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Eiecfronic Teaching
Poetic Values In
Liberal Education
Outstanding Alumnus
AAillsaps College Alumni Magazine
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The New Look In Languages At AAillsaps
From the President
The most important single item to
report in the midst of the current
academic year is the circulation of li-
brary books. It has almost doubled
over that of previous years! Such a
record is a tribute to students, to
faculty, and to the Library staff. The
Quality of college study may well be
judged by examining the use of the Li-
brary.
Alumni and friends of the College
know of the beautiful Millsaps-Wilson
Library building, with its modern furn-
ishings and adequate equipment. You will
be pleased to know of the extensive and
increasing use being made of the
facilities — most of all, the books.
Alumni and friends who visit the
Library may also be acquainted with
an appreciable number of empty shelves.
The new buiding was designed to
double the capacity for books. As
rapidly as possible we want wisely to
fill these empty shelves.
The Librai-y book budget has been
almost doubled in the last five years.
The faculty and students appreciate
this progress. Designated gifts by in-
dividuals have made it possible for the
Library staff to purchase other additions
for our book collection. Some of these
g^fts have been memorials. Others have
been expressions of appreciation honor-
ing living- persons.
It is hoped that an increasing num-
ber of friends will see that a gift to
a college library is a fitting and ap-
propriate means of memorializing or
honoring a friend.
When a memorial gift is received a
note is written to the family of the
person memorialized. The family is
reminded that the thoughtful gift of
a friend has made possible the acquisi-
tion of a book or books for the Millsaps-
Wilson Library, which book or books
will be a source of permanent value to
hundreds of college students. An ap-
propriate note is also written when
friends are honored.
Every alumnus could improve our
library effectiveness and richness by
considering memorial and/or honor
gifts and by commending this thought-
fulness to other friends of the College.
MAJOR NOTES
iMERGED INSTITUTIONS: Grenada
College, Whitworth College,
Millsaps College
MEMBER: American Alumni Council,
American College Public Relations
Association
CONTENTS
4 Language Lab
6 Poetry and Truth
9 Math Required
11 Outstanding Alumnus
15 Major Miscellany
19 Do You Remember?
COVER
Language students have the advantage of
being able to hear both themselves and
instructors speak the languages they are
studying in the new laboratory. Lynda
Lewis, of Canton, was among the first to
take advantage of the new facilities.
STAFF
Editor James J. Livesay
Associate Editor Shirley Caldwell
Photographer Frank Carney, '61
Volume 1
JANUARY, 1960
Number 2
Published quarterly by Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Entered as second class matter on October 15, 1959, at the
Post Office in Jackson, Mississippi, under the Act of August
24, 1912.
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MAJOR NOTES
ALUMNI PARTICIPATION
SHOWS UPWARD TREND
Homecoming, 1959
The first alumnus arrived on the
campus Friday afternoon, during the
Freshman Day activities. The rest of the
afternoon and Saturday morning grad-
uates and former students popped in
and out of the Alumni Office to check
time schedules or look up addresses of
old classmates. It was predictive of the
good crowd and the spirit of ^festivity
and interest which were to characterize
Homecoming, 1959.
If the amount of work put into the
planning of an affair is any indication,
the success of Homecoming was assui'ed
from the time the first letter went out
to the officers of the reunion classes
in July. Alumni-student-faculty com-
mittees met individually and together,
officers and committees contacted each
member of the reunion classes and made
plans, and the Doby Barting athletes be-
gan work on their reunion. And of
course the Alumni Office kept the re-
minders— publicity and dil'ect mail —
going fast and furiously.
After lunching cafeteria-style with the
students, alumni watched the parade
form on the campus drive and talked
with students who are carrying on the
tradition — and learned that neither
times nor people have changed a great
deal. Then the reunion classes — '10, '16,
•17, '18, '35, '36, '37, '38, '54, '55, '56,
'57 — and the Doby Bartling athletes met
for a meet-old-friends-and-classmates
session.
Dr. and Mrs. Finger received alumni
in Franklin Hall later in the afternoon,
and members of the faculty were on
hand to greet former students and show
off the beautiful new dormitory. Fra-
ternities and sororities held open house
to welcome former members and other
alumni.
A capacity crowd attended the ban-
quet in the college cafeteria.
Highlight of the occasion was the
presentation of the Alumnus of the Year
award to Dr. Thomas G. Ross, '36, who
has served for many years as physician
to the athletic teams and has filled
roles of importance in the Alumni As-
sociation, including the presidency.
It was a bitterly cold night for the
football game with Mississippi College,
and a bitterly disappointing one for the
Majors as the score mounted to 26 to 6
in favor of the traditional foes.
But not even the disappointing loss
could put a damper on the occasion.
It was the best Homecoming yet, and,
like the first alumnus, predictive of
things to come.
May 7 Is Alumni Day
A dedicated group of people will be
honored on Alumni Day, May 7, when
teachers who have attended Millsaps
College hold their first reunion.
Professor R. R. Haynes, who has
taught education at Millsaps since 1930,
will be the center of the reunion ac-
tivity. There could be no finer way
of honoring him for his devotion and
loyalty than by having his students
return to pay tribute to him. He re-
tires at the close of the current ses-
sion.
Another reunion first is scheduled for
the day, also. Alumnae of Whitworth
and Grenada colleges, members of the
Millsaps Alumni Association since the
merging of those schools with the Col-
lege, will assemble on the campus as
a part of the Alumni Day festivities.
Alumni Association officers stress
the fact that Alumni Day is not just
for those holding formal reunions. There
will be plenty to keep the others enter-
tained and interested — things which
should be considered vital and indispensa-
ble by all alumni.
Final plans for the day will be sub-
ject to the approval of the Programs
Committee of the Alumni Association,
Homecoming was a big day for former
coach Doby Bartling. extreme left. Mem-
bers of the athletic teams he coached
gathered for a reunion and presented gifts
of appreciation to him. Also pictured are
Mrs. Bartling and Dr. Lowry Rush, '48,
who made the presentation.
but a tentative schedule has been worked
out.
Registration will begin at 11 a.m. in
the Union Building. Lunch will be held
at 12 noon in the cafeteria, with re-
union groups sitting together.
At 2 p.m. the two honor groups will
hold their formal reunion periods in
the Union Building. Predictions are
that there will be a lot of comparing
of notes on teaching problems as well
as reminiscing about those days in Pro-
fessor Haynes' classes in Sullivan- Har-
rell. Whitworth and Grenada alumnae
have their work cut out in helping the
Alumni Office complete its files on
graduates and former students of the
two institutions.
For those not participating in the
reunion activities, a baseball game will
be held on Alumni Field at 1:30 p.m.
The Majors will meet Alabama College,
of Montevallo, Alabama.
One of the big events of the day will
be the seminars scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
in the Christian Center with faculty
members speaking.
At 6 p.m. the Alumni Day banquet
will be held in the Union Building
cafeteria. Big business of the evening
will be the announcement of the re-
sults of balloting for Alumni Associa-
tion officers.
George Bernard Shaw's comedy
"Androcles and the Lion" has been
tentatively scheduled as the Alumni
Day play, to be presented in the
Christian Center at 8:15 p.m.
How can vou miss it?
WINTER
Page Three
Thirty booths lined with acoustical
tile and equipped with micro-
phones, ear phones, and tape re-
corders make up the modern new
language lab in Murrah Hall.
Electronics Aids In Teaching
By SHIRLEY CALDWELL
Millsaps College Students Learn Languages In
State's Most Complete Linguistic Laboratory
Tomorrow has become today for more
than 4C0 Millsaps College students
learning languages in the latest and
most modern way — via electronic
equipment.
Language students now attend a
language lab at least once a week.
The laboratory is located in Murrah Hall.
It contains a master control unit and
30 acoustical-tiled booths equipped with
microphones, tape recoi-ders, and ear-
phones.
An observer might see the following
on a visit to the lab :
The student takes his place at one of
the booths. He adjusts a set of earphones
on his head, accepts a tape from a
lab assistant, and places it on the
machine in front of him. He opens his
textbook to the corresponding lesson.
"Voici une carte de I'ancienne
Prance. Voila une carte de la France
contemporaine. Audjourd'hui, nous al-
lons parler des departments de la
France," comes over the earphones.
There is a pause on the tape and the
student repeats what he has just heard,
following the words in his book. The
instructor, listening at the controls, cor-
rects his pronunciation. The student
plays back what he has recorded, notes
his mistake, and begins again.
While he is in the process of learn-
ing French, other students nearby are
studying Spanish and German in the
same way. Students can receive in-
dividual attention, as described above,
or an entire class can be instructed.
The lab is designed to provide practice
in the oral language, with a long-range
purpose of enabling advanced courses
to be taught in the language itself rather
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MAJOR NOTES
At the controls, William E. Baskin,
chairman of the romance languages de-
partment, and lab assistant Raul Fer-
nandez give instructions and assistance.
than in English. It will also facilitate
the teaching of conversation courses.
Scenes of plays, entire plays, and
poetry reading's will also be on tape
for students of literature.
Each student taking courses in
French, German, or Spanish is required
to meet the lab at least one hour each
week in addition to his regular class-
room work. The lab is available for
use twenty-four hours a week. Officials
estimate that between 400 and 500 stu-
dents will use the equipment each
semester.
In an evaluation of the lab after
its first few months, William Baskin,
chairman of the romance languages
department, said, "It is generally felt
among the instructors that already con-
siderable progress can be noted in
classroom performance, especially in oral
fluency and pronounciation. By now
the students are familiar with the
equipment. There have been very few
problems of a mechanical nature, and we
are generally delighted with the re-
sponse of the students and with the
cooperation they have given us in hand-
ling the equipment with care. We feel
that a student who completes four
semesters of language with the lab pro-
gram will be capable of following ad-
vanced courses and of conversing with
considerable fluency."
Baskin and John Guest, chairman of
the German department, are in charge
of the laboratory, which will also be
used by Mrs. Magnolia Coullet, as-
sociate professor of German; Miss
Elizabeth Craig, associate professor of
French; Mrs. Nellie Hederi, assistant
professor of Spanish; Mrs. Francisco
Norona, instructor of Spanish; and Mrs.
Robei't Ezelle, instructor of French.
TEACH 1\ l.AKOKATOKY
Students are studying individually here rather than as a group. Instructor
Baskin and assistant John Greenway (son of George E. Greenway, '27)
help adjust equipment.
MISS ELIZ.VBETH CK.\1(;
WINTER
PROFESSOR JOHN (;IEST
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Professor Discusses Poetry and Truth
Poetic Values In Liberal Education
By GEORGE W. BOYD
Professor of English
My subject is poetry and truth. To tell you the truth
(and I'd better) my subject is poetry as truth, but I thought
that sounded too precious, so I've used the and instead.
That is, I shall not talk about poetry as song, or as story,
or as beauty, or as form, though these are all parts of
the art of poetry; rather, I want to consider this aspect
of the art: that great poetry, good poetry, is a way of
knowing the truth; that poetry has always told the truth;
that a good poem embodies truth at the center of its being
and articulates that truth in the way of its art.
I must define iny terms. By poetry I shall mean verse
ill all its vai-iety — epic, dramatic, lyric, elegaic, satiric;
but I want to include more. Without going into a discus-
sion of the differences between the language of poetry
and the language of prose, I want to include as poetry
the great achievements of the language in story, whether
long, as in the novel, or short, as in the short story. The
great stories of high religion, for example, I take to be
poetry.
By truth I mean the truth of human experience about
the elemental, universal concerns of the human condition:
birth, death, love, hate, joy, suffering, compassion, memory,
desire, pity, salvation; and I mean the truth of the emo-
tions as distinguished from apprehensions of the intel-
lect; or more exactly, the truth of the emotions as it in-
cludes and interprets and transcends the rational. I mean
truth "felt in the blood and felt along the heart," as Words-
worth put it, and "passing even into [our] purer minds
with tranquil restoration." I mean truth which "lifts the
burden of the mystery," to quote "Tintern Abbey" still,
"In which the heavy and the weary weight/Of all this un-
intelligible world/Is lightened;" I mean the truth of mystery
and paradox and revelation. In short, I mean poetic truth.
You may rightly say at once, "But are you denigrating
or simply ignoring scientific and philosophic truth?" To
which I reply, I am doing neither. Rather I am including
them, insofar as they can be included in poetic truth. I do
not intend here to fire a single shot in the old war be-
tween poetry and science — a war long since over, perhaps.
I take it we are all agreed that science seeks to find veri-
fiable facts and to organize those facts into rational
theory; but that science does not go beyond the context of
its experiments to a broader interpretation involving the
total context of man's condition. This interpretation awaits
the seer, the priest, the poet. As to philosophic truth, I
suspect we listen to the philosopher whenever and as he
speaks not in systems but in human (i. e. poetic) parables.
To illustrate from theology: I doubt if anyone was ever
Editor's Note: On February 4 a new series of faculty
chapel addresses was inaugurated. Designed to stimulate
and interest the campus community, the first talk. Dr.
Boyd's, more than achieved the objective. His introduc-
tion, a character of the Millsaps student body, will be
printed in a later issue. Major Notes plans to print excerpts
from all the addresses, which have as their theme "Encounter
and Pursuit: Discourse on Values in Liberal Education."
moved to acts of devotion by the systematic formulation of
the ideas in the Nicene Creed; one is moved when the truth
of that Creed is embodied in the story of the mighty act
of the Incarnation and all that followed it.
Poetic truth, then, is the tnath of human experience,
the truth of man's eternal moral and spiritual concern,
the truth of the human heart, apprehended by the crea-
tive imagination of the poet and articulated in poetic form.
How, then, and why is good poetry true ? Perhaps I
have suggested the why already. Frost says that a poem
"begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the
same as for love." It begins in delight and ends in "a
clarification of life — not necessarily a great clarification,
such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary
stay against confusion." ("The Figure a Poem Makes,"
Complete Poems of Robert Frost, New York, 1949, p. Ill)
In short, it ends in truth.
A good poem is true because it must arrive at wisdom,
at clarification, at order (Camus speaks of art as an im-
position of "an order of style to the disorder of an age,"
G. Bree, "Camus: An Essay in Appreciation," New York
Times Book Review, January 24, 1960, p. 5) else it is a
trick poem, no poem, as Frost says. A good poem is true
because it cannot do violence to itself and be good. If there
is phoniness, falseness anywhere in it, it will be bad. To he
good, that is, it must be true: to itself, to its subject, to
nature, to life — this is the old Greek mimetic principle.
Do not misunderstand me: the truth a good poem em-
bodies may not be pretty, need not be. The test is truth,
not prettiness. Flaubert's Madam Bovary is a great and
true novel; so is Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment; so I
think is Joyce's Ulysses; so is Baudelaire's Les Fleurs de Mai
a true poem, and Rimbaud's A Season in Hell. These are
all true because, at least in part, and in one degree or
another, they make memorable clarifications of evil. (Please
notice that I do not include Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's
Lover in this list. It is a fine and true disquisition on the
art of game-keeping and the pleasures of the outdoor life.)
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MAJOR NOTES |
But how is a good poem true? This is more complicated
than the why. The center of the explanation is the creative
imagination. I'll begin by saying that the way a poem
articulates its truth is by "making believe," that is, by
imagining. The imagination is the soul of the poem, as
Coleridge said, that is everywhere. The unifying imagi-
nation creates the poem, working through poetic language,
"which is the language of myth, symbol, and metaphor.
Now myth is a projected dream of the deep subconscious of
the people, expressing their needs, fears, aspirations.
(Klmon Friar, "Myth and Metaphysics," Modern Poetry,
New York, 1951, p. 421) Think of the myths you know
•well: the Prometheus myth, the myth of Venus and Adonis,
Bunyan's myth of the Celestial City, Dante's myth of the
Paradiso, Faulkner's myth of Yoknapatawpha County. To
define again: myth is a way of accepting the mystery of
human life and interpreting it by creating a world in which
the actual and the real are fused by the imagination into
one perfect whole. When a myth is most complete, as in
the Christian myth, it defines "the relationship of man to
himself and to God so that there is no distinction between
symbol and meaning." (Friar, p. 421) They are the same.
To illustrate: the most perfect myth of all time is
the Christian myth of the Incarnation. To try to explain
this Divine Act in rational terms is impossible and absurd.
It must be understood as myth, in which the real God-man
relationship and the actual God-man manifestation coincided
at a moment in human history. All myths, but this one
most superbly, understand that the ideal (that is, the real)
is present in the actual. (W. 0. Rogers, Myth, Truth, and
Paradox, Episcopal Faculty Papers, New York, 1958, pp.
19-20) I could illustrate, though less perfectly, from Faulk-
ner's mythical county. It is the real Mississippi; all other
counties (and especially, perhaps. Hinds) are merely actual.
(I hope you understand me to be saying in all this
that a good myth is true — far more true than the actual or
the rational.)
The creative imagination of the poet, then, works on
mythic materials, and the materials give the poet his sym-
bols and metaphors — his figures of language. The poet
through myth gains an insight into reality, reads the actual
(Nature, the experience of human life) as a symbol of
something behind or within or beyond the actual. The
symbols and metaphors which this reading gives the poet
lead him to a region of the imagination where the actual
and the real (the human and the divine) are one; lead
him, in short, to truth. (Allen Tate, "Literature as Know-
ledge," On the Limits of Poetry, New York, 1948, pp. 44-46)
The language of poetry and the truth it embodies is,
therefore, as I. A. Richards puts it, "the completest mode
of utterance." (Tate, p. 47). This completeness is very dif-
ferent from scientific completeness. "The completeness of
science," says the American critic Allen Tate, "is an abstrac-
tion covering an ideal of cooperation among specialized
methods. No one can havf un experience of science, or of
a single science. For the completeness of Hamlet is not
of the experimental order, but of the experienced order: It
is, in short, of the mythical order." (Tate, p. 47). Albert
Camus was talking about the artist's search for the great
mythic images toward which his whole work tends. It's a
beautiful statement: "I know with certainty that a man's
work is nothing but the long journey to recover, through
the means of art, the two or three simple and great images
which first gained access to his heart . . . every artist, no
doubt, is in quest of his truth. If he is great, each work
brings him closer to it, or, at least, gravitates more close-
ly to that central, hidden sun, where all, one day, will be
consumed." (Bree, p. 14). The perfect mythic consumma-
tion is the eternal union of the actual and the real.
If my attempt to say how a poem gets at the truth
has been confusing, or confused, let me say it simply in
an illustration. If there had been newspapers in England
in August, 1637, they would likely have carried an account
of the drowning in the Irish Sea of one Edward King, a
divinity graduate of Cambridge L^niversity. The account
would have given his age, his birthplace, the cause of death,
his survivors. Such an account would have conveyed the
facts of Edward King's demise. The truth about King's
death was written by a former classmate named John Mil-
ton, in a poem entitled Lycidas.
I turn now to consider the question : what does poetry
tell the truth about? I suggest, about man's self, about
man and others, about man and the universe.
Man's search for identity is as old as Adam's and as
new as yours and mine in this place, at this time. A
liberal education should aid us in that search. Yet, con-
sider, the sciences cannot tell us who we are, nor do they
propose to. I'm not sure they can tell us where we are
any more, yet I look forward to hearing Dr. Priddy on this
subject in about a month. The social sciences talk in their
increasingly irritating jargon of tlie "collective" us — of
economic man, organization man, status seekers, assorted
blocs, units, and groups; yet seldom, I believe, do they pro-
pose to address themselves to the lonely individual con-
templating his destiny (the only one he's got) and hoping
in the name of Heaven he can make it meaningful.
But poetry has ahvays addressed this problem of the
search for the self. Take the oldest poetry most of us know,
Hebrew poetry. Listen to the thundering voice of the
Almighty: "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations
of the earth ? declare if thou hast understanding. Who
hast laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who
hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the founda-
tions thereof fastened ? or who laid the corner stone
thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all
the sons of God shouted for joy?" This imperative,
implacable questioning goes on for two or three
Dr. Boyd confers with student Harley Harris, of
Jackson, concerning her schedule.
Page Seven
chapters, and Job tries to answer, one way and another.
Finally, however, he is driven to the answer to himself: "I
have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine
eye seeth thee./ Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in
dust and ashes." With the final, bitter realization of him-
self comes, shortly, restoration and peace. Or, take another
Hebrew poem you've heard all your life. It is about the
discovery of self and purpose. "In the year that King
Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting- upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple." From
the vision comes realization: "Woe is me, for I am undone;
because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the
midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen
the King, the Lord of hosts." But from the realization
comes the purgation of fire and commitment to purpose.
Poetry is forever telling of the search for identity and
purpose. Read the grand Greek epics; read the Aeneid; read
that greatest flowering of the Italian language (or any lan-
guage), the greatest medieval monument to the Christian
faith, The Divine Comedy; read Milton's Paradise Lost and
Samson. All are about the meaning of selfhood. And of the
meaning of man's nature, in its multiform expression, poetry
has always spoken. Read Boccacio, read Chaucer's Tales if
you're ever tempted to think human nature is dull and
monotonous. And for the most sublime studies in any
language of individual human beings finding themselves,
read the tragedies of the incomparable Shakespeare.
But I have been name-dropping here — and the grandest
names in the world, too. For most of us, most ordinary
times anyway, a simpler, less intoxicating fare in poetry
probably sei-ves better. 0|piJ;ke theme of the search fofi- the
self, let me quote an obsc^iiJ^|EaaIil^C5>ltly RiwonTil
seventeenth century:
LOVE
Love bade me welcome; yet my si
Guilty of dust and sin
But quick-eye
From my
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked anything.
"A guest," I answered, "worthy to be here:"
Love said, "You shall be he."
"I, the unkind, ungrateful ? Ah, my dear,
I cannot look on thee!"
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
"Who made the eyes but I?"
"Truth, Lord: but I have marred them: let my shame
Go where it doth deserve."
"And know you not," says Love, "who bore the blame?"
"My dear, then I will serve."
"You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat."
So I did sit and eat.
(George Herbert)
Poetry has always been concerned with man and others
— man in society — man and his fellow man, and woman.
Love poetry comes here, and I wish I had time to talk
about it. I have a student who is convinced, I think, that
all poetry is love poetry. I have given up trying to dis-
abuse him of this conviction — because I think he may be
right. But poetry has never shirked social problems: and here
I need to speak, for examples, of Milton's enormous in-
volvement in the struggle for political and religious liberty
in the seventeenth century; of Wordsworth's and Shelley's
and Byron's involvement in the nineteenth; of the great
Whitipaii's idea /of American democracy > of the proletaria
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course) designed to titillate my colleagues in the be-
havioral sciences (poetry, you know, is a misbehavioral
science): First: There is more truth about the sociology
of the deep South in one of Faulkner's best novels than in-
all the monographs published by all the sociology depart-
ments in all the Southern universities. Or, to put it more
neatly, there is more truth about the sociology of the deep
South in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury than in Pro-
fessor Dollard's Caste and Class in a Southern Town. Second:
There is more truth about the psychology of the Southern
small town in one of Miss Welty's best short stories
than will be revealed in any number of questionnaires
or on all the psychiatrists' couches of Jackson and Mem-
phis. Third: There is more truth about political science
in Oi'well's 1984 or Animal Farm, or Pasternak's Dr,
Zhivago, than in all the textbooks on the subject — or in all
the columns of all the pundits.
Finally, what has poetry to say about man in the uni-
verse ? And because I must restrict my consideration here^
I make it, what does poetry say about modern man in
his universe ?
Modern man was born in the year 1600 perhaps,
certainly in the early seventeenth century. I call him
modern because the universe into which he was born was
entirely different from his fathers' world — and because
it is the universe we inhabit today. His intellectual and
spiritual problem.s are our problems still — only now they
are more acute.
The universe of the seventeenth-century modern man
was a world re-made by Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes,
en until now has recorded
pts To ^COiine "to"" terms with it, to learn to
live ,iii it. Th^ only great poet fully to succeed in enibrac-
interpreting the problems of man
Iton, and he did it by making the
the vital cen-
s success he
was not a typical. (Great poems perhaps are never typical.)
A better poet to read, because more typical, on modern
man in the universe is Donne, and the place to begin is
Donne's Anniversarie poems. "Well dy'd the World,"
says Donne in the First Anniversarie, "that we might live
to see/ This world of wit, in his Anatomic:" The world
that was dead was the Elizabethan world, the Queen her-
self being dead: the great humanistic and artistic flowering
of the Renaissance was past; the old certainties of medi-
eval religion were in question; the old concern of scholastic
philosophy was giving way to the New Philosophy, which,
Donne says, "calls all in doubt."
The New Philosophy Donne speaks of is the new
science, particularly the new discoveries in astronomy and
physics, both calling for a radically new orientation of
man to the universe and to God. The Heavens, the handi-
work of God, had always been thought immutable, a proof
to man of something permanent and unchangeable in the
universe. Now Copernicus had proposed another kind of
universe, and Galileo had seen it with his eyes. New stars,
new planets, a new moon, a new universe: all had come
home to seventeenth-century man. To Donne it all showed
the degeneration of man, the decay of the world, the
not-too-distant end of the world, and the present total
disorder. This latter was the worst of all, for it destroyed
those cardinal virtues necessary for Donne's ethics and
aesthetics: symmetry, proportion, harmony. All coher-
indeed.
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MAJOR NOTES
ABOUT THE CAMPUS
Students^ Professors Make Millsaps News
Math Requirement Added
Beginning in the fall of 1960 Millsaps
College students must take at least six
hours of mathematics to meet the re-
quirements for graduation.
The curriculum change was voted by
the faculty at its December meeting
after long and careful consideration.
Since 1938, Millsaps has allowed
candidates for the Bachelor of Arts
degree to substitute Latin or Greek for
mathematics. Bachelor of Science gradu-
ates have always been required to take
mathematics.
Study of the mathematics requirements
resulted in the development of a new
course to be known as Mathematics
9-10: Foundation of Mathematics. Ac-
cording to Dr. T. L. Reynolds, chairman
of the Department of Mathematics, the
course will make it possible for students
with non-science majors to choose be-
tween the regular math offerings and
the more generalized "foundation"
course.
The catalog will describe the new
course as follows:
A two-semester course for
freshmen designed primarily for
the non-science majors. The
basic principles of mathematics
are studied as they apply to a
number of topics including the
following: ratio, proportion
and variation, functions, equa-
tions, exponents and logar-
ithms, probability and statis-
tics, theory of sets, number sys-
tems, theory of numbers, logic.
Six hours credit.
Officials said the course will introduce
the non-science major to mathematical
methods of reasoning.
USIS Features Players
Not content with mere national rec-
ognition, the Millsaps Players have now
been accorded international publicity —
though not through their own soliciting.
During the summer the United States
Information Service, in Washington, re-
quested that the Public Relations Of-
fice send glossy photographs of scenes
from recent Millsaps productions for use
in illustrating an article on theatrical
productions in American universities.
The article was to be sent to USIS of-
WINTER
fices in over 80 countries for free dis-
tribution to local newspapers and maga-
zines.
When the article was released, one
paragraph read as follows:
"In large cities and small towns
throughout the country, university
theatres provide a rich source of enter-
tainment for their communities. In
Jackson, Mississippi, small Millsaps
College has long had the State's most
widely known theatrical group, strong-
ly supported by the local press and
engaging the participation of nearly
one-third of the college's student body.
Last year's production of Giraudoux's
'Tiger at the Gates' shattered all local
attendance records for a single play."
Four pictures accompanied the article.
One was a scene from Baylor Univer-
sity's production of "Hamlet." One was
Yale's world premiere production of
Archibald MacLeish's "J. B." The other
two were scenes from the Millsaps Play-
ers' productions of "Tiger at the Gates"
and "The Diary of Anne Frank."
The Players are deserving of every
honor they receive. Of the plays they
have produced in the past seven years,
six have been awarded both the Pulitzer
Prize and the New York Drama Critics
Circle Award. No other drama group in
the state can boast such a record.
Miss Millsaps, Betty Battling, of Jack-
son, and Master Major, John Sharp
Gatewood, Mount Olive, reign over the
Presentation Ball, at which they, along
with favorites and beauties, were pre-
sented to the student body.
During the past seven years more than
22,000 persons have attended Millsaps
productions. The number does not in-
clude persons who attended the student-
directed one-act plays. Sir John Gielgud's
appearance on the campus, or this year's
productions.
And speaking of Sir John, the Players
were responsible for bringing him to
Millsaps in his only mid-South appear-
ance. Theater-goers in this area will be
forever grateful for the opportunity of
seeing such an outstanding actor per-
form, of seeing a show which has drawn
nothing but rave reviews internationally.
Sir John has been called by those in
a position to judge the world's greatest
actor.
Members of the Players contribute
on a campus-wide basis too. Fourteen
of the eighteen students chosen for
"Who's Who" this year have been
members of the drama group. A large
number of the persons named to the
Dean's List are active in the organiza-
tion.
Remaining on the Players' schedule
this year are the Comden-Green-Styne
musical "Bells Are Ringing," which will
be given March 9, 10, 11 and 12, and
a final production for May 4-7, which
director Lance Goss has tentatively set
as "Androcles and the Lion," George
Bernard Shaw's "most riotous"' comedy.
Alumni Fund Nears Goal
Welcome news comes from Zach Tay-
lor, Jr., chairman of the 1959-60 Alumni
Fund.
Statistics released at press time con-
cerning the progress of the Fund in-
dicate that all records will be broken
before the campaign closes on June 3(i.
Taylor announced that 590 alumni had
given $20,132.10 on a goal of a minimum
of $25,000. Cash and pledges received
led last year's results for the same
reporting period by 30 Tr.
Even more significant was the an-
nouncement that participation was up
33'^'r over last year at this same time.
Officials believe that, if the present
rate of participation continues, the final
Alumni Fund figure will reach $30,000
given by 1,000 alumni.
It's a good start on the goal of
$50,000 from 1,500 alumni by year after
next.
Paae Ninp
Millsaps Building Sold
The Millsaps Building, since 1912 one
of Jackson's landmarks, has been sold
by the College to Vincent, Incorporated,
a newly formed Mississippi corporation.
Built by Major Millsaps in 1912. it
was for years one of the largest office
buildings in the state.
Sale price was disclosed as in excess
of $300,000. Officials stated that the
transaction will enable the College to
diversify its investments.
College Receives Gifts
Millsaps College has received gifts
totaling $11,000 from foundations,
corporations, and other business organi-
zations since December 1.
The three donors, Esso Education
Foundation, Texaco, and Connecticut
General Life Insurance Company, join-
ed Gulf Oil Corporation in selecting
Millsaps as the recipient of timely
grants during the 1959-60 session.
Largest of the grants, $8,500, conies
from the Esso Education Foundation.
The initial Esso grant was unrestricted
in nature and totaled $3,500. Later the
Foundation selected Millsaps as the
recipient of a $5,000 gift to be used for
the purchase of equipment for use in
science classrooms and laboratories.
The $1,500 Texaco grant was un-
restricted in nature and can be used
to meet the most pressing needs of
the College. Both Texaco and the Esso
Education Foundation have included
Millsaps in previous annual giving proj-
ects.
Newcomer to the list of organizations
supporting the College is the Connecticut
General Life Insurance Company. The
company's grant of $160, which equal-
ed the earnings from $4,000 at an inter-
est rate of four percent, is intended
to replace the financial investment
Millsaps College has in its graduates
who are employees. The grant will be
made each year for as long as the
employee is with the company.
This year's Connecticut General grant
is made in the name of William P.
Williams, a 1947 graduate.
Correction
The last issue of 'Major Notes listed
incorrectly the names of the parents
of Mrs. Tom Larche and Miss Aimee
Wilcox, whom they honored with a
Memoral Gift to the Alumni Fund.
The Major Notes account listed Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin C. Wilson. It should
have been Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C.
Wilcox. We sincerely regret the
.Members of the Millsaps Associates enjoy Bishop Marvin Franklin's informal
remarks made during their fall meeting. Featured speaker at the meeting
was Dr. Frank H. Sparks, of the Council for Financial Aid to Education.
Associates Name Officers
Two alumni have been named to posi-
tions of top leadership in the Millsaps
College Associates.
George Pickett, '27-'30, was elected
chairman of the group at its fall meet-
ing held on the campus. He sei-ved as
a member of the Alumni Association
Board of Directors and chairman of the
Alumni Fund.
Named to serve as vice-chairmen
were 0. B. Triplett, Jr., Forest, past
president of the Alumni Association,
and Mike Sturdivant, Glendora.
This year the Associates have taken
as their major project the securing
of five-year pledges to the operating
budget of the College.
Membership is composed of 100
prominent Mississippians who ^vill
work with the Ti-ustees, the alumni,
and the Church in strengthening the
College through an organized program.
Singers Tour To Denver
An invitation to appear at the General
Conference of the Methodist Church will
give the Millsaps Singers an opportun-
ity for its first out-of-state tour in six
years.
The conference will be held in Denver
in May. The Singers have sung in
Denver twice before, both times under
the direction of Dr. Alvin Jon (Pop)
King. Since Pop's retirement the group
has confined its tours to Mississippi.
Directed by Leland Byler, the fifty-
voice concert choir will be one of
eight choral groups appearing during
the two-week conference, which will be
held April 27 through May 11. Their
concert is scheduled for May 4. Ap-
pearances in schools and churches en
route to Denver and on the return trip
are being arranged through alumni
living in towns where stops are sched-
uled.
The western tours, concert trips
through southei'n and mid-western
states, and a recent recording under
the RCA Victor label have helped the
singers achieve a national reputation.
You Have Another Chance
If you were one of those persons
who had to pass up the Millsaps
Singers' RCA Victor record a few years
ago because you didn't have an Ip
record player, times may have changed.
You may have that long-awaited instru-
ment now.
In case you fit the above description
and are still interested in the record,
the Public Relations Office has a limit-
ed supply on hand. The price: $3.65
for 30 minutes of great music under the
direction of Alvin J. King.
Address a card or letter to the Public
Relations Department and enclose a
check made to Millsaps College for
$3.65. Don't miss your second, and per-
haps your last, chance.
Cultural Growth Is Aim
Feeling the need for more cultural
activities than the community affords
and recognizing the responsibility of a
college in providing these activities,
Millsaps students established last year
a Culture and Education Committee to j
bring outstanding Mississippians to the I
campus for speaking engagements. I
First program on the schedule this i
year was a panel discussion on the re-
unification of Germany by Dr. Ross
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MAJOR NOTES
Moore, of the history department, and
Dr. Harry JIanley and David Bowen,
of the political science department.
Next speaker was Joseph Sills, traveling:
representative of the Collegiate Council
of the United Nations, who spoke on
"How Colleges Can Help the U. N."
Another panel, composed of Dean Fer^-
son, Rubel Phillips, '48, Jackson at-
torney, and William Winter, State Tax
Collector, discussed "The South in
Politics and Politics in the South."
One program in the series fell on the
same weekend as the Singers' presenta-
tion of "The Messiah'' and the Players'
production of "Picnic," in addition to
Little Theatre and high school dramatics
offerings, causing a visiting editor to
write of the cultural, religious, and
educational opportunities in Jackson.
Commenting on the visitor's praise, a
local editor wrote, "E.xpanding these as-
sets is an important step in civic prog-
ress and an ever-present challenge to
our leadership." The fact that three of
the five activities of the weekend in
question were presented by Millsaps
would seem to indicate that the College
is doing its fair share in that direction.
Kuntz' Poem In Anthology
A poem by a Millsaps College senior
will appear in the 1959 edition of the
Annual Anthology of College Poetry.
Arthur Kuntz, of Tupelo, has been
notified that his poem "And I Have No
Coat" was selected for publication in
the anthology, called by the editor a
compilation of the finest poetry vmt-
ten by the college men and women of
America representing every state in
the union.
An English major, Kuntz has made
many contributions to Stylus, campus
literary magazine, which he serves as
assistant editor this year.
Finger Heads Association
The Mississippi Association of Col-
leges is headed this year by Dr. H. E.
Finger, Jr., president of Millsaps Col-
lege.
As president of the Association, Dr.
Finger wll direct the activities of the
important organization, whose member-
ship is composed of the state's accredit-
ed colleges and universities.
Now in his eighth year as president
of Millsaps, Dr. Finger remains the
youngest senior college president in the
state.
Ross Is Outstanding Alumnus
Thomas G. Ross, Jackson physician,
civic leader and devoted churchman,
was named alumnus of the year for 1959
over a field of several outstanding
nominees. The award was presented in
impressive ceremonies at the annual
Homecoming Banquet on October 24.
He was the ninth alumnus of ^Millsaps
to receive the award, one of the highest
honors the College confers.
In selecting him for the honor, the
College and the Alumni Association
named Ross the alumnus who has made
the most outstanding contribution to
church, community, and college during
the past year and whose continuing serv-
ice in recent years has been significant.
He received a certificate of appreciation
at the Homecoming banquet held in
the Union Building on the campus.
Gayle Erwin, president of the stu-
dent body, read a citation describing
Ross' activities and presented the award
on behalf of the alumni and students
of the College.
The citation read in part: "This year's
recipient is a 1936 graduate of Millsaps
College. In the 23 years since his gradua-
tion he has proved many times his devo-
tion and loyalty to Millsaps. serving in
positions of responsibility and leadership.
"He was born and reared in Puckett,
Mississippi, graduating from Puckett
High School. He attended Copiah-Lin-
coln Junior College for two years before
transferring to Millsaps. Having decid-
ed upon medicine as a career, he en-
tered Tulane University School of
Medicine and received his M. D. degree.
He interned at Baroness Erlanger Hos-
pital in Chattanooga.
"Entering the Navy in 1942, he
sen'ed with the Fourth Marine Division
as a physician, rising from the rank of
lieutenant (junior grade) to lieutenant
commander. He was awarded the Purple
Heart and the Silver Star for his bravery
and distinguished service. On his return
to the States he served with the Navy
Recruiting Station in Jackson. He is a
retii'ed commander in the Naval medi-
cal corps.
"The_ subject of this citation is highly
respected by fellow members of his pro-
fession. He is a member of the Academy
of General Practice of the Southeim
Medical Association and the American
Medical Association. A fellow of the
Southeastern Surgical Congress, he is
an active member of his local medical
society, having served as membership
chairman in the past. He is a past presi-
dent of the Baptist Hospital staff, past
president of the Charity Hospital staff,
and past secretary of the St. Dominies
Hospital staff.
"In spite of the demands on his time
as a doctor, he has been a leader in
the civic affairs of the community.
He is a member of the Board of Di-
rectors and a past president of the
Jackson Fondren Civitan Club; a past
governor of the Mississippi District
of Civitan International; a past member
of the Board of Directors of the Knife
and Fork Club; and a member of the
Duling and Bailey Parent-Teacher As-
sociations, the Y. M. C. A., and the
Chamber of Commerce. He has served
as head of the Professional Division of
the United Givers Fund.
"Our honoree served last year as
chairman of the Official Board of Gal-
loway Memorial Methodist Church. He
is active in the Sunday School and
other functions of the church.
"He is a past president of the Mill-
saps College Alumni Association. Un-
der his capable administration the new
organization made significant contribu-
tions to the support and strengthening
of the College. He has served for several
years as physician for the Millsaps
athletic groups, giving of himself, in
the ti-uest sense of the words, above and
beyond the call of duty."
Dr. Ross is married to the former
Betty Lee. They have two children,
Sally Fran, 12, and Elizabeth Lee, 10.
The Alumnus of the Year Award is
the only honor given by the College
exclusively to its alumni.
Ross and Alumni .Vssociation President
Noel Womack look over Alumnus of the
Year certificate.
WINTER
Page Elevea
Southern Mississippi coordinator for
Project Talent, the forthcoming na-
tional census of aptitudes and abilities
of high school students, is Dr. Russell
W. Levanway, chairman of the psy-
chology department. Project Talent, a
survey carried out by the University of
Pittsburgh and supported by the United
States Office of Education and other
government agencies, vv'ill administer a
special set of examinations and ques-
tionnaires to students in approximately
1000 high schools.
Mississippi's first gem, rock, and
mineral shovir was scheduled for Feb-
ruary 20 and 21 at the State Fair-
grounds in Jackson. Dr. Wendell John-
son, assistant professor of geology,
a member of the sponsoring Mississippi
Gem and Mineral Society, was responsi-
ble for entries in the show.
Honors which have come to Dr. J. B.
Price, chairman of the chemistry de-
partment, this year include being
selected as a fellow in the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science and being re-named chairman
of the premed advisors of Mississippi.
He is also president of the Mississippi
Academy of Science.
At the meeting of the Commission of
Professors of Religion of the National
Methodist Conference on Christian Edu-
cation, Dr. J. D. Wroten, chairman of
the religion department, was elected
to membership on the executive com-
mittee. He will represent the southeast-
ern jurisdiction.
Dr. George W. Boyd, who joined the
faculty this year as professor of English,
was elected secretary of the South
Central Modern Language Association
at its meeting in Houston in November.
Dr. Boyd read a paper entitled "What
is 'Metaphysical' Poetry?" before the
English section of the meeting.
Dr. Frank Laney has been promoted
to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the
United States Army Reserve. He served
in the Luzon and New Guinea campaigns
of World War II, receiving eight service
ribbons.
Jackson Kiwanis Club members elected
Dr. J. D. Wroten, chairman of the re-
ligion department, to the presidency this
year. He'll be working with William E.
Barksdale, '30, vice-president; Julius
Crisler, '40-'42, '46-'48, director; and
Sutton Marks, '48, director.
Dr. Richard R. Priddy, chairman of
the geology department at Millsaps Col-
lege, will work at the Gulf Coast Re-
search Laboratory in Ocean Springs on
a sabbatical leave during the second
semester. He will be engaged in review-
ing the work that he and his students
have done during the past eleven sum-
mers with a view to publishing their
findings on the physical and chemical
nature of the bottom sediments of the
Mississippi Sound. Dr. and Mrs. Priddy
plan to take a Caribbean cruise in May.
0y{iH AL^^^^'
K\
We welcome the following into the
Future Alumni Club of the Millsaps
College Alumni Association:
Janet Lynn Dodson, born to Mr. and
Mrs. William P. Dodson on November
9. The Dodsons attended during the
1958-59 session. Mrs. Dodson is the
former Millie Price.
John Eubank Dorman, born January
15, 1959, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dor-
man. Mr. Dorman is a '41 graduate.
The couple has two other children.
Tamra Michelle Everitt, born October
19 to Mr. and Mrs. James Everitt. Mr.
Everitt is a '58 graduate.
Mark David Felsher, born to Mr.
and Mrs. Albert W. Felsher, Jr., '56
and '55-'56, on August 27. Mrs. Felsher
is the former Rosemary Parent.
Jane Louise Ferrell, born September
17 to the Reverend and Mrs. J. E.
Ferrell, Jr., (Victoria Taylor, '53).
Daniel David Franks, born to Mr.
and Mrs. David Franks on November
22. Mr. Franks is a '57 graduate. Mrs.
Franks is the former Audrey Jennings,
'54.
Thomas Lamar Gordon, Jr., born to
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Gordon (Barbara
Ballard, '56) on July 10.
David Karl Rase, born to Mr. and
Mrs. H. G. Hase (Ethel Eastman, '48)
on September 5. A brother completes the
family. Dr. M. L. Smith, former presi-
dent of Millsaps, performed the bap-
tismal ceremony.
Gordon Hensley, Jr., born to Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Hensley (Claire King, '56)
on October 4.
John David Hodges, born August 7
to Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Hodges,
both '54. Mrs. Hodges is the former
Helen Elizabeth Davis.
Catherine Lea Jones, born to the Rev-
erend and Mrs. Cecil B. Jones on October
4. Mr. Jones is a member of Ihe class
of '56.
Lori Lu King, born December 23 to
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond King (Yvonne
Mclnturff, '51). She was welcomed by
Mary Lynne, Gary, and Terri.
Janet Elizabeth Kruse, born to Mr.
and Mrs. Al Kruse (Evaline Khayat,
'42) on October 12. Three other children
welcomed the newcomer.
Pamela Ann Lipscomb, born October
8 to Mr. and Mrs. John L. Lipscomb,
'58-'59 and '59. Mrs. Lipscomb is the
former Colleen Thompson.
Riley Edwards McRae, born January
3 to the Reverend and Mrs. Edward W.
McRae (Martina Riley, '57).
William Allen Mayer, born December
17 to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Mayer. Mr.
Mayer attended during the 1951-52 ses-
sion, and Mrs. Mayer, the former Jewel
Hill, graduated in 1952.
William O. Miller, Jr., born on March
25 to Dr. and Mrs. William O. Miller.
Dr. Miller is a '53 graduate.
Melissa Medley Mims, born to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Brady Mims, '57 and '56-
'57, on November 12. Mrs. Mims is the
former Susan Medley.
Dan Murrell, born to Lieutenant and
Mrs. Dan S. Murrell (Pat Hillman, '56)
on November 14.
Richard Holland Odom. born December
14 to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Odom
(Jo Holland, '48-'52). Mr. Odom attend-
ed during the '39-'40 session.
Thomas Oren Prewitt, III, born June
12 to Mr. and Mrs. Tom O. Prewitt,
Jr. (Patricia Morgan), '56 and '53-'54.
Joseph Thaddus Ranager, born to Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Ranager (Elizabeth
Lauderdale), '49 and '39-'40. Other
Ranagers are Elizabeth Ann, 10, and
Jimmy, 3.
Sheila Diane Romey, born March 5 to
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Romey. Mr.
Romey is a '54 graduate.
Elizabeth Posey Smith, born December
3 to Mr. and Mrs. James K. Smith
(Sarah Kathleen Posey, '44). Eliza-
beth Posey has a sister, Emily.
John Mack Thames, Jr., born Decem-
ber 18 to Mr. and Mrs. John Mack
Thames (Barbara Yeagley, '55). Bar-
bara Katherine, 2, added her welcome.
Robert Porter Ward, Jr., born to Mr.
and Mrs. Porter Ward on October 28.
Mr. Ward is associate professor of
biology at Millsaps. The new baby
was welcomed by Mary Jane, Nancy
Ann, and Laura Lou.
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MAJOR NOTES
SPORTS SUMMARY
Lynda Louise Andrews, '55-'56, to
Barlett Willis Calcote, Jr. Living: in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Mary Louise Houghton Barksdale to
Craig Castle, '47. Living in Jackson.
Sarah Anne Bayliss, '55-'57, to Raiford
Hugh Ervin, current student. Living
in Jackson.
Ora Pauline Bizzell, '48, to Mark
Nestle. Living in Manila.
Julia Elizabeth Boren to Dr. William
C. Baker, '51. Living in Oxford, Mis-
sissippi.
Virginia Caroline Bradley to Van
Andrew Cavett, Jr., '53. Living in Chat-
tanooga, Tennessee.
Phyllis Gwendolyn Burford, '54-'56,
to Smith Sprinkle. Living in Dallas,
Texas.
Dorothy Dee Ford, '54, to Dr. Cedric
Roland Bainton. Living in Rochester,
New York.
Lynett Garst, '55-'58, to John Stuart
Robinson, '55-'57. Living in Oxford,
Mississippi.
Helen Catherine Gillis, '58, to Alphus
Elijah Burt. Living in Dallas, Texas.
Gloria Ann Halbert, '55-'57, to Jack
G. Newberry. Living in Washington,
D. C.
Prances Hendrick to James William
Irby, '58. Living in Jackson.
Myrta Faye Higginbotham to John A.
Williams, '53. Living in Biloxi, Mis-
sissippi.
Myrtis Hoover to Ronald Fulton Dick-
erson, '57-'58. Living in Brookhaven,
Mississippi.
Bethany Rebecca Larche, '56-'57, to
Alfred Elliott Moreton, III, '56-'57. Liv-
ing in Oxford, Mississippi.
Acka Yvonne Lewis, '56, to the Rev-
erend Leavitt Alanson DoUoff. Living
in Berlin, Georgia.
Ann Marie Lowe to Thomas Brownlee
Blair, '57-'59. Living at University, Mis-
sissippi.
Sara Lea Lott to Theodore Dudley
Lampton, '58. Living in Jackson.
Mary Tally McGowan, •56-'59, to
James Allan Phyfer, '59. Living at
University, Mississippi.
Shirley McMullan, '59, to Russell K.
Hackman, '54-'55, '57-'58. Living in
Germany.
Frances Maddox to William Wallace
(Continued on Page 14)
With the opening of the 1959-60 session in September, Millsaps College entered
its fifteenth year of complete amateurism in intercollegiate athletics. It was in
the fall of 1945 that Doby Bartling came to Millsaps to inaugurate the nonsub-
sidized program after the exciting, if somewhat abnormal, days of V-12 athletics.
Only a few years before, under peacetime conditions, the partially subsidized
athletic program had come upon evil days, with the injury of losing football seasons
aggravated by the insult of a heavy financial loss.
Since 1945, recent difficulties notwithstanding, the nonsubsidized program has
produced more victories than defeats. It has appeared to administration, faculty,
and a sizable number of alumni to be the only way the College can remain in in-
tercollegiate athletics and maintain its high standards in the lecture room and
laboratory.
For the past four years it has become increasingly difficult to schedule games
with colleges adhering to the strict code of amateurism followed by the Majors.
Some long-time opponents have inaugurated a total athletic scholarship program;
others have gone half way; and some have tried the "leadership scholarship'' plan,
a gesture toward maintaining academic standards while bolstei-ing the athletic
squads.
As might be expected, this development spelled trouble for the Majors. In
the big three — football, basketball, and baseball — victories came fewer and farther
between. In addition, the traditional Millsaps reputaticn for scholarship discouraged
many top flight athletes from applying or eliminated them after a short stay.
To remedy the situation, within the framework of its nonsubsidized program,
the College moved this year in several areas.
(1) The administration and the faculty joined the coaching staff in seeking
ways of bolstering the intercollegiate athletic program. Individual effort was
immediately forthcoming in recruiting good scholars who were also good athletes
and were interested in participating in "pressure free" athletics. The faculty met
with the football team at the beginning of the season to assure them of their
interest.
(2) James M. Montgomery, successful high school and college coach, joined
the staff in September. His appointment followed the resignation of Athletic
Director C. M. "Sammy" Bartling, who had served on the staff since 1951. Bartling
entered private business in the city of Jackson. Montgomery assists Mar\'in G.
Smith in football and baseball and serves as basketball coach. He will soon have
his doctorate in education.
(3) Coaches Smith and Montgomery have inaugurated an intensive recruiting
program for the 1960-61 and the 1961-62 seasons. Good athletes who are also
good scholars are being identified, contacted, and interviewed. Encouraging results
are already being experienced.
(4) The College added two part-time coaches in football to help Smith and
Montgomery. Back in college for postgraduate preparation for medical school,
the two men made valuable contributions to the coaching program.
The drive to put new life into the .Millsaps athletic program, in its initial stages
in the fall, had little effect on this year's football and basketball.
The Majors managed a 2-7 football season against opponents who were
less eager to preserve their nonsubsidized status. Victories over Ouachita and
Livingston State were the bright spots in the season. A 26-6 loss to Mississippi
College (in their first year of an all-out effort to gain "small college" big time
status) was a disappointment in \iew of the even breaks of recent years, but was
no surprise.
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Quarterback Larry Marett, of Sardis, campus leader and top scholar, was
named the most outstanding ma.n on and off the field and received the Harvey T.
Newell trophy. Junior Joe Whitwell, end, received the award given the most
improved player.
Injuries seriously hampered the Majors' 1959 grid campaign. Before the first
game of the season, three men were sidelined for the year. At least a half dozen
others were hit during the season.
Twenty-live members of the 19.59 squad will return for the 1960 season,
eighteen of them lettermen. Biij-gest gap to fill is the quarterback position, with
graduation or academic attrition eliminating four of this year's field generals.
The Majors helped make athletic history in November when the final game,
a freezing encounter with Arkansas State, was televised by Jackson's WJTV. It
was the first football game ever to be televised in Mississippi. With the temperature
at the freezing level and a bone-chilling rain falling, Hinds Memorial Stadium was
almost deserted, but an audience of thousands looked on from their living room
fifty-yard lines.
One of the highlights of recent years was the reunion of the 1945-51 athletes
held on October 24 in honor of Doby Bartling, former athletic director.
Following an afternoon reunion in Buie Gymnasium which was attended by
more than sixty of "Doby's boys," the beloved coach and teacher was honored in
official ceremonies at the Homecoming Banquet. High point of the program was
the talk by Dr. Lowry Rush, former baekfield standout for the Majors. Rush paid
tribute to Bartling and Mrs. Bartling and presented the couple with gifts to
symbolize the appreciation and affection of the men who participated in athletics
at Millsaps under Doby's direction.
A side result of the Bartling reunion was the spontaneous development by
alumni present of plans to lend support to the coaching staff and the administra-
tion drive to strengthen the intercollegiate athletic program at Millsaps.
Several ideas have been suggested, but assistance in personal I'ecruitment of
good athletes and good scholars is one suggestion which has met with immediate
approval.
In his first year as head basketball coach at Millsaps, Jim Montgomery has
demonstrated both his ability as a mentor and his understanding and appi-eciation
of the athletic needs of a small, church-related college.
Results on the court have been only slightly better than in previous years,
but observers who have watched the Majors in action are encouraged. They feel
that, with a little more height, Montgomery and his squad will give opponents
plenty of trouble during the 1960-61 season.
This year the Majors, on the short end of the scores in three fourths of their
games, have again had to contend with the height problem. No possible combina-
tion of players available to Montgomery could average more than 6'0". Without
exception, every team scheduled had a decided height advantage, some of them
towering over the Majors' 6'1" center by as much as six inches.
And then there w^as the matter or subsidization. Again the College found the
simon-pure attitude in the Mid-South area, to be as rare as a whooping crane.
Heading the list of outstanding players again was Larry Marett, Sardis senior,
who averaged more than 18 points per game. Don Williamson, senior center, and
Charles Wallace, 5' 9" guard (and son of Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Wallace), were high
scorers too, and were vital cogs in the Majors' attack.
Next year's schedule will include several newcomers, and, if present indications
are correct, the Majors will have a squad which will have some much needed height
and a finesse reminiscent of the late 30's and 40's.
FROM THIS DAY-
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Warwick, '49-'o0, '51-54. Living in Jack-
son.
Dorothy Ann Maness to Willie Moore
Jones, Jr., '50. Living in Jackson.
Claire Elizabeth Manning, '54-'55, to
John Philip Morse. Living in New
Orleans.
Betty Mae Mills to Robert V. Sturdi-
vant, '57. Living in Decatur, Georgia.
Mary Frances Montgomery, '58, to
Alfred Thaddeus Leggett, III, '58. Liv-
ing in University, Mississippi.
Linda Munson, '59, to Bobby R. Ray,
'56-'59. Living in Jackson.
Ann Locke Myers, '58, to Peter James
Liacouras. Living in Durham, North
Carolina.
Ann Elizabeth Porter, '59, to Mark
Campbell Yerger, '58. Living in Jackson.
Helen Ward Reilly, '57, to Philip Alan
Sandberg. Living in Baton Rouge.
Nancy Caroline Vines, '54-'56, to
Joseph Edwards Wilson, Jr. Living in
Dallas, Texas.
Mae Frances Ross, '52-'54, to Anthony
Bills. Living in Shalimar, Florida.
Walda Charlene Welch, '58, to John
Edmond McKay. Living in Jackson.
Mary Jane Wilder to Robert A. Green-
lee, '55-'57.
A parent and a grandparent of each of
the current students pictured above at-
tended Millsaps. From the left, the stu-
dents are George Sumner, Hattiesburg;
Billie Lee Chambers, Clinton; Elizabeth
Harrell, Palo Alto, California; Evelyn
Burt, Drew; and Billy Moore, Jackson.
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MAJOR NOTES
MAJOR MISCELLANY
1892-1919
A biography of Dr. Courtney W.
Shropshire, '94-'95, of Palisades, Cali-
fornia, is being prepared by James
Chancellor Leonhart, of Leonhart and
Company, South and Water Streets,
Baltimore, Maryland, who desires in-
formation about Dr. Shropshire during
the 1890 period. Among other distinc-
tions. Dr. Shropshire is founder of
Civitan International.
A half-century of service in the field
of medicine was recognized when the
University of Tennessee presented a
Golden T Certificate to Dr. Albert Ver-
non Richmond, '04-'05, of Lake Cor-
morant, Mississippi. Dr. Richmond is
married to the former Thelma West, and
they have a son who is a student at
Vanderbilt.
Between 1600 and 2000 regular stu-
dents have had the good fortune to be
taught by Mrs. Annie Greer Leonard,
'16, who retired in January after 31
years of teaching. A reception in her
honor was held on her last day in the
schoolroom. She taught in Poindexter
Elementary School in Jackson.
An interesting collection of first edi-
tions of the works of George Washing-
ton Cable has been given to the Mill-
saps - Wilson Library by Frank K.
Mitchell, '19, who recently retired from
Duke University. Dr. Mitchell was the
first Millsaps alumnus to receive a
Rhodes scholarship.
1920-1929
The Reverend L. M. Sharp, '24, has
ibeen named to Mississi-ppi Governor
Ross Barnett's staff of colonels. Now
retired, the Reverend Sharp served as
pastor for 38% years in the Mississippi
Methodist Conference. He lives in For-
est, Mississippi.
The Mississippi governor's mansion
is the new home of Mrs. Ross Barnett,
the former Pearl Crawford, '26, whose
husband became governor of the state on
January 19. Mrs. Barnett will grace the
mansion, as she did their home on Fair-
view in Jackson, where she entertained
members of the class of '26 at a re-
union a few years ago.
Jackson's Murrah High School has
received high praise for its musical
productions over the past few years,
thanks to the work of Emmie Lou Pat-
ton, '22-'23, who serves as director. The
school has given such big successes as
"Call Me Madam" and "Li'l Abner."
1930-1939
The daughter of an alumna and a
former student will serve as Pilgrimage
Queens in Natchez this year. Lynn
Retchings is the daughter of the former
Evelyn Hogue, '30. Mary Gatewood Lam-
bert, the other queen, attended Mill-
saps during the 1958-59 session.
Hinds County's new sheriff is J. R.
"Bob" Gilfoy, '29-'30, who defeated his
opponents for the office in the August
election. Owner-operator of the J. R.
Gilfoy Company and the Mississippi
Trading Company, he is quite active as
a churchman and civic leader. Daughter
Karen, '56, is serving as choral music
director at Provine High School in Jack-
son and is active in the Little Theatre.
Bob, Jr., is a student at Mississippi State,
and Lady Melinda attends Bailey Junior
High.
Filling four positions at one time.
Colonel Robert S. Higdon, '34, is sei'ving
as Medical Corps Acting Executive Of-
ficer, Chief of Dermatology Service
(with eleven residents). Consultant in
Dermatology to the Army Surgeon Gen-
eral, and Associate Clinical Professor of
Dermatology at Georgetown Medical
School. Colonel Higdon is connected
with Walter Reed Army Hospital in
Washington. The Higdons have two
sons, Robert and Don.
Recollections of times when Armand
Karow, '35, was a "simply great"
cheerleader and when Gabe Felder, '35,
scored two touchdowns to beat Missis-
sippi College were part of a feature on
James Spotswood, '36, in a recent Jack-
son paper. Jlr. Spotswood, now Alabama
editor of the Birmingham News, visited
Jackson during the Christmas holidays
and talked over old times with fellow
newsmen. His career began while he was
a student at Millsaps, was interrupted
by World War H, and continued at Jack-
son, Meridian, and Hattiesburg. He
worked with the Associated Press in
Birmingham prior to accepting his
present position.
Mrs. P. B. Nations (Earline Johnson,
'36) is attending Southwestern of Mem-
phis on a scholarship this winter. A
math teacher in the Memphis Schools,
she studied at Memphis State last sum-
mer on a National Science Foundation
scholarship.
Eugenia Mauldin, '38, has been invited
to participate as a consultant on teach-
ing- machines at the College and Univer-
sity Section of the Division of Audio-
Visual Instruction in Cincinnati the lat-
ter part of February. She seiwes as
assistant professor of the Department
of Library Service and Audio-Visual
Education at the University of Tennes-
see.
J. D. Smith, '38, holds the position of
chief chemist and research director in a
25-meniber laboratory of the Internation-
al Lubricant Corporation, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Shell Oil Company. A
resident of New Orleans, he has a 15-
year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter.
Clayton A. Morgan, '40, is serving as
coordinator of the Vocational Rehabili-
tation Counselor Training Program at
Oklahoma State University in addition
to his duties as associate professor of
psychology at the school.
1940-1949
In the literary field, three Millsaps
alumni have published or will soon
publish new works. Larston Farrar, '40,
the author of three books, has written
Successful Writers and How They Work,
which was released by Ha^\i;horn Books,
Inc. A six-volume American history
series is planned by Hill and Wang,
to be under the general editorship of
David Donald, '41. Tammy Tell Me True
is the latest effort of Cid Ricketts
Sumner, '09, whose earlier Tammy book.
Tammy Out of Time, was made into the
movie "Tammy and the Bachelor" and
whose heroine became the subject of
a popular song.
Fourth place in Together magazine's
"Anniversary Hymn" contest was award-
ed to Mrs. Jack Caldwell (.Marjorie Ann
.Murphy, '44), who has been taking a
correspondence course in creative writ-
ing. The Reverend Caldwell, '41, is
serving as pastor of the Culdesac, Idaho,
Methodist Church and the Indian Mis-
sion Church (Nez Perce Indians) at
Lapwai. The C.aldwells described
Culdesac as a little village of two hun-
dred in a pocket in the mountains 21
miles south of Lewiston, Idaho, and
speak casually of the peaches, pears,
apples, and prunes growing in the val-
ley. Jimmy, in the second grade, and
Dorothy Ann, 4, complete the family,
but there'll be another Caldwell in
February.
A household in which church activity
plays a most important part is that of
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Mr. and Mrs. W. Baldwin Lloyd, '42 and
'41-'42. Mr. Lloyd, an oil attorney,
is a deacon in the First Baptist Church
in Jackson. Mrs. Lloyd, the former Ann
Rae Wolfe, is president of the Hinds
County Women's Missionary Union As-
sociation and serves as associate su-
perintendent of the High School Sun-
day School Department. But social
activities have a place, too. Mrs. Lloyd
is president of the High Noon Luncheon
Club, vice-president of the Pierian
Literary Club, and a member of the
Garden Gate Garden Club and the Black
Gold Club. The Lloyds have two chil-
dren, Robbie, 12, and Marie, 4.
Among the children featured on Art
Linkletter's television spectaculai- in
October was the six-year-old son of an
alumna, Mrs. Timothy Cantwell (Peggy
Tver. '44), now a resident of Los Angeles.
Succeeding the Reverend J. L. Long,
the Reverend .1. H. Morrow, Jr., '4f!, was
named superintendent of the Methodist
Children's Home in Jackson in Septem-
ber. He moved to his new position
from Galloway Memorial Miethodist
Church, where he served as associate pas-
tor. The Morrows have three children.
Esther Read, '47, is curiently employ-
ed as psychiatric social worker at the
Menninger Foundation in Topeka,
Kansas.
Recently named comptroller of the
Sheppard Companies of Jackson, John
A "Jack" Shanks, '47, received his Mas-
ter's degree in business administration
from the University of Chicago and his
law degree from Loyola University. He
has served with the Federal Internal
Revenue Service, as a lawyer, and as a
certified public accountant. He is mar-
ried to the former Josie Lascaro, and
has a daughter, Jo Ann.
Now teaching at Clark Air Force Base
near Manila, Mrs. Mark Nestle (Ora
Pauline Bizzell, '48) has taught in
Japan, Germany, Morocco, and New-
foundland in Air Force Dependent
Schools. Her husband is head of the
American School in Manila and is an
official and director in a number of
mining companies in the Philippines.
Filling the unexpired term of a Hinds
County judge who resigned, Carl Guern-
sey, '48, served from September to Jan-
uary in the position and was reappointed
for another term. He also serves as
youth court judge. An attorney in Jack-
son, he has been engaged in the prac-
tice of law for eight years. Mrs. Guern-
sey is the former Sue Dunning, '47-'4S
and '52-'53. The couple have two chil-
dren, Elizabeth, 10, and Stewart, 7.
After working for several years as
a medical technologist, Mrs. Frank
Ellzey (Jane Lewis, '49) has joined her
husband at the University of Mississippi
Medical School. Mr. Ellzey, a junior,
wants to enter general practice, while
Mrs. Ellzey, a freshman, is planning to
specialize in pathology or obstetrics-
gynecology.
While serving as cashier of the First
National Bank of Atmore, Alabama,
John Garrard, '49, finds time to be a
charter and active member of the
Jaycees, chairman of the official board
of the Methodist Church, and an of-
ficer of the Tri-State Gulf Conference
of the NABAC. He has a son, John
Michael, S^-i.
Reporting that they love the mountains
and their work in North Carolina, the
Robert F. Nays are living in North
Elkin, where the Reverend Nay, '49, is
pastor of the Grassy Creek Methodist
Church. Mrs. Nay is the former Mary
Ethel Mize, '46.
Henry G. Clements, '49, has been
named general sales manager for
Stribling Bros. Corporation of Green-
wood, Caterpillar distributor. He joined
the company in 1952 and has made rapid
advancement to his present position.
1950-1959
Although a researcher in her own
right, Mrs. Norman J. Meyer (Miriam
Earle Martin, '46-'48) is devoting her
time to being a housewife and mother
to two daughters while her husband
teaches in the chemistry department at
the State University in Bowling Green,
Ohio. While Dr. Meyer studied nu-
clear science at MIT before accepting his
present position, Mrs. Meyer did re-
search in the Massachusetts State Health
Department.
Millsaps' new college doctor is Dr.
John D. Wofford, a '50 graduate of the
College. Mrs. Wofford is the former
Elizabeth Ridgway, '50.
Jackson attorney Edward L. Cates,
'50, has been appointed assistant at-
torney general for the state of Mis-
sissippi. Mr. Cates was associated with
a Jackson law firm prior to his ap-
pointment. He is married to the former
Dorothy Poore, of Hattiesburg.
Having received the Bachelor of
Science degree from Mississippi State
University in August, William B. Selah,
Jr., '47-'50, has accepted a position as
director of research with the North Mis-
sissippi Industrial Development Associa-
tion. After leaving Millsaps Mr. Selah
served four years as a jet pilot in the
Air Force. Now making his home in
West Point, Mississippi, he is married
to the former Roberta Naef and has
two children.
The Reverend James C. Campbell, '51,
has joined the staff of the Methodist
Television, Radio and Film Commission
in Memphis as associate director of
utilization. He will work with other
Methodist agencies in developing their
long-range audio-visual resources, train
Methodist ministers and laymen in the
use of audio-visuals, and plan programs
and patterns of utilization for audio-
visuals. Before accepting his present
position he served pastorates in Jackson
and in Taylor, South Carolina.
Dr. William O. Miller, '52, has begun
his specialty training as a fellow in
urology at the Alton Ochsner Medical
Foundation in New Orleans. He has
just completed a term as a lieutenant
in the Medical Corps at the U. S. Naval
Station at Virginia Beach, Virginia. He
is married to the former Johnnye
Laseter, of Jackson, and they have a
son.
Cleveland Turner, Jr., '52, is serving
with the USAF at Eglin APB Hospital,
Florida, as chief of surgery. Mrs.
Turner, the former Dorothy Jernigan,
'52, is with him at Eglin.
Now back in his hometown of Crystal
Springs, Mississippi, where he is en-
gaged in the practice of general
medicine, Jerry GuUedge, '50-'53, recent-
ly completed a tour of duty with the
Navy. He attended Ole Miss and the
University of Tennessee medical schools
after leaving Millsaps. He is married to
the former Ann Carter, '55. They have
one child.
CuiTently listed in the National
Council for Exceptional Children direc-
tory as secretary and treasurer of the
Mississippi branch, Mrs. Jodie Kyzar
George, '54, is a member of the com-
mittee working on a course of study for
exceptional children in the Jackson
public schools. She has done graduate
work for the past two summers at
Columbia University.
After several years in California
working at 20th Century and CBS-TV
and studying at the University of
Southern California, John M. Howell, '54,
is working toward the Ph.D. degree in
English at Tulane.
Now employed by Sperry-Rand in
Clearwater, Florida, Roy Turner .Vrnold.
'54, received his Ph.D. degree in physics
from Vanderbilt last year. He is mar-
ried and has two children.
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MAJOR NOTES
While serving as a research assistant
in sociology at Columbia University-
Teachers College, Fred Whitam, '54, is
setting up a study of Protestant re-
ligious expression among Puerto Ricans
in New York City for the Department
of Church Planning and Research of
the Protestant Council of New York.
Vernon Eppinette, '55, is associated
with Swank, Inc., men's jewelry and
gift manufacturer. He recently received
a fine promotion, moving to Kansas
City, Missouri, to serve as manufac-
turer's representative for that city.
Robert Gibson, '51-'53, is associated
with McQuay, Inc., producer of air
conditioners, as a production engineer.
He's now living in Grenada, Mississippi.
Attending the National Conference
on Christian Education at Cincinnati.
Dr. J. D. Wroten went to the Cincinnati
Symphony — and met an alumna. Mrs.
Harry Clinton (Mariann Hancock, '51-
'52) is now residing in Cincinnati with
her engineer husband and child. She
attends the Cincinnati Conservatory,
where she is continuing her study of
voice.
Charles Deaton, '56, was elected to
the state legislature in August, along
with several other Millsaps alumni. He
is engaged in the practice of law in
Greenwood, Mississippi. The Deatons
(Mary Dent Dickerson, '52) have one
child, Diane.
After doing geologic work along the
Yukon River in Alaska for six months,
John Evans, '56, is living in New Mex-
ico. He is a geologist with Humble Oil
and Refining Company.
Nita Perry, '57, has returned to Mem-
phis, her hometown, where she is teach-
ing high school English. She taught
at Pensacola High School in Pensacola,
Florida, for two years.
Advance degree recipients include
Carolyn Hutchins, '58, MA, Tulane;
Harry Mills, '54-'56, DDS, University
of Tennessee; and Nathan R. Walley,
'56, DDS, University of Tennessee. Miss
Hutchins is studying toward the Ph.D.
degree at Tulane, Dr. Mills has accept-
ed a position with the North Carolina
Public Health Division of Oral Hygiene,
and Dr. Walley is completing a tour of
duty at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Now teaching history at the Golden
State Junior High School in Bakers-
field, California, Don Dickerson, '59,
played the title role in "Mr. Roberts"
at the Bakersfield Community Theater.
At Millsaps he received an acting award
for his portrayal of Ulysses in "Tiger
at the Gates."
In addition to his duties as teacher
of social studies at McComb, Mississippi,
High School, Palmer Manning, '59,
coaches the seventh and eighth grades.
He also serves as sports correspondent
for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
A happy surprise awaited John Echols,
'59, and Joe Snowden, '59, last fall when
they entered the geology school of the
University of Missouri. Mrs. Echols
(Cora Phillips, '59) wrote to Dr. Priddy:
"Dr. Keller told them that his past
experience with Millsaps boys was proof
that Mr. Johnson's optical course was
excellent and need not be repeated. Joe
talked with some boys who had grad-
uate credit for optical from other
schools and Dr. Keller required that they
repeat it at the University of Missouri
. . . John does not have to take any
undergraduate work." Mrs. Echols is
working in the Student Loan Office at
the University.
After a course of intensive training
for mission work at Scarritt College
last summer, Anne Marler, '59, departed
for Southern Rhodesia, where she will
work in the field of elementary educa-
tion. One of a group of 31 constituting
the 1959 "Fellowship of Christian Serv-
ice," the special term overseas mission-
aries of the Methodist Board of Mis-
sions, Miss Marler will spend three
years in Southern Rhodesia.
Among the Millsaps alumni in Ger-
many are Pete Costas, '57, who is study-
ing- at the University of Heidelberg;
and Jud King, '57-'58, and David Boyette,
'56-'58, botji connected with the armed
services. Mr. King is serving as acting
training sergeant of his company in
Heilbron.
Experience as a sports writer with
the Clarion Ledger during his Millsaps
days gained for John W. Hall, '57-'59, the
position of editor of the newspaper of
the USS Lake Champlain when he was
called to active duty in the Navy. He
spent a recent furlough at home in
Jackson.
Ju iMrmnrtam
This column is dedicated to the memory of graduates, former students, and
friends who have passed away in recent months. Every effort has been made to
compile an accurate list, but there will be unintentional omissions. Your help is
solicited in order that we may make the column as complete as possible. Those
whose memory we honor are as follows:
Dr. John Byrd Ainsworth, '04-'06, who died January 14. He was a resident of
Raymond, Mississippi.
Mrs. Harry Blair (Grace Brovnlee, '28-'30), who died January 26. She was a
Jackson resident.
Edward Cage Brewer, '10, who died in October. A former member of the Board
of Trustees, he was a resident of Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Fleming L. Brown, '43-'44, who died October 20. He had lived in Crystal Springs,
Mississippi.
Mrs. Mary Millsaps Bowen Clark, former librarian, who died September 14.
She was a resident of Huntsville, Texas.
Wilfred Q. Cole, '12-'13, who died December 3. He had lived in Jackson.
John R. Countiss, Jr., '26, who died February 1. He had lived in Jackson.
Charles E. Crisler, '50-'51, who died September 28. He was a Windsor, Con-
necticut, resident.
The Reverend Robert Cleveland Edwards, '09-'14, who died in August. He had
lived in Stephenville, Texas.
Walter M. Galloway, '25, who died September 25. Lakeland, Florida, was his
home.
A. W. Garraway, '16, who died in December. He was a Jackson resident.
Marcellus Calhoun Green, '24-'25, who died December 26. He lived in Los
Angeles.
The Reverend Jesse Mark Guinn, '10, who died September 8. He was a resident
of Okolona, Mississippi.
Ben R. Howard, '36-'37, who died November 9. He was a long-time resident
of Jackson.
L. Barrett Jones, '10, who passed away November 23. Jackson was his home.
George E. Klee, '48, who suffered a heart attack on July 14. He lived in Ripley,
Tennessee.
Wirt A. Williams, '07, who died in January. He was a Cleveland, Mississippi,
resident.
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of all, that of the Virgins closest to
the Holy Ghost, where he finds the Vir-
gin Queen whom he aclvnowledges as
Head of the True Church. For Donne
personally, his search for meaning end-
ed in his conversion to the Anglican
Church and his ordination to her priest-
hood. But for his century, another di-
rection was indicated.
Poetry in the eighteenth century
forsook Donne's and the English meta-
physicals' anguished search — forsook it
because it had found the Enl'ghtenment,
a coming to terms with the new science.
Pope's Essay on Man presents in bril-
liantly executed couplets a Deistic uni-
verse set in motion by the Prime Mover
and running smoothly by natural law.
But this world of scientific, verifiable
fact "in its desire to separate fact
from the values of a crumbKng tradi-
tion, separated fact from all values
. . . Such a world offered no objective
verification for just the perceptions by
which men live, perceptions of beauty,
goodness, and spirit." (Rober Langbaum,
The Poetry of Experience, New York,
1957, pp. 11-12.) And so the Romantic
revolt was born. Read the English
Romantics — Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats ;
read the French Romantics — Rousseau,
Lamartine, Baudelaire, Rimbaud: all
have repudiated the eighteenth-century
scientific approach to man and his uni-
verse, and all are in search of some
other — intuitive, imaginative, mythic —
approach which will yield satisfying
answers. 1 pass over the English Vic-
torians, who were torn anew by scientific
speculation — this time Darwinism — and
I come to the poetry of our own cen-
tury. What has it said of man and
the universe? What truth, what order,
what "stay against confusion," what
clarification has it proclaimed ? And
what is modern man now ?
I venture to suggest that a future
historian of ideas — if he exists — will
You Can Go Home Again
"It was a great experience — and ;o
think, I almost decided not to come!"
So spoke one of the many alumni who
returned for the class reunions feature
that memorable Saturday, October 24 —
Homecoming. Under the present system
an alumnus "comes home" with three
other classes who were on campus with
him. Actually, the plan brings to life
one great year in an alumnus' college
career. The photo above captures, in
part, the magic of last October's re-
unions. It's not too early for the re-
union classes for Homecoming, 1960,
to begin making plans for the day.
The Alumni Relations Office will work
with class officers in setting up the re-
unions. Who's coming up this October?
It's 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915; 1931,
1932, 1933, and 1934; 1950, 1951, 1952,
and 1953; and the two honor groups,
the Silver Anniversary class, 1936, and
the Golden Anniversary class, 1911.
see the twentieth-century splitting of
the atom, and all that came and is
to come after it, as phenomena as
spiritually wrenching, as dislocating as
Copernican astronomy and Galileo's
telescope. I do not adduce, though I
could, these evidences of our own dis-
order: our century's two world wars;
the continuing cold war (the "brink of
peace" on which we teeter) ; the great
political, economic, and social revolu-
tions in which we live — disorderly,
sometimes frighteningly so, though
frequently passing under the name of
progress: I speak rather of the dis-
order of our spiritual climate, and I
point to fragmented modern man, un-
able to harmonize his world with the
old verities; I remind you of our
psychiatrists' couches, our tranquillizer
pills, our peace of mind books; I refer to
our jaded senses, our search for pleas-
ure; I weekly wonder less (because
I am one of us) at our loss of the
capacity for wonder; worse, because
deepest and hardly expressed, I think
of our fear of the monsters our own
minds have conceived and built — and
continue to build. Finally, I speak of
our struggle for faith in an all-power-
ful, all-loving God, who can somehow —
in infinite compassion — forgive us our
arrogance, our stupidity, our pettiness,
our crass selfishness — in short, our sin
— and save us.
Poetry in our century has anatomized
our malady and sought the way to peace.
Read the Christian poetry of Eliot and
Auden; read the poetry of those who
are not Christian: read Hardy and
Yates, read Jeffers and his doctrine
of "inhumanism"; read the nature
poetry of Frost; read the post-war
Existentialists, the best of whom un-
happily died within the month. They
are all in search of truth, and they
all articulate just so much as is
vouchsafed them and their art. Read
them all, and it may be that you will
return with me to Milton's poetry: the
last great Renaissance, the first great
modern synthesis of faith and reason.
Ladies and gentlemen, I commend
poetry and its values to you as a
vital part of your liberal education.
Poetry is true; and because it is, it
is a means of grace: man's grace, na-
ture's grace, art's grace, God's grace.
I do not claim that it will save your
soul; but I do claim that it will do
what is prerequisite to that: it will
make you know that you have one.
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MAJOR NOTES
'Do You Remember?
Do you remember the people and the occasion for the
picture above ?
Borrowing; an idea from Garry Moore, Major Notes
gleaned some information about what was going on that
year.
At Millsaps, it was the year the late W. E. Riecken
became dean of the College, to the great satisfaction of
all who knew him and loved him as a biology teacher. Dr.
M. L. Smith was president of the College, and the faculty
roster was composed of such names as Dr. Bullock, Dr.
Moore, Dr. Wharton, Dr. White, Professor Ricketts, Pro-
fessor Lin, and Professor Sanders, for a few.
It was the year that the big campaign was to get
better lighting for the library and one of the big ques-
tions was to dance or not to dance. The Purple and White
polled the campus on the question "Would you repeal the
neutrality embargo unconditionally?" and received a ten
per cent "yes" and ninety per cent "no" response. And it was
the year that a new cafeteria took the place of the old din-
ing hall.
It was the year when the following words appeared
in editorials in the Purple and White: "With a flood of
frankly colorful news and hysterical statements by every-
one in authority, our century's second general war began
the first of this month. In the weeks since then we have
tried to grow used to newspapers and radios blaring of
blackouts, ultimatums, and blockades."
And a little later: "The ills of Europe, if America
must cure them, cannot be cured by the sword — it has
been tried for two thousand years. America can best serve
her purpose by striving not to take sides in the present
war." Neutrality was the prevalent cry in P & W editorials
and features.
The Purple and White published the best of English
themes each week, and the name most often seen was that
of Ben Hall. Tom Robertson was editor of the paper, which
also featured contributions by Lawrence Rabb, Pat
O'Brien, Gwin Kolb, and others. According to a Bobashela
review, "The reviled but revered Dirt Dauber was laid to
rest with appropriate ceremonies by the P & W, and from
its ashes rose the milder Majordomo — after a brief pause
for station identification."
It was the year Who's Who read this way: Student
body president, Manning Hudson; Master Major, Fred
Bledsoe; Miss Millsaps, Sara Rhymes; Bobashela editor,
Louise Moorer; top beauty, as selected by George Petty, Sara
Rhymes; ODK president, J. S. Vandiver; and Sigma Lambda
president, Ann Stone.
It was the year the Players, directed by Dr. White,
presented "Stop Thief," starring Joe Brooks, Helen Ricks,
James Thompson, Betty Larsen, Marianna Terry, Glenn
Phifer, and Mary Jane Mohead.
A record snowfall came during exam week, and the
Majors beat the Choctaws to win the Dixie Conference
basketball title. "Chunkin' Charlie" Ward was uncrowned
king of the campus.
It was the year the Singers traveled to Pop King's
native Ohio and posed for the picture above at the Cincin-
nati Conservatory of Music.
Remember ? It was that wonderful year nineteen hun-
dred and forty.
WINTER
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Millsaps College Alumni Magazine
Spring Edition, 1960
From the President
Two events of the spring semester
will be of interest to the alumni of the
College.
At the February meeting of the Board
of Trustees the members of the faculty
joined the trustees for dinner on the
first evening of the two-day session.
After dinner the members of the Board,
in equal groups, talked with the three
divisions of the faculty — the Human-
ities, the Natural Sciences, and the
Social Sciences.
These informal conversations were ar-
ranged for two purposes. They afforded
an opportunity for the trustees and the
faculty to become personally acquainted.
The evening also provided an occasion
when trustees could become better in-
formed about the purposes and the
planning of a major division of the
College's academic program, even as
faculty members could learn something
of the thinking of the trustees.
The experiment proved to be highly
successful. In subsequent years trustees
will have an opportunity to become con-
versant with the work of all three divi-
sions.
The other event of the semester
which profitably can recur was an in-
formal conversation shared by faculty,
a group of graduating seniors, and a
score of alumni who have studied at the
College within the last ten years. The
idea was that current and recent grad-
uates could talk candidly with faculty
and administration about the entire pro
gram of the College. The morning we
spent together was illuminating and
rewai'ding.
The administration and faculty are
eager to know from you, the alumni,
what you feel about the contribution?
the college made to your professional
and personal usefulness. What we are
doing that is good we wish to perpetuate
and strengthen. That which is weak we
hope to correct. Areas which are neg-
lected and should be included we want
to consider.
Letters from other alumni concerning
these points would be welcomed.
This is a part of our current self-study
and evaluation. It is an activity which
we hope to continue as a part of a con-
tinuing self-study.
MAJOR NOTES
MERGED INSTITUTIONS: Grenada
College, Whitworth College,
Millsaps College
MEMBER: American Alumni Council,
American College Public Relations
Association
CONTENTS
3 Students Win Scholarships
4 Mock Democratic Convention
7 Special Report : The Alumnus
23 Events of Note
25 Majors-Choctaws End Rivalry
28 Do You Remember?
COVER
Propping the unweildy sign of their
candidate until needed for a demonstra-
tion, Symington supporters give complete
attention to the platform at the mock
convention held on the campus. Pictured
are George Atkinson, Jackson ; Tom
Royals, Taylorsville ; Thad Nelson Tho-
mas, McComb ; and David McMullan,
Newton.
STAFF
Editors James J. Livesay
Shirley Caldvi^ell
Photographers Frank Carney, '61
Billy Bowie, '64
Volume 1
APRIL, 1960
Number 3
Published quarterly by Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Entered as second class matter on October 15, 1959, at the
Post Office in Jackson, Mississippi, under the Act of August
24, 1912.
MAJOR NOTES
Students Get Graduate Awards
Millsaps Seniors Make Fine Showing in Number
and Quality of Graduate Fellowships
Woodrow Wilson, Atomic Energy, National Defense,
and National Science Foundation scholarships are among
the graduate study grants received by Millsaps students
already this year, with more than a month remaining
in the session.
Millsaps led the way in the number of Woodrow Wilson
fellowships awarded in state colleges. Seven were given to
students attending state schools, and Millsaps had three
awardees. Recipients were Peggy Rogers, Jackson, who will
study English; Kent Prince, Newton, English; and Lewis
Wilson, Jackson, philosophy. The awards carry a basic
stipend of $1,500 plus family allowances and full costs
of a year's graduate study at any university of the recip-
ient's choice in the United States or Canada. Recipients
of the 1,259 awards were selected from 8,800 nominees.
Miss Rogers was one of the few juniors in the nation
to be selected for the award last year, and her grant was
confirmed this year.
National Defense Graduate Fellowships were awarded
to Ola Mae Hays, Jackson, who will study government at
American University; Bill Cooper, Pass Christian Isles, who
will enroll in the Graduate Program in Economic Develop-
ment at Vanderbilt; and Bill Rushing, Itta Bena, who will
study in Vanderbilt's Graduate Training Program in Plant
Evolution.
The fellowships provide a stipend of $2,000 for the
first academic year of study, $2,200 for the second, and
$2,400 for the third. Additional allowance is made for
dependents, and tuition and fees may be waived by the
chosen institution.
In his final year of study. Cooper will be eligible for
a summer research grant from Vanderbilt to go to an
underdeveloped country to do research for his doctorate.
Kurt Feldmann, Clarksdale, will study health physics
at the University of Rochester under an Atomic Energy
Commission fellowship. Following his nine months of academ-
ic study he will work at one of the Atomic Energy labora-
tories for three months. The Commission will pay $2,500
plus tuition, fees, and travel expenses.
The National Science Foundation awarded a scholarship
to Al Lasaine, Chicago, who will enroll at Alabama Poly-
technic Institute in the field of mathematics. He will re-
ceive $2,200 plus tuition and fees.
A Root-Tilden Scholarship in law was granted to
Robert McArthur, Jackson, by New York University. One
of two selected from the Fifth Federal Judicial Circuit,
McArthur will receive $2,500 per year for three years.
Barbara Kay Kirschenbaum, of Vicksburg, received a
Hawthorne Scholarship to Tulane University School of
Medicine. A four-year scholarship, the award pays $4,000.
Miss Kirschenbaum is a biology major.
The University of Mississippi awarded a non-service
fellowship to Margaret Yarbrough, Indianola, who will
study English. Miss Yarbrough plans to teach on the college
level.
Ole Miss also granted an assistantship to Carson Hollo-
man, Batesville, in English. Mack Cole, Laurel, has an
assistantship in English at the University of Arkansas, and
Al Bishop, Meridian, received an assistantship in chemistry
from Louisiana State University. Holloman and Cole plan
to teach English on the college level. Bishop's assistantship
will pay $1,800 plus tuition and fees. He will teach twelve
hours a week.
A junior received an appointment in the Summer
Student Trainee Program of the Oak Ridge Institute of
Nuclear Studies in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Donald Faulkner,
Vicksburg, will be assigned to the Physics Division of the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he will be associated
with a research project under the direction of a laboratory
scientist.
If no more than the fourteen scholarships already
received are awarded, the record for this year would be
outstanding. There are indications, however, that more are
coming.
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National Defense awardees Cooper, Hays, and Rushing.
Woodrow Wilson winners Rogers and
Lewis.
SPRING
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Mr. Chairman . . .
Mississippians Got a Preview of the July Democratic Convention When the
PoHtical Science Department Sponsored a Mock Convention in
Buie Gymnasium. The Purpose: Education.
With a complete seriousness of pur-
pose which brought into play all the
elements which go into the selection of
a nominee for the nation's highest office,
Millsaps College students staged a Mock
Democratic Convention in Buie Gymna-
sium April 4, 5, and 6.
The students could not have been
more determined and serious about the
outcome if they had been the actual
delegates to the Los Angeles convention;
for, while they realized that their choice
would have little influence on the na-
tional delegates, they knew that the
Millsaps convention was being used as
a pulsebeat to determine the feelings of
serious-minded students who would
themselves soon be filling positions of
responsibility — who would be the voters
in future elections. They felt strongly
about their candidates and wanted them
to make the best showing possible. In
most cases, the student honestly felt
that his candidate was the person who
could best guide the country during the
next four years.
All the color and excitement of the
real thing were there — the platform de-
bates, the campaigning, the rules and
nominations fights, the nomination
speeches, the demonstrations, the ballot-
ing— complete with a walk-out by States
Righters. Buie Gymnasium was trans-
formed into Convention Hall through the
use of flags, posters, a speakers' ros-
trum, and delegation seating arrange-
ments. A loudspeaking system aided in
making all speakers heard throughout
the hall. Members of the press were
present for each session.
When it was all over, Senator John
Kennedy of Massachusetts was the
party's presidential candidate and Senate
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of
Texas was his running mate.
But the climax was only a part of
the story. Millsaps College students had
learned more about political science in
a few short weeks than they could have
gained in a semester of classroom work.
Actual participation had made them
put into effect the theories and prin-
ciples they had studied and had thus
made their "book learning" more mean-
ingful.
In addition to selecting the party
MAJOR NOTES
candidates, the convention delegates
adopted a platform which considered
foreign affairs, domestic affairs, labor
relations; agricultural policy, civil
rights, and peace and national security.
Most significant action on the platform
was the deletion of a States Rights
measure which read, "We believe that
the United States government has no
power to infringe upon the rights of
the states guaranteed them by the Con-
stitution, and uphold the right of any
state to interpose its sovereignty when
it feels a branch of the Federal govern-
ment has surpassed its constitutional
limits." The motion for striking passed
95 to 54.
States Righters later attempted to
insert an amendment in the Resolutions
by which the delegates would go on
record as being opposed to Federal in-
tervention in integration disputes in any
state. The motion failed. Another reso-
lution calling for the convention to go
on record as not condoning Federal in-
tervention in state-controlled affairs
passed, but was stricken in a repoll after
the States Rights delegations walked
out.
The convention did go on record as
as'-;ing the state of Mississippi to stay
with the party in the Los Angeles con-
vention.
Monday
Rubel L. Phillips, '48, Millsaps Alum-
nus of the Year for 1956 and one of
Mississippi's Outstanding Young Men of
the Year this year, delivered a keynote
address in which he urged the delegates
to remain with the party. He said that
he subscribed to Jefferson's principle
that men naturally divide into parties.
"If all men thought the same," he said,
"there would be no issues and therefore
no great institutions such as Millsaps.
There would be no system of formal
education because there would be no
seeking of truth." He discussed the
Republican administration and express-
ed the belief that the delegates would
return the White House to the Demo-
cratic party. He was presented a gavel
with an inscription commemorating his
part in the convention.
John C. Sullivan, of Jackson, who had
served as temporary chairman of the
convention, was named permanent
chairman. Other permanent officers,
elected Tuesday, were Frank Allen,
Jackson, vice-chairman; Sara Webb,
Jackson, secretary; Suzanne Ransburgh,
Sturgis, assistant secretary; Roger Kin-
nard, Philadelphia, sergeant-at-arms;
and Peggy Rogers, Jackson, parliamen-
tarian.
Other speakers of the evening were
the Reverend George Stephenson, '36,
chaplain for the Episcopal students on
the campus, who delivered the invoca-
tion; Dr. J. S. Ferguson, who gave the
Above: States Rights delegates
out of Convention Hall.
walk
Right: Rubel
note address.
Phillips delivers key-
Below: A tired delegate finds a com-
fortable position.
Bottom: Kennedy supporters stage a
demonstration.
welcoming- address; Dr. Harry Manley,
chairman of the political science depart-
ment, who spoke on the purpose of the
event; and William Winter, State Tax
Collector, who introduced Mr. Phillips.
Mr. Winter served as keynote speaker
in 1956 at the only previous mock con-
vention at Millsaps or in the state.
Members of the Mississippi Legisla-
ture were present for parts of the pro-
ceedings throughout the convention.
Notable among them were Charles Dea-
ton, '56, who led the campaign for Adlai
Stevenson at the '56 Millsaps convention
and was later invited to visit Mr. Steven-
son at his Illinois farm; John Neill,
'49; and Joe Wroten, '45.
Tuesday
Rules for the convention established
by a Rules Committee came under con-
sideration during the early part of the
evening. An amendment calling for vot-
ing according to individual conviction
rather than by state instruction was
passed. The only other debate on the
rules concerned procedure to amend
the rules. The rules originally said
that only a minority group composed of
ten per cent or more of the committee
submitting the report could propose
amendments. It was changed to read
"any minority group."
Five planks of the platform were ap-
proved, but time ran out before final
passage.
Wednesday
Demonstrations were staged before
the convention opened, and a very good
Millsaps band provided music to get the
delegates in the proper spirit of en-
thusiasm. The air was charged with
tension and with the buzz of rumors
and plans and political strategy.
The remaining planks in the platform
came up for consideration. After a few
more changes, the platform was adopted.
Among the measures advocated were
the reunification of Germany, equal
facilities for education for every child
in the U. S., the abolition of the dis-
claimer oath in regard to loans to
college students, the raising of the
exemption for income tax to $800 per
dependent, the strengthening of the
Taft-Hartley Act (as opposed to a call
for repeal debated during the conven-
tion), equal pay for equal work, and
promotion of international food ex-
changes so that world needs may be met
by U. S. surpluses.
The main resolution, drawn up by the
Resolutions Committee, concerned voic-
ing appreciation to all who had a part
in making the convention successful. It
was amended as mentioned above.
As mentioned above also, the next
order of business was the adoption of
a State Rights resolution which would
put the delegates on record as not con-
doning Federal intervention in state-
controlled affairs. The measure passed.
Nomination addresses were then in
order. Alabama yielded to South Caro-
lina, whose spokesman urged the dele-
gates to follow Mississippi in walking
out of the convention in protest against
certain planks in the platform — in
spite of the fact that a States Rights
resolution had just been passed. Seven
states joined in the noisy exit, leaving
45 delegations.
It was then ruled by Chairman Sulli-
van that the doors to the Convention
Hall be closed and the delegates not re-
admitted. The remaining delegates join-
ed in singing "So Long, It's Been Good
to Know You."
Speeches and demonstrations were
made for Hubert Humphrey, John Ken-
nedy, Lyndon Johnson, Stuart Syming-
ton, and Adlai Stevenson. The States
Righters were supporting Richard Rus-
sell.
On the first ballot Kennedy failed by
a small number to receive the necessary
votes for a majority. On the second
ballot, however, his opponents received
only 57 votes of a possible 266.
It was then that the delegations were
repolled concerning the Federal inter-
vention in state-controlled affairs. The
delegations voted to strike the measure.
Two more states exited in protest.
The only candidate nominated for vice-
president was Johnson.
The States Rights group petitioned for
and was granted permission to hold a
rally on the campus. At press time com-
plete plans had not been formulated.
The Mississippi Legislature, however,
passed a resolution commending the
walkout students for their "militant
stand for state sovereignty." The state
Senate approved a resolution condemn-
ing the actions of the mock convention,
although supporters of the measure em-
phasized the fact that it was not intend-
ed to be a reflection on the College but
on the people of America since the
students were supposed to be playing
the parts of the representatives of the
various states. One senator, however,
said he opposed the bill because he did
not think the Senate should pass a reso-
lution about affairs in a church-related
college.
During the convention telegrams were
received from Kennedy and Symington
wishing success for the affair.
In 1956 Millsaps students selected
Stevenson and Johnson as their candi-
dates.
A Special Report
The following sixteen pages concern
the most valuable product of any in-
stitution: its alumni.
Millsaps alumni have been organized
as a group since 1953 — only six short
years. An interested group of loyal grad-
uates laid the foundation for this or-
ganization in the years prior to 1953,
but no concerted effort was made to
keep the alumni informed about the
College.
The alumni files now contain more
than 7,500 names, and a records clerk
devotes her time to the tremendous
task of keeping the addresses correct
and tracking down people who somehow
are lost — geographically.
In addition to officers elected in a
ballot-by-mail election in which all
alumni are invited to participate, a 36-
member board is divided into committees
to study programs, development, alum-
ni participation, student-alumni rela-
tions, finance, and legal advice. Many
valuable suggestions and plans have
come from these committees.
In the past four years several hun-
dred alumni have devoted time to serv-
ing as Class Managers for the Alumni
Fund. Each of these years a prominent
alumnus has given of his time to serve
as Alumni Fund Chairman. How success-
ful have they been ? In 1953-54, under
the dues plan, $970 was collected from
the alumni. This year it is expected
that more than 1,000 alumni will con-
tribute more than $25,000 through the
Alumni Fund.
Alumni receive not less than sixteen
pieces of mail from the College annually.
These include notices of special events,
Major Notes, Alumni Fund requests,
ballots, and special pieces.
This year more than 1,000 alumni will
attend the two special occasions spon-
sored by the College for alumni. These
occasions are designed to entertain and
to inform. They also allow the alumni
to see for themselves what is happening
to Millsaps.
The Alumni Association is making
progress, but the success depends on the
alumni.
More important, the College depends
on her graduates and former students
as individuals to fulfill their rightful
obligations: to care what happens to
Millsaps; to support her freedom-born
right to seek the truth; to defend her
against unwarrented attacks; to see to
it that her high standards are main-
tained and that her faculty, in keeping
with tradition, is the best available; to
see that the students who are good Mill-
saps material know about the College.
Most of all, to care.
MAJOR NOTES
THE
ALUMN
us
'A
As student, as
alumna or alumnus: at
both stages, one
of the most important persons
in higher education.
ALAN BEAEDEN, JON BBENNEIS
a special report
a Salute . . .
and a
declaration of
dependence
THIS IS A SALUTE, an acknowledgment of a partner-
ship, and a declaration of dependence. It is directed
to you as an alumnus or alumna. As such, you are
one of the most important persons in American education
today.
You are important to American education, and to your
alma mater, for a variety of reasons, not all of which may
be instantly apparent to you.
You are important, first, because you are the principal
product of your alma mater — the principal claim she can
make to fame. To a degree that few suspect, it is by its
alumni that an educational institution is judged. And few
yardsticks could more accurately measure an institution's
true worth.
You are important to American education, further,
because of the support you give to it. Financial support
comes immediately to mind: the money that alumni are
giving to the schools, colleges, and universities they once
attended has reached an impressive sum, larger than that
received from any other source of gifts. It is indispensable.
But the support you give in other forms is impressive
and indispensable, also. Alumni push and guide the legis-
lative programs that strengthen the nation's publicly
supported educational institutions. They frequently act
as academic talent scouts for their alma maters, meeting
and talking with the college-bound high school students
in their communities. They are among the staunchest de-
fenders of high principles in education — e.g., academic
freedom — even when such defense may not be the "popu-
lar" posture. The list is long; yet every year alumni are
finding ways to extend it.
To THE HUNDREDS of coUeges and universities and
secondary schools from which they came, alumni
are important in another way — one that has nothing
to do with what alumni can do for the institutions them-
selves. Unlike most other forms of human enterprise,
educational institutions are not in business for what they
themselves can get out of it. They exist so that free people,
through education, can keep civilization on the forward
move. Those who ultimately do this are. their alumni.
Thus only through its alumni can a school or a college
or a university truly fulfill itself.
Chancellor Samuel B. Gould, of the University of Cali-
fornia, put it this way:
"The serious truth of the matter is that you are the
distilled essence of the university, for you are its product
and the basis for its reputation. If anything lasting is to
be achieved by us as a community of scholars, it must in
most instances be reflected in you. If we are to win intellec-
tual victories or make cultural advances, it must be
through your good offices and your belief in our mission."
The italics are ours. The mission is yours and ours
together.
Alma Mater . . .
At an alumni-alumnae meeting in Washington,
members sing the old school song.
The purpose of this meeting was to introduce
the institution to high school
boys and girls who, with their parents,
were present as the club's guests.
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THE POPULAR VIEW of you, ail alumnus or alumna,
is a puzzling thing. That the view is highly illogical
seems only to add to its popularity. That its ele-
ments are highly contradictory seems to bother no one.
Here is the paradox:
Individually you, being an alumnus or alumna, are
among the most respected and sought-after of beings.
People expect of you (and usually get) leadership or in-
telligent foUowership. They appoint you to positions of
trust in business and government and stake the nation's
very survival on your school- and college-developed
abilities.
If you enter politics, your educational pedigree is freely
discussed and frequently boasted about, even in precincts
where candidates once took pains to conceal any educa-
tion beyond the sixth grade. In clubs, parent-teacher
associations, churches, labor unions, you are considered
to be the brains, the backbone, the eyes, the ears, and the
neckbone — the latter to be stuck out, for alumni are ex-
pected to be intellectually adventurous as well as to ex-
ercise other attributes.
But put you in an alumni club, or back on campus for a
reunion or homecoming, and the popular respect — yea,
awe — turns to chuckles and ho-ho-ho. The esteemed in-
dividual, when bunched with other esteemed individuals,
becomes in the popular image the subject of quips, a can-
didate for the funny papers. He is now imagined to be a
person whose interests stray no farther than the degree of
baldness achieved by his classmates, or the success in
marriage and child-bearing achieved by her classmates, or
the record run up last season by the alma mater's football
or field-hockey team. He is addicted to funny hats deco-
rated with his class numerals, she to daisy chainmaking
and to recapturing the elusive delights of the junior-class
hoop-roll.
If he should encounter his old professor of physics, he is
supposedly careful to confine the conversation to remi-
niscences about the time Joe or Jane Wilkins, with spec-
tacular results, tried to disprove the validity of Newton's
third law. To ask the old gentleman about the implica-
tions of the latest research concerning anti-matter would
be, it is supposed, a most serious breach of the Alumni
Reunion Code.
Such a view of organized alumni activity might be dis-
missed as unworthy of note, but for one disturbing fact:
among its most earnest adherents are a surprising number
of alumni and alumnae themselves.
Permit us to lay the distorted image to rest, with the aid
of the rites conducted by cartoonist Mark Kelley on the
following pages. To do so will not necessitate burying the
class banner or interring the reunion hat, nor is there a
need to disband the homecoming day parade.
The simple truth is that the serious activities of organ-
ized alumni far outweigh the frivolities — in about the
same proportion as the average citizen's, or unorganized
alumnus's, party-going activities are outweighed by his
less festive pursuits.
Look, for example, at the activities of the organized
alumni of a large and famous state university in the Mid-
west. The former students of this university are often
pictured as football-mad. And there is no denying that, to
many of them, there is no more pleasant way of spending
an autumn Saturday than witnessing a victory by the
home team.
But by far the great bulk of alumni energy on behalf of
the old school is invested elsewhere:
► Every year the alumni association sponsors a recog-
nition dinner to honor outstanding students — those with
a scholastic average of 3.5 (B + ) or better. This has proved
to be a most effective way of showing students that aca-
demic prowess is valued above all else by the institution
and its alumni.
► Every year the alumni give five "distinguished teach-
ing awards" — grants of SI, 000 each to professors selected
by their peers for outstanding performance in the class-
room.
► An advisory board of alumni prominent in various
fields meets regularly to consider the problems of the
university: the quality of the course offerings, the caliber
of the students, and a variety of other matters. They re-
port directly to the university president, in confidence.
Their work has been salutary. When the university's
school of architecture lost its accreditation, for example,
the efforts of the alumni advisers were invaluable in get-
ting to the root of the trouble and recommending meas-
ures by which accreditation could be regained.
► The efforts of alumni have resulted in the passage of
urgently needed, but politically endangered, appropria-
tions by the state legislature.
► Some 3,000 of the university's alumni act each year as
volunteer alumni-fund solicitors, making contacts with
30,000 of the university's former students.
Nor is this a particularly unusual list of alumni accom-
phshments. The work and thought expended by the alum-
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Behind the fun
of organized alumni activity — in dubs, at reunions — lies new senousness
nowadays, and a substantial record of service to American education.
ni of hundreds of schools, colleges, and universities in
behalf of their alma maters would make a glowing record,
if ever it could be compiled. The alumni of one institution
took it upon themselves to survey the federal income-tax
laws, as they affected parents' ability to finance their
children's education, and then, in a nationwide campaign,
pressed for needed reforms. In a score of cities, the
alumnae of a women's college annually sell tens of thou-
sands of tulip bulbs for their alma mater's benefit; in
eight years they have raised $80,000, not to mention
hundreds of thousands of tulips. Other institutions' alum-
nae stage house and garden tours, organize used-book
sales, sell flocked Christmas trees, sponsor theatrical
benefits. Name a worthwhile activity and someone is
probably doing it, for faculty salaries or building funds or
student scholarships.
Drop in on a reunion or a local alumni-club meeting,
and you may well find that the superficial programs of
yore have been replaced by seminars, lectures, laboratory
demonstrations, and even week-long short-courses. Visit
the local high school during the season when the senior
students are applying for admission to college — and try-
ing to find their way through dozens of college catalogues,
each describing a campus paradise — and you will find
alumni on hand to help the student counselors. Nor are
they high-pressure salesmen for their own alma mater and
disparagers of everybody else's. Often they can, and do,
perform their highest service to prospective students by
advising them to apply somewhere else.
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And if no one else realizes this, or cares, one group
should: the alumni and alumnae themselves. Too
many of them may be shying away from a good thing be-
cause they think that being an "active" alumnus means
wearing a funny hat.
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from any other source of gifts. Alumni support
WITHOUT THE DOLLARS that their alumni contrib-
ute each year, America's privately supported
educational institutions would be in serious
difficulty today. And the same would be true of the na-
tion's publicly supported institutions, without the sup-
port of alumni in legislatures and elections at which
appropriations or bond issues are at stake.
For the private institutions, the financial support re-
ceived from individual alumni often means the difference
between an adequate or superior faculty and one that is
underpaid and understaffed; between a thriving scholar-
ship program and virtually none at all; between well-
equipped laboratories and obsolete, crowded ones. For
tax-supported institutions, which in growing numbers are
turning to their alumni for direct financial support, such
aid makes it possible to give scholarships, grant loans to
needy students, build such buildings as student unions,
and carry on research for which legislative appropriations
do not provide.
To gain an idea of the scope of the support which
alumni give — and of how much that is worthwhile in
American education depends upon it — consider this sta-
tistic, unearthed in a current survey of 1,144 schools,
junior colleges, colleges, and universities in the United
States and Canada: in just twelve months, alumni gave
their alma maters more than $199 million. They were the
largest single source of gifts.
Nor was this the kind of support that is given once, per-
haps as the result of a high-pressure fund drive, and never
heard of again. Alumni tend to give funds regularly. In
the past year, they contributed $45.5 million, on an annual
gift basis, to the 1,144 institutions surveyed. To realize
that much annual income from investments in blue-chip
stocks, the institutions would have needed over 1.2 billion
more dollars in endowment funds than they actually
possessed.
A NNUAL ALUMNI GIVING is not a new phenomenon on
L\ the American educational scene (Yale alumni
-*- -*- founded the first annual college fund in 1890, and
Mount Hermon was the first independent secondary
school to do so, in 1903). But not until fairly recently did
annual giving become the main element in education's
financial survival kit. The development was logical. Big
endowments had been affected by inflation. Big private
philanthropy, affected by the graduated income and in-
heritance taxes, was no longer able to do the job alone.
Yet, with the growth of science and technology and
democratic concepts of education, educational budgets
had to be increased to keep pace.
Twenty years before Yale's first alumni drive, a pro-
fessor in New Haven foresaw the possibilities and looked
into the minds of alumni everywhere:
"No graduate of the college," he said, "has ever paid
in full what it cost the college to educate him. A part of the
expense was borne by the funds given by former bene-
factors of the institution.
"A great many can never pay the debt. A very few can,
in their turn, become munificent benefactors. There is a
very large number, however, between these two, who can,
and would cheerfully, give according to their ability in
order that the college might hold the same relative posi-
tion to future generations which it held to their own."
The first Yale alumni drive, seventy years ago, brought
in $1 1,015. In 1959 alone, Yale's alumni gave more than
$2 million. Not only at Yale, but at the hundreds of other
institutions which have established annual alumni funds
in the intervening years, the feeling of indebtedness and
the concern for future generations which the Yale pro-
fessor foresaw have spurred alumni to greater and greater
efforts in this enterprise.
A ND MONEY FROM ALUMNI is a powcrful magnet: it
ZA draws more. Not only have more than eighty busi-
-*- -*■ ness corporations, led in 1954 by General Electric,
established the happy custom of matching, dollar for dol-
lar, the gifts that their employees (and sometimes theu-
employees' wives) give to their alma maters; alumni
giving is also a measure applied by many business men
and by philanthropic foundations in determining how
productive their organizations' gifts to an educational in-
stitution are likely to be. Thus alumni giving, as Gordon
K. Chalmers, the late president of Kenyon College, de-
scribed it, is "the very rock on which all other giving must
rest. Gifts from outside the family depend largely — some-
times wholly — on the degree of alumni support."
The "degree of alumni support" is gauged not by dol-
lars alone. The percentage of alumni who are regular
givers is also a key. And here the record is not as dazzling
as the dollar figures imply.
Nationwide, only one in five alumni of colleges, uni-
versities, and prep schools gives to his annual alumni
eceived more of it from their alumni than
low education's strongest financial rampart
fund. The actiial figure last year was 20.9 per cent. Allow-
ing for the inevitable few who are disenchanted with their
alma maters' cause,* and for those who spurn all fund
solicitations, sometimes with heavy scorn, f and for those
whom legitimate reasons prevent from giving financial
aid,§ the participation figure is still low.
WHY? Perhaps because the non-participants imag-
ine their institutions to be adequately financed.
(Virtually without exception, in both private and
tax-supported institutions, this is — sadly — not so.) Per-
haps because they believe their small gift — a dollar, or
five, or ten — will be insignificant. (Again, most emphati-
cally, not so. Multiply the 5,223,240 alumni who gave
nothing to their alma maters last year by as little as one
dollar each, and the figure still comes to thousands of
additional scholarships for deserving students or sub-
stantial pay increases for thousands of teachers who may,
at this moment, be debating whether they can afi"ord to
continue teaching next year.)
By raising the percentage of participation in alumni
fund drives, alumni can materially improve their alma
maters' standing. That dramatic increases in participation
can be brought about, and quickly, is demonstrated by
the case of WofFord College, a small institution in South
Carolina. Until several years ago, WofFord received
annual gifts from only 12 per cent of its 5,750 alumni.
Then Roger Milliken, a textile manufacturer and a Wof-
ford trustee, issued a challenge: for every percentage-
point increase over 12 per cent, he'd give $1,000. After the
alumni were finished, Mr. MUUken cheerfully turned over
a check for $62,000. Wofford's alumni had raised their
participation in the annual fund to 74.4 per cent — a new
national record.
"It was a remarkable performance," observed the
American Alunmi Council. "Its impact on WofFord will
be felt for many years to come."
And what Wofford's alumni could do, your institution's
alumni could probably do, too.
* Wrote one alumnus: "I see that Stanford is making great prog-
ress. However, I am opposed to progress Ln any form. Therefore I
am not sending you any money."
t A man in Memphis, Termessee, regularly sent Baylor University
a check signed "U. R. Stuck."
§ In her fund reply envelope, a Kansas alumna once sent, without
comment, her household bills for the month.
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to
► Women's colleges, as a group, have had a unique
problem in fund-raising — and they wish they knew how
to solve it.
The loyalty of their alumnae in contributing money
each year — an average of 41.2 per cent took part in 1959
— is nearly double the national average for all universi-
ties, colleges, junior colleges, and privately supported
secondary schools. But the size of the typical gift is often
smaller than one might expect.
Why? The alumnae say that while husbands obviously
place a high value on the products of the women's col-
leges, many underestimate the importance of giving wom-
en's colleges the same degree of support they accord their
own alma maters. This, some guess, is a holdover from
the days when higher education for women was regarded
as a luxury, while higher education for men was consid-
ered a sine qua non for business and professional careers.
As a result, again considering the average, women's
colleges must continue to cover much of their operating
expense from tuition fees. Such fees are generally higher
than those charged hymen's or coeducational institutions,
and the women's colleges are worried about the social and
intellectual implications of this fact. They have no desire
to be the province solely of children of the well-to-do;
higher education for women is no longer a luxury to be
reserved to those who can pay heavy fees.
Since contributions to education appear to be one area
of family budgets still controlled largely by men, the
alumnae hope that husbands will take serious note of the
women's colleges' claim to a larger share of it. They may
be starting to do so: from 1958 to 1959, the average gift
to women's colleges rose 22.4 per cent. But it still trails
the average gift to men's colleges, private universities, and
professional schools.
ERICH HARTMANN, MAGNUM
for the x^ublic educational institutions,
a special kind of service
PUBLICLY SUPPORTED educational institutions owe a
special kind of debt to their alumni. Many people
imagine that the public institutions have no finan-
cial worries, thanks to a steady flow of tax dollars. Yet
they actually lead a perilous fiscal existence, dependent
upon annual or biennial appropriations by legislatures.
More than once, state and municipally supported institu-
tions would have found themselves in serious straits if
their alumni had not assumed a role of leadership.
► A state university in New England recently was put in
academic jeopardy because the legislature defeated a bill
to provide increased salaries for faculty members. Then
the university's "Associate Aluimii" took matters into
their hands. They brought the facts of political and aca-
demic life to the attention of alumni throughout the state,
prompting them to write to their representatives in sup-
port of higher faculty pay. A compromise bill was passed,
and salary increases were granted. Alumni action thus
helped ease a crisis which threatened to do serious, per-
haps irreparable, damage to the university.
► In a neighboring state, the public university receives
only 38.3 per cent of its operating budget from state and
federal appropriations. Ninety-one per cent of the uni-
versity's $17 million physical plant was provided by pri-
The Beneficiaries:
Students on a state-university campus. Alumni support is proving
invaluable in maintaining high-quality education at such institutions.
vate funds. Two years ago, graduates of its college of
medicine gave $226,752 for a new medical center — the
largest amount given by the alumni of any American
medical school that year.
► Several years ago the alumni of six state-supported
institutions in a midwestem state rallied support for a
$150 million bond issue for higher education, mental
health, and welfare — an issue that required an amend-
ment to the state constitution. Of four amendments on
the ballot, it was the only one to pass.
► In another midwestem state, action by an "Alumni
Council for Higher Education," representing eighteen
publicly supported institutions, has helped produce a $13
miUion increase in operating funds for 1959-61 — the most
significant increase ever voted for the state's system of
higher education.
s
OME ALUMNI ORGANIZATIONS are forbidden to engage
in political activity of any kind. The intent is a good
one: to keep the organizations out of party politics
and lobbying. But the effect is often to prohibit the alumni
from conducting any organized legislative activity in be-
half of publicly supported education in their states.
"This is unfair," said a state-university alumni spokes-
man recently, "because this kind of activity is neither
shady nor unnecessary.
"But the restrictions — most of which I happen to think
are nonsense — exist, nevertheless. Even so, individual
alumni can make personal contacts with legislators in
their home towns, if not at the State Capitol. Above all,
in their contacts with fellow citizens — with people who
influence public opinion — the alumni of state institutions
must support their alma maters to an intense degree. They
must make it their business to get straight information
and spread it through their circles of influence.
"Since the law forbids us to organize such support,
every alumnus has to start this work, and continue it, on
his own. This isn't something that most people do natu-
rally— but the education of their own sons and daughters
rests on their becoming aroused and doing it."
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a matter of
Principle
A NY WORTKTWHILE INSTITUTION of higher education,
Za one college president has said, lives "in chronic
■^ -^ tension with the society that supports it." Says
The Campus and the State, a 1 959 survey of academic free-
dom in which that president's words appear: "New ideas
always run the risk of offending entrenched interests
within the community. If higher education is to be suc-
cessful in its creative role it must be guaranteed some pro-
tection against reprisal. . ."
The peril most frequently is budgetary: the threat of
appropriations cuts, if the unpopular ideas are not aban-
doned; the real or imagined threat of a loss of public —
even alumni — sympathy.
Probably the best protection against the danger of
reprisals against free institutions of learning is their
alumni: alumni who understand the meaning of freedom
and give their strong and informed support to matters of
educational principle. Sometimes such support is avail-
able in abundance and offered with intelligence. Some-
times— almost always because of misconception or failure
to be vigilant — it is not.
For example:
► An alumnus of one private college was a regular and
heavy donor to the annual alumni fund. He was known to
have provided handsomely for his alma mater in his will.
But when he questioned his grandson, a student at the
old school, he learned that an economics professor not
only did not condemn, but actually discussed the necessity
for, the national debt. Grandfather threatened to withdraw
all support unless the professor ceased uttering such
heresy or was fired. (The professor didn't and wasn't. The
college is not yet certain where it stands in the gentleman's
will.)
► When no students from a certain county managed to
meet the requirements for admission to a southwestern
university's medical school, the county's angry delegate to
the state legislature announced he was "out to get this
guy" — the vice president in charge of the university's
medical affairs, who had staunchly backed the medical
school's admissions committee. The board of trustees of
the university, virtually all of whom were alumni, joined
other alumni and the local chapter of the American
Association of University Professors to rally successfully
to the v.p.'s support.
► When the president of a publicly supported institu-
tion recently said he would have to limit the number of
students admitted to next fall's freshman class if high
academic standards were not to be compromised, some
constituent-fearing legislators were wrathful. When the
issue was explained to them, alumni backed the presi-
dent's position — decisively.
► When a number of institutions (joined in December
by President Eisenhower) opposed the "disclaimer affida-
vit" required of students seeking loans under the National
Defense Education Act, many citizens — including some
alumni — assailed them for their stand against "swearing
allegiance to the United States." The fact is, the dis-
claimer affidavit is not an oath of allegiance to the United
States (which the Education Act also requires, but which
the colleges have not opposed). Fortunately, alumni who
took the trouble to find out what the affidavit really was
apparently outnumbered, by a substantial majority, those
who leaped before they looked. Coincidentally or not,
most of the institutions opposing the disclaimer affidavit
received more money from their alumni during the con-
troversy than ever before in their history.
IN THE FUTURE, as in the past, educational institutions
worth their salt will be in the midst of controversy.
Such is the nature of higher education: ideas are its
merchandise, and ideas new and old are frequently con-
troversial. An educational institution, indeed, may be
doing its job badly if it is not involved in controversy, at
times. If an alumnus never finds himself in disagreement
with his alma mater, he has a right to question whether
his alma mater is intellectually awake or dozing.
To understand this is to understand the meaning of
academic freedom and vitality. And, with such an under-
standing, an alumnus is equipped to give his highest serv-
ice to higher education; to give his support to the princi-
ples which make-higher education free and effectual.
If higher education is to prosper, it will need this kind
of support from its alumni — tomorrow even more than in
its gloriously stormy past.
Ideas
are the merchandise of education, and every worthwhile educational institution must provide and
guard the conditions for breeding them. To do so, they need the help and vigilance of their aliunni.
Ahead:
ROL.Us"D BEAD
The Art
of keeping intellectually alive for a lifetime
will be fostered more than ever by a
growing alumni-alma mater relationship.
WHITHER THE COURSE of the relationship between
alumni and alma mater? At the turn into the
Sixties, it is evident that a new and challenging
relationship — of unprecedented value to both the institu-
tion and its alumni — is developing.
► If alumni wish, their intellectual voyage can be
continued for a lifetime.
There was a time when graduation was the end. You
got your diploma, along with the right to place certain
initials after your name; your hand was clasped for an
instant by the president; and the institution's business
was done.
If you were to keep yourself intellectually awake, the
No-Doz would have to be self-administered. If you were
to renew your acquaintance with literature or science, the
introductions would have to be self-performed.
Automotion is still the principal driving force. The
years in school and college are designed to provide the
push and then the momentum to keep you going with
your mind. "Madam, we guarantee results," wrote a col-
lege president to an inquiring mother, " — or we return
the boy." After graduation, the guarantee is yours to
maintain, alone.
Alone, but not quite. It makes little sense, many edu-
cators say, for schools and colleges not to do whatever
they can to protect their investment in their students —
which is considerable, in terms of time, talents, and
money — and not to try to make the relationship between
alumni and their alma maters a two-way flow.
As a consequence of such thinking, and of demands
issuing from the former students themselves, alumni
meetings of all types — local clubs, campus reunions — are
taking on a new character. "There has to be a reason and
a purpose for a meeting," notes an alumna. "Groups that
meet for purely social reasons don't last long. Just be-
cause Mary went to my college doesn't mean 1 enjoy
being with her socially — but 1 might well enjoy working
with her in a serious intellectual project." Male alumni
agree; there is a limiit to the congeniality that can be main-
tained solely by the thin thread of reminiscences or small-
talk.
But there is no limit, among people with whom their
a new (challenge,
a new relationship
education "stuck," to the revitalizing effects of learning.
The chemistry professor who is in town for a chemists'
conference and is invited to address the local chapter of
the alumni association no longer feels he must talk about
nothing more weighty than the beauty of the campus
elms; his audience wants him to talk chemistry, and he is
delighted to obhge. The engineers who return to school
for their annual homecoming welcome the opportunity to
bring themselves up to date on developments in and out
of their specialty. Housewives back on the campus for
reunions demand — and get — seminars and short-courses.
But the wave of interest in enriching the intellectual
content of alumni meetings may be only a beginning.
With more leisure at their command, alumni will ha\e
the time (as they already have the inclination) to under-
tiike more intensive, regular educational programs.
If alumni demand them, new concepts in adult educa-
tion may emerge. Urban colleges and universities may
step up their offerings of programs designed especially for
the alumni in their communities — not only their own
alumni, but those of distant institutions. Unions and
government and industry, already experimenting with
graduate-education programs for their leaders, may find
ways of giving sabbatical leaves on a widespread basis —
and they may profit, in hard doUars-and-cents terms, from
the results of such intellectual re-charging.
Colleges and universities, already overburdened with
teaching as well as other duties, will need help if such
dreams are to come true. But help will be found if the
demand is insistent enough.
► Alumni partnerships with their alma mater, in
meeting ever-stiffer educational challenges, will grow
even closer than they have been.
Boards of overseers, visiting committees, and other
partnerships between alumni and their institutions are
proving, at many schools, colleges, and universities, to be
channels through which the educators can keep in touch
with the community at large and vice versa. Alumni trus-
tees, elected by their fellow alumni, are found on the gov-
erning boards of more and more institutions. Alumni
"without portfolio" are seeking ways to join with their
alma maters in advancing the cause of education. The
representative of a West Coast university has noted the
trend: "In selling memberships in our alumni associa-
tion, we have learned that, while it's wise to list the bene-
fits of membership, what interests them most is how they
can be of service to the universit> ."
► Alumni can have a decisive role in maintaining
high standards of education, even as enroUments
increase at most schools and colleges.
There is a real crisis in American education: the crisis
of quality. For a variety of reasons, many institutions find
themselves unable to keep their faculties staffed with high-
caliber men and women. Many lack the equipment
needed for study and research. Many, even in this age of
high student population, are unable to attract the quality
of student they desire. Many have been forced to dissipate
their teaching and research energies, in deference to pub-
lic demand for more and more extracurricular "services."
Many, besieged by applicants for admission, have had to
yield to pressure and enroll students who are unqualified.
Each of these problems has a direct bearing upon the
quality of education in America. Each is a problem to
which alumni can constructively address themselves, indi-
vidually and in organized groups.
Some can best be handled through community leader-
ship: helping present the institutions" case to the public.
Some can be handled by direct participation in such ac-
tivities as academic talent-scouting, in which many insti-
tutions, both public and private, enlist the aid of their
alumni in meeting with college-bound high school stu-
dents in their cities and towns. Some can be handled by
making more money available to the institutions — for
faculty salaries, for scholarships, for buildings and equip-
ment. Some can be handled through political action.
The needs vary widely from institution to institution —
and what may help one may actually set back another.
Because of this, it is important to maintain a close liaison
with the campus when undertaking such work. (Alumni
offices everywhere will welcome inquiries.)
When the opportunity for aid does come — as it has in
the past, and as it inevitably will in the years ahead —
alumni response will be the key to America's educational
future, and to all that depends upon it.
alumni-
ship
J
OHN MASEFiELD was addressing himself to the subject
of universities. "They give to the young in their impres-
sionable years the bond of a lofty purpose shared," he
said; "of a great corporate life whose links will not be
loosed until they die."
The links that unite alumni with each other and with
their alma mater are difficult to define. But every alum-
nus and alumna knows they exist, as surely as do the
campus's lofty spires and the ageless dedication of edu-
cated men and women to the process of keeping them-
selves and their children intellectually ahve.
Once one has caught the spirit of learning, of truth, of
probing into the undiscovered and unknown — the spirit
of his alma mater — one does not really lose it, for as
long as one lives. As life proceeds, the daily mechanics
of living — of job-holding, of family-rearing, of mortgage-
paying, of lawn-cutting, of meal-cooking — sometimes
are tedious. But for them who have known the spirit of
intellectual adventure and conquest, there is the bond of
the lofty purpose shared, of the great corporate life
whose links will not be loosed until they die.
This would be the true meaning of alumni-ship, were
there such a word. It is the reasoning behind the great
service that alumni give to education. It is the reason
alma maters can call upon their alumni for responsible
support of all kinds, with confidence that the responsi-
bility will be well met.
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EVENTS OF NOTE
from town and gown
The Millsaps chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, national premedical honor society,
named Richard W. Xaef, '49, its Outstanding; Alumnus for 19(i0. A neurologist and
psychiatrist practicing in Jackson, Dr. Xaef received his medical training at
Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Also pictured are Dr. J. B. Price, '26,
chairman of the chemistry department, AED adviser, and national vice-president
of AED. Mrs. Price, and Mrs. Xaef, the former Jane Ellen Xewell. '49.
Bishop Is Honored
Bishop Marvin A. Franklin, LLD
1952, president of the Council of
Bishops of the Methodist Church, was
honored at a banquet of appreciation
on the campus in April.
More than 500 people attended the
dinner, held in the Millsaps cafeteria.
They heard Protestant, Catholic, and
Jewish speakers praise the work of
the honoree during the past twelve
years.
Lieutenant Governor Paul B. Johnson,
speaking for Governor Ross Barnett,
who was unable to attend because of
illness, summed up the sentiments ex-
pressed during the evening when he
said, "He has always honestly and fear-
lessly faced every problem that has con-
fronted the church in a Christian way.
Great buildings about the state are
monuments to this great leader, but the
love and loyalty of his people will last
much longer than these."
Jackson television station WJTV
carried a large portion of the evening's
program in a live telecast from the
cafeteria.
Benjamin ,M. Stevens, LLD '55, presents
a check to Bishop Franklin on behalf of
Mississippi Methodists.
White Gives Address
Great teachers who have served Mill-
saps College was the subject of the
Founders Day address delivered by Dr.
M. C. White, chairman of the English
department.
Titled "Men Are Traditions, Too,"
the talk concerned eight teachers who
have served the College during the past
forty years. Dr. White completely capti-
vated both the students and the visitors
who attended the special chapel session
as he related incidents in the lives of
the professors. He told of the contri-
butions made by the men and women
and of the characteristics which have
made them a valued part of the history
of the College. The teachers are Dr.
G. L. Harrell, Dr. J. M. Sullivan, Dr,
J. R. Lin, Dr. D. M. Key, Mrs. Mary B.
Stone, Dr. A. G. Sanders, Dr. A. P.
Hamilton, and Dr. B. E. Mitchell.
As a sidelight, he told anecdotes con-
cerning three janitors who have worked
for the College — William Guy, Cherry,
and Podner Ben.
He closed his address with the follow-
ing words:
"For all these people whom I have
listed as Millsaps traditions, there are
certain common denominators: every
one of them was an individual and an
interesting personality in his own right.
And all these teachers were people of
culture and masters in various fields
of learning. Their knowledge was not
properly departmentalized according to
modern standards of specialization; they
had not learned that a good teacher
should endeavor always to know more
and more about less and less. But they
knew their students and were in sym-
pathy with them. They were all men
of integrity. At the same time that they
taught their subjects, they inspired to
virtuous manhood and Christian living.
They were great men and great teachers;
they were and are a tradition of Mill-
saps.
"And what more could I wish for
the institution I have so long served
than that this tradition of great teachers
be maintained; that scholarship be not
neglected, but that Christian character,
vivid personality, and enthusiasm for
teaching be of first consideration. For
knowledge and wisdom are far more
often caught than taught, and no idea
is interesting until it passes through
the mind of an interesting person.
"Under such inspired teaching, Mill-
saps will continue to give to the world
graduates who are good scholars, good
citizens, and good Christians. From
such teaching will arise the ideal Mill-
saps man — one who keeps alive in him-
self the spirit of inquiry and is not
afraid to face the truth; one who pre-
serves a liberality of opinion and favors
whatever contributes to human welfare.
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This ideal Millsaps man will keep his
faith in progress and labor toward it,
and yet never trust in panaceas and in
the nostrums of quacks. For progress is
slow and always has been, and human
nature is not to be changed in a mo-
ment. This ideal Millsaps man will have
at the basis of his life a firm faith in
a benevolent deity, and in Jesus Christ
as the supreme revelation of the father-
hood of God and the brotherhood of man.
In that faith, he can trust in his own
future and in the destiny of our world,
and know himself as a co-laborer with
God in working- toward an ultimate
good.
"Great teaching, great teachers, and
great men are a Millsaps tradition.
Pray God it may ever be so!"
At the request of the programs com-
mittee of the Alumni Association, Dr.
White will give the address at the ban-
quet on Alumni Day, May 7.
Values Subject of Talks
"Encounter with Values and the Pur-
suit of Truth" was the theme of this
semester's chapel addresses, and Mill-
saps students were given an opportunity
to hear eight faculty members and four
off-campus speakers.
The off-campus speakers appeared
under the sponsorship of the Christian
Council. The Religious Life Series in-
cluded Dr. W. B. Selah, pastor of Gallo-
way Memorial Church in Jackson; Dr.
J. Robert Nelson, professor of theology
and dean of the divinity school of Van-
derbilt University; Dr. Harry Denman,
executive secretary of the General
Board of Evangelism of the Methodist
Church; and Dr. Sterling F. Wheeler,
administrative vice-president of Sou-
thern Methodist University.
The faculty series was begun by Dr.
George Boyd, professor of English,
whose address was printed in the winter
edition of MAJOR NOTES. Other
speakers included Dr. Richard R. Prid-
dy, chairman of the geology department,
"The Universe is Ours"; Dr. Harry S.
Manley, chairman of the political
science department, "A Twilight Zone:
The Separation of Church and State";
Dr. Bond Fleming, chairman of the
philosophy department, "Pursuit In-
volves Commitment"; and Dr. George L.
Maddox, chairman of the sociology de-
partment, "Frontiers of the Human Con-
dition." Dr. Donald Caplenor, chairman
of the biology department, was schedul-
ed to speak on "Ye Shall Know the
Facts, and the Facts Shall Make You
Afraid," but was forced to cancel be-
cause of illness. Plans were made to
reschedule the talk later in the year.
Dr. M. C. White, chairman of the
English department, spoke on the topic
Anne Frank's Teacher Visits Campus
The expressions of intense interest on the faces of the Millsaps students and
faculty members above are caused by Dr. Rosey Poole (wearing hat), Anne Frank's
teacher and the original translator of her diary into English. Dr. Poole, a scholar
and linguist, told her audience about the German invasion of her native Holland
and her work with the Dutch Underground. Standng to the left of Dr. Poole is
Judy Cockrell, who played Anne in the Players' presentation of the world renowned
drama in 19.59. Students and teachers alike called Dr. Poole's talk "a stirring
experience."
"Men Are Traditions, Too" in a Founders
Day address, and Dr. H. E. Finger ad-
dressed the student body several times
during the semester. Special programs
included Honors Day and Tap Day.
Millsaps In New Yorker
Millsaps made the New Yorker in
March when the magazine published a
short story by Elizabeth Spencer in
which the heroine received a scholarship
to attend the College.
The story, entitled "A Southern
Landscape," was the lead one in the
March 26 issue. Millsaps was mentioned
only briefly, but the company the Col-
lege is keeping in the literary world
is too good not to be pointed out.
Miss Spencer, a native of North
Carrollton, Mississippi, was educated at
Belhaven College and Vanderbilt Uni-
versity and taught for a time at Bel-
haven and the University of Mississippi.
She is the only Southerner represented
in the latest O. Henry Awards stories
collection. Her latest novel. The Voice
at the Back Door, will be filmed. Time
speaks of her "poet's sense of words"
and her "disciplined mind and invigorat-
ing economy."
Students Hear Visitors
lonor-
The Millsaps campus has been hv,..v,i-
ed this year by the presence of some
distinguished visitors who have shared
their e.xperiences with the student body.
In addition to the chapel speakers,
they have included Dr. John E. Max-
field, head of the mathematics division
of the research department of United
States Naval Ordnance Test Station in
China Lake, California; Dr. Robert
Wauchope, director of the Middle Ameri-
ca Research Institute at Tulane; Dr.
Albert Elder, president of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society, who addressed
members of the Mississippi Academy of
Science in the Christian Center; Dr. R.
D. Anderson, professor of mathematics
at Louisiana State University, who is
traveling lecturer for the Mathematical
Association of America; Dr. Philip W.
West, Boyd Professor of Chemistry of
the College of Chemistry and Physics
at Louisiana State University; Dr.
Lawrence Bogorad, associate professor
of botany at the University of Chicago,
who appeared under the program of
Visiting Biologists of the American In-
stitute of Biological Sciences; Joseph
Sills, traveling representative for the
Collegiate Council of the United Na-
tions; Miss Jeantine Hefting, first sec-
retary for press and cultural affairs at
the Netherlands Embassy in Washing-
ton; Dr. Rosey Poole, the late Ann
Frank's teacher and the original trans-
lator of her diary; and Dr. Maxine TuU
Boatner, '24, author of Voice of the Deaf
and a nominee for the position of
president of Pen Women of America.
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MAJOR NOTES
^UTU^t ^L^N^N'
SPORTS SUMMARY
We welcome the following into the
Future Alumni Club of the Millsaps
College Alumni Association:
Irl Sells Barefield, born to the Rev-
erend and Mrs. Sam Barefield (JIary
Nell Sells), both '46. on January 26.
Other Barefields are Beth, 8, and Steve,
4I2.
Deborah Jeanine Barineau. born to Mr.
and Mrs. Richard C. Barineau on Febru-
ary 9. Mr. Barineau is a '58 graduate.
William Stephen Burton, born to Mr.
and Mrs. William S. Burton, both '56-
'57. Mrs. Burton is the former Gweneth
Todd.
John Mark Caldwell, born to the Rev-
erend and Mrs. Jack Caldwell (Marjorie
Ann Murphy), '41 and '44. The Cald-
wells have two other children.
Jimmie Leon Fields, born January 28
to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fields (Minnie
Mitchell, '56).
Joey Goodsell, born September 2 to
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Goodsell, '51 and '50.
Mrs. Goodsell is the former Marion
Burge. Twins J. B. and Margie, 2^-2,
complete the family.
Jerry Gulledge, born to Dr. and Mrs.
Jerry Gulledge, '50-'53 and '55, on Feb-
ruary 7. Mrs. Gulledge is the former
Ann Carter. Two-year-old Leigh is the
couple's only other child.
Michael Grain Huggins, born July 16
to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Huggins, '50
and '54. Mrs. Huggins is the former
Barbara Ann Walker.
Preston Kraft and Thomas Pipes Mills,
born March 7 to Captain and Mrs.
Henry P. Mills. Mr. Mills is a '53 grad-
uate. The twin boys were welcomed by
Catherine Lotterhos, 2.
Barbara Elizabeth Price, born Jan-
uary 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Price
(Barbara Swann), '55 and '57.
John Daniel Roach, born to Mr. and
Mrs. John Roach on January 20. Mrs.
Roach is the former Nancy Stallings,
'54- '55.
Dennis Edward Salley, Jr., born to
Dr. and Mrs. Dennis E. Salley on Feb-
ruary 19. Dr. Salley is a '54 graduate.
Edward Ridgway Wofford, born Feb-
ruary 4 to Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Wofford
(Mary Ridgway), '43 and '47.
Ira H. Thorne, III, born to Mr. and
Mrs. Ira H. Thorne, Jr., on February
29. Mr. Thorne attended from 1938
through 1940.
A rivalry which began almost forty
years ago came to an end on February
17 when Millsaps College, through its
Athletic Committee, severed athletic re-
lations with Mississippi College. In a
letter written to Dr. A. E. Wood, facul-
ty chairman of athletics at Mississippi
College. Dr. M. C. White (Millsaps'
chairman of athletics) said, in part:
"Despite all efforts to the contrary,
a very unwholesome atmosphere has
developed in connection with our ath-
letic contests, which seem increas-
ingly to stimulate hostility and even
some violence. We do not believe such
an atmosphere should be tolei-ated in
Christian institutions. In order to pre-
clude further unfortunate incidents,
which might possibly end in tragedy,
our athletic committee has seen fit
to call to an end all athletic relations
with Mississippi College, and to can-
cel all existing contracts."
The violence erupted at a basketball
game between the Majors and the Choc-
taws at the City Auditorium because
of a Mississippi College raid on a fra-
ternity house on the Millsaps campus
earlier in the day. Two Millsaps stu-
dents, attempting to recover a frater-
nity sign, were roughed up so severely
that they required hospitalization — and
other near-riots broke out before the
game ended.
Within recent years the athletic pro-
grams of the two schools have been
growing farther and farther apart.
The Majors have been governed by
policies established in 1946 which com-
mit the College to total amateurism
in athletics. The Choctaws have bolster-
ed their program both financially and
from a personnel standpoint. We feel
that Mississippi College will achieve a
great degree of success in athletics.
While wishing them well in their en-
deavors, we forsee increasing difficulty
for them in obtaining games with other
long-time opponents.
Be that as it may, the public image
created today by "a little fight between
the Majors and the Chocs" is not the
same as it was in days of yore. In an
era when higher education needs the
understanding and support of the gener-
al public, brawls and riots between
students are front page, wire-service
copy. Regardless of who starts the fight,
an athletic rivalry is not worth the
serious injury or death of one student
or the disservice to higher education
which is done by such occurrences.
Clarion-Ledger Sports Columnist Carl
Walters termed the action "a wise
choice."
"It is our firm conviction that de-
spite the admitted fact that the sever-
ance of all athletic relations between
the two schools is regrettable and will
pose problems — chiefly financial — for
both, it is best that they go their
separate ways.
"Athletically speaking, their policies
are so different they have very little
in common," Mr. Walters wrote.
Track At Millsaps?
Since the announcement of the ter-
mination of athletic relations with Mis-
sissippi College, rumors have been cir-
culated that Millsaps will drop football
and concentrate on basketball and base-
ball. No such move is contemplated, ac-
cording to Coaches Erm Smith and Jim
Montgomery.
With 26 men expected to return from
last year's squad and with response to
personal letters and contacts made by
the coaches at an all-time high, the
1960 season should be one of the best
in several years.
Instead of reducing the number of
varsity sports at Millsaps, the coaching
staff is seriously considering adding
track to the list.
Coming: Sports Report
The Department of Athletics is
planning to produce and mail a periodic
newsletter to all of the ex-Major ath-
letes whose names and correct addresses
are in the alumni files. The publication
will keep you up to date on athletic
activity at Millsaps. The coaches feel
that an informed alumni body is vital
to the success of the type athletic pro-
gram followed by the College.
The 1960-61 basketball squad could
well be one of the best in Millsaps his-
tory. Of the 23 men who reported to
Coach Jim Montgomery this year, it
now appears that 16 will be returning.
Among next year's newcomers, believe
it or not, more than a half dozen are
6' 4" and over — all of them experienced
cagers.
White Retires
After forty years of devoted service
and outstanding instruction, Dr. M. C.
White retired this year as coach of
the Millsaps College tennis team.
James A. Montgomery has replaced Dr.
White as tennis coach.
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MAJOR MISCELLANY
1892-1919
Several Early Days alumni got to-
gether recently when Dr. Courtney W.
Shropshire, '94-'95, founder of Civitan
International, visited Jackson. Mrs. G.
C. Svvearingen (Anne Buckley, Whit-
worth '90) held open house in his honor.
Among those attending were Percy
Clifton, '98; Garner Green, '98; and John
W. Saunders, '04-'().5.
A Golden Wedding Anniversary will
be coming up in September for the
Reverend and Mrs. O. S. Lewis (Evelyn
Cook), '03 and Whitworth '00. Last
Christmas the two had their fiftieth
Christmas dinner together in the same
home that they had their first. The
Lewises live in Hattiesburg, Miss.
Former roommates Mrs. B. W. Stiles
(Bessie Huddleston, '(18) and Mrs. C. L.
Neill (Susie Ridgway, '07) toured the
campus recently while Mrs. Stiles was
visiting in Mississippi. Mrs. Stiles was
planning to return to her home in Den-
ver in time to hear the Singers when
they appeared there. Mrs. Neill and
Mr. Neill, '07, reside in Ellisville, Miss.
No one has worked harder on the
Grenada-Whitworth reunion scheduled
for Alumni Day than Mrs. Ward Allen
( Roberta Cornelia Dubard, Grenada '05-
'09), who supplied more than ,50 names
of alumnae and helped locate several
faculty members of the two schools.
Mrs. Allen now lives in Grenada, Miss.
1920-1929
The highest position in the American
Bar Association will be filled in 19(!1
by John Satterfield, '26. He was named
president-elect of the group at a recent
meeting in Chicago. An attorney for ;30
years, Mr. Satterfield is senior member
of the law firm of Satterfield, Shell,
Williams, and Buford. whic'i has offices
in Jackson and Yazoo City. He and his
wife, the former Mary Fly, and their
three children reside in Yazoo City.
A move to Chicago is planned by
James A. Myers, '28, who has accepted
a position with Tullamore Electronics,
Inc. The Myerses have been living in
Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.
Daughter Lynn was married last sum-
mer and is living in Cleveland.
Joe F. Ford, '29, has been named
assistant vice-president of the Lamar
Life Insurance Company in Jackson.
Mr. Ford, who joined Lamar Life in
1930, is director of the Policy-owner
Service Department.
1930-1939
Members of the Jackson County (Mis-
sissippi) Board of Supervisors have
elected E. A. Khayat, '32, vice-president
of the group. He has been a member of
the board since 1948. Very active in
civic affairs, Mr. Khayat served as
principal speaker at a kick-off banquet
for the "Aiding Leukemia Stricken
American Children" drive. ALSAC,
founded by comedian Danny Thomas,
is raising money to operate the new
St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, where
children suffering from leukemia and
related blood diseases will be treated
without charge.
On May 1 Dr. Robert S. Hough will
become pastor of the Central Presby-
terian Church in Chattanooga, Tennes-
see, moving there from the First Presby-
terian Church in Memphis. Dr. Hough,
a '32 graduate, has the Bachelor of
Divinity and Master of Theology de-
grees from Columbia Theological Semi-
nary and the Doctor of Theology degree
from Union Theological Seminary. He
is married to the former Mary Wacaster,
'32, and they have a son, Robert
Winslow, 15.
"Re-election of W. M. Buie as presi-
dent of the Jackson Municipal Separate
School District is a welcome develop-
ment for school patrons and citizens
generally, because it insures a continua-
tion of educational leadership which
has been both dedicated and outstand-
ing." So states a recent editorial in the
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Daily News,
pointing out the big job which is ex-
pected of the school board. Mr. Buie is
a '36 graduate.
l\Irs. Paul Brandes (Melba Sherman,
'37) has accepted a part-time position
as instructor of English at Ohio Univer-
sity, where her husband teaches speech.
The Brandeses, who have a daughter,
Sarah, 10, are making their home in
Athens.
Three Millsaps alumni have joined in
forming an advertising agency in
Darien, Connecticut. Lawrence Painter,
'41, Albert Hand '34-'36, and Lawrence
Waring, '42, are giving their own busi-
business a try after a number of years
in the field with New York and Jackson
agencies.
The Natchez-Adams County airport
has been named Hardy-Anders Field in
honor of two Millsaps alumni who lost
their lives in World War II. Thrashley
Moncrief Hardy, Jr., '39, who was named
the most outstanding man on the cam-
pus at Millsaps, died leading a I'econ-
naissance flight over Burma July 8,
1942. Virgil Mikal Anders, '41, was killed
in a bombing raid over Naples, Italy,
on March 3, 1943. Formal dedication of
the airport was held in June of 1959.
Oscar D. Bonner, '39, is sei'ving as
acting chairman of the department of
chemistry at the University of South
Carolina. Dr. Bonner received his Ph. D.
degree from the University of Kansas.
1940-1949
Dr. J. Manning Hudson, '40, moved up
to the presidency of the Mississippi
Heart Association in April, succeeding-
J. O. Emmerich, LLD '54. Dr. Hudson
practices internal medicine in Jackson.
Dr. Emmerich is editor of the Jackson
State Times and the McComb Enter-
prise Journal.
A Ph. D. degree in English will be
awarded in May to Tom O. Robertson,
'41, by Vanderbilt University, and
Franklin A. Nash, Jr., '54, has received
the Master of Arts degree in psychology
from the University of Mississippi. Mr.
Robertson is in his fourth year of
teaching at Anderson College.
While on duty with the Air Force in
Europe, Major Samuel E. Birdsong, Jr.,
'42, put to good use his knowledge of
photography by making four thousand
slides of the great scenes of that con-
tinent. He was recently transferred to
Keesler Technical Training Center in
Biloxi, Mississippi, where he will be
in the office of the Staff Judge Advo-
cate.
One of the most charming letters yet
received in the Alumni Office came from
Mrs. Philip King (Jean Stevens, '40-'44),
whose enthusiasm for her duties as a
class manager was a source of inspira-
tion to the Alumni Fund Director. Mr.
King, '39-'41, is manager of Hohenberg
Bros., cotton buyers. The Kings live in
Calexico, California.
An outdoor swimming pool has been
given to the Methodist Children's Home
in Jackson by Sam P. McRae, Jr., and
Richard D. McRae and their families.
The completely equipped pool is being
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MAJOR NOTES
given in memory of S. P. McRae, Sr.
Mrs. Richard McRae is the former
Louella Selby Watkins, '45.
Rubel L. Phillips, '48, who has been
often in the spotlight on the political
and civic scenes, received another well
deserved honor in February when he
was named one of three Outstanding
Young Men of the Year in Mississippi.
He was named Alumnus of the Year
in 1956, served as 1958-59 Alumni Fund
Chairman, has headed such drives as
United Cerebral Palsy, and serves as
chairman of the State Coordinating
Committee for Adult Education, among
other things. Formerly chairman of the
Public Service Commission, he now prac-
tices law in Jackson.
After winning valuables totaling $11,-
626 on a national television show, Mrs.
Richard Lowe (Jerry Mayo, '49) mopped
floors in Pennsylvania Station — at
$250 an hour for an eight-hour day.
Among her winnings were a mink coat,
a trailer, sets of furniture, china, glass-
ware, and silver. She is living in Hamp-
ton, Virginia, where her husband is
stationed with the Air Force.
Leonard Metts, '49, directed Jackson
Central High School's production of the
Lerner and Loewe musical "Brigadoon"
in March. Director of choral music at
Central, he was asked to direct the
Central choir in presenting the music
for Jackson's Sunrise Service on Easter
this year.
Bob Conerly, '49, serving his first
term as a missionary in Mexico, suffer-
ed a broken leg at a youth camp re-
cently. Due to a bone infection he is in
danger of losing the leg.
1950-1959
The role of Gabriel in the Laurel,
Mississippi, Community Chorus' presen-
tation of The Creation was sung by Mrs.
George Melichar (Marie Howard Stokes,
'46-'48), who studied with Mrs. Magnolia
Coullet and was a member of the Sing-
ers while at Millsaps. She is serving
as soprano soloist with the choir of the
First Methodist Church in Laurel.
Dr. Earl T. Lewis, '50, has accepted
a position as associate director of clini-
cal research with Mead Johnson Com-
pany in Evansville, Indiana. The Lewises
will move to Evansville from Jackson
on May 1. Mrs. Lewis is the former
Mary Sue Enochs, '51.
Flowering cherry trees, a gift from
the International Christian University
in Tokyo, have been planted on the lawn
of the Evergreen Presbyterian Church
in Memphis, of which the Reverend A.
Patton White, '50, is pastor. The trees
v.ere presented as a symbol of apprecia-
tion for the support the church has
given the university. The Reverend
White first heard of the International
Christian University while he was serv-
ing as chairman of the World Student
Service Fund at Millsaps. Under his
guidance Millsaps became the first col-
lege in the United States to send a gift
to the school.
William B. Selah, '47-'50, has joined
the Mississippi Agricultural and Indus-
trial Board as an industrial represen-
tative. Formerly director of researc'i
for the North Mississippi Industrial De-
velopment Association, Mr. Selah as-
sumed his new duties in March, when
he and Mrs. Selah, the former Roberta
Naef, moved to Jackson to make their
home. He is the son of Dr. AV. B. Selah,
LLD, '59, pastor of Galloway Memorial
Methodist Church in Jackson.
A two-year assignment as vice-con-
sul and secretary at the American Em-
bassy in Paris will begin in May for
Edward E. Wright, '47-'48. The son of
I\Irs. Ben L. Sutherland (Coralie Cotton,
'25), of Kreole, Mississippi, Mr. Wright
is acting as advisor to the United States
delegation to the Second United Nations
Law of the Sea Conference in Geneva.
Switzerland.
A candidate for the Ph. D. degree at
the University of Mississippi this sum-
mer, John T. Lewis, III, '53, will serve
as assistant professor of psychology at
Stephen F. Austin College in Nacogdo-
ches, Texas, this fall. Mrs. Lewis is the
former Helen Fay Head, '55.
David McFarland, '53, will serve as
instructor of economics at Princeton
University this fall while he writes
his dissertation for his doctorate. He is
completing his formal work at Vander-
bilt this spring.
It will be back to school for Henry
P. Mills, '53, immediately following his
release from the service. He plans to
enter Tulane in July to specialize in
Kathryn Lynn Allen checks Future
Alumni for information on her class-
mates-to-be. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allen, both "54.
ophthalmology. The Millses (Catherine
Lotterhos) now have three children, a
girl and twin boys (see Future Alumni).
"Annie Get Your Gun" was this
year's musical production at Pensacola
High School, and Roger F. Hester, '53,
directed and produced the show. A
member of the faculty since 1957, Mr.
Hester has staged "South Pacific" and
"Show Boat" and organized a number
of musical groups at the school. He
received the MA degree from George
Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn.
Edwin T. Upton, '56, is serving as
assistant pastor of the Boston Avenue
Methodist Church in Tulsa. Oklahoma.
Benjamin E. Box, '57, now attending
the University of Mississippi Medical
School, has been promoted from the
rank of first lieutenant to captain in
the Air National Guard of Mississippi.
He serves on weekends as an aircraft
commander of a C-119. Mrs. Box is the
former Elizabeth Harris, '52.
An original composition. Symphony
No. 1, by Sam L. Jones, '57, was per-
formed by the Eastman-Rochester Sym-
phony Orchestra recently, and two parts
of the work were selected to be played
by the Utica, New York, Symphony
Orchestra. Mr. Jones was invited to
conduct his work at the concert. A grad-
uate assistant at the Eastman School
of Music of the University of Rochester,
he will receive his Ph. D. on June 12.
Mrs. Jones, the former Nancy Peacock,
is teaching the fifth grade.
A lack of recreational facilities in
Guatemala encouraged Robert E. Morri-
son, '53-'56, and some friends to open
a chain of miniature golf courses. They
have added to their holdings a restaurant
which serves American food. Mr. Morri-
son would like to see any Millsaps
alumni who travel that way. His ad-
dress is Playland Golfita, Plazuela
Espano, Guatemala City.
Record hops are nothing new, but the
plans John Sharp, '58, is making for the
Jackson YMCA-sponsored one include
some big ideas. He plans to develop a
council among the teenagers to make
and enforce rules; to develop student
talent for shows; and to offer an oppor-
tunity for dancing lessons. Mr. Sharp
received his Master's degree from
George William College in Chicago, a
professional school for YMCA workers.
A National Science Foundation scho-
larship has been awarded to William D.
Balgord, '59, now completing work on
his Master's degree in geochemistry at
the University of Missouri. One of 1200
fellowship award winners, Mr. Balgord
will study at Pennsylvania State Univer-
sity Kext year.
SPRING
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On January 9 at 11:32 a. m. in our honor year, with
little sound and fury, a gas well was brought in on the
Millsaps campus. "The 'washing in' avoided the usual noise
caused by the 'blowing in' process and prevented surround-
ing residents and members of Millsaps College from being-
disturbed," the Purple and White reported. Profit from the
sale of the gas was to be used to increase the endowment
fund.
Plans were underway for a new gymnasium to replace
the one that had burned the year before, and the Purple
and White stalled a move to name the recently completed
science hall for "two of the outstanding scientists of the
United States," Dr. J. M. Sullivan and Dr. G. L. Harrell.
The Purple and White had to start the year with slim-
mer-than-usual issues because of "generally depressed busi-
ness conditions." which might be considered the understate-
ment of that year. Harvey T. Newell, Jr., served as editor
of the publication, and the names of Norman Bradley,
Dixon Pyles, and Sara Anderson were seen often. Charlotte
Capers wrote a column called "Weekly Capers."
The faculty revised requirements for the Bachelor of
Science degree, eliminating Mathematics 21 and 22 as re-
quirements and making organic chemistry and qualitative
analysis electives. The two-semester system had been in
effect a shoi't time, and the faculty found it necessary to
explain the new system more fully in the P & W. The pos-
sibility of combining Whitworth and Grenada Colleges with
Millsaps was under debate.
It was the year the Bobashela used color on the cover
and in full-color division pages. Theresa McDill was editor
and Eddie Khayat was business manager. Dr. J. M. Sullivan,
who was seriously injured in an automobile accident, was
named Best Liked Professor in the feature section. Also in
the section were Edward Assad Khayat, Master Major;
Mary Heald, Representative Coed; John B. Howell, Best
Liked Boy; Sara King, Best Liked Girl; Lee Stokes, "That
Freshman"; and Sara King, Mary Sue Burnham, Mary
Gillespie, Maude McLean, and Mary Woodliff. beauties. The
annual was dedicated to V. B. Hathorn. bursar.
It was the year that Russell Thorndike, "one of the
greatest living actors," appeared in the city auditorium in
"Macbeth," brought to Jackson by the Ben Greet Players.
And the Millsaps Players presented "Nothing But the
Truth," starring Louis DeCell, Grace Mason, Ewing Hester,
Margaret Flowers, John B. Howell, Tom Neblett, Gordon
Grantham, Kathryn Herbei't. Martha Donaldson, Daisy Kate
Brown, and Hazel Harrison.
Millsaps played Mississippi A & M, which later in the
year changed its name to Mississippi State College, and
lost by a score of 10-7. Mississippi College won, too, but
the loss was avenged when the Majors beat the MC team
in a charity game later in the season.
The whole campus mourned the death of Commie V.
Smith, who died of injuries received in a football game.
His teammates served as pall-bearers.
President of the student body was Walter Bivens, and
president of the senior class was David Dubard.
The Millsaps band combined with the 106th Engineers
Band of the National Guard. Frank Slater was warrant
officer and Tom Neblett was staff sergeant. The band
posed on the steps of Murrah Hall in its official uniforms.
It was that wonderful year 1932.
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Millsaps College Alumni News
Summer, 1960
From the President
"But what does it have to do with
education?" This question was recently
put to me by a discerning alumnus
as we were discussing diverse activities
in a college program. It ought to be
faced forthrig'htly by the whole of
America.
We should have the courage to admit
that too much of what college admini-
strators, college teachers, college stu-
dents do has too little to do with edu-
cation. Social activities, athletics, mis-
cellaneous organizations, weekend travel-
ing, non-essential jobs, committee re-
sponsibilities— such time-consuming and
energy-depleting concerns may be en-
joyable, entertaining, pleasant, profita-
ble. They may in moderation be desira-
ble, useful, important. But when they
move in to possess the student, the ad-
ministrator, the instructor, the time has
come to call a resounding halt.
Education is broader and deeper than
teaching Johnny how to read. Thinking-
is involved. Reasoning, interpretation,
analysis are compulsory. Mastery of
some subject matter and disciplined
habits are required.
Students should be coming out of col-
lege with the kind of confidence and
assurance that is the fruit of a thorough
knowledge of history, an acquaintance
with our culture, and a solid commitment
to wisdom.
All of education is expected to pro-
duce such results. A church college pro-
poses to undergird the entire enterprise
with religious faith. Tt is the kind of
faith which at once directs a man to
accept with seriousness his role in his-
tory and supports him firmly in his
desire to make this acceptance useful.
A Christian education causes a man to
feel that what he does has eternal
value and worth.
Thoughtful people in America, in the
interest of their own integrity and in
the interest of our nation's strength,
will increasingly be insisting that col-
leges concentrate on education. All of
us should be sensitive to what should
be an inescapable and compelling ulti-
matum to do more and more and more —
at every level of education. This way
lies a future worth our hope.
A society of people, making such de-
mands of its schools and colleges and
providing the necessary resources for
their support, has a desirable future,
and only such a society deserves one.
notes
MERGED INSTITUTIONS: Grenada
College, Whitwoi-th College,
Millsaps College
MEMBER: American Alumni Council
American College Public Relations
Association
CONTENTS
4 Alumni Day
6 Men Are Traditions, Too
9 Alumni Officers Named
10 Tuition and Fees Increased
12 Art and Drama
15 Events of Note
20 Major Miscellany
COVER
A glimpse of spring: The water color
painting of spring flowers featured on
the cover was made by sophomore Rachel
Peden. It was one of the paintings which
were featured in the June exhibit (see
page 12).
STAFF
Editors James J. Livesay
Shirley Caldwell
Photographer Frank Carney, '61
Art and Layout
Consultant Mack Cole, '60
Volume 1
JULY, 1960
Number 3
Published quarterly by Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Entered as second class matter on October 15, 1969, at the
Post Office in Jackson, Mississippi, under the Act of August
24, 1912.
Page Two
MAJOR NOTES
Haynes and White Retire
Students, faculty, and alumni paid tribute to two men whose names
have become symbolic of the best that education can offer.
Seventy years of devoted service to Millsaps College —
and inestimable influence on the lives of thousands of col-
lege students — were recognized and honored during the
month of May as Professor R. R. Haynes and Dr. M. C.
White neared retirement.
An honorary degree for Professor Haynes and the es-
tablishment of the Milton C. White Chair of English
Literature were among the ways in which appreciation was
shown. They were only indications of the esteem In which
the two men are held.
Letters from hundreds of alumni poured in for the two
teachers, expressing gratitude, love, and admiration. Mixed
reactions were noted: regret that future generations of
Millsaps students would not know and study under these two
scholars, and pleasure over the fact that there would now
be the time for the reading, writing, and traveling which
had had to be put off during the busy years.
A special reunion of students who studied under Pro-
fessor Haynes was held on Alumni Day in honor of the edu-
cator, who has taught at Millsaps since 1930. A register of
the persons attending was kept and later presented to him,
along ^\^th a bound volume of the letters which had come
for him and a check which was intended to convey the ap-
preciation of his former students.
Speaking for those students, Robert M. Mayo, newly
elected assistant to the president of Hinds Junior College,
said, "Many facile writers have found criticism of public
education a profitable undertaking in recent years. Un-
fortunately, some of this criticism is true. Those of us who
graduated from Millsaps College and who had the privilege
of having Professor Haynes guide us in our course of study
and who now have some responsibility to the state and its
citizens for the quality of public education have an over-
simplified answer to the vociferous critics of our time. We
believe nothing is wrong with the quality of public educa-
tion in this state and in the Southland that more Millsaps-
Haynes trained school teachers wouldn't cure. The supply
of dedicated teachers who have their formal education deep-
ly rooted in a strong liberal arts course of study, such as
Millsaps provides, has never met the demand."
At the graduation exercises ;\Ir. Haynes was awarded the
honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the College. As Dean J. S.
Ferguson placed the hood over his shoulders prolonged ap-
plause came from the audience and the graduating seniors.
More than 150 friends and former students gathered
for a testimonial dinner honoring Dr. White, chairman of
the English department, who has taught fifty years, forty
at Millsaps. Speakers were Margaret Yarbrough, Indianola
senior and an English major who was awarded a non-service
scholarship to the University of Mississippi, who spoke on
behalf of the current students; Dr. A. P. Hamilton, Emeritus
Professor of Classical Languages, who welcomed his friend
to the ranks of the emeriti; and Dr. R. H. Moore, chairman
of the history department, who spoke on behalf of his
colleagues.
Miss Yarbrough spoke of Dr. White as a teacher who
"has challenged us intellectually and has been interested in
us personally, inspiring us to a high level of expectancy . . .
All teachers are admired by some members of the student
body, but few are admired by all, as Dr. White is."
In a consistently light vein, avoiding the sentimentality
which Dr. White dislikes. Dr. Moore recalled the teacher's
many contributions to campus life in his years at Millsaps.
He said that in thinking over his accomplishments it had
occurred to him that much of the motion at Millsaps had
been begun by the shoves which Dr. White had given.
Announcement of the establishment of the chair in his
honor was made by Bishop Marvin Franklin, chairman of
the Board of Trustees, who revealed at graduation that
Dr. George W. Boyd, professor of English, had been named
as the first to hold the position.
SUMMER
Page Three
These principals and superinten-
dents of schools — a few of many
— pose with Professor Haynes dur-
ing Alumni Day's many activities.
Alumni Day: A Time to Remember
The 1960 celebration was also a time to honor as alumni paid
tribute to two retiring professors and two now -closed schools
Seldom has there been a time when
Alumni Day meant so many different
things to so many people as did the
1960 affair.
For Whitworth and Grenada alumnae,
it was a time of organization and of re-
newing old friendships as they held their
first reunion since the schools merged
with Millsaps in 1938. (Events of that
reunion ai-e repoited elsewhere.)
Former students of Professor R. R.
Haynes, retiring chaii-man of the edu-
cation department, gathered to pay
tribute to his thirty years of teaching
at Millsaps and to his considerable in-
fluence in the field of education as a
teacher of teachers. A reception in his
honor was held in the Recreation Room
of the Union Building from 2 to 4 p. m.,
and a large crowd of the state's teachers,
principals, and superintendents gathered
to wish the educator well as he entered
the retirement stage.
Many alumni came back to the campus
to hear Dr. M. C. White deliver the main
address at the banquet in the evening.
Dr. White, who has been one of Mill-
saps' most beloved and respected teachers
for forty years, repeated his Founders'
Day address, "Men Are Traditions,
Too," which is to be found beginning
on page 6 of this magazine.
Others came simply to show their
loyalty to Millsaps, to see old friends
and classmates, to find out for them-
selves that progress has been made and
is being made, to talk with the teachers
who so greatly influenced their lives.
A baseball game with Alabama Col-
lege, of Montevallo, Alabama, scheduled
for 1:30 p.m. on Alumni Field, was rained
out.
At the banquet announcement was
made of the results of the ballot-by-mail
election of Alumni Association officers;
the two honor groups were recognized;
and Professor Haynes was presented a
check of appreciation and a bound vol-
ume of letters. Robert Mayo, super-
intendent of the Clai'ksdale, Mississippi,
schools, and representatives of Grenada
and Whitworth were also speakers.
Climax of the day's activities was the
presentation of George Bernard Shaw's
"Androcles and the Lion" by the Mill-
saps Players. The "renovated fable" re-
ceived hilarious treatment in the hands
of the drama group.
Reunion and Renewal
In 1938, by action of the two confer-
ences of Mississippi Methodism, Grenada
College in Grenada, Mississippi, and
Whitworth College in Brookhaven, Mis-
sissippi, were closed because of mount-
ing financial pressures. In effect, the
two institutions of higher learning for
women were merged with Millsaps Col-
lege. Records of the two colleges were
transferred to Millsaps, and Mississippi
Methodists concentrated their support on
the one institution.
The entire state felt the loss of
Grenada College, founded in 1852 as
Grenada Female College, and Whitworth
College, successor to old Elizabeth
Academy, which was founded in 1818.
Page Four
MAJOR NOTES
The move to close the two institutions
■was made with reluctance.
Twenty-two years later, on May 7,
1960, alumnae of the two colleges, so
long separated and "lost" to each other,
got together on the Millsaps College
campus.
It was the first general reunion calling
together all alumnae of the two schools
since the institutions which gave them
their education closed their doors. Be-
cause of action taken by both groups, it
was the first annual reunion and signaled
the activation of a group whose ranks
number in the thousands, full of potential
for significant service and enlarging
fellowship.
Efforts had been made earlier to draw
Grenada and Whitworth alumnae closer
to Millsaps College and to each other,
but it was Mrs. Walter Ely, (Ruby
Blackwell) Grenada '28, a member of
the Board of Directors of the Millsaps
College Alumni Association, who furn-
ished the leadership in setting up the
May 7 meeting.
In the course of organizing the re-
unions, she wrote:
''It is an opportunity to perpetuate
a heritage that exists in the lives of
many fine people who attended and
graduated from these colleges. Many
are patrons of Millsaps. Many are con-
tributing to the betterment of our na-
tion through education, the profes-
sions, and family contribution to
church and community service. Such
people need a "college home.' Millsaps
is the ideal solution. In Millsaps we
can exercise the natural loyalties and
enthusiasms so inate in so many. We
can do our church and Christian edu-
cation a real sei-vice in this time of
great need.
"And besides these basic and urgent
logical reasons, think of the fun we
can have. Special recognition to those
recognized by the gi-eatest number of
her contemporaries . . . for the one with
the largest number of grandchil-
dren . . . for the most amusing true
story that happened during college
days! Oh, please help me to get them
there! Some of my classmates I ha%-e
not seen in thirty-two years! I want
to see them . . . !"
Others quickly joined Mrs. Ely and
the Programs Committee of the Alumni
Association in setting up the reunion.
The alumni relations office wrote to
the 150 alumnae of the tn'o schools
whose names were in the files asking
their help in locating fellow alumnae
who were not listed. By May 7, over
400 new names had been added.
A special reunion committee began
hard work on the big event. In addition
to Mrs. Ely, Mrs. M. H. Brooks (Dorothy
Middleton), Whitvvorth '27, and Mrs.
J. W. Lipscomb (Anne Dubard), Grenada
'31-'32, gave time and effort to the
planning phase.
Then, the big day arrived. Excite-
ment and sm-prise gave way to joy as
more than 100 alumnae came from far
and near.
During the afternoon reunion Gre-
nada's hostess was Mrs. Lipscomb. Mrs.
Ely served as mistress of ceremonies.
In the Whitworth meeting room Mrs.
Charles Stewart (Georgia Brumfield),
'08, was mistress of ceremonies and Mrs.
Brooks handled arrangements.
Although the day was filled with
many interesting features, Whitworth
and Grenada "girls" found their pleas-
ure in remaining in the meeting rooms
and then moving to other spots on the
campus to reminisce and make plans for
the future.
The climax of the evening came that
night at the Alumni Day Banquet.
Grenada and Whitworth alumnae and
their husbands sat together at reserved
tables and were given special recogni-
tion. Seated at the head table as guests
of honor were "the following teachers,
who represented all of those who taught
at the two institutions: Mrs. Otis Tutt
(Ruth Bales), of Rome, Georgia, who
taught at Grenada and Whitworth; Miss
Gertrude Davis, of Raymond, Missis-
sippi, who taught at Whitworth; and
Miss E. Fay Griffith, of Grenada, Mis-
sissippi, who taught at Grenada.
Mrs. W. B. Harris (Sallie Dora
Dubard), Grenada '05, of Millington,
Tennessee, and Mrs. J. D. Upshaw
(Christine Ferguson), Whit^-orth '27,
of Louise, Mississippi, spoke sincerely
and with great feeling in tribute to
faculty members and to the colleges
they called Alma Mater. These were
high moments in the history of higher
education in the state.
When the evening ended after the play
and goodbyes were being said, those who
attended realized that associations
which had been considered ended were
renewed, and that once again the in-
fluence of two great institutions, Gre-
nada and Whitworth, would live on in
and through the products of those
schools, the alumnae, as they express
themselves in their revitalized relation-
ship with Millsaps College.
The past had been honored, the pre-
sent sei-ved, and the future filled -with
possibilities.
When is the next reunion? It's Satur-
day, May 6, 1961, at Millsaps College.
That's Alumni Day!
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\boTe: Whitworth alumnae make plans for future ^.-ji^-
eunions. "*' "
Sight: A Grenada alumna recalls some happy memories.
M^tamasBasn
MEN
are
traditions^
too
Bv M. C. White
One of Millsaps" most beloved teachers recalls men who
have established the school's reputation for outstanding
faculty leadership.
Editor's Note: Few talks given on the Millsaps campus
have received the acclaim which has been accorded "Men Are
Traditions, Too," which started as a Founders' Day address
and was repeated by request at the Alumni Day banquet. Again
by request, it is printed here for those alumni who have missed
it at its two campus presentations.
My friends, I come before you today in all humility as
your Founders Day speaker. Before me on this occasion
have gone many far worthier and wiser than I am, I wish
I could give you a learned discussion on educational theory
and the function of our college, but unfortunately I have
no such theory — or if any a very simple and elemental one.
To me, the educational process is primarily a man speaking
to men, and the best results are obtained in an atmosphere
of mutual respect and good will. And since no idea is in-
teresting until it passes through the mind of an interesting
person, the man speaking must be a vibrant and interesting
personality. In my forty years of teaching here, I have
known many such, and in them Millsaps College has been
greatly blessed. They are a tradition of Millsaps, whose
characters and personalities we should not willingly let die.
As their influence lives on, so should the memory and the
knowledge of them be kept alive. Of those only who are
no longer in active service I wish to speak. They are the
tradition of Millsaps,
Will you pardon a brief digression, in which I recall
for you three very humble servants of our college, who were
not in any sense members of our faculty, but whose memory,
too, should be kept alive? To paraphrase Uncle Remus,
"In these here low-grounds of our sorrow, we got to learn
from them that knows too little same as them that knows
too much,"
William Guy was one such early servant. He was the
janitor for several buildings, and carefully pruned the
"scrubbery" around the college. On festive days, at student
request he mounted the "flatform" and with grand gesture
and magnificent oratory gave his great oration on "The
Supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon Race."
Another faithful servant and interesting personality
was Howard Cherry, On Cherry's twenty-fifth anniversary
as janitor, "Motor" Carr, a great basketball player, and
president of our student body, called Cherry to the rostrum
and presented to him a student gift of $125,00. When the
students loudly applauded Cherry's speech of thanks, he
became rather excited and applauded, too. Cherry's use
of words was always interesting and often quite original.
When his cousin had a variety of insistent offers for his
oil land in Yazoo City, he became thoroughly coirfused. Cherry
said, "Those oil men had that nigger so hapazard, he
didn't know where he was at." Cherry was much respected
by faculty and student body. When he died, two years ago,
five or six of his old friends on the faculty attended his
funeral services in the Holiness Church to which he be-
longed.
But most important in the life of the College and best
loved was "Podner Ben," an old Negro whose official resi-
dence was the State Insane Asylum, then located on the
present site of the University College of Medicine, To old
Ben, everybody was "Podner." He swept the gym, and kept
score at basketball games, yelling to the girl athletes, "Get
in there, big girl." He followed the sports around the sea-
sons, carrying water for the Jackson Senators through the
summer, then moving over to Millsaps football in the fall,
then to girls' basketball, then to men's basketball, then to
baseball, Podner Ben, anxious for his teams to win, gave
as his recipe for victory, "Don't wase money on players;
just get you a good empire." I never knew any one who
loved sports better. If he finds there are no sports in
heaven, he'll certainly ask for a transfer. When Podner Ben
died, he was buried from the Millsaps chapel, the members
of the football team serving as his pall-bearers.
If I have digressed too long in recalling these servants
of our College, you will please forgive. They were men
of humble station, but interesting personalities, and each
of them will linger long in the memory of the men and
women of Millsaps, They belong to an earlier generation,
and we shall not see their like again.
Now to the main body and purpose of my address. It
is to recall to you the great teachers of Millsaps who are
no longer in active service. Among these, John Magruder
Sullivan holds a high place. He was an evangelical Christian,
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MAJOR NOTES
as ready for a sermon as for a lecture on chemistry or
geology. He was a truly remarkable man, enthusiastic in
everything he did, and untiring mentally and physically. His
geological discoveries, placed in the national museum, bear
his name and will be a perpetual tribute to his memory. But
in the hearts and minds of countless students there will
linger the recollection of his knowledge and his zeal for
learning, as well as the memory of weary legs when they
tried in vain to keep up with him in his geological expedi-
tions. For, even in his old age, he could walk faster and
farther than any of his students. He was a good teacher, a
good man, a devoted Christian.
In close association with Dr. Sullivan in the science
building which bears their names was Geoi-ge Lott Harrell.
As befits a registrar and teacher of physics and astronomy,
he made a fetish of accuracy and precision. He called his
class roll twice. He kept time by his watch, by clocks, by
the sun and by the stars. One day in the hallway I inquired
of him the time. He said, "Five minutes and ten seconds
until eight o'clock." Looking at my own watch, and seldom
worrying about a discrepancy of less than five or ten minutes,
I made the mistake of asking if his time was right. He re-
plied, "Well, it is approximately right,"; then, taking out a
notebook, he showed me the record. His watch had lost ten
seconds in the last six months. Professor Harrell, despite his
scientific interest and his passion for accuracy, was a man
of sentiment and tender heart, and a devoted Christian.
Over his desk in the registrar's office hung a placard which
read, "He who has principle is inspired." Professor Harrell
was an inspired man.
Another great personality who has helped give Millsaps
its tradition is Benjamin Ernest Mitchell. He is a scholarly
teacher and a contributor to learned magazines. Mathe-
matics to him is both philosophy and religion. In the orderli-
ness of his science, he sees reflected the wisdom and the
assurance of an infinite God. He is a sweet-spirited man,
a loyal friend, and a devoted Christian. As one of his no-
laborers said of him at the University of Mississippi after
his retirment from Millsaps, "He is a great teacher, but if he
taught nothing, his presence here would be a benediction."
He is now giving his sei-vices to Belhaven College, and there,
as everywhere, "he allures to brighter worlds and leads the
way."
Early in the 1920's Dr. David M. Key, Professor of Latin
and Greek, succeeded to the presidency of the College. He
was my teacher at old Southern, and my life-long friend.
In tribute to him, I cannot do better than pass on to you
the appraisal of Robert Mayo, superintendent of the Clarks-
dale schools, who as a student here wrote as follows :
'"One of the most delightful and kindly personalities at
Millsaps is, in all probability, almost a stranger to you.
You often see his slightly stooped figure about the halls and
on the walks, and you have looked into his kindly eyes and
tight-drawn face, but only a very small part of the student
body ever really knows this 'campus stranger.' This stranger,
dear students, is the president of Millsaps College, Dr. D. M.
Key.
"If you confess that you don't know Dr. Key, there
is nothing strange about that, because he probably doesn't
know you. This sad state of affairs is your loss. Our presi-
dent is a scholar and a busy man, and not the back-
slapping salesman type of personality that is all too preva-
lent today.
"We must remember him from our freshman days as the
shy, skinny man who sat on the stage in chapel occasionally,
and who made a few more or less boresome speeches that
went over our heads. He told us why we came to Millsaps,
which weren't the real reasons at all, but we were convinced
that if just a part of what he said was true, we certainly
had not made a mistake.
"At least one time during our stay at Millsaps, we
have an occasion to see Dr. Key in his office. Some are
called in for discipline, some have individual problems, while
others have student group problems about which they need
advice. Regardless of the nature of the intei-view you are
made to feel that you are as much his guest as if you were
in his private home. Dr. Key seems to be shy and ill at ease
during an interview, but he gently and adroitly shapes the
final results and leaves you feeling strangely pleased. He
has an almost uncanny ability to judge human nature and
to get to the gist of things; but the real Dr. Key is not
portrayed in the role of an executive.
"The real Dr. Key is the classicist and the teacher, and
Six of Millsaps' traditions: A. G. Sanders, B. E. Mitchell,
M. C. White, R. R. Havnes, A. P. Hamilton, and Alvin Jon
King. They are a part of all whom they have met, to
paraphrase Tennyson.
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his natural setting is not the rostram nor the executive's
desk, but the teacher's chair. When the real Dr. Key walks
into the classroom to teach the classics, he seems a changed
man. His figure seems a little straighter; his walk less
shuffling; his eyes have a peculiar glow; the deep lines of
his face seem less distinct; and the shy, apologetic man has
been replaced by the teacher full of confidence and enthus-
iasm for his work. He breathes the very breath of life into
an otherwise dead and uninteresting subject, and you catch
his enthusiasm as he plays with the broad humor of Plautus,
or comments on the outworn advice of Horace."
Such was the appraisal of Dr. Key by one of his stu-
dents. Dr. Key was a great teacher, a great friend and an
honest man — the noblest work of God. Compromise of princi-
ple was impossible to his nature. He was a timid man
and bold one — a man of great courage. Even in his de-
clining days, his sense of humor did not desert him, and
he could make mouths at the invisible event toward which
the whole creation moves. After a serious operation for
diverticulitis, he wrote me that he had been repunctuated —
that the doctor had substituted a semicolon for a colon. I
have had no better friend, and I have known no better
teacher. D. M. Key was a great teacher and a great man.
Next on my list of great teachers is Albert Godfrey
Sanders, a man of vast and almost encyclopedic knowledge.
He is the only man I know who holds three AB degrees —
one from Southwestern of Texas, one from Yale, and one
from Oxford. He has taught Greek, Latin, Spanish, French,
and German. I never heard of his teaching Italian, but I
know he reads it and can translate it without difficulty.
As an Oxford scholar, he had opportunity to learn French
as the French themselves speak it, not as the Prioress in the
Canterbury Tales of whom Chaucer says,
And French she spoke full fair and fetisly.
After the school of Stratford-atte-Bowe,
For French of Paris was to her unknowe.
Professor Sanders' attractive personality, his wide read-
ing and vast knowledge have made him the despair of stu-
dents and fellow teachers alike.
A. P. Hamilton, long-time professor of Latin, Greek,
and German, has had a distinguished career at Millsaps
College. He is a man whose religion is intelligent, undog-
matic, yet sincerely felt and scrupulously followed. He is
a man of principle who acts upon his convictions. In his
face appears a spontaneous revelation of approval or dis-
approval, of delight or disgust. If he wanted to lie, his
expressive countenance would not permit. He has a varied
culture and a richly stored mind. Literature, music, and
art are all within his province. He appreciates and en-
joys the finer things in each of them, and understands why.
He has a remarkable memory, and a knowledge of the best
that has been thought, said, and done in the world. He is
strongly individualistic, and sufficiently different to be in-
teresting. He reveres decorum and propriety, and would
never in dress, speech, or action violate them — unless they
got in the way of some phase of his spontaneous self-expres-
sion. For A. P. Hamilton is a man of spontaneous, uncal-
culating action, and one of the least self-conscious people I
ever saw. Even the dead languages come to life under his
pertinent illustration and anecdote. And if his stories call
for loud shout and illustrative action, that's what they get.
His students could anticipate that his courses might be
exacting, but never dull. I think of him as a Christian gentle-
man of high principles, a man of learning and of culture,
and for fifty-three years my good and faithful friend.
Among our great teachers, Mrs. Mary B. Stone should
not be neglected. She was, for many years, my co-laborer
in the English Department, and is, I believe, the only faculty
member to die while in active service. She was a person of
strong intellect and strong will, a truly Spartan character
who revealed no weakness in herself, and could tolerate
none in others. She is fondly remembered, and deserves, too,
to be classed as a Millsaps tradition.
Dean William E. Riecken will be remembered by many
of you, not only in his executive capacity as dean, but also
as a skillful teacher of science and a sympathetic and help-
ful friend. He gave devoted and unselfish service to Millsaps
College. He was a man of intelligence, integrity, and
Christian spirit.
Within the bounds I have set for myself in this address,
my friend Raymond Haynes is not supposed to be men-
tioned, but his long and unselfish service to Millsaps Col-
lege and to the cause of education in Mississippi deserve
a tribute. His place will not be easily filled.
But the outstanding personality in all Millsaps his-
tory was, almost certainly, J. Reese Lin. From 1912 to 1940,
he occupied in Millsaps College what he humorously called
not a chair, but a bench. He taught philosophy, ethics, logic,
economics, and political science, with occasional excursions,
when need required, into the fields of English and religious
education. As Dr. Swearingen said of him, he neglected the
arbitrary boundaries between fields of knowledge whenever
occasion demanded a broader view. His knowledge was great,
but his character was greater, and his own great qualities
he stamped indelibly on those with whom he came into
contact. He was a great teacher not only of the intellect
but of the spirit. He gave to his students a sense of values,
a set of principles, a philosophy of life.
One unfailing attribute of this good man was his re-
fusal to compromise with evil. To him, morality and
righteousness were not relative matters, but rather were
based on eternal standards. And good character in an in-
dividual demanded not partial goodness, but the integrity of
the whole man. I recall his reply when a teacher was plead-
ing for leniency on a boy caught stealing. The teacher's plea
was to go easy on the boy because "he's really a very good
fellow." Professor Lin's disgusted reply was, "Yes, he's a
g'ood boy, all right; just a wee mite thievish."
But perhaps Professor Lin was greatest of all as a
talker. In this he displayed a pungent wit and ripe wisdom.
He delighted in clever turns of thought, and was a master
of the proverb, the aphorism, the apt analogy. One Bobashela
gave, as his notion of heaven, "Eternity and an audience."
The Purple and White used to run each week one of his
proverbial sayings under the caption of "Ducky Says."
Let us sample his gems of wisdom. Ducky says:
It is not so much the size of the dog in the fight
as the size of fight in the dog.
This man is distinguished for his ignorance. He has
only one idea, and that is wrong.
A word to the wise is sufficient, and there is no use
to talk to anyone else.
He said he could marry any girl he pleased. The
trouble was he did not please any of them.
Wisdom lies in knowing what to do next, and virtue
lies in doing- it.
The courage of a bulldog will always be a mystery to
a rabbit.
Ignorance in some people is just like a lady who
laces her corset too tight — she's bound to bulge somewhere.
The tail of any army will sometimes occupy the place
formerly held by the head of the army — but it will still
be the tail of the army.
Hitler was not selfish — he only wanted the land that
joined his.
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Page Eight
MAJOR NOTES
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Alumni Program Strengthens College
Above: Vice-presidents Roby. Gaby, and
Martin.
Below: President Dribben and Secretary
Sanderson.
Millsaps College alumni, participating
in a ballot-by-mail election of Alumni
Association officers, named W. B. Drib-
ben, '29, to serve as president for the
year 1960-61.
Dr. Dribben, who is superintendent of
schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, suc-
ceeded Dr. Noel C. Womack, Jackson
physician, on July 1, as head of the
organization which serves more than
8,000 alumni of kno'\%'n addresses.
Named to work with Dribben during
the new year were Dr. Raymond Mar-
tin, '42, Jackson physician, Ewin Gaby,
'53, Jackson geophysicist, Charlton
Roby, '42, Jackson business executive,
vice-presidents; and Mrs. Dewey Sander-
son, '50, Laurel homemaker, secretary.
The announcement of the election re-
sults was made at the climax of the
Alumni Day banquet on May 7.
The responsibilities of the alumni
program for the coming year will be
handled by a 45-member Board of Di-
rectors which meets regularly twice a
year and on call in between regular
meetings.
During the past year, under President
Womaek's leadership, understanding
and support of the College on the part of
alumni and the general public has been
increased and ties have been strength-
ened.
Highlights of the 1959-60 alumni year
should be of interest, particularly in
view of the fact that so many persons,
alumni included, feel that alumni ac-
tivity is, at its best, superficial senti-
mentalism.
Some of the accomplishments are
described below.
A new and significant relationship
to Millsaps College was inaugurated
for hundreds of alumnae of Grenada
College and Whitworth College when
they were honored at the Alumni Day
banquet and held their first reunion
since the institutions merged with
Millsaps in 1938.
A speakers bureau composed of
alumni and friends throughout the
state was established. Their job: to
speak to civic, social, and church
groups about higher education in gen-
eral and Millsaps in particular. The
idea was conceived during a meeting
of one of the committees of the Board
of Directors.
Three new committees with responsi-
bility for advising and assisting the
College in long-range development
plans, broadening and deepening
alumni participation in College and
Association affairs, and developing
significant student-alumni relations
were activated.
Under the direction of Zach Taylor,
Jr.. '44, Fund Chairman, and with the
help of hundreds of alumni, the Fi-
nance Committee had a part in ex-
ceeding the 825,000 goal set for the
1959-60 Alumni Fund.
Two successful special days, Home-
coming and Alumni Day, were spon-
sored by the Association. High points
were the highly respected Alumnus
of the Year Award and the faculty
seminar series, which features con-
tinuing education for alumni. All at-
tendance records were broken at
Alumni Day.
To emphasize the esteem and
friendship in which retired professors
are held, the Board of Directors
made emeritus professors Mitchell,
(Continued on Page 17)
Page Nine
HuajiuiiflfnHHn
Rising Costs Necessitate Action
Tuition and Fees Increased
Tuition and fees for one full year
at Millsaps College have been increased
by $100. The increase, the first in four
years, was approved by the Board of
Trustees and will go into effect in Sep-
tember.
Students will pay $250 per semester
in tuition and fees compared with $200
during the 1959-60 session.
The increase was made because of the
pressure of constantly rising costs, of-
ficials said.
Announcement of the decision was
made during the spring at a meeting of
the members of the student body who
will be returning for the 1960-61 session.
President Finger presided at the
forum-type meeting, presenting the rea-
sons for the increase and giving an
analysis of the use to be made of the
additional money the College will receive.
The budget for 1960-61 was presented
with an explanation of sources of in-
come and division of expenditures. Charts
were used to illustrate the latter. Stu-
dents participated freely in the discus-
sion session which followed the presenta-
tion.
Under the new plan, town students
will pay $150 in tuition and $100 in
general college fees per semester. Dormi-
tory students will be charged a minimum
of $63 for room and $162 for board
each semester in addition to tuition and
1960-61 BUDGET
EXPENSE
fees, bringing their semester costs to
$475.
Despite the increase in tuition and
fees, students choosing the new "board-
ing plan" can attend for the same
amount they paid during the 1959-60
session. Under the plan, a student will
pay $162 per semester for three meals
a day. Boarding plan students will use
the same cafeteria line as those paying
cash or holding meal tickets but will be
served a "standard" meal.
In addition to the meeting of the
student body, personal letters were sent
to parents of students returning for the
1960-61 session explaining the increase.
According to Business Manager J. W.
Wood, reaction has been generally fav-
orable, with many students and parents
of students expressing the feeling that
it should have been done several years
ago. Dean J. S. Ferguson reports that
enrollment has not be affected by the
move, with applications running slightly
ahead of last year's figure.
Since Woi'ld War II, costs of operat-
ing colleges and universities have risen
rapidly.
With the gradual disappearance of the
large gifts to endowment funds, hard-
pressed administrators and boards of
trustees have had to turn to other
sources to meet basic and urgent needs.
American business leaders, concerned
over the imminent financial crisis in
higher education, have been quick to
come to the assistance of colleges
through outright gifts and other forms
of aid. Along with this help has come
the recommendation to college admini-
strators to turn to those who benefit
directly from higher education — the stu-
dents and their families — as a logical
source of additional funds.
Within the past five years, hundreds
of the nation's colleges and universities
have heeded this advice from the busi-
ness community. Tuition and fees have
increased, sharply in some cases. As
a church-related college, Millsaps has
been reluctant to place undue hardship
on its students — slow to move. Many of
its sister institutions have sho\\Ti less
reluctance.
A booklet on college costs published
by the Life Insurance Management As-
sociation in 1959 showed that while Mill-
saps College costs during the previous
year, totaled $840, Centenary charged
$1,024; Davidson, $1,245; Southwestern
at Memphis, $1,400; and Sewanee, $1,600
The decision to add a modest $100 per
year increase to tuition and fees — a
25% increase over 1959-60 — has not
come before it was needed.
1960-61 BUDGET
INCOME
HES
202%
{1/3}, 240)
mrm
33.4%
cmwBiJTms
'm eso]/MismiMmA ^^■i/"
[i 107.400)
M/ss.mmTmf£mp^c0a£&£S:
ALl/MW:
Since the last increase (1955-56) gen-
eral administration costs have jumped
65%; buildings and loans, 750%; main-
tenance (including wages), 73%; insur-
ance, 40%; utilities, 40%; and faculty
salaries, 55%. The number of faculty
members to be paid will increase from
44 during the 1955-56 session to an ex-
pected 64 in the fall.
To operate the College at its maximum
efficiency and to maintain its traditional
excellence in education, a budget of al-
most $1,000,000 is required for the 1960-
61 session. Items included in the budget
are: instruction, $455,703, representing
48% of the total; plant operation, $215,-
021, representing 22.6%; administration,
$185,680, representing 19.5%; scholar-
ships, $63,400, representing 6.5%; and
miscellaneous, $31,225, representing
3.4%.
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MAJOR NOTES
Of the above amount, 53.690 must
come from tuition and fees. Contribu-
tions must supply 22.7%, endowment
earnings 12.4%, and room rent and mis-
cellaneous items, 11.3%.
In his February report to the Board
of Trusteees, President Finger dealt
with the problem of sources of income
for the College, giving special attention
to the need for the student and his
family to share in the solution of this
problem. An excerpt from the report
follows :
"The responsibility for support-
ing education by the state and by
the church is recognized. At the
college level we have a worthy
tradition of asking the student and
his family to share a part of the
cost of education. In church col-
leges this is substantial. We do not
provide free legal service or free
medical service to young people and
their families. How much free edu-
cational services should we provide ?
I am disturbed, as are you. by the
tendency of many people to go into
debt for almost anything. I am
equally disturbed when many people
seem un-n-illing to go into debt for
a college education. Benjamin
Franklin once advised a lad: 'Put
your money in your head, and no-
body can take it away from you.'
"I would not want to create an
impression that I am unaware of
or insensitive to the problems of the
cost of a college education. A fam-
ily with three children with a modest
income has an acute problem when
a year in college costs from $1,000
to $1,200 as a minimum. I wish
we had more scholarship resources
for students and their families with
established financial need, for there
are many of them.
"I recognize too that many stu-
dents hesitate with good reason to
go heavily in debt for the cost of
their education. Some of them have
plans for professions that do not
promise substantial salaries — teach-
ing, preaching, social work, for ex-
ample.
"We have a stiuation in which the
college and the student must join
together equitably in providing the
resources for our program.
"As for the future of our College
here, we shall be compelled to push
ahead on all fronts. We shall need
increased support from the Church,
from individuals, from the business
community, and we shall need to try
to educate the whole of the state
in regard to the responsibility for
cost shared by the student and his
family."
One of the most urgent reasons for
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the action taken by the College is the
matter of faculty salaries. With living
costs continuing to climb, economic
necessity is forcing many college teach-
ers to leave their chosen profession for
higher paying positions in business,
industry, and government. To recruit
and hold competent faculties in the
face of this situation, colleges and uni-
versities across the nation have moved
quickly to provide long-delayed increases
in pay and other benefits for the hard-
pressed professor and his family. Obvi-
ously this has placed pressure on other
institutions of higher learning and par-
ticularly those long known for great
teaching, such as Millsaps. Although
comparing favorably with other institu-
tions in the state, the College salary
scale is below that of many other liberal
arts institutions in other areas. Pay for
faculty members with the rank of full
professor range from 86,000 to $8,400;
associate professors, §4,700 to $6,800;
assistant professors, $4,000 to $5,800;
and instructors, $3,300 to $4,500.
Recognizing the fact that the increase
may work hardships on some students,
the College has stepped up its efforts to
provide additional funds for scholar-
ships and on-campus jobs. Substantial
loans are available through the National
Defense Education Act to students need-
ing help. The Alumni Association is
joining the College placement office in
locating suitable part-time jobs in Jack-
son, and in other areas for summer em-
ployment.
On a national scale, leaders in gov-
ernment and in other fields have rec-
ognized both the necessity of higher
education today and the higher price
tag which accompanies it. Evidence of
this recognition is the yet unsuccessful
proposal introduced in Congress which
would allow tax credit to parents for a
substantial amount of the tuition paid
annually for their children's education.
Public support of this proposal is
urgently needed if it is to receive seri-
ous consideration. Some businessmen
feel that the American public should
pay the educational bill in the same
way they finance most of their pur-
chases, in installments.
It is not surprising that the cost of
education is inci-easing in an economy
such as the one in which we live. On
the other hand, it is surprising, when
viewed from a practical standpoint,
that the public has been willing to pay
the full amount for luxuries but has
been reluctant to assume more of the
financial responsibility for higher edu-
cation.
The Millsaps student pays approxi-
mately one-half of what it costs to pro-
vide him with educational services — and
the total cost is still considerably less
than what is charged in institutions of
like quality. Educators and laymen
have termed it "the best buy in a liberal
arts education in America."
SUMMER
Page Eleven
Above: Striking lisliting effects and the use of imagery are
characteristics of Franl< Hains' photography. The play is "Kismet."
Lower left: Hains manages to capture the highly dramatics
expressions in this picture from "Bullfight."
Lower right: Cole's watercolor portrait of one of his classmates
was one which was featured in the exhibit.
Millsap
Art am
June was Millsaps month at the Muni
cipal Art Gallery in Jackson, with tw
exhibits by Miilsaps students beinj
shown and with pictures of Millsap
plays and other Lance Goss production
forming a major part of another displaj
Students of Karl Wolfe, who has bee
a member of the Millsaps faculty sine
194C and who is considered one of th
South's outstanding' articles, had a water
color exhibit in the Wolfe Gallery. Mos
of the students were working wit
water-colors for the first time.
A one-man show by Mack Cole, senio
from Laurel, filled half the main gal
lery. Called by Wolfe an artist of more
than-usual talent. Cole has include^
in his show water-colors and pen-and
ink drawings. Along with the still
lifes, landscapes, and portraits ar
covers designed for Stylus Players' pro
Moved by the Muses
ma come to the forefront as
il exhibits are
rams, and Little Theater programs.
A photograph exhibit by Frank Hains,
imusements editor of the Jaclcson Daily
^fews, was sho\vn in the other half of
;he main gallery. Of the 131 on display,
57 were pictures of Millsaps Players
productions. Eleven more were studies
)f Little Theater productions which were
iirected by Lance Goss, director of the
Players. (A local art critic, writing
ibout the exhibit, credited the Millsaps
Players and the Jackson Little Theater
sdth fostering much of the interest in
heater which has been developing in
fackson and in Mississippi.)
Jimmy Jordan, '56-'58, is having a
ine-man show at the Gallery during
;he month of July. Jordan also had
,n exhibit at the Lauren Rogers Li-
rary and Museum of Art in Laurel,
Mississippi, his home town.
Wolfe has often pleaded for recogni-
tion for Mississippi's young artists as
an incentive to them to continue to
paint and to remain in Mississippi. He
has written" . . . we believe it is possi-
ble for Art to improve the moral and
cultural climate in which we live. For
we must believe that the true func-
tion of an artist is to state as pro-
foundly as he can some aspect of the
truth, which he also can perceive. Of
his success or failure in this task, it
may be that only he can judge . . . We
hope to find them [young artist] be-
fore they have had time to compi'omise
with what they believe in, before they
have learned to paint what is fashion-
able, or might win a prize, or entertain,
or revolt or puzzle in order to gain at-
tention; before they have forgotten,
in some petty race for fame, what
Art is for .... I hope we will learn to
use those fresh gifts they bring us."
Wf
m
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Above: This pen-and-ink sketch was used by Cole to
illustrate an original short story.
Left: Sheer dramatic force is somehow retained in this
photograph of the Little Theater production of "Time
Limit."
Members of one of the largest graduating classes in the
history of the College received diplomas on May 29 in a set-
ting which was as impressive as the ceremonies.
The balcony of the Union Building served as the stage,
while the hollow in front of the building provided a natural
arena for the families and friends who attended. The late
afternoon setting, with the sun sinking behind the Union
Building, seemed to add a special benediction to the
exercises.
One hundred ninety-three seniors made up this year's
graduating class, a number which included those who will
complete requirements during the summer. Forty-seven were
candidates for Bachelor of Science degrees, and 146 were
scheduled to receive Bachelor of Arts degrees.
Dr. Roger McCutcheon, visiting professor of English at
the University of Texas and national representative of the
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, was the
Commencement speaker. Speaking on "The Function of a
College," he said, "Popular opinion to the contrary, a good
college believes that the most important thing in the uni-
verse is a man, and the most important thing about a man
is his mind.
"A good college functions by serving as a transmitter of
information and culture," he continued. Pointing out some
of the major contributions of the past to the present, he
said the college must create "a useable past" as well as
provide education for contemporary needs.
Following the presentation of the diplomas by Dr.
H. E. Finger, Jr., four Mississippians were awarded honorarj
degrees. Doctor of Divinity degrees went to the Reverenc
Thomas 0. Prewitt, superintendent of the Seashore Disti'ict
and the Reverend George R. Williams, superintendent oi
the New Albany District of the Methodist Church. Doctor o1
Laws degrees were awarded to John F. Egger, investmeni
broker from Meridian, and Professor R. R. Haynes, retiring
professor of education.
Announcement of the establishment of the Milton C
White Chair of English Literature was made by Bishoj
Marvin Franklin, chairman of the Board of Trustees. H«
also announced that Dr. George Boyd, professor of English
has been selected as the first recipient of the honor.
Earlier in the day the seniors heard Dr. Gerald 0. Mc-
Culloh, director of theological education for the Methodisi
Church, deliver the Baccalaureate sermon at Galloway Me
morial Methodist Church. Titling his address "Spiritua
Living' in a Space Age," he said that the seniors "must livt
by the precepts of their Christian heritage, disclose anc
uproot old evils, worship God, and give themselves in tota
sacrifice for the sake of God and their fellow man ii
they are to meet the requirements of Christian living in the
space age.
"Christian living requires that as God is the Lord oJ
man's past he is the director of man's destiny. We cannol
gaze long at the past. If it is simply transmitted through us
and not enriched because our hands have touched it, ther
we have failed the trust of our age."
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MAJOR NOTES
EVENTS OF NOTE
from town and gown
Science Grant Received
A S14,765 National Science Founda-
tion grant has been awarded to the
science division for an undergraduate
research training program during the
1960-61 academic year.
To be directed by Dr. Richard R.
Priddy, chairman of the geology de-
partment, the project will involve an
interdepartmental study of the loess
and soils derived from the loess in the
Jackson-Vicksburg region.
Fifteen Millsaps students from the
geology, chemistry, biology, and mathe-
matics departments vn\l be selected to
participate in the research program.
They may receive stipends of amounts
up to S300 each for the academic year.
The loess, an ancient ^vindblown de-
posit, attains a thickness of some 60
feet near Vicksburg, but it progressively
thins eastward to Jackson as soils derived
from the loess progressively thicken.
The goal of the project is to describe
the plant and animal communities sup-
ported by the soil and to determine the
chemical, geological, and physical fac-
tors which control them.
College Future Planned
The initial phase of a ten-year de-
velopment progTam for Millsaps College
has been launched by a joint committee
of trustees, alumni, faculty, and church-
men.
Established by the Board of Trustees
for the purpose of "studying the need
for Millsaps College and needs of Mill-
saps College for the next ten years,"
the committee ■will meet regularly to
make plans for the program's imple-
mentation.
Areas of activity to receive the com-
mittee's attention include curriculum,
enrollment, campus development, and
financial support.
Members of the Development Council
are: Dr. W. L. Robinson, DD, '53,
Columbus; Dr. W. B. Selah, LLD, '59,
Jackson, representing the Board of
Trustees; 0. B. Triplett, Jr., '24, Forest
and Dr. Noel Womack, Jr., '44, Jackson,
alumni; Dr. R. H. Moore '23, and Miss
Bethany Swearingen, '25, faculty; George
Pickett, '27-'30, Jackson, and Nat Rogers,
'41, Jackson, associates; Mrs. Ross Bar-
nett, '26, Jackson, W. J. Caraway, '35,
Leland, Robert M. Hearin, Jackson, and
Herman Hines, Jackson, members at
large; and Bishop Man-in Franklin,
LLD, '52, Jackson, Boyd Campbell, '10,
Jackson, Webb Buie, '36, Jackson, and
Dr. H. E. Finger, Jr., ex oficio members.
The Development Committee of the
Board of Directors of the Alumni Asso-
ciation will cooperate with the Develop-
ment Council in the ten-year program.
Senior Essay Added
With the beginning of the 1960-61 ses-
sion, all English majors will be required
to write a senior essay, a combination
research and critical paper.
Senior English majors will be re-
quired to take a course called English
201, a research and writing course, ac-
cording to Dr. George W. Boyd, who
will serve as chairman of the English
department.
The course was taught this year on an
experimental basis as an elective for
students planning to enter graduate
school.
The purpose of the course and the
paper is to teach research techniques
and advanced composition. The seminar
course will be under the direction of
the entire English depai'tment. An Eng-
lish professor will be assigned to each
student to direct and assist his study and
research.
Publications Recognized
Student publications on the Millspas
campus have received their share of
honors this year.
The Purple and White, which hosted
the Mississippi Collegiate Press Asso-
ciation at its annual meeting in May,
captured a first, a second, and a third
place award in the statewide competi-
tion. The paper was judged best in
the art category, second in general ex-
cellence, and third in features.
Millsaps senior Jack Shearer, of Jack-
son, presided over the meeting. Susanne
Batson, Clarksdale sophomore, was
elected to serve as treasurer during the
coming year.
The spring issue of Stylus featured
a transcript of a campus sjTnposium
at which Miss Eudora Welty was the
guest of honor. Members of the
symposium panel questioned Miss Welty
concerning her characters and how she
conceives them, the place of the critic,
her feelings about the various forms
of art and communication, and many
other related topics.
The magazine also featured a formal
essay by Margaret Ann Rogers, Jack-
son senior. Titled "Search for Identity:
A Study of Conflict in Chaucer's
Prioress," the essay was awarded first
place honors at the Southern Literary
Festival.
Twenty short stories, poems, and
essays by twelve students are in the
28-pag'e magazine, which was edited by
Mack Cole, Laurel senior.
Cover for the literary publication was
designed by Bill Fortinberry, Jackson
junior, and executed by the art depart-
ment. Each of the covers was individual-
ly silk-screened in green and brown on
yellow stock.
The 1960 Bobashela, which had as its
theme "Millsaps in Motion," was re-
leased to the public shortly before the
close of the session.
Carney to Head SEB
In an election which was somewhat
less spirited than usual, probably be-
cause it came on the heels of a highly
exciting Mock Democratic Convention,
Frank Carney, of Crystal Springs, was
named president of the student body
for the '60-'61 session.
Larry Aycock, Louisville, was elected
vice-president. Secretary was Sara Webb,
Jackson, and Bill Mooney, Pensacola,
was chosen for the treasurer post.
Carney advocated a better system of
communication in informing the student
body of campus activities and the pro-
motion of more school spirit with re-
gard to pride in the school's academic
standing.
Approximately 60^'^ of the student
body voted in the second primary.
Sowell Named MIC Head
Ralph Sowell, of Jackson, was elected
chairman of the Mississippi Intercol-
legiate Council for 1960-61 at the annual
meeting of the group in April.
Millsaps also won first place in the
publications display, which was a special
feature of the meeting.
Student government leaders from
thirteen state colleges, universities, and
junior colleges participated in the meet-
ing.
Sowell, a sophomore, is serving as
editor of the Purple and White.
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Major Fields Listed
More members of the gi-aduating class
of 1960 will enter the fields of educa-
tion and religion than any other pro-
fessions, if major subjects are any indi-
cation.
Of the 193 students who received
degrees on May 29, 31 majored in edu-
cation. The field of English claimed the
second highest number with 29, many
of whom will teach. Religion is third
with 18.
Ranking fourth in the list of major
subjects are history and economics, with
16 each; biology, with 14; chemistry,
with 13; mathematics, with 10; music,
with 4; geology, with 4; physics, with
4; philosophy, with 3; Spanish, with 3;
and French, with 1. Two students had
double majors.
For a large number of the class the
next few years hold more study in grad-
uate and professional schools.
Memphis to Hear Singers
The Millsaps Singers has been listed
as one of the top attractions for next
year on the schedule of guest performers
with the Memphis Sinfonietta.
The choir, directed by C. Leiand
Byler, will appear with the orchestra
on March 28. Members of the Memphis
Area Millsaps Club and friends of the
College are helping to make the appear-
ance of the Singers possible.
Mr. Byler has been commuting to
Memphis for several years to play
French horn with the Sinfonietta.
Honors Day Held
The second annual Honors Day was
held in May, with 114 students receiving-
recognition for distinctive service and
accomplishment.
Dr. Frank Laney, chairman of the
committee on awards, presented special
awards to fifteen students. Fifteen
others were recognized for attaining
membership in Who's Who Among Stu-
dents in American Universities and Col-
leges, seventeen for receiving graduate
study grants, seven for off-campus
achievements, and fifty-eight for athletic
activities.
The special chapel session was ar-
ranged last year to pay tribute to per-
sons who have brought honor to them-
selves and to the College by their con-
tributions to the various phases of cam-
pus life.
Six additional students were presented
special awards at the Commencement
exercises, and 113 were honored at the
spring Tap Day ceremonies.
ODK Selects Four
Four alumni have been elected to
active alumni membership in the Mill-
saps chaper of Omicron Delta Kappa,
national leadership honor society.
Chosen by the chapter were Noel
Womack, '44, G. C. Clark, '38, George
Pickett, '27-'30, and Robert Ridg^vay,
'35, all of Jackson.
All four have been closely associated
with the College and with the Alumni
Association.
In addition to service to College, con-
tributions to community and profession
are considered in the election of alumni
members.
Millsaps Leads State
Millsaps students have been awarded
more Woodrow Wilson fellowships in
the past fifteen years than students of
any other Mississippi institution, ac-
cording to the Foundation report for
1959.
Millsaps has received nine fellowships,
three coming this year.
Next in order are the University of
Mississippi, 6; Mississippi College, 6;
Mississippi State College for Women,
3; Mississippi State University, 1; and
Mississippi Southern, 1.
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"Early to bed and early to rise" did not appeal very
much to a galley slave.
I have never seen a first class person come out of
a second class home, but I have seen a second class per-
son come out of a first class home.
The only way to make some dogs good dogs is to
amputate their tails behind their ears.
Some of Professor Lin's stories display great wit and
cleverness, as in this one concerning an incident in the
Louisiana legislature. A very aristocratic member who was
about five feet tall was insulted by another member, a
blacksmith six feet, six inches tall. The small aristocrat
challenged the giant to a duel, expecting him to choose
pistols. The blacksmith chose as weapons sledge hammers
and the place six feet of water in Lake Pontchartrain.
But my favorite story of all concerns an incident that
happened to Professor Lin when he was teaching public
school in Natchez. For pushing a girl from her seat, a great
bully of a boy was kept after school. Later, a Natchez
grand dame told Professor Lin that she opposed all coi-poral
punishment and demanded to know what Professor Lin had
done to the boy. He said, " 'I cast an evil spirit out of him.'
I thought best to answer her out of the Bible, because if
I had told her I beat the devil out of him she wouldn't
have liked it."
Millsaps students enjoyed his personality, his wisdom,
and his wit. No Millsaps personality has been more in-
fluential. He was himself an institution and a tradition.
For all these people whom I have listed as Millsaps
traditions, there are certain common denominators: every
one of them was an individual and an interesting personality
in his own right. And all these teachers were people of
culture and masters in various fields of learning. Their
knowledge was not properly departmentalized according to
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modern standards of specialization; they had not learned
that a good teacher should endeavor always to know more
and more about less and less. But they knew their students
were in sympathy with them. They were all men of in-
tegrity. At the same time that they taught their subjects,
they inspired to virtuous manhood and Christian living. They
were great men and great teachers; they were and are a
tradition of Millsaps.
And what more could I wish for the Institution I have so
long served than that this tradition of great teachers be
maintained; that scholarship be not neglected, but that
Christian character, vivid personality, and enthusiasm for
teaching be of first consideration. For knowledge and wis-
dom are far more often caught than taught, and no idea
is interesting until it passes through the m!nd of an in-
teresting person.
Under such inspired teaching, Millsaps will continue to
give to the world graduates who are good scholars, good
citizens, and good Christians. From such teaching will arise
the ideal Millsaps man — one who keeps alive in himself the
spirit of inquiry and is not afraid to face the truth; one
who preserves a liberality of opinion and favors whatever
contributes to human welfare. This ideal Millsaps man
will keep his faith in progress and labor toward it, and yet
never trust in panaceas and in the nostrums of quacks. For
progress is slow and always has been, and human nature is
not to be changed in a moment. This ideal Millsaps man
will have at the basis of his life a firm faith in a benevolent
deity, and in Jesus Christ as the supreme revelation of
the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In that
faith, he can trust in his own future and in the destiny of
our world, and know himself as a co-laborer with God in work-
ing toward an ultimate good.
Great teaching, great teachers, and great men are a
Millsaps tradition. Pray God it may ever be so!
MAJOR NOTES
Faulkner at Oak Ridge
Donald E. Faulkner, junior from
Vicksburg, was selected to participate
in a special prog-ram that ■\\nll enable
him to spend the summer working in
an atomic energy laboratory in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee.
Faulkner is one of thirty-nine science
students selected to go to Oak Ridge
between their junior and senior years.
While working in the Oak Ridge Na-
tional Laboratory Physics Division, he
will gain first-hand experience in the
career he intends to pursue.
Finger Elected to Senate
Dr. H. E. Finger, Jr., was elected to
the 21-man University Senate at the
General Conference of the Methodist
Church in Denver early in May.
The University Senate is the ac-
crediting and standardizing' agency for
all of the educational institutions related
to the Methodist Church. Eleven of its
members are elected by the church's
General Board of Education, with the
other ten elected by the Council of
Bishops.
The senate also serves as consultant
and counselor for all educational mat-
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Sanders, King. Hamilton, White, and
Haynes honorary alumni.
A plan was approved which calls
for the inauguration of a drive to
activate Millsaps Clubs in out-of-state
areas where sufficient numbers of
alumni and friends live.
To enable both groups to under-
stand and appreciate the contribu-
tions they make the life of the Col-
lege, the Board proposed an annual
meeting- of the faculty and the Board
of Directors.
Across the nation this year alumni
came to understand that, like it or
not, Millsaps' reputation and their
injuries the alumnus, injuries his Alma
Mater. What injures his Alma Mater
and its future injures him.
The year ahead is filled with possi-
bilities. Dr. Dribben, his officers, board
members, and the 8,700 alumni (includ-
ing Grenada and Whitworth alumnae)
are faced with a challenge. The chal-
lenge is one confronting America. Shall
the nation's private colleges go down-
ward in quality, ovei-whelmed by econo-
mic and social pressures which make true
education of the mind and inspiration
of the spirit impossible, or shall they
receive the understanding and support
they deseri-e and must have?
ters of the schools related to the church.
All changes in status or type of school
must be approved by the group.
Students Win SLF Awards
Two first-place awards went to Mill-
saps students at the Southern Literary
Festival this year.
Peggy Rogers, of Jackson, received
first place honors in the formal essay
di-vision, and Kent Prince, Newton, was
named first place awardee in the news
story section.
Miss Rogers' essay was entitled
"Search for Identity: A Study of Con-
flict in Chaucer's Prioress." Prince, who
served as editor of the Purple and White
for two semesters, entered a news story
which appeared in the paper.
No Sweepstakes Award was given
this year. For the past two years the
award has been won by Millsaps Stu-
dents.
IN MEMORIAM
This column is dedicated to the
memory of graduates, fonner students,
and friends who have passed away in
recent months. Every effort has been
made to compile an accurate list, but
there \^-ill be unintentional omissions.
Your help is solicited in order that we
may make the column as complete as
possible. Those whose memory we honor
are as follows:
John Day Brabham, '26-'28, who died
November 14, 1959. He was a McComb,
Mississippi, resident.
Ruth Cooper, who died on June 15.
She ■will be remembered by many former
coeds who lived in Whitworth and
Sanders dormitories as the daughter of
Mrs. Hattie Cooper, housemother for a
number of years.
Alfred M. Ellison. Sr., '03, who died
March 31. He was a resident of Jack-
son.
Gordon R. Hazell (husband of the
former Eleanor Millsaps, '50-'52), who
was killed on April 23 in a test flight of
a new Navy helicopter in Connecticut.
A memorial service was held on May
25 in the Nichols Methodist Church. In
addition to his wife, he leaves two sons
and two daughters. The younger boy
was born ten days before the fatal crash.
Edwin H. Jones, '54, who died March
1st in a traffic accident near Jackson.
Survivors include his wife, the former
Virginia Hewitt, '54.
Francis Houghston JMcLaurin. '16-'71,
who died March 4th. He was a resident
of Ellisville, Mississippi.
John Aubrey Wooten. '29, who died
April 20. He was living in Jackson.
Ruby Dot Adams, '58, to J. Kirston
Henderson. Living in Fort Worth, Texas.
Edith Jeanine Adcock, '59, to Bryant
Manning Allen. Living in Jackson.
Floyce Ann Addkison, '60, to Cecil
Arthur Rogers, Jr., current student.
Living in Jackson.
Muriel Allen, '51, to Lawrence Denson
Jones, Jr. Living in Goose Bay, Labrador.
Grace Elizabeth Bartling, '60, to James
Love Moore. Living in Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
Virginia Alice Bookhart, '60, to Robert
Hudson Patterson, '58. Living in New
Orleans.
Beverly Jo Bracken, '60, to Fred
Thomas Rhodes. Living in Jackson.
Elinor Gwin Breland, '59, to V\'alton
Ferguson Dater. Jr. Living in Greenville,
Mississippi.
Bethany Byrd, '55-'5T, to Waldo
Putnam Lambdin. Living in Natchez,
Mississippi.
Elizabeth Ann Clark, '59, to John
Sharp Gatewood, '60. Living- in Yazoo
City. Mississippi.
Jo Anne Cooper, '54, to Robert
Vansuch. Living in Germany.
Dorothy Lynn Darby, '57-'59. to Allen
Leon HoUoway, '55-'56. Living in India-
nola, Mississippi.
Jessie Lola Davis, '38, to Juan Jose
Menendes. Living in Pasay City, Philip-
pines.
Doris Kay Diokerson, '59, to David
Eugene Ulmer, current student. Living
in Jackson.
Alma Catherine Dillon to Dr. McWillie
Mitchell Robinson, '54. Living in Jack-
son.
Elizabeth Dribben, '60, to Marvin
Homer Jeter. Jr.. '58. Living in New
Orleans.
Judith Chloe Forbes, '59, to Dr. Rich-
ard Beirne Ellison. Living in Honolulu.
Nancy Rebecca Ford, '58-'60, to Wil-
liam Bailey Tull. Jr.. '59.
Joan Lucille Fraizer, '60, to James
Thomas Bro\\Ti. Living in Louisville,
Jlississippi.
Isabel Gray. '59, to Ralph Franklin
Kelly, current student. Living in Jack-
son.
Shirley Yvonne Habeeb, '59, to Robert
Luther Abney, HI, '59. Living in Jack-
son.
SUMMER
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Mary Stewart Hamilton, '57-'60, to
Sam Erwin Ezelle.
Margaret Zoe Harvey, '60, to Arnold
Arlington Bush, Jr., '59. Living at Sewa-
nee, Tennessee.
Roshell Henli;e to Lt. (jg) John B.
Campbell, '5(;. Living in Norfolk, Vir-
ginia.
Sybil LaVern Hester, '59, to Dr. Gra-
ham Boyd Shaw. Living in Jaclcson.
Judith Hill Jones, '58-'59, to Joshua
Pearre Hamilton, IL Living in Texas
City, Texas.
Mary Gatewood Lambert, '58-'59, to
Roland Earl Slover. Living in Natchez,
Mississippi.
Laura Nell Lecornu, current student,
to the Reverend Paul W. Young, '60.
Jane Cooper Lehmann, '56-'57, to
Charles Everett Wilson. Living in Can-
ton, Mississippi.
Karolyn Ruth Long, '60, to James
Robert House, Jr., '56-'58. Living in
Jackson.
Patricia Ann Long, '58-'60, to David
Robin Weaver, '60. Living in Menirihis.
Sally Ann McDonald, '53-'54, to the
Reverend Benjamin Franklin Lewis, '53.
Living in Ripley, Mississippi.
Marian Elise Mcintosh, '55-'57, to
James Stewart Gantt. Living in Collins,
Mississippi.
Carolyn Lenora Mahaffey to .James
Edward McAtee, '60. Living in Jackson.
Melanie Matthews, '59, to Clyde Clay-
ton Anthony, Jr., '58. Living in Jackson.
Margaret Odette Michel, '51-'52, to
Tom Luther Head, Jr. Living in Jackson.
Linda Joyce Noble, '59, to Pat Lee
Gilliland, '60. Living in Jackson.
Annis Julia Pepper, '60, to Albert
Edward Breland, Jr. Living in Jackson.
Mary Frances Pleasants, '55-'57, to
Joseph Armon Brady. Living in Okolona,
Mississippi.
Mary George Price, '55, to Peter
Segota. Living at Patuxent River, Mary-
land.
Eleanor Marie Rasor, '59, to John
Edward Appman. Living in Knoxville.
Rose Wells Reynolds, '57-'59, to Joseph
Thomas Lee. Living in Jackson.
Corinne Frances Robertson, '56-'58, to
Thomas Vernon Lee Mills.
Mary Jo Shaw to Dr. J. Ernest Mincy,
'54. Living in Albany, New York.
Carole Anne Shields, '60, to William
Marvin Dye, Jr. Living in Jackson.
June Shoemaker, '58, to Winon D.
Starnes. Living in Greenville, Missis-
sippi.
Mary Margaret Stewart to William
McArn McKell, Jr., '59. Living in Jack-
son.
Rebecca Jewel Taylor, '60, to John D.
Bourne, Jr. Living in Huntsville, Ala-
bama.
Barbara Ann Thomas, '57, to Kaleel
George Saloum. Living in Gulfport.
Sadie Marie Thomas to Paul Douglas
Shirley, '53-'54. Living in Jackson.
Barbara Miller Thompson to David
Alexander Harris, '55. Living in Jack-
son.
Jeannie Wesley. '60, to William R.
Hendee, '59. Living in Blackfoot, Idaho.
We welcome the following into the
Future Alumni Club of the Millsaps
College Alumni Association :
Charlotte Laraine Barry, born to Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart Barry, '60 and '58-'59.
Mrs. Berry is the former Royanne
Waldrop.
Susan Joan Berry, born to Mr. and
Mrs. James O. Berry, '57 and '56-'58, on
May 15. Mrs. Berry is the former Nancy
Barineau.
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, born June
3rd to Dr. and Mrs. George W. Boyd.
Dr. Boyd is professor of English at
Millsaps. Other Boyds are Deirdre
Demetria, 7, and George Andrew, 5.
Melissa Ann Crook, born April 30, to
Mr. and Mrs. Clements B. Crook (Ann
Brown), '42 and '46-'47. She was wel-
comed by John Boyd, 1.
Lydia Lee Dukes, born May 27, 1959,
adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dukes
(John Sharbrough, '44).
Laurie Frantz, born to Mr. and Mrs.
F. H. Frantz on March 31. Mr. Frantz
attended in '43-'44. Mrs. Frantz, the
former Marie Grubbs, is a member of
the class of '44.
Donavon George Inkster, born June 6th
to Mr. and Mrs. James Inkster, '56-'57
and '57. Mrs. Inkster is the former Lucy
Price.
Thomas Richmond Lewis, born June
13th to the Reverend and Mrs. T. W.
Lewis, III, '53 and '50-'53. Mrs. Lewis
is the former Julia Aust.
Vicki Jo Loflin, born to the Reverend
and Mrs. Jack Loflin (Jo Nail), '56 and
'54, on October 7th, 1959.
Alvah Carl Long, III, born to Mr. and
Mrs. A. C. Long (Lynnice Parker, '57)
on March 14.
James Mark McCormick, born May
22nd to the Reverend and Mrs. James
McCormick (Patricia Chunn), both '57.
Mack Leshe Mohon, born May 11 to
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Mohon (Annette
Leshe, '57). He was welcomed by Sammy,
2.
Kimberly Elizabeth Morris, born to
Mr. and Mrs. John Morris (Peggy
Falkner), '52-'54 and '54.
Maria Georgina Norona, born May 24th
to Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Norona.
Mrs. Norona taught Spanish during the
1959-60 session. The Noronas have
another child, Gabriel, 3.
Mark Gerald Trigg, born March 19
to the Reverend and Mrs. 0. Gerald
Trigg, '56 and '57. Mrs. Trigg is the
former Rose Cunningham.
Marjorie Sivewright, born to Mr. and
Mrs. Al Sivewright on February 1. Mrs.
Sivewright is the former Josephine
Lampton, '53.
Celieta Jewel Wofford, born to the
Reverend and Mrs. Jess Douglas ("Tex")
Wofford on May 27. Mr. Wofford is a
'54 graduate. Douglas, 5, and Daj-rell,
3, complete the family.
Robert Keith Wolverton, born to Dr.
and Mrs. J. Keith Wolverton on May
28th. Dr. Wolverton attended Millsaps
in 1950-51 and 1953-54.
Susan Lee Woodard, born to the Rev-
erend and Mrs. Robert Thomas Woodard
(Frances Moore), '54 and '55, on June
4th. Susan Lee has a sister, Jeffrey
Lynn, 2 1/2.
Michelle Marie Yonker. born April 27th
to Mr. and Mrs. Myron W. Y'onker, Jr.
(Mary Emilia Weber, '53). Michael, 15
months, is the other member of the
family.
Donald Richard Youngs, Jr., born to
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Youngs, '56 and
'53-'54, on April 15. Mrs. Youngs is
the former Cindy Falkenberry. Susan
Marie, 2, completes the family.
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MAJOR NOTES
SPORTS SUMMARY
It's been a busy summer for the De-
partment of Athletics at Millsaps Col-
lege. In fact, Buie Gymnasium never
had it so noisy in June and July.
Coaches Erm Smith and Jim Mont-
gomery have seen to it that there's
been no summer slump.
The reason for all of this activity: in-
tercollegiate athletics during the school
year 1960-61.
With no teaching responsibilities to
limit his time this summer, Coach Mont-
gomery has been keeping the highways
hot visiting the Millsaps-type athlete —
the good scholar-good ball player com-
bination. Coach Smith, in between
classes, has joined him in the campaign.
In addition, a direct mail program in
progress since spring reached a climax
in June. Letters have gone to high
school counselors, deans, alumni, pastors,
and current members of the student
body. The purpose: to identify, seek
out, and interest the young man who
can profit by an education at Millsaps
while he participates in intercollegiate
athletics.
The results have been, to put it con-
servatively, encouraging. To date, the
number of athletes who have applied for
admission or are returning- for another
year of competition number almost 65.
More are expected.
It now appears that at least 50 men
will report for football drills on August
31. Coach Montgomery has identified
22 basketball players who will report,
among them several men who are 6'4"
and over. Baseball and tennis prospects
are the best in years.
It's been a busy and productive sum-
mer for the Department of Athletics.
Newcomers on the 1960 football sche-
dule are University of Tennessee (Martin
Branch) and Harding College. Missing
are Henderson State, Arkansas State,
and Mississippi College. The Homecom-
ing game is with Howard College on
October 15.
Here are some statistics we felt you'd
like to see. They come from the library's
Purple and White and Bobashela files.
Since 1920, the Majors have won 131
football games, lost 136, and tied 22.
Since the inauguration of the pro-
gram of complete nonsubsidization in
1946 the record is as follows: won, 49,
lost, 44, tied, 4.
We note with intei'est the announce-
ment by Howard College of a new
athletic program built on the granting
of athletic scholarships. The average
grant for athletes who are not residents
of Birmingham will be $950 per year.
Birmingham residents wU receive $450
per year. Athletic Director James Shar-
man said that the program would cost
$50,000 per year. We wish the Bulldogs
well in the new program, and we ap-
preciate the forthright manner in which
they have handled the change.
Almost at the same time we learned
of Presbyterian College's new athletic
policy. Subsidized for a number of years,
the PC trustees adopted a matching
"dollar for dollar" policy to finance
scholarships and for qualified athletes.
Alumni and other friends of the College
will be asked to provide one half of the
cost.
"Since 1955, the cost of the athletic
program of the College has increased
58%. The main problem is one of balance
between the basic mission of the College
and the athletic phase of its program,"
the editor of the alumni magazine wrote.
The "Walter Johnson Club," booster
organization for the Presbyterian sports
program for a number of years, was
asked to take the lead in raising the
$31,000 annually, one-half the amount
needed. In 1959 the Club raised $8,250.
A paper reporting on the work of
four of the students and teachers parti-
cipating in the National Science Founda-
tion Undergraduate Research Participa-
tion Program was read by Dr. Donald
Caplenor. chairman of the biology de-
partment, at a meeting of the Associa-
tion of Southeastern Biologists. The
paper concerned the autecology of the
bitterweed. Assisting Dr. Caplenor on
the project were Lucille Pillow, Green-
wood; William Rushing, Itta Bena; and
David Weaver, Ackerman.
Mary Dell Fleming, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. N. Bond Fleming, was one of
six Mississippi students who were Na-
tional Merit Scholarship winners this
year. She plans to enter Millsaps next
year to major in sociology. Dr. Fleming,
chairman of the philosophy department,
begins a leave this year to serve with
the Woodrow Wilson scholarship founda-
tion.
A member of a panel which discussed
admission policies and problems for
small schools, Paul D. Hardin, '35,
registrar and associate professor of
English, traveled to Los Angeles in
Api'il to attend the American Associa-
tion of College Registrars and Admis-
sions Officers Convention. The 1960
Bobashela was dedicated to Mr. Hardin
in recognition of his many contributions
to campus life.
In keeping with his growing national
reputation as an authority on teenage
drinking. Dr. George L. Maddox. chair-
man of the sociology department, served
as a consultant for the U. S. Public
Health Service at two conferences in
February and was invited by Yale Uni-
versity to serve as a member of the
faculty of the Summer School of Alcohol
Studies this summer. He was also one
of thirteen sociologists who were in-
vited to attend a research conference
on drinking behavior in New York City
in May. Dr. Maddox will begin a two-
year leave in September, a period which
he will spend at Duke University as
visiting associate professor of sociology
and Russell Sage Resident in Medical
Sociology.
The Doctor of Education degree was
awarded to James A. Montgomery, as-
sociate professor of physical education,
by George Peabody College in June,
making Millsaps the only college in the
state with a coach of intercollegiate
sports who holds a doctorate. Earlier
Dr. Montgomery was named a member
of the Steering Committee of the Gov-
ernor's Council on Youth Fitness.
SUMMER
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AJOR MISCELLANY
1892-1919
One of Millsaps' most loyal supporters
is Simon Wilson Dismukes, 1892-1896,
who keeps residents of the Greenwood,
Mississippi, Nursing- Home informed
about the school. His family says he
loves to have visitors and would wel-
come visits from Millsaps alumni.
Now a member of the faculty of East
Central Junior College in Decatur, Mis-
sissippi, the Reverend Lambert Neill,
'06, has behind him 46 years as a pastor.
In addition to holding Methodist pas-
torates in Gulfport, Laurel Yazoo City,
Brookhaven, Vicksburg, and Natchez,
he worked for four years helping to
establish Methodism throughout central
Europe from a post in Prague, Czecho-
slovakia.
Five alumni served as part-time in-
structors at the College during the '59-
'60 session. Miss Annie Lester, '16, taught
math; Mrs. James Cavett (Clara Porter,
'44) taught biology; Dr. Henry C. Ricks,
'40, was associated with the biology de-
partment; and James Ray Hood, '58, was
a member of the coaching staff. Another
alumnus, T. W. Lewis, III, '53, joined
the faculty as a full-time member of
the religion department.
After a number of years in the teach-
ing field, Mrs. Lottie B. McRaney
Mitchell retired this year as associate
professor of English at Southeastern
Louisiana College. Reason for her re-
tirement was illness. Mrs. Mitchell grad-
uated from Whitworth College in 1916,
but she is also a member of the Millsaps
class of 1939, having received another
AB degree that year.
1920-1929
Now living- in Cleveland, Mississippi,
where he has a studio-gallery, Joseph
M. Howorth, '19-'21 recently had a one-
man show of paintings in Cleveland. He
has also exhibited at Merigold, Oxford,
and Allison's Wells, Mississippi; and in
Washington, D. C. He practiced law in
Jackson and Washington for a number
of years and was legislative attorney
for the Department of the Army follow-
ing World War II.
Honorary degrees have been awarded
to Dr. Maxine Tull Boatner, '24 and
Marshall Hester, '31, by Gaulaudet
College, the only college for the
deaf in the world. The author of Voice
of the Deaf, a biography of Edward
Miner Gallaudet, founder and first
president of the college. Dr. Boatner
was selected for the honor for her
"preminence in and distinguished service
to the field of the deaf." Her husband,
Dr. Edmund B. Boatner, '19-'21, is su-
perintendent of the American School for
the Deaf in West Hai'tford, Connecti-
cut. Mr. Hester is superintendent of
the New Mexico School for the Deaf.
He has served in a number of executive
positions in educational organizations
and is the author of several articles
which have been published in educational
journals. Mrs. Hester is the former
Winifred Scott, '31.
1930-1939
An article by Mrs. Earl Alford
(Dorothy Moore, '30), appeared in the
May issue of the Mississippi Educational
Advance. Mrs. Alford teaches freshman
and senior English in the Crystal
Springs, Mississippi, schools. She recent-
ly became a grandmother when her
daughter Carol, who studied in England
under a Fulbright Scholarship, gave
birth to a son.
Dr. Merrill O. Hines, '31, assumed his
new duties as medical director of the
Oschner Clinic in New Orleans on May
1, moving up from the position of as-
sistant medical director. He is also head
of the proctology department. He is
president-elect of the American Procto-
logic Society, an assistant professor of
clinical surgery at Tulane Medical
School, a senior associate in surgery at
Touro Infirmary, and a senior visiting
surgeon at Charity Hospital. Dr. Hines
is married to the former Margaret Davis,
and they have two children, Margaret,
14, and Merrill, Jr., 12.
Gycelle Tynes, 'S3, who became super-
intendent of the Clarksdale, Mississippi,
public schools in July, continues the line
of Millsaps alumni who filled the posi-
tion. Harvey B. Heidelberg, '03, served
the school system for fifty years and
was succeeded by Robert M. Mayo, '37,
who served for five years before resign-
ing this year to accept a position with
Hinds Junior College in Raymond, Mis-
sissippi. Another alumnus, C. H. Car-
ruth, '29, has served as assistant super-
intendent for a number of years. Mrs.
Tynes, the former Dorothy Cowen, '36,
will accompany her husband to Clarks-
dale.
M. H. Brooks, '36, has been appointed
commissioner of the Mississippi State
Department of Public Welfare. Prior to
joining the welfare department as
counselor in 1955, Mr. Brooks served as
a school administrator for sixteen years,
coordinator of health education for the
Mississippi State Board of Health for
three years, and organizer and execu-
tive director of the Society for Crippled
Children in Mississippi for eight years.
He is married to the former Dorothy
Middleton, Whitworth '27. Daughter
Anne, '59, and her husband, H. C. Win-
stead, Jr., '59, are at Emory, where Mr.
Winstead is a ministerial student.
Alton F. Minor, '36, who is an engineer
with the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company handling corrosion prob-
lems on underground cables throughout
the Bell System, has been elected chair-
man of the Northeast Region of the Na-
tional Association of Corrosion Engi-
neers. He was also named 1960-61 first
vice-president of the Technical Societies
of New Jersey and was 1959 chairman
of the Metropolitan New York Section of
the National Association of Corrosion
Engineers.
The Mississippi District of Civitan,
International, will be directed in 1961-62
by George Sheffield, '34-'36, who was
named governor-elect at the organiza-
tion's annual convention May 13-14.
Other Millsaps alumni who have held
the position in recent years are Dr.
Thomas G. Ross, '36, and Wayde Ousley,
'40.
1940-1949
Three Millsaps College alumni held
a reunion in the Orient this summer.
The Reverend and Mrs. Bill Price, '49 and
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MAJOR NOTES
^50, en route home from service in the
mission field in Pakistan, were welcomed
to Hong Kong by the Reverend and Mrs.
H. A. Zimmerman (Ellanita Sells, '43).
The Zimmermans are serving with the
Lutheran Church in Hong Kong. Mrs.
Price is the former Ruby Ella McDonald.
The Mexican War is the latest of Otis
A. Singletary's literary achievements,
and Charles Poore, New York Times
critic, called it "an admirable addition to
the excellent Chicago History of Ameri-
can Civilization Series .... Mr. Single-
tary . . . handles an immense amount of
material adroitly in short compass."
Dr. Singletary, '47, who teaches at the
University of Texas, is also the author
■of Negro Militia and Reconstruction.
Mrs. Singletary is the former Gloria
Walton, '48.
Julian D. Prince, '49, became super-
intendent of the Corinth, Mississippi,
•city schools on July 1, resigning as di-
rector of instruction in the McComb
City Schools to accept the position. He
had served as teacher and administra-
tor in the McComb school system since
1949, with the exception of one year
during which he accepted a Ford
Foundation Scholarship to observe the
teaching of science in northeastern cities.
Mr. Prince is married to the former
Laverne Baker. They have three chil-
dren, Joan, 9, Julian, 8, and John, 5.
1950-'59
The Electrochemical Society named
Franz A. Posey, '51, its "Young Author's
Prize Winner for 1959" for a paper on
corrosion systems which was published
in the society's Journal. Dr. Posey is con-
nected with the chemistry division of
the Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
The Poseys (Linda Lou Langdon, '51)
have three children.
Principal of the Maben, Mississippi,
Attendance Center for the coming school
year will be Monroe Hamberlin, '51, who
will move to Maben from Monticello,
Mississippi. During his twenty-five years
in the school administration field, Mr.
Hamberlin has headed several North
Mississippi schools.
Several volumes from Yale Univer-
sity's Studies in French Literature have
been presented to the Millsaps-Wilson
Library by Gaston Hall, '52, who teaches
French at Yale. Mr. Hall is the author
of one volume of the series, a study of
Moliere's Tortuffe.
After a summer and one semester
at the University of Michigan, Mr. and
Mrs. Myron W. Yonker, Jr. (Mary
Emilia Weber, '53), will go to Chile to
serve as missionaries for the Methodist
Church. The Yonkers have two children,
Michael, 15 months, and Michelle Marie,
born April 27th.
A Fulbright grant for a year's re-
search in philosophy at the University of
Glasgow in Scotland has been awarded
to Allie Mitchell Frazier, '53, a candidate
for a doctorate at Boston University.
For the past three years he has held
a Parker Borden Bowne Fellowship and
has also taught exchange courses at
Harvard. Mrs. Frazier will accompany
her husband and vpill continue her study
in English literature.
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Roebuck (Jessie
Wynn Morgan), both '50-'52, and their
children, Sharon and Mark, are living in
Fairbanks, Alaska, where Dr. Roebuck
is serving as ophthalmologist at Ladd
Air Force Base. They will be in Fair-
banks until 1961.
One of five recipients in the nation of
Dempster Graduate Fellowships, award-
ed by the Board of Education of the
Methodist Church, Frederick E. Blumer,
'55, will study in Germany next year.
Another of the five was Jefferson H.
Campbell, husband of Sheila Trapp,
'49-'52. Mr. Blumer was elected a Cokes-
bury Fellow during the '59-'60 session.
He has been granted three assistant-
ships by Emory during the course of
his studies there.
Alumni who were graduated by the
University of Mississippi School of
Medicine in June included John A. Brown,
Jr., '55-'56; Dewitt Crawford, '58; Irvin
Cronin, '54-'56; Paul Edwards, Jr., '53;
Richard Fleming, Jr., '56; Edwin E.
Flournoy, Jr., '56; Foster Lowe, '57;
Robert Myers, '54; Dayton Whites, '56;
and Fred Yerger, Jr., '53-'56.
John E. Turner, '56, has accepted a
position as teacher of 11th grade Eng-
lish and speech at Kosciusko, Missis-
sippi, High School. He was recently
released from active duty with the
Navy.
Another Millsaps alumna has been
a winning contestant on the national
television show "The Price is Right."
Mrs. Tommy Parker (Mary Ruth
Brasher, '53-'54) won approximately
$8,000 in merchandise and trips, in-
cluding household equipment, movie
camera and projector, jewelry, clothing,
and trips to Bermuda and Hawaii.
Husband Tommy is a '54 graduate.
Having been formally ordained in
ceremonies at the First Baptist Church
in Jackson, Graham Hales, Jr., '57, has
accepted the pastorate of the First Bap-
tist Church in New Castle, Kentucky.
The Reverend Mr. Hales received the
Bachelor of Divinity degree from South-
ern Baptist Seminary after graduating
from Millsaps.
Boston University Graduate School
has accepted Tex Sample, '57, for study
toward the Ph. D. degree in social ethics.
Mr. Sample has attended the Boston
University School of Theology since his
graduation from Millsaps. Mrs. Sample
is the former Peggy Jo Sanford, '57.
A Master's degree has been awarded
to James Vaughan, '58, by Wesleyan
University. He has accepted a U. S.
Public Health fellowship to Louisiana
State University, where he will continue
to work toward his doctorate. Mrs.
Vaughan is the former Peggy Bamett,
'56-'58.
The University of Mississippi Nursing
School's Faculty Award went to Ann
Hale, '56-57, at the school's gi-aduation
exercises this year. Miss Hale was one
of twenty women who were awarded
nursing degrees in June.
A $1,961 fellowship from Smith, Kline
and French Laboratories, Philadelphia
pharmaceutical firm, will permit Noel
L. Mills, Jr., '58, to serve a 12-week
clerkship early next year at King Ed-
ward Hospital in Durban, South Africa.
He is one of 28 American medical stu-
dents who will study "grass roots"
medicine on three continents, chiefly in
underdeveloped and remote sections. The
students will assist practicing physicians
and, under their guidance, will help to
establish preventive medical programs;
observe alien medical procedures and
techniques; and, in some cases, bring
new knowledge to the area.
A Millsaps former student who went
to Madrid to study economics is having
an exciting experience as an actor. Clay
Ewing, '58-'59, who enrolled in the
"Junior Year in Spain" program spon-
sored by New York University, won a
part in a Spanish play entitled "The
Timesaver," playing an American sailor.
He has also made several television
appearances, playing a leading part in a
television play in which he again por-
trayed an American sailor adrift in a
Spanish port. There is a possibility that
he will act in Spanish movies, but he
is continuing his study of economics at
the Universitv of Madi'id.
SUMMER
Page Twenty-One
Do You Remember?
Some of the big issues in our "Do You
Remember?" year are big issues still,
although a lot has happened between
times. The Purple and White waged a
private war against war as the nation —
and the world — moved toward the worst
holocaust ever known. "Advocates of
war preparations always apologetically
preface their requests for expenditure of
the people's money by the pious hope
that war shall be ended." Sound fami-
liar?
It was also a big year sportswise,
especially in football and basketball.
The Majors beat the Choctaws 13-0, but
even that victory couldn't equal an
earlier one, when Millsaps scored an
upset win over Mississippi State. Twelve
o'clock classes were suspended on Satur-
day to allow the students to gather at
the campvis entrance to greet the i-e-
turning heroes. The defeat was later
immortalized in "The Saga of Seven to
Six."
The basketball team won the SIAA
championship. Members of the team,
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shown above with Coach B. O. Van Hook,
were, front row, Sidney Smith, Jr.; Dan
Cross; Roy McDaniel; Frank Loflin; and
Robert Massey, manager; back row,
Webb Buie; Chauncey Godwin; Joe
Baxter; Manley Gregory; Tom Mc-
Donnell; and Malton Bullock.
The Millsaps students engaged in a
campaign to keep Podner Ben from being-
taken to the new home for the mentally
ill in Rankin County. Through their ef-
forts he was granted a discharge from
the institution. Living quarters and food
arrangements for him were made by
the student body.
On September 1st Joseph Bailey
Price, instructor of chemistry and math,
married Miss Charlie Porter, pianist at
Millsaps Memorial Methodist Church.
It was the year the local pre-med
club was granted a national chapter
by Alpha Epsilon Delta.
"No, we hardly think that the great
Droug'ht that wrought devastation over
the western plains was a visitation of
God caused by his anger at the repeal
of the prohibition amendment," com
mented the P & W.
The Players obtained some much
needed equipment and made some stagi
improvements. "Though many ha(
probably noticed the dilapidated condi
tion of the old stage settings before hi
did, Gladen Caldwell was the first to di
anything about it other than gripe. Hi
drew up definite plans for the presen
curtain and presented them to the ad
ministration. Finding that the collegi
could not immediately finance the pro
ject, Caldwell and others decided to ap
peal directly to the students, alumni
and friends of the college to secun
the needed materials." "Mr. Pim Passe;
By," starring Grace Mason and Bil
Caraway, was the first production ti
benefit from the improvements.
Among the elite were Miss Millsaps
Adelaide Horton; Master Major, Thoma;
McDonnell; student body president, Pau
Ramsey; top beauty, Oralee Graves; anc
top favorite, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick.
The year? It was 1935.
MAJOR note;
One Man's Opinion
It always happens this way. With
the end of a school year and the advent
of a Mississippi summer, our thoughts
turn briefly to the past. Other school
years are remembered, and other stu-
dent generations who lived them to the
fullest.
One could point out that the present
is not served by dwelling too long on
the past, but great ideas and memorable
events and the men and women who
inspired them have won their right to
be remembered.
It was Dr. White's magnificent ad-
dress "Men Are Traditions. Too," pub-
lished in this issue, which brought into
sharp relief the importance of the Mill-
saps past and the men and women who
built it and, in so doing, shaped the
present and the future.
Our thoughts center around such
scholars as Moore, Swearingen, Kern,
iluckenfoose, Lin, Bullock, Riecken,
Stone, Wharton, Mitchell, Sanders,
King, Hamilton. There were others, not
named, who shared equally in the task,
joyfully undertaken, of teaching in the
Millsaps tradition.
And now that spring has given way
to summer, two more names have been
added to the list of men and women
whose lives have touched thousands
for the cause of truth and goodness —
White and Haynes, who retired at the
close of the current session.
Because this distinguished group
served with devotion and faithful
scholarship, generations of young men
and women have accepted "responsi-
bility to neighbor, state, and church."'
Because they served, the name "Millsaps
College" has been synonymous with ex-
cellence in higher education.
Whatever else might be said about the
College, this one quality, this image,
is accepted by the public. It is for the
strengthening of both the image and
the fact which sustains the image that
faculty, administration, trustees, alumni,
and church work today.
Evidence of the quality of the educa-
tional preparation today's students re-
ceive at Millsaps is the fact that al-
most two dozen of the nation's top
scholarships to graduate and profession-
al schools have been received to date
by Millsaps seniors. Of six Woodrow
Wilson fellowships (for the encourage-
ment of college teaching) awarded in
Mississippi, three went to Millsaps stu-
dents. And so it is in many other areas.
Encouraging, too, is the fact that,
although the number one shortage in
higher education today is that of quali-
fied faculty members, Millsaps is at-
tracting a superior group of new pro-
fessors who will join an already out-
stand.ng faculty at the beginning of the
fall semester.
This summer one would see changes.
New buildings, new walks, new drives
criss-cross the campus. Some trees are
gone — some great men and women are
gone — but other sturdy trees and strong-
men and women have come to take
their places. And the devotion to excel-
lence. Founders, and the beauty of it all
remain.
• One of the most significant events
of the past quarter of a century of
College history was held on Saturday,
May T, when alumnae of two of Mis-
sissippi Methodism's respected and re-
vered institutions, Grenada College and
Whitworth College, joined alumni of
Millsaps College in observing Alumni
Day on the campus.
The Grenada and Whitwoi'th reunions
were delightful affairs, well attended
for the first attempt to get together
since school days. There was joy in
reunion, there was utter delight in re-
calling halcyon days of other years,
there was deep satisfaction in saluting
the past and those who administered and
taught. More important, however, is the
fact that those assembled looked to the
future and their new relationship with
Millsaps College with vigor and en-
thusiasm. The spirit, if we can judge
accurately, was one of determination
to serve Christian higher education and
the present age in the merged institu-
tions which live on today in Millsaps
College.
• Recently we received a letter from an
alumnus "which lifted our spirits and
planted the seed of an idea which would
mean a gTeat deal to the College.
The letter, \\Titten by A. L. Bennett,
191-3-14, of Charlottesville, Virginia,
follows :
"While I was at Millsaps I held a
small scholarship. I do not remember
what stipend it carried but it was not
much. It did help me to earn degrees
from Washington and Lee, the L'niver-
sity of Virginia and Harvard.
"It has just occurred to me that if
every one who ever held a scholarship
at Millsaps would now give back to the
College the amount of the scholarship
with interest to date, the College would
be able to do more for young men and
women needing help today.
"I am, therefore, enclosing my check
for a down payment on the debt so
many owe Millsaps.
"As I look back over the years I am
convinced that the work done at Jlill-
saps when I was a student was equally
as good as was done at either of the
three unversities from which I received
degrees."
Imagine what a tremendous boost the
Alumni Fund would receive if every
alumnus who ever received scholarship
help from the College would follow
Mr. Bennett's lead.
• Do you recall the attacks on the na-
tion's educational system launched with
such vigor after Sputnik I arched into
orbit over planet Earth ? Critics pointed
to the British and European systems
as far superior.
We note with interest that the British
Government announced recently a 750
million dollar, five-year program to in-
troduce the American type of high
school throughout the country.
• One of the most significant develop-
ments in higher education today is the
establishment of regional education
boards. The most active and success-
ful of these organizations is the South-
ern Regional Education Board vritSh
headquarters in Atlanta. Founded in
1949, its purposes are to "aid in the
social and economic advancement of the
South by assisting states to improve
the quality of higher education, to pro-
vide the widest opportunity possible in
higher education, and to build education-
al programs which meet the social and
economic needs of the region."
In describing the goals of the SREB,
Dr. Robert C. Anderson, director, said,
"If we can join with government and
industry in a major effort to develop
and utilize the resources of this region,
then the story of higher education in
the South will be one of the greatest
success stories of all time." JJL
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From the President
Homecoming Day, October 15, was a
memorable occasion for hundreds of us.
I wish it were possible to schedule a
"Homecoming Month." My idea is not
that alumni would return to the campus
for a visit at some time during a de-
signated month. The idea is that alumni
could return for a month's visit!
If you should reside in the Millsaps
College community for thirty days —
observing, comparing, evaluating, criti-
cizing — you would probably discover
some weaknesses. There are some here,
even as there are in every educational
institution. And even as there are in
any institution or organization or indi-
vidual! If you should need help identify-
ing some of the weaknesses at Millsaps
College, the administration and faculty
can assist you. We know of at least
some of the deficiencies.
On this hypothetical thirty-day visit
you would, I am confident, discover
much that would reassure you, encourage
you, please and even enlighten you. Our
visitors would not need our assistance
at this point. The strength of the Col-
lege would be readily observed. As the
alumni, parents, friends and others
would move from the academic to the
personnel program, from the library to
the student union and the dormitories,
from athletics to pre-professional and
social organizations, from discussion
groups to private conferences, from work
to worship, they — you — would see the
purposes and objectives of Millsaps Col-
lege unfold. You would see young men
and women with a growing sense of
responsibility, a healthy seriousness
about the tasks which confront them, a
refreshing realism about the inescapable
demands of the day. You would see in-
structors eager not only to teach their
subject matter well but also to assist a
student in his intellectual, emotional,
and spiritual development.
With few exceptions, the Millsaps Col-
lege alumus is justly proud of his in-
stitution. Those who know it most in-
timately are its most enthusiastic fans.
MAJOIL
notes
MERGED INSTITUTIONS: Grenada
College, Whitworth College,
Millsaps College
MEMBER: American Alumni Council,
American College Public Relations
Association
CONTENTS
4 Faculty Retreat
6 Address by Dr. Finger
8 Characters of Student Body and Faculty
11 Aiumni Fund Report
22 Events of Note
26 Major Miscellany
COVER
What image does the word college bring
to your mind ? The cover picture presents
a pretty good one. Dr. Donald Caplenor,
chairman of the biology department, is
the lecturer.
STAFF
Editor Shirley Caldwell
Photographers Frank Carney, '61
Bill Mooney, '61
Artist Mack Cole, '60
Volume 2
OCTOBER. 1960
Number 1
Published quarterly by Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Entered as second class matter on October 15, 1959, at the
Post Office in Jackson, Mississippi, under the Act of August
24, 1912.
Page Two
MAJOR NOTES
Expansion, Departures Bring Faculty Changes
Fourteen full-time and five new part-time teachers and
three administrators were added to the faculty at the begin-
ning of the 1960-61 session.
Some of the additions were replacements for teachers
who are on leave or who have left the College. Others were
caused by departmental expansion.
In the administration, the resignation of Dr. J. E. Mc-
Cracken as dean of students came early in August, when
Dr. McCracken accepted a position with Pensacola, Florida,
Junior College. Officials immediately asked Edward M.
Collins, '52, instructor of speech since 1958, to assume the
responsibilities. Serving as dean of women is Mrs. Joyce
B. Watson, who replaces Mrs. Anne Peebles. W. J. Caraway,
'35, is contributing his services as director of development,
in which position he will make contacts in an effort to
secure funds for the College.
In biology, Rondal Bell, a graduate of William Jewell
College and the University of New Mexico, was added to
the faculty.
Dr. J. B. Price has been carrying the full load in the
chemistry department since Dr. E. Dean Calloway resigned
last winter to enter private industry. Dr. Eugene Cain
joined the staff at the beginning of the summer. Dr. A. E.
Wood, a leading Mississippi educator for many years, was
engaged to begin work in the fall.
In the English department, Dr. George W. Boyd, be-
ginning his second year at Millsaps, was named to the
Milton C. White Chair of English Literature, established
last spring on the retirement of Dr. White. In spite of his
retirement. Dr. White will teach two advanced courses and
will also teach three courses at Belhaven. James T. White-
head and Robert Padgett were full-time additions to the
department, and Richard Sanders, news director for a local
television station and a columnist for a Sunday newspaper,
was engaged to teach a basic journalism course.
The retirement of Professor R. R. Haynes and the
resignation of Dr. James D. Powell necessitated the engage-
ment of a completely new staff for the education depart-
ment. Dr. R. Edgar Moore was named chairman, and Mrs.
Myrtis Flowers Meaders, a Millsaps graduate ('50) is serv-
ing as associate professor.
Donald D. Kilmer, organist, replaced William Huckabay
in the music department, and Mrs. Mary Chittim, voice
instructor, is teaching part-time.
In mathematics, Dr. Tom Reynolds resigned as chair-
man, and Arnold Ritchie, who has been at Millsaps eight
years, was named to replace him. Wilfrid Wilson, husband
of alumna Ida Lee Austin, '27, was selected to fill the
vacancy caused by the leave of absence of Samuel Knox,
who returned to graduate school. Ayrlene McGahey Jones,
'35, took a leave of absence from the University of Alabama
to help set up an accelerated mathematics program at
Millsaps. Stewart Gammill, III, '55-'57, is teaching on a
part-time basis.
Dr. N. Bond Fleming, chairman of the philosophy de-
partment, is taking a leave this year to work with the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Dr. Robert E. Bergmark has
assumed his responsibilities as chairman.
T. W. Lewis, III, '53, is serving as director of religious
life, replacing Dr. Bergmark. Lee Reiff, who expects to
receive his Ph.D. degree from Yale, is a full-time addition
to the department of religion.
David R. Bowen, now in his second year at Millsaps,
was named acting chairman of the political science depart-
ment following the resignation of Dr. Harry Manley, who
is serving as deputy director of the Illinois Commission of
Higher Education. Charles W. Tapp, a graduate of Louisia-
na State University, will serve as instructor.
In romance languages, Billy M. Bufkin joined the staff
at the beginning of the summer. He will teach Spanish.
Additions in the psychology and speech departments
were Edward Smith, who will teach part-time, and Mrs.
Pat Edwards, also a part-time instructor.
Dr. George M. Maddox requested a leave to engage in
research at Duke. Serving in his position as chairman of
the sociology department is Frederick L. Whitam, '54.
In brief, these are the new full-time members of the
faculty:
Rondal E. Bell, assistant professor of biology — BA,
William Jewell College; MS, University of New Mexico;
Billy M. Bufkin, assistant professor of romance lan-
guages— BA and MA, Texas Technological College; advanced
work at Tulane; Diploma de Estudios Hispanicas, Univer-
sity of Madrid;
Eugene Cain, associate professor of chemistrj' — BS,
University of North Carolina; MS and Ph.D., Duke;
Mrs. Ayrlene McGahey Jones, visiting associate pro-
fessor of mathematics — BA, Millsaps; MA, University of
Texas; further study. University of Texas;
(Continued on Page 27)
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Page Three
•^.*J",<tTii»#. *
The Faculty 'Retreats'
A Rendezvous
With Introspection
The Millsaps faculty devoted two days to self examination prior to
the opening of school. The object: A better Millsaps.
The wasps swai'med behind and around the golden
crosses filigreed in the light shades and dipped around the
heads of the almost immobile group crammed into the small
chapel. At the front of the room, to the left of the altar,
stood a man familiar to everyone there, yet who was some-
how different as he spoke in the muted light and the
deep quiet.
"It is not the duty of a college to teach everything, but
it is the duty of the college to teach well all that it does
teach. A professor of science who never says a word about
ethics, yet who demonstrates daily his disdain of shoddy
work and fragmentary preparation, may in fact be engaged
deeply in the ethical task." Dr. R. E. Bergmark, delivering
the vespers address on the second evening of the faculty
retreat held at Allison's Wells on September 8-10, was
quoting Dr. Elton Trueblood. He was voicing a Millsaps
ideal.
Many inspiring ideas were stated, numerous plans were
made, a multitude of topics were discussed during those
brief days. The atmosphere was one of steadfastness of
purpose, pervaded by an attitude of mutual respect and
liking. One could almost feel the desire of each individual
to be the best teacher possible, to make the students the best
possible, to operate as efficiently as he could.
Consider some of the questions discussed: How can you
measure the effectiveness of instruction and of the in-
structor? What should be the entrance requirements for
Millsaps College? Are we "babying" the students? How
can we raise the funds necessary for the operation of Mill-
saps College at maximum efficiency? What can be done to
continue to attract the best teachers and students to Mill-
saps? How can the American public be oriented to realize
the importance of education — that it is not a laughing mat-
ter, nor the dedicated teacher an object of ridicule? Are
students being taught the right things, on the elementary
and secondary school levels as well as the college ? These
are only a few brought up at the retreat.
But in the midst of the serious discussion there were
frequent outbursts of laughter as the ready wit of the
teachers was evidenced — Dr. Ross Moore discussing "a mere
pay raise — my last one was like that" and commenting that
"inflation has hit social security too." There was the
readiness to mix fun with work, everyday tasks with the
real business at hand.
Following dinner and a vespers service, held near the
swimming pool and led by T. W. Lewis, HI, the Millsaps
teachers viewed a film, "The Search for America: Educa-
tion," in which Mark Van Doren, professor of English at
Columbia University, and William E. Hocking, one of
America's leading philosophers, discussed education in Ameri-
ca. A panel composed of Dr. R. E. Bergmark, Dr. Frank
Laney, and Dr. R. R. Priddy, representing the three divisions,
discussed the film. There were comparisons of European
and American school systems and discussions of who should
receive how much education and whether or not American
students are being taught rigorously enough.
Thursday's session was concluded after an orientation
period for new faculty members, but discussions — bull ses-
sions, the students would say — continued far into the night,
as they did Friday night.
Friday began early for half the women, who had to be
in the dining hall at 7 a. m. to sex've breakfast at 7:30. All
meals were served by the teachers, who divided themselves
into groups to handle the five meals.
Page Four
MAJOR NOTES
The serenity of the picture to the left belies the
busy atmosphere. The picture on the right was
more indicative, with some people conferring, others
exchanging ideas, others studying.
The morning session was devoted to the ten-year de-
velopment program. President Finger explained the pro-
gram and its aims — "We want to do more for more students,
and by 'more students' we don't necessarily mean in increased
enrollment." He said that a committee was authorized by
the Board of Trustees in the fall of 1959. The committee is
composed of two members of the Board of Trustees, two
faculty members, two representatives of the Alumni Asso-
ciation, two of the Associates, and four members at large,
with the presidents of the Board of Trustees and the College
and the treasurers of the Board and the College serving in
an ex-officio capacity.
Main concerns of the Committee are the permanent
funds of the College, the building program, and a capital
funds campaign.
Dr, Finger introduced William J. Caraway, '35, who is
donating his services as Director of Development this year.
Mr. Caraway, who will have an office in Murrah Hall, will
concentrate mainly on interesting corporations and founda-
tions in the College and its progress. In a brief introductory
statement, he also mentioned other programs, such as in-
surance and wills and bequests, which he plans to develop.
J. W. Wood, business manager of the College, presented
a proposed long-range building program. It calls for space
for fraternity houses and sorority lodges, new dormitory
space, new faculty housing, possible library additions, park-
ing facilities, a fine arts building, a classroom building,
additional tennis courts, and a swimming pool.
The curriculum came in for its share of attention. The
new Honors Program, described elsewhere in this issue, was
presented, and other curriculum changes being introduced
this year were discussed. Among these were the accelerated
math program; the addition of a course in nuclear physics;
the revision of a course in journalism; the addition of courses
in modern novel, descriptive English grammar, and the
American Renaissance; the revision of a history course
called "American Social and Intellectual History." Future
curricular developments were mentioned, several of them
being cross-discipline courses.
Some of the questions mentioned earlier were questions
which came up in the self-study, a Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools project which was begun a
little more than a year ago. Dean J. S. Ferguson announced
that the report on the study was almost complete and that
a committee would be on the campus November 13-14.
Many details of the orientation and registration pro-
cedure were outlined, and ways of operating more efficiently
were introduced.
An almost physical force was the unspoken determina-
tion to call upon hidden resources in the new school year,
to challenge the student to give his best.
At Millsaps everybody reads the Purple
and White.
Above: Dr. Bergmark delivers the vespers address
in the chapel, which was decorated bv Karl and
Mildred Wolfe.
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Page Five
Take a good look. Are you
Educated But Illiterate?
Editor's Note : At the final session of the
retreat President Finger made the follow-
ing address. What he had to say concerns
alumni, students, and the nation as a whole.
In studyin!! the redefinition of the word
literacy, alumni should re-examine their
knowledge and thinking.
In a few short days we vriW begin the
sixty-ninth session at Millsaps College.
We will address ourselves further to the
enterprise and the adventure of Chris-
tian higher education. It would be un-
wise to claim that a student, after four
years at Millsaps, becomes educated. It
would be equally unwise not to claim that
he can and should become sufficiently
skilled in habit and oriented to truth,
beauty, and wisdom that he can and will
proceed to become educated, that he will
himself further his education.
I use here another word to talk about
the matter, an interesting word that has
recently received refreshing redefinition.
The word is literacy. If it were an-
nounced through the press or from a
platform that the purpose of Millsaps
College is to increase literacy or reduce
illiteracy, the announcement or press
release might be misleading, but not
altogether inappropriate. Literacy,
meaning appreciably more than knowing
how to read and write, may be consider-
ed synonymous with education. Some
people maintain, with good reason, that
educated men are much too rare. Lit-
erate men may be no more plentiful.
One newspaper editor commented re-
cently: "Literacy itself appears to have
assumed a new meaning — a meaning
which leaves many, who know how to
read and write and figure, still illiterates
in a world that demands an understand-
ing of the purposes of man's journey
and of the nature of the new forces of
science and technology that man has
trapped but not yet tamed and domesti-
cated." By this redefinition of literacy,
the question is not so much where col-
lege students stand but where any of
us stand!
Literacy now implies not only that
one can read but is disposed to read,
wishes to read, thinks as he reads. In-
volved are the eagerness and care with
which a man exercises his ability. How
one reads, what one reads, the thought
and deliberation and decisivesness that
are the consequences — all of this con-
stitutes literacy. A literate man not
only knows what, he knows that. He
can talk about textbook content. He
can also talk about what goes on in the
world now. He knows as much as pos-
sible about why and how. He carries
the whole process further to inquire,
"In the light of all this knowledge and
these conclusions, what am I now to
do?"
Literacy involves an intensive exami-
nation of the substance of such treasured
concepts as freedom and liberty and
responsibility. A literate man will have
a thorough knowledge of the soil out
of which these concepts emerged. He
will be acquainted with the elements
which constituted that soil and how the
ideas finally broke through. He will be
genuinely concerned about the health of
such soil now and about the forces that
are acting upon it.
I would hope that no Millsaps College
graduate has used his Alma Mater as
an umbrella. More is required to get
literacy off the ground than the exis-
tence of qualified instructors. More is
needed than good buildings, adequate
libraries and well equipped laboratories.
The substance of literacy cannot in the
last analysis be arbitrarily required or
imposed. A minimum test can be applied
which will establish a superficial kind
of competence. But the application of
these skills, the direction they will take,
their subsequent usefulness — these are
beyond mechanical requirements. They
are self-imposed. This does not excuse
an instructor from vigorous teaching or
justify a dull performance in the class-
room. The role of an instructor, a
teacher with a conscience and a growing
sense of involvement, can be an im-
measurable influence in bringing the
the student to the point where he will
accept his responsibility.
There are good and just causes for
the American people to address them-
selves to the task of becoming more
literate or less illiterate. No one can
complain about the lack of tools or
materials, or about their accessibility.
The Library of Congress has recently
announced that it will provide a nation-
wide distribution of tape-recorded talk-
ing books for the blind. College students
majoring in speech have recorded an
estimated 400 books on tape for more
than 50,000 blind persons throughout
the country. This is a supplement to
the program of books-in-Braille and
books-on-records which the Library has
made available for some time. Even the
blind have been provided for!
And so have we all. More titles are
coming from the press than ever before
— and good ones are among them. Not
many masterpieces probably. Not an
abundance of great books, but many
thoughtful, stimulating, good ones. They
come from both sides of the Atlantic.
We should now be having something
about "both sides of the Pacific and
both sides of the Rio Grande!" A part
of literacy now essential is to include
in our orientation the Orient as well as
western civilization and to give more
intelligent attention to our close neigh-
bors to the south. The Ford Foundation
recently made substantial grants to
several big-name universities for an
accelerated program in the study of
Page Six
MAJOR NOTES
Asian and African cultures and lan-
guages. This is a kind of crash program
which in the interest of a sound and
healthy future should be expanded.
Not only are new books being made
available — for which availability we are
grateful — but the old ones have not
been removed. A great tragedy that
confronts a culture is not that a few
books are out of print and unavailable
but that more are not. That is to say.
it is tragic that so many good books
are so sparsely used. At the close of
each academic year a college adminis-
trator will report to the Board of Trus-
tees, among other things, some statis-
tics on the circulation of library books
for the year. He may even be tempted
to boast about it until he suddenly re-
calls the other statistic — how many
thousands of volumes that in the course
of an entire year were never removed
from the shelves.
The tools for growing literacy we
have. The problem is not there.
The critical factor is not the need of
literacy, or of materials for getting it,
but the ■nail to do. Do we enlightened
men will to know, will to comprehend,
will to act wisely and intelligently and
imaginatively in the light of all we
know ? We are tempted to join that
segment of our friends who spend their
energies lamenting what is, deploring
our blunders — or somebody's — and to
long wishfully for what used to be. Such
nostalgia, regrets, and remorse are un-
derstandable, but not justified. This is
not to say that all is right and good
•ivith the world. It is not. Our role now,
however, is to survey the situation in
the light of all the considerations and
move decisively to the next best step.
Literacy involves the will to act.
There can be no question that the
pressures are on for moi'e literacy as
it is redefined. Standards and require-
ments are going up continuously in
every facet of life. When a college or
university graduate facetiously remarks
that it is good that he got in when he
did, for he would never make it now,
he may be nearer the truth than he
would care to know. Nothing is gained
merely by making it harder to get into
college and easier to be asked to leave.
But much is lost — more than we can
imagine — if more and more is not re-
quired at every level of learning. Men
will show the degree of their literacy as
they seek to require more of themselves
and have more required of other people.
The pressures are on in a world that
is growing more competitive by the
month. Business men can tell you about
it. Increasing skill is now required for
a successful business operation. Busi-
ness men are competing not only with
their fellow retailers, wholesalers, pro-
ducers and manufacturers. They are
competing with the highly skilled lead-
ers of their own employees. Sweat shops
are no longer in the production lines but
in the executive offices. The employee
may enjoy a 40-hour week but many
employers do not.
There is competition in agriculture.
The problem here is that men have been
too successful in what they have pro-
duced but not successful enough in find-
ing people to buy it. There is compe-
tition in science. Here the most intense
competition is between two great centers
of power guided by opposing ideologies.
And we had better steel ourselves for
a prospect that is all but inevitable.
China may within a few short years
have the same kind of sti'iking power
that Russia has and may very likely be
less reluctant to use it. We are en-
gaged in a race for missiles, for develop-
ments in chemical, biological and
radiolog'ical warfare, and the more ef-
fective a man is, the greater is his
heroism — and here effectiveness is
equated with deadlines.
The intense struggle between opposing
philosophies of life, of government, of
thought, viewed in the light of one
third of the people of the world watching
the other two thirds think it out, should
cause us to require more of ourselves
and to do our part in requiring more of
other people. Not to be thoroughly in-
formed about what goes on in the world
and why it goes on, and to decline to
act intelligently and boldly — this in
effect is to sabotage both our foreign
and our domestic policy. Not to be con-
cerned about our failure in salesmanship
is to be insensitive to one of our gi'eat-
est weaknesses. It is one of the trage-
dies of contemporary life, too often over-
looked, that a capitalistic nation has thus
far been good at selling things but
poor at getting ideas accepted.
I believe we have the basic compe-
tence to meet the demands of the day.
Ours has been — and is — a nation of con-
fidence, of resourcefulness, of imagina-
tion. At times we have been naive and
unrealistic and shallow in our analyses.
These weaknesses can be attributed, let
it be hoped, to our youthfulness and in-
experience rather than to arrogance and
unjustified pride.
Together with our traditional con-
fidence we have ability and skill. Not
many of us have lived up to our poten-
tial. We have not had enough demands
made on us — or at least, we have been
reluctant to accept them. The greatest
waste in our nation is that of human
resources.
Man — literate man — is the key to the
dilemma, the answer to the challenge.
In an essay on "The Decline of the Ma-
chine," John Kenneth Galbraith declares
that man, not the machine, has become
the dominant and vital element in our
society. He might have added further
that it is man, not some impersonal
force, that is still exercising control
over other men. Classically, says this
economist, land, labor, and capital were
the trinity of productive factors. Today,
talent is more important — executive,
technological, personal talent. This
is a part of literacy.
The question facing a college com-
munity today is: Can we supply some
of this talent? Can we set forces in
action which can help others do it?
In the final analysis the critical con-
sideration may not so much be knowledge
and understanding, or the will to do, or
ability. Not so much these ingredients
as it is wisdom and vii-tue. And a spe-
cialized kind of virtue — righteousness,
not self-righteousness; justice, not self-
interest; integrity, not expediency.
Now literacy has taken on admirable
stature. It means knowledge and skill,
understanding and comprehension, cul-
ture and sound judgment, a resolute will
and desire, and finally wisdom, virtue
and integrity. It is this kind of literacy
we are privileged to cultivate. I would
hope that we might come to the day
when our nation would be referred to,
not as the most powerful, the richest,
the greatest, but the most literate —
by the redefinition of literacy.
I would hope too that we ^^ill vigorous-
ly address ourselves to the cause of
spreading literacy across the nation. The
author of a new volume entitled The
Nation and The Flying Trapeze was
quoted recently as follows: "Nothing
for this generation of Americans will
be easy. At a time that we are dazzled
by our own good living we are confront-
ed by a shrewd power that is determin-
ed to destroy us. Enjoying all our com-
forts, our extra money to spend, our
little amusements, we will find it hard
to admit the brutal reality of our nation-
al danger and to change our individual
living to the cleai'headed thinking, the
discipline, and the stamina that are
necessary, if we are to remain free peo-
ple and the United States is to continue
as a nation."
Men and women in America today,
faithful to their heritage, loyal to their
nation, true to their best selves and ac-
countable to their creator, will not ask
for what is easy. They will seek to get
light and to give it. They will endeavor to
appropriate power and provide it. They
will resolve to establish the facts of every
situation and to act promptly with the
soundest judgment. With this approach
we can proceed with confidence.
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Page Seven
Students and Facult
C
A Character of the Millsaps Student Body
In the seventeenth century English
prose there was a quaint and charming
little genre called the character. The
character was a short essay which de-
lineated a "type" of person — the poli-
tician, the country bumpkin, the social
climber, etc. — satirically, of course, and
with exaggeration. It was a kind of
caricature. The secret of a good charac-
ter was that the writer caught the type
so unmistakably that everybody recog-
nized him at once. Now, in trying to
imagine this audience, I have written a
character of the Millsaps Student Body.
If I err in this characterization, I hope
you will be generous and attribute it to
my shortness of acquaintance or profes-
sorial myopia — not to my lack of good
■will. (This is a fancy way of saying that
I love you, and this hurts me worse
than it does you!)
The Millsaps Student Body is a group
of 950 young people (note how cleverly
I pad the enrollment figure, a trick I
learned from the registrar) enrolled in
studies leading to the baccalaureate de-
gree in a college dedicated to the old-
fashioned pursuit of excellence — in moral
character, in intellectual discipline, both
within a framework of spiritual en-
couragement— the pursuit, I say, of ex-
cellence, not "life-adjustment education,"
not the trade-school teaching of techno-
logical skills: but a college dedicated
to the values of the ancient liberal arts
in the mid-twentieth century when those
values are seriously challenged by a
mechanistic, materialistic civilization
which threatens to devour or destroy
them.
The Millsaps Student Body is a group
of 950 young people who are the best-
mannered (about most things), the most
genuinely courteous and friendly in the
world; young people who are seriously
committed to their studies, though I
think largely for the wrong reasons:
Editor's Note: The above character was used
by Dr. Boyd to introduce his chapel address
"Poetic Values in a Liberal Educ-ation,"
Tvhich was printed in a recent edition of
Major Notes. His character inspired a stu-
dent, who preferred to remain anonymous,
to write one on what she called "the best
thing at Millsaps — the faculty."
A group of 950 young people enrolU
in the study of the liberal arts and tl
pursuit of their values who seldom mei
tion those values outside the course ar
the classroom; who study assiduous!
but never read; who talk animated!
about tests and papers and professoi
but not with the real excitement of ii
tellectual adventure; who labor f(
grades and their fruits on Tap Day bt
not for true learning; who faithful]
attend an endless succession of meeting
of endlessly proliferated organizatior
at which nothing much happens — nc
is expected to happen; who demar
freedom but fear responsibility; wh
enjoy the most delicate state of healt
(an approaching examination or pape
can send many of them into a serioi
one-day attack of the quinzy, followe
by the presentation of the most ii
genious and tiresome excuses); wh
strike me as not having a very goo
time here in the midst of priceless oj
portunity for the clean gaiety of socia
and intellectual, and spii'itual discover;
who have on their campus an undei
used student union building, an undei
used golf course, and, what is far worsi
an under-used library: I have wante
to "shout with thundering voice to you,
as Thoreau put it, what he wanted th
preacher to shout to his Concord cor
gregation: "Pause! Avast! Why s
seeming fast, but deadly slow?"
The Millsaps Student Body is a grou
of 950 young people who, neverthelesi
despite all I have said, compose th
finest college community in this stat
and are the greatest hope of libers
education in this region.
If there is any validity in my charac
ter, it can be summarized thus: Th
Millsaps Student Body too often con
fuses the means of education with it
true ends. The means are courses att
tests and grades and meetings — all th
trappings; the ends of education are
I think, discipline (in which I includ
learning to read and write and think)
mastery, liberation, vision, and commit
ment. It is to an encounter with th
values attendant upon these ends am
the pursuit of them that we challeng
you in our faculty series.
Page Eight
MAJOR NOTES
,ook at Each Other
A Character of the Millsaps Faculty
The Millsaps faculty is an assortment
if several dozens of scholars, fairly pro-
portionately divided into three camps:
Humanities, social sciences, and natural
jciences. They have among them about
four times as many degrees as there are
oeople, and somebody in the group has
)een to just about any school you have
■leard of. They eat lunch together every
(Wednesday in the private dining room of
he cafeteria, but other times it is not
incommon to see some of them mingling
vith students in public.
They have diverse interests and abili-
ies, but together they make a super-
,;tructure of enjoyment and enlighten-
iient. "In twelve words or less" Mrs.
jroodman demands precise thinking. Dr.
paplenor is a phenomenon of depth in
lis field and scope in his knowledge,
ilaiiy have been the freshmen girls in
History II who have vowed, "When I
marry, I want a man just like Dr.
^aney."
Doctors across the state will tell you
hat Dr. Price was their inspiration for
he beginning of excellence in scholar-
ihip, and young ministers pay tribute
o "Brother Bob" (Anding) and Dr.
vVroten. Anybody who ever went to IRC
s still trying to imitate the way Dr.
tfoore can be clever without even exert-
ng effort.
If everybody loved German as much as
3err Guest, the Millsaps community
Yould speak auf Deutsch. However, Mrs.
Houllett would desire a Roman culture
md Latin conversation. Still, Dr. Boyd,
vould be satisfied with just better
^.merican English — and less social
science.
Just as there is probability beyond
•easonable doubt that Dr. Fleming is the
Host wonderful man in the world, there
is the same high probability that Mr.
Bowen is the best looking. And students
till take Maddox courses just to hear
;he man lecture.
There is unanimity among Millsaps
eachers about giving hard tests and
iriving these tests all in the same week.
iFurthermore, each teacher expects stu-
lents to pass his own test and the ones
ill the other teachers give that week.
rhey seem to like each other and support
one another in matters of this nature.
Also, they have a pact about liberal
arts. Go to any one of them, and he will
tell you that you should be proficient
in English, efficient in biology lab, and
there is no excuse for being deficient
in algebra. On the side, you must spe-
cialize in something; but don't worry
about that until the second semester of
your junior year — or better still, gra-
duate school.
It is obvious that they are friends
within the group. They go rushing home
from faculty meetings to get their wives
or husbands and go to other faculty
homes for dinner and bridge. It is
amazing to note that whichever set of
faculty couples a fraternity has to
chaperone its dance, they always play
bridge well together.
They like students. They demonstrate
this by giving a minimum of cuts, as-
signing a maximum of papers, labora-
tory experiments, and research projects,
and not accepting lame excuses for
failure to do the assigned work on time.
They even talk to students, and not al-
ways about research projects. They
don't get upset when students disagree
with them, and sometimes they even tell
students they themselves are learning
with them.
I don't know whether they plan what
they are doing to students or it just
happens that way. They show the stu-
dent how, and he does the experiment.
They tell the student when, and he
meets the appointment. They describe
for the student where, and he goes there.
They give the student the facts, and he
attempts their coordination. They tell
the student he can, and he does. Oh,
not every student does, but more alumni
than ever come back by to tell what
they have accomplished.
They are all a part of a process, the
Millsaps faculty, designated education.
Bringing first-rate perspective, first-
rate personality, and first-i'ate prepara-
tion, they come together with mutual
dedication to a goal of opening avenues
of abundant life to those students who
sit in their classrooms, wander into their
offices, and chatter in their halls. And
the chatter changes.
FALL
Page Nine
m\iH ^i^^^^
We welcome the following into the
Future Alumni Club of the Millsaps
College Alumni Association:
Sara Lorena Baine, born March 9 to
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Baine (Sara John-
son, '56), of Memphis. She was wel-
comed by Harvey Julius Baine, IV, 3.
Laura Grace Blair, born on May 17 to
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Blair (Mai-ilyn
Wood), of Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Blair
are members of the class of 1957.
Charlotte Marie Boyd, born September
13 to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Boyd, of Lake
Charles, Louisiana. Mrs. Boyd is the
former Charlotte Elliott, '56.
Charlotte Ruth Bryant, born June 28
to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry K. Bryant (Caro-
lyn Edwards, '60), of Memphis.
Sandra Kristen Dean, born to Dr. and
Mrs. Walter L. Dean (Anne Roberts,
'53) on June 14. Welcoming Kristen
were Steven, 4, and Douglas, 2. The
Deans are Memphis residents.
John Robert Hudson, born to Mr. and
Mrs. John Robert Hudson (Clydell Car-
ter, '56), of Memphis, on July 8. Brother
Eddie is three years old.
Samuel Kimble Love, Jr., born to Mr.
and Mrs. Kimble Love, '56-'59 and '56-
'57, of Jackson, on December 14. Mrs.
Love is the former Anne Hyman.
William Douglas Mann, Jr., born Aug-
ust 10 to Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Mann
(Dorothy Doty), '49 and '51, of Car-
thage, Mississippi. The Manns have two
daughters, Melissa, 6, and Allyn, 4.
James Allan Phyfer, Jr., born June 30
to Mr. and Mrs. James Phyfer (Tally
McGowan), '59 and '56-'59, of Univer-
sity, Mississippi.
Edwin Lawrence Pierson, born July
5 to Lt. and Mrs. Larry G. Pierson (Vir-
ginia "Bunny" Cowan, '57-'60), of Colum-
bia, Georgia.
Susan Elizabeth Polk, born March 16
to Dr. and Mrs. Hiram Polk, Jr., '56 and
'52-'54, of St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs.
Polk is the former Wanda Waddell.
Frank Edward Rives, IH, born on
January 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Frank E.
Rives, Jr., of Memphis. Mrs. Rives is
the former Carol Culley, '56.
Rosemary Roberts, born to the Rev-
erend and Mrs. Eddie F. Roberts, of
Corinth, Mississippi, on August 17. Mr.
Roberts is a member of the class of
1951. Rosemary was greeted by Frank
4, and John, 2.
Shawn Sanford ("Sandy") Sample,
born August 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Tex
Sample (Peggy Jo Sanford), both '57,
of Haverill, Massachusetts. The Samples
also have Steven Barry, 2.
Jennifer Marie Short, born to Dr. and
Mrs. Louis C. Short (Frances Jo Pea-
cock), '50-'53 and '54, of Jackson, on
August 17. Jennifer Marie was wel-
comed by Mark Ashworth, 3, and Laura
Lee, P2.
Robert Wade Spencer, born to Mr. and
Mrs. Elmo Spencer (Betty Sue Gray,
'51-'52) on June 16. Robert Wade has
a brother, David, 2%. The Spencers
live in New Albany, Mississippi.
Olivia Ree Taylor, born June 20 to Mr.
and Mrs. Billy G. Taylor (Mona Ree
Canode, '50-'53), of Greenwood. The
Taylors also have a son, Michael, 2.
Brenda Buck Watts, born November
19, 1959, to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Dean
Watts (Annie Greer Leonard, '53), of
San Jose, California.
Jeffrey Allen Williamson, born to Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Williamson, of Culver
City, California. Mr. Williamson is a
member of the class of 1956.
3n ilrntnnam
This column is dedicated to the
memory of graduates, former students,
and friends who have passed away in
recent months. Every effort has been
made to compile an accurate list, but
there will be unintentional omissions.
Your help is solicited in order that we
may make the column as complete as
possible. Those whose memory we honor
are as follows:
Emanuel Albritton, '11-'12, who died
May 25. He was living in Clinton,
Mississippi.
Thomas S. Bratton, '12, who died
August 13 following a long illness.
He had lived in Clinton, Mississippi, for
the past 14 years.
H. G. "Doc" Deterly, '29, who died
August 17 after an illness of several
weeks. He was a lifelong resident of
Jackson.
Dr. Stuart G. Noble, who taught in
the preparatory school and organized
the education department. He died
September 19. He was a Jackson resi-
dent.
Hollis Watson Stephenson, '43, who
died July 13 following a traffic accident.
He had lived in Columbus, Mississippi.
"Modern Literature and the Chris-
tian Faith" was the theme of a series
of five lectures given by Dr. George
Boyd, chairman of the English depart-
ment, at the annual Clergy Conference
of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi,
held at Rose Hill September 6-8. Dr.
Boyd, who was conference leader, spoke
on "Poetry, Truth, and the Christian
Faith: Definitions and Assumptions";
"Poetry in the Waste Land: Yeats, Frost,
and Eliot"; "Heroic Man in the Con-
temporary Novel: Camus and Faulk-
ner"; "Drama for the Common Man:
Williams, Miller, and MacLeish"; and
"Notes Toward Some Conclusions."
Collateral papers were presented on such
subjects as "Eliot's Drama" (by George
Stephenson, '36), "Faulkner's Novels,"
"Frost's Poetry," and "Tennessee Wil-
liams' Plays."
Boston University Graduate School
has notified Robert E. Bergmark, asso-
ciate professor of philosophy, that he
has successfully completed all require-
ments for the doctor of philosophy de-
gree, which he will receive at the
school's commencement exercises in
June. Mr. Bergmark, who has been a
member of the Millsaps faculty since
1953, titled his dissertation "Moral Ob-
jectivism in W. R. Sorley, W. D. Ross,
A. C. Ewing, and A. C. Garnett." He is
serving as acting chairman of the philo-
sophy department during Dr. N. Bond
Fleming's leave of absence.
Two articles which were co-authored
by Dr. Charles Eugene Cain, associate
professor of chemistry, have been ac-
cepted for publication by the Journal
of Organic Chemistry. Research for the
articles, which concern sandwich com-
pounds, was done at Duke University
and was supported in part by the Office
of Ordnance Research of the U. S.
Army. Dr. Cain is the author of four
other papers on the same subject which
have been published by the Journal.
"The Case for the Church College," an
article by Dr. H. E. Finger, Jr., appeared
in the September issue of The Adult
Student, a publication of the Methodist
Church. In the article he presents the
major reasons for churches to remain
in the field of higher education.
Page Ten
MAJOR NOTES
And What of the Future?
Annual Report
Millsaps College Alumni Fund
1959-60
FALL
Page Eleven
Summary of the 1959-60 Alumni Fund
No. Amount
General Contributions 927 $ 9,806.00
Major Investors 122 17,476.10
Friends 9 917.50
Corporate Alumnus Program 4 310.00
Total Gifts -1,062 $28,399.60
-13
Total Alumni Gifts 1,049
A major breakthrough in alumni giving is on the horizon. The 1959-60 Alumni Fund campaign
results have given a preview of the future. In six years the Fund has grown from 210 persons
giving $970 to last year's total of 1,062 persons giving $28,399.60. This is heartening progress and
is indicative of greater things to come. Alumni participation is almost 200' above the 1958-59 report
and last year's total receipts figure is more than 28% ahead of the best previous year. The announced
goal of $25,000 was reached well in advance of the end of the campaign, and alumni exceeded the amount
budgeted by the College for their gifts by more than 40%.
Once again the Class of 1941 set the pace, taking Sweepstakes Award honors by placing in the
top ten in number of members giving to the Fund, amount given, and percentage of the class giving.
Pressing close for top honors were the Classes of 1917, 1947, 1951, and 1953. They were in the top ten in
two of the three categories. A tip of the hat is due the Class of 1907 for its record of 43% participa-
tion in the Fund by its members. They topped the percentage-of -class-giving category. Orchids, too,
to the Class of 1935 for leading the field in amount given with $2,608, and to the Class of 1953 for
the enviable record of 49 members giving to the Fund.
Because of the dedicated leadership of Zach Taylor, Jr., the advice of the Alumni Association's
Finance Committee, the hard work of class managers, and the loyalty and interest of hundreds of others,
"mission accomplished — goal surpassed" can be written of the 1959-60 Alumni Fund campaign. For
those who teach, study, and serve in other capacities at Millsaps — and for those yet to come to the
College — we express gratitude to those who had a part in the campaign.
The success of last year's effort must be the springboard to higher goals. It is imperative that
participation by alumni reach 25% and that the total move beyond $30,000 to $50,000 and above — and
soon — if Millsaps College is to remain an institution of highest quality. This is the challenge before
Millsaps Alumni. This challenge we believe they will meet and surpass.
Page Twelve MAJOR NOTES
Report of Giving By Classes
FALL
Class No. Solicited*
No. Giving
Percentage
Amount
Before 1900 22
5
23 ^'f
$ 175.00
1900 10
2
20f-c
15.00
1901 5
—
1902 11
3
2770
14.00
1903 15
2
13%
35.00
1904 13
3
23%
145.00
1905 19
4
21%
157.00
1906 15
3
20%
70.00
1907 21
9
43%
348.00
1908 26
6
23%
167.00
1909 23
9
39%
96.00
1910 25
5
20%
145.00
1911 26
1
5%
100.00
1912 34
7
21%
516.00
1913 27
7
26%
700.00
1914 29
5
17%
250.00
1915 33
7
21%
64.50
1916 45
8
18%
62.00
1917 33
9
27%
1,325.00
1918 29
6
21%
635.00
1919 28
3
11%
112.50
1920 41
8
20%
125.00
1921 30
8
27%
157.00
1922 . 54
5
9%
107.50
1923 59
7
11%
56.00
1924 86
16
18%
272.50
1925 79
13
16%
260.50
1926 88
16
18%
305.00
1927 89
17
19%
483.00
1928 136
25
18%
530.00
1929 130
23
18%
928.00
1930 131
24
18%
311.50
1931 117
23
20%
1,012.00
1932 117
8
7%
145.00
1933 98
21
21%
592.50
1934 136
18
13%
535.00
1935 126
22
17%
2,608.00
1936 126
27
21%
1,385.50
1937 98
17
17%
432.00
1938 123
16
13%
640.00
1939 133
22
17%
656.00
1940 151
24
16%
506.00
1941 163
43
22%
860.25
1942 150
27
18%
969.50
1943 155
22
14%
687.50
1944 138
21
15%
773.25
1945 111
18
16%
281.00
1946 102
13
13%
221.50
1947 197
38
19%
863.60
1948 169
22
13%
520.50
1949 277
37
13%
459.50
1950 281
23
8%
378.00
1951 216
37
17%
850.00
1952 186
29
16%
470.00
1953 218
49
22%
469.00
1954 224
45
20%
333.00
1955 191
33
17%
325.50
1956 269
43
16%
597.00
1957 286
1958 338
1959
Later
Corporate Aumnus Program
Friends
Year Unknown
35
24
19
5
4
9
2
12%
7%
210.00
414.50
279.50
18.50
310.00
917.50
10.00
.
♦Includes those who enrolled with class but did not graduate.
Page Thirteen
Official List of Contributors to 1959-1960
Millsaps College Alumni Fund
Before 1900
William J. Baker
Percy L. Clifton
Garner W. Green, Sr.
Harris A. Jones
Mrs. G. C. Swearingen
(Anne Buckley)
1900
Joseph B. Dabney
Thomas M. Lemly
1902
Mrs. Cowles Horton
Mrs. Mary Holloman Scott
James D. Tillman
1903
Aimee Hemingway
O. S. Le^\^s
1904
S. C. Hart
James Madison Kennedy
Benton Z. Welch
1905
Mrs. J. E. Carruth
(Bertha Fielder)
Aubrey C. Griffin
Mrs. W. B. Harris
(Sallie Dora Dubard)
James Clyde McGee
1906
Hendon M. Harris
Mrs. 0. S. Lewis
(Evelyn Stevens Cook)
John L. Neill
1907
C. C. Applewhite
C. A. Bowen
John William Loch
J. A. McKee
C. L. Neill
Mrs. C. L. Neill
(Susie Ridgwav)
Mrs. C. R. Ridg^vay, Sr.
(Hattie Lewis)
A. L. Rogers
Mrs. Charles T. Wadlington
(Emily Lee Lucius)
1908
Orlando P. Adams
Gilbert Cook, Sr.
Mrs. L. A. Dubard, Sr.
(Alma Beck)
W. P. Murrah
John C. Rousseaux
Mrs. Bert W. Stiles
(Bessie Huddleston)
1909
Jason A. Alford
Mrs. Ward Allen
(Roberta Dubard)
W. R. Applewhite
J. H. Brooks
Mrs. W. C. Faulk
(Patty Tindall)
Mrs. Leon McCluer
(Mary Moore)
James Franklin Noble
Tom A. Stennis
Basil F. Witt
1910
A. Boyd Campbell
Henrv Marvin Frizell
William Pullen, Jr.
Charles R. Rew
Leon W. Whitson
1911
Mrs. R. A. Doggett
(Jennie Mills)
1912
M. W. Cooper
Bama Finger
Mrs. Tom Guyton
(Maude Rogers)
Joe H. Morris
Randolph Peets, Sr.
Fred B. Smith
William N. Thomas
191.3
J. B. Honeycutt
Sam Lampton
Herbert H. Lester
Thomas E. Lott
Frank T. Scott
Martin L. White
J. D. Wroten, Sr.
1914
Mrs. W. R. Applewhite
(Ruth Mitchell)
T. M. Cooper
Marietta Finger
Eckford L. Summer
Mrs. J. D. Wroten
(Birdie Gray Steen)
1915
Sallie W. Baley
John W. Case
C. C. Clark
E. L. Hillman
W. E. Hobbs
Mrs. J. D. Lord
(Clara Rogers)
Ramsey W. Roberts
1916
Mrs. J. D. Dorroh
(Mary Griffin)
Mrs. P. M. Hollis
(Nelle York)
Mrs. J. L Hurst
(Ary Carruth)
Mrs. Fannie Buck Leonard
Annie Lester
Leon McCluer
Mrs. Lottie McRanev
Mitchell
J. C. Wasson
1917
Albert Luther Bennett
Otie G. Branstetter
Mrs. Hersee M. Carson
Mrs. E. A. Harwell
(Mary Shurlds)
R. G. Moore
D. B. Morgan
Mrs. D. B. Morgan
(Primrose Thompson)
W. Calvin Wells, HI
D. M. White
1918
M. F. Clegg
C. H. Everett
Julian B. Feibelman
W. D. Myers
J. S. Shipman
Mrs. C. H. Terry
(Marjorie Klein)
1919
Sam E. Ashmore
Mrs. S. J. Greer
(Annie Ruth Junkin)
Mrs. Edith Brown Hays
1920
Cornelius A. Bostick
Charles W. Brooks
Mrs. L C. Enochs
(Crawford Swearingen)
Alexander P. Harmon
C. G. Howorth
Thomas G. Pears
Mrs. J. P. Walker
(Ygondine Gaines)
Aimee Wilcox
1921
Eugene M. Ervin
Mrs. W. F. Goodman
(Marguerite Watkins)
Robert F. Harrell
Thelma Moody
Mrs. L. J. Page
(Thelma Horn)
Austin L. Shipman
Willie Spann
C. C. Sullivan
1922
Collye W. Alford
W. Ross Brown
Henry B. Collins
Daley Crawford
Burton C. Ford
192.3
Mrs. Collye W. Alford
(Ernia Kile)
E. B. Boatner
Mrs. Montyne Fox
(Montyne Moody)
Joseph M. Howorth
Mrs. Walter R. Lee
(Helen Ball)
Daniel F. McNeil
Virginia Thomas
1924
Francis E. Ballard
Mrs. E. B. Boatner
(Maxine Tull)
Russell B. Booth
Gladys Cagle
James W. Campbell
Charles Carr
Eli M. Chatoney
William W. Combs
Mrs. Armand Coullet
(Magnolia Simpson)
Caroline Howie
Rolfe Lanier Hunt
Hermes H. Knoblock
Daniel William Poole
Mrs. Joe Pugh
(Eva Clower)
Oliver B. Triplett
Jesse Watson
1925
Mrs. J. Curtis Burrow
(Maggie May Jones)
Mrs. James W. Campbell
(Evelyn Flowers)
Kathleen Carmichael
George H. Jones
Mrs. R. T. Keys
(Sara Gladney)
Mrs. C. W. Lorance
(Pattie Mae Elkins)
William F. McCormick
Fred L. Martin
T. H. Naylor
Mrs. Cynthia Shaniel
(Cynthia Thompson)
Bethany Swearingen
John S. Warren
John W. Young
1926
Mrs. Ross Barnett
(Pearl Crawford)
James Baxter
W. A. Bealle
Mrs. Morgan Bishop
(Lucie Mae McMullan)
Mrs. C. M. Chapman
(Eurania Pyron)
Jones S. Hamilton
Robert C. Kelley, Sr.
Mrs. J. L. Maxwell
(Hester Duncan)
Chester F. Nelson
John D. Noble
Mrs. John D. Noble
(Natoma Campbell)
R. T. Pickett, Jr.
J. B. Price
I. H. Sells
F. W. Vaughan
James Harold Webb
1927
Charles B. Alford
R. R. Branton
Mrs. M. H. Brooks
(Dorothy Middleton)
Joe W. Coker
John F. Egger
Mrs. Robert C. Kelley
(Lynn Little)
Amanda Lane Lowther
Marguerite Rush
Mrs. W. B. Seals
(Daisy Newman)
Mrs. Russell Smith
(Irene Clegg)
Curtis M. Swango
Orrin H. Swayze
Mrs. Orrin H. Swayze
(Catherine Power)
Ruth Tucker
Mrs. E. W. Walker
(Millicent Price)
Mrs. Henry W. Williams
(Thelma McKeithen)
Mrs. Wilfred Wilson
(Ida Lee Austin)
1928
William C. Alford
Mrs. A. K. Anderson
(Elizabeth Setzler)
Page Fourteen
MAJOR NOTES
A. V. Beacham
Mrs. W. G. Bertschinger
(Mary George Nobles)
Robert E. Blount
Eldon L. Bolton
H. B. Cottrell
Mrs. Walter Ely
(Ruby Blackwell)
Mrs. James M. Ewing
(Maggie Flowers)
Archie Lee Gooch
William T. Hankins
Mrs. Herbert Hemeter
(Mary Burton)
Mrs. Oze Horton
(Bessie Givens)
Rayford Hudson, Jr.
Mrs. T. M. Jones
(Hattie Rae Lewis)
L. S. Kendrick
Mrs. T. F. Larche
(Mary Ellen Wilcox)
Wesley Merle Mann
Mrs. W. Merle Mann
(Frances Wortman)
Sam R. Moody
Dwyn M. Mounger
Mrs. T. H. Naylor
(Martha Watkins)
M. A. Peevey
George 0. Robinson
V. L. Wharton
1929
Ruth Alford
E. L. Anderson, Jr.
George R. Armistead
Charles W. Baley, Jr.
Mrs. R. E. Blount
(Alice Ridgway)
Mrs. R. R. Branton
(Doris Alford)
0. Levon Brooks
John T. Caldwell
Mrs. John T. Caldwell
(Marguerite Crull)
Eugene H. Countiss
W. B. Dribben
Bessie Will Gilliland
Heber Ladner
Mrs. J. H. Maw
(Gladys Jones)
Mrs. W. Powers Moore
(Dessie Clark Loflin)
William I. Peeler
Mrs. W. K. Prince
(Lorene Mabry)
George E. Reves
Theodore K. Scott
Eugene Thompson
Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons
Wilbanks
James E. Wilson
Mrs. J. E. Woodrome
(Mattie Purser)
1930
Mrs. Earl Alford
(Dorothy Moore)
J. W. Alford
Mrs. E. R. Arnold
(Ruth West)
William E. Barksdale
Mrs. A. J. Blackmon
(Ouida Ellzey)
Howard E. Boone
Mrs. Perry Bunch
(Virginia LeNoir)
William D. Carmichael
Mrs. Charles E. Catchings
(Frances Lawson)
Mrs. Wallis Elliott
(Sidney Stevens Brame)
Mrs. Mary Hudson Ford
Mrs. J. H. Hager
(Frances Baker)
Mrs. Ben Hawkins
(Frances Evans)
Mildred Home
Ransom Gary Jones
Mrs. Philip Kolb
(Warrene Ramsey)
D. G. McLaurin
Mary Miller Murry
Benjamin Y. Ruff
Robert S. Simpson
L. 0. Smith
C. Arthur Sullivan
Ira A. Travis
Mrs. Ralph Webb
(Rosa Lee McKeithen)
1931
Elsie Abney
Bessie Allred
Edwin B. Bell
Robert E. Byrd
Reynolds Cheney
John W. Clark, Jr.
Mrs. Percy L. Clifton
(Mabel Gavden)
Mrs. Pat T. Dolan
(Mary Agness Dobyns)
Mary Joan Finger
Elizabeth Harrell
Marshall Hester
Mrs. Marshall Hester
(Winifred Scott)
Frederick T. Hoff
Mary Bowen Knapp
J. Howard Lewis
Floyd L. Looney
Mrs. J. S. Love," Jr.
(Jo Ellis Buie)
Mrs. M. A. Peevey
(Lucile Hutson)
George B. Pickett
Martell H. Twitchell
R. E. Wasson
Victor H. Watts
Annie Mae Young
1932
Mrs. Edwin B. Bell
(Frances Decell)
Mrs. John Clark Boswell
(Ruth Ridgway)
Mrs. J. H. Cameron
(Burnell Gillaspy)
Edward A. Khayat
Philip Kolb
David A. Livingston
James N. McLeod
Mrs. H. E. Watson
(Ruth Mann)
1933
Mrs. William E. Barksdale
(Mary Eleanor Alford)
Norman U. Boone
John Clark Boswell
Steve Burwell, Jr.
Mrs. Reynolds Cheney
(Winifred Green)
W. Moncure Dabney
John R. Enochs
Mrs. T. D. Faust. Jr.
(Louise Colbert)
Mrs. R. P. Henderson
(Adomae Partin)
Mrs. H. B. Ravelin
(Martha Louise Hamilton)
Mrs. Wylie V. Kees
(Mary Sue Burnham)
Rabian Lane
Floyd O. Lewis
Mrs. Paul Meacham
(Jessie McDaniel)
Thomas F. Neblett
Mrs. R. T. Pickett
(Mary Eleanor Chisholm)
Mrs. L." L. Trent
(Ann Stevens Lewis)
Gycelle Tynes
Henry B. Varner
Henry V. Watkins, Jr.
Claude B. Yarborough
1934
Mildred Cagle
Charlotte Capers
Henry C. Dorris
R. Gordon Grantham
Harriet Heidelberg
Robert S. Higdon
Garland Holloman
Mrs. Marks W. Jenkins
(Daree Winstead)
Maurice Jones
J. T. Kimball
Mrs. Rabian Lane
(Maude McLean)
Mrs. J. W. Lipscomb
(Ann Dubard)
Mrs. T. F. McDonnell
(Alice Weems)
Fred W. McEwen
Basil E. Moore
Floyd O'Dom
Arthur L. Rogers, Jr.
William Tremaine, Jr.
1935
Thomas A. Baines
Thomas S. Boswell
Mrs. Steve Burwell, Jr.
(Carolyn Hand)
W. J. Caraway
Mrs. W. J. Caraway
(Catherine Ross)
Albert Collins
Mrs. J. N. Dykes
(Ethel McMurry)
Joe Guess
Paul D. Hardin
W. C. Jones
Armand Karow
Thomas F. McDonnell
Mrs. John McEachin
(Alma Kathei-ine Dubard)
Marion E. Mansell
Mrs. Frank Potts
(Virginia Averitte)
Mrs. Merritt B. Queen
(Dorothea Mitchell)
Paul Ramsey
E. F. Ricketts
Charles Robert Ridg\vay
Mrs. L. O. Smith
(Margaret Flowers)
James T. Vance
Mrs. James T. Vance
(Mary Hughes)
1936
Henry V. Allen, Jr.
Charles R. Arrington
Dorothy Boyles
Merritt H. Brooks
Webb Buie
Mrs. Webb Buie
(Ora Lee Graves)
H. L. Daniels
Frank E. Dement
Mrs. H. C. Dodge
(Annie Fi-ances Hinds)
Caxton Doggett
Read Patton Dunn
John W. Evans
Robert L. Ezelle, Jr.
Mrs. George Faxon
(Nancy Blanton Plummer)
These hard-working alumni participated in a telephone solicitations cam-
paign in June to give the fund that last boost. Results were encouraging.
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Page Fifteen
J. Noel Hinson
Mrs. R. C. Hubbard
(Marion Dubard)
James A. Lauderdale
James H. Lemly
Raymond McClinton
Mrs. T. G. Meaders, Jr.
(Myrtis Flowers)
Alton F. Minor
Helen Morehead
Joseph C. Pickett
Thomas G. Ross
George R. Stephenson
P. K. Sturgeon
Mrs. Gycelle Tynes
(Dorothy Cowen)
19.37
Jefferson G. Artz
Mrs. Paul Brandes
(Melba Sherman)
Bradford B. Breeland
Kathleen Clardy
Mendell M. Davis
James S. Ferguson
H. E. Finger, Jr.
Mrs. Joe Guess
(India Sykes)
Mrs. Armand Karow
(Eunice Louise Durham)
Mrs. William G. Kimbrell
(Dorothy Triplett)
Dudley LeGette
Robert M. Mayo
George L. Morelock
William R. Richerson
Charles Selman
A. T. Tatum
Mrs. Leora White Thompson
1938
David K. Brooks
G. C. Clark
Leonard E. Clark
Mrs. R. T. Edgar
(Katherine Dement)
Alex Gordon
Mrs. Ransom Cary Jones
(Jessie Vic Russell)
William G. Kimbrell
Mrs. George McMurry
(Grace Horton)
Eugenia Mauldin
Mrs. Freeman May
(Catherine Davis)
Archie Lee Meadows
Mrs. Archie L. Meadows
(Sybil Hinson)
William R. Murray
George E. Patton
Mrs. J. Earl Rhea
(Mildred Clegg)
Mrs. E. F. Ricketts
(Berkley Muh)
1939
Mrs. Clarence Anderson
(Marv Douglas Broadfoot)
William H. Bizzell
Fred J. Bush
Paul Carruth
Foster Collins
Charity Crisler
Mrs. William L. Crouch
(Ruth Wroten)
Blanton Doggett
Roger Elfert
.Tohn W. Godbold
Mrs. Jack Harding
(Clara Frances Dent)
Mrs._ G. W. Heard
(Katherine Goar)
Jeremiah H. Holleman
Robert A. Ivy
Hugh B. Landrum
Page Sixteen
Mrs. Raymond McClinton
(Rowena McRae)
Mrs. Howard Moi-ris
(Sarah Buie)
Donald O'Connor
Mrs. Donald O'Connor
(Ollie Mae Gray)
Mrs. Dudley Stewart
(Jane Hyde West)
A. T. Tucker
Mrs. J. W. Wood
(Grace Cunningham)
1940
Mary K. Askew
Mrs. Ralph R. Bartsch
(Martha Faust Connor)
James L. Booth
Charles L. Clark, Jr.
Mrs. Roger Elfert
(Lucy Hammons)
Mrs. J. P. Field, Jr.
(Elizabeth Durley)
Mrs. Alvin Flannes
(Sara Nell Rhymes)
Mrs. John W. Godbold
(Marguerite Darden)
Vernon B. Hathorn
Martha Ann Kendrick
Henry G. Kersh
Edwin W. Lowther
Mrs. William McClintock
(Catherine Wofford)
Mrs. Lawrence Martin
(Louise Moorer)
Clayton Morgan
Mrs. A. L. Parman
(Ernestine Roberts)
Mrs. Henrv P. Pate
(Glenn Phifer)
Henry C. Ricks, Jr.
W. B. Ridgwav
Mrs. G. O. Sanford
(Bessie McCafferty)
Herbert Selman
Mrs. Celia Brevard Trimble
Kate Wells
Jennie Youngblood
1941
Walter C. Beard
Joseph H. Brooks
Jack L. Caldwell
Elizabeth L. Cavin
Roy C. Clark
William L. Crouch
Al Fred Daniel
David Donald
Samuel P. Emanuel
J. P. Field, Jr.
Eugene T. Fortenberrv
Mrs. J. Magee Gabbert
(Kathryn DeCelle)
Martha Gerald
Mrs. Gerald W. Gleason
(Corde Bierdeman)
Thomas G. Hamby
Mrs. Thomas G. Hamby
(Rosa Eudy)
Frank B. Hays
Mae Black Heidelberg
Thomas K. Holyfield
Joseph T. Humphries
Mrs. J. H. Kent
(Mary Alyce Moore)
Gwin Kolb
James J. Livesay
Joel D. McDavid
Marjorie Miller
Mrs. R. E. Dumas Milner
(Myrtle Ruth Howard)
C. M. Murry
John W. Nicholson
Mrs. John W. Nicholson
(Josephine Timberlake)
Eugene Peacock
Mrs. Paul Ramsey
(Effie Register)
Thomas Robertson
Nat Rogers
Paul Rush
James P. Scott
Paul T. Scott
Mrs. Herbert Selman
(Inazelle Pierce)
James B. Sumrall
W. O. Tynes
Mrs. J. D. Upshaw
(Christine Ferguson)
Ess A. White
L. H. Wilson
Robert Wingate
1942
Mrs. B. E. Burris
(Eva Tvnes)
Mrs. Al F'red Daniel
(Dinah Brown)
Wilford C. Doss
Mrs. Wilford Doss
(Mary Margaret McRae)
William B. Fazakerly
Charles S. Jackson
Glenn S. Kev
Mrs. Gwin Kolb
(Ruth Godbold)
Mrs. Al C. Kruse
(Evaline Khavat)
W. Baldwin Lloyd
Raymond Martin
Robert M. Matheny
Mrs. Vera Laird Mayo
Louis J. Navarro
Charlton S. Roby
Mrs. Nat Rogers
(Helen Ricks)
William D. Ross
Mrs. William D. Ross
(Nell Triplett)
Albert G. Sanders
John L. Sigman
Thomas L. Spengler
Mrs. Francis Stevens
(Ann Elizabeth Herbert)
Mrs. Monroe Stewart
(Virginia Hale Hansell)
Felix A. Sutphin
J. B. Welborn
Mrs. V. L. Wharton
(Beverly Dickerson)
Mrs. Louis H. Wilson
(Jane Clark)
1943
Mrs. Sam K. Baldwin
(Kathleen G. Stanley)
Otho M. Brantley
William L. Cook
Dolores Craft
Mrs. Robert Field
(Nancy Graham)
Alan R. Holmes
Mrs. Paul C. Kenny
(Ruth Gibbons)
Mrs. Henry G. Kersh
(Josephine Kemp)
Philip H. King
Mrs. James J. Livesay
(Mary Lee Busby)
Mrs. Harold L. McKean
(Helen Stewart)
Mrs. Robert C. Montana
(Patricia Jones)
Walter R. Neill
James Ogden
Robert D. Pearson
Mrs. Robert D. Pearson
(Sylvia Roberts)
Walter S. Ridg-\vay
John M. Sawyer
Frederick E. Tatum
Mrs. Watts Thornton
(Hazel Bailey)
Janice Trimble
J. L. Wofford
1944
Mary Alice Boyles
Mrs. Jack L. Caldwell
(Marjorie Murphy)
James G. Chastain
G. C. Dean, Jr.
Mrs. Lawrence Gray
(Mildred Dycus)
Mrs. 0. Z. Hall
(Jacqueline Stevens)
Mrs. Robert Holland
(Gertrude Pepper)
Aylene Hurst
Mrs. J. T. Kimball
(Louise Dav)
Mrs. Philip H. King
(Jean Stevens)
Rudolph Legler
Mrs. Louis J. NavazTO
(Ann Rhvmes)
Mrs. Wiliam S. Neal
(Priscilla Morson)
Waudine Nelson
Mrs. E. H. Nicholson
(Lady Bettye Timberlake)
Mrs. H. Peyton Noland
(Sarah Elizabeth Brien)
John S. Sanders
Mrs. Brevik Schimmel
(Edith Cortwright)
Zachary Taylor, Jr.
Noel C. Womack
Mrs. Noel C. Womack
(Flora Mae Arant)
1945
Mrs. W. W. Barnard
(Frances Lvnn Herring)
Mrs. R. W. Bientz
(Nell Shrader)
James E. Calloway
Mrs. O. A. Guess
(Martha Nell Willingham)
Harry Helman
Mrs. Homer Lee Howie
(June Madeleine Eckert)
Mrs. Gertrude Pope Hullum
Mrs. W. Baldwin Lloyd
(Ann Rae Wolfe)
Betty McBride
Mrs. Charles Mack
(Marjorie Magruder)
E. H. Nicholson
Ernest F. Rathell, Jr.
Nina H. Reeves
Mrs. Smith Richardson
Clifton H. Shrader
Mrs. Trent Stout
(Cornelia Hegman)
Mary Lockwood Strohecker
Mrs. Zach Taylor, Jr.
(Dot Jones)
1946
John Roy Bane, Jr.
Mrs. Fleming L. Brown
(Dorothy Mai Eady)
Mrs. Wayne E. Derrington
(Annie Clara Foy)
Dorothy Lauderdale
Mrs. Rudolph Legler
(Sylvia Wilkins)
William E. Moak
Mrs. William E. Moak
(Lucy Gerald)
J. H. Morrow, Jr.
Mrs. Robert F. Nay
(Mary Ethel Mize)
Mrs. C. E. Salter
(Marjorie Carol Burdsal)
W. E. Shanks
MAJOR NOTES
Mrs. John S. Thompson
(Peggy Anne Weppler)
Mrs. M. W. Whitaker
(Jerry McCormack)
1947
Jim C. Barnett
Mrs. Jack Bew
(Christine Droke)
Mrs. John F. Buchanan
(Peggy Helen Carr)
Carolyn Bufkin
Mrs. Neal Calhoun
(Mary Edgar Wharton)
J. H. Cameron
Craig Castle
Mrs. H. L. E. Chenoweth
(Sarah Deal)
Sarah Francis Clark
Victor S. Coleman
Wallace L. Cook
Mrs. William R. Cook
(Marguerite Hendricks)
James D Cox
Mrs. Roger Elgert
(Laura Mae Godbold)
Mrs. Kenneth I. Franks
(Ann Marie Hobbs)
Robert B. Hamilton
Mrs. Robert Hamilton
(Virginia Rehfeldt)
Mrs. William J. Herm
(Evelyn Walker)
Robert Hollingsworth
Mrs. Donald C. Hubbard
(Marv Lou Skidmore)
Mrs. W". H. Izard
(Betty Klumb)
Mrs. George P. Koribanic
(Helene Minyard)
Dan McCullen
Jesse P. Matthews, Jr.
Betty Sue Pittman
James D. Powell
Esther Read
Mrs. W. G. Rilev
(Elizabeth Terrv Welsh)
Mrs. W. E. Shanks
(Alice Crisler)
Rufus P. Stainback
John N. Tackett
M. W. Whitaker
Crai\'ford F. Williams
Mrs. J. L. Wofford
(Mary Ridgway)
Daniel A. Wright
Robert M. Yarbrough
Donald S. Youngblood
H. H. Youngblood
1948
Albert E. Allen
L. H. Brandon
E. Dean Calloway
Mrs. Jerry Chang
(Ruth Chang)
Mrs. Vincent Danna
(Lois Bending)
Frances Galloway
Mrs. R. C. Hardy
(Ida Fae Emmerich)
Mrs. H. G. Hase
(Ethel Nola Eastman)
Mrs. Thomas E. Hearon
(Jane Stebbins)
Mrs. Harry Helman
(Louise Blumer)
William J. Herm
James S. Holmes, Jr.
Charles Lehman
Mrs. John McLaurin
(Janet Adalyn Fox)
Mrs. Turner Morgan
(Lee Berryhill)
Rubel Phillips
H. L. Rush, Jr.
Gordon Shomaker, Jr.
Charles Sours
James M. Ward
Charles N. Wright
Mrs. W. H. Youngblood
(Frances Caroline Gray)
1949
Frank T. Allen
Mrs. Albert Babbitt
(Carol Hutto)
Martin H. Baker
Mrs. R. C. Brinson
(Catherine May Shumaker)
Robert H. Conerly
0. W. Conner. Ill
Bob Cook
Mrs. William L. Cook
(Martha Lvnn Kenna)
William R. Cook
William R. Crout
Kenneth L. Farmer
Mrs. William A. Fulton
(Ruth Inez Johnson)
John Garrard
William F. Goodman, Jr.
Philip E. Irby. Jr.
Preston L. Jackson
Harold James
James H. Jenkins, Jr.
Claude W. Johnson
George D. Lee
James E. Lett
R. D. McGee
Charles B. Mitchell
Turner T. Morgan
Richard W. Naef
Mrs. Richard W. Naef
(Jane Ellen Newell)
Robert F. Nay
John A. Neill
Marion P. Parker
T. W. Perrott
Mrs. James D. Powell
(Elizabeth Lampton)
Julian Day Prince
John F. Rollins
Carlos R. Smith
Everett Watts
Mrs. B. L. Wilson
(Bobbie Nell Holder)
William D. Wright
1950
Marion Lee Bonner
Thomas T. Boswell
Mrs. Tom Crosby
(Wilma Dyess)
Mrs. Joseph E. Goodsell
(Marion Burge)
Joseph R. Huggins
Mrs. Cecil G. Jenkins
(Patsy Abernathy)
Earl T. "Lewis
Dick T. Patterson
James W. Ridgway
Mrs. H. L. Rush
(Betty Joyce McLemore)
Paul E." Russell
Mrs. Dewey Sanderson
(Fa'.inie Buck Leonard)
Alex C. Shotts, Jr.
Mrs. Carlos R. Smith
(Dorris Liming)
John S. Thompson
Steve W. Webb, Jr.
Jack Williams
John D. Wofford
Mrs. John D. Wofford
(Elizabeth Ridgway)
Samuel C. Woolvin
Thomas L. Wright
Robert J. Yohannan
W. H. Youngblood
1951
Mrs. M. C. Adams
(Doris Puckett Noel)
Mrs. Joe V. Anglin
(Linda McCluney)
Rex I. Brown
William R. Burt
Mrs. Sid Champion
(Mary Johnson Lipsey)
Mrs. Stanley Christensen
(Beverly Barstow)
Mrs. James W. Clark
(Mary Alice Moss)
Cooper C. Clements
George T. Currey
Carolyn Estes
Robert L. Ezelle, Sr.
Joseph E. Goodsell
Waverlv B. Hall, Jr.
Wilton S. Holston
Dot Hubbard
Brunner R. Hunt
Mrs. H. Grady Jackson
(Mary Martha Dickerson)
Cecil G. Jenkins
Mrs. William Johnson
(Frances Beacham)
Mrs. Robert Kerr
(Marion Elaine Carlson)
Mrs. Raymond E. King
(Yvonne Mclnturff)
Mrs. J. S. Kochtitsky
(Gene Swart wout)
Mrs. Earl T. Lewis
(Mary Sue Enochs)
Duane E. Lloyd
Evelyn Inez McCoy
Mrs." William P. Martin
(Milly East)
John Howie Miller
Don Ray Pearson
Mrs. Don Ray Pearson
(Betty Jo Davis)
Franz Posey
Mrs. Fvar.z Posey
(Linda Lou Langdon)
David H. Shelton
Mrs. 0. B. Walton, Jr.
(Frances Pat Patterson)
Raymond Wesson
Mrs. Samuel C. Woolvin
(Valerija Cernauskis)
Bennie Frank Youngblood
Mrs. Herman Yreh
(Grace Chang)
1952
Beulah Abel
Mrs. David B. H. Best
(Mary Sue Smith)
Robert L. Crawford
Mrs. Charles M. Deaton
(Mary Dent Dickerson)
Charles H. Foster
Marvin Franklin
Mrs. Bruce Govich
(Marv Roane Hill)
William" A. Hays
Mrs. James H. Jenkins
(Marianne Chunii)
Ransom L. Jones
Sale Lillv, Jr.
Mrs. Sale Lilly, Jr.
(Evelyn Lee Hawkins)
Randolph Mansfield
Joe W. O'Callaghan
Dale O. Overmyer
Mrs. Donald Parsons
(Virginia Cