  much  like  yourself.  Remember 
each  one  of  us  has  certain  abilities  or  lack 
of  ability  in  certain  areas.  It  is  just  that 
certain  ones  of  us  have  handicaps  that 
are  more  visible  than  others. 


Mary  Tullie  Catcher 


Alumni  is  National  Young  Mother 


During  the  last  year,  I  have  addressed 
a  wide  variety  of  groups  from  young  to 
old,  rich  to  poor,  men  to  women.  Christian 
or  Jewish  to  atheist  on  the  central  theme 
of  motherhood  and  the  necessity  of  pre- 
serving the  family  unit. 

I  have  experienced  first-hand  the  re- 
peated cries  of  frustration  from  young 
mothers  who  have  no  place  to  turn  for 
valid  assistance  in  performing  their  role 
as  a  mother  and  wife.  I  have  heard  over 
and  over  the  alarm  from  countless  families 
about  the  deterioration  of  the  family 
unit. 

These  expressions  are  not  regional  in 
nature,  but  are  universal.  There  are 
countless  individuals  and  families  genu- 
inely concerned  about  those  precepts  on 
which  our  country  and  heritage  were 
based.  This  concern,  however,  is  an  ex- 
pression of  frustration,  because  there  are 
so  few  places  to  turn  for  assistance. 
There  is  a  thirst  for  knowledge  and  assis- 
tance throughout  our  country. 

Because  the  family  was  ordained  by 
God,  its  vehicle  for  preservation  could 
logically  be  the  churches  of  our  nation. 
Every  civic  and  civic-minded  organization 
should  make  a  conscious  effort  toward 


preserving  that  one  thing  that  makes 
society  possible  —  the  family. 

The  goals  of  the  organization  which  I 
represented  this  past  year  are  to  build 
relationships  among  mothers  to  support 
one  another  in  the  challenges  of  mother- 
hood showing  understanding  and  concern 
for  each  other,  to  encourage  young  mothers 
to  find  joy  and  fulfillment  in  motherhood, 
realizing  they  are  the  key  to  the  quality 
of  our  future  society,  to  provide  worth- 
while meetings  that  offer  resource  help 
to  enrich  family  life  and  increase  parenting 
skills,  and  to  encourage  study  groups  to 
initiate  projects  that  improve  attitudes 
and  conditions  within  the  community  for 
the  betterment  of  family  life. 

Nothing  has  a  greater  impact  on  our 
lives  than  our  family  experience.  Without 
the  family  and  its  effect  on  the  develop- 
ment of  society,  our  society  would  degen- 
erate totally.  If  the  family  is  anything,  it 
is  the  medium  though  which  one  genera- 
tion teaches  an  ethical  system  of  values 
to  another  generation.  That  is  what  the 
family  is  all  about. 

Mary  Tullie  Critcher 
National  Young  Mother  1980 


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Prayer-power 


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This,  then  is  how  God  gets  His  work 
done.  Truth  is  His  creative  energy!  And 
the  deeds  He  wants  done,  He  germinates 
in  the  deep  of  a  person.  We  might  call 
that  the  unconscious  mind,  perhaps?  He 
speaks  in  the  depths  of  people  —  all  peo- 
ple, every  person.  And  some,  want  to 
hear,  and  do  hear.  And  then,  dimly  or 
clearly,  the  thought,  now  gestating,  rises 
from  the  depth  into  the  conscious  mind, 
and  is  perceived  as  authentic,  as  some- 
thing to  be  acted  upon.  Even  as  one's 
own  idea,  perhaps,  but  with  the  ring  of 
veracity. 

Could  it  not  be  so?  As  I  look  back  at  my 
own  life,  that  is  how  it  has  been.  No 
obvious  huge  miracles;  no  large  voice 
booming  out  of  the  sky;  but  occasionally, 
a  quiet,  insistent,  holy  idea,  deep  down, 
making  itself  heard. 

If  a  20th  Century  person  —  a  mind- 


power   person; 


finds  it  difficult  to 


believe  there  is  a  deity  up  there  who  in- 
tervenes down  here,  he  might  consider 
there  is  a  Spirit  of  Truth  in  the  Universe, 
who  gets  through  now  and  again,  too 
dee])  for  thought,  to  the  spirit  of  a  human 
being,  with  a  creative  idea;  and  it  nurtures, 
and  grows,  and  rises  to  the  mind  —  in 
words,  or  as  an  ideal,  or  as  an  imperative. 
Until  the  person  owns  it  for  himself,  now, 
and  brings  it  to  expression,  and  prepares 
to  act  on  it.  Could  it  not  be  so? 

That  is  what  John  is  trying  to  say.  That 
so  far  as  they  could  tell,  just  this  once  in 
history,  a  man  was  utterly  open  to  truth, 
believing  it  was  of  God.  And  in  His 
depths,  truth  flowed:  the  Holy  Spirit 
spoke  in  Him,  unimpeded.  The  thoughts 
of  God,  the  will  of  God,  flowed  through 
Him,  complete.  When  you  listen  to  Jesus, 
you  are  getting  it  live,  you  are  getting  it 
straight.  You  are  getting  it  true! 

Now,  true  words  have  the  capacity  to 
create  new  situations:  that  is  how  langu- 
age works.  A  personal  example:  when  I 
said,  long  ago,  to  a  lovely  young  girl  in  a 
blue  dress  and  a  ribbon  in  her  hair,  "I 
love  you,'"  and  she  responded,  and  we 
both  spoke  true,  the  words  created  a  new 
world  for  us,  a  world  in  which  I  was  not, 
now,  the  center,  nor  was  she  of  hers  — 
but  we  were  of  ours;  and  the  new  world 


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grew  to  include  five  children,  eight  grand- 
children and  a  lifetime  of  joy  and  meaning 
and  fulfillment.  True  words  create  new 
situations! 

Well,  the  words  Christ  gives  us  —  true, 
living  words  of  prayer  —  are  able  to 
create  new  situations,  and  are  somehow 
different  from  the  old  way  of  praying. 
Not  a  superstitious  way  of  praying,  now 
but  a  new  way,  in  which  God  is  contin- 
uously recreating  what  is  being  prayed 
about.  The  Word  re-creating  the  world! 
That  is  the  possibility. 

Consider  what  happens  to  the  Ten 
Commandments,  in  this  understanding. 
Before  this  wholly-responsive  person, 
Jesus,  came,  there  were  prohibitions: 
"Thou  shalt  not  commit  adultery;  Thou 
shalt  not  steal,"  etc.  But  with  Him,  a 
fresh  situation  comes  into  existence :  "the 
Kingdom  is  with  you!"  We  are  new  hu- 
man beings,  with  "abundant  life,"  in  us, 
now,  tor  whom  the  Commandments  are 
not  regulations,  but  promises!  Fulfilled 
promises  —  gifts,  even!  "Thou  shalt  not 
commit  adultery!  Thou  shalt  not  steal," 
not  because  you  must  not,  but  because 
you  are  new,  and  would  not  want  to! 

And  this  is  how  true  prayer  works: 
when  you  pray  the  truth,  you  really  are 
doing  something  different,  and  it  is  part 
of  a  new  creation! 

"Our  Father,"  He  asks  us  to  say.  What 
does  it  mean  to  pray,  "Our  Father,"  in 
the   new   world  which  breaks  in  with 
Jesus  the  Christ?  In  a  superstitious  prayer, 
the   phrase   might   be   a   description   of 
deity.  But  when  I  pray  this  as  a  creative 
Word  of  God,  something  else  is  happening. 
I  am  in  that  moment,  when  the  living 
Word  is  fresh-spoken,  brought  again  into 
my  true  being,  as  a  son.  The  prayer  is  not 
so  much  about  God,  now,  as  it  is  showing 
me  myself,  speaking  as  one  of  His  children. 
Saying  the  prayer  makes  for  me  a  little 
festival  of  my  sonship,  in  my  daily  trudge. 
As  one  prays  this  Word  which  Jesus 
gives  him,  the  moment  he  speaks  it,  he  is 
able  to  live  with  God  as  a  son,  again.  The 
prayer  is  a  moment  ot  expansion  in  his 
mind  and  spirit:  what  we  used  to  call  a 
"psychedelic"   moment.    It    is    like    the 
quick  bursting  of  a  flare  over  dark  land- 
scaping,   enabling   one    to   see   oneself 
clearly- 

"Our  Father,  you  say  —  never,  inci- 
dentally (even  if  you  are  alone),  "My 
Father."  Because  that  same  quick  Hare 
ot  light  shows  you  yourself  not  only  as 
His  child,  but  as  a  sibling!  You  are  the  kin 
of  all  people,  for  all  are  His  children. 
Your  world  is  now  again  a  world  where 
all  are  kindred.  That  is  what  the  prayer 
does  to  me  first  thing  in  the  morning,  as  I 
pray  it:  it  is  a  festival  ot  my  accepted  son- 
ship  and  my  accepted  brotherhood.  If  we 
pray  that  at  the  opening  of  the  day,  how 
could  we  ever  hurt  someone,  how  could 
we  hurt  each  other,  in  the  hours  that 
follow? 


Then,  Jesus  tells  us  to  say,  "Hallowed 
be  thy  name."  I  say  it,  and  it  makes  in  my 
consciousness  a  clearing,  in  which  I  find 
myself  stopping,  lifting  my  face,  and  wor- 
shiping Him.  I  am  not  asking  God  to  help 
people  bless  His  name,  because  that 
would  be  to  pray  as  if  this  were  not  true 
speaking.  No,  this  is  the  Word  of  God, 
which  created  the  world,  and  as  we  pray 
it,  as  the  words  are  spoken,  they  re-make 
us  people  who  hallow  Him. 

'Thy  Kingdom  Come' 
"Say  this:  "Thy  Kingdom  come,  Thy 
will  be  done  on  earth,  as  it  is  in  heaven." 

It  I  had  cancer,  I  would  pray  to  be 
healed:  Christ  teaches  me  that  I  should. 
But  in  so  doing,  surely  I  would  not  be 
pleading  that  God  come  down  and  cure 
me.  Nor  am  I  deluded  by  the  old  lie  about 
God,  which  says  it  is  His  will  I  should 
suffer,  and  therefore  I  must  persuade 
God  by  prayers  to  change  His  mind,  and 
let  me  off.  No,  both  of  those  would  be 
superstitious  notions,  of  a  deity  up  there 
one  has  to  work  on  to  get  one's  way. 
Instead,  surely,  I  would  be  praying  in  the 
understanding  of  God  that  Jesus  had,  as 
a  God  of  life,  of  love,  of  health.  And  so  I 
would  find  myself,  in  speaking  the  Jesus 
prayer,  becoming  open  to  the  God  he 
revealed;  I  would  find  myself  drawing 
within  God's  never-ceasing  giving  of 
Himself  as  healer;  I  would  find  myself 
coming  within  the  love  which  He  has 
been  pouring  out  all  the  time!  "Thy  will 
be  done,"  would  not  be  a  plea,  but  a  cele- 
bration! The  prayer  would  not  be  an 
attempt  to  convert  God  to  my  wishes,  but 
mine  to  God's.  And  that's  the  best  I  could 
ever  have!  Or  ever  want! 

It  is  not  a  resigned  sigh,  but  a  shout  of 
joy!  It  celebrates  that  the  very  best  — 
God'swill!  —  is  being  done  —  in  the  sick- 
room, on  the  campus,  wherever. 

Now,  we  know  what  God's  will  is! 
Jesus  understood  it  fully,  spoke  it  unmis- 
takably, lived  it  thoroughly.  So  a  follower 
ot  Christ  knows  it  too,  and  when  he 
prays,  is  thus  seeking  what  God  has 
already  promised;  and  the  prayer  is  the 
experience  of  receiving  it!  It  is  the  moment 
in  which  the  chalice  of  your  life,  to  this 
point  with  cup  down,  is  righted,  the  cup 
now  receiving  the  outpoured  love  God 
has  been  trying  to  give  you  all  along 
What  more  could  one  want? 

"Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread," 
Jesus  tells  us  to  say.  And  as  you  pray  it,, 
you  are  not  asking  God  to  provide  lunch 
for  you;  your  scholarship,  or  your  parents, 
or  your  wages  will  take  care  ot  that.  No,i| 
the  praying  of  the  prayer  rekindles  in 
your  grasp  of  life  the  situation  in  which  ; 
you  know  you  are  receiving  everything 
from  God  —  this  bright  morning,  your 
birth  in  the  arms  of  your  parents,  your  i 
upbringing,  your  task,  your  destiny,  thou 
air  you  breathe,  the  lungs  you  breathe! 
with  —  all  out  of  God!  Give  us  this  day  j 
our  daily  bread,"  I  pray;  and  as  I  say  it,  I ! 


rayer-power 


n  modified  afresh  into  my  own  true 
eing,  as  someone  who  owes  all  he  is, 
id  all  he  has,  to  God. 
And  again,  never,  "Give  me.  .  .  my 
each"  When  I  pray  the  Lord's  Prayer,  I 
'ay  it  as  the  father  of  a  family,  tor  ex- 
nple.  So  I  am  praying  it  for  the  family.  I 
>uld  not  eat  bread  if  my  family  were 
arving.  The  bread  is  for  all  of  us.  When 
pray  the  Lord's  Prayer,  I  pray  it  as  an 
merican,  for  example  a  well-fed, 
eak-fed,  milk-and-honey  American:  so 
must  pray  it,  God  help  me,  tor  the 
iman  family.  The  bread  is  tor  all  ot  us! 
A  little  while  back,  I  saw  on  a  church 
)tice-board  the  message,  "Prayer  is  to 
nplore  God,  not  impress  people!"  Well, 
ie  point  is  well  taken;  but,  no!  Praying 
the  Word  Jesus  gives  us  acts  precisely 
ce  a  press,  which  im-presses  its  image; 
transforms  a  blob  into  the  pattern  ot 
e  press.  His  prayer  transforms  the  peo- 
e  praying  it:  the  Christ-prayer  stamps 
em  with  His  shape  and  style.  His  under- 
anding  of  God,  His  love  of  people. 
That  is  why  it  is  important  to  pray  the 
ord's  Prayer,  before,  say,  one's  own 
rayer:  because  it  is  the  shaper,  it  is  the 
ardstick,  and  the  pointer,  and  the  com- 
ass  —  you  can  not  pray  for  a  Jonestown 
you  have  let  the  Lord's  Prayer  transform 
du  a  moment  before!  After  I  have  knelt 
ere,  and  let  the  Christ-prayer  do  its 
ork.I  cannot  plot  your  hurt!  It  would  be 
gainst  nature. 

I  was  very  moved  some  time  ago,  at  a 
inior  High  Camp,  by  a  comment  one  of 
ie  boys  made.  We  had  had  a  campfire 
ie  night  before,  and  we  had  spoken  the 
ord's  Prayer;  then  I  said  an  evening 
rayer,  quietly  and  haltingly  by  the  fire, 
he  next  morning,  in  a  study  session,  we 
ere  discussing  prayer,  and  this  young 
How  said  he  thought  when  I  was  praying 
ie  night  before,  I  seemed  to  be  listening 
>  God,  and  speaking  what  I  heard.  If  I 
as  —  and  I  pray  I  was!  —  it  was  per- 
aps  a  true  prayer,  which  is  letting  the 
oly  Spirit  work  in  one's  depths  —  deep 
illing  to  deep!  -  so  that  it  is  He  who 
)eaks  in  our  mouths!  Your  own  prayer 
lould  sometimes  surprise  even  you! 
'hen  you  pray  truly,  you  are  seeking 
)ur  way  to  God  —  and  finding  it. 
It  is  even  unlikely  that  you  would  pray 
superstitious  prayer,  after  you  have  let 
ie  Lord's  Prayer  transform  you.  Suppose 
du  go  on  to  pray,  as  your  own  prayer, 
ord,  comfort  the  lonely  people  in  the 


rest-home  down  the  street."  Or,  "Lord, 
feed  that  hungry  family  across  the  way." 
A  superstitious  pray-er  might  say  that, 
expecting  some  deity  to  come  down  and 
do  it.  But  if  you  have  been  im-pressed  by 
Christ's  Word,  and  changed,  praying 
these  same  words,  but  now  out  of  Christ's 
understanding,  creates  in  you  the  respon- 
sibility for  being,  yourself,  a  blessing  to 
those  old  people  in  the  rest-home;  for 
feeding  that  stricken  family,  yourself! 

A  man  who  prays  for  the  poor,  on  his 
knees,  even  with  tears,  but  is  not  himself 
trying  to  change  what  makes  them  poor, 
is  not  praying,  but  blathering. 

Words  and  deeds 

You  may  recall  the  two  children  who 
quarrelled  over  a  bird-trap.  The  boy  had 
set  a  bird-trap  in  the  garden,  and  his  sister 
was  horrified  at  his  cruelty.  That  night,  as 
she  said  her  prayers,  she  added  a  sentence, 
asking  God  not  to  let  her  brother  kill  any 
birds  in  his  trap.  And  she  hopped  into 
bed  with  a  happy  smile.  Her  mother, 
tucking  her  in,  asked,  "Why  the  confi- 
dent smile?"  "God's  going  to  answer  my 
prayer!"  "Oh,  how  can  you  be  so  sure?" 
"Well,  before  we  came  up,  I  went  out 
and  smashed  that  old  bird-trap."  True 
praying  smashes  the  distinction  between 
our  praying  and  our  living,  and  merges 
them  —  they  have  become  blended  into 
each  other,  they  are  part  ol  each  other, 
they  do  not  have  life  without  each  other: 
the  words,  and  the  deeds,  one  flowing 
action,  called  prayer. 

That  is  why  St.  Paul  can  say  seriously, 
"Pray  without  ceasing."  All  day  long? 
Pray,  all  day  long?  Surely!  It  is  not  merely 
talking!  It  is  the  words,  the  thoughts,  the 
feelings,  the  being,  the  deeds,  flowing  to- 
gether. 

And  Jesus  can  now  give  us  the  Words 
that  make  this  connection  irresistible: 
"Forgive  us  our  trespasses,  as  we  forgive 
those  who  trespass  against  us."  And  the 
prayer  is  that  dynamic  movement  in 
which  our  thinking-like-Christ  becomes 
doing  it.  For  as  you  say  this  prayer,  you 
have  instant  recognition  that  you  are  a 
person  who  is  forgiven,  and,  that  you  are 
a  person  who  forgives.  There  is  this  sud- 
den, glorious  realization  that  you  are  ac- 
cepted, just  as  you  are  —  and  that  you 
accept  all  others,  just  as  they  are.  Forgive- 
ness is  a  bridge  over  which  you  know  you 
must  walk,  daily,  and  that  if  you  break  it 
down,  by  not  forgiving,  you  cannot  cross 
over  it  yourself. 

Or,  in  terms  of  the  chalice  of  lite:  your 
cup  of  forgiveness  is  full  —  you  have  re- 
ceived so  much  of  God's  pardon  in  your 
life,  it  is  up  to  the  brim.  You  can  receive 
no  more  forgiveness  from  God,  until  you 
pour  forgiveness  into  the  lives  of  others. 
This  is  the  dove-tailing  ot  your  words  and 
your  life,  afresh! 

We  are  no  longer  babies  needing  a 
divine  wet-nurse  to  whom  to  run  day  and 
night,  to  do  things  for  us.  God  has  made 


us  sons  and  daughters;  He  has  given  us 
the  world,  shown  us  how  to  live  in  it.  and 
holds  us  responsible  for  doing  so. 

Thus,  to  ask  whether  God  answers 
prayer,  is  to  ask  a  superstitious  question. 
Whether  He  answers  superstitious  prayers, 
I  do  not  know  --  perhaps  He  does!  But 
He   answers   true   prayers  always:   the 
question  is  not,  does  God  answer  prayer, 
but  —  do  you?  Do  you  accept  the  answer 
you  are  receiving  as  you  pray?  Because 
the  prayer,  the  true,  creative  word,  as  \\  e 
speak  it,  makes  us  people  who  are  being 
given  his  loving  offering  ot  the  world,  to 
live  in  as  His  sons  and  daughters. 

And  so,  finally  —  for  this  is  how,  Luke 
records,  Christ  ends  the  prayer  and 
brings  it  all  together  --  we  are  to  say. 
"Lead  us  not  into  temptation. 

I  have  said.  I  understand  that  three 
things  happen  as  I  pray  the  Jesus  prayer: 
I  find  myself  in  the  new  situation  which 
praying  the  prayer  opens  to  me;  my 
nature  is  recreated,  as  I  find  myselt  align- 
ing with  Jesus'  understanding  of  God  and 
the  world  —  with  the  words!  I  am  myself 
again  —  my  own  true  being;  and,  a 
momentum  begins  in  me  so  that  my 
living  words  and  my  lived  life  catalyze 
into  each  other. 

Thus,  at  the  end  of  the  prayer,  we  are 
to  say,  "Lead  us  not  into  temptation.'" 
And  as  we  say  it,  we  become  aware  - 
once  again!  (for  we  daily  need  re-awaken- 
ing!) —  that  all  human  existence,  both 
what  is  temptation  for  us,  and  what 
makes  whole,  are  in  Gods  hands!  Both 
evil  and  good,  tragedy  and  joy,  unfairness 
and  justice,  death  and  life,  are  all  part  ot 
the  basic  stuff  of  existing,  and  we  accept 
it  all,  as  in  God's  hands  —  all  of  it! 

But  the  prayer  has  opened  us  to  become 
like  the  Son  of  Man,  able  to  know  the 
difference  between  temptation  and  what 
makes  whole,  evil  and  good,  what  makes 
tragedy  for  people  and  what  enables  joy 
for  them,  unfairness  and  justice,  the  way 
of  death  and  the  way  of  life  —  and  our 
prayer  aligns  us  with  the  latter  in  each 
case:  with  what  makes  whole,  good,  joy- 
ful, just,  life! 

And  finally,  we  are  thrust,  by  our 
praying  as  God's  sons  and  daughters, 
into  action  against  their  opposites 
against  whatever  tempts,  against  whatever 
is  evil  for  people,  or  tragic,  or  unfair,  or 
deadly.  Our  Christ-praying  leaves  us  in 
the  thick  of  it!  We  get  up  from  our  knees, 
and  we  have  a  day  ahead  of  us  filled  with 
struggle,  with  engagement,  which  is  cru- 
cial! Thus  we  say,  "So  be  it!"  Or,  if  you 
prefer  to  speak  Hebrew,  "Amen." 

It  used  to  be  stated  that  the  goal  of 
Centenary  is  to  bring  together  knowledge 
and  vital  piety.  If  my  understanding  of 
prayer  is  near  the  truth,  this  is  a  way. 
There  is  no  gulf  between  them.  This 
community  might  indeed  combine  mind- 
power  with  real  prayer-power.  Which 
might  be  power  enough  to  change  a 
world. 


17 


Strictly 
Personal 


1920s 

JUDGE  CHRIS  T.  BARNETTE  (25)  and  SUE 
CUPPLES  BARNETTE  (28)  hosted  the  Circle 
One  of  the  United  Methodist  Women  at  Noel 
Memorial  Methodist  Church  in  Shreveport  at 
their  camp  north  of  Shreveport.  JUDGE  BARN- 
ETTE is  the  Class  Agent  for  the  classes  of  24, 
25,  26  and  MRS.  BARNETTE  is  the  Class  Agent 
for  the  classes  of  27,  28,  29.  They  welcome  any 
news  from  classmates  of  those  years. 

OTTO  B.  DUCKWORTH  (28)  and  his  wife, 
Louise,  celebrated  their  50th  Wedding  Anniver- 
sary Easter  Sunday,  April  19.  President  GEORGE 
SEXTON  had  married  them  at  his  home  on  the 
Centenary  campus  in  1931.  OTTO  lettered  in 
football  under  BO  McMILLION  and  HOMER 
NORTON. 

1940s 

KATHERINE  ROSS  SULZER  (42)  and  her  hus- 
band, Alexander  were  recently  awarded  the 
first  prize  for  medical  research  in  Peru  in  1980 
by  the  Instituto  Hipolito  Unanue  in  Lima,  Peru. 
Earlier  the  Universidad  Peruana  Gayetano  Here- 
dia  in  Lima  awarded  KITTY  and  her  husband 
the  Degree  Doctor  Honoris  Causa  for  their  med- 
ical work  in  Peru.  The  SULZERS  are  employed 
at  the  U.S.  Centers  for  Disease  Control,  Center 
for  Infectious  Diseases  in  Atlanta.  KITTY  is  in 
charge  of  the  World  Health  Organization  Refer- 
ence Center  for  Leptospirosis. 

JACK  COMEGYS  (47)  has  been  appointed  au- 
ditor of  the  Shreveport  Bank  &  Trust  Co., 
where  he  has  served  as  vice  chairman  of  the 
Board  and  chairman  of  the  Loan  Committee.  He 
is  also  president  of  W  Discount  Corporation. 

HOYT  YOKEM  has  been  appointed  to  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  the  Shreveport  Bank  &  Trust  Co. 
MR.  YOKEM  serves  on  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
Centenary  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Centenary 
Gents  Club.  He  is  currently  President  of  Yokem 
Toyota. 

ETHEL  FULTON  BURGESS  (40)  earned  a  big 
Thank  you"  from  the  Alumni  office  staff  this 
past  summer,  she  volunteered  her  time  during 
most  of  June  and  July  and,  using  her  knowledge 
and  contacts  in  the  Shreveport  area,  supplied 
over  40  addresses  of  Alumni  whom  we  had 
"lost"! 

ROBERT  G.  PUGH  (46),  chairman  of  the  State 
of  Louisiana  Board  of  Regents,  was  reappointed 
by  ABA  President  David  R.  Brink  to  chair  the 
American  Bar  Association's  Standing  Committee 
on  Membership.  BOB,  a  professor  of  law  and 
medicine  at  Louisiana  State  University  Medical 
Center  in  Shreveport,  is  an  attorney  in  private 
practice  in  Shreveport. 

LYLE  L.  BARRE(46)  was  elected  vice  president 
of  Century  A-E  of  Louisiana  Inc.,  an  architects- 
engineers  firm  of  Shreveport. 

WILLIAM  S.  HARWELL,  M.D.  (47)  was  elected 
into  the  American  College  of  Radiology.  The  fel- 
lowship degree  was  formally  conferred  upon 
DR.  HARWELL  in  September  at  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  American  College  of  Radiology 
in  Las  Vegas.  He  and  his  wife,  JEAN  MARIE 
ENTRIKIN  HARWELL  (49),  reside  in  Houston, 
Texas. 

B.  J.  WHITAKER  (49)  was  featured  in  The 
(Shreveport)  Times  celebrating  the  occasion  of 
the  50th  anniversary  of  the  Whitaker  Construction 
Company  begun  by  his  father,  Gus  Whitaker. 


1950s 

WILLIAM  T.  BOWEN  (50)  was  elected  president 
of  the  Ark-La-Tex  chapter  of  the  Marine  Corps 
Reserve  Officers  Association.  BOWEN,  a  retired 
Major  in  the  U.S.  Marine  Corps,  is  founder  of 
the  chapter  which  represents  more  than  300 
active  and  retired  reserve  officers  in  the  area. 

LEE  L.  KINCADE,  JR.  (50)  has  joined  Houston- 
based  GoldKing  Production  Co.  as  its  representa- 
tive in  Shreveport.  LEE  is  a  certified  petroleum 
geologist  of  the  American  Association  of  Petroleum 
Geologists  and  past  president  of  the  Shreveport 
Geological  Society. 

ANNIE  LOUISE  (LOU)  TALLMAN  REARDON 
(54)  writes  that  she  is  no  longer  a  "lost  alumna" 
and  is  living  with  her  husband  and  three  children 
in  Bastrop,  La.,  where  she  is  employed  as  the  of- 
fice manager  at  M.G.  Dickey,  Industries,  Inc. 

JOHN  WILLIAM  CORRINGTON  (56)  is  the 
author  of  The  Southern  Reporter  and  Other 
Stories,  recently  published  by  the  LSU  Press.  He 
is  currently  head  writer,  with  his  wife,  Joyce,  of 
the  new  television  series,  TEXAS. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

EVA  KELLER  MUNSEN  ('06)  -  July  10, 
1981.  Miss  Munsen  was  the  first  woman 
graduate  of  Centenary  College  and  a  member 
of  the  last  class  to  graduate  at  the  Jackson, 
La.  campus. 

J.  OWEN  WARDLOW  (12)  -  April  11, 
1980 

HOMER  E.  TURNER  (18)  -  Mr.  Turner, 
a  professional  artist  in  San  Diego,  was  the 
only  graduate  of  the  Class  of  1918.  With  his 
passing,  the  Class  of  18  becomes  history. 

The  Hon.  JOHN  S.  PICKETT,  SR.  C28)  - 
May  13,  1981. 

CEDRIC  M.  WHITTINGTON  C28)  -  Aug. 

5,  1981 

WILLIAM  STORER(x'31)  -  April,  1981 

BENJAMIN  HORACE  "BEN"  CAMERON 
('35)  -  Nov.  17,  1980 

WARREN  WILLIAMSBOURDIERC38)- 
June  21,  1981 

GEORGE  L.  BLAXTON  ('42)  -  Feb.  9, 
1981 

ELEANOR  S.  JENKINS  C44)  -  May  27, 
1981 

RICHARD  DAVIS  LAING,  JR.  ('47  )  -  July 
9, 1981 

JACKD.  HOLLEY(x'5D-  Aug.  17,1981 


ALBERTE.  BROWNC69)  -  June  14,  1981 

EDWIN  THOMAS  MURPHY  ('49)  -  Aug. 
29, 1981 

J.C.  LOVE,  JR.  -  June  22,  1981.  In  1956 
J.C.  Love  was  granted  an  honorary  degree 
of  Doctorate  of  Humane  Letters  by  Centenary 
College.  He  served  on  the  Board  of  Trustees 
from  1958  unitl  his  death. 


PAUL  GREENBERG  (58)  has  earned  a  di: 
guished  writing  award  given  by  the  Amen 
Society  of  Newspaper  Editors.  GREENBE 
also  the  winner  of  a  Pulitzer  Prize,  is  the  ed 
of  the  editorial  page  of  the  Pine  Bluff,  Al 
Commercial. 

1960s 

MARGIE  SCROGGINS  KELLY  (x60)  has  rj 
named  cashier  at  the  National  Bank  of  Boss 
She  has  worked  with  the  bank  for  24  years 
is  a  member  of  the  Northwest  Louisiana  Gr!  : 
of  the  National  Association  of  Bank  Women 


,i 


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DONNA  HOWELL  DOERLER  (61)  was 
elected  a  provice  director  of  Alpha  Xi  Delta  ; 
attended  the  training  program  at  Purdue.  DON 
is  first  vice  president  of  the  Farmers'  Bral 
^rea  Council  of  PTA. 

LAWRENCE  A.  FALK,  JR.  (62)  is  an  associi 
professor  of  microbiology  and  molecular  gene 
at  the  New  England  Regional  Primate  Resea 
Center,  Harvard  Medical  School,  One  Pine  1 
Drive,  Southborough,  Mass.  91772. 

JOHN  HILL  (64),  a  Major  in  the  Air  Foi 
visited  the  Alumni  Office  while  home  on  le: 
in  Shreveport.  JOHN  spent  two  years  in  Germ, 
near  Luxemborg  at  Pruem  Air  Force  Stat 
working  with  USAFE  and  is  enroute  to  Tin' 
AFB  near  Oklahoma  City  to  work  with  the 
Force  Communication  Computing  Program 
Center. 

LEE  WHELESS  HOGAN  (66)  has  been  elec 
to  the  board  of  directors  of  Arkla  Industries  I 
a  subsidiary  of  Arkansas  Louisiana  Gas  Co.  S 
also  serves  on  the  boards  of  Wheless  Industr 
Inc.  and  Commercial  National  Bank  in  Shre> 
port. 

NANCY  ROGERS  STEELE  (68)  and  her  husba:; 
James,  are  parents  of  a  baby  girl,  Barbara,  be] 
on  March  19.  Their  son,  Justin,  was  four  yen 
old  on  March  18.  MARY  and  JAMES  live  in  S| 
Diego,  Calif. 

BENNETTE  McDOWELL  DANIEL  (60)  af !] 
her  election  as  province  alumnae  director  j 
Alpha  Xi  Delta,  attended  an  intensive  six-dl 
training  program  at  Purdue  University.  BE( 
NETTE  is  a  media  specialist  in  the  Cadi 
Parish  Schools. 

1970s 

DAVID    DENT   (70)   and    CAMILLE   GRE1! 
DENT  (72)  announce  the  birth  of  their  thJ 
girl,  Karen  Anita,  born  on  April  11,  weighing 
lbs.  8  oz.,  19  inches  long. 

CLAUDIA  CARLTON  LAMBRIGHT  (x72)  vJ 
appointed  director  of  student  affairs  and  plail 
ment  of  the  University  of  Georgia  Law  School  [ 
July.  While  at  Centenary  she  was  an  art  stude  | 
but  graduated  with  a  BFA,  and  later  a  M.El 
from  the  University  of  Georgia.  CLAUDIA  id 
niece  of  DR.  VIRGINIA  CARLTON  and  one  o  j 
long  line  of  Carltons  who  have  attended  Cen  j 
nary.  Her  brother,  JACK,  presently  attends  a  | 
both  her  parents,  JACK  K.  (42),  PhD.,  and  vi 
president  of  academic  affairs.  Middle  Tenness 
State  University  and  MARY  ELLEN  (PETRE1 
CARLTON    (47),    graduated    from   Centenai' 
CLAUDIA   married    Russell  J.    Lambright,  aip] 
they  have  one  son,  Daniel,  four  years  old. 

LAWRENCE  C.  HILL  (72)  wishes  to  announ.j 
the    opening    of    his    new    office,    "South    Pa;; 
Family  Clinic"  where  he  specializes  in  gener 
practice. 

JOHN  WATERFALLEN  (74),  recently  graduate) 
from  LSU  Medical  School,  has  hung  out  b'| 
shingle  on  Margaret  Place  in  Shreveport,  whe? 
he  specializes  in  gynocology. 


18 


ALLY  WORD  DAVIS  (73)  a  loan  adjuster  for 

nited  Bank  in  Colorado,  and  her  husband, 
ichard.  will  celebrate  the  first  birthday  of  their 
lughter,  Erin  Pace,  in  October. 

ILL  and  DEBBIE  BROYLES  DUNLAP  (both 
i)  have  a  new  son.  Grain  Broyles  Dunlap,  who 
as  born  in  March.  The  DUNLAPs  live  in  Dallas 
here  BILL  is  the  president  of  Case-Dunlap  En- 
rprises.  Inc. 

OBERT  (ROCKY)  ALLAN  RUELLO  (75)  has 

;en  awarded  the  New  Orleans  Sanitation  De- 
triment's prestigious  "White  Glove  Award'  tor 
)80.  ROGKY  and  his  wife,  Coleen,  also  announced 
e  latest  additions  to  their  growing  family,  twin 
uighters,  Roxanne  and  Rhoda,  born  April  f. 


JANE  COCHRAN  SYKES  (75)  called  to  say  that 
she  and  husband.  Wade,  are  now  living  in  West 
Palm  Beach,  Fla.  working  at  the  Bank  of  Palm 
Beach  and  Trust. 

MARTIN  L.  CAMP  (76)  and  KAY  GRAMMER 
CAMP  (77)  announced  the  April  18  birth  of  Eric 
Clayton  Camp  (red  hair  and  blue  eyes)  with 
"Appointment  of  Special  Power  of  Attorney"  to 
shout  such  news  from  "The  root  tops  and  so 
forth". 

DAVID  SCHALLER  (77)  has  graduated  from 
Austin  Presbyterian  Theological  Seminary,  and 
is  presently  seeking  a  call  tor  the  ministry.  His 
wife,  Patty,  had  their  second  child,  Genevieve 
Stella,  in  December.  Jeremy,  now  three  years  old 
is  very  excited  about  his  new  sister. 


Centements 


During  the  first  clays  of  the  Septem- 
ber registration  period,  we  were 
hearing  such  encouraging  enroll- 
ment figures  that  I  was  curious 
about  the  involvement  of  our  alumni 
in  terms  of  bringing  students  to  Cen- 
tenary. How  many  newly  enrolled 
students  might  have  considered  Cen- 
tenary because  of  the  experiences 
of  family  members  who  are  alumni? 

We  came  up  with  some  figures 
that  might  surprise  you:  fully  20 
percent  of  freshmen  and  transfer 
students  have  an  alumnus  in  the 
family.  Indeed,  12  percent  of  these 
are  children  of  alumni  parents  (one 
or  both)!  This  points  out  in  yet 
another  way  the  extent  to  which 
the  Centenary  experience  is  valued: 
succeeding  generations  know  the 
benefits  of  the  consistently  high 
standards  the  College  maintains. 

The  rise  in  the  average  ACT 
score  of  our  students  demonstrates 
that  the  standards  have  not  been 
lowered.  Yet,  enrollment  has  risen 
to  the  optimum  level.  If  this  trend 
continues,  it  is  logical  that  more 
and  more  applicants  will  be  turned 
away  in  favor  of  better-qualified 
young  people.  However,  while  Cen- 
tenary continues  to  enjoy  the  support 
of  her  alumni,  she  realizes  the 
extent  of  her  obligation  to  them.  By 
paying  serious  attention  to  the  rec- 
ommendations ol  alumni  —  parents, 
family  members,  and  friends  —  the 
College  will  continue  to  attract  quality 
students,  and  will  continue  to  earn 
that  support.  This  we  intend  to  do. 


Letters  from  Class  Agents  are  on 
the  way!  Twenty  classes,  as  we  said 
last  issue,  will  be  serviced  this  year. 

The  following  is  a  roster  of  this 
year's  group  of  Alumni  Class  Agents. 
We  salute  these  fine  folks.  Let's  sup- 
port their  efforts! 


Chris  Webb 


Chris  Thomas  Barnette  '24,  '25  '26 
Emily  Sue  Cupples  Barnette 

'27,  '28,  '29 
Charles  Ravenna  '32 
Jack  &  Glennette  Middlebrooks 

Williamson  49 
Marion  D.  Hargrove,  Jr.  '51 
Ann  Wesson  Wyche  '52 
Martha  Jean  Burgess  Norton  '53 
Stone  &  Eleanor  DeBray 

Caraway  '54 
William  Juan  &  Bonnie  Harrel 

Watkins  '57 
James  M.  Goins  '61 
Eugene  &  Charlotte  Stodghill 

Bryson  '63 
Eneile  Cooke  Mears  '66 
Wayne  &  Donna  Banks  Curtis  '69 
John  &  Sue  Couvillion  Scheel  70 
Ann  Hollandsworth  Kleine  72 
E.  Paul  Young  III  76 
Leah  Ades  Cooper  77 
Bill  DeWare  78 
Becky  Wallace  DeWare  '80 
Jan  Carpenter  '81 

Twenty  more  classes  will  have 
Agents  next  fall,  and  remaining 
classes  will  be  included  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1983.  Let  us  know  if  you 
might  be  interested  in  joining  the 
group! 


DERRIK  LAND  (77)  has  had  two  recent  changes 
in  writes  of  two  recent  changes  news  items.  First, 
he  has  moved  to  Dallas  and,  second,  he  is  getting 
married  in  Oct. 

DONNA  WILSON  MOORES  (77)  is  back  in 
Shreveport.  Her  husband,  TERRY  MOORES 
(74)  played  golf  for  Centenary  and  has  just  been 
named  the  new  golf  coach. 

VAN  DICKENS  (77)  and  KATHY  CLARK- 
DICKENS  (76)  were  featured  in  the  Sunday 
Times  on  the  religion  page.  They  are  both  minis- 
ters and  VAN  is  at  the  First  Methodist  Church  in 
Bossier  City,  KATHY  serves  at  Noel  Memorial. 

CATHY  BUSH  (78)  was  awarded  her  master's 
degree  from  John  Hopkins  University  in  Baltimore, 
and  is  in  pursuit  of  a  doctor's  in  psychology,  also 
at  John  Hopkins. 

MARGARET  A.  BROWN  (79)  has  been  elected 
president  of  the  Caddo  Association  of  Educators, 
a  professional  organization  of  Caddo  Public- 
School  Teachers  and  administrators.  MARGARET 
is  a  mathematics  and  science  teacher  at  the  School 
Away  From  School. 

JOEL  TOHLINE  (74),  and  the  REV.  DANIEL  W. 
TOHLINE  (51 ),  and  JACE  (x73)  are  the  proud  fa- 
ther, grandfather,  and  uncle  (respectively)  of 
Sharon  Renee  Tohline,  born  April  25  and  weighing 
7  lbs,  13  oz.  JOEL  is  a  research  associate  with  the 
Los  Alamos  Scientific  Laboratories  in  Los  Alamos, 
NM.  DAVID  is  the  pastor  of  Mangum  Memorial 
United  Methodist  Church  in  Shreveport. 

JACK  CALDWELL  (79)  received  his  MBA  from 
Tulane  University  in  May  and  is  now  training  to 
be  a  stockbroker  with  Howard,  Weil,  Labouisse, 
Reiedrichs,  Inc.  in  their  Houma,  La.,  office. 

MARK  E.  ROWLAND  (79)  and  Brenda  F.  Hebert 
were  married  in  April  in  Topeka,  KS.  They  are 
living  in  Syracuse,  KS.,  where  MARK  works  for 
the  Kansas  Department  of  Social  and  Rehabilitation 
Services. 

JAN  CARPENTER  (81)  has  been  appointed 
Class  Agent  for  the  Class  of  198 1 ,  the  first  official 
appointment  of  a  Centenary  Alumni  Class  Agent. 
JAN  works  in  the  Pathology  Laboratory  at  Bossier 
General  Hospital. 

THOMAS  C.  MARSHALL,  a  former  Centenary 
student,  and  his  wife,  Nancy  are  co-editors  and 
publishers  of  a  new  bimonthly  magazine  called 
Louisiana  Life,  Magazine  of  the  Bayou  State. 

LINDA  KEENEY  PASSANITI  (81)  has  been 
awarded  a  student  associate  membership  in  the 
American  Institute  of  Chemists.  LINDA  was  also 
nominated  by  the  Chemistry  Department  at  Cen- 
tenary as  the  single  most  outstanding  student. 
She  plans  to  attend  graduate  school  in  the  near 
future. 

KEN  JECK  (81 )  started  work  in  August  as  a  field 
engineer  in  training  for  Welex,  part  of  Halliburton, 
an  oil-well  service  company  in  Liberal.  KS. 

Oops.we  goofed !  CHRIS  ROGERS  (81 )  really  did 
graduate  MAGNA  CUM  LAUDE  with  a  grade 
point  average  of  3.72.  How  could  we  fail  to  recog- 
nize such  an  outstanding  personal  achievement? 
Our  congratulations,  CHRIS. 

SAMUEL  S.  RANIER  (81),  who  was  awarded  his 
MBA  in  May,  has  been  named  supervisor-com- 
munications for  International  Paper  Co.'s  Wood 
Products  Group.  He  had  been  regional  communi- 
cator for  IP's  Mid-South  Region  based  in  Shreve- 
port will  now  be  living  in  Dallas,  Texas. 

STEVE  HONLEY  (81)  is  working  towards  his 
master's  degree  at  George  Washington  University's 
School  of  International  Affairs. 


Centenary 

from 

CENTENARY  COLLEGE 

Shreveport,  Louisiana  71  104 


Second-class  postage  paid  at  Shreveport,  La. 


Homecoming 

Saturday,  December  5, 1981 

Enjoy  —  luncheon  at  noon  in  the  South  Cafeteria  with  former  facult} 

returning  alumni  and  official  Homecoming  hosts,  Camp  an< 
Carolyn  Clay  Flournoy,  '42  and  '45 

Hear  —  James  R.  Dean,  '42,  senior  vice  president  of  Exxon  Corporation 
talk  about  "Energy  in  the  '80s" 

Rekindle  —  friendships  Saturday  afternoon  at  reunions:  Maroon  Jao 

kets,  Choir,  ROTC,  Art,  Psychology  and  Chemistry,  am 
at  fraternity/sorority  open  houses  \ 

Cheer  —   for  the  Gentlemen  when  they  meet  the  Louisiana  Tech  Bu 

dogs  at  7:45  p.m.  in  the  Gold  Dome 

Dance  —  away  the  night  at  a  victory  celebration 

Look  —  for  complete  details  in  a  Homecoming  brochure 

Write  today  —  for  tickets  to  the  game;  there  is  a  limited  supply.  Sen 

$2  per  ticket  with  a  self -addressed,  stamped  envelop 
to  the  Alumni  Office,  P.O.  Box  4188,  Shrevepor 
Louisiana,  71104 


Inside 


Dept.  of  Education 

— IP 

"Our  goal :  to  turn  out 

good  professionals" 

Fifth  master's  degree 
added 

How  do  students 
choose  a  college? 


The  changing 
energy  picture 
—James  Dean  '41 

Homecoming 


Tennis,  anyone? 


4<Ti  1 


It's  good  to  be  back" 

'Businesses  have  a  stake 
in  good  education" 
-W.E.  Bradford  '58 


Gents  Club  President  Jerry  Sawyer  presents  Dr.  Donald  Webb,  president  of  Centenary 
College,  a  contribution  for  a  proposed  new  tennis  facility  while  Walt  Stevens,  (left) 
athletic  director,  looks  on.  The  plan  calls  for  building  three  pairs  of  lighted  courts, 
suitable  for  tournament  play,  to  the  east  of  the  Gold  Dome.  Estimated  cost  of  the  facility 
is  $175,000.  "Centenary's  emphasis  is  quality,"  said  President  Webb.  "In  tennis,  we 
have  quality  players  and  a  quality  coach,  Jimmy  Harrison.  Now,  we  must  provide  for 
them  quality  facilities." 


On  the  cover 


Centenary  College  was  a  winter  wonderland  Thursday,  Jan.  21,  after  Shreveport  s 
largest  snowfall  since  1949.  Some  areas  were  blanketed  in  as  much  as  six  inches  of  the 
white  powder,  including  this  fountain  in  Centenary's  Crumley  azalea  garden. 


The  Centenary  College  magazine,  Cente- 
nary, (USPS  015560)  January,  1982, 
Volume  9,  No.  3,  is  published  four  times 
annually  in  October,  January,  April,  and 
July  by  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
291 1  Centenary  Boulevard,  Shreveport, 
Louisiana,  71104.  Second  Class  postage 
paid  at  Shreveport,  La.  POSTMASTER: 
Send  address  changes  to  Centenary,  P.O. 
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Centenary  strives  to  create  an  understanding  of  the  mission,  plans,  and  progress  of  <j 
Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  campus. 

Editor Janie  Flournoy  '72  I 

Special  Contributors Don  Danvers 

Dr.  Lee  Morgan 

Production Rushing  Printing  Co. 

Alumni  Director Chris  Webb 

Photography Byron  Stringer 

Janie  Flournoy 


Energy 

The  picture 
is  changing, 
says  Exxon 
vice  president 


Even  though  energy  demands  have 
slowed  down  in  the  United  States,  we 
still  depend  on  imported  oil  to  fill  the  gap 
between  the  amount  of  oil  we  need  and 
the  amount  we  can  pump  at  home.  But 
by  the  1990s,  that  picture  should  change 
as  imports  decline  substantially  because 
of  our  own  expanded  synthetic  and  crude 
oil  production. 

That's  the  word  from  James  F.  Dean, 
41,  director  and  senior  vice  president  of 
Exxon  Corporation,  who  spoke  at  Home- 
coming, Saturday,  Dec.  5.  He  and  Mrs. 
Dean,  the  former  Georgia  Till,  flew  in 
from  New  York  for  their  first  visit  back 
on  campus  in  40  years. 

The  slow  growth  means  that  this 
country  will  be  increasing  its  total  energy 
needs  at  less  than  one  percent  a  year 
between  now  and  1990,  said  Mr.  Dean 
to  an  audience  of  alumni,  businessmen, 
and  faculty.  That  compares  with  a  4.4 
percent  rate  during  the  late  1960s  and 
early  70s. 

"If  energy  demand  seems  to  be  ad- 
vancing more  like  a  turtle  than  a  Toyota, 
it's  partly  because  our  economy  isn't 
moving  ahead  as  fast  as  it  used  to,"  Mr. 
|  Dean  explained.  "What  also  seems  to  be 
slowing  demand  is  the  'filet  mignon' 
factor.  The  more  it  costs,  the  less  we  buy. 
The  result  is  broadly  called  conservation 
—  using  less  energy  and  using  what  is 
used  more  efficiently.  This  includes 
turning  down  thermostats  in  winter, 
insulating  and  weatherproofing  homes, 
driving  less  and  driving  slower.  Business 
and  industry  are  also  turning  to  newer, 
more  energy -efficient  equipment.'' 


It's  in  the  cards  —  Exxon  Senior  Vice  President  James  Dean,  '41,  shows  a  familiar  piece 
of  plastic  to  Centenary  College  President  Donald  Webb.  Dean  spoke  on  "Energy  Issues 
of  the  '80s"  after  lunch  during  Homecoming  festivities  Saturday,  Dec.  5. 


It  is  expected  by  1990  that  consumption 
of  conventional  oil  and  gas  will  have 
declined  in  the  United  States.  It  is  also 
expected  that  production  of  crude  oil  and 
natural  gas  liquids  will  decline  substan- 
tially —  from  more  than  10  million 
barrels  a  clay  at  present  to  about  7 
million  in  1990. 

What  sources  will  take  care  of  the 
growth  in  demand  in  the  years  ahead, 
since  even  a  fraction  of  one  percent 
growth  a  year  adds  up  to  the  need  for 
nearly  10  percent  more  energy  between 
now  and  1990?  Probably  more  coal, 
nuclear,  and  to  a  lesser  extent  hydro- 
electric power,  Mr.  Dean  said. 

"Our  own  country  still  depends  on 
OPEC  and  other  foreign  suppliers  for  35 
percent  of  the  oil  we  use,'  he  said. 
"Clearly,  it  is  in  our  national  interest  to 
increase  the  security  of  future  supplies 
and  to  develop  alternative  sources.  Find- 
ing more  petroleum  at  home  and  coaxing 
every  last  bit  of  it  out  of  the  ground  is 
especially  important.  Fortunately,  as 
they  used  to  say  in  my  post  graduate 
days,  the  joint  is  jumping. 

Much  of  that  "jumping"  is  due  to  the 
decontrol  of  crude  oil  prices  which  has 
created  an  entrepreneurial  climate  in 
which  once-marginal  or  even  money- 
losing  propositions  now  make  good  eco- 

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nomic  sense,  he  said.  The  Reagan  Admin- 
istration's confidence  in  the  free  market- 
place and  minimum  government  inter- 
vention is  also  spurring  the  energy  indus- 
try onward  and  upward. 

Exploratory  drilling  onshore  in  the 
United  States  is  now  setting  all-time 
highs.  "In  July,  the  number  of  seismic- 
crews  in  action  —  a  leading  indicator  of 
exploration  activity  —  broke  a  record 
which  stood  for  nearly  30  years,"  Mr. 
Dean  said.  "At  my  own  company,  we're 
drilling  three  times  as  many  onshore 
exploratory  wells  as  we  did  five  years 
ago,  and  our  onshore  seismic  activities 
have  nearly  quadrupled  in  the  same 
period. 

Offshore  —  in  the  Cult  of  Mexico, 
California,  and  Alaska  —  leaders  in  the 
industry  are  looking  forward  to  explora- 
tion in  new  areas.  "Hopefully,  new 
discoveries  in  these  waters  will  add  sig- 
nificantly to  our  oil  and  gas  reserves," 
said  Mr.  Dean.  "The  main  question  is 
how  much  —  and  only  time  and  a  huge 
expenditure  in  money  and  effort  will 
tell." 

Technical  challenges  abound  in  all 
these  activities,  Mr.  Dean  said.  And  they 
point  up  the  need  for  increasing  numbers 
of  well-trained  people  in  the  energy 
field.  (Continued  on  page  11) 


Education :  The  hedge  against  future  shock 


By  W.E.  Bradford 
Class  of  1958 

Education  has  served  us  well  in  this 
country  —  we  can  probably  attribute  our 
success  in  building  such  a  great  nation  to 
the  quality  of  our  educational  institu- 
tions and  to  the  teachers  who  have 
guided  our  population  to  near  universal 
literacy. 

It  seems  to  be  almost  self-evident  that 
the  single  most  important  factor  in  prop- 
agating democracy  and  free  enterprise  is 
superior  compulsory  education  —  yet, 
lately  I  have  read  things  that  perplex  me. 
Leading  educators  are  saying  that  literacy, 
and  they  mean  the  basic  ability  to  read 
and  write,  is  on  the  threshold  of  obso- 
lescence. I  hear  progressive  philosophers 
saying  that  the  written  word  is  dead,  that 
we  are  now  in  a  communications  revolu- 
tion, to  end  in  a  post-literate  society, 
where  vastly  intelligent  machines  will 
think  for  us,  synthesize  our  facts  for  us, 
plan  for  us. 

Frankly,  I  find  that  concept  horrifying. 
I  am  firmly  convinced  that  America's 
future,  the  future  of  democracy  and  capi- 
talism is  founded  on  education.  What  do 
you  suppose  could  be  founded  on  an 
entire  civilization  of  illiterate  individuals 
unable  to  read  a  newspaper,  write  their 
names  or  think  logically  without  an 
electronic  super-brain  to  feed  their  audio 
cassettes,  their  video  cassettes,  to  create 
their  link  with  man,  nature  and  the  uni- 
verse? 

I'm  so  concerned  with  this  possibility 
that  I  would  like  to  talk  with  you  today 
about  the  future  of  education,  about  the 
necessity  to  prepare  for  the  world  to 
come,  to  prepare  for  massive  technological 
and  cultural  change. 

Alvin  Toffler  in  the  book  Future  Shock 
wrote: 

"In  the  technological  systems  of  tomor- 
row —  fast,  fluid  and  self-regulating  ma- 
chines will  deal  with  the  flow  of  physical 
materials;  men  with  the  flow  of  informa- 
tion and  insight.  Machines  will  increas- 
ingly perform  the  routine  tasks;  men  the 
intellectual  and  creative  tasks  ..." 

He  continues  by  saying  that  the  accel- 
erative  thrust  of  our  environment  will 


grow  faster  and  tomorrow's  individual 
will  have  to  cope  with  even  more  hectic 
change  than  we  do  today,  and  he  calls  for 
us  to  develop  in  children  a  cope-ability. 

"It  is  no  longer  sufficient  for  Johnny  to 
understand  the  past,"  he  wrote.  "It  is  not 
even  enough  for  him  to  understand  the 
present,  for  the  here-and-now  environ- 
ment will  soon  vanish.  Johnny  must  learn 
to  anticipate  the  direction  and  rate  of 
change.  He  must,  to  put  it  technically, 
learn  to  make  repeated,  probabilistic, 
increasingly  long-range  assumptions  about 
the  future." 

I  think  that  one  of  the  things  Mr. 
Toffler  is  talking  about  here  is  the  resur- 
gence of  the  Renaissance  man  —  a  man 
with  a  broad-based  education,  multi-dis- 
ciplined knowledge.  That  is  the  only 
kind  of  individual  that  will  be  able  to 
survive  in  the  future. 

Let's  explore  for  a  moment  the  here 
and  now  and  that  phenomenon  of  modern 
civilization  —  the  information  explosion. 
This  year  our  world  will  generate  more 
data,  more  technical  information  than 
has  been  generated  ever  in  the  history  of 
man,  all  combined.  Next  year's  informa- 
tion explosion  will  grow  by  the  same 
order  of  magnitude.  What  we've  got  here 
is  an  acceleration  of  pace  nobody,  not 
even  the  great  thinkers,  predicted  a 
decade  ago.  Now,  things  that  five  years 
ago,  were  twenty  years  off  are  coming  to 
fruition  tomorrow. 

So,  the  future  is  now.  Things  we 
thought  were  years  away  are  happening 
today.  Take  the  computer  business  itself. 
In  the  1960s  some  brilliant  engineer  in- 
vented a  little  disc,  which  he  called  a  4K 
chip.  He  figured  out  a  way  to  store  4,000 
bits  of  information  on  this  little  round 
disc,  a  quarter  of  an  inch  wide,  by  im- 
planting thousands  of  dots  of  ferric  oxide, 
each  electrically  charged. 

Then  somebody  invented  an  8K  chip 
capable  of  storing  8,000  bits  of  informa- 
tion. Today  the  current  generation  of 
64,000  bits  is  too  slow  and  too  big,  so  the 
latest  thing  is  to  switch  to  a  memory 
bubble,  which  processes  well  over 
100,000  bits  of  information. 

One  way  of  describing  what  is  hap- 
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pening  to  computers,  to  our  society,  is  to 
look  at  hand-held  calculators.  Just  a  few 
years  ago  a  calculator  cost  $300;  now 
you  can  buy  one  for  $  10.  If  it  breaks,  you 
throw  it  away.  But  then,  it's  probably 
already  obsolete.  A  computer  the  size  of 
a  large  room  just  a  few  years  ago  is  now 
replaced  with  a  bread  box-sized  machine 
that  can  operate  faster,  process  more,  at 
a  lower  price. 

The  result  of  all  this  is  mass  production 
at  low  cost.  The  computer  people  are 
now  saying  by  the  mid-1980s  all  kinds  of 
consumer  products  will  be  on  the  market 
—  including  your  very  own  home  com- 
puter, which  will  do  your  shopping  list, 
balance  your  checkbook,  dispatch  a  robot 
machine  to  mow  the  lawn,  and  cook  your 
dinner. 

Now  the  effect  of  all  this  is  that  our 
culture  will  change  drastically.  We'll 
have  fully  automated  manufacturing 
plants  entirely  computerized;  we'll  have 
many  industries  operated  by  far  fewer 
people  than  today.  With  medical  break- 
throughs producing  human  longevity, 
combined  with  fewer  working  hours  and 
more  leisure  time,  our  country  will  face  a 
crisis. 

That  crisis  will  be  what  to  do  with  the 
millions  of  citizens  who  have  more  time 
on  their  hands  than  they  can  find  ways  to 
spend.  I  believe  that  only  education  can 
circumvent  that  crisis.  Without  educa- 
tion, we  can  expect  a  society  of  restless 
people,  people  who  might  resort  to  mass- 
consumption  of  drugs;  people  who  might 
resort  to  mass-infliction  of  violence  (wit- 
ness what  happened  when  the  lights 
went  out  for  24  hours).  We  will  have  in- 
finite social  problems.  And  education  is 
the  only  answer. 

William  Simon  wrote  in  A  Time  for 
Truth:  Freedom  is  not  a  presence, 
freedom  is  an  absence  of  governmental 
constraint,  an  absence  of  absolute  control. 
Freedom  of  productive  human  action, 
such  as  free  enterprise  or  capitalism  — 
means  that  men  are  free  to  produce,  to 
succeed,  to  fail,  to  exchange  goods  and 
services  —  all  on  a  voluntary  basis  without 
significant    governmental   interference. 


"Businesses  have  a  stake  in  good  education  in  the  humanities 
and  value-creating  disciplines.  For  our  way  of  life  to  survive  the 
future,  we  are  going  to  have  to  turn  out  men  and  women  who  are 
better  prepared  than  we  .  .  . " 


In  the  most  fundamental  sense,  the  right 
to  freedom  in  this  entire  chain  of  pro- 
ductive action  adds  up  to  the  basic  right 
to  life.  And  our  right  of  passage,  our  right 
to  dissent,  our  right  to  reach  for  our  own 
star  can  be  preserved  only  through  educa- 
tion." 

"Education  makes  a  people  easy  to 
lead,  but  difficult  to  drive;  easy  to  govern 
but  impossible  to  enslave,"  an  English 
Parliamentarian  wrote.  For  our  economy, 
our  society,  to  remain  healthy,  our 
educational  system  must  remain  healthy. 

I  believe  that  the  business  community 
has  a  large  stake  in  fostering  this  kind  of 
education.  Businesses  have  a  stake  in 
good  education  in  the  humanities  and 
value-creating  disciplines.  For  our  way  of 
life  to  survive  the  future,  we  are  going  to 
have  to  turn  out  men  and  women  who 
are  better  prepared  than  we  are,  who 
can  understand  the  achievements  of  the 
past  and  realistically  project  the  achieve- 
ments of  the  future;  individuals  who  can 
classify  and  reclassify  information;  who 
can  evaluate;  who  can  look  at  problems 
from  a  new  direction.  And  what  is  more, 
it  will  no  longer  be  enough  just  to  know 
how  to  read;  tomorrow's  men  and  women 
must  be  able  to  know  how  to  learn  and 
how  to  think. 

A  couple  of  generations  ago  a  person 
who  had  completed  high  school  thought 
he  knew  it  all.  Then  things  progressed, 
and  to  be  educated  required  a  college 
degree.  Now  we  have  to  come  to  grips 
with  the  fact  that  finishing  school  ISN'T; 
it  is  temporary  education,  and  many  of 
our  population  will  experience  up-date 
education  on  a  plug-in/plug-out  basis  all 
of  their  lives.  We  will  have  a  huge  com- 
munity of  retirees  —  some  in  their  50s, 
going  back  to  school  to  learn  new  ideas, 
new  disciplines,  to  prepare  themselves 
for  50  more  years  of  productive  life. 

It  will  be  a  world  where  education  has 
never  been  more  important.  Where 
education  alone  can  circumvent  the  crisis. 
I  think  we'll  see  the  return  to  the  Renais- 
sance man  where  students  will  concen- 
trate on  basics  —  physics,  chemistry, 
grammar  -  the  fundamentals  of  all  the 
known  sciences,  the  basic  theories  — 
and,  most  importantly,  students  will  have 
to  know  how  to  talk  to  their  computers  to 
make  it  all  work. 

Highly  specialized  study  will  be  folly 
—  the  gamble  of  obsolescence,  too  danger- 
ous a  price.  Students  will  concentrate  on 
language  and  intellect.  Fundamental  skills 
in  reading,  calculating  and  communi- 
cating will  be  the  key  to  understanding 
the  impact  of  the  future.  The  grasp  of 
relationships  between  history  and  soci- 
ology, between  music  and  math  will 
produce  the  understanding  of  theory  and 
the  ability  to  separate  truly  meaningful 
ideas  from  those  of  little  substance. 

The  traits,  the  talents,  the  attributes 
people  will  be  required  to  have  then,  are 
the  same  characteristics  we  look  for  now 
in  the  kind  of  effective  individual  that 
my  company,  any  company  for  that 
matter,  is  happy  to  hire  and  promote  to 


positions  of  responsibility. 

Our  first  criterion  is  a  good  native  in- 
telligence supported  by  a  strong  general 
educational  background.  Give  me  a  per- 
son who  knows  and  understands  the 
greater  scheme  of  things,  and  that  will  be 
the  employee  best  equipped  to  handle 
the  job. 

Second  is  enthusiasm,  interest,  moti- 
vation, discipline.  The  character  trait  of 
stick-to-it-ive-ness,  of  determination. 

Third  —  creativity  and  innovation,  the 
ability  to  see  things  a  different  way,  to 
project,  to  anticipate,  to  find  new  horizons. 

Fourth  —  the  ability  to  communicate. 
If  a  person  can't  communicate,  then  he  or 
she  is  of  no  use  to  any  company.  It  is  an 
absolute  necessity  that  any  employee  be 
able  to  read,  to  listen,  to  synthesize 
ideas;  that  he  or  she  write  clearly  and 
concisely  in  an  organized  and  logical 
way.  Many  promising  executives  have 
failed  because  they  could  not  write  a 
reasonable  report  or  speak  before  a 
group  of  people.  Simply  put,  it  doesn't 
matter  how  good  an  employee's  ideas 
are,  what  wonderful  new  methods  or 
techniques  an  employee  creates;  if  he  or 
she  is  not  able  to  communicate  thoughts 
logically,  precisely,  persuasively  and  artic- 
ulately, then  the  game  is  lost  at  kick-off. 
And  all  the  future  games  as  well. 

Corporations  will  always  need  bright 
energetic  people  with  these  traits.  And 
more.  Overriding  the  whole  concept  is 
that  of  accountability.  If  these  individuals 
are  not  responsible,  are  not  accountable, 
then  buck  passing  becomes  the  primary 
pastime  and  product  of  a  company,  and 
the  spark  of  individuality  is  extinguished. 
As  we  all  know,  companies  don't  run 
themselves.  People  run  them.  If  a  problem 
in  business  exists,  then  it  takes  a  person 
to  fix  it.  Businesses  don't  have  engineering 
problems  —  people  do.  Simply  put,  busi- 
nesses are  groups  of  people  with  various 
talents  all  working  together  toward  a 
common  goal. 

I  have  heard  it  said  that  corporations, 
particularly  large  corporations,  create 
mechanical  men  from  individuals.  But  I 
really  don't  believe  this  is  true  now  or 
will  be  in  the  future.  There  is  much 
evidence  in  the  business  world  today  to 
substantiate  the  fact  that  these  groups 
make  great  personalities  much  more 
effective.  With  the  help  of  an  organization, 
an  individual  can  be  far  more  effective 
than  when  operating  alone.  To  those 
who  are  of  strong  character  and  person- 
ality, the  existence  of  the  organization 
itself  is  a  great  challenge  that  creates 
leadership  and  brings  about  otherwise 
unattainable  results. 

Clearly  it  is  not  the  purpose  of  an 
organization  to  reduce  the  effectiveness 
of  the  individual.  The  basic  purpose  is  to 
band  people  together  for  the  discovery, 
development,  support,  and  perpetuation 
of  much  larger  work  than  an  individual 
alone  could  do.  But  it  all  comes  back  to 
each  person's  ability,  each  person's 
contribution,  each  person's  character- 
istics. 


Alumnus  writes 


Bill  Bradford  is  a  1958  geology 
graduate  of  Centenary  College  and 
the  father  of  sophomore  Kathleen 
Bradford. 

His  speech,  "Education:  the 
hedge  against  future  shock,"  was 
delivered  to  the  Oklahoma  City 
Chamber  of  Commerce  when  he 
was  vice  president  of  the  U.S.  and 
Canadian  Operations  for  the  Se- 
curity Division  of  the  Oilfield 
Products  Group  of  Dresser  Indus- 
tries, Inc. 

Today,  Mr.  Bradford  serves  as 
the  president  of  the  Oilfield  Equip- 
ment Group  of  Dresser  Industries 
in  Houston,  Texas,  a  position  he 
has  held  for  two  years. 

He  has  served  on  the  Board  of 
Equalization  for  the  Tomball 
School  District  and  is  currently  a 
member  of  the  School  Board.  Mr. 
Bradford  has  also  served  on  the 
International  Business  Committee 
tor  the  Houston  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. 

Mr.  Bradford  holds  membership 
in  the  Society  of  Petroleum  Engi- 
neers, American  Association  of  Pe- 
troleum Geologists,  and  Petroleum 
Equipment  Suppliers  Association 
and  is  a  member  of  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  American  Petrole- 
um Institute,  Texas  Mid-Continent 
Oil  &  Gas  Association,  and  the 
International  Petroleum  Associa- 
tion. He  is  listed  in  Who's  Who  in 
the  South  and  Southwest  and  Who  s 
Who  in  America. 

Mr.  Bradford  is  a  member  of  the 
Petroleum  Club  of  Houston,  Cham- 
pions Golf  Club,  the  University 
Club  ot  Houston,  and  the  Heritage 
Club.  In  his  spare  time,  he  enjoys 
sport  fishing  and  hunting. 


Perspectives 


Joye  Holley  Thome 

When  Joye  Holley  Thorne  left  Centenary  College  with  a  de- 
gree in  journalism  and  public  relations,  she  had  no  idea  that 
someday  she  would  be  advising  a  vice  presidential  task  force 
and  winning  awards  in  the  field  of  special  education. 

"Strangely  enough,"  she  writes,  "Even  though  I  didn't  plan  to 
teach,  I  first  learned  about  exceptional  children  while  at  Cente- 
nary. I  had  never  seen  an  'educationally  different'  student  until 
we  were  required  to  spend  time  in  a  special  center  by  our  soror- 
ity, Zeta  Tau  Alpha.  It  made  a  lasting  impression  on  me.  As  I 
slowly  evolved  into  a  special  educator,  I  often  remembered 
those  original  experiences  and  wonder  at  the  strange  turn  of 
events  that  has  brought  me  full  circle.  It  is  apparent  to  me  that 
special  education  is  where  I  can  be  of  best  service,  yet  when  I 
was  17,1  didn't  want  to  teach.  Fortunately,  Centenary  gave  me 
a  broad  background,  a  firm  foundation,  that  permitted  me  to 
change  my  career  goals  as  I  matured.  If  I  had  had  a  narrower 
educational  base,  these  opportunities  might  not  have  come  or 
might  not  have  been  recognized  when  they  did." 

Since  those  days  at  Centenary  in  the  early  1950s,  Dr.  Thorne 
has  built  on  that  foundation  to  become  director  of  special 
education  for  some  3800  students  in  the  Aldine  Independent 
School  District  in  Houston,  Texas.  "We  have  a  very  comprehen- 
sive program  of  special  education,  one  of  the  most  thorough  in 
the  state,"  she  writes.  Testimony  to  that  are  the  numerous 
awards  Dr.  Thorne  has  won  —  three  in  1980  alone. 

It  was  also  at  Centenary  College  where  she  met  her  husband 
Michael,  who  earned  his  B.S.  and  law  degree  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Houston.  They  have  one  son.  Chip,  now  23  years  old. 

"I  treasure  my  days  at  Centenary,"  Dr.  Thorne  said.  "My  lib- 
eral arts  education  was  an  excellent  preparation  for  life,  one 
that  has  stood  me  in  good  stead  as  my  career  goals  have 
changed." 


Ascension  Smith 

It's  no  surprise  that  Centenary  alumna  Ascension  Smith  won 
the  "Educator  of  Distinction"  award  presented  at  the  Louisiana 
PTA  State  Convention  last  April. 

The  enthusiastic  principal  of  Shreveport's  first  Magnet  High 
School  —  a  college  preparatory  school  —  was  also  its  shaper. 
The  Caddo  Parish  School  Board  accepted  her  proposal  in  its 
entirety  and  without  a  single  change. 

"Next,  I  presented  the  Magnet  proposal  to  the  students,  to 
the  teachers,  and  to  the  community,"  she  said.  "I  faced  each 
group  and  began :  'Young  people,  I  come  to  you  with  a  message 
that  may  change  your  lives.  Today  you  may  begin  to  formulate 
some  goals  for  yourself.  You  may  decide  to  become  somebody. 
We  do  not  know  what  the  future  holds  for  us,  but  we  can 
prepare  for  tomorrow  by  becoming  knowledgeable.  " 

The  Seville,  Spain,  native  earned  her  B.S.  degree  from 
Seville  College  and  her  B.A.  degree  from  Centenary  College  in 
1969.  She  recalls  four  professors  who  "come  to  mind  because  of 
their  support  and  encouragement  —  the  late  Dr.  Bryant  David- 
son, Dr.  Joseph  Garner,  Dr.  Earle  Labor,  and  Dr.  Robert  Hall- 
quist." 

Mrs.  Smith  earned  her  master's  degree  at  LSU  and  her  +30 
at  Louisiana  Tech  University. 

She  was  awarded  membership  in  Phi  Kappa  Phi  Honor 
Society  at  LSU,  Lambda  Iota  Tau,  and  Delta  Kappa  Gamma, 
and  was  the  recipient  of  the  Honorary  Senator  of  Louisiana 
award  in  1979. 

One  of  her  favorite  sayings  is  from  Schopenhauer:  "what  a 
man  is  contributes  more  to  his  happiness  than  what  he  has. " 


How  do  students 
choose  a  college? 


By  Dr.  Antoinette  T.  Price 

Supervisor  of  Guidance 
Caddo  Parish  School  Board 

Directive  counseling  is  the  right  of 
every  parent.  Helping  children  to  prepare 
for  college  is  a  parental  responsibility. 
Considering  these  two  factors,  parents 
should  play  an  important  role  in  deciding 
if  their  child  should  go  to  college  and 
which  college  their  child  should  attend. 

Making  realistic  choices  in  decision- 
making is  difficult.  Guidance  with  free- 
dom of  choice  is  necessary.  The  parents 
and  the  child  should  kn^w  all  about  the 
academic  life  of  the  child,  and  the  child 
needs  many  experiences  concerning 
career  opportunities  in  the  world  of 
work.  Children  should  know  about  them- 
selves, what  interests  them,  and  what 
they  do  well. 

In  most  schools  there  are  cumulative 
records  on  every  child.  Parents  and  the 
child  have  the  right  to  examine  data  that 
reveal  potential,  academic  progress, 
aptitude,  and  social  interaction.  Key 
contact  person  for  personal  data  is  the 
school  counselor. 

The  child  and  the  parents  should  discuss 
goals  and  select  those  goals  that  are 
realistic.  Goals  should  be  in  line  with 
abilities,  interests,  and  personality.  Career 
information  in  such  publications  as  Occu- 
pational Outlook  Handbook  should  be 
explored.  Before  plans  are  formulated, 
the  high  school  counselor  and  the  other 
school  staff  need  to  be  involved  because 
of  their  expertise. 

Developing  competencies  before  col- 
lege entrance  is  the  clue  to  success  for 
setting  realistic  goals.  Reading,  writing, 
speaking  and  listening,  mathematical 
reasoning,  and  studying  competencies 
have  been  identified  as  the  "Basic 
Academic  Competencies."  These  compe- 
tencies are  the  developed  abilities  that 
high  school  students  should  possess.  As 
students  with  these  competencies  achieve 
in  the  curriculum  for  academic  prepara- 
tion to  college,  more  realistic  goals  can  be 
made. 

Once  goals  have  been  established,  it  is 
time  to  select  a  college  that  matches  the 


educational  requirements.  Parents  and 
students  should  take  the  initiative  in 
learning  about  colleges  and  universities. 
High  schools  and  public  libraries  have  all 
types  of  college  directories.  The  College 
Handbook,  1 981  -82  and  Barron  s  Profiles 
of  American  Colleges  are  just  two  of 
these  publications.  Too,  college  catalogs 
and  brochures  are  available  upon  request. 
In  most  high  schools,  college  representa- 
tives are  yearly  visitors.  The  Directors  of 
Admissions  of  the  colleges  will  send 
information.  An  on-site  campus  visit  is 
desirable.  If  an  admission  test  is  required, 
test  registration  forms  should  be  obtained, 
and  the  test  results  need  to  be  reported. 
College  application  forms,  which  require 
transcripts,  then  should  be  completed. 
Some  colleges  require  an  essay  or  biog- 
raphy. 

Costs,  scholarships,  and  financial  aid 
need  to  be  investigated.  Financial  Aid 
Forms  (FAFS)  are  available.  Many  stu- 
dents have  misconceptions  about  their 
eligibility  for  financial  aid.  Electronic 
communications  technology  is  now  linking 
students  and  families  with  colleges, 
government  agencies,  and  others  for 
financial  aid.  Deadlines  are  important  if 
financial  assistance  is  needed. 

The  grades  a  high  school  student  obtains 
and  test  scores  are  deciding  factors  for 
admission.  Too,  colleges  consider  rank  in 
class,  courses  completed,  talents,  extra- 
curricular activities,  recommendations, 
essays,  and  personal  qualifications. 

Many  high  schools  have  career  and 
college  programs.  Parents  and  students 
should  attend  these  programs  together. 
School  counselors  are  available  for  con- 
sultation. These  counselors  and  college 
admission  officers  can  help  students  and 
parents  learn  about  the  process  of  tran- 
sition from  high  school  to  college. 

When  deciding  on  a  college,  the  choice 
needs  to  be  a  planned  one.  Peer  influence 
should  not  be  the  deciding  factor.  Careful 
planning  by  the  parents  and  the  student 
to  meet  goals  and  needs  will  enhance 
personal  development  and  fulfillment, 
prevent  disappointment,  and  save  time 
and  money. 

7 


About  the  author 

A  summa  cum  laude  graduate  of 
Centenary  College,  Dr.  Antoinette 
Tuminello  Price  has  worked  with 
high  school  and  college  students 
since  1 95 1 ,  when  she  began  teach- 
ing at  Fair  Park  High  School. 

She  taught  English,  social  studies, 
and  journalism  there  for  fourteen 
years  before  entering  the  field  of 
guidance  counseling.  Three  years 
later,  she  was  appointed  educa- 
tional consultant  for  the  Caddo 
Parish  School  Board  Special  Edu- 
cation Center,  a  position  she  held 
for  ten  years. 

In  1979,  she  was  awarded  her 
Doctor  of  Education  degree  from 
Northwestern  State  University 
(NSU),  the  same  year  she  was 
named  administrator  of  the  After 
School  Learning  Support  Centers 
in  Caddo  Parish.  Dr.  Price  currently 
serves  as  supervisor  of  guidance 
for  the  entire  Caddo  Parish  school 
system. 

In  her  spare  time,  she  teaches 
graduate  education  courses  at  Cen- 
tenary College  and  at  Louisiana 
Tech  University.  She  has  also  taught 
undergraduate  courses  at  NSU. 
She  holds  membership  in  numerous 
professional  organizations  and  has 
published  several  articles.  She 
lectures  frequently  to  professional 
and  civic  groups  and  does  con- 
sultations through  Northwest 
Louisiana. 

Dr.  Price  is  married  and  has  two 
children,  ages  19  and  15  —  one 
already  in  college  and  one  who 
will  be  seeking  her  advice  soon! 


Department  of  Education  has  teacl 


Coordinator  of  teacher  placement  Linda 
Williams  checks  the  teacher  placement  files 
on  a  former  student.  Files  are  kept  on  all 
students  who  become  certified  teachers  so 
that  they  may  be  made  available  to  pros- 
pective employers. 


The  need:  quality  teachers  in  our 
nation's  schools. 

The  resource:  Centenary  College  De- 
partment of  Education. 

For  over  60  years,  professors  in  Cen- 
tenary's Department  of  Education  have 
been  teaching  students  to  be  teachers. 
And  since  1976,  when  the  master's 
program  was  begun,  they  have  been 
teaching  teachers  to  do  a  better  job  in  the 
classroom. 

A  full-time  staff  of  four  professors  — 
Dr.  Dorothy  Gwin,  Dr.  Joseph  Garner, 
Dr.  Robert  Hallquist,  and  Dr.  Gaius 
Hardaway  —  are  assisted  by  eight  part- 
time  instructors  who  are  practicing  pro- 
fessionals. Together  they  instruct  68 
undergraduate  students  and  103  graduate 
students,  41  of  whom  are  working  on 
their  master's  degree. 

"Our  Department  of  Education  has 
always  prided  itself  in  being  a  step  ahead 
of  other  colleges  and  universities  in 
Louisiana,"  said  Dr.  Gwin.  "We  initiated 
the  concept  of  the  sophomore  college 
student  spending  time  in  actual  classroom 
situations  before  the  Louisiana  State 
Department  of  Education  did.  Now  it  is  a 
requirement  of  the  state." 

A  close  campus-community  relationship 
has  existed  since  that  initiation  of  class 
visitation  in  1968. 

"At  the  elementary  level,  we  have  had 
arrangements  with  Barret  School  to  allow 
our  juniors  to  teach  prepared  lessons  to 
'  live  '  children  in  a  real  school,"  said  Dr. 
Hallquist.  "With  this  pre-student  teacher 
experience,  they  are  really  anxious  — 
chomping  at  the  bit  —  to  do  their  full- 
time   student   teaching  in   their  senior 


year. 

Centenary  students  studying  ele- 
mentary education  will  also  have  an 
opportunity  next  fall  to  observe  and 
teach  in  Caddo  Parish's  new  Lab  School, 
complete  with  video  tape  equipment,  up- 
to-date  science  center,  excellent  library, 
and  other  modern  facilities. 

Secondary  education  students  also 
participate  in  classroom  observations  and 
student  teaching  —  some  30  hours  per 
semester  for  each  facet. 

With  the  extensive  experience  of  Drs. 
Garner  and  Hallquist  in  the  Caddo  Parish 
School  System  and  Dr.  Hardaway  in  the 
Bossier  Parish  School  System,  the  co- 
ordination of  Centenary  student  and  co- 
operating classroom  teacher  is  relatively 
easy. 

"We  have  a  good  relationship  with  the 
schools,"  beamed  Dr.  Hardaway,  a  1949 
graduate  of  Centenary.  "And  we  really 
try  to  give  the  students  as  many  different 
instructional  situations  as  we  can." 

"We've  got  a  sharp  group  of  young 
people,  and  they  are  like  young  people 
all  over  the  country.  They  are  capable  of 
doing  much  more  than  they  project,  so 
we  have  to  develop  that."    . 

Any  Centenary  student  may  take  the 
January  Interim  course  being  offered 
jointly  this  year  by  the  Departments  of 
Education  and  Sociology. 

"Dr.  (Charles  E.)  Vetter  and  I  will 
team-teach  the  course  on  'Problems  of 
Inner  City  Schools,'  "  said  Dr.  Garner.  "It 
will  give  the  students  an  opportunity  to 
work  in  an  inner-city  school  in  order  to 
gain  a  greater  understanding  of  the  needs 
of  these  people." 


Fifth 

master's 

degree 

added 


Persons  interested  in  working  towards 
a  master's  degree  in  secondary  education 
can  now  do  so  at  Centenary  College. 

Approved  by  the  faculty  in  October, 
the  degree  becomes  the  fifth  master's 
degree  in  education  offered  by  Centenary. 
The  others  are  Elementary  School  Admin- 
istration, Secondary  School  Admin- 
istration, Supervisor  of  Instruction,  and 
Elementary  Education. 

"Our  intent  is  to  provide  courses  to 
meet  the  needs  of  practicing  professionals 
in  surrounding  areas,"  said  Dr.  Joseph 
Garner,  chairman  of  the  Department  of 
Education.  "And  this  program  does  just 
that.  Previously,  persons  wanting  to 
pursue  a  master's  degree  in  secondary 
education  had  to  take  courses  in  adminis- 
tration, even  though  many  of  them  had 
8 


no  desire  to  become  administrators.  Now, 
students  can  work  toward  the  degree 
they  want." 

The  program  began  immediately  with 
several  students  switching  from  the 
administration  program  into  the  new 
one. 

"One  of  the  nice  things  about   the  | 
program   is    that    we    can   tailor   each 
student's  course  work  to  his  or  her  special 
needs.  It's  comprehensive,  yet  flexible," 
said  Dr.  Garner. 

Graduate  courses  at  Centenary  also 
meet  Professional  Improvement  Programs 
(PIPS)  requirements,  the  +30  require 
ments,  and  requirements  for  a  reading 
specialist  certification.  New  courses  are 
constantly  being  added  to  the  graduate 
curriculum  including  Orff-Kodaly  Music, 


at  heart 


Towards  the  future 

Housed  in  the  basement  of  Mickle 
Hall,  members  of  the  Department  of 
Education  include  on  their  "wish  list" 
physical  facilities  that  could  better  support 
teaching. 

"It  would  be  great  to  have  an  educa- 
tional resource  center  for  films,  video- 
tapes, even  small  computers,"  said  Dr. 
Carner.  "A  video-tape  of  a  student 
teaching  could  be  used  as  part  of  his  or 
her  resume." 

The  tape  could  become  part  of  the 
student's  teacher  placement  file,  kept  by 
Linda  Williams,  department  secretary. 
"We  have  files  on  our  certified  teachers," 
explained  Linda,  "and  whenever  con- 
tacted by  a  school  system  —  in  or  out  of 
state  —  regarding  a  prospective  employee, 
we  can  make  the  file  available."  Included 
in  the  packet  are  biographical  information 
and  references. 

A  video-tape  would  really  enhance  the 
placement  file  and  teacher  education 
program.  "A  prospective  employer  could 
tell  so  much  more  by  seeing  how  the 
person  works  in  the  classroom  —  his 
techniques,  management  skills,  and  rap- 
port with  the  students.  It's  really  the 
coming  thing  and  would  add  immeasur- 
ably to  evaluating  the  student's  per- 
formance in  teaching,"  said  Dr.  Carner. 

Dreams  aside,  the  reality  of  Centenary's 
Department  of  Education  in  Dr.  Hard- 
away's  words  is  this.  "The  people  here 
are  dedicated,  and  this  campus  is  a 
completely  nice  place  to  be.  Our  goal:  to 
turn  out  good  professionals." 


Religion  Studies  in  Public  Education, 
Sex  Equity  in  Education,  and  Leadership 
Training  for  Administrators,  to  name  a 
few.  Also,  four  graduate  English  courses 
have  been  added. 

Seven  times  during  this  1981-82  school 
year,  the  Department  of  Education  will 
sponsor  seminars  from  the  Learning 
Institute,  featuring  such  nationally  known 
educators  as  Madeline  Hunter  and  Mari- 
lyn Burns.  It  is  estimated  that  some 
1,000  men  and  women  will  have  attended 
the  seven  institutes  during  the  year. 

"The  lecturers  are  the  nation's  most 
outstanding  educators,  and  we  are  pleased 
that  we  can  help  make  it  possible  for 
local  professionals  to  have  access  to 
them,"  said  Dr.  Garner. 


■ : 


The  library  is  a  familiar  place  to  education  students  and  faculty  including  (clockwise)  Dr. 
Dorothy  Gwin,  Dean  of  the  College  and  professor  of  education:  Dr.  Robert  Hallquist; 
Visiting  Professor  Gains  Hardaway,  and  Dr.  Joseph  Garner. 

9 


Financially  Speaking 


Scholarships 

Shreveport  oilman  Perry  G.  Holloway 
has  given  $2,700  to  Centenary  College 
President  Donald  Webb  to  fund  two 
President's  Scholarships.  This  year,  there 
are  82  Presidential  Scholars  who  maintain 
a  3.0  grade  point  average  and  have  a 
minimum  ACT  score  of  28.  (The  national 
ACT  average  for  entering  freshmen  is 
18.7.)  The  College  will  be  looking  for 
donors  for  these  scholarships;  each  is  for 
half-tuition,  $1,350.  Two  students  will 
be  identified  to  Mr.  Holloway  as  "his" 
Presidential  Scholars. 

The  Shreveport  Chapter  of  Chartered 
Life  Underwriters  has  established  an 
endowed  scholarship  in  honor  of  Henry 
Kirsch  and  Grady  McCarter.  Each  mem- 
ber of  the  Shreveport  Chapter  has  been 
asked  to  contribute,  and  many  of  the 
insurance  companies  are  matching  funds. 

Wendy  Tillett  of  Garland,  Texas,  has 
been  awarded  the  Douglas  Attaway 
Memorial  Scholarship  at  Centenary.  The 
scholarship  was  established  by  the  Shreve- 
port Kiwanis  Club,  which  has  recently 
increased  the  scholarship  by  50  percent. 

The  new  Mary  and  Johnnie  Grann 
Scholarship  is  a  $1,000  annual  scholarship 
from  Mr.  Grann  and  his  company.  World 
Book  Encyclopedia. 

Phonathon 

Student  participation  was  what  made 
the  1981  Fall  Phonathon  such  a  success. 

Pledges  for  the  10-day  event  totaled 
$32,500,  exceeding  the  $30,000  goal. 
Students  accounted  for  over  70  percent 
of  the  pledges;  alumni  and  staff  raised 
$7,000. 

Seven  students  solicited  more  than 
$1,000  each,  and  Bill  MacDowell  took 
the  largest  single  pledge  of  $1,000  from 
Dr.  Claude  Chadwick,  '27. 

Proceeds  from  the  Phonathon  go  to  the 
Alumni  Division  of  the  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund  and  become  part  of  the 
general  operating  budget  of  the  College. 

Ten  times  thanks 

In  the  last  issue  of  Centenary,  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Nolan  Shaw  were  inadvertently 
omitted  from  the  list  of  Founders'  Club 
members.  We  deeply  regret  the  error, 
and  do  appreciate  their  long-time  support 
of  the  College.  Many  thanks! 

No  more  bumps 
Thanks  to  Lamar  Haddox  of  Ruston, 
the  warehouse  and  baseball  field  parking 
lot  has  a  much  smoother  surface.  Mr. 
Haddox,  president  of  Lamar  Haddox 
Construction  Co.  in  Ruston  and  father 
of  senior  Greg  Haddox,  graded  and  black- 
topped  the  lot  across  from  the  Gold 
Dome  as  a  gift  to  Centenary.  What  a  way 
to  earn  a  reserved  parking  spot! 


The  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  is  top  priority  for  (left  to  right)  Don  H.  Duggan,  chair- 
man of  the  1981-82  Fund;  Centenary  College  President  Don  Webb,  and  Director  of 
Development  Jim  Perkins.  The  public  portion  of  the  fund  will  be  held  Feb.  23  through 
March  16. 


Duggan  named  fund  chairman 


Shreveport  businessman  Don  H.  Dug- 
gan has  been  named  chairman  of  the 
1981-82  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund. 

The  announcement  was  made  this 
month  by  Centenary  College  President 
Donald  A.  Webb.  Jim  Perkins  is  director 
of  development. 

A  goal  of  $700,000  has  been  set  for  the 
Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund,  the  annual 
fund  of  the  College.  These  unrestricted 
gifts  to  Centenary  help  provide  faculty 
salaries,  enhance  academic  programs, 
and  fund  general  operations. 

Mr.  Duggan,  founder  and  president  of 
Duggan  Machine  Co.,  began  his  career 
in  1940  as  a  roughneck  with  H  &  T 
Drilling  Co.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Caddo 
Levee  Board,  Shreveport  Chamber  of 
Commerce  Board,  Louisiana  College 
Board  of  Trustees,  Committee  of  100, 
and  the  International  Association  of 
Drilling  Contractors,  which  he  serves 
as  president.  He  also  holds  membership 
in  the  Shreveport  Lions  Club  and  the  Uni- 
versity Club,  and  is  past  president  of  the 
Shreveport  Petroleum  Club.  Mr.  Duggan 
is  an  active  Deacon  and  Sunday  School 
teacher  of  the  Trinity  Heights  Baptist 
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Church,  and  a  founder  of  the  Trinity 
Heights  Christian  Academy.  He  served 
in  the  U.S.  Navy  during  World  War  II. 

Volunteers,  who  will  be  calling  on  in- 
dividuals and  businesses  during  the  public 
portion  of  the  campaign,  Feb.  23  through 
March  16,  will  work  in  six  divisions  with 
chairmen  Edgar  S.  Harris,  banking  and 
investments;  Robert  Pugh,  Sr.,  profes- 
sional; Milton  Crow,  petroleum;  Vernon 
B.  Chance,  Jr.,  manufacturing;  Eugene 
A.  Richardson,  retail  sales  &  service; 
and  Herman  Williamson,  chairman  of 
the  general  division.  W.C.  Osborne  of 
Midland,  Texas,  a  1943  graduate  of 
Centenary  College,  will  conduct  a  regional 
campaign  for  the  fund  in  West  Texas. 

"The  leadership  for  the  1981-82  Great 
Teachers-Scholars  Fund  is  a  group  of 
outstanding  community  leaders,"'  said 
Mr.  Perkins.  "They  exemplify  the  highest 
standards  of  integrity  and  bring  to 
Centenary  experience  in  many  areas  of 
community  life.  We  are  confident  that 
our  goal  of  $700,000  will  be  met.  All  of 
us  at  Centenary  are  grateful  for  their 
efforts  in  this  major  part  of  the  College's 
life." 


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"And  gladly  teche" 

Homage  to  the  Centenary  Department  of  Education 


By  Lee  Morgan 

Willie  Cavett  and  Paul  M.  Brown,  Jr., 

Professor  of  English 

It  has  become  almost  formulary  to 
begin  any  tribute  to  educators  with 
Chaucer's  famous  description  of  the 
Oxford  Clerk  (scholar-teacher).  Formu- 
lary though  it  be,  it  nonetheless  expresses 
the  philosophy  of  Centenary's  Depart- 
ment of  Education,  and  it  is  a  pleasure 
for  me  to  sketch  the  factors  which  make 
it  so. 

One  has  only  to  visit  elementary  and 
secondary  schools  of  this  area  where 
Centenary  student  teachers  are  interning 
to  hear  them  spoken  of  in  complimentary 
strains:  they  know  their  subject  matter, 
they  employ  effective  techniques  and 
strategies  for  putting  it  across,  they  are 
enthusiastic,  and  they  understand  the 
total  educational  enterprise. 

This  is  no  accident.  They  undergo  a 
screening  process  before  they  are  admit- 
ted to  the  teacher-training  program,  they 
are  grounded  in  the  liberal  arts,  and  they 
receive  their  professional  instruction  from 
competent  and  dedicated  teachers.  His- 
torically, education  faculty  have  been 
liberal  arts-oriented,  drawn  from  a  wide 
geographical  area,  and  possessed  of 
extensive  practical  experience. 

I  have  known  all  the  education  faculty 
since  1954,  and  their  backgrounds  bear 
out  this  claim.  A.J.  Middlebrooks,  long- 
time chairman  of  the  department,  held  a 
Stanford  doctorate.  He  was  also  intensely 
interested  in  creative  writing,  published 
a  number  of  short  stories,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  was  working  on  a  collection 
of  autobiographical  anecdotes.  Both  he 
and  his  wife  were  members  of  the  Shreve- 
port  Writers  Club,  and  they  collaborated 


on  a  biographical  essay  of  a  North  Texas 
legislator,  an  article  subsequently  pub- 
lished in  the  Southwest  Historical  Quar- 
terly. 

Robert  MacCurdy,  whose  doctoral 
degree  was  from  Boston  University, 
succeeded  Middlebrooks.  MacCurdy  s 
main  interest  was  the  history  of  education. 
He  established  on  campus  an  impressive 
exhibit  which  traced  the  development  of 
education.  Emma  Lou  Stringfellow,  a 
New  York  University  Ph.D.,  had  a  distin- 
guished public  school  career  before  joining 
the  Centenary  faculty.  Her  specialties 
were  the  teaching  of  mathematics  and 
science,  but  she  also  had  a  love  of  litera- 
ture. (I  shall  always  be  personally  grate- 
ful to  Dr.  Stringfellow  for  giving  me  an 
entire  set  of  Shakespeare's  plays  in  indi- 
vidual volumes.)  Elizabeth  Hughes,  her- 
self a  Centenary  alumna,  did  graduate 
work  at  Stephen  F.  Austin  State  Univer- 
sity and  for  many  years  supervised  our 
elementary  school  student  teachers.  The 
late  Otha  King  Miles,  a  University  of 
Texas  Ph.D.  in  psychology,  also  held  an 
appointment  in  the  education  department, 
concentrating  on  testing  and  counseling. 

It  was  Aubrey  Forrest,  however,  who 
led  Centenary  into  a  new  era  and  new 
method  of  teacher  training.  In  1967, 
Forrest,  an  Indiana  Ph.D.,  invited  Wil- 
liam Hazard  of  Northwestern  University 
in  Evanston  to  come  and  discuss  that  in- 
stitution's teacher  training  program  with 
our  faculty.  It  stressed  a  clinical-tutorial 
approach;  key  terms  were  "observation," 
"participation,  "practical  hands-on  expe- 
rience" in  a  classroom  or  similar  situation 
under  the  guidance  of  an  established 
teacher  —  all  as  early  as  the  sophomore 
year.    Our   faculty    adopted    it,   and   it 


remains  the  educational  approach  that 
distinguishes  Centenary.  Theodore  Kauss, 
a  Northwestern  University  Ph.D.,  was 
thoroughly  committed  to  it,  though  he 
taught  only  a  year  before  becoming 
Dean  of  the  College. 

The  present  education  faculty  demon- 
strates this  same  diversity  of  background 
and  interests.  Joseph  Garner,  the  present 
chairman,  holds  a  Specialist  in  Education 
degree  from  Peabody  as  well  as  a 
doctorate  from  the  University  of  Arkansas. 
Garner's  expertise  is  administration  and 
supervision,  but  he  has  been  active  in 
local  school  politics,  having  served  several 
terms  on  the  Caddo  Parish  School  Board. 

Robert  Hallquist  has  his  doctoral  degree 
from  the  University  of  Mississippi,  his 
M.A.  from  Columbia,  and  his  Bachelor  of 
Music  from  the  New  England  Conserva- 
tory. A  gifted  organist  and  pianist, 
Hallquist  is  able  to  utilize  his  own 
creativity  in  encouraging  creativity  on 
the  part  of  students.  Dorothy  Gwin, 
Dean  of  the  College,  still  manages  to 
teach  courses  in  education  and  psychology. 
She  took  her  doctorate  at  the  University 
of  Kansas;  her  special  interests  are  educa- 
tional psychology,  the  psychology  of  excep- 
tional children,  and  testing.  Visiting  Pro- 
fessor Gaius  Hardaway,  a  Centenary 
alumnus,  took  a  doctorate  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Mississippi  and  taught,  coached, 
and  served  in  a  supervisory  capacity  for 
many  years  in  Bossier  Parish. 

Centenary  is  understandably  proud  ot 
its  traditions  of  training  outstanding 
teachers  and  administrators,  is  convinced 
that  their  success  is  largely  traceable  to 
their  liberal  education,  and  is  determined 
to  preserve  its  centrality  in  professional 
training  for  future  generations  of  students. 


The 

changing 

picture 

of  energy 


(Continued  from  page  3) 

"To  make  one's  way  requires  compe- 
tence not  only  in  math  and  science,  but 
also  training  in  a  broad  range  of  the 
humanities  and  social  sciences  —  in 
history,  government,  philosophy.  Where 
better  to  acquire  such  a  background  than 
at  a  liberal  arts  institution  such  as 
Centenary?  It  certainly  served  me  well," 
he  said. 

"Admittedly,"  he  continued,  "These 
are  not  the  easiest  of  times  for  the  small, 
private,  liberal  arts  college.  It  has  to  deal 
with  cuts  in  student  financial  aid  that 
may  propel  undergraduates  into  publicly 
funded  schools  where  the  tuition  is  lower. 
But  those  larger  institutions  can  rarely 
match  the  smaller  liberal  arts  schools  — 
in  adapting  to  change,  emphasizing 
quality,  and  providing  students  with 
individual  and  career  guidance. 
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"In  light  of  the  reductions  of  govern- 
ment funds,  private  giving  will  count 
more  than  ever.  It  will  be  crucial  to  the 
existence  and  continuance  of  the  kind  of 
special  education  that  schools  such  as 
Centenary  can  offer.  I  hope  all  of  us  will 
find  a  way  to  stretch  a  little  on  behalf  of 
Centenary.  Besides,  as  many  of  you 
joggers  and  tennis  players  know,  stretch- 
ing can  be  a  very  healthy  thing  to  do.  In 
this  case,  not  only  for  the  students  who 
will  benefit  directly,  but  for  the  industries 
and  national  economy  that  will  benefit 
indirectly. 

"Once  more,  it's  good  to  be  back  again. 
I'm  one  graduate  who  enjoys  a  Home- 
coming with  a  Centenary  alumna  every- 
day of  his  life.  Georgia  and  I  are  both 
delighted  to  be  here  -  -  as  long  as  no 
professor  springs  a  surprise  quiz  on  us." 


Potpourri 


Humanist-in-residence 

For  Shreveport  to  tap  its  enormous 
potential  for  growth  and  development, 
the  city  must  develop  heart,  says  Cente- 
nary Professor  Eddie  Vetter. 

Dr.  Vetter  made  this  conclusion  after  a 
year-long  study  as  humanist-in-residence 
for  the  Shreveport  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. His  appointment  to  the  staff  was 
made  possible  by  a  first-of-a-kind  $30,000 
grant  from  the  Louisiana  Commission  for 
the  Humanities. 

"We  can  continue  to  maintain  a  scat- 
tered approach  to  the  growth  of  our  city 
and  thus  make  mistakes  like  so  many 
American  cities  have  made,"  Dr.  Vetter 
said.  "Or,  we  can  pull  together,  put  aside 
partisan  views,  discover  together  a  heart, 
and  bring  new  life  to  our  city." 

In  addition  to  his  study  of  the  city,  Dr. 
Vetter  conducted  stress  workshops  for 
the  Shreveport  Police  Department,  was 
named  to  the  faculty  of  the  Police  Acad- 
emy, conducted  single-parent  workshops, 
and  has  just  completed  an  extensive 
research  project  on  child  custody  in  the 
state  of  Louisiana. 

His  work  was  so  impressive,  the 
Chamber  has  asked  him  to  serve  on  a 
part-time  basis  as  manager  of  education 
research,  while  he  continues  at  Centenary 
as  chairman  of  the  Department  of  Soci- 
ology. 

"It's  been  an  invaluable  year,"  Dr. 
Vetter  said.  "I've  learned  a  lot,  and  I 
think  I've  made  a  contribution." 


Student  research 

You  can  thank  Centenary  senior  Pam 
McPherson  for  isolating  the  B12  binding 
protein  in  egg  whites. 

She  made  the  breakthrough  when  she 
and  nine  other  students  from  throughout 
the  country  participated  in  a  National 
Science  Foundation  Grant  last  summer 
at  the  University  of  Texas  -  Arlington. 
Pam's  project,  to  isolate  the  protein  in 
egg  white  (similar  to  the  protein  in  the 
human  body  known  as  the  intrinsic  factor), 
had  been  underway  for  several  years, 
but  previous  attempts  to  isolate  the  protein 
in  quantity  were  not  successful. 

Working  for  two  and  a  half  months, 
Pam  did  isolate  the  protein.  This  means 
that  quantities  necessary  for  more  com- 
plex research  are  now  available.  This 
should  lead  to  a  better  understanding  of 
the  uptake  of  vitamin  B12  and  provide 
an  additional  source  of  the  intrinsic  factor 
for  persons  deficient  in  this  protein. 

Among  the  scientists  who  were  given 
copies  of  the  paper  describing  her  work 


Veteran  news  commentator  Edward  P.  Morgan  (second  from  left)  was  Centenary's  20th 
Woodrow  Wilson  Visiting  Fellow.  He  chats  with  (left  to  right)  Dr.  Lee  Morgan,  Ed 
Harbuck,  and  George  Nelson,  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


were  Dr.  D.W.  Jacobsen,  a  foremost  re- 
searcher on  the  intrinsic  factor,  and  Dr. 
Marjorie  Lou,  Pam's  advisor,  and  a  leading 
researcher  on  muscular  dystrophy. 

The  summer  research  project  also 
helped  Pam  make  a  career  decision.  "I 
really  like  having  more  contact  with 
people,"  said  the  pretty  brunette.  "So  I 
think  I'll  opt  for  pediatrics  instead  of  re- 
search." 


Centenary  Choir 

"On  the  Road  Again"  should  be  the 
theme  song  of  the  Centenary  College 
Choir. 

The  62-member  group  will  be  packing 
up  again  in  May  for  an  18-day  concert 
tour  of  the  South  and  East  Coast. 

The  complete  itinerary  includes  Jack- 
son, Miss.,  May  25;  Mobile,  Ala.,  May 
26;  Ocala,  Fla.,  May  27;  Stuart,  Fla., 
May  28;  Ft.  Lauderdale,  Fla.,  May  29- 
30;  Indian  Harbor  Springs,  Fla.,  May  31; 
Charleston,  S.C.,  June  1;  Newborn,  N.C., 
June  2-3;  Bruton  Parish  Church,  Williams- 
burg, Va.,  June  4;  Westfield,  N.J.,  June 
5;  St  Patrick's  Cathedral,  New  York 
City,  June  6;  free  night  for  theatre,  June 
7;  Washington,  D.C.,  June  8;  Charleston, 
West  Va.,  June  9;  Nashville,  Tenn.,  June 
10;  and  back  to  Centenary,  June  11. 

For  complete  details,  contact  Dr.  Will 
Andress,  director,  at  Centenary  College, 
P.O.  Box  4188,  Shreveport,  La.  71104. 
869-5200  or  424-4373  (First  Methodist 
Church  Music  Department). 
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January  Study  Week 

Thirty  men  and  women  from  through- 
out the  Louisiana  Conference  will  par- 
ticipate this  month  in  Centenary's  second 
January  Study  Week,  Jan.  25-29.  Min- 
isters from  all  faiths  in  the  Shreveport- 
Bossier  area  have  been  invited.  Coor- 
dinating  the  event  is  Centenary's  director  I 
of  church  relations,  the  Rev.  Don  McDow-  | 
ell. 

Two  courses  will  be  offered :  Preach-  j 
ing  to  the  Whole  Congregation:  Faith  j 
Development     and     Interpretation    of 
Scripture,  taught  by  Clarence  Snelling,  j 
and  Lord  Who  Through  These  40  Days; 
God  as  Savior  and  Provider,  taught  by 

John  Rogers. 

Dr.  Snelling,  a  member  of  the  Louisi 
ana  Annual  Conference  and  the  faculty 
at  Iliff  School  of  Theology,  will  focus  on 
the  work  being  done  in  faith  develop- 
ment and  how  that  can  be  used  to 
enhance  preaching. 

Dr.  Rogers,  senior  minister  at  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Shreveport,  will 
address  the  theme  of  God  as  provider 
and  Savior  during  the  season  of  Lent. 
Each  participant  will  map  out  his  or  her 
own  Lenten  season  focusing  on  the  whole 
worship  service. 

"We  are  excited  about  this  particular 
week  in  that  it  becomes  another  way  fo: 
Centenary  to  use  its  resources  to  serv 
the  church,"  said  Don  McDowell.  "Tw< 
outstanding  scholars  will  bring  qualit 
work." 


Drs.  Galloway  and  Lowrey  host  a  press 
conference  in  Centenary's  Board  Room 
to  explain  their  new  radioactive  waste 
storage  system. 


centenary's 
Energy  Is 

MlNDPOWER 


Former  Centenary  College  Physics 
Professor  Louie  A.  Galloway  III,  and 
Centenary  graduate  Charles  B.  Lowrey 
may  have  solved  the  nation's  problem  of 
nuclear  waste  storage. 

The  two  scientists,  along  with  five 
other  businessmen,  have  recently  applied 
for  a  patent  on  a  revolutionary  radioactive 
waste  storage  system  which  monitors 
and  offers  recovery  of  high-level  and 
low-level  radioactive  materials. 

The  Store/Monitor/Recover  System 
was  developed  by  Nuclear  Monitoring 
Systems  &  Management  Corporation  for 
which  Dr.  Galloway  serves  as  executive 
vice  president  for  corporate  technology 
and  Dr.  Lowrey  as  executive  vice  presi- 
dent of  operations.  Others  in  the  Houston- 
based  corporation  are  William  E.  Price, 
president;  Billie  C.  Price,  secretary  and 
treasurer;  Dr.  Donald  R.  Lewis,  senior 
technical  consultant,  and  W.P.  Gotcher 
and  Marvin  Herring,  consultants. 

"We  regard  so-called  radioactive 
'waste'  to  be  an  energy  resource  tor  the 
future  rather  than  'garbage'  to  be  stored 
and  forgotten,"  said  Mr.  Price.  "The 
technology  will  come  to  re-process  it,  and 
we  will  have  it  available." 

"This  system  is  carefully  designed  for 
the  safety  of  the  environment,  safety  of 
the  populace,  and  safety  of  the  em- 
ployees," said  Mr.  Price. 

Permission  has  been  granted  by  the 
Texas  Department  of  Health  to  begin 
construction  of  the  system,  which  should 
be  completed  in  two  years. 

In  the  meantime,  if  you  would  like 
additional  information,  contact  Nuclear 
Monitoring  Systems  &  Management 
(Corporation,  4100  S.W.  Freeway,  Suite 
1510,  Houston,  Texas  77027,  (713)  960- 
0168. 


Looking  through  the  1  934  Yoncopin  in  anticipation  of  the  chemistry  reunion  are  (left  to 
right)  Chris  Webb,  director  of  alumni  relations;  Austin  G.  Robertson,  a  1934  chemistry 
major;  Mrs.  John  B.  Entriken,  wife  of  the  late  Dr.  Entriken,  and  Dr.  Stanton  Taylor, 
chairman  of  the  Chemistry  Department. 


Homecoming 
'81 


|Ilfl 


Mrs.  Maida  Mickle 
(above)  chats  with 
alumni  at  the 
Learned  Lunch- 
eon. President 
Donald  Webb 
crowns  Cindy  Lee 
as  Homecoming 
Queen  (above 
righ t),  and  Ho me- 
coming  Hosts 
Camp  and  Caro- 
lyn (Clay)  Flour- 
noy  (right)  wel- 
come alumni  Gen. 
and  Mrs.  Spencer 
Hardy  to  the  day's 
events. 

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Strictly 
Personal 


1920s 

BARD  FERRALL  (x24)  recently  retired  Cheyenne, 
Wyo.,  attorney  and  former  Centenary  football 
player,  reminisced  in  the  SunDAY  Magazine  that 
"Centenary  College  was  a  seminary  for  Methodist 
ministers,  but  wealthy  oil  men  were  contributing 
to  put  the  college  on  the  map  by  fielding  a  football 
team.  The  Centenary  team  didn't  lose  many 
games;  in  fact,  many  potential  opponents  refused 
to  play  against  the  College.  Actually  Centenary 
lost  one  game  in  the  college  ranks,  this  one  to 
Boston  University."  The  team  broke  up  in  1924 
and  BARD  FERRALL  went  on  to  play  for  the 
University  of  Wyoming.  The  article  appeared  on 
the  occasion  of  his  retirement. 


Our  thanks  to  Dr.  Claude  S.  Chadwick 
'27,  who  made  the  largest  single  pledge 
-  $1,000  -  during  the  fall  Phonathon. 
Dr.  Chad  has  had  a  distinguished  career 
as  a  biology  professor  and  researcher,  his 
last  "tour  of  duty"  at  the  University  of 
Tennessee.  Dr.  Chad  now  devotes  his 
time  and  interest  to  country  music,  health 
food,  walking,  teaching  Sunday  School, 
playing  the  organ,  swimming,  reading, 
and  making  public  lectures.  "You  don't 
retire  FROM  something,"  he  says.  "You 
retire  TO  something." 


1930s 

CHARLES  RAVENNA  ('32)  was  a  delegate  to 
the  1981  White  House  Conference  on  Aging 
Nov.  29-Dec.  3  in  Washington,  D.C.  Ravenna  is 
an  assistant  state  director  of  the  National  Retired 
Teachers  Association. 

1940s 

NORMA  WEATHERSBY  BLANK  ('40)  after 
completing  a  30-year  career  as  an  elementary 
teacher,  has  been  devoting  herself  to  a  life-long 
love  of  poetry.  She  has  taught  Creative  Writing  in 
Centenary's  Continuing  Education  Program,  and 
last  March  she  conducted  two  Structured  Poetry 
Workshops  for  the  Northwest  Louisiana  Writers' 
Conference  held  in  Bossier  City.  Her  latest  prize 
was  the  Golden  Pen  Award  for  first  place  in 
poetry  at  the  Southwest  Writer's  Conference  in 
Houston,  Texas.  NORMA's  book  of  poems  entitled 
Crown  of  Snow  will  be  published  this  fall  and 
will  be  available  in  Shreveport  bookstores. 

JOHN  A.  DIXON  ('40),  the  Louisiana  State 
Supreme  Court  Chief  Justice,  was  named  outstand- 
ing alumnus  of  the  year  by  the  Tulane  University 
School  of  Law.  JOHN  has  been  on  the  Supreme 
Court  since  1971  and  became  Chief  Justice  in 
1980. 


HUGH  C.  WHITE,  JR.  ('41)  is  now  retired  and 
living  with  his  first  and  only  wife  on  26  acres  near 
Palestine,  Texas. 

JACK  E.  KRISLE  ('49)  has  taken  early  retirement 
from  Mobil  Exploration  Co.,  and  has  moved  to 
Corpus  Christi,  Texas,  where  he  is  employed  by 
Carl  Oil  and  Gas  Co.  as  a  South  Texas  district 
geologist.  JACK  writes  that  he  enjoys  getting 
back  to  geology  and  to  smaller  town  living. 

1950s 

SUE  McCULLOUGH  SCIVALLY  ('51)  writes 
from  Pasadena,  California,  she  is  busy  with 
family  and  church  interests,  decorating  and 
stitchery.  Her  son,  Riner,  is  29,  and  daughters 
Lisa  and  Dedee  are  27  and  26. 

DR.  PARIS  LEARY  ('50)  is  the  coordinator  of 
American  Studies  at  the  University  of  Leicester 
in  England.  He  will  soon  publish  "The  Swearing 
and  Other  Poems,"  which  in  verse  looks  at  "a 
town  not  unlike  Shreveport  in  the  1920s."  He 
was  recently  in  Shreveport  doing  research  trying 
to  solve  the  mystery  surrounding  the  life  and 
work  of  Ada  Jack  Carver,  a  Northwest  Louisiana 
writer. 

FRANCIS  E.  BROWN  ('56)  has  been  named  vice 
president  of  research  for  Gulf  Oil  Chemicals 
Company,  the  Houston-based  division  of  Gulf  Oil 
Corporation.  After  receiving  his  master's  and 
Ph.D.  from  Tulane,  BROWN  later  became  a 
graduate  of  the  Advanced  Management  Program 
of  Harvard  University. 

JERRY  E.  WHITECOTTON  ('58),  manager  of 
the  Eastgate  branch  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce 
was  recently  promoted  to  vice  president.  JERRY 
is  currently  enrolled  in  the  Mid  South  School  of 
Banking. 

1960s 

CALVIN  B.  HUDSON  (61)  has  been  named  vice 
president  of  Shreveport's  Bank  of  Commerce 
commercial  loans  division,  and  has  been  involved 
in  Shreveport-Bossier  banking  for  32  years. 

WILLIAM  N.  NELSON  ('64)  received  his  doctor 
of  philosophy  degree  from  LSU  in  May.  The 
degree  is  in  Latin  American  Studies,  with  a  major 
in  history  and  minors  in  Portuguese  and  Library 
Science.  DR.  and  MRS.  NELSON  and  their  two 
children,  Beth  and  Christopher,  live  in  Saraland, 
Ala.,  where  WILLIAM  is  the  library  director  of 
Mobile  College. 

JAMES  M.  McCOY  ('66)  has  been  named  special 
assistant  in  the  military  sales  division  for  United 
of  Omaha,  life  insurance  affiliate  of  the  Mutual  of 
Omaha  in  Omaha,  Neb.,  following  a  30-year 
career  in  the  U.S.  Air  Force. 

Shreveport  attorneys  JEFF  VICTORY  ('67)  and 
CHARLES  GRUBB  ('68)  ran  against  each  other 
as  candidates  for  judge  of  the  First  Judicial  Dis- 
trict.  The   Oct.    17   election  winner  was  JEFF. 

MARILYN  SEYMOUR  (x69)  is  the  new  director 
of  public  relations  at  Riverside  Community  Hospital 
in  Bossier  City. 

1970s 

STAN  BOYETTE  (72)  was  featured  recently  in 
The  (Shreveport)  Times  "Where  are  they  now?" 
column.  STAN  earned  his  master's  degree  in 
counseling  and  guidance  at  East  Texas  State 
University,  and  he  and  his  wife  Betty  now  live  in 
Irving,  Texas. 

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RITA  J.  LONGINO  (70)  now  has  a  new  8-lb.,  14- 
oz.  baby,  Laura  Soto. 

T.  COLE  FLOURNOY  (70)  sold  the  first  partici- 
pation unit  of  the  planned  Sheraton  at  Pierremont 
Plaza  hotel  in  Shreveport.  Each  unit  consists  of 
the  interior  of  a  hotel  room,  an  interest  in  the 
common  elements  of  the  hotel,  and  a  limited 
partner  status  in  the  partnership  owning  the 
hotel.  The  $20  million  Sheraton  is  the  first  in  the 
state  to  be  financed  through  the  sale  of  participa- 
tion units  to  private  investors. 


TOM  BURTON  (71)  attended  a  writer's  con- 
ference at  the  United  Methodist  Publishing 
House  in  Nashville,  Tenn.  TOM  has  been  asked 
to  write  a  series  of  children's  literature  for 
middle  elementary  that  will  be  published  in  the 
fall  of  1984.  TOM  is  also  outgoing  president  and 
chairman  of  the  board  of  Open  Ear,  a  crisis 
hotline. 


Update  on  DAN  GIBBS  (72):  DAN  is  self- 
employed  and  completing  his  first  year  of  full- 
time  consulting  with  the  Education  Division  of 
Radio  Shack/Tandy  Corporation.  He  is  assisting 
in  the  production  of  educational  courseware 
products  for  Tandy's  microcomputers,  working 
primarily  with  authoring  systems.  He  has  been 
invited  to  present  papers  at  the  International 
Reading  Association  Convention  in  Orlando, 
Fla.,  in  February,  1982,  and  at  the  National 
Educational  Computing  Conference  in  Kansas 
City  in  June,  1982.  DAN  is  also  working  on 
developing  the  Philadelphia  Computer-Assisted 
Reading  Development  (C.A.R.D.)  Program  for 
the  TRS-80  Model  III  microcomputer  —  a  series 
of  143  programs.  On  a  different  note  DAN  com- 
pleted the  D.M.A.  in  piano  performance  in 
August,  1980,  at  North  Texas  State.  He  is 
teaching  two  students  and  serving  as  choral 
director  at  Trinity  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Mansfield,  Texas,  as  well  as  serving  as  an 
accompanist  at  the  University  of  Texas  at  Arling- 
ton. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

ERIC  JAMES  DEVINE  ('24) 

SALLIE  CLINGMAN  BUSH  ('25)  198 

RODERICK  LAMAR  DOBSON  ('30) 

November  10,  1981 
ALVIN  "CRACKER"  BROWN  ('32) 

November  1981 
CHARLEY  R.  PATTISON  ('32) 
ARLENE  SEEC32) 
CLYDE  BAMBURGC32) 
ALEX  KNIGHT  ('32)  October  6,  1981 
JACK  REYNOLDS  ( x36 )  August  31,198 
PAUL  JAY  HUDSON  ('38)  November 

14, 1981 
MARILYN  S.  GRAVES  ('42)  October 

28, 1981 
FA  YE  T.  BREWSTER  ('48)  October 

12, 1981 
VICTORIA  HORNER  WELLIS  (51) 
MARIE  ALLDAY  ENGLISH  ('54) 
BILLIE  YANCEY  TRULY  ('56) 

November  6,  1981 
JERRY  CLINTON  ODELL  ('64) 

November  1981 
MONTI  BLAKE  ELLIOTT  ('67)  1981 


Strictly 
Personal 


JODIE  GLORIOSO  (73)  has  returned  to  the 
Shreveport  area  as  the  regional  representative 
for  the  Louisiana  Division  of  the  Arts  and  has 
offices  in  the  Shreveport  Regional  Arts  Council 
building. 

CHERRY  PAYNE  HOWARD  (74)  and  her 
husband  have  moved  from  Grand  Teton  National 
Park  in  Wyoming  to  Everglades  National  Park  in 
Florida.  They  are  both  Park  Rangers,  and  CHERRY 
is  the  Flamingo  District  naturalist  at  Everglades. 

PAUL  D.  GIESSEN  (74)  traveled  around  the 
world  on  the  floating  university  in  100  days 
aboard  the  S.S.  Universe,  Semester  at  Sea,  as  a 
counselor.  He  is  now  land-locked  as  the  residence 
hall  counselor  for  Fairmont  Towers  at  Wichita 
State  University  in  Kansas. 

DEBORAH  DODSON  BROWN  (74)  has  been 
accepted  as  a  freshman  in  the  Texas  College  of 
Osteopathic  Medicine  in  Fort  Worth,  Texas. 

WINSTON  HEDGES  (74)  and  LINDY  MUNCH 
HEDGES  (73)  write  that  he  got  his  Ph.D.  and  is 
now  a  chemist  for  Hexcel  Corporation  in  Dublin, 
Calif.  LINDY  is  an  elementary  school  teacher. 

REBECCA  SUZETTE  RUNNELS  BRISCOE  (75) 
and  husband  Stephen  have  a  new  little  boy, 
Joshua  Stephen,  born  Oct.  1.  Sisters  Sarah,  4,  and 
Leah,  2,  are  very  excited  about  their  brother.  The 
Briscoes  live  in  New  Iberia,  La. 

JANE  COCHRAN  SYKES  (75)  announces  the 
opening  of  her  husband's  business.  Hearing  Aid 
Center  of  Stuart  in  Stuart,  Fla.  JANE  works  for 
the  Bank  and  Trust  Company  of  Palm  Beach. 

Capt.  ROYCE  G.  LABOR  (76)  has  been  awarded 
the  Army  Commendation  Medal  for  outstanding 
and  meritorious  service  as  the  executive  officer  of 
Company  C,  1st  Battalion,  33D  Armor.  ROYCE 
is  stationed  at  Fort  Knox,  Ky. 

CATHY  BUSCH  (78)  finished  the  master's 
degree  program  at  Johns  Hopkins  University  and 
is  continuing  study  for  a  doctor's  degree  in  psy- 
chology. 

JEANNE  ANNE  CAMPBELL(77)  recently  passed 
her  Ph.D.  field  exams  at  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania and  is  preparing  a  dissertation  proposal 
on  the  later  novels  of  Henry  James  and  William 
Faulkner.  She  will  be  reading  a  paper,  "Jack 
London  and  the  Mask  of  Socialism,"  at  a  meet- 
ing of  the  Philological  Association  of  the  Car- 
olinas  in  march,  1982,  in  Columbia,  S.C. 
JEANNE  worked  on  the  Executive  Staff  of  the 
American  Studies  Association  Convention  in 
Memphis,  TN  in  October.  At  the  Convention  she 
saw  another  Centenary  alumna,  GAYLE  ROGERS 
(71) ,  from  Bossier  Parish  Community  College. 

STEVEN  A.  RUSSELL  (78)  returned  from  a  one- 
week  program  of  intense  seminars  consisting  of 
lecturers  from  around  the  world  on  dental  im- 
plantology  held  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  in  October. 
The  seminars  were  sponsored  by  the  American 
Academy  of  Implantology.  STEVE  is  presently 
working  on  his  honor  program  at  LSU  School  of 
Dentistry  in  New  Orleans  and  plans  to  return  to 
Shreveport  after  graduation  in  May  of  '82. 


Contest  winners 

Conscientious  Couple  Catch 
Contest  Corrigendum 

Hats  off  to  the  many  alumni  and  friends 
who  noted  the  error  on  page  16  of  our  last 
issue,  "Alumni  is  National  Young  Mother," 
and  who  called  us  about  it.  We  are 
pleased  to  announce  the  two  who  reached 
us  first  and  virtually  simultaneously. 

Entitled  to  dinner  for  two  on  us  are:  Dr. 
Lanford  DeGeneres,  a  1942  graduate 
now  living  in  Columbia,  S.C  and  Mr. 
Donald  E.  Walter,  a  Shreveport  attorney. 
Congratulations,  and  .  .  .  Dr.  Morgan  is 
proud  of  you  both. 

After  realizing  that  an  error  had  been 
printed  —  and  in  a  headline,  no  less  - 
the  staff  decided  to  award  a  prize  to  those 
demonstrating  knowledge  of  nouns  in  a 
dead  language  combined  with  speed  and 
forthrightness. 

Our  apologies  to  Mary  Tullie  Critcher, 
alumna  and  National  Young  Mother, 
1980. 

Now,  does  anybody  know  what  alumni 
really  means? 


NANCY  SLOAN  MARSHALL  (79)  with  her 
husband,  the  Rev.  James  Marshall,  will  be  moving 
to  Chillicothe,  Mo.,  in  December,  where  her  hus- 
band has  been  appointed  to  Grace  Episcopal 
Church.  Since  graduation,  NANCY  has  received 
her  Louisiana  Nursing  Home  Administrator's 
license  and  has  been  attending  LSU-BR  s  extra- 
mural program  working  on  a  Master  in  Social 
Work  degree.  She  completed  a  12-week  block 
placement  (internship)  at  the  V.A.  Hospital  in 
Alexandria  in  conjunction  with  the  extramural 
program. 

BARRY  JAY  (78)  and  K.  DIANE  CRAIN  (79), 
now  living  in  Wake  Village,  Tex.  report  that  they 
are  the  new  parents  of  AMANDA  DENISE.born 
on  October  5. 

MARK  S.  MESSINGER  (79)  is  working  with  Va- 
cation Resorts  in  Vail,  Colo. 

PAULA  GLANVILLE  (79)  has  moved  from 
Shreveport  to  Houston,  Texas,  and  is  working 
with  the  Drilling  Department  of  Omni  Exploration. 
She  also  teaches  aerobics. 

KEN  OSBORNE  (79)  and  ANN  CARMICHAEL 

OSBORNE  (77)  have  been  elected  co-chairmen 
of  the  board  of  directors  of  Open  Ear.  KEN  is  a 
former  executive  director  and  ANN  is  a  phone 
worker  of  Open  Ear. 

JACK  CALDWELL  (79)  has  finished  his  training 
and  is  now  a  fully  registered  stockbroker  with 
Howard,  Weil,  Labouisse,  Friedrichs,  Inc.  JACK, 
who  now  lives  in  Thibodaux,  La.,  and  is  working 
out  of  Howard,  Weil's  Houma,  La.,  office,  is 
handling  the  LaFourche-Terrebonne  area. 

1980s 

MICHAEL  V.  DONLEY  has  been  appointed 
senior  rate  analyst  for  the  Arkansas  Louisiana 
Gas  Company.  Mike,  a  graduate  of  Adrian  Col- 
lege, is  completing  his  MBA  at  Centenary. 


Chris  Webb 


Centements 


The  Alumni  Board  of  Directors 
is  the  institution  which  is  charged 
with  setting  policies  and  shajjing 
and  enacting  programs  which  can 
affect  a  good  number  of  people 
connected  with  Centenary  —  but 
always,  and  mainly,  her  alumni 
themselves. 

The  board  is  a  groujj  whose 
members  are  alumni  from  near 
and  far  and  of  any  age;  two  are 
professors;  two  are  students.  It 
meets  twice  a  year  in  Shreveport. 
The  standing  committees  for  alumni 
affairs,  career  development,  devel- 
opment, and  enrollment  may  meet 
up  to  four  times  a  year.  The  board 
has  30  members;  the  normal  term 
is  two  years. 

Rather  than  list  all  the  subjects 
and  issues  that  the  board  touches 
on,  lets  just  say  that  they  are  many 
and  varied  —  programs  of,  by,  and 
for  people  are  as  diverse  as  the 
peojile  involved.  The  possibilities 
are  just  about  endless. 

The  members  themselves  reflect 
this  diversity;  each  will  probably 
give  you  a  different  reason  for 
which  he  or  she  serves.  But  the 
members,  be  they  bankers,  teach- 
ers, or  homemakers,  have  one  tiling 
in  common :  they  are  committed  to 
making  ways  for  us  to  relate,  redis- 
cover, and  perhaps  realize  new 
talents  in  each  other  —  person  to 
person. 

I  believe  that  it  is  high  time  the 
alumni  program  at  Centenary  got 
better.  I  believe  we  can  find  new 
ways  to  reach  more  people,  that 
we  can  make  a  difference  in  the 
lives  of  many,  and  to  a  significant 
degree.  This  will  continue  to  be 
the  main  challenge  facing  the 
Alumni  Board.  The  deadline  for 
putting  in  nomination  the  names 
of  the  ten  new  board  members  for 
1982-83  is  March  1.  Maybe  it's 
high  time  you  gave  us  a  call. 


Centenary 

from 

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Shreveport,  Louisiana  71104 


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Alumni  Weekend  June  25-27 

Everything  is  "go"  for  Alumni  Weekend,  June  25-27,  1982. 

The  summertime  date  has  been  selected  so  that  returning  alumni  and  their  families 
will  have  access  to  all  campus  facilities,  including  the  dormitories.  While  alums  and  their 
spouses  participate  in  the  Alumni  College  (short  refresher  courses  on  topics  of  interest), 
class  vs.  class  competitions,  or  other  fun  events,  children  may  take  part  in  a  program  just 
for  them. 

Class  agents  are  already  busy  planning  reunions  for  the  Classes  of '81,  76-77-78,  72, 
'57,  '51-'52-'53,  '32,  and  the  Old  Guard  (all  alumni  whose  50th  reunions  have  already 
been  celebrated).  Details  of  those  events  will  be  included  in  a  future  mailing  from  the 
class  agents. 

Look  in  the  April/May  issue  of  Centenary  for  an  Alumni  Weekend  registration  form. 
And  we'll  look  forward  to  seeing  you  in  June! 

Reunion  Cluster  System 


1983 

1984 

1985 

1986 

1987 

1988 

1989 

1990 

1991 

1992 

1st 

'82 

'83 

'84 

'85 

'86 

'87 

'88 

•89 

'90 

'91 

5th 

•76-*77 

'79-'80 
-'81 

'82-'83 
-'84 

•85-'86 
-'87 

10th 

'73 

'74 

•75 

'76 

'77 

'78 

'79 

'80 

'81 

'82 

15th 

'67-'68 
-'69 

70-'71 
-'72 

' 73- ' 74 

-'75 

■  76-' 77 

-'78 

20th 

'63-'64 
-'65 

'66-'67 
-'68 

69-'70 
-'71 

25th 

'58 

'59 

•60 

'61 

'62 

'63 

'64 

'65 

'66 

•67 

30th 

'54-'55 
-'56 

'57-'58 
-'59 

'60-'61 
-'62 

35th 

'47-'48 
-'49 

»50-'51 
-'52 

•53-'54 
-'55 

'56-' 57 
-'58 

40th 

'43-'44 
-'45 

'46-'47 
-'48 

49-' 50 
-'51 

45th 

'38-'39 
-'40 

'41-'42 
-'43 

•44-'45 
-'46 

50th 

'33 

'34 

'35 

'36 

•37 

'38 

'39 

'40 

'41 

•42 



The  Cluster  System  was  devised  because  of  the  following  tendencies:  the  First,  Tenth, 
Twenty-fifth,  and  Fiftieth  Reunions  are  typically  well  attended  since  they  are  traditional 
"landmark"  years,  whereas  lower  attendance  is  common  for  reuniting  classes  in  other 
years.  These  classes,  for  those  non-"landmark"  years'  anniversaries,  are  clustered  or 
grouped  with  the  classes  immediately  before  and  after  them.  This  is  especially  advan- 
tageous at  Centenary,  where  classes  are  typically  small  —  maximum  membership  is 
roughly  150  —  and  where  the  size  of  the  College  has  tended  to  foster  friendships  along 
and  across  class  lines. 


Planning 
Ahead 


Jan.  4-22  — Interim 

Jan.  21-24  — "An  Evening  With 

Lerner  and  Loewe,"  Mar- 

jorie  Lyons  Playhouse 
Jan.  25-29  — January  Study  Week 

for  Ministers 
Jan.  25  — Registration  for  spring 

classes 

Feb.  3-28- Olga  Hirshhorn  Col- 
lection, Meadows  Museum  of 
Art 
Feb.  18  — Church  Council  Meeting 
Feb.  23-March  16 -Great  Teachers 
Scholars  Fund 

March  1-31  — Carnival  Masks, 
Meadows  Museum  of  Art 
March  6-7  —  High  School  Weekend 
March  11-14,  18-20 -"As  You  Like 
It,"  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse 

April  2-13  — Spring  recess 

April  5-1 1  —  "The  Dancing  Flea," 

Peter  Pan  Players,  Marjorie 

Lyons  Playhouse 
April  11-May  16  — Theodore  Wores, 

Meadows  Museum  of  Art 
April  15  — Scholars-Donors 

Luncheon 
April  22  —  Founders'  Day 

May  6-9, 13-15  — American  Draw- 
ings III,  Meadows  Museum  of 
Art 

May  20  —  Free  Enterprise  Confer- 
ence 

May  23  — Commencement 

June  7-1 1  —  Louisiana  Annual  Con- 
ference 
June  25-27  — Alumni  Weekend 


Inside 


Dept.  of  Geology  — 
It's  got  depth 

Now  is  the  time 
for  natural  gas 
decontrol 

Centenary  events 
draw  VIP  speakers 

Start  your  summer 
at  Centenary  — 

Alumni  Weekend 

June  25-27 


On  the  cover 


This  closeup  of  a  magnolia  was  snapped 
by  Centenary  College  trustee  Harry  V. 
Balcom  '34.  Mr.  Balcom  is  chairman  of 
the  Campus  Improvement  Program  and 
has  done  much  to  make  our  65-acre 
campus  a  real  place  of  beauty. 


The  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  is  well  on  its  way  to  the  $700,000  goal,  thanks  to 
you  —  alumni  and  friends  of  the  College.  A  bench  in  front  of  Centenary's  Meadows 
Museum  of  Art  (top,  left  photo)  invites  passersby  to  give  to  the  fund.  On  the  kickoff 
day  of  the  public  portion  of  the  drive  (top,  right  photo)  President  Donald  Webb  is 
interviewed  by  Shreveport  s  CBS  affiliate  station,  KSLA,  and  (bottom  photo)  GTSF 
Chairman  Don  Duggan  gives  a  fundraising  packet  to  his  son,  Mike.  Over  100  volun- 
teers served  in  this  year's  public  effort,  which  netted  $223,000. 


The  Centenary  College  magazine,  Cente- 
nary, (USPS  015560)  April,  1982,  Vol- 
ume 9,  No.  4,  is  published  four  times 
annually  in  October,  January,  April,  and 
July  by  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
2911  Centenary  Boulevard,  Shreveport, 
Louisiana,  71104.  Second  Class  postage 
paid  at  Shreveoprt,  La.  POSTMASTER: 
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Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  campus. 

Editor Janie  Flournoy  '72 

Special  Contributors Don  Danvers 

Dr.  Lee  Morgan 
The  (Shreveport)  Times 

Production Rushing  Printing  Co. 

Alumni  Director Chris  Webb 

Photography Janie  Flournoy 


John  F.  Bookout 


B.F.  O'Neal  Jr. 


Konstantin  Simis 


Very  important  speakers  highlight  semester  events 


A  veritable  parade  of  stars  will  bring 
the  1981-82  academic  year  at  Centenary 
College  to  an  exhilarating  close. 

The  VIP  list  includes  B.F.  O'Neal,  Jr., 
Republican  respresentative  to  the  Loui- 
siana Legislature;  Konstantin  Simis,  a 
firsthand  source  on  the  workings  of  the 
Soviet  underground  economy;  Seisi  Kato, 
chairman  of  the  Board  of  Toyota  Motor 
Sales  Co.  Ltd.,  and  former  Centenary 
student  John  F.  Bookout,  President  and 
Chief  Executive  Officer  of  Shell  Oil  Co. 

O'Neal,  serving  his  third  term  in  the 
Louisiana  Legislature,  will  speak  at  the 
annual  Founders'  Day  Convocation 
Thursday,  April  22,  at  11:10  a.m.  in 
Brown  Memorial  Chapel.  A  picnic  lunch 
for  the  entire  Centenary  "family"  will 
follow. 

A  native  Shreveporter,  O'Neal  at- 
tended Byrd  High  School  and  Baylor 
University.  Self-employed  in  the  real 
estate  business,  he  has  served  as  vice 
president  of  the  National  Real  Estate 
Board  and  president  of  the  Shreveport 
Board  of  Realtors.  He  currently  serves 
on  the  Education  Committee  in  the 
Legislature. 

Mr.  Simis  and  Mr.  Kato  will  be 
speaking  at  the  7th  National  Free  En- 
terprise Conference  to  be  held  Thursday, 
May  20,  in  Hurley  Auditorium.  The 
theme  of  this  year's  conference  will  be 
"Comparative  Cultures  and  Their  Im- 
pact on  Free  Enterprise.'' 

Mr.  Simis,  admitted  to  the  Moscow 


bar  in  1953,  acted  as  defense  lawyer  for 
dozens  of  prominent  underground  busi- 
nessmen in  Russia.  In  1971,  he  was 
named  a  specialist  in  international  law 
at  the  Ministry  of  Justice,  and  in  1976, 
the  KGB  raided  his  apartment  and 
found  the  manuscript  of  a  book  on  Soviet 
corruption.  The  first  draft  was  already 
in  the  hands  of  his  U.S.  publisher.  In 
1977,  Simis  and  his  wife,  also  a  lawyer, 
were  exiled  from  the  U.S.S.R.  They 
moved  to  Arlington,  Va.,  where  they 
joined  their  son,  Dimitri  Simes  (his 
spelling),  director  of  Soviet  studies  at 
Johns  Hopkins  University. 

The  book  which  Simis  was  writing, 
U.S.S.R.,  the  Land  of  Kleptocracy,  will 
be  published  this  spring  by  Simon  & 
Schuster.  Leading  American  experts  on 
the  Soviet  Union  regard  Simis  as  an  un- 
usually authoritative,  firsthand  source 
on  the  workings  of  the  Soviet  under- 
ground economy. 

Also  un  the  Free  Enterprise  Confer- 
ence agenda  will  be  Seisi  Kato,  Chairman 
of  the  Board  of  Toyota  Motor  Sales  Co. 
Ltd.  In  his  autobiography.  My  Years 
With  Toyota,  Mr.  Kato  credits  the  late 
Centenary  College  President  Joe  Mickle 
with  his  involvement  in  the  automotive 
industry.  It  was  Dr.  Mickle,  writes  Mr. 
Kato,  who  got  him  a  job  at  GM  Japan 
during  the  "chasm  of  the  Great  Depres- 
sion. .  .  This  unexpected  entry  into  the 
automotive  industry  marked  the  begin- 
ning of  a  half  a  century  of  personal 


devotion  to  motor  vehicles,  and  a  devo- 
tion to  the  Mickle  family. 

Former  Centenary  student  John  F. 
Bookout,  Jr.,  will  make  the  Commence- 
ment address  Sunday,  May  23,  at  2  p.m. 
in  the  Gold  Dome. 

After  distinguished  military  service 
as  an  Army  Air  Force  B-17  pilot  in 
World  War  II,  Mr.  Bookout  attended 
Centenary  College  as  a  geology  student. 
He  earned  his  bachelor's  and  master's 
degrees  from  the  University  of  Texas  at 
Austin,  and  he  also  holds  an  honorary 
Doctor  of  Science  degree  from  Tulane. 

Mr.  Bookout  began  his  career  with 
Shell  in  1950  as  a  geologist  and  literally 
worked  his  way  to  the  top.  In  1976,  he 
was  named  President  and  Chief  Execu- 
tive Officer.  He  has  worked  for  Shell  in 
Tulsa,  Denver,  The  Hague,  New  York 
City;  New  Orleans;  Toronto,  and  Hous- 
ton, where  he  currently  lives. 

A  member  of  numerous  business, 
professional,  and  educational  organiza- 
tions, Mr.  Bookout  has  earned  many 
awards  for  his  contributions  to  these 
groups,  among  them  the  1981  Distin- 
guished Service  Award  from  the  Na- 
tional Association  of  Secondary  School 
Principals  for  his  significant  contributions 
and  outstanding  service  to  American 
education. 

All  alumni  and  friends  of  the  College 
are  cordially  invited  to  attend  all  events. 
For  more  information,  contact  the  College. 


Gas  decontrol :  sooner  not  later 


(Reprinted  by  permission  ot  The  Times) 

The  case  —  or  cases  —  for  the  total,  swift 
deregulation  of  natural  gas  create  another  of 
those  situations  in  which  the  logical,  sensible 
solutions  are  politically  unpopular  in  much  of 
the  nation.  Deregulation  will  raise  consumer 
prices,  no  doubt  about  it,  and  few  politicans 
want  to  vote  for  such  things,  especially  in  an 
election  year.  The  compelling  arguments  for 
deregulation,  though,  are  beginning  to  be 
heard,  thanks  largely  to  efforts  of  elected 
officials  from  gas-producing  states.  We  can 
only  hope  the  logic  and  sense  of  their  words 
will  be  heard  through  the  wails  of  political 
opposition. 

The  overriding  national  argument  in  favor 
of  deregulation  is  that  it  will  increase  the 
nation's  domestic  energy  supply,  the  same 
way  the  decontrol  of  oil  prices  has  brought 
about  larger  supplies  of  American-produced 
oil:  the  higher  prices  will  provide  not  only  the 
financing  but  also  the  incentive  to  explore  for 
more  natural  gas  in  this  country. 

A  10  percent  annual  increase  in  domestic 
natural  gas  production,  according  to  the 
American  Petroleum  Institute,  will  provide 
enough  fuel  to  displace  Americans'  use  of  up  to 
one  million  barrels  of  oil  per  day  —  which 
means  a  million  barrels  per  day  less  the  nation 
will  have  to  buy  from  foreign  oil  producers. 
The  national  economic  and  political  advantages 
of  that  should  be  obvious:  the  less  we  rely  on 
foreign  oil,  the  better  off  we  are  all  around. 

That  is  far  from  being  the  only  argument  in 
favor  of  speeded-up  gas  deregulation,  of  course. 
Of  particular  interest  to  a  Reagan  administration 
facing  massive  budget  deficits  is  the  revenue- 
producing  potential  of  gas  deregulation.  Sen. 
J.  Bennett  Johnston  has  estimated  that 
deregulation  could  add  as  much  as  $49  billion 
to  the  federal  treasury  over  the  next  three 
years. 

A  windfall  profits  tax,  opposed  by  Johnston 


and  several  other  energy -state  officials,  would 
add  even  more  to  federal  revenues.  And,  in 
truth,  some  kind  of  windfall  profits  tax  may  be 
the  legislative  trade-off  necessary  to  get  wider 
support  of  deregulation.  One  proposal  being 
talked  by  several  representatives  would  impose 
a  windfall  tax  for  five  years,  which  could 
produce  about  $  100  million  to  apply  to  federal 
deficits.  We  would  hope  that  this  time,  if 
Congress  passes  both  deregulation  and  a  tax,  it 
will  build  in  an  exempted  amount  for  small 
royalty  owners  at  the  beginning.  A  second  bill 
was  required  to  protect  small  owners  when 
the  oil  windfall  profits  tax  was  passed  several 
years  ago. 

Another  strong  argument  for  deregulation 
comes  from  producing  states  —  Louisiana, 
Texas  and  Oklahoma  prominent  among  them  | 
—  and  it's  only  partially  related  to  the  revenue 
increases  the  states  would  receive.  It's  a 
matter  of  making  sure  the  states'  industries 
have  enough  gas  to  keep  operating.  If  that 
sounds  strange,  consider  this:  Due  to  the 
differing  regulations  for  interstate  and  intrastate  | 
gas,  Louisiana  industries  are  now  actually 
facing  a  shortage  —  despite  the  fact  that 
Louisiana  is  producing  vast  quantities  of  gas. 
Most  of  Louisiana's  gas  is  sent  out  of  state 
where  it  can  be  sold  to  interstate  pipelines  at 
higher  prices  than  intrastate  pipelines  can 
economically  afford  to  pay.  The  result  is  a  local 
shortage  that,  according  to  industrial  leaders, 
could  severely  cripple  Louisiana's  industries 
and  jobs.  The  solution,  obviously,  is  to  lift 
controls  and  let  gas  prices  become  uniform  so 
that  everyone  can  compete  for  the  fuel  on  an 
equal  basis. 

Deregulation  of  natural  gas  will  cost  all  of 
us,  granted.  The  real  question,  though,  is  how 
much  it  will  cost  us  if  gas  is  not  deregulated. 
That's  where  the  focus  should  be  in  presenting 
the  arguments  in  favor  of  deregulation. 


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.  .  .  some  gas,  or  all  gas? 


Some  natural  gas  is  already  going  to 
be  deregulated.  The  Carter-sponsored 
Natural  Gas  Policy  Act  of  1978  guaran- 
teed that  price  controls  on  gas  from  wells 
drilled  after  April  20,  1977,  will  be  lifted 
by  Jan.  1,  1985.  What  is  being  debated 
now  is  lifting  controls  from  so-called 
"old"  gas  from  wells  drilled  before  the 
1977  date,  and  speeding  it  up  so  that  all 
gas  will  be  deregulated  by  1985. 

This  is  where  the  consumer  argument 
against  deregulation  comes  in,  and  it  is 
one  we  adhered  to  as  little  as  two  months 
ago  in  an  editorial  discussing  deregulation. 
The  shock  of  all-together  deregulation 
could  be  unnecessarily  rough  on  consumer 
pocketbooks,  we  said,  and  perhaps  a 
phased  "old"  gas  deregulation,  following 
1985  decontrol  of  the  post-1977  gas, 
would  be  more  acceptable.  The  error  of 
our  ways  has  been  made  clear  to  us, 
though,  and  we  are  prepared  to  support 
total  deregulation,  the  sooner  the  better. 

Among  other  things,  as  noted  in  the 
editorial  above,  much  of  the  cheaper 
"old"  gas  is  going  out  of  Louisiana, 
leaving  this  area's  consumers  paying 
higher  prices,  and  putting  Louisiana's 
own  industries  at  a  disadvantage.  The 
longer  the  "old-new"  categories  remain 
in  effect,  the  longer  the  unfairness  will 
continue.  "Old"  gas  makes  up  40  to  50 
percent  of  the  nation's  current  natural 
gas  supplies,  and  a  great  deal  of  it  flows 
from  Louisiana,  one  of  the  earliest 
producers  of  the  gas. 

Also,  if  we  believe  the  argument  that 
greater  supplies  of  gas  will  reduce  the 
nation's  dependence  on  foreign  supplies 
—  and  we  do  —  then  obviously  anything 
that  will  bring  more  of  the  "old"  gas,  as 
well  as  "new,"  into  the  pipelines  will 
help  accomplish  that  goal.  Price  incentive 
is  the  surest  way  to  encourage  more 
rapid  production  of  the  "old"  gas,  and  the 
surest  way  to  increase  the  total  supply. 

Just  last  week,  the  Reagan  adminis- 
tration began  circulating  a  draft  of  a  bill 
that  would  accomplish  all  the  deregulation 
goals.  Under  it,  a  two-year  phaseout  of 
controls  would  begin  Jan.  1,  1983,  and 
be  complete  by  1985.  It's  now  anticipated 


that  such  a  bill  could  come  before 
Congress  by  Feb.  1,  two  weeks  from 
now.  When  it  does,  we  sincerely  hope 
this  area's  elected  official  will  continue 
and  increase  their  supportive  explanations 
of  the  measures;  that  the  natural  gas 
industry's  leadership  will  fully  explain 
their  stances;  and  that  the  people  of  the 
United  States  will  understand  what's 
truly  at  stake.  The  inevitable  rise  of 
prices  in  natural  gas  may  be  relatively 
small  costs  to  pay  in  exchange  for  the 
assurance  that  there'll  be  gas  to  buy. 


Jim  Montgomery  '68 


'The  Voice'  has 


Jim  Montgomery/  axg  tv0°s^ 


If  you  have  a  question  or  comment 
about  this  editorial,  please  direct  it  to  Jim 
Montgomery. 

A  1968  graduate  of  Centenary,  Jim 
has  served  as  Editorial  Page  Editor  of 
The  Times  since  1976  and  is  now  a 
member  of  the  Editorial  Board.  He  has 
been  honored  with  several  first-place 
awards  in  editorial  writing  from  such 
prestigious  groups  as  the  Associated  Press, 
United  Press  International,  and  Sigma 
Delta  Chi.  He  holds  the  Hay  Boyle 
Award  for  column  writing,  a  Louisiana 
Press  Association  award  for  feature 
writing,  and  the  Freedom  Bell,  an  award 
for  his  energy -related  writings.  In  1980, 
Jim  was  named  "Outstanding  Young 
Man  of  America." 

Jim  has  also  worked  as  Amusements 
Editor  at  The  Times  and  as  a  newscaster 
forKTBS-TV. 

Luckily  for  Centenary ,  Jim  is  never  too 
far  away.  He  appears  regularly  in  Marjorie 
Lyons  Playhouse  productions,  winning 
"Best  Actor,  Musical"  awards  for  his 
performances  in  "Peter  Pan  and  "A 
Little  Night  Music."  In  March  Jim  worked 
as  vocal  coach  for  the  production  "As 
You  Like  It."  He  has  also  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Alumni  Association 
Board. 


Perhaps  his  membership  in  Omicron 
Delta  Kappa  at  Centenary  helped  nurture 
his  extensive  involvement  in  community 
organizations.  Jim  is  a  co-founder  and 
vice  president  of  the  Strand  Theatre  of 
Shreveport  Corp.,  a  member  of  the 
University  Club  Board  of  Governors; 
Community  Adviser  to  the  Junior  League 
of  Shreveport,  Shreveport  Civic  Opera, 
and  Shreveport  Beautification  Found- 
ations boards  of  directors;  and  former 
board  member  of  The  Shreveport  Sym- 
phony and  Shreveport  Regional  Arts 
Council. 

An  amateur  archaeologist,  Jim  holds 
membership  in  the  Louisiana  Arch- 
aeological Society.  He  is  also  active  with 
the  Highland  Restoration  Society  and 
the  Caddo  Parish  Educational  Alter- 
natives Committee. 

Known  as  "The  Voice,"  Jim  volunteers 
annually  for  the  control  and  information 
booth  at  Shreveport  s  annual  Red  River 
Revel  Arts  Festival.  The  riverfront  is  also 
the  setting  for  The  Times '  annual  July 
Fourth  Celebration,  for  which  Jim  is 
chairman. 

And  would  you  believe  he  has  time  to 
go  bass  fishing?  Perhaps  he  fits  that  in 
after  relaxing  at  the  piano,  another 
hobby. 


1982  Alumni  Weekend 

June  25,  26,  27 


Friday,  June  25 

Welcome  Program  —  The  Bill  Causey  Band,  featuring  Seva  May,  in  concert  under  the  stars 

7-10  p.m.,  Hargrove  Shell 


Registration 


10  a.m.  classes 

Dr.  Darrell  M.  Loyless, 

Political  Science: 

Domestic  Economic 

Policy:  A  Going-out-of-business  sale? 


Saturday,  June  26 

Reception,  9-10  a.m.,  lobby  of  Hamilton  Hall 

ALUMNI  COLLEGE 

11  a.m.  classes 
Dr.  Mark  E.  Dulle,  Psychology: 
Now  that  I've  got  children,   what  was  it  I 
should  have  learned  in  school  to  keep  my 
to    keep    my    kid  from    setting   the    neigh- 
bor's cat  on  fire? 

Dr.  Charles  E.  Vetter, 

Sociology: 
Academics  &  Business 


Just  for  Youngsters 

Cartoons  &  snacks  in  James 
Lobby  (see  opposite  page  for 
complete  list  of  events). 


Youth  Basketball  Clinic  with 
Gents  Coach  Tommy  Canter- 
bury and  players. 


Chef  Carolyn  Flournoy,  '45: 

For  the  pushbutton  gourmet: 

The  Art  of  Food  Processing 

Mr.  Marion  Marks, 

Computers  Are  Here!  Dr-  Frank  M"  Carro11;  Mu,s^n 

(with  demonstration)  Music  in  America:  Before  1 900 

Family  Picnic  —  Crumley  Gardens,  12:00  p.m. 
Old  Guard  Reunion  Luncheon  *  in  Centenary  Room 

A  SPORTING  AFTERNOON 

Junior  Gymnastics  Exhibition 1:30  p.m. 

with  Coach  Vannie  Edwards 

SPORTS  MINI-WORKSHOPS: 

Golf  Exhibition  &  Shot-Making  Clinic 2  p.m. 

Adult  Tennis  Clinic  —  Youth  Tennis  Clinic 

2:45  p.m.  —  Coach  Jimmy  Harrison  &  players 

Adult  Racquetball  Clinic  Youth  Soccer  Clinic 

Dr.  Russ  Glasgow  Coach  Enos  Russell 

Pick-up  Softball  Games  all  afternoon 

For  the  already  healthy,  a  Walking  Tour  of  the  Meadows  Museum  of  Art 

View  the  Despujols  collection 

SATURDAY  NIGHT  .  .  .  REUNITE! 

Church  Careers  Alumni  Reception,  5:30  p.m.,  R.E.  Smith  Building 
Gatherings  of  the  Classes  of  1932,  1951-'52-'53,  1957,  1972,  1976-77-78  and  1981° 

Sunday,  June  27 

Sunday  Morning  Social  —  9:30-10:30  a.m.  lobby  of  Hamilton  Hall 

11A.M.  CHAPEL 

Worship  Service  in  Brown  Chapel,  led  by 

Rev.  Kathy  Clark-Dickens,  76 

Centenary  President  Dr.  Donald  A.  Webb  will  preach  on: 

The  Art  and  Curse  of  Remembering 

Special  Music 

Annual  Awards  Luncheon  —  12:30  p.m..  South  Dining  Room,  Bynum  Commons 

Banquet  and  Presentation  of  honors  to  outstanding  alumni,  students,  and  faculty. 

Meeting  of  the  Alumni  Association  Board  of  Directors,  alumni  cordially  invited  ...  2  p.m. 


Infant/Pre-School  Care;  Super- 
vised Play. 


Supervised  Play;  Child  Care 
of  course! 


Child  care 


Supervised  Children's  lunch 


MAKE  YOUR  RESERVATIONS  FOR  MEALS,  YOUTH  EVENTS,  CHILD  CARE,  REUNIONS,  AND  ACCOMMODATIONS. 

USE  REGISTRATION  FORM  ON  PAGE  14. 

*  Please  see  Strictly  Personal  for  all  Reunion  information. 


On-campus  meals,  housing  offered 


Out-of-towners  who  wish  to  do  so  may 
lodge  in  double-occupancy  dormitory 
rooms  in  Hardin,  James,  and  James  Annex 
Dorms.  The  cost  is  $9  per  person,  per 
night,  with  no  additional  room  charge  for 
children.  Dorm  rooms  are  convenient 
but  spartan;  guests  are  asked  to  provide 
their  own  linens,  towels,  alarm  clocks, 
etc.,  and  sleeping  bags  or  "pallets'  tor 
their  children.  Single-occupancy  rooms 
are  available  at  $14  per  night. 

The  College  Cafeteria  will  be  open 
exclusively  for  visiting  alumni  and  their 
families.  Meal  costs  are  as  follows: 


For  a  family  of  four  (with  children 
under  age  12),  the  total  cost  of  on- 
campus  room  and  board  -  -  two  nights 
and  five  meals  —  is  $88. 

No  matter  where  you  are 
For  local  alumni,  and  for  those  staying 
with  friends  or  relatives  in  the  area  .  .  . 
your  registration  is  vital.  Select  the  events 
you  plan  to  attend  from  just  one  to  the 
entire  Weekend. 

Make  reservations  now 

Detach  and  mail  your  reservation  form 
early.  Your  response,  if  received  by  June 
1 ,  will  enable  us  to  send  you  by  mail  a  de- 
tailed brochure  and  confirmation. 


Meal  costs 

Adults 

Children 

under  12 

$2.50 

Sat.  Breakfast 

$1.50 

S3. 00 

Sat.  Picnic 

$1.50 

83.00 

Sat.  Supper 

$2.00 

$2.50 

Sun.  Breakfast 

$1.50 

$7.00 

Awards  Banquet/Child  Lunch 

$1.50 

$18.00 

Total  5  Meals 

$8.00 

Our  thanks 

Alumni      Activities      Committee 
Chairman  Tom  Burton  7 1 . 

Event  Captains 

Children's  Program  -  Camille 
Greve  Dent  72. 

Alumni  College  Betty  Mc- 
Knight  Speairs  (Hon.) 

Family  Picnic  —  Ken  and  Ann 
Carmichael  Osborne  79  &  77. 

Athletic  Program  ■-  Julia  Van 
Tiem  79. 

Chapel  Worship  --  Rev.  Kathy 
Clark-Dickens  76. 

Awards  Banquet  —  Edna  Earle 
Richardson  Stinson  '39. 

.  .  .  and  their  assistants! 


Tennis,  anyone? 

You  are  invited  to  sign  up  at  Saturday 
registration  to  reserve  tennis  or  racquet- 
ball  courts.  The  available  facilities  are: 

Racquetball 
2  courts  at  Gold  Dome 

2  courts  at  Haynes  Gym 

Tennis 

3  outdoor  courts  at  Hardin  Field 
1  indoor  court  at  Haynes  Gym 

6  outdoor  courts  at  Gold  Dome* 

"The  new  tennis  complex  is  scheduled 
for  possible  completion  by  Alumni 
Weekend! 


Child  care  and  youth  program  are  available 


Alumni  from  near  and  far  may  wish  to 
take  advantage  of  these  alumnae-super- 
vised services.  Children  —  infants  to 
early  teens  —  will  be  provided  for  as 
follows: 

Friday,  7-10  p.m. 

Cartoons  and  Snacks  in  James  Lobby. 

Saturday,  10  a.m.-12  noon 
Infant/Pre-school  Care 
Youth  Basketball  Clinic 
Supervised  Play  for  Others 


1:30-5:00  p.m. 

Infant/Pre-school  Care 

Gymnastics  Exhibition 
Youth  Soccer  Clinic 

Youth  Tennis  Clinic 
(Softball  with  Mom  &  Dad) 
Supervised  Play  for  Others 


6:00  p.m.-12  midnight 

Infant/Pre-school  Care 


Ping-pong,  Pinball,  etc. 

(supervised) 
Supervised  Play  for  Others 

Sunday 

Infant/Pre-school  care,  10:30-12  noon 
Children's  Lunch,  supervised  12-2  p.m. 


You  may  want  to  provide  older  children 
with  pocket  money  for  soft  drinks,  amuse- 
ments, etc. 


MAIL  REGISTRATION  IS  MANDATORY  FOR  PROGRAM/EVENTS  ABOVE. 

Please  use  form  on  Page  14. 


Potpourri 


A-R-T  was  just  another  three-letter 
word  for  Olga  Cunningham  until  1961. 

That  was  the  year  she  met  Joseph 
Hirshhorn,  who  owned  the  largest  private 
art  collection  in  the  United  States  — 
some  6,000  pieces  —  and  who  became 
her  husband  two  and  a  half  years  later. 

"When  I  met  my  husband,  I  knew 
nothing  about  art,"  confessed  the  little 
lady.  "I  didn't  even  know  WHO  Joe 
Hirshhorn  was,"  she  said  with  a  smile. 

Mrs.  Hirshhorn  was  on  the  Centenary 
campus  Wednesday  and  Thursday,  Feb. 
3  and  4  to  open  an  exhibit  of  her  private 
collection  of  sculpture,  paintings,  and 
prints  on  display  in  the  Meadows  Museum 
throughout  the  month  of  February. 

"After  marrying  Joe,  it  was  like  living 
in  a  whole  new  world,"  the  former 
employment  agency  owner  said.  "Little 
by  little  I  began  to  learn  about  art.  It 
couldn't  be  helped,"  she  said  with  a 
twinkle  in  her  eye.  "Our  friends  were  the 
artists  themselves,  dealers,  critics,  writ- 
ers." And  they  included  people  like 
Pablo  Picasso,  Henry  Moore,  Alexander 
Calder,  Josef  Albers,  and  Georgia 
O'Keefe. 

Many  of  the  pieces  in  her  collection, 
which  made  up  the  Centenary  exhibit, 
were  gifts  to  her  from  her  husband  and 
their  artist  friends.  "Joe  gave  me  things 
all  the  time,"  she  said.  "By  the  time  he 
died  last  September,  he  had  given  me  75 
per  cent  of  my  collection." 

Many  of  the  pieces  of  their  joint  collec- 
tion form  the  Smithsonian  Institution's 
Hirshhorn's  Museum  and  Sculpture  Gar- 
den in  Washington,  D.C. 


Curriculum  study 

Concerned  by  expert  opinion  that  gen- 
eral education  is  languishing  in  the  nation. 
President  Donald  Webb  has  appointed 
an  ad  hoc  committee  to  study  Centenary 
College's  curriculum. 

"We  have  been  working  since  the  first 
of  the  academic  year,"  said  Dr.  Darrell 
Loyless,  vice  president  of  the  College 
and  chairman  of  the  committee.  "We 
hope  to  have  a  report  with  recommenda- 
tions in  the  next  few  months." 

Others  serving  on  the  committee  are 
Dean  Dorothy  Gwin;  Associate  Dean 
Lee  Morgan;  Dr.  Frank  Carroll  and  Dr. 
Hughes  Cox  from  the  humanities;  Dr. 
Mark  Dulle  and  Dr.  Charles  Vetter  from 
the  social  sciences ;  and  Dr.  Jeffrey  Trahan 


A  love  of  art  is  the  common  denominator  for  this  trio  (left  to  right)  Willard  Cooper, 
Curator  of  the  Meadows  Museum  and  Chairman  of  the  Department  of  Art ;  Mrs.  Olga 
Hirshhorn,  wife  of  the  late  Joseph  Hirshhorn,  who  owned  the  largest  private  art  col- 
lection in  the  United  States;  and  Mrs.  Jacques  Wiener,  Mrs.  Hirshhorn's  hostess  and 
mother  of  Centenary  student  Jacques  Wiener,  Jr.  Mrs.  Hirshhorn  came  to  Centenary 
to  officially  open  a  traveling  exhibit  of  her  private  collection. 


and  Dr.  Rosemary  Seidler  from  the  natural 
sciences. 

"We  feel  it  is  a  healthy  experience  for 
a  college  committed  to  the  liberal  arts  to 
review,  assess,  and  possibly  change  the 
curriculum  every  so  often,"  Dr.  Loyless 
said.  "This  allows  for  intellectual  rigor 
and  not  academic  rigor  mortis." 

Survey  results 

Centenary  alumni  read  most  of  the 
Centenary  magazine  and  feel  adequately 
informed  about  the  College.  Most  feel 
that  the  appearance,  readability,  and 
photography  of  the  magazine  is  good, 
and  that  the  color  cover  is  worth  the 
additional  expense. 

These  are  some  of  the  results  of  a 
random  sample  survey  of  alumni  taken 
in  December  and  January.  Of  1,000 
questionnaires  mailed  out,  only  100  were 
completed  and  returned;  the  staff  can 
only  take  this  as  a  general  indication  of 
your  likes  and  dislikes. 

By  far,  the  favorite  regular  feature  is 
Strictly  Personal,  with  Perspectives 
(alumni  profiles)  next.  Others,  in  order  of 
preference,  were  Potpourri,  articles  by 


Dr.  Lee  Morgan,  Planning  Ahead,  Cente- 
ments,  the  corporate  profiles,  and  Finan- 
cially Speaking. 

On  your  "wish  lists,"  are  more  articles 
by  professors;  alumni  and  faculty  profiles; 
in-depth  articles  on  Centenary's  academic 
departments;  and  photos  of  current 
campus  life.  Several  alumni  asked  for 
more  coverage  of  "the  way  it  was." 

Articles  and  topics  you  would  like  to 
see  only  some  of  the  time  include  stories 
written  by  alumni,  athletics,  church  rela- 
tions, cultural  opportunities  for  non- 
students,  finances,  student  profiles,  study 
opportunities  for  non-students,  college 
events,  and  trustee  profiles. 

Some  alumni  indicated  they  would 
like  to  see  less  coverage  of  the  adminis- 
tration, budgets,  social  activities,  the  De- 
partment of  Religion,  trustees,  and  basket- 
ball. 

It's  hard  to  please  everyone,  but  we 
like  to  try.  And  we  have  begun  in  this 
issue  and  the  last  to  try  to  give  you  more 
of  what  you  want. 

If  you  have  questions  or  comments 
about  the  Centenary  magazine,  contact 
Janie  Flournoy,  Department  of  Public 
Relations. 


'Doctor  of  rap 

Andy  Shehee  always  seems  to  be  in 
the  right  place  at  the  right  time. 

The  associate  director  of  admissions  at 
Centenary  and  a  1977  graduate,  Andy 
has  quadrupled  the  number  of  Centenary 
students  from  South  Louisiana  and  the 
Gulf  Coast,  his  territory. 

"In  1974,  we  had  17  students  from  the 
Gulf  Coast,"  said  Andy,  "but  by  1978, 
we  had  zero.  We're  now  back  up  to  16 
and  will  go  over  that  in  the  fall." 

Countless  other  students  are  at  Cente- 
nary because  of  "the  doctor  of  rap."  A 
full  one-third  of  the  Choir  are  his  recruits, 
not  to  mention  the  students  he  rounds  up 
locally. 

Andy  attributes  his  success  to  luck  and 
being  at  the  right  place  at  the  right  time. 
Once  in  Biloxi,  Miss.,  when  Andy  got  lost 
from  his  car,  he  stopped  to  talk  to  a 
marine  biologist  about  her  sting  ray.  She 
turned  out  to  be  Delia  McCaughan, 
winner  of  several  top  education  awards, 
and  now  Andys  "Biloxi  Connection." 
That  year  alone  she  put  him  in  touch 
with  10  students  who  chose  Centenary 
as  their  College. 

"You  really  don't  get  tired  of  telling 
people  about  Centenary,"  said  the  red- 
headed recruiter.  "I  tell  them  about  the 
personal  attention  from  the  professors, 
the  academic  excellence,  and  the  well- 
rounded  social  activities.  A  lot  of  people 
(especially  in  South  Louisiana)  think 
we're  a  seminary  in  the  middle  of  the 
woods.  But  we're  a  vibrant  institution  in 
the  middle  of  the  second  lagest  metro- 
politan area  in  Louisiana. 

Andy  manages  to  have  some  spare 
time  to  raise  exotic  chickens  and  acres  of 
zinnias.  He  also  works  out  at  the  Y  -  it 
he  isn't  busy  recruiting  a  fellow  athlete. 


A  great  Dane 

What  do  Aarhus,  Denmark,  and  Cente- 
nary College  have  in  common? 

A  great  Dane  in  the  form  of  Herr  Karl- 
Heinz  Westarp. 

"I  started  off  the  Exchange  in  1976," 
said  Herr  Westarp,  who  is  back  on 
campus  this  semester.  "And  I'm  so  glad 
to  be  back.  That's  the  reason  we're 
here." 

Herr  Westaqj  has  swapped  his  teaching 
position,  house,  and  lifestyle  with  Cente- 
nary Professor  Barry  Nass.  "We've  had 
two  letters  from  Dr.  Nass,"  Herr  Westarp 
said.  "He's  fine,  enjoying  it,  and,  I'm 
sure,  wallowing  in  our  home." 

The  Westarps,  on  the  other  hand,  are 


President  Donald  Webb  (left)  and  Andy  Shehee  visit  with  three  prospective  students  — all 
from  Biloxi  — in  Centenary's  Frost  Garden.  The  girls,  (left  to  right)  Deidre  Krecker, 
Debbie  Patterson,  and  Donna  Pope,  came  tor  High  School  Weekend  to  get  a  glimpse  ol 
what  college  life  is  all  about. 


getting  to  know  each  other  a  little  better 
in  Dr.  N  ass's  small  apartment.  The  Danish 
family  includes  the  professor,  wife  Jetta, 
three-year-old  Filip,  and  19-month-old 
Kamilla. 

Herr  Westarp  is  teaching  Introduction 
to  Literature,  Shakespeare's  Tragedies, 
and  Flannery  O'Connor's  works  and  is 
supervising  an  independent  study  in  the- 
ology. 

"It's  great  to  be  here,"  he  said.  "I 
prefer  the  personal  atmosphere." 


To  Israel  with  love 

As  we  Louisianians  were  experiencing 
our  largest  snowfall  since  1949,  a  group 
of  21  Shreveporters  were  touring  the 
Holy  Land  under  blue,  sunny  skies. 

The  group  of  travelers  ■  -  students, 
ministers,  parents,  friends  —  made  the 
trip  during  Centenary  College  s  January 
Interim,  a  month-long  session  between 
semesters  when  classes  not  normally 
offered  during  the  regular  semester  are 
held.  Many  of  the  courses  are  travel 
opportunities,  such  as  this  trip  to  the 
Holy  Land,  offered  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Department  of  Religion.  Professors 
Robert  Ed  Taylor  and  Webb  Pomeroy 
accompanied  the  group.  The  trip  was  so 
popular,  that  it  will  be  offered  again  next 
January. 


A  slide  show,  shown  recently  at  the 
President's  Round  Table,  logged  their 
travels  from  Amman,  Jordan,  where  some 
of  their  film  was  confiscated,  to  Cairo, 
Egypt,  where  camels  took  them  to  the 
pyramids,  and  points  in-between. 

"We  were  particularly  impressed  with 
the  small  size  and  distance  of  sites  and 
places,"  the  Rev.  Taylor  said.  "The  River 
Jordan  was  no  larger  than  one  of  our 
bayous." 

Jerusalem  was  also  a  high  point  of  the 
10-day  tour.  Robert  Ed's  slides  showed 
visits  to  the  Dome  of  the  Rock,  a  Muslim 
mosque;  the  gates  into  the  Biblical  City; 
the  "Wailing  Wall,"  the  only  remains  of 
Herod's  temple,  and  a  $1  million  model 
ot  Jerusalem  as  it  was  when  Jesus  lived 
there.  They  followed  the  Via  Dolorosa, 
which,  according  to  tradition,  was  the 
route  Jesus  traveled  to  the  spot  of 
crucifixion.  Of  particular  interest  was 
the  hill  of  the  skull,  "Golgotha  ",  the 
Garden  Tomb,  and  the  Garden  of  Geth- 
semane. 

"There  is  no  better  way  to  refresh  and 
enliven  one's  understanding  of  both  the 
Old  and  the  New  Testaments  than  to 
visit  the  Holy  Land  and  see  first  hand  so 
many  of  the  places  hallowed  in  the 
biblical  story,"  Robert  Ed  said.  "It  gives 
one  a  sense  of  vividness,  a  sense  of  the 
ancient  story  suddenly  come  alive  in 
one's  own  experience. 


Department  of  Geology  has  depth 


Energy  -  one  of  the  most  talked-about 
issues  of  the  '80s  -  means  excitement  in 
Centenary's  Department  of  Geology. 

With  Shreveport  located  in  the  heart 
of  the  oil-and-gas-rich  Ark-La-Tex,  the 
energy  level  on  the  first  floor  of  Mickle 
Hall  is  high. 

"Exploration  is  very  successful  now," 
said  Dr.  Nolan  Shaw,  Professor  of  Geology 
and  Chairman  of  the  Department.  "There 
is  a  lot  of  activity,"  which  means  a  keen 
interest  in  the  academics. 

Second  only  to  the  School  of  Business, 
the  Department  of  Geology  numbers  44 
full-time  majors  and  over  100  part-time 
majors.  Of  that  number,  18  are  women, 
an  increase  over  the  numbers  in  previous 
years.  "Geology  is  an  area  they  can  do 
well  in,"  Dr.  Shaw  said.  "It's  a  lot  of 
detail  work  and  doesn't  require  ex- 
ceptional physical  ability.  They  can 
compete  with  men  and  do  quite  well." 

Also  a  lot  of  Shreveport  and  Bossier 
City  professionals  take  one  or  two  courses 
a  semester.  "They  might  be  landmen 
picking  up  a  special  course  or  secretaries 
and  receptionists  taking  the  basics.  We 
get  quite  a  few  people  who  already  have 
their  degrees  who  like  to  take  refresher 
courses,"  Dr.  Shaw  explained. 

Professionals  are  also  invited  to  par- 
ticipate in  Centenary  as  part-time  faculty, 
lending  experience  as  well  as  expertise 
to  the  classroom.  Shreveporters  teaching 
this  semester  include  Robert  Langton,  a 
geologist;  Jay  Carraway,  an  attorney 
who  is  teaching  Oil  and  Gas  Law ;  John 
Northwood,  a  geophysicist;  and  Neil 
Hohman,  a  landman  who  is  teaching  Oil 
and  Gas  Leasing. 

The  close  camaraderie  with  the 
business  community  can  also  mean  on- 
the-job  experience  for  the  students.  "Over 
the  past  few  years,  we've  had  lots  of 
opportunities  for  internships  and  part- 
time  jobs,"  explained  Dr.  Shaw.  "And  all 
of  our  graduates  who  weren't  going  to 
graduate  school  have  had  jobs  lined  up 
before  graduation,"  he  said. 

At  the  end  of  four  years  with  a  major  in 
geology,  Centenary  students  are  well- 
prepared.  In  addition  to  the  liberal  arts 
courses  required,  a  student  working 
toward  a  B.A.  degree  in  geology  must 
take  25  hours  in  geology  including 
Physical  Geology  and  Lab,  Historical 
Geology  and  Lab,  Map  Drafting  and 
Plane  Table  Surveying,  two  courses  in  a 
foreign  language,  and  three  hours  in 
speech.  Two  courses  in  science  are 
required  and  one  course  in  mathematics. 
The  B.A.  degree  is  for  the  student 
interested  in  entering  a  geology-related 
field,  such  as  well-logging  service  or 
geophysical  services. 

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The  more  rigorous  curriculum  leads  to 
a  B.S.  degree,  which  is  for  the  person 
who  wants  to  work  independently  in  the 
oil  and  gas  industry  or  who  wants  to 
pursue  an  advanced  degree  in  graduate 
school. 

In  addition  to  the  liberal  arts  courses,  a 
student  must  take  35  hours  in  geology, 
including  Physical  Geology  and  Lab, 
Historical  Geology  and  Lab,  Regional 
Geology,  Structural  Geology,  Mineralogy, 
Invertebrate  Paleontology,  Elementary 
Petrology,  and  Sedimentology.  Other 
required  courses  include  two  semesters 
of  General  Chemistry  and  Lab,  two 
semesters  of  Analytic  Geometry  and 
Calculus,  Introductory  Physics  or  Prin- 
ciples of  Biology  and  Lab,  and  two 
courses  in  a  foreign  language. 

Other  courses  which  may  be  taken  as 
electives  include  Oil  and  Gas  Law, 
Geology  of  Petroleum,  Geology  of  the 
Ark-La-Tex  Oil  and  Gas  Fields,  Well 
Logging,  Economic  Geology,  Principles 
of  Stratigraphy,  Introduction  to  Geo- 
physical Prospecting  and  Introduction  to 
Micropaleontology. 

The  department  also  offers  geology 
students  unusual  opportunities  in  in- 
dependent studies.  Centenary  is  a 
member  of  two  well  logging  libraries 


which  allow  students  and  faculty  members 
use  of  their  facilities  for  individual 
research  in  subsurface  geology. 

A  summer  field  camp  is  also  recom- 
mended for  all  geology  students,  as  well 
as  the  January  Interim  trip  to  the  Denver 
Basin  in  Colorado.  "The  field  trips  give 
the  students  the  opportunity  to  visualize 
what  is  taught  in  the  classroom,"  said 
Dr.  Shaw.  "This  experience  is  vital  to  a 
good  background  in  geology." 

A  new  15-passenger  van  given  to  the 
department  by  a  parent  of  a  recent 
graduate  makes  it  easier  to  travel.  "We 
took  the  van  to  Colorado,  and  it  worked 
like  a  charm,"  beamed  Dr.  Shaw. 

Unlike  other  departments  (of  any 
college),  there  are  very  few  drop-outs 
from  the  Department  of  Geology  at 
Centenary.  "I  know  of  very  few  students 
who  have  transferred,"  said  Dr.  Shaw. 
"Once  they  get  here,  they  stay  and  love 
it. 

"The  students  are  very  serious  this 
year,"  Dr.  Shaw  said.  "They  have  their 
goals  clearly  set  in  their  minds.  They're 
more  competitive  —  show  their  interest 
more. 

"The  energy  situation  has  given  them 
an  air  of  excitement  and  expectation. 
You  can  feel  it!" 


PLM  Program  added 


A  casual  remark  was  the  start  of 
something  big  at  Centenary.  That  some- 
thing is  the  Petroleum  Land  Management 
Program ,  one  of  only  a  few  in  the  South. 

The  unforgettable  conversation  was 
between  Dr.  Nolan  Shaw,  Professor  of 
Geology  and  Chairman  of  the  Depart- 
ment, and  a  friend,  who  mentioned  that 
his  son  was  majoring  in  petroleum  land 
management  at  the  University  of  Okla- 
homa. He  added  that  his  son  would  have 
attended  Centenary  if  the  College  had 
offered  that  program. 

Challenged,  Dr.  Shaw  went  to  the 
Dean  of  the  School  of  Business,  where 
the  program  is  usually  placed,  and  began 
investigating  the  possibilities  of  Cen- 
tenary's offering  such  a  program.  The 
two  men  discovered  that  Centenary  was 
already  offering  all  but  two  of  the  courses 
needed  for  the  B.S.  degree  -  they  just 
weren't  packaged  into  a  degree  plan. 

"The  Ark-La-Tex  area,  with  its  history 
as  an  energy  center,  seems  a  natural 
place  for  this  type  of  program,"  Dr.  Shaw 
said. 

And  like  other  programs  at  Centenary, 


the  PLM  program  is  designed  to  give  a 
broad  education  in  the  liberal  arts,  in 
addition  to  a  firm  foundation  in  business 
and  geology. 

A  landman  is  a  vital  member  of  a  team 
involved  in  obtaining  the  legal  rights  to 
explore  for  and  produce  natural  resources. 
The  landman  usually  has  the  responsibility 
of  acquiring  blocks  of  potentially  pro- 
ductive land  and  determining  ownership 
of  the  mineral  rights.  He  must  also 
negotiate  claims  arising  from  damages  to 
the  land  as  a  result  of  drilling  and 
production  and  consider  subcontracts  to 
other  companies  or  individuals. 

Because  the  program  is  under  the 
auspices  of  the  School  of  Business,  other 
opportunities  exist  for  landmen  in  bank 
trust  departments,  real  property  man- 
agement and  development,  and  advisory 
and  management  fields. 

"As  long  as  we  keep  importing  40 
percent  of  our  oil,  we'll  have  a  demand 
for  landmen,"  said  Dr.  Shaw. 

For  more  information  on  Centenary's 
PLM  Program,  contact  the  Office  of 
Admissions  or  the  School  of  Business. 


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The  faculty  of  the  Department  of  Geology  includes  (left  to  right)  Carl  Cathey,  a  'hard-rock'  geologist;  Nolan  Shaw,  a  soft-rock'  geologist 
and  Chairman  of  the  Department;  and  Robert  Frey,  whose  special  interests  are  physical  geology,  historical  geology,  and  invertebrate 
paleontology.  Dr.  Shaw  holds  the  William  C.  Woolf  professorial  chair,  established  by  the  Woolf  Foundation  in  1977.  Just  last  month,  the 
Foundation  established  a  SI ()(),()()()  endowed  scholarship  in  the  name  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woolf  to  be  given  to  geology  students  with  a  3.5  or 
better  grade  point  average  and  an  ACT  score  of  27  or  better.  Trustees  of  the  Foundation  are  N.H.  Wheless,  Jr.,  Claude  G.  Rives  III,  and  C. 
Lane  Sartor. 

A  life  and  death  vacation 


When  senior  geology  student  Roger 
Youssef  decided  to  go  home  for  Christ- 
mas, little  did  he  know  he  might  lose  his 
life  doing  it. 

"My  parents  are  both  Lebanese,  said 
the  dark-haired  Roger,  using  fluent 
English.  "I  knew  there  had  been  a  war 
going  on  for  some  time  in  Lebanon,  but  I 
thought  things  had  calmed  down.  I  never 
saw  anything  on  the  news  about  any 
more  trouble  there.'' 

When  Roger  landed  at  the  Beirut 
airport,  he  was  surprised  that  his  parents 
were  not  there  to  meet  him.  Riding  in  a 
cab  to  their  home,  he  noticed  a  red  hue  to 
the  skies  -  Christmastime  festivities  and 
fireworks,  he  commented  to  the  driver. 

"Oh,  no"  said  the  driver.  "This  is  war."' 

Roads  were  blocked,  and  IDs  were 
scrutinized  at  checkpoints.  Rockets 
|  exploded  and  bullets  cracked  through 
jthe  air.  Sandbag  bunkers  lined  the 
jwalkway  to  his  parents'  home.  Roger 
crouched  and  ran  in,  not  to  leave  the 
< premises  for  the  entire  trip. 

"My  whole  family  seemed  different," 
he  said.  "Things  were  quiet.  Machine- 
Igun  bullets  were  all  over  the  walls.  We 
had  to  sleep  in  the  corridor,  and  you 
jcould  see  the  bullets  tearing  through  the 
iwalls,  even  three  floors  up  where  we 
Iwere." 

"The  fighting  goes  on  sporadically  all 


over  town,  and  people  are  used  to  it," 
Roger  said.  "They  might  quit  fighting  for 
an  hour,  and  everyone  will  go  out  to  get 
food  or  money.  Sometimes,  even  if  they 
are  fighting  on  one  street,  business  will 
be  going  on  on  another  street.  Sandbags 
are  everywhere,  and  every  building  has 
bullet  holes  in  it." 

Because  Roger's  father  is  very  religious, 
he  would  not  allow  his  family  out  of  the 
house,  except  in  extreme  circumstances. 
"My  brother  got  caught  out  there  once 
when  he  went  to  get  food,  and  my 
parents  didn't  know  if  he  was  alive  or 
dead,"  Roger  said. 

Trying  to  get  back  to  the  airport  to 
return  to  the  United  States  and  Centenary 
College  finally  required  a  military  escort. 
"The  jeep  had  a  machine  gun  on  it," 
Roger  said,  "and  we  used  it."  Shooting 
their  way  through  a  checkpoint,  the 
driver  was  wounded,  but  got  Roger  safely 
to  the  airport.  A  telephone  call  from  the 
London  airport  let  his  parents  know  that 
he  was  alive. 

"It  was  bad,"  Roger  said.  "It  was  like  a 
dream  —  just  unreal.  Almost  every  build- 
ing was  all  bored  with  bullets  —  all 
messed  up.  Before  the  war,  the  area 
around  Beirut  was  one  of  the  most  beau- 
tiful in  the  world. 

That  the  events  in  Lebanon  are  not 
being  covered   more   regularly  by  the 


Senior  geology  student  Roger  Youssef 
locates  his  parents  home,  Beirut,  on  the 
globe.  A  trip  home  for  Christmas  may 
have  been  his  last. 


media  is  upsetting  to  Roger.  "They 
covered  it  for  awhile,"  he  said,  "and  then 
they  quit,  unless  an  embassy  was  blown  up 
or  somebody  big  was  killed.  But  this  is 
going  on  every  day,  and  it's  scary. 

"Now  I  know  why  my  parents  wanted 
me  to  come,"  he  said.  "We  may  never  see 
each  other  again." 

11 


Perspectives 


Jake Hanna 


Friendships  are  important  to  Jake  Hanna. 

Over  the  years,  friends  have  meant  a  lot  at  his  place  of  work, 
Bill  Hanna  Ford,  Inc.,  (whose  slogan  is  "You've  got  a  friend") 
and  at  his  alma  mater,  Centenary,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1929. 

"I  entered  Centenary  the  spring  semester  of  1927  with  the 
expectation  of  playing  varsity  football  the  following  fall," 
Hanna  writes.  "Centenary  had  the  strong  support  of  many 
Shreveport  citizens,  and  during  those  years  it  was  mighty 
helpful  to  the  College  and  to  individual  students  to  have  these 
friends.  It  was  my  good  fortune  to  have  as  one  of  my  friends  and 
benefactors,  Mr.  Arch  Haynes.  Through  the  years,  it  has  been 
with  deep  gratitude  that  I  credit  him  with  my  opportunity  to 
enter  Centenary." 

"As  I  participated  in  football  during  these  years,  Coaches 
Homer  Norton  and  George  Hoy  perhaps  knew  me  best  and 
gave  me  many  lessons  I've  never  forgotten,"  Hanna  writes.  The 
football  team  was  in  its  heyday  and  undefeated  in  1927,  and 
that  included  games  against  four  or  five  Southwest  Conference 
ball  clubs,  Hanna  recalled. 

"These  gentlemen  were  gentle  men  in  every  sense  of  the 
word.  No  person  could  have  been  under  their  influence  in  a 
classroom,  on  the  football  field,  or  on  campus  without  becom- 
ing a  better  person,"  writes  Hanna,  "and  I  credit  them  as  estab- 
lishing a  standard  that  set  me  on  my  way  as  I  matured  into 
adulthood." 

Since  Hanna's  retirement  in  1978,  he  has  enjoyed  the 
"feeling  of  not  being  scheduled.  I've  stayed  close  to  home  and 
enjoyed  each  day  without  any  great  pressure  of  feeling  I  had  to 
have  a  big  consuming  hobby  in  order  to  enjoy  life." 

That  sounds  like  a  pretty  good  friendship  with  life. 


Jake  Hanna 


Ken  Carlile 


Perhaps  Dr.  Kenneth  Carlile  '79  was  destined  to  the  drilling 
business. 

A  licensed  dentist  in  the  State  of  Texas,  Dr.  Carlile  came 
back  to  school  — Centenary  — to  complete  a  degree  in  geology, 
so  that  he  could  go  back  into  the  family  business  — drilling  — this 
time,  for  oil  and  gas. 

From  1977  to  1979,  Dr.  Carlile  attended  classes  whenever 
he  could  — day  or  night.  "The  school  was  very  helpful  in 
understanding  and  working  with  my  schedule,"  he  recalled, 
"which  meant  seeing  patients  at  some  times  or  logging  wells  for 
Marshall  Exploration  (the  family  business)  at  other  times." 

Dr.  Carlile  took  his  classwork  to  the  field  —  literally .  Based  on 
research  in  his  Petroleum  Geology  class,  Dr.  Carlile  discovered 
the  Logansport  Field  and  successfully  drilled  some  80  wells. 
Not  bad  for  homework. 

Dr.  Carlile  is  very  active  in  Marshall,  Texas,  serving  on  the 
boards  of  the  Marshall  National  Bank,  Marshall  United  Fund, 
Marshall  Cultural  Affairs  Council,  and  Council  on  Ministries  for 
the  First  United  Methodist  Church;  he  is  also  an  adviser  to  the 
new  Marshall  Vocational/Technical  Center. 

"Centenary  offers  a  unique  opportunity  for  geological  students 
to  become  acquainted  with  the  peculiarities  of  the  Ark-La-Tex 
geological  setting,"  Dr.  Carlile  said,  "In  fact,  I  have  made  it  a 
requirement  for  some  of  our  geologists  to  attend  some  of  the 
classes  at  Centenary  to  enhance  their  understanding  of  the 
Ark-La-Tex  geology." 

Drilling  — it  s  a  natural  for  Dr.  Ken  Carlile. 

12 


Ken  Carlile 


Steam  drifts  from  snow-covered  volcano 


'Anybody  want  to  go  to  the  Antarctic?' 


The  words  of  Dr.  F.  Alton  Wade 
bellowed  through  the  hallway  at  Texas 
Tech  and  found  their  mark  in  young 
Carl  Cathey,  an  undergraduate  geology 
student. 

"Sure!"  the  kid  yelled  back. 

And  a  few  years  later,  his  dream  came 
true. 

Carl,  then  a  graduate  student  at  Texas 
Tech  (and  now  an  instructor  of  geology 
at  Centenary)  was  chosen  by  Dr.  Wade, 
a  colleague  of  Admiral  Robert  E.  Byrd, 
for  an  expedition.  Funded  by  the  National 
Science  Foundation,  Department  of  Polar 
Programs,  the  project  was  organized  to 
map  out  an  area  of  Marie  Byrd  Land  not 
already  drawn  up  by  Admiral  Byrd, 
Wade,  and  a  handful  of  other  scientists, 
who  had  pioneered  efforts  on  that  faraway 
continent  a  few  decades  before. 

Thirteen  scientists  representing  six 
American  universities  and  the  New 
Zealand  Geological  Survey  made  up  the 
scientific  team.  Four  others  comprised 
the  support  team,  including  a  helicopter 
pilot,  maintenance  men,  and  a  cook. 

The  f6  men  and  one  woman  (a 
geologist)  were  flown  from  California  to 
Christchurch,  New  Zealand,  where  they 
were  outfitted  for  the  expedition.  "We 
were  given  longjohns,  wind  pants,  double 
rubber  boots  and  fleece-lined  boots,  heavy 
wool  shirts,  a  windbreaker,  parka  and 
hood,  gloves  and  heavy  leather  mittens, 
wool  scarves,  face  masks,  and  wool  socks," 
said  Carl. 


Ice  forms  everywhere 


"We  also  had  to  have  an  ice  axe, 
climbing  rope  and  gear,  clamp-ons  (ice 
picks  clamped  on  to  their  boots),  and  a 
12-man  tent,"  he  explained.  "We  took 
the  tent  with  us  out  to  the  field  in  case  we 
got  stuck." 

From  New  Zealand,  they  flew  to  the 
southernmost  continent.  The  team  made 
its  headquarters  at  a  base  camp  due  east 
of  Admiral  Byrd  s  first  "Little  America" 
in  Marie  Byrd  Land.  "We  were  850 
nautical  miles  from  the  South  Pole,"  Carl 
said. 


"Just  about  everything  was  ice  — 95 
percent,"  he  said.  "And  most  of  the  snow 
is  a  blowing  snow.  The  temperatures 
ranged  from  50  degrees  above  zero  (F)  to 
100  degrees  below  zero  (F),  and  the 
wind  could  blow  in  excess  of  60  miles  per 
hour." 

Two  radios  kept  the  team  in  com- 
munication on  the  continent  and  with 
the  outside  world,  and  mail  was  delivered 
every  two  weeks  along  with  supplies. 

"Our  cook  was  from  the  CIA,"  Carl 
said  with  a  smile.  "That's  the  Culinary 
Institute  of  America.  He  fixed  everything 
from  hamburgers  to  Chateaubriand." 

There  was  plenty  of  daylight  (24  hours 
a  day)  for  study  and  play.  A  favorite 
good-weather  break  from  work  was 
volleyball,  and  during  bad  weather,  the 
scientists  played  a  combination  Risk- 
Monopoly  game.  "That  was  probably  the 
most  dangerous  part  of  the  trip,"  Carl 
said. 

But  work  was  the  real  name  of  the 
game,  and  work  they  did.  In  addition  to 
the  mapping  project,  they  collected 
geologic  samples  and  structural  data. 
The  expedition  also  made  two  other 
important  discoveries. 

They  found  the  first  fossils,  an  ancient 
tree-like  plant,  to  be  found  in  the  area, 
and  they  demonstrated  that  the  volcanic 
mountains  in  the  Hal  Flood  Range  were 
not  extinct. 

Anybody  want  to  go  to  the  Antarctic? 

Carl  plans  to  go  back.  .  .  some  day. 

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Strictly 
Personal 


1920s 

CHRIS  BARNETTE,  Class  Agent  for  the  class 
years  1923,  '24,  '25,  has  renewed  many  old 
friendships  with  the  many  letters  he  received  in 
response  to  his  Class  Agent  letter  and  to  the  Re- 
union of  the  "Old  Guard." 

CLARENCE  R.  GUTTEREDGE  (23)  wrote 
from  Auburndale,  Fla.  recalling  many  years  as  a 
teacher  and  coach,  and  later  his  work  in  his  in- 
surance business,  which  he  turned  over  to  his 
son.  Afterwards  he  developed  a  large  ranch  and 
retired.  Two  of  his  four  children  graduated  from 
Centenary. 

"BUCK"  FLETCHER  ('24)  recalled  his  Centenary 
years,  especially  the  famous  "Coushatta  Five" 
basketball  team,  of  which  Buck  is  the  only  sur- 
vivor. 

SIDNEY  LEE  CONGER  ('24)  after  many  years 
with  H.  J.  Heinz,  Co.  in  Hawaii  retired  in  1964 
to  the  Mobile  Bay  area  of  Fairhope,  Ala. 

IKE  LONG  ('25)  since  retirement  from  Cities 
Service  Co.  has  been  working  in  Electric  Light 
Products  of  Americus,  Ga.  IKE  says  he  intends 
to  keep  working  another  10  years.  Ask  him 
about  his  4  children,  10  grand  and  3  great- 
grand! 

DR.  JAMES  T.  HARRIS  (25)  in  his  spare  time 
has  built  up  a  business  in  restoring  antique  fur- 
niture. Special  pastoral  assignments  and  calls 
for  preaching  keep  him  almost  as  busy  as  he  was 
before  retiring  from  active  pastoral  work  in  the 
Louisiana  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Church. 

JACK  FULLILOVE  ('25)  has  sold  his  farm  and 
now  does  a  bit  of  traveling.  His  son  is  teaching 
English  in  Hong  Kong,  and  his  daughter,  a 
Ph.D,  is  doing  research  in  biology  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Texas. 

S  ELBERT  BUSH  (26),  after  40  years  in  public 
schools  as  teacher,  high  school  principal,  and 
[superintendent,  has  a  small  convenience  store, 
|  but  says  that  he  is  going  to  retire  this  year! 

WARD  PETERS  ('26)  is  still  going  strong  as  the 
owner  of  the  Pel-State  Oil  Co.  here  in  Shreveport. 

GEORGE  W.  MEADOWS  ('26)  retired  after  43 
years  as  an  accountant  with  large  oil  and  gas 
producing  companies.  Come  to  the  Reunion  in 
June,  George,  and  catch  up  on  what's  happening 
to  old  Centenary  friends. 

JOE  D.  LACY  ('26)  lives  in  Nacogdoches, 
ITexas,  where  he  has  retired  after  many  years 
.with  a  very  successful  career  as  teacher,  coach, 
and  school  superintendent  in  public  schools. 
JOE  continued  in  college  administration  at 
(Stephen  F.  Austin  State  University,  from  which 
he  holds  graduate  degrees  and  an  award  as 
'Distinguished  Alumnus. "  JOE  says:  "Centenary 
Have  me  my  start,  and  Stephen  F.  Austin  helped 
me  finish  my  career." 

MARGARET  JORDAN  JACKSON  ('26)  ex- 
pressed pride  in  the  graduation  from  Centenary 
,if  two  great-nephews  (grandchildren  of  the  late 
jlOE  JORDAN). 

CHARLIE  MAYER  (X26)  has  been  in  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  Shreveport  since  1932,  and  is  now 
senior  member  of  his  firm. 


Centenary  student  Theresa  Lengel  (left)  assists  Mrs.  Helen  R.  Herron  '29  as  she 
registers  for  classes  offered  by  the  Senior  Adult  Education  program  at  Centenary. 
The  program  is  funded  by  a  $40,000  grant  from  Holy  Cross  Community  Services,  a 
foundation,  on  behalf  of  the  Frost  Foundation.  Hundreds  of  senior  adults  attend  the 
six-weeks  courses  which  are  offered  free  each  semester. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

ARCHIE  JARRATTC29)  1980 
GEORGE  G.  NELSON  ('26)  November 

23. 1981 

RHODA  FAGLIE  NAPIER ('26)  Novem- 
ber 27,  1981 

CLINGMAN  MUNDAY  ('27)  February 
4, 1981 

F.  GARNETT  CADEM  (.31)  December 

9. 1981 

DR.  RICHARD  BARKELEY  DE  LEE 

(X32) January  1,  1982 
ROSE  VELINSKYC32) 
GRACE  BROWNLEE  BLAIR  C32) 
CLARE  ROBERTSON  GORTON  (X33) 

January  19, 1982 
MARY  BERNICE  PHIPPS  ('33)  Decem- 
ber 24,  1981 
IRENE  SHARP  BEENE  ('35 )  January 

27,  1982 
MARGARET  KNOX  GILLESPIE  HUDSON 

C42)  December  18,  1981 
EDWIN  R.  "BUDDY"  OSBURN  (X43) 

January  11,  1982 
WILLIAM  W.  SCHUMPERT(X46) 

December  6,  1981 
FRED  WILLIAM  KNEIPP  ('47) 
PATRICIA  GALVIN  WINZINGER 

(PATRICIA  WAYNE)  (X48)  February 

9. 1982 

JUDSON  DUDLEY  MARION,  JR.  ('50) 

January  23,  1982 
OLLIE  LESLIE  GOLSON,  JR.  ('51 ) 
CHARLES  LUCIEN  HORNE  III  ('51) 

January,  1982 
ANITA  ELINORBARKERC53)  January 

23. 1982 

WILLIAM  R.  MATTHEWS  ( '53) 
MRS.  REUBEN  WEBB  ('56)  January  25, 

1982 
TRUMAN  L.  CLARK  ('59)  February  9, 

1982 
THOMAS  CLYDE  WHITE  ('67 )  February 

18, 1982 


LUCILE  WILLIAMS  NIPPER  ('26)  does  a  lot  of 
volunteer  work  with  "Meals  on  Wheels  and  the 
Shriner  Hospital  for  Crippled  Children.  She  has 
two  children  and  two  grandchildren. 

BARD  "MEXICO"  FERRALL  (x26),  a  retired 
lawyer  in  Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  expressed  a  sincere 
wish  to  come  to  the  Alumni  Weekend  Old 
Guard  luncheon,  but  because  of  a  bad  knee  and 
scheduled  surgery,  travel  is  extremely  difficult. 
BARD  reminisced  about  his  Centenary  football 
days  in  a  recent  feature  in  the  Cheyenne's  Sun- 
DAY  magazine  section. 

Local  alumni  HELEN  FUNDERBURK  GARRET 
('26).  CORENE  McCORMACK  WILKINSON 
('26),  DAVE  BILLEITER  ('24),  SYBIL  ALLEN 
YORK  ('26)  of  Sarepta,  and  IRA  CAMPBELL 
(x24)  of  Coushatta  all  responded  to  the  Class 
Agent  letters.  .  .  we  hope  to  see  all  of  you  at  the 
Reunion  Luncheon. 

OPAL  ROQUEMORE  HARDIN  (27)  has  con- 
tinued to  live  in  Shreveport  since  John's  retire- 
ment and  death  a  few  years  ago. 

WHITFIELD  JACK  ('27)  gave  the  history  of  a 
very  full  and  interesting  life,  including  West 
Point,  Army,  Yale  Law  School,  Army  again,  the 
practice  of  law  and  semi-retirement  in  '81. 

From  Tacoma,  Wash.,  GERARD  BANKS  ('27) 
wrote.  .  .  in  1964,  after  having  been  a  graduate, 
bursar,  and  teacher,  he,  wife  Betty,  and  two 
sons  moved  to  Puget  Sound,  where  for  24  years 
he  was  chief  business  officer  of  the  U.  of  Puget 
Sound,  ending  his  career  there  as  vice-president. 

JOHN  EDWIN  CARLISLE  (27)  let  us  know 
that  he  retired  as  Supervisor  of  West  Carroll 
Parish  Schools  to  have  more  time  with  his  wife, 
three  children  and  four  grandchildren. 

DORIS  BUSH  COLE  ('27)  answered  the  Class 
Agent  letter,  even  though  it  arrived  a  few  days 
after  the  death  of  her  husband,  saying  "I  have 
fond  memories  of  my  days  at  Centenary.  .  I 
always  look  in  Centenary  magazine  to  see  if  any 
old  timers'  are  mentioned." 

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GORDON  A.  HOYER  (x27)  and  his  wife  are 
living  in  Shreveport,  and  are  both  retired,  she 
from  the  Court  of  Appeals  and  he  from  the  Pull- 
man Company. 

After  distinguishing  himself  as  student  and  pro- 
fessor at  Vanderbilt,  where  he  earned  his  doc- 
torate, CLAUDE  CHADWICK  ('27)  retired  in 
Nashville  to  enjoy  his  family  and  Grand  Ole 
Opry. 

ROBERT  PARKER  ('28)  is  a  doctor  living  out  in 
Reseda,  Calif. 

CORA  WILLIAMS  SPIVA  ('28)  of  Vivian,  La., 
has  a  daughter,  son-in-law,  and  three  grand- 
children who  are  Centenary  graduates! 

Our  condolences  to  OTTICE  JORDAN  SWAN- 
SON  ('28)  on  the  death  of  her  husband,  A.  E. 
Swanson.  OTT  promised  to  be  here  for  Alumni 
Weekend. 

WILLIAM  L.  PLATT  ('29)  and  his  wife  just  cele- 
brated their  50th  anniversary  in  Austin,  Texas, 
where  they  live  with  their  two  daughters  and 
son  and  their  families. 

ISABELLE  HENDERSON  HOUCHIN  (DUTCH) 

('29)  after  36  years  of  teaching  in  Texas  and 
Louisiana,  retired  in  1974.  Her  husband  died  in 
79,  and  she  leads  a  full  life  with  her  home, 
church,  and  family.  She  has  a  son,  two  daughters, 
and  four  grandchildren. 


1930s 

WERDNA  REW  BAIRD  McCLURKIN  ('32)  wrote 
Class  Agent  CHARLES  RAVENNA  that  she  had 
just  had  surgery,  but  was  happy  to  get  the  Cente- 
nary news,  and  hopes  to  come  to  the  reunion. 


For  a  once-in-a-lifetime  Golden  Jubilee 
celebration,  the  Class  of  1932  will  gather 
to  recognize  its  50th  Anniversary  Reunion! 
An  informal  dinner  will  begin  at  6:30 
p.m.  in  the  Centenary  Room  of  the  campus 
cafeteria.  Special  guests  will  be  DR. 
MARY  WARTERS,  DR.  E.L.  FORD,  and 
PRESIDENT  and  MRS.  DONALD  WEBB. 
Cost  will  be  $5.00  per  person.  Reunion 
Organizers  JAMES  LEE  KING  and 
CHARLES  RAVENNA  encourage  ALL 
those  who  attended  Centenary  during  the 
years  1929-1932  to  make  reservations  for 
dinner  and  to  participate  in  the  weekend 
activities. 


The  "Old  Guard  "  —  all  former  students 
of  the  1920s  — are  invited,  as  guests  of  the 
College,  to  a  Reunion  Luncheon  to  be 
held  on  Saturday,  June  26,  in  the  Cente- 
nary Room  of  Bynum  Commons  (the  cam- 
pus cafeteria)  at  noon.  The  president  of 
Centenary  College,  DR.  DONALD  WEBB, 
will  be  the  speaker.  Please  make  your 
reservations  through  the  Reunion  Registra- 
tion Form  in  this  magazine.  Working  hard 
as  Reunion  Organizers  are  CHRIS  and 
SUE  BARNETTE,  HELEN  FUNDER- 
BURK  BARRETT,  HELEN  RUSSELL 
HERRON,  LOUISE  and  MAUREE  DAVIS, 
and  FRANK  BOYDSTON. 


JUANITA  KOLB  CROW  (x39)  has  a  daughter, 
MRS.  LINDA  WALLACE,  who  is  now  teaching 
an  economics  class  at  Centenary. 

1940s 

MARJORIE  S.  BRAUGHT  (x41),  a  retired  medi- 
cal secretary,  has  taken  up  painting  and  is  enjoy- 
ing her  six  grandchildren. 

KATHERINE  JOHNSON  HARDIE  ('46)  is  As- 
sociate Professor  of  Anthropology  at  the  University 
of  Arkansas  at  Little  Rock. 

1949  Class  Agents  JACK  and  GLENNETTE 
MIDDLEBROOKS  WILLIAMSON  received  a 
warm  response  to  their  class  letter.  .  . 

From  Frisco,  Texas,  A.  RAY  McCORD  ('49) 
wrote  that  after  30  years  with  Texas  Instruments, 
he  retired. 

JOE  R.  SMITH  ('49)  noted  that  since  the  "Dallas" 
series  on  CBS  he  now  will  answer  to  the  name  of 
J.R.!  JOE  is  a  vice  president  with  Northwest 
Natural  Gas  Company  in  Portland  and  also  a  vice 
president  of  its  land  development  subsidiary.  He 


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You  asked  for  it 


Out  of  the  archives  and  into  print  is  this  photograph  of  the  1959-60  James  Dorm 
Council.  Who  can  identify  these  gals?  The  Office  of  Public  Relations  would  love  to 
hear  from  you  and  will  make  the  IDs  known  in  the  July  issue  of  Centenary.  By  the 
way,  the  1981-82  James  Dorm  Council  includes  Sarah  Floyd,  Vicki  Rice,  Kathleen 
Bradford,  Elizabeth  Haas,  Polly  Greve,  Charlotte  Blakely,  and  Brenda  Palmer. 

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and  his  wife,  JO  ANN,  have  been  married  30 
years,  have  three  children  and  two  grandchildren 
and  plan  to  retire  and  live  in  their  condominium 
in  Hawaii. 

O.  C.  EDWARDS  ('49)  was  ordained  an  Episcopal 
priest  in  1954  and  has  been  President  and  Dean 
of  Seabury-Western  Theological  Seminary  in|j 
Evanston,  111.,  since  1974.  Besides  numerous 
theological  writings  and  books,  he  has  written  a 
mystery  novel  set  in  a  seminary  and  tentatively 

titled  Runagates  in  Scarceness. 

i 
! 

HAROLD  R.BOTTC49)  has  been  "found"!  He  is! 

an  Episcopal  priest  at  St.  John's,  College  Park, 
Ga. 

I 
O.C.  EDWARDS  also  mentioned  that  BOB  RE-i 

GAN  wrote  him  that  CHARLES  RAINES  is  now«| 

teaching  English  at  a  college  on  Staten  Island  in 

New  York.  BOB  is  also  teaching  English  at  the 

University  of  Pennsylvania  in  Philadelphia. 

Retired  Methodist  Minister  BILL  SIRMAN  ('49) 
is  now  an  offshore  Louisiana  mud  log  engineer. 
BILL's  daughter,  CELIA,  is  a  freshman  at  Cen- 
tenary. 

Another  "found"  classmate  is  LOUIS  P.  CURRIE, 
who  resides  in  Pinehurst,  Texas. 

1950s 

The  REV.  CLARENCE  CULLAM  POPE,  JR.j 
('50)  and  MARTHA  HALEY  POPE,  M.D.  ('49) 
write  that  CLARENCE  has  been  president  of  the 
standing  committee  of  the  Episcopal  Diocese  of 
Louisiana  for  the  past  five  years.  He  was  elected  j 
to  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Nashota  House,  Epis- 
copal Theological  Seminary  in  Nashota,  Wash., 
in  June  of  1981.  He  has  been  the  Rector  of  St. 
Luke's  Episcopal  Church  in  Baton  Rouge  since  I 
1963.  MARTHA  is  assistant  professor  in  Pediatrics 
at  the  LSU  School  of  Medicine. 

ALLAN  LAZARUS  ('51),  managing  editor  of  The  j 
(Shreveport)  Times,  was  featured  in  that  paper, 
as  the  author  of  "A  Nit-Picker's  Notebook,"  a 
regular  in-house  publication  of  the  paper,  which  I 
offers  a  critical  look  at  The  Times,  points  out 
errors,  offers  suggestions,  gives  a  pat  on  the  back,:! 
and  entertains  and  educates  the  newspaper  staff. 

1951  Class  Agent  MARION  D.  HARGROVE  re- 
ceived several  class  letters.  .  .  From  Citrus  Heights,  j 
Calif,  LARRY  HENDRICKS  ('51)  writes  that  he 
travels  throughout  the  western  United  States  and 
Canada  as  the  Western  Field  Claims  Representa- 
tive for  Pennsylvania  Life  Insurance  Company  of  j 
Santa  Monica,  Calif.  All  four  of  his  children  and  | 
two  grandsons  live  in  Shreveport. 

ALVA  IRENE  ECHOLS  ('51)  is  now  living  in| 
Simms,  Texas.  She  spent  several  years  teaching  | 
fifth  and  sixth  grades  in  Seymour,  Texas. 

Heard  from  CHESTER  R.  COOKE  ('51)  of  Lake*f 
Charles  that  he  attended  McNeese  State  Univer- 
sity after  leaving  Centenary. 

1953  Class  Agent  MARTHA  JEAN  BURGESS 
NORTON  received  early  notice  from  classmates 
planning  to  attend  the  30th  Reunion. 

J 
Planning  to  attend  Alumni  Weekend  and  the  re-J 
union  is  HAROLD  L.  GREENE,  ('53),  who  re-j 
sides  in  Belcher,  La.  HAROLD  has  five  sons  and  j 
a  daughter  and  is  employed  with  W.  F.  Beall  Co.  I 
in  Bossier  City. 

Also  planning  to  attend  the  reunion  is  ANDREW1! 
M.  (ANDY)  LORD,  JR.  ('53)  of  Shreveport.! 
ANDY  also  reported  that  classmate  HERBERT  I 
R.  NICHOLSON,  JR.  ('53)  is  living  in  Sanij 
Antonio,  Texas.  I 

DON  WHITAKER  ('53),  a  geologist  in  Houston, 
recently  retired  from  Texas  Gas  Transmission 
Corp.  and  is  now  self-employed. 


Also  from  Houston  came  word  from  ELIZABETH 
(LIZ)  WARREN  HYDE  ('53),  who  says  she  is 
doing  some  substitute  teaching,  and  EARL 
LINDER  ('53),  who  reported  that  he  is  "sitting  in 
that  big  ole  town  getting  gray  and  fat." 


Looking  forward  to  the  reunion  is  AVA  JANE 
MARTIN  WARREN  ('53)  in  Midland,  Texas. 
AVA,  an  executive  with  the  Girl  Scouts,  and  hus- 
band Joe,  a  dentist  and  rancher,  are  the  parents 
of  two  daughters. 


STEWART  G.  CARRINGTON,  M.D.  ('53)  is  on 
the  faculty  of  the  University  of  South  Alabama 
College  of  Medicine  and  currently  holds  appoint- 
ments as  Clinical  Associate  Professor  of  Derma- 
tology. He  has  joined  the  staff  of  the  Office  of 
Academic  Affairs  as  the  Assistant  Dean  for  Stu- 
dent Affairs. 


TOM  BAUMGARDNER  ('53)  has  been  living  in 
El  Dorado,  Ark.,  since  1964  where  he  is  associated 
with  Country  Pride  Foods. 


The  30th  Reunion  for  the  classes  of 

1951,  '52,  '53  will  be  held  the  evening  of 
Saturday,  June  26,  from  7-9  p.m.  at  the 
Hilton  Inn  located  at  1-20  and  Airline 
Drive  in  Bossier  City.  A  buffet  will  be 
served  at  a  cost  of  $  10  per  person,  accord- 
ing to  Reunion  Organizers  PATSY  LAIRD 
JENNINGS  C53),  CLAUDE  DANCE  ('51), 
and  JEAN  FRAZIER  HORN  (52).  Class 
Agents  MARION  D.  HARGROVE,  JR., 
Class  of  1951,  ANN  WESSON  WYCHE, 

1952,  and  MARTHA  JEAN  BURGESS 
NORTON.  1953,  remind  you  to  make 
your  reservations  now!  (Use  the  form  in 
this  magazine.) 


JANET  R.  HESS  ('54)  has  taken  a  job  in  word 
processing  as  the  technical  editor  of  Advanced 
Technology,  Inc.,  in  Virginia. 

1954  Class  Agents  STONE  and  ELEANOR  DE- 
BRAY  CARAWAY  welcomed  back  from  "lost" 
status  ALICE  EPPERSON  BEATY  in  Houston 
and  CLARA  CARTOIS  LEEPER  in  Baton  Rouge. 

CATHERINE  CARPENTER  SMYTH  ('54)  writes 
that  she  completed  a  two-year  term  as  State  Pres- 
ident of  the  Texas  Federation  of  Republican 
Women,  and  has  just  begun  a  three-year  appoint- 
ment as  Cultural  Affairs  Officer  in  the  U.S.  Em- 
bassy in  Ottawa. 

MARY  JANE  HITCHCOCK  BIGSON  (54), 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  House  of  Represen- 
tatives since  1979,  is  active  as  a  lay  leader  at  the 
Harvard-Epworth  Methodist  Church  in  Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 

RUPERT  THOM  ('55)  is  the  librarian  at  England 
Air  Force  Base  in  Alexandria,  La. 

The  REV.  LIONEL  MARCEL  (x55),  pastor  of  the 
Pollack  Methodist  Church  in  Pollack,  La.,  has  a 
son  RANCY  (79)  at  Emory  University  Medical 
School. 


Piano  teacher  and  church  organist  MARY  F. 
BLANKENBAKER  ('57)  from  Lafayette  has  a 
daughter  Karen  at  Tulane  and  two  sons,  Jeffrey 
and  Timothy  attending  Acadiana  High  School. 


The  Silver  Jubilee  Celebration  Reunion 
for  the  Class  of  1957  will  begin  at  6:30 
p.m.  on  Saturday,  June  26,  at  Don's  Sea- 
food Restaurant,  3100  Highland  Ave.  A 
cash  bar  followed  by  dinner  will  be  $15 
per  person.  Dessert  following  the  dinner 
will  be  held  at  the  home  of  JUAN  and 
BONNIE  WATKINS,  961  Audubon,  where 
class  members  will  be  able  to  chat  with 
Centenary  President  DONALD  WEBB. 
Other  special  guests  for  the  Reunion  will 
be  MRS.  JOE  MICKLE,  DR.  A.C. 
"CHEESY"  VORAN,  MRS.  BRYANT 
"TIP"  DAVIDSON  and  MRS.  LALON 
ROW.  Reunion  Organizers  BOB  and 
MARGARET  TEAGUE,  RON  and  EMILY 
VISKOSKL  and  JUAN  and  BONNIE  WAT- 
KINS  are  planning  a  gala  evening,  so  be 
sure  to  sign  up  for  the  Reunion  on  the 
Reunion  Registration  form  in  this  magazine. 


1960s 
JAMES  M.  GOINS,  Class  Agent  lor  the  Class  of 
1961,  became  a  vice  president  for  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Shreveport,  and  is  manager  of 
the  bank's  Broadmoor  Branch.  Since  JAMES's 
last  Class  Agent  letter,  one  classmate,  GEORGE 
A.  HAMILTON,  was  "found"  living  in  Shreveport, 
but  several  more  joined  the  "lost"  list.  Can  you 
help  us  find  KENNETH  E.  BOND,  SANDRA 
WHITLOCK  MAUNEY,  OR  RALPH  ADAMS 
MASON,  JR.? 


GWEN  JOHNS  YERGER  ('61)  wrote  that  she  is 
now  in  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  where  her  husband 
Mickey  is  employed  by  the  University  of 
Tennessee. 

JOY  LAMBERT  LOWE  ('61)  is  currently  Associate 
Professor  of  Library  Science  at  Louisiana  Tech. 
Husband  Perry,  works  for  the  T.  L.  James  Co., 
and  they  have  a  son,  Chip,  15,  and  twin  daughters, 
Kira  and  Michells,  11. 

MARGARET  POWELL  AKINS  ('61)  teaches 
mathematics  in  the  Lawrence,  Kan.,  secondary 
schools,  where  she  is  also  the  tennis  coach.  Sons 
Kevin  and  Stephen  attend  the  University  of 
Kansas. 

EDITH  MOURINE  ELLIOTT  ('62)  has  recently 
been  promoted  to  Supervisor  of  Music  for  Caddo 
Parish  Schools  in  Shreveport. 

GENE  and  CHARLOTTE  STODGHILL 
BRYSON,  Class  Agents  of  1963,  commented  on 
"what  a  change  in  our  lives!"  with  a  thirteen-, 
ten-,  and  one-year  old  in  the  household.  .  . 
everything  from  stereos  to  Fisher-Price  toys. 

NICHOLAS  J.  ROPPOLO  ('63)  was  elected 
Senior  Vice  President  and  Trust  Officer  of  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Shreveport. 

ELAINE  HEIDMAN  THAXTON  ('63)  dropped 
by  to  tell  us  husband  WALLACE'S  (x63)  firm  of 
BST  Testing  Services,  Inc.,  of  Shreveport  has 
joined  the  PSI  family.  WALLACE  will  assist  with 
operations  and  business  development. 


SUZANN  WELTY  BARR  ('65)  is  a  lecturer  in 
English  at  the  University  of  Arkansas  at  Little 
Rock.  She  wrote  that  she  and  her  husband  have 
no  children,  just  "two  bossy  cats!" 


LINDA  WHITESIDE  BOWKER  ('66) and  husband 
BILL  BOWKER  ('65)  and  their  two  sons  are 
living  in  Frankfort,  Ky.,  where  LINDA  is  a  high 
school  English  teacher. 


DON  G.  SCROGGIN  (66)  has  left  the  White 
House  Council  on  Environmental  Quality  to 
practice  law  at  the  Washington,  D.  C  firm  of 
Beveridge  &  Diamond.  Last  May  he  married 
Julie  L.  Williams,  also  a  Washington  attorney.  In 
December  he  published  an  article  in  Technology 
Review  on  the  energy  policy  implications  of  the 
carbon  dioxide  problem. 


DR.  VIRGINIA  S.  MAYO  (66)  writes'The  Ph.D. 
after  my  name  is  in  biology  from  Florida  State 
University  in  1971.  I  did  research  and  taught  at 
the  university  level  until  I  decided  to  be  a 
chiropractor."  Since  then,  she  has  spent  the  past 
four  years  becoming  a  chiropractor  at  Life 
Chiropractic  College  in  Marietta,  Ga.  She  received 
her  Doctor  of  Chiropractic  degree  in  October,  '80 
and  passed  the  Georgia  State  Board  Exam  in 
May,  '81.  She  has  been  practicing  in  the  Buckhead 
area  of  Atlanta  and  "is  thoroughly  satisfied  being 
in  the  health  care  profession." 

LAURIE  WILSON  KENT  (66)  and  husband 
Mike  have  lived  in  Lake  Charles  for  over  five 
years.  They  have  a  son,  Garrett,  11,  and  a 
daughter,  Ellen,  8.  LAURIE  stays  busy  "carting" 
kids  to  scouts,  soccer,  and  ballet  and  works  part- 
time  for  Mike's  dermatology  practice  as  well  as 
being  active  in  the  parish  medical  auxiliary  and 
the  First  Methodist  church. 


LYNN  TAYLOR  HOGGARD  ('66).  .  .  completed 
her  master's  degree  at  the  University  of  Michigan, 
and  taught  in  France  for  several  years  before 
returning  to  the  University  of  Southern  California 
to  complete  her  doctorate  in  comparative  litera- 
ture. LYNN  and  her  husband  both  teach  English 
at  Midwestern  State  University.  LYNN  has 
published  numerous  articles  and  poems. 

1966  Class  Agent  ENEILE  MEARS  noted  that 
several  letters  came  back  marked  undeliverable, 
so  please  let  her  or  the  Alumni  Office  know  when 


you  move 


The  Captain  Shreve  High  School  Marching  Band, 
under  the  direction  of  BILL  CAUSEY,  JR., ('67), 
won  first  place  in  the  Mardi  Gras  Krewe  of 
Poseidon  parade  in  New  Orleans. 

LEE  LAWRENCE  ('67  )  was  appointed  President 
of  Pendleton  Memorial  Methodist  Hospital  in 
New  Orleans  in  January. 

JOE  ('69)  and  ANGIE  HOFFPAUIR  RICE  (70) 

are  the  parents  of  13-month  Matthew  Crosby 
Rice.  JOE  is  in  his  fourth  year  of  Medical  School 
at  LSU-S  and  will  graduate  in  May,  1982.  ANGIE 
is  Director  of  the  Community  Referral  Center. 

EDWIN  McCLAIN  CAUSEY  ('69)  and  wife 
Mary  announce  the  birth  of  their  second  child, 
daughter  Jamie  Christine.  LAIN  and  Mary  reside 
in  Westlake  Village,  Calif.,  where  LAIN  is  an 
accounting  manager  for  Exxon's  Western  Pro- 
duction Division. 

JOHN  SALISBURY  ('69)  has  completed  a  Clinical 
and  Research  Fellowship  in  Cornea  and  External 
Eye  Diseases  at  the  LSU  Eye  Center  in  New 
Orleans.  He  and  his  wife,  Gayle  Gwynn.  moved 
to  Missoula,  Mont,  to  begin  a  practice  in 
ophthalmology. 

WAYNE  and  DONNA  BANKS  CURTIS,  Class 
Agents  of  1969,  were  "absolutely  floored"  by  the 
letters  and  calls  they  received,  so  they  are 
working  on  a  "did  you  know"  letter  that  will  be 
out  later  in  the  year. 

1970s 

1970  Class  Agents  JOHN  and  SUE  COUVILLION 
SHEEL  had  more  news  of  classmates  to  share. 


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DIANE  GANDY  WASSON  writes  that  she  and 
husband  Russell  moved  to  the  New  Orleans  area 
in  June  of  1980.  Russell  is  a  CPA  in  the  Tax 
Department  of  Arthur  Young  and  Company. 
DIANE  is  an  assistant  librarian  at  the  Historic 
New  Orleans  Collection,  a  combination  museum 
and  research  center  in  the  French  Quarter. 
DIANE  also  sent  us  news  of  "lost"  alumni.  .  . 

PHILIP  V.  DENONCOURT. . .  married  Catherine 
Guilbeau  and  they  now  live  in  Concord,  N.  H. 
with  their  three  children. 

MARTHA  WEST  ROTH  and  JIM  ROTH  (71) 
have  a  two-year-old  girl,  Jennifer.  JIM  has  his 
master's  degree  in  recreation  from  the  University 
of  Arkansas  and  has  been  coordinating  the 
recreation  program  at  Sacred  Heart  Academy  in 
New  Orleans.  MARTHA  obtained  a  master's 
from  Tulane  in  73  in  social  work  and  has  a  part- 
time  private  practice  in  clinical  social  work  in 
Mandeville,  La. 

SUSAN  RROWN  GUIDRY,  who  is  living  in 
Hopesville,  N.  C;  KATHY  PARDUE  WETZEL, 
who  is  residing  in  Midland,  Texas;  and  ROBERT 
DEXTER  DAILY  of  Shreveport  are  no  longer  on 
our  "lost"  list. 

MARY  ELIZABETH  WILLCOX  BODIAK  (TINA) 
met  and  married  her  husband  John  Bodiak  while 
she  was  teaching  second  grade  in  Shreveport  in 
1971.  They  are  now  living  in  Little  Rock,  Ark., 
with  their  two  sons,  Michael,  6,  and  John  Paul,  3. 
TINA  has  been  teaching  for  eight  years,  the  last 
four  with  the  Little  Rock  public  schools.  She 
noted  that  her  father,  the  REV.  W.  A.  WILLCOX, 
JR.  of  Shreveport  is  a  Centenary  grad  of  '47  and 
also  her  brother,  JOHN  M.  WILLCOX,  '81. 


KATHRYN  KOELEMAY  (70)  is  the  Chief 
Resident  in  Pediatrics  at  the  University  of 
California,  Davis  Medical  Center.  KATHRYN 
and  husband,  Dr.  Douglas  Dicharry,  a  psychiatrist, 
and  two  children  enjoy  the  backpacking,  fishing, 
and  skiing  in  northern  California. 


SUSAN  GLANVILLE-KASTL,  M.  D.  (71)  is  a 
clinical  psychologist  in  private  practice  and 
consultation,  specializing  in  child,  family,  and 
individual  therapy. 

MARIANNE  SALISBURY  JONES  (71)  is  Director 
of  the  Truman  Medical  Center  East  Medical 
Library,  and  husband  Floyd,  is  in  his  third  year  of 
medical  training  at  the  University  of  Health 
Sciences  in  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

1972  Class  Agent  ANN  HOLLANDSWORTH 
KLEINE  heard  from  many  classmates  in  response 
to  the  Class  Agent  letter  and  the  upcoming 
excitement  of  the  10th  Reunion. 

NANCY  LENZ  (72)  married  John  Gamble  last 
June.  NANCY  is  teaching  school  in  Eagle,  Colo., 
where  John  is  a  builder. 

BILLY  RODGERS  (72)  is  a  civil  engineer  with 
Trane  Air  Conditioning  in  Shreveport. 

Another  Shreveporter,  BEVERLY  HOLLIS 
LAWRENCE  (72)  is  active  in  the  Centenary 
Women's  Club  and  jazz  classes  at  Centenary. 
-BEVERLY  and  husband  Paul  have  a  son,  Hollis, 
8,  and  another  baby  on  the  way. 

PRISCILLA  RICE  McLEAN  (72)  is  at  home  with 
sons  Kenneth,  5,  and  Scott,  1.  She  is  "into"  tennis 
and  aerobic  dancing. 

Surrounded  in  a  harem  of  beautiful  girls  is  JOHN 
MELDRUM  (72).  He  and  TERESA  (MORGAN) 
(72)  are  proud  parents  of  daughter  Theresa 
Diana.  Older  sisters  Jennifer  and  Katharine  are 
thrilled!  JOHN's  proud  of  his  new  business  called 
Bank  N'  Business  Systems! 


Also  welcoming  a  third  daughter  are  CAMILLE 
GREVE  DENT  (72)  and  husband  DAVID  (72), 
Jennifer,  7,  and  Candace,  4,  help  with  new  sister, 
Karen  Anita. 


JON  (72)  and  MICHELE  ARMSTRONG  Q- 
PETERSON  (72)  are  remodeling  a  beautiful 
older  home  on  Drexel  in  Shreveport.  The  arrival 
of  new  baby  Ryan  to  join  Preston  and  Megan  has 
made  the  current  household  a  bit  crowded. 

MARK  McMURRY  (72)  and  wife  ANN  (72) 
welcomed  new  daughter  Abby  to  their  household 
in  Sulfur,  La. 

JOHN  (72)  and  MISSY  RESTARICK  POU  (72) 
and  son  Jeffrey  welcomed  new  baby  John  Gray 
Restarick  Pou. 

SUSIE  BLANTON  JENKINSON  (72)  and 
husband  Dr.  Steve  have  a  new  baby,  Stephanie 
Suzanne. 


P.  S.  Last  chance  to  make  reservations. 
Send  your  prepayment  to  JOHN 
MELDRUM,  Reunion  Chairman,  P.  O. 
Box  5603,  Shreveport,  La.   71105. 


SHELL-MATES 

(The  following  alumni  work  for  Shell 
Oil  Company). 

Mrs.  Janice  Garmany  Bane  x70,  secre- 
tary, Houston,  Texas. 

Mrs.  E.R.  Bennett  77,  geology  assis- 
tant, New  Orleans,  La. 

John  F.  Bookout,  Jr.  '47,  president, 
Houston,  Texas. 

Herman  B.  Bridges  '50,  staff  landman, 
Jackson,  Miss. 

Alan  D.  Williams  '69,  financial  repre- 
sentative. Cypress,  Texas. 


LT.  KEITH  CREIGHTON  (72)  is  a  chaplain  in 
the  United  States  Navy.  He's  responsible  for 
ministry  to  five  Navy  destroyers  home-ported  in 
Pearl  Harbor,  Hawaii.  KEITH,  wife  Janice,  and 
daughter  Kelly,  6,  will  be  leaving  Hawaii  in 
March  and  moving  to  Newport,  R.  I.,  for  his 
ministry  at  the  Officers  Candidate  School. 

TIM  FARRELL  (72)  is  with  the  insurance  firm  of 
Ramsey,  Olberts,  Krug  and  Farrell  in  Little  Rock, 
Ark.  He  and  wife  Peggy  (Ramsey)  have  two 
children:  Lucy,  who  is  4,  and  Timothy,  2. 

TOM  DAIGLE  (72)  wile  Chris  (Marston)  are 
back  in  Shreveport  again  with  son  Eric,  6.  Tom  is 
with  the  security  department  of  South  Central 
Bell. 

PAUL  HEFFINGTON  (72)  has  his  own  private 
practice  in  clinical  social  work.  He  and  wife  Mary 
have  two  children:  Jim,  9,  and  Dawn, 2. 

JOHN  TAYLOR  (72)is  with  GRA-BAR  Electronics 
Company  in  Oklahoma  City.  His  wife  Sandy  is  a 
CPA. 


Class  of  72!  It's  time  to  celebrate  our  Big 
10th  Reunion!  The  main  event  will  kick 
off  on  Saturday  night,  June  26,  with  a 
buffet  in  the  ballroom  of  the  Hilton  Inn  at 
I  -  20  and  Airline  Dr.  in  Bossier  City.  A 
reception  will  be  held  from  7-8  p.m. 
followed  by  dinner-dancing  and  live 
entertainment  from  8-12  p.m.  The  cost  is 
$10  per  person.  Chairman  JOHN 
MELDRUM,  THERESA  MELDRUM, 
ANN  HOLLANDSWORTH  KLEINE, 
JON  and  MICHELE  Q-PETERSON,  and 
JOHN  and  MISSY  POU  are  busy  planning 
surprises,  awards,  and  a  fun-filled  night. 
Don't  forget  the   races   Saturday  after- 


SUZEE  SEGALL  ROBINSON  (72)  is  a  Sears 
Fashion  Coordinator.  She  conducts  fashion  shows  j 
and  teaches  a  self-improvement  course  for  girls,  ! 
ages   9-15,    called    "Discovery."    Her   husband  I 
ARDIS  ('69)  is  a  C.P.A.  with  the  firm  McKelvey 
and  Farmers.  They  have  two  children,  Bryan,  6 
and  Jennifer,  5. 


GARY  and  BETSY  (ILGENFRITZ)  MURPHREE 

(72)  welcomed  new  son  Patrick  Calvert  last  Nov. 
9.  His  big  brother  Carter  is  2. 

STEVE  and  SUSAN  (HOLLOWAY)  LAW  (72) 
have  three  children:  Russ,  5,  and  twins  Mark  and 
Sarah,  3.  STEVE  is  president  of  Conroe  Mill: 
Supply  and  SUSAN  stays  busy  at  home  and  with 
Service  League. 

GEORGE  W.  ASAF  (72)  and  wife  Regina  have} 
been  transferred  for  two  years  to  Rio  de  Janeiro,  i 
Brazil,   where   GEORGE   will  be  an   overseas 
accountant  attached  to  the  operations  department  j 

of  the  Offshore  Company  in  Houston,  Texas. 

I 

MARK  SCHROEDER  (72)  is  a  petroleum  geologist 
for  Placid  Oil  Company  in  Shreveport. 

BARBARA  ROWE  WILLIAMS  (72)  is  on  sab 
batical  leave  from  teaching  remedial  reading 
grades  3-5,  in  Slidell,  La.  However,  with  a  4-year- j 
old  daughter  and  a  2-year-old  son,  she  feels  that' 
she  might' ve  gotten  more  "R  &  R"  if  she'd  stayed l 
at  work!  BARBARA  is  taking  advanced  education 
courses,  and  she  and  hubbie  Raymond  are  proud! 
of   their   new   home   they've  built   just   west  offl 
Slidell. 

I 
DEAN  WHITESIDE  (72)  has  completed  worki 
for  his  Ph.D.  and  is  presently  working  on  hisJ 

dissertation. 

i 

JOHN  HARDT  (74)  recently  joined  the  faculty) 
of  Ferrum  College  in  Virginia,  where  he  teaches| 
journalism  and  English,  and  advises  the  campus; 
newspaper  staff. 

MARGARET  FISCHER  WENDORF  (75)  ij 
currently  working  on  an  MBA  degree  from  the1 
University  of  Alabama  in  Birmingham.  She  i.'j 
also  the  Coordinator  for  Research  and  Evaluatior  j 
at  the  Eastside  Mental  Health  Center. 

| 
WENDY  LEE  BUCHWALD  (75)  is  the  Educa 
tional  Director  of  Civic  Children's  Theatre  oil 
Youngstown,  Ohio,  having  attained  an  MFA  ii, 
Theatre  ( Child  Drama )  at  the  University  of  Nortl  J 
Carolina  at  Greensboro  in  1981. 

JAMES  S.  BERNSTEIN  (75)  began  work  a 
DuPont  in  Wilmington,  Del.,  and  hopes  to  receive 
his  Ph.D.  in  physical  chemistry  from  the  Universit; 
of  North  Carolina  at  Chapel  Hill  in  January. 

New    parents    PHIL    and    GLADYS    CUEVA! 
VANDERPOOL  (75)  welcomed  the  "Honorabk 
Harrison  Vanderpool"  into  their  family  on  Sept 
24  in  Pampa,  Texas,  where  PHIL  is  in  private  lav  I 
practice  and  also  the  city  judge. 

1976  Class  Agent  PAUL  YOUNG  included  a)| 
the    news   he    received    from   classmates,   and 
reminds  you  to  check  the  Reunion  Details  at  th  j 
end  of  the  70s! 

KARON  STEPHENSON  BAKER  (76)  is  nov! 
living  at  423  Silver  Terrace  in  Watervliet,  Mich  j 
(49098).  She  is  working  in  nursing  administration 
at  a  local  hospital. 

I 


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DEAN  CANNAVAN  (76)  and  his  wife  Nancy 
Rands  have  a  one-year-old  daughter  named 
Courtney  Gayle.  They  live  in  Al  Khobar,  Saudi 
Arabia  (address:  %  Tele  media  TINS,  P.O.  Box 
1949),  where  DEAN  is  teaching  basic  math  and 
science  to  Saudi  nationals  preparing  for  naval 
service. 

PAUL  OVERLY  (76)  informed  me  in  a  typically 
bizarre  letter  that  he  is  living  in  Gautier,  Miss. 
(2601  Fairley  Road  -  39553)  and  works  as  a 
coordinator  of  a  CETA  program  assisting  juveniles. 
He  enjoys  the  guitar,  old  cars,  and  a  variety  of 
other  activities. 

RODNEY  STEEL  (76)  and  BECKY  (76)  are 

living  in  Mineral  Springs,  Ark.  (  P.O.  Box  175  -  zip 
71851)  where  RODNEY  is  pastor  of  the  Mineral 
Springs  and  Wakefield  United  Methodist 
Churches. 

LOU  and  PAM  GRAHAM  (76)  and  their  two 
children,  Austin  and  Laurin,  have  moved  from 
Little  Rock  to  Oklahoma  City.  LOU  is  now 
working  as  Director  of  Development  at  Oklahoma 
City  University. 

1977  Class  Agent  LEAH  ADES  COOPER,  a 
process  chemist  at  Lone  Star  Steel  in  East  Texas, 
does  water  treatment  and  environmental  control 
work.  LEAH  writes  that  several  classmates  have 
settled  in  Houston,  Texas.  GAIL  HAMILTON 
writes  that  she  is  working  for  the  City  of  Houston 
Health  Department  as  a  health  planner.  JANIE 
SHAW  is  completing  a  year's  internship  in  clinical 
psychology  at  the  VA  hospital  in  Houston.  She 
has  had  two  articles  accepted  for  publication 
concerning  research  on  interviewing  skills  in 
mentally  retarded  adults. 

JANINE  also  sends  word  that  SALLY  HUNTER 
KEDDAL  (77)  and  husband  MARK  (78)  are 
back  from   the   Peace  Corps  and   are   living  in 

Austin.  MARK  is  working  on  his  master's  degree 
at  the  University  of  Texas.  Also  in  Austin  is 
MARY  HELEN  BROWN  (77)  who  is  finishing  up 
her  Ph.D.  work  at  the  University  of  Texas. 

Closer  to  home  KRISTA  SCHEFFER  (77)  works 
in  marketing  for  First  National  Bank  in  Shreveport. 
Saw  ROBIN  LINCOLN  DENT  (72)  and  husband 
KARL  (75)  at  Noel  Methodist  when  the  DENTS 
were  in  town  for  a  visit.  They  are  proud  new 
parents. 

KAY  GRAMMER  CAMP  (77)  and  husband 
MARTIN  (CLASS  OF  76)  were  in  town  for 
Homecoming.  They  have  recently  moved  to 
Austin,  Texas,  where  MARTIN  is  practicing  law. 
At  that  time,  KAY  was  planning  to  teach  nursery 
school.  They,  too  have  a  baby. 

MOLLY  MAHONE  HOLDER  (77)  and  JEANNE 
CAMPBELL  (77)  could  not  attend  the  50th 
anniversary  of  the  Maroon  Jackets,  but  they  did 
send  word  of  their  activities.  JEANNF:  is  a 
teaching  fellow.  Department  ol  English,  tor  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  and  is  working  on  her 
Ph.D.  She'll  be  getting  married  soon.  Since 
getting  their  master's  degrees  at  Denver  schools, 
MOLLY  and  LARRY  (Class  of  79)  have  moved  to 
Oklahoma  City,  where  she  is  a  medical  social 
worker  at  South  Community  Hospital  and  he  is  a 
.ha plain  intern  at  Presbyterian  Hospital.  Another 
Maroon  Jacket,  VICK1  GORGAS  MATHERNE 
77)  graduated  from  Law  School  at  LSU  and  has 
recently  moved  to  Gulf  port.  Miss. 

MANASH  SARCAR  (77)  and  MIKE  YOUNG 
were  seen  at  Centenary  basketball  games.  ANDY 
SHEHEE  is  often  at  the  games  too,  when  he  is  not 
iff  recruiting  prospective  Centenary  students. 

BILL  DEWARE,  Class  Agent  lor  1978,  is  now  the 
Sas  Supply  Representative  based  at  the  Louisiana 
Intrastate  Gas  Corporation's  headquarters  in 
Alexandria.  BILL  passed  on  the  following 
nformation. 


Islam  Today'  was  the  topic  of  a  day-long  seminar 
held  in  March  to  explore  the  nature  of  the  Islam 
tradition  and  its  implications  fur  the  West.  President 
Donald  Webb  (left)  escorts  the  speakers.  Dr. 
Mahmoud  Ayoub,  associate  professor  at  the 
University  of  Toront<j.  and  Dr.  William  Graham, 
senior  lecturer  at  Harvard  University,  to  the 
afternoon  session 


The  Classes  of  76,  77,78  will  gather  for 
its  5th  Year  Reunion  on  Saturday  evening, 
June  26,  in  the  Pavillion  Room  of  the 
Regency  Hotel,  located  at  Spring  and 
Lake  Streets.  Hospitality  Hour  (cash  bar) 
starts  at  7:00,  followed  by  dinner  and  a 
short  program  to  recognize  and  honor 
various  alumni:  then,  dancing  to  the 
music  of  Pete  Ermes.  Cost  for  the  dinner- 
dance  is  $  15  per  person  (and  must  be  paid 
in  advance.  .  .  see  registration  form). 

Class  Agents  PAUL  YOUNG  (76),  LEAH 
ADES  COOPER  (77),  and  BILL 
DEWARE  (78)  along  with  Reunion 
Organizers  ANNA  D.  ASLIN  (77)  and 
KRISTA  M.  SCHEFFER  (77)  have  made 
great  plans. 


EILEEN  MARTIN  (78)  is  on  the  road  touring 
with  Musicana  Dinner  Theatres  in  Orlando,  W. 
Palm  Beach,  and  Indian  Harbour  Beach,  Fla. 
EILEEN  is  singing  and  dancing  in  Broadway 
revues  and  "waiting  on  tables  in-between  the 
acts!" 

DUB  KARRIKER  (77)  is  a  Music  Director  and 
Writer  for  Musicana,  and  GRACE  RIGGIN  (78) 
also  sang  with  Musicana  for  a  year,  but  she  is  now 
living  in  Orlando. 

SUSIE  MARTIN  (78)  writes  from  Houston, 
Texas,  wondering  "what's  happening  with  all  the 
old  James  Annex  group!!"  Anybody  out  there 
know? 

We  have  "found  LAURIE  LEE  SHELTON  (78) 
living  in  Texarkana,  DAVID  PENRI-EVANS 
(78)living  in  Baton  Rouge,  and  DAVID  KONRAD 
SHERMAN  (78)  in  Evansville,  Ind. 

CATHY  LENSING  (78)  ol  Little  Rock,  is  a 
Corporate  Training  Assistant  with  Dillard's 
Department  Stores  and  also  conducts  tours  for 
old  homes  in  the  old  Qua  paw  Quarter. 

CATHY  (CASIE)  HESEMANN  (78)  a  fourth 
year  medical  student  at  LSU-Medical  School,  also 
works  at  the  Poison  Control  Center  in  Shreve- 
port. 

STEVE  RUSSELL  (78)  will  graduate  from  LSU 
this  May  and  will  open  his  practice  in  general 
dentistry  on  the  Flournoy-Lucas  Road  in  Shreve- 
port. 

ROBERTA  BURNS  (79)  is  living  in  Baton  Rouge, 
where  she  is  a  first-year  law  student  at  LSU. 


DAVID  PARKER,  JR.  .(79)  is  singing  second 
tenor  with  the  Concert  Chorale  of  Houston. 
which  is  a  newly  formed  professional  vocal 
ensemble,  composed  of  28  professional  singers, 
among  the  best  in  Houston.  The  group  performs 
four  major  concerts  a  year  with  music  literature 
ranging  from  Renaissance  to  contemporary.  He 
plans  to  attend  Graduate  School  at  SMU  pursuing 
a  Master  of  Sacred  Music  Degree. 

1980  Class  Agent  BECKY  WALLACE  DEWARE 
has  moved  with  husband  Bill  and  son  Robert  to 
Alexandria,  La.  She  heard  from  LUCY  OWINGS 
('80),  who  wrote  that  she  is  in  St.  Charles,  111., 

working  with  various  programs  lor  the  poor  at  a 
Christian  Center. 

DICK  DODSON  ('80)  married  Cheryl  Brewer  in 
August,  and  is  now  a  third-year  law  student  at  the 
University  ol  Arkansas-Fayetteville. 

SARAH  DOSS  ('81)  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  is  a  purser 
on  board  the  steamer,  Mississippi  Queen. 

BRIAN  COODY  ('81)  is  attending  LSU  Law 
School. 

JOHN  HOLCOMB  ('8 1 )  in  addition  to  attending 
medical  school  in  Arkansas,  joined  the  army  as  a 
2nd  Lt.  in  the  Reserves.  He'll  be  on  active  duty  in 
Fort  Benning,  Ga.,  during  the  summer  and  on 
reserve  status  during  school. 

KAY  JONES  ('81)  is  pursuing  an  M.S.  in  Mass 
Communications  at  the  University  of  Southwestern 
Louisiana,  where  she  expects  to  complete  her 
degree  requirements  in  May,  1982. 

ROBERTA  LAMBRECHT  McCONNELL  ('81 ) 
married  JOHN  McCONNELL  (78)  in  Shreveport 
on  December  19,  1981.  They  are  living  in 
Metairie  while  he  attends  dental  school  in  New 
Orleans. 

LINDA  PASSANITI  ('81)  and  her  husband  are 
attending  the  University  of  New  Orleans  where 
she  is  working  on  her  graduate  degree  in 
chemistry. 

STEPHEN  SCHURMAN  ('81)  married  Judy 
Howard  on  July  25,  1981.  STEPHEN  is  a 
petroleum  geologist  with  Schurman  Oil  and  Gas, 
Inc.,  and  Judy  is  currently  enrolled  at  Centenary 
in  geology. 

JAMES  McCLELLAND  C81)  passed  his  CPA 
exams  and  is  now  working  tor  Stewart,  Robertson 
and  Millican  and  Company  in  Shreveport. 

1981  Class  Agent  JAN  CARPENTER  EADS 
livfe's  in  Houston  with  husband,  Galen,  who  is  a 
geologist  with  Houston  Oil  and  Refining.  JAN  has 
formulated  great  plans  for  the  Class  of  1981  First 
Reunion,  and  has  received  the  following  news: 

BILLY  CHANDLER  ('81)  is  living  in  North 
Hollywood,  Calif,  where  he  signed  with  the 
William  Morris  Agency  as  an  actor  and  with  Del 
Balasco  Publishing  Co.  (a  branch  of  MCA)  as  a 
songwriter. 


The  First  Reunion  ot  the  Class  ot  1981 
will  be  held  Saturday,  June  26,  at  the 
Regency  Hotel  at  Lake  and  Spring  Streets 
in  downtown  Shreveport.  We'll  have  a 
dinner  program  beginning  at  7:30  p.m. 
and  a  cash  bar  that  will  open  an  hour  prior 
to  the  meal.  Cost  of  the  meal  will  be  S9 
(tor  boneless  breast  of  chicken  with 
mushroom  sauce,  salad,  two  vegetables, 
dessert,  iced  tea  or  coffee).  The  program 
will  feature  special  guests,  including  DR. 
DARRELL  LOYLESS,  Vice  President  of 
Centenary,  briel  talks  by  fellow  classmates, 
and  presentation  of  surprise  awards.  Get 
your  registration  form  in  soon! 


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"Lets  Get  Physical" 

at  the 

Second  Annual  Athletic  Auction 

Friday,  April  30,  1982 
Le  Boss'ier's  Celebrity  Theatre 


Silent  Auction, 

Light  Buffet:  6:30-7:30  p.m. 


Oral  Auction: 
7:30  p.m.  'til  - 


1982  Toyota 
Duck  hunting  trips 
Billboard  space 
for  a  month 


Up  for  bid 

Lunch  with  a  hypnotist 
Weekend  at  Asphodel 

Plantation 
Gold  krugerands 


Original  works  of  art 
Bass  boat 
Weekend  in 
New  Orleans 


Welsh  Miner's  Lamp  from  President  Webb 

And  More! 

Entertainment  by  the  Centenary  College  Band 

Ben  Vaughan,  Auctioneer 

Julia  Van  Tiem  79,  Chairman  of  the  auction 

Tickets:  $10  each,  available  from  the  Centenary  Athletic  Department, 
P.O.  Box  4188,  Shreveport,  Louisiana  71104,  (318)  869-5275. 

Proceeds  benefit  the  Centenary  College  Athletic  Department 


Planning 
Ahead 

April  2  -  Women  in  Management 
Seminar 

April  2-13  —  Spring  recess 

April  5-11  -  "Trie  Dancing  Flea," 
Peter  Pan  Players,  Marjorie 
Lyons  Playhouse 

April  13-May  16  -  Theodore  Wores 
Retrospective,  Meadows 

Museum  of  Art 

April  15  -  Scholars-Donors  Lun- 
cheon 

April  22  -  Founders'  Day 

April  30  -  Athletic  Function 

May  1-31  -American  Drawings  III, 
Meadows  Museum  of  Art 

May  6-9,  13-15  -  "Roshomon" 
Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse 

May  20  -  Free  Enterprise  Confer- 
ence 

May  23  -  Commencement,  2  p.m., 
Gold  Dome 

June  7-1 1  -  Louisiana  Annual  Con- 
ference 

June  8-July  3  -John  Sloan  in  Santa 
Fe,  Meadows  Museum  of  Art 

June  14  -  Registration  for  Summer 
Session 

June  17-20,  24-26  -  "Hal  and 
Maude,"  Marjorie  Lyons  Play- 
house 

June  18-19  -  Summer  Orientation 
for  freshmen 

June  25-27  -  Alumni  Weekend 

June  28-July  23  -  Southern  Works 
on  Paper,  Meadows  Museum 
of  Art 

July  5  -  Independence  Day  Holiday 

July  29-31,  Aug.  1,  5-7  -  Summer 
Musical,  Marjorie  Lyons  Play- 
house 

Aug.  27-Oct.  10  -  Centenary  Collec- 
tion, Meadows  Museum  of  Art 

Aug.  30-31  -  Registration  for  fall 
semester 

Sept.  1  -  Classwork  begins 


m 


Inside 


A  balanced  budget  — 
Five  years 
in  a  row 

Shell  Oil  president 
speaks  at  Commencement 

What's  in  a  name? 
History, 
Government, 
Political  Science 

Robots  in  Japan, 
millionaires  in  Russia 


Under  the  stars 


Bill  Causey,  Sr.,  is  back  in  the  saddle  again  conducting  the  26th  series  of  Centenary! 
Shreveport  Summer  Band  concerts  in  the  Hargrove  Memorial  Bandshell  on  th<! 
Centenary  campus.  A  longtime  summer  music  favorite,  the  concerts  are  held  on  Tuesday 
evenings  in  June  and  July  and  are  offered  free  of  charge  to  the  public.  The  series  is 
sponsored  by  Centenary  College,  the  Music  Performance  Trust  Fund  of  Local  116  of  th<! 
American  Federation  of  Musicians,  and  Shreveport  Parks  and  Recreation. 


Tennis,  anyone? 
New  courts 
dedicated 
to  winners 


On  the  cover 


Thanks  to  an  interested  alumnus,  color  prints  of  Brown  Memorial  Chapel  are  nov 
available.  Cost  of  each  signed  print,  2 1 V2"  x  I5V2",  is  $35  plus  $1  for  postage  and 
handling.  The  second  in  a  series,  the  graphic  is  reproduced  from  the  original  painting  b;| 
Shreveport  artist  Ron  Hooper  and  commissioned  by  Centenary  alumnus  T.  Cob 
Flournoy  70.  Send  orders  to  the  Centenary  College  Bookstore,  P.O.  Box  4188 
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nary, (USPS  015560)  July,  1982,  Vol- 
ume 10,  No.  1,  is  published  four  times 
annually  in  October,  January,  April,  and 
July  by  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
2911  Centenary  Boulevard,  Shreveport, 
Louisiana,  71104.  Second  Class  postage 
paid  at  Shreveport,  La.  POSTMASTER: 
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Centenary  strives  to  create  an  understanding  of  the  mission,  plans,  and  progres 
of  Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  campu: 

Editor Janie  Flournoy  7 

Special  Contributors Don  Danvoi 

Lee  Morga  [ 

Production Rushing  Printing  Ci  j 

Alumni  Director Chris  Web  I 

Photography Janie  Flourno : 


Highlights  of  1981-82  .  .  .  fifth  consecutive  balanced  budget .  .  . 
$1,350,000  added  to  the  College  endowment .  .  .  more  than  $1,250,000 
in  annual  operating  gifts  .  .  .  $310,000  in  decimal  gifts  from  the  Lou- 
isiana Methodist  Conference  .  .  .  campus  beautification  endowment 
topped  $300,000  .  .  .  over  $100,000  provided  to  begin  a  new  six-court 
tennis  complex  .  .  .  $100,000  from  the  Brown  Foundation  of  Houston 
and  $100,000  from  Shreveport's  Woolf  Foundation  to  endow  geology 
scholarships  .  .  .  another  $40,000    f^\  increase  in  yearly  scholarships 


from  the  Church  for  a  total  of 
last  two  years  .  .  .  and  the 
energy  and  devotion 
Centenary  strong! 


60  new  scholarships  over  the 

renewed  gifts  of  time  and 

and  sacrifice  that  keep 

Thank  you, 

Dr.  Donald  A.  Webb 
President 


The  importance  of  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund 


Gifts  to  Centenary's  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund  are  unrestricted  contri- 
butions to  the  College  which  assist  the 
annual  operating  budget.  As  such,  gifts 
to  Great  Teachers  are  the  only  kind 
which  are  gifts  to  Centenary  rather  than 
to  a  special  program  of  the  College. 
Annual  gifts  of  this  kind  strengthen 
Centenary  wherever  and  whenever  the 
College  needs  help. 

The  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund 
Rifts  never  run  the  risk  of  obsolescence. 
The  gifts  are  available  for  uses  determined 
by  the  President  and  the  Trustees  in  the 
annual    operating    budget.    Funds    are 


managed  tor  maximum  effectiveness  by 
the  Business  Manager. 

Without  the  annual  gifts  received  by 
the  College,  Centenary  would  be  a 
struggling  institution  of  higher  education. 
Without  the  generosity  of  our  donors,  the 
academic  excellence  of  the  College  would 
be  seriously  undermined. 

During  the  past  academic  year,  the 
College  began  a  new  program  in  petro- 
leum land  management.  Its  popularity 
surpassed  our  greatest  expectation.  This 
growth  was  matched  by  increased  interest 
in  other  programs  such  as  geology, 
education,  and  business. 


These  academic  endeavors  were  comple- 
mented by  continued  improvements  in 
our  athletic  program  and  our  efforts  to 
beautify  the  campus.  Taken  together, 
they  have  resulted  in  a  quality  of  life  that 
is  unequaled  in  colleges  our  size. 

All  these  improvements  would  not 
have  been  possible  without  the  help  of 
the  gifts  that  make  up  the  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund.  Through  tliis  fund,  indi- 
viduals, corporations  and  foundations 
continue  to  play  a  supportive  and  coopera- 
tive role  in  the  life  of  the  College. 


Gifts  to  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  by  Classes 
June  1,  1981  -  May  31, 1982 


Number  of 

Class 

Number  of 

Class 

Class 

Alumni  Donors 

$  Total 

Class 

Alumni  Donors 

$  Total 

Honorary 

10 

$  2,812.00 

1952 

18 

$   897.00 

1922 

1 

10.00 

1953 

26 

1,322.00 

1924 

1 

250.00 

1954 

28 

2,180.00 

1925 

3 

1,270.00 

1955 

21 

517.00 

1926 

7 

815.00 

1956 

17 

1,021.00 

1927 

9 

1,405.00 

1957 

17 

2,611.00 

1928 

8 

1,860.00 

1958 

12 

393.00 

1929 

7 

20,505.00 

1959 

13 

10,513.00 

1930 

9 

2,450.00 

1960 

26 

1,668.00 

1931 

14 

642.00 

1961 

23 

1,005.00 

1932 

14 

1,261.00 

1962 

25 

628.00 

1933 

15 

1,473.00 

1963 

25 

998.00 

1934 

17 

6,679.00 

1964 

31 

2,588.00 

1935 

16 

1,354.00 

1965 

33 

2,073.00 

1936 

21 

12,703.00 

1966 

36 

7,020.00 

1937 

16 

6,560.00 

1967 

14 

298.00 

1938 

18 

1,721.00 

1968 

30 

1,619.00 

1939 

18 

2,070.00 

1969 

10 

1,301.00 

1940 

17 

4,907.00 

1970 

14 

1,482.00 

1941 

24 

2,388.00 

1971 

35 

1,495.00 

1942 

28 

3,542.00 

1972 

25 

2,119.00 

1943 

19 

7,654.00 

1973 

23 

696.00 

1944 

23 

8,953.00 

1974 

28 

1,499.00 

1945 

18 

4,205.00 

1975 

19 

480.00 

1946 

16 

1,033.00 

1976 

16 

1,161.00 

1947 

33 

3,708.00 

1977 

13 

476.00 

1948 

33 

3,706.00 

1978 

9 

268.00 

1949 

43 

3,739.00 

1979 

14 

1,483.00 

1950 

33 

9,495.00 

1980 

10 

798.00 

1951 

33 

1,653.00 

1981 

15 

340.00 

The  1981-82  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund 

Gifts  to  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  are  unrestricted  and 
are  used  for  the  ongoing  operating  expenses  of  the  College. 
These  totals  reflect  cash  contributions  between  June  1,  1981 
and  May  31,  1982  which  is  Centenary's  fiscal  year. 


The  Great  Teachers-Scholars 
Fund  Volunteer  Leadership 


TRUSTEES 

ALUMNI 

PARENTS 

FRIENDS 

CORPORATIONS 

FOUNDATIONS 

FACULTY  &  STAFF 

GRAND  TOTAL 


$  96,746 
$117,242 
$  6,636 
8116,340 
$191,038 
$101,335 
$     6,056 

$635,343 


Totals  do  not  include  gifts  to  The  President's  Matching  Fund. 
Some  donors  who  contribute  generously  to  this  fund  are  alumni. 


GENERAL  CHAIRMAN 

DIVISION  CHAIRMEN 
Banking  and  Investments 
Professional 
Petroleum 
Manufacturing 
Retail,  Sales  &  Services 
Agriculture 
General 

PARENTS  DIVISION 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 
Chairman 

Chairman,  Development 
Committee 


Don  Duggan  H£ 


Edgar  Han 

Robert  Pugh,  Sr.  '< 

Milton  Croi 

Vernon  B.  Chance,  J 

Eugene  Richardsd 

Tommy  Stinst 

Herman  Williamsi 

Wilbur  Hirsch  ' 


George  D.  Nelsl 
H.  Blume  Johnson  '$ 


Free 
Enterprise 


Seisi  Kato 


Konstantin  Simis 


Robots  in  Japan,  millionaires  in  Russia 


It  was  SRO  when  Centenary  College 
hosted  its  Seventh  Free  Enterprise  Con- 
ference Thursday,  May  20. 

The  reasons:  Mr.  Seisi  Kato,  Chairman 
of  the  Board  of  Toyota  Motor  Sales  Co., 
Ltd.,  and  Dr.  Konstantin  Simis,  firsthand 
source  on  the  workings  of  the  Soviet 
'underground  economy.  Sponsored  hy 
The  Dresser  Foundation,  the  theme  of 
the  Conference  was  "Comparative  Cul- 
tures and  Their  Impact  on  Free  Enter- 
prise." 

Mr.  Kato  credited  Centenary's  own 
jPresident  J.J.  Mickle  with  introducing 
him  to  the  automotive  industry.  "His 
introduction  got  me  in  (to  General  Motors) 
i-  but  sometimes  I  wonder  if  my  failure  to 
Istudy  his  English  lessons  harder  than  I 
Jid  may  have  been  what  got  me  out,"  he 
;aid  with  a  smile. 

At  that  time  —  the  1930s  —  there  were 
30,000  vehicles  registered  in  Japan  -  up 
rom  16  in  1907,  the  year  Mr.  Kato  was 
Dorn.  And  today  there  are  tens  of  millions 
)f  vehicles  on  the  roads  in  Japan  -  many 
)f  them  Toyotas.  And  with  another  smile, 
4r.  Kato  said,  "I  imagine  I  could  count  at 
east  a  few  of  our  products  in  the  parking 
ot  on  this  very  campus.  It  is  all  too  clear 
low  successful  we  have  been." 

And  the  success,  he  said,  is  due  largely 
o  America.  "Without  you  —  the  Ameri- 
ans,  and  all  the  great  heritage  of  technologi- 
al  prowess  and  Yankee  ingenuity  and 
(erseverance  that  we  borrowed  from 
;ou,  that  you  gave  so  generously  to  us 
>efore  the  war  and  after  it  —  we  would 
lave  acomplished  virtually  none  of  this 
uccess." 

For  our  two  countries  to  go  on  together 
is  partners,  teaching  and  learning  from 
ach  other,  is  a  dream  of  Mr.  Kato.  "To 
is  Japanese  car  makers,  American  in- 


dustry and  American  ideas  have  always 
been  personal  models  .  .  .  And  today,  I 
am  heartened  to  see  the  efforts  American 
managers  are  making  to  do  the  same:  to 
learn  from  us  Japanese,  in  those  areas 
where  we  have  made  strides  of  progress, 
and  where  we  have  something  to  teach. 

As  for  the  future,  Mr.  Kato  suggests 
that  "the  cars  you  see  on  any  road, 
anywhere  in  the  world,  will  increasingly 
be  numbered  among  those  models  we 
call  "world  cars"  —  the  products  of  all 
our  creative  and  competitive  ideas  and 
energies." 

And  quite  probably  making  those  cars 
will  be  robots,  already  in  use  in  Japan. 
For  manufacturers,  "they  are  versatility 
itself." 

And  because  the  future  holds  no 
security,  the  young  must  be  willing  to 
take  risks,  ...  to  dream  -  and  to  bet 
everything  on  their  dreams. 

This  is  the  stuff  free  enterprise  is  made 
of—  even  in  the  U.S.S.R.  where  it  is 
illegal. 

But  an  underground  second  economy 
does  exist,  and  Russian  entrepreneurs 
are  making  millions. 

How  can  this  be? 

According  to  Dr.  Simis,  an  exiled 
Russian  lawyer  who  defended  under- 
ground millionaires,  the  private  "owner" 
usually  sets  up  his  shop  in  a  state  factory, 
using  raw  materials  and  labor  procured 
with  bribes  and  large  salaries.  Work  is 
done  after  normal  factory  hours;  the 
goods  delivered  to  state  stores  and  sold 
alongside  state-made  goods. 

"Private  enterprise  exists  under  the 
cover  of  state  enterprise,"  Dr.  Simis  said. 
"And  it  competes  very  successfully  with 
the  state." 

One   entrepreneur,   a  friend   of  Dr. 


Simis,  "owned"  11  factories  which  supply 
goods  to  64  cities.  Structured  like  western 
companies,  there  were  shareholders  and 
a  board  of  directors,  which  met  to 
determine  company  policy  and  strategy. 

But  unlike  Western  corporations,  the 
biggest  expenditure  for  a  Russian  entre- 
preneur is  for  bribes.  Everyone  must  be 
"taken  care  of"  for  the  system  to  work. 
Raw  materials  and  labor  rank  number 
two  and  three  on  the  expense  side. 

There  are  no  opportunities  for  invest- 
ment or  luxuries,  even  for  those  who 
made  a  profit  legally,  Dr.  Simis  said.  So 
the  millionaires  go  back  underground  for 
dollars,  precious  stones,  and  metals. 

And  what  is  the  impact  of  the  second 
economy,  Dr.  Simis  asked.  "It  plays  a 
double  role,  "  he  said,  "It  is  definitely  a 
positive  influence  on  the  economy.  With- 
out the  help  of  the  second  economy,  the 
first  economy  couldn't  exist.  It  also 
provides  the  people  of  the  U.S.S.R.  an 
income  other  than  from  the  state.  But,  it 
brings  corruption,  and  that  is  not  good." 

The  state  is  very  much  aware  of  the 
free  enterprise  spirit.  Dr.  Simis  said,  and 
actually  allows  some  farmers  to  own 
their  property.  One  farmer's  small  plot  of 
land  was  four  times  as  productive  and 
seven  times  as  profitable  as  a  state- 
owned  farm  nearby. 

In  total,  some  2.5  percent  of  the  land  is 
in  private  hands  and  produces  a  full  one- 
half  of  the  food  for  Russia's  people. 

But  owning  a  business  is  illegal.  The 
threat  of  long  prison  sentences  —  even 
death  —  if  caught  is  a  constant  dark 
cloud.  But  in  the  end.  Dr.  Simis  said,  it  is 
"the  thrill  of  the  game,"  not  profit.  "Do 
you  really  think  I  need  the  money?  a 
client  once  asked  Dr.  Simis.  "I  need  my 
life!  And  my  life  is  my  business!" 


An  adventure  called  liberal  education 


A  liberal  arts  education  will  not  make 
you  terminally  superfluous. 

In  tact,  a  liberal  arts  education  gives 
you  the  intellectual  courage  to  attempt 
the  unfamiliar,  and  it  should  help  you  to 
come  to  terms  with  yourself  and  to 
understand  what  success  really  means. 

This  was  the  message  of  former 
Centenary  student,  John  F.  Bookout, 
Jr.,  president  of  Shell  Oil  Co.,  when  he 
addressed  Centenary's  157th  graduating 
class  at  Commencement,  Sunday,  May 
23. 

"Success  is  service  and  the  satisfaction 
of  knowing  that  you've  served  well  and 
for  a  worthy  end,"  Dr.  Bookout  said. 

"You've  got  yourselves  into  an  adven- 
ture called  liberal  education,  and  now 
that  you've  got  it,  what  are  you  going  to 
do  with  it?"  he  challenged.  "I  hope  you 
will  continue  it,  extend  it,  put  it  to  good 
use  —  in  rewarding  lives  for  yourselves, 
and  your  families,  and  in  service  to 
society." 

Dr.  Bookout,  who  had  just  moments 
before  received  the  honorary  Doctor  of 
Laws  degree,  spoke  to  a  capacity  crowd 
in  Centenary's  Gold  Dome. 

Others  receiving  honorary  degrees 
were  the  Rev.  Byrl  Moreland  and  the 
Rev.  James  Moore,  Doctor  of  Divinity 
degrees;  and  Mrs.  Nancy  Carruth,  who 
was  awarded  the  honorary  Doctor  of 
Humane  Letters  degree. 

Also  honored  at  Commencement  were 
four  members  of  the  Class  of  1932,  who 
marched  with  the  graduating  seniors: 
Mrs.  Richard  E.  Ivey  (Mary  Pattison), 
James  L.  King,  Charles  A.  Ravenna,  Jr., 
and  Glenn  N.  Walker,  Jr. 

6 


As  part  of  Centenary's  participation 
in  the  national  "America's  Energy  Is 
Mindpower"  campaign,  honorary  degree 
alumni  were  also  invited  to  march  in  the 
academic  procession  and  be  recognized. 
Those  attending  were  Dr.  James  W. 
Hargrove,  Dr.  Jolly  B.  Harper,  Dr.  L. 
Ray  Branton,  Dr.  Edgar  Hull,  Dr.  Stone 
Caraway,  Dr.  Bentley  Sloane,  Dr.  Ed- 
ward C.  Greco,  and  Dr.  Van  Cliburn. 

Some  148  students  received  under- 
graduate degrees;   26  were  awarded 


George  Nelson  (left),  chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  visits  with  John 
Bookout,  President  of  Shell  Oil  Co.,  who 
spoke  to  Centenary's  157th  graduating 
class. 


master's  degrees.  Students  graduatin 
with  honors  were  Susan  Cottongin 
summa  cum  laude;  Carla  Rebecca  Baue 
Barbara  Nell  Chambers,  Donette  Cool 
David  Loran  Coss,  Vicki  Bethel  Cromei 
Patricia  Evonne  Greene,  Terence  Anth( 
ny  Grimes,  Pamela  Kay  McPherson 
Patty  Roberts  Morhaus,  Mark  Kevii 
Murray,  Franchelle  Elizabeth  Steven;' 
Susan  Lorraine  Webb,  Sarah  Brantolj 
Wilkerson,  and  Barbara  Lynn  Younjj 
magna  cum  laude,  and  John  Hortoi 
Allen,  Jr.,  Jeri  Lynne  Claiborne,  Richarj 
Stuart  Eason,  Mark  Dennis  Eldredgd 
Lisa  Kaye  McCarthy,  Teri  Lynn  Oate! 
Joyce  Patterson  Stevens,  and  Steve  j 
Atkinson  Wren,  cum  laude. 

Graduating  with  departmental  honoi| 
were  Phillips  Kirk  Labor,  Pamela  Ka 
McPherson,  Kathryn  Barbara  Packarc 
and  Felicia  Denise  Sankey,  all  in  biol< 

gy- 

"Today,  if  we  look  at  the  seal  c 
Centenary  College,"  said  Dr.  Bookou 
"we  see  some  words  in  Latin:  Label 
Omnia  Vincit.  If  memory  serves,  the! 
suggest  a  longer  passage  in  Vergil 
Georgica,  which  has  been  translatec' 
"Yes,  unremitting  labor  and  harsj 
necessity's  hand  will  master  anything.! 

"So  from  the  Greek,  Holmes  give; 
you  broad  philosophy.  From  the  LahV 
Centenary  gives  you  a  practical  guid<| 
And  now  you  go. 

"Remember  that  you  take  with  yos 
the  loyalty  and  support  of  all  who  hav 
seen  you  through  your  years  at  Cent(j 
nary.  And  remember  always  that  Cent< 
nary  deserves  a  share  of  yours. 

Goodbye.  God  bless  you." 


Perspectives 


Robert  Miciotto 


Robert  Miciotto 


Better  late  than  never. 

That  might  be  the  academic  motto  of  Dr.  Robert  J.  Miciotto 
'73,  who,  despite  a  late  start  in  college,  has  excelled  as  one  of 
the  country's  foremost  medical  historians. 

He  and  his  family  will  be  returning  to  his  native  Shreveport 
this  summer,  and  daughter  Belinda  will  be  attending  Centenary 
as  a  freshman  in  the  hill. 

It  was  a  Centenary  alumnus,  Sam  Maxey,  M.D.,  59,  who 
encouraged  Robert's  pursuit  of  an  advanced  degree.  Robert 
had  graduated  from  Schumpert  Hospital's  School  of  Medical 
Technology  in  1963,  and  with  Dr.  Maxey  s  encouragement, 
seven  years  later,  he  entered  Centenary. 

"It  was  through  the  late  Dr.  Walter  Lowrey,  a  very  gracious 
gentleman  and  scholar,  that  my  interest  in  historical  studies 
was  stimulated,  and  my  knowledge  of  the  methods  of  historical 
inquiry  further  refined,"  Robert  said.  "I  also  remember  with  a 
sense  of  appreciation  the  history  courses  of  Dr.  Alton  Hancock, 
whose  thoroughly  prepared  lectures  and  demanding  level  <>l 
academic  performance  proved  to  be  of  great  value  later  in  my 
graduate  studies." 

After  receiving  his  B.A.  from  Centenary  in  1973,  Robert 
studied  at  Johns  Hopkins  University  School  of  Medicine  where 
he  earned  his  Ph.D.  in  the  history  of  medicine.  He  spent  an 
additional  year  there  at  the  medical  school's  Institute  of  the 
History  of  Medicine  as  a  postdoctoral  fellow,  researching  the 
history  of  European  and  American  medicine.  For  the  past  two 
years,  Robert  has  served  as  assistant  professor  of  the  history  of 
medicine  at  LSU  Medical  Center  in  New  Orleans. 

Better  late  than  never  —  Centenary  will  be  glad  to  have  the 
Miciottos  back  home. 


John  Vihstadt 


It  was  Centenary's  Early  Admissions  Program  that  enabled 
John  Vihstadt  to  begin  college  after  the  eleventh  grade. 

"Although  I  was  only  there  for  a  year  and  a  summer  session 
(1969-70), "  he  said,  "Centenary  gave  me  a  firm  foundation  and 
the  motivation  to  achieve  my  goals." 

That  motivation  led  to  a  degree  in  political  science  from  the 
University  of  Nebraska,  a  Juris  Doctor  degree  from  the 
University  of  Nebraska  College  of  Law,  and  participation  in  a 
Program  of  Instruction  for  Lawyers  at  the  Harvard  Law  School. 

In  preparation  for  his  position  now  as  minority  staff  director 
for  the  U.S.  House  of  Representatives  Select  Committee  on 
Aging,  John  has  served  as  a  legal  services  specialist  for  the 
Nebraska  Commission  on  Aging,  as  staff  attorney  for  the  Legal 
Services  Corporation  of  Iowa,  and  as  counsel  and  assistant  staff 
director  for  the  American  Bar  Association  Commission  on 
Legal  Problems  of  the  Elderly  in  Washington. 

John  joined  the  House  Committee  on  Aging  in  May,  1981. 
"Three  of  our  major  concerns  over  the  next  few  months  will  be 
mandatory  retirement  and  age  discrimination  in  employment, 
review  of  the  block  grants  to  states  enacted  last  year  and  the 
'  New  Federalism    and  pension  funding  issues,"  he  said. 

And  when  John  is  not  busy  with  the  elderly,  he's  busy 
keeping  himself  young  by  working  in  his  garden  and  enjoying 
the  "ethnic  diversity  of  Washington  restaurants." 


/ 


I 


John  Vihstadt 


Potpourri 


Labor  omnia  vincit 

The  first  College  English  Association 
Distinguished  Service  Award  has  been 
presented  to  Centenary's  Dr.  Earle  Labor, 
Professor  of  English.  The  presentation 
was  made  at  the  Thirteenth  Annual 
Conference  of  the  College  English  Associ- 
ation, held  April  15-17,  in  Houston, 
Texas. 

The  prestigious  award  was  inaugurated 
by  the  CEA  Honors  Committee  for  the 
purpose  of  recognizing  those  scholars/ 
teachers  who,  through  their  extraordinary 
dedication  and  achievements,  have  signif- 
icantly furthered  the  goals  of  the  College 
English  Association.  The  presentation  of 
this  award  was  ratified  by  a  standing 
ovation  at  the  Business  Meeting  of  the 
Association  on  April  16. 

Professor  Labor  has  taught  at  Cente- 
nary for  23  years.  In  addition  to  his 
teaching,  he  is  currently  at  work,  in 
collaboration  with  Dr.  Robert  C.  Leitz  of 
LSU-S,  on  a  three-volume  edition  of  the 
letters  of  Jack  London  for  the  Stanford 
University  Press.  (See  Centenary,  October, 
1980) 

To  England 

The  United  Kingdom  will  probably  never 
be  the  same  after  these  Centenary 
students,  professors,  and  the  President 
himself  travel  there  this  summer.  The 
travelers  include  (front  row,  left  to  right) 
Andy  Freeman,  Carole  Powell,  Laura 
McGough,  Becky  White,  and  Ann  Morris; 
(second  row,  left  to  right)  Margaret 
Shehee,  Benny  Hines,  Elizabeth  Haas, 
and  Robyn  Young,  and  (third  row,  left  to 
right)  Dr.  David  Jackson,  Dr.  Michael 
Hall,  Dr.  Royce  Shaw,  Dr.  Lee  Morgan, 
and  Dr.  Donald  Webb,  President  of  the 
College.  All  the  students  except  Robyn 
Young  will  be  participating  in  the  British 
Studies  at  Oxford  program,  courses  held 
at  St.  John's  College,  Oxford,  and  taught 
by  some  of  England's  leading  scholars. 
Centenary's  membership  in  the  Southern 
Colleges  University  Union,  an  educational 
consortium,  makes  this  possible.  Robyn 
will  be  attending  another  SCUU- 
sponsored  program  to  be  held  in  London, 
"Challenges  of  a  Multi-National  Econo- 
my." Dr.  Shaw  and  Dr.  Hall  will  be 
teaching  at  Oxford,  while  Dr.  Morgan 
and  Dr.  Jackson  will  be  doing  research  in 


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Theodore  Who? 

The  Meadows  Museum  of  Art  has  done  it 
again,  thanks  to  Jess  Shenson  (left),  Judy 
Godfrey,  and  Willard  Cooper.  A  unique 
exhibition  at  the  Meadows  is  due  to  this 
trio,  who,  with  the  help  of  mutual  friend 
Delton  Harrison,  arranged  for  the  showing 
of  a  major  retrospective  of  the  work  of 
Theodore  Wores  (1859-1939).  The  col- 
lection of  91  paintings  is  on  a  two-year 
tour  of  eleven  museums  and  heralds  the 
rediscovery  of  this  important  American 
artist.  Considered  one  of  America's 
premier  painters,  Wores  was  one  of  the 
first  American  artists  to  visit  Japan,  and 
the  first,  in  his  own  words,  "to  live  among 
(the  Japanese),  living  as  they  do."  During 
his  two  visits  to  that  country,  he  created  a 
body  of  work  which  gave  Westerners  the 
first  true  pictorial  insight  into  Japanese 
life  and  culture.  He  also  painted  in  the 
American  West,  in  Europe,  and  in  the 
Pacific.  His  art  hangs  in  San  Francisco, 
his  hometown,  and  other  major  cities  in 
California;  in  the  Newark  Museum;  in 
the  Brooklyn  Museum;  and  in  Washing- 
ton, D.C.,  in  the  White  House,  the 
Corcoran  Gallery,  the  Federal  Reserve 
Building,  and  the  offices  of  the  National 
Trust  for  Historic  Preservation. 


! 


London  and  Edinburgh.  President  and 
Mrs.  Webb,  who  were  born  and  raised 
in  the  United  Kingdom,  will  be  seeing 
family,  friends,   and   Centenary  folks 


during  their  July  visit.  (Not  pictured  are 
Patrick  Hurley  and  Margaret  Avard, 
who  will  also  be  attending  the  Oxford 
program.) 


New  Trustees 

Two  Shreveport  businessmen,  a  lawyer, 
and  a  Methodist  minister  have  been 
appointed  to  the  Centenary  College  Board 
of  Trustees.  The  announcement  was 
made  by  Centenary  College  President 
Donald  A.  Webb.  The  new  trustees  are 
Don  H.  Duggan,  John  David  Crow, 
Donald  P.  Weiss,  and  the  Rev.  Tracy 
Arnold  of  Alexandria.  The  appointments 
of  all  four  men  were  approved  by  the 
Louisiana  Annual  Conference  Wednes- 
day, June  9. 

Don  Duggan,  Chairman  of  Centenary's 
1981 -'82  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund, 
is  the  founder  and  president  of  Duggan 
Machine  Co.  He  holds  membership  in 
the  Caddo  Levee  Board  and  has  served 
as  its  president.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  International  Association  of  Drilling 
Contractors;  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
Louisiana  College;  Committee  of  100; 
Shreveport  Petroleum  Club  of  which  he 
is  past  president,  and  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Shreveport  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

An  active  member  of  Trinity  Heights 
Baptist  Church,  Duggan  serves  as  a 
deacon  and  was  a  Founder  of  Trinity 
Heights  Christian  Academy.  He  and  his 
wife,  Molly,  have  three  children:  Don 
Dee  Duggan,  Michael  Duggan,  and  Molly 
Anne  Duggan. 

John  David  Crow  is  a  graduate  of 
Stanford  University  and  Tulane  Universi- 
ty, where  he  earned  a  masters  degree  in 
business.  A  Shreveport  native,  he  is 
active  on  a  number  of  community  boards 
including  the  Shreveport  Symphony,  the 
Economic  Development  Foundation 
(Chamber  of  Commerce),  the  Salvation 
Army,  the  Caddo  Foundation  for  Excep- 
tional Children,  and  YMCA  Metropolitan 
Board.  He  is  also  a  past  president  of  the 
Vlontessori  School  of  Shreveport. 

An  award-winning  photographer,  Crow 
tias   displayed    pictures   at    the   Kodak 

allery   in   New   York,    the   National 

eographic  Gallery  in  Washington,  D.C., 
and  the  Barnwell  Art  Center  in  Shreve- 
port. He  and  his  wife,  Tudy,  have  four 
ions:  Clay,  Tyler,  Michael,  and  Colin. 

Don  Weiss,  a  practicing  attorney  in 
Shreveport  since  1 96 1 ,  is  also  very  active 
n  the  community.  He  has  served  as 
^resident  of  the  Shreveport  Jewish  Federa- 
ion,  Shreveport  Association  for  the  Blind, 
Southfield  School  Board  of  Trustees,  and 
he  Shreveport  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
^  former  member  of  President  Donald 


wr^         28 

i      6 

Rev.  Tracy  Arnold 


Donald  P.  Weiss 

Webb's  Advisory  Council,  Weiss  has  also 
worked  on  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars 
Fund. 

He  and  his  wife,  Marion,  have  four 
children:  Jim,  Eric,  Jeff,  and  Jennifer. 

The  Rev.  Tracy  Arnold,  a  1952  gradu- 
ate of  Centenary  College,  received  his 
degree  in  theology  from  Southern  Metho- 
dist University. 

Pastor  of  First  United  Church  in 
Alexandria,  the  Rev.  Arnold  is  a  member 
of  the  Louisiana  Annual  Conference, 
serving  as  chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Pensions.  He  is  also  a  delegate  to  the 
South  Central  Jurisdictional  Conference 
and  a  reserve  delegate  to  the  General 
Conference. 

He  and  his  wife.  Sue,  have  two  children : 
Mark  Arnold  and  Michele  King,  and  two 
grandchildren. 


Don  H.  Duggan 


V 


John  David  Crow 


Choir  Alumni  Day 


The  second  Alumni  Day  at  the  Cente- 
nary College  Camp  will  be  held  Saturday, 
Aug.  21,  at  Hodges  Gardens  in  Many. 
This  is  the  time  for  all  former  singers  of 
the  choir  to  come  for  a  get-together,  a 
good  traditional  Choir  Camp  lunch,  and 
a  singalong.  Reservations  are  needed  for 
the  lunch,  which  will  cost  S3  per  person. 

Activities  will  begin  with  lunch  at 
noon  and  will  continue  until  3:30  p.m. 
Last  year  over  150  alumni  and  family 
members  attended.  To  make  reservations 
or  for  more  information,  contact  Will 
Andress,  Director  of  the  Choir. 

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What's  in  a  name? 

History,  Government,  Political  Science 


A  change  in  name  has  not  meant  a 
change  in  quality  for  the  Department  of 
History  and  Political  Science  at  Centenary 
College. 

Formerly  called  the  Department  of 
History  and  Government,  the  name  was 
changed  last  year  as  a  matter  of  semantics. 
"Government  is  an  element  of  political 
science,"  explained  Professor  Joe  Koshan- 
sky  of  the  Department.  "Because  we 
offer  more  than  just  history  and  govern- 
ment courses  now,  we  wanted  the  name 
of  the  department  to  reflect  that." 


The  Department  is  just  as  demanding 
as  it  always  has  been,  requiring  30  hours 
in  history  courses,  six  in  economics,  and 
six  in  political  science  for  a  B.A.  degree 
in  history.  Additionally,  students  are 
required  to  complete  the  intermediate 
level  in  a  foreign  language. 

Political  science  majors  must  earn  like 
credits  —  30  hours  in  the  major  areas  of 
political  science;  American  government 
and  politics/public  administration;  com- 
parative government  and  politics;  interna- 
tional   politics;    and    political    theory, 


Members  of  the  Department  of  History  and  Political  Science  faculty  include  (clockwise, 
from  top)  Dr.  Royce  Shaw,  Dr.  Alton  Hancock,  Dr.  Sam  Sheperd,  and  Mr.  Joe 
Koshansky.  They  are  photographed  in  the  Cline  Room  of  Magale  Library  which  houses 
rare  books  and  manuscripts  of  the  Centenary  Collection,  the  Methodist  Collection,  and 
the  North  Louisiana  Historical  Association  Collection.  The  Cline  Room  was  established 
in  memory  of  Pierce  Cline,  professor  at  Centenary,  1920-1933,  and  president,  1933- 
1943. 

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including  American  political  thought. 
Supportive  courses  required  are  six  hours 
of  history  and  six  of  economics,  and 
completion  of  the  intermediate  level  of  a 
foreign  language. 

"We  can  give  a  lot  of  attention  to 
students  at  all  times,"  said  Dr.  Royce 
Shaw,  Assistant  Professor  of  History  and 
Political  Science.  "Most  of  our  classes  are 
really  seminar  situations." 

In  addition  to  political  science  Professors 
Koshansky  and  Shaw,  the  departmental 
faculty  includes  Dr.  Alton  Hancock  and 
Dr.  Sam  Shepherd,  who  both  teach  history 
courses. 

The  personal  attention  is  really  paying 
off.  Over  half  of  the  history  and  political 
science  graduates  go  on  to  professional  j 
or  graduate  schools  including  Tulane, 
Southern  Methodist  University,  Vander-  j 
bilt ,  American  University ,  George  Washing- 
ton University,  and  Georgetown  Universi 
ty,  to  name  a  few.  Over  90%  of  the  pre-j 
law    students   are    accepted    into   and, 
complete  law  school. 

The  close  relationships  between  faculty  j 
and  students  also  make  special  undergrade 
uate  opportunities  more  accessible. 

History  and  political  science  majors! 
are  encouraged  to  participate  in  the' 
Washington  Semester  at  American  Uni-j 
versity,  which  offers  a  variety  of  study: 
programs  and  internships.   . 

Summer  programs  such  as  the  Southern 
College  University  Union  (SCUU)  pro- 
gram on  "Challenges  of  the  Multi-Nationai 
Economy"  are  also  available  to  Centenary 
students.  Offered  in  London,  the  prograrr 
faculty  included  Centenary's  Dr.  Shaw 
last  year  when  Centenary  students  Jar! 
Parker  and  Jim  Hacker  attended.  Robyrj 
Young  is  going  this  summer. 

During  the  January  Interim,  Centenary 
students  have  pursued  research  project:! 
in  such  faraway  places  as  Venezuela; 
and  throughout  the  semester,  seniol 
history  majors  have  engaged  in  locai 
history  projects. 

And  to  make  up  for  the  shortage  oj 
professors,  students  are  allowed  to  delvii, 
into  any  aspect  of  history  and  political 
science  whether  the  course  is  bein;j 
offered  or  not.  "We  try  to  be  flexibll 
about  that,"  said  Dr.  Hancock,  "especial! 
when  we  can't  offer  certain  course; 
every  year  or  even  every  two  years." 

Personal  attention.  Perhaps  that's  whi 
accounts  for  the  great  success  of  Cent(| 
nary's   Pre-Law    Program,    under  th 
auspices  of  the  Department  of  Histor  j 
and  Political  Science. 

(continued  on  page  13  j 


Delton  Harrison  (right)  stops  to  talk  with  Shayne  Ladner  '80  and  Wade  Cloud  '83, 
alumni  of  the  Washington  Semester  Program.  Their  participation  in  the  program  was 
enabled  by  Delton,  who  provides  scholarships  through  the  Fund  for  Excellence. 

Making  things  happen 

Delton  Harrison  makes  things  happen. 

Citizen  of  the  world,  Delton  is  a  mover  and  shaker  in  London,  New  York, 
Washington,  Shreveport,  which  is  home,  and  points  in  between.  Over  the  last  30 
years,  he  has  made  a  lot  of  things  happen  at  Centenary  College.  And  one  of  those 
things  is  Centenary's  Washington  Semester  Program  at  American  University  in 
Washington,  D.C. 

"I'm  a  graduate  of  American  University,  "  Delton  said,  explaining  his  initial 
interest  in  the  program.  "Carney  Laslie  (also  an  alumnus  of  American  University 
and  Adjunct  Professor  of  History  and  Political  Science  at  Centenary)  talked  to  me 
about  it  first,'  he  said.  "It  sounded  like  such  an  excellent  program,  so  we  pursued 
it." 

Dr.  Darrell  Loyless,  then  Chairman  of  the  Department  of  History  and  Political 
Science  helped  work  out  the  details,  and  in  1978,  Delton's  first  student 
representative  was  sent  to  the  nation's  capital  to  take  part  in  the  program. 

A  generous  gift  from  Delton  provides  scholarship  money  for  students  interested 
in  attending  the  one-semester  program.  Twice  the  cost  of  a  semester  at  Centenary, 
the  Washington  program  would  be  off-limits  to  many  students  without  the  Fund 
for  Excellence.  Money  from  the  fund  not  used  for  the  Washington  Semester  can  be 
used  in  other  ways,  such  as  for  faculty  enrichment  or  research  materials. 

Delton's  involvement  with  Centenary  carries  on  a  family  tradition.  His  father, 
O.D.  Harrison,  Sr.,  is  a  life-time  member  of  Centenary's  Board  of  Trustees.  And 
Delton's  niece,  Jennie  Lane  Smith,  graduated  this  year  from  Centenary  with  a 
degree  in  business. 

An  alumnus  himself,  Delton  did  post  graduate  work  at  Centenary  after 
receiving  his  degree  from  American  University.  In  one  of  those  classes,  Betty 
Friedenberg,  Adjunct  Professor  of  Art,  helped  nurture  in  him  a  deep  appreciation 
for  the  arts,  evidenced  now  by  his  extensive  involvement  in  the  performing  and 
visual  arts  everywhere  he  goes. 

At  Centenary,  this  includes  attending  performances  in  the  Marjorie  Lyons 
Playhouse,  and  Hurley  School  of  Music  and  attending  and  arranging  exhibits  at 
the  Meadows  Museum  of  Art,  where  he  was  instrumental  in  co-ordinating  the  co- 
operative relationship  between  the  Shreveport  Art  Guild  and  the  Museum.  He  has 
donated  paintings  to  Centenary's  Magale  Library,  and  through  his  membership  in 
the  English-Speaking  Union,  he  has  established  the  "Books  Across  the  Sea" 
Program." 

Centenary  is  indeed  fortunate  that  Delton  Harrison  makes  things  happen  here. 


Washington 
Semester 
a  favorite 

Washington,  here  we  come! 

That's  the  word  from  Centenary  Col- 
lege sophomores  and  juniors  who  arc- 
fortunate  enough  to  be  selected  for  the 
Washington  Semester  at  American  Uni- 
versity. 

Now  in  its  16th  year  of  participation, 
the  College  has  seen  the  program  grow 
in  its  numbers  and  in  its  scope.  A  real 
boost  came  in  1978  when  Delton  Harrison 
established  a  fund  providing  scholarships 
for  worthy  students. 

Three  Centenary  students  attended 
the  Washington  Semester  this  year  and 
worked  in  three  different  sections  of 
study.  Wade  Cloud,  who  was  awarded 
the  scholarship,  chose  economic  policy; 
Missy  Morn,  national  government,  and 
Graham  Bateman,  justice.  In  years  past, 
the  College  sent  only  one  student,  whose 
options  of  study  were  not  as  wide  as 
today's. 

"I  had  a  great  time,"  beamed  Wade,  a 
rising  senior  who  plans  to  go  to  law 
school.  "It  was  an  excellent  opportunity, 
and  has  definitely  helped  me  get  ready 
for  the  LSAT  (Legal  Scholastic  Aptitude 
Test)." 

Wade,  like  the  other  360  students  in 
the  program,  attended  classes  three  days 
a  week,  where  top  government  officials 
including  U.S.  Congressman  Morris  Udall 
and  U.S.  Senator  Phillip  Crane0  presented 
the  lectures.  "They  always  allowed  30  to 
45  minutes  for  questions  and  answers 
after  the  lecture,"  Wade  said.  "For  me, 
those  sessions  were  among  the  true 
benefits  of  the  program  —  hearing  so 
many  viewpoints  on  the  same  issue." 

For  Wade  and  Missy,  the  other  two 
days  of  the  school  week  were  spent  in  the 
office  of  Louisiana  Congressman  Buddy 
Roemer.  "That  was  a  real  learning 
experience.  Wade  said.  "We  handled 
basic  research,  answered  mail,  ran  er- 
rands, and  things  like  that.  When  a  good 
committee  hearing  would  come  up,  they 
would  let  us  attend." 

Missy,  who  plans  to  go  to  Tulane  Law 
School,  says  that  she  would  recommend 
the  program  to  "anyone  and  everyone 
regardless  of  his  field.  You  just  learn  so 
much  about  people,  a  big  city,  a  big 
school." 

The  spring  of  '82  will  hold  many 
memories  for  the  Washington  Semester 
alumni. 

"Sen.  Crane  spoke  at  Centenary's  1981 
Free  Enterprise  Conference. 


O  Canada! 


By  Catherine  Smyth  '54 

A  United  States  Cultural  Affairs  Officer 
in  Canada  has  the  best  of  all  worlds! 
Translate  Culture  with  a  small  "c"  and 
interpret  it  as  communication  and  you 
have  some  idea  of  my  role. 

How  did  I  get  here?  Good  question. 
December,  1981,  marked  several  mile- 
stones in  my  professional  and  personal 
life.  A  32-year  marriage  ended,  and  a 
new  career  began.  After  25  years  as  a 
social,  civic,  and  political  volunteer,  I 
bade  farewell  to  three  grown  daughters 
in  Dallas,  Texas,  and  accepted  an  appoint- 
ment as  a  Foreign  Service  Officer  in  the 
United  States  International  Communi- 
cation Agency.  With  newly  acquired  fur 
coat,  snow  tires,  and  ice  skates,  I  headed 
for  my  posting  in  Ottawa,  Canada. 

In  many  ways,  I  feel  I  have  been  "in 
training"  for  this  responsibility  all  of  my 
life.  As  a  native  of  Shreveport  and  a 
graduate  of  Byrd  High  School  (class  of 
'47)  and  Centenary  College  (class  of  '51 
who,  after  a  marriage  and  two  daughters, 
returned  to  finish  in  '54),  I  was  blessed 
with  family,  teachers,  and  friends  who 
inspired  a  sense  of  curiosity,  idealism, 
and  enjoyment  of  people.  Someone  once 
asked  what  my  history  major  prepared 
me  for,  and  my  instant  reply  was  "every- 
thing." 

My  political  awareness  began  as  a 
result  of  my  introduction  to  the  interesting 
friends  and  associates  of  my  dad,  John 
Carpenter.  Shortly  after  moving  to  Dallas 
in  1956,  I  became  actively  involved  in 
the  successful  campaign  of  a  neighbor 
who  ran  for  the  State  Legislature.  By 
1964  I  was  knocking  on  doors  for  Barry 
Goldwater  and  serving  as  Campaign 
Manager  for  a  District  Judge.  Responsi- 
bilities that  followed  included  Arrange- 
ments Chairman  for  the  1975  National 
Convention  of  the  National  Federation 
of  Republican  Women,  Vice  Chairman  of 
the  Republican  Party  of  Dallas  County 
(1975-1979),  Vice  Chairman  and  then 

12 


Chairman  of  the  National  Campaign 
Committee  of  the  National  Federation  of 
Republican  Women  (1979-1981)  and 
leadership  roles  on  numerous  Dallas 
civic  and  cultural  boards  and  committees. 
I  was  invited  to  the  European  Parliament 
in  Strasbourg,  France  in  November  1980 
to  give  a  briefing  on  the  U.S.  Presidential 
Election  and  then  to  London,  England 
for  Queen  Elizabeth's  formal  opening  of 
the  British  Parliament.  My  international 
travel  continued  as  I  traveled  to  South 
Africa  and  Namibia  in  April  1981  as  a 
guest  of  the  South  African  government. 
Finally,  my  experience,  curiosity,  and 
political  contacts  led  me  to  Canada. 

Canadian/ American  relations  are  in- 
teresting and  always  fragile  due  to  our 
close  association  at  every  level.  The  goals 
of  our  U.S.  Embassy  team  include  em- 
phasizing the  strength  of  our  similarities, 
understanding  the  differences,  and  main- 
taining and  cultivating  lines  of  communi- 
cation —  all  the  while  recognizing  that 
the  contrasts  in  the  structures  of  our 
governments  and  some  of  our  attitudes 
are  vitally  important  facets  of  our  national 
personalities.  Awareness  and  recognition 
of  our  respective  values  protect  our 
national  identities  and  thus  enable  us  to 
better  complement  each  other. 

Nowhere  in  the  world  is  there  a  more 
active,  more  beneficial,  and  neighborly 


relationship  than  between  Canada  and 
the  United  States.  In  1980  more  than  73 
million  people  crossed  our  common  border 
(more  than  2  million  Canadians  went  to 
Florida!),  our  two-way  trade  summed  to 
approximately  109  billion  Canadian 
dollars  in  1981,  and  in  1981  Canada  sent 
two-thirds  of  its  exports  to  the  U.S.,  and 
the  U.S.  sent  20%  of  its  exports  to 
Canada. 

Yet,  there  is  no  question  but  that  we 
have  our  problems  in  the  field  of  energy, 
investment,  acid-rain,  and  trade,  to  name 
a  few.  However,  meetings  and  consulta- 
tions at  all  levels  are  on-going  on  these 
and  many  other  topics  and  have  a  common 
thread:  the  conviction  that  we  matter 
very  much  to  each  other,  that  both  of  us 
have  long  since  given  up  the  idea  of  using 
force  to  get  our  way,  and  that  we  have 
accepted  the  role  of  law,  of  mediation,  of 
peaceful  adjustment.  Would  that  most 
world  neighbors  could  do  the  same. 

Responsibilities  of  cultural  affairs  of- 
ficers vary  according  to  the  host  country 
and  the  personality,  experience,  and 
interests  of  the  officer.  In  Canada  there 
is  such  a  spontaneous  exchange  of  fine- 
art  and  performing  art  that  the  CAO 
merely  plays  trouble  shooter  when  called 
upon.  Oversight  of  the  International 
Visitor  Program,  liaison  with  academi- 
cians, coordination  and  encouragement 
of  American  Studies,  and  a  variety  of 
associations  with  civic  and  political  groups 
are  the  primary  points  of  my  job  descrip- 
tion. In  February  I  addressed  the  Wives 
of  the  Members  of  the  Canadian  Parlia- 
ment, briefed  the  Canadian  Parliamentary 
Interns  prior  to  their  week's  visit  to 
Washington,  D.C.,  and  then  spent  two 
weeks  in  March  touring  8  cities  in  western 
Canada  to  address  the  branch  chapters 
of  the  Canadian  Istitute  of  International 
Affairs  of  the  U.S.  political  process. 

We  can  never  force  others  to  follow  in 
our  footsteps.  We  must  inspire  them. 


Unser  erlebnis 
in  Deutschland 
war  unbedingt 
wunderbar 

By  Alyce-Elise  Boudreaux 

If  you  seek  a  translation  of  the  above, 
perhaps  you  could  enlist  the  help  of  Dr. 
Alton  Hancock. 

A  history  major  of  the  class  of  '54,  Dr. 
Hancock  received  his  Ph.D.  at  Emory 
University  and  two  years  later  returned 
to  the  Centenary  faculty  to  teach  history 
and  religion.  It  was  after  many  years  that 
Dr.  Hancock  took  the  first  sabbatical  of 
any  professor  at  Centenary  to  research 
the  life  and  activities  of  the  most  important 
ruler  of  the  German  state  Hesse,  recog- 
nized as  the  major  state  in  West  Germany 
today. 

Traveling  with  his  wife,  the  former 
Jane  Barnette,  also  a  Centenary  graduate, 
Hancock  set  out  for  Marburg,  Germany, 
to  study  the  life  of  Landgraf  Phillipp  der 
Grossmuetige  (literally  Prince  Phillip  the 
Magnanimous)  1504-1567.  When  asked 
what  sparked  his  interest  in  this  leader, 
Dr.  Hancock  explained  that  as  a  history 
major  he  had  always  been  interested  in 
the  period,  particularly  in  the  efforts  led 
by  this  "very  bright  person,  both  politically 
and  religiously,  to  overcome  division 
among  protestants. 

It  was  Marburg  where  Landgraf  Phil- 
lipp began  the  first  protestant  university 
in  the  world.  Dr.  Hancock  found  a  wealth 


Dr.  and  Mrs.  Alton  Hancock  display  a  German  treasure. 


of  resources  there  and,  because  of 
Germany's  liberal  copyright  laws,  xeroxed 
whole  books  of  information.  He  shipped 
home  a  total  of  28  boxes  of  xeroxed 
materials  which  he  continues  to  translate 
and  study. 

Yet,  "The  most  exciting  part  of  the 
trip,"  Mrs.  Hancock  recalled,  "was  the 
Methodist  Church  service  we  attended 
in  Communist  East  Germany."  Invited 
by  the  pastor  and  congregation.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Hancock,  along  with  a  group  of 
young  American  college  students,  had  to 
obtain  special  permission  from  the  Com- 
munist government.  The  government 
likes  for  people  to  see  the  country  but 
they  try  to  avoid  personal  contact  between 


their  citizens  and  outsiders.  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Hancock  reported  that  the  pastor  in- 
formed them  that  at  the  age  of  eight,  the 
children  were  to  decide  to  be  either 
Christians  or  Marxists.  As  to  the  conse- 
quences of  choosing  Christianity,  Dr. 
Hancock  remarked  that  "it  would  make 
a  difference  in  subtle  ways  whether  one 
became  a  Christian  or  took  the  Marxist 
youth  vow.  He  further  added  that  Chris- 
tians are  persecuted  in  subtle  ways  rather 
than  overtly  as  Americans  tend  to  per- 
ceive. 

Oh,  the  translation  —  as  spoken  in  the 
words  of  Dr.  Alton  Hancock  himself  — 
"Our  experience  in  Germany  was  abso- 
lutely wonderful. 


What's 

in  a 
name? 


(continued  from  page  10) 

"It's  basically  an  advising  program," 
explained  Mr.  Koshansky,  current  pre- 
law advisor.  "We  try  to  familiarize 
students  with  some  of  the  expectations  of 
law  schools  and  try  to  advise  them  as  to 
which  courses  help  develop  them  in 
those  areas.  For  instance,  we  have  found 
that  law  schools  look  for  these  three 
things: 

Background  in  world  history  and  an 
understanding  of  social,  economic  and 
political  institutions 

Development  of  analytical  ability 

Development  of  their  communicative 
skills." 

"Law  schools  are  particularly  interested 
now  in  students  with  a  liberal  arts 
background  —  and  they  need  not  major 
in  history  or  political  science.  They  can 
major  in  anything,"  Mr.  Koshansky  said. 

Deans  of  area  law  schools,  particularly 
Tulane  and  SMU,  stay  in  close  contact 
with  Centenary's  pre-law  advisors.  "But 
we  can  put  students  in  touch  with  any 
law  school,"  added  Dr.  Hancock. 


Every  other  January,  Centenary's  pre- 
law students  have  the  opportunity  to 
participate  in  an  Interim  course  which 
introduces  them  to  the  legal  profession 
and  legal  process. 

"They  take  tours  of  judicial  agencies 
during  the  first  week,"  explained  Mr. 
Koshansky.  "The  Young  Lawyers  As- 
sociation organizes  that.  During  the 
second  and  third  weeks,  the  students  are 
assigned  to  law  firms,  where  they  assist 
with  research  and  help  in  the  office. 
They  also  have  an  opportunity  to  observe 
court  behavior.  It's  a  terrific  opportunity, 
and  we  get  excellent  co-operation  from 
the  legal  community. 

Internships  for  pre-law  students  are 
available  during  the  semester,  and  provide 
the  practical  experience  of  on-the-job 
training.  Frances  Blocker,  a  freshman, 
did  research  for  a  Shreveport  law  firm; 
Missy  Morn  worked  last  fall  with  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce. 

A  change  in  name  has  not  meant  a 
change  in  quality  for  this  area  of  academics 
at  Centenary. 

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Eneile  Mears  '66  congratulates  tennis  professional  Stewart  Bunn  for  his  part  in  the 
record-breaking  marathon  benefiting  Centenary.  He  and  three  other  Shreveport  tennis 
pros  played  non-stop  doubles  tennis  for  90  hours,  breaking  the  Guinness  world  record. 
Proceeds  from  pledges  were  donated  to  Centenary's  new  tennis  complex,  now  under 
construction. 


The  record-breakers:  Jimmy  Livesay,  Chris  Brown,  Marvin  Street,  and  Stewart  Bunn. 


President  Donald  Webb,  Athletic  Director  Walt  Stevens,  and  Gents  Club  President  John 
Meldrum  salute  the  team  of  women  who  organized  and  executed  the  marathon  —  a  feat 
in  itself. 

f4 


Teni 


For  over  50  years,  Centenary  jld 

In  1929,  that  news  was  Bill  jld 
championship  season  against  sui 
Fifty-four  years  later,  Mr.  Jame<ji 
new  courts  in  his  honor. 

More  news  was  made  this  yeji 
Guinness  world  record  for  cor  Ira 
College.  Playing  for  90  hours  —  la 
Bunn,  Marvin  Street,  and  JimnjJ 
new  tennis  complex.  In  recognitl 
to  the  College,  Centenary  has  J3i 
players. 

On  June  28  a  ground-breakii  1 
Marathon  Courts  and  courts  hoi] 
another  news-making  day  for  Clitj 


They  made  it!  Vicky  Johnson  '61  an 
Frannie  Perlman  70,  chairmen  of  th 
event. 


nyone 


en  making  news  on  the  tennis  court, 
he  late  Arch  Holder  30,  who  enjoyed  a 
/ola,  Southwestern  and  Louisiana  Tech. 

teammate  by  giving  one  of  Centenary's 

ireveport  tennis  professionals  broke  the 
s  play,  all  in  the  name  of  Centenary 
Durs  —  tennis  pros  Chris  Brown,  Stewart 
cated  pledge  proceeds  to  the  College's 
i(standing  achievement  and  commitment 
courts  of  the  six-court  complex  to  the 

lias  held  for  the  Arch  Holder  Court,  the 
Barrett  and  Ron  and  Jerry  Sawyer  — 

fee. 


:,,;-;  ,  :  ,,,.■  :4V".i 


From  the  1929  Yoncopin  .  .  .  Bill  James  and  Arch  Holder 


James  gives  court  for  teammate 


The  ball  is  really  rolling  for  Centenary 
College  s  new  tennis  complex. 

Now  in  the  fund-raising  stage,  some 
$100,000  has  been  pledged  and  paid  on 
the  $175,000  project. 

One  of  the  six  new  courts  will  honor  a 
Centenary  all-time  tennis  great,  the  late 
Arch  Holder. 

The  $25,000  court  is  being  given  to 
the  College  in  Holders  memory  by  G.W. 
James,  Holder's  teammate  and  captain 
of  the  undefeated  1929  tennis  team. 

"There  are  only  two  of  us  on  the 
team,"  wrote  James  in  a  letter  dated 
April  18,  1929.  "And  the  other  fellow 
(Holder)  sure  is  good.  He  is  about  the 
best  college  player  I  have  ever  seen,  and 
we  ought  to  do  some  good  this  year. 
Don't  expect  to  lose  a  match,  but  you  can 
never  tell  what  will  happen." 

His  expectations  were  right  on  target, 
fames  and  Holder  took  on  Sam  Houston 
formal,  Loyola,  Southwestern,  Louisiana 
College,  Louisiana  Tech,  Mississippi 
College,  and  Millsaps,  and  beat  them  all. 


"Due  to  the  supreme  racket  wielding 
of .  .  .  James  and  Holder,  tennis  has  been 
placed  in  its  proper  position  at  Centenary," 
reads  the  1929  Yoncopin.  "Although  the 
Southern  Colleges  were  rather  slow  in 
putting  the  proper  emphasis  on  tennis, 
Centenary,  along  with  a  few  other 
Southern  schools,  and  with  the  aid  of  a 
strong  team,  has  been  able  to  take  her 
place  among  the  best  of  Southern  tennis 
teams.  Not  only  is  the  team  proud  of  a 
continuous  line  of  victories,  but  also  of 
the  college  friendships  which  the  tennis 
relations  have  instituted." 

The  1929  season  was  James'  last  year, 
and  says  the  Yoncopin,  too  much  praise 
cannot  be  given  him  for  the  sincerity 
with  which  he  battled  when  on  the 
court.  "The  College  is  losing  one  of  its 
strongest  players.  Holder  will  have  the 
privilege  of  battling  and  smashing  for  the 
Alma  Mater  in  1930." 

After  graduating  from  Centenary, 
Holder  worked  as  a  refinery  chemist  in 
East  Texas.  During  World  War  II  he  saw 


service  in  Northern  Africa  and  Italy  as  a 
member  of  a  special  petroleum  unit  of 
the  U.S.  Army.  At  the  end  of  the  war. 
Holder  moved  to  Corpus  Christi,  Texas, 
where  he  worked  for  the  Celanese 
Corporation,  until  his  death  in  early 
1970. 

"He  continued  his  tennis  up  through 
the  war,"  said  his  brother,  Horace  Holder, 
a  Shreveport  attorney.  "He  even  played 
in  Northern  Africa  during  the  war,  but 
had  to  give  up  the  game  in  Corpus 
Christi,  because  it  is  so  windy  down 
there." 

According  to  Horace,  Arch  was  the 
only  member  of  the  Holder  family  who 
really  had  a  knack  on  the  courts.  "He  just 
picked  up  the  game,"  Horace  said.  "He 
was  a  natural." 

And  not  since  1929  (as  far  as  we 
know)  has  the  tennis  team  done  so  well. 

It  is  particularly  fitting,  then,  that  the 
James-Holder  team  will  long  be  remem- 
bered on  Court  No.  1  of  Centenary's  new 
tennis  complex. 

15 


Strictly 
Personal 

1920s 

Some  notes  on  ROBERT  ERNEST  KEPKE 

('27)  were  received  from  his  son  CARLOS.  After 
graduation  from  Centenary,  where  he  was  an  all- 
conference  end  on  both  Bo  McMillan's  and 
Homer  Horton's  football  teams,  MR.  KEPKE 
obtained  his  law  degree  from  the  University  of 
Texas  School  of  Law  and  shortly  thereafter  went 
to  work  in  the  Attorney  General's  office  of  the 
State  of  Texas.  He  later  became  an  Assistant 
Attorney  General  for  the  State  and  was  responsible 
for  successfully  trying  a  number  of  significant 
cases  involving  the  validity  of  land  borders  along 
the  Texas  coastal  areas.  In  the  early  1940s,  he 
became  a  Division  Attorney  in  Tulsa  with  the 
Gulf  Oil  Corporation.  Through  the  years  MR. 
KEPKE  rose  through  the  corporate  ranks  of  Gulf 
Oil  to  become  President  of  British  American  Oil 
Company  in  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada,  and 
ultimately  President  of  Gulf  Refining  Company 
in  Houston.  He  retired  from  Gulf  Oil  in  1969  and 
for  the  next  10  years  enjoyed  traveling,  golf,  and 
raising  of  three  sons.  MR.  KEPKE  died  in  March 
of  1979  and  is  survived  by  his  wife,  ELIZABETH, 
and  their  sons  ROBERT,  KENNETH,  and  CAR- 
LOS. 

1930s 

JEROME  'SKINNY"  SCANLON  ('30),  National 
Senior  Sports  Association  member  in  Deltona, 
Fla.,  had  never  played  golf  until  he  retired  in 
1968  at  age  62.  Now  at  75  he  scored  his  second 
ace  last  February  on  the  132  yard,  3rd  hole  of  the 
Swallows  Golf  Club  in  DeBary,  using  a  7  iron. 


Four  members  of  the  Golden  Class  of  '32  visit  with  President  Donald  Webb  before 
marching  at  Commencement  with  the  graduating  class  of  '82.  They  are  (left  to  right) 
James  L.  King,  Glenn  N.  Walker,  Jr.,  President  Webb,  Mrs.  Richard  E.  Ivey  (Mary 
Pattison),  and  Charles  A.  Ravenna,  Jr. 


The  feat  came  during  an  interclub  match  and 
won  him  $100,  en  route  to  a  round  of  79.  JERRY 
now  has  a  12  handicap  and  has  shot  his  age  once 
since  turning  75.  Speaking  of  football  JERRY 
wrote  that  his  team-mates  were  Hall  of  Famer 
JAKE  HANNA,  and  business  tycoons  CLARENCE 
HAMEL,  ZEHTNER  BIEDENHARN  of  Shreve- 
port,  BEAR  ALLDAY  of  Atlanta,  Texas,  and 
WILLTZ  LEDBETTER  of  Palestine,  Texas. 

CHARLES  RAVENNA  (32),  Class  Agent, 
heard  from  KLING  CARLEY  PENNINGTON 
('32)  that  due  to  cataract  surgery  and  implant, 
she  would  be  unable  to  attend  the  reunion; 
however,  MARGARET  SOMARINDYCK  C32), 


Centenary  leaders  succumb 


Judge  Chris  Barnette 

Services  for  Judge  Chris  T.  Barnette,  a 
1925  graduate  of  Centenary  College  were 
held  Tuesday,  April  13,  at  Noel  Memorial 
United  Methodist  Church.  He  died  at  the 
age  of  76  after  a  brief  illness. 

Judge  Barnette  will  long  be  remembered 
for  his  generosity  and  service  to  Centenary 
College.  A  former  trustee,  he  also  served 
as  president  of  the  Alumni  Association 
(1937-38),  and  in  1971  was  named  to  the 
Alumni  Hall  of  Fame.  For  the  past  year,  he 
and  his  wife,  Emily  Sue  Cupples,  served  as 
Class  Agents  for  Centenary  alumni  of  the 
1920s. 

Judge  Barnette  was  very  active  in  the 
Methodist  Church  which  resulted  in  his 
being  named  outstanding  layman  in  the 
Louisiana  Methodist  Conference.  He  was 
also  a  life  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  Methodist  Children's  Home  and  a 
life  member  of  the  Noel  Memorial  United 
Methodist  Church  Board. 

As  a  Juvenile  Judge  in  Caddo  Parish,  he 
was  instrumental  in  developing  Juvenile 
Court  philosophy  influencing  Juvenile  and 
Family  Court  legislation  in  Louisiana  and 
numerous  other  states.  He  was  also 
responsible  for  the  construction  and  the 
initial  operation  of  the  Juvenile  Court 
facility  in  Shreveport.  He  also  served  as  a 
District  Judge  and  as  a  member  of  the 
Louisiana  Court  of  Appeals. 

Mrs.  Barnette,  who  will  continue  to 
serve  as  a  Class  Agent,  is  a  1928  graduate 
of  Centenary.  Also  attending  the  College 
were  the  Barnette's  three  daughters,  Mrs. 
Alton  Hancock  (Jane)  72;  Mrs.  France  W. 
Watts,  III  (Clara  Sue),  and  Mrs.  James  A. 


grand- 


Pierce,    Sr.    (Ruth    Ann).    Three 
children  have  also  attended. 

An  endowed  scholarship  fund  has  been 
established  in  Judge  Barnette's  memory. 
Contributions  may  be  sent  to  the  Develop- 
ment Office  at  Centenary. 

D.P.  Hamilton 

David  Philip  Hamilton,  an  honorary 
life  member  of  Centenary's  Board  of 
Trustees,  died  Monday,  May  31,  following 
a  brief  illness. 

A  nationally  prominent  Shreveport 
oilman,  Mr.  Hamilton  first  ventured  into 
the  oil  industry  in  192 1  when  he  founded 
Petroleum  Products  Co.  ( later  Root  Petro- 
leum Co.)  in  El  Dorado,  Ark.,  and  built 
the  first  oil  refinery  in  that  state.  In  the 
mid  1930s  Hamilton  was  offered  the 
presidency  of  Texaco,  but  declined. 

Mr.  Hamilton  was  married  to  the  late 
Lucile  Atkins  Hamilton,  daughter  of  J.B. 
Atkins,  Sr.,  one  of  the  Shreveport  business- 
men instrumental  in  moving  Centenary 
College  to  Shreveport  from  Jackson.  Mrs. 
Hamilton  was  also  the  first  woman  to 
graduate  from  the  College  after  its  move 
to  Shreveport. 

In  1968  the  Hamiltons  made  a  $500,000 
gift  to  Centenary,  resulting  in  the  construc- 
tion of  Hamilton  Hall,  which  houses  the 
administrative  offices.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hamilton  also  made  a  $500,000  gift  to 
the  University  of  the  South,  his  alma 
mater,  which  resulted  in  a  building  at  that 
University  bearing  their  name. 

Services  were  held  for  Mr.  Hamilton 
Thursday,  June  3,  in  St.  Mark's  Episcopal 
Church. 


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who  received  her  degree  from  the  University  of 
Missouri,  and  GEORGE  LEOPARD  and  his  wife 
from  Maryland  plan  to  attend,  as  well  as  SADIE 
HELEN  and  HENRY  COWEN  ('32),  and  BOB 
WEBB. 

IRMA  FAY  WILSON  ('35),  who  taught  in  the 
public  school  system  for  37  years  before  retiring 
in  1963,  is  still  busy  working  in  her  church's 
library  and  enjoys  reading  mail  from  people  in 
her  class  years. 

WALTER  PLATT  (X37),  who  retired  10  years 
ago  from  Shell  Oil  Company,  Exploration 
Department  in  New  Orleans,  has  been  doing 
volunteer  work  giving  tours  of  Shakespeare 
Home  in  New  Orleans  for  seven  years.  He  is  also 
coordinator  for  Senior  Citizen  Nutrition  Center, 
which  is  held  at  Woodlawn  Presbyterian  Church. 
His  wife,  MARGARET  RHODES  PLATT,  a 
retired  dietitian  from  West  Jefferson  General 
Hospital,  is  also  doing  volunteer  work  at  Woodland 
Presbyterian  Church,  helping  keep  books. 

1940s 

VINCENT  S.  DeFATTA  ('47)  and  his  wife 
JACKIE  are  now  living  in  Dallas,  where  VINCENT 
works  for  Cactus  Drilling  Company. 

HOWARD  DINGMAN  ('48),  a  newly  elected 
Corporate  Vice  President  of  Litton  Industries,  is 
also  the  President  of  Western  Geophysical 
Company  of  America  in  Houston,  which  is  the 
world's  largest  geophysical  company  and  has 
conducted  land  and  marine  seismic  operations  in 
virtually  every  oil-producing  area  of  the  globe. 

JACK  and  GLENNETTE  MIDDLEBROOKS 
WILLIAMSON  ('49  Class  Agents)  updated  their 
news.  This  fall  they  will  celebrate  their  31st 
wedding  anniversary;  they  have  two  sons,  a  two- 
year  old  granddaughter,  Sarah,  and  a  10-week 
old  grandson,  Jacob.  JACK  joined  Commercial 
National  Bank  in  Shreveport  24  years  ago  and  is 
now  Senior  Vice  President  and  Cashier.  For  over 
four  years  GLENNETTE  has  been  able  to  live 
out  a  life-long  dream  of  working  in  a  bookstore 
.  .  .  "this  part-time  endeavor  in  a  picturesque  and 
suburban  environment  has  replaced  the  full-time 
requirements  of  Little  League,  Cub  Scouts,  PTA, 
grammar  school,  high  school,  college,  and  the 
offspring  starting-up  syndrome." 

A.  RAY  McCORD  '49  died  Thursday,  May  13, 
at  Baylor  University  Medical  Center  in  Dallas 
after  a  long  illness.  He  served  as  executive  vice 
president  of  Texas  Instruments  from  1972  until 
his  retirement  in  December,  1981.  J.  Fred  Bucy, 
president  of  TI,  described  RAY  as  "not  only  a 
great  colleague  for  years,  but  a  man  of  unusually 
strong  integrity  and  character."  He  is  survived  by 
his  wife,  Pat;  three  daughters,  and  two  sons. 

1950s 

PERRY  L.  SMITH  ('50)  moved  to  Houston  five 
years  ago  after  spending  27  years  with  Placid  Oil 
Company.  In  Houston  he  was  with  the  Bruin 


Corporation  as  vice  president,  until  recently 
when  he  started  a  CPA  practice.  He  divides  time 
between  homes  in  Houston  and  Lake  Sam  Rayburn 
pursuing  a  favorite  pastime  of  bass  fishing. 
PERRY  is  planning  a  vacation  trip  to  the  northwest 
and  Canada,  including  the  Calgary  Stampede. 

DR.  GLENN  O.  HILBURN  ('51)  has  been 
elected  to  an  unprecedented  third  consecutive 
third  term  as  national  president  of  Omicron  Delta 
Kappa,  a  national  honorary  leadership  society. 
DR.  HILBURN  joined  the  Baylor  University 
faculty  in  1961,  and  he  currently  serves  as 
professor  of  religion. 

ANNE  WESSON  WYCHE  (Class  Agent  52) 
writes  that  the  REV.  LOTHAR  KLEINHANS 
('52)  has  retired,  but  is  still  an  active  minister.  He 
attended  the  Lutheran  District  Conference  in 
New  Orleans  in  June. 

FLORENCE  'QUEENIE''  NIPPER  FILLET 
and  her  husband,  DICK,  who  is  retired  from  the 
Navy,  are  always  busy  tripping  to  Europe  and 
collecting  original  Audubon  prints.  At  one  time 
they  were  antique  silver  hobbyists,  with  QUEENIE 
becoming  an  antique  silver  expert.  She  gave  a 
speech  and  slide  presentation  recently  to  the 
Shreveport  Woman's  Department  Club.  The 
FILLETS  have  a  son,  who  is  graduating  from 
college,  and  a  college-aged  daughter,  who  has 
been  a  finalist  the  past  two  years  in  beauty 
pageants.  QUEENIE  passed  on  the  news  that 
PORTIA  PAYNE  GAINES  is  teaching  English  in 
high  school  in  Center,  Tex. 

JIM  and  BETTY  McKAY  WHITLER  ('52)  have 
two  sons  —  one  is  in  the  choir  at  Centenary  and 
the  other  is  graduating  from  high  school.  BETTY 
teaches  at  Broadmoor  Junior  High  School  and 
JIM  at  Youree  Drive  Junior  High. 

ADRIENNE  O'NEAL  WEBB  (52)  works  in 
the  finance  office  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  in 
Shreveport.  Some  of  her  co-workers  are  BOBBY 


On  the  stairway  to  success  are  members  of  the  1982-83  Alumni  Association  Executive 
Committee  (left  to  right)  Tom  Burton  71,  Jan  Gresham  Ham  76,  the  Rev.  Benny 
Vaughan  '69,  Wayne  Curtis  69,  and  Jack  M.  Elgin  '43.  Look  for  lots  of  exciting  ideas  and 
activities  to  come  from  this  group. 


Chris  Webb 


Centements 


The  year  1981-82  saw  some 
significant  action  on  the  part  of  the 
Alumni  Board.  The  initiation  of 
the  Class  Agent  system;  of  the  first 
"Real  World  Seminars"  —  lecture 
and  questioning  periods  for  stu- 
dents by  successful  Alumni  in 
particular  career  fields;  a  goal- 
breaking  Spring  Phonathon;  a  well- 
planned,  innovative  Alumni  Week- 
end —  all  of  these  were  achieved 


through  the  dedicated  efforts  of 
the  Alumni  Board  and  its  leadership. 
And,  the  coming  year  looks  even 
better! 

The  1982-83 
Alumni  Board  of  Directors 

Returning  members",  terms  con- 
tinuing through  May  31,  1983: 

Charles  A.  Ravenna,  Jr.,  '32 
Edna  Earle  Richardson  Stinson, 

'39,  Benton,  La. 
Emilie  Connell  Ostendorff,  '44 
Mitzi  Middlebrooks  Perry,  '55 
Jay  &  Carol  Borne  Stewart,  '69/ 

'69,  Jackson,  Ms. 
Alan  &  Debbie  Rodriquez  Williams, 

'69/70,  Houston,  Tx. 
Camille  Greve  Dent,  72 
Vickie  Moore  Young,  75 
Leah  Ades  Cooper,  77,  Woodlawn, 

Tx. 

New  members,  elected  April 
25,  terms  continuing  through  May 
31, 1984: 

Betty  McKnight  Speairs,  HON. 
Marsha  Pickett  Wells,  '67 
Michelle  Armstrong  Q-Petersen,  72 
E.  Paul  Young,  III,  76 
Julia  Van  Tiem,  79 
Nancy  Hurley  Beauvais,  '80 


The  officers  for  1982-  83  are: 

Wayne  Curtis,  '69: 
President 

James  R.  Mitchell,  '64: 
Past  President 

Tom  L.  Burton,  71: 

President-Elect  and  Chairman, 
Alumni  Activities  Committee 

Jan  Gresham  Ham,  76: 

Chairman,  Career  Development 
Committee 

Rev.  Benny  Vaughan,  '69: 

Chairman,  Development  Com- 
mittee 

Jack  M.  Elgin,  '43: 

Chairman,  Special  Projects 

I  would  like  to  express  thanks, 
on  behalf  of  the  College,  to  those 
Board  members  whose  terms  of 
service  ended  as  of  May  31 : 

Dorothy  Herrin  Gammill,  '40 
Wilbur  A.  Hirsch, '51 
Doris  E.  Jeter,  '55 
William  A.  Grammar,  Jr.,  '56 
Pat  Oliver  Rosbottom,  '58 
Margetta  Speairs  Stoddard,  '62 
Herbert  V.  Fackler,  '64 
Curtis  Melancon,  74 
Glen  L.  Williams,  III,  74 
William  R.  DeWare,  78 

*  of  Shreveport  unless  otherwise 
indicated. 


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IN  MEMORIAM 

CHRIS  THOMAS  BARNETTE  ('25) 
April  11,  1982 

EDWARD  WALTON  LYLES  (X26) 
February  14,1982 

ROBERT  ERNEST  KEPKE  (27) 
March  1979 

GEORGE  MARTIN  ( '27) 
March  1982 

MARTHA  LITCHFIELD  C32) 
February  19,  1982 

RAYMOND  "BUDDY"  PARKER  (X35) 
March  8,  1982 

A.  RAY  McCORD('49) 
May  1,  1982 


SNEAD  ('52),  Minister  of  Music,  and  KATHERINE 
TURNER  CHEESMAN  ('52),  Program  Division 
Coordinator.  ADRIENNE  and  FRED  have  two 
college-aged  sons  and  a  high  school-aged  daughter. 

ROBERT  ED  TAYLOR  ('52)  Chaplain  at 
Centenary  told  us  that  DON  BARNES  a  Methodist 
minister  in  Dallas,  has  a  daughter,  Karen,  who 
was  married  in  April.  KAREN,  a  former  Centenary 
student  and  choir  member,  was,  through  very 
unusual  circumstances,  able  to  have  the  choir 
sing  for  her  wedding! 

Over  in  the  Bossier  area  CHUCK  BIRTMAN 
('52)  and  DAVE  STEGER  ('52)  are  both  retired 
principals,  and  MARY  HELEN  WHATLEY 
BREZNIK  ('52)  is  a  teacher  at  Apollo  Elementary 
School. 

MARTHA  JEAN  BURGESS  NORTON  ('53 
Class  Agent)  had  word  from  JOHNNIE  MORRIS 
BOATRIGHT  in  Bay  St.  Louis,  Miss.,  that  she  has 
retired  after  21  years  of  teaching  and  raising  a 
family. 

DR.  DOUG  PETERSON  ('54),  lives  with  his 
wife  and  family  in  Bossier  City,  and  is  president 
of  Bossier  Community  College. 

PENNY  TODD  CLAUDIS  ('54),  an  instructional 
supervisor  tor  the  Caddo  Parish  school  system, 
has  been  elected  president  of  the  Caddo  Association 
of  Educators  for  1982-83.  This  professional 
organization  for  Caddo  Parish  educators  is  the 
largest  teacher  unit  in  the  state  of  Louisiana  and 
the  38th  largest  in  the  nation.  PENNY  has  also 
been  elected  president  of  the  North  Louisiana 
Historical  Association  for  this  year  and  will  serve 
as  first  vice  president  and  president  elect  of  Phi 
Delta  Kappa,  the  professional  education  fraterni- 
ty. 

DR.  FRANCIS  BROWN  (56),  vice  president 
of  research  for  Gulf  Oil  Chemicals  Co.,  spoke  on 
"Management  of  Innovation"  at  the  awards  cere- 
mony of  the  American  Chemical  Society  held  at 
Centenary. 

1957     Class    Agents    JUAN    and    BONNIE 
WATKINS,   celebrate   their  25th   wedding  an- 
niversary in  June  along  with  a  25th  Class  Reunion. 
1960s 

GENEVIEVE  COMPTON  NASE  ('61)  plans 
to  begin  a  secretarial  job  at  LSU-S  after  ten  years 
of  teaching  business  education  in  high  school. 
Her  husband,  NOEL,  works  at  LSU-S,  and  they 
have  two  teenagers,  Randy,  15,  and  Cindy,  14. 

Class  Agent  '61  JAMES  M.  GOINS  heard  from 
BEV  WINGO  PURINTON  ('61),  who  is  busy 
with  her  family  in  Richardson,  Tex. 

Also  writing  to  JAMES  is  the  REV.  WAYNE 
ADCOCK  ('61),  Chaplain  of  the  School  of  the 
Ozarks  in  Point  Lookout,  Mo. 

JAMES  McCOY  ('66)  has  been  named  second 
vice  president  of  Mututal  of  Omaha  and  its  life 
insurance  affiliate.  United  of  Omaha. 

EDWIN  L.  CABRA  ('67)  was  recently  elected 
President  of  the  Leesville- Vernon  Parish  Chamber 
of  Commerce  for  1983.  EDWIN,  who  is  First 
Assistant  District  Attorney  for  Vernon   Parish, 

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and   his  wife,   BRENDA   BURNHAM  CABRA 

(73),  live  in  Leesville  with  their  two  children, 
Lance  and  Emily  Bree. 

DONNA  KAYE  BLAND  GIESSEN  ('69)  and 
KARL  GILBERT  BERRY  were  married  recently 
and  are  now  living  in  Albuquerque,  N.  Mex. 
MRS.  BERRY  is  a  programmer  analyst  for  the 
Public  Service  Company  of  New  Mexico,  and  her 
husband  is  a  landscape  architect  with  the  State 
Highway  Department. 

1970s 
JUDY  RATHERT  (71)  is  the  administrative 
assistant  to  the  Director  of  Fleet  Services  for  the 
City  of  Shreveport,  a  new  department  created  in 
1981  to  manage  and  improve  the  vehicle  fleet  of 
the  City.  As  supervisor  of  the  administrative 
section,  MS.  RATHERT  is  responsible  for  budget, 
co-ordination,  records  and  information,  safety, 
and  training. 

JANE  BRADY  THRASHER  (71)  has  been 
teaching  the  first  grade  for  the  past  two  years  in 
Henderson,  Texas.  Husband  BUCK  is  a  graduate 
of  Texas  A&M  in  architecture,  and  they  have  two 
children,  Clint,  7,  and  Brent,  6. 

JOHN  H.  MELDRU\l  (72)  has  been  elected 
President  of  the  Centenary  Gents  Club  for  the 
coming  year.  THERESA  ANN  MORGAN  MEL- 
DRUM  (71)  has  been  elected  president  of  the 
Centenary  Women's  Club. 

ANN  HOLLANDSWORTH  KLEINE  (Class 
Agent  for  1972)  writes  that  BILL  and  ROXANNE 
TAYLOR  (72)  and  son  Dawson,  3,  welcomed 
new  baby  Collin  Bridges  in  January.  BILL  is 
pastor  of  Aldergate  United  Methodist  Church  in 
Alta  Loma,  Tex.,  and  ROXANNE  is  a  fulltime 
"domestic  engineer." 

RICHARD  and  EDNA  HANVEY  HARRISON 
(72)  greeted  new  daughter  Morgan  Lee  in 
February. 

DAVID  CARLTON  (72)  completed  his  training 
in  oral  and  maxillofacial  surgery  in  May  and  has 
begun  practice  in  Alexandria,  La.  He  and  his  wife 
BARBARA  have  a  son,  David,  III  (Trey)  and  a 
daughter,  Christi. 

JEROME  WELLS  (74)  recently  spearheaded 
the  fund-raising,  tonal  design,  and  installation  of 
a  new  $120,000  Schantz  Organ  for  Broadmoor 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Shreveport,  where  he  is 
in  his  sixth  year  as  Choirmaster-Organist.  JEROME 
will  be  a  recitalist  for  the  American  Guild  of 
Organists  Region  VII  Convention  in  Albuquerque, 
N.  Mex.,  in  June.  After  Centenary,  JEROME 
received  his  Master  of  Music  degree  in  organ 
from  the  University  of  Michigan. 

HOLLY  HESS  (74)  was  given  a  surprise  party 
on  the  occasion  of  her  30th  birthday  in  New 
Orleans  by  her  sister,  HONEY,  who  lives  in  Iowa. 
HONEY  called  the  Alumni  Office  to  get  addresses 
of  former  classmates  of  HOLLY  to  make  up  a 


1982  ALUMNI  AWARDS 

Presented  at  the  Annual 

Awards  Luncheon  June  27 

Hall  ot  Fame  Alumnus 
Austin  G.  Robertson,  '34 

Honorary  Alumnus 
Don  H.  Duggan 

Outstanding  Teacher 
Dr.  A  Bradley  McPherson,  Biology 

Faculty  Research  Grant 

Dr.  Royce  Q.  Shaw 

History  6  Political  Science 

Alumni  Scholarships 

Molly  M.  Goodrich 

Ft.  Walton  Beach,  Florida 

Theresa  Marie  Olah 

St.  Vincent's  Academy,  Shreveport 

Alumni  Library  Grant 
$5,000  to  Centenary's  Magale  Library 


memorable  guest  list  and  set  up  the  party  long 
distance. 

MELISSA  MOORE  (75)  was  married  on  April 
16  to  MICKEY  LEHNER  in  Jackson,  Miss.  Both 
are  employed  with  Helmerich  &  Payne  Drilling 
Co.,  where  MELISSA  is  executive  assistant  to  the 
vice  president,  and  MICKEY  is  working  on  the 
newest  platform  rig  #100.  The  couple  resides  in 
Jackson. 

THE  REV.  RODNEY  G.  STEELE  (76)  has 
been  appointed  as  an  associate  to  Pulaski  Heights 
United  Methodist  Church  in  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  as 
of  June.  RODNEY  will  be  moving  from  Mineral 
Springs  to  Little  Rock  in  his  new  position. 

77  Class  Agent  LEAH  COOPER  heard  from 
MARY  LOU  ROSS  (77),  who  lives  in  Kilgore, 
Texas,  and  works  for  Gulf.  MARY  LOU  has  a  part 
in  the  June  production  of  "Harold  and  Maude"  at 
Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse,  and  when  in  Kilgore 
sees  DANA  DUTCHER  (77)  fairly  often. 

BERT  LeBLANC  (77)  is  a  seismic  computer 
programmer  for  Geosource,  Inc.,  in  Houston, 
where  he  lives  with  his  wife,  PATRICIA. 

RICK  RYBA  (77)  and  ANN  GREENOUGH 
(79)  were  married  in  January  and  now  live  in 
New  Orleans. 

TERRI  SANCTON  KLCO  (77)  is  now  married 
to  a  professional  engineer,  VANCE  KLCO,  from 
Ohio.  They  had  a  baby  girl,  Christin,  in  Septem- 
ber. 

CLAYTON  DAVIS  and  GERALYN  PEACE 
DAVIS  (78)  are  making  their  home  in  Lake 
Charles,  La.  where  CLAYTON  is  practicing  law 
with  the  firm  of  Woodley,  Barnett,  Cox,  Williams, 
and  Fenet. 

JAYNE  TRAMMELL-KELLY  (78),  director  of 
student  activities  at  Cenenary,  and  her  husband, 
STEVE  KELLY  ('80),  director  of  youth  ministries 
at  Noel  United  Methodist  Church  in  Shreveport, 
will  be  attending  graduate  school  at  Perkins 
School  of  Theology  at  Southern  Methodist 
University  in  August.  JAYNE  recently  completed 
her  candidacy  program  for  the  ordained  ministry. 
GREGORY  A.  BRADEN  (78),  a  senior  medical 
student  at  the  Bowman  Gray  School  of  Medicine 
in  Winston-Salem,  N.C.,  has  been  awarded  the 
1982-83  house  officer  appointment  at  the  Texas 
Medical  Branch  Hospital  in  Galveston.  GREGORY, 
who  received  his  M.D.  degree  from  Wake  Forest 
University  in  May,  will  take  training  in  internal 
medicine. 

CRAIG  McCARTNEY  (79)  stopped  in  the 
alumni  office  to  register  for  Alumni  Weekend 
and  mentioned  that  he  had  just  returned  from 
Baton  Rouge  from  the  LSU  Law  School  graduation 
of  JANE  KIMBERLY  HANSON  (79)  and  THO- 
MAS G.  ZENTNER,  JR.  (79).  KIM  will  bei 
returning  to  Shreveport  to  start  practicing  law. 

1980s 
JAN   CARPENTER   EADS   ('81)  noted  that 
ELSA  KAPITAN  ('81 )  married  DR.  JIM  MAZZUL 

LO  in  May.  He  is  a  professor  of  geology  at  Texas 
A&M,  where  she  is  pursuing  her  graduate  degree. 
They  will  be  in  Egypt  for  the  summer  combining 
honeymoon  and  field  work  for  JIM'S  research 
project. 

MARY  BETH  LOTT  ('81)  has  been  accepted 
to  Memphis  State  University  School  of  Law,  andj 
plans  to  enter  in  the  fall. 

KEN  JECK  ('81)  is  living  in  Liberal,  Kan.,. 
where  he  works  as  a  field  engineer  for  Welex,  a 
division  of  Halliburton,  a  wireline  service  company 
for  the  petroleum  industry. 

JIM  SPITZKEIT  ('81)  is  currently  attending 
Southern  Illinois  University  in  Carbondale,  where 
he  is  working  on  a  master's  degree  in  zoology 
with  a  specialization  in  wildlife  biology. 

DEBORAH  G.  THOMPSON  ('81 )  and  DANNY 
DeWAYNE  BASKIN  were  married  March  6  in 
Downsville,  La.,  and  are  now  living  in  Shreve-j 
port. 

WARREN  A.  CALDWELL  ('80)  and  REBECCA, 
CAMP  CALDWELL  ('80)  are  living  in  Fortj 
Worth.  TONY  has  just  finished  one  year  atl 
Southwestern  Baptist  Theological  Seminary,) 
working  on  a  Master  of  Divinity  degree,  and! 
REBECCA  is  working  at  the  First  National  Bank' 
of  Fort  Worth. 


Enjoying  the  reception  immediately  following  Commencement  are  (left  to  right) 
George  Nelson,  President  Donald  Webb;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Bookout,  Jr.,  and  Mrs. 
Webb. 


Commencement 

'82 


;  President  Webb  shares  a  laugh  with  interna- 
l  tionally  known  pianist  Van  Cliburn,  who  holds 
an  honorary  degree  from  Centenary. 


HU\  '£'*■  -1 I 


Ruby  George  assists  Trustee  Russell  Barrow 
with  his  academic  regalia. 


Joy  Jeffers  (left)  and  Nancy  Carruth  visit  at 
reception. 


Seniors  '82 


Dr.  Lee  Morgan  and  Dr.  Nolan  Shaw  lead  a  line  of  distinguished  faculty. 


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Among  the  new  faces  at  Centenary  College  this  fall  are  newcomers  to  the  faculty  | 
staff.  They  include  (standing,  left  to  right)  Dr.  Victoria  LeFevers,  physical  educatii 
Kay  Madden,  director  of  church  relations,  and  Dr.  Antonio  Pizarro,  mathematics, ; 
(seated,  left  to  right)  Gale  Odom,  voice;  Rebecca  Hefter,  senior  adult  education; 
Reburn,  accounting;  Marvin  Bennett,  geology;  Jim  Ring,  music;  and  Johnnie  Li! 
economics.  Not  pictured  are  Mary  Katzif,  English;  Charles  Drury,  Theatre/Spee 
Tom  DeVries,  church  careers;  Greg  Haddox  '82,  athletics;  and  Kathy  Turner  80,  studi 
activities. 


On  the  cover 


Neil  Johnson,  a  professional  photographer  who  joined  Centenary  as  a  part  ti 
instructor  this  fall,  used  18th-  and  19th-century  books  on  travel  from  Mag 
Library's  Cline  Room  to  visually  depict  the  theme  of  this  issue  — travel  and  stu 
Centenary  College  offers  several  opportunities  for  travel  and  study  in  the  Unr 
States  and  abroad  during  the  regular  fall,  spring,  and  summer  semesters,  as  wel 
during  the  January  Interim. 


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Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  cam] 


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Editor Janie  Flournoy  2 

Special  Contributors Don  Danvers,  Lee  Mor  jn 

Kay  Lee,  Leigh  Wes 

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Alumni  Director Chris  W  p 

Photography Janie  Flour^ 


Ah  so 


Choir  plans  trip 
to  Japan,  China 


Next  summer,  55  fortunate  Centenary 
students,  their  fearless  leader  Dr.  Will 
i.  Andress,  and  a  large  entourage  of 
riends  and  supporters  will  embark  on 
A'hat  can  be  considered  as  the  trip  of  a 
ifetime.  For  13  days  in  June  the  Cente- 
,  lary  College  Choir  will  travel  extensive- 
y  throughout  the  People's  Republic  of 
China,  delivering  their  own  special 
)lend  of  music  while  touring  the  fascinat- 
ng  and  timeless  sights  of  the  Orient. 

Dr.  Andress  has  devoted  two  years  to 
organizing  the  summer  tour  and  has 
worked  through  several  organizations 
ncluding  the  Communist  Youth  Travel 
Bureau  and  Japan  Airlines  to  help  cut 
he  red-tape.  Other  sources  ot  support 
lave  been  the  conductor  of  the  Shanghai 
Conservatory,  a  personal  friend  of  Dr. 
\ndress  s;  the  Consul  in  Houston,  Texas, 
ind  Seisi  Kato,  Chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Toyota  Motor  Sales,  Ltd.,  who  will  host 
he  Choir  in  Tokyo. 

But  perhaps  the  person  who  has  been 
nost  instrumental  in  seeing  the  program 
hrough  is  Centenary  College  President 
Donald  Webb.  His  support  for  the  trip 
ind  his  ability  to  undertake  such  an 
'normous  fund-raising  project  are  cer- 
ainly  the  basic  elements  which  gave  the 
)lanning  a  sturdy  foundation. 

Funding  an  overseas  tour  for  such  a 
arge  group  is  no  easy  task.  The  approxi- 
nate  cost  for  airfare  and  special  land 
irrangements  is  S3, 000  per  person.  To 
lelp  offset  the  costs,  the  Choir  has 
)lanned  extra  programs  and  conceits, 
ind  a  host  of  companies  and  individuals 
lave  agreed  to  act  as  sponsors. 

The  entourage  of  friends  and  sup- 
porters who  will  be  traveling  to  China  is 
ilmost  as  impressive  as  the  choir  itself: 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Webb;  Mrs.  Andress;  Neil 
ohnson,  a  photographer  from  Louisiana 
life  Magazine;  a  former  editor  of  The 


Houston  Post  and  his  wife;  a  physician; 
and  an  array  of  faculty,  administration, 
trustees,  and  staff  members.  All  totaled, 
25  adults  will  "tag  along"  with  Dr.  An- 
dress and  Centenary's  "Singing  Ambas- 
sadors." 

Dr.  Andress  is  confident  that  a  warm 
reception  will  greet  the  Choir  in  the 
Orient.  "By  nature  the  Chinese  are  curi- 
ous, so  a  group  of  80  expects  to  attract 
much  attention,"  he  said.  He  also  boasts 
that  the  Chinese  will  see  55  "clean-cut, 
top-flight  American  youths,"  who  will  no 
doubt  inspire  interest  and  enthusiasm 
concerning  the  American  youths,"  who 
will  no  doubt  inspire  interest  and  enthusi- 
asm concerning  the  Americans  and  their 
way  of  life.  While  the  people  of  the 
Orient  will  gain  a  great  deal  from  meet- 
ing and  talking  to  the  college  students 
and  hearing  their  Western  music,  Dr. 
Andress  strongly  believes  that  the  Louisi- 
ana group  will  learn  as  much  if  not  more 
about  the  orental  way  of  life.  The  group 
will  see  such  major  attractions  as  the 
cities  of  Peking,  Sian,  and  Hangchow 
and  even  have  the  opportunity  to  see  the 
Great  Wall  ot  China. 

Since  the  Choir  will  be  exposed  to  a 
lifestyle  much  different  from  their  own 
and  added  to  the  fact  that  not  one 
member  can  speak  Chinese,  it  would 
seem  likely  that  problems  will  arise.  But 
already ,  books  dealing  with  the  Chinese 
language  are  circulating  through  the 
Choir,  and  lessons  concerning  basic  tour 
dialogue  are  planned. 

With    the   realization   that    the    long- 
awaited  trip  is  a  mere  two  semesters 
away ,  the  overall  tone  of  the  Choir  is  ex- 
citement. Dr.  Andress  boasts  that  a 
"super  spirit    is  circulating  among  the 
group  and  that  this  year  will  produce  the 
"best  music  and  sound"  ever.  This  is 
lucky  for  the  people  of  China,  who  will 


six  scheduled  dates  to  catch  the  Choir 
and  its  better-than-ever-sound.  A  concert 
at  the  Shanghai  Conservatory  and  a  per- 
formance at  the  Methodist  Church  in  the 
same  city  are  two  ot  the  scheduled 
concerts,  but  many  impromptu  concerts 
are  expected. 

Amidst  the  planning  and  preparation 
for  next  summer's  overseas  trip,  the 
Choir  still  must  carry  on  their  local 
concerts,  en  tertainingaudiences  through- 
out the  Ark-La-Tex  and  surrounding 
states.  Several  churches  in  the  Shreve- 
port  area  will  be  hosts  to  the  group 
during  the  course  of  the  school  year,  and 
the  annual  music  event.  Rhapsody  in 
View,  will  be  held  November  1  and  2  in 
the  Civic  Center.  Also,  before  the  mem- 
bers even  set  foot  on  their  plane  to 
China,  they  will  have  visited  and  per- 
formed in  Texas,  Mississippi,  Arkansas, 
and  Oklahoma,  as  well  as  in  North  and 
South  Louisiana.  Five  days  prior  to  their 
departure  in  June,  they  will  "concertize" 
their  way  to  Los  Angeles. 

The  Centenary  Choir  is  definitely  on 
the  threshold  of  an  important  tour  that 
will  provide  for  a  tremendous  exchange 
ot  culture  between  American  and  Chi- 
nese. For  the  Choir  members,  the  knowl- 
edge they  will  have  gained  by  the  close 
of  their  trip  and  the  memories  they  w  ill 
always  be  able  to  look  back  on.  will 
linger  long  after  the  snapshots  have 
faded  and  the  souvenirs  have  been 
(jacked  away.  No  doubt  a  positive  and 
enriching  image  of  the  youth  of  America 
will  be  left  for  the  people  of  China  to  re- 
flect on.  This  trip  is  more  than  just  a 
chance  to  sing  a  few  songs  and  see  a 
beautiful  country ;  it  is  an  opportunity  tor 
each  country  invoked  to  expand  on  its 
know  ledge  ot  a  faraway  land  and  better 
the  relations  that  are  so  vital  to  our 
world's  communication. 

—  By  Leigh  Weeks 

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Foreign  s 

For  Vicky  Fischer  76,  that  mea 


By  Vicky  Fisher  76 

O  Wien,  ich  mus  Dich  lassen  .  .  . 

The  old  world  capitals  of  Europe  hold 
an  undeniable  allure.  To  bask  in  their 
history  and  timelessness,  to  savor  their 
sights,  to  enjoy  firsthand  the  atmosphere 
and  personality  of  their  streets  and  their 
people  —  these  are  things  most  people 
dream  of  doing  at  least  once  in  a  lifetime. 

But  the  chance  to  get  to  know  —  really 
—  such  a  city,  to  come  to  terms  with  it 
and  make  it  your  friend,  is  still  a  rarer 
opportunity. 

For  the  past  year  I  have  been  realizing 
that  dream ,  sincere  thanks  to  the  Shreve- 
port  Rotary  Club,  which  selected  me  as 
one  of  its  1981-82  scholarship  recipients . 
The  city  I've  come  to  know  and  love  is 
that  grandest  of  all  the  great  European 
cities  (pardon  my  unashamed  bias), 
Vienna. 

Vienna  is  steeped  in  history  and  gran- 
deur. Although  the  age  of  the  aristocracy 
is  past,  the  city  maintains  its  nobility. 
Above  and  beyond  all,  especially  for 
me,  a  music  student,  Vienna  is  the 
"Musikstadt." 

Music  is  a  vital  part  of  Viennese  life. 
The  Viennese  are  fiercely  proud  of  their 
music  and  musical  establishments  —  and 
with  good  reason.  The  State  Opera  is  one 
of  the  best  in  the  world,  and  its  reper- 
toire is  remarkable;  this  season  more 
than  60  different  opera  and  ballet  pro- 
ductions are  being  presented. 

The  concert  halls  stay  busy  presenting 
concerts  by  the  world  s  foremost  artists 
(many  of  whom  are  in  residence  in 
Vienna).  Any  night  of  the  week  a  poor 
music  lover,  like  me,  is  faced  with  the 
delightful  dilemma  of  choosing  between 
outstanding  musical  events.  And  then 
there's  the  theater  scene,  the  museums, 
the  art  exhibitions.  .  . 

However,  living  in  Vienna  hasn't  been 
100  percent  strudel.  There's  the  lan- 
guage situation,  for  instance.  After 
five  years  of  college  German  and  two 
summers  spent  studying  the  language 
intensively  in  Austria  and  Germany,  I 
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Vicky  Fischer 

was  beginning  to  feel  somewhat  cocky. 
Vienna  has  been,  in  short,  a  humbling 
experience  in  that  respect.  To  be  sure, 
I  can  handle  the  language  passably  well 
with  anyone  who  is  willing  to  speak 
textbook  German  —  "Hochdeutsch"  — 
with  me.  Most  Viennese,  however,  speak 
"Wienerisch"  —  the  local  dialect  of 
German,  which  ranges  in  extremeness 
from  something  I  can  basically  follow 
if  I'm  feeling  particularly  lucid  and  listen 
very  closely  to  something  that  might  as 
well  be  Greek.  My  landlady,  for  example, 
speaks  with  that  very  strong  Viennese 
dialect.  With  her  I  smile  and  nod  my 
head,  and  I  hope  that  I  don't  do  so  inap- 
propriately, because  I  can't  understand 
a  word  she  says.  To  be  fair,  most  Viennese 
can  and  will  speak  "regular"  German  it 


they  realize  you  are  a  foreigner. 

If  you,  like  me,  tend  to  lose  your  co 
when  dealing  with  mundane  and  mac 
dening  tasks,  such  as  registering  for 
school,  setting  up  bank  and  utility  ac- 
counts or  looking  for  an  apartment,  tr: 
doing  it  in  a  foreign  land  and  languagii 
There  have  been  times  when  I  hones 
had  to  laugh  at  how  many  trips  to  diffei 
ent  official  places  —  all  in  widely  sepa 
rated  parts  of  town,  of  course  —  could  b 
required  to  accomplish  some  simple  (1 
thought)  task.  EVERYTHING  takes 
time  and  patience,  which  has  never  bee 
my  strongest  virtue. 

I  used  to  drive  everywhere.  The  tim 
spent  in  transit  between  two  points  w. 
not  important ;  it  was  only  important  th 
it  be  kept  to  a  minimum.  Now  I  walk  ah 
most  everywhere  I  go.  I  even  take  cir-j 
cuitous  routes  often,  in  order  to  check 
on  the  progress  of  the  new  blooms  in  thfl 
Stadtpark  or  watch  the  birds  around  thl 
Prater.  I  notice  the  wonderful  old  housi] 
that  abound  in  Vienna;  I  seek  out  the  I 
quaint  and  narrow  streets  of  the  old  cit; 
I  will  no  doubt  return  to  my  automobile  [ 
dependency  after  I  get  home  —  our 
American  lifestyle  requires  it.  But  I  kn( 
better  than  to  think  there's  no  other  wa 
I  hope  that  at  least  the  memories  of  tl| 
year  will  prompt  me  occasionally  to  1 
my  feet  for  something  other  than  opera 
ing  the  gas  pedal. 

I  have  had  no  car,  of  course.  The  exct 
lent  streetcar  and  underground  syste:»j 
make  getting  around  in  Vienna  a  bree:i 
BUT  it  takes  time.  Somehow,  though 
there  came  a  point  at  which  my  impati 
nature  gave  up.  I  seem  to  have  fallen  ii 
the  rhythm  of  Viennese  life,  which,  i; 
spite  of  the  size  of  the  city,  is  in  main 
ways  more  relaxed  than  what  I've  kno 
in  America.  It's  a  subtle  —  but  very  nil 
—  result  of  living  here. 

My  study  goals  have  been  dual :  piaij 
study  with  lots  of  practice  and  musi- 
cological  research  in  the  fine  archives  ij 

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enna.  The  research  would  not  have 
■en  possible  in  America  because  of 
le  special  primary  sources  owned  by 
iiropean  libraries.  It  has  been  exciting 
|  d  enlightening  to  peruse  original  manu- 
ripts  (my  study  project  concerns  Vien- 
■se  composers  of  the  late  1 8th  century  I. 
The  greatest  advantage  of  my  piano 
idy  has  been  the  luxury  of  much,  much 
actice  time.  While  I've  certainly  appre- 
<  ited  my  teachers  and  my  school  (Vienna 
mservatory ),  I  must  say  that  I  find  our 
nerican  music  schools  stand  up  favor- 
ly  in  comparison.  I  came  to  Vienna 
pecting  the  old  world  institutions  ot 
isic  education  would  possess  special 
ihniques  or  traditions  that  America, 
virtue  of  its  relative  youth,  could  not 
ssibly  match.  Frankly,  I  have  found 
Mat  not  to  be  the  case.  In  many  ways  I 
insider  our  system  to  be  the  better  one. 
hile  individual  teachers  I  have  dealt 
th  have  certainly  been  excellent ,  I  am 
( -winced  that  our  music  schools  produce 
lisicians  with  a  much  more  thorough 
d  well-rounded  preparation  for  any 
lid  of  musical  career. 
Yes,  Vienna  is  a  beautiful  and  wonder- 
I  city.  It  will  delight  tourists  as  long  as  it 
's.nds  —  with  its  splendid  architecture, 
i  cultural  wealth  and  its  delicious  pas- 
tes. I've  come  to  know  Vienna  a  little 
liter,  even  dealt  with  some  of  the  un- 
liasantries  inevitable  in  a  city  of  over  a 
illion  inhabitants.  In  spite  of  that,  the 
li>re  I  know  about  Vienna,  the  more  I 
•« mire  it.  I'm  a  Southern  girl;  that's 
'  lere  home  is.  I  don't  ever  want  to  stay 
■  I  ay  from  home  too  long.  But  the  expe- 
1  i  nee  of  Vienna,  of  Austria,  of  Europe, 
« ^  II  be  with  me  for  a  long  time  after  I  m 
Ick  home  again. 

I've  not  only  learned  a  lot  about  living 
J  iroad.  It's  amazing  how  much  you  real- 
i  about  yourself  and  about  home  when 
i  leave  it  for  a  while. 
litor  s  note:  Vicky  is  now  in  Austin 
he  University  of  Texas,  where  she  is 
dying  and  teaching  private  pupils.) 


Dr.  Royee  Shaw  (left)  and  Dr.  Michael  Hall  plot  their  trip 

For  professors,  England 


One  hundred  and  fifty-eight  years  ot 
southern  Centenary  culture  was  ex- 
changed lor  four  hundred  and  twenty- 
seven  years  of  the  timeless  traditions  of 
St.  John's  College,  Oxford,  this  summer 
by  Centenary  professors  Royce  Shaw 
and  Michael  Hall. 

Invited  by  the  President  and  Fellows 
of  St.  John  Baptist  College,  Oxford 
University,  England,  and  the  Southern 
College  University  Union,  the  two  Cente- 
nary "tutors"  were  among  the  nine  pro- 
fessors who  conducted  daily  seminars  in 
the  British  Studies  at  Oxford  program. 
This  summer's  studies  focused  on  early 
and  medieval  Britain  through  her  arts, 
history,  literature,  customs,  and  ideas 
during  the  five-week  period. 

Dr.  Hall,  chairman  of  Centenary's 
Department  of  English,  began  his  12- 
student  seminar  with  one  ot  Chaucer's 
minor  and  short  poems,  "Parlement  of 
Foules,"  and  then  concentrated  on 
Chaucer's  only  completed  major  work, 
Troilus  and  Criseyde,  a  poem  of  five 
books  embodying  medieval  concepts  ot 
courtly  love  and  tragedy. 

Centenary  Assistant  Professor  of  Poli- 
tical Science  Dr.  Shaw  taught  "Evolution 
of  Law  and  Covernment  in  Medieval 
England''  to  40  students,  quite  a  few 
more  than  the  small  group  he  had  expec- 
ted. He  gave  a  perspective  of  the  histori- 
cal model,  "that  great  paradigm,''  the 
English  Constitution  and  Parliament, 
which  had  their  formation  in  the  medi- 
eval period.  Since  most  Western  govern- 
ments are  modeled  on  this  form  of  govern- 
ment,  Dr.  Shaw,  historically  speaking, 
was  able  to  contrast  this  to  the  problems 


that  the  third  world  countries  face  in  at- 
tempting to  emulate  this  model  of  devel- 
opment. 

In  addition  to  the  seminars,  lectures  by 
28  distinguished  British  scholars  were 
held  in  the  mornings  and  afternoons. 

The  four-day  academic  week  left  the 
weekends  free  for  a  wide  variety  of  tours 
and  sightseeing  in  such  places  as  Bath, 
London,  and  Stonehenge.  Most  memora- 
ble for  the  Centenary  professors  was  a 
visit  to  the  Cotswolds.  They  were  also 
guests  of  the  University  of  York  Institute 
of  Medieval  Studies  in  the  town  of  York. 

St.  John's  College  is  typical  of  Oxford 
University's  almost  40  colleges  and  halls, 
each  one  emphasizing  the  original  con- 
cept of  a  college  as  a  "community  of 
scholars  who  study,  dine,  worship,  and 
live  together  while  pursuing  a  variety  of 
academic  paths. 

In  the  keeping  of  dining  tradition,  the 
men  wear  ties  and  jackets  and  the  wom- 
en, long  dresses  for  the  evening  meal. 
The  staff,  visiting  dignitaries,  and  guest 
lecturers  plus  an  occasional  student  are 
seated  at  "high  table,"  with  the  rest  of 
the  college  seated  below  this  elevation. 

Because  of  the  large  volume  of  work 
required,  the  students  who  attend  this 
program  are  bright  and  intellectually 
curious,  the  professors  said.  Ten  Cente- 
nary students  were  among  the  more  than 
150  Americans  from  25  colleges  and 
universities  and  26  states  including 
Alaska. 

Next  summer  the  British  Studies  at 
Oxford  program  will  offer  Britain  in  the 
Renaissance. 

—  By  Kay  Lee 


Potpourri 


-!- 


Eureka! 


Thanks  to  a  $12,000  grant  from  Boots 
Pharmaceutical  Co.  in  Shreveport,  the 
world  has  a  new  compound  —  2-iso- 
propylidinehydrazino-2-methylpropioni- 
trile. 

And  it  was  discovered  in  the  chemistry 
laboratory  on  the  third  floor  of  Mickle 
Hall  by  Centenary  Professor  Robert 
Zawalski  and  students  Janie  Leach  and 
Edward  Hall. 

The  new  compound  is  of  interest  not 
only  because  it  is  a  previously  unknown 
substance,  but  also  because  of  its  poten- 
tial use  in  the  plastics  industry  as  an  ini- 
tiator. 

The  summer's  work  also  gave  the  stu- 
dents a  new  attitude  toward  research. 
"They  learned  what  research  was  really 
like...  all  the  frustrating  days  when  the 
breakthrough  would  come  when  least 
expected  like  a  5:30  on  a  Friday  after- 
noon when  we  decided  to  try  something 
just  one  more  time,"  Dr.  Zawalski  said. 

Plan  ahead 

Now  that  Centenary  is  out  of  crisis, 
how  shall  we  plan  for  the  last  quarter  ot 
this  century?  How  can  circumstances  be 
harnessed  to  meet  the  long-range 
academic  goals  that  are  dictated  by  our 
mission  as  a  Methodist  college  .  .  .  rather 
than  letting  circumstances  shape  our 
future? 

This  was  the  message  of  Vice  Presi- 
dent Darrell  Loyless  when  he  spoke  to 
ministerial  alumni  at  Centenary  recent- 

ly. 

"The  college  academic  program  and 
its  supplementary  activities  should  most 
of  all  be  a  consequence  of  a  rational  plan 
to  realize  the  mission  of  the  institution 
over  a  set  period  of  time,"  he  said. 

"This  isn't  an  easy  challenge  to  meet.  It 
requires  constant  review,  revision,  and 
updating  as  the  College's  mission  and 
market  forces  change. 

"And  the  dividends  of  long-range  plan- 
ning could  be  great  .  .  . 

"First,  Alma  Mater  can  break  out  of  its 
history  and  take  control  of  its  future  as  it 
has  taken  charge  of  its  present. 

"Second  planning  can  provide  the 
program  areas  of  institutional  advance- 
ment with  a  rationalized  list  of  academic 
programs  and  their  companion,  financial 
needs. 

"Finally,  the  challenge  of  long-range 
planning  opens  up  a  new  opportunity  for 
the  Church  and  the  College  to  work 
together  on  the  continuing  questions  of 
what  it  means  to  be  a  church-related 
college  and  a  college-related  church." 
6 


■  i*;u     <u  >   a 


For  the  past  two  years  Betty  Compton 
80  has  called  the  fascinating  country  ot 
Thailand  home.  "My  job  there  as  a  Peace 
Corps  volunteer,"  she  writes,  "was  to 
teach  English  at  a  teachers  training 
college  in  Vdon  Thani,  a  city  in  the 
northeastern  region  of  Thailand.  Never 
will  I  regret  or  forget  the  valuable  lessons 
about  life  my  Peace  Corps  experience 
there  has  taught  me."  Betty  models  a 
native  Thai  silk  costume,  one  ot  the 
many  souvenirs  she  brought  back  to  the 
United  States  last  summer.  She  is  cur- 
rently enrolled  in  graduate  school  (lin- 
guistics) at  Southern  Illinois  University, 
where  she  will  also  teach. 

Campus 
improvements 

Centenary  students  began  their  fall 
semester  on  a  much  improved  campus. 

Two  parking  lots  —  the  one  behind 
Hardin  Dorm  and  the  one  by  Bynum 
Commons  —  were  surfaced  with  asphalt 
and  curbed  with  concrete.  Several 
planting  areas  were  left  for  trees  and 
other  greenery,  thanks  to  Townsley 
Schwab  &  Associates,  landscape  archi- 


tects. Executing  the  work  were  T.  L. 
James  Co.,  Grace  Co.,  Interstate  Elec 
trie,  and  Wilhite  Electric. 

Tennis  enthusiasts  have  six  brand  n 
courts  to  play  on  this  fall.  The  $  150,00 
complex,  built  at  the  Gold  Dome,  wa; 
designed  by  Shreveport  architect  Da 
Sandifer.  They  were  built  by  Surfmar 
Corp.,  Grace  Co.,  T.  L.  James  Co.,  Inte! 
state  Electric,  and  Wilhite  Electric 

Perched  on  the  roof  of  Mickle  Hall 
the  frame  of  a  greenhouse  donated  to  t 
College  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Don  A.  Ray 
mond,  Jr.  Biology  professors  Ed  and  Be 
Leuck  are  leading  a  team  of  students 
the  reassembly  of  the  glass-paned  stn 
ture. 

Money  raised  over  the  past  few  yea 
for  the  renovation  of  the  Student  Uni 
Building  was  well  spent  this  summer 
new  furniture  and  window  treatment 
for  the  main  floor  of  the  building. 

And  last  not  but  least,  the  courtyard  |  ] 
the  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse  has  h&  5 
facelift  ...  in  the  form  of  "St.  Angie  <  ^ 
the  Theatre,"  a  fountain  statue  placed 
the  courtyard  pool.  She  is  named  for  f 
Angie  McWillams,  the  saintly  playhou  N 
secretary. 


Visiting  Fellow 

J.  Robert  Schaetzel,  former  U.S. 
Ambassador  to  the  European  Econon 
Community,  will  be  a  Woodrow  Wils< 
Visiting  Fellow  at  Centenary  during  t 
week  of  Oct.  31.  His  visit  is  made  pos 
sible  by  a  grant  from  the  Gannett  New 
paper  Foundation. 

The  premise  of  a  liberal  arts  educati 
is  that  the  lifelong  ability  to  communica 
to  make  rational  decisions,  and  to  undej 
stand  society,  will  be  important  long  j 
after  merely  technical  skills  are  obsole 
The  Woodrow  Wilson  Visiting  Fellow 
program  demonstrates  to  students  an 
faculty  that  leaders  in  their  fields  are 
those  who  best  understand  the  relatk 
ship  between  thought  and  action. 

Visiting  Fellows  are  successful  mer 
and  women  from  business,  public  servi> 
and  other  non-academic  professions 
who  are  recruited  by  the  Woodrow 
Wilson  National  Fellowship  Foundati 
and  placed  on  the  campuses  of  small 
liberal  arts  colleges  for  an  intensive, 
carefully  planned  week-long  dialogue 
with  students  and  faculty. 

Dr.  Lee  Morgan,  Brown  Professor'! 
English,  is  co-ordinator  for  Mr.  Schaetz  j 
visit  to  Centenary. 


President's 

Convocation 

If  democracy  is  to  survive,  its  citizens 
ust  recall  that  the  religious  values  of 
lflessness  and  human  rights  are  the 
iiirces  of  a  free  society's  strength. 

H                                                                                                                                 B-flgibvMP''lg 

Hi  ^^B                                                                                                                ft 
K^KdaaKr~H                                           _— *^«                                         n            ^im*  -asm 

That  was  the  message  of  the  Right 
onorahle  George  Thomas,  Speaker  of 
e  House  of  Commons,  who  spoke  at 
esident's  Convocation  Thursday, 
pt.  16.  It  was  also  the  occasion  to  con- 
r  upon  him  the  honorary  Doctor  of 
ivinity  degree. 

'Democracy  is  more  than  a  political 
stem,  more  than  a  machinery  of  gov- 
nment.   Dr.  Thomas  said.  "It  is  a  moral 
ovement  of  faith  in  the  extra-ordinary 
ssibilities  of  ordinary  people  when 
/en  a  chance." 

Dr.  Thomas  grew  up  in  Wales  near 
e  village  where  President  Webb  was 
rn.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the 

|)use  of  Commons  since  1945,  having 
en  re-elected  37  consecutive  terms. 
Thomas  is  also  an  active  Methodist 

ljnister. 
'Enormous  question  marks  hang  over 
r  destinies,"  Dr.  Thomas  said.  "But 
ne  of  the  question  marks  can  be  wiped 
t  because  the  world  will  always  need 
ucation,  integrity,  high  ideals  from 
iders,  and  a  recognition  by  ordinary 
ople  that  they  will  reach  their  full 
ture  only  with  a  right  understanding 
God  Almighty.'- 


Centements 


Chris  Webb 


President  Donald  Webb  and  the  Rt.  Hon.  George  Thomas  are  greeted  by  members  of  the 
faculty  after  President's  Convocation  Thursday,  Sept.  16.  Dr.  Thomas,  Speaker  of  the 
House  of  Commons,  gave  the  address. 


This  fall  marked  the  beginning  of  our 
Alumni  Class  Agent  Program's  second 
year.  It  should  be  quite  a  year,  if  the  first 
was  any  indication! 

We  credit  our  class  agents  with  a  lot 
of  meaningful  accomplishments  on  a 
number  of  fronts.  They  have  put  our 
alumni  records  to  the  test  and  have 
initiated  scores  of  improvements.  In  classes 
where  contact  had  long  been  absent, 
they  have  reopened  lines  of  communi- 
cation and  been  the  conduit  for  some 
long-unexpressed  messages  of  warmth 
and  reminiscence.  Classmates  have 
responded  by  sending  news  of  their 
accomplishments  and  milestones,  as 
well.  Thanks  to  the  class  agents,  our  first 
summertime  Alumni  Weekend  and  class 
reunions  succeeded  to  a  degree  that 
even  we  didn't  anticipate.  And  finally, 
most  of  our  first-year  agents  had,  well, 
fun! 

New  agents  are  being  added  at  a  rate 
which  enables  us  to  properly  and  care- 
fully prepare  and  maintain  their  class 
rosters.  New  in  '82  are: 


David  Henington  '82° 

Joe  Walker  75  (Houston) 

Scott  &  Janet  Turner  Pender  73*  (Dallas) 

Mary  Tullie  Wyrick  Critcher  '68* 

Leonard  Critcher  '67° 

Pat  Oliver  Rosbottom  &  Emily  Hayden 

Viscozki  '58° 
Margaret  Poss  Teague  '56 
Mitzi  Lowe  Perry  '55 
Alice  Curtis  Brown  '48° 
Marilyn  Miller  Carlton  '47° 

(LeCompte,  La.) 
Grace  Julian  Norton  '40 
Edna  Earle  Richardson  Stinson  '39 
Isabella  Leary  '33° 

If  your  class  does  not  yet  have  an 
agent,  or  if  you  might  be  interested  in 
assuming  a  current  agent's  spot  (the 
minimum  term  being  two  years),  please 
don't  hesitate  to  call  me  or  any  Alumni 
Board  member  for  further  information. 

"indicates  a  reunion  in  1983;  '47, '48, 
&  '49  will  be  clustered,  as  will  '67,  "68, 
&  '69. 




Foreign  language  requirement  —  To  bf 


The  October  faculty  meeting  may  be  a 
decisive  one  for  the  Department  of  For- 
eign Languages. 

If  all  goes  according  to  schedule,  the 
Educational  Policy  Committee  will  be 
presenting  to  the  faculty  (for  a  vote)  a 
proposal  that  all  Centenary  students*  be 
required  to  earn  six  hours  credit  in  a 
foreign  language  in  order  to  graduate. 
The  recommendation  comes  from  the 
President's  Ad  Hoc  Committee  on  Curri- 
culum Study,  a  committee  formed  last 
year  to  study  all  aspects  of  the  core  curri- 
culum. Centenary  had  not  had  a  college- 
wide  foreign  language  requirement 
since  1970,  when  the  national  trend, 
even  at  liberal  arts  colleges,  was  to  drop 
most  required  courses  from  the  core 
curriculum. 

Last  year,  there  was  much  debate  at 
Centenary  over  a  foreign  language  re- 
quirement, when  a  similar  proposal  was 
brought  to  the  faculty  and  narrowly 
defeated.  This  year,  the  proponents  of 
the  plan  would  definitely  like  to  see  it 
pass. 

Trends 

"Every  Ivy  League  school  except 
Brown  University  has  a  foreign  language 
requirement  now,"  said  Dr.  Arnold 
Penuel,  professor  of  Spanish.  "The  trend 
in  the  '70s  to  drop  requirements  is  defi- 
nitely being  reversed.  Even  the  federal 
government  is  encouraging  more  study 
of  foreign  languages  —  it's  in  the  nation- 
al interest  to  do  so." 

In  the  meantime,  individual  depart- 
ments can  and  do  require  their  majors  to 
take  a  certain  amount  of  a  foreign  lan- 
guage: geology  -  one  year;  history  and 
political  science  -  two  years;  English  - 
three  years  of  one  language  or  two  years 
each  of  two  languages;  art  -  two  years; 
philosophy  -  two  years ;  theatre/speech  - 
six  hours;  music/voice/organ  perfor- 
mance -  6-8  hours;  biology  (BA  degree)  - 
one  year;  religion  -  one  year;  chemistry 
(BA  degree)  -  one  year;  and  social  studies 
education  -  one  year. 

"Foreign  languages  have  continued  to 
be  important  for  these  majors,"  said  Dr. 
Dorothy  Gwin,  dean  of  the  College. 

"Exceptions:  Students  majoring  in  the 
3/2  computer  science  and  pre-engineer- 
ing  program  and  those  majoring  in  music 
education  would  be  exempt  from  the 
foreign  language  requirement  in  the  cur- 
proposal  because  of  the  large  number  of 
technical  and  professional  requirements 
in  those  areas. 

8 


"Certainly  for  the  music  performance 
majors,  languages  are  important.  In 
some  of  the  other  areas  the  vocabulary  of 
the  academic  field  is  better  understood  if 
there  exists  a  familiarity  with  the  lan- 
guage basic  to  the  particular  field." 

Foreign  language  has  always  been 
part  of  the  curriculum  at  Centenary 
College.  In  the  earliest  days  -  the  late 
1820's  -  the  academic  program  was 
solidly  classic :  all  students  were  required 
to  study  Latin  and  Greek.  Indeed,  many 
formal  addresses  at  graduation  were 
given  in  Latin. 

During  the  1840s  when  the  College 
enrollment  swelled  to  300,  rivaling  Har- 
vard University's,  the  only  major  curric- 
ulum change  made  by  the  College  allowed 
"in  peculiar  cases"  the  substitution  of 
two  modern  languages  for  the  require- 
ment of  proficiency  in  Latin  and  Greek. 
To  emphasize  the  view  of  the  Board  and 
the  faculty  that  such  a  program  was  less 
demanding  than  the  arts  curriculum, 
they  called  the  new  arrangement  the 
"Scientific  Course,"  and  worded  the 
diploma  awarded  for  completing  it  in 
English  rather  than  in  Latin. 

Today,  the  Foreign  Language  Depart- 
ment offers  instruction  in  French, 
Spanish,  German,  Latin,  and  New  Testa- 
ment Greek.  Italian  and  Russian  have 
been  taught  in  recent  years. 

The  faculty  includes  full-time  profes- 
sors Arnold  Penuel  (Spanish),  Vickie 
Gottlob  (French),  and  Johnson  Watts 
(German),  and  part-time  professors 
Edward  J.  Crawford  III  (Greek),  Lynda 
Weems  (Spanish),  and  Lidia  Wilson 
(Latin). 

"We  teach  modern  languages  so  that 
our  students  can  speak  them,"  explained 
Dr.  Gottlob,  who  also  serves  as  chairman 
of  the  department.  "This  is  a  change 
from  the  traditional  way  of  teaching  stu- 
dents which  concentrates  on  reading  and 
grammar.  We  also  try  to  teach  a  lot  about 
the  culture  of  the  country,  and  we  en- 
courage and  help  our  students  to  study 
abroad." 

Opportunities  for  foreign  study  are 
numerous. 

CODOFIL,  the  Council  for  the  Devel- 
opment of  French  in  Louisiana,  provides 
scholarships  for  summer  study  in  France 
and  year-long  study  in  Belgium.  There 
are  programs  for  study  in  Quebec;  Inter- 
im classes  at  the  Instituto  Allende  in  San 
Miguel  de  Allende  Guanajuato,  Mexico, 
and  any  number  of  programs  offered 
through  the  Southern  College-Universi- 


ty Union  (SCUU)  or  through  other  insti 
tutions. 

A  rare  opportunity  for  Centenary  stu- 
dents is  the  frequent  chance  for  contact 
with  foreign  students  who  come  to  Cente 
nary  to  study,  either  in  the  English  Lan 
guage  Center  or  in  the  regular  academic 
program.  This  year,  there  are  approxi- 
mately 65  students  from  15  foreign 
countries  including  Venezuela,  India, 
Thailand,  Yugoslavia,  and  Canada.  A 
regular  time  for  conversation  and  camars 
derie  for  Hispanic  students  and  Ameri- 
can students  studying  Spanish  is  twice- 
weekly  lunches  in  the  cafeteria  —  one 
day  speaking  only  English;  the  othei 
only  Spanish. 

The  relationship  of  the  Foreign 
Language  Department  and  the  com- 
munity is  a  good  one,  and  helps  to 
illustrate  the  functions  of  foreign  lang- 
uages in  our  society. 

Community  Service 

Professor  Watts  has  provided 
numerous  translation  services  to  mem-i 
bers  of  the  community,  including  The  j 
Shreveport  Journal  and  rhost  recently  to 
a  petroleum  landman  buying  property  ii 
Arkansas  from  a  Swiss  owner.  One  of  Dii 
Gottlob's  biggest  projects  was  trans- 
lating into  French  the  operating  manm> 
machinery  going  to  Algeria.  And  Dr. 
Penuel,  who  also  serves  as  a  translator 
acted  as  a  consultant  to  the  Louisiana 
Board  of  Regents  in  its  evaluation  of  the 
Spanish  program  at  LSU  in  Shreveport 
last  year. 

The  faculty  of  the  Department  c. 
Foreign  Languages  also  participate  i 
and  contribute  to  the  large  world  of 
scholarship  in  their  respective  fields.  Ii 
recent  years  Department  faculty  hav 
received  two  National  Endowment  for 
"the  Humanities  Fellowships:  Dr.  Gottlo 
for  study  at  Columbia;  Dr.  Penuel,  at 
Yale.  Members  of  the  Department  parti 
cipate  in  a  variety  of  professional 
activities  and  contribute  frequently  to 
scholarly  journals. 

"The  practical  value  of  knowing  a 
foreign  language  increases  every  day,". 
Dr.  Penuel  said.  "The  student  with  a 
major  in  business  who  also  knows 
another  language  has  a  real  competitive 
edge  in  the  job  market." 

Even  if  a  student  doesn't  major  in  a 
foreign  language,  the  professors  feel  thf 
his  or  her  limited  study  of  a  language  pr 
vides  a  means  of  expanded  intellectua 
horizons  and  sympathies  toward  peopl 
in  another  culture.  "Foreign  language 


I 


not  to  be? 


udy  helps  a  student  learn  to  go  from  the 
lown  to  the  unknown,  which  is  a 
indamental  goal  of  the  liberal  arts  edu- 
ition, "  Dr.  Penuel  said. 
But  right  now,  it's  the  unknown  vote 
at  the  foreign  language  professors 
ould  like  to  have  known. 

First 
time  out 

Dr.  R.E.  White  couldn't  keep  his  mind 
his  work  that  hot  day  in  May,  1954. 
-Ie  was  too  excited  about  the  first  trip 
t  he  and  his  modern  language  students 

i  uld  be  making  to  the  Instituto  Tecno- 
ico  in  Monterrey,  Mexico.  It  was  the 
t  time  that  Centenary  College  had 
■r  offered  a  study  program  in  a  foreign 
intry. 
ommodore  Penn  Leary  Carroll,  di- 
tor  of  public  relations  at  the  Mexican 
versity,  had  called  Dr.  White  earlier 
he  year  to  set  up  the  program .  He  had 

nkrd  of  "Senor  Blanco's"  involvement 

»»h  Centenary's  program  for  Mexican 
1  South  American  students  —  some 
Latin  Americans  had  come  to  Shreve- 
t  and  Centenary  the  summer  before, 
"he  program  in  Monterrey  would  be 
ch  like  the  one  Dr.  White  had  provided 
his  visiting  students.  Classes  would 
offered  in  teh  arts,  social  sciences,  and 
guages;  housing  and  meals  would 

b shared  with  the  native  students. 
It  was  really  a  great  program,"  Mrs. 

^  ite  remembered.  "Dr.  White  loved  all 
students,  and  in  the  10  years  that  he 

i(k  groups  to  Monterrey,  we  always 
a  wonderful  time." 
l  1965  after  Dr.  White's  retirement, 
Leroy  Vogel  took  over  the  program, 
ch  now  allowed  high  school  students 
larticipate.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Vogel  had 
)mpanied  the  group  since  1960;  the 
lership  transition  was  an  easy  one. 

Cirses  were  expanded  to  include 

anaeology,  folklore,  government  and 

la ,  Spanish  and  Latin  American  litera- 

tip,  and  Spanish  and  Latin  American 

hiiory. 
[he  Vogels  continued  to  take  the 

Ribp  until  1970,  the  year  before  Dr. 

V  ;el's  death,  and  the  last  year  of  Cente- 
r's participation  at  the  Instituto. 
oday,  the  sky's  the  limit  on  foreign 
el/study  opportunities  for  Centenary 
lents  —  thanks  to  the  groundwork 
by  Dr.  R.E.  White  and  Dr.  Leroy 
Eel. 


Foreign  language  professors'  smiles  brighten  the  language  lab  where  many  an  hour  is 
spent  perfecting  communication  skills.  Professors  in  the  Department  include  (left  to 
right)  Dr.  Vickie  Gottlob,  chairman  of  the  Department;  Dr.  Arnold  Penuel;  Mrs.  Lynda 
Weems,  and  Mr.  Johnson  Watts,  who  also  served  as  the  College's  registrar. 


Go  places  with  Centenary 


If  you  like  to  travel  and  if  you  like  to 
learn,  one  of  Centenary's  Interim 
courses  may  be  just  the  thing  for  you. 

Offered  during  the  month  of  January 
between  the  fall  and  spring  semesters, 
the  Interim  courses  are  concentrated 
studies  not  normally  offered  during  the 
year  for  credit  or  non-credit. 

Open  to  Centenary  students,  alumni, 
and  other  members  of  the  community, 
the  classes  require  early  registration; 
deadline  for  signing  up  is  Nov.  23. 


Business  of  Professional  Sports 
(Business  1-99)  — Dr.  Harold  Christen- 
sen  will  teach  this  course  in  Boston  and 
on  the  Centenary  campus. 

Close-up  of  an  American  Corporation 
(History/Political  Science  1-99)- 
Sponsored  by  the  Woodrow  Wilson 
National  Fellowship  Foundation,  this 


course  will  be  taught  by  Dr.  Royce  Shaw 
in  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Airborne  Training  (Military  Science 
1-99)  —  Capt.  Rick  Foster  will  teach 
this  three-week  intensive  training  course 
at  Ft.  Benning,  Ga.  The  course  will 
consist  of  physical  training  and  instruc- 
tion in  the  proper  use  and  maintenance 
of  a  parachute. 

Air  Assault  Training  (Military  Science 
I-99B)  —  Capt.  Foster  will  also  teach  this 
course  which  will  consist  of  rigorous 
physical  training  and  instruction  in  air- 
mobile tactics  in  Ft.  Knox,  Ky. 

Professional  Theatre  (Theatre/ 
Speech  1-99)  — Prof.  Robt.  Buseick  will 
take  a  minimum  of  six  students  to  view 
professional  theatre  in  the  two  greatest 
English-speaking  theatre  centers  of  the 
world:  New  York  and  London. 


Alumni  profile 

60  years  of  facts  and  figures 


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Graduates  and 
non-graduates 

Total  alumni  of  record:  8265.  Since  j 
1921,  5625  young  men  and  women       j 
(68.5%  of  all  former  students)  have 
earned  undergraduate  degrees  from  the 
College.  The  five  leading  areas  of  stud] 
in  terms  of  numbers  of  degrees  awarded 
are: 

Sciences  (biology,  chemistry,  engineei I 
ing,  geology,  math,  natural  science,  i 
physics):  108 


Business-related  (accounting,  busines:] 
commerce,  economics,  finance):  104 

Social  Sciences  (history,  government 
political  science,  psychology,  sociol- 
ogy): 98 

Education  (education,  secondary  ed. 
elementary  ed.):  94 


English  and  Humanities  (Bible  liter- 
ature, Christian  ed.,  English,  human 
ities,  journalism,  liberal  arts,  literary 
course,  philosophy,  religion):  79 

Non-graduates  who  attended  and  were 
enrolled  for  at  least  one  year  in  a  degree 
program  account  for  the  balance  (31.5% 


Men  and  Women 


The  ratio  of  men  and  women  overall  1 
roughly  even  ( 1 3 : 1 2 )  -  one  f  actor  contri- 
buting  to  a  traditionally  rich  social  life.  I: 
f act ,  today ,  fully  2 1  %  of  Centenary  alun 
ni  are  married  to  each  other!  In  other 
words,  the  chances,  historically,  of  meet 
ing  a  future  mate  as  a  Centenary  studen 
are  better  than  one  in  five. 

At  any  given  time,  roughly  10%  of 
alumni  of  record  are  on  "lost"  status, 
primarily  due  to  lack  of  notice  when 
moving.  College  graduates  exhibit 
higher-than-average  mobility  in  an  al- 
ready mobile  society  —  during  the  pas 
decade,  roughly  20%  of  the  U.S.  popu 
lation  moved  every  year. 


(Note:  Research  restricted  to  living 
alumni,  classes  of  1921  through  1981. 
Figures  date  from  June  1,  1982.) 


! 


Research  conducted  during  1982  has 
d  to  the  assembly  of  a  clearer  picture  of 

ntenary's  "product"  —  her  alumni  — 
'elding  some  notable  charts,  facts,  and 
gures. 


Geographic  Distribution  of  Alumni 

Spring,  1982 


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HAWAII    4 


Nearly  40%  (3265)  of  all  former  students  reside  within  25  miles  (152).  In  addition,  a  total  of  26  alumni  are  currently  working  and 

of  the  College.  Other  major  population  concentrations  are  in  the  living  abroad  in  places  as  diverse  as  South  Africa,  Yugoslavia, 

following  metropolitan  areas:  Houston  (439),  Dallas/Ft.  Worth  Argentina,  India,  Samoa,  Italy,  and  West  Germany. 
(295),  New  Orleans  (2 19),  Baton  Rouge  (183),  and  Longview/Tyler 


Geographic  Distribution  of  Students 


Representing  25  states,  undergraduate  students  at  Centenary,  the^  were  from  foreign  countries,  among  them  the  Netherlands,  Yugo 
classes  of  1982-'85,  totaled  1260  in  the  spring  of  1982.  A  full  80rr  of      slavia,  Venezuela,  and  Australia, 
the  students  were  Louisiana  residents.  An  additional  19  students 


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Perspectives 


Betty  Vogel 


Dr.  Paris  Leary 


One  of  Paris  Leary  s  most  memorable  professors  at  Centenary 
was  the  late  Bryant  Davidson,  "a  man  of  great  integrity  who  intro- 
duced me  to  the  life  of  the  mind." 

For  Paris,  at  Centenary,  that  translated  into  memberships  in 
Sigma  Tau  Delta,  Phi  Sigma  Iota,  the  French  Club,  Canterbury 
Club,  Alpha  Chi,  Alpha  Sigma  Pi,  Kappa  Alpha,  Who's  Who,  the 
Dramatics  Club,  the  Prix  d'Excellence  given  by  the  French 
government  for  his  translations  of  French  poetry,  The  Atlantic 
Monthly  poetry  prize,  and  an  English  degree  awarded  cum  laude 
in  1951. 

The  M.  J.  Suksdorf  Scholarship  enabled  Paris  to  earn  his 
doctorate  at  the  University  of  Oxford,  England,  before  he  re- 
turned to  the  United  States  to  teach.  In  1965,  he  was  awarded  a 
Fulbright  professorship  at  the  University  of  Leicester,  England, 
where  he  was  named  co-ordinator  of  the  American  Studies  Pro- 
gram, the  position  he  holds  today. 

This  month,  Paris's  sixth  book  —  The  Other  Side  of  the  River  — 
will  be  published.  He  has  also  written  a  cookbook,  an  anthology  of 
contemporary  poetry  which  has  sold  more  than  75,000  copies  and 
is  the  standard  for  American  students,  and  a  three-act  play,  "A 
Rushing  of  Wings."  He  is  currently  working  on  a  three-volume 
History  of  American  Literature. 

Paris  has  been  named  to  Who's  Who  in  American  Letters,  Who's 
Who  in  British  Universities,  and  Who's  Who  in  British  Education. 

What  an  introduction  to  life! 


Betty  Vogel,  travel,  and  Centenary  College  are  as  much  a  team  j 
as  bacon,  lettuce,  and  tomatoes. 

Daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Broox  C.  Garrett,  one-time  Centenai 
football  coach  and  team  physician,  and  wife  of  the  late  Dr.  Leroy 
Vogel,  a  former  dean  of  the  College  and  longtime  chairman  of  the 
Department  of  History,  Betty  X'44,  has  always  been  part  of  the 
Centenary  family.  And  her  children,  Garrett  and  Betsy,  have 
carried  on  that  tradition. 

As  a  young  bride,  Betty  lived  in  Germany,  where  Leroy  worked 
for  the  State  Department.  The  travel  bug  had  bitten. 

When  they  returned  to  the  United  States  and  Centenary 
College,  the  Vogels  volunteered  to  take  over  retiring  Professor 
R.  E.  White's  study  trips  to  Monterrey,  Mexico.  A  few  years  later, 
they  began  offering  tours  and  travel  opportunities  to  Centenary  I 
alumni;  and  in  between,  Betty  was  busy  organizing  tours  for  high 
school  and  college-aged  girls,  as  well  as  for  Shreveport  club 
women. 

Today,  she  writes  a  travel  column  for  The  (Shreveport)  Timet 
and  takes  church  groups  plus  eight  or  nine  other  tours  each  year  oi 
trips  within  the  United  States  and  abroad.  "And  I've  never  lost 
anyone  yet,"  she  said  with  a  big  smile. 

Betty  has  also  been  active  with  the  Junior  League,  Delta  Delta 
Delta  sorority,  the  American  Cancer  Society,  American  Red 
Cross,  Shreveport  Beautification,  and  Glen  Oaks  Home  for  the 
Aged. 

That's  teamwork. 


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Strictly 
Personal 


1930s 

OM  RICHARDSON  '39,  owner  of  Richardson 
eal  Estate  Agency,  died  in  August  after  a  short 
ness.  TOMMY,  who  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
OROTHY,  and  son  TOM,  was  assistant  busi- 
es manager  at  Centenary  in  1948  and  1949 
id  business  manager  in  1950  and  1951  before 
ling  into  the  real  estate  business. 

1940s 

ARIE  SPIVEY  X'40  received  the  most  hon- 

(i  recognition  to  be  attained  at  the  U.S. 
'my  Engineer  Waterways  Experiment  Station 
/ES)  when  she  was  selected  to  the  Gallery  of 
stinguished  Civilian  Employees.  MARIE 
rved  as  chief  of  the  library  branch  of  the 
■clinical  Information  Center  and  retired  in 
80  after  30  years  of  federal  service.  She  was 
ponsible  for  the  production  of  the  WES 
icrothesaurus  of  Scientific  and  Technical 
rms,  a  collection  of  10,000  terms  used  in 
formation  retrieval  in  the  Department  of  the 
ray.  She  was  also  chosen  as  WES  Woman  oi 
Year  in  1979. 

NNIE  MAE  BETTIS  FLORSHEIM  X '46  has 

en  elected  to  the  board  oi  directors  oi  Pio- 
erBank  and  Trust  Co.  MRS.  FLORSHEIM, 
sident  of  the  Florsheim  Company,  a  Shreve- 
rt  general  contracting  firm,  is  also  a  director 
Northwest  Louisiana  Insurance  Delta  Pic- 
es. Inc. 

ICILLE  GIBSON  MASON  '46  and  husband 
iNNETH  are  living  in  Metairie.  LUCILLE 
ches  piano  in  her  home,  and  KENNETH 
irks  at  the  main  post  office  in  New  Orleans. 
CILLE  would  enjoy  hearing  from  Centenary 
ms  in  the  New  Orleans  Metropolitan  area 
d  feels  "it  would  be  great  to  have  an  alumni 
lpter  here." 

1950s 

■ntenary  Trustee  TOM  MATHENY.  an 

orney  in  Hammond,  was  honored  at  the  First 
AC  in  Shreveport  lor  his  outstanding  service 
the  Church  throughout  the  years,  the  first 
re  an  individual  has  been  honored  by  the 
nference.  The  Conference  dedicated  a  schol- 
ihip  to  Centenary  in  his  name,  and  the 
(men's  Society  of  Christian  Services  dedi- 
ed  a  funding  ot  a  missionary  overseas  in  MR. 
VTHENY's  name.  MR.  MATHENY  was  also 
ently  elected  to  serve  an  unprecedented 
ond  term  as  president  of  the  Judicial  Coun- 


ANTON  FRAZAR  '56  was  awarded  his  Cen- 
'iary  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  in  natural 

-mce  alter  a  lapse  of  27  years.  MR.  FRAZAR, 
tector  of  the  distinguished  New  Orleans  His- 
Hcal  Collection,  left  Centenary  in  1955  with- 
<   graduating  although  he  had  142  hours.  In 
i  ing  the  award,  President  Donald  Webb 
Me  that  MR.  FRAZAR  has  achieved  distinc- 
tji  in  his  profession,  and  it  will  be  an  honor 
lj  the  College  to  be  able  to  list  him  officially 

ong  her  graduates. 

LL  K.  "BILL''  NORTON,  JR.,  X'59  played 
'  lead  role  in  Shreveport's  Little  Theatre  pro- 

tion  of  "Tribute."  This  was  his  debut  in 
al  theater  since  he  moved  to  Shreveport 
m  Lubbock,  where  he  won  several  acting 
ards  in  community  theater.  Summer  theater- 

rs  were  entertained  by  BILL  in  the  role  of 
1.  Brown"  in  the  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse 
Dduction  of  "The  Unsinkable  Molly  Brown." 


SWEET  MEMORIES 

Many,  many  thanks  to  1928  graduate  Zollie 
Bennett  for  the  gift  of  a  most-prized  possession 
-  his  Centenary  scrapbook.  It  is  filled  with 
such  treasures  as  photographs  and  newspaper 
clippings  of  the  1925  football  team  (better 
known  as  "The  Wrecking  Crew"),  cheer- 
leaders, beauties,  the  Carnival  King  and 
Queen,  faculty  and  staff,  "table  hops,    and 
even  a  shot  of  Shreveport's  Strand  Theatre  the 
day  before  it  opened  in  1925.  A  two-time  let- 
terman,  "Zuppke,"  as  Zollie  was  nicknamed, 
was  part  of  the  football  team  which  included 
such  all-time  greats  as  "Big  Boy    Cal  Hubbard; 
"Man-O-War"  Glenn  Letteer;  "Mexico"  Bard 
Ferral;  "The  Boy  Wonder"  Jake  Hanna;  and 
Coach  "Bo"  McMillan,  whom  the  Boston  Ad- 
vertiser described  as  a  "gentleman,  football 
star,  and  coach,  who  sees  nothing  but  victory 
for  Centenary."  The  scrapbook  will  be  housed 
in  the  Cline  Room  of  Magale  Library,  where 
visitors  can  browse  through  it  tor  a  remarkable 
trip  down  memory  lane. 


1960s 

FULLER  BAZER  '60,  his  wife  ANN  SCHAAF 
FULLER  X'63,  and  their  two  children,  AMY 
and  BETH,  were  honored  by  the  Gainesville 
Junior  Woman's  Club  as  the  1982  Family  of  the 
Year.  DR.  BAZER,  a  professor  of  reproductive 
physiology  in  the  animal  science  department  at 
the  University  of  Florida,  was  named  Alpha 
Zeta  "Teacher  of  the  Year"  and  has  won  the 
"Physiology  Award,"  the  highest  honor  in  his 
field.  ANN,  assistant  librarian  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Florida  research  library,  is  also  involved 
with  the  Garden  Club,  the  Woman's  Club,  Girl 
Scouts,  and  the  United  Way,  and  has  served  as 
a  president  of  the  Junior  Woman's  Club. 
Daughters  AMY  and  BETH  are  both  honor  stu- 
dents. AMY  is  a  ballerina,  and  has  performed 
the  Nutcracker  for  the  Civic  Ballet  for  five 
years,  and  BETH  is  a  gymnast  and  musician. 


DR.  JOHN  L.  HOOKER  '66  has  just  had  his 
first  musical  drama  produced  by  the  Center 
City  Commission,  the  Downtown,  Dream  Ma- 
chine, and  the  Playhouse  on  the  Square  at  Cal- 
vary Church  in  Memphis,  where  he  is  organist/ 
choirmaster.  The  150th  Anniversary  celebra- 
tions show,  "The  Clown  of  God,"  is  based  on 
the  book  of  the  same  name  by  Tomie  de  Paola. 

JIM  MONTGOMERY  '68,  editorial  page  editor 
of  The  ( Shreveport)  Times,  was  chosen  by  the 
Greater  Shreveport  Music  Teachers  Association 
to  receive  its  1982  Cultural  Award  for  out- 
standing achievement  to  the  advancement  of 
music  in  the  community  by  a  non-member.  Ac- 
cording to  a  seventy-year-old  grandmother  fan, 
JIM  is  also  the  "most  beautiful  voice"  answer- 
ing the  telephone  calls  in  the  column,  "Tell  The 
Times." 

M.  EVAN  LINDSAY  '68  has  been  elected  a 
principal  in  the  international  accounting  firm  of 
Peat,  Marwick,  Mitchell  &  Co.  He  is  a  manager 
in  the  management  consulting  department  spe- 
cializing in  human  resources,  executive  search, 
and  executive  compensation  practice. 

1970s 

MARIANNE  SALISBURY  JONES  '71  and 
husband  FLOYD  became  the  parents  of  ELIZA- 
BETH ANNETTE   on  Jan.  27    MARIANNE  is 
the  director  of  the  medical  and  dental  library  at 
Truman  Medical  Center  in  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
and  FLOYD  is  in  his  fourth  year  of  studies  at 
the  University  of  Health  Sciences. 

STEPHEN  M.  LAZARUS,  MD  '75  completed 
his  plastic  surgery  residency  at  Vanderbilt  in 
June  and  is  going  into  private  practice  in  Spar- 
tanburg, S.C.  STEPHEN  and  wife  HOLLY 
have  two  daughters. 


Reunion  news  gathered  from  the  Class  of 
1970: 

LINDA  KAY  AVERY  (KATIE)  spent  three 
years  in  advertising  and  is  now  attending  law 
school  at  LSU-BR. 

DR.  STEVE  ARCHER  is  a  surgical  residenl  in 
Oklahoma  City. 

REBECCA  BEATON  RHODES  and  husband 
RICHARD  lived  in  Germany  after  her  gradua- 
tion while  RICHARD  was  in  the  Air  Force. 
Now  they  are  living  in  Kansas,  where  she  takes 
care  of  their  two  children,  and  he  works  tor 
Cessna. 

Alter  graduation  from  Northwestern  University 
Medical  School,  MICHAEL  W.  BROWN  and 
wife  GAIL  moved  to  Durham,  where  he  just 
completed  two  years  of  general  surgery  at 
Duke  and  is  now  in  a  four-year  program  in  uro- 
logic  surgery. 

GLENNA  CLARK  FALLIN  is  an  attorney  in 
Baton  Rouge.  She  and  husband  RUSSELL  are 
awaiting  the  birth  of  their  first  child  this  fall. 

ROBERT  COLLINS,  news  editor  for  The 
Lindale  News,  has  served  as  president  of  the 
East  Texas  Muscular  Dystrophy  Association. 

PAM  COPELAND  MILLER  taught  elementary 
school  for  almost  tour  years.  She  and  husband 
PAUL  are  expecting  their  second  child  in  Octo- 
ber. 

DAVID  DEUFEL  reported  "that  he  has  spent 
his  entire  time  since  graduation  at  the  Ameri- 
can University  in  Washington,  DC,    earned  a 
master's  degree  in  political  science,  and  worked 
as  an  instructor  in  American  government  while 
completing  his  doctoral  dissertation. 

BOB  DODSON,  an  attorney  with  the  Texar- 
kana  firm  of  Wheeler,  Graham,  Wyrick,  Good- 
ing, and  Morris,  is  licensed  to  practice  in  both 
Arkansas  and  Texas. 

"JUDGE"  EDWARDS  is  assistant  manager  of 
Vermilion  Corp.,  a  wetlands  management 
concern  in  Abbeville,  where  he  lives  with  wife 
ELIZABETH.  He  attended  the  National 
Outdoor  Leadership  School  in  Kenya. 

After  years  at  the  LSU  Medical  Center  in  New 
Orleans,  dentist  CHRIS  ERICKSON  and  wife 
DINAH    have  returned  to  Shreveport.    CHRIS 
reports  that  he  has  learned  to  fly  and  has 
worked  for  a  radio  station  doing  the  traffic 
watch. 

MICHAEL  FISHER  worked  as  a  teaching 
assistant  at  Baylor  while  working  on  his 
master's  degree.  He  also  taught  at  a  lycee  in 
Angers,  France,  while  studying  French.  He  is 
currently  working  as  a  commercial  lines  under- 
writer. 

JANET  FREEMAN  is  with  H.T.  Ardinger 
Import  Co.,  and  recently  became  the  junior 
high  youth  director  at  Plymouth  Park  Methodist 
Church  in  Irving,  Tex. 

JAN  GRESHAM  HAM,  assistant  controller  for 
King  Coal  Company  in  Shreveport,  is  chairman 
of  the  Career  Development  Committee  and  is 
on  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Centenary 
Alumni  Association. 

In  Shreveport  CHUCK  HORNE  has  been  an 
insurance  agent  with  State  Farm  since  1976. 

New  Orleans  physician  JOHN  C.  HOWARD 
received  the  Louisiana  Pathology  Society 
Award  in  1982.  JOHN  has  done  research  for 
the  LSU-S  Medical  Center  and  has  represented 
medical  students  in  Washington,  D.C. 


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1970s  (cont.) 

VINCE  ISNER  and  wife  BRENDA  77  are 
living  in  Venetia,  Pa.,  where  VINCE  is  a 
consultant  with  Community  Mental  Health 
Center  and  is  host  of  a  weekly  children's 
television  program  called  "Kidsburg"  on  WPZI- 
TV  in  Pittsburg.  BRENDA  is  the  director  of 
activities  and  volunteer  services  at  a  retirement 
community. 

DONALD  MEYERS  and  wife  EMILY 
HANCOCK  MEYERS  '76  live  in  Shreveport 
with  their  son,  AUSTIN  LOGAN.  DON  is  a 
CPA.  and  EMILY  is  a  school  teacher. 

LOU  MORGAN  moved  to  Dallas  this  year  and 
is  now  working  as  a  Dividend  Accounts  Recon- 
ciler with  the  Mercantile  National  Bank. 

BOB  ROBINSON,  an  attorney  and  landman,  is 
presently  running  U.S.  operations  for  a  Cana- 
dian oil  company.  Wile  ANGIE  is  director  ol 
social  services  at  South  Community  Hospital  in 
Oklahoma  City. 

CAROL  SUTTON  HETHERWICK  is  the 

manager  of  the  South  Park  Selber's  in  Shreve- 
port, where  she  lives  with  husband  RANDY. 

RANDALL  WALKER  is  a  real  estate  broker 
and  developer  in  Harahan,  La. 

ANN  WARD  BEAN  and  husband  BOBBY  are 
the  parents  of  two  daughters.  ANNE  has  taught 
elementary  school  for  six  years  in  Newton, 
Texas,  but  the  family  lives  in  Bon  Wier. 

From  the  Church  Careers  Newsletter  - 
CALVIN  •JEFF"  DUKE  '77  and  wife 
BARBARA  SMITH  DUKE  have  returned  to 
Monroe,  where  JEFF'  is  associate  pastor  at  First 
UMC,  and  BARBARA  will  be  the  pastor  ol 
Asbury    UMC  in  West  Monroe. 

Reunion  news  from  the  Class  of  1977: 
LESLIE  ANDERSON  STOTTS  moved  to  Albu- 
querque when  husband  DAVID  finished  law 
school  and  began  his  practice.  They  enjoy 
camping,  back-packing,  and  snowskiing. 

ANNA  D.  ASLIN,  an  independent  geologist,  is 
active  in  the  theater  community  in  Shreveport. 

CAROL  ATCHLEY  ROBINSON  became  an 
underwriter  trainee  for  St.  Paul  Insurance  Co., 
and  moved  to  Lubbock,  where  she  married 
LESLIE  in  1980.  They  are  the  parents  ol  two 
children,  LESLIE  and  ADAM. 

GEORGE  BAZONE  and  wile  MARIE  are  the 
parents  of  four  children.  GEORGE  is  the 
director  of  adult  and  family  ministries  at  First 
UMC  in  Stuart,  Fla.,  and  director  of  rustic 
camping  in  the  Florida  UM  Conference. 

MARY  HELEN  BROWN  received  her  Ph.D.  in 
speech  communication  from  the  University  of 
Texas  in  May.  She  authored  eight  conference 
papers  and  received  graduate  student  conven- 
tion paper  awards. 

JEANNE  ANNE  CAMPBELL  REESMAN  is  a 
lecturer  in  the  department  of  English  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  where  she  is  work- 
ing on  her  Ph.D.  in  English.  JEANNE  and 
JOHN  A.  REESMAN  were  married  in 
Shreveport  on  Aug.  14. 

SID  DAVIS,  director  of  music  at  the  First  UMC 
in  Carland,  toured  as  a  singer/instrumentalist 
with  Fred  Waring  and  the  Pennsylvanians  tor 
two  years.  On  moving  to  the  Dallas  area,  he 
worked  for  Neiman-Marcus.  He  and  wife 
CINDY  SCOTT  DAVIS  73  are  the  parents 
of  a  son,  TAYLOR  SCOTT. 

DANA  DUTCHER  CLARK  is  a  teacher  cur- 
rently working  towards  her  master's  degree. 
She  and  husband  BRAD  live  in  Kilgore. 


OLD  NEWS 

The  Louisiana  Office  ol  State  Parks  is  in 
the  process  of  restoring  the  old  Centenary 
College  in  Jackson,  La.,  which  will  be  oper- 
ated as  a  state  commemorative  area.  Deb- 
bie Woodiel,  State  Parks  Archaeologist,  and 
others  in  the  office  are  searching  for 
historical  documents  such  as  letters  and 
diaries  which  refer  to  Centenary,  as  well  as 
furnishings  or  other  memorabilia  related  to 
the  Jackson  campus,  1825-1907.  They  are 
not  necessarily  seeking  donations  of  docu- 
ments or  objects;  they  would  simply  like 
to  obtain  the  information  they  contain. 

II  you  have  any  information  on  the  old 
College,  please  contact  Debbie  at  the  Lou- 
isiana Office  ol  State  Parks,  P.O.  Drawer 
1111,  Baton  Rouge.  La.  7082  1 . 


JOY  FAIR  completed  her  master  of  arts  degree 
in  music  and  is  now  a  piano  teacher  at  Nicholls 
State  University. 

LINDA  FANNON  has  been  working  at  Chil- 
dren's Hospital  in  Cincinnati  as  a  resident  in 
pediatrics  after  graduation  from  Vanderbilt 
University  Medical  School. 

JOHN  W.  -JACK"  FIND.  Vanderbilt  Law  grad, 
is  planning  to  sit  for  the  Arkansas  bar  exam.  He 
and  wife  JANE  DILLINGHAM  FINK  79 
expect  their  first  child  this  tall. 

GAIL  ANN  HAMILTON  received  her  master 
of  arts  degree  from  the  University  of  Chicago. 
She  is  a  health  planner  for  the  city  of  Houston 
health  department  and  formerly  worked  as  a 
research  associate  lor  United  Way. 

JOE  HARDT  is  an  attorney  with  a  Dallas  firm 
specializing  in  corporate  and  securities  law. 

Travel  agent  KIM  HUGHENS  KERNS  moved 
to  the  outskirts  of  St.  Louis  when  husband 
DF'NNIS  was  transferred  with  Frontier  Air- 
lines. 

SUSAN  PATTERSON  COMEAUX  is  a  piano 
teacher  in  Crowley,  La.  She  and  husband 
SHELBY  have  been  traveling  to  France,  Italy, 
Hawaii,  and  Canada. 

DAVID  PENRI-EVANS  went  to  the  University 
ol  Wales  and  gained  the  post  graduate  certifi- 
cate in  education.  He  taught  music  at  Victoria 
College,  Jersey  (Channel  Islands).  DAVID  is  in 
graduate  school  at  LSU-BR. 

GARY  B.  PRECHTER,  wife  MARY  WATKINS. 
and  son  RYAN  live  in  New  Orleans,  where 
GARY  is  a  credit  analyst  with  E.F.  Hutton 
Credit. 

ANDY  SHEHEE  is  the  associate  director  of  ad- 
missions at  Centenary  and  has  been  with  the 
admissions  office  over  four  years. 

MELOYDE  TANNER  BARNES  and  husband 
DAVID  live  in  Choudrant.  La.,  where  she  is  an 
executive  secretary  at  the  Dubach  State  Bank. 
MELOYDE  is  working  on  a  master's  degree  in 
management/  marketing. 

SANDRA  THOMPSON  SHAW,  a  French 
teacher  at  Southfield  School  in  Shreveport  tor 
the  past  four  years,  is  married  to  NOLAN 
SHAW,  JR.  75. 

VIRGINIA  WILLIAMS  DARK  and  husband 
STAN  moved  to  Baton  Rouge  in  August.  VIR- 
GINIA plans  to  attend  LSU  to  begin  studies  on 
a  master's  degree  in  social  work. 

More  news  from  Church  Careers  — 

STEWART  MARSHALL  78  was  ordained  at 
the  Redeemer  Lutheran  Church  in  Shreveport 
in  June.  JOE  DOWLING  79  is  entering  Meth- 
odist Theological  School  in  Ohio  this  tall.  RON 


MYERS  79  will  enter  Iliff  School  of  Theolop,  ■ 
this  fall,  also. 

JOANNE  AUSTIN  HARRIS  79  is  part  of  th, 
television  staff  at  First  Methodist  Church  in 
Shreveport.  The  church  has  launched  a  satelt 
program  to  be  beamed  all  over  North  and 
South  America,  and  JOANNE  is  responsible 
much  ot  the  program  taping. 

JAYNE  TRAMMELL-KELLY  79  received  tl 
John  Q.  Schisler  Graduate  Award  from  the 
Board  of  Higher  Education  and  Ministry, 
awarded  to  outstanding  graduate  students  ii 
Christian  education. 


ANDREA  MARTIN  79  presented  "And  the 
Lady  Sings  the  Blues,"  sponsored  by  the 
Shreveport  Regional  Arts  Council  and  the 
Family  Social  Club.  ANDREA  is  directing  tl 
musical  portion  of  the  "Poor  Man's  Supper,' 
which  is  held  annually  in  Shreveport. 

BETSY  BOYD  79,  a  Caddo  parish  teacher 
with  her  own  dance  studio,  keeps  trim  by  le' 
ing  dancercize  classes  and  country-western 
dances  and  lessons  at  Centenary. 

PAUL  VERNON  GRIFFITH  79  is  a  musici; 
and  drummer  for  "A-Train." 


SUSIE  SUBLETT  MARTIN  and  her  husband 
MATTHEW  live  in  Houston,  where  SUSIE  i    ' 
physical  education  teacher  at  River  Oaks  Ba 
tist  Church  School. 

Methodist  minister  TERRY  W.  SWAN  is  a  d 
toral  candidate  in  education  at  Vanderbilt.  I 
and  wile  LINDA  live  in  Bowling  Green,  Ky. 
and  are  raising  two  children. 


MIKE  WARNER,  an  environmental  chemist 
St.  Louis  with  Monsanto  Agricultural  Produc 
is  writing  his  thesis  for  a  Ph.D.  in  organic 
chemistry  at  Indiana  University. 

MARY  YOUNG  WALKER  taught  school  for 
five  years  before  "retiring"  to  take  care  of  h 
band  JOSEPH  WOODS  WALKER  75  and 
their  new  son,  JOSEPH  WOODS,  JR. 

News  from  the  Reunion  ol  the  Class  of  197PB 
included: 


MIKE  BROYLES,  who  completed  LSU-S  Me 
cal  School,  has  started  a  tour-year  residency 
radiology  at  the  LSU  hospital. 


Alter  finishing  medical  school  at  Bowman  G 
in  Winston-Salem,  GREG  BRADEN  and  will 
DEBBIE  moved  to  Galveston,  where  GREG 
will  begin  a  three-year  residency  in  internal 
medicine  at  the  University  of  Texas  Medical 
Branch. 

CATHY  BUSCH  is  completing  her  Ph.D.  in 
personality  psychology  at  Johns  Hopkins  Un 
versity  in  Baltimore. 

NANCY  COOPER  completed  her  master  ol 
music  degree  and  is  now  finishing  up  work 
Doctor  of  Musical  Arts  degree  at  the  East™ 
School  of  Music  in  Rochester,  N.Y. 

U.S.  naval  officer  DALE  COTTONGIM  is  s 
tioned  in  Athens,  Ga. 

RITA  CROMWELL  CULLIGAN  and  husbai 
PAT  moved  to  Baton  Rouge.  RITA  is  a 
Christian  education  assistant  and  has  certifii 
tion  in  special  education  in  addition  to  certi  I 
tion  as  a  YMCA  gymnastics  instructor. 

Certified  public  accountant  DAN  EDMUNI 
practicing  in  the  tax  department  of  Arthur 
Anderson  and  Co.  in  New  Orleans. 

AMANDA  GARRET  EARLY  is  an  auditor 
a  CPA  firm  in  Lubbock,  where  husband  JIIS 
a  junior  medical  student  at  Texas  Tech  Uni 
sitv  Health  Sciences  Center. 


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1970s  (cont.) 

BARC  instructor  MARTY  GRIFFITH  wrote, 
since  leaving  Centenary,  I  have  taken  a 
aging  tour,  worked  as  a  secretary,  sung  regu- 
i rly  at  Steak  and  Lobster,  and  worked  as  a 

id-day  and  news  announcer  on  KMBQ." 

ERRY  GROGAN  HALPIN  received  a  bache- 
r  of  nursing  degree  from  the  University  of 
incinnati  and  is  a  registered  nurse  in  a  special 
re  unit.  Husband  JOHN  is  a  bank  manager  in 
incinnati. 

ONNA  HENDRYX  EVERETT  worked  as  a 
rector  of  youth  ministries  and  a  youth  choir 
rector  at  a  Methodist  church  in  Jackson.  She 
ans  on  finishing  a  degree  in  business  after 
lsband  PERRY  76  finishes  his  pediatrics  resi- 
ncy  next  June. 

R.  CATHY  "CASIE"  HESEMANN,  who  grad- 

ited  from  LSU-S  Medical  Center  in  May,  is 
irting  a  diagnostic  radiology  residency  at 
eveland  Clinic. 

1ERIE  HILBORN  DUNPHY  attends  LSU 
edical  School  in  Shreveport,  where  she  lives 
th  husband  FRANK. 

LEEN  MARTIN  is  a  singer  at  the  Boca  Raton 
>tel  and  Club.  She  earned  a  master's  degree 
vocal  performance  from  Florida  State  Uni- 
rsity  in  Tallahassee. 

UMCY  A.  MATTHEWS  WARD  and  husband 
IOMAS  live  in  Los  Angeles.  NANCY  is  a 
)duate  student  and  teaching  assistant  in  soci- 
igy  at  UCLA  and  is  actively  involved  with  a 
itical  organization,  the  Democratic  Socialists 
America. 

HN  MONTELEPRE  and  wife  LIZ  LUKE  75 
■  owners  of  Leon's  Smoked  Turkey,  a  barbe- 
restaurant  with  two  locations  and  one  fran- 
se  store  —  all  in  Shreveport. 

M  McDANIEL  bartended  for  four  years  and 
low  studying  for  a  master's  degree  in  corn- 
ier science  at  USL  in  Lafayette.  He  started  a 
ching  assistantship  this  summer. 

Cincinnati,  GAIL  MARIE  NOLTE  works  in 
rket  research  for  Proctor  and  Gamble.  She 

0  received  a  master's  degree  in  planning 
m  the  University  of  Cincinnati. 

CK  M.  O'DELL  was  ordained  as  an  elder  at 

Louisiana  Conference  of  the  UMC  in  June 

is  also  the  associate  minister  at  University 

MC  in  Lake  Charles.  JACK  and  wife  KAREN 

/e  one  daughter,  RACHEL. 

>BIN  LINCOLN  DENT  is  a  children's  choir 
ector.  She  and  husband  KARL  are  the 
rents  of  SARAH  KATHERINE. 

DLLY  MAHONE  HOLDER  and  husband 

1  RRY  HOLDER  79  live  in  Oklahoma  City, 
'ere  MOLLY  is  a  social  worker  in  South 
'immunity  Hospital.  She  completed  her  mas- 
ts in  social  work  at  the  University  of  Denver. 
IRRY  is  the  chaplain  and  minister  of  Presby- 
•ian  Hospital 

MARLOTTE  FREDA  MATTMAILER  re 

tned  to  school  as  a  student  at  LSU-BR  in  the 
•  lool  of  Library  and  Information  Sciences. 

HN  MAUMUS  HOPKINS  and  husband 
TER  live  in  New  Orleans  and  are  the 
lhnts  of  PETER,  JR.  JEAN  has  taught  nurs- 
school,  kindergarten,  and  fifth  grade. 

IE  McKINZIE  received  his  master  of  divinity 
<^ree  from  Emory  University  in  Atlanta  and  is 
>wa  United  Methodist  minister  at  the  Church 
the  Servant  in  Oklahoma  City. 


Both  JAYNE  MIDDLEBROOK  ZEIDLER  and 
husband  ROBERT  work  lor  Day  and  Night 
Communications  in  Sacramento,  where  JAYNE 
is  a  customer  service  representative. 

VICKIE  MURRAY  FULGHUM  taught  at  Apollo 
Elementary  for  two  years.  VICKIE,  husband 
HAL,  and  daughter  SARA  live  in  Bossier  City, 
where  VICKIE  owns  a  dancing  school. 

RICHARD  A.  RYBA,  a  nuclear  medicine  tech- 
nologist supervisor,  is  attending  graduate  school 
in  Tulane  in  biomedical  engineering.  He  is  mar- 
ried to  ANN  GREENOUGH  79. 

DAVID  SCHALLER.  wife  PATTY,  and  their 
two  children  live  in  Lake  Village,  Ark.,  where 
DAVID  is  the  pastor  ol  First  Presbyterian 
Church.  DAVID  attended  Iliff  School  of  Theol- 
ogy and  received  a  master  of  divinity  degree 
from  Austin  Presbyterian  Theological  Seminary. 

NASSER  SHUKAYR  and  wile  PAMELA 
GREER    live  in  Shreveport,  where  NASSER  is 
vice  president  ol  Computer  Professionals,  Inc. 

DEBORAH  S.  STAPLES  is  stationed  in 
Memphis  undergoing  naval  aviation  technical 
training  to  be  a  certified  air  controlman. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

MARIAN  RUSS  HUNSUCKER  '35 

July  1,  1982 

JUDGE  DOYLE  E.  WHITE  '37 

1982 

CORNELIA  ROW  BOLEN  (Mrs.  Roy  J.)  '39 

May,  1982 

HAROLD  SHREVE  BUTCHER  '50 

July  3,  1982 

EMILY  HOLSOMBACK  McDANIEL 

(Mrs.  William  C.)  X'50  July  14,  1982 

BOBBY  HUGH  SNEED  '57 

July  18,  1982 

GAYLORD  "BUDDY"  JENKIN  X'59 

July  12,  1982 

The  REV.  ROBERT  E.  BELL  '62 

May  28,  1982 

The  REV.  JOHN  AUSTIN  LOGAN,  JR.  78 

July  1,  1982 

A.B.   "BROWNIE"  MORRIS,  JR. 

C48)Sept.  19,  1982 

FRANKIE  STEPHENS  MORRIS 

('57  &  '58)  June  12,  1982 

TOM  RICHARDSON 

C39)  August,  1982 


1980s 

KATHY  TURNER  '80  is  the  new  director  of 
student  activities  at  Centenary.  Prior  to  return- 
ing to  Shreveport,  KATHY  worked  with  the 
Board  of  Global  Ministries  of  the  United 
Methodist  Church  in  Brownsville,  Tex. 

BRENT  D.  HENLEY  '80,  Director  of  Commer- 
cial College  of  Shreveport,  is  currently  working 
on  his  master's  in  human  relations  at  Louisiana 
Tech. 

JANET  L.  VAUGHT  '81  is  an  instructor  in 
word  processing  at  Commercial  College  of 
Shreveport 

LINDA  KEENEY  PASSANITI  '81  and  husband 
TONY  announced  the  arrival  of  their  daughter, 
LINDA  KIMBERLY  RENEE,  born  on  Aug.  6. 
LINDA  is  a  second  year  graduate  student  in 
chemistry  at  the  University  of  New  Orleans. 

Attention  sports  fans!  Centenary  baseball  play- 
ers DAVID  COSS  '82  and  JOHN  ANDREW 
"ANDY"  WATSON  X'82  have  been  drafted  by 
the  Pittsburg  Pirates. 

GREGORY  LAMAR  HADDOX  '82  and  DEB- 
ORAH LOUISE  SMITH  were  married  in  Hous- 
ton on  July  24.  GREG  is  the  new  assistant  bas- 
ketball coach  at  Centenary. 

The  Church  Careers  Newsletter  relates  the  fol- 
lowing news  about  the  Christian  Education 
graduates  of  82.  JOANNE  COOK  is  the  new 
director  of  Christian  Education  at  First  UMC  in 
Homer.  MARK  EVANS  is  the  Director  of 
Youth  Ministries  at  University  UMC  in  Lake 
Charles.  DANA  MATHEWSON  will  attend 
Baptist  Theological  Seminary  in  Fort  Worth, 
and  MARK  STEELE  has  enrolled  in  Garrett 
Seminary  in  Evanston.  LISA  McCARTHY  has 
accepted  a  job  in  Christian  Education  at 
Williams  Memorial  Methodist  Church  in 
Texarkana,  and  SHAY  McNULTY  is  working 
as  youth  director  in  St.  Anthony  of  Padua 
Catholic  Church  in  Eunice. 

CURTIS  JACKSON  '82  writes  from  Florida, 
where  he  is  working  in  a  dinner-theatre  that 
"Everything  is  nice.  I've  been  on  the  beach  a 
lot,  and  I've  got  a  tan."   His  address  is  723  Pine- 
tree  Drive,  Indian  Harbour  Beach,  Fla.  32937. 


LLEY  McLEAN  BENNET,  a  geological 
istant  with  Shell  Oil  Company,  lives  with 
iband  EDMUND  in  Kenner,  La. 


PRESIDENT  WEBBS  SPEAKING  ENGAGEMENTS 
FALL,  1982 

Oct.  10  Preaching  at  Haynesville  UMC,  Haynesville,  La. 

Oct.  24  Preaching  at  First  UMC,  DeRidder,  La. 

Nov.  7  Preaching  at  University  UMC,  Lake  Charles,  La. 

Nov.  9  Alumni  Gathering  in  Midland,  Tex. 

Nov.  29  Preaching  at  Mount  Zion  UMC,  New  Orleans,  La. 

Nov.  25  Speaking  at  St.  Pauls  Episcopal  Church,  Shrevejxtrt,  La. 

Dec.  1  Alumni  Gathering  in  Dallas,  Tex. 

Dec.  6  Reading  "A  Child  s  Christmas  in  Wales"  at  Junior  League  meeting 

Dec.  14  Speaking  at  luncheon  meeting  ol  American  Society  of  Quality  Control, 
Shreveport,  La. 

Dec.  16  Luncheon  speaker  for  Christmas  party  for  Shreveport  Traffic  and  Trans- 
portation Organization,  Shreveport,  La. 

Jan.  19  Speaker  at  "Woman  of  the  Year"  assembly  in  Longview 

Jan.  21  Convocation  of  Boards  of  the  United  Methodist  Church 

Jan.  28  Alumni  Gathering  in  Texarkana 

Feb.  1-2  National  Association  of  Colleges  &  Universities  of  the  United  Methodist 
Church 

Feb.  6  Preaching  at  New  Iberia  UMC,  New  Iberia,  La. 

Feb.  10  Reading  Poetry  at  11:00  a.m.  Convocation 

Feb.  24  Speaking  to  Downtown  Kiwanis  Club 

Feb.  20  Preaching  at  Lakeview  UMC,  Shreveport,  La. 

Feb.  26  Speaking  at  Homecoming  and  High  School  Weekend 

Mar.  1 8- 1 9  In  New  Orleans  attending  the  Cad wallader  Lectures  and  Alumni  Gathering 


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Fall  registration  at  Centenary  College  was  a  busy  one.  Over  1490  students 
registered  for  undergraduate  and  graduate  classes.  Their  average  ACT 
score  is  three  points  higher  than  the  national  average. 


Dr.  David  Kimball  pauses  in  the  Meadows  Museum 
where  he  is  surrounded  by  many  works  of  art  he  has 
donated  to  Centenary  over  the  past  30  years.  The  Cente- 
nary Collection,  shown  for  the  first  time  as  a  group,  in- 
cludes works  by  such  artists  as  Toulouse-Lautrec,  Marie 
Laurencin,  Salvador  Dali,  Renoir,  Utrillo,  Mary  Cassatt; 
and  others.  Other  donors  to  the  Centenary  Collection 
are  O.  Delton  Harrison,  Jr.,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  Stein  '48 
Mrs.  Jacques  Steinau,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  T.  Whited,  Dri  I 
and  Mrs.  E.  O.  Ford,  Chatham  H.  Reed,  Jr.  '64,  Mrs  I 
Harry  Brown,  Elizabeth  Friedenberg  '55,  Lee  G.  Truman 
Mrs.  Charles  Swett,  Mrs.  O.  J.  Dykes,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs! 
Frank  Word  '41  and  the  Gertrude  Word  estate. 


Freshmen  parents  and  members  of  the  faculty  and  staff  visit  during  Orientation 


Centenary  Women's  Club  President 
Theresa  Meldrum  71  welcomes  new 
members  to  the  Membership  Coffee  held 
in  the  Meadows  Museum  last  month.  All 
women  interested  in  Centenary  College 
are  urged  to  join.  Dues  are  $7.50  for  a 
new  or  renewed  membership  and  $100 
for- a  life  membership.  Checks  may  be 
mailed  to  Mrs.  Nolan  G.  Shaw,  626 
Forbing  Drive,  Shreveport,  La.,  71106. 
The  Club  has  funded  many  scholarships 
over  the  years  and  has  also  been  respon- 
sible for  the  recent  renovation  of  the 
South  Cafeteria.  Money  is  raised  through 
membership  dues  and  special  events, 
such  as  the  Christmas  Boutique  and 
Luncheon  which  will  be  held  Dec.  1  by 
Bynum  Commons. 


Looking  over  the  six  new  tennis  courts  down  by  the  Gold  Dome  are  members  of  th(| 
Tennis  Steering  Committee  including  (left  to  right)  Dr.  Darrell  Loyless,  vice  president  oj 
the  College;  John  Meldrum  '72,  president  of  the  Gents  Club;  Tennis  Coach  Jimnrj 
Harrison;  Jim  Perkins,  director  of  development,  and  Lee  Hogan  '66  and  Jerry  Sawyer 
trustees  of  the  College.  The  $150,000  tennis  complex  is  one  of  many  improvement 
made  on  the  campus  during  the  summer. 


Winter,  1983 


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Great  Teachers  — 
Scholars  Fund 
is  underway 


Each  year,  deadlines  met  and  missed,  Centenary  College  students  produce  a  wee 
newspaper,  The  Conglomerate;  a  yearbook,  The  Yoncopin,  and  hundreds  of  progrt 
on  the  campus  radio  station,  KSCL,  91.3  FM.  In  charge  of  those  activities  this  year 
(left  to  right)  Todd  Moore,  editor  of  The  Yoncopin;  Bonnie  Brown  and  Leigh  Weeks, 
editors  of  The  Conglomerate,  and  Guy  Cassingham,  manager  of  the  radio  station.  (I 
pictured  is  Alan  Irvine,  editor  of  Pegasus,  a  collection  of  creative  works.) 


On  watching 

a  teacher  — 
A  Pulitzer  Prize 
winner's  view 


What's  an 
art  director? 


On  the  cover 


Centenary  art  instructor  Neil  Johnson  uses  this  image  of  the  "dish,"  the- satellite  tra:| 
mit  and  receive  antenna  at  First  United  Methodist  Church  in  downtown  Shreveporlj 
to  illustrate  the  theme  of  this  issue  —  communication.  The  dish  enables  First  Churc 
to  broadcast  programs  —  many  of  them  featuring  Centenary  events  or  faculty  —  orJ 
its  new  Alternate  View  Network  (AVN)  throughout  the  North  American  continent, 
the  Shreveport-Bossier  area,  the  network  is  received  on  Channel  20  on  the  Channel 
Selector  or  cable-ready  television  set.  In  other  parts  of  the  United  States,  TV  viewe  i 
must  ask  their  local  cable  company  for  the  channel  which  receives  from  the  Sat  Coil 
3  Transponder  18.  Wherever  you  live,  you  may  want  to  tune  in  Sunday,  Jan.  30,  at 
11  a.m.  EST  for  a  30-minute  program  featuring  Centenary  College  President  Dona' 
A.  Webb  and  Head  Basketball  Coach  Tommy  Canterbury,  who  take  a  look  at  the 
1982-83  basketball  season.  The  show  was  produced  by  JoAnne  Harris  '79,  who  is    i 
featured  on  page  7  of  this  magazine. 


The  Centenary  College  magazine,  Cente- 
nary, (USPS  015560)  January,  1983, 
Volume  10  No.  3,  is  published  four 
times  annually  in  July,  October,  January, 
and  April  by  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
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Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  camf  j. 


Editor Janie  Flournoy 

Special  Contributors Don  Danvers,  Lee  Mor; 

Kay:  I 

Production Rushing  Printing  I 

Alumni  Director Chris  W<  I 

Photography Janie  Flour  j/ 


Aren't  You  Hungry? 


or 


A  day  in  the  life  of  a  New  York  art  director 


io  what  does  a  nice  young  Protestant 
[  i  with  a  sociology  degree,  eight 
)  rs  of  French  and  thousands  of 

sic  lessons  do? 

le  goes  to  New  York  and  becomes 
i  art  director  in  one  of  the  largest 

ertising  agencies  in  the  world. 

That's  nice;  what's  an  art  director 
:" 

I  just  draw  stick  figures  and  turn 
4  in,    is  my  usual  explanation. 

dually  drawing   is  only  a   small 

tof  what  an  art  directordoes.  His 
lit  important  task  is  conceptual 

king.  "The  great  idea.''  "A  killer 

lpaign."  Inventing  those  adver- 

mentsyou  love  (or  hate)  to  watch, 

J  or  look  at. 

he  art  director  generally  accom- 

hes  this  with  the  help  of  a  copy- 

ter.  But  the  art  director  is  just  as 
•(Donsible  for  writing  a  headline  or 
i'lpt  as  a  writer  is  for  thinking  visual- 
All  this  to  entertain,  inform,  interest, 
ligueand  to  sell  a  product,  service 

mage. 

low  that  we've  cleared  that  up, 

haps  the  best  way  to  explain  what 

rt  director  does  is  to  describe  one 

ly  typically  untypical  days  to 

rk." 

londay  morning  -  7:30  a.m.  The 

m  goes  off  and  is  immediately 
rdt  to  8  a.m.  In  a  semiconscious 
itp,  it  is  not  difficult  to  rationalize 

there  is  nothing  to  do  in  the  office 

lat  hour  of  the  morning. 

'.:00  a.m.  Again  the  alarm  sounds. 

,:45  a.m.  -  Showered,  shaved  and 
dssed,  I  stand  on  the  subway  plat- 
[cp  recalling  the  optimistic  words  of 
wit's-his-name  on  "Good  Morning 
kbrica":  "The  Metropolitan  Transit 
Wjkers  Union  and  the  City  of  New 
Y|<  have  averted  a  transit  strike,  at 
le|t  until  January.  So  the  subways 
ir  buses  should  be  running  as  ineffi- 
:i'tly  as  ever  this  morning.  Have  a 
ni  day." 

ia.m.  -  The  train  arrives  and 
h  I'd  reds  of  people  I  don't  even  know 
p; ;  themselves  like  sardines  into  my 
stvay  car. 

(20  a.m.  -  1  emerge  at  Grand 
Cdtral  Station  gasping  for  air,  and 
in  ediately  duck  into  the  Croissant 
SI p  for  black  coffee,  a  raisin  danish, 
ar|a  New  York  Times. 

bout  9:25  a.m.  -  The  seventh 
is  encouragingly  quiet.  A  glance 
y  desk  calendar  reveals  that  I 
30  glorious  minutes  before  my 
appointment  for  the  day  (more 
it  reps  later).  In  the  office  next  to 
,  four  of  my  co-art  directors  and 
rs  are  recounting  how  they  staked 
the  lobby  of  the  Pierre  Hotel  all 
kend  to  get  a  glimpse  of  Audrey 
burn,  and  how  they  plan  to  crash 


Marshall  Taylor  79  earned  his  masters 
degree  in  advertising  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas  at  Austin  and  is 
currently  working  for  ]  Walter 
Thompson  in  New  York  as  an  art 
director  on  the  Burger  King  account. 

the  Friar's  Club  roast  of  Cary  Grant 
at  the  Waldorf  this  evening. 

9:45  a.m.  -  Ten  minutes  into  my 
Times  and  danish,  the  phone  rings. 
"Can  you  come  in?"  -Click-  The  voice 
of  my  supervisor  has  spoken. 

9:46  a.m.  -"What  are  you  doing  on 
Wednesday?"  mumbles  the  voice 
through  a  thick  cloud  of  maple  bourbon 
pipe  smoke. 

"Oh,  the  same  old  stuff." 

"Good,  you're  going  to  LA  to  taste 
tacos." 

"Any  particular  reason?" 

"Burger  King  is  introducing  tacos 
into  their  LA  stores,  and  they  want  to 
do  a  campaign.  Your  assignment, 
should  you  decide  to  accept  it,  is  to 
find  out  if  they're  edible  and  how  they 
stack  up  against  the  competition." 

10:00  a.m.  -  The  phone  rings.  It's 
an  invitation  to  lunch.  A  free  lunch  at 
the  Four  Seasons  (one  of  the  fringe 
benefits  of  being  an  art  director). 

10: 10  a.m. -Again  the  phone  rings. 
My  appointment,  a  photographer's 
rep,  hasarrived.  (Reps  represent  film 
directors,  illustrators,  photographers, 
and  color  labs.  They  exist  by  the  mil- 
lions, and  they  all  want  "to  work  with 
you  on  your  next  project  ')  Fortunately 
this  repdoes  not  tell  me  her  life  story 
and  is  gone  in  four  minutes  flat. 

10:14  a.m.  -  Meanwhile,  four 
people  have  gathered  in  my  office. 
Lori  tries  to  enlist  my  aid  in  leading 
the  assault  on  the  unsuspecting 
Friar's  Club,  while  Kathy  reports  that 
Jim  (the  creative  director)  hated  our 
ideas  for  the  new  bacon  double  cheese- 
burger commercial  and  wants  to  see 
something  else  by  four  o'clock.  Beth 
has  returned  with  the  latest  art  re- 
visions from  Blechman(  who  is  simul- 


taneously illustrating  eight  magazine 
ads  and  giving  us  peptic  ulcers).  And 
Donna,  wants  to  borrow  my  x-acto 
knife.  Kathy  hears  her  phone  ring  and 
races  out  of  my  office.  Donna  takes 
the  knife,  and  Lori  goes  to  look  for 
cookies  as  Beth  and  I  fret  over  Blech- 
man's  refusal  to  draw  it  the  way  we 
asked  him. 

1 1  a.m.  - 1  go  looking  for  Kathy  who 
is  still  on  the  phone.  I  drag  her  into  the 
conference  room  where  we  diligently 
brainstorm  to  save  the  bacon  double 
cheeseburger. 

Noon  -  We  finally  have  two  ideas 
we  like.  We  race  into  yet  another 
supervisor's  office  for  approval  before 
Jim  sees  them.  Greg,  our  supervisor, 
hates  the  ideas.  Back  to  the  conference 
room.  No  lunch  at  the  Four  Seasons 
today. 

1  p.m.  -  Nothing.  Writer's  block  has 
set  in.  The  creative  juices  have  gone 
sour.  We  go  looking  for  help  -  Lori. 
We  find  her  going  over  the  movie 
schedule  for  the  afternoon.  After 
bribing  her  with  a  few  cookies,  she 
helps  us  to  break  our  block  and  then 
dashes  to  the  1 :30  feature  of  "E.T." 
(for  the  seventh  time). 

2:15  p.m.  -  Armed  with  three  new 
ideas  for  the  bacon  double  cheese- 
burger commercial,  we  head  for  Greg's 
office.  On  the  way,  Kathy  is  inter- 
cepted by  Jim,  while  I  am  ambushed 
by  Linda  and  Robin.  "Can  you  do  me 
a  really  big  favor?"  Linda  pleads.  "I 
need  you  and  Robin  to  cover  this 
recording  session  for  me  cause  I'm 
really  busy  and  I  have  three  meetings 
at  once  and  I  don't  know  what  I'm 
gonna  do." 

"What  time?    I  ask. 

"At  three." 

"I  have  to  show  Jim  some  re-writes 
for  the  bacon  double  cheeseburger 
spot  -  maybe  Kathy  can  show  him. 
On  cue,  Kathy  stumbles  out  of  Jims 
office  as  if  she'd  been  hit  by  a  tow 
truck.  Her  lips  quiver  as  tears  stream 
down  her  cheeks. 

"You  remember  that  radio  spot  for 
the  Burger  King  salad  bar  we  recorded 
last  week?" 

"Yeah." 

"You  remember  how  everyone 
loved  it?" 

"Yeah." 

"You  remember  how  they  said  it 
was  the  best  radio  commercial  that 
had  ever  come  out  of  this  agency?" 

"Yeah." 

"The  client  just  killed  it.  He  hates 
it." 

"No!" 

"Yeah,  and  now  I  have  to  write 
another  salad  spot  by  tomorrow.  By 
the  way,  the  bacon  double  cheese- 
burger spot  is  on  hold." 


3  p.m.  -  Recording  sessions  that 
work  are  always  more  fun.  Today  we 
are  recording  the  200th  version  of  the 
"Aren't  you  Hungry"  music.  My 
stomach    refuses   to  forgive   me   for 
missing  lunch  at  the  Four  Seasons. 

6  p.m.  -The  session  is  almost  over. 
Three  hours  and  46  takes  later,  the 
musicians  have  gone  home  and  we 
are  left  mixing  the  24  separately 
recorded  tracks  down  to  four.  Linda 
walks  in. 

"How's  it  sound?" 

"Great,  play  it  for  her." 

Linda  listens  critically  and  says 
"One  more  time."  The  recording 
engineer  then  begins  mumbling 
expletives  and  starts  turning  colors. 
He  has  just  erased  the  lead  vocalist's 
voice.  Dead  silence.  Rigor  mortis  sets 
in.  Finally  I  summon  up  enough 
courage  to  whisper,  "Anybody  got 
any  idea  where  the  singer  might  be?" 
Someone  says  he  overheard  him 
talking  about  going  for  a  drink  at  a 
nearby  bar,  but  didn't  remember 
which  bar.  Linda  screams,  "Try  them 
all;  Jim  is  going  to  kill  me."  She  picks 
up  the  phone  to  call  Jim.  We  decide  to 
order  out  for  dinner. 

7:45  p.m.  -  In  drags  one  smashed 
lead  vocalist.  We  point  him  towards 
the  microphone  and  tell  him  to  sing. 

9:00  p.m.  -  We  have  "a  buy."  All  we 
have  to  do  is  mix  it  again.  All  eyes  are 
on  the  recording  engineer  who  is 
nervously  a  voiding  all  the  eyes  upon 
him. 

1 1 :00  p.m.  -  Eight  hours  and  $22,000 
later  we  have  a  finished  track  which 
now  has  to  be  approved  by  Jim  before 
he  leaves  for  Florida  at  seven  the  next 
morning.  Linda  graciously  volunteers 
me  to  go  in  early  and  play  it  for  him. 

1 1 :30  p.m.  -As  I  lock  the  door  of  my 
apartment  behind  me  and  lunge  for 
the  bed,  I  remember  the  profound 
words  of  C.  Husak, 


In  the  Ad  Game, 

the  days  are  long 

the  nights  are  tough 

and  the  work  is  emotionally  demanding. 

But  it's  all  worth  it. 

Because  the  rewards, 

are  shallow, 

transparent  and 

meaningless. 

At  least  now  I  can  sleep  soundly. 


By  Marshall  Taylor 


eep  a  great  teacher  teaching 


James  L.  Fisher,  president  of  the  Council  for 
Advancement  and  Support  of  Education  (CASE), 
the  largest  association  of  public  and  private 
educational  institutions  in  the  United  States,  will 
be  the  keynote  speaker  at  the  annual  Great 
Teachers-Scholars  Fund  luncheon  at  Centenary 
College. 

The  kickoff  luncheon  will  be  held  Tuesday, 
Feb.  22,  at  noon  in  the  South  Cafeteria  of  Bynum 
Commons. 

The  Cleveland  Press  has  called  Dr.  Fisher 
"higher  education's  number  one  salesman."  He 
has  won  numerous  awards  for  leadership, 
writing,  speaking,  citizenship,  and  teaching;  he 
holds  five  honorary  degrees. 

In  1981  he  was  named  Association  Educator  of 
the  Year  by  the  American  Society  of  Association 
Executives;  he  earned  the  Distinguished 
Achievement  Award  for  Editorial  Writing  by  the 
Washington  Education  Press  Association  and  the 
Lord  Baltimore  Medal  for  Distinguished  Public 
Service  in  Maryland. 

In  the  four  years  of  his  presidency  of  CASE,  the 
membership  has  grown  by  17  percent  to  2,470 
institutions;  private  support  has  increased  by 
more  than  700  percent,  and  membership  partici- 
pation has  more  than  doubled.  Dr.  Fisher  has 
spoken  and  made  media  appearances  in  48 
states,  Puerto  Rico,  the  Virgin  Islands,  Canada, 
Mexico,  England,  Switzerland,  Indonesia,  and 
Hong  Kong.  He  is  the  author  or  editor  of  three 
books,  and  has  published  more  than  100  articles 
and  papers.  He  has  written  over  600  newspaper 
columns,  essays,  poems,  and  feature  stories.  Dr. 
Fisher  serves  on  the  boards  of  more  than  a  dozen 
businesses,  hospitals,  and  civic  organizations  and 
is  a  trustee  of  four  colleges. 

From  1969-78  he  served  as  president  of 
Towson  State  University  and  according  to  The 
Washington  Post,  "Fisher  helped  to  change 
Towson  from  an  embattled  teachers'  college  into 
a  major  university." 

A  former  Marine,  railroad  section  hand, 
teacher,  and  tennis  professional,  Dr.  Fisher  has 
received  many  honors.  Perhaps  the  most  unusual 
is  the  Honorary  Doctor  of  Laws  Degree  awarded 
him  in  1974  by  Milliken  University  —  where  he 
had  flunked  out  twenty-five  years  earlier. 


Developing  mindpower  is  what 
Centenary  does  best.  Using  mindpower 
is  what  business  does  best. 

Since  1825,  Centenary  College  has 
helped  produce  some  of  our  country's 
finest  mindpower  in  the  person  of  top 
business  leaders,  including  the  president 
of  Shell  Oil  Co.,  a  senior  vice  president  of 
Exxon,  the  chief  executive  officer  of 
Bird  &  Son,  and  countless  professionals 
who  make  significant  contributions  to 
the  life  and  well-being  of  our  nation. 

It  is  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  fund 
which  helps  us  to  keep  a  great  teacher 
teaching  and  a  great  scholar  learning  at 
Centenary  College. 

Don  Duggan  H82  and  William  G. 
Anderson  will  serve  as  chairmen  of  the 
1982-83  Fund.  Division  chairmen  include 


W.  Kirby  Rowe,  Jr.,  chairman  of  the 
board  of  United  Mercantile  Bank;  R; 
A.  Barlow  '54,  partner,  Hargrove, 
Guyton,  Ramey  &  Barlow;  John  Dav 
Crow,  president,  Crow  Interests;  Rob 
M.  Allen,  general  manager,  Western 
Electric;  Tom  Ostendorff,  III,  vice 
president,  Southern  Research  Compa 
Herman  Williamson,  president,  Hurl 
Oil  and  Gas  Company;  Tommy  Stins 
farmer,  Belcher,  La;  and  Jackson  M. 
Elgin  '43,  vice  president,  Merrill  Lyr 
Pierce  Fenner  &  Smith,  Inc. 

A  goal  of  $750,000  has  been  set  fci 
the  '82-83  Fund. 

An  unrestricted  gift  to  the  Great 
Teachers-Scholars  Fund  ensures  Cei 
nary's  role  in  developing  mindpower 
its  fullest  potential.  Education  is  fore\ 


Raising  $750,000  for  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  is  a  challenge  not  taken  lig 
by  (left  to  right)  Dr.  Donald  A.  Webb,  president  of  the  College;  William  G.  Ander 
chairman  of  the  fund,  and  Don  H.  Duggan  H82,  honorary  chairman  of  the  fund, 
public  portion  of  the  drive  will  officially  begin  after  the  kickoff  luncheon  Tuesday,  i 
22. 


ly 
i, 


1 


Financially  Speaking 


Scholarships 

Fortunately  for  Centenary  students, 
ie  scholarship  development  staff  has 
-en  busy,  and  the  community  has  been 
onerous. 

Between  June  1 ,  the  beginning  of  our 
cal  year,  and  Dec.  1 ,  deadline  for  this 
sue  of  Centenary,  18  new  scholarships 
lve  been  established  at  Centenary 
ollege. 

Nine  are  church-related  scholarships 
eluding: 

—  The  Broadmoor  United  Methodist 
Women's  Scholarship,  Shreveport 

—  The  First  United  Methodist  Church 
Scholarship  Fund,  Bastrop 

—  The  Hart/Lawrence  Endowed 
Scholarship,  Vivian  United 
Methodist  Church 

The  Lisbon  United  Methodist 

Church  Scholarship  Fund 

The  Mansfield/Grand  Cane  United 

Methodist  Scholarship  Fund 

The  Mizpah  Class  Scholarship/ 

First  Methodist  Church,  Baton 

Rouge 

The  Munholland  United  Methodist 

Church  Scholarship  Fund,  New 

Orleans 

The  St.  Marks  United  Methodist 

Women,  Monroe 

The  United  Methodist  Women  of 

First  Methodist  Church,  Shreveport 

Nine  other  new  scholarships  include: 

—  A  $10,000  endowed  scholarship 
established  by  the  Ark-La-Tex 
Drilling  Association 

—  The  Verne  Hawn  Art  Scholarship 
Fund,  a  $  10,000  endowment  given 
by  Mrs.  Hawn  on  the  occasion  of 
her  husbands  birthday 

—  The  Howard  Moore  Family 
Endowed  Scholarship  Fund  begun 
by  24-year-old  Howard,  whose 
company.  Union  Oil,  matches  his 
gift  two  for  one 

—  The  $25,000  endowed  Katherine 
Yeldell  Scholarship  Fund  for 
worthy  students 

The  Clarence  L.  Yancey  Memorial 
Endowed  Scholarship  Fund  for 
pre-law  students 
The  Ann  Margaret  Wilhelm 
Endowed  Scholarship  Fund,  estab- 
lished by  her  parents,  satisfied 
customers 

The  $10,000  endowed  George  W. 
Pirtle  Geology  Scholarship  Fund 
for  a  geology  student 


The  Marguerite  Herries  Edwards 
Memorial  Scholarship  Fund  in 
memory  of  Herries  '80,  who  died 
in  France  last  year 
The  Fariebee  Self  Mathematics 
Scholarship  established  by  Betty 
McKnight  Speairs  H78,  in  honor  of 
Dr.  Self,  who  taught  in  Centenary's 
Mathematics  Department  for  30 
years 
If  you  would  like  to  establish  a  scholar- 
ship fund  or  add  to  any  of  the  current 
funds,  please  contact  Bob  Brown,  director 
of  scholarship  development,  or  Miss  Kay 
Madden,  director  of  church  relations. 


A  welcome  addition  to  the  Development 
staff  at  Centenary  College  is  Miss  Kay 
Madden,  Director  of  Church  Relations. 
Kay  is  a  graduate  of  Louisiana  Tech 
University  and  comes  to  us  from  First 
Methodist  Church,  where  she  served  as 
Christian  Education  Director  and  Junior 
High  Youth  Director.  In  her  new  capaci- 
ty at  Centenary,  Kay  will  maintain  ties 
with  Methodist  Churches  in  the  Louisiana 
Conference;  she  will  co-ordinate  the 
Centenary  Church  Council,  and  will  help 
develop  scholarships  and  recruit  stu- 
dents within  the  Church. 


I 

Packin '  em  in 

Members  of  Chi  Omega  sorority  pile 
into  a  telephone  booth  in  the  good  ole 
tradition  of  college  capers.  The  phone 
booth  stuffing  contest  was  staged  to 
publicize  the  Fall  Phonathon,  which 
was  staffed  this  year  by  students.  The 
callers  worked  five  nights  in  November 
dialing  alumni  who  live  outside  the 
state  of  Louisiana  to  ask  for  their 
support  of  the  College.  The  students 
met  their  goal  of  $20,000,  which  is  in- 
cluded in  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars 
Fund. 


Free  Enterprise 

Centenary  College's  Eighth  Annual 
Free  Enterprise  Conference  will  be 
held  Thursday,  Feb.  10,  according  to 
Dr.  Darrell  Loyless,  vice  president  of 
the  College,  who  made  the  announce- 
ment recently. 

The  conference,  which  will  be  held 
in  the  auditorium  of  Hurley  Music 
Building,  will  cover  the  topics  of  oil  and 
energy  and  the  impact  of  these  on  the 
American  and  international  economies. 
Speakers  for  the  conference  will  come 
from  the  business  and  educational 
sectors  of  the  energy  field.  A  luncheon 
will  follow  in  Bynum  Commons. 

The  1983  conference  is  being  funded 
by  the  Associates  for  Free  Enterprise, 
an  organization  based  in  Metairie, 
which  supports  Free  Enterprise  events 
with  contributions  from  businesses  and 
individuals. 

If  you  would  like  to  attend  the 
conference  and  are  not  on  the  invita- 
tion list,  please  write  the  School  of 
Business,  Centenary  College,  P.O.  Box 
4188,  Shreveport,  La.,  71104. 


On  Watching  A  Teache 


By  Paul  Greenberg  X58 

The  other  morning  I  attended  a 
master  class  in  the  viola  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Arkansas  at  Little  Rock.  My 
musical  specialty  is  not  the  viola.  It  is 
listening,  since  I  couldn't  carry  a  tune 
in  a  dumptruck.  But  listening  has  sel- 
dom been  so  rewarding. 

Here  is  how  a  master  class  works: 
First  the  student,  who  is  an  accom- 
plished musician,  plays  a  piece  of  music 
exquisitely,  in  this  case  Ernest  Bloch's 
Suite  Hebraique,  and  the  whole  room  is 
filled  with  beauty  and  elation.  Then  the 
master,  in  this  case  the  renowned  Paul 
Doktor  of  the  Juilliard  School  and  the 
Mannes  College  of  Music  and  (in  the 
summer)  Bowdoin  College  in  Maine, 
delivers  his  appreciation  and  criticism. 

Much  of  the  master's  guidance  is 
technical,  a  whole  new  language  to 
someone  like  me,  and  yet  what  he  says 
sounds  so  eminently  right,  it  brings 
back  the  sound  of  the  music  enhanced, 
and  the  listener  finds  himself  nodding 
in  appreciation  of  every  observation, 
saying  to  himself,  "Yes,  yes,  that's  the 
way  it  really  is,"  though  none  of  these 
points  might  have  occurred  to  him 
while  he  was  enraptured  by  the  music. 

While  the  comments  are  technical, 
the  overwhelming  impression  Paul 
Doktor  leaves  is  that  of  a  man  telling 
some  stories,  enjoying  himself  and  his 
student,  doing  something  workmanlike 
with  comfortable  grace,  and  transmit- 
ting a  trick  anybody  could  do.  And  one 
sees  the  student  nodding  in  agreement, 
too,  eager  to  play  some  part  of  the 
piece  again  from  this  new  vantage.  And 
the  difference  before  and  after  is  imme- 
diately apparent  as  the  student  takes 
up  the  instrument  and  the  music 
acquires  something  different  but  some- 
thing not  altogether  Paul  Doktor  s.  It  is 
now  a  product  of  two  players,  master 
and  student.  And  what  was  beautiful 
reaches  for  the  sublime. 

About  five  minutes  into  this  whole 
process,  all  I  can  think  of  is  "Mary 
Warters  .  .  .  Mary  Warters  .  .  .  Mary 
Warters."  She's  the  professor  who 
taught  me  biology  at  Centenary  Col- 
lege of  Louisiana  some  twenty  years 
ago,  and  I  can  see  her  now  standing  in 
front  of  a  blackboard  with  four  colors  of 
6 


"About  five  minutes 
into  this  whole 
process,  all  I  can 
think  of  is  'Mary 
Warters...  Mary 
Warters. . . 
Mary  Warters. 


chalk  in  her  hand,  a  different  piece 
for  each  of  the  body's  systems  repre- 
sented in  her  drawings.  Her  compe- 
tence was  so  ordinary,  her  reverence 
for  her  subject  so  mundane,  that  only 
later  would  it  occur  to  the  student  that 
he  had  been  engaged  in  an  art.  To  this 
day  I  associate  biology  with  proficiency 
and  revelation. 

There  are  few  great  teachers,  and  to 
witness  one  in  action  is  a  privilege.  The 
moments  are  rare  but  they  last  a  long 
time  in  memory.  And  they  come  unex- 
pectedly. Like  in  a  high-ceilinged  band 
room  at  UALR  on  a  Saturday  morning. 
Or  when  Julia  Child  used  to  slap 
something  together  in  her  televised 
kitchen  just  the  way  it  was  supposed  to 
be  slapped  together.  No  fanfare,  no 
airs,  just  workmanlike  ways  shared.  A 
few  rare  writers,  like  Rebecca  West 
and  George  Orwell,  create  the  same 
effect,  as  when  they  explain  something 
and  the  reader  nods  to  himself  and 
thinks,  "Yes,  yes,  that's  the  way  it 
really  is."  And  the  lesson  becomes  part 
of  one's  experience;  it  is  no  longer  an 
abstraction. 

Whatever  the  subject,  the  viola  or 
auto  mechanics,  theology  or  language 
—  there  are  certain  characteristics  that 
the  great  teachers  seem  to  have  in 
common.  They  seem  to  share  a  routine 
delight  in  their  subject  that  it  would  be 
gaudy  to  call  enthusiasm.  They  remain 


serious  even  when  joking;  perhaps  th 
are  most  serious  then.  But  they  are 
never  solemn.  They  have  not  only  in 
sight  but  the  ability  to  transfer  it  to 
others.  They  deal  with  practical  detai 
They  fall  naturally  into  gesture  and 
anecdote  and  homey  references  that 
the  student  shares  readily. 

They  know  not  only  their  subject  b 
at  what  state  of  the  art  their  student 
and  how  to  make  contact  right  there. 
Perhaps  their  distinguishing  characte 
istic  is  that  they  do  not  draw  attentio 
to  themselves,  even  when  reciting  a 
personal  experience;  the  focus  stays 
the  subject,  which  turns  out  to  be 
fascinating  and  revealing.  They 
approach  their  students  with  an  easyjd 
authority  in  a  common  venture,  nevej  | 
with  condescension.  And  they  never  I 
seem  so  alive  as  when  they  are 
teaching.  They  give  meaning  to  that 
phrase  about  The  Life  of  the  Mind.  I  j 
daresay  there  is  one  more  attribute  t  j 
great  teachers  share,  and  that  is  how! 
ordinary  they  look  before  they  mouni 
lectern,  lean  on  a  piano,  or  approach  j 
the  dissecting  table.  Then  something] 
happens.  They  are  transformed.  And!) 
are  their  students. 

One  can  also  learn  a  good  deal  mo 
than  music  or  biology  from  a  master 
teacher.  Note  some  of  Paul  Doktor  s 
tips  to  his  students: 

"When  in  doubt,  sing." 

Or  on  the  necessity  of  maintaining 
tempo:  "We  have  to  pay  our  debts 
promptly." 

"These  are  things  that  seem  impos 
sible  to  do,  but  thousands  before  us 
have  managed,  and  thousands  after 
will.  It  can  be  done." 

"We  should  realize  what  we  know 
but  often  forget." 

"Always  make  sure  that  what  you 
want  to  do  is  really  coming  out." 

All  of  this  advice  is  addressed  to 
matters  of  technique  and  performan 
but  it  transcends  its  subject  and  says 
something  about  the  human 
experience.  Which  is  one  answer  to 
that  old  question,  What  Is  Art?  Perh 
it  is  to  be  expected  that  the  answer 
would  be  provided  by  great  teachers! 
(The  Paid  Greenberg  Column,  May  j 
1981,  reprinted  with  permission  of  \ 
Paul  Greenberg.) 


; 


! 


Perspectives 


Paul  Greenberg 


JoAnne  Harris 


fThe  sky's  the  limit  for  JoAnne  Harris  79,  manager  of  First 
lited  Methodist  Church's  television  studio  and  home  of  AVN, 
ternate  View  Network. 

JoAnne  produces  shows  which  can  be  broadcast  within  the 
lurch,  within  the  Louisiana  Conference,  and/or  within  the 
)rth  American  continent  via  their  new  "dish,''  a  satellite 
insmit  and  receive  antenna  with  uplink  capabilities. 
"I've  been  working  here  for  six  years,"'  said  the  Shreveport 
itive,  "and  I  really  love  it."  Her  background  in  all  areas  of 
•jmmunications  is  a  real  plus  for  the  job;  she  has  worked  in 
Jio,  TV,  newspaper,  advertising,  and  free-lance  writing.  At 
,;mtenary,  JoAnne  was  a  religion  major. 
As  manager  of  the  church  TV  studio,  JoAnne  is  in  charge  of 
badcasting  the  Sunday  morning  services  at  First  Methodist  on 
th  AVN  and  Shreveport 's  CBS  affiliate,  KSLA.  She  produces 
tures  and  dialogues  for  use  within  the  church  on  a  closed 
cuit  system  and  within  the  Conference  for  those  churches 
th  downlinks,  and  she  is  responsible  for  producing  five  hours 
programming  each  day  for  AVN,  which  can  be  received  in 
Imes  throughout  the  country. 

In  her  free  time,  JoAnne  gets  away  from  the  TV  set  to  enjoy 
iwerboating,  gardening  in  her  greenhouse,  doing  all  sorts  of 
iedlework,  and  even  playing  with  her  miniature  dollhouses. 
hrried  to  1947  graduate  Leven  Hill  Harris,  JoAnne  has  two 
f Lighters,  two  grandchildren,  and  another  grandchild  on  the 
Vy. 


Mental  traction  —  that's  one  part  of  good  writing,  says  Paul 
Greenberg  X58,  and  he  should  know. 

The  winner  of  a  Pulitzer  Prize  and  most  recently  of  the 
American  Society  of  Newspaper  Editors  Distinguished  Writing 
Award,  Paul  finds  himself  most  at  home  at  his  typewriter  com- 
menting on  county  judges,  the  Middle  East,  or  the  late  Martha 
Mitchell  as  editorial  page  editor  of  the  Pine  Bluff  Commercial. 
Since  1971,  his  columns  have  been  syndicated  and  are  carried 
in  over  25  newspapers  throughout  the  country.  His  editorials  in- 
corporate that  mental  traction  which  gives  the  reader  a  sense  of 
discovery  and  oftentimes  indignation  —  that  second  thought 
which  goes  beyond  the  surface. 

"I  was  at  Centenary  for  two  years,  1954-56,  and  they  were 
good  ones,  '  the  Shreveport  native  writes.  "I  think  Mary  Warters 
was  the  finest  teacher  I  ever  had,  and  I  often  cite  her  as  an 
example  of  what  teaching  is  all  about.  "a  And  there  were  other 
giants  in  the  classroom:  Dr.  Wilfred  Guerin,  Dr.  Edward  Clark, 
Cheesy  Voran  (even  though  student  Paul  was  only  an  avid 
listener  of  the  choir),  and  Margaret  MacDonald,  director  of 
Public  Relations. 

Out  of  class,  "editing  the  Conglomerate  in  my  sophomore 
year  was  a  lot  of  fun,"  he  writes,  "especially  writing  editorials 
that  shook  folks  up." 

That  much  doesn't  seem  to  have  changed  for  Paul  Greenberg. 

'Please  see  opposite  page  for  an  editorial  written  by  Paul 
Greenberg  which  recognizes  Dr.  Mary  Warters  for  her  out- 
standing work. 


Packaging  communication 

English  Department  wraps  it  up 


Communication  has  always  been  a  by- 
word of  the  English  Department  at 
Centenary  College,  but  this  year  it  has 
taken  on  added  meaning. 

It  comes  in  the  form  of  a  communi- 
cations program  which  will  expand  the 
present  journalism  program.  "This  will 
be  a  pre-professional  program  —  not  a 
major,"  explained  Dr.  Michael  Hall, 
Chairman  of  the  Department.  "It  will 
include  courses  in  journalism,  public 
relations,  advertising,  television,  speech, 
creative  writing,  and  technical  writing. 
We  already  teach  all  of  these  courses  at 
Centenary,  but  they  are  not  combined 
under  any  one  comprehensive  program." 

A  flexible  program,  students  will  de- 
sign course  combinations  to  meet  their 
individual  needs.  "To  be  'in'  the  program, 
students  will  need  to  take  at  least  four  of 
the  approved  courses,"  Dr.  Hall  said. 

The  new  program  is  a  result  of  student 
interest  and  faculty  involvement.  "Most 
of  our  current  students  are  interested  in 
the  whole  area  of  communication," 
explained  Dr.  Hall,  "unlike  those  in  the 
past  who  were  interested  in  specific 
areas  such  as  journalism  or  public  re- 
lations. We  will  encourage  interested 
students  to  major  in  a  subject  with  a  good 
liberal  arts  background,  take  courses  in 
this  program,  and  then  go  on  to  graduate 
school  for  a  special  degree.  People  in 
communication  need  as  broad  a  back- 
ground as  possible,  and  we  feel  that  we 
can  provide  that  very  well  at  Centenary." 

Teaching  several  of  the  communi- 
cations courses  are  professionals  from 
the  Shreveport-Bossier  City  area  in- 
cluding Art  Shiver,  producer  of  KSLA's 
PM  Magazine  and  Lane  Crockett, 
Amusements  Editor  for  The  (Shreve- 
port)  Times.  Advertising  executive  Bill 
Bailey  Carter  has  taught  the  advertising 
and  public  relations  course  for  several 
years  and  initiated  the  Department's 
Internship  program,  which  has  proved 
to  be  one  of  the  College's  most  valuable 
programs  —  for  the  students  and  the 
community.  "We've  had  students  work- 
ing at  the  Shreveport  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, in  the  Mayor's  Office,  at  hospitals, 
and  in  our  own  Sports  Information 
8 


Office,"  said  Dr.  Hall.  "The  students 
work  between  five  and  ten  hours  per 
week  and  earn  college  credit  and  on-the- 
job  experience.  The  employer  gives  the 
student  training,  supervision,  and  a 
grade  for  the  course.  It's  great  for  every- 
one involved." 

Students  who  don't  wish  to  spend  that 
much  time  away  from  campus  have  the 
opportunity  to  work  on  any  of  the  cam- 
pus media  —  The  Conglomerate,  a 
weekly,  eight-page  newspaper;  The 
Yoncopin,  a  256-page  yearbook;  or 
KSCL,  an  FM  radio  station,  which  just 
last  year  increased  its  wattage  to  150. 
Positions  are  available  in  writing,  page 
layout,  photography,  advertising,  and, 
in  the  case  of  the  radio  station,  announc- 
ing. All  campus  media  are  student- 
funded  and  managed;  faculty  advisers 
work  closely  with  editors  and  station 
managers. 

For  English  majors  not  interested  in 
the  communications  program,  there  are 
numerous  special  opportunities  for 
enrichment  and  involvement. 

During  the  year,  they  may  assist  Pro- 
fessor Anne  Rogers  in  Centenary's 
writing  lab  —  afternoon  sessions  held 
weekdays  for  any  student  needing  help 
with  writing  skills. 

"We  started  this  tutorial  service  last 
fall  a  year  ago,"  Mrs.  Rogers  explained, 
"and  we  found  ourselves  working  there 
more  than  we  thought  we  would.  Just  in 
the  months  of  September  and  October 
of  this  year,  we've  had  90  students  come 
in.  Some  are  repeaters,  but  I  think  that 
shows  we  are  really  meeting  a  need." 

Upper-level  English  majors  are  used 
primarily  as  lab  tutors.  "They  are  super- 
vised by  faculty,  and  faculty  members 
are  'on  call'  for  the  lab.  But  we  have 
found  that  students  working  with  other 
students  usually  works  out  better.  I  can 
see  improvements  —  I  can  usually  tell 
when  a  student  has  been  down  there." 

The  English  Department  also  offers 
two  great  travel  opportunities  —  the 
University  of  Aarhus,  Denmark,  semester 
exchange,  open  to  all  Centenary  stu- 
dents, and  the  British  Studies  at  Oxford 


Program,  open  to  the  campus  and  com- « 
munity. 

A  film  course,  also  open  to  the  public, 
gives  the  English  Department  a  chance 
to  explore  this  literary  medium.  "In 
addition  to  critiquing  the  films,  we  study 
the  stylistic  techniques,  themes,  and 
problems  of  making  literature  into 
films,"  said  Dr.  Hall. 

Films  are  also  used  to  spice  up  Interim 
classes,  held  between  semesters  during 
the  month  of  January  and  not  normally 
offered  during  the  fall  and  spring  semes- 
ters. The  Department's  1981  offering, 
"The  Holocaust,"  was  one  of  the  first 
such  courses  to  be  offered  in  the  country. 

This  year.  Dr.  David  Jackson  is  pre- 
senting an  Interim  course  on  the  works 
of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.  "Beyond 
Treasure  Island"  will  explore  Stevenson 
as  a  psychological  novelist,  an  elegant 
essayist,  and  a  subtle  moralist. 

It  goes  without  saying  that  writing  is 
big  business  for  the  Department  of  En-  :j 
glish.  Almost  every  member  of  the  staff  | 
is  in  the  process  of  writing  or  has  written  ; 
a  book  or  scholarly  article  recently. 

Dr.  Earle  Labor  is  busy  with  two  bocl; 
—  a  three-volume  edition  of  Jack 
London's  letters  and  an  anthology  of 
literature  "L.I.T.:  Literature  and  Inter- 
pretive Techniques,"  which  he  is  workin 
on  with  Dr.  Hall  and  Dr.  Lee  Morgan, 
Brown  Professor  of  English.  Dr.  Morgan 
is  also  working  on  a  second  project  —  a 
biography  of  Henry  Thrale,  18th  centur 
patron  of  Dr.  Johnson,  whom  he  has  re 
searched  in  the  United  States  and 
England.  Likewise,  Dr.  Hall  has  anothei 
project,  a  book  on  the  idea  of  discover; 
in  the  English  Renaissance.  Dr.  Jackson 
is  editing  The  Ebb  Tide  by  Robert  Louis 
Stevenson. 

Like  other  members  of  the  faculty,  th> 
English  professors  also  find  time  to 
volunteer  their  expertise  with  the  Senio 
Adult  Education  Program  at  Centenary  j 
"We  offer  at  least  one  course  per  semes- 1 
ter,"  explained  Dr.  Hall.  "Last  year,  w  J 
had  a  great  time  in  a  creative  writing  I 
course,  and  we  even  published  the  re-  j 
suits,"  he  said,  smiling. 


I 


Dr.  Lee  Morgan,  the  Willie  Cavett 
and  Paul  Marvin  Brown,  Jr.,  Professor 
of  English,  specializes  in  the  works  ot 
Samuel  Johnson  and  eighteenth- 
century  English  literature.  He  also 
teaches  courses  in  the  history  of  the 
English  language  and  advanced 
grammar.  Professor  Morgan  has  been 
a  visiting  Professor  ot  English  at  the 
University  of  Aarhus,  Denmark,  and 
tutor  in  the  British  Studies  at  Oxford 
program  at  St.  John's  College  of 
Oxford  University.  He  has  held  fel- 
lowships from  the  National  Endow- 
ment tor  the  Humanities  to  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  at 
Amherst  and  to  the  City  University 
of  New  York,  and  has  done  post- 
doctoral work  on  a  Carnegie  Grant  at 
Harvard  University. 


Michael  L.  Hall  specializes  in 
lieval  and  Renaissance  English 
rature  and  also  teaches  courses  in 

fi  i  and  creative  writing.  He  has  pub- 
led  work  on  John  Donne,  Henry 
ding,  and  Michel  de  Montaigne, 
held  a  fellowship  to  study  at  the 
er  Shakespeare  Library  in  Washing- 
D.C.and  was  a  National  Endow- 
it  for  the  Humanities  Fellow  in 
idence  at  the  University  of  Chicago 
978-79.  In  the  summerof  1982  he 
a  tutor  in  the  British  Studies  at 
ord  program  at  St.  John's  College, 

ford. 


Dr.  Earle  Labor,  an  internationally 
recognized  authority  on  the  works  of 
Jack  London,  teaches  courses  in 
American  literature,  myth  and  arche- 
type, and  science  fiction.  A  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  he  has  been  a  Fulbright 
Visiting  Fellow  at  the  University  of 
Aarhus,  Denmark,  a  National  En- 
dowment for  the  Humanities  Senior 
Fellow,  president  of  the  College 
English  Association,  and  editor  ot  the 
Cea  Critic.  His  many  publications 
include  Jack  London,  a  book-length 
study  of  London  and  his  work;  he  is 
a  co-author  of  the  widely  used  f land- 
book  of  Critical  Approaches  to 
Literature,  published  by  Harper  & 
Row,  and  a  co-editor  of  Mandala: 
Literature  for  Critical  Analysis. 


Mrs.  Mary  Katzif  has  a  one-year 
appointment  to  the  English  Depart- 
ment. A  Cum  laude  graduate  of 
Georgia  Southern  College,  Mrs. 
Katzif  earned  her  master  s  degree 
from  Baylor  University,  where  she 
pursued  graduate  course  work  in 
Victorian  Literature,  Shakespeare, 
Chaucer,  Mythology  in  Modern 
Poetry,  and  Modern  American  Drama, 
to  name  a  few.  A  paper  entitled, 
"Harry  Bailly:  Chaucer's  Alter  Ego" 
was  presented  at  the  1981  SCMLA 
meeting  in  Austin. 


Mrs.  Anne  Crown  Rogers  is  the  direc- 
tor of  Freshman  English  and  the 
supervisor  of  the  Writing  Lab,  a 
tutorial  service  for  Centenary  stu- 
dents. She  has  served  as  a  panelist  at 
conferences  and  workshops  on  fresh- 
man composition  and  developmental 
English.  She  has  done  additional 
graduate  study  in  rhetoric. 


Dr.  David  Jackson  is  a  specialist  in 
nineteenth-century  English  literature 
-  his  dissertation  was  on  Robert 
Louis  Stevenson  —  with  a  strong 
interest  in  the  early  English  Ro- 
mantics. He  is  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  from 
Occidental  College  and  was  a  Presi- 
dent's Fellow  at  Columbia,  where  he 
taught  for  two  years.  He  is  presently 
compiling  a  scholarly  text  edition  of 
Stevenson's  novel.  The  Ebb  Tide 
(1894).  A  grant  from  the  South 
Central  Modern  Language  Associ- 
ation enabled  him  to  spend  the 
summer  of  1982  working  on  this 
edition  at  the  British  Library  and  Yale 
University. 


Potpourri 


Five 

There  are  five  good  reasons  why  the 
new  Centenary  Woodwind  Quintet  is  a 
great  success:  Janet  McKinney  Scott, 
principal  oboist  with  the  Shreveport 
Symphony  and  a  member  of  the  Hurley 
School  of  Music  faculty;  Stan  Savant, 
principal  flutist  with  the  Shreveport 
Symphony  and  member  of  the  music 
school  faculty;  Henry  Hooker,  principal 
horn  player  with  the  Shreveport  Sym- 
phony and  member  of  the  music  school 
faculty;  Andrew  Brandt,  principal  bas- 
soonist with  the  Shreveport  Symphony, 
who  would  be  a  member  of  the  music 
school  faculty  if  we  had  any  student 
bassoonists,  and  Michael  Williford, 
director  of  bands  and  assistant  profes- 
sor of  music  at  Centenary. 

The  quintet  has  been  formed  to  help 
recruit  students  for  the  instrumental 
program  at  Centenary.  They  have  per- 
formed this  fall  several  times  and 
earned  a  standing  ovation  at  the  Louisi- 
ana Music  Educators  Association  state 
meeting  held  in  November  in  Lafay- 
ette. If  you  know  of  a  high  school  group 
interested  in  having  the  quintet 
perform,  please  contact  Michael  Willi- 
ford, 869-5235. 


Please  touch 

Most  works  of  art  are  designed  to  be 
seen,  but  at  Centenary's  Meadows 
Museum  this  month,  the  art  is  designed 
to  be  felt. 

Museum  docents  are  inviting  guests  to 
touch  and  explore  the  works  of  18  noted 
Virginia  artists  in  the  current  exhibition, 
"Impressions;  A  Touch  of  Art."  This  ex- 
hibit is  designed  to  be  fully  accessible  to 
all  disabilities,  but  especially  to  those 
with  visual  disabilities.  Ropes  will  facil- 
itate self-guided  tours  by  the  visually 
impaired,  and  labels  in  both  Braille  and 
large  type  will  accompany  the  works. 

Blindfolds  will  be  available  to  sighted 
persons  so  they  may  have  the  oppor- 
tunity to  experience  the  show  with  their 
sense  of  touch,  as  well  as  their  sense  of 
sight. 

The  exhibit  is  circulated  by  the  South- 
ern Arts  Federation  and  is  made  possible 
in  part  by  a  grant  from  the  National 
Endowment  for  the  Arts  and  the  Louisi- 
ana Division  of  the  Arts.  It  is  open  to  the 
public  free  of  charge. 

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V  to  V, 


Members  of  the  Woodwind  Quintet  include  (left  to  right)  Henry  Hooker,  horn;  Mich; 
Williford,  clarinet;  Janet  McKinney  Scott,  oboe;  Stanley  Savant,  flute,  and  Andn- 
Brandt,  bassoon.  The  quintet  has  been  formed  to  help  recruit  students  for  t 
instrumental  program  at  Centenary  and  is  available  for  performances. 


Playhouse  wins 

Centenary's  My  Sister  in  This  House 
took  1 1  awards  in  the  Louisiana  College 
Theatre  Festival  held  at  Louisiana  Tech 
University  in  the  Fall. 

The  biggest  prize  Centenary  earned, 
according  to  director  Robert  Buseick, 
Chairman  of  the  Department  of  Theatre 
and  Speech,  is  the  director's  award, 
which  makes  the  drama  by  Wendy 
Kesselman  eligible  for  consideration  as 
a  representative  of  the  Southwest  Region 
to  compete  in  the  national  finals  to  be 
held  in  Washington,  D.C. 

Other  award  winners  were  Cynthia 
Hawkins  '83,  the  Irene  Ryan  Award; 
Lisa  Chaisson,  acting;  Chuck  Drury,  set 
design,  light  design,  and  technical  design; 
Patric  Williams  78,  costuming  and 
graphic  design;  Elizabeth  Haas  '85, 
properties,  and  Lee  Morgan  '85,  and 
Robert  Martin  for  sound. 


At  the  Dome 

It  was  a  banner  year  for  the  Cente- 
nary College  soccer  team  when  the 
dust  settled  on  the  1982  season.  The 
Gent  Kickers  finished  with  an  11-3-1 
overall  record  and  a  tenth-place 
ranking  in  the  Midwest  Regionals.  Not 
bad,  considering  they  had  a  3-12  record 
in  1981  and  a  0-9  record  in  1980. 

The  Cross  Country  team,  the  Gent 
Harriers,  also  ran  a  very  successful  sea- 


son including  a  win  over  LSU  at  the 
LSU  Cross  Country  Invitational.  The 
team  finished  second  in  the  Trans 
America  Athletic  Conference  (TAAC 
with  team  member  Steve  Grenchik 
voted  TAAC  "Runner  of  the  Year." 
After  1 1  consecutive  seasons  on 
KWKH  radio,  the  play-by-play  broad 
casts  of  Centenary  College  basketba! 
have  moved  to  KRMD-AM  (1340).  T 
move  was  made  for  financial  reasons 
said  Walt  Stevens,  athletic  director. 
"We  have  a  product  to  sell  and  feel  t 
will  be  beneficial  to  our  program." 


Hoya  'bout  that 

There  was  a  nice  surprise  for  Cent 
nary  College  in  the  November  issue 
Smithsonian. 

Inspired  by  the  college  basketball 
season  fast  approaching,  Smithsonia, 
columnist  W.  Patrick  Resen  took  a 
humorous  look  at  team  names  and 
mascots.  Beginning  with  the  George 
town  University  Hoyas,  Resen  movei 
the  North  Carolina  Tar  Heels,  St.  Lc 
University  Billikens,  Tufts  University 
Jumbos,  Millsaps  Majors,  and  a  host 
other  unusual  nomers. 

"But,"  Resen  writes  in  his  last  par 
graph,  "My  favorite  is  not  the  Akron 
Zips  or  the  Boston  Terriers.  It  belonj 
to  Centenary  College  of  Louisiana:  t 
Gentlemen.  Sets  the  right  tone,  I  thi 
but  it  must  inhibit  the  cheering.  Afte 
all,  one  can't  yell  "Gents,  kill  the  op- 
position!" 


Centenary  is  fortunate  to  have  a  healthy 
umber  of  children  and  siblings  of  alumni.  A 
hotographic  search  turned  up  a  sampling 
lcluding  Peggy  Ann  Middleton  (above), 
aughter  of  Centenary  acquisitions  librarian 
ancy  E.  Middleton  '57. 


Choir  members  who  have  had  relatives  at  Centenary  before  them  include  (front  row, 
left  to  right)  Susan  Robertson,  and  Polly  Greve,  a  fifth  generation  student  of  the 
Brown  family;  (second  row,  left  to  right )  Scott  C.  Andrews,  Kay  Hedges,  Trey  Harris, 
Suzanne  Thompson,  and  Karen  Armstrong,  and  (last  row,  left  to  right)  Cindy  Coins, 
Lynette  Potter.  Ron  Whitler,  Celia  Anne  Sirman,  Laurie  Clegg,  and  Priscilla  Scales. 


Planning  Ahead 

Dec.  27-Jan.  9  -  "Willy  Wonka  and  His 

Chocolate  Factory,''  Peter  Pan  Players 
Jan.  3-30  -    "Impressions:  A  Touch  of 

Art,'"  Meadows  Museum 
Jan.  25-30  -  South  Louisiana  Choir 

Tour 

Feb.  3  -  Church  Council  Meeting 
Feb.  10  —  Free  Enterprise  Conference 
Feb.  22  -  Great  Teachers-Scholars 

Fund  kickoff  luncheon,  noon.  South 

Cafeteria 
Feb.  26.  -  HOMECOMING:  Gents  vs. 

Samford,  Gold  Dome,  7:45  p.m. 
(Feb.  26-27  --  High  School  Weekend 
fvlarch  10-13,  17-19  -  "Come  back  to 

the  5  and  dime,  jimmy  dean,  jimmy 

dean,''  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse 
Kpril  18-May  13  -  "KATHE  KOLLWITZ: 

An  exploration  in  Human  Destinies,"' 
I    Meadows  Museum 
\pril21  —  Founders' Day  Convocation, 

11  a.m.  Brown  Chapel;  picnic,  noon, 

Crumley  Gardens 
Vpril  27  --  Fourth  Annual  Donors- 
Scholars  Luncheon, noon, South 

Cafeteria 
/lay  22  —  Commencement 
une  24-26  -  ALUMNI  WEEKEND 


Steve  Green  (left)  and  his  brother,  David, 
are  the  third  generation  of  the  Bryson 
family  to  attend  Centenary. 


A  trio  ot  second  and  third  generation 
Centenary  students  are  (left  to  right)  Karen 
Mulling,  Lisa  Rothell,  and  Lisa  Rene  Chais- 
son. 

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Homecoming:  Saturday,  February  26,  1983 
The  nice  thing  about  old  friends  .  .  .  they're  comfortabh 


The  Homecoming  Game 

Gents  vs.  Samford  University 
7:45  p.m.,  Gold  Dome 

Tickets  are  $2.50  (half-price)  for  alumni 
who  use  the  envelope  inserted  on  this 
page  (supply  limited). 

Traditional  half-time  ceremony. 

Pre-game  Reception  for  Alumni  — 

Hosted  by  the  Alumni  Board  of  Directors 
5:30-7:30  p.m.,  Shreveport  Symphony 
House  (2803  Woodlawn,  opposite  Hurley 
School  of  Music). 

Meet  and  greet  old  friends  and  the 
alumni  leadership  before  the  game. 
Light  refreshments,  casual  dress. 


Student  Activities 

House  Decorating  Contest  — 
Take  time  to  see  the  results  of  a  week  9 
preparation.  Judging  at  noon;  winner) 
announced  at  4  p.m. 

Greek  Open  Houses  — 

Stop  by  during  the  afternoon  and  aftrj, 

the  game. 

Student  Government  Association  — 
The  S.G.A.  will  also  sponsor  a  4  p.m.] 
Pep  Rally  and  formal  dinner  and  Horn  j 
coming  Dance  for  students  following) 
the  Gents  game. 

High  School  students  will  have  a  chanc; 
to  participate,  as  they  will  be  invitedi] 
attend  the  annual  High  School  WeekeJ 
Feb.  26  and  27. 


*If  you  know  of  a  high  school  student  who  would  like  toattend,  please  send  his  name  and  address. 
Please  indicate  your  plans  to  attend  the  alumni  reception  and   order  tickets  using  the  insert  envelope. 


Centements 


By  Tom  Burton  '71 

President-Elect 
Centenary  College  Alumni  Association 

A  little  over  a  year  ago,  we  local- 
area  alumni  received  a  letter  from 
Camp  and  Carolyn  Flournoy,  last 
year's  Homecoming  hosts,  which  be- 
gan somewhat  intriguingly:  "What 
the  heck  is  going  on  at  Centenary?" 
I  was  interested  by  that  question  and 
have  since  been  working,  along  with 
the  Alumni  Activities  Committee,  to 
simplify  the  answer  to  it  —  in  case  the 
question  comes  up  again!  The  com- 
mittee, as  planners  of  the  on-campus 
events,  realizes  that  a  degree  of  con- 


Tom  Burton 

fusion  has  existed;  but  we  feel  confident 
in  raising  the  question,  since  the 
answer  now  seems  clear  to  us. 

The  basic  response  is  still  the  same : 
there's  a  lot  going  on.  We  believe  that 
because  of  the  geographic  diversity  of 
our  alumni  group,  and  because  each 
of  us  gets  precious  little  leisure  time,  it 
is  wise  to  continue  to  hold  two  alumni 


events  during  the  year.  We  want  you 
to  re-visit  Centenary  occasionally, 
and  we  realize  that  where  you  live, 
your  work,  your  family,  and  your 
other  commitments  can  easily  pre- 
vent that.  With  both  Alumni  Weekend 
and  Homecoming,  we  offer  you  a 
double  helping  of  fun  —  some  of  us 
might  even  indulge  in  both! 

Homecoming  —  February  26: 
If  you're  close  enough  to  campus  to 
come  for  just  a  half-day,  you'll  be  part 
of  a  tradition  as  old  as  Centenary.  It 
doesn't  take  very  long,  especially  on  a 
day  like  this  when  the  whole  campus 
comes  alive,  to  be  impressed  with 
Alma  Mater  today;  the  College's  good 
health,  both  in  physical  plant  and 
student  population,  is  exhibited. 
Featured  are  basketball  (the  Gents 
are  only  the  most  visible  symbol  of 
what  is  truly  an  outstanding  athletic 
program),  informal  contacts  with  old 
friends,  and  a  range  of  student- 
sponsored  activities. 

Alumni  Weekend  and  Class  Re- 
unions —  June  24-26:  For  one  sum- 
mer weekend,  the  campus  is  entirely 
ours!  Both  local  and  long-distance 
alumni  have  a  whole  weekend's 


worth  of  events  to  choose  from,  culmi  j 
nating  for  some  in  class,  cluster,  or 
special  reunions.  To  attract  out-of- 
towners,  especially  those  with  youm 
families,  dormitory  and  cafeteria 
accommodations  are  offered  at  very  | 
reasonable  rates.  Child  care  and 
special  youth  programs  make  this 
weekend  fun  for  the  kids  and  worry] 
free  for  parents.  In  addition  to  re- 
unions, the  program  allows  room  foj 
a  variety  of  social,  educational, 
athletic,  and  spiritual  experiences. 
Spend  an  hour,  an  evening,  a  day,  or  i 
start  your  vacation  with  us  in  June! 


The  Alumni  Board  of  Directors 
invites  your  participation  in  shapinj 
Centenary's  various  alumni  program 
Positions  on  the  Board  must  be  filled  j 
annually;  directors  serve  two-year 
terms.  I  urge  you  to  contact  any 
officer,  director,  or  the  alumni  officj 
(318-869-5151)  if  you'd  like  furthe  I 
information.  And,  drop  by  the  rece 
tion  before  the  Homecoming  game  | 
and  visit  with  us. 


19 


Jtrictly 
Personal 


1920s 

WILLIAM  L.  PLATT  "29  and  his  wife,  who 
ere  recognized  as  coming  the  greatest  distance 
the  '20s  reunion,  wrote  Class  Agent  SUE 
\RNETTE  '28  saying,   "Let's  do  it  again  next 
ar!"  Since  CHRIS  BARNETTE's  death,  SUE 
s  been  living  in  Live  Oak  Retirement  Center, 
lere  she  is  "happily  situated  among  old  and 
w  friends.' 

From  the  Class  ot  '27  HERBERT  B.  WREN, 
.,  a  real  estate  agent  in  Texarkana,  writes  that 
)LLIE  BENNETT  '27  has  been  having  serious 
alth  problems,  but  is  now  up  and  about.  Our 
ndolences  to  ZOLLIE  on  the  death  of  his  wife. 
)LLIE  is  in  Four  States  Nursing  Home  at  8  East 
|dway,  Texarkana,  Texas,  75501. 

1930s 

Class  Agent  CHARLES  RAVENNA  '32  con- 
atulated  his  classmates  on  their  outstanding 
ece  of  "sleuthing"'  in  locating  all  but  six  of  their 
jst"  members.  Other  items  of  interest  from  the 
ass  of  32  that  turned  up: 
THE  REV.  R.  McNAIR  SMITH  of  Shreveport 
recovering  nicely  from  cataract  surgery. 
COL.  BOB  WEBB  had  a  spinal  fusion  early  in 
e  summerand  LOUISE  RATLIFFMANGHAM 
stained  a  broken  arm  when  she  was  chased  by 
log. 

Our  condolences  to  CLYDE  LEE  of  Jackson, 
fxas,  on  the  death  of  his  wife. 
(UpinTigard,  Ore,  CHARLES  LIEBERT  had 
art  surgery,  but  he  plans  to  be  in  Shreveport 
tmetime  this  year. 

ftVERDNA  BAIRD  McCLURKIN  of  Jackson, 
jss.,  flew  to  Shreveport  in  a  plane  piloted  bv 
jr grandson,  while  the  HENRY  COWENS  from 
lowley  motored  through  the  Northwest. 
MARGARET  BURTON  NOLAN  is  confined 
ji  nursing  home  and  was  missed  at  the  Reunion 
;]iner. 

The  first  Class  Agent  for  the  Class  of  1933, 
!jVBELLA  LEARY,  retired  after  30  years  as  a 
ijretary  to  Evans  Architects,  Engineers  & 

Jnnersin  Shreveport.  She  is  now  employed  as 
art-time  secretary  by  the  Highland  Restora- 
i  Association. 

PR.  GEORGE  PEYTON  KELLEY  '38,  a 
Sfeveport  pediatrician  for  35  years,  was  honored 
ibctober  by  the  Northwest  Chapter  of  the 
Nrch  of  Dimes  as  the  Chapter's  "Citizen  of  the 
fir."  DR.  KELLEY  has  been  active  in  the 
Nrch  of  Dimes  since  its  beginning  in  Shreveport 
i:.968. 

939  Class  Agent  EDNA  EARLE  RICHARD- 
SN  STINSON  also  serves  on  the  Alumni  Acti- 


IN  MEMORIAM 

W.B.  GLOVER  '23 

Sept.  14,  1982 

BRYON  "BADSTUFF"  FAULKNER  X25 

Sept.  1982 

VESTA  DEY  SHOWS  '29 

1982 

DR.  OSCAR  LEE  HARGIS  '31 

Aug.  7,  1982 

WALTER  HARLAN  BEENE  '33 

Oct.  31,  1982 

LILLIAN  TRICHEL  BOULDIN  X34 

1982 

BOBBY  HUGH  SNEED  '57 

July  18,  1982 

1ARGUERITE  HERRIES  EDWARDS  78 

October  1982 

JAMES  JOSEPH  FILIPOWSKI  X84 

November  16,  1982 


vities  Committee  of  the  Alumni  Board.  She  lives 
in  Benton  with  her  husband,  FORD,  and  they 
have  two  daughters  and  one  son,  who  live  near- 
by. She  is  enjoying  their  five  grandsons  and  two 
granddaughters. 

THE  REV.  JOHN  WILLARD  N  AY  '39  retired 
from  the  Methodist  Ministry  in  the  fall  of  80,  and 
spent  a  month  in  the  hospital  in  March,  1981. 
He  retired  as  Justice  of  the  Peace  at  the  end  of  the 
year  after  three  four-year  terms.  He  is  now  82 
and  being  a  WW  I  Veteran  is  under  the  care  of 
the  VA  Administration  Clinic  in  Lubbock. 

1940s 

GRACE  JULIAN  NORTON,  newClass  Agent 

for  1940,  wrote  that  she  is  married  to  FLOYD 
NORTON  '39,  and  they  both  work,  travel,  and 
enjoy  Caddo  Lake.  Their  son  is  a  lawyer  in 
Washington,  DC,  and  their  daughter  is  in  the 
Episcopal  ministry  in  Massachusetts.  They  also 
have  one  granddaughter. 

WILLIAM  E.  STEGER  '41  retired  from  the 
Treasury  Department  in  March  in  Alexandria, 
Va.,  and  will  soon  be  moving  to  Irvine  in  South- 
ern California. 

Pediatrician  DR.  DAVID  F.  EUBANK  X46, 
a  Centenary  pre-med  student  and  LSU  Medical 
School  graduate,  is  now  in  his  26th  year  at  Ray- 
town  Clinic  in  Raytown,  Mo. 

LUCILLE  GIBSON  MASON  '46  and  her  hus- 
band, KENNETH,  live  in  Metairie,  where 
LUCILLE  teaches  piano  and  KENNETH  works 
at  the  Main  Post  Office  in  New  Orleans.  LUCILLE 
would  enjoying  hearing  from  Centenary  alums  in 
the  New  Orleans  metropolitan  area! 

Attorney  ROBERT  G.  PUGH,  SR.  "46,  a 
partner  in  the  Shreveport  law  firm  of  Pugh  & 
Pugh,  was  reappointed  chairman  of  the  Ameri- 
can Bar  Association's  Standing  Committee  on 
Membership  at  their  annual  meeting  in  San 
Francisco. 

1947  Class AgentMARILYN  MILLER  CARL- 
TON writes  that  she  and  DAVE  '47  have  been 
sitting  on  the  banks  of  beautiful  Bayou  Boeuf  in 
Lecompte  .  .  .  not  stagnating  .  .  .  but  actively 
involved  in  the  community.  DAVE  is  a  family 
practitioner,  who  enjoys  hunting  and  fishing  in 
his  spare  time.  Their  children  —  Carolyn, 
Andrew,  and  David,  Jr.  —  are  all  Centenary 
graduates  and  have  given  them  seven  grand- 
children. MARILYN  is  busy  planning  the  35th 
Reunion,  which  will  be  held  during  Alumni 
Weekend,  June  24-26. 

Class  Agent  for  the  Class  of  1948  ALICE 
CURTIS  BROWN  updated  her  profile  in  her  last 
Class  Agent  letter.  She  is  married  to  CHARLES 
ELLIS  BROWN  '48,  who  is  a  geologist  for  Bayou 
State  Oil  Co.  in  Shreveport.  They  have  a  son  and 
a  daughter  and  three  grandchildren. 

JACK  and  GLENNETTE  WILLIAMSON, 
1949  Class  Agents,  are  busy  making  plans  for 
their  cluster  reunion  (35th)  with  the  classes  of 
1947  and  1948  to  be  held  during  Alumni  Week- 
end. Watch  for  details  later  in  the  year. 


1950s 

Reunion  notes  from  1952  Class  Agent  ANN 
WESSON  WYCHE  included  a  big  thanks  to 
PATSY  LAIRD  JENNINGS  for  all  the  reunion 
arrangements.  Among  the  out-of-town  couples 
attending  were  DONALD  and  VIVIAN  GOODE 
of  Houston  and  MARY  BETH  KELLUM  WARD 
of  Texarkana.  CLAUDE  DANCE  enjoyed  the 
buffet  following  an  afternoon  at  the  Louisiana 
Downs  with  other  reunion  alumni.  JEAN  F"RASIER 
HORNE  brought  MARIANNE  ALLDAY  SMITH 
and  PEGGY  TALBOT  BROCK  from  Dallas, 
while  JIM  BUCKNER  came  from  Hot  Springs. 

MARTHA  JEAN  BURGESS  NORTON,  Class 
Agent  for  1953,  had  the  chance  to  visit  with 
BETTY  THOMS  YOUNG  and  JEAN  THOMS 
CARRINGTON  at  their  cluster  reunion. 

'54  Class  Agents  STONE  and  ELEANOR 
DEBRAY  CARAWAY  became  grandparents 
for  the  first  time  in  April.  C.  ALLAN  MARTIN  IV 
was  born  in  Monroe  to  daughter  DIANE  and 
husband  C.A.  MARTIN  III. 


Wanted: 
alumni  authors 

The  College  is  looking  for  scholarly 
articles,  theses,  dissertations,  works  of 
fiction,  poetry,  plays,  and  musical  com- 
positions written  by  alumni  to  be  included 
in  the  Centenary  Authors'  Collection  in 
Magale  Library.  If  you  wrote  it,  we  want 
it! 

At  present,  the  collection  contains 
works  of  faculty  and  former  faculty  mem- 
bers, but  we  want  to  expand  it  to  include 
works  of  alumni.  Please  send  manuscripts 
or  finished  products  to  Carolyn  Garison 
'67,  archivist,  Magale  Library,  Centenary 
College,  P.O.  Box  4188,  Shreveport,  La. 
71104. 


New  Class  Agent  MITZI  LOWE  PERRY  55 
capsulized  her  years  since  graduation.  She  married 
JOHN  PERRY,  an  engineer  with  Ralston  Purina, 
and  has  worked  as  an  assistant  actuary  for 
Werntz  &  Associates,  Inc.,  since  1977.  MITZI 
also  teaches  algebra  one  night  a  week  at  LSU-S. 
Theirdaughter  DONNA  isa  producer  of  newsat 
KOA-TV  in  Denver,  and  son  ALAN  is  working 
for  Devoe  Paint  in  Shreveport  while  finishing 
college.  Helping  MITZI  with  the  Class  of  1955  is 
JOYCE  BRUGIER  BERRY. 

MARGARET  POSS  TEAGUE,  Class  Agent  for 
1956,  is  on  the  staff  of  The  Shreveport  Journal. 
Her  husband,  LARRY  '57,  is  in  the  printing 
business  with  Bank  N  Business.  They  have  been 
married  26  years  and  have  five  children. 

After  the  Twenty-Fifth  Class  Reunion,  1957 
Class  Agents  JUAN  and  BONNIE  HARRELL 
WATKINS  reminisced  about  .  .  .  LEE  POPE- 
JOY,  who  related  such  episodes  as  stealing  the 
mascot  from  Arkansas  State  and  making  bathtub 
"punch''  at  the  KA  house  .  .  .  LARRY  TEAGUE 
and  JERRY  ORR  trying  to  outdoeach  other  with 
jokes,  and  MARY  JANE  CARTER  BRAVENAC 
calling  from  Fort  Worth  and  talking  to  nearly 
everyone  present  .  .  . 

An  international  representative  for  Campus 
Crusade  for  Christ  International  NEY  BAILEY 
'58  is  also  the  author  of  a  book  "Faith  is  Not  a 
Feeling."  NEY,  who  was  in  Shreveport  visiting 
her  family,  now  lives  in  San  Bernardino,  Calif. 

PAT  OLIVER  ROSBOTTOM  and  EMILY 
HAYDEN  VISKOZKI  have  become  Co-Class 
Agents  for  the  Class  of  1958.  PAT  is  an  assess- 
ment teacher  from  Bossier  Parish  presently  on 
sabbatical  leave.  Her  son,  HAROLD,  JR.,  and  his 
wife,  LESLIE,  are  expecting  twins  in  February. 
PAT'S  husband,  HAROLD,  owns  Automatic 
Amusement  Company,  and  their  daughter,  AMY, 
at  age  13,  is  waiting  to  babysit  the  expected 
grandchildren.  EMILY  is  a  homemaker  who 
spends  time  teaching  the  first  and  second  grade 
choirat  First  Methodist  Church  and  occasionally 
substitutes  in  the  Music  Department  at  First 
Baptist  Church  School.  Husband  RON  is  the 
manager  of  Dial  Finance  Co.,  and  they  spend  as 
much  spare  time  as  possible  on  the  tennis  courts. 
Son  RONALD  is  now  a  Centenary  sophomore 
MARTHA  (TURNER)  and  OSCAR  CLOYD 
'58  are  in  charge  of  the  Class  Reunion  scheduled 
in  June  .  .  .  be  sure  to  pass  on  vour  ideas  to  them. 
PEGGY  LONGINO  FOSTER '59  hasjust  been 
re-elected  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  San 
Diego  Chamber  of  Commerce.  MS.  FOSTER, 
a  human  resourcesdevelopment  consultant  who 
travels  nationwide,  has  also  served  as  an  advisory 
board  member  for  the  San  Diego  Community 
Leadership  Program. 

ALLAN  M.  LAZARUS  '51,  managing  editor  of 
The  (Shreveport)  Times,  has  been  named  the 
first  visiting  professor  under  Louisiana  Tech 
University's  Faulk  Choir  of  Journalism.  ALLAN 
has  worked  with  The  Times  since  1944  as  a  copy- 
boy,  reporter,  sports  writer,  copy  editor,  wire 
editor,  and  news  editor. 

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1970s 


JAMES  GOINS,  Class  Agent  '61,  noted  that 
DON  TYLER  lives  in  Ocala,  Fla.,  with  wife 
DORIS  and  their  three  sons.  DON  teaches  at 
Ocala  Junior  College  and  has  been  writing  a 
book  about  the  history  of  popular  music  1920- 
1979,  which  should  appear  in  the  book  stores 
next  summer. 

The  REV.  LELAND  WADE  '61  has  been 
appointed  to  serve  the  Carrollton  Avenue  United 
Methodist  Church  in  New  Orleans. 

ELIZABETH  C.  WALKER  X62,  vice  president 
and  general  manager  for  Walker  Enterprises  in 
Shreveport  has  started  a  new  business:  its 
name  .  .  .  Walker's  R-V  Rentals. 

CHARLOTTE  (STODGHILL)  and  GENE 
BR  YSON,  Class  Agents  1963,  "left  their  hearts" 
on  their  first  visit  to  San  Francisco  when  they 
attended  the  American  Bar  Association's 
meeting.  Offspring  ELIZABETH  is  now  in  high 
school.  GENE  in  junior  high,  and  DOUGLAS 
in  training  pants! 

ELAINE  H.  THAXTON  "63  retired  from  the 
U.S.  Department  of  Commerce,  Bureau  of  the 
Census,  in  August.  WALLACE  L.  THAXTON 
X63  is  project  manager  for  the  Shreveport  Branch 
of  Shilstone  Engineering  Testing  Laboratories, 
Inc.,  a  division  of  Professional  Services  Industries 
in  Shreveport. 

LINDA  ELLINGTON  WALKER  '64  was 
licensed  as  a  realtor-associate  with  Oscar  Cloyd, 
Inc.  She  was  the  first  member  inducted  into  the 
Million  Dollar  Round  Table  in  1975  and  was 
named  senior  sales  counselor  in  the  Two  Million 
Dollar  Round  Table  in  both  '80  and  '81.  She 
specializes  in  professional  services  of  residential 
listings  and  sales. 

GINGER  DARNELL  FOLMER  '64  isassistant 
professor  of  dance  in  the  Theatre  Departmental 
Centenary. 

'66  was  elected  to  fellowship  in  the  American 
College  of  Dentists;  he  was  alsoelected  president 
of  the  Northwest  Louisiana  Dental  Association 
and  was  named  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
Baylor  College  of  Dentistry  in  1982. 

1966  Class  Agent  ENEILE  COOKE  MEARS 
wrote  in  her  fall  letter  that  her  entire  family 
culminated  a  busy  summer  with  a  fun/business 
trip  to  New  York  City. 

MARTHA  JEAN  WOODARD  '67  (MRS.  DON 
W.  TUBBS)  is  the  educational  diagnostician  for 
the  Ennis  Oklahoma  Public  Schools  and  the 
mother  of  a  five-year-old  son. 

DR.  HELEN  L.  SULLIVAN  '67  is  teaching  a 
graduate  course  in  "Legal  Aspects  of  Health 
Care"  at  the  University  of  Hawaii  School  of 
Public  Health.  HELEN,  who  is  a  doctor  of 
Forensic  Medicine  (FCLM)  works  for  the  Kaiser 
Foundation,  a  medical  corporation,  in  Kaneohe, 
Hawaii.  After  graduating  from  Centenary,  she 
first  obtained  her  law  degree  in  legal  medicine 
from  Tulane  and  then  her  medical  degree  from 
LSU-New  Orleans. 

B.  LEONARD  CRITCHER,  the  new  Class 
Agent  for  the  Class  of  1967,  is  the  Regional 
Director  of  the  Philadelphia  Life  Insurance 
Company  in  Shreveport.  After  graduation,  he 
finished  his  master's  degree  and  most  of  his 
doctorate  at  Ohio  University.  He  also  married 
MARY  TULLIE  WYRICK,  who  is  the  new  Class 
Agent  for  the  Class  of  1968.  MARY  TULLIE 
taught  school  and  LEONARD  was  in  speech 
therapy  before  going  into  insurance.  They  are 
the  parents  of  two  sons,  and  MARY  TULLIE 
spends  much  time  speaking  and  assisting  in 
Young  Mother  support  groups  since  her  selection 
as  National  Young  Mother  in  1981. 

JANE  FLEMING  KEENE  '68,  a  computer 
programmer  with  Systems  Atlanta  in  Woodstock, 
is  living  in  Kennesaw,  Ga.,  where  her  husband, 
TOM,  teaches  at  Kennesaw  College.  They  are 
the  parents  of  two  children:  Sarah,  6,  and 
Michael,  4. 

CAROL  CULPEPPER  SMITH  '68  recently 
hosted  DR.  SHINICHI  SUZUKI,  founder  of  the 
Suzuki  education  program  for  violins,  during  a 
Suzuki  Music  Festival  in  Monroe.  DR.  SUZUKI 
has  been  nominated  for  the  Nobel  Peace  Prize 
and  visited  four  American  cities  in  1982. 

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W.C.  "Os"  Osborne  '43  (left)  was  host  for  an 
alumni  gathering  in  Midland,  Texas,  in  November. 
He  visits  with  Centenary  College  President  Donald 
Webb  before  the  dinner. 

MICHAEL  C.  STRAUSSER  '69  is  the  Execu- 
tive Director  of  the  South  Central  Planning  and 
Development  Commission,  Inc.,  which  serves  as 
a  public  consulting  agency  to  the  parishes  of 
Assumption,  Lafourche,  St.  Charles,  St.  James, 
St.  John  the  Baptist,  and  Terrebonne  and  all 
municipalities  located  in  this  six-parish  area. 
MICHAEL  and  his  wife,  ALICE,  have  been 
married  11  years  and  are  the  parents  of  JOHN 
MICHAEL,  5. 

JOE  RICE  '69,  who  graduated  from  medical 
school  this  past  May,  is  now  an  intern  in  internal 
medicine  at  LSU  Medical  Center.  Wife  ANGIE  is 
doing  volunteer  social  work  at  the  Community 
Referral  Center  and  the  Family  Crisis  Center  in 
Shreveport.  They  have  three  children:  WILLIAM 
JOSEPH,  MATTHEW,  and  HOLLY. 

MICHAEL  POE,  a  '69  English  graduate, 
was  awarded  his  J.D.  from  Loyola  University  of 
the  South  Law  School. 

Geologist  DALE  ROBERTSON  '65  and  his 
wife,  MIMORI  URAKAMI  '58,  recently  moved 
from  Norway  to  Benton,  La. 

DON  G.  SCROGGIN  '66  published  an  article, 
"Joint  Review  Process  May  Expedite  Project 
Completion,"  in  a  June  issue  of  the  Legal  Times, 
a  national  publication  for  lawyers.  He  also  gave  a 
paper  on  environmental  litigation  at  a  national 
conference  in  Keystone,  Colo.,  in  July.  The  paper 
was  based  on  his  experience  at  the  White  House 
Council  on  Environmental  Quality  and  his  cur- 
rent environmental  law  practice  at  Beveridge 
&  Diamond  in  Washington,  DC. 

MARTHA  LOUISE  VAUGHAN  '66,  Execu- 
tive Director  of  YMCA  Greenville,  S.C.,  partici- 
pated in  IBM's  Community  Executive  Program  in 
Tarrytown,  N.Y.,  a  program  designed  to  involve 
around  900  directors  of  community  organizations 
in  the  U.S.  She  has  served  as  president  of  her 
Zonta  Club;  as  a  volunteer  with  the  United  Way; 
a  member  of  the  Folk  Heritage  Committee  of  the 
Asheville  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  liaison  to 
the  S.C.  Methodist  Conference  on  the  Status  and 
Role  of  Women. 

The  University  of  London  awarded  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  in  Modern  European 
History  to  JAMES  ROBINSON  TINSLEY  '66. 
ROB  holds  an  M.A.  in  history  from  East  Texas 
State  University  and  a  master's  of  Library  Ser- 
vice degree  from  the  University  of  Alabama. 
Since  graduation  from  Centenary,  he  has  taught 
Morehead  State  University  in  Kentucky  and 
been  archivist  for  Lafourche  Parish;  he  is  pres- 
ently teaching  at  Trinity  Heights  Christian 
Academy  and  is  a  lay  reader  at  St.  Mark's  Episco- 
pal Church  in  Shreveport.  He  is  currently  listed 
in  the  following  publications:  Marquis'  Who's 
Who  in  the  South  and  Southwest,  Men  of 
Achievement,  The  Dictionary  of  International 
Biography,  Personalities  of  the  South,  Commu- 
nity Leaders  of  America,  and  Personnaggi  Con- 
temporanei. 


MARY  BETH  STAGE  70  along  with  Ernes 
N.  Gullerud  authored  "Adapting  General  Edu 
cation  Programs  for  Abusing  and  Neglecting 
Parents  in  Rural  Areas."  The  article  was  pub-  j 
lished  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Seventh  Annual 
National  Institute  on  Social  Work  in  Rural  Areaii 
which  was  held  this  summer  in  July  at  the  Uni'j 
versity  of  Iowa.  i 

HELEN  COBURN  70  was  featured  in  The  f 
Shreveport  Times  "Update"  on  the  launching  of ! 
an  accounting  and  bookkeeping  business  in  hel 
home.  HELEN  has  no  use  of  her  legs  and  only) 
extremely  limited  movement  in  her  fingers,  j 
because  of  polio.  By  using  a  special  computer  an  j 
a  pneumatic  wheelchair,  she  hopes  her  business 
will  succeed. 

The  parents  of  a  "very  much  alive  and  health; 
71  graduate,  ANN  MARGARET  WILHEIM 
SELL,  have  established  a  scholarship  in  her 
name  because  of  their  daughter's  love  of  Cent 
nary  and  because  of  her  education.  The  scholar- 
ship will  be  used  to  aid  worthy  students. 

MAUREEN  PIERCE  KILPATRICK  71  of 
Round  Rock,  Texas,  is  a  senior  scientist  with    | 
Radian  Corporation. 

In  the  fall  of  1982  SHERRON  BIENVENU 
TOLLE  71  joined  the  faculty  of  Emory  Uni- 
versity  in  Atlanta  teaching  communications  in  fi 
the  BBA  and  MBA  programs.  Husband  DON  is  j 
president  of  Noble  Vision  Records. 

1972  Class  Agent  ANN  HOLLANDSWORTIj 
KLEINE  declared  their  10th  Reunion  an  "absij 
lute  trip  back  to  72  in  the  time  machine!"  Prize  j 
for  "Most  Children"  (five)  went  to  DON  and  PA  l 
HERNDON  LOUIS,  with  honorable  mention   j 
going  to  PETER  and  MARY  CHRISTIANSON 
PIGGOTT  with  four.  EDDIE  GLASSEL  won  th 
"Most  Degrees"  with  his  Ph.D.  DEAN  FLAN/ 
GAN  from  Africa  won  the  "Greatest  Distance 
Traveled"  award.  Close  competition  came  froi 
SALLY  SIGLER  BRUER  from  Michigan;  CR Alt 
and  KAY  TRAVATHAN  SHELTON  from 
Washington,  D.C.;  NANCY  LENZ  GAMBLE 
from  Colorado,  and  RICH  and  ELIZABETH 
COURTNEY  from  Georgia.  Unofficial  awards 
went  to  PEGGY  RAMSEY  FARRELL,  SUSIE  I 
BLANTON  JENKINSON,  BETSY  ILGEN- 
FRITZ  MURPHEE,  and  SUE  EVELETH  SMIT1 
for  "Most  Complete  Suite."  SANDI  and  JOHN 
TAYLOR  and  SUSIE  and  STEVE  JENKINSO 
won  "Best  Country  &  Western  Dancers." 

CHRIS  CAREY  72  wrote  that  he's  just 
finished  his  second  year  of  a  five-year  surgery 
program  at  O.U.  He  also  has  a  master's  degrei 
and  Ph.D.  in  biochemistry.  CHRIS  mentioned 
that  BOB  COOKE  and  STEVE  ARCHER  wer 
in  the  same  surgery  program  with  him. 

BEVERLY  HOLLIS  LAWRENCE  72  ai 
husband  PAUL  recently  welcomed  their  new  ai 
second  son,  WILLIAM  HAUGHTON. 

PATRICIA  REED  EGER  72  of  Sault  St.  Mari 
Mich.,  was  awarded  a  doctor  of  arts  degree 
at  Ball  State  University  in  Indiana.  Her  dis- 
sertation: "A  Study  of  Problems  Encountered  b 
the  Pianist  with  Small  Hands  and  a  Compendiu 
of  Practical  Solutions." 

Shreveporters  MARY  ANN  GARRET 
CAFFREY  72  and  her  husband  TAYLOR  75 
got  tired  of  their  bread  truck  routes  after  six  yea 
and  decided  on  further  education  and  new  care 
directions.  MARY  ANNE  is  an  art  student  in 
stained  glass  at  LSU  and  has  shown  her  art  at  th' 
FestForAU  '82,  the  New  Orleans  Jazz  Festival  i 
and  the  Dallas  Trade  Mart,  while  TAYLOR 
studies  at  LSU  Law  School. 

A  book  of  poetry  by  Shreveporter  TIMOTHj 
MOON  72  called  "Songs  of  Death,  SongsofLif 
has  been  recently  published  by  C  &  A  Publi- 
cations. MOON  recently  has  been  made  vice 
president  of  Christ  in  the  Arts,  in  charge  of  C  & 
Publications. 

DEAN  X72  and  MARIA  MUELLER  WILLIAH 
X74  had  their  second  daughter,  STEPHANIE 
in  August.  DEAN  remains  working  as  a  schoo 
social  worker  in  Storm  Lake,  Iowa,  while  MARI 
has  resigned  her  teaching  position  to  be  a  full 
time  Mom  to  the  new  baby  and  Courtney,  2. 

Anticipating  a  spectacular  10th  Reunion  in 


983.  Class  Agents  SCOTT  and  JANET 
ilURNER  PENDER  '73  are  busy  setting  out  the 
vord  to  classmates.  SCOTT  works  for  the  Southl- 
and Corporation  in  Dallas,  and  he  and  JANET 
lave  two  children,  Billy,  5,  and  Doug,  2.  The 
e union  will  be  held  during  Alumni  Weekend 
une  24-26. 

BARBARA  BETHEL  HILL  73.  has  been 
lamed  a  new  assistant  trust  officer  at  the 

irst  National  Bank  of  Shreveport.  BARBARA  is 

orking  on  her  MBA  at  Centenary. 

DR.  ZAK  GALEN  SANDERS  74,  who  is  on 
lie  staff  of  Bossier  Medical  Center,  has  been 
lected  to  fellowship  in  the  American  Academy 
I  Pediatrics. 

New  Class  Agent  for  1975  JOE  WALKER  lives 
i  Houston,  where  he  works  as  an  auditor  for 
ennzoil  Company,  and  is  married  to  MARY 
OUNG  77.  They  are  the  parents  of  almost 
ne-year-old  JOEY. 

DR.  CHERRAL  WESTERMAN  MASON  75 
living  in  Jokosuba,  Japan,  where  her  husband, 
)N  DONAVAN  MASON,  is  a  Navy  pedia- 
ician. 

JEFF  HENDRICKS  75,  who  is  finishing  up 
s  Ph.D.  at  the  University  of  Illinois,  is  also  a 
aching  assistant  in  English. 
AYCALDWELLMcNEELY75  wasappointed 
l  assistant  district  attorney  by  Caddo  Parish 
hreveport)  District  Attorney  Paul  Carmouch. 
e  joins  the  criminal  section  of  the  district 
torney  s  office  while  handling  misdemeanor 
fenses.  Between  college  and  law  school,  she 
irked  as  a  model  and  in  the  merchandising 
Id,  and  for  a  time  was  the  news  producer  for  a 
:al  television  station. 

DR.  NORBERT  C.  PEIL  76  graduated  last 
ay  from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  Virginia 
th  a  doctor  of  ministry  degree,  and  has  been 
iained  as  a  minister  in  the  Presbyterian 
lurch  of  the  United  States.  He  is  the  pastor  of 
;  Halltown  Presbyterian  Church  in  Halltown, 
Va.,  and  the  Elk  Branch  Presbyterian  Church 
Shenandoah  Junction. 

[OHN  C.  HOWARD  76  received  his  M.D.  at 
lane  University  School  of  Medicine  and  also 
s  received  into  the  Louisiana  Pathology 
ciety  for  his  thesis  in  clinical  pathology.  JOHN 
low  an  intern  at  the  New  Orleans  Charity  Hos- 
al. 

<\s  with  any  proper  reunion,  the  Class  of  1977 
ards  went  to  MARK  KEDDALL,  "The  Most 
anged,    MARY  HELEN  BROWN  with  the 
ost  Degrees"  (four),  and  VINCE  and  BRENDA 
1  WIS  ISNER  for  "Most  Distance  Traveled." 
e  ISNERS  have  moved  to  Shreveport  from 
Innsylvania,  and  VINCE  has  accepted  the 
I  sition  of  children's  minister  at  the  First  Metho- 
(t  Church. 
:iass  Agent  for  1977  LEAH  ADES  COOPER 
\3te  that  JOEL  TREADWELL  suggested  an 
i  irmal  get-together  with  local  alums  for  a  home 
Lketball  game  would  be  fun.  If  interested,  let 
IiAH  know. 

)R.  CHERIE  HILBORN  DUNPHY  78  gradu- 
ad  from  LSU-Med  Center  and  is  now  a  patholo- 
gjresident  there. 
978  Class  Agent  BILL  DEWARE  and  his 
e,  BECKY  WALLACE  DEWARE,  1980  Class 
|5nt,  moved  into  a  new  house  in  Alexandria, 
v;re  BILL  works  for  Louisiana  Intrastate  Gas 
poration. 


1980s 


JONA  PIERCE  LOGAN  '80  is  attending 
phen  F.  Austin  University  and  working  on  a 
g'duate  degree  in  counseling.  Her  husband  JOHN 
"ijdied  in  July.  He  was  the  minister  at  St.  Paul's 
Psbyterian  Church  in  Carthage,  and  also 
niistered  to  the  church  in  Timpson. 

ATHRYN  THOMAS  '80  left  the  anatomy 
<1  artment  at  LSU-Med  Center  in  Shreveport, 
re  she  had  been  working  as  an  electron 
roscopy  technologist  for  the  last  two  years, 
is  now  living  in  Richmond,  Va.,  where  she  is 
ig  graduate  work  at  the  Presbyterian  School 
'hristian  Education  in  preparation  for  doing 
sionary  work  in  Ghana,  West  Africa. 


1981  Class  Agent  JAN  CARPENTER  EADS 
and'her  husband  GALEN  have  been  in  touch 
with  Centenary  Alumni  in  Houston  including 
KATHY  PACKARD,  RICHARD  WILSON,  and 
MIKE  AMEEN. 

DAVE  HENINGTON,  Class  Agent  '82,  now 
lives  in  Shreveport  and  has  garnered  tidbits  of 
information  about  many  classmates.  RICHARD 
LILES,  after  a  brief  stint  with  Prudential  Insurance 
as  a  financial  consultant,  has  accepted  an  account 
executive  position  in  tele-communications  mar- 
keting with   "Ma  Bell." 

SARA  GILCHRIST  is  working  at  South- 
western Electric  Power  Company  in  the  budget 
department.  ELAINE  MAYO  isenjoyingher  job 
in  land  management  with  Professional  Energy, 
even  though  she  spends  much  of  her  time  out  of 
town.  JULIE  CLEGG  is  a  bookkeeper  for  Sears' 
Automotive  Department,  and  MELINDA  LOVE 
is  now  teaching  music  at  Newton  Smith  Ele- 
mentary School.  MARTHA  BIGNER,  an  ac- 
countant with  Stewart,  Robertson,  Inc.,  has 
bought  a  new  car  —  she  finally  has  wheels! 
DONETTE  COOK,  now  MRS.  GREG  SMITH, 
teaches  sixth  grade  at  Trinity  Heights.  JENNIE 
LANE  SMITH  can  be  freciuently  found  at  the 
Shreveport  Country  Club  on  the  golf  course,  and 
SUE  COTTINGIM  is  working  at  Tri-State-Oil 
and  Tool  Industries,  Inc.,  handling  their  Latin 
American  account.  STEVE  WREN  teaches 
physical  education  at  St.  Mark  s  Day  School. 
GAYLE  CHEATWOOD  is  pursuing  a  career  as 
an  assistant  buyer  for  Selber  Bros.,  and  FRAN 
STEVENS  is  an  accountant  with  Peat,  Mar  wick, 
and  Mitchell.  TAMMIE  LOU  FARRAR  is  engaged 
to  DANNY  TRAHAN. 

BRIAN  McRAE  is  attending  graduate  school  at 
Stephen  F.  Austin  University  and  studying 
sociology.  At  Baylor  University  SALLY  SHER- 
ROD  is  studying  for  her  MB. A;  LYNN  YOUNG 
is  at  Purdue  University  studying  physics  in  gradu- 
ate school;  TRICIA  WARREN  is  at  North  Texas 
State  University  studying  music. 

DONALD  LEE  HUGULEY,  JR..  a  part-time 
geologist  with  Sun  Explorations  Division,  is  also 
pursuing  his  masters  degree  at  Southern  Methodist 
University.  TERI  OATES  '82,  is  an  accountant  for 
Goodrich  Oil  Co.  in  Shreveport,  and  JOHN 
HORTON  ALLEN,  JR.  '82,  former  editor  of  the 
monthly  employees  newsletter  tor  the  City  of 
Shreveport,  may  be  on  his  way  to  Africa  soon. 

DR.  JAMES  W.  MOORE,  honorary  Alumnus 
'82,  was  the  opening  convocation  speaker  at 
Lambruth  College  this  fall. 


Local  alumni 
in  the  media 


Thomas  N.  (Jack)  Barham  X48 

The  Shreveport  Journal 
Dr.  Charles  T.  Beaird  '66 

The  Shreveport  Journal 
Mary  Vascocu  Bryant  X50 

River  Cities  Magazine 
John  Anthony  Dull  X60  KTAL-TV  ' 
Jody  Eldred  '81  KTBS-TV 
Carolyn  Clay  Flournoy  '45 

The  (Shreveport)  Times 
James  Pat  Greet  X74  KTBS-TV 
Jo  Anne  Harris  79  Alternate  View  Network 
Allan  M.  Lazarus  51  The  (Shreveport)  Times 
J.  Frank  McAneny  '44  KSLA-TV 
Peggy  Miles '81  KSLA-TV 
Bob  Monk  '53  The  (Shreveport)  Times 
Jim  Montgomery '68  The( Shreveport)  Times 
Allen  Pomeroy  '82  KWKH/KROK 
John  A.  Purdy  '81  KTBS-TV 
Ron  Rice  X54  The  Shreveport  Journal 
Margaret  Poss  Teague  '56 

The  Shreveport  Journal 
Edwin  Wrav  '69  KTBS-TV 


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Some  50  alumni  in  the  Dallas  area  met  for  lunch 
Wednesday,  Dec.  1,  the  day  of  the  Centenary-SMU 
game.  Among  the  guests  were  Gail  Bonneau  Olmsted 
'65  (left)  and  Ellie  Ray  Manning  70. 


Dallas 
alums 
meet  for 

lunch, 
game 


Chester    Darphin    '29    and   Julia   Abrams 
Crawford  '28  catch  up  on  old  times. 


Richard  Skarsten  71 


Dean  of  Students  Dick  Anders  79  (right)  chats  with  John  and  Sally  Savage  Kemble 
71.  Sally  is  teaching  junior  high  students. 


Bruce  Morgan  73  (left)  and  Alumni  Direc 
Chris  Webb  get  a  visit  before  lunch.  Paul 
Jack  Morgan  72  and  Bruce  made  the  arran 
ments  at  the  Dallas  Country  Club  for 
alumni  gathering. 


r  > 


Math  is  the  forte  of  Betty  McKnight  Spejs 
H78  and  Buck  Horn  '65,  president  of  Tel 
Commerce  Bank,  who  was  accompanied^ 
his  wife,  Barbara. 


Inside 


Alumni  Weekend 

The  place 
to  be 
in '83 


Reunion  details 
in  Strictly  Personal 

Meet  Dr.  Richardson 

OIL 

and  our 

energy  future 

Hurley  Music  School 
is  in  fine  tune 

Is  there  more  stress 
in  musical  marriages? 

Picture  proof 

High  School  Weekend, 
Homecoming  successful 


IP- 


William  Teague,  Professor  of  Music,  has  a  new  record  out,  "William  Teague  Pk 
Willan,  Franck,  Cinastera.  Recorded  on  the  St.  Marks  Episcopal  Church  organ,  o 
of  the  great  organs  of  the  world,  the  album  is  available  for  S9  plus  SI  for  postage  a 
handling  from  the  Hurley  School  of  Music. 


On  the  cover 


A  recent  gift  to  the  Hurley  School  of  Music  is  the  handmade  replica  of  a  Dominicus 
Montagnana  (1749)  violin  pictured  on  the  front  cover.  The  maple  and  pine  spru< 
instrument  was  given  to  the  College  by  Paul  F.  Roland  of  Doylene.  Appraised  by  or 
expert  at  $20,000  the  violin  is  described  as  having  a  powerful,  yet  rich  and  mellow 
tone. 


The  Centenary  College  Magazine,  Cente- 
nary (USPS  015560),  April,  1983,  Volume 
1(3?,  No.  4,  is  published  four  times  annually 
in  July,  October,  January,  and  April  by 
the  Office  of  Public  Relations,  2911 
Centenary  Boulevard,  Shreveport,  Louisi- 
ana 71134-0188.  Second  Class  postage 
paid  at  Shreveport,  La.  POSTMASTER: 
Send  address  changes  to  Centenary,  P.O. 
Box  4188,  Shreveport,  La.  71134-0188. 
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Centenary  strives  to  create  an  understanding  of  the  mission,  plans,  and  progres; I 
Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  camp| 


Editor Janie  Flournoy 

Special  Contributors Don  Danvers,  Lee  Mor; 

Kay] 

Production Rushing  Printing 

Alumni  Director Chris  W< 

Photography Janie  Flour; 


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This  dean  means  business 

DR.  BARRIE  RICHARDSON 


A  business  and  economics  professor 
bo  also  takes  a  lively  interest  in 
nemonics  (memory  training),  creative 
inking,  performing  magic  and  men- 
lism,  has  been  named  Dean  of  the 
hool  of  Business  at  Centenary  College. 
Dr.  Barrie  Richardson  was  introduced 
lursday,  Feb.  10,  during  the  Free 
iterprise  Conference  Luncheon  to 
mbers  of  the  faculty  and  staff  and 
mbers  of  the  business  community  by 
'mtenary  College  President  Donald 
ebb. 

"We  have  looked  forward  keenly  to 
;ian  Richardson's  coming,'"  Dr.  Webb 
id.  "His  dynamic  and  distinguished 
jidership  is  precisely  what  we  need  - 
th  in  Centenary's  School  of  Business 
d  in  our  relationships  with  the  city's 
siness  community.'' 
Dr.  Richardson,  who  will  officially 
gin  his  duties  July  1,  will  be  coming 
Centenary  from  Hope  College  in 
blland,  Mich.,  where  he  is  professor 
id  chairman  of  the  Department  of 


Economics  and  Business.  He  has  also 
served  as  vice  president  and  dean  of  the 
faculty  of  Bethany  College  in  West 
Virginia,  where  he  was  named  out- 
standing teacher,  and  on  the  faculties 
of  Oberlin  College,  Arizona  State  Uni- 
versity, and  Indiana  University. 

He  is  a  1955  graduate  of  Carleton 
College  in  Northfield,  Minn.,  and 
earned  his  M.B.A.  and  D.B.A.  at  Indiana 
University  in  Bloomington.  During  that 
time,  he  served  a  two-year  stint  in  the 
United  States  Army  and  worked  in 
market  research  for  Union  Starch  and 
Refining  Corporation.  He  also  served 
a  business  internship  with  the  DuPont 
Corporation  in  Wilmington,  Del. 

Dr.  Richardson  has  been  an  A.W. 
Mellon  Exchange  Lecturer  in  Great 
Britain;  associate  director  of  N.D.E.A. 
(National  Defense  Education  Act) 
institutes  in  Africa  and  Asia;  and  a 
member  ot  the  executive  committee 
ol  the  Regional  Council  tor  Interna- 
tional Education.  He  has  also  partici- 


pated in  international  management 
workshops  in  London. 

In  1973  he  was  named  a  William 
McKinley  Visiting  Scholar  and  a  Dan- 
forth  Associate  regional  chairperson 
(with  his  wife,  Lucy).  He  also  served  as 
president  of  the  West  Virginia  Associations 
of  Academic  Deans,  and  is  active  with 
management  and  long-range  planning 
workshops  with  corporations,  hospitals, 
schools,  and  church  organizations. 

Dr.  Richardson  has  published  nume- 
rous articles  and  two  books,  with  one  in 
process  entitled  "Men.  Markets,  anil 
Morality.  " 

He  is  an  active  member  ol  his  church; 
the  British  American  Associates;  the 
International  Brotherhood  of  Magicians, 
and  the  Magic  Circle  in  London. 

In  his  free  time.  Dr.  Richardson 
enjoys  sailing,  camping,  cross-country 
skiing,  and  reading.  He  and  his  wile 
have  four  children  —  Craig,  Jan,  Pam, 
and  David. 


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The  place  to  be  in  '83 

Alumni  Weekend  June  24,  25,  26 


FRIDAY,  JUNE  24 


Awards  Banquet  —  1983  Alumni  Hall  of  Fame  inductee,  Honorary  Alum,  Surprise  Awards, 
featuring  an  address  by  Dr.  Donald  A.  Webb  "live  via  satellite  from  China" 

6:30-8  p.m.,  South  Dining  Hall 

8  p.m.:  R.O.T.C.  Alumni  Reception  (8-10)', 
Theatre  production;  Greek  Open  Houses;  informal  gatherings 

SATURDAY,  JUNE  25 

Registration-Reception,  9-10  a.m.,  lobby  of  Hamilton  Hall 
Church  Careers  Alumni  Reception,  9-9:30  a.m.,  Kilpatrick  Auditorium 


ALUMNI  COLLEGE 


10  a.m.  Classes 


Dr.  Bob  H.  Hallquist,  Education 

(and  Moonlighting  Maestro): 

Humor  in  Harmony 

Dr.  Delbert  W.  Chumley,  Business: 
Money  Management 


Dr.  Victoria  LeFevers,  Health  &  P.E. 

Nutrition  for  the  80's: 

New  Trends 


11  a.m.  Classes 

Dr.  Earle  G.  Labor,  English: 

The  Making  of  a  Major  Author: 

Jack  London  and  the  Politics  of 

Literary  Reputation 

Dr.  Mark  E.  Dulle,  Psychology: 

Stress  Management:  Both  in  the 

Family  ir  on  the  Job 

Jeff  Teter  77:  The  Selection,  Care, 
and  Feeding  of  a  Home  Computer 


Just  For  Youngsters 

6:30  -  10  p.m. 
Cartoons  &  snacks  in  James  Dorm 
Lobby;    supervised    play    (video 
games,  ping-pong,  etc.)  in  Moore 
Student  Union. 


9—12  noon 
Child  care,  supervised  activities 
indoors  and  outdoors.  The  spacious 
James  Lobby  is  headquarters  for 
the  kids,  and  activities  can  be 
scheduled  using  any  campus  facil- 
ities, depending  on  the  ages  and 
interests  of  kids  attending. 


Family  Picnic  —  Crumley  Gardens,  12  noon 
"Roaring  20's"  Alumni  Luncheon  in  Centenary  Room 


Alumni  Tennis  Tournament 

(doubles,  scrambles) 

play  begins  at  1:30  on  the 

newly-dedicated  Gold  Dome  courts; 

alumni  &  spouses  encouraged  to  enter 


Jubilee  Cabin/Land's  End  Plantation  Tour 

Tour  this  19th  century  log  house  and  planta- 
tion in  nearby  Stonewall,  La.,  led  by  Pro- 
fessor Willard  Cooper  '47,  Art  Dept.  Chair- 
man &  Meadows  Museum  Curator.  Bus 
leaves  Hodges  Rose  Garden  at  1:00  p.m. 
(return  at  5:30;  places  limited) 


1—5  p.m. 
Child  care  and  supervision  again   | 
offered  or  sign  em  up  with  you  for   I 
one  of  the  afternoon  activities. 


CLASS  OF  '82  1st  ANNIVERSARY  REUNION:  1  to  5  p.m. 

Also  on  Saturday  afternoon:  Guided  Tour  of  Meadows  Museum  (2  p.m.); 
extra  Class  Reunion  activities  (to  be  detailed  via  Class  Agents'  letters) 

SATURDAY  NIGHT  REUNIONS0 

Gatherings  of  the  classes  of  1933,  1947-'48-'49,  1958,  1967-'68-'69,  1973 

SUNDAY,  JUNE  26 

Sunday  Morning  Social  —  9:30-10:30  a.m.,  lobby  of  Hamilton  Hall 

11A.M.  CHAPEL 

Sermon  to  be  delivered  by  The  Very  Reverend  O.C.  Edwards,  Jr.  '49 
President  and  Dean  of  Seabury-Western  Theological  Seminary 

MAKE  YOUR  RESERVATIONS  FOR  MEALS,  YOUTH/CHILD  CARE  PROGRAM, 
REUNIONS,  AND  ON-CAMPUS  ROOM  &  BOARD 

USE  REGISTRATION  FORM  ON  OPPOSITE  PAGE 


6  —  12  p.m. 
Take  advantage  of  child  care  and 
supervision,  enjoy  your  Class  Re-  j 
union!   (Provide  older  kids  with   I 
pocket    money    for   soft   drinks, 
amusements,  etc.) 


10:30  -  12  noon 
Child  care  offered  during  worship 
service. 


^Please  see  the  Strictly  Personal  section  for  all  Reunion  information. 


The  Weekend  .  .  . 

is  designed  with  all  alumni  in 
mind:  there  are  events  lor  ever) 
age  group  and  for  both  local 
residents  and  out-of-towners.  Spe- 
cial provisions  are  made  for  alumni 
families  and  their  children.  It  you 
plan  to  attend  one,  several,  or  all 
)f  the  events,  please  use  the  tear- 
nit  registration  form.  Send  it  by 
fune  1  il  on-campus  room  and 
)oard  or  child  care  are  involved; 
veil  send  further  information  and 
•onfirmation. 

Highlights  of  the  Weekend  are, 
)f  course,  the  Class,  Cluster,  and 
Departmental  Reunions,  the  Alum- 
li  Awards  Banquet  (on  Friday 
veiling  this  year),  and  Sunday 
vorship.  And  there's  plenty  Imp- 
elling in  between!  In  addition  to 
vents  listed  here,  your  Class 
Vgents  will  forward  news  oi  any 
urther  class  activities. 

\ccommodations 
m-campus  .  .  . 

re  convenient  and  economical. 
Hotel  rooms  are  scarce  during  this 
he  racing  season,  so  make  those 
eservations  early!)  Dorm  rooms 
i  James  and  James  Annex  are 
vailable  for  out-of-towners,  but 
ou  II  want  to  remember  your  alarm 
ock,  linens,  pillows,  etc.;  the 
loms  are  spartan.  Kids  stay  with 
ou  at  no  extra  charge,  but  bring 
eeping  bags! 

Meals  in  the  cafeteria  are  avail- 
ble,  and  child  care  —  by  advance 
gistration,  please  —  will  be  head- 
uartered  close  at  hand  in  James 
obby.  Take  advantage  of  these 

onomical  services  according  to 
le  needs  of  your  family. 

Special  events 
his  year  .  .  . 

an  Alumni  Tennis  Tournament; 
nnis  buffs  (alumni  and  spouses) 
e  encouraged  to  enter  this  event, 
hich  will  be  on  a  "scrambles, 
mbles"  basis.  Winners  will  receive 

.  the  sincere  congratulations  of 
1,  and  a  custom  plaque.  To  be 
ayed  on  the  beautiful  new  Cold 
ome  courts! 

Annie  .  .  .  one  ol  Broadway  s 
st-loved  musicals  will  be  pro- 
iced  by  Centenary  s  nationally 
claimed  theatre  department;  per- 
rmances  during  Alumni  Weekend 
ill  be  at  8:00  p.m.  Thursday,  Fri- 
iy,  and  Saturday,  and  at  2:00 
m.  Sunday,  at  the  Marjorie  Lyons 
ayhouse.  Special  half-price  rate 
$5  (tor  Friday  night  performance 
ily)  to  Alumni  who  order  via  this 
'gistration  Form. 
ANNIE  IS  SURE  TO  BE  SOLD 
UT  -  ORDER  YOUR  TICKETS 
SSOON  AS  POSSIBLE. 


REGISTRATION  FORM 

Detach  and  mail  with  payment  to:  Alumni  Weekend,  Centenary  College,  P.O.  Box  4188. 
Shreveport,  LA  71  L34-0188.  Make  checks  payable  to  "Alumni  Weekend". 

Adult  Reservations:  Name Class 

Address  


Attending  Spouse 


Class  (if  alum) 


TOTAL  ENCLOSED:  $_ 
Reunions  (please  enter  number  of  reservations  in  the  appropriate  spaces) 

"Roaring  20\s" 1933 _  $10         1947-'48-'49 _  817.50 

1958 afternoon  event         1958 Reunion  Dinner  @$25 


i967-'68-'69 

1973 

1982 


@  $15 


(Have  you  signed  up  via  Scott  Pender?) 

(Have  you  signed  up  via  David  Henington?) 

Awards  Banquet  adults   @    $8.00 


Family  Picnic 


adults  ("•  $3.50 


_  children  to  have  separate 
meal  in  Cafeteria  _   $2.00 

children  _  $2.00 


Free  Events  (please  indicate  total  number  —  adults  &  children  —  planning  to  attend) 

Sat.  morning  Registration-Reception  ________        Lands  End  Plantation  Tour 

Church  Careers  Reception Meadows  Museum  Tour 

Alumni  College  Classes 

Harmony  (Hallquist)  

Money  Mgmt.  (Chumley) 

Nutrition  (LeFevers)  

Sunday  Morning  Social 

Tennis  Tournament  (Spectator) 

Tennis  Tournament  Entry  (please  enclose  $3  per  entry) 
Name 


Jack  London  (Labor) 
Stress  Mgmt.  (Dulle) 
Home  Computers  (Teter) 


Worship  Service 


Class  Year 


Level  of  Proficiency  (circle): 


A 


B 


C 


(be  honest!) 


Theatre  Tickets: 

(tickets  will  be  held 
at  the  box  office) 


Annie  (@  $5) 


_  $10) 


Fri.,  (i  24  —  H  p.m. 

Thurs.,  6  23  —  8  p.m. 

Sat.  (i  25  S  p.m. Sun.  0  2b'  2  p.m. 


ON-CAMPUS  ROOM  &  BOARD 

($10  deposit  required  for  rooms;  please  pre-pay  for  Reunion,  meals,  etc.) 

Single-occupancy  room  Double  occupancy  room 

nights  at  $15  per  night  .  nights  at  $10  per  adult  per  night 

children  in  room  —  age(s) 


Est.  time  of  arrival  on  campus: 


Preferred  suite-sharing  couple: 


Adulb 


MEALS  FOR  CAMPUS  RESIDENTS 

Please  Indicate  Number 
@  $2.50  -  Saturday  Breakfast 

(_   $3.75  —  Saturday  Supper 

@  $2.50  -  Sunday  Breakfast 

@  $3.25  —  Sunday  Lunch 


Children  (under  12) 

-  @  $1.50 

-  (a<  $1.75 

-  @  $1.50 

-  @  $2.25 


(See  above  for  Friday  supper  and  Saturday  lunch) 
CHILD-CARE/YOUTH  PROGRAM 


Names  and  ages  of  children  to  be  registered: 


Enter  child's  initials  here 
&  in  appropriate  space(s) 


Friday  evening,  6:30-10 
Saturday  afternoon,  1-5 


Saturday  morning,  9-12 
.  Saturday  evening,  6-12 


Sunday  morning,  10:30-12 


(Any  area  of  particular  interest  youth  might  have: 


PLEASE  BE  SURE  TO  REGISTER  BY  MAIL  BEFORE  JUNE  1 
FOR  ACCOMMODATIONS  AND  CHILD  CARE. 


"Oil  and  Our  Energy  Future"  was  the 
theme  of  Centenary  College's  eighth 
annual  Free  Enterprise  Conference, 
which  drew  hundreds  of  business  men, 
women,  and  students  to  campus. 
Sponsored  by  the  College  and  the 
Associates  for  Free  Enterprise,  the 
conference  featured  Dr.  Margaret  N. 
Maxey,  Chair  of  Free  Enterprise  at 
the  University  of  Texas,  and  Lloyd  N. 
Unsell,  executive  vice  president  of  the 
Independent  Petroleum  Association 
of  America. 

A  general  failure  in  the  United  States 
to  maintain  adequate  perspectives  on 
energy  needs  foreshadows  a  period  of 
serious  reckoning,  according  to  Dr. 
Maxey.  "We  have  lost  any  meaningful 
historical  perspective  on  what  energy 
means  today  by  contrast  with  what 
energy  meant  150  years  ago,"  she  said. 
"Instead  we  have  been  hearing  a  super- 
ficial statistic:  'We  are  six  percent  of 
the  world's  population,  yet  we  are  con- 
suming 35  to  40  percent  of  the  world's 
energy . '  We  should  realize  that  1 00  per- 
cent of  what  the  world  now  means  by 
energy  would  not  exist  if  it  were  not  for 
the  scientific  and  technological  in- 
novations of  this  much-maligned  six 
percent." 

Dr.  Maxey  also  cited  that  we  have 
failed  to  develop  and  maintain  any 
adequate  global  perspective  on  energy 
needs.  Recent  studies,  she  said,  conclude 
that  there  is  a  direct  positive  correlation 
between  health,  material  well-being, 
and  levels  of  energy  use.  Increased 


energy  use  levels  have  meant  that 
mortality  has  declined  because  it  has 
raised  standards  of  living. 

Third,  we  have  failed  to  develop  and 
insist  upon  an  adequate  ethical  perspec- 
tive on  energy  risks,  she  said.  Too  many 
political  activists  and  national  opinion 
leaders  are  paralyzing  ordinary  citizens 
with  phobic  fears  about  the  dangers  of 
radiation  and  toxic  chemicals,  an  obses- 
sion she  compared  to  16th  and  17th 
century  witch-hunting. 

An  essential  key  to  global  stability, 
Dr.  Maxey  said,  is  the  production,  distri- 
bution, and  use  of  adequate,  affordable 
energy.  The  seeds  of  another  war  lie  in 
competition  for  scarce  energy  supplies. 
To  extirpate  those  seeds  is  a  moral 
responsibility. 

"The  Role  of  Independent  Oil  Producers 
Through  the  Year  2000"  was  the  topic 
of  Mr.  Unsell,  who  began  by  saying  that 
the  energy  future  of  America  literally 
will  be  secure  or  insecure  based  on  pub- 
lic and  political  understanding  of  two 
very  simple  facts :  ( 1 )  Nobody  is  excluded 
from  the  oil  business,  but  (2)  nobody  has 
to  be  in  the  oil  business. 

He  also  pointed  out  that  it  was  highly 
appropriate  that  the  future  role  of  inde- 
pendent petroleum  explorer-producers 
be  a  subject  of  discussion  at  a  Free 
Enterprise  Conference.  No  other  in- 
dustrial activity  reflects  so  conclusively 
the  effectiveness  and  benefits  of  private 
enterprise  in  operation,  free  of  unneces- 
sary constraints;  conversely,  no  other 
industry  can  more  quickly  be  decimated 


by  unnecessary  constraints  such  as 
government  price,  production,  and 
supply  controls. 

The  energy  challenge  in  the  rest  of  th, 
century ,  Mr.  Unsell  said,  will  be  to  keej 
enough  curious  explorers  committed  t 
the  search  for  petroleum  fuels.  Economi 
and  government  policy  will  be  critical 
important.  They  will  control  the  climat 
for  investment,  and,  in  the  end,  whetht 
we  succeed  or  fail  in  providing  needed 
petroleum  resources. 

The  government  policy  of  price  contri 
is  one  area  of  concern,  Mr.  Unsell  sak 
Government  price  controls  do  not  reai 
benefit  the  consumer,  as  many  politi 
cians  believe,  and  would  have  the  pubt 
believe.  What  price  controls  have  donj 
in  the  past  1 7  years  is  to  cut  drilling  anc 
exploration  in  half  and  cut  the  number 
independent  producers  by  10,000. 
Consequently,  our  oil  import  inde- 
pendence has  skyrocketed,  prices  hav 
gone  up,  and  gasoline  lines  have  ap- 
peared.  Decontrol  is  the  message  con 
sumers  need  to  send  to  Washington. 

Even  with  government  constraints, 
the  opportunities  for  the  imaginative 
entrepreneur  can  be  as  attractive  and 
rewarding  as  ever  through  the  1980s 
and  1990s,  he  said.  Independent  ex- 
plorer-producers  can  continue  to  makt 
this  country  the  world's  leading  ener^ 
producer,  an  achievement  that  can  or 
result  from  a  free  economic  system  th 
rewards  the  risks  and  successes  of 
private  enterprise. 


Perspectives 


Hal  Sutton 


Priorities  and  discipline  are  two  key  aspects  of  performance  — 
n  golf  and  in  life. 

That  caveat  comes  from  Hal  Sutton  '81,  who  sets  his  sights 
ligh  and  gets  there. 

Since  joining  the  Professional  Golf  Tour  in  1 982,  this  Cente- 
lary  business  major  has  enjoyed  the  richest  rookie  year  in 
listory,  winning  $237,434  to  break  the  previous  record  of 
1153,102.  In  the  fall,  he  won  the  Walt  Disney  World  Classic, 
ind  just  last  month,  he  was  named  Rookie  of  the  Year  by  Golf 
digest.  It  has  also  been  recently  announced  that  Hal  has  agreed 
o  a  touring  pro  affiliation  with  Bent  Pine  Gold  Club  in  Vero 
Jeach,  Fla. 

His  collegiate  successes  are  no  less  enviable:  Walker  Cup 
"earn,  U.S.  Amateur  Champion,  Western  Amateur  Champion, 
\Iorth  and  South  Amateur  Champion,  World  Amateur  Team 
championship,  and  NCAA  Championship  -runnerup.  In  1980 
lal  was  named  Collegiate  Player  of  the  Year  by  Golf  Magazine 
nd  #1  Amateur  in  the  U.S.  by  Golf  Digest. 

"My  years  at  Centenary  hold  many  memories  from  both  the 
lassroom  and  playing  on  the  golf  team, "  Hal  writes.  "I 
eminisce  my  college  years  and  remember  many  professors 
ind  friends  who  helped  me  prepare  for  the  business  world.  I 
lave  great  pride  when  I  think  of  our  golf  team  which  developed 
nd  gained  national  recognition." 

Priorities  and  discipline  —  add  talent,  and  you've  got  some- 
tiing  special. 


Hal  Sutton 


Dr.  Glenn  O.  Hilburn 


Glenn  O.  Hilburn, 
Founders '  Day  Speaker 

Centenary  alumnus  Dr.  Glenn  O.  Hilburn  '5 1 ,  who  holds  an 
unprecedented  third  consecutive  term  as  president  of  Omicron 
Delta  Kappa,  will  mark  the  College's  158th  academic  year 
when  he  speaks  at  Founders'  Day  Convocation  Thursday,  April 
21. 

The  event  will  take  place  in  Brown  Chapel  at  11  a.m.  fol- 
lowed by  a  picnic  lunch  in  Crumley  Gardens. 

Dr.  Hilburn  was  first  inducted  into  ODK,  a  national  leader- 
ship traternity,  while  a  student  at  Centenary,  and  has  served 
in  the  national  organization  in  various  capacities  since  1962. 
Since  the  establishment  of  ODK  in  1914,  no  president  has 
ever  been  elected  to  serve  more  than  two  consecutive  terms. 

'Little  did  I  ever  dream,    writes  Dr.  Hilburn  "that  I  would 
someday  become  president  of  the  Society  when  I  was  a  student 
member  of  the  Centenary  Circle  in  January  1951.  I  am  ex- 
tremely proud  of  both  associations  —  my  alma  mater  and  its 
local  ODK  Circle." 

Now  a  professor  of  religion  at  Baylor  University,  Dr.  Hilburn 
earned  his  degree  at  Centenary  in  chemistry.  He  received  his 
bachelor  of  divinity  degree  in  1956  and  his  doctor  of  theology 
degree  in  1960,  both  from  The  Southwestern  Baptist  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  Fort  Worth.  He  did  postdoctoral  work  at 
the  University  of  Texas  at  Austin,  after  joining  the  Baylor 
faculty  in  1961. 


(i 


What  a  combo 

Making  beautiful  music  and  a  beautiful  photograph  are  members  of  the  tulltime  faculty  of 
the  Hurley  School  of  Music  including  (left  to  right)  James  Ring,  Dr.  Donald  Rupert,  Dr. 
Michael  Williford,  Ronald  Dean,  Mrs.  Gale  Odom,  and  Dr.  Frank  Carroll,  dean.  (Not 
pictured  are  William  Teague  and  William  Riley.)  In  the  background  is  the  Hurley  Music 
Building  where  classes  and  concerts  are  held. 


Hurley  5 


The  vocal  and  instrumental  progran 
at  Centenary  is  truly  music  to  our  ear; 

Orchestrated  by  Dean  Frank  Carro'' 
the  Hurley  School  of  Music  offers  a 
symphony  of  courses,  degrees,  and 
events  for  Centenary  students  and  the 
Ark-La-Tex  community. 

Dr.  Carroll,  in  addition  to  his  teachin 
and  duties  as  dean,  serves  as  conduct! 
and  music  director  of  the  Longview 
Symphony  Orchestra.  A  graduate  of  th< 
Eastman  School  of  Music,  he  has  also 
been  active  in  composing,  public  schoi 
teaching,  and  studio  teaching. 

"I'm  very  impressed  with  our  faculty  ■ 
their  programs  here  and  their  extra- 
curricular activities,  "  beamed  Dr.  Carre 
"It's  amazing  what  they  all  do." 

Directing  the  Centenary  Opera 
Theatre  is  Gale  Odom,  a  coloratura 
soprano  who  has  performed  widely  ini 
opera  and  as  a  recitalist  in  the  South.  | 
Performances  of  "The  Marriage  of 
Figaro" in  late  April  and  early  May  art 
keeping  Gale  busy,  in  addition  to  her 
regular  voice  classes. 

Co-director  for  the  Opera  Theatre  i 
William  Riley,  presently  a  doctoral 
student  at  the  University  of  Illinois. 
A  winner  of  regional  Metropolitan  Ope 
auditions.  Bill  is  active  in  local  opera 
productions  and  serves  as  an  officer 
in  the  National  Association  of  Teache 
of  Singing. 

James  Ring,  a  newcomer  to  Cente- 
nary's faculty,  serves  as  director  of  the 
Hurley  Chamber  Singers,  a  small  groi 
of  students  who  perform  throughout  th 
city  and  in  recital  on  campus.  Jim  is  alsc 
busy  developing  a  music  education 
program  for  public  school  teachers, 
which  will  begin  in  the  fall. 

It  takes  a  lot  of  energy  to  direct  fou 
instrumental  groups,  and  that's  just  wh 
Dr.  Michael  Williford  has.  A  clarineti* 
with  extensive  orchestral,  solo,  and 
chamber  music  experience,  Mike  wor< 
with  the  student  Pep  Band,  which  eve 
learned  the  Yugoslavian  National 
Anthem  for  an  exhibition  game  again: 
the  Yugoslav  team;  the  all-student  Win 
Ensemble;  the  all-student  Stage  Band 
and  the  faculty  Woodwind  Quintet, 
pictured  in  the  last  issue  of  Centenan 
Mike  is  also  principal  clarinetist  with 
the  Longview  Symphony  and  is  activ 
as  an  adjudicator. 


x)l  of  Music  is  in  fine  tune 


.. 


William  Teague  wears  at  least  two 
usical  hats  at  Centenary.  For  the 
,'cond  year,  he  is  serving  as  director  of 
entenary's  Handbell  Choir,  made  up 
students,  faculty,  and  staff.  A  summer 
orkshop  is  expected  to  draw  handbell 
usicians  from  all  over  the  country.  Mr. 
sague  is  perhaps  better  known  as  our 
acher  of  organ  and  director  of  the 
lurch  music  program.  He  has  appeared 
concert  throughout  the  United  States, 
jrope,  Australia,  and  Asia,  and  has 
cently  recorded  an  album  on  the  world- 
mous  organ  at  St.  Mark's  Episcopal 
[lurch,  where  he  is  director  of  music, 
le  album,  "William  Teague  Plays 
Ulan,  Franck,  Ginastera,' 'is  available 
St.  Mark's  Gift  Shop  or  at  Centenary. 
Donald  Rupert  is  called  on  frequently 
accompany  guest  artists  who  appear 
i  Hurley's  Friends  of  Music  Series, 
so  a  graduate  of  the  Eastman  School  of 
usic,  Don  is  a  professor  of  piano,  a 
aster  class  teacher,  and  a  recitalist. 
In  addition  to  Ronald  Dean's  music 
itory  and  theory  classes  at  Centenary, 
:  serves  as  choirmaster  and  organist 
;  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church. 
JThe  part-time  faculty  are  no  exception 
the  excellence  of  teaching  and  dedi- 
tion  to  music. 

Constance  Knox  Carroll,  wife  of  the 
an,  teaches  piano  and  piano  ensemble 
an  artist-in-residence.  A  winner  of 
tional  and  international  piano  com- 
tition,  Connie  performed  a  world 
emiere  in  Greensboro,  N.C.,  this 
ring.  She  will  also  appear  as  a  recitalist 
d  lecturer  at  the  Music  Teachers 
itional  Association  and  as  a  recitalist 
th  Gale  Odom  at  the  Louisiana  State 
invention  of  Federated  Music  Clubs, 
it  that's  not  enough  to  keep  her  busy , 
|)nnie  will  perform  as  soloist  with  the 
reveport  Summer  Music  Festival 
chestra  and  in  recital  with  Sidney 
irth  in  June. 

Director  of  the  highly  successful 
zuki  Violin  School  for  the  community's 
ung  students  is  Laura  Crawford, 
10  also  teaches  applied  violin  to  our 
:ntenary  students.  Laura  will  coordi- 
te  a  one-day  Suzuki  workshop  to  be 
Hd  in  late  spring,  in  between  her 
rtormances  with  the  Longview  Sym- 
ony,  where  she  has  been  concert- 
ikster;  the  Baroque  Artist  of  Shreve- 


port,  and  other  concerts. 

II  everything  sounds  too  great  tor  the 
Hurley  School  ot  Music,  you  re  right. 
A  slightly  tlat  note  is  that  more  music 
students  are  needed. 

"Current  enrollment  is  minimal,  but 
comfortable,    said  Dr.  Carroll.  "We 
could  use  an  increase  ot  from  10  to  20 
more  students  per  year.  We  certainly 


don't  want  to  get  too  large,  but  more 
students  would  be  healthy.  A  big  help 
would  be  tor  alumni  or  former  music 
students  to  tell  high  school  students 
about  our  program.  Or  just  give  me  the 
students'  names  and  addresses.  Once 
you  get  in  touch  with  us,  we  can  do  the 
rest."' 
Bravo! 


Stress  in  musical  marriages 


A  great  majority  of  musicians  believe 
they  are  better  equipped  than  most 
people  in  coping  with  stress.  But  when 
the  going  gets  really  tough,  most  musicians 
feel  music  can  be  used  therapeutically. 
However,  they  often  listen  to  a  type  of 
music  markedly  different  from  their  own. 

Those  are  some  of  the  findings  of 
Centenary  psychology  Professor  Mark 
Dulle  and  three  of  his  students  who  have 
recently  compiled  results  from  research 
on  stress  in  musical  marriages.  The 
findings  came  from  over  75  question- 
naires responded  to  by  musicians  in 
Louisiana,  Texas,  and  Mississippi, 

The  research  grew  out  of  a  concern 
expressed  by  an  officer  of  the  Music 
Teachers  National  Association  that  the 
divorce  rate  among  musicians  might  be 
higher  than  among  other  groups.  Dr. 
Dulle  explained.  Though  they  haven't 
yet  answered  that  question,  the  re- 
searchists did  discover  some  interesting 
facts,  some  of  which  were  reported  to 
the  national  convention  of  the  Music 
Teachers  National  Association  in  Hous- 
ton last  month. 

The  majority  of  musicians  interviewed 
felt  that  they  experienced  higher  levels 
of  stress  than  other  groups.  At  the  same 
time,  they  feel  they  are  more  fulfilled 
than  their  non-musician  peers  and  they 
also  feel  they  are  just  as  happy  as  their 
non-musician  friends, 

A  stressor  many  musicians  encounter 
is  performing  in  public  where  per- 
formance expectations  are  generally 
very  high.  Regardless  of  positive  feed- 
back from  others,  it  is  not  uncommon  for 
the  musician  to  feel  he  has  not  performed 
to  his  maximum  potential.  Practice, 
practice,  practice  is  another  musical 


element  that  can  tax  those  close  to  the 
musician  as  much  as,  if  not  more  than, 
the  musician  himself. 

Dr.  Dulle  conjectured  that  perhaps 
those  musicians  who  were  not  as  well- 
equipped  to  handle  stress  have  abandoned 
the  musical  world  professionally  and 
settled  into  other  professions,  maybe 
even  psychology. 


Potpourri 


Keep  a  great 
teacher  teaching 

Hundreds  of  small  private  colleges  will 
be  closing  their  doors  between  now  and 
the  1990s,  but  not  Centenary  College. 

That  prediction  came  from  Dr.  James 
L.  Fisher,  president  of  the  Council  for 
Advancement  and  Support  of  Education 
(CASE)  who  spoke  at  the  volunteer  kick- 
off  luncheon  for  the  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund. 

"Most  college  presidents  these  days 
are  faceless,    he  said,  "but  not  yours. 
Don  Webb  is  one  of  the  most  extraordi- 
nary men  I've  ever  met.  Your  faculty  is 
strong  —  they  hold  degrees  from  all  over 
the  country.  Your  trustees  take  a  very 
active  role  in  the  life  of  the  College  — 
they  know  what  is  going  on.  The  enroll- 
ment is  healthy,  and  your  students  get 
smarter  every  year." 

These  assets,  along  with  the  excellent 
financial  support  and  volunteer  service 
given  to  Centenary,  should  keep  the 
doors  open  and  great  teachers  teaching 
at  this  College  for  a  long  time  to  come. 

In  the  top  ten 

William  McNamara  70  was  featured 
in  the  February  issue  of  American  Artist 
where  he  was  highlighted  as  one  of  the 
top  ten  watercolorists  in  the  country. 

"I  always  'find'  rather  than  compose 
the  still  lifesl  paint," said  Bill  in  the  arti- 
cle, which  is  illustrated  by  one  of  his 
paintings. 

He  and  his  wife  and  two  sons  live  in 
the  Boston  Mountains  of  Newton  County, 
Ark.,  near  the  Buffalo  National  River. 
His  paintings  are  sold  through  galleries 
in  Jackson,  Miss.,  New  Orleans,  and 
Bethesda,  Md. 

Atter  graduating  trom  Centenary, 
where  he  also  taught,  Bill  earned  his  MA 
from  New  Mexico  Highlands  University. 

Close  quarters 

Carolyn  Garison  has  some  good  news 
and  some  bad  news  about  the  music 
library  at  Centenary. 

First,  the  good  news:  Centenary's 
music  library  is  believed  to  be  the  only 
one  in  this  area,  and  certainly  has  the 
biggest  collection  of  records  and  scores 
-over  6,000. 

The  bad  news:  The  small  room  in 
Hurley  Music  Building  is  bulging  at  the 
seams.  "We've  got  to  do  something 
soon,"  said  Carolyn,  a  graduate  of  Cen- 
tenary. 
10 


President  Donald  Webb  (left)  congratulates  Bill  Anderson  on  an  eventful  kiclil 
luncheon  for  the  annual  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund.  Looking  on  is  Dr.  James  Fislfl 
president  of  the  Council  for  Advancement  and  Support  of  Education  (CASE),  giJ 
speaker  for  the  event.  Impressed  by  Centenary  College,  Dr.  Fisher  said  that  as  lonjH 
Centenary  continues  its  current  successes,  it  will  not  be  among  the  hundreds  of  snfl 
colleges  predicted  to  close  their  doors  in  the  next  decade. 


It's  her  job  to  re-catalogue  the  pieces 
and  update  the  classification  done  in 
1972,  when  Magale  Library  opened. 
The  Music  library  is  a  satellite  of  Magale, 
and  Carolyn  splits  her  time  between  the 
two. 

Luckily  lor  Carolyn,  "Music  is  just  my 
favorite  thing.  Just  to  be  able  to  work 
with  it,  in  it,  under  it,  is  very  stimulating. 


Winners 


Centenary  College  athletes  have  done 
it  again. 

Two  gymnasts  —  Jill  Brown  of  Rock- 
wall, Texas,  and  Jennifer  Forshee  of 
Bonne  Terre,  Mo.,  earned  All-American 
honors  for  the  fourth  consecutive  year  at 
the  recent  NAIA  national  meet  in 
Pueblo,  Colo.  This  achievement  —  claimed 
by  very  few  persons  in  the  country  —  is 
a  first  in  the  College's  158-year-history . 
And  to  ice  the  cake,  Jill  was  voted  over- 
whelmingly the  NAIA  Student  Athlete 
of  the  Year. 


Alumni  Weekendi 
exhibit 


An  exhibit  of  the  early  works  of  tr| 
famous  American  artist  Edward  Hopp 
will  be  on  view  at  Centenary  s  Meado\ 
Museum  of  Art  June  26-July  24.  The  e: 
hibit  consists  ot  original  drawings,  wat 
colors,  prints,  photographs,  and  memci 
bilia  of  this  great  artist  and  covers  hi; 
period  of  development  from  childhooc 
his  first  major  New  York  show. 

The  exhibit  is  organized  trom  the 
lection  of  the  Rev.  Arthayer  R.  Sanbd 
who  was  a  personal  friend  of  the  Hoji 
family  and  is  currently  the  most  knov 
edgeable  authority  on  Hopper  in  the 
United  States.  Rev.  Sanborn  will  be 
present  at  the  opening  and  will  give 
gallery  talk  on  Sunday,  June  26,  at 
2  p.m.,  an  event  tree  and  open  to  the1 
public. 


Of  roses, 
master  plans 

A  Master  Plan  for  the  Centenary 
ollege  campus  was  unveiled  in  Febru- 
•y ,  and  one  portion  of  it  is  already  under 
instruction. 
Centenary  College  President  Donald 

Webb  announced  that  a  rose  garden, 
Dw  being  built  adjacent  to  Hamilton 

,  will  honor  the  late  Addie  Hodges 
id  the  late  Maggie  Hodges  James,  and 
ill  be  called  the  Hodges  Rose  Garden, 
le  garden  is  a  gift  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
illiam  James  of  Ruston ,  and  memori- 
izes  his  mother  and  grandmother.  A 

ntenary  graduate ,  Mr.  James  is  also  a 
ember  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
Many  of  the  roses  to  be  planted  in 
e  garden  will  be  the  new  Centenary 
pse,  bred  especially  for  the  College  at 
■mstrong  Nurseries  in  California. 
|  lis  hybrid  tea  rose  is  deep  maroon  in 
lor  and  very  fragrant.  Some  400  trial 

shes  have  been  planted  on  campus 
d  in  rose  gardens  throughout  the 

k-La-Tex  to  make  sure  that  this  rose 
11  like  it  here. 

The  Hodges  Rose  Garden  is  part  of 
Vlaster  Plan  which  also  proposes 
untains,  a  shallow  pond,  an  outdoor 
t  exhibit  area ,  an  outdoor  theatre ,  and 
:iady  plazas  all  over  the  campus.  The 


plan,  unveiled  to  the  Campus  Improve- 
ment Committee,  was  also  presented  to 
the  students,  faculty ,  and  administrators 
for  their  comments  and  criticisms. 

The  Master  Plan  began  with  the  en- 
thusiasm of  Trustee  Harry  V.  Balcom, 
who  has  worked  for  the  past  two  years 
with  the  Committee  and  Townsley 
Schwab  of  Schwab  and  Associates 
Landscapes  Architects  to  develop  the 
plan. 

Schwab  said  the  whole  plan  is  to  serve 
as  a  guide  in  the  development  of  the 
campus  and  will  hopefully  perpetuate 
a  campus  environment  that  will  "enrich 
the  learning  experience  of  Centenary 
while  offering  a  place  of  beauty  and 
enjoyment  and  a  sense  of  pride  to  the 
College  and  the  community." 


Valentines 


The  month  of  February  held  some 
surprises  and  poignant  memories  for 
Centenary  College. 

Beaird-Poulan  renewed  its  member- 
ship in  the  President's  Club  (minimum 
gift:  $5,000),  even  though  the  tough 
economic  climate  forced  them  to  close 
their  doors. 

An  Open  Green  House  was  held 
Tuesday ,  Feb.  8,  on  the  rooftop  of  Mickle 
Hall,  where  a  green  house  now  stands. 


ench  painter  Jean  Despujols's  granddaughter  Jeanne  Burkley  of  Natchez  assists  with 
e  hostessing  duties  at  the  Meadows  Museum's  seventh  birthday  party.  President 
jonald  Webb  took  the  opportunity  to  announce  that  a  documentary  film  of  Mr.  Despu- 
Is's  works  housed  in  the  museum  will  be  made  this  year.  Hundreds  of  well-wishers 
ere  on  hand  for  the  festivities  Sunday  afternoon,  Feb.  20. 


The  structure  was  a  gift  to  the  Biology 
Department  from  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Don  A. 
Raymond,  Jr..  longtime  friends  ol  the 
College. 

An  all-time  high  of  over  800  senior 
adults  have  enrolled  in  the  Senior  Adult 
Education  Program,  sponsored  by 
Centenary  and  Shreveport -Bossier  City 
churches.  The  classes,  offered  free  of 
charge,  are  open  to  all  persons  aged  60 
and  over,  and  are  taught  by  volunteers 
from  the  community  and  the  campus. 


Commencement 

Anna  Russell,  musical  satirist  extra- 
ordinaire, will  bring  her  own  unique 
look  at  life  to  Centenary  College  s  Gold 
Dome  on  Sunday,  May  22,  at  2:30  p.m. 
when  she  addresses  the  Class  ot  '83  at 
their  commencement.  At  5  p.m.  that 
afternoon,  she  and  the  Centenary  College 
Choir  will  team  up  for  a  benefit  per- 
formance tor  the  Choir,  which  is  raising 
money  for  its  summer  concert  tour  to 
Japan  and  China. 

Miss  Russell,  dubbed  the  "crown  prin- 
cess of  music  parody    by  Time  maga- 
zine, has  been  poking  fun  at  musical 
pomposity  for  more  than  three  decades. 
The  Canadian-born  performer  began  as 
a  student  of  serious  music  at  the  Royal 
College  of  Music  in  London.  Following 
several  disastrous  forays  into  serious  per- 
formance, she  decided  to  turn  to  comedy. 

She  is  a  madcap  institution  who  spoofs 
opera,  musical  history,  and  the  cultural 
elite  with  a  cheerfulness  that  makes 
even  the  most  devoted  music  buff  howl 
with  laughter. 

The  Devilish  Diva,  age  70,  will  make 
this  her  last  appearance  on  her  "fare- 
well tour." 


In  August,  Russia 

Some  24  Centenary  College  students 
and  alumni  joined  Dr.  Royce  Shaw, 
chairman  of  the  Department  of  History 
and  Political  Science,  and  his  wife.  Dr. 
Joy  Shaw,  a  specialist  in  Russian  litera- 
ture, for  a  tour  of  the  Soviet  Union  during 
the  month  of  January .  The  trip  was  such 
a  success  that  Professor  Shaw  plans  to 
organize  another  trip  for  August,  1983, 
and  a  longer  tour  for  May,  1984.  Anyone 
interested  in  obtaining  further  details 
may  contact  Dr.  Shaw  at  (318)  869-5183 
or  949-9360. 

11 


Athletics 


In  the 

mainstream 

at  Centenary  College 


By  Bill  Roberts 

Sports  Information  Director 

In  the  long  and  storied  history  of 
Centenary,  never  has  athletics  been 
more  involved  in  the  life  of  the  College 
than  it  is  today. 

For  the  spring  semester  1983,  Cente- 
nary athletes  comprise  about  one- 
eighth  of  the  total  on-campus  student 
population  through  men's  basketball, 
baseball,  cross  country,  golf,  riflery, 
soccer,  tennis,  and  volleyball,  and 
women's  basketball,  cross  country, 
gymnastics,  and  tennis. 

One  hundred  twenty-seven  student 
athletes  share  55  athletic  scholarships. 
These  athletes  practice  their  sport 
about  three  hours  per  day  and  represent 
Centenary  throughout  the  United  States. 

The  Centenary  men's  athletic  pro- 
gram has  been  a  member  of  the  National 
Collegiate  Athletic  Association  (NCAA 
Division  I)  since  the  early  1960s.  The 
ladies'  program  joined  the  National 
Association  of  Intercollegiate  Athletics 
(NAIA)  last  August  and  is  a  first-year 
member. 

Athletics  has  played  a  major  role  in 
the  development  of  the  College's  per- 
sonality by  producing  outstanding 
individuals  who  qualified  for  the  highest 
level  of  competition  available  to  them. 
For  example,  Kathy  Johnson,  a  Cente- 
nary All-American  gymnast,  made  the 
1980  Olympic  team  and  is  acclaimed  as 
a  superior  gymnast  all  over  the  world. 

The  mid  70s  produce  Robert  Parish,  a 
five-time  All-American  basketball  star, 
who  has  become  a  two-time  NBA  All- 
Star  with  the  Boston  Celtics.  The  list 
continues  with  Centenary's  latest  prize 
in  the  PGA  Rookie  of  the  Year  in  1982, 
Hal  Sutton,  a  1 98 1  graduate  who  earned 
All-American  honors  and  won  several 
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awards  throughout  his  illustrious  career 
here. 

In  addition  to  individual  excellence, 
there  have  been  several  outstanding 
team  achievements  in  the  last  five  years. 
The  Ladies  captured  four  consecutive 
AIA W  Division  II  gymnastics  champion- 
ships and  came  in  second  in  1982.  The 
Gents'  golf  team  won  three  straight 
TAAC  golf  championships  and  came  in 
second  last  year. 

Also,  the  Ladies  finished  in  the  top 
ten  three  straight  years,  in  the  AIAW 
tennis  championships,  finishing  fifth  in 
1980,  seventh  in  1981,  and  tenth  in 
1982.  The  Centenary  baseball  team  tied 
for  the  TAAC  western  division  champion- 
ships in  1981. 

Even  though  the  list  of  outstanding 
individual  and  team  achievements 
continues,  there's  another  side  to  the 
story  about  the  rich  traditions  of  the 
smallest  NCAA  Division  I  school  in 
America. 

During  the  last  four  years  (including 
the  May  '83  graduation),  48  student 
athletes  will  have  graduated  from 
Centenary,  twice  the  national  average. 
And  that's  good  news  for  Centenary 
because  of  the  new  legislation  passed 
at  the  NCAA  Convention  last  January. 

During  the  77th  annual  NCAA  Con- 
vention, more  than  1,400  delegates 
passed  proposal  No.  48,  which  requires 
an  incoming  student-athlete  to  register 
a  minimum  700  combined  score  on  the 
SAT  verbal  and  math  sections  or  a  15 
composite  score  on  the  ACT  for  initial 
eligibility  at  a  Division  I  school,  plus  an 
overall  2.0  average  from  a  high  school 
core  curriculum. 

This  decision  will  strengthen  Cente- 
nary's athletic  tradition  because  the 
entrance  requirements  at  Centenary  are 
already  above  NCAA  standards.  This 


means  Centenary  will  have  a  jump  o 
the  majority  of  NCAA  state-supporte 
institutions  around  the  nation. 

"I  think  the  new  rule  is  needed,''  sail 
David  Coss,  a  former  standout  baseb 
player  at  Centenary  who  graduated 
with  a  3.8  grade-point-average  in  19 
and  now  is  playing  in  the  Pittsburgh 
Pirates  organization. 

"It's  a  big  paradox,  athletics  and 
education,"  Coss  added.  "In  order  to i; 
reach  success  you  devote  your  whole  li 
to  one  or  the  other,  and  usually  educat 
suffers.  People  place  different  degree 
of  importance  on  academics  and  athlet: j 
There  are  so  many  hours  in  a  day.  Yoj 
have  to  know  your  priorities.  Fortunat 
ly,  I  knew  mine. 

Coss  received  the  TAAC  post- 
graduate scholarship  award  last  sprirj 
and  even  though  he  turned  it  down  ajg 
the  moment,  he  plans  on  going  to  gradup 
school  if  professional  baseball  is  not  1 1 
calling. 

Another  standout  student-athlete  si 
Centenary  is  Katrina  Kellogg,  a  fresh  I 
man  gymnast  who  said  she  would  nod 
have  been  able  to  attend  Centenary  if  I ; 
weren't  for  gymnastics.  "I  know  I  ha\tl 
no  future  in  gymnastics  when  my  foul  j 
years  are  up,"  Kellogg  said.  "But  I  wM 
to  be  able  to  compete  to  the  best  of  nB 
ability.  I  want  to  get  an  education,  arj-j 
had  it  not  been  for  my  athletic  aid  I 
would  not  have  been  able  to  attend 
Centenary." 

Athletics  and  education  go  hand  in 
hand,  and  at  Centenary  College  tfj 
have  been  working  well  together  for  tl  I 
last  80  years!  The  future  of  Centenai 
and  it's  athletic  programs  is  as  much  j 
part  of  you  as  it  is  of  the  Shreveport- 
Bossier  Community.  Don't  let  it  be  "Ofl 
of  sight,  out  of  mind." 


: 


Strictly 
Personal 


1920s 

Class  Agent  for  1924-1929  SUE  CUPPLES 
^RNETTE  '28  received  notes  from  1925  class- 
ires  GEORGE  RAMSEY  in  Lynwood,  Calif.; 
H.  "BUCK''  FLETCHER  in  Saline,  La.;  and 
E  and  RACHEL  LONG  in  Americus,  GA, 
lere  Ike  is  the  Resident  Council  president  for 

year  in  the  retirement  home  where  they  live. 
From  the  Class  of  1926,  R.V.  (RUBE)  GLAS- 
L  reported  that  after  spending  his  life  farming, 
ining,  and  serving  on  the  Caddo  Parish  School 
iard,  he  has  now  leased  his  land  "to  let  some- 
e  else  have  all  the  everyday  concerns. " 
\LLACE  JOLLEY  in  Natchitoches  decided  to 
ire  after  50  years  of  farming,  JOE  LACY  of 
cogdoches  and  WARD  PETERS  of  Shreveport 
nembered  interesting  times  at  Centenary. 
From  far,  distant  places  the  Class  of '27  heard 
m  DR.  W.  GERARD  BANKS  in  Tacoma, 
V,  and  MARY  FRANCES  YOUNG  (MRS. 
ROY  MORWOOD)  in  Hermasillo,  Sonora, 
xico;  "BROWNIE"  MARY  ETTA  McGHEE 
RS.  RICHARD  S.  ROWAN)  wrote  from 
mroe;  and  JAMES  E.  HYDE,  from  Natchi- 
hes. 

The  Class  of  1928  learned  that  ROBERT  E. 
(i)ODRlCH  is  the  Bishop-in-residence  ( retired ) 
Houston;  LEONARD  RIGGS  of  Riggs  Enter- 
ses  lives  in  Longview;  LEILA  MAE  HARRIS 
RS.  TOM  R.  JOHNSON)  calls  Springfield,  OR, 
ne;  LIBBA  HUDSON  MYERS  (MRS.  H.O. 
"ERS),  who  is  Walter's  sister,  lives  in  Albu- 
jrque  and  that  W.F.  ( BILL)  BOZEMAN  of  Oil 
y,  with  great  loyalty  said  "with  maybe  a  little 

,  I  believe  our  class  of  1928  might  be  labelled 

choice  of  the  twenties." 
Kmong  the  1929  class,  MRS.  GEORGE 
IjYNOLDS  (AMANDA  McDONALD)  will  try 
trnake  the  trip  from  Morrilton,  Ark.,  to  Cente- 
y  for  the  June  Alumni  Weekend.  A.  STONE 
LMER  and  his  wife  JO  CAMPBELL  PALMER 

very  active  in  First  Methodist  Church  and 
Catenary.  She  is  a  past  president  of  the  Cente- 
y  Women's  Club.  They  celebrated  their 
den  wedding  anniversary  last  July  with  three 
wighters  and  five  grandchildren  acting  as  hosts, 
said,  "Dr.  George  Sexton  tied  the  knot!" 


"Roaring  Twenties"  —all  former 
students  of  the  1920s  Classes  — are 
invited  to  be  special  guests  of  the  College 

|  at  their  Reunion  Luncheon  at  noon  on 
Saturday,  June  25,  in  the  Centenary 
Room.  FRANK  and  BESS  BOYDSTON 
and  SUE  CUPPLES  BARNETTE  have 

I  been  making  plans  for  the  celebration. 
Please  fill  out  the  Reunion  form  in  the 

i magazine  and  return  it  to  the  Alumni 
Office. 


1930s 

TIZABETH  LIEBER  FOX  '30  has  been  re- 
rching  for  33  years  the  little-known  disease 
c  ed  Marfan's  Syndrome,  which  took  the  life 
o(ier  daughter,  Nancy  Clair,  in  1950.  In  her 
FJpared  biography,  MRS.  FOX  has  referenced 
Ojr  3,200  papers  encompassing  100  years  of 
pilication.  She  credits  her  degree  in  French 
Bn  Centenary  with  her  ability  to  translate  from 
tl' French  Dr.  Marfan's  original  1896  case 
r'jort  and  his  review  later  of  over  40  years  of 
rparch.  She  is  now  bibliographer  at  the  LSU 
Nclical  School  in  Shreveport,  a  consultant  for 
tl  Marfan  Project,  and  a  research  associate  in 
|  Orthopedic  Department.  In  a  recent  feature 
aide  in  the  Shreveport  Times  about  her  life  and 
v'rk,  MRS.  FOX  said  that  she  wants  to  show  the 
Hd  what  one  person  can  do,  "If  we  work  on 
a  ndividual  basis  to  the  best  of  our  ability,  we 
c  start  a  little  wave  which  will  reach  all  over 
1 1  world." 


DR.  FRED  RUSSELL  EDGAR  '33  celebrated 
the  50th  anniversary  of  his  conversion  and 
entrance  into  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist 
Church.  After  Centenary  he  graduated  from 
S.M.U.  with  a  B.D.,  Teachers'  College  in  New 
York  with  a  M.A.,  and  Columbia  University  with 
a  Ph.D.  Since  his  retirement  in  1981  he  has  been 
preaching,  teaching,  and  conducting  tours  all 
over  the  world  including  Russia  and  China. 
FRED  presently  serves  as  the  Southwest  Regional 
Representative  of  Alaska  Pacific  University 
(Methodist)  in  Anchorage,  Alaska  (says  it  re- 
minds him  of  Centenary  when  the  Class  of  '33 
was  there! ).  He  is  working  on  a  new  book  to  be 
titled  "Reaching  For  the  Good  Life."  His  first 
book  was  "Life  is  For  Living." 


The  Golden  Jubilee  50th  Anniversary 
Reunion  of  the  Class  of  1933  will  be  held 
on  Saturday  evening,  June  25,  at  6:30  p.m. 
in  Centenary's  own  Bynum  Commons.  The 
informal  Prime  Rib  Dinner  will  have  as 
special  guests  Dr.  Mary  Warters,  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  E.L.  Ford,  and  Mrs.  Bryant  ("Tip") 
Davidson.  EMILY  HARDING  YAUGER, 
LUCILLE  ALTHAR  TINDOL,  JOHN  L. 
BAIRD,  and  ISABELLA  LEARY  have 
made  great  plans,  so  be  sure  to  fill  in  your 
reservation  form  now,  and  send  it  in. 


1940s 

GRACE  JULIAN  NORTON,  Class  Agent 
1940,  was  delighted  with  the  avalanche  of  class 
news  she  received.  ANNE  SANDIFER  TRIC- 
KETT  reported  that  she  and  ED  '38  live  in 
Dallas,  where  they  opened  up  a  furniture  show 
room  at  the  Trade  Mart  with  help  from  their  son. 
ANNE  received  her  MA  in  Library  Science  after 
leaving  Centenary  and  worked  in  the  Centenary 
library  for  five  years.  ANNE  is  also  a  certified 
genealogist,  and  her  computer  helps  her  retrieve 
and  collate  records  for  publication. 

LOIS  PHILYAW  YEARBY  '40  and  her  hus- 
band, who  is  retired  from  the  staff  of  Henderson 
State  University,  Arkansas,  live  in  Arkadelphia 
and  enjoy  camping  and  fishing  at  DeGray  Lake. 
Their  two  sons  are  both  teachers  and  coaches  in 
Texas,  and  they  have  three  grandchildren. 

MARIE  SPIVEY  '40,  now  retired  in  Shreve- 
port, takes  advantage  of  college  study  trips  and 
recently  enjoyed  six  weeks  in  England. 

JAMES  L.  SOVALL  '40,  executive  director 
of  the  Louisiana  Interchurch  Conference  in 
Baton  Rouge,  and  his  wife,  ALICE  BALAY 
MILLS,  have  three  daughters,  one  son,  and  six 
grandchildren.  In  addition  to  his  Interchurch 
Conference  duties,  JAMES  has  served  as  a  dele- 
gate to  the  state  Constitutional  Convention  and 
has  been  active  on  numerous  other  civic  com- 
mittees, notably  those  engaged  in  prison  reform. 
Since  his  overseas  service  as  a  chaplain  to  the 


IN  MEMORIAM 

DR.  WALTER  C.  MITCHELL  '22 

October  30,  1982 

J.  NEIL  TAYLOR  '30 

October  2,  1982 

HARLAN  BEENE  '33 

October  31,  1982 

MRS.  ELIZABETH  HARBUCK  X35 

January  4,  1983 

PAUL  JAY  HUDSON  X38 

November  14,  1981 

M.L.  (SNOOKIE)  PADGETTE  X40 

January  30,  1983 

MARGARET  EWING  JOHNSON  LONG  X41 

(Mrs.  Thomas  Williams  Mason  Long) 

December  31  ,  1982 


U.S.  Marine  Corps  in  Saipan  and  in  Japan, 
JAMES  has  traveled  to  virtually  every  country 
on  the  globe. 

DOROTHY  STEPHENSON  BOONE  '40 

lives  in  Jackson,  Miss.,  with  husband  JIMMY, 
a  retired  regional  attorney  for  Gulf  Oil.  They 
now  have  five  grandsons. 

LOUISE  HOGAN  ROSE  has  taught  elemen- 


tary school  in  Shreveport,  where  she  and 
husband  CHARLES  live.  They  have  two  married 
daughters  and  three  grandchildren  and  keep 
up  with  Centenary  through  one  daughter's 
participation  as  a  chapter  adviser  for  Zeta 
Tau  Alpha. 

AUGUST  GOLDSTEIN  '40  of  Tulsa  was  the 
first  member  of  the  American  Association  of 
Petroleum  Geologists  to  receive  the  Distin- 
guished Service  Award.  Besides  being  an  hon- 
orary member  of  that  group,  he  has  served  on 
almost  every  important  committee  in  the  asso- 
ciation. A  retired  Lt.  Col.  in  the  Air  Force 
Reserve,  he  is  now  general  manager  of  Lubell 
Oil  Co.,  but  still  finds  time  for  tennis,  philately, 
and  all  kinds  of  fishing. 

PHYLLIS  RHOADES  STEINMAN  '40  resides 
in  Paradise  Valley,  Ariz.,  where  she  teaches 
remedial  math  and  a  class  for  people  who  fear 
math.  She  is  organizing  a  company  to  produce 
materials  for  algebra  students. 

BEVERLY  BLOOD  KING  '40  obtained  her 
MD  in  '45  and  married  DR.  JOHN  ALFRED 
KING  in  '48.  BEVERLY  practiced  as  an  obste- 
trician and  taught  microscopic  anatomy  at 
Tulane  Med.  School  and  is  now  a  surgical  assis- 
tant. She  also  has  four  daughters,  a  son,  and  four 
grandchildren! 

CLEVE  RAMSEY  '40,  a  financial  manager  at 
Barksdale  AFB,  lives  in  Shreveport  with  hus- 
band PRENTISS,  who  retired  from  SWEPCO. 
They  have  two  married  children  and  a  grandson. 

KOOKUM  SHAFFER  has  two  sons,  GLEN 
ALLEN  and  DENMAN,  and  two  grand- 
daughters. Her  husband,  GLEN  ARDIS  SHAF- 
FER, died  in  1974. 

From  Las  Vegas,  MARGARET  BROWN 
SPIES  '40  had  her  first  book  "Gather  Me 


For  the  35th  Cluster  Reunion,  the  Classes 
of  1947-'48-'49  have  planned  a  big  cocktail 
buffet  party  on  Saturday  evening,  June  25, 
at  the  Shreveport  Country  Club.  MARILYN 
MILLER  CARLTON,  JACK  and  GLEN- 
NETTE  WILLIAMSON,  and  ALICE 
CURTIS  BROWN  promise  plenty  of  food,  a 
cash  bar,  and  for  your  dancing  OR  listening 
pleasure,  Bill  Causey,  Jr.'s  Combo.  There 
will  be  plenty  of  tables  and  seating  space  if 
you  want  to  just  sit,  visit,  eat,  and  show 
pictures  of  your  grandchildren!  The  cost  is 
$35  per  couple  or  $17.50  per  person.  Make 
your  reservations  through  the  Reunion 
registration  forms  in  this  magazine,  TODAY! 


Together,  Lord,  and  Other  Prayers  for  Mothers" 
published  this  January.  She  is  married  to  ERIC 
SPIES  and  they  have  two  daughters  and  a  son. 

FRANCES  HODGES  SMITHERMAN  '40 

now  has  seven  grandchildren,  and  two  sons  both 
in  the  oil  business.  Her  husband,  JAMES 
EMORY  SMITHERMAN,  died  in  1978. 

LEROY  KIRBY  '40  and  his  wife  VIRGINIA 
FULTON  '47  farm  in  North  Louisiana,  and 
enjoy  traveling  in  their  motor  home  since  their 
son,  LEROY  III,  now  farms  with  him. 

MURPH  SHELTON  '40,  a  geologist  with 
Pennzoil,  resides  in  Shreveport  with  wife  MARY 
JOE.  They  enjoy  their  three  grandchildren; 
son  HARRELL  F.  SHELTON,  is  a  Baptist 
minister  in  New  Orleans,  and  daughter  RUTH 
ANN  PIERCE  teaches  high  school  in  Raceland. 

From  Red  Bank.  New  Jersey,  DOT  FRANKS 
THURNER  '40  writes  that  she  keeps  busy  in 
the  American  Association  of  University  Women, 
and  playing  tournament  bridge.  DOT  is  a  Life 
Master  of  fifteen  years  and  teaches  classes. 

Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Louisi- 
ana JOHN  ALLEN  DIXON,  JR.  '40  capsulized 
his  life  since  graduation  for  the  Class  Notes  of 
1940.  After  teaching  high  school  for  two  years, 
he  joined  the  Army  and  was  captured  during  the 
invasion  of  Sicily  and  became  a  POW  for  21 
months.  He  later  obtained  his  LLB  from  Tulane, 
was  elected  and  twice  re-elected  District  Judge. 
In  1968  he  was  elected  to  the  Second  Circuit 
Court  of  Appeals;  then,  in  1971,  an  Associate 
Justice  from  the  Second  Supreme  Court  District. 
He  is  married  to  the  former  IMOGENE  SHIP- 
LEY, and  they  have  three  daughters  and  a  grand- 
daughter. 

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Gladys  Hurley 
succumbs  Jan.  20 

Funeral  services  for  Mrs.  Gladys 
Fullerton  Hurley  were  held  Thursday, 
Jan.  20,  at  First  United  Methodist  Church 
in  Shreveport  where  she  was  an  active 
member.  She  died  Tuesday,  Jan.  18,  after 
a  long  illness. 

The  widow  of  pioneer  oil  and  gas 
producer  Ed.  E.  Hurley,  Mrs.  Hurley 
built  the  Centenary  College  School  of 
Music  Building  in  his  memory  in  1964; 
the  Gladys  F.  Hurley  School  of  Music  was 
named  in  her  honor  in  August,  1975.  She 
was  also  instrumental  in  building  Live 
Oak  Retirement  Center  and  the  Junior 
Achievement  Building. 

Mrs.  Hurley  was  a  member  of  the 
Centenary  College  Board  of  Trustees  for 
28  years;  a  charter  member  and  a  life 
member  of  the  Shreveport  Symphony 
Guild;  a  life  member  of  the  Shreveport 
Opera  Guild;  a  charter  member  of  Phi 
Beta  sorority  at  Centenary;  a  member 
of  the  Music  Forum,  the  Beautification 
Foundation,  and  the  Woman's  Depart- 
ment Club.  She  was  awarded  the 
Honorary  Doctor  of  Humane  Letters 
Degree  by  Centenary  in  1965. 

In  a  letter  to  Hurley  Music  School 
alumni.  Dr.  Frank  Carroll,  Dean,  writes 
that  the  Music  School  was  truly  Mrs. 
Hurley's  "child,"  and  she  loved  it.  "This 
love  was  reciprocated  by  those  of  us  who 
knew  her.  Although  we  grieve  the  pas- 
sing of  Gladys  Fullerton  Hurley,  a  de- 
voted Christian  lady,  a  generous  friend  of 
Centenary,  and  a  staunch  supporter  of 
music,  we  celebrate  her  life.  We  shall 
miss  her." 


In  her  Class  News  Notes,  1947  Class  Agent 
MARILYN  MILLER  CARLTON  wrote  that 
MARY  ELLEN  PETREE  CARLTON  ("PETE") 
received  her  master's  a  few  years  ago  and  is 
back  in  the  teaching  field.  She  and  husband 
JACK  '42  moved  to  Barnesville,  GA;  their 
fourth  and  youngest  child  is  a  junior  at  Cente- 
nary. 

RUSSELL  RIGBY  and  WHITNEY  BOGGS  '47 
promised  that  they  would  stay  in  Shreveport  for 
the  Reunion.  They  both  practice  medicine  here. 

From  LaCrosse,  WI,  POWELL  JOYNER  '47 
writes  that  he  has  "one  wife,  no  kids,  three  bird 
dogs  .  .  .  and  is  flying  sailplanes."  POWELL  is 
vice  president  in  charge  of  Research  for  Trane 
Company  .  .  .  he  also  hopes  to  make  the  Reunion. 

JANE  RIGGS  CLAIBOURNE  '47  lives  in 
Lafayette  .  .  .  husband  DOUG  retired  a  few 
years  ago,  but  is  now  a  consultant  for  an  oil 
company  in  Peru. 

MARILYN  MILLER  CARLTON  '47  is  com- 
pleting a  two-year  term  as  President  of  the 
Louisiana  Garden  Club  Federation.  She  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Louisiana  State  Parks  and 
Recreation  Commission  and  the  Kent  House 
Board,  a  historic  restoration  in  Alexandria;  a 
director  on  the  Bank  of  Lecompte  Board; 
secretary  of  her  Church  Board;  member  of  the 
Parish  and  State  Medical  Auxiliaries;  and  a 
"doting  grandmother"  when  she  is  not  busy 
being  a  Class  Agent! 

Class  Agent  ALICE  CURTIS  BROWN  '48 
received  many  letters.  ANDY  COVINGTON 
retired  after  27  years  with  Hughes  Aircraft,  and 
is  taking  life  easy  in  Redondo  Beach,  California, 
helping  raise  two  grandchildren. 

DALE  ADAMS  '48  now  has  his  own  consulting 
business  in  Loveland,  CO.  He  was  plant  manager 
for  Bird  and  Son  roofing  in  Shreveport  and  also 
Johns  Mansville  in  Massachusetts.  He  and  his 
wife  PAT  have  four  grown  children  and  three 
grandchildren. 

In  Montgomery,  Texas,  BOB  DESTICHE  '48 
is  a  manufacturer's  representative  for  natural  gas 
products,  after  having  worked  with  Arkla  Gas 

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for  20  years.  He  and  his  wife,  HARRIET  FOWLER, 
have  two  children  and  one  grandchild. 

Consulting  geologist  JIM  POWELL  retired 
after  many  years  with  C.  H.  Murphy  Co.  He  and 
his  wife  CAROL  live  in  El  Dorado. 

DIBBLE  STANCIL  PATE  '48  is  helping  a 
friend  with  a  travel  agency  in  Monroe  .  .  .  says 
it's  more  fun  than  work  because  she  helps  with 
some  tours.  She  has  four  children  and  at  last 
count,  2  grandchildren. 

In  Shreveport,  HERB  DIEBNER  '48  is  present- 
ly working  for  the  Paymaster  Company. 

DAVID  LIDE  '48,  a  realtor  in  the  mountain 
resort  area  of  Lake  Lure,  NC,  is  married  to 
ELIZABETH  HOUSTON  '44.  They  have  three 
children. 

DR.  ROGER  MARTIN  '48  has  been  a  math 
instructor  at  Woodlawn  High  School  for  the  past 
13  years  and  has  taught  all  the  courses  given  in 
the  secondary  schools  of  Louisiana.  His  son  also 
received  a  B.S.  in  math  from  Centenary.  ROGER 
sponsors  the  Science  and  Math  club  at  Wood- 
lawn  .  .  .  and  hopes  to  see  everyone  at  the 
Reunion. 

OCTAVIA  GRANBERY  TRUEHEART  '48 
lives  with  her  husband,  BOB  and  three  children 
in  Norman,  OK,  where  BOB  works  for  an  oil 
company. 

TOM  and  MINNETTE  HARKRIDER  CARTER 
'48  are  living  in  Houston  now  that  TOM  has  re- 
tired as  a  commander  with  the  United  States  Coast 
Guard.  TOM  and  MINETTE  have  two  children. 

BILL  and  ROSE  AUDREY  {RANDALL) 
PATTON  '48  are  living  in  Shreveport.  They 
have  three  sons  and  five  grandchildren. 

ROLAND  J.  ACHEE  '49  was  elected  by  the 
Shreveport  Bar  Association  as  president-elect 
in  1984  to  succeed  newly-elected  president 
ROBERT  K.  MAYO  '50.  ACHEE  is  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Nelson,  Achee  &  Fant,  and  has 
practiced  in  Shreveport  since  receiving  his  law 
degree  from  LSU. 

ANNE  BYRNE  MUELLER  '49  wrote  Class 
Agents  JACK  and  GLENNETTE  WILLIAM- 
SON that  since  her  husband's  death  (JIM 
MUELLER  X49)  in  1974,  she  rejoined  the 
working  world  and  is  now  a  Senior  Secretary 
with  Coastal  Corporation,  an  oil  and  gas  firm  in 
Houston.  Her  daughter  CLAIR  is  a  junior  at 
Texas  A  &  M;  SUZY  is  a  substitute  teacher; 
STEPHANIE  is  a  fifth-grade  teacher;  and 
JEANNE  is  a  CPA.  they  all  live  with  their 
families  in  Houston.  Son  PAUL  lives  in  Tulsa, 
where  he  works  with  an  infertility  clinic.  ANN 
has  two  grandchildren  and  is  looking  forward 
to  the  coming  reunion. 

In  Portland,  Oregon,  JOSEPH  R.  SMITH  '49 
has  been  appointed  Senior  Vice  President, 
Regulatory  Affairs  and  Customer  Relations, 
of  the  Northwest  Natural  Gas  Company,  with 
which  he  has  worked  for  27  years.  He  and  his 
wife,  JO  ANN,  have  two  daughters  and  one  son. 
He  has  been  active  in  the  Portland  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  Board  of  Directors  of  Junior  Achieve- 
ment, and  the  American  Gas  Association  and  the 
Pacific  Coast  Gas  Association. 

1950s 

MARGARET  POSS  TEAGUE,  Class  Agent 
1956,  updated  information  on  ANNA  NORTON. 
Since  1956  until  her  retirement  in  198 1 ,  ANNA 
taught  school,  acquired  a  master's  degree  from 
Northwestern  in  counseling  and  guidance,  and 
served  as  a  counselor  in  the  Caddo  Parish  School 
system  for  12  years.  After  her  retirement,  she 
served  as  president  of  the  local  teachers'  associ- 
ation, was  president  of  the  State  Classroom 
Teachers'  Association,  and  was  a  recipient  of 
the  Educator  of  the  Year  Award. 

JOHN  BAKER  '56,  a  pilot  for  United  Airlines 
for  the  past  17  years,  flies  out  of  San  Francisco  as 
a  DC-10  flight  engineer"all  overthe  USA  except 
in  the  deep  South  ..."  JOHN'S  oldest  child 
RACHEL  is  a  student  at  Bryn  Mawr  College  in 
Philadelphia.  He  also  has  a  16-year-old  son. 

Now  a  doctor  and  professor  of  education  at 
Centenary,  BOB  HALLQUIST  '56  reminisced 
about  being  a  part-time  student  in  the  summers 
of  '52  and  '53  working  off  deficiencies  for  a  Loui- 
siana teaching  certificate! 


In  1956  RABBI  DAVID  LEFKOWITZ,  JR.  n 


ceived  an  honorary  doctor  of  divinity  degree 
from  Centenary.  On  receiving  the  Class  Agei 
letter,  he  wrote  that  he  would  be  honored  to  be 
member  of  the  Class  of  1956.  He  recently  be 
came  Rabbi  Emeritus  at  B'Nai  Zion  Temple  afl 
32  years  in  the  pulpit  and  has  served  as  Directc 
of  Volunteers  at  the  old  Confederate  Memon 
Hospital  in  Shreveport.  For  the  past  five  yeai 
he  has  been  teaching  in  the  religion  departmei 
at  Centenary  .  .  .  "a  most  rewarding  experience 

RICHARD  P.  HOBSON  X56  and  JEWELL 
BRIDGES  HOBSON  '56  live  in  Tulsa,  when 
RICHARD  was  recently  promoted  to  Constn 
tion  and  Engineering  Manager  for  Cities  Servi 
Company. 

The  Shreveport  Bar  Association's  newly-ele 
ed  president  for  1983  ROBERT  K.  MAYO  '5 
and  partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Greene,  Ayre 
Mayo,  is  also  a  graduate  of  Tulane  School  of  L 

1960s 


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JAMES  M.  McCOY  '66  has  been  named  vil 
president,  military  sales  and  public  affairs,  fcfj 
Mutual  of  Omaha  and  its  life  insurance  affilia! 
United  of  Omaha,  in  Omaha,  Neb.  He  was  s<| 
ving  as  second  vice  president  at  the  time  of  h| 
promotion. 

Shreveport  dentist  DR.  TOM  COLQUITT '( I 
was  elected  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Baylij 
College  of  Dentistry.  An  active  lecturer  for  oj 


The  25th  Anniversary  Reunion  of  the 
Class  of  '58  will  be  held  on  Saturday 
evening,  June  25,  at  the  Shreveport  Club. 
The  Class  will  gather  at  7:30  for  a  Social 
Hour,  followed  by  dinner.  The  cost  of  this 
Reunion  Dinner  will  be  $25  per  person. 
'58  Class  Agents  PAT  OLIVER  ROSBOT- 
TOM  and  EMILY  HAYDEN  VISCOZKI, 
and  Reunion  Chaircouple  OSCAR  and 
MARTHA  TURNER  CLOYD  are  planning 
this  very  special  occasion,  the  climax  to 
a  full  day  of  fun. 

P.S.  Don't  forget  our  afternoon  field  trip! 


tinuing  education  in  the  dental  profession,  D 
COLQUITT  has  served  as  president  of  the  No: 
west  Louisiana  Dental  Association  and  secrete 
of  the  Southwest  Academy  of  Restorative  De 
istry.  He  is  a  fellow  of  the  American  College 
Dentists,  a  member  of  the  Academy  of  Operat 
Dentistry,  Board  of  Governors  of  the  Red  Rive 
Revel  Arts  Festival,  and  a  former  member  of  tl 
Montessori  School  for  Shreveport  and  the  Ce 
tral  Branch  of  the  YMCA. 

EDWIN  L.  CABRA  '67  and  BRENDA  BURli 
HAM  CABRA  '73  are  happy  to  announce  thel 
birth  of  their  third  child,  KEELY  ELIZABET 
The  proud  parents  and  their  new  daughter  res  j 
with  their  other  two  children,  Lance  and  Bree.  F 
Leesville,  where  Edwin  is  an  attorney  with 
Cabra  &  Leach. 

SUE  RUBENSTEIN  '60  has  accepted  the  f 
position  of  director  of  Health  Fair  '83  in  Shrevi  I 
port.  In  this  position,  she  will  coordinate  all 
activities  associated  with  this  regional  health' 
fair  including  utilizing  National  Health  Scree 
ing  Council,  the  Times,  and  the  local  chaptei 
the  American  Red  Cross. 

RAYMOND  L.  JOHNSON  '60  was  namec 
executive  vice  president  and  corporate  secret:  I 
at  M.L.  Bath  Co.,  Ltd.,  where  he  has  worked  f1)' 
30  years.  | 

ANNETTE  SHIREY  THOMPSON  '61  wp 
Class  Agent  JAMES  GO  INS  that  she  is  a  profe 
sor  at  Tulsa  University  in  the  Center  for  Cor| 
municative  Disorders,  and  is  already  a  granc 
mother. 

CORNELIA  COOPER  NORDAHL  '62  ha 
started  a  typing,  proofreading,  and  editing 
business  in  her  home  in  South  Weymouth,  Ma  (■ 
chusetts.  (She  wrote  about  dreading  to  type 
college  paper  as  a  student,  but  now  "it  all  seen 
quite  simple!") 

SARA  HOGUE  HERRINGTON  '64  was 
recently  appointed  by  Shreveport's  new  ma: 


Wayne  Curtis  '69 
President,  Alumni  Association 

Centements 

several  months  ago,  Chris  asked  me 
start  thinking  about  my  farewell 
entements"  column.  Somehow,  fare- 
11  sounded  so  final  that  I  decided  that 
lections  might  be  more  appropriate. 
Ijat  at  least  doesn't  remind  one  of  an 
mal  being  put  out  to  pasture  to  graze 
ever. 

Ay  initial  reflection  dealt  with  the  first 
nrd  meeting  I  conducted  as  president, 
mat  a  fiasco.  After  nearly  four  hours  of 
leussion,  the  board  members  left  with 
:]  understanding  that  the  meetings 
juld  become  more  streamlined,  and 
S  t  each  member  would  be  assigned  to  a 
nmittee.  Each  committee  would  de- 
op  a  set  of  goals  and  report  back  at 
annual  board  meetings.  I  am  happy 
eport  that  at  our  last  board  meeting, 
were  able  to  have  reports,  discuss 
iv  business,  and  finish  within  an  hour. 
;reat  relief  for  one  who  hates  long, 
wn-out  meetings. 

Ay  second  reflection  deals  with  conti- 
ty.  I  feel  since  the  arrival  of  Chris 
bb,  as  Director  ot  Alumni  Relations, 
implementation  of  the  new  Consti- 
iion,  and  having  the  problem  of 
mecoming  and  Alumni  Weekend 
Dived,  we  as  an  alumni  association 
e  gained  a  great  deal  of  continuity. 
ris  has  been  able  to  experience  tirst- 
id  the  problems  ot  leadership  in  the 
mni  office,  not  what  has  been  re- 
ted  to  him  as  problems  of  the  past. 
i*lh  the  success  of  last  year's  Alumni 
Aekend,  we  have  been  able  to  back  up 
)  assessment  of  the  value  of  both 
I  mecoming  and  Alumni  Weekend  in 
<fns  of  numbers. 

\y  third  reflection  has  to  do  with  the 
I  ss  Agent  system.  Anyone  who 
)  >oses  the  Class  Agent  theory  needs 
ply  to  talk  to  someone  who  has  served 
rhat  capacity.  The  system  is  the  best 
flicle  available  tor  keeping  the  lines  of 
^nmunication  open  for  the  individual 
:!;ses.  And  last,  but  not  least,  I  feel  that 
I  n  leaving  the  alumni  situation  in  good 
Ifdership  hands.  Tom  Burton  is  an 
*  'rgetic  person  who  will  do  an  excel- 
It  job.  Please  do  not  hesitate  if  Tom 
sluld  ask  you  to  serve  in  some  capacity. 
Airateful  thanks  for  all  the  help  I  re- 
eved during  the  past  two  years. 


The  Classes  of  19ti7-'«8-'69  will  cele- 
brate  their   15th   Cluster  Reunion   with   a 
great  party  planned  for  Saturday  night. 
June  25.  at  Pierremont  Oaks  Tennis  Club. 
The  cost  for  each  adult  will  be  $15.  Re- 
union organizers  LKONARD  and  MARY 
TULL1E  CRITCHER  and  WAYNE  and 
DONNA  BANKS  CURTIS  have  meat 
plans,  so  be  sure  to  check  the  reservation 
forms  in  this  magazine  and  mail  them 
quickly. 


In  Jackson,  MS,  MELISSA  MOORE  LEHNER 

75  and  her  husband  Mickey  work  for  Hel- 
merich  and  Payne  International  Drilling  Co. 

GLADYS  CUEVAS  VANDERPOOL  75  lives 
in  Pampa,  Texas,  where  she  keeps  busy  with 
her  children  KEITH  and  STEPHEN;  husband 


John  Hussey,  to  the  city  personnel  board. 

PAULA  HUDSON  BATES  X65  lives  in  Tyler, 
Texas,  with  her  husband,  DR.  JOE  B.  BATES, 
a  pediatrician,  and  their  four  children.  Their 
daughter  JENNIFER  will  be  ready  lor  Centenary 
in  '84.  Her  lather,  PAUL  JAY  HUDSON  X38, 
attended  Centenary  on  a  football  scholarship, 
playing  left  guard  under  Coach  Curtis  Parker. 
He  was  also  on  the  Centenary  Boxing  team  and 
a  member  of  Lambda  Chi  Alpha  Fraternity. 

1970s 

MIKE  BARKETT  72  is  the  basketball  coach 
and  business  manager  at  St.  Andrew's  Episcopal 
School  in  Jackson,  Miss.  His  team  has  won 
several  state  championships  and  he  was  named 
Coach  ot  the  Year  in  Mississippi  in  79  as  well  as 
being  featured  in  Sports  Illustrated  MIKE  and 
his  wife  'LINDA,  a  dental  hygienist  and  dental 
school  junior,  have  spent  the  last  two  years 
building  their  2-story  Victorian  home  from 
scratch,  along  with  some  help  from  his  Laborador 
retrievers. 

CAMILLE  YOUNG  BRYAN  72  takes  care  ol 
year  old  toddler  FRANK  and  is  sometimes 
personnel  consultant  to  husband  LOCKE,  who 
has  a  film  production  company.  She  wrote  that 
JOHN  and  BOBBIE  SUE  RICKNER  KLOPP  72 
have  a  son,  JAMES  AUSTIN  KLOPP. 

KATHY  PARRISH  72  has  her  Ph.D.  in  phar- 
macology and  is  in  her  junior  year  in  Med.  school 
at  LSU  in  New  Orleans.  She  plans  on  a  residency 
in  otolaryngology.  KATHY  is  also  on  the  faculty 
as  a  clinical  instructor  at  the  School  of  Allied 
Health  at  LSU-NO. 

CAPT.  RAMON  ROSENKRANS  72  com 
pleted  his  5-year  general  surgery  this  past  June 
and  is  now  stationed  with  the  USAF  at  Francis 
E.  Warren  AFB  in  Cheyenne,  WY,  with  wile, 
MARSHA  and  their  three  children,  CHRIS, 
BRIAN  and  ALICIA. 

THERESA  McCONNELL  72  is  completing 
her  second  year  serving  as  pastor  of  First  UMC 
in  Jonesville,  La.  She  completed  her  Doctor  of 
Ministry  degree  from  Perkins  School  of  Theology 
last  year,  and  continues  to  be  involved  in  work- 
camp  projects-- the  last  one  on  the  Island  of 
Roatan,  Honduras.  THERESA  is  also  "into'' 
tennis  and  won  first  place  in  the  photography 
division  of  the  Soybean  Festival  last  year. 

JOE  WALKER,  Class  Agent  75,  noted  that 
EDITH  SHEPHERD  HOLLOWAY,  who  works 
for  the  County  Children's  Protection  Services, 
lives  in  Nacogdoches,  Texas,  with  her  husband 
MICHAEL  and  their  two  children,  STEPHEN 
and  WILL. 

PAM  VAN  ALLEN  75  has  completed  her 
Ph.  D.  in  clinical  psychology  from  Memphis  State 
University  and  has  taken  a  position  at  the  mental 
health  center  in  Bowling  Green,  KY,  as  a  senior 
psychologist.  She  will  be  presenting  her  dis- 
sertation on  the  treatment  of  tension  headaches 
at  the  convention  of  the  Associations  for  the 
Advancement  of  Behavior  Therapy  in  Los 
Angeles. 

MARTHA  STOBAUGH  McCASKILL  75 
works   with   the   church   and  Junior   League   in 
Little  Rock,  where  she  lives  with  husband 
RODDY  and  their  daughters  EMILY  and 
MOLLY. 

MARK  FREEMAN  75  attends  graduate  school 
in  the  Biology  Department  of  the  University  of 
Virginia.  TOM  ROBERTS  75,  in  the  neigh- 
boring state  of  West  Virginia,  is  doing  a  residency 
in  radiology  at  the  University  of  West  Virginia  in 
Morgantown. 


For  their  1 01  h  Year  Reunion,  the  Class 
of  1973  will  hold  a  dance  on  Saturday  night. 
June  25.  at  Shreveport  s  new  Holiday  Inn- 
Holidome  trom  S  p.m.  until  midnight. 
Admission  will  be  $15  per  person  and  will 
include  linger  buffet,  beverage,  and  a 
cash  bar.  Due  to  financial  commitment, 
the  Reunion  Committee  of  BARBARA 
BETHEL  HILL,  JODIE  GLORIOSO,  and 
SCOTT  and  JANET  PENDER  need  your 
money  NOW.  Please  make  your  check 
payable  to  Centenary  College,  Class  of  73, 
and  send  it  to  .3COTT  PENDER,  6231 
Berryhill,  Dallas,  Texas,  75231  as  soon  as 
possible, 


PHIL  is  a  lawyer  and  municipal  judge 

Designing  duo  ALMA  LLOYD  JOHNSON  77 
and  PATT  JONES  X77  presented  a  theatrical 
evening  ot  fashion  in  Shreveport,  which  was 
sponsored  by  the  Urban  League  as  part  ot  its 
cultural  activities.  PATT  has  studied  at  the  Otis 
Institute  ol  Parsons  School  of  Design  at  Los 
Angeles  and  is  presently  teaching  creative 
wardrobe  planning  at  Barbizon.  ALMA  is  a 
professional  actress,  who  soon  plans  to  begin 
her  own  business  as  an  image  consultant. 

JEANNE  CAMPBELL  REESMAN  77  is  a 
lecturer  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
English,  writing  her  dissertation.  She  is  currently 
working  in  the  Writing  Across  the  University 
Program  and  preparing  an  essay  on  the  con- 
nections between  structures  ot  knowledge  in 
literary  texts  and  structures  of  knowledge  in 
the  teaching  of  writing. 

1980s 

NANCY  HURLEY  BEAUVAIS  '80  has  opened 
a  new  design  studio  thai  is  incorporated  in  her 
Okie  English  Shoppe  in  Shreveport. 

STEVEN  R.  BRANTON  transferee!  to  Hous- 
ton with  Superior  Oil.  He  and  his  wife  LEISA 
celebrated  Thanksgiving  '82  in  Hawaii  -  luckily 
avoided  the  hurricane!  STEVEN  is  a  financial 
analyst  with  the  company. 


The  Class  ol  1982  First  Year  Reunion 
will  be  a  big  splash.  The  swim  party 
will  be  held  at  Jennie  Lane  Smith's  home 
on  East  Ridge  Drive  on  Saturday,  June 
25,  from  1-5  p.m.  Cost  will  be  $5  per 
person  to  cover  refreshments.  It  you 
haven't  sent  in  your  registration  form 
that  came  in  the  last  class  letter,  please 
do  so  TODAY.  Enclose  your  $5  check 
and  mail  it  to  DAVE  HENINGTON, 
850  1  Millicent  Way,  #2123,  Shreve- 
port, LA  71115. 


EVELYN  HAMILTON  '81  received  her 
Master  of  Business  Degree  last  spring  trom 
Louisiana  Tech. 

HAL  SUTTON  '81  was  named  Shreveport 
Journal's  1982  Professional  Athlete  of  the  Year. 

SARAH  BRANTON  '82  married  K.  WADE 
WILKERSON.  She  works  at  Seidman  and 
Seidman  Public  Accounting  Firm,  and  he  works 
at  Smith,  Cole,  Armstrong,  Filipowski  CPA  Firm. 

JERRY  LIPSCOMB  '82  married  ELIZABETH 
MARTINUSEN  on  Jan.  14.  They  are  living  in 
Shreveport;  JERRY  works  at  Port  Petroleum. 

SHEB  ADKISSON  '82  writes  from  Washing- 
ton, DC,  where  she  works  for  Senator  David 
Pryor  from  Arkansas,  that  she  is  working  on  his 
Governmental  Affairs  Sub-Committee  on  Civil 
Service,  Post  Office  and  General  Services  as  a 
staff  assistant  .  .  .  she  would  love  any  calls  from 
Centenary  friends  visiting  the  area. 

PENNY  POTTER  '82  is  living  in  Bossier  and 
teaching  P.E.  at  Princeton  Junior  High  in  Bossier 
Parish. 

DAVID  HENINGTON  '82  Class  Agent  is 
the  assistant  manager  for  "Toys-  "R'  -Us  in 
Shreveport. 


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Associate  Director  of  Admissions  Andy 
Shehee  77  leads  the  way  for  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
A  trio  of  Mansfield,  La.,  students  look  over  a  Theatre  Jim  Boswell  of  Lafayette.  Their  son,  Jim,  is 
Department  Scrapbook  with  Ginger  Darnell  Folmer  '64.       a  senior  at  St.  Thomas  Moor  High  School. 


Dr.  Lee  Morgan  chats  with  prosp 
tive  students  during  registration 
the  SUB. 


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DT 


Joyce  and  Homer  Jackson  53  came  up  from  Baton  Rouge  to  participate  in  Homecomp 
'83.  The  campus  had  changed  a  lot;  no  more  Vets  Villa. 


Generations  of  Brysons:  (standing,  lett  to 
right)  Betty  Bryson  Green  '55,  Elizabeth 
Bryson  Bostwick  X29,  and  Gene  W.  Bryson 
'63,  (seated,  second  row)  Jack  P.  Bryson  '53 
and  Steven  R.  Green  '86,  and  (seated,  front 
row)  David  Bryson  Green  '86. 


Jane  Barnette  Hancock  72  and  her  mother 
Emily  Sue  Cupples  Barnette  '28  register 
at  the  Alumni  Association  reception. 


The  Gents  did  indeed  run  the  Samff 
Bulldogs  raggedy  in  a  double  overtil 
win.  The  82-79  victory  gave  them 
overall  record  ol  15-12. 


INSIDE 


Sample  family 
establishes 
academic  chair 

Theatre  Department 

Bob  Buseick  does 
a  lot  on  a  little 

Backstage  at 
Kennedy  Center 

Say  Cheese 

Photos  tell  story 

of  Alumni  Weekend, 

New  Orleans  reunion 

Anna  Russell  charms 
gown  and  town 

Budget  balanced 
for  sixth  year 

Alumni  giving 
tops  all  records 


Tennis  is  their  racquet 


This  is  a  broken  record  we  like  to  keep  playing:  Centenary  athletes  have  done  it 
again. 

Second-seeded  Lauren  Cotter  Ingram  of  Centenary  upset  No.  1  seed  Mary  Spaii 
Charleston  College,  S.C.,  in  the  singles  final  of  the  Women's  NAIA  National  Tenni 
Championship  Saturday,  June  4,  in  Kansas  City.  Lauren's  consistent  baseline  game 
produced  numerous  cross-court  winners  in  the  6-2,  6-3  upset. 

But  the  Charleston  team  hung  on  to  win  the  team  championship  with  Centenary 
close  second.  Charleston  ran  up  33  points,  Centenary  30. 

The  Ladies  are  coached  by  Jimmy  Harrison,  a  jolly  four-year  veteran  of  Centenan 
athletic  coaching  staff.  Besides  building  a  winning  tradition  with  the  Ladies  and  G< 
tlemen,  Coach  Harrison  has  seen  a  new  six -court  tennis  complex  built  near  the  Gol 
Dome. 

Members  of  the  1983  Ladies  team  are  Tammie  Kelley,  Patty  Hamilton,  Cynthiai 
Vanderslice,  Edie  Carell,  Cherie  Winters,  Windy  Tillett,  Liz  Montgomery,  Lauren  I 
Cotter  Ingram,  Sandy  McMillan,  and  Missy  Moore. 

Coach  Harrison  has  two  more  stars  joining  the  team  next  year:  Macy  Evert  of  Littl! 
Rock,  Ark.,  (Chris  Evert-Lloyd's  cousin),  No.  15  in  Southern  rankings  and  No.  1  doui 
player  in  Arkansas,  and  Becky  Rice  of  Edmond,  Okla.,  No.  1  doubles  champion  in  ,\ 
Oklahoma  for  the  last  two  years. 


On  the  cover 


Not  only  did  we  promise  you  a  rose  garden,  but  also  a  rose.  And  this  is  it!  r<e 
Centenary  Rose,  bred  especially  for  us  at  Armstrong  Nursery  in  California,  is  alive  w 
well  in  the  boulevard  in  front  of  the  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse.  The  roses  are  .  b( 
planted  in  the  new  Hodges  Rose  Garden,  a  gift  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Jame:[f 
Ruston.  Next  spring,  we  will  be  able  to  make  the  roses  available  to  our  alumni  "j 
friends.  Thanks  to  the  Campus  Improvement  Committee,  there's  a  new  flower  po'-.r 
at  Centenary,  and  we're  diggin'  it. 


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Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  camji 
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Editor Janie  Flournoy  (2 

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Photography Janie  Flour* 


Sample  family 
endows  chair 
in  business 


Centenary  College's  sixth  endowed 
ademic  chair  has  been  established  by 
ie  of  North  Louisiana's  oldest  families. 
The  $500,000  gift  from  the  family  of 
:muel  Guy  Sample  was  announced  by 
esident  Donald  Webb  Wednesday, 
pril  13,  at  noon  in  the  Audubon  Room 
Bynum  Commons.  The  luncheon 
nored  the  donors,  who  include  Mrs. 
mes  C.  Bolton  of  Alexandria;  Mrs. 
ancis  W.  Scott,  Mrs.  David  C.  Tyrrell, 
illiam  S.  Tyrrell,  Mrs.  Barney  Ricken- 
cker,  Oliver  H.P.  Sample,  Guy  B. 
mple,  and  Wilton  Wade  Sample,  all 
Shreveport;  and  David  C.  Tyrrell, 
,  of  Dallas. 

The  Sample  Chair  for  Business  Ad- 
nistration  memorializes  a  pioneer  in 
i  early  20th-century  business  world  of 
If>rth  Louisiana. 

Samuel  Guy  Sample  was  born  in 
fynsfield  to  Oliver  Henry  Perry  and 
lances  Elizabeth  Guy  Sample  on  Jan.  1 , 
-77.  He  was  raised  and  educated  in 
hnsfield  and  was  graduated  from  the 
hiversity  of  Arkansas. 
He  started  business  as  a  merchant  in 
1  father's  company,  the  Sample 
(mpany,  and  as  manager  of  several 
Iintations  in  DeSoto  Parish. 
JDn  the  death  of  his  father  Dec.  8, 
108,  he  moved  his  family  to  Shreve- 


port. Still  operating  the  store  and  plan- 
tations, he  began  investing  in  real  estate 
in  Shreveport  using  profits  from  the 
discovery  of  oil  on  the  plantations.  He 
also  invested  in  a  number  of  other  enter- 
prises, including  Commercial  National 
Bank,  for  which  he  served  as  president 
for  a  short  time  in  1921.  He  was  an 
active  vice  president  and  director  until 
his  death  in  1943. 

Mr.  Sample  also  served  as  president 
of  the  Union  Oil  Mill  of  West  Monroe ; 
Delta  Cotton  Oil  and  Fertilizer  Co.  of 
Jackson,  Miss.;  and  the  Shreveport 
Fertilizer  Co.  He  also  held  an  interest 
in  the  Frost  and  Peavy  lumber  enter- 
prises. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Metho- 
dist Church,  the  Masonic  Lodge,  and 
various  Shreveport  social  clubs. 

He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Sarah 
Emma  McCrory,  were  the  parents  of 
Mrs.  James  Bolton,  Mrs.  Francis  Scott, 
Oliver   H.P.   Sample,  Mrs.  David   C. 
Tyrrell,  and  the  late  Samuel  Guy 
Sample,  Wilton  Wade  Sample,  and 
Staunton  Brevard  Sample. 

After  Emma  Sample's  death  in  1918, 
Samuel  Guy  Sample  married  Miss  Sybil 
Jones  of  Shreveport ,  who  survived  him . 

The  principal  amount  of  the  one-half 
million  endowment  will  be  held  in 


Members  of  the  Sample  family  who 
gathered  to  celebrate  the  establishment 
of  the  Sample  Chair  of  Business  Administra- 
tion are  (seated,  left  to  right)  Mrs.  Francis 
W.  Scott,  Mrs.  Oliver  H.P.  Sample,  Mrs. 
Paul  M.  Davis  Jr.,  and  Mrs.  David  Tyrrell, 
and  (standing,  left  to  right)  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Wade  Sample,  Sarah  Yeatts,  Oliver  HP. 
Sample,  Guy  Sample,  Oliver  Yeatts, 
Eleanor  Hargrove,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Marion 
Hargrove,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mark  Putney. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  David  Tyrrell,  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Hunter  Yeatts  with  their  son,  Hunter. 
Not  pictured  is  Mrs.  James  C.  Bolton  who 
was  unable  to  attend. 

perpetuity,  as  part  of  the  College  in- 
vestment portfolio,  and  the  revenue 
from  the  investment  will  be  used  for  the 
chaired  professor's  salary  and  other 
operating  expenses. 

A  search  committee  will  begin  work 
soon  to  name  a  professor  to  the  chair. 
The  installation  will  be  held  sometime 
next  year. 

The  other  endowed  chairs  at  Cente- 
nary College  are  The  TL.  James  Chair 
of  Religion;  the  Cornelius  D.  and 
Florence  Gillard  Keen  Chair  of  Physics; 
The  William  C .  Woolf  Chair  of  Geology ; 
the  Gus  S.  Wortham  Chair  of  Engineer- 
ing; and  the  Willie  Cavett  and  Paul 
Marvin  Brown,  Jr.,  Chair  of  English. 

Endowed  chairs  represent  financial 
stability,  enabling  small  colleges  like 
Centenary  to  increase  the  size  of  its 
faculty  and  to  enhance  its  academic 
quality.  Said  The  Shreveport  Journal, 
"The  Sample  family,  in  establishing  the 
new  chair,  has  provided  one  of  those 
moments  in  the  life  of  a  college  that 
reaffirms  faith  in  its  future."' 

Centenary  is  deeply  grateful  to  the 
Sample  family  for  its  trust  not  only  in 
the  future  of  the  College,  but  also  in  the 
here  and  now. 


Highlights  of  1982-83  .  .  .  sixth  consecutive  balanced  budget .  .  . 
sixth  endowed  academic  chair  established  in  memory  of  Samuel  Guy 
Sample  .  .  .  more  than  $1,125,000  in  annual  operating  gifts  .  .  . 
$356,000  in  decimal  gifts  from  the  Louisiana  Methodist  Conference  .  .  . 
campus  beautification  endowment  tops  $419,000  .  .  .  over  $264,000 
in  new  scholarships  and  over  $65,000  added  to  established  scholar- 
ships including  a  total  of  $68,159  from  the  Church  in  scholarship 
support .  .  .  over  $150,000  raised  to  complete  the  new  tennis  court 
complex  ...  a  special  grant  from  the  Associates  for  Free  Enterprise  to 
fund  the  Free  Enterprise  Conference  .  .  .  and  $130,000  to  construct 
the  Hodges  Rose  Garden  .  .  .  for  a  total  of  nearly  $3,000,000!  A 
healthy  year,  thanks  to  you! 


j 

Dr.  Donald  Webb  j 
President 


Developing  mindpower  is  what 
Centenary  does  best.  Since  1825, 
Centenary  College  has  helped  pro- 
duce some  of  our  country's  finest  mind- 
power  in  the  person  of  top  business 
leaders  including  the  president  of 
Shell  Oil  Co.,  a  senior  vice  president 
of  Exxon,  the  Chief  executive  officer 
of  Bird  &  Son,  and  countless  profes- 
sionals who  make  significant  contri- 


butions to  the  life  and  well-being  of 
our  nation. 

An  unrestricted  gift  to  the  Great 
Teachers-Scholars  Fund  ensures  Cente- 
nary's role  in  developing  mindpower 
to  its  fullest  potential.  Your  tax  deduc- 
tible gift  is  evidence  of  your  support 
of  Northwest  Louisiana's  greatest 
natural  resource. 


Gifts  to  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  by  Classes 
June,  1,  1982  -  May  31,  1983 


Number  of 

Class 

Class 

Alumni  Donors 

$  Total 

1922 

1 

$    10.00 

1924 

1 

10.00 

1925 

3 

269.00 

1926 

9 

1,015.00 

1927 

16 

2,822.00 

1928 

18 

2,730.00 

1929 

7 

20,730.00 

1930 

12 

3,575.50 

1931 

14 

5,760.00 

1932 

14 

1,354.00 

1933 

18 

2,248.50 

1934 

16 

6,417.50 

1935 

13 

1,165.50 

1936 

20 

17,881.00 

1937 

16 

6,709.00 

1938 

17 

3,459.00 

1939 

22 

2,553.00 

1940 

19 

1,300.00 

1941 

23 

2,628.00 

1942 

27 

5,355.50 

1943 

22 

5,554.00 

1944 

24 

13,466.55 

1945 

17 

2,073.00 

1946 

16 

1,398.00 

1947 

30 

4,924.00 

1948 

32 

23,619.50 

1949 

46 

3,821.00 

1950 

36 

7,597.00 

1951 

30 

2,462.50 

1952 

15 

1,047.50 

The  1982-83  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund 

fts  to  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  are  unrestricted  and 
je  used  for  the  ongoing  operating  expenses  of  the  College, 
iiese  totals  reflect  cash  contributions  between  June  1,  1982 
d  May  31,  1983  which  is  Centenary's  fiscal  year. 


TRUSTEES 

ALUMNI 

PARENTS 

FRIENDS 

CORPORATIONS 

FOUNDATIONS 

FACULTY/STAFF 

GRAND  TOTAL 


$187,662 
$150,918 
$  7,459 
$  77,417 
$163,120 
$  81,214 
$     2,474 

$670,250 


Number  of 

Class 

Class 

Alumni  Donors 

$  Total 

1953 

23 

$1,531.50 

1954 

20 

2,472.50 

1955 

21 

766.50 

1956 

24 

1,494.50 

1957 

22 

9,310.50 

1958 

11 

727.50 

1959 

11 

545.00 

1960 

25 

1,588.00 

1961 

19 

870.00 

1962 

18 

625.00 

1963 

14 

1,025.50 

1964 

26 

2,740.50 

1965 

27 

2,240.00 

1966 

34 

9,134.55 

1967 

19 

949.00 

1968 

33 

945.50 

1969 

31 

1,729.00 

1970 

30 

2,278.50 

1971 

29 

1,750.50 

1972 

25 

1,289.00 

1973 

30 

717.00 

1974 

21 

1,851.00 

1975 

22 

1,628.00 

1976 

20 

1,401.50 

1977 

15 

857.50 

1978 

16 

507.50 

1979 

21 

1,340.00 

1980 

10 

1,270.00 

1981 

18 

518.00 

1982 

13 

554.00 

1983 

1 

2,500.00 

The  Great  Teachers-Scholars 
Fund  Volunteer  Leadership 


GENERAL  CHAIRMAN 
HONORARY  CHAIRMAN 

DIVISION  CHAIRMEN 
Banking  and  Investments 
Professional 
Oil,  Gas  &  Energy 
Manufacturing 
Retail,  Sales  &  Service 
General 
Agriculture 
Alumni 

PARENTS  DIVISION 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 
Chairman 

Chairman,  Development 
Committee 


William  G.  Anderson 
Don  H.  Duggan  H82 


W.  Kirby  Rowe,  Jr. 

Ray  A.  Barlow  '54 

John  David  Crow 

Robert  M.  Allen 

Tom  Ostendorff,  III 

Herman  Williamson 

Tommy  Stinson 

Jackson  M.  Elgin  '43 

John  P.  Hoffman  '62 


George  Nelson  H70 
H.  Blume  Johnson  '36 


Anna  Russell  at  Commencement 


"Even  if  you  are  not  the  most  brilliant 
person  in  your  graduating  class,  hang  in 
there.  You  may  come  out  ahead  yet.'' 

Those  words  of  advice  were  for 
Centenary's  1983  graduating  seniors 
from  that  great  lady  of  musical  parody, 
Anna  Russell. 

On  her  farewell  tour  as  a  comic  music 
performer,  Miss  Russell  came  to  Cente- 
nary Sunday,  May  22,  to  deliver  the 
Commencement  address  and  later  that 
afternoon  to  perform  in  concert  with 
the  Centenary  College  Choir. 

A  totally  refurbished  Haynes  Gym- 
nasium was  filled  to  capacity  for  the 
Sunday  afternoon  Commencement 
Exercises.  College  officials  were  forced 
to  move  the  location  of  graduation 
from  the  Gold  Dome  when  it  was  closed 
for  repairs. 

Centenary  College  President  Donald 
A .  Webb  and  Dean  of  the  College 
Dorothy  Gwin  conferred  some  188 
degrees  at  our  158th  Commencement 
Exercises.  Of  those  degrees,  164  were 
undergraduate  degrees  in  over  30  sub- 
ject areas  and  24  were  master's  degrees 
in  business  administration  and  edu- 
cation. 

Two  students  graduated  with  perfect 
4.0  grade  point  averages:  Charles 
Ford  Williams  of  Monroe,  an  Alumni 
Scholar,  and  Brian  Reynolds  Sinclair  of 
Bogalusa,  who  also  graduated  with 
departmental  honors  in  biology.  David 
Wesley  Milem  graduated  with  depart- 
mental honors  in  psychology. 

Summa  Cum  Laude  graduates  in- 
cluded Gregory  Edward  Blackman, 
Kay  Marie  Brown,  Linda  Sue  Dobson, 


ANNA  RUSSELL 

Musical  parodist  charms 
audiences  at  Commencement  and  Concert 


Jeffrey  Alan  Irvine,  Melinda  Louise 
Ramey,  and  Sinclair  and  Williams. 
Graduating  Magna  Cum  Laude  were 
Barbara  Catherine  Amsler,  Allison 
Arthur  Bailes  III,  Patrick  Sammy 
Booras,  John  Anderson  Freeman, 
Nancy  Diane  Hare,  Chris  Robin  Fahr- 
inger,John  O.  Moore,  Jr.,  Michael 
Alwin  Owen,  Forrest  Wendell  Parlette, 
Carol  Ann  Poole, and  Marilyn  S.  Sartor. 

Cum  Laude  graduates  included 
Amanda  Lee  Arnold,  Nancy  Karen  Bell, 
Bobra  Lohnes  Brown,  Don  Wade 
Cloud,  Jr.,  Lisa  Beth  Davidson,  Cynthia 
Jean  Hawkins,  Gerald  George  Marlin, 
Joyce  Marie  Maurer,  Kathy  Eyvonne 
Messer,  David  Duane  Otto,  Carol  Ann 
Stephens,  Shawna  Leah  Stotts,  and 
Wendy  Sue  Tillett. 

Eighteen  members  of  the  faculty  and 
staff  were  recognized  for  their  years  of 
service  to  the  College.  For  20  years: 
Professors  Don  Danvers,  Ron  Dean, 
Earle  Labor,  Robert  Ed  Taylor,  and 
Stanton  Taylor.  For  25  years:  Professors 
Virginia  Carlton  (who  also  was  named 
Professor  Emerita),  Willard  Cooper, 
Lee  Morgan,  and  Nolan  Shaw;  Mrs. 
Dorothy  Hall  and  Mr.  Sunny  Raney. 
For  30  years:  Professors  Elizabeth 
Friedenberg  and  Webb  Pomeroy, 
Mrs.  Cornelia  Brown,  and  Mrs.  Bessie 
Mae  Taylor.  For  35  years:  Professors 
Edmond  Parker,  Betty  Speairs,  and 
William  Teague. 

Parents,  students,  and  friends  of 
the  College  were  invited  after  Com- 
mencement to  attend  Miss  Russell's 
concert  benefiting  the  Choir  and  its 
Summer  Tour  to  Japan,  Hong  Kong,  and 
the  People's  Republic  of  China. 

Sponsored  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Verne 
Hawn,  the  5  p.m.  concert  drew  an 


enthusiastic  crowd  to  Brown  Chapel. 
Miss  Russell  donned  periwinkle  pink, 
a  sweet  foil  for  her  famous  and  beauti- 
fully timed  sneers,  grins,  and  cutting 
glances,  as  she  spoofed  classical  music. 
Her  talent  is  legendary,  and  at  three- 
score plus  1 1 ,  she  quickly  wins  her 
audience  with  clever  vignettes  and 
nimble  fingers  which  coax  the  keyboard 
along  her  merry  way.  And  yes,  the 
afternoon  would  not  have  been  com- 
plete without  "The  Ring." 


and  at  Concert 


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NEW  TRUSTEES 


Nancy  Mikell  Carruth 

Nancy  Carruth  counts  education  and  the  Church  among  her 
top  priorities  in  life. 

A  lifelong  resident  of  Bunkie,  she  graduated  from  Bunkie  High 
School  as  valedictorian  of  her  class.  Since  then,  her  involvement 
in  the  Methodist  Church  and  her  dedication  to  its  work  has  been 
exemplary.  She  has  served  in  all  areas  from  a  member  of  the 
General  Board  of  Higher  Education  and  Ministry  to  Conference 
Editor  and  Public  Relations  Coordinator  for  United  Methodist 
Women  to  local  church  treasurer.  Even  her  hobbies  are  church- 
related:  singing  (she  is  soloist  in  the  church  choir)  and  visiting 
(she  is  active  with  the  Shepherd  Program  at  her  church). 

All  this  Mrs.  Carruth  does  while  juggling  her  career  as  a 
director  and  officer  of  the  Haas  Investment  Company  and  the 
Louisiana  Central  Land  and  Improvement  Corporation;  as  a 
volunteer  with  the  General  Hospital  and  Bunkie  Service  League; 
as  mother  of  two  and  grandmother  of  three,  and  as  wife  of 
Edward  Thomas  Carruth,  an  ordained  Baptist  minister. 

Recognizing  these  achievements,  Centenary  College  conferred 
upon  Mrs.  Carruth  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Humane 
Letters  in  May,  1982.  Education  and  the  Church  —  a  great 
combination  for  this  new  Centenary  trustee. 


Odell  Simmons 


Odell  Simmons  has  always  been  a  friend  of  Centenary  College, 
but  the  two  have  become  especially  close  during  the  past  year. 

As  District  Superintendent  of  the  Shreveport  District,  Dr. 
Simmons's  office  is  located  in  the  heart  of  the  College's  admini- 
stration building  filled  with  faculty  and  students,  as  well  as 
staff.  Being  right  where  the  action  is  gives  this  new  trustee  a 
special  outlook  on  his  new  role. 

Before  coming  to  Shreveport,  Dr.  Simmons  held  pastorates 
in  Vidalia,  Homer,  DeRidder,  and  Monroe.  He  has  served  with 
the  Conference  Board  of  Ministry;  Leadership  Development; 
Board  of  Discipleship;  Conference  Board  of  Discipleship; 
Methodist  Home  Hospital  Board;  Conference  Council  on  Min- 
istries; Committee  on  Episcopacy;  and  Conference  Finance 
and  Administration. 

A  graduate  of  Northwestern  State  University,  Dr.  Simmons 
holds  the  Master  of  Divinity  degree  from  St.  Paul's  School  of 
Theology  and  an  honorary  Doctor  of  Divinity  degree  from 
Centenary  College.  He  and  his  wife,  Dot,  have  three  children  — 
Darryl  Lane,  Mark  Winston,  and  Mary  Allison. 


THEA 


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We  do 


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The  modern  building  on  the  corner  | 
of  Woodlawn  and  Wilkinson  is  unclut-j 
tered,  sleek.  Neat  beds  of  rose  bushes 
color  the  boulevard  from  the  street  to  I 
the  lacy  grillwork  gates  opening  onto 
a  shaded  interior  patio.  The  slow  splasli 
ing  of  a  new  fountain  is  peaceful. 

The  building  is  the  Marjorie  Lyons   J 
Playhouse.  On  the  outside  it  is  quiet  ani 
uncluttered;  on  the  inside,  it  is  any- 
thing but  that. 

"This  has  been  the  craziest,  most  in- 
credible year,"  beamed  theatre  directc 
Bob  Buseick,  seated  at  his  desk  piled 
high  with  scripts  and  drawings,  coffee  j 
mugs,  books,  and  videotape  equipmenj 
everywhere.  In  his  15th  year  with  the  J 
theatre  department,  Buseick  is  much  i 
like  his  building  —  good  looking  on  th| 
outside  and  full  of  energy  and  creativi'J 
on  the  inside. 

"It's  like  we  were  caught  in  the  eye  • 
of  a  hurricane  and  suddenly  we  asked  | 
ourselves  how  we  got  it  all, done.  I  gues 
by  not  giving  up." 

The  year  was  incredible. 

It  began  in  the  fall  on  the  MLP  stag( 
with  "My  Sister  in  This  House"  and 
ended  nine  months  later  on  Washing- 
ton, D.C.s  Kennedy  Center  Stage  witl 
the  now  award-winning  production 
of  "My  Sister."  In  between  were  21 
performances  of  "Trixie  True,  Teen 
Detective,"  "come  back  to  the  five  anc 
dime,  jimmy  dean,  jimmy  dean,"  and 
"Whose  Life  Is  It  Anyway?";  a  two- 
and-a-half  week,  14-play  trip  to  New 
York  during  the  January  Interim; 
competitions  and  benefit  performance: 
of  "My  Sister";  workshops  at  the  Red 
River  Revel  Arts  Festival  and  in  school; 
volunteer  choreography  and  directing;; 
tryouts  for  "Annie,"  and  rehearsals, 
rehearsals,  rehearsals.  This  is  in  ad- 
dition to  the  14-plus  courses  taught  eac 
semester  in  acting,  theatre-history, 
directing,  set  design,  costume,  dance 
public  speaking,  and  debate. 

Even  with  such  a  monumental  schec 
ule,  Bob  and  his  "harem"  keep  things 
running  smoothly.  The  gals  are  Ginger 
Darnell  Folmer  '64,  choreographer  an( 
dance  instructor;  Lee  Ellen  Hollow  ay  72 
the  technical  director  who  picked  up 


SPEECH  DEPARTMENT 

t  for  a  little  school " 


n  March  where  a  former  staff  member 
ft  off;  Isobel  Rosenbloom  and  Anne 
remillion  74,  voice  instructors; 
lebecca  Hefter,  who  will  teach  speech 
a  the  fall;  and  Angie  McWilliams, 
ecretary,  seamstress,  coffee-maker, 
iom. 

It  is  Angie  s  son,  Patric,  a  78  grad- 
late  of  Centenary,  who  takes  time  from 
lis  busy  career  in  New  York  to  do 
ostume  designs  and  periodic  directing 
or  the  Playhouse  productions. 

There  are  other  alumni  like  Patric, 
/ho  keep  in  touch  with  Bob  and  his 
epartment.  Jim  Montgomery  '68, 
ditorial  page  editor  of  The  (Shreve- 
ort)  Times,  is  very  active  in  Centenary 
peatre,  including  his  going  along  to  the 
Kennedy  Center  for  the  American 
lollege  Theatre  Festival.  His  story 
bout  the  trip  is  on  page  10. 
Rick  Hawkins,  73,  winner  of  an 
mmy,  organized  a  theatre  reunion  at 
entenary  last  year.  Mary  Bozeman, 
,)2,  a  professional  actress  in  New  York 
rought  her  show  to  the  MLP  stage 
uring  Alumni  Weekend  in  1981.  Jim 
turney,  '68,  editor  of  Artbeat  in  Shreve- 
prt,  writes  regularly  about  MLP  pro- 
uctions.  And  the  list  could  go  on  and 


This  is  incredible,  too,''  Bob  said, 
)ecause  I  tell  my  majors  not  to  major 

theatre.  If  there  is  anything  else  they 
in  major  in,  I  suggest  they  do  that, 
ut  if  they  are  willing  to  really  work, 
i  dedicated  and  committed  and  be 
)le  to  accept  rejection  and  disappoint - 
ents,  then  I  tell  them  to  go  for  it!" 
Bob  may  be  taking  his  own  advice  as 
:  launches  into  a  new  project  himself. 

"The  time  is  perfect  for  a  professional 
pertory  theatre  company,  and  it 
3uld  definitely  be  advantageous  for 
entenary,  as  well  as  for  the  corn- 
unity,'"  he  said.  "I'd  like  to  see  8  to  10 
ofessionals  who  would  use  this  facility 
the  fall  to  put  together  several  pro- 
ictions,  then  tour  the  state  for  the 
st  of  the  year. 

Perhaps  they  would  prepare  a  three- 
ow  season  with  the  shows  suitable  for 
di  school,  college,  and  adult  audi- 
oes. They  could  do  workshops,  go 


into  the  schools,  and  work  with  the 
students.  It's  done  in  a  lot  of  states, 
and  I'd  like  to  see  Centenary  organize 
it  for  our  state. 

More  immediate  future  plans  call 
for  the  summer  productions  of  "Annie" 
and  "The  Heiress"  and  organizing  the 
1983-84  schedule.  "Some  exciting 
things  are  being  considered,"  Bob  said, 
"including  a  community/college  pro- 
duction during  Interim." 

And  when  the  curtain  goes  up,  it 
will  be  a  new  maroon  one  given  to  the 
Theatre  Deparment  by  Charlton  Lyons, 
Jr.,  whose  mother  built  the  Playhouse. 

There's  nothing  quiet  about  Cente- 
nary's Theatre  Department.  "We  do 
a  lot  for  a  little  school." 


Angie  McWilliams  makes  sure  the  coffee 
pot  is  full  of  that  hearty  brew  for  her  busy 
staff.  Angie  also  mans  the  box  office,  helps 
with  costume  construction,  and  serves  as 
secretary  for  the  department. 


Patric  McWilliams  '78  compares  Annies  dress  to  his  drawings  and  specifications.  Patric, 
who  lives  in  New  York,  does  a  lot  of  costume  designing  for  the  Playhouse,  as  well  as 
some  directing.  "Annie"  was  produced  in  late  June  —  a  smashing  success. 


Backstage  at  Kennedy  Cente 


By  Jim  Montgomery  '68 

WASHINGTON  -  It's  Wednesday 
night,  almost  curtain  time,  and  I'm 
sitting  here  backstage  at  the  Kennedy 
Center,  thinking  about  how  much  we 
underrate  things  close  to  home  and 
glamorize  the  things  that  are  distant. 

What  the  heck  am  I  doing  here  and 
why  am  I  thinking  these  things?  Well, 
it's  a  relatively  long  story  but  111  try 
to  make  it  short. 

You  see,  there's  this  nationwide 
competition  called  the  American  Col- 
lege Theater  Festival  held  every  year, 
sponsored  by  Amoco  and  several 
national  theater  organizations.  This 
year's  started  last  fall  with  a  theater 
festival  in  each  state.  At  that  point, 
there  were  421  colleges  and  universities 
from  Maine  to  Hawaii  whose  theater 
departments  were  packing  up  sets, 
costumes  and  actors  to  go  to  their 
respective  state  competitions.  One  of 
them  was  Centenary  College  s  theater 
department  at  the  Marjorie  Lyons 
Playhouse  in  Shreveport. 

Of  the  productions  staged  at  Louisi- 
ana's festival  (held  at  Louisiana  Tech 
last  October),  Centenary's  production 
of  "My  Sister  in  This  House''  was 
chosen  to  be  performed  at  the  regional 
competition  in  Fort  Worth  in  January. 
That  in  itself  was  an  honor,  since 
the  judges  are  not  bound  to  send  any 
production  from  Louisiana  or  any 
other  individual  state ;  by  the  same 
token,  they  may  pick  more  than  one 
from  one  state,  and  none  from  another. 
It's  supposed  to  be  based  on  quality, 
not  quota. 

So,  in  the  cold  of  late  January, 
Centenary's  young  actresses,  actors, 
technicians  —  all  shepherded  by  di- 
rector and  department  chairman 
Robert  Buseick  —  packed  everything 
in  a  rented  truck  again  and  headed  to 
Fort  Worth.  (A  trip  made  possible,  in- 
cidentally, by  the  generous  contribu- 
tions of  two  Shreveport  men  who 
choose  to  remain  unnamed  but  who 
came  through  like  champs  when  there 
wasn't  enough  in  the  budget  to  pay  for 
the  journey.) 

There,  in  competition  with  winning 
schools  from  Texas,  New  Mexico, 
Oklahoma  and  Arkansas  —  what  you 
could  legitimately  call  the  "high  cot- 
10 


ton"  of  southwest  academic  theatrics 
—  there  was  a  lot  of  wondering  over 
how  Centenary,  from  Shreveport 
("How  far  is  that  from  New  Orleans?"), 
would  stack  up. 

There  s  also  the  first  instance  of 
glamorization .  Who  says  if  it  comes 
from  someplace  bigger  it's  got  to  be 
better?  Well,  we  all  do,  probably,  but 
it's  not  really  true. 

As  it  happened,  the  judge  from  the 
national  festival  went  slightly  cuckoo 
over  Centenary's  production.  Later, 
in  Washington,  they  would  be  told, 
"Yours  was  the  only  show,  after  the 
regional  judging,  about  which  there 
was  no  question  that  you'd  come  to 
Washington."  But  that's  getting  ahead 
of  the  story . 

The  regional  festival,  see,  is  the  last 
round  of  competition.  If  you  win  there, 
you've  won.  Period.  The  national 
judges  then  go  back  to  Washington 
and  huddle  to  select  seven  productions 
from  the  entire  United  States.  The 
students  go  back  home  and  wait,  bite 
their  nails  and  tell  themselves  that 
with  all  those  other  schools  from  all 
those  big  places  competing,  they  prob- 
ably won't  be  chosen.  And  then  comes 
the  word. 

You  have  been  named  a  winner  — 
one  of  the  seven  schools  from  those  421 
schools  that  started  competition  last 
fall  —  and  your  prize  is  a  trip  to  Wash- 
ington (paid  for  by  Amoco)  to  give  two 
performances  of  your  production  at 
the  John  F.  Kennedy  Center  for  the 
Performing  Arts. 

Good  Grief!  The  Kennedy  Center! 
The  seven  best  college  theater  pro- 
ductions in  the  nation  this  year!  Im- 
mediately the  glamorizing  starts 
again,  along  with  a  certain  question- 
ing about  the  local  ability  to  measure 
up  in  such  an  illustrious  setting.  Those 
sophisticated  Washington  audiences! 

Well,  as  Centenary's  cast  and  crew 
learned  Wednesday  afternoon,  sophis- 
tication is  where  you  find  it. 

The  production  staged  here  Tues- 
day night  (by  a  school  that  will  remain 
unnamed,  except  to  say  that  it  came 
from  the  east  coast)  was,  frankly,  not 
very  good  —  certainly  nowhere  near 
the  caliber  of  the  production  Centenary 
would  present  the  next  day. 


The  Washington  audience  at  me 
Wednesday  matinee  coughed,  wheezec 
giggled  in  the  wrong  places  and  genera 
ly  didn't  come  off  as  sophisticated  as 
most  of  the  audiences  they'd  played  to 
in  Shreveport.  (Wednesday  night, 
though,  a  near-full  house  responded 
admirably.  Maybe  it's  just  that  matinet 
audiences  are  tough  everywhere.) 

As  for  glamor,  well  this  glamorous 
day  began  at  6  a.m.  with  everybody 
unloading  a  20-foot  van,  carrying  all 
the  boards,  screws,  platforms  and 
furniture  up  to  the  stage  level  and  put- 
ting the  set  together,  then  focusing  the 
lights  and  setting  cues,  then  grabbing 
a  sandwich  to  keep  body  and  soul 
together,  then  getting  ready  for  the 
matinee,  followed  by  two  hours  of  put-; 
ting  it  all  back  together  again  for  the 
evening  performance.  As  soon  as  that'sj 
over,  well  tear  the  whole  set  down, 
pack  it  and  reload  the  truck  —  a  task 
that  will  finally  be  accomplished  short 
ly  before  midnight.  Things  are  every 
bit  as  glamorous  at  the  Kennedy  Centei 
as  they  are  in  Shreveport.  . 

The  hard  work  is  relieved  only  by 
an  awards  ceremony  following  the 
evening  show,  in  which  every  mem- 
ber of  the  cast  and  crew  is  called  on- 
stage individually  to  be  presented  an 
engraved  bronze  medallion  "Award 
of  Excellence." 

What  am  I  doing  here?  The  colleges 
are  allowed  to  use  a  certain  number  of 
non-college  people  to  fill  out  the  youth 
ful  casts.  As  Buseick  politely  put  it, 
he  needed  someone  to  do  a  "mature" 
voice.  Well,  at  least  he  didn't  say  "old. 

But  more  to  the  point  is  this :  A  lot  o 
things  in  Shreveport  deserve  a  lot 
more  respect  than  they  get ;  Centenary 
theater  department  is  one  of  them. 
And  the  fear  (or  envy)  of  distant  glamo 
isn't  always  justified;  sometimes  it  just 
seems  glamorous  because  it's  distant. 
In  many  ways,  we're  a  lot  more  equal 
on  the  larger  scale  than  some  among  u 
may  think. 


Jim  Montgomery  is  editorial  page 
editor  of  The  Times,  and  a  1968 
graduate  of  Centenary.  Reprinted 
with  permission  of  The  Times. 


. 


POTPOURRI 


Back  to  Africa 

With  a  twinkle  in  her  eye  and  a  smile 
i  her  face,  Dr.  Virginia  Carlton  39 
ed  an  African  proverb  to  bid  her  Cen- 
nary  Colleagues  good-bye.  "May  the 
pges  of  our  friendship  never  rust,"  she 
jid  as  friends  gathered  to  wish  her  well 
Jher  retirement  after  28  years  at  Cen- 
|nary.  Did  we  say  "retirement?"  All  of 
ju  who  know  this  professor  of  mathe- 
ttics  will  also  know  that  she  would 
ver  really  retire.  By  late  summer, 

Carlton  plans  to  be  on  her  way  to 
•  ittington  University  College  in  Liberia, 

st  Africa,  to  teach  mathematics  to 
rica's  best  students.  Her  address  will 

P.O.  Box  277,  Monrovia,  Liberia, 
ist  Africa,  and  she  would  love  to  hear 

m  you . 

A  special  thanks 

1  the  Faculty  and  Staff, 
Thank  you  for  four  years  of  time  and 
Itience,  for  doing  a  thankless  job,  and 
9  complaining  as  little  as  possible, 
lank  you  for  putting  up  with  imma- 
lity  and  providing  an  environment  in 
Rich  individuals  can  grow.  Though 
ij.ny  of  us  appreciate  all  that  you  do, 
v  admit  it,  and  too  often  it  goes  un- 
ci. You  are  appreciated  and  loved. 
Sincerely, 

Betty  L.  Mrdja  '83 


Chapter  formed 

On  Feb.  22  of  this  year,  George 
Washington's  Birthday,  students  and 
faculty  at  Centenary  College  began 
working  to  establish  a  chapter  of  Phi 
Alpha  Theta,  national  history  honorary 
society.  The  petition  was  approved  and 
the  chapter  officially  installed  Tuesday, 
May  3. 

Charter  members  include  Kyle 
Labor,  president;  Alan  Strange,  vice 
president;  Lorin  George,  secretary- 
treasurer;  Melanie  McGowan,  historian; 
Jimmy  Burke ;  Edie  Carell ;  Amy  Walker ; 
Dr.  Earle  Labor;  Dr.  Alton  O.  Hancock; 
Dr.  Royce  Shaw;  and  Dr.  Sam  Shepherd, 
who  will  serve  as  faculty  adviser. 

Phi  Alpha  Theta  was  organized  at 
the  University  of  Arkansas  in  1921  and 
has  grown  to  include  over  600  chapters 
in  50  states,  Puerto  Rico,  Canada,  and 
the  Philippine  Islands.  It  is  the  largest 
in  number  of  chapters  of  the  accredited 
honor  societies.  The  total  of  its  initiates 
is  over  100,000. 

In  the  tropics 

Centenary  biology  professor  Brad 
McPherson  and  pre -vet  student  Shirley 
Shelton  are  spending  their  summer  in 
the  central  Cordillera  of  Costa  Rica 
doing  medical  research. 

They  are  working  side  by  side  with 
Costa  Rican  scientists  in  the  study  of 
leishmaniasis,  a  disfiguring  disease 
which  strikes  man  and  beast. 

"Up  to  the  present,  we  considered 
cases  in  Costa  Rica  to  be  one  type,  but 
now  we  think  there  may  be  different 
kinds  there,"  said  Dr.  McPherson.  "A 
treatment  was  developed  in  the  1960s, 
but  treating  a  disease  is  not  the  end. 
We  need  to  know  what  insects  or 
animals  carry  the  disease,  and  in  what 
conditions,  so  that  we  may  be  able  to 
prevent  it." 

A  faculty  research  grant  of  $2,000 
awarded  to  Dr.  McPherson  by  the 
Centenary  College  Alumni  Association 
will  cover  some  of  the  expenses.  His 
eighth  trip,  it  is  Dr.  McPherson  s  third 
time  to  take  a  student  along.  Miss 
Shelton  is  a  rising  senior  from  Biloxi, 
Miss.,  who  is  majoring  in  pre-veterinary 
medicine . 


v        Ik 


It's  really  hard  for  the  Centenary  family  to 
say  adieu  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Friedenberg  '55, 
who  is  retiring  after  31  years  of  teaching 
here.  A  prize-winning  artist  and  a  favorite 
among  her  peers,  Miss  Friedenberg  first 
retired  from  teaching  in  1970.  The  College 
just  wouldn't  let  her  go;  in  fact,  she  was 
named  Adjunct  Professor  of  Art  in  1972. 
Miss  Friedenberg's  work  has  been  described 
as  "fun,  "just  like  SHE  is.  Keep  in  touch! 


1 


It  is  not  surprising  that  Nolan  Shaw,  William 
C.  Woolf  Professor  of  Geology  and  Chairman 
of  the  Department,  has  been  voted  Out- 
standing Teacher,  1982-83.  The  selection 
is  made  by  faculty,  staff,  students,  and 
alumni.  Professor  Shaw,  who  earned  his 
degrees  from  Baylor  University,  Southern 
Methodist  University,  and  LSU,  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Centenary  faculty  since 
1955. 

11 


CENTEMENTS 


It's  my  profound  pleasure  to  dedicate 
this  column  to  .  .  .  well,  nothing!  That  is, 
to  dedicate  instead  as  much  space  as 
possible  in  this  issue  to  photos  taken  at 
our  New  Orleans  alumni  gathering 
held  in  May.  Besides,  we  think  the 
name  "Centements",  is  especially  ap- 
propriate since  the  party  was  so  mem- 
orable. Thanks  to  all  those  who  do  such 
a  fine  job  of  putting  these  gatherings 
together.  If  you  are  interested  in  helping 
arrange  an  alumni  get-together  in  your 
area,  please  let  us  know. 

Chris  Webb 

Director  of  Alumni  Relations 

Centenary  alums 
in  New  Orleans 


President  Donald  Webb  is  glad  to  meet  Kathleen  Parrish  '72,  who  has  recem\ 
earned  her  Ph.D. 


Thanks  to  Tommy  Westervelt  '72  and  Frannie  Bowers  Perlman 
'71  who  helped  make  the  arrangements  at  the  Plimsoll  Club  for 
our  party.  Not  pictured  is  Lucille  Gibson  Mason  '46,  who  was  also 
instrumental  in  making  the  event  a  success. 


Darden  '76  and  Roslind  Kelly  Gladney  '75  are  settled  into  JV< 
Orleans  where  Darden  is  in  dental  school. 


12 


Nita  Fran  Hutcheson  Braswell  '67 
has  recently  moved  to  New  Orleans 
from  Shreveport. 


Director  of  Alumni  Relations  Chris  Webb  (left)  shares  a  laugh  with  Tripp  Ludu 
'82  and  Dan  Edmund  '78.  The  Plimsoll  Club,  30  stories  above  New  Orleai 
afforded  a  fantastic  view  of  the  Crescent  City  for  our  New  Orleans  Reunion. 


STRICTLY  PERSONAL 


1920s 

DR.  CLAUDE  S.  CHADWICK  '27  writes, 
V  big  push  in  my  life  is  nutrition.''  CLAUDE 
sses  on  his  store  of  information  via  radio 
d  public  speeches  and  passes  out  a  pamphlet 
has  written,  "Earn  Health,  Wealth,  A  Slen- 
r  Body  and  Long  Life  By  Eating  On  Six 
ts  A  Day." 

WALTER  T.  COLQUITT  '27  and  his  wife 
LEANOR  regret  that  they  will  be  out  of  the 
untry  during  the  '83  gathering.  WALTER 
s  been  active  in  dental  practice  for  53  years, 
leir  son  TOM  '66,  is  a  trustee  of  Baylor  Dental 
illege. 


1930s 

JUANITA  KOLB  CROW  X39  writes  that 
sr  memories  of  the  short  time  spent  at  Cente- 
ary  College  are  wonderful.  She  is  now  the 
wner  of  a  new  business,  Interiors  East,  in 
uston,  where  one  of  her  daughters  works  as 
i  interior  decorator.  Her  youngest  daughter, 
RS.  JAMES  WALLACE  of  Shreveport,  has 
ught  in  the  Evening  Division  at  Centenary. 
Class  Agent  for  1932,  CHARLES  RAVENNA. 
rites  that  JIM  KING  '32  has  been  hospitalized 
it  is  improving  at  home. 

KENNETH  L.  KELLAM  '35  from  Ft.  Worth 
id  his  wife,  MARY  HAMNER  X40,  who  died 
veral  years  ago,  had  two  children:  a  son  in 
alias,  who  now  has  two  boys,  and  a  daughter 
Oklahoma  City,  who  also  has  two  sons. 
DR.  JOHN  V.  HENDRICK  '33  was  one  of 
ree  physicians  who  were  honored  at  a  recent 
eeting  of  the  Schumpert  medical  and  dental 
affs  in  recognition  of  their  many  years  of  ser- 
ce  to  the  Schumpert  Medical  Center  and  the 
mmunity.  DR.  HENDRICK  was  also  a  special 
lest  at  Commencement  this  year.  He  marched 
ith  the  graduating  seniors  and  was  awarded 
e  B.S.  degree  in  natural  sciences  he  had 
rned  but  never  picked  up  50  years  ago. 


Graduates  of  the  Roaring  '20s  gather  for  a  luncheon  in  their  honor  during  Centenary's  Alumni  Weekend. 
Among  those  attending  are  seated,  (left  to  right)  Florence  Comegys  '22,  Helen  Russell  Herron  '28,  and  Jo 
Campbell  Palmer  '30,  and  (standing,  left  to  right)  Jimmy  Hyde  27,  Stone  Palmer  29;  Lucille  Williams 
Nipper  '26,  Louise  Davidson  Davis  '28,  Clifford  Cook  Stewart  '  ,  Bill  Bozeman  '28,  Isabelle  Henderson 
Houchin  '29,  Class  Agent  Emily  Sue  Cupples  Barnett  '28,  Ottice  Jordan  Swanson  '27,  Gordon  Hoyer  '27, 
Gerald  Moseley  '28,  Otto  Duckworth  '28,  and  Frank  Boydston  '27. 


McMANIOUS,  and  they  have  two  children. 

O.A.  PYNES  '40  retired  from  the  Army  with 
the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel  and  has  just  com- 
pleted his  16th  teaching  year  at  Bel  Air  High 
School  in  El  Paso.  He  is  married  to  MARY 
"BERT"  MIDDLETON,  and  they  have  two  sons 
and  three  grandchildren.  O.A.  invites  all  his 
Centenary  friends  to  call  if  they  go  through 
"the  pass." 

Our  sympathies  are  extended  to  GRACE 
ELLEN  SLATTERY  JOHNSON  '40  on  the 
death  of  her  husband,  HARRY  A.  JOHNSON, 
a  distinguished  member  of  the  Shreveport 
bar.  They  had  five  children  and  14  grand- 
children. 

MRS.  WILBERT  E.  BRADFORD  X45  has 
retired  from  the  accounting  department  at 
the  LSU  School  of  Medicine. 

The  word  gets  around  .  .  .  "lost"  alumna 
MARTHA  LAIRD  HENSLEY  '47  of  Baton 
Rouge  heard  via  San  Francisco  of  the  '47, '48, '49 
Reunion! 


1940s 

Class  Agent  GRACE  JULIAN  NORTON  '40 
heard  from  MARY  FRANCES  COLLINS 

ALSTON,  in  Ann  Arbor,  with  news  that  her 
daughter,  ELLEN  ALSTON  DONNELLY, 
was  ordained  a  priest  in  the  Episcopal  Church 
this  past  spring.  Daughter  ELLEN  along  with 
her  husband,  who  is  also  a  priest,  will  be  on  the 
clergy  staff  of  Christ  Church  in  Greenwich, 
Conn.  MARY  FRANCES  does  volunteer  work 
and  is  making  plans  to  attend  the  class  reunion. 

"WEENIE"  BYNUM  '40  is  now  living  in 
Phoenix  City,  Ala.  Since  his  retirement,  he 
still  does  a  little  consulting  in  various  oil  field 
endeavours,  but  prefers  fishing  on  the  nearby 
Chattahoochee  River.  He  is  married  to  DIANE 


In  Memoriam 


CARTER  OGDEN  DICKSON  X'22 

November  11,  1982 

JOHN  MAUREE  DAVIS  '27 

March  2,  1983 

BEULAH  S.  FULLER  (MRS.  ERNEST  T.)  '28 

April  13,  1983 

WILLIAM  LANDON  YAUGER,  SR.  X'30 

February  17,  1983 

JACK  MARSHALL  JOHNSTON  X'32 

January,  1983 

WAYNE  THOMPSON  '32 

October  1,  1982 

JAMES  DEE  YOUNGBLOOD,  JR.  X'33 

December  25,  1982 

MRS.  EDWYNA  HARRIS  GOLDBERG  X'33 

February  17,  1983 

NEWLYN  WILLIAMS  ALLEN  X'37 

February,  1983 

MRS.  FRANCES  PALMER  MARSHALL  '38 

March  19,  1983 

CLEON  MEDFORD  WORLEY,  JR.  X'38 

October  20,  1982 


ERVIN  TURNER  AUXTER  X'39 

December  23,  1982 

MARTHA  LOUISE  VAUGHAN  SHEPHERD  '40 

February  28,  1983 

MARY  HAMNER  KELLAM  '40 

(Mrs.  Kenneth) 

July  31,  1980 

MRS.  FRANCES  HARDEMAN  MIDYETT  '41 

February  13,  1983 

JAMES  S.  HANCOCK '50 

January  13, 1983 

CARL  LYLE  BRYAN  '50 

January  14, 1983 

MRS.  LOLA  SHAVER  HOGSETT  '53 

March  3,  1983 

JESSE  PHILIP  HANSON  '53 

August,  1982 

DAVID  IRVIN  LEIMBROOK  '59 

December  23,  1982 

HARRY  LEVER  '64 

January  29,  1983 


The  REV.  W.  SPENCER  WREN  '48 

received  the  Doctor  of  Ministry  degree  from 
Iliff  School  of  Theology  in  Denver  in  1980. 
His  thesis  was  The  Church  and  Power.  He  is 
now  senior  pastor  of  the  United  Methodist 
Church  in  Steamboat  Springs,  Colo.,  after 
having  served  12  years  with  the  Colorado  Coun- 
cil of  Churches.  He  wrote  "I  truly  love  it  here.  I 
have  established  a  group  called  20  Leaders  with 
Secular  Power  with  the  intent  of  putting  my 
thesis  to  work  in  a  local  church." 

GRETCHEN  ELSTON  BENNER  '48  who 
earned  her  master's  degree  from  Tulane  and 
lacks  only  the  dissertation  to  complete  her 
doctoral  studies  at  Columbia  University,  is  now 
teaching  at  Southern  University  in  Shreveport. 
She  spent  nearly  30  years  teaching  in  Japan 
with  the  Board  of  Global  Ministries  of  the 
United  Methodist  Church  —  in  Negasaki, 
Tokyo,  and  Aoyama  Gaukin  University,  and 
later  at  USL  in  Lafayette.  Her  three  children 
were  all  born  in  Japan:  REED,  the  oldest,  is 
studying  in  Japan  and  teaching  English  to 
Japanese  children.  ERICA  attends  Sophie  New- 
comb,  and  son  JOEY  is  in  the  eighth  grade. 

WILLIAM  E.  McCLEARY  '48,  assistant 
librarian  at  LSU,  is  serving  as  Chairman  of 


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the  Museums,  Arts  and  Humanities  Division, 
Special  Libraries  Association  during  '82-83. 
The  SLA  holds  its  annual  conference  this  June 
in  New  Orleans. 

ROBERT  ABERNATHY  YOUNG  '49  and 
his  wife,  SIDNEY  BREWSTER  YOUNG  '49, 
live  about  20  miles  west  of  Gonzales,  Texas, 
where  their  home  overlooks  the  beautiful 
Guadalupe  River.  BOB  owns  and  operates 
Diamond  B  Ranches  in  Gonzales  and  Caldwell 
Counties.  Sidney  is  chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Independence  Savings  and  Loan  Association 
in  Gonzales,  Moulton,  and  Luling. 


1950s 

DR.  FRANK  B.  TRICE  '51  was  honored 
with  a  new  award  at  the  University  of  Texas 
Dental  Branch  at  Houston  this  spring.  The 
award  was  established  to  recognize  TRICE'S 
contributions  to  his  specialty,  which  focuses 
on  root  canal  therapy  to  save  teeth,  and  his  29 
years  of  service  at  the  Dental  Branch.  DR. 
TRICE  retired  last  year  after  12  years  as  associ- 
ate dean  of  the  UTDB.  He  was  also  president 
of  the  American  Association  of  Endodontists. 

BOB  POTTER  '53  and  his  wife,  JOAN 
HARDY  '52,  have  lived  for  four  years  in  Poncha- 
toula  —    "Gateway  to  New  Orleans."  BOB 
started  a  day  care  and  early  learning  center 
for  preschoolers  at  the  First  Methodist  Church, 
where  he  is  the  pastor.  JOAN  is  teaching  ele- 
mentary music  in  Baton  Rouge.  Of  their  four 
children,  two  are  Centenary  graduates.  PEN- 
NY '82  is  teaching  P.E.  in  Bossier  Parish  and 
JIMMY  79  is  working  on  a  master's  degree  in 
horticulture  at  L.S.U.  LYNETTE  is  a  sophomore 
at  Centenary  and  sings  in  the  Choir,  and  ROBIN 
is  a  senior,  and  a  basketball  player. 

DR.  JOHN  R.  RAUSH  '54  is  a  new  father; 
his  son,  JEREMY  JOEL  born  Oct.  4.  JOHN 
is  now  full-time  with  the  Baton  Rouge  Symphony 
as  a  directing  musician. 

ROBERT  W.  KOSTELKA  X55  is  District 
Judge  of  the  Fourth  Judicial  District  in  Monroe, 
LA. 

SAMMIE  J.  DEFATTA,  JR.  55  is  a  petroleum 
geologist  for  Texas  Eastern.  His  son,  PAUL, 
also  lives  in  Houston,  and  other  children  CHRIS 
and  DENISE  share  an  apartment  in  Shreve- 
port.  GREG  attends  Louisiana  Tech.  SAMMIE 
wrote  that  JAMES  (JIM)  ELMER  WARD,  JR. 
is  an  independent  geologist  also  living  in 
Houston. 

DR.  JIM  and  WANDA  ALLEN  DOBIE  '56 
have  been  living  in  Auburn,  Ala.,  for  the  past 
16  years.  JIM  teaches  in  the  Zoology-Entomology 
Department  of  Auburn  University,  and  recently 
helped  excavate  the  skeleton  of  an  ancient- 
45-million-year-old  whale  in  the  local  area. 
WANDA  is  a  children's  librarian  with  the  city 
schools.  Their  son  GREG  is  a  graduate  student 
in  public  administration  at  American  University, 
while  also  working  as  a  catalog  sales  manager 
of  a  bookstore  in  Washington,  D.C.  Daughter, 
LAURA  is  a  sophomore  at  the  University  of 
Alabama  majoring  in  interior  design. 

DR.  BILL  BRYANT  '59,  head  of  the  art  de- 
partment at  Northwestern  State  University  in 
Natchitoches,  has  written  and  illustrated  "The 
Armadillo  Book,"  a  humorous  collection  of  122 
caricatures  and  cartoons  about  the  folklore 
creature  of  the  southern  and  southwestern 
states.  Published  by  the  Pelican  Publishing  Co., 
the  book  sells  for  $3.95  at  major  book  stores  in 
the  south/southwest  area. 


1960s 

JAMES  RHEA  LOVE  '60  and  JEANNINE 
MOBLEY  LOVE  '62  have  two  daughters, 
MELINDA,  an  '82  graduate  from  Centenary, 
and  AMY,  a  sophomore  at  Centenary.  They  are 
now  living  in  Clearwater,  Fla.,  where  JAMES  is 
Director  of  Personnel  for  Sperry  Corporation. 

JOE  LaGRONE  '61  has  been  appointed  by 
Secretary  of  Energy  Donald  P.  Hodel  as  the 
new  manager  of  the  Department  of  Energy's 
Oak  Ridge  Operations  Office  in  Tennessee. 

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JOE,  his  wife  PEGGY  McDANIEL,  and  children 
PAIGE,  DANA  and  JEFF  moved  in  late  spring 
from  San  Francisco,  where  JOE  had  been  the 
manager  of  the  DOE's  San  Francisco  office  for 
the  past  five  years. 

DR.  JAMES  R.  LANG,  JR.  '61  and  his  wife 
SARA  HITCHCOCK  LANG  '62  live  in  Shreve- 
port,  where  JAY  is  a  pedodontist  and  president 
of  the  Northwest  Louisiana  Dental  Association. 

ARCHIE  L.  (BUDDY)  DAILY  '62  and  wife 
KITTEN  have  three  children;  KATHERINE, 
a  freshman  at  Baylor;  KELLI,  a  junior  in  high 
school,  and  COLLIER,  in  the  eighth  grade. 
BUDDY,  the  sales  manager  for  chlorates  at 
Kerr  McGhee  Chemical  Corporation  in  Ed- 
mund, Okla.  writes  that  the  ammonium  perch- 
lorate  is  the  base  material  for  solid  rocket 
boosters  for  the  Space  Shuttle. 


My  stars 


Centenary  news  in  the  art  world  — 
JOHN  O.  WILLIAMS  '61  is  the  new 
Director  of  the  Omni  Theater,  part  of 
the  Ft.  Worth  Museum  of  Science  and 
History.  There  are  only  eleven  of  these 
domed  theaters  in  the  world  today,  and 
the  80-foot  diameter  of  the  Ft.  Worth 
facility  is  the  largest  and  is  specially  de- 
signed to  show  large  format  70mm  film. 
The  Omni  opened  in  April  with  the  show 
"Hail  Columbia,"  which  is  about  the 
Space  Shuttle  Program. 

CLAY  CHARLES  (CHARLIE) 
BROWN,  JR.  73  is  house  manager  for 
the  theater.  On  the  bill  with  "Hail 
Columbia"  is  a  multi-media  show  en- 
titled "The  Legend  of  the  Sleeping  Pan- 
ther." The  show  is  about  the  history  of 
Ft.  Worth  from  its  beginnings  until  the 
present  day,  and  was  designed  to  display 
the  full  range  of  capabilities  of  the  new 
theater.  This  multi-media  presentation 
was  scripted  by  CHARLIE  in  collabo- 
ration with  JOHN. 

RON  DilULIO  '69,  a  former  assistant 
director  of  the  Museum,  composed  the 
original  music  and  produced  the  sound 
track  for  the  show. 

DREW  HUNTER  71  did  the  original 
artwork,  and  ALDEN  GAW  X67  is 
chief  electronic  technician  for  the  theater. 


DR.  WILLIAM  L.  FOSTER,  JR.,  '62  is  service 
coordinator  for  the  Bilingual  Education  Service 
Center  at  the  University  of  Southwest  Louisiana, 
which  serves  a  five-state  area. 

VIRGINIA  BOBBITT  TRANSUE  '62  and  her 
husband  BILL  live  in  Auburn,  Ala.,  where  he 
is  a  mathematics  professor  at  Auburn  University. 
Their  oldest  son,  JOHN,  is  a  freshman  at  A.U. 
majoring  in  chemistry;  15-year-old  TOM  alter- 
nates between  soccer  practice  and  working  for 
a  computer  software  company;  and  4-year-old 
JOE  is  "making  sure  our  lives  don't  become  too 
sane  or  orderly."  Since  leaving  Centenary, 
VIRGINIA  has  been  active  in  the  civil  rights 
movement,  and  then  she  and  BILL  founded 
a  small  experimental  elementary  school  which 
they  ran  for  six  years.  Until  JOE'S  birth,  she 
managed  a  small  construction  firm,  and  today 
still  finds  time  to  act  in  plays  at  the  university 
theater. 

DAVID  R.  SAUCIER  '64  was  recently  honored 
with  a  Superior  Performance  Award  in  recog- 
nition of  the  vital  role  he  played  in  NASA's 
successful  implementation  of  the  Space  Shuttle 
Program.  DAVID  works  with  the  National 
Aeronautics  and  Space  Administration  at  the 
Lyndon  B.  Johnson  Space  Center  in  Houston. 

HAROLD  I.  KNOX  '65  is  the  Director  of 
the  language  lab  and  instructor  of  French  and 
English  at  the  University  of  Southwest  Louisiana 
in  Lafayette. 


1970s 


ANDY  CARTER  70  is  a  7th-  and  8th-  gi. 
teacher  in  the  Chicago  Public  Schools.  He  i 
his  wife,  DIANE  HERRMANN,  have  a  twoj 
year-old  daughter,  AMANDA  SUE  HERR- 
MANN CARTER. 

Congratulations  to  TOM  MARSHALL  X't 
and  his  wife,  NANCY,  editors  of  the  Louisi'fc 
Life  Magazine,  who  were  presented  with  o 
of  the  most  prestigious  awards  in  the  maga  jfe 
business.  Their  magazine  was  cited  for  ove  || 
excellence  in  the  category  for  magazines  w 
a  circulation  less  than  100,000  in  the  1983 
National  Magazine  Awards. 

SYLVIA  SNYDER  LOWE  71  and  her  htj 
band  WARREN  71,  were  featured  in  the    ] 
Sunday  Shreveport  Times  magazine  sectior 
as  "art  patrons  in  the  old  tradition,  .  .  .  encc 
aging  area  folk  artists  in  the  basic,  primitivf 
urge  to  express  themselves."  The  Lowes  co 
folk  art  seriously,  and  as  "modern-day  patn 
they  encourage  artists  with  letters,  phone  c; 
and  visits,  and  even  supply  them  with  mate 
als  —  they  keep  cloth  scraps  for  a  Mississip 
quilter  and  boards  for  an  East  Texas  painte 
Their  collection  is  housed  in  their  renovate 
home  in  Shreveport,  where  WARREN  is  a 
clinical  psychologist  and  SYLVIA  is  the  co- 
owner  of  Oak  and  Ivy. 

MAJ.  DOUGLAS  CRAIG  SHELTON  71 
his  wife  KAY  TREVATHAN  SHELTON  'W 
of  Wichita,  Kan.,  announce  the  birth  of  thei 
daughter,  REBECCA  SUE  on  March  14. 

In  Houston,  JEFFREY  DAIELL  73  is  the 
Book  Review  Editor  of  Issues  magazine,  anc 
columnist  for  Inner-View,  a  monthly  news- 
paper. 

JESS  GILBERT  73  is  completing  a  Ph.D. 
in  sociology  at  Michigan  State  University.  H 
and  wife  KATHY,  and  children  DAVID  and 
KATY  are  looking  forward  to  moving  to  A  the 
Ga.  this  summer,  when  JESS  begins  teachin 
at  the  University  of  Georgia. 

RICK  CLARK  74  and  wife  CAROLYN  a 
proud  to  annouce  the  birth  of  their  first  chih 
BLAIR  ELIZABETH,  who  was  born  in  Augi 
RICK  and  his  family  just  completed  a  move 
Hickory,  N.C.,  where  RICK  is  the  leasing  ag,  t 
for  two  regional  shopping  malls. 

DR.  JOHN  DAVID  EATMAN  74  is 
Assistant  Professor  of  Philosophy  at  Xavier 
University  in  New  Orleans. 

CAROL  BRIAN  CARNAHAN  75  is  direc 
of  Mothers  Day  Out  Program  at  St.  Luke's 
Methodist  Church  in  Shreveport.  CAROL  ar 
husband  CHAD  74  are  the  parents  of  KAT1 
JO  CARNAHAN. 

MARK  EVAN  FREEMAN  75,  a  graduate 
student  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  also  w( 
in  the  Department  of  Biology. 

SUZANNE  MASON  BRABEC  X75  is  in  h 
fourth  year  as  director  of  Public  Information 
Office  with  Allen  ISD,  located  just  north  of 
Dallas.  Husband  DON  is  director  of  operatic 
and  on  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Teneris,  Inc 
an  international  real  estate  and  brokerage 
company.  SUZANNE  hopes  to  complete  her 
master's  in  communications  at  North  Texas 
State  University  in  1984. 

WILLIAM  P.  (JUDGE)  and  ELIZABETH 
EDWARDS  became  parents  on  March  14. 
Their  son,  WILLIAM  P.  EDWARDS  IV,  says 
he  will  seriously  consider  attending  Centena 
and  hopes  to  visit  the  campus  soon. 

CAPT.  ROYCE  LABOR  76  assumed  com 
mand  of  "B"  Company,  3rd  Battalion  of  the 
37th  Armon  at  Ft.  Riley,  KS,  on  March  3. 
ROYCE  and  wife  RHONDA  SLADE  LABOI 
78  are  the  proud  parents  of  their  first  child, 
ERIK  OWEN  GARRET,  born  on  March  21.  T 
paternal  grandparents  are  DR.  and  MRS. 
EARLE  LABOR. 

GILBERT  LEBLANC  77  is  a  senior  pro- 
grammer and  analyst  for  the  City  of  New 
Orleans  Police  Department. 

EILEEN  MARTIN  78  is  now  a  singer  and 


rruise  staff  member  on  the  M.S.  Tropicale, 
-ailing  out  of  Los  Angeles  for  Puerta  Vallarta, 
vlazatlan,  and  Cabo  San  Lucas  in  Mexico, 
which  she  characterized  as  "following  the 
Love  Boat',  the  Pacific  Princess!"  She  is  also 
ooking  forward  to  the  Choir  Alumni  European 
four  in  '84. 
RAYMOND  DANIEL  GAMBLE  78  now 

ves  in  Bossier  City  and  is  traveling  manager 
or  "Things  Remembered,"  a  national  chain  oi 
>ersonalized  gift  stores. 
KATHRYN  ELIZABETH  KUNKEL  79  of 

riendswood,  Texas,  received  the  master  of 
Irts  degree  in  Christian  education  from  Scarritt 
College  in  Nashville  this  May.  A  United  Metho- 

ist  institution,  Scarritt  is  a  national  graduate 
jenter  for  Christian  education  and  church 
lusic. 

From  the  class  of  79,  LINDA  ANN  WARREN 
'rites  that  she  is  the  supervisor  of  revenue  and 

ayables  in  the  Drilling  Fund  Accounting 
Jepartment  at  Transcontinental  Energy. 

NANCY  JOYCE  COOPER  78  was  awarded 
le  doctor  of  musical  arts  degree  in  organ  from 
le  University  of  Rochester's  Eastman  School 
f  Music  in  May.  She  was  also  awarded  the 
rtist's  Diploma,  an  infrequently  awarded 
onor  which  is  presented  to  students  who 
emonstrate  the  highest  level  of  performing 
sility  and  are  unanimously  selected  by  the 
lusic  faculty  of  their  instrument  and  approved 
v  the  entire  Eastman  faculty. 

Centenary  Board  of  Trustee  member  THOMAS 
.  MATHENY  H79,  a  prominent  professional 
id  civic  leader  of  Hammond,  was  named 
onorary  Life  Member  of  the  Board  of  Directors 

the  Mental  Health  Association  in  Louisiana. 
ATHENY,  a  law  partner  of  the  firm  of  Pitt- 
an,  Matheny,  Lewis  &  Moody,  received 
is  rare  and  distinctive  honor  from  the  State- 
ide  Association  because  of  his  untiring  efforts 
ith  the  Mental  Health  Association  for  the  past 
I  years  aimed  at  preventing  mental  illness  and 

lping  the  mentally  disabled. 


1980s 


GARY  BUTLER  '81,  a  graduate  student  at 
e  University  of  Chicago,  is  studying  geography 
\d  near  Eastern  languages  and  civilization. 
Class  Agent  JAN  CARPENTER  EADS  '81 
irites  that  MIKE  and  KELLY  WOOLBERT 
je  the  proud  parents  of  PATRICK  WOOL- 
]ERT,  born  in  December. 
IPOPE  ODEN  '81  has  completed  his  first 
lar  of  dental  school  in  New  Orleans. 
Congratulations  to  HAL  SUTTON  '81  on 
inning  the  Tournament  Players'  Champion- 
lip  in  Ponte  Verda,  Fla.,  this  April. 
JCHARLOTTE  THOMAS  '81  a  licensed 
>ck  broker/ securities  dealer  for  First  Invest- 
:nt  Corp.  in  Baton  Rouge,  was  married  April 
to  SCOTT  LANDRY.  She  writes  that  Mardi 
as  1983  in  New  Orleans  was  celebrated  by 
Veral  Centenary  folks  including  LAURA 
)PEJOY,  VICKI  RAINBOLT,  SUE  COTTON- 
M,  and  MELISSA  and  KIRK  TOLSON. 
jKAREN  KOELEMAY  '81,  new  area 
Imager  for  boys',  young  men's,  and  men's 
Ipt.  of  Selber's  in  Shreveport,  rooms  with 
iELINDA  LOVE  '81.  MELINDA  has  two 
ps:  she  teaches  music  in  one  of  Caddo's  ele- 
:ntary  schools  and  is  also  the  assistant  choir 
lector  for  First  Methodist  Church  choir 
fiool. 

SARAH  DOSS  '81  is  a  purser  on  the  Steam- 
Bt  Mississippi  River  Queen,  and  JUTTA 
\SCHMUTH  writes  that  she  is  living  in 
st  Berlin  attending  medical  school. 
1982  Class  Agent  DAVID  HENINGTON 
ites  that  LINDA  LUKEY  and  STEVE  PORTER 
I  getting  married  in  June  in  Brown  Chapel, 
\i  that  THERESA  LINGEL  recently  married 
LL  FUSSELL.  They  are  living  in  Thibodaux. 
"urther  news  of  the  Class  of  '82:  CURTIS 
.CKSON  is  living  in  Baton  Rouge  after  a  stint 
'Florida  working  in  a  dinner  theatre.  He  will 
•rt  work  on  his  master's  in  drama  this  fall  at 
1U. 


ELIZABETH  MARTINUSEN  LIPSCOMB, 

who  just  graduated  with  a  degree  in  psychology, 
and  husband  JERRY  are  expecting  their  first 
child  in  October. 

NANCY  ALEXANDER  BYNUM  is  living  in 
Tyler  and  teaching  first  grade  at  St.  Gregory's 
Catholic  School.  She  and  husband  STITH  are 
expecting  their  first  child  in  September. 

In  Shreveport,  VERSA  CLARK  is  trying  to 
start  a  publication  catering  to  the  black  com- 
munity's interest. 

FELICIA  SANKEY  has  finished  her  first 
year  of  medical  school  at  LSU-S. 

LAURA  COLEMAN  is  teaching  6th-  and  7th- 
grade  English,  social  studies,  and  science  at 
Greenacres  Junior  High  in  Bossier  Parish. 

CLAY  TRAMEL  is  president  of  Motors 
Security  Company  developing  and  selling  real 
estate. 

STAN  SMITH  works  for  Jeems  Bayou  Pro- 
duction Company. 

CINDY  LEE  sells  personal  computers  for  IBM 
in  Shreveport,  with  occasional  traveling  to 
area  communities. 

KIRK  LABOR  will  start  at  the  University  of 
Texas  Medical  School  branch  in  Galveston 
this  summer. 

STEVE  MATTA  and  JULEE  RIMES  were 
married  in  April.  They  are  living  in  Atlanta, 
where  STEVE  is  finishing  his  first  semester  at 
Candler  School  of  Theology  at  Emory. 


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Maurice  Ellington  '25,  former  member  of  The  Con- 
glomerate staff,  meets  1982-83  Conglomerate  co- 
editor  Leigh  Weeks.  Maurice  was  also  on  the  baseball 
team  and  a  member  of  the  Union  Literary  Society  and 
the  YMCA.  He's  now  living  at  4567  Linden  Avenue  in 
Longbeach,  Calif,  90807. 


Kathy  Thrasher  of  Baton  Rouge  has  been  awarded 
one  of  two  four-year  full-tuition  Alumni  Scholarships 
to  Centenary  College.  She  visits  with  Andy  Shehce 
'77,  associate  director  of  admissions,  following  Honors 
Convocation  this  spring.  Monte  Keith  Dobson  of  Tex- 
arkana  has  been  awarded  the  other  Alumni  Scholar- 
ship. These  students  have  a  minimum  3.85  grade 
point  average  (out  of  a  possible  4.0)  and  30  ACT  com- 
posite, in  addition  to  extensive  involvement  in  extra- 
curricular activities;  community,  and  volunteer  work. 


Special  trust 
benefits  heirs 
and  Centenary 

Establishing  a  charitable  lead  trust  is 
a  creative  way  for  friends  of  Centenary 
to  provide  for  both  their  heirs  and  the 
College.  A  bonus  is  that  the  property 
could  be  tax-free  for  your  heirs. 

It  works  this  way.  If  you  include  a 
charitable  lead  trust  in  your  will,  you 
bequeath  all  or  a  portion  of  your  estate 
to  your  chosen  trustee.  You  direct  him 
or  her  to  pay  a  specific  annual  income 
to  Centenary  for  a  predetermined 
period  of  time.  After  that  time,  the 
trustee  gives  the  trust  assets  to  your 
heirs.  By  including  the  College  in  the 
trust,  your  estate  receives  an  estate  tax 
deduction  which  protects  your  property 
for  your  heirs. 

A  trust  which  provides  for  a  10  per- 
cent income  payment  to  Centenary  for 
16  years  eliminates  the  federal  estate 
tax  and  thus  protects  the  full  value  of 
the  trust  property  for  your  heirs.  The 
proportion  of  your  estate  that  you  be- 
queath tax-free  to  your  heirs  depends 
on  the  property  you  place  in  the  trust, 
the  annual  income  you  provide  for 
Centenary,  and  the  length  of  time  the 
payments  will  be  made  to  the  College. 

For  more  information  on  charitable 
lead  trusts  or  other  forms  of  deferred 
giving,  please  contact  Dr.  Donald 
Webb,  president  of  the  College,  (318) 
869-5131,  or  Dr.  Darrell  Loyless,  vice 
president,  (318)869-5106. 


Alumni  clergy 
in  the  news 


Shreveport  magazine's  March  issue 
featured  a  story  on  prominent  area 
clergymen  who,  with  their  special  in- 
volvements on  a  national  or  international 
level,  have  brought  "estimable  acclaim 
to  the  community."  Among  them. 
Centenary  Board  of  Trustees  member 
DR.  D.L.  DYKES  '38  was  noted  for  the 
satellite  ministry  of  First  Methodist 
Church,  where  DR.  DYKES  serves 
as  senior  minister.  RABBI  DAVID 
LEFKOWITZ  H'56,  who  served  as 
active  rabbi  for  the  B'Nai  Zion  Temple 
in  Shreveport  for  32  years,  served  on 
the  National  Conference  for  Christians 
and  Jews  and  was  the  National  Chaplain 
of  the  American  Legion  and  the  Air 
Force  Association.  The  article  was 
penned  by  ANN  McVAY  PURDY  '81, 
a  free-lance  writer  married  to  JOHN 
PURDY  '81,  who  is  working  at  Shreve- 
port's  ABC  affiliate  station,  KTBS. 


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Harry  V.  Balcom  '36  and  his  wife,  Barbara, 
pause  at  the  Awards  Banquet  Friday  night. 
Harry  was  named  to  the  Alumni  Hall  of 
Fame,  the  highest  award  an  alumnus  can 
achieve. 


Dr.  Delbert  Chumley  leads  a  session  on  Money  Management  during  the  Alumni  College. 
Other  classes  offered  were  on  nutrition,  stress  management,  home  computers,  Jack 
London,  and  humor  in  harmony. 


Celebrating  their  50th  Class  Beunion  are  (left  to  right)  Sarah  and  John  Baird,  Isabella  New  Alumni  President  Tom  Burton  '71  and  Coming  the  farthest:  Powell  Joyner  '47  fn 
Leary,  Lucille  Althar  Tindol,  and  Emily  Harding  Yauger.  They  organized  an  on-campus  Alumni  Director  Chris  Webb  look  over  Alumni  LaCrosse,  Wis. ;  Billie  Joe  Rains  '48  from  | 
dinner  for  members  of  the  Class  of '33,  this  year's  Golden  Class.  Weekend  plans.  Francisco,   and   Garon   Miracle    '49  fri 

Vienna,  Va. 


Gathered  for  the  25th  reunion  of  the  Class  of  '58  are  (front  row,  left  to  right)  Martha 
Turner  Cloyd,  Patsy  GoffHuckabay,  Mimori  Urakami  Robertson,  and  Mary  Dupre,  and 
(middle  row,  left  to  right)  Oscar  Cloyd,  Jackie  D.  Huckabay,  Dale  Robertson  '64.  Bill 
Dupre,  and  Emily  Hayden  Viscozki,  and  (back  row\  left  to  right)  Richard  Speairs,  Betty 
McKnight  Speairs  H78.  Ron  Viscozki,  and  Ernesto  Landeros.  who  had  just  gotten  caught 
in  a  downpour. 


Organizers  for  the  '47.  '48. and  '49  Cluster  Reunion  —  Cluster's  Last  Stand  —  are  (froi 
row)  Marilyn  Miller  Carlton  '47  and  Alice  Curtis  Brown  '48,  and  (back  row)  Jack  an 
Glennette  Middlebrooks  Williamson  '49.  Some  150  alums  were  on  hand  to  mark  the 
35th  reunion. 


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INSIDE 


BACK  TO  SCHOOL 

It's  never 
too  late 


Notes  from  a 
China  traveler 


Department  tightens  up 

Sociology  majors 
have  rigorous  program 


Fire  damages 
Mickle  Hall 


Basketball 

Can  the  Gents  make 
it  five  in  a  row? 


Sports  schedule 
on  back  cover 


fena^fStiidei^s 


cWe  ts€at  t%m  GENT1/! 


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Thanks  to  Centenary  alumni  and  friends,  the  College  has  enjoyed  special  covera; 
this  fall.  Oscar  Cloyd  '55  has  teamed  up  with  Elberta  McKnight  '83  to  make  Osci 
Cloyd  Realtors  and  Centenary  College  a  winning  tradition  (top  photo).  White 
Cleaners  features  puns  on  all  their  billboards;  naturally,  this  is  our  favorite. 


On  the  cover 


Award -winning  artist  Mike  Dean  X73  of  Shreveport  created  this  design  to  illustrate 
the  discipline  of  sociology.  Mike,  who  won  the  highly  competitive  Red  River  Revt 
Arts  Festival  poster  contest,  does  serious  contemporary  paintings.  "That  is  to  say 
I've  been  serious  about  it,"  he  explained.  Mike  has  had  several  one-man  shows, 
and  his  works  hang  in  galleries  and  private  collections  throughout  Louisiana. 


The  Centenary  College  Magazine,  Cente- 
nary, (USPS  015560),  October,  1983, 
Volume  It,  No.  2,  is  published  four 
times  annually  in  July,  October,  January, 
and  April  by  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
2911  Centenary  Boulevard,  Shreveport, 
Louisiana  71134-0188.  Second  Class 
postage  paid  at  Shreveport,  La.  POST- 
MASTER: Send  address  changes  to 
Centenary,  P.O.  Box  4188,  Shreveport, 
La.  71134-0188. 


Centenary  strives  to  create  an  understanding  of  the  mission,  plans,  and  progress  o 
Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  campus! 


Editor Janie  Flournoy  73 

Special  Contributors .::-.--.. _... Don  Danvers,  Lee  Morgail 

Kay  Leel 

Production Rushing  Printing  Co 

Alumni  Director Chris  Webq 

Photography Janie  Flournoy! 

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BACK  TO  SCHOOL 


It's  never  too  late 


One  of  the  newest  members  of  the 
llass  of  '84  is  also  one  of  the  oldest. 

Eighty-one-year-old  Russell  Barrow, 
n  investment  banker  and  member  of 
le  Board  of  Trustees,  has  enrolled  at 
entenary  to  work  toward  his  degree  in 
usiness,  which  he  narrowly  missed 
aiming  at  the  University  of  Texas  over 
0  years  ago. 

"It  s  been  itching  me  ever  since, 
e  said,  with  a  twinkle  in  his  eye.  "I 
ist  felt  out  of  place  without  a  B.A." 

This  semester  Mr.  Barrow  is  taking 
thics.  Micro  Economics,  and  History  ot 
conomics.  "I'm  very  much  impressed 
ith  the  caliber  of  professors  here," 
e  said.  "And  I'm  also  impressed  with 
le  attitudes  and  capacity  of  my  fellow 
udents.  They  seem  to  be  on-the-ball 
id  hard-working. 

One  of  those  fellow  students  is  his 
"anddaughter,  Martha  Peacock,  a 
ansfer  student  from  Mary  Baldwin 
ollege  and  a  liberal  arts  major.  She 
links  it's  great  that  her  grandfather  is 
ack  in  school.  "It's  fun  that  we  11  be 

aduating  together,"  the  pretty  blonde 
lid.  Her  father.  Bill  Peacock,  also  at- 


tended Centenary. 

In  the  classroom,  Mr.  Barrow  sits  on 
the  front  row  where  he  tape  records  the 
lectures  and  participates  in  the  dis- 
cussions. "He's  a  real  asset  in  class," 
said  Dr.  Harold  Christensen.  "He  brings 
a  lot  of  invaluable  experience,  and  the 
students  really  like  that." 

After  class,  Mr.  Barrow  heads  for  his 
office  in  downtown  Shreveport  where 
he  has  served  as  president  of  Commercial 
National  Co.,  Inc.;  senior  partner  of 
Barrow,  Leary  and  Co.;  president  of 
Lorutex  Equipment  Co.;  president  of 
Independent  Ice  and  Cold  Storage  Co., 
and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Governors 
of  the  Investment  Bankers  Association 
of  America. 

Mr.  Barrow  has  been  a  member  of 
Centenary's  Board  of  Trustees  since 
1957.  In  1967,  he  established  the 
Physics  Laboratory  in  honor  of  his 
mother,  Addie  Johnson  Barrow.  He  has 
also  been  active  with  fundraising  efforts 
throughout  the  years. 

And  what  are  his  plans  for  the  future? 
"It  I  get  my  degree,  I'll  say  Good! 
But  I  don't  plan  to  go  for  my  Ph.D. 


Russell     Barrow     and     granddaughter 
Martha  Peacock. 


A  family  affair 

A  foursome  of  Schurmans  are  among  the  under- 
graduates enrolled  at  Centenary  this  fall.  They 
include  (left  to  right)  Lisa  Schurman  Mindes,  Judy  H. 
Schurman,  Andy  Bogdan,  and  his  wife,  Lori  Schurman 
Bogdan.  The  gals  are  the  daughters  of  Centenary 
Trustee  George  R.  Schurman,  a  1957  graduate. 
Others  in  the  family  who  hold  Centenary  degrees  are 
Larin  Graves  Schurman  '75,  G.  Rankin  Schurman  II 
'76,  and  Stephen  W.  Schurman  '81. 


PERSPECTIVES 


Kaye  Reaves  Fortenberry 

When  Kaye  Reaves  Fortenberry  '68  came  to  Centenary  in 
1964,  little  did  she  know  how  much  a  college  education  would 
mean  to  her. 

"I  grew  up  in  rural  Arkansas  where  I  had  learned  how  to  work , 
but  not  how  to  study  or  really  how  to  think.  Centenary  was  so 
difficult  for  me  at  first,"  she  writes,  "but  with  the  support  of 
people  like  Dr.  Ferrell  Pledger  in  sociology,  Dean  of  Women 
Shirley  Rawlinson,  and  Chaplain  Robert  Ed  Taylor,  I  became 
comfortable  with  academic  study  and  with  my  own  capabilities." 

So  comfortable  did  she  become  that  after  graduation  from 
Centenary,  Kaye  studied  at  CIDOC  in  Cuernavaca,  Mexico,  and 
then  did  a  year  of  graduate  study  in  sociology  at  the  New  School  of 
Social  Research  in  New  York.  She  earned  her  master's  degree  in 
community  counseling  from  Mississippi  College. 

For  the  past  15  years,  Kaye  has  worked  with  children  and 
youth ,  most  recently  with  abused ,  neglected ,  or  delinquent  youth 
at  the  Youth  Crisis  Center  in  Jackson.  In  the  late  70s,  she  pro- 
duced a  documentary  film  on  poverty  in  Mississippi  and  spear- 
headed several  research  project  for  national  agencies.  She  has 
also  bee,n  active  with  Millsaps  College,  where  her  husband  Don 
is  chaplain. 

Next  fall,  she  hopes  to  begin  full-time  study  for  a  doctorate. 
When  Kaye  writes  that  her  experience  at  Centenary  was  one  of 
the  most  important  in  her  life,  she  means  it. 


Brent  Henley 


"My  career  demands  that  I  be  able  to  deal  with  people  from  all 
backgrounds  and  deal  with  situations  that  tend  to  be  very  dif- 
ferent from  each  other,"  says  Brent  Henley  '80.  "Without  a  liberal 
arts  education,  the  job  would  be  more  difficult." 

As  director  of  Commercial  College  of  Shreveport,  Inc.,  Brent 
frequently  calls  on  his  foundation  in  sociology.  "A  degree  in 
sociology  doesn't  make  one  a  sociologist.  But  it  did  give  me  the 
background  to  understand  people  and  be  able  to  search  out  in- 
formation quickly  and  efficiently,"  he  said. 

Brent's  expertise  is  also  shared  with  the  community.  He  is  an 
alumnus  of  Leadership  Shreveport;  a  member  of  the  Advisory 
Council  to  Project  SAVE;  instructor  in  the  City  of  Shreveport  s 
Supervisors  Training  Program;  secretary  of  the  Shreveport 
Civitan  Club,  and  an  Adopt-a-School  Program  sponsor. 

Married  to  the  former  Janet  Vaught  '8 1 ,  Brent  enjoys  camping, 
canoeing,  darts,  and  working  in  the  yard. 

"I  know  now,  as  I  did  at  Centenary  then,  that  you  get  as  much 
out  of  something  as  you  put  into  it.  I  also  realize  that  if  you  are 
going  to  be  successful,  you  must  be  prepared  to  continually  learn 
new  things.  All  in  all,  Centenary  showed  me  how  to  get  what  I 
want,  when  I  want  it." 


ON  YOUTH 

Mine  and  Theirs 


ditor's  note :  The  following  are  excerpts  from  a  letter  written  at 
?  request  of  the  Office  of  Public  Relations  by  Kaye  Reaves 
rtenberry  '68.  A  social  worker  at  the  Youth  Crisis  Center  in 
:kson,  Kaye  shares  some  of  her  thoughts  on  her  days  at  Cente- 
ry,  today's  youth,  and  parenting.) 

In  my  present  work,  I  rely  a  great  deal  on  my  experience  at 
mtenary .  Most  of  the  youth  I  work  with  were  horn  while  I  was 
college.  (I  graduated  in  1968.)  The  Vietnam  War,  the  Civil 
ghts  Movement,  the  Women's  Movement,  and  the  Youth 
mnter  Culture  Movement  were  all  taking  place  during  my  years 
Centenary. 

Centenary  allowed  us  as  students,  to  participate  in  the  changes 
at  were  taking  place  in  the  community .  I  will  always  respect  the 
t  that  the  College  did  not  choose  to  isolate  itself,  or  require 
idents  to  adhere  to  a  particular  school  of  thought.  Instead, 
3  were  encouraged  to  analyze  social  issues  and  make  our  own 
cisions  about  them. 

My  first  experience  with  organizing  a  social  service  agency  was 
lile  I  was  a  student .  I  was  involved  with  several  other  students 
in  organized  and  operated  an  after-school  and  weekend  child 
re  center  in  a  low-income  community.  The  next  year  we  were 
le  to  staff  a  tutorial  program  for  children  that  served  several  dif- 
rent  neighborhoods  in  the  city .  Both  of  our  projects  were  funded 
the  Office  of  Economic  Opportunity  after  we  graduated.  This 

|[)up  was  made  up  ol  members  of  all  ol  the  fraternities  and 
rorities  and  independent  students.  We  were  all  heavy  on  en- 
usiasm  and  commitment  and  very  light  on  expertise  and  knowl- 
ge! 

At  the  Youth  Crisis  Center,  I  work  with  children  12-18  who 
ve  been  abused  or  neglected,  have  run  away  from  home,  or 
i  delinquent.  As  a  social  worker,  I  conduct  both  individual  and 

pup  therapy  sessions,  with  these  young  people.  I  also  spend 
urs  playing  with  them ,  cooking  for  them ,  taking  them  to  school , 
d  engaging  in  any  other  activity  which  helps  me  to  understand 

bm.  Whether  children  are  neglected  or  delinquent,  it  is  my 

(nviction  that  the  single  most  important  factor  contributing  to 
sir  behaviour  is  inadequate  parenting.  And  I  certainly  don't 

uan  that  parents  are  to  blame!  Parents  in  general,  do  the  best 

i  3y  can  to  cope  with  their  needs,  and  so  do  children.  The  econo- 

i  cal,  physical,  and  emotional  stability  of  parents  is  not  an  easy 
ier  for  a  society  to  take  on. 

I  have  done  a  couple  of  interesting  things  along  the  way  .  .  . 
1977, 1  was  given  a  grant  to  research,  produce,  and  direct  a 

^cumentary  film  on  poverty  in  Mississippi.  The  film  was  aired  on 
al  television  and  then  circulated  nationally  as  a  resource  in 

»  aling  with  poverty  and  the  emotional  and  physical  health  of 

(ildren.  In  1978, 1  compiled  the  research  for  the  film  combined 
th  the  research  made  available  from  the  return  to  Mississippi  of 

1 6  team  of  doctors  who  accompanied  Robert  F.  Kennedy  in  1 967 . 
d  taken  place  in  the  evidence  of  hunger  and  poverty  in  Missis- 

:  >pi  since  their  original  visit.  This  research  was  published  by  the 
itional  Council  of  Churches,  McGovern  Food  and  Nutrition 

1  >mmittee  in  Congress,  and  many  national  agencies.  Also  in 
78, 1  conducted  one  of  eighteen  national  research  projects 

:onsored  by  the  Carnegie  Council  on  Children. 
I  am  often  asked  to  speak  to  groups  about  how  to  deal  with 

•  olescents.  I  could  get  away  with  giving  answers  if  I  didn't  have 
ree  of  my  own!  I'm  afraid  they  have  managed  to  keep  my  own 

1  inion  of  my  expertise  in  the  field  at  a  very  humble  level! 


Choir  Loft  suffered  most  damage 

Fire  damages 
Mickle  Hall 

Normally  a  time  of  excitement  and 
enthusiasm,  the  first  day  of  classes  at 
Centenary  literally  went  up  in  smoke. 
Helpless,  the  College  family  watched 
as  the  Centenary  College  Choir  loft 
on  the  fourth  floor  of  Mickle  Hall  was 
destroyed  by  fire. 

Just  minutes  before,  the  Choir  had 
performed  a  lunchtime  concert  in  the 
South  Cafeteria  for  Mr.  Seisi  Kato, 
their  host  in  Tokyo  last  summer,  when 
word  of  the  fire  was  received.  At  first 
Director  Will  Andress  '61  thought  the 
student  bearing  the  news  was  joking. 
"But  then  I  saw  the  look  on  his  face  and 
tears  in  his  eyes,''  Dr.  Andress  said. 

The  three-alarm  fire  completely 
gutted  the  choir  loft  destroying  re- 
cordings, music,  costumes,  equipment, 
and  40  years  of  scrapbooks  and  memora- 
bilia. There  was  also  substantial  water 
damage  to  the  chemistry  labs  and 
equipment  on  the  third  floor.  The 
fire  was  caused  by  wiring  which  shorted 
out. 

Not  24  hours  after  the  fire  was  tapped 
out ,  a  Mickle  Hall  Renovation  Fund  had 
been  established  by  several  friends  of 
the  College.  Local  choir  alumni  have 
also  called  to  offer  their  own  scrapbooks 
and  memorabilia  to  replace  what  was 
lost. 

No  concerts  have  been  cancelled, 
and  the  spirit  of  the  choir  remains  un- 
daunted. As  Dr.  Andress  said,  "The 
show  must  go  on." 


Kotcs  mom  a  Ckm* 


By  Lee  Morgan 

Brown  Professor  of  English  and 

Associate  Dean 

(Editors  note:  The  following  para- 
graphs are  excerpts  of  letters  to  the 
Shreveport  Journal  which  Dr.  Morgan 
sent  back  from  his  China  trip  with  the 
Centenary  Choir. 

It  is  not  easy  to  assimilate  everything 
that  confronts  one  in  China.  But  the 
great  numbers  of  inhabitants  catch  the 
attention  quite  early.  There  are  9  million 
in  Peking  alone.  They  line  the  roads 
(or  are  in  the  big  middle  of  the  roads), 
walking,  riding  bicycles,  pulling  wagons, 
pushing  carts,  driving  horse-drawn  ve- 
hicles —  doing  everything,  in  short,  ex- 
cept driving  automobiles,  of  which  there 
are  very  few.  There  are  numbers  of 
buses  and  trucks;  but  since  private 
ownership  of  cars  is  not  permitted,  only 
a  few  government  officials  have  cars. 

People  in  great  numbers  are  in  evi- 
dence not  only  on  the  highways  but  in 
the  large  fields  all  around  the  city ,  all  of 
which  are  in  cultivation.  Hundreds  upon 
hundreds  of  acres  are  in  rice,  corn, 
beans,  onions,  cucumbers.  Men  are 
ploughing  with  water  buffalo.  Every- 
body is  working  —  old,  young,  male, 
female.  They're  thrashing  wheat  and 
winnowing  it  —  on  the  highway.  (Buses 
and  trucks  drive  right  over  it.)  These  are, 
of  course,  peasants,  and  they're  dressed 
in  a  variety  of  garbs,  but  a  typical  outfit 
would  be  plain  dark  pants,  baggy  and 
often  cut  off  at  the  knees,  and  some  form 
of  shirt,  either  jumper  or  undershirt. 
Almost  all  are  wearing  the  traditional 
straw  hat  with  the  wide  brim,  long  a 
standard  piece  of  equipment  with 
peasants. 

In  the  city,  the  workers  are  engaged 
in  construction  or  removing  rubble. 
Women  are  shoveling  dirt  and  lifting 
heavy  rocks  the  same  as  men.  Block 
after  block  of  high-rise  apartments  for 
workers  may  be  seen,  bamboo  scaffolding 
still  up  on  most  of  them.  Primitive 
dwellings,  presumably  to  be  torn  down, 
line  both  sides  of  streets.  These  are 
made  of  brick  and  stone  and  give  the 
impression  of  a  shanty  town. 

The  choir  had  a  sightseeing  schedule 
over  three  days  that  included  the  Summer 
Palace  of  the  Emperors,  the  Forbidden 
City,  Tian  An  Men  Square,  the  Ming 
6 


Tombs,  and  the  Great  Wall.  Rarely  have 
so  many  cameras  clicked  and  flashed  so 
often  at  so  much. 

One  highlight  of  the  Peking  stay  was 
a  visit  to  a  commune  where  cloisonne 
goods  are  made.  We  were  allowed  to 
purchase  some  of  the  finished  products 
at  bargain  prices. 

The  last  tourist  act  the  choir  and 
company  performed  in  Peking  was  to 
visit  Chairman's  Mao's  mausoleum,  the 
Chinese  counterpart  of  Lenin's  tomb. 
We  lined  up  four  abreast  and  marched 
quietly  up  to  the  enormous  and  imposing 
columned  building  and  into  a  huge  room 
containing  a  statue  of  Mao  seated,  much 
like  the  Lincoln  Memorial.  It  is  made  of 
white  marble.  From  there,  we  marched 
into  a  room,  again  gigantic,  with  the 
preserved  body  of  Mao  under  glass, 
attended  by  an  honor  guard  of  four 
soldiers.  No  word  was  spoken  by  us  or 
any  of  the  Chinese  visitors  to  the  tomb. 


The  next  stop  for  the  choir  was  the 
ancient  city  of  Xian,  also  spelled  Sian 
and  pronounced  as  shee-ahn.  The  startir 
point  of  the  world-renowned  "Silk  Road 
it  served  as  the  capital  of  1 1  dynasties 
beginning  in  the  11th  century  B.C. 
Americans  will  know  it  better  as  the  site 
of  the  excavation  of  the  mausoleum  of 
the  Qin  dynasty,  containing  individual 
terra  cotta  statues,  life-sized,  of  soldiei 
and  horses  arranged  in  precision  battk 
formation. 

From  Xian,  the  Choir  flew  to  Shanghs 
a  bustling,  cosmopolitan  city  of  1 1  mil- 
lion. The  choir  sang,  as  usual,  to  a  packe 
house.  (We  were  told  that  all  tickets  hac 
been  sold  out  for  two  months.)  The  next 
morning,  they  met  in  an  informal,  social 
get-together  with  the  Shanghai  Phil- 
harmonic Society,  a  superb  ensemble  ( 
about  50  professional  singers,  analogou 
to  an  American  group  like  the  Robert ] 
Shaw  Chorale.  The  contemporary  and 


President  Donald  Webb  talks  with  Mr.  Wong,  (left)  the  groups  guide  in  China,  and  the  lot 
host  in  Xian. 


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aditional  program  was  especially 
losen,  it  seemed,  to  show  off  their 
rtuosity.  When  they  had  finished  and 
:ceived  a  standing  ovation  from  the 
mericans,  the  maestro  indicated  to 
r.  Will  Andress  that  it  was  "Centenary's 
irn."  The  choir  responded  first  with 
Sections  from  Palestrina  ("Tenebrae 
ctae  sunt")  and  Mendelssohn  ("Heilig, 
Hlig,  heilig")  followed  by  American 
Ik  songs.  They  closed  with  a  Chinese 
ndergarten  song  in  Chinese  which  one 
our  guides  had  taught  them  and  which 
apparently  known  to  all  one  billion 
hinese.  The  Shanghai  singers  had 
armly  applauded  the  preceding 
imbers,  but  they  absolutely  broke  up  at 
e  children's  simple  tune  and  lyrics 
>out  making  friends. 
From  Shanghai,  we  took  a  train  to 
angchow  (pronounced  hahng-joe),  a 
ty  of  800,000,  situated  on  beautiful 
kes  and  rendered  unusually  green  by 
rtue  of  the  tree-lined  streets  and  lush 
irks.  Here  our  group  was  billeted  in 
agnificent  government  guest  houses, 
ually  reserved  for  VIPs.  These  build- 
's were  in  a  paradise-like  setting  on 
e  lake,  surrounded  by  the  most  beauti- 
1  gardens,  rock  formations,  arched 
idges,  and  summer  pavilions.  The 
ost  elegant  of  the  guest  houses  had 
en  a  favorite  retreat  of  Chairman  Mao. 
Our  trip  was  concluded  in  Hong  Kong, 
British  Crown  Colony  and  a  modern 
y.  It  contains  gorgeous  views,  many 
le  buildings,  and  more  great  bargains 
r  shoppers.  Still,  it  has  its  seamy  side 
id  its  pitiful  side  (the  170,000  boat 
ople),  and  I  think  it  struck  many 
ople  as  garish  and  tawdry  despite  its 
ish  neighborhoods,  swanky  shops, 
ncy  hotels,  and  modern  vehicles. 
Jthing  could  be  more  different  from 
lina. 

But  it  was  China  we  went  to  see,  and 
was  China  and  what  is  happening 
ere  that  interested  us  most.  We  saw 
:ountry  in  many  respects  at  least  50 
ars  behind  the  United  States,  pri- 
arily  in  technology.  But  we  saw  a 
untry  where  unemployment  is  not  a 
oblem.  Everybody  works.  There  is 
>  unemployment  insurance.  Nobody 
ems  to  be  starving.  Communes  are 
aking  a  profit  —  for  the  members 
the  commune.  We  visited  three,  ate 
one,  an  unbelievable  24-course  meal. 


^^» 


Chinese  policemen  on  Great  Wall  holiday. 


We  visited  two  fine  kindergartens. 
If  I'm  any  judge,  the  Chinese  are  ahead 
of  us  in  what  they  are  doing  there,  par- 
ticularly in  the  fine  arts.  There  is  vir- 
tually no  crime.  In  China,  theft  is  the 
least  of  one's  worries.  Crime  is  dealt 
with  swiftly  and  severely.  Workers 
may  retire  at  65  on  65  percent  of  their 
wages.  According  to  the  constitution, 
children  must  take  care  of  aged  and  in- 
firm parents.  Couples  are  encouraged 
to  limit  their  families  to  one  child.  The 
government  will  educate  one  child  as 
far  as  his  ability  can  take  him .  If  couples 
have  two  children,  they  must  pay  for 
educating  both  ot  them. 

China  has  many  problems,  which  it 
is  attempting  to  solve  with  socialistic- 
remedies.  However,  the  Chinese  seem 


to  be  more  pragmatic,  less  doctrinaire 
than  formerly ,  as  witness  their  inaugura- 
tion of  the  profit  motive  to  boost  pro- 
duction in  the  communes.  They  have  also 
relaxed  restrictions  on  religion.  They 
now  require  30  percent  of  their  legis- 
lators in  the  People's  Congress  to  have 
a  college  degree.  They  are  frank  to  admit 
the  mistakes  of  the  Cultural  Revolution 
of  the  60s.  Though  they  revere  Mao  as 
we  do  George  Washington,  gone  are  the 
ubiquitous  mammoth  pictures  of  him. 

What  of  China's  future?  No  one 
knows,  of  course.  But  we  may  be  op- 
timistic when  we  consider  her  re- 
markable people  —  gifted,  hard-work- 
ing, law-abiding,  peace-loving.  And  I 
know  at  least  83  Americans  who  wish 
them  well. 


Department  tightens  up 


Sociology  majors  have  rigoroi 

i 


In  these  times  of  megatrends,  global 
economies,  and  arms  races,  it  has  be- 
come increasingly  important  to  under- 
stand the  how's  and  why's  of  inter- 
personal and  group  interaction. 

At  Centenary ,  that  takes  place  in  the 
sociology  classroom,  where  Dr.  Charles 
E.  Vetter  and  Dr.  David  Throgmorton 
help  students  examine  social  behavior 
and  social  movements  and  issues,  an 
integral  part  of  the  liberal  arts  curric- 
ulum. They  explore  such  topics  as 
the  sociology  of  organizations,  marriage 
and  family,  social  psychology,  urban 
sociology,  the  sociology  of  religion,  and 
criminal  and  delinquent  behavior.  Part- 
time  lecturers  Don  Heacock  and  Mary 
Nesbitt  examine  social  work  and  anthro- 
pology. 

"We've  tightened  up  on  our  course 
requirements,"  said  Dr.  Vetter.  "We're 
more  stringent.  Anyone  who  majors  in 
sociology  at  Centenary  College  today 
has  a  very  solid  undergraduate  degree 
for  the  job  market  or  admission  into 
graduate  school.'' 

Of  those  10  to  15  students  who  opt  for 
graduate  school  each  year  —  slightly 
less  than  half  of  the  total  number  of 
sociology  majors  —  all  have  been 
accepted  into  at  least  one  graduate 
program.  They're  studying  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago,  UCLA,  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas,  the  University  of 
Johannesburg,  Iliff  and  Perkins  Schools 
of  Theology,  and  other  equally  presti- 
gious programs. 

"Our  expectations  have  increased 
significantly :  we  demand  more  of  our 


students,"  said  Dr.  Throgmorton.  "They 
do  more  research,  reading,  and  writing 
than  ever  before." 

The  sociology  majors  are  also  expected 
to  devote  a  minimum  of  30  hours  per 
semester  at  Creswell  Elementary 
School,  "adopted"  by  Centenary's 
Department  of  Sociology  last  year. 
The  Adopt-A-School  project,  a  city  wide 
program,  was  spearheaded  by  Dr. 
Vetter,  who  also  serves  as  director  of 
the  Center  for  Educational  Research  at 
the  Shreveport  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

"The  students  help  out  by  doing  any- 
thing that  is  needed,"  explained  Dr. 
Throgmorton.  "They  do  small-group 
tutoring  or  one-on-one  tutoring  — 
they're  free-floating  teachers'  aides. 
And  we've  heard  nothing  but  rave 
reviews  from  Creswell  School  and  our 
students.  We  were  really  surprised  at 
that  because  the  students  get  no  grade 
or  credit  —  just  experience.  The  program 
has  even  attracted  students  who  were 
not  sociology  majors." 

There  are  other  extra-curricular  ex- 
periences in  which  sociology  students 
are  encouraged  to  participate.  Many 
choose  the  successful  January  Interim 
study  of  the  Inner  City  School;  others 
volunteer  for  Open  Ear,  a  telephone 
crisis  hot  line;  and  there  are  field  trips. 

"Mary  Nesbitt  took  a  group  of  anthro- 
pology students  to  Anadarko,  Ok., 
and  spent  three  days  with  Caddo  Indians," 
Dr.  Vetter  said.  "We  heard  it  was  a  great 
trip,  and  we're  thinking  about  starting  a 
Center  for  the  Study  of  Caddo  Indians 
here."  (The  rolling  hills  of  Centenary's 


• 


campus  were  probably  home  for  a  tribe 
of  Caddo  Indians  way  back  when.) 

Another  opportunity  for  sociology 
scholars  is  Centenary's  chapter  of  Alpha 
Kappa  Delta,  International  Sociological: 
Honor  Society.  It  serves  as  a  political 
lobbying  group  within  the  Department  '■ 
and  as  a  forum  for  formal  presentations 
of  papers. 

The  professors  encourage  their 
students  to  do  research,  and  the  work 
pays  off:  Dr.  Vetter  and  student  Nell 
Chambers  recently  presented  a  paper 
on  child  custody  at  the  Louisiana 
Association  of  Science  meetings. 

Dr.  Vetter  will  also  take  the  results 
of  three  Sex  Equity  Class  research 
projects  and  compile  them  for  use  in 
public  school  libraries.  The  research 
was  conducted  in  the  areas  of  women  in 
non-traditional  roles,  men  in  non- 
traditional  roles,  and  dual  careers. 

Both  professors  enjoy  community 
involvement;  their  speaking  engage- 
ments can  attest  to  that.  "Last  year  we 
made  well  over  1 00  talks  to  a  wide  range 
of  audiences  —  homebuilders,Methodisi|  P 


: 


1 


groups,  and  Chamber  committees.  Ano 
we  spoke  on  a  wide  range  of  subjects  — 
grass  roots  organizing,  the  changing  role 
of  women,  and  nuclear  weapons  issues, 
said  Dr.  Throgmorton.  "The  nuclear 
freeze  talk  has  been  well  received.  I 
was  very  impressed  by  the  discussion  it 
generated  at  First  Presbyterian  Church.' 
Dr.  Throgmorton  serves  on  the  Board 
of  Leadership  Shreveport  and  is  regional 
director  of  Ground  Zero,  which  is  now 
working  to  pair  Shreveport  with  a 


, 


i 


Dr.  Charles  E.  Vetter 


No  loafing 

for 

Department 

Chairman 


Work  is  a  lifestyle  for  Dr.  Charles  E 
Vetter,  associate  professor  and  chairma 
of  the  Department  of  Sociology. 

"I  enjoy  not  sitting  around  being  idle," 
he  said.  "You  can  usually  do  more  than 
you  think  you  can." 

His  work  schedule  is  testimony  to  that 

A  full-time  professor  at  Centenary, 
Dr.  Vetter  teaches  four  three-hour 
classes,  in  addition  to  his  duties  as 
department  chairman.  He  is  involved 
in  scholarly  research  and  delivers 
papers  at  meetings  throughout  the 


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nilar  city  in  the  Soviet  Union  for  the 
irpose  of  cultural  exchange. 
"Being  involved  in  the  non-academic 
mmunity  is  great,"  said  Dr.  Throg- 
orton.  "We  can  see  how  sociology  can 
ive  an  immediate  effect  on  the  corn- 
unity,  not  to  mention  that  active 
mmunity  involvement  keeps  sociology 
the  cutting  edge." 

As  a  result  of  a  National  Endowment 
r  the  Humanities  (NEH)  Summer 
minar  which  Dr.  Throgmorton  at- 
nded  last  summer,  the  sociology 
eory  course  has  been  completely 
[vamped. 

"I'll  use  the  'school  theory,  which 
jofessor  Edward  Tiryakian  used  in 
r  seminar.  We'll  look  at  clusters  of 
biologists  and  relate  that  to  the  times, 
will  be  as  much  a  history  course  as 
jiociology  course,"  Dr.  Throgmorton 
•  plained. 

He  and  Dr.  Vetter  will  also  be  re- 
•mping  the  introductory  course.  "We 
int  to  take  the  basic  questions  of  our 
')rld  and  try  to  answer  them  from  a 
biological  point  of  view.  We  want  our 
sidents  to  think  analytically  and  to 
; dress  the  broader  issues;  not  come 
qt  with  a  lot  of  fragmented  knowledge, 
It  instead  understand  the  interre- 
lionships." 


Tiro  professors  and  two  lecturers  make  studies  tough  but  interesting  for  sociology  students 
at  Centenary.  They  include  (standing,  left  to  right)  Dr.  Charles  E.  Vetter,  Associate 
Professor  and  Chairman  of  the  Department:  Dr.  Dave  Throgmorton,  Assistant  Professor, 
and  (seated,  left  to  right)  Don  Heacock  and  Mary  Nesbitt,  Lecturers. 


3Uth. 

He  is  also  employed  part-time  as 
le  director  of  the  Center  for  Educational 
jesearch  at  Shreveport's  Chamber  of 
iOmmerce.  He  acts  as  the  liaison  between 
jie  educational  community  and  the 
jusiness  community  by  designing  and 
ieveloping  programs  such  as  the  High 
phool  Business  Symposium,  Career 
ay,  and  the  Adopt-A-School  Program. 
Dr.  Vetter  is  a  member  of  the  faculty 
the  Police  Academy,  where  he  con- 
ucts  classes  on  criminology  for  the  new 


recruits.  He  also  teaches  in  the  in-service 
training  division  for  City  of  Shreveport 
employees. 

As  a  consultant,  he  has  worked  with 
the  Technical  Assistance  Center  of 
the  Southwest  and  for  the  Professional 
Development  Center  for  the  Fourth 
District,  State  Department  of  Education. 
Dr.  Vetter  also  serves  as  the  Chamber's 
representative  to  the  Louisiana  Associ- 
ation for  Business  and  Industry  Council 
for  Education  in  Louisiana  and  on  the 
State  Department  of  Education's  Task 


Force  on  Teacher  Recruitment. 

A  high  point  in  recent  years  for  Dr. 
Vetter  was  his  being  awarded  a  $30,000 
grant  by  the  Louisiana  Committee  for 
the  Humanities  to  do  research  on  child 
custody  in  Louisiana. 

And  in  his  "spare"  time,  he  enjoys 
being  a  husband  and  father  of  two 
daughters. 

"Many  people  spend  a  lot  of  time 
wasting  time,"  said  Dr.  Vetter.  "I  don't 
want  to  do  that." 


Granted 


Centenary's  Meadows  Museum  of 
Art  has  been  awarded  a  grant  from  the 
Louisiana  Committee  for  the  Humanities 
for  production  of  a  documentary  film 
interpreting  the  Jean  Despujols  Col- 
lection of  Paintings  and  Drawings  of 
Indochina. 

The  amount  awarded  will  be  up  to 
$25,279,  which  includes  a  gift-match 
from  the  National  Endowment  for  the 
Humanities.  Many  members  of  the  com- 
munity have  made  contributions  for  the 
project  to  match  the  grant  for  a  total  of 
$39,720.  The  three  major  donors  are 
the  Shreveport  Art  Guild,  the  Community 
Foundation  of  Shreveport-Bossier,  and 
the  Shreveport  Regional  Arts  Council. 
Mrs.  Jacques  L.  Wiener,  Jr.,  was  the 
chairman  responsible  for  the  substantial 
community  support. 

The  Despujols  Collection,  executed 
during  1936-1938  in  Vietnam,  Cam- 
bodia, and  Laos,  documents  a  way  ot 
life  that  no  longer  exists.  The  goal  of  the 
film  is  to  interpret  the  history  and  cul- 
ture of  these  countries  as  protrayed  by 
the  artist  ethno-historian  Jean  Des- 
pujols. Research  is  currently  under  way 
by  scholars  at  Centenary  College  and 
the  University  of  Texas.  Willard  Cooper, 
chairman  of  the  Art  Department  and 
curator  of  the  Meadows  Museum,  is  the 
project  director.  The  film  will  be  com- 
pleted by  the  spring  of  1984. 

Thanks  to  a  generous  gift  from  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Melvin  Johnson,  Jean  Despujols' 
six  volumes  of  travel  journals  were  trans- 
lated from  French  this  summer  by  Dr. 
Vickie  Gottlob,  chairman  of  the  Foreign 
Language  Department  at  Centenary. 
The  journals  are  rich  with  detailed  de- 
scriptions of  Indochinese  culture,  cus- 
toms, clothing,  and  landscape.  The  trans- 
lation is  a  treasure  which  greatly  en- 
hances the  unique  paintings  and 
drawings  housed  in  the  Meadows. 


Operation  Care 

A  Centenary  graduate  has  led  the 
Shreveport  Medical  Society  to  Operation 
Care. 

Dr.  W.  Juan  Watkins,  president  of  the 
550-member  medical  society,  explained 
that  under  Operation  Care,  doctors  will 
provide  professional  services  without 

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POTPOURRI 


charge  to  those  who  are  temporarily  out 
of  work  and  have  no  health  insurance 
program. 

Gov.  David  Treen  said  he  hoped  "this 
humanitarian  act  will  become  contagious 
in  the  state."  The  Louisiana  State  Medi- 
cal Society  is  encouraging  its  other 
components  to  follow  the  Shreveport 
Medical  Society's  initiative,  said  Exec- 
utive Director  Dave  Tarver. 

Dr.  Watkins  is  a  1957  graduate  of 
Centenary  and  is  married  to  the  former 
Bonnie  J.  Harrell,  also  a  '57  graduate. 
A  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
Dr.  Watkins  has  also  served  as  president 
of  the  Alumni  Association  and  as  a  Class 
Agent. 


Tie  it  up 


This  Christmas  you  can  please  that 
someone  special  by  establishing  a 
scholarship  at  Centenary  in  his  or  her 
honor.  Two  recent  scholarships  were 
started  as  birthday  presents.  These 


academic  awards  can  be  endowed  (witl 
a  minimum  $5,000  gift)  or  unendowe< 
(with  a  minimum  $500  gift),  and  they 
may  be  restricted  or  unrestricted. 
This  is  a  gift  that  will  keep  on  giving,  j 
For  more  information,  contact  Bob 
Brown,  director  of  scholarship  develop 
ment,  (318)  869-5143. 


Orvis  Sigler 


Orvis  Sigler,  basketball  coach  at 
Centenary  for  10  seasons  and  one  of 
Louisiana's  best  known  college  basket 
ball  coaches,  was  inducted  into  the 
Louisiana  Association  of  Basketball 
Coaches  Hall  of  Fame  last  summer  in 
Lafayette. 

While  coaching  at  Centenary,  Sigle 
posted  a  record  122  wins  and  134  de- 
feats. His  best  seasons  at  Centenary 
were  a  16-8  mark  in  1963-64  and  a  17-' 
showing  during  the  1961-62  season 
when  his  band  of  sophomores  narrow] 
missed  a  bid  to_the  NCAA  tournamen 
As  athletic  director  in  1968-72,  he  wa 
an  important  cog  in  the  construction  o 
the  Gold  Dome. 

Sigler  helped  organize  the  state's 
Top  20  High  School  Basketball  Tourn 
ment  and  the  first  basketball  camp  in 
Louisiana. 


W      w 

A  trio  of  Centenary  scholars  take  a  break  from  their  summer  studies  of  the  Renaissanc 
at  St.  John's  College,  Oxford.  The  students  are  (left  to  right)  Lee  Morgan,  Talbc 
Hopkins,  and  Todd  Moore.  Their  summer  experience  also  included  travel  throughou 
England,  Wales,  and  Scotland. 


Money  Matters 

Centenary  College  will  host  its  first 
|holarship  Day  on  Friday,  Nov.  1 1, 
len  over  $500,000  will  be  awarded 
high  school  seniors  who  plan  to  enter 
■ntenary  in  the  fall  of  1984.  The 
lolarships  will  be  awarded  in  the 
tegories  of  academics,  business, 
urch  vocations,  health  careers, 
manities,  mathematics,  and  fine  arts, 
rsons  interested  in  competing  for 
scholarship  should  contact  the  Office  of 
[missions  and  Financial  Aid,  (318) 
9-5131. 


ranuary  Study  Week 

Dr.  Sam  Keen,  well-known  author  and 
turer,  and  Dr.  Webb  Pomeroy, 
L.  James  Professor  of  Religion  at 
mtenary,  will  lead  the  College's  an- 
lal  January  Study  Week  for  ministers. 
The  classes  will  be  held  Monday, 

ji.  23,  through  Thursday,  Jan.  26,  on 
:  Centenary  campus.  Two  CEU 
dits  will  be  offered. 
Dr.  Keen  is  known  throughout  the 

(imtry  for  his  lectures  and  seminars  on 
/th,  love,  sex,  healing,  war,  politics, 
ucation,  survival  in  the  '80s,  self 
newal,  and  other  timely  topics.  Dr. 
meroy's  forte  is  Old  Testament 
oology.  He  has  taught  at  Centenary 
'  30  years. 

For  more  information  on  January 
ady  Week,  contact  Kay  Madden, 
•ector  of  Church  Relations,  (318) 

I  9-5108. 


Seniors 

The  Senior  Adult  Program  at  Cente- 
iry  might  be  called  a  fountain  of  youth 
rits  participants.  Over  600  senior 
lults  have  signed  up  for  the  program, 
hich  is  funded  by  area  churches  and 
Iministered  at  Centenary. 

Offered  free  of  charge  to  all  persons 
;ed  60  and  over,  this  Fall's  six-weeks 

ogram  includes  19  classes  and  3  one- 
iy  workshops.  Courses  run  the  gamut 
om  nutrition,  to  financial  planning, 

flower  arranging,  to  sign  language, 
id  the  story  of  American  Methodism. 

The  non-credit  courses  are  taught  by 
>llege  professors,  professionals  in  the 
jimmunity,  and  fellow  senior  adults, 
1  of  whom  volunteer  their  time  to  the 

ogram.  Mary  E.  Bennett  is  director. 


CENTEMENTS 


The  total  contribution  by  alumni 
to  the  past  year's  Great  Teachers/Scholars 
Fund  —  the  figures  were  published  last 
issue  —  merits  some  comment.  The 
$150,918  from  alumni  represents  an 
increase  of  29  percent  over  the  prior 
year,  and  131  percent  of  the  year's  goal. 
This  response  is  significant  as  an  indi- 
cation of  the  ongoing  renewal  of  faith  in 
Centenary  as  a  vital  institution  and 
helps  to  insure  her  continued  good 
health. 

We  recognize  the  efforts  of  Jack  Elgin 
'43  as  chairman  of  the  Alumni  Division 
ot  GT/SF.  Special  mention  is  due  to 
several  alumni  classes  having  the  largest 
increases  in  numbers  of  participants: 
the  1 928  class  had  1 8  donors,  an  increase 
of  10  over  the  prior  year  (the  largest 
single  increase);  in  four  other  classes 
increases  of  seven  participants  were 
seen:  1927  (from  9  to  16),  1956  (from 
17  to  24),  1973  (from  23  to  30),  and 
1979  (from  14  to  2 1 ).  In  all,  1203  former 
students  (not  counting  alumni  trustees) 
made  contributions  to  this  fund  during 
the  year.  Our  thanks  to  all  of  them. 

While  this  increased  support  is  en- 
couraging and  certainly  vital  to  Cente- 
nary s  annual  progress,  it  would 
seem  appropriate  now  to  broach  the 
subject  of  longer-term  forms  of  support 
which  alumni  might  consider.  At  two 
other  institutions  in  particular  there 
are  successful  and  meaningful  plans  by 
which  class  contributions  —  separate 
from  annual-fund  support  —  accumulate 


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Chris  Webb 
over  a  period  ol  years  and  are  then 
transferred  to  the  institution  (at  a  sub- 
sequent class  function)  to  a  project  or 
purpose  chosen  by  the  class  itself. 
At  Vanderbilt ,  reuniting  classes  establish 
funds  which  are  enlarged  over  a  period 
of  five  years;  at  Yale,  each  graduating 
class  establishes  a  Quarter  Century 
Fund,  which  grows  until  the  occasion  of 
the  25th-year  reunion,  when  it  is  dedi- 
cated to  use  according  to  the  desires  of 
the  class. 

The  creation  of  such  funds  by  Cente- 
nary alumni  would  be  highly  beneficial 
both  to  the  College,  whose  specific 
needs  vary  from  year  to  year,  and  to 
alumni  contributors,  who  deserve  a 
voice  in  dedicating  their  support  to 
areas  of  their  choice.  Your  comments  are 
invited  and  will  be  welcomed. 


Planning  Ahead 


Oct.  1-31  -  The  Wide  World  of  Jack  London,  Magale  Library 
Oct.  6  -  Dedication  of  Hodges  Rose  Garden 

Oct.  12  -  President's  Round  Table,  Noon,  Centenary  Room 

Oct.  13  -  Convocation,  Sen.  Syd  Nelson,  11  a.m.,  Kilpatrick  Auditorium;  Centenary- 
Church  Council  Meeting 

Oct.  13-16,  20-22  -  "The  Dining  Room,'"  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse 

Oct.  21  -  Norman  Luboff  Choir,  8  p.m.,  Hurley  Auditorium,  Friends  of  Music 

Oct.  27  -  Convocation,  Drs.  Joe  and  Alice  Holoubeck,  M.D.,  1 1  a.m.,  Kilpatrick  Auditorium 

Oct.  31-Nov.  1  -  "Rhapsody  in  View,"'  Centenary  College  Choir,  8  p.m.,  Civic  Theatre 

Nov.  1-30  -  Louisiana  Artists,  Magale  Library 

Nov.  2  -  President's  Round  Table,  Noon,  Centenary  Room 

Nov.  6-Jan.  8  -  Token  of  Friendship:  Miniature  Watercolors  by  William  T.  Richards, 
Meadows  Museum  of  Art 


Nov.  10  -  Convocation,  Bishop  John  Wesley  Hardt,  11  a.m.,  Kilpatrick  Auditorium 


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Lookin '  good 


1982-83  was  the  fourth  straight  winning 
season  with  a  16-13  record,  the  second 
longest  winning  streak  in  Centenary 
history.  1983-84  can  tie  the  school  record 
of  five  straight  winning  seasons! 

Willie  Jackson,  Centenary's  All-American 
and  Mr.  Everything,  returns  for  his  senior 
season  after  averaging  24.0  points  per 
game  last  year.  He  has  been  the  Most 
Valuable  Player  in  Louisiana  and  the 
Trans  America  Athletic  Conference  for 
the  last  two  seasons. 

The  Gents  have  led  the  TAAC  in  scoring 
four  of  the  last  five  years,  averaging  77.3 
points  per  game  last  year.  For  the  second 
year  in  a  row,  the  Gents  have  finished  in 
the  top  30  in  the  nation  in  scoring. 

The  Gents  played  tough  in  close  games, 
winning  all  three  overtime  games  last 
season.  They  had  a  12  and  3  home  record, 
second  to  most  wins  ever  in  a  season  at 
the  Dome.  They  also  tied  for  third  in  the 
TAAC  during  the  regular  season  and 
have  never  finished  lower  than  third  in 
the  five-year  history  of  the  TAAC,  the 
best  record  of  any  team  in  the  league. 

The  Gents  played  five  Louisiana  schools 
and  defeated  each  of  them  at  least  once. 
They  beat  Louisiana  Tech,  Northeast 
Louisiana,  Northwestern  State,  South- 
eastern Louisiana,  and  Louisiana  College. 

The  Gents  played  three  teams  that  par- 
ticipated in  the  NCAA  basketball  champion- 
ships —  Oklahoma  State  (Big  8 
Champions),  the  University  of  Arkansas 
(SWC  second  place  and  final  16  in  the 
NCAA  tournament),  and  Georgia  Southern 
(TAAC  tournament  champions). 

The  Gents  defeated  every  team  in  the 
eight-team  TAAC  except  the  regular 
season  champions,  Arkansas-Little  Rock. 

The  Gents  play  four  teams  that  were  in 
post-season  play  this  year  .  .  .  Arizona 
State  (NIT)  Georgia  Southern  (NCAA), 
Oklahoma  State  (NCAA),  and  Oklahoma 
University  (NCAA). 

The  Gents  play  in  two  very  attractive 
basketball  tournaments  next  year. 
The  Dallas  Morning  News  in  Dallas 
includes  Arizona  State,  Centenary,  Okla- 
homa, Grambling,  and  SMU.  The 
Champions'  Tournament  in  Missoula, 
Montana,  includes  Cal  State-Fullerton, 
Centenary,  the  University  of  Montana, 
and  Tennessee  Tech. 

The  Gents  will  return  three  of  five 
starters  off  last  year's  squad;  all  three 
starters  averaged  in  double  figures.  They 
are  Albert  Thomas,  Eric  Bonner,  and 
Willie  Jackson. 

The  Gents  have  the  best  TAAC  tourna- 
ment record  in  the  history  of  the  con- 
ference. They  boast  a  7-3  TAAC  tourna- 
ment record  and  have  reached  the  semi- 
or  finals  every  year. 

Attendance  .  .  .  more  people  saw  the 
Gents  play  basketball  during  the  1982-83 
season  than  ever  before,  36,726,  an 
average  of  2,448  per  game  (2nd  best 
attendance  ever.) 


Can  the  Gents  make 
it  five  in  a  row? 


Just  how  successful  the  Centenary 
Gents  are  this  year  when  they  shoot  for 
their  fifth  straight  winning  season 
rims  on  how  well  two  recruits  fill  the 
vacancy  at  the  point  of  guard  position 
left  by  Centenary's  all-time  assist  leader 
Napoleon  Byrdsong. 

On  the  plus  side  the  Gentlemen  return 
83.9  percent  of  their  lineup,  with  four 
returning  starters,  one  part-time  starter, 
and  two  seasoned  veterans  who  have 
been  with  the  program  for  three  seasons 
when  the  Gents  tip-it-off  on  November 
26  against  Oklahoma  State. 

The  Gents  return  71.9  points  of  their 
offense,  losing  only  5.4  points.  They 
averaged  77.3  points  per  game  last  year, 
25th  in  the  nation.  As  a  matter  of  record, 
the  Gents  have  been  in  the  top  30  in 
scoring  each  of  the  last  two  seasons. 

Statistically  speaking,  the  Gents 
should  be  strong  competitors  during  the 
'83-84  season,  even  though  they  play 
one  of  the  toughest  schedules  in  recent 
memory  and  once  again  the  strongest 
schedule  in  the  Trans  America  Athletic- 
Conference . 

The  Gents  open  the  season  with  five 
straight  home  games  beginning  with 
Big  8  Tournament  Champions  Okla- 
homa State,  followed  by  Central  Florida, 
SMU,  North  Texas  State,  and  Louisiana 
Tech.  Then  they  go  on  the  road  and  play 
at  Kansas  State  before  playing  in  the 
Champions'  Tournament  in  Missoula, 
Mont.,  and  the  Dallas  Morning  News 
Tournament  in  Dallas,  Texas. 

Topping  the  list  for  head  coach  Tommy 
Canterbury's  quick-handed  Gents  is 
Sporting  News  honorable  mention  All- 
American  Willie  "Jack''  Jackson  (24.0 
points,  9.1  rebounds).  Jackson,  a  6-foot- 
6-inch,  210-pound  senior  forward  from 
Sibley,  La.,  has  been  in  the  top  ten  in 
scoring  for  the  last  two  seasons  and  has 
scored  48  straight  double-digit  games. 

Along  with  Jackson  at  the  small 
forward  slot  is  Albert  "BoBo"  Thomas 
(11.2  points,  5.9  rebounds).  Thomas 
entered  the  Centenary  starting  lineup 
midway  into  the  season  last  year  and 
developed  into  a  very  intense  competitor 
with  unlimited  ability. 

Coming  back  to  fill  the  center  position 
for  the  second  straight  year  is  Eric 
"Bad  News"  Bonner  (13.1  points, 
6.8  rebounds).  Bonner  is  known  for  his 
strong  power  moves  inside  and  soft  out- 
side shooting  touch. 

At  the  second  guard  position,  new- 
comer Reggie  Mosby  will  be  picking  up 
the  reins  dropped  by  departing  Reginald 
Hurd.  A  transfer  from  Navarro  Junior 


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averaged  7.2  rebounds  and  14.1  point; 
per  game  last  year. 

Coach  Canterbury's  only  concern 
heading  into  the  season  is  who  will  run 
the  offense.  The  Gents  signed  a  possible 
candidate  for  this  position  with  Andrev 
Dewberry,  who  averaged  22.7  points 
and  13.9  rebound  per  game  at  Doyline 
High  School.  He  was  voted  the  Class  B 
Player  of  the  Year  in  Louisiana. 

Dewberry  was  picked  to  run  offense 
along  with  returning  Tom  Schmidt 
(1.5  points  and  0.4  rebounds)  a  6-3 
sophomore  guard  who  played  sparingly 
last  year,  but  received  praise  from 
Coach  Canterbury  on  several  occasions   • 

Returning  also  is  Vance  Hughes 
(8.0  points,  2.8  rebounds).  Hughes, 
a  6-4  senior  forward,  started  in  1 2  games 
last  year  before  injuring  his  knee, 
necessitating  off-season  surgery. 

The  Gents  also  signed  Michael  Bell. 
Bell,  a  6-5  190,  junior  forward  from 
Northern  Texas  Junior  College,  is  a 
strong  rebounder  who  averaged  17.9 
points  and  14.4  rebounds  per  game  last 
year.  Bell  will  provide  depth  at  the 
forward  position. 

Rounding  out  the  line-up  are  Rodney 
Bailey  (1.6  points,  0.9  rebounds),  a 
6-6, 195  senior  forward,  and  Greg  Smith 
(1.1  points,  1.0  rebounds),  a  6-8,  205, 
senior  center,  both  returning  for  their 
final  collegiate  season.  They  should 
provide  mid-game  help  down  the 
stretch  toward  the  Trans  America 
Athletic  Conference  championship. 


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STRICTLY  PERSONAL 


1930s 

MARTHA  LOU   WALSH    '33   of    Grot on, 
jonn.,    went    to   Scandinavia    and 
Irote    that    she   was   unable    to  attend 
|he   50th   Reunion,    but    she    sent    in 
jer  best   wishes    as    did   MARY    BLANCHE 
JCALES    from  Dallas,    J.    B.    STOREY 
Jrora   New   Orleans,    and    CLAIRE    BURKE 
jcINNIS,    who   wrote    that    she   grad- 
!ated   from  LSU   in   1936   and   was    only 
freshman   at    Centenary    in    1932. 

EDGAR  PERCY    '39    recently 
■etired   after  31   years    of    pediatric 
'ervice    in  Lake    Charles.    He    is    pres- 
!ntly   medical   director   of    Calcasieu 
jarish   Health   Unit.      EDGAR   and   wife 
jARY   recently   spent    part    of    the 
ummer  with   SAM  PETERS    '39   and   his 
ife   ANN,    island   hopping    on    their 
iacht    in    the    Bahamas. 


1940s 

1949    Class    Agent   JACK   WILLIAM- 
;0N  has   been   elected   president    of 
junior   Achievement    of    Shreveport 
•ind   Bossier    City,    Inc.,    the 
Station's    oldest    non-profit   educa- 
tion  program   for   students    from 
;rade    school    through    college.    Over 
j.,000  youngsters    in    the   Shreveport- 
llossier  area   are    involved. 

From   "Cluster's   Last   Stand," 
i.he   summary    report    of    their  cluster 
reunion   by    the    Classes    of    '47,    '48, 
49,    the   following   excerpts   have 
leen    reprinted.      Many    thanks    to   the 
reunion   committee    of    JACK  and 
^LENNETTE    MIDDLEBROOKS    WILLIAMSON 
49,    CHARLES    ELLIS    and   ALICE   CURTIS 
I5R0WN    '48,    and   DAVID   and   MARILYN 
SlILLER   CARLTON    '47   for  putting   it 
Jill    together. 

"Alumni   Weekend,    Centenary 
College,    1983  has    come   and   gone   and 
.s    for   all    of    us    a  warm  memory.       It 
ras    7:00   p.m.    on   Saturday,    June    25. 
lie   skies   were   dark,    not   because    of 
:he   hour  but    with   very    threatening 
ind    stormy   clouds    laced   with    light- 
ling,    much   wind,    and    the   promise    of 
leavy    rains    on   the   way.         All   this 
lovering    over   the   Shreveport    Coun- 
try  Club    (yes,    the   same    one    in    the 
same    place   you   remember)    did   not 
lampen   the   excitement    of    the 
■gathering   cluster   of    'good    ole 
riends'    from   the   Classes    of    '47, 
'48   and    '49    .    .    .    plus    a   few  50's." 

FRED   ROGERS    and   his    clarinet 
[now  gold-plated    yet)   haven't 
.changed   a   bit;    he   proved   he   has   not 
lost    his    touch   by    joining    in  Little 
iilly   Causey's    band   for  many   of    the 
rjest    numbers.      Among    those    joining 
Ln  a  fabulous   buffet    and    just   mill- 
ing  among    the    crowd    in   which 
everyone   was    talking   at    the   same 
:lme   to   everyone    else   were  ERWIN 
Mid   NAN  SAYE,    HARRELL   and   PAT  MEECE 
.ARY,    WHITNEY   and   MARY   BOGGS , 
MAGGIE   GEBSEN   WOOSLEY,    JUD   and 
!3ETTY   HARPER,    CHARLES    and   ROSEMARY 


M.    MOORE,    RUSSELL   and   TOMMIE   LUE 
GUILLIAMS    MADDOX,    JOHN   and    LOIS    ANN 
HIGMAN   RICHARDSON,    JIM   and    BARBARA 
HERRMAN,    KEITH   and    ANN    HERRMAN 
O'KELLEY,    BILL   and   ROSE   AUDREY 
RANDALL    PATTON,    JACK  and    PATSY 
REEKS    with    MARILYN   LIGHT    (JIM'S 
widow),    JOHN   and    MARY    ALLEN    SMITH, 
BILLY    and    CAROLYN   YANCEY   SMITH,    JIM 
and    BETTY    WATERFALLEN,    ANDY    and 
JOYCE    HARDIN   ANDREWS,    BILL    and    JO 
ANN    SNOW,    DR.    GAIUS    and    PATRICIA 
HARD AWAY,    BYRUM   and    JAN    TEEKELL, 
HERBERT   and  SARAH   DIEBNER,    JACK  and 
ELIZABETH    PABODY,    LORRAINE    YEARWOOD 
LESAGE,    SIDNEY   and    PATRICIA   MILLER 
WILLIAMS,    and   RAY   and   DOROTHY   LONG 
ODEN. 

A   little   more    name   dropping 
— coming   from   the    longest   distance 
was    BILLIE   JOE   RAINS    from  San 
Francisco.      Also   on   hand   from  Lake 
Charles    was    DR.    PADDIE   DOLL.      From 
South  Louisiana   was   JANE   RIGGS 
CLAI BOURNE   who   came   stag   as   DOUG 

was    out    of    the    country.      From  West 
Texas    were   JIM   and   SHARON   MIRACLE 
HAMILTON,    who   won    the    prize   for   the 
most    exuberant    greeting,    BILL   and 
JEAN    ENTRIKEN    HARWELL,    BOB    and 
BETTIE    RE A   FOX   HOLLINGSWORTH,    TOM 
and    MINETTE    HARKRIDER    CARTER,    ANN 
BYRNE   MUELLER,    all   from  Houston, 
BOB   and   SYDNEY    BREWSTER    YOUNG  from 
Gonzales,    LOUIS    YAZBECK  from  Dallas 
and   from  way    out    on   the   high   plains 
PETE    and   SAMMIE   MASON   LANDRUM.      DUB 
and   BEVERLY    BEILBY    NEWMAN   came    down 
from  Oklahoma   City   and   from  nearby 
Norman,    BOB    and   OCTAVIA  GRANBERRY 
TRUEHART.      GARON  MIRACLE   of    Washing- 
ton,   D.C.,    made   his    first    reunion 


In  Memoriam 


SCOTT   M.    SMITH  M.D.     '26 

July   8,    1983 

LEON  WEBB   SCALES    '28 

May    12,    1983 

CLARA  TUCKER  NEILS  ON  X29 

May  19,  1983 

PERCY  CAVETT  WORLEY  M.D.  '31 

June  21,  1983 

J.  DEE  Y0UNGBL00D,  JR.  X33 

December  25,  1982 

MARY  MURFF  CRICHTON  '40 

(MRS.  THOMAS  III) 

May  20,  1983 

MISS  DOROTHY  JEANETTE  DIXON  '4  1 

April  23,  1983 

JOSE  T.  CHEEK  '49 

July  11,  1983 

JOSEPH  FRANCIS  GICLIO  III  X51 

May  12,  1983 

ENDA  STOUT  WHITE  X73 

May  1,  1983 

RONALD  L.  GARDNER  '74 

June  5,  1983 

DR.  SIDNEY  W.  RICE 

Past  Chairman  of  the 

Department  of  Physical  Education 

August  19,  1983 


since  graduation.  MR.  and  MRS. 
JACK  HARRIS  came  from  Texas,  and 
POWELL  JOYNER  from  LaCrosse,  Wis. 

0.  VANCE  MASON  '48  stopped  by 
the  alumni  office  to  update  his 
file.   He  and  wife  MARION  and  their 
five  children  are  now  living  in 
Tyler,  where  he  is  associated  with 
the  Mental  Health  Retardation 
Community  Center  and  Sheltered 
Workshops . 

Our  condolences  to  JEAN  S.  OTT 
'46  and  her  sister  CAROLYN  S. 
ALFORD  '54  on  the  death  of  their 
father,  DR.  SCOTT  M.  SMITH  '29, 
Colonel,  USAF  retired.   Dr.  Smith 
graduated  summa  cum  laude,  interned 
at  Tri-State  hospital,  now  Willis- 
Knighton  in  Shreveport,  and  entered 
the  military  at  Barksdale  Field  in 
1934.   A  psychiatrist,  he  event- 
ually founded  the  first  psychiatric 
unit  in  the  Air  Force,  later  moved 
to  Wilford  Hall  Medical  Center  in 
San  Antonio,  where  patients  from 
all  over  the  world  are  treated. 


1950s 


Civil  War  historian  and  lectur- 
er DR.  GRADY  McWHINEY  '50  has  been 
installed  professor  of  the  Lyndon 
Baines  Johnson  Chair  of  United 
States  History  at  Texas  Christian 
University.   A  prolific  writer  with 
five  books  in  preparation,  Dr. 
McWhiney  may  be  most  readily  iden- 
tified in  recent  years  with  an  eth- 
nic explanation  of  the  Civil  War  as 
put  forth  in  his  book,  Attack  and 
Die :   Civil  War  Military  Tactics 
and  the  Southern  Heritage.   He 
received  the  Alabama  Outstanding 
Scholar  Award  in  1980  and  the  Chi- 
cago Civil  War  Round  Table  Gallant 
Service  Award  the  preceding  year. 
He  was  also  named  Honorary  First 
Fellow  of  the  Confederate  Histori- 
cal Institute.   He  presently  serves 
on  the  editorial  board  for  the 
Papers  of  Jefferson  Davis,  the 
Ulysses  S.  Grant  Association,  and 
on  the  advisory  boards  of 
Continuity:   A  Journal  of  History 
and  The  Southern  Historian. 

JO  CHISM  ADAMS  X51  and  BOB 
CHILDRESS  were  married  in  June  in 
the  Meditation  Chapel  of  Brown 
Memorial  Chapel.   Jo  is  supervisor 
of  special  education  in  the 
Ouachita  Parish  School  System;  Bob, 
a  former  Baptist  Student  Union 
director  at  Centenary,  works  with 
the  World  Book  Co. 

CAMILLE  S.  HIRSCH  X52  accom- 
panied her  father,  Shreveport 
artist  Louis  G.  Sicard,  Sr. ,  to 
Ottawa,  Canada,  where  he  was  hon- 
ored with  an  exclusive  showing  at 
Studio  Colleen,  one  of  the  city's 
leading  art  galleries. 

HAROLD  E.  LaGRONE  '53  was 
recently  appointed  vice  president 
of  Century  Telephone  Enterprises, 


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Inc.,  of  Monroe.   Harold,  who  join- 
ed CTE  in  1980,  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Certified 
Public  Accountants. 

DR.  FRANCIS  EARL  BROWN  '56 
joined  Pennzoil  Products  Co.  in  the 
newly  created  position  of  vice 
president  for  technology.   He  will 
direct  a  products  technology  center 
being  established  by  Pennzoil  at 
The  Woodlands.   The  north  Houston 
center  will  provide  technical  sup- 
port to  the  division's  business 
activites,  with  emphasis  on  petro- 
leum product  development  and  refin- 
ing process  technologies. 

JAN  COOK  ISENBERGER  X57  is  in- 
volved with  Olympic  Youth  Archery 
Programs  and  travels  to  secondary 
schools  with  a  team  of  archers  to 
give  demonstrations  and  clinics  to 
create  interest  in  the  sport.   Jan 
recently  returned  from  the  Olympic 
Training  Center  at  Colorado  Springs 
with  her  team  that  competed  in  the 
U.  S.  intercollegiate  nationals. 
She  lives  in  Los  Alamitos,  Calif., 
and  works  at  Cypress  College  in  the 
Department  of  Physical  Education 
and  Athletics. 

Our  sincere  condolences  to  MARY 
ALICE  CHATHAM  BAGOT  '57  on  the 
death  of  her  husband,  LARRY  X57,  in 
February.   Larry  was  a  pharmacist 
in  Oxford,  Kansas.   MARY  ALICE 
wrote  Class  Agent  BONNIE  WATKINS 
that  she  is  looking  forward  to  the 
alumni  choir  trip  to  be  led  by 
director  WILL  ANDRESS  '61,  next 
year. 


1960s 


SPILLER  MILTON  '61  received  a 
Doctor  of  Ministry  degree  from  Drew 
University  in  Madison,  N.  J.   His 
professional  project  was  "The 
Training  of  the  Pastor-Parish  Rela- 
tions Committee  To  Deal  Construc- 
tively With  Conflict  in  the  Local 
Church  Setting." 

Southern  Living  magazine's 
August  issue  featured  the  garden  of 
DAVID  H.  '62  and  LORINE  CRENSHAW 
GIBSON  '63  in  an  article  titled  "A 
Taste  of  Texas,  A  Touch  of  Japan," 
which  describes  the  unique  concept 
and  continued  evolution  of  their 
special  spot.   David,  president  of 
the  company  bearing  his  name  in 
Dallas,  produces  commercial  trade 
show  exhibits,  marketing  centers, 
and  architectural  models  for  devel- 
opers.  Lorine  studies  art  and  Ika- 
bana  when  she  is  not  digging  in  the 
dirt  or  entertaining.   Lorine 
wrote,  "Crumley  Gardens  retreat  at 
Centenary  with  its  cooling 
fountains  and  lush  greenery  is  an 
obvious  inspiration."   The  Gibson 
landscape  was  also  featured  in  the 
May  issue  of  the  Dallas-Fort  Worth 
Home  and  Garden. 

JANELLE  L.  McCAMMON  '68,  former 
public  relations  manager,  has  been 
named  communications  manager  for 
Cities  Service  Oil  and  Gas  Corpor- 
ation in  Tulsa.   Janelle  has  been 
with  Cities  Service  since  1977. 

SUSAN  M.  MASK  X68  was  awarded 
the  Master  of  Science  in  Education 

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Order 
now 


Color  photos    are    still 
available    from   the    '47-'48-'49 
cluster   reunion. 

The    photos    —   a    real    souvenir 
of    the    occasion  —   are    by    Adrian  R. 
Snyder.      The    8   x    10   class    groups 
are   $10.00  each,    the    5x5    small 
groups    are    $5.00. 

Mail   your   order   to:       The   Office 
of    Alumni   Relations,    P.O.    Box   4188, 
Shreveport,    La.,    71104.      Don't 
forget    to    include    the   photo   number 
or   description,    your   name,    address, 
and   check   made    payable    to 
"Centenary   Alumni    Office." 


degree    from  Niagara  University    in 
New  York. 


1970s 

DAN  LORANT  '70  has  been  living 
in  Oklahoma  City  since  ending  a 
tour  with  the  U.  S.  Army  in  Viet- 
nam, where  he  was  stationed  with 
four  other  Centenary  students  - 
David  Schwartz,  USAF,  '69,  Tom 
Stone  '71,  David  H.  Holt  X70.   Dan 
is  the  president  of  Superior  Neon 
Signs,  a  full  service  sign  company 
of  outdoor  electrical  sign  displays 
including  interstate  highway 
identification. 


MARIANNE  SALISBURY  JONES  '71 
recently  moved  to  Jefferson  City, 
Mo.,  where  her  husband,  FLOYD,  wil 
begin  an  internship  at  the  Charles 
Still  Osteopathic  Hospital.   They 
are  now  parents  of  a  daughter, 
ELIZABETH,  born  in  December. 

NANCY  LENZ  GAMBLE  '72  and 
husband  JON  have  a  new  son, 
CHRISTOPHER  LAWSON,  born  in  May  in 
Eagle,  Colo. 

LEE  ELLEN  HOLLOWAY  '72  married 
GUY  BENJAMIN  X80  in  August  '82. 
Lee  Ellen  is  now  a  theatre/speech 
instructor  at  Centenary  and  did  tb 
set  and  lighting  design  for  Annie 
this  summer;  Guy  is  the  technical 
director  at  Shreveport  Little 
Theatre.   They  are  remodeling  a 
house  on  Columbia.   Her  daughter 
KELLI  is  now  13  and  attends 
Southfield  school. 

ROBERT  A.  (ROCKY)  RUELLO  '76 
has  been  appointed  Assistant  Vice 
President  for  Human  Resources  at 
Mercy  Hospital  in  New  Orleans, 
where  he  had  served  as  personnel 
director  for  the  past  several 
years.   He  is  the  outgoing  presi- 
dent of  the  Greater  New  Orleans 
Society  for  Health  Care  Personnel 
Administration  and  has  been  guest 
lecturer  to  the  PMA  chapter  of  the 
University  of  New  Orleans  and  a 
faculty  member  for  the  Louisiana 
Hospital  Association. 

MARK  ST.  JOHN  COUHIG  '76  of 
Asphodel  Plantation  was  recently 
named  a  new  member  to  the  Board  o' 
Directors  of  the  Feliciana  Chambe 
of  Commerce. 

TERRY  SWAN  '77,  who  completed 
his  doctoral  program  in  religious 
education  at  Vanderbilt  Universit 
this  spring,  will  continue  to  re- 


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The  Office  of  Admissions  travels  thousands  of  miles  each  year  in  search  of  qua 
students  for  Centenary.  On  a  rare  day,  members  of  the  Staff  were  in  the  office  at  <p 
time,  so  a  picture!  They  include  (left  to  right)  John  Lambert  78,  Director  of  Admissi> 
and  Financial  Aid;  Andy  Shehee  78,  Associate  Director;  and  Laura  Gallagher,  Assist. | 
Director;  and  (seated,  left  to  right)  Libby  Taylor  '83,  counselor;  Karen  Cole,  Assist! 
Director,  and  Anita  Martin  '80,  Assistant  Director. 


Tennis,  anyone? 


ie  Ladies  Tennis  Team  is  off  to  a  great 
art  in  their  fall  competition.  One  of  the 
[Hit  team  members  is  freshman  .Macy 
i/ert  of  Little  Rock,  cousin  of  Chris  Evert - 
joyd.  The  Ladies  schedule  includes 
jatches  against  La.  Tech,  LSU,  Tulane, 
emphis  State,  Baylor,  Stephen  F.  Austin, 
iid  more. 


ide    in   Bowling   Green,    Ky . ,    with 
is    wife    CINDA   and    their   two 
hi  Id  re  n   ASA  and    EVA.      Terry    is 
leginning   his    fourth   year   as    direc- 
or   of    the   Wesley   Foundation   at   WKU 
esley    Foundation. 

SALLY    HUNTER   KEDDAL    '77    and 
jusband   MARK    '78   are   globe    trotting 
'gain,    to   New  Delhi,    India,    where 
ark    is    studying    at    the    American 
nstitute    of    Indian   studies.      Sally 
opes    to   be    teaching    at    the    Ameri- 
an  Embassy    school. 

On   a   dusty    chalk   board    in    room 

10  of    Mickle   Hall,    chemistry   pro- 
essor  STAN   TAYLOR   discovered    the 
ollowing    note.      "DON   A.    McCORKLE 
D    '78   stopped   by    to   say   Good    Bye 
n  my    way    to   Columbus,    Ohio,    Ohio 
tate   University-Anesthesiology.       I 
pent    6   of    my   most    productive    years 
ere   at    Centenary.       I   can't    believe 
t's    time    to   go.       I'll   miss    you   and 
ever  forget    you.      God   Bless    you 

11  and   your  work."      Don   graduated 
rom   LSU   Med   School   and    is    now 
iving    in  Worthington,    Ohio. 

LT.    j.g.    ROSS    A   MAGGARD    USN 
78,    a   distinguished   graduate    of 
he   Surface    Warfare    Officers    School 
n  August,    is    now   serving   on   board 
he  USS   Detroit.      Ross's    home    port 
s    Norfolk,    Va. ,    and   he    is    due   for 

Mediterranean   deployment    in    the 
all    of    '83. 

PAUL   CHARLES    SHUEY    '79    gradu- 
ted    from  Georgia   Tech   with   a   bach- 
lor   of    chemistry,    and    is    now  work- 
ng  for  Hercules    Incorporated   Aero- 
pace  Division    in  Layton,    Utah,    on 
dvanced   process    development. 

MARY    MARGARET    (MIMI)    MITCHELL 
79    received   her   master's    degree    in 
ducation    last    May   f  rom   Peabody   at 
anderbilt    University.    She    spent 
er  summer   vacation   on   the    island 
f    Oahu    in   Hawaii    after   completing 
er  first    year   of    teaching    the    6th 
rade    in    Bryant,    Ark. 

DONNA   RING    LEGNER    '79,    the 
Irector   of    Christian  Education   at 
irst    United   Methodist    Church    in 
upiter,    Fla.,    had    her  article    "How 


to  Get    Teachers    to   Attend   Meetings" 
printed    in    the    Summer    '83   edition 
of    Church   School    Today   and    reprint- 
ed   in    the    summer    '83    Newsletter   of 
the    United   Methodist    Teachers. 

JOHN   JEFFREY    TETER    '79    is    the 
assistant    director   of    Student 
Financial    Aid    at    Fort    Hays    State 
University    in  Kansas.      Formerly, 
Jeff    was    the    financial    aid 
counselor  and    associate    director   of 
financial    aid    at    Centenary. 

CHARLOTTE    WHITAKER    OWEN    '79    has 
been    the    display    director   for    the 
Shreveport   Palais   Royale   stores    for 
the    last    three    years.      ALLEN   ARTHUR 
'80  also  works    in    the    store's    art 
department . 


1980s 


EVONNE  GREENE  '82  married 
KENNETH  AARON  JONES  in  October. 
EVONNE  is  an  accountant  with 
Seidman  and  Seidman  in  Shreveport. 
Kenneth  is  also  an  accountant  with 
Heard,  McElroy  and  Vestal. 

MORGAN  SANDERS  '82  was  a  proud 
daddy  as  his  daughter  BERIKA  was 
crowned  Queen  of  the  Debutantes  for 
Christ  at  the  Midway  Baptist 
Church.   Berika  hopes  to  attend 
Centenary  like  her  father  and  her 
aunt,  JEANENE  SANDERS,  who  is  a 
junior. 

Ensign  JOHN  ALLEN  FAKESS  '82, 
who  is  in  Melton,  Fla.  undergoing 
naval  pilot  training  at  Whiting, 
and  his  wife,  LINDA  OLIVER  FAKESS, 
are.  the  parents  of  a  daughter, 
KATHEKINE  ANNE. 

CYNTHIA  HAWKINS  '33  was  named 
communications  director  of  the 
staff  of  the  Ramada  Inn  in 
Shreveport.   Cindy  also  performed 
in  the  smash  summer  hit  "The 
Heiress"  at  the  Marjorie  Lyons 
Playhouse. 

NANCY  CAROL  GORDON  '83  married 
LEONARD  A.  MATOLKA,  and  they  are 
now  living  in  Tulsa. 

BILL  ZELLER  '83  was  commis- 
sioned a  2nd  Lt.  in  the  Calvary 
Branch,  active  duty,  of  the  United 
States  Army  in  August  in  the  Board 
Room  of  Hamilton  Hall.   Bill's 
wife,  CASSANDRA,  and  his  father, 
EARLE  ZELLER,  pinned  on  his  rank. 
Guest  speaker  for  the  ceremony  was 
EDWIN  C.  HARBUCK  '56,  who  received 
an  Army  commission  from  Centenary's 
ROTC  program  the  same  year  as  his 
graduat  ion. 

CHRIS  FAHRINGER  WALLACE  '82  has 
been  working  as  a  substitute  teach- 
er in  Beeville,  Texas,  while  hus- 
band TIM  finished  pilot  training  in 
the  navy.   Now  that  Tim  is  almost 
through,  she  is  working  temporarily 
for  an  ophthalmologist  besides 
taking  care  of  Kilaman  Rex,  an  AKC 
collie  that  is  "making  our  life 
interesting."   Chris  wrote  that  JAN 
HICKS  X85  and  husband  BUDDY  are  the 
parents  of  "bouncing  baby  boy" 
named  JEFFERY. 

Three  '83  graduates,  BONNIE 
BROWN,  MIKE  GARNER,  and  KELLY  BYRUM 
are  attending  graduate  school  at 
Stephen  F.  Austin,  studying 
geology. 


Bishop  J.  Kenneth  Shamblin 

Bishop 
succumbs 
to  stroke 


Dr.  J.  Kenneth  Shamblin,  bishop  of  the 
Louisiana  Conference  of  the  United 
Methodist  Church  since  1976,  died 
Monday,  Oct.  3,  at  7:35  p.m.  in  Baton 
Rouge. 

Dr.  Shamblin,  66,  suffered  a  stroke 
in  his  home  and  was  admitted  to  Baton 
Rouge  General  Hospital  Thursday.  He 
was  to  retire  in  June. 

A  native  of  Ozark,  Ark.,  he  served 
Pulaski  Heights  Methodist  Church  in 
Little  Rock,  Ark.,  from  1948-1961  and 
St.  Luke's  United  Methodist  in  Houston 
from  1961  until  his  election  to  the  epis- 
copacy in  Louisiana. 

He  was  a  graduate  of  the  University 
of  Arkansas,  Southern  Methodist  Uni- 
versity's Perkins  School  of  Theology, 
and  Hendrix  College.  He  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  1966  World  Methodist  Con- 
ference in  London  and  served  several 
times  as  a  delegate  to  the  General  Con- 
ference of  the  United  Methodist  Church. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Centenary 
College  Board  of  Trustees  and  the 
Centenary  Church  Council. 

Dr.  Harvey  Williamson,  director  of 
the  denomination's  Louisiana  Council 
on  Ministries,  said  the  vacancy  created 
by  Shamblin  s  death  will  likely  be  filled 
by  a  retired  bishop  until  a  new  leader 
can  be  elected. 

A  memorial  service  for  Bishop 
Shamblin  was  held  Wednesday,  Oct.  5, 
at  2  p.m.  at  the  First  United  Methodist 
Church  of  Baton  Rouge,  conducted  by 
Host  Pastor  J.  Woodrow  Hearn. 

Services  were  also  held  Friday  at 
2  p.m.  at  St.  Luke's  United  Methodist 
Church  in  Houston,  conducted  by 
Host  Pastor  Walter  Underwood.  Inter- 
ment was  in  Houston. 


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Ladies  Tennis 


October  13-16  Texarkana  Collegiate  Invitational         Away 


Gents  Basketball 


DATE 


OPPONENT 


SITE 


October  18  Tyler  Junior  College 

October  19  Northwestern  State  University 

October  20-23      LSU,  Tulane,  Memphis  State, 

Centenary  at  Baton  Rouge 
October  28-30  Baylor,  Stephen  F.  Austin,  Tyler, 

Centenary  at  Tyler,  Texas 


Gents  Tennis 


October  18 
October  24 
October  28-30 

October  27 


Tyler  Junior  College 

Louisiana  Tech 

Tyler  Tournament  (S.F.A.  Baylor 

Centenary,  Tyler) 

East  Texas  Baptist  College 


Home 
Away 

Away 

Away 


Home 
Away 
Away 

Home 


Soccer 


Fri.,   Oct.   14         Southern  Methodist  Univ.     Away 


Sat.,  Oct.  15 
Tue.,Oct.  18 
Fri.,  Oct.  21 
Sun.,  Oct.  23 
Fri.,  Oct.  28 
Sat.,  Oct.  29 
Thurs.-Sat., 


Arlington  Baptist 
Dallas  Baptist  College 
Nicholls  State 
Northeast  Louisiana  Univ. 
Millsap  College 
Arlington  Baptist 


Nov.   10-12        T.A.A.C.  Tournament 


Away 
Home 
Home 
Home 

Away  (at  NLU) 
Home 

TBA 


NOV.  26  OKLAHOMA  STATE  UNIVERSITY 

NOV.  28  CENTRAL  FLORIDA  UNIVERSITY 

NOV.  30  SOUTHERN  METHODIST  UNIVERSITY 

DEC.     3  NORTH  TEXAS  STATE  UNIVERSITY 

DEC.     5  LOUISIANA  TECH  UNIVERSITY 

DEC.     7  KANSAS  STATE  UNIVERSITY 

DEC.     9-10  CHAMPIONS' TOURNAMENT 

(Centenary,  Cal-State  Fullerton,  Tennessee  Tech,  University  of  Montana  ) 

DEC.  16-17  DAILAS  MORNING  NEWS  TOURNAMENT 

(Centenary,  Arizona  State,  University  of  New  Orleans,  SMU) 
JAN.      5  "GEORGIA  SOUTHERN  COLLECE 
JAN.      7  "MERCER  UNIVERSITY 
JAN.    12  "HARDIN-SIMMONS  UNIVERSITY 
JAN.    14  "HOUSTON  BAPTIST  UNIVERSITY 
JAN.    16  NORTHEAST  LOUISIANA  UNIVERSITY- 
JAN.    19  LOUISIANA  COLLEGE 
JAN.    21  "NORTHWESTERN  STATE  UNIVERSITY 
JAN.    26  "ARKANSAS-LITTLE  ROCK 
JAN.    28  "SANFORD  UNIVERSITY 
FEB.      2  "GEORGIA  SOUTHERN  COLLEGE 
FEB.      4  "MERCER  UNIVERSITY 
FEB.      9  "HOUSTON  BAPTIST  UNIVERSITY 
FEB.    11  "HARD1N-SIMMONS  UNIVERSITY 
FEB.    18  "NORTHWESTERN  STATE  UNIVERSITY 
FEB.    21  LOUISIANA  TECH  UNIVERSITY 
FEB.    23  "ARKANSAS-LITTLE  ROCK 
FEB.    25  "SAMFORD  UNIVERSITY 
MAR.    3  FIRST  ROUND  TAAC  PLAYOFFS 
MAR.     8-9  TAAC  FINAL  FOUR 


GOLD  DOME 
GOLD  DOME 
COLD  DOME 
GOLD  DOME 
GOLD  DOME 
MANHATTAN,  KA. 
MISSOULA,  MT. 

DALLAS,  TX. 

STATESBORO.CA. 
MACON,  GA. 
GOLD  DOME 
GOLD  DOME 
MONROE,  LA. 
PINEVILLE.LA. 
GOLD  DOME 
LITTLE  ROCK,  AR. 
BIRMINGHAM,  AL. 
GOLD  DOME 
GOLD  DOME 
HOUSTON,  TX. 
ABILENE,  TX. 
NATCHITOCHES,  LA. 
RUSTON.LA. 
GOLD  DOME 
GOLD  DOME 
TBA 
TBA 


"TAAC  GAME 

All  Centenary  home  games  (Gold  Dome)  start  at  7:45  p.m.,  except  Feb.  4  with  Mercer  and  Feb.  25  with  Sam  ford: 

These  two  games  start  at  1  :30  p.m. 


Baseball 


Ladies  Basketball 


October  14,  Friday,  1  p.m.,  (2) 

Texarkans  at  Texarkana,  Tx. 
October  15,  Saturday,  1  p.m.,  (2) 

Panola  Jr.  College  at  CENTENARY  PARK 
October  22,  Saturday,  10  a.m.,  (2) 

LSU  at  Baton  Rouge,  La. 
October  28,  Friday,  1  p.m.,  (2) 

Northwestern  St.  Univ.  at  Natchitoches,  La. 
October  28,  Saturday,  1  p.m.,  (2) 

Panola  Jr.  College  at  CENTENARY  PARK 


DATE 


DAY 


OPPONENT 


TIME       SITE 


Golf 


October  9-12 

Morton  Braswell  Invitational, 

Shreveport  Country  Club:  Shreveport,  LA 
October  22-25 

Univ.  of  Southern  Mississippi-Broadwater 

Beach  Invitational,  Broadwater  Beach  Sun 

Course:  Biloxi,  Mississippi 

November  6-8 

Louisiana  Intercollegiate,  Toro  Hills  Golf 

Course:  Many,  Louisiana 
"November  10-13 

Harvey  Pennick  Invitational, 

Morris  Williams  Golf  Course:  Austin,  Texas 


NOV 

26 

SAT 

•BAPTIST  CHRISTIAN 

5:30 

GOLD  DOME 

NOV 

28 

MON 

•EAST  TEXAS  BAPTIST 

5:30 

COLD  DOME 

NOV 

30 

WED 

•JARVIS  COLLEGE 

5:30 

GOLD  DOME 

DEC 

2 

FRI 

"XAVIER  UNIVERSITY 

7:00 

GOLD  DOME 

DEC 

3 

SAT 

•"WILLIAM  CAREY 

5:30 

GOLD  DOME 

DEC 

5 

MON 

•ANGELINA  JUNIOR  COLLEGE 

5:30 

GOLD  DOME 

DEC 

10 

SAT 

EAST  TEXAS  BAPTIST 

6:30 

MARSHALL.  TX. 

JAN. 

5 

THU 

BAPTIST  CHRISTIAN 

7:00 

SHREVEPORT,  LA. 

JAN. 

6 

FRI 

McMURRY  COLLEGE 

7:00 

GOLD  DOME 

JAN. 

7 

SAT 

KILGORE  JUNIOR  COLLEGE 

7:00 

KILGORE,  TX. 

JAN. 

9 

MON 

"LOUISIANA  COLLEGE 

7:30 

PINEVILLE.LA. 

JAN. 

12 

THU 

•WILEY  COLLEGE 

5:30 

GOLD  DOME 

JAN. 

14 

SAT 

•KILGORE  JUNIOR  COLLECE 

5:30 

GOLD  DOME 

JAN. 

17 

TUE 

"WILLIAM  CAREY 

7:30 

HATTIESBURG.MISS. 

JAN. 

18 

WED 

"SPRINGHILL  COLLEGE 

7:00 

JACKSON,  MISS. 

JAN. 

19 

THU 

"BELHAVEN  COLLECE 

7:00 

JACKSON.  MISS. 

JAN. 

21 

SAT 

•NORTHWESTERN  STATE  UNIVERSITY 

5:30 

GOLD  DOME 

JAN. 

23 

MON 

"LOUISIANA  COLLECE 

7:00 

GOLD  DOME 

JAN. 

26 

THU 

"XAVIER  UNIVERSITY 

7:00 

NEW  ORLEANS,  LA. 

JAN. 

27 

FRI 

"SOUTHERN  UNIVERSITY  OF  NEW  ORLEANS 

7:30 

NEW  ORLEANS,  LA. 

JAN. 

30 

MON 

"TOUCALOO  COLLEGE 

7:30 

TOUCALOO,  MISS. 

JAN. 

31 

TUE 

"DILLARD  UNIVERSITY 

7:00 

GOLD  DOME 

FEB. 

2 

THU 

•ARKANSAS-LITTLE  ROCK 

5:30 

GOLD  DOME 

FEB. 

4 

SAT 

ARKANSAS  TECH 

7:30 

RUSSELLVILLE.AR. 

FEB. 

6 

MON 

DILLARD  UNIVERSITY 

7:30 

NEW  ORLEANS,  LA. 

FEB. 

9 

THU 

ARKANSAS-LITTLE  ROCK 

7:00 

LITTLE  ROCK.  AR. 

FEB. 

11 

SAT 

PANOLA  JUNIOR  COLLEGE 

7:00 

CARTHAGE,  TX. 

FEB. 

13 

MON 

WILEY  COLLEGE 

6:00 

MARSHALL,  TX. 

FEB. 

16 

THU 

ARKANSAS  TECH 

7:00 

GOLD  DOME 

FEB. 

18 

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NORTHWESTERN  STATE  UNIVERSITY 

6:00 

NATCHITOCHES,  LA. 

FEB. 

■22 

WED 

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7:00 

JACKSON,  MISS. 

FEB. 

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FRI 

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7:00 

GOLD  DOME 

FEB. 

25 

SAT 

"CENTRAL  ARKANSAS 

5:30 

GOLD  DOME 

December  1-4 

Bluebonnet  Bowl  (2  man  tournament), 
Columbia  Lakes  Country  Club:  Houston,  TX 

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INSIDE 


Centenary  Rose  bushes 
get  national  attention 


Beautification 
Master  plan  working 


Chairmen  named  for 
Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund 


P.E.  Department 

Program  based  on 
academics,  pride 


Save  June  22-24 
for  Alumni  Weekend 


Leading  the  Ladies  and  Gents  on  with  team  spirit  are  the  1 983-84  cheerleaders .  Th<  j 
include  (bottom  row,  left  to  right )  Bill  Ball,  Kolby  Nix,  Sandra  Sherrod,  Rick  AndeiJ 
Lisa  Chaisson,  Danny  Gleason,  Susan  Beaubouef,  Scott  Sexton,  Craig  Spence,  aii 
Andrew  Collins,  the  Centenary  Gentleman;  (middle  row,  left  to  right)  Jennif , 
Holland,  Jill  Brown,  and  Judy  Williams,  and  (top  row)  Sue  Haynie  and  Donna  Monk 


On  the  cover 


A  maze  of  scaffolding  criss-crosses  the  geodesic  pattern  of  the  Gold  Dome  ceiliri 
which  underwent  major  repairs  this  year.  The  new  cushioned  vinyl  ceiling  h 
improved  the  lighting  and  insulation  in  the  athletic  facility. 


The  Centenary  College  magazine,  Cente- 
nary, (USPS  015560)  January,  1984, 
Volume  if,  No.  3,  is  published  four 
times  annually  in  July,  October,  January, 
and  April  by  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
2911  Centenary  Boulevard,  Shreveport, 
Louisiana  71104.  Second  Class  postage 
paid  at  Shreveport,  La.  POSTMASTER: 
Send  address  changes  to  Centenary,  P.O. 
Box  4188,  Shreveport,  La.  71104. 


Centenary  strives  to  create  an  understanding  of  the  mission,  plans,  and  progress 
Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  campus. 


Editor Janie  Flournoy  "1  i 

Special  Contributors Don  Danvers,  Lee  Morgt  '■ 

Kay  L(l 

Production Rushing  Printing  C' 

Alumni  Director Nancy  Porter  Gerding  'I 

Photography Janie  FlounK  i 

Neil  Johnsc 


JEAN  DESPUJOLS 
Documentary  explores  the  culture  he  loved 


"A  moment  in  time  that  no  longer 
exists:  French  Indochina,  preserved, 
protected,  immortalized.  The  essence 
of  a  culture  that  changed  so  little  for 
thousands  of  years ,  and  then  was  changed 
forever  in  the  span  of  one  violent  gen- 
eration. 

"The  works  of  the  French  artist  Jean 
Despujols  have  captured,  on  canvas  and 
on  paper,  the  people  and  countryside  of 
an  area  that  no  longer  exists  as  it  did  then : 
French  Indochina.  From  1936  to  1938  he 
created  a  permanent  record  of  a  land 
whose  extraordinary  beauty  and  diver- 
sity are  now  rendered  timeless  through 
his  work." 

In  the  not-too-distant  future,  these 
words  will  be  "in  the  can"  —  the  audio 
which  will  introduce  a  28-minute  docu- 
mentary on  Jean  Despujols  and  his 
works,  housed  in  Centenary's  Meadows 
Museum. 

The  film  is  the  dream-come-true  of 
Museum  Curator  Willard  Cooper,  who 
Ibegan  thinking  about  the  project  over  a 
'.year  ago. 

"We  see  a  lot  of  art  documentaries," 
said  Judy  Godfrey,  program  director  of 
(the  Meadows,  "and  with  Despujols', 
we  feel  we  have  enough  information  for 
five  documentaries,"  she  smiled.  "But 
our  film  will  be  different  —  it  will  look 
at  the  whole  culture:  religion,  geography, 
anthropology ,  and  history ,  as  well  as  art." 

The  holistic  approach  made  the  project 


appealing  to  the  Louisiana  Council  for 
the  Humanities,  which  awarded  the 
Meadows  Museum  a  $13,279  grant  for 
the  project.  Additionally,  the  project 
was  given  a  matching  grant  from  the 
National  Endowment  for  the  Humanities 
(NEH),  and  $13,300  from  Centenary, 
itself. 

"We've  had  fantastic  local  response  to 
the  project."  Judy  beamed.  "The  $24,000 
in  matching  money  which  we  raised 
locally  was  raised  in  three  weeks.  Mrs. 
Jacques  L.  Wiener  was  in  charge  and  did 
a  great  job."  Major  contributors  include 
the  Shreveport  Art  Guild,  Community 
Foundation  of  Shreveport-Bossier,  and 
the  Shreveport  Regional  Arts  Council. 

An  earlier  expression  of  support  came 
from  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Melvin  Johnson,  who 
contributed  over  $2,000  for  the  trans- 
lation of  Despujols'  journals,  found 
intact  (actually  never  opened)  at  his 
daughter  Ann  Gibson's  home  in  Shreve- 
port. Centenary  faculty  member  and 
chairman  of  the  Foreign  Language 
Department  Vickie  Gottlob  took  on  the 
mammoth  project  and  discovered  that 
Despujols'  writings  were  as  colorful  and 
descriptive  as  his  paintings. 

"We  now  know  that  the  journals  and 
the  works  of  art  are  to  go  together," 
Judy  explained.  "They  make  a  complete 
visual  and  literary  package.  What  fore- 
sight Despujols  had! 

The  project  historian,  Dr.  Edward 


Rhodes  of  the  University  of  Texas,  was 
equally  interested.  "As  Dr.  Rhodes  was 
doing  our  research,  he  kept  saying  he 
wished  he  had  time  really  to  get  involved 
in  the  journals,"  Judy  said. 

A  Dallas  film  crew  was  chosen  for  the 
project,  which  will  be  co-ordinated  by 
Shreveport er  Judy  Williams,  of  Corporate 
Communications.  Several  other  out-of- 
state  filmmakers  will  serve  as  consul- 
tants. 

"They  were  very  excited  about  the 
material,  and  they  can  be  objective," 
Judy  Godfrey  said.  "Most  of  the  filming 
will  take  place  in  January,  and  we  hope 
to  have  everything  completed  by  the  end 
of  February." 

A  French-accented  voice  will  be  used 
to  narrate  including  excerpts  from 
Despujols'  journals.  "His  words  will  be 
interspersed  with  facts  and  some  of  the 
music  he  composed,"  Judy  explained, 
"while  the  video  will  include  some  live 
shots,  photographs  of  the  area,  and  of 
course,  the  paintings.  A  Thai  dancer  will 
be  the  magic  to  it." 

The  film  will  meet  all  requirements  of 
PBS  (Public  Broadcasting  Systems), 
which  has  agreed  to  screen  the  docu- 
mentary. "If  they  would  air  it,  that  would 
really  spread  the  word  of  our  collection. 
It  will  be  excellent  for  the  City  of  Shreve- 
port, too,"  Judy  said.  "People  will  realize 
that  we  are  professionals  and  not  just  a 
dusty  museum." 


LOVE  IT! 


Front  entrance 

The  second  phase  of  Centenary's 
master  plan  for  campus  beautification 
will  soon  be  underway. 

The  Paul  R.  Davis  family  has  matched 
a  $20,000  challenge  grant  awarded  to 
Centenary  by  the  Community  Foun- 
dation of  Shreveport-Bossier,  and  the 
funds  will  be  used  to  improve  the  boule- 
varded  entrance  to  the  College  at  the 
Atkins  gate. 

According  to  Townsely  Schwab, 
landscape  architect,  plantings  in  this 
area  and  along  the  drive  to  James  Dormi- 
tory, will  emphasize  the  entrance,  im- 
prove pedestrian  circulation,  and  en- 
hance the  view  into  the  campus  around 
the  Hargrove  Memorial  Bandshell, 
while  continuing  to  give  the  campus  a 
unified  design.  Work  will  begin  in  the 
near  future  to  finalize  the  plan  with 
input  from  donors,  faculty,  staff,  and 
students. 


Centenary  promised  a  rose  gar- 
den —  and  bushes,  too.  The  garden 
is  complete,  but,  unhappily,  the 
Centenary  Rose  bushes  were  not 
delivered  as  planned. 

The  1200  bushes  which  were  to 
be  shipped  to  Centenary  in  early 
February  were  accidentally  ground 
up  and  plowed  under  at  Armstrong 
Nurseries  in  California.  According 
to  an  Armstrong  spokesman,  "It  was 
human  error.  The  field  of  Centenary 
Roses  was  right  next  to  a  field  of 
bushes  which  were  to  be  destroyed." 

You  may  have  heard  or  read 
about  the  mishap  in  the  national 
media:  Diane  Sawyer  covered  it  on 
the  CBS  Morning  News,  and  Paul 
Harvey  included  it  in  his  noon  news- 
cast. The  story  was  also  picked  up 
by  APandUPI. 

The  Centenary  Rose  is  a  deep 
maroon,  fragrant  blossom,  bred 
especially  for  the  College  by  Arm- 
strong. Several  hundred  test  bushes 
were  successfully  tested  in  Shreve- 
port  and  Bossier  City  gardens  last 
year.  The  bushes  are  also  planted 
and  available  for  viewing  in  the 
Hodges  Rose  Garden  and  at  the 
Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse. 

According  to  Armstrong,  some  300 
bushes  will  be  available  next  year, 
which  the  College  will  offer  for  sale, 
deliverable  on  Valentines  Day,  1985. 


Members  of  the  G.  W.  James  family  honored  at  the  dedication  of  Centenary  \ 
beautiful  new  Hodges  Rose  Garden  include  (left  to  right)  Mrs.  J.  C.  Love,  Mrs.  G.  W 
James,  and  Mrs.  G.  W.  James,  Jr.  and  (standing,  left  to  right)  G.  W.  James  and  G.  W 
James  Jr.,  all  of  Ruston.  The  senior  Jameses  built  the  garden  in  honor  of  his  mother\ 
Maggie  Hodges  James,  and  his  grandmother,  Addie  Reynolds  Hodges.  Over  20(\ 
people  attended  the  dedication  ceremony  which  was  held  last  fall.  The  gardet\ 
completes  the  first  phase  of  Centenary's  new  campus  master  plan  and  features  tht\ 
Centenary  Rose. 


Arboretum  underway 


Arboretum:     "a  plot  of  land  where 
different  trees  or 
shrubs  are  grown 
for  study  or  popular 
interest.'' 


Plans  are  now  underway  to  create 
such  an  arboretum  on  Centenary 
College's  65-acre  campus.  The 
work  is  a  project  of  the  Campus 
Improvement  Committee,  Harry 
V.  Balcom,  chairman. 

Identification  of  the  hundreds  of 
species  of  plants  on  campus  will 
begin  with  Crumley  Azalea  Garden, 
Frost  Rose  Garden,  Morehead  Con- 
course, and  the  vicinities  of  Mead- 
ows Museum  of  Art ,  Hurley  School 
of  Music,  Brown  Chapel,  Magale 
Library,  and  Marjorie  Lyons 
Theatre.  Dr.  Edwin  Leuck,  assistant 
professor  of  biology ,  will  supervise 
the  identification  process. 

Each  plant  or  group  of  plants  will 


be  marked  with  both  its  Latin  and 
common  names.  The  maroon-and- 
white  signs  will  be  engraved  on 
campus  in  a  special  workshop. 
New  acquisitions  will  be  properly 
marked  and  will  be  listed  in  a 
leather  ledger. 

School  groups  —  both  college 
and  high  school  —  as  well  as  other 
horticultural  or  civic  groups  will 
be  encouraged  to  enjoy  the  arbore- 
tum. A  brochure  detailing  a  walking 
tour  of  the  campus  is  also  included 
in  the  future  plans,  and  the  com- 
mittee will  also  be  in  touch  with 
the  National  Arboretum  for  other 
ways  in  which  the  Centenary  pro- 
ject might  be  shared  with  the 
community. 

Sponsorships  for  sections  of  the 
arborteum  will  be  available.  This 
financial  support  (ranging  from 
$500  up )  will  mean  that  the  arbore- 
tum will  be  a  permanent  education 
program. 


Hybridize 

your  own  roses 


American  Rose  Center  director  tells  how 


By  Anita  Mary  Steinau 
Honorary  Alumna  '83 

"The  nurseries  are  not  offering  it  any  more  in 
their  catalogues,"  said  Harold  Goldstein  of  the 
American  Rose  Center,  "so  why  don't  you  take 
cuttings?  Or  why  not  hybridize  it  and  create  a 
rose  entirely  your  own?"  He  was  referring  to 
Kentucky  Derby,  one  of  the  finest,  most  hassle- 
free  red  tea  roses  hybridized  by  Armstrong 
Nurseries,  the  house  that  has  provided  the  hand- 
some, very  fragrant,  maroon  Centenary  rose  and 
the  white  Pascali  roses  for  the  new  Hodges  Rose 
Garden  at  Centenary  College. 

The  garden,  a  gift  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
James  of  Ruston,  memorializes  Mr.  James's 
mother,  Maggie  Hodges  James,  and  grand- 
mother, Addie  Reynolds  Hodges,  and  was  the 
first  major  construction  project  under  the  Col- 
lege's beautification  master  plan.  It  is  all  part 
of  the  Campus  Improvement  Program  spear- 
headed by  a  committee  of  interested  members  of 
the  campus  and  community. 

Committee  members  Harry  Balcom,  chair- 
man, Lorraine  LeSage,  Janie  Flournoy  and  I, 
meeting  with  Mr.  Goldstein  at  Centenary,  were 
interested  in  the  techniques  of  hybridizing. 

Can  anyone  hybridize  roses?  Yes.  Can  all 
types  be  hybridized?  Yes;  even  the  miniatures 
which  are  rapidly  growing  in  popularity;  but  it  is 
good  to  remember  that  there  are  a  few  roses 
incapable  of  producing  seed  or  supplying  viable 
pollen.  Thus,  the  parentage  of  the  new  plant  you 
hope  to  create  is  of  the  utmost  importance. 

Select  roses  with  good  foliage,  shapely  buds 
and  blossoms,  and  strong,  healthy  stems  (canes), 
for  roses  (as  with  other  species,  including  the 
human  race)  tend  to  reproduce  undesirable 
traits  more  than  they  do  desirable  ones.  It's 
generally  believed  that  the  stronger  plant  should 
be  the  mother  rose,  the  fair-to-good  rose  the 
paternal  parent,  though  some  hybridizers' 
opinions  differ.  So  it's  best  to  make  two  crosses 
instead  of  one,  by  selecting  two  buds  from  each 
plant,  cutting  them  with  an  inch  of  stem  re- 
maining. The  pollen  of  one  —  say,  the  Centenary 
rose  —  will  go  on  the  pistil  of  the  Pascali,  the 
process  reversed  for  the  other  two  buds,  i.e., 
Pascali's  pollen  on  Centenary's  pistils. 

All  roses  have  both  male  ( stamens)  and  female 
(pistils)  organs.  The  stamens  form  a  complete 
circle  at  the  center  of  the  bud  around  the  pistils, 
of  which  there  may  be  just  one  thread-like  style 
(a  small,  pointed,  stalklike  part)  or  several.  Each 
style  ends  in  a  slightly  enlarged  knob  known 
as  the  stigma,  while  at  its  base  is  the  ovule  or 
unfertilized  egg;  this  female  cell  and  others  like 
it  are  enclosed  in  the  ovary  that  is  in  turn  encased 
in  the  hip  or  fruit  —  that  fairly  large,  somewhat 
cylindrical,  green  protuberance  that  appears 
after  a  rose  has  shed  its  petals. 


The  buds  you  choose  should  be  at  the  same 
stage  of  growth;  just  beginning  to  open.  With  the 
Centenary  rosebud  as  the  mother  of  the  plant 
you  are  about  to  create,  carefully  remove  all  the 
petals,  revealing  the  stamens  and  pistils.  With 
tweezers  or  a  sharp  knife  or  razor  blade,  remove 
all  the  stamens.  Don't  overlook  a  single  one  or 
the  rose  may  self-pollinate.  Cover  the  bud  with 
a  plastic  bag  or  paper  sack,  tying  the  bag  loosely 
at  the  bottom,  but  tight  enough  to  keep  out  any 
foreign  pollen  which  might  spoil  your  cross. 

Check  in  two  days.  Lift  off  the  covering;  and  if 
the  pistils  have  become  darker  in  color  and  very 
sticky,  you  proceed  to  the  next  step.  If  they  have 
not,  you  should  recover  the  bud  and  wait  another 
day.  When  the  pistils  are  extremely  sticky,  take 
the  freshly-cut  Pascali  rosebud,  remove  the 
petals,  and  brush  the  bud  across  the  top  of  the 
mother  plant.  Some  hybridizers  prefer  to  collect 
pollen  from  the  prospective  papa  buds  as  they 
go  along,  keeping  the  pollen  in  a  small  container 
and,  when  the  pistils  of  the  mother  plant  are 
ready,  applying  the  pollen  to  the  pistils  by  brush- 
ing it  across  with  a  long-handled  artist's  brush  — 
about  a  quarter-inch  camel  or  sable  brush. 
Usually,  though,  the  fresher  the  pollen,  the 
better  for  your  cross. 

Cover  your  rose  again  for  about  a  week;  then 
remove  the  bag,  and  let  the  rose  grow  into  a 
seed  pod  or  hip;  this  will  take  two  to  three 
months.  When  the  seed  pod  matures,  it  will  be 
yellow  in  color.  Most  hybridizing  is  done  in  the 
spring,  around  May  or  early  June  when  the  roses 
are  at  their  height,  so  that  the  seed  pods  have 
time  to  mature  before  frost. 

Collecting  the  seeds 

Take  a  sharp  knife,  and  barely  cut  into  the 
top  of  the  pod;  then  squeeze  the  seeds  out  be- 
tween your  fingers  and  thumbs.  There  will  be 
as  many  as  20  seeds  in  a  pod  or  as  few  as  4. 
From  these,  select  the  fattest  and  hardest. 
To  be  certain  which  of  these  are  viable,  drop 
them  in  a  glass  of  water  for  about  15  minutes. 
The  good  seeds  will  sink.  The  floaters  should  be 
discarded. 

The  process  is  repeated  in  reverse  when 
making  your  second  cross  with  the  Pascali  as 
the  mother  plant,  the  Centenary  supplying  the 
pollen.  Always  clean  your  brush  thoroughly 
before  making  the  second  cross;  this  can  be 
done  by  brushing  the  brush  rapidly  across  your 
shirt,  skirt,  or  pants. 

When  do  you  sow  your  seeds?  Many  hybrid- 
izers prefer  to  sow  them  immediately.  Others 
prefer  to  store  them  in  air-tight  containers  in 
a  32  to  42  degrees  temperature.  In  either  case, 
it's  going  to  be  quite  a  while  before  they  germi- 
nate, often  as  long  as  a  year. 


A  good  sowing  mix  to  use  in  your  peat  pots  or 
flats  is  equal  parts  of  soil,  sharp  sand,  and  fine- 
sieved  peat  moss.  The  size  of  the  seed  determines 
how  deep  it  should  be  planted  in  the  medium, 
i.e.,  no  deeper  than  the  seed  is  thick;  a  general 
rule  of  thumb  might  be  3/  16ths  of  an  inch.  Once 
sown,  they  should  be  watered  and  placed  in  a 
cool  spot  (about  41  degrees  F.)  until  they  germi- 
nate. 

As  soon  as  the  seedlings  are  up,  they  should 
be  transplanted  into  individual  pots  filled  with 
a  soil  much  richer  than  that  in  which  they  germi- 
nated, and  the  planted  pots  exposed  to  light  and 
warmth.  Once  the  danger  of  a  hard  frost  has 
passed  and  the  ground  can  be  prepared  properly, 
the  seedlings  should  be  planted  in  the  garden, 
watered  and  fed  generously. 

It's  also  possible  to  sow  the  seeds  directly  in 
the  garden  bed.  This  may,  or  may  not,  speed  up 
the  germination  process. 

The  first  blooms  will  appear  when  the  plant 
is  still  very  tiny.  These  will  not  be  the  true  normal 
bloom,  however.  You  can  only  be  certain  of 
normal  bloom  as  well  as  color  and  foliage  after 
two  to  three  years. 

What  is  an  "unnamed  seedling?"  I  asked 
Goldstein.  Often  in  catalogues  from  the  rose 
houses  when  a  new  rose's  parentage  is  given,  it 
will  say  something  like  "Garden  Party  x  Unnamed 
Seedling." 

Goldstein  explained,  "Not  all  your  personal 
rose  creations  will  be  what  you  expected.  Out  of 
six  plants,  you  may  have  five  that  are  singles  - 
have  only  one  row  of  petals,  a  la  Dainty  Bess 
and  other  'old'  roses,  while  the  sixth  will  have  a 
bloom  that's  absolutely  perfect.  This  rose  you  will 
pot  up  and  permit  to  grow.  However,  you  dis- 
cover its  foliage  isn't  good.  So,  you  cross  it  back 
to  the  mother  plant,  and  the  result  is  your   un- 
named seedling. 

Also,  the  hybridizer  may  get  a  good  unnamed 
seedling  by  collecting  rose  hips  which  may  have 
been  pollinated  by  bees  and  planting  the  seeds. 

Exact  duplicates 

Later,  if  you  want  to  reproduce  your  favorite 
seedling  rose,  cut  several  canes,  strip  away  all 
five-leafed  petioles  revealing  the  bud  or  eye, 
dip  the  cut  end  of  each  cane  in  plant  hormone, 
and  cover  with  a  paper  sack  or  a  quart-sized 
canning  jar,  powder,  and  insert  that  end  in  plant- 
ing medium.  This,  called  asexual  reproduction, 
should  result  in  an  exact  duplicate  of  your  rose. 
Even  more  certain  is  meristem  reproduction  or. 
if  you  prefer  the  term,  cloning,  in  which  a  tiny- 
cutting  is  taken  from  the  plant's  root,  a  technique 
used  for  many  years  in  the  reproduction  of 
orchids  —  but  that,  being  a  wee  bit  complicated 
lor  this  amateur  gardener,  we  didn't  pursue. 


FINANCIALLY  SPEAKING 


William  G.  Anderson  (left)  will  serve  a  second  consecutive  term  as 
chairman  of  The  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund.  Co-chairmen  are 
(standing,  left  to  right)  W.  Kirby  Rowe,  Jr.,  James  R.  Mitchell  '64, 


Tom  Ostendorff  III,  and  Herman  Williamson  and  (seated)  John  I 
David  Crow.  All  of  the  co-chairmen,  except  Mr.  Mitchell,  are  also  ! 
serving  second  terms. 


Chairmen  named  for  Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund 


This  year  Centenary  has  a  $100,000 
challenge  from  a  group  of  friends.  It 
works  like  this :  for  every  new  donor 
dollar  given  to  the  Great  Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund  or  for  every  dollar  in- 
crease over  an  individuals  or  company's 
gift  last  year,  our  friends  will  match 
those  dollars  with  an  equal  amount. 
If  you  didn't  give  last  year,  your  gift  this 
year  will  be  doubled.  If  you  gave  $600 
last  year  and  give  $1,000  this  year,  the 
$400  increase  will  be  doubled.  The 
challengers  are  not  just  matching  cash 
gifts  either. 

There  are  many  ways  to  give  to  the 
Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund.  You  can : 

□  Give  cash  (Deductible  on  your 
income  tax). 

□  Donate  stock,  bonds,  or  other 
appreciated  securities 
(Non-taxable  as  capital  gains  and 
deductible  on  your  income  tax.) 

□  Give  property  (Deductible  at  a 
fair  market  value). 

□  Donate  a  royalty  income 
(Deductible  with  the  carry-over 
provisions). 


□  Give  the  cash  value  of  an  insurance 
policy.  (Also  deductible). 

All  of  those  gifts  will  help  Centenary 
College  meet  the  $100,000  challenge 
and  continue  the  fine  programs  it  offers 
its  students  and  the  Shreveport-Bossier 
community. 

Dr.  Darrell  Loyless,  Vice-President  of 
the  College,  was  pleased  to  announce 
that  William  G.  Anderson,  a  Centenary 
alumnus,  will  serve  a  second  consecutive 
term  as  chairman  of  the  Great -Teachers- 
Scholars  Fund. 

"Centenary  is  one  of  the  oldest  and 
greatest  assets  this  community  enjoys," 
Bill  said.  "There  is  a  feeling  on  campus 
and  throughout  the  community  that  all 
areas  of  Centenary  are  demonstrating 
tremendous  talent  and  beauty.  I  count 
it  an  honor  and  privilege  to  play  a  part  in 
the  support  and  perpetuation  of  an 
enterprise  that  has  so  richly  benefited 
our  community." 

Co-chairmen  —  also  serving  a  second 
term  —  are  W.  Kirby  Rowe,  Jr.,  Banking 
&  Investments  Division;  Tom  Osten- 
dorff III,  Retail,  Sales  &  Services  Division; 


Herman  Williamson,  General  Division, 
and  John  David  Crow,  Oil,  Gas  &  Energy 
Division,  and  James  R.  Mitchell  '64,  a 
former  president  of  the  Alumni  Associ- 
ation, who  will  head  the  Professional 
Division. 

The  public  portion  of  the  Fund  will 
kick  off  Monday,  Feb.  27,  and  will  con- 
tinue for  five  days  concluding  Friday, 
March  2.  The  goal  for  the  1984  Fund  is 
$700,000. 

This  non-restricted  fund  is  used  for 
new  academic  programs  such  as  the 
communications  and  petroleum  land 
management  programs;  acquisition  of 
student  computers  and  word  processors; 
faculty  salaries  and  research  grants, 
and  maintenance  and  improvements  to 
the  physical  plant. 

For  more  information  or  to  make  your 
tax-deductible  donation,  contact 
Chris  Webb,  Director  of  the  Annual 
Fund,  869-5112. 


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PERSPECTIVES 


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Ward  Peters 


When  12-year-old  Ward  Peters  X26  moved  to  Shreveport 
in  1918,  he  enrolled  in  Centenary  Academy,  the  preparatory 
school  for  Centenary  College.  "Both  institutions  were  way  out 
in  the  woods,  far  from  civilization,"  Mr.  Peters  remembered 
with  a  twinkle  in  his  eye,  "and  the  enrollment  was  less  than  1 00 
students." 

Although  Mr.  Peters  didn't  stay  at  Centenary  Academy,  he 
returned  in  1922  as  a  freshman  at  the  College,  the  year  of  the 
great  football  team.  He  would  attend  the  games  when  he  could, 
in  between  studies  and  parttime  jobs  with  Piggly  Wiggly  and 
The  Shreveport  Times.  Because  Centenary  did  not  have  a  busi- 
ness school,  Mr.  Peters  transferred  to  Northwestern  at  Evans- 
ton,  111.,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1928. 

After  the  Depression,  Mr.  Peters  worked  for  the  State  of 
Louisiana,  then  entered  the  construction  business  and  in  the 
late  '40s  moved  back  to  Shreveport  to  begin  a  successful  career 
in  the  gasoline  business. 

Today,  he  is  especially  pleased  to  see  Centenary's  School  of 
Business  under  the  able  leadership  of  Dr.  Barrie  Richardson. 
"The  evaluation  of  anything  is  geared  directly  to  the  people  — 
not  bricks,  mortar,  or  machinery,"  Mr.  Peters  said.  "And  the 
biggest  asset  at  Centenary  is  the  faculty.  Centenary  stands  as 
a  school  that  should  be  commended  and  appreciated  for  what 
they  do  and  what  they  are." 


Stanton  M.  Frazar 
Founders '  Day  Speaker 

"I  loved  graduating  —  finally!" 

Those  are  the  sentiments  of  Stanton  M.  Frazar,  who 
attended  Centenary  in  the  late  '40s  and  early  '50s  and  finally 
was  awarded  his  B.S.  degree  in  1982.  He  once  told  a  journalist 
in  his  hometown  of  New  Orleans  that  he  had  struck  on  the 
device  of  changing  majors  often  enough  to  extend  his  college 
years  as  long  as  possible. 

Today ,  the  fun-loving  Mr.  Frazar  puts  most  of  his  energy  into 
the  historic  New  Orleans  Collection,  a  private  museum  on 
Royal  Street  that  he  has  transformed  into  a  first-class  research 
center  for  New  Orleans  history. 

His  passion  for  historic  preservation  began  during  the  years 
he  served  as  vice  president  at  Hibernia  National  Bank.  And 
when  the  directorship  of  the  HNOC  came  available,  he  was 
asked  to  fill  the  spot.  "So,  at  43,  on  a  lark,  I  decided  to  venture 
into  a  whole  new  world,"  Mr.  Frazar  said.  "It's  been  said  that 
we're  the  country  club  of  research  centers,  but  I  rather  like 
that.  We  do  a  job  well  and  we  have  fun  doing  it." 

Mr.  Frazar  has  also  shared  his  time  and  expertise  with  the 
boards  of  the  St.  Charles  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  the 
Preservation  Resource  Center,  Save  Our  Cemeteries,  Friends 
of  the  Cabildo,  Council  for  a  Better  Louisiana,  the  Junior 
League  of  New  Orleans,  and  the  Gallier  House. 

Don't  miss  Mr.  Frazar  when  he  speaks  at  Centenary  on 
Founders'  Day,  Thursday,  April  12,  at  11:10  a.m.  in  Brown 
Memorial  Chapel. 


PHYSICAL  EDUCATION  DEPAi 


They  re  building  a  program  based  on  academics, 


They  call  themselves  quick-change 
artists,  and  they  talk  in  terms  of  "ball 
park  figures,"  human  performance, 
academics,  and  pride. 

They  are  members  of  the  Department 
of  Health  and  Physical  Education : 
Dr.  James  Farrar,  associate  professor, 
chairman  of  the  Department,  and  varsity 
baseball  coach;  Dr.  David  Bedard,  as- 
sistant professor  and  coordinator  of  the 
Human  Performance  Laboratory;  and 
Dr.  Victoria  LeFevers,  assistant  profes- 
sor and  the  gal  in  charge  of  college - 
wide  intramurals. 

They  stay  busy  teaching,  coaching, 
and  volunteering  —  both  on  and  off 
campus.  They're  shaping  their  own 
identity  to  dispel  the  confusion  that  the 
Physical  Education  Department  is  a 
part  of  athletics. 

Although  housed  in  the  Gold  Dome 
with  varsity  athletics  (with  whom  they 
even  share  a  telephone  number),  the 
Department  of  Health  and  Physical 
Education  and  the  Varsity  Athletic  pro- 
gram are  two  separate  entities. 

Many  of  their  students  are  not  even 
the  same  folks.  "Ninety  percent  of  our 
students  are  studying  to  be  physical 
education  teachers,"  explained  Dr. 
LeFevers.  "They  meet  stringent  degree 
requirements  and  are  certified  by  the 
State  of  Louisiana  to  teach  grades  K-12. 
Only  ten  percent  are  students,  who  will 
earn  non-certification  degrees,  but  who 
will  serve  as  recreation  directors  in 
churches,  private  clubs,  or  health  spas." 

Under  Dr.  Farrar's  leadership,  the 
department  has  made  significant  aca- 
demic strides.  "We're  proud  of  our 
department,"  beamed  Coach  Farrar. 
"In  the  last  two  years,  it  has  really  im- 
proved. With  Dr.  Bedard  and  Dr. 
LeFevers,  the  calibre  of  instruction  is 
excellent,  and  we  are  expanding  our 
offerings  each  semester.  Last  summer, 
for  the  first  time ,  we  offered  seven 
graduate  courses,  and  they  were  really 
well  received." 

The  Department  works  closely  with 
Centenary's  Department  of  Education, 
where  the  physical  education  majors' 
degree  plans  are  co-signed,  where 
graduate  courses  are  developed,  and 
where  student  physical  education 
teachers  are  supervised. 

Students  who  earn  their  certification 
in  physical  education  are  also  certified 

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to  teach  health.  For  this,  they  are  re- 
quired to  take  an  additional  15  hours  in 
that  subject  area,  including  courses  in 
first  aid,  drug  education,  personal  and 
community  health,  nutrition,  and  safety 
education,  which  oftentimes  includes 
the  non-traditional  student.  "We  have  a 
lot  of  safety  supervisors  from  industry  in 
Shreveport  such  as  Western  Electric  or 
Riley-Beaird,  who  come  and  take  this 
course  for  credit,"  said  Coach  Farrar. 
"It  helps  them  in  their  job." 

Some  34  courses  —  classroom  and 
activity  courses  —  are  listed  in  the 
current  catalogue.  "We're  really  quick 
change  artists ,"  smiled  Dr.  Bedard .  "We 
teach  tennis,  then  change  back  to  teach 
health,  then  teach  swimming  at  the 
YWCA  downtown.  Then  we  change 
again." 

In  addition  to  teaching,  each  of  the 
professors  has  taken  on  extra-curricular 
activities.  For  Coach  Farrar,  it's  the 
varsity  baseball  team .  "We  Ve  got  regular 
fall  and  spring  seasons  with  an  off- 


season  program  in  between,"  he  ex- 
plained. Recruiting  and  maintenance 
of  the  baseball  park  (for  which  he 
arranged  a  complete  refurbishing)  are 
also  in  his  bailiwick. 

"Coach  Farrar's  a  great  administrator 
praised  Dr.  Bedard.  "And  one  of  the 
busiest  people  I  know." 

Dr.  Bedard  gets  plenty  achieved  hin 
self.  His  pet  project  —  after  teaching  1 
is  the  development  of  a  Human  Per- 
formance Laboratory  with  work-out 
equipment  and  electronic  facilities  to   j 
test  performance.  Located  in  Haynes    I 
Gym,  it  is  partially  completed.  "We  us| 
it  as  a  lab  for  our  classes  now,"  said 
Dr.  Bedard.  "Eventually,  we  would  likj 
to  finish  equipping  the  room  and  add 
locker  rooms  with  showers,  so  that  we  I 
could  make  it  available  to  the  whole     ! 
Centenary  family." 

Dr.  Bedard  also  serves  as  sponsor  toij 
the  newly-formed  Physical  Education  J 
Majors  Club.  "We  want  to  promote 
professionalism  among  our  majors," 


For  the  Future 


Christmas  may  be  over,  but  the  Department  of  Health  and  Physical  Education, 
like  most  other  academic  departments  at  Centenary,  has  its  "wish  list." 

1.  An  additional  instructor  —  "That's  my  number  one  priority,  really,"  said  Dr. 
Farrar.  "My  people  here  are  overloaded ;  they  do  a  different  preparation  for  each 
class  they  teach.  We  need  someone  to  take  over  intramurals  and  teach  a  few 
activity  courses.  Next  year  the  State  will  be  requiring  us  to  teach  additional 
courses,  and  I  just  don't  know  how  we  can  do  it." 

2.  Swimming  pool  —  Centenary  magazine  staff  members  are  sure  this  is  on  the 
wish  list  of  many  students,  too.  "Right  now,  our  people  have  to  go  downtown  to 
the  Y  for  swimming  class,  and  this  is  a  real  hassle,"  said  Bedard.  "It  cuts  down  time 
on  class,  and  it  makes  it  hard  for  the  instructors.  If  we  had  our  own  pool,  it  could  be 
used  for  recreation,  too.  The  whole  Centenary  family  could  enjoy  it." 

3 .  Jogging  path  —  "Our  Department  would  eventually  like  to  have  a  nice  jog- 
ging path  for  the  conditioning  class ,  for  intramurals ,  and  for  other  members  of  the 
Centenary  community,"  said  Dr.  LeFevers.  "Right  now,  we  run  on  the  sidewalk, 
and  there  are  problems  like  broken  glass,  pedestrians,  and  people  at  the  bus  stop. 
Our  own  jogging  path  would  be  great." 

Yes  Coach  Farrar,  there  is  a  Santa  Claus  .  .  . 


HENT 


he  explained.  "We  also  have  service 
projects.  Our  students  helped  run  the 
Special  Olympics,  and  we  sponsored 
the  Great  American  Smokeout  on 
campus  last  fall." 

To  improve  his  teaching  in  the  Cente- 
nary classroom,  Dr.  Bedard  teaches 
physical  education  on  a  voluntary  basis 
at  the  Caddo  Youth  Detention  Center. 
"This  way ,  when  my  Centenary  students 
ask  me  about  teaching  youth,  I  can 
answer  them  from  firsthand  experience." 

Hundreds  of  Centenary  students, 
faculty,  and  staff  are  involved  in  Intra- 
mural Sports,  efficiently  co-ordinated  by 
Dr.  LeFevers.  "We've  got  16  different 
sports  and  we  feel  like  it  contributes  a 
lot  to  the  quality  of  life  on  campus," 
|  she  said.  Among  the  sports  are  racquet- 
ball,  riflery,  basketball,  table  tennis, 
I. pool,  flag  football,  and  volleyball,  the 
most  popular  intramural  sport.  "We  had 
,  900  participants  per  week  in  volleyball ," 
!  she  said .  "Some  groups  had  two  teams !  - 

There  may  be  an  intramural  crisis 
this  spring,  she  warned.  "There's  a 
problem  of  space :  we  have  no  place  for 
intramural  Softball.  And  that  involves 
500  people.  I  hope  we  can  work  some- 
thing out." 

In  her  "spare"  time,  Dr.  LeFevers 
volunteers  her  time  as  a  teacher  in 
Centenary's  senior  adult  education 
program.  She  works  with  the  "seniors" 
on  nutrition  and  will  add  a  class  next 
semester  on  conditioning  exercises.  Her 
lectures  on  the  same  topics  for  other 
community  groups  are  always  well 
received . 

The  physical  education  faculty  serve 
on  important  Centenary  committees. 
Dr.  Farrar  was  recently  elected  by  his 
colleagues  to  serve  as  chairman  of  the 
Social  Science  Division.  In  addition,  he 
serves  as  chairman  of  the  Discipline 
Committee.  Dr.  Bedard  is  a  member  of 
the  Student  Life  Committee. 

"But  our  priorities  are  our  students," 
Dr.  LeFevers  added  quickly.  "We  have 
43  majors  now  (a  "ball  park  figure")  and 
about  10  of  them  changed  to  Physical 
Education  this  year.  That  means  the 
program  is  better  and  the  kids  are 
talking  about  it.  We're  doing  a  better 
job  of  selling  the  profession. 

"Our  students  get  more  attention; 
it  really  is  like  a  big  family." 


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Two  posts  filled 

Dr.  Darrell  Loyless,  Vice  President  of 
Centenary  College,  has  announced  two 
appointments  for  the  College's  Develop- 
ment Staff. 

Mrs.  Nancy  Porter  Gerding,  a  1982 
graduate  of  Centenary,  began  Oct.  31 
as  Director  of  Alumni  Relations.  "Nancy 
has  worked  in  the  area  of  volunteer 
recruitment  and  being  a  graduate  of 
Centenary  knows  the  College  well. 
Both  these  factors  will  play  a  big  role  in 
her  being  an  effective  alumni  director. 
I  look  forward  to  working  with  her  on 
behalf  of  the  College,"  said  Dr.  Loyless. 

While  at  Centenary,  Nancy  was 
named  to  "Who's  Who  Among  American 
Colleges  and  Universities,"  and  held 
offices  in  the  Centenary  College  Choir, 
Panhellenic,  and  Chi  Omega.  She  was 
also  a  member  of  Centenary  Opera 
Workshop,  Centenary  Chamber  Singers, 
and  the  American  Guild  of  Organists. 
She  was  the  first-place  winner  of  the 
National  Association  of  Teachers  of  Sing- 
ing for  two  consecutive  years,  and  was 
the  first  person  to  receive  the  Christelle 
Ferguson  Award  for  service  to  the  com- 
munity and  to  Chi  Omega. 

Chris  Webb,  former  Director  of 
Alumni  Relations,  assumed  the  responsi- 
bilities of  Director  of  the  Annual  Fund. 
"Chris  is  familiar  with  the  Great  Teach- 
ers-Scholars Fund,  having  been  on  the 
institutional  staff  for  two  years,  and  I 
am  sure  that  he  is  ready  to  step  into  this 
new  task,"  Dr.  Loyless  said.  "I  look  for- 
ward to  working  with  him  in  college 
fund-raising." 

A  graduate  of  Ohio  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, Chris  also  attended  summer 
school  at  the  Sorbonne.  Before  coming  to 
Centenary  in  1 98 1 ,  he  also  taught  in  the 
English  Language  Program  for  Foreign 
Students  at  Ohio  Wesleyan. 

Choir  alumni  trip 

Many  of  the  Centenary  College  Choir 
Alumni  will  have  an  exciting  reunion 
this  summer  as  approximately  1 00  choir 
alums  make  a  concert  tour  of  Europe. 
The  trip,  which  is  also  open  to  non- 
singing  spouses,  is  set  for  June  12-July  1 . 

The  itinerary  includes  visits  to  Fried- 
richsdorf ,  Germany  (Frankfurt ) ;  Aeschi , 
Switzerland  (Interlaken);  Lugano, 
Switzerland ;  Viareggio ,  Italy  (Florence ) ; 
Rome,  Italy;  Padova,  Italy  (Venice); 
Innsbruck,  Austria;  Niirnberg,  Germany; 
Goppingen,  Germany  (Stuttgart);  and 
Heidelberg,  Germany. 

The  group  will  give  seven  or  eight 
concerts  during  the  trip  and  will  have 

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POTPOURRI 


New  members  of  the  Alumni  Association  Board  of  Directors  include  (standing,  left  to  right} 
Wayne  Curtis  '69,  past  president;  Jack  Elgin  '43,  chairman  of  special  projects;  and  Ton] 
Burton  7 L  president;  and  (seated,  left  to  right)  J.  David  Dent  70,  vice  president,  and  Eneilei 
Cook  Mears  '66,  president-elect.  They  are  already  hard  at  work  on  Alumni  Weekend,  whicM 
will  be  held  this  year  June  23-25  and  will  include  class  reunions,  an  alumni  college,  andothei* 
events  for  the  whole  family. 


ample  time  to  see  the  sights  and  enjoy 
such  activities  as  a  cruise  on  the  Rhine; 
a  climb  in  the  Alps ;  a  ride  in  a  Venetian 
gondola ;  a  tour  of  the  Vatican ;  a  swim  in 
the  Mediterranean ;  and  visits  to  many  of 
the  great  cathedrals,  museums,  and 
castles  of  Europe. 

The  choir  will  be  directed  by  Dr.  A.C. 
Voran  and  Dr.  Will  Andress  in  a  program 
of  the  familiar,  great  religious  pieces  of 
the  choir  such  as  "I  Was  Glad,"  by  Parry ; 
"How  Lovely  Is  Thy  Dwelling  Place," 
by  Brahms ;  and  "All  Breathing  Life ,"  by 
Bach,  plus  a  dozen  more. 

The  trip  will  cost  only  $1,490  for  all 
transportation,  lodging,  and  many  meals. 
If  you  would  like  to  go,  contact  Dr. 
Andress  at  (318)  424-4373  or  write  to 
him  at  the  College. 


Pegasus 


Centenary's  student  literary  magazine, 
Pegasus,  will  be  made  available  to 
alumni  for  the  first  time  this  year.  To 
cover  printing,  handling,  and  mailing 
expenses,  a  $3  fee  will  be  charged.  If  you 
would  like  a  copy,  please  write  to 
Pegasus,  1001-D  Quail  Creek  Apart- 
ments, Shreveport,  La.  71105. 


Museum  exhibit 

The  Meadows  Museum  will  host 
LOUISIANA  WOMEN  IN  CONTEMPO- 
RARY ART  January  26-February  19, 
1984.  The  exhibit  was  organized  by 
Myra  Walker  of  the  University  Museum 
at  Southern  Illinois  University  and  in- 
cludes work  by  21  Louisiana  women 
artists  in  a  diverse  range  of  media  and 
types  of  expression.  William  Fagaly, 
Assistant  Director  for  Art  at  the  New 
Orleans  Museum  of  Art,  wrote  the  essay 
for  the  catalogue  which  was  funded  in 
part  by  the  Shreveport  Art  Guild  and  the 
Alexandria  Museum. 

This  exhibit  makes  an  undeniable 
statement  about  the  strength  of  regional 
art  and  depicts  the  energy  of  contempo- 
rary art  being  created  in  the  South. 
There  are  42  works  in  the  exhibit  by 
such  artists  as  Ida  Kohlmeyer,  Leslie 
Elliot,  and  Ann  Harding.  Three  Shreve- 
port artists,  Clyde  Connell,  Lynn  Gautier, 
and  Lucille  Reed,  are  also  included  in 
the  show.         No  Charge 

Hours:  Tuesday-Friday  1-5  p.m. 
Saturday-Sunday  2-5  p.m. 
Closed  Monday 


Vocations  workshops 

Are  you  a  high  school  sophomore,  junior,  or 
senior  struggling  with  a  career  decision?  Have 
>rou  thought  about  how  your  talents  can  affect 
/our  decision  in  relationship  to  a  college 
najor  or  a  career? 

The  Church  Vocations  Retreats  —  Cross 
toads  '84  —  sponsored  by  Centenary  College 
md  Dillard  University,  will  offer  students  an 
)pportunity  to  discover  their  gifts  and  abilities 
n  relation  to  a  life  vocation  in  ministry. 
Feb.  3-4:  Alexandria/Lake  Charles 
March  16-17:  New  Orleans/Slidell- 
New  Orleans/Houma 
March  23-24:  Shreveport/Monroe/Ruston 
April  6-7:  Baton  Rouge/Lafayette  - 
Baton  Rouge/Hammond 

The  Church  Vocations  Workshops  will  be 
unded  in  part  by  the  Board  of  Higher  Education 
n  Nashville.  A  team  of  Louisiana  Methodist 
Conference  representatives  and  College  staff 
/vill  plan  and  execute  the  workshops. 

The  basic  purpose  of  these  events  will  be 
o  enable  and  encourage  youth  to  begin  fo- 
cusing on  their  vocational  concerns.  Recog- 
rition  of  a  person's  leadership  qualities  will 
lelp  that  student  begin  looking  at  his  or  her 
>wn  capabilities  to  make  a  career  decision. 

Emphasis  will  be  placed  on  the  enlistment 
)f  youth  for  church-related  vocations.  By 
identifying  their  leadership  qualities,  students 
(nay  begin  applying  them  to  the  alternatives 
hat  are  available  in  a  church-related  vocation. 

Cost  of  the  Retreat  is  $15  per  person.  Regis- 
ration  will  be  held  from  5-5 :45  p.m.  on  Friday 
ifternoon,  and  departure  will  be  at  5  p.m.  on 
Saturday  afternoon.  Attendants  are  to  bring 
ji  Bible,  warm  casual  clothes,  sleeping  bag  and 
linens,  and  toiletries. 

There  is  a  growing  need  for  more  Church 
brofessionals.  Helping  our  youth  to  begin  look- 
ing at  the  future  is  one  area  in  which  Centenary 
College  and  Dillard  University  can  be  of  service 
o  the  Church. 

To  register  for  a  Retreat  or  to  obtain  more 
information,  contact  Kay  Madden,  Director 
!»f  Church  Relations,  Centenary  College, 
\0.  Box  4188,  Shreveport,  La.  71104, 
318)  869-5108  or  your  local  Methodist  pastor. 

All-American  luncheon 

Centenary  President  Donald  Webb  honored 
he  College's  six  All-American  athletes  Wednes- 
day, Nov.  23,  with  a  luncheon  in  the  Audubon 
Room. 

The  outstanding  athletes  included  Jill  Brown 
md  Jennifer  Forshee ,  four-time  All-Americans 
h  gymnastics  (a  first  for  the  College);  Lauren 
Cotter-Ingram,  national  NAIA  singles  tennis 
rhampion  and  All-American;  Sandy  MacMillan 
jmd  Patty  Hamilton,  All-Americans  in  tennis; 
md  Willie  Jackson,  Sporting  News  All-Ameri- 
an  in  basketball.  Their  coaches  were  also 
iionored  at  the  luncheon  —  Vannie  Edwards, 
ymnastics;  Jimmy  Harrison,  tennis;  and  Tommy 
Canterbury  and  Tommy  Vardeman,  basketball. 


Film  Society 


Starting  this  spring  semester,  the 
Centenary  Film  Society  will  begin 
sponsoring  two  films  weekly  on  the 
Centenary  campus.  This  spring's  series, 
in  conjunction  with  the  course  English 
286,  will  focus  on  "Masterpieces  of 
French  and  German  Cinema." 

The  series  will  be  shown  on  Tuesday 
and  Thursday  nights  at  7:30  p.m.  in 
Mickle  Hall.  For  a  complete  listing  of 
the  films  to  be  shown  and  further  infor- 
mation about  the  Film  Society,  contact 
Dr.  Jeff  Hendricks  in  the  English  De- 
partment. 


"Godspell" 


The  Centenary  College  Choir  pre- 
sented the  Broadway  musical  "Godspell'' 
as  a  part  of  the  College  Interim  program 
on  January  20,  21,  and  22,  1984  in 
Shreveport  s  Performing  Arts  Center. 

Over  35  college  students  took  part 
in  this  exciting  musical  taken  from  the 
Gospel  of  St.  Matthew  and  performed 
under  the  musical  direction  of  Dr.  Will 
Andress,  stage  director  Richard  Schmidt, 
and  choreographer  Carol  Anglin. 

The  show  was  presented  in  the  new 
Performing  Arts  Center  theatre  located 
at  the  Head  oi  Texas  Street,  near  First 
Methodist  Church. 


Lois  Wray  Rowe  '64  and  Ann  McLaurin 
Morris  '61  research  "lost"  alumni  from 
their  classes.  These  gals  are  two  of  over 
50  former  students  who  serve  as  Class 
Agents;  it's  their  job  to  keep  the  lines  of 
communications  open  between  alumni 
and  alma  mater.  If  you  are  interested  in 
serving  as  a  Class  Agent  for  your  class, 
contact  Nancy  Porter  Gerding  '82,  Direc- 
tor of  Alumni  Relations. 


Free  Enterprise 

Dr.  Barrie  Richardson,  Dean  of  the 
School  of  Business,  will  take  a  new 
approach  to  the  1984  Free  Enterprise 
Conference. 

"It  will  be  primarily  for  high  school 
students  and  our  students,"  said  Dr. 
Richardson.  "We  will  invite  about  30  to 
40  business  people,  and  we  will  divide 
up  into  teams  -  "businesses"  —  and  will 
compete  in  a  market  using  computer 
simulation." 

The  day-long  event  will  be  held 
Thursday,  March  1,  on  campus.  For 
more  information,  contact  Dr.  Richard- 
son, 869-5141. 


Magers  Scholarship 

When  Robert  Magers  X43  established 
an  endowed  scholarship  in  1968  with  a 
gift  of  $500,  little  did  he  or  the  College 
dream  that  15  years  later  that  scholar- 
ship would  be  worth  well  over  $30,000. 

Consistent  giving  plus  contributions 
from  a  matching  gift  company  have 
brought  the  scholarship  to  this  total. 

Over  the  years,  Mr.  Magers  s  annual 
gifts  of  $500  were  matched  one  for  one, 
then  two-for-one  by  Cities  Service, 
where  Mr.  Magers  worked  in  the  finance 
administration.  And  when  he  retired 
from  Cities  Service  recently,  Mr.  Magers 
celebrated  with  the  College  —  by 
giving  us  a  $5,000  gift  for  the  scholar- 
ship, which  was  matched  with  a  $  10,000 
contribution  by  his  company. 

Last  fall,  $2,300  was  awarded  from 
the  Helen  and  Mark  C.  Magers  Endowed 
Scholarship  to  three  recipients:  Keith 
Bordelon  of  Lake  Charles,  Bryan  Dau- 
phin of  Slidell,  and  Mary  Hall  of  Shreve- 
port. Because  Mr.  Magers  s  father  was 
a  Methodist  minister,  first  award  pref- 
erence goes  to  ministerial  students. 

Robert  Magers  attended  Centenary 
from  1 939-4 1 ,  left  for  World  War  II , 
then  came  back  to  Centenary  for  one 
semester.  A  member  of  Kappa  Sigma 
fraternity,  he  also  played  in  the  band. 
Today ,  Mr.  Magers  lives  at  5737  S.  Gary 
Place  in  Tulsa,  Okla.,  74105. 

Peterson's  Guide 

Centenary  College  has  been  selected 
for  inclusion  in  Peterson's  Guide  to 
Competitive  Colleges,  a  listing  of  the 
most  competitive  colleges  in  the  United 
States.  Centenary  joins  136  other  insti- 
tutions including  Amherst,  Rice,  Vander- 
bilt,  Tulane,  and  Southwestern  at 
Memphis,  to  name  a  few.  The  selection 
is  based  on  criteria  such  as  grade  averages 
and  national  test  scores  of  entering 
students  and  the  number  of  students 
who  go  on  to  graduate  schools. 


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as  '83 


Alumni  and  friends  used  The  Dallas  Morning  News 
Basketball  Tournament  as  a  great  excuse  to  get 
together  for  lunch  and  laughs  and  then  to  see  the 
Gents  compete.  Enjoying  the  gathering  are  (left  to 
right)  Julie  Clegg  '82,  Laura  Clegg  '86,  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Leonard  Clegg,  past  presidents  of  Centenary's 
parents'  p  rogra  m . 


Shayne  Ladner  '80  (center) gets  a  visit  with  Carlo  and 
Debbie  Carter  Mulvenna  '81. 


CENTEMENTS 


Let  me  take  this  opportunity  to  in- 
troduce myself  to  you.  I  am  your  new 
Director  of  Alumni  Relations  here  at 
Centenary.  My  predecessor,  Chris  Webb, 
has  moved  across  the  hall  to  serve  as 
Director  of  the  Great  Teachers-Scholars 
Fund.  Chris  has  done  a  marvelous  job 
in  the  Alumni  Office  and  luckily  is  close 
by  to  help  answer  all  my  questions. 

A  few  facts  about  me.  I  am  a  1982 
graduate  of  Centenary,  and  during  my 
time  here,  I  was  involved  in  many  activ- 
ities, such  as  the  Centenary  College 
Choir,  Opera  Workshop,  and  Hurley 
Chamber  Singers.  I  served  as  personnel 
chairman  and  pledge  trainer  for  Chi 
Omega  and  president  for  Panhellenic, 
and  was  named  to  "Who's  Who  Among 
American  Colleges  and  Universities." 
As  you  can  see,  Centenary  was  and  is 
now  more  than  ever  a  major  part  of  my 
life. 

I  recently  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting 
some  of  you  at  the  Homecoming  pre- 
game  party  on  December  3  and  at  the 
Dallas  Alumni  Luncheon  on  December 
17.  Otheralumnil  have  met  through  the 
Class  Agent  System  and  the  Alumni 
Board.  There  are  many  of  you  that  1  have 
not  yet  been  privileged  to  meet  so  I  very 
much  look  forward  to  Alumni  Weekend, 
June  22-24,  to  remedy  that! 

Speaking  of  Alumni  Weekend,  there 
are  lots  of  activities  being  planned: 
a  golf  tournament,  mini-workshops, 
reunion  parties,  and  an  awards  dinner 
party,  just  to  name  a  few.  So  start  making 
plans  now  to  attend.  You  will  be  receiving 


more  information  through  the  Alumni 
Office  and  your  Class  Agent. 

If  you  have  any  suggestions  or  ideas 
concerning  Alumni  Weekend  or  some 
suggestions  for  me  on  what  you  would 
like  to  see  the  Alumni  Office  do  in  the 
future,  I  would  love  to  hear  from  you! 

Nancy  Porter  Gerding  '82 

P.S.  If  you  are  interested  in  having 
Centenary  come  to  your  area,  please 
contact  me. 


This  Centenary  group  includes  (left  to  right)  Patricia  Jack  Morgan  '72,  Betty  Hall  '8 
Virginia  Hall  and  her  sister,  Betty  McKnight  Speairs  H78,  and  Kathy  Heard,  direct^ 
of  student  activities. 


Chester  Darphin    '29  (left)  talks  with  Dr.  Bichard 
Speairs  before  lunch  at  Union  Station. 


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Crissy  Clarke  '84  (left),  who  completed  her  degree  requirements  in  December,  cha 
with  Chris  Hyde  '80,  and  Kelly  Allison  '83. 


STRICTLY  PERSONAL 


1920s 

The  years  of  1921,  '22,  and  '23 
have  a  new  Class  Agent,  REV.  BENTLEY 
SLOANE,  who  is  the  coordinator  for 
pastoral  relations  and  church 
placement  at  Centenary  as  well  as  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

C.  R.  GUTTERIDGE  '24,  living  in 
Auburndale,  Fla.,  celebrated  his  83rd 
birthday  on  the  same  year  of  the  1983 
class  reunion.   He  and  his  wife, 
MARY,  celebrated  their  59th 
anniversary  on  June  4. 

N.E.  ALFORD  '24  arrived  home  from 
Bergen,  Norway,  on  Friday  before  the 
Reunion,  but  still  came  on  to  the 
party. 

Class  Agent  for  the  Twenties 
FRANK  BOYDSTON  '27  and  his  wife, 
BESS,  had  a  short  chat  in  their 
Stockholm  hotel  with  DR.  WALTER 
COLQUITT  '27  and  his  wife,  ELEANOR 
'30,  who  had  driven  a  rented  car  and 
had  spent  the  night  in  a  near-by 
hotel.   Frank  gathered  news  about... 
CLEO  CHADWICK  '27,  who  lives  in 
Carthage,  Texas,  with  his  wife, 
JWILLIE  MAY;  she  wrote  that  Cleo's 
(health  is  not  good  and  he  is  under 
her  constant  care. 

REV.  DAVID  TARVER  '27,  who 
resides  in  San  Diego,  reminisced 
about  his  campus  life  at  Centenary  in 
a  letter  to  Frank.   David  worked  in 
the  dining  room  as  a  waiter  assigned 
to  the  football  training  table  and 
commented  on  the  size  of  the  players 
and  the  tremendous  amount  of  food 
they  ate.   He  participated  in 
intramural  sports  under  the 
supervision  of  Swede  Anderson  and 
served  as  a  part-time  minister  in 
nearby  small  churches.   During  the 
late  1940s,  when  he  and  his  wife, 
VELVA,  were  associated  with  the 
downtown  Methodist  Church,  they 
continued  to  be  a  part  of  Centenary's 
campus  working  with  the  students. 

MARY  ETTA  ROWAN  '27  wrote  to 
Frank  telling  of  her  full  activities 
including  a  Caribbean  cruise  in 
February  on  the  sistership  of  Love 
Boat,  the  Book  Club,  the  Symphony, 
her  sorority;  and  her  husband's 
military  organization.   "BROWNIE" 
attended  her  60th  high  school  class 
reunion. 

MARY  DEY  SCHAAL  '28  was  unable  to 
attend  the  1983  reunion  as  she  was  in 
the  mountains  of  North  Carolina.  She 
will  have  plenty  of  time  to  brag 
about  her  seven  grandchildren  and 
three  great  grandchildren  at  the  1984 
reunion. 

BILL  BOZEMAN  '28  recalled  the 
hidden  ball  trick  play  that  defeated 
La.  Tech  in  1925.   He  lives  in  Oil 
City  with  his  wife,  LILLIE  MAE;  he 
retired  from  teaching  about  15  years 
ago.   He  is  proud  of  his  grand- 
children, who  attend  magnet  schools 
in  Shreveport. 

TED  JEFFERIES  '29  attended  the 
Homecoming  and  25th  Reunion  of  the 
Wichita,  Texas,  High  School.   He 
coached  football  there  for  many  years 


and  he  was  usually  in  contention  for 
the  state  championship.   Ted  retired 
from  similar  work  at  Orange,  Texas, 
and  lives  now  in  Nacogdoches. 

AMANDA  McDONALD  REYNOLDS  '29 
enclosed  in  a  letter  some  interesting 
information  about  her  husband,  DR. 
GEORGE  M.  REYNOLDS,  who  was  for  10 
years  on  the  Centenary  faculty  and 
served  as  assistant  to  the  President. 
He  received  a  Distinguished  Alumni 
Award  from  Hendrix  College  at  an 
Alumni  luncheon  this  past  June. 
George  served  for  17  years  as  a 
trustee  of  Colonial  Williamsburg  in 
Virgina.   Arkansas  has  greatly 
benefited  from  his  interest  in  parks 
and  historic  preservation  through  his 
philosophy  of  preservation.   He  and 
Amanda  live  on  Petit  Jean  Mountain 
near  Morrilton,  Ark. 


1930s 

In  December,  retired  surgeon  DR. 
JOHN  A.  HENRICK  '32,  received  the 
Shreveport  Medical  Society's 
Distinguished  Service  Award  in 
recognition  of  his  contribution  to 
medicine  in  the  area. 

New  Class  Agent  for  the  Class  of 
1934  is  ALGIE  BROWN,  who  is  waiting 
to  hear  about  what's  happening  with 
his  classmates. 

Class  Agent  for  1936,  REV. 
LEONARD  COOKE,  a  retired  minister, 
has  been  spending  much  of  his  time 
attending  wife  VEVA,  who  is 
recuperating  from  brain  surgery. 
With  the  help  of  MILDRED  GATTI  SCOTT, 
who  is  acting  as  class  secretary,  he 
is  making  great  plans  for  their 
reunion.   Mildred,  chairman  of  the 
preparations  committee  for  the  1932 
graduation  class  of  Fair  Park  High 
School,  wrote  that  her  husband  LARRY 
'37  is  the  First  Vice  Commander  of 
Lowe  McFarland  Post  14  of  the 
American  Legion  in  Shreveport. 

ANNE  CARGILL  SEE  '36  and  husband 
BOB  SEE,  formerly  a  professor  of 
business  administration  at  Centenary, 
have  been  busy  administering  the 
business  of  ranch  life  in  Coleman, 
Texas. 

MARGARET  JANE  TAYLOR  HOOVER  '36 
and  spouse  J.W.  survived  the  ravages 
of  hurricane  Alicia  in  Houston 
without  damage  to  their  home,  but 


In  Memoriam 

MARY  STRINGFELLOW  '33 

Nov.  28,  1983 

DR.  RUSSELL  OWEN  RIGBY  '47 

July  20,  1983 
ELOISE  NICHOLS  PADGETT  '40 
October  14,  1983 
STEPHEN  SCOTT  ROPER  '72 
April  24,  1983 
DR.  EMMA  LOU  STRINGFELLOW 
Dec.  10,  1983 
Professor  of  Education, 
Centenary  College 


they  lost  the  contents  of  their 
freezer  and  refrigerator  because  of  a 
five-day  power  failure. 

GARDIS  WARE  WIDEMAN  '36  received 
her  masters  degree  from  Trinity 
University,  and  later  was  elected  one 
of  the  "Ten  Most  Outstanding  Women  in 
San  Antonio"  representing  the  field 
of  education.   She  and  her  family 
spend  their  summer  months  in  their 
Colorado  home. 

LAURA  BELLE  PARKER  MORRIS  '36  and 
husband  HUGH  spent  three  weeks  sight- 
seeing in  England  with  friends. 

THESTA  WALKER  HOGAN  '36,  retired 
librarian  of  Louisiana  Tech,  attended 
a  sorority  reunion  in  Shreveport. 

Since  his  retirement  from  the 
U.S.  Postal  Service,  SAM  BURLESON  '36 
has  developed  his  hobby  of  photo- 
graphy into  a  business. 
HARVEY  BROYLES  '36  and  his  wife, 
ALBERTA,  keep  busy  with  his  law 
practice,  oil  and  gas  interests, 
cattle  ranching,  and  grandchildren. 

After  almost  42  years  of  service 
a  a  minister  in  the  Louisiana  Confer- 
ence of  the  United  Methodist  Church, 
W.D.  BODDIE  '37  retired  in  June, 
1983.   He  is  serving  part-time  as  an 
associate  minister  at  First  Methodist 
Church  in  Shreveport. 

New  Class  Agent  for  the  Class  of 
1938  BEVERLY  COOPER  SHAFFER  joins 
ENDA  EARLE  STINSON,  '39  Class  Agent, 
and  GRACE  NORTON,  '40  Class  Agent,  in 
making  plans  for  their  45th  Cluster 
Reunion  to  be  held  on  June  23. 
Beverly  and  husband  CLARENCE  H. 
SHAFFER,  JR.  X38  have  two  children, 
two  grandchildren,  and  four 
granddogs.   She  volunteers  her  time 
at  the  Meadows  Museum  and  the 
Shreveport  Art  Guild,  and  still 
pursues  her  painting  when  time 
permits. 

EDNA  EARLE  STINSON,  Class  Agent 
for  1939,  compiled  the  following 
news. 

ALOYESE  MENASCO  SEYBURN  '39, 
owner/operator  of  Menasco  Studio, 
recently  completed  the  Photo- 
Journalism  Course  at  the  Professional 
Photographers  of  America's  School  at 
Winona  Lake,  Ind.   Aloyese  was  the 
first  recipient  of  the  John  E. 
Kuhlman  Scholarship  awarded  by  the 
Louisiana  Photographers'  Association. 
She  also  received  a  merit  award 
toward  a  Master  of  Photography  degree 
from  the  PPA.   The  photographer  is 
also  president  of  Delta  Pictures, 
Inc . 

Our  Class  Valedictorian,  DR. 
VIRGINIA  CARLTON  '39,  is  now 
Professor  Emerita  of  Centenary,  but 
she  has  not  really  retired.   She  is 
on  the  faculty  at  Cuttington  Univer- 
sity College  in  Liberia,  West  Africa 
teaching  mathematics  to  Africa's  best 
students.   Her  address  is  P.O.  Box 
277,  Monrovia,  Liberia,  West  Africa. 

FLOYD  NORTON  '39  was  drafted  into 
the  Army  in  July,  1942,  and  received 
his  commission  in  Feb.  '43.   He 
married  GRACE  JULIAN  (Class  of  '40) 
and  they  spent  about  a  year  together 


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In  Texas  and  California  before  he 
went  overseas  to  the  Pacific  Theater. 
After  service  in  Hawaii,  the  Philip- 
pines, and  Okinawa,  he  was  discharged 
in  March,  1946,  and  resumed  residence 
in  Shreveport.   His  working  career 
has  been  spent  in  the  Investment 
Securities  and  Mortgage  business  and 
more  recently  as  a  part  time  indepen- 
dent land  man  in  the  oil  and  gas 
business.   The  Nortons  have  two 
children:   Julie  was  recently  ordain- 
ed a  deacon  in  the  Episcopal  Church 
after  having  spent  some  years 
teaching  in  Virginia.   She  now  lives 
in  Wayland,  Mass.   Floyd  L.  Norton  IV 
received  his  law  degree  from  the 
University  of  Virginia  and  practices 
with  a  law  firm  in  Washington,  D.C., 
where  he  lives  with  his  wife, 
Kathleen,  and  16-month  old  daughter 
Caroline.   Kathleen  is  also  a  lawyer, 
but  with  a  different  firm. 

MARY  AGNES  RAILSBACK  '39  married 
JOSEPH  M.  TEMPLE  in  August,  1946, 
after  he  returned  from  overseas  duty 
in  WW  II.   They  have  two  sons,  one 
daughter,  and  a  grandchild.   She  has 
been  active  in  Pines  Presbyterian 
Church  in  women's  work  and  as  an 
elder.   Seventeen  years  ago  she 
helped  form  an  Investment  Club,  which 
has  been  fun,  educational,  and  even 
profitable. 

NELL  SCHERMERHORN  '39  married 
WILLIAM  L.  MURDOCK  in  August,  1941, 
shortly  before  he  went  into  service 
in  WW  II,  where  he  served  two  years 
in  India.   They  have  four  children, 
three  daughters  and  one  son.   The 
girls  live  in  Shreveport,  and  their 
son  is  an  engineer  with  General 
Electric  in  Atlanta.   They  have  five 
grandchildren:   three  boys  and  two 
girls.   Nell  has  served  on  Centen- 
ary's Alumni  Board  as  homecoming 
chairman  one  year,  and  she  worked  on 
the  Great  Teacher-Scholars  fund.   She 
was  Field  Director  of  the  Girl  Scouts 
from  1939-1946  and  has  worked  with 
youth  groups  at  the  First  Methodist 
Church  and  college  students  at 
Centenary.   She  assisted  in  taking 
these  groups  on  work  camps  to  Alaska, 
Mexico,  Honduras,  Utilia,  and  Rotan. 
Now  she  is  enjoying  her  grandchildren 
-  but  still  serves  the  community  on 
various  boards.   She  is  presently 
president  of  the  board  of  the  Glen 
Oaks  Home  for  the  Aged. 

MALCOM  "MACK"  KRENTEL  '39  was 
working  for  the  Post  Office  and  was 
drafted  in  the  summer  of  1941.   He 
spent  four  and  a  half  years  in 
service,  mostly  in  Europe.   He 
married  ELEANOR  DANIEL  from  Arcadia 
in  November,  1946.   They  have  one 
daughter  and  one  grandson.   He 
retired  from  the  Postal  Service  as  an 
investigator  on  the  last  day  of  1974, 
having  also  served  as  a  letter 
carrier  and  foreman. 


1940s 

1940  Class  Agent  Grace  Norton 
received  a  note  from  SULA  CRAWFORD 
WHITE  reporting  that  she  and  husband 
JOHN  live  in  a  190  year  old  farmhouse 
in  Plymouth,  Conn. ,  on  "thirty  rocky 
acres"  with  a  big  greenhouse  and  20 
show  rabbits.   Since  retiring  from 
teaching,  Sula  stays  busy  with  quilts 

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Alumni  Weekend 

June  22-24 

A  golf  tournament  will  kick  off  Cente- 
nary's third  annual  Alumni  Weekend. 
The  mixed  scrambles  will  be  held  Friday 
afternoon  from  1:00-4:30  p.m.,  giving 
players  plenty  of  time  to  join  other  alums 
at  the  6:30  p.m.  Social  Hour  and  Awards 
Banquet,  which  will  be  held  off  campus 
this  year. 

On  Saturday,  alumni  will  have  an 
opportunity  to  get  back  in  the  classroom 
for  our  popular  Alumni  College.  Faculty 
will  join  their  former  students  for  a  cook- 
out  luncheon,  and  the  afternoon  will  be 
free  for  shopping,  touring,  and/or  visiting. 
That  evening,  class  reunions  will  be  held 
for  the  classes  of  '34,  \38-'39-'40,  '43-'44- 
'45,  '59,  '63-'64-'65,  74,  and  '83. 

See  you  there! 


and  crafts.   Their  daughter,  Kathy, 
attended  Centenary  two  years  and 
lives  nearby.   Son  Bob  is  a  Centenary 
graduate  living  in  Oak  Ridge,  Tenn. 
Ray,  the  youngest,  restores  old 
classic  cars.   Sula  and  John  have  six 
granchildren,  two  dogs,  a  cat,  a 
parakeet  and  all  those  rabbits. 

D.  R.  BEVERLY  BLOOD  KING  '40 
writes  from  New  Orleans,  where  she 
practices  as  a  surgical  assistant, 
that  she  has  a  new  grandchild,  her 
sixth.   She  and  MARY  FRANCES  COLLINS 
ALSTON  are  talking  about  the  June 
reunion. 

PATTI  MAE  FULLER  HUDSON  '40  of 
Hosston  plans  to  be  here  in  June  and 
is  hoping  that  ex-roomate  ESTELLE 
STEELE  BARTLEY  can  make  it  from 
Colorado. 

The  Grindstone  Bluff  Museum  and 
Environmental  Education  Center  sit- 
uated off  Old  Mooringsport  Road  in 
Shreveport  opens  its  doors  to  young 
anthropology  buffs  from  the  surround- 
ing area.   It  is  the  brainchild  of 
one  of  this  area's  foremost  experts 
on  Caddo  Indian  folklore  -  J.  Ashley 
Sibley,  Jr.  '40,  educator,  author, 
anthropologist,  historian,  museum 
curator  and  director.   Sibley  was 
recently  the  subject  of  a  feature 
story  in  The  Times  magazine  section. 

Class  Agent  '43  EUGENE  HILLIARD, 
Class  Agent  '44  BILLYE  LOVELADDY 
HARRIS,  and  Class  Agent  '45  CAROLYN 
CLAY  FLOURNOY  will  soon  be  passing  on 
all  the  plans  for  the  30th  Cluster 
Reunion  for  all  three  classes.   Gene 
has  been  with  Lyons  Petroleum  for  32 
years  and  is  now  the  president  of  the 
company.   He  and  his  wife,  DOROTHY, 
live  in  a  townhouse  which  was  part  of 
the  old  Smitherman  home.   Dorothy  is 
president  and  co-owner  of  Hilliard 
and  Barlow  Designs,  Inc.,  an  interior 
design  studio. 

BILLYE  and  ERLE  HARRIS  '45  just 
celebrated  their  38th  wedding  anni- 
versary.  While  he  practices  psychia- 
try, she  works  in  their  home  , church, 
and  community.   They  have  three 
married  offspring  and  three  lovely 
grandchildren.    They  love  traveling, 
and  their  most  recent  excursion  was 
to  China. 


BETTY  GARRETT  VOGEL  X44  and 
trustee  PAUL  McDONALD  were  married  lr 
Honolulu  in  November. 

HOWARD  DINGMAN  '48  has  been 
elected  a  senior  vice  president  of 
Litton  Industries  in  Houston.   He  is 
president  of  Western  Geophysical,  a 
division  of  Litton,  and  was  a 
corporate  vice  president  before  his 
promotion. 


1950s 

DONALD  F.  LEARNER  '53  has  been 
installed  as  president  elect  of  the 
Texas  Association  of  Homes  for  the 
Aged.   His  wijje,  PEGGY,  is  a  lease 
title  analyst  with  ARCO  Exploration 
in  Dallas. 

WAYNE  HANSON,  a  chemist  at  Bayou 
State  Oil  Company  in  Hosston,  is  the 
new  Class  Agent  for  the  Class  of 
1958. 

The  25th  Reunion  for  the  Class  of 
1959  will  be  under  the  direction  of 
its  new  Class  Agent  LEON  BAIN,  who 
has  practiced  dentistry  in  Shreveport 
since  1965.   He  has  two  children,  a 
daughter   19,  and  a  son  11.   He  is 
active  in  Rotary  International,  is  oi 
the  Administrative  Board  at  First 
Methodist  Church  and  the  Central  YMCi 
board  of  directors,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Northwest  La.  Dental  Society. 


1960s 

JOY  LAMBERT  LOWE  '61  has  comple- 
ted her  dessertation  for  the  Ph.D.  ii 
library  and  information  sciences  at 
North  Texas  State  University.   She 
will  receive  her  diploma  in  1984. 

HOYT  D.  BAIN,  new  Class  Agent  foi 
1963,  has  been  in  commercial  real 
estate  development  for  the  past  12 
years  in  Shreveport.   He  and  his 
wife,  CHARLCIE,  have  a  freshman 
daughter  in  high  school,  and  twin 
boys  in  the  seventh  grade.   Hoyt  is 
issuing  a  challenge.  ."I  have  taken  u]j 
tennis;  and  if  you  think  you  are  gooij 
enough  to  beat  me,  bring  your  racket:! 
to  the  the  reunions."   That's  the 
20th  Cluster  Reunion  that  he  is 
serving  up  this  year  along  with  LOIS i 
WRAY  ROWE  '64  and  and  GAYLE  and 
REGINA  WREN,  Class  Agents  for  1965. 

LOIS  WRAY  ROWE  capsulized  her 
life  since  leaving  Centenary  saying 
that  she  taught  at  Byrd  High  School  ' 
for  two  years  and  then  embarked  on 
her  "real"  career  -  that  of  raising 
two  sons,  KIRBY  III,  17,  and  DAVID, 
12.   She  is  now  back  at  Centenary 
auditing  classes. 

DIANNE  AMMONS  REDBURN  '64  was 
selected  as  one  of  the  Outstanding 
Houston  Professional  Women  of  1983. 
Dianne  is  a  neurologist  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas  Medical  School  in 
Houston.   In  1978  she  received 
recognition  for  outstanding  research 
in  vision  malfunctions. 

CAROLE  COTTON-WINN  '65  is  servin 
along  with  her  husband,  JOHN,  as 
co-pastor  of  First  UMC  of  Houma,  La.i 
Their  daughter,  LANE  COTTON-WINN  is 
three  years  old.   In  January,  Carole 
will  preach  in  the  Chapel  of  Duke 
University. 

Centenary  soccer  coach  GLENN 
EVANS  '69  and  his  wife,  KAREN,  are 
the  proud  parents  of  a  son,  TREY 
MATTHEW  EVANS,  born  October  27. 


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1970s 

STEVE  B.  MAYER  '70  practices  law 
and  resides  in  Houma,  La. 

HERB  PEARCE  '71,  a  psycho- 
therapist in  private  practice  in 
Boston,  leads  workshops  on  personal 
growth  and  relationships.   He  appears 
on  Boston  area  TV  and  radio  shows 
and  has  led  over  150  workshops  in  New 
England  since  1979. 

1972  Class  Agent  Ann  Kleine  in- 
cluded the  following  news:   Congra- 
tulations to  LARRY  LONG  '72  and  his 
wife,  MERLE,  on  the  birth  of  their 
son,  KEVIN  MICHAEL  LONG,  on  August  9. 
Larry  is  beginning  his  third  year  as 
a  piano  tuner,  repairer,  and 
rebuilder  in  Austin. 

STAN  BOYETTE  '72  received  his 
master's  in  guidance  and  counseling 
at  East  Texas  State  University.  .He 
and  his  wife,  Sarita,  have  a  4  year- 
old  son,  Adam,  and  twin  daughters, 
Amanda  and  Angelique,  2. 

STEPHEN  FORTE  '72  of  Yarbrough 
Interiors  Designs  in  Shreveport  has 
purchased  and  remodeled  four  residen- 
ces for  resale.  He  is  currently  in- 
volved in  the  renovation  of  the 
Strand  Theatre  and  the  Craft  Alliance 
across  from  the  campus.   Stephen  has 
completed  projects  in  Dallas,  and  New 
Orleans  and  is  presently  involved  in 
,  the  interior  design  of  a  new  art 
I  center  in  Oklahoma  City. 

Congratulations  to  DAVID  and 
!  CAMILLE  GREVE  DENT  '72  on  the  birth 
of  their  son,  JONATHAN  DANIEL  DENT, 
who  was  welcomed  by  expert  baby 
sitters/sisters  JENNIFER,  CANDACE , 
and  KAREN. 

FRANK  and  JEANNE  PRUDEN  G0DB0LD 
'72  have  moved  to  Virginia  after  nine 
months  in  New  York.   They  hope  the 
Navy  will  let  them  stay  settled  a 
while . 

NANCY  ANN  MILLER  HEMINGWAY  '72 
writes  that  she  and  husband  CHUCK 
moved  from  Arkansas  to  Charlottes- 
ville, Va. ,  with  their  three 
children,  GEOFF,  JENNIFER,  and 
PATRICK.   She's  "retired"  from  her 
job  as  personnel  administrator  for 
the  Department  of  Arkansas  Natural 
and  Cultural  Heritage,  and  hopes  to 
take  some  classes  at  the  University 
of  Virginia. 

JOHN  HARDT  '74  reports  two  recent 
milestones.   On  November  25,  he 
married  JANE  CURTIS  in  High  Point, 
N.C.;  brother  JOE  '77  served  as  best 
man.   Other  Centenary  grads  in 
attendance  were  PAUL  GIESSEN  '74  and 
RANDY  CASEY  '74.   John  and  Jane  live 
in  Ferrum,  Va.,  where  they  both  teach 
at  Ferrum  College.   In  December  John 
received  his  Ph.D.  in  American 
literature  from  the  University  of 
Missouri-Columbia.   His  dissertation 
is  entitled:   "The  Darkening  Garden: 
Paradisal  Skepticism  in  American 
Fiction,  Brown  through  Melville." 

MERV  WHITE- SPUNNER  '75  is  an 
assistant  vice  president  and 
operations  manager  for  Manufactures 
Hanover  International  Banking  Corp. 
in  Atlanta. 


MARGARET  FISCHER  WENDORF  '75  just 
completed  her  MBA  degree  at  the 
University  of  Alabama  in  Birmingham, 
and  is  currently  working  at  Southern 
Living  magazine  as  a  business  analyst 
in  the  circulation  department.   Her 
husband,  DR.  BOB  WENDORF,  is  in 
private  practice  as  a  clinical 
psychologist . 

ROSLIND  KELLY  GLADNEY  '75  and  her 
husband,  DARDEN  '76,  are  the  parents 
of  KELLY  ELIZABETH,  who  celebrated 
her  first  birthday  in  November. 
Darden  is  a  student  at  the  LSU  Dental 
School,  and  Roslind  teaches  music. 

DR.  PERRY  B.  EVERETT  '76  is  a 
pediatrician  working  with  liver 
transplants  at  the  Labonhuer 

Children's  Hospital  in  Memphis. 

EILEEN  MARTIN  '78  of  Deerfield 
Beach,  Fla.,  is  singing  at  the  Boca 
Raton  Hotel  and  Club. 

DONNA  HENDRYX  X7  8  lives  in 
Jackson,  Miss.,  where  she  is  the 
assistant  manager  of  a  drug  store. 

SALLY  HUNTER  KEDDAL  '77  and  MARK 
KEDDAL  '78  wrote  from  Delhi,  India 
that  from  the  balcony  of  their  third 
floor  flat  they  view  not  only  the 
skyscrapers  and  wide  avenues  of  a  big 
city,  but  also  the  more  colorful 
India  of  naked  monks,  sacred  cows, 
lepers,  snake  charmers,  and  an 
occasional  elephant.   Sally  is 
tutoring  European  children  in  English 
at  the  Embassy  school,  while  Mark  is 
in  classes  all  morning  and  doing 
research  in  the  afternoon.   The 
enjoyed  a  white  Christmas  in  the 
Himalayas . 

DONNA  HENDRYX  X78  lives  in 
Jackson,  Miss.,  where  she  is  the 
assistant  manager  of  a  drug  store. 

From  New  Orleans  1978  Class  Agent 
DAN  EDMUND  writes  that  he  attended 
graduate  school  at  the  University  of 
Texas,  Austin  in  the  MBA  program,  and 
is  now  a  CPA  in  tax  accounting.  He 
plans  to  enroll  in  night  school  at 
the  University  of  New  Orleans  in  the 
spring. 

In  response  to  Dan's  first  class 
agent  letter,  RITA  CROMWELL  CULLIGAN 
'78  wrote  that  she  recently  complet- 
ed the  Baton  Rouge  Marathon  in  Dec.  - 
her  first.   She  came  in  fifth  in  her 
age  group,  received  a  gold  medal  and 
a  T-shirt.   She  runs  her  own  business 
as  a  professional  skin  care  and 
make-up  artisty  consultant.   "All  of 
those  biology  and  anatomy  courses  at 
Centenary  paid  off."   Her  husband 
Patterson  is  the  Louisiana  Conference 
Co-ordinator  of  Youth  and  Young  Adult 
Activities  for  the  United  Methodist 
Church. 

Also  in  New  Orleans,  KATHY  KEYES, 
1979  Class  Agent,  is  a  geologist  with 
Placid  Oil  Company,  New  Orleans 
District.   She  checked  with  other 
classmates  in  New  Orleans  to  find  out 
that  CHIP  KRUSE  graduated  from  dental 
school  in  May  and  is  now  in  private 
practice;  GINNY  GARRARD  is  studying 
at  Tulane  for  her  Ph.D.  in  history; 
ANN  RYBA  teaches  kindergarten  in 
Orleans  Parish;  LUCY  THORNTON  is 
engaged  to  FRANK  E.  LAMOTHE  III, 


and  they  will  be  married  in  December. 
Lucy  is  a  lawyer  specializing  in 
commercial  litigation. 

WILLIAM  COREY  GABLER  '79  is  a 
loan  officer  with  Dixie  Federal 
Savings  and  Loan.   He  and  his  wife, 
LYNN,  and  children,  Patricia  and 
Kathleen,  live  in  Shreveport. 


1980s 


Class  Agents  JAN  EADS  '81  and 
DAVID  HENINGTON   '82  are  joined  by 
new  agents  GORDON  BLACKMAN  '80  and 
MISSY  MOORE  '83. 

SHAYNE  LADNER  '80  is  the  Assis- 
tant Manager  of  Government  and 
Community  Development  for  the 
Shreveport  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
working  as  a  lobbyist  in  Baton  Rouge 
and  Washington,  and  also  traveling  to 
New  Orleans  to  work  with  the  World's 
Fair.   SHAYNE  is  on  the  activities 
committee  of  the  Alumni  Board. 

PAUL  F.  EVANS  recently  completed 
basic  training  at  Fort  Dix,  N.J. 

Class  Agent  '82  DAVID  HENINGTON 
congratulated  JERRY  and  ELIZABETH 
MARTINUSEN  LIPSCOMB  '83  on  the  birth 
of  their  daughter,  REBECCA  MARIE 
LIPSCOMB,  on  October  7. 

ELAINE  MAYO  '82  is  working  as  a 
legal  assistant  for  a  firm  of  220 
attorneys  in  Houston. 

RICHARD  LILES  '82  is  selling 
insurance  for  Mutual  of  New  York. 

From  the  Class  of  '82  in  Africa: 
HALLIE  DOZIER  is  in  her  second  year 
with  the  Peace  Corp.   JAY  ALLEN  is 
teaching . 

SAM  BUICE  '82  and  wife  MARGARET 
are  living  in  Dahlonega,  Ga.,  at 
Blackburn  Park,  where  Sam  is  a  park 
ranger.   Margaret  works  in  the 
nursery  at  Northeast  Georgia  Medical 
Center,  and  is  also  a  student  at 
North  Georgia  College. 

MARK  and  KAREN  STEELE  '82  are  the 
parents  of  a  son,  ADAM  DANIEL,  born 
in  October. 

BILL  MCDOWELL  '83  is  the  Director 
of  Religious  Education  at  St. 
Bernadette's  Catholic  Church  in 
Parlin,  N.J.   He  announced  his 
engagement  to  LORI  HELMSTETTER,  a 
nursing  student  from  Belle  Mead,  N.J. 

ROBIN  GILL  '83,  presently  a  sales 
representative  for  Sunkist  in 
Atlanta,  decided  to  take  a  year  off 
from  Emory  University,  which  he  has 
attended  for  the  past  two  years,  to 
"enjoy  the  Atlanta  sights  and  sounds 
and  pretty  faces."   He  plans  to 
finish  at  Emory  in  the  Spring  of  1985 
and  then  return  to  Mississippi  as  an 
ordained  Methodist  minister.   Robin 
says  he  is  looking  forward  to  being 
involved  in  the  alumni  program  and 
making  many  contributions  to  the 
college. 

MISSY  MORN  '83  is  a  ministerial 
student  at  Perkins  School  of  Theology 
at  Southern  Methodist  University. 

MARGARET  GERMANN  '83  is  working 
at  Fiber-Seal  of  Shreveport,  a  fabric 
protection  company.   She  recently 
spent  a  month  in  Yucatan,  Mexico, 
doing  volunteer  work. 

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Tom  Burton  '71  (left)  is  congratulated  on  his  presidency  of  the 
Alumni  Board  by  Board  member  Bebecca  Wroten  Gerardy  73 
and  her  husband,  Bill  70,  at  the  Pre-Game  Party.  Over  150 
alumni  and  friends  joined  the  festivities  held  at  the  former 
President's  Home,  which  now  houses  the  Creative  Craft  Alliance. 


It  was  J.  W.  Brightstar  Sherman  s  X41  first  Homecoming  since  his  n 
days  at  Centenary.  Alumni  Director  Nancy  Porter  Gerding  '82  a 
welcomes  him. 


A  trio  of  graduates:  Pete  DuBuys  '80,  Emily  Haydeti 
Viskozki  '58,  and  Julia  Ann  Hamiter  Andress  '63. 


Centenary  College  President  and  Mrs. 
Donald  Webb  are  ready  for  a  winner 
—  party  and  game. 


Fisher  and  Ruby  George  (left)  join  E.  B.  X49  and  Martha  Galloway  Prothro  '48  for  the  Pre- 
Game  Party.  Ruby  is  secretary  to  Centenary  President  Donald  Webb. 


Gordon  Blackman  '80  and  his  wife,  Lindi 
have  moved  back  to  Shreveport  wher 
they  both  practice  law. 


INSIDE 


Endowed  chairs 
number  eight 

Alumni  Weekend 

Fun  galore 
in '84 


Psychology  Department 

They  encourage 
liberal  education 


Are  video  games 
good  or  bad? 


Friday,  Feb.  24,  was  moving  day  tor  the  Centenary  College  Choir,  whose  loft  on  thi'j 
fourth  floor  of  Mickle  Hall  had  burst  into  flames  on  the  first  day  of  school,  Aug.  30J 
1983.  Director  Will  Andress  exalts  the  newly  renovated  rehearsal  room  as  one  of  thii 
best  college  choir  facilities  in  the  country.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Donald  Webb,  honorarl 
members  of  the  Choir,  were  pleased  to  present  to  the  Choir  the  first  item  of  memora 
bilia  for  the  loft:  a  poster  from  the  Choir's  tour  of  Russia  and  Poland  in  1980. 


BE  CHOOSY. 

Alumni  admissions 
program  underway 


Gymnasts  win 
national  title 


On  the  cover 


Just  as  the  azaleas  came  into  full  bloom  last  spring  in  Crumley  Gardens,  Centenary  i 
editor/photographer  Janie  Flournoy  72  made  this  front  cover  photograph.  This  year 
however,  due  to  several  hard  freezes,  the  gardens  may  not  be  as  beautiful  as  in  years 
past. 

Centenary  s  back  cover  features  one  of  the  advertisements  that  garnered  the  College  a  J 
first-place  win  in  a  five-state  competition  last  year.  This  ad  and  others  like  it  will  be  use(  J 
this  year  in  a  nation-wide  recruitment  effort  involving  all  members  of  the  college  admin  j 
istration,  with,  we  hope,  a  little  help  from  our  alumni  and  friends. 


The  Centenary  College  Magazine,  Cente- 
nary, (USPS  015560),  April,  1984,  Vol- 
ume 13,  No.  4,  is  published  four  times 
annually  in  July,  October,  January,  and 
April  by  the  Office  of  Public  Relations, 
2911  Centenary  Boulevard,  Shreveport, 
Louisiana  71134-0188.  Second  Class 
postage  paid  at  Shreveport,  La.  POST- 
MASTER: Send  address  changes  to 
Centenary,  P.O.  Box  4188,  Shreveport, 
La.  71134-0188. 


Centenary  strives  to  create  an  understanding  of  the  mission,  plans,  and  progress  q 
Centenary  College  and  to  inform  readers  of  current  happenings  on  and  off  campus. 

Editor Janie  Flournoy  7 

Special  Contributors Don  Danvers,  Lee  Morga 

Kay  Lei 

Production Rushing  Printing  Cc 

Alumni  Director Nancy  Porter  Gerding  '8: 

Photography Janie  Flourno 

Neil  Johnsoi 


Two  new  endowed  chairs  announced 


History  was  made  Thursday, 
jFeb.  2,  at  Centenary  College 
When  President  Donald  A.  Webb 
announced  the  establishment  of 
two  endowed  professorial  chairs, 
valued  at  more  than  $1  million. 

These  are  the  seventh  and 
eighth  endowed  chairs  for  Cente- 
pary ;  never  before  have  two  been 
announced  simultaneously  in  the 
il58-year-history  of  the  college. 

One  is  the  Mary  Warters 
Endowed  Chair  of  Biology  honor- 
ling  Dr.  Warters,  who  taught  at 
Centenary  for  44  years.  The 
$500,000  gift  was  given  by  many 
former  students  of  Dr.  Warters 
including  physicians  and  dentists 
and  other  friends  who  wished  to 
recognize  the  dedication  and 
jexcellence  that  Dr.  Warters 
exhibited  in  her  teaching. 

The  other  chair  is  the  Ed  and 


Gladys  Hurley  Endowed  Chair 
of  Music  for  a  professorship  in 
the  Hurley  School  of  Music.  This 
chair  will  be  funded  each  year 
through  the  estate  of  Mrs.  Hurley, 
a  longtime  friend  and  benefactor 

Endowed  chairs 
represent  financial 
stability,  enabling 
Centenary  to 
increase  the  size 
of  its  faculty 
and  to  enhance 
its  academic 
quality. 


of  Centenary. 

Search  committees  will  be 
appointed  to  name  the  professors 
to  fill  the  chairs.  It  is  anticipated 
that  the  installations  will  take 
place  during  the  1984-85  aca- 
demic year. 

Other  endowed  chairs  at 
Centenary  College  are  the 
Cornelius  D.  and  Florence  Gillard 
Keen  Chair  of  Physics;  the  T.L. 
James  Chair  of  Religion;  the  Wil- 
liam C.  Woolf  Chair  of  Geology; 
the  Gus  S.  Wortham  Chair  of 
Engineering;  the  Willie  Cavett 
and  Paul  Marvin  Brown,  Jr., 
Chair  of  English,  and  the  Samuel 
Guy  Sample  Chair  of  Business 
Administration.  Endowed  chairs 
represent  financial  stability, 
enabling  Centenary  to  increase 
the  size  of  its  faculty  and  to 
enhance  its  academic  quality. 


FUN  GALORE  IN  '84! 


Alumni  Weekend 
June  22  -  23 

Friday,  June  22 

"BEST  BALL  SCRAMBLE"  Golf  Tournament  for  men  and  women.  1 :()()  p.m.  -  4:30  p.m.  at 
Querbes  Golf  Course.  The  format  shall  consist  of  a  two  or  four  mixed  team  scramble, 
depending  on  the  size  of  the  response.  Entry  fee  is  $15.00  per  person  which  includes  golf  cart, 
green  fee,  and  prizes.  Registration  deadline  is  June  15th. 

AWARDS  BANQUET  -  will  be  held  this  year  at  the  Best  Western  Regency  Motor  Hotel.  The 
Social  Hour  will  start  at  6:30  p.m.  followed  by  the  Banquet  at  7:30  p.m.  The  1984  Hall  of  Fame 
Award  and  the  1984  Honorary  Alum  will  be  presented  at  the  Banquet. 

"SWEET  BIRD  OF  YOUTH"  -  Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse  will  present  this  work  of  Tennessee 
Williams  on  Friday,  June  22.  Saturday,  June  23,  and  Sunday.  June  24.  Two  of  our  Centenary 
alums  will  be  featured  in  this  production:  Anne  Gremillion  74  and  Patrick  McWilliams  78. 
The  price  for  the  tickets  will  be  at  a  special  rate  of  $4.00  per  person  for  Alumni  Weekend. 


Saturday,  June  23 

9:00  -  9:45  a.m.  Registration  and  Reception  in  the  Moore  Student  Union  Building  (SUB) 

Alumni  College 


10:00-  10:45  a.m. 

"How  to  Lose  Weight  Without  Dieting" 

Sandra  Stringer  Breithaupt  '55 
Author  of  the  Dallas  Doctors  Diet 
McGraw-Hill 

"The  Economics  of  the  Forthcoming 
Presidential  Election" 

Dr.  Harold  R.  Christensen 
Professor  of  Economics 

"How  You  Can  Retire  a  Millionaire  .  .  . 
If  You  Start  Now!" 

Jack  M.  Elgin  43 
Vice-President,  Merrill  Lynch 

"Louisiana  Wills" 

Cecil  E.  Ramey  '43.  Attorney 
Hargrove,  Guyton,  Ramey  &  Barlow 


11:00-  11:45  a.m. 

"How  to  Get  a  Book  Published" 

Sandra  Stringer  Breithaupt  '55 
Author  of  the  Dallas  Doctors  Diet 
McGraw-Hill 

"How  to  Look  Successful  and  Improve 
Your  Image  With  Color" 

Patsy  Stamps  Graham  X62 

Owner,  Image  Improvement  of  Shreveport 

"The  Artificial  Intelligence  of 
Tomorrows  Computers" 

Nasser  Shukayr  77.  Vice-President 
Computer  Professionals,  Inc. 

"Oil  Field  Industry  Through  the 
Eyes  of  a  Supplier  and  Manufacturer" 

Donald  H.  Duggan  HA 

President.  Duggan  Machine  Co.,  Inc. 


Faculty  and  Alumni  Family  Cookout 

Rain  or  Shine 

Moore  Student  Union  Building 

12:00  Noon 

"Roaring  20V  Alumni  Luncheon  will  be  held  in  the  Centenary  Room  of  Bynum  Commons 
again  this  year.  The  luncheon  will  begin  at  1 1:30  a.m. 

The  afternoon  is  free  to  see  our  newly  remodeled  Gold  Dome,  walk  through  the  Hodges  Rose 
Garden,  view  the  new  Jean  Despujols  film  at  Meadows  Museum,  visit  Louisiana  Downs,  or 
talk  with  professors  and  friends. 


OTHER  WAYS  TO  HEL1 


Have  a  party  for  interested  stucjl 
show  our  new  slide  presentation:  I 
Pride  Is  Catching." 


Encourage  campus  visits. 


Post  our  new  admissions  poster! 
your  church  or  high  school. 


Theatre  Production 

"Sweet  Bird  of  Youth." 

Just  For  Youngsters 

Friday,  June  22 
6:00  -  10:00  p.m. 

Walt  Disney  movies,  supervised 
activities 

Saturday,  June  23 
8:30  a.m.  -  12  noon 

Cartoons,  activities 

1:30-5:00  p.m. 

Indoor  and  outdoor  activities 

6:00-  12:00  midnight 

Walt  Disney  movies,  games 

Some  Walt  Disney  movies  will  be 
shown;  structured  and  highly  super- 
vised activities  both  indoors  and  out- 
door will  be  offered.  Your  children 
will  need  some  pocket  change  for  soft 
drinks  and  amusements,  etc. 

No  meals  will  be  provided.  You 
will  be  in  charge  of  feeding  your 
children  on  Friday  and  Saturday- 
Please  bring  them  to  the  Alumni/ 
Faculty  cookout  for  lunch  at  noon  on 
Saturday.  The  spacious  James  Dorm 
Lobby  will  serve  as  our  headquarters 
for  the  kids. 


What's  in  Store  for  '84 

The  Alumni  Board  has  been  hard 
at  work  trying  to  plan  lots  of  exciting 
activities  and  events  which  would  in- 
terest each  one  of  you  during  Alumni 
Weekend,  and  we  feel  that  we  have 
been  successful.  There  are  events  for 
every  age  group  for  both  our  local 
alums  and  our  out-of-towners. 
Special  provisions  arc  being  made 
for  alums  and  their  families.  If  you 
plan  to  join  us  this  year,  please  check 
one  or  several  of  the  activities  pro- 
vided on  the  registration  form.  If 
childcare  or  on-campus  housing  are 
needed,  please  send  in  your  registra- 
tion form  by  June  1.  We'll  follow  up 
your  reservation  with  more  infor- 
mation. 

Accommodations 

This  year  we  are  fortunate  again  to 
have  on-campus  housing  in  James 
Dorm.  Dorm  rooms  in  both  James 
Annex  and  James  Proper  are  avail- 
able at  a  minimal  price  of  $20.00  a 
room  per  night  per  couple  or  $10.00 
per  night  for  a  single  room.  Remem- 
ber, you  need  to  bring  pillows,  linens, 
your  alarm  clock,  etc.  if  you  plan  to 
take  advantage  of  these  accommoda- 
tions; as  you  remember,  the  rooms 
are  spartan.  Kids  stay  with  you  at  no 
extra  charge,  but  you  must  provide 
sleeping  bags! 

Also,  four  of  our  major  hotels  have 
given  us  special  room  rates  which 
allow  accommodations  for  up  to  four 
adults  per  room.  It  is  extremely  im- 
portant to  make  your  reservations 
early  ifyou  are  in  need  of  accommoda- 
tions due  to  the  large  crowd  that  will 
be  in  town  for  the  horse  races.  Please 
take  advantage  of  these  economical 
services  according  to  your  family 
needs. 

Best  Western  Regency 
(1-20  at  Spring) 

$49.00  1-800-282-8826  (La.  only) 
1-800-551-8456 

Chateau  Motor  Hotel 
(1-20  at  Spring) 

$47.00   l-SOO-282-8826  (La.  only) 
1-800-551-8456 

Sheraton  at  Pierremont  Plaza 
$48.00   1-800-321-4182  (La.  only) 

(3  IS) 797-9900 

Sheraton  -  Bossier  Inn 
(1-20  at  Old  Minden  Road) 
$49.00  (3 IS)  742-9700 

Special  events  this  year 

A  Golf  Tournament  has  been 
planned  for  Friday  afternoon.  June 
22 

Marjorie  Lyons  Playhouse  pro- 
duction of  Tennessee  William's 
"Sweet  Bird  of  Youth." 


Registration 


Detach  and  mail  with  payment  to  Alumni  Weekend.  Centenary  College.  P.O.  Box  4188. 
Shreveport.  LA  71 134-0188.  Make  checks  payable  to  ■'Alumni  Weekend."  Your  cancelled 
check  will  be  your  receipt. 


Name 
Address 

Attending  spouse 
TOTAL  ENCLOSED:  $ 


Maiden  name 


Class 


Class  (if  alum) 


Friday,  June  22 


Golf  Tournament.  1:00-4:30  p.m.  Handicap  or  average  score  for  pairing  purposes. 

(«•  $15.00  per  person 

Name  handicap 

Name  handicap 

Awards  Banquet.  6:30  p.m..  social  hour,  cash  bar.  7:30  p.m.  Banquet.  Regency  Hotel 

@  $10.00  per  person 


Saturday,  June  23 


Please  indicate  the  number  of  adults/children  attending  each  event. 
REGISTRATION.  9:00-9:45  a.m..  Student  Union  Building 


Alumni  College  Classes 


10:00-10:45  a.m. 

Dieting  (Breithaupt) 
Presidential  Election  (Christenscn) 
Retirement  (Elgin) 
Louisiana  Wills  (Ramey) 


11:00-1 1:45  a.m. 

Publishing  A  Book  (Breithaupt) 
Oil  field  Industry  (Duggan) 
Color  Your  Image  (Graham) 
Tomorrow's  Computers  (Shukayr) 


ALUMNI  FAMILIES  &  FACULTY  COOKOUT.  12  noon.  Student  Union  Building 


Reunions 


"Roaring  20s" 

50th  Reunion.  Class  of  1934 

45th  Cluster  Reunion.  Classes  of  38,  39,  '40 

40th  Cluster  Reunion,  Classes  of '43.  '44.  '45 

25th  Reunion.  Class  of  1959 

20th  Cluster  Reunion.  Classes  of '63.  '64.  '65 

10th  Reunion.  Class  of  1974 


Guests  of  the  College 
@  $12.00  per  person 
(«'  $20.00  per  person 
(&>  $17.50  per  person 
(«»  $12.50  per  person 
&'  $17.50  per  person 
(«»  $20.00  per  person  _ 


Dormitory  Housing 


Single-occupancy  room  («  $10  per  night 
Est.  time  of  arrival  on  campus: 


Double-occupancy  room  @20  per  night 
children  in  room 

age(s) 


Childcare/Youth  Program 


Names  and  ages  of  children  to  be  registered: 


Friday.  6:00-10:00  p.m. 
Saturday,  8:30-12  noon 
Saturday.  1:30-5:00  p.m. 
Saturday.  6:00-12  midnight 


(Any  area  of  particular  interest  youth  might  have: 


PLEASE  BE  SURE  TO  REGISTER  BY  MAIL  BEFORE  JUNE 
FOR  ACCOMMODATIONS  AND  CHILD  CARE 


Lady  gymnasts 
win  NAIA  title 


By  Bill  Roberts 
Director  of  Sports  Information 

After  being  the  bridesmaid  the  last 
two  years,  Centenary  College  head 
gymnastics  coach  Vannie  Edwards 
admitted  that  winning  his  first  National 
Association  of  Intercollegiate  Athletics 
(NAIA)  Gymnastics  Championship  was 
his  most  gratifying  title  ever. 

The  Ladies,  runner-up  the  last  two 
years  (AIAW-Division  II  in  1982  and 
NAIA  in  1983),  brought  home  a  slew  of 
awards,  capturing  the  team  title  Friday 
night,  the  Outstanding  Gymnast  and 
Coach  of  the  Year  awards  Saturday 
night,  and  hauling  back  ten  All-American 
certificates  at  Milledgeville,  Ga. 

Centenary  won  the  team  title  with  a 
139.95  score,  while  Winona  State  finished 
second  at  138.00,  followed  by  William  & 
Mary  at  137.00. 

Margot  Todd  Evans  was  named  the 
Gymnast  of  the  Year  (the  Nissen  Award). 
It  marked  the  second  consecutive  year 
a  Centenary  Gymnast  won  it.  Last  Year, 
Jill  Brown  was  the  recipient.  Evans  also 
earned  four  All-American  certificates, 
capturing  the  national  floor  and  vault 
championships  for  the  third  time  in  her 
career. 

Suzanne  Reasor,  a  freshman  from  San 
Antonio,  also  captured  four  All-American 
honors,  and  Janet  Stevens,  a  junior  from 
Bossier  City,  La.,  also  earned  All- 
American  honors. 

Senior  specialist  Jessica  Soileau  earned 
her  first  All-American  award  with  a 
fourth  place  finish  on  bars. 

In  addition,  coach  Edwards  was  named 
to  his  first  NAIA  Coach  of  the  Year 
award.  Edwards,  now  has  won  the  Grand- 
slam  of  Gymnastics.  He  has  won  national 
titles  in  the  NCAA,  defunct  AIAW  Divi- 
sion-II,  and  now  the  NAIA.  In  all,  Edwards 
has  won  six  national  gymnastics  champion- 
ships and  finished  second  four  times. 

Jessica  Soileau,  a  senior  from  Ville 
Platte,  La.,  earned  All-American  honors 
for  the  first  time  in  her  career,  scoring 
a  two-day  total  of  17.60  on  the  uneven 
bars  for  fourth  place.  Susan  Gibson,  a 
junior  from  Richmond,  Ind.,  put  together 
a  good  meet  scoring  at  34.00  in  the  all- 
around,  just  missing  All-American  honors 
by  five  hundredths  of  a  point.  Two  fresh- 
man, Mary  Beth  Hebert  and  Holly  Rucker, 
and  one  junior,  Katrina  Kellogg  also 
competed  at  nationals. 


Centenary  College's  Athletie Director  Walt  Stevens  (right) presents  Willie  "Action" Jacksor 
the  ball  he  used  to  score  his  2,335th  career  point  against  Mercer  University,  breaking 
Robert  Parish's  career  scoring  record  of  2,334  points  from  1972-76.  Jackson  ended  his 
career  scoring  2,537  points,  1  7th  on  the  NCAA  all-time  scoring  list. 


Kaleidoscope  ?84 


The  Centenary  College  Athletic 
Department  and  the  Gents  Club  will 
sponsor  its  3rd  Annual  Auction,  "Kalei- 
doscope "84,"  on  Tuesday,  April  24,  at 
the  Sheraton-Pierremont  Plaza,  1419  E. 
70th  Street,  beginning  at  6:30  p.m. 

For  the  silent  and  oral  auctions  $15.00 
per  person  will  include  an  elaborate 
buffet  dinner  with  a  cash  bar.  Tickets 
will  be  available  upon  request  from  the 
Gold  Dome  Athletic  Department  Office 
or  by  calling  869-5275. 

The  fund-raiser  is  sponsored  by  the 
Centenary  Gents  Club.  Proceeds  will 
assist  in  the  overall  fundings  of  the 
athletic  budget. 

"Kaleidoscope  84"  will  feature  such 
items  for  bid  as  decorative  items  for  the 
home,  home  accessories,  personal  ser- 
vices, vacation  packages,  art  and  enter- 
tainment items,  dining  and  food  items, 
party  packages,  sports  lessons,  and  gift 
certificates. 

Mrs.  Jo  Reid  and  Mrs.  Beth  Parker  are 
co-chairmen  of  the  event.  Ya'll  come! 


L 


PERSPECTIVES 


Jim  Bobbins 


Jim  Robbins  58  knew  he  wanted  to  study  to  be  a  teacher  when 
he  came  to  Centenary  in  1954  after  tour  years  in  the  Air  Force. 
But  he  also  wanted  to  continue  his  lifelong  interest  in  the  outdoors. 

A  major  in  education  with  a  minor  in  botany  was  the  answer, 
and  with  that  foundation  from  Centenary,  he  went  on  to  earn  his 
masters  in  educational  administration  and  supervision  from 
Northwestern  State  College. 

After  several  years  of  college  classroom  teaching,  Jim  returned 
to  Bossier  Parish  and  began  to  see  a  dream  come  true.  "I  had  pro- 
posed to  the  School  Board  that  we  build  a  nature  study  center 
where  students  ot  all  ages  could  come  and  learn  about  our  environ- 
ment, Jim  explained.  "It  was  approved,  and  I  was  the  one  to  plan 
it  and  now  direct  it. 

The  100-acre  woodlands  plus  two  large  lakes  is  home  for  lab- 
oratories, a  classroom,  and  nature  trails.  Centenary  professors  Ed 
Leuck  (botany)  and  Robert  Hallquist  (education)  use  the  facility 
on  a  regular  basis  for  their  students.  Dr.  Gaius  Hardaway,  visiting 
professor  of  education  at  Centenary,  was  one  of  the  chief  pro- 
moters for  the  facility. 

Jim  Robbins,  the  Bossier  Parish  Nature  Study  Center,  and 
Centenary  College  —  a  natural  trio. 


Joy  Sherman  Irwin 


When  Joy  Sherman  Irwin  79  first  decided  to  enter  the  field  of 
accounting,  she  worried  that  she  would  not  be  able  to  use  her 
career  to  serve  others. 

Since  graduation,  however,  she  has  learned  that  she  has  the 
opportunity  not  only  to  use  her  education,  but  also  to  share  it 
with  others. 

"I  began  teaching  at  LSU  soon  after  receiving  my  master's 
degree,"  Joy  writes,  "and  as  I  try  to  help  my  students  gain  an  un- 
derstanding of  accounting,  I  also  try  to  impart  the  love  of  learning 
that  I  gained  at  Centenary." 

A  resident  of  Baton  Rouge,  Joy  is  married  to  Skip  Irwin.  She 
earned  her  MBA  in  1980  and  began  work  at  Capital  Bank  and 
Trust  before  becoming  an  instructor  of  accounting  at  LSU  in 
August,  1983. 

"Centenary  also  taught  me  the  importance  of  continuing  my 
education  after  the  formal  training  was  complete,"  Joy  writes. 
"This  teaching  proved  instrumental  during  my  recent  completion 
of  the  CPA  exam." 

When  she's  not  busy  with  numbers,  Joy  likes  reading,  cooking, 
and  needlework. 


PSYCHOLOGY  DEPARTMENT 


Liberal  education 
encouraged  here 


A  trio  of  professors  give  the  Psychology  Department  its  leadership  and  energy.  They 
are  (left  to  right)  Dr.  Dorothy  Gwin,  Dr.  Mark  Dulle,  and  Dr.  Lewis  Bettinger,  with 
the  latest  addition  to  the  Department —  an  Apple  computer. 


They  can  joke  about  their  own 
department  —  "It's  a  great  place  to  get 
a  date '  —  but  these  three  professors 
don't  consider  the  study  of  psychology 
a  laughing  matter. 

Dr.  Mark  Dulle,  associate  professor 
of  psychology,  serves  as  chairman  of 
the  department;  Dr.  Lewis  Bettinger 
and  Dr.  Dorothy  Gwin  are  full  professors 
Dr.  Gwin  also  serves  as  Dean  of  the 
College. 

With  a  60-40  female-male  ratio,  the 
coeds  outnumber  their  male  counter- 
parts as  they  have  done  in  the  psychology 
department  for  the  past  10  or  so  years. 
More  than  "a  great  place  to  get  a  date,' 
it's  a  great  place  to  get  an  education. 

"We  encourage  a  liberal  education," 
Dr.  Dulle  said.  "We  encourage  our 
students  to  take  courses  outside  the 
psychology  department.  Our  foreign 
language  requirement  is  modest,  but  we 
think  foreign  languages  are  important 
to  a  liberal  arts  education.  In  graduate 
school,  they  look  for  a  good  foundation." 

Although  most  of  the  35-40  psychology 
majors  will  not  choose  to  go  on  to  graduate 
school  right  away ,  the  ones  who  do  have 
continued  their  education  at  well-known 
institutions:  The  University  of  Texas, 
Austin;  Johns  Hopkins;  Vanderbilt,  and 
Stephen  F.  Austin,  to  name  a  few. 

With  the  acquisition  of  four  new  Apple 
II-E  computers,  Centenary's  Department; 
of  Psychology  is  evidence  of  the  High 
Tech/High  Touch  trend  that  John  Naisbitti 
wrote  about  in  Megatrends.  "We  see 
computer  expertise  very  necessary  at 
the  graduate  level,  "Dr.  Dulle  said,  "and 
we  see  it  as  very  important  here. 
Computer-oriented  behavior  is  also  a 
very  hot  topic.  It's  got  all  sorts  of  research 
possibilities." 

Dr.  Bettinger  will  teach  the  depart- 
ment's first  computer  course,  Computers 
and  the  Social  Sciences.  "It  will  be  an 
orientation  on  how  majors  can  use  the 
computers,"  Dr.  Bettinger  explained. 
"We'll  do  statistical  computations  and 
data  base  searches,  and  we'll  use  the 
computer  as  a  control  device  to  run 
experiments . "  With  the  word  processing 
package,  the  professors  and  students  can 
use  the  computer  to  prepare  papers  and 
compile  research. 

With  four  students  in  the  honors 
program  this  year  —  the  most  the  depart 
ment  has  had  in  any  one  year  —  the 
computers  will  get  a  good  initial  workout. 
Honor  students  must  either  do  an  experi- 
mental or  library  research  project,"  Dr.  j 
Gwin  said.  "They  work  with  their  pro- 
fessor and  at  completion,  they  present 
their  findings  to  the  faculty  and  students.' 

The  current  honors  students  and  their 
research  topics  are  Buford  Frey  and 
Denise  Ware,  hemispheric  specialization 

(continued  on  page  11) 


Video  games :  are  they  good  or  bad? 


By  Angie  Hardaway  '84 

When  the  computer  was  chosen  as 
Time  magazine's  "Man  of  the  Year"  for 
1982,  it  was  evident  to  many  that  the 
computer  age  had  arrived.  Persons  of 
every  age  are  being  affected  by  compu- 
ters. Today's  youngsters  are  introduced 
to  computers  in  a  variety  of  settings,  and 
one  of  the  more  visible  of  these  is  the 
video  arcade  game. 

The  fact  that  video  arcade  games  have 
become  overwhelmingly  popular  with 
American  youth  is  a  cause  for  concern  in 
some  individuals.  It  is  postulated  that 
video  games  spawn  social  problems, 
encourage    anti-social    tendencies,   and 
are  a  waste  of  children's  time  and  money. 

However,  advocates  believe  video 
arcade  games  are  a  good  way  to  introduce 
children  to  the  capabilities  of  computers 
and  help  develop  quick  reflexes  and  sure 
eye-hand  coordination.  At  least  one  study 
indicates  that  video  games  aid  in  helping 
girls  improve  their  performance  on  tasks 
of  spatial  relationships,  logical  reason- 
ing, and  dealing  with  abstract  shapes 
and  forms,  areas  in  which  girls  have  done 
more  poorly  than  boys. 

Despite  all  of  these  postulations,  little 
research  has  been  done  to  back  up  the 
claims  by  those  on  either  side  ot  the 
issue.  In  an  attempt  to  help  fill  this  re- 
search void,  the  following  study  was  car- 
ried out. 

Analysis  of  a  number  of  video  games 
revealed  that  an  accurate  assessment  of 
spatial  relationships  and  good  eye-hand 
coordination  are  abilities  that  appear  to 
contribute  to  one's  success.  From  this  ob- 
servation, two  primary  hypotheses  were 
formed:  A)  Children  who  regularly  play 
video  arcade  games  would  be  better  at 
assessing  spatial  relationships  than  those 
children  who  do  not  regularly  play ;  and 
B )  Children  who  regularly  play  video 
arcade  games  would  have  better  visual- 
motor  coordination  skills  than  those  chil- 
dren who  do  not  regularly  play.  Since 
previous  studies  indicate  that  males  are 
inherently  superior  to  females  on  tasks  of 
spatial  relationships,  it  was  additionally 
postulated  that  playing  video  games  may 
help  females  improve  in  this  area.  Both 
the  nondominant  and  the  dominant  hand 
were  tested. 

The  subjects  were  75  children  between 
the  ages  of  7  and  1 1 .  The  experimental 
group,  which  hereafter  is  referred  to  as 
"players,"  consisted  of  50  subjects  who 
reported  that  they  played  video  arcade 
games  at   least   7   hours  a  week.  The 
control  group,  hereafter  referred  to  as 
"nonplayers,"  consisted  of  25  subjects 
who  reported  that  they  played  video 
arcade  games  less  than  1  hour  a  week. 


The  ages  of  the  children  in  the  control 
group  were  comparable  to  the  ages  of 
those  in  the  experimental  group.  Both 
players  and  nonplayers  were  drawn 
from  the  same  socioeconomic  stratum  as 
determined  by  the  neighborhoods  in 
which  they  lived. 

Measurements   were   obtained    from 
the  subjects  in  3  areas:  A)  Visual-motor 
coordination  was  assessed  by  performance 
on  a  pursuit  rotary  apparatus.  B)  Ques- 
tions from  the  spatial  relations  scale  of 
the  Developing  Cognitive  Abilities  Test 
of  the  Comprehensive  Assessment  Pro- 
gram were  administered  to  obtain  a 
measure  of  ability  to  cognitively  assess 
spatial  relationships.  C )  A  questionnaire 
was  prepared  and  administered  to  deter- 
mine the  subjects   interests  and  degree 
of  social  adaptation. 

After  appropriate  instructions  and 
demonstration  on  the  pursuit  rotary  ap- 
paratus,  each   child    was   given    a   30- 
second  warm-up  trial  with  his  dominant 
hand.  Performance  was  then  tested  tor 
one  minute  with  the  subject  using  his 
dominant  hand  and  for  another  minute 
with  the  subject  using  his  nondominant 
hand.  The  number  of  times  the  targets 
were  hit  was  recorded. 

Each  subject  was  then  given  the  multi- 
ple choice  questions  from  the  spatial 
relations  scale  of  the  Developing  Cogni- 
tive  Abilities   Test.   Each   subject   was 
given  the  grade  level  test  corresponding 
to  the  grade  he  would  be  entering  in  the 
upcoming  school  year.  Next  each  subject 
answered  items  on  a  socialization  and 
interests  questionnaire. 

The  collected  data  were  analyzed 
using  the  t  statistic.  On  the  pursuit  rotary 
apparatus  and  on  the  Developing  Cogni- 
tive Abilities  Test,  the  players  performed 
significately  better  than  the  nonplayers. 

In  addition,  on  the  pursuit  rotary  ap- 
paratus, the  boy  players  did  not  perform 
significantly  better  than  the  girl  players 
while  using  their  dominant  hand  or  while 
using  their  nondominant  hand.  But  the 
boy  nonplayers  performed  significantly 
better  than  the  girl  nonplayers  on  each 
of  those  tests. 

On  the  Developing  Cognitive  Abilities 
Test,  the  boy  players  did  not  score  sig- 
nificantly better  than  the  girl  players; 
nor  did  the  boy  nonplayers  score  signif- 
icantly better  than  the  girl  nonplayers. 

The  socialization  and  interests  ques- 
tionnaire revealed  that  there  were  no 
substantial  differences  between  the 
players  and  nonplayers  in  terms  of  grades 
made  in  school  (self-report),  church  at- 
tendance, or  recreational  preferences. 
There  was,  however,  a  slight  tendency 


for  the  players  to  smoke  cigarettes  (4% 
of  the  players )  whereas  none  of  the  non- 
players reported  smoking.  Additionally, 
boy  players  were  more  likely  to  prefer 
video  games  with  violent  themes  than 
were  girl  players. 

The  finding  that  video  game  players 
performed  better  than  nonplayers  on 
tasks  involving  visual-motor  coordina- 
tion and  score  higher  on  cognitive  tests 
of  spatial  relationships  suggests  that 
playing  video  arcade  games  improves 
one's  performance  in  these  areas. 

There  is  a  significant  difference  be- 
tween the  performance  of  boy  nonplay- 
ers and  girl  nonplayers  on  a  task  requir- 
ing visual  motor  coordination  while  using 
the  dominant  hand  and  while  using  the 
nondominant   hand.   Yet   on   the   same 
task,  the  performance  by  girl  players 
was  comparable  to  that  of  boy  players. 
Thus  it  appears  that  boys  are  inherently 
better  at  tasks  requiring  visual-motor 
coordination,  but  with  the  playing  of 
video  games,  girls  seem  to  be  able  to 
develop  the  necessary  skills  to  perform 
at  the  levels  of  their  male  counterparts. 
This  finding  supports  the  belief  that  for 
females,  playing  video  games  stimulates 
potential  abilities  and  enables  them  to 
develop  better  visual-motor  coordination. 
In  addition,  while  it  is  not  expected  that 
one's  performance  using  his  nondomin- 
ant had  will  be  as  good  as  his  performance 
using  his  dominant  hand,  the  findings 
revealed  that  those  children  who  do  not 
play  video  games.  It  is  possible  that  this 
superiority  is  due  to  the  two-hand  con- 
trols on  many  video  games. 

There  is  no  substantial  difference 
between  the  scores  made  by  boy  non- 
players and  those  made  by  girl  nonplay- 
ers on  a  cognitive  test  of  one's  ability  to 
assess  spatial  relationships.  Nor  is  there 
a  substantial  difference  between  the 
scores  made  by  boy  players  and  those 
made  by  girl  players  on  the  same  test. 
Thus  on  a  cognitive  test  of  one's  ability 
to  comprehend  or  assess  spatial  rela- 
tionships (rather  than  on  a  performance 
test),  females  appear  to  possess  mental 
skills  comparable  to  those  of  males.  How- 
ever, playing  video  arcade  games  helps 
male  and  female  children  to  improve 
those  skills  and  score  higher  than  non- 
players on  tests  requiring  cognitive 
assessment. 

In  review,  playing  video  arcade  games 
appears  to: 

1)  Improve  visual-motor  coordination 

2)  Improve  ability  to  cognitively  assess 

spatial  relationships 

3)  Improve  skill  in  using  nondominant 
hand 

4)  Stimulate  latent  potential  visual- 
motor  coordination  in  females. 


Willie  Cavett  Brown 

Mrs.  Paul  Brown  Jr. 
succumbs  March  20 


Willie  Cavett  Brown,  widow  of  long- 
time Centenary  philanthropist  Paul  M. 
Brown,  died  Tuesday,  March  20,  after 
a  long  illness.  "Miss  Willie,"  as  she  was 
fondly  called,  was  90  years  old. 

Born  in  Bossier  Parish,  Mrs.  Brown 
moved  to  Caddo  Parish  in  f  899  and  to 
Shreveport  in  1902.  She  finished  at 
Shreveport  High  School  in  1912  and 
after  working  there  for  a  year,  entered 
Louisiana  State  Normal  in  Natchitoches. 
After  graduation  in  1915,  she  taught 
school  for  eight  years  in  Louisiana. 

Mrs.  Brown  attended  Noel  Memorial 
United  Methodist  Church  for  74  years, 
and  was  very  active  as  a  Sunday  School 
teacher  and  as  a  member  of  the  United 
Methodist  Women. 

She  held  membership  in  the  Cente- 
nary Women's  Club  and  served  for 
many  years  as  its  secretary  and  treas- 
urer. Mrs.  Brown  was  also  very  active 
with  the  Mothers  Clubs  of  Chi  Omega 
sorority  and  Kappa  Alpha  fraternity. 

In  1975  she  was  named  an  Honorary 
Alumna  by  the  Alumni  Association, 
one  of  the  top  two  awards  presented  by 
the  association. 

For  over  33  years,  Mrs.  Brown  worked 
with  her  husband  to  develop  a  struggling 
Centenary  College  and  make  it  the 
healthy  institution  it  is  today.  Two  of 
their  outstanding  contributions  to  the 
College  include  Brown  Memorial 
Chapel  and  the  Brown  Chair  of  English. 

She  is  survived  by  two  children, 
Charles  Ellis  Brown  and  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Brown  Greve;  one  brother,  William 
Dickson  Cavett  of  Hosston,  La.;  six 
grandchildren  and  ten  great  grand- 
children. 


PC! 


When  Centenary  College  Trustee  Russell 
Barrow  dons  his  cap  and  gown  for  Com- 
mencement, he  won't  be  marching  with 
his  colleagues  at  the  head  of  the  pro- 
cession. Instead,  this  Dean  's  List  student 
will  march  with  the  Class  of  84  and  be 
awarded  his  B.A.  degree  in  economics. 
Not  far  behind  will  be  his  granddaughter, 
Martha  Peacock,  who  will  earn  her  degree 
in  liberal  arts.  May  27,  1 984  will  be  a  day 
Russell  Barrow  won  r  soon  forget! 

Visitor  24 

Harold  H.  Saunders,  former  Assistant 
Secretary  of  State  for  Near  Eastern  and 
South  Asian  Affairs,  will  be  a  Woodrow 
Wilson  Visiting  Fellow  at  Centenary 
College  during  the  week  of  April  29. 

This  is  the  10th  anniversary  year  of 
the  Woodrow  Wilson  Visiting  Fellows 
program,  designed  to  bring  about  closer 
relations  between  the  academic  and 
nonacademic  worlds.  Mr.  Saunders  is 
Centenary's  24th  Visiting  Fellow. 

During  his  week  at  Centenary,  he 
will  be  involved  in  intensive  dialogue 
with  students  and  faculty.  His  schedule 
is   orchestrated   to   meet    a   variety   of 
needs,  including  counseling  for  careers, 
delineating  the  importance  of  ethical 
values  in  the  professions,  promoting 
understanding  of  global  interdependence, 
and  stressing  the  need  for  skill  in  the  art 
of  communication. 

For  more  information  on  Mr.  Saun- 
ders's visit,  please  contact  Dr.  Lee  Mor- 
gan, who  is  in  charge  of  his  arrangements. 


Labor  of  love 

If  it  is  true,  as  some  say,  that  good 
things  come  in  threes,  then  the  latest 
publication  by  Dr.  Earle  Labor  of  the 
Centenary  English  Department  ought 
to  be  a  hit .  The  title  of  Dr.  Labor's  latest 
book  —  the  third  book  he  has  published 
on  Jack  London  (along  with  a  half- 
hundred  essays  and  reviews)  during 
the  past  20  years  is  A  KLONDIKE 
TRILOGY:  THREE  UNCOLLECTED 
STORIES. 

This  new  volume  contains  three  stories 
written  in  1898,  soon  after  London's 
return  from  the  Klondike  and  never 
published  during  his  lifetime:  "The 
Devil's  Dice  Box,"  "The  Test :  A  Klondike 
Wooing,"  and  "A  Klondike  Christmas." 

"It's  a  beautiful  book,"  smiled  Dr. 
Labor,  "something  you  scarcely  find 
anymore  in  these  days  of  computer-set 
paperbacks  and  cheap  plastic  binding." 
The  books  are  set  by  hand  and  bound  in 
sailcloth,  and  the  illustrations  are  done 
by  Jack  Freas  of  Philadelphia.  The  edition 
is  limited  to  300  copies  at  $50  per  copy 
with  26  lettered  copies  bound  in  full 
leather,  each  containing  an  original 
Jack  London  autograph  check,  at  $350 
per  copy.  "I  guess  $50  sounds  like  a  lot 
of  money  for  any  book,  but  this  is  not 
merely  a  beautiful  book;  it  is  a  first 
edition  and  will  be  worth  much  more  as 
years  go  by,"  Dr.  Labor  explained. 

Does  Dr.  Labor  get  tired  of  Jack  Lon- 
don? "Not  really,  strange  as  that  may 
sound.  I've  been  working  on  London  now 
for  over  30  years  —  ever  since  I  read 
his  novel  MARTIN  EDEN  when  I  was 
in  boot  camp  in  the  Navy  .  .  .  Jack 
London  seems  virtually  inexhaustible 
as  a  subject.  The  man  wrote  over  50 
books  on  an  amazing  variety  of  subjects : 
economics,  agronomy,  astral  projection, 
adventure,  prizefighting,  sailing,  hoboing, 
love,  war,  apocalypse  —  his  imaginative 
genius  was  simply  incredible  ...  In  his 
brief  40  years  he  lived  enough  for  a  half- 
dozen  energetic  men.  And  he  still 
inspires  others  to  live  life  fully." 

Centenary  can  certainly  take  pride 
in  the  fact  that  Dr.  Labor  has  been  a 
pioneer  in  studies  of  Jack  London  during 
the  past  generation. 


10 


)URRI 


!      Quiz  Bowl  VII 

The  Centenary-Fabsteel  Quiz  Bowl 
series  is  now  in  its  seventh  season  on 
1  KSLA-TV,  Channel  12,  the  CBS  affili- 
ate in  the  Ark-La-Tex. 

Sponsored  by  Fabsteel,  Inc.,  and 
Centenary  College,  Quiz  Bowl  is  modeled 
after  the  former  G.E.  College  Bowl.  The 
games  air  on  Saturdays  at  12:30  p.m. 

Some  36  high  school  teams  participated 
in  the  preliminary  elimination  rounds 
held  last  January  on  campus.  Heading 
into  the  quarterfinals  at  this  writing  are 
Ruston  High  School,  First  Baptist  Church 
School,  Captain  Shreve  High  School, 
R.E.  Lee  High  School,  Caddo  Parish 
Magnet  High  School,  and  Loyola  College 
Preparatory  School. 

Jeff  Edman,  host  for  KVKI  radio 
station,  is  moderator  for  the  games; 
Centenary,  biology  professor  Dr.  Beth 
Leuck  serves  as  judge. 

The  winning  team  of  each  game  re- 
ceives a  $300  scholarship  to  Centenary, 
while  the  losing  team  receives  a  $200 
scholarship.  Scholarships  are  provided 
by  Fabsteel,  Inc. 


B,B,&T 


Bossier,  Bank  &  Trust  was  inadvert- 
ently left  ott  the  Presidents  Report  proof 
sheet  listing  of  donors  to  the  Founders 
Club.  Organizational  or  individual  mem- 
bers of  that  giving  club  generously 
contribute  $1,000  -  $4,999  to  Centenary's 
Great  Teachers-Scholars  Fund  or  the 
President's  Matching  Fund.  We've  got 
you  on  our  list  now,  B,B&T. 


We  get  letters 


Dear  Dr.  Webb, 

I  have  just  returned  from  the  trip  to 
France,  sponsored  by  the  Centenary 
Foreign  Language  Department  and  most 
ably  conducted  by  Dr.  Vickie  Gottlob 
and  Dr.  Denise  Knight.  These  two  young 
women  did  a  splendid  job,  and  I  enjoyed 
I  the  trip  very  much. 

Both  the  preliminary  lectures  and  the 
trip  itself  were  rewarding  ways  to  learn 
French  history. 


I  am  grateful  to  Centenary  for  making 
this  opportunity  available  to  us. 

Little  did  I  think  when  I  studied  French 
at  Centenary  so  many  years  ago  (Dr. 
Ford  was  my  professor)  that  I  would 
ever  have  the  opportunity  to  use  it  in  the 
shadow  of  the  Sorbonne. 

Sincerely, 

Marie  Spivey 

7080  Broadacres  Road 

Shreveport,  La.  71129 


George  Plastiras  (left)  talks  with  Mary 
Anne  and  Charles  Hanson  of  Liltle  Rock, 
whose  daughter,  Lynn,  is  a  student  at 
Centenary.  The  Hansons  hosted  an 
Admissions  Party  in  their  home  for  pros- 
pective Centenary  students  and  their 
parents. 


Catch  the  pride 

How  do  you  make  a  slide  show? 

Ask  Tom  Colvin,  director  of  information 
at  Occidental  College,  and  slide  show 
producer  par  exellance. 

His  most  recent  audio-visual  work  oi 
art  was  for  Centenary  College,  to  be 
used  by  the  offices  of  admissions,  public 
relations,  alumni  relations,  and  church 
relations. 

The  13-minute,  one-projector  show, 
entitled  "The  Pride  Is  Catching,'  is  color- 
ful, exciting,  thorough,  and  honest.  Nar- 
rative by  students,  faculty ,  and  staff  give 
the  show  a  "first  hand    quality;  136 
slides  cover  the  campus  well. 

If  you  would  like  to  present  the  slide 
show  in  your  home  to  alumni  and /or 
prospective  students,  please  call  Nancy 
Porter  Gerding  '82  (318/869-5151 ),  direc- 
tor of  alumni  relations. 

"The  Pride  Is  Catching  and  we  want 
to  share  it  with  YOU. 


Psychology 

(continued  from  page  8) 

of  the  brain;  Louise  Lafitte,  reverse 
auditory  perception ;  and  Angela  Harda- 
way,  the  effects  of  videogames  on  youth 
(reprinted  on  page  9). 

Department  members  like  to  add  at 
least  one  new  course  per  year  to  the  basic- 
course  curriculum.  They  have  covered 
such  subjects  as  hyperactivity  in  children, 
and  during  January  interim  have  offered 
courses  on  obesity,  the  psychology  of 
country  and  western  music,  and  bio- 
rhythms.  They  are  also  exploring  the 
possibilities  for  community  internships 
whereby  a  student  receives  college  credit 
tor  on-the-job  work  experience  at  no 
expense  to  the  employer. 

All  this  the  professors  do  while  leading 
active  campus  and  community  lives. 

Dr.  Dulle  serves  as  chairman  of  the 
Faculty  Organization  Committee  and 
has  headed  the  effort  to  review  faculty 
committees  with  the  intention  of  stream- 
lining them  and  making  them  more 
effective. 

"I  also  do  a  minimal  amount  of  private 
practice,"  he  said,  "which  is  important 
in  keeping  me  in  touch  with  the  real 
clinical  world. 

Research  is  also  important,  and  along 
with  Polly  Greve  '84,  Dr.  Dulle  will  be 
presenting  a  paper  on  "Women  and  the 
Work  World''  at  a  meeting  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Texas  at  Arlington  in  May. 

Dr.  Bettinger  has  just  this  year  taken 
responsibility  for  Cultural  Perspectives, 
a  course  requiring  all  students  to  attend 
10  cultural  events  per  semester  for  two 
semesters.  "We  have  280  students  en- 
rolled,'" Dr.  Bettinger,  said,  "and  we've 
had  a  lot  of  positive  comments.  This  year, 
we've  also  opened  it  up  to  community 
events  like  the  Shreveport  Opera.  It's 
been  well  received  by  students." 

Dr.  Bettinger  has  also  served  on  nu- 
merous faculty  committees ;  he  will 
finish  up  a  three-year  term  on  the 
Personnel  and  Economic  Policy  Com- 
mittee this  year.  In  March,  Dr.  Bettinger 
served  as  the  faculty  sponsor  for  a  high 
school  debate  tournament  held  at  Cente- 
nary, which  drew  over  400  high  school 
students  to  our  campus. 

Serving  as  Dean  of  the  College  is  a 
full-time-plus  job  for  Dr.  Gw  in,  who 
finds  time  to  teach  not  only  in  the 
Psychology  Department,  hut  also  in 
the  Education  Department.  She  also 
sees  students  for  academic  and  personal 
counseling  and  is  available  for  speaking 
engagements  in  the  community. 

Need  a  date?  Try  the  Department  of 
Psychology.  Need  a  good  education? 
You  can  get  that,  too. 


STRICTLY  PERSONAL 


1920s 


"Roaring  Twenties"  —  All  former  stu- 
dents of  the  1920s  classes  are  invited  to 
be  special  guests  of  the  College  at  their 
Reunion  Luncheon  at  noon  on  Saturday, 
June    23,    in    the    Centenary    Room    of 
Bynum  Commons  Cafeteria.  Frank  Boyd- 
ston  and  Bentley  Sloane  have  been  mak- 
ing plans  for  this  celebration.  Please  fill 
out  the  registration  form  in  the  magazine 
and  return  to  the  Alumni  Office. 


X30.   LILLIAN  is  now  living  in 
Shreveport. 


1930s 

ALGIE  BROWN ,  who  has  taken  on 
the  position  of  Class  Agent  for 
1934,  wrote  that  DR.  E.  L.  FORD, who 
celebrated  his  90th  birthday  in 
February,  may  be  a  guest  at  their 
50th  Class  Reunion.   Bill  Grabill 
is  also  working  on  the  Class 
Reunion  Dinner.   He  and  his  wife 
quite  often  play  bridge  at  East 
Ridge  Country  Club 

BILLY  BLACKMAN  '34  plays  golf, 
travels,  and  generally  enjoys  life 
after  selling  his  dry  cleaning 
business  and  retiring. 

Seen  at  the  Travelogue  held  at 
Captain  Shreve  High  School  in 
Shreveport  were  GENEVIEVE  MOLT 
BRYSON,  MARJORIE  MOLT  DOWNER,  and 
AMINDA  DOTY  RISER,  all  frequent 
travelers.   ARMINDA  and  JAMES  T. 
RISER,  the  ALGIE  BROWNS,  and  VERA 
MAE  COWEN  BUCHANAN  traveled  to  the 
Far  East  together;  VERA  MAE  and  the 
BROWNS  also  toured  the  Greek  Isles 
and  the  Near  East  together. 


For  the  45th  Cluster  Reunion,  the  classes 
of  1938,  '39,  '40  are  planning  an  evening 
full  of  activity.  The  classes  will  gather  at 
6:30  p.m.  at  the  new  Sheratonat  Pierre- 
mont  Plaza  on  East  70th  for  a  social  hour 
followed  by  a  dinner  and  dance.  The  cost 
of  this  reunion  will  be  $20.00  per  person. 
Beverly  Cooper  Shaffer,  Edna  Earle 
Richardson  Stinson,  and  Grace  Julian 
Norton  have  been  working  hard  to  make 
this  an  occasion  to  remember,  so  get  your 
reservations  in  to  the  Alumni  Office. 


MANNING  SMITH  '34  is  still  at 
College  Station.. the  Reunion 
Committee  hopes  he  will  be  up  for 
the  50th  as  well  as  DON  and  POLLY 
ANNA  RHEA  in  Houma,  and  ANN  IDA 
BUCHANAN  MILLER  and  husband  PAUL  in 
Tyler. 

Still  calling  Shreveport  home 
are  '34  alumni  ADRIAN  SNIDER, 
AUSTIN  ROBERTSON,  BUCKNER  OGILVIE, 
JAMES  NOEL,  ABRAHAM  NICHOLAS, 
GEORGE  BAIRD,  MONROE  DODD,  HORACE 
HOLDER,  and  CHARLIE  HOSTETTLER.   W. 
HINTON  STEEN  has  recently  returned 
to  Shreveport  and  lives  next  door 
to  ALGIE  BROWN. 

We  extend  our  sincere 
sympathies  to  LILLIAN  JENKINS 
CONGER  '34  on  the  recent  death  of 
her  husband,  GEORGE  WILLILAM  CONGER 


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The  Tolden  Jubilee  50th  Anniversary 
Reunion  for  the  class  of  1934  will  be  held 
on  Saturday  evening,  June  23,  at  6:30 
p.m.  in  the  Centenary  Room  at  Centen- 
ary's own  Bynum  Commons.  The  cost  for 
the  occasion  will  be  $12.00  per  person. 
Algie  D.  Brown,  Jacques  Caspri,  Nancy 
Hinkle  Causey,  Marjorie  Molt  Downer, 
Bill  Brabill,  and  Austin  Robertson  have 
made  great  plans,  so  be  sure  and  fill  out 
the  registration  form  and  send  it  in  to 
the  Alumni  Office. 


1940s 

JOHN  WOODS  '43  is  a  corporation 
attorney  in  Arlington  Heights,  111. 

Reunion  organizer  and  Class 
Agent  1944  GRACE  NORTON  received  a 
letter  from  ALICE  SUTTON  BAIRD  in 
Keithville,  who  said  she  had  marked 
her  calendar  for  their  40th  Cluster 
Reunion  in  June.   She  reminisced  on 
how  there  was  only  one  other 
student  in  her  mythology  class 
under  Dr.  Phelps.   Since  Centenary, 
she  has  taught  In  the  Caddo 
schools,  served  two  years  on  the 
board  of  Childhood  Education 
Magazine  International,  received 
life  membership  in  the  Louisiana 
Parent  Teachers  Association  and 
received  the  honor  of  the  Most 
Popular  Teacher  of  the  Year  at  Park 
Elementary  School,  where  she  taught 
for  38  years.   She  received  her 
masters  degree  in  the  Child  Study 
Program  at  the  University  of 
Maryland  in  1954.   Her  husband 
passed  away  in  1960,  and  since 
retiring,  she  has  become  an  artist 
and  writer,  and  is  presently 
working  on  her  second  book,  an 
autobiography.   As  President  of  the 
Shreveport  Chapter  of  The  National 
Society  of  Arts  and  Letters,  she 
travels  extensively,  traveling. 

1940  Class  Agent  GRACE  NORTON 
learned  that  CLEVE  FARNELL  RAMSEY 
of  Shreveport  is  looking  forward  to 
their  cluster  reunion  because  her 
brother  is  a  graduate  of  '38,  and 
will  also  be  included.   She  and 
husband  PRENTISS  recently  enjoyed  a 
three  week  trip  to  the  British 
Isles  and  Paris. 


In  Memoriam 


MRS.  HILDRED  SHELT0N  '26 
June  23,  1983 
WILLIAM  EDWARD  DEW,  SR. 
August  18,  1983 
ELIZABETH  KIMMEL  MCBRIDE 
Mrs.  Paul  F. 
September  6,  1983 
EUNICE  MEANS  FRANKLIN  '49 

June  21,  1983 

[CATHERINE  J.  COCHRAN  '59 

Mrs.  Kenneth  B. 

August  19,  1983 


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44 


With  two  grandsons  PEARL 
BICKHAM  OLMSTED  '40  is  proud  of  her 
new  granddaughter  born  in  November. 

DOROTHY  HERRIN  GAMMIL  '40  has 
two  children,  both  Centenary 
graduates.   Her  son,  Arthur  Ray, 
Jr.  is  a  '69  graduate  and  lives  in 
Shreveport.   Daughter  Janet  Andrews 
'73  is  a  resident  of  Honolulu, 
where  she  also  handles  real  estate 
like  her  mother  and  brother. 

IRENE  BAKER  '40  reports  that 
she  lives  only  a  few  blocks  from 
Alma  Mater,  and  is  a  vice  president 
in  charge  of  customer  relations  for 
the  First  National  Bank. 

OATS  PYNES  '40  is  teaching 
world  geography  at  Bel  Air  High 
School  in  El  Paso  and  has  helped 
plan  a  new  economics  course  which 
he  will  teach  next  year.   He  and 
BERT  travel  extensively,  and  last 
year  toured  the  West.   They  plan  to 
go  northeast  this  summer,  and  we 
hope,  include  the  Alumni  Weekend  in 
June,  before  heading  north  to 
Chicago  and  Niagara  Falls. 

1943  Class  Agent  GENE  HILLIARD 
heard  from  AUBREY  and  VIRGINIA 
BREITHAUPT  MCCLELLAN  in  El  Cerrito, 
Calif,  where  he  is  a  research 
chemist.   Among  his  hobbies  is  an 
interest  in  Venice,  Italy,  and 
AUBREY  now  has  collected  220  books 
and  80  etching  and  engravings  of 
the  city.   VIRGINIA  has  finished  an 
extensive  family  history  about  the 
Breithaupts  of  Louisiana. 

MARY  BELLE  MCKENZIE  RUSHING  '43 
and  her  husband  live  in  Houston; 
their  daughter  is  at  Louisiana 
Tech,  and  their  son  is  a  CPA,  also 
in  Houston. 


For  the  40th  Anniversary  Cluster  Reunion, 
the  classes  of  1943,  '44,  and  '45  have 
planned  a  social  hour,  dinner,  and  a 
dance  on  Saturday,  June  23,  starting  at 
6:30  p.m.  at  the  Shreveport  Club.  The 
cost  of  the  reunion  is  $17.50  per  person. 
Gene  Hilliard,  Billye  Loveladdy  Harris, 
and  Carolyn  Clay  Flournoy  have  promised 
plenty  of  food,  a  cash  bar,  and  for  your 
dancing  or  listening  pleasure,  Bill 
Causey,  Jr.'s,  Combo.  There  is  a  special 
surprise  in  store  for  you,  so  get  those 
registration  forms  into  the  Alumni 
Office  as  soon  as  possible. 


In  the  Shreveport  area: 
JOE  CASSIERE  '43  is  retired  in 
Shreveport;  his  son  is  the  Hilliard 
family  physican.   Seen  around  the 
city  are  former  mayor  CALHOUN  ALLEN 
'43  and  his  wife,  JACKIE;  LAURA 
HODGES  DAI LEY  and  husband  JACK, 
CHARLES  MCCALL  and  wife  BETTY  JO, 
GWIN  '41  and  KATHRYN  MORENAUX 
MORRISON,  and  JERE  and  ANN 
THIBODEAUX  OVERDYKE . 

JACK  ELGIN  '43,  who  married 
DELANA  YANCY,  is  a  Merrill  Lynch 
stock  broker  in  Shreveport;  he  also 
serves  on  the  Alumni  Board  and  wil 
be  giving  a  mini-course  on  finan- 
cial planning  at  Alumni  Weekend  in 
June. 


CECIL  RAMEY,  a  senior  partner 
in  the  law  firm  of  Hargrove, 
Guyton,  Ramey  and  Barlow,  and  also 
a  Sunday  School  teacher,  will  be 
giving  a  mini-course  on  Louisiana 
Wills  at  the  Alumni  College  during 
,Alumni  Weekend. 

MARILEE  DAVIS  HARTER  '43  is 
'busy  running  her  two  retail  stores, 
Hartwall  I  and  II,  and  EARL  '41  is 
managing  his  Harter  Oil  Company. 

JOHN  HEARNE  '43  stays  busy  in 
Hearne's  Department  Store,  and 
.BUDDY  and  SCOOTS  GUSTINE  JOHNSON 
lare  opening  a  new  restaurant  on  E. 
!70th  Street.   They  are  also  into 
antiques. 

PEYTON  AND  VIRGINIA  KILPATRICK 
iSHEHEE  '43  manage  their  insurance 
land  related  businesses.   VIRGINIA 
served  as  a  Louisiana  state 
senator. 

DR.  DAN  SPURLOCK  '43  is  a 
'practicing  dentist  and  antique 
;buff. 

BURL  (SULLY)  and  CLARISSE 
i SULLIVAN  '43  moved  back  to 
Shreveport  when  he  was  a  geologist 
with  one  of  the  Sun  Oil  Companies. 
IHe  is  now  an  independent  geologist. 
DONN  THOMPSON  '43  was  active  in 
the  building  of  Cypress  Lake  .   He 
land  his  wife  live  on  Cypress  Lake 
i next  door  to  the  Honorable  Joe 
iWaggonner . 

In  Germantown,  Tenn. ,  GEORGE 
ROBERTS  '43  is  a  chemical  engineer, 
,who  travels  frequently  to  Europe  in 
iconnection  with  his  work. 

RUSSELL  MCCLAIN  '44  of  Gurdon, 
JArk. ,  wrote  that  "life  for  us  has 
(been  a  fascinating  and  wonderful 
adventure  and  our  Centenary 
experience  was  an  important  part." 
| After  graduation  they  moved  to 
Washington  and  later  New  York  City 
'until  he  retired,  and  then  moved 
i back  to  his  wife  LILLIAN'S  home 
| town  of  Gurdon.  His  first  teaching 
'position  was  with  the  College  of 
the  Ozarks.   In  that  school,  and  in 
New  York  University  and  New 
Jersey's  Ocean  County  College,  he 
taught  and  served  as  head  of  the 
Department  of  Social  Sciences  for 
'more  than  20  years.   He  also  worked 
for  the  New  York  Times  for  14  years 
to  pay  for  a  Columbia  M.A.  and  Ph.D 
They  have  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Richard 
E.  Roberts  of  Tulsa  and  a 
four-year-old  granddaughter.   Since 
retirement  he  has  spent  five  years 
as  Mayor  of  Gurdon,  "stealing" 
frequent  afternoons  for  golf,  and 
is  now  trying  to  start  a  family 
business  in  Tulsa.   The  MCCLAINS 
plan  to  be  at  the  Reunion. 
THE  REV.  and  MRS.  JACK 
WINEGEART  '44  are  living  in 
DeRidder.   JACK  continues  to  enjoy 
involvement  in  the  programs  of  the 
First  United  Methodist  Church  in 
DrRidder  and  in  the  fellowship  in 
the  DeRidder  Area  Ministerial 
Alliance,  while  NORMA  enjoys  the 
historical  elements  of  the  United 
Methodist  Women's  Centennial  Era 


and  the  Church's  Bicentennial. 
Their  son,  GENE,  is  living  in 
Shreveport  and  teaching  in  Benton; 
GENE  and  NORMA  went  to  China  with  a 
group  from  Centenary. 

BETTY  VOGEL  MCDONALD  wrote  that 
she  attended  Centenary  only  during 
the  summer  for  a  few  years,  but  she 
still  has  many  ties  with  the 
College.   Daughter  BETSY  BOZE  and 
son-in-law  KEN  both  teach  In  the 
business  department.   Betsy  makes 
the  fourth  member  of  her  immediate 
family  to  be  employed  at  Centenary. 
BETTY'S  father,  DR.  BR00X  GARRETT, 
was  team  physician  and  her  late 
husband,  DR.  LEROY  VOGEL,  was  dean 
and  head  of  the  history  department, 
while  BETTY  was  the  financial  aid 
director.   She  and  husband  PAUL,  a 
Centenary  trustee,  spend  much  time 
traveling  (China,  Vienna,  Munich) 
as  she  still  writes  for  the  Sunday 
Magazine  Section  of  The  (Shreveport 
Times. 

1945  Class  Agent  CAROLYN  CLAY 
FL0URN0Y  had  good  response  to  her 
letters.   CAROLYN  RIGBY  ALMAND 
wrote  that  she  and  CEDRIC  still 
live  in  Haynesville,  where  he  is 
the  Gulf  Oil  Jobber  for  Claiborne 
Parish.   She  recently  retired  from 
a  career  in  piano  teaching  and  from 
leading  choruses  at  Claiborne 
Academy.   The  Almands  have  three 
daughters,  all  married,  and  two 
grandchildren.   They  are  active 
civic  and  church  workers  and  plan 
to  be  here  for  the  Alumni  Weekend. 

BILL  STEPHENS  '45  and  his  wife, 
CLAIRE,  live  in  Tyler,  Texas,  where 
he  has  been  a  physician  in  ENT 
since  1953.   They  have  four  grown 
children:  one  married,  three  still 
in  college. 

Class  Agent  1948  ALICE  CURTIS 
BROWN  passed  on  the  news  that  LEL 
HAMNER  MCCULLOUGH  is  presently  the 
head  of  the  Caddo  Magnet  Schools, 
and  husband  JIMMY  is  in  film 
production  in  Shreveport. 

JIMMY  LAW  '48  is  an  independent 
geologist  in  Shreveport,  and  along 
with  wife  DOT  is  an  avid  follower 
of  Centenary's  basketball  team. 
Their  son  is  an  attorney  in  Dallas. 

OCTAVIA  GRANBERY  TRUEHART  '48 
and  husband  BOB  are  grandparents 
for  the  first  time! 


1950s 


WAYNE  HANSON  '51  Class  Agent 
heard  from  W.  H.  BATEN  in  Haughton 
saying  that  he  retired  in  1975  and 
has  just  celebrated  his  74th  birth- 
day.  He  still  goes  to  Strawns  for 
lunch,  has  one  daughter,  two  sons, 
five  grandchildren,  and  a  lovely 
wife  MARY  E.,  who  "makes  43  years 
of  marriage  seem  but  a  week." 

In  Lafayette  JEAN  BENTLY 
STROTHER  '51  is  teaching, 
supervising  student  teachers, 
"PIPing,"  participating  in  art 
shows  and  traveling. . .she  helps 
with  tour  groups  to  Europe. 


Class  Agent  1956  MARGARET 
TEAGUE  found  two  "lost"  alums: 
DON  HARBUCK  completed    years  as 
pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 
In  El  Dorado  before  moving  to 
Tennessee,  where  he  is  now  pastor 
of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of 
Chattanooga.   His  wife,  ELIZABETH, 
passed  away  in  January,  1983.   His 
three  sons  are  now  grown  and  on 
their  own,  and  daughter  CHERYL  is  a 
junior  at  Baylor. 

And  FRANK  BEAN  '51  is  a  retired 
Army  dentist  in  Austin,  Texas, 
where  his  wife  is  a  practicing 
attorney. 

CARLOS  WELCH  and  RALPH  MEIER 
'51  aren't  lost. . .CARLOS  is  a 
Methodist  missionary  at  the 
Christian  Counseling  Center  in 
Tamilnadu,  India,  and  RALPH  is  a 
doctor  in  New  Orleans. 

DOUG  M00TY  '51  is  still 
teaching  at  Linwood  Junior  High, 
commuting  from  Marshall,  Texas. 

DAN  TOHLINE  '51  is  trying  to 
become  a  Cajun  in  Lafayette. 

CATHERINE  CARPENTER  SMYTH  '51, 
Cultural  Attache  at  the  U.S. 
Embassy  in  Ottawa,  Canada,  has  had 
her  appointment  extended  until 
1985.   She  travels  to  all  ten 
provinces  in  Canada. 


The  class  of  1959  will  have  a  great  time 
this  year  celebrating  their  25th  Anniver- 
sary Reunion  on  Saturday,  June  23,  at 
6:30  p.m.  at  the  Best  Western  Regency 
Motor  Hotel.  Leon  Bain,  John  Bird,  and 
Warren  West,  Jr.,  have  been  hard  at  work 
planning  a  social  hour  and  dinner.  The 
cost    is    $12.50    a    person    or    $25.00    a 
couple.  It  will  be  great  fun  visiting  with 
friends,  so  be  sure  to  find  a  registration 
form  in  the  magazine  and  send  it  in  today! 


1956  Class  Agent  MARGARET 
TEAGUE  heard  from  OUIDA  FAE  MORRIS 
in  Huntsville,  Texas,  with  the  news 
that  CAROLYN  HEARNE  WALLIS  is  in 
Baton  Rouge  and  that  FRANK  AND  JUDY 
HARRIS  have  a  son  in  the  Centenary 
Choir.   JUDY  sent  in  ELSIE 
WHIDDON'S  address.   ELSIE,  who 
plans  to  attend  Alumni  Weekend  in 
June,  is  a  legal  secretary  in 
Dallas  and  will  soon  open  her  own 
arts,  crafts,  and  specialized 
sewing  business. 

JAN  HANSON  ARAGON  '56  and 
husband  F.J.  have  resided  in 
Cypress,  Texas,  for  27  years.   He 
is  the  pastor  of  Christ  United 
Church,  and  JAN  is  the  first  woman 
principal  of  a  secondary  school  in 
that  district. 


1960s 

MARY  LOU  LOWE  HUGHES  '60  lives 
in  Bossier  and  teaches  at 
Southfield  School. 

ANNE  MCLAURIN  MORRIS,  Class 
Agent  1961,  received  a  note  from 
SAMMIE  KAY  SMITH  saying  that  she 
and  WARREN  are  living  in  Timpson, 
Texas,  after  his  retirement  from 
the  Air  Force,  and  she  now  owns  a 
travel  agency. 


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GEORGE  ACTON  lives  in 
Shreveport  at  the  Townhouse  and  is 
busy  with  his  medical  career. 

FRANKIE  STOKES  HOUCHIN  '61  is 
recovering  from  knee  surgery  in 
Dallas. 

LINDA  SUE  BROWN  EVERS  '61  and 
her  husband  have  opened  a  new  shop 
in  Shreveport  called  "The 
Menagerie"  which  specializes  in 
twist  beads,  cubic  zirconias,  home 
accessories,  handbags  and  more. 

RALPH  MASON  '61  has  disappeared 
again.   The  Army  can  really  make  a 
man  vanish... so  if  anyone's  heard 
from  him  since  Christmas,  please 
let  us  know. 

HOYT  D.  BAIN,  Class  Agent  for 
1963,  is  still  offering  a  tennis 
challenge  to  the  class  during 
Alumni  Weekend  in  June.   He's  been 
making  plans  along  with  ANNE  MORRIS 
'61  and  for  the  Cluster  Reunion  of 
the  Classes  of  '61,  '62  '63. 


The  classes  of  1963,  '64,  and  '65  will  cele- 
brate their  20th  Anniversary  Cluster 
Reunion  with  a  Mexican  Fiesta  on  Satur- 
day evening,  June  23,  at  7:00  p.m.  at 
Pierremont  Oaks  Tennis  Club.  Hoyt  Bain, 
Lois  Wray  Rowe,  and  Gayle  and  Regina 
Levinson  Wren  have  great  plans  in  store 
for   this   festive   occasion.    Some   of   the 
things  they  promise  are  a  Mexican  buffet, 
a  dance,  and  a  cash  bar  all  evening.  The 
cost    of   the    reunion    will    be    $17.50    a 
person  or  $35.00  a  couple.  Oh,  by  the 
way,  the  party  is  BYOBS  (Bring  Your 
Own  Bathing  Suit).  Check  the  magazine 
for  your  registration  form,  and  send  it 
in  now\ 


1970s 

Congratulations  to  ROSEMARY 
SPAULDING  MORRIS  '71  and  husband 
LEE  on  the  birth  of  their  son, 
CHRISTOPHER  SPAULDING  MORRIS,  who 
was  born  in  December. 

KATHY  CALL  MART  ONE  '73  is  a 
licensed  psychologist  in  Little 
Rock,  where  she  lives  with  her 
husband,  LUIGI .   She  is  presently 
director  of  a  small  mental  health 
center  in  North  Little  Rock  and  has 
done  extensive  research  and 
experimentation  in  parapsychology 
and  dreams. 

MICHELE  Q-PETERSEN  had  much 
news  for  the  Class  Notes  page  of 
her  1974  Class  Agent  letter: 
Since  graduation  LAURA  VAUGHT 
ANDERSON  received  her  master's  in 
sociology  from  Stephen  F.  Austin 
State  University,  taught  briefly, 
and  then  pursued  a  career  in 
nursing.   She  works  as  an  RN  for 
the  Veterans  Center  in  Shreveport, 
where  she  and  husband  WAYNE  live. 

PATTI  M.  MELKER  '74  lives  in 
Baton  Rouge,  with  her  two  children, 
KIRSTEN  and  MERRITT,  and  her 
physician  husband,  MERRITT.   She 
retired  from  ten  years  of  teaching 
middle  and  high  school  levels  of 
math  and  science.   She  also  serves 
on  the  board  for  the  American  Red 
Cross  and  is  chairman  of  Youth 


Volunteer  Services. 

MARY  HIBBARD  GREENWALDT  '74  and 
husband  CARROLL  are  busy  raising 
two  children.   Since  Centenary  she 
has  worked  towards  an  MBA  from  SMU, 
taught  in  elementary  school,  stayed 
active  in  church  and  service 
volunteer  work  and  was  named  as  an 
"Outstanding  Young  Woman  of 
America"  in  1982. 

MARY  HERRINGTON  DINGER  '74 
spent  two  years  at  LSU-BR  graduate 
school  studying  French,  and  she  is 
now  teaching  grades  4  and  5  in 
Berwick.   She  has  three  daughters. 

SUSIE  WILKES  BLAN CHARD  '74 
lives  in  Sulphur  with  husband  CHRIS 
and  their  three  sons. 

DELANE  ANDERSON  GIBBS  '74 
received  a  master's  in  economics 
from  LSU  and  is  teaching  economics 
at  Leeward  Community  College  on 
Oahu,  Hawaii,  where  husband  MAJOR 
JOE  GIBBS  is  stationed  with  the 
U.S.  Array.   They  have  two  sons  and 
are  in  the  process  of  adopting  a 
Korean  infant  named  ANNA. 

Also  in  Honolulu  is  JANET 
GAMMILL  ANDREWS  '74,  who  is  active 
in  real  estate  and  development. 

PETE  MATTER  '74  owns  his  own 
real  estate  investment  firm  in 
Dallas,  where  he  lives  with  wife 
MELINDA  and  son  CHARLIE. 

PAM  S0L0MAN  VAUGHAN  '74  lives 
in  Monroe  with  husband  LAWRENCE  and 
daughter  JILL.   She  teaches 
kindergarten  after  having  received 
her  master's  in  education  in  NLU. 

JANE  HUTTERLY  '74  received  her 
MBA  from  Cornell  University  School 
of  Management.  She  is  married  and 
is  now  the  products  development 
manager  for  S.C.  Johnson  &  Sons  in 
Racine,  Wis. 

CHERRY  PAYNE-HOWARD  '74  and 
husband  BOB  are  both  park  rangers 
in  Allenspark,  Col.   In  the  past 
ten  years  she  has  lived  in  nine 
different  states  from  New  York  to 
Alaska.   In  Denver,  they  frequently 
see  NETTA  HARES  ADDOR  and  her 
husband,  DAVE,  and  also  CINDY 
YEAST,  who  flies  for  Frontier. 

VIDA  TRAYLOR  YANCY  '74  lives  in 
Shreveport  in  Dr.  Viva  Rainey's 
former  house  on  Columbia  with 
husband  PHIL  and  their  two 
children.   She  works  in  stained 
glass. 

YOLANDA  GONZALAS  NONETT  '74 
lives  in  Piano,  Texas,  with  husband 
STEVE  and  their  two  daughters. 
Yolanda  plays  racquetball  and  is  an 
active  as  well  as  charter  member  of 
the  Piano-Richardson  chapter  of 
Alpha  Xi  Delta  Alumnae  Chapter. 

HOLLY  HESS  '74  received  her 
master's  in  Urban  and  Regional 
Planning  and  is  presently  in  New 
Orleans  working  as  a  policy  planner 
of  the  Orleans  Parish  School  Board. 

1975  Class  Agent  JOE  WALKER  has 
changed  jobs  at  Pennzoil,  and  is 
now  the  district  accountant  in  the 
Houston  Marine  District.   He 
recently  spent  the  evening  with 


CRAIG  MARG0  in  Oklahoma  City. 
CRAIG  is  the  psychologist/ 
coordianator  for  the  Lincoln  County 
Guidance  Center  in  Chandler. 

JIM  HAAS  '75  is  an  attorney  in 
Midland,  Texas. 

VICKIE  MOORE  YOUNG  '75  and  her 
husband,  PAUL  (Class  Agent  for 
1976)  had  their  second  child,  JOHN 
PAUL  YOUNG. 

Two  members  of  the  class  of  '75 
are  now  members  of  the  faculty  at 
Centenary.   DR.  JEFF  HENDRICKS 
teaches  in  the  English  department 
and  BRUCE  ALLEN  teaches  in  the  art 
department. 

MATT  BROWN  '75  is  a  landman  in 
College  Station,  Texas. 

MICKEY   and  MELISSA  MOORE 
LEHNER  '75  proudly  annouce  the 
arrival  of  their  daughter,  BROOK 
DAVIS  LEHNER,  in  December. 

PATRICIA  L.  NORTON  '75 
graduated  from  LSU  law  school  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1978. 
For  the  past  four  years  she  has 
been  working  as  an  Assistant 
Attorney  General  in  the  Louisiana 
Department  of  Justice,  Environ- 
mental Enforcement  Section, 
prosecuting  oil  and  chemical 
companies  for  pollution  violations. 
She  represented  the  state  in  the 
recently  settled  Petro-Processors 
lawsuit  which  involved  the  largest 
hazardous  waste  site  clean-up  in 
the  nation,  near  Baton  Rouge.   She 
is  still  involved  in  art,  and 
builds  stained  glass  windows  in  her 
spare  time.   She  is  also  the  mother 
of  six-year-old  Sara.   She  is 
looking  for  copies  of  the 
activities  calen- 
dars she  made  for  SGA  back  in  1973- 
75,  if  there  are  any  "pack  rats" 
out  there  who  still  have  them. 

ROGER  T.  and  PATTI  CARR  FELTON 
both  '76,  have  two  children,  JAMIE 
LYNN  and  TRACY  ELIZABETH.   ROGER  is 
a  salesman  for  Lilly  Industrial 
Coatings  in  Penns  Grove,  N.J. 


For  the  10th  Anniversary  Reunion,  the 
class  of  1974  will  hold  a  dance  on  Satur- 
day night,  June  23,  at  the  Best  Western 
Regency  Motor  Hotel  from  7:00  p.m. 
until  midnight.  Admission  will  be  $20.00 
per  person  and  will  include  finger  buffet, 
cash  bar,  and  entertainment  by  Dorsey 
Summerfield  and  the  Polyphonies. 
Michele  Armstrong  Q-Peterson  and  Missy 
Restarick  Pou  are  making  plans  for  this 
celebration,  so  fill  out  the  registration 
form  and  send  it  in  to  the  Alumni  Office 
NOW] 


1977  Class  Agent  NASSER  SHUKAYR 
is  the  vice  president  and  major 
stockholder  In  Computer  Profes- 
sionals, Inc.  in  Shreveport.   His 
wife,  PAM,  is  a  registered  nurse, 
and  they  have  an  infant  son. 
During  Alumni  Weekend  NASSER  will 
conduct  an  Alumni  College  mini- 
class  on  "Tomorrow's  Computers." 

1979  Class  Agent  KATHY  KEYES 
has  compiled  news  of  that  class: 
DAPHNE  WIEGAND  ANDERSON  and  her 
husband,  MARK,  are  "surviving 


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1980s 


internships  in  Columbia,  Mo. ,  but 
they  will  be  moving  to  Little  Rock 
this  summer.   DAPHNE'S  been  accept- 

|  ed  to  the  dermatology  program,  and 
MARK  will  continue  in  internal 

|  medicine. 

JOHN  V.  CALDWELL  '79  graduated 
I  from  Tulane  University  School  of 
I  Business  with  an  MBA,  joined 

Howard,  Weil,  Labouisse, 
i  Friedrichs,  Inc.  in  July  and  later 
|  became  a  registered  representative. 
He  married  the  former  DIANNE  LOUISE 
BOURGEOIS  in  November,  and  they 
I  live  in  Thibodaux. 

JANE  DILLINGHAM  FINK  '79  writes 
that  she  and  JACK  are  now  living  in 
Little  Rock,  having  moved  there 
from  Nashville,  where  Jack  was 
studying  at  Vanderbilt  University 
Law  School  and  JANE  was  teaching 
grades  6,7,  and  8. 

JIM  HARD  '79  completed  his  MA 
in  sociology  with  his  specialty  in 
Family  and  Student  (Adolescent) 
Development.   He  and  wife  JOYCE 
live  in  Sequin,  Texas,  where  Jim  is 
the  Assistant  Dean  of  Students  at 
,  Texas  Lutheran  College. 

MARTHA  KELLEY  '79  resides  in 
Dallas,  works  for  Placid  Oil  Co, 
and  is  active  in  local  theatre. 

RANDY  MARCEL  '79  received  his 
certification  in  Medical  Technology 
|  from  LSU-MS  in  Shreveport,  then 
acquired  a  master's  degree  in 
Anesthesiology  from  Emory  Univer- 
sity.  He  practices  in  Columbus 
Ga. ,  and  wife  CHARLOTTE  is  studying 
speech  pathology  and  plans  to  start 
teaching  in  the  public  school  this 
fall. 

MIKE  and  JAMIE  OSBORNE  '79  live 
in  Anderson  S.C.,  where  Mike  is  in 
his  first  year  of  family  practice 
residency. 

LAURA  MACK  SAWYER  '79  worked  at 
First  Methodist  in  Lake  Charles  for 
over  three  years  before  quitting  to 
have  EMILY  GAIL,  her  second  child. 
LAURA'S  husband,  DEAN,  will 
graduate  from  McNeese  in  May  with  a 
degree  in  nursing. 

JULIA  VAN  TIEM  MARTIN  '79  has 
begun  her  master's  degree  program 
in  communications  at  the  University 
of  Notre  Dame.   She  and  DAVID 
MARTIN  were  married  in  February, 
and  they  now  reside  in  Orange, 
Calif. 

Congratulations  to  ROBERT  and 
', ELAINE  ADES  CLARKE  '79  on  the  birth 

of  their  daughter,  EMILY  MARIE. 
MARK  E.  ROLAND  '79  completed 
I  Air  Force  basic  training  and  is  now 
I  stationed  with  his  wife,  BRENDA,  at 

Sheppard  Air  Force  Base,  Texas.   He 
j will  be  receiving  specialized 

instruction  in  the  aircraft 

maintenance  field. 


GORDON  BLACKMAN,  1980  Class 
Agent,  wrote  that  MONA  PIERCE  LOGAN 
received  her  master's  of  education 
with  a  major  in  counseling  from 
Stephen  F.  Austin  University,  and 
she  is  now  executive  director  of 
the  Deep  East  Texas  Regional 
Council  on  Alcohol  and  Drug  Abuse 
in  Lufkin.   MONA  and  daughter  HOLLY 
live  in  Nacogdoches.  Mona  and  her 
late  husband,  JOHN  A.  LOGAN  '78 
were  the  first  recipients  of  the 
Outstanding  Alumni  Award  of  the 
Church  Careers  Program. 

PATRICIA  SMITH  '80  married 
DANIEL  J.  THOMAS,  an  urban  design 
planner  who  works  for  the 
Shreveport  Metropolitan  Planning 
Commission.   Tricia  is  working  as  a 
Systems  Engineer  at  IBM  . 

ELLEN  BROWN  '80  finished  her 
master's  work  and  is  preparing  for 
May  orals  In  her  special  field: 
American  Literature  1870-1940  at 
the  University  of  Illinois.  Her 
doctoral  dissertation  will  be  on 
Henry  James. 

STEVE  BRANT0N  '80  is  working  in 
Houston  with  Superior  Oil's  Inter- 
national Accounting  Group,  and  his 
wife,  LEISA,  is  supervisor  of 
residential  lending  for  Gibraltar 
Savings. 

MARY  BEA  THOMAS  '80  is  the 
Regional  Director  for  Central 
Arkansas  with  the  American  Heart 
Association,  Arkansas  Affiliate. 
She  is  also  working  on  a  master's 
degree  in  management  with  emphasis 
on  voluntary  agencies,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Audubon  Society,  and 
the  Arkansas  Sierra  Club. 

1981  Class  Agent  JAN  CARPENTER 
EADS  talked  recently  with  KEN  JECK, 
who  is  a  new  home  owner  in  Kansas. 
JAN  and  her  mother  visited  Jordan, 
Israel,  and  Egypt.   She  also  rode  a 
camel  "for  the  first  and  last 
time. " 

DEBBIE  HETRICK  LOGAN  '81  is  a 
busy  musician  in  Ohio.   She  is 
involved  with  her  church's  music 
program  including  five  choirs. 

GINGER  WHITE  COLLINS  '81 
married  BUBBA  COLLINS,  and  she  is 
now  a  certified  paralegal. 

DARLINDA  COOK  '81  and  STEVE 
CASSEL  married  in  August.   She  is 
teaching  first  grade  while 
completing  her  master's  in 
education  at  Louisiana  Tech,  while 
he  is  working  on  his  master's  in 
mechanical  engineering. 

MARK  EVANS  '82  will  be 
attending  Perkins  School  of 
Theology  in  Dallas  in  June. 

1982  Class  Agent  DAVID 
HENINGTON  wrote  that  STEVE 
BURKHALTER  and  LIBBY  TAYLOR  are 
getting  married  in  June. 

SCOTT  GOODWIN  '82  is  a 
geologist  with  Texas  Union 
Petroleum  in  Houston. 


SUE  COTTCNGIM  '82  bought  a 
house,  passed  the  CPA  exam,  and  is 
working  in  Shreveport  at  Tri-State 
Oil  Company  handling  their  Latin 
American  account. 

JENNIE  LANE  SMITH  '82  played  in 
the  Harder  Hall  Invitational  in 
Sebring  and  the  South  Atlantic 
Championship  golf  tournament  in 
Ormand  Beach. 

JULIE  CLEGG  '82  lives  in  Dallas 
and  works  for  a  CPA  firm. 

BRENDA  SUE  CUNNINGHAM  '82  is 
the  newest  member  of  the  Centenary 
Alumni  Board. 

NANCY  ALEXANDER  BYNUM  '82  is  no 
longer  teaching,  but  is  busy  taking 
care  of  SALLIE  ELIZABETH,  who  was 
born  in  September. 

ROANNIE  LONG  STOW  '82  teaches 
third  grade  at  St.  Gregory's  in 
Tyler,  Texas. 

KATHY  NESTER  '82  is  working  for 
Electronic  Data  Systems  on  a 
contract  with  Penn  State  University 
installing  a  computer  system  for 
the  University.   She  is  looking 
forward  to  ten  weeks  of  training  in 
computer  programming  this  spring  or 
summer  in  Dallas. 

CARLA  BAUER  '82  is  studying  at 
Emory  University  in  the  Master  of 
Theological  Studies  Program. 

DIANA  MUNOZ  '82  is  at  the 
American  University  in  Washington, 
D.C.,  studying  international 
politics. 

LAURIE  PULLE  '82  is  coaching 
tennis  and  teaching  physical 
education  in  Paris,  Texas. 

NELL  CHAMBERS  MAESER  '82  lives 
in  Carrollton,  Ga. ,  and  works  in 
Atlanta. 


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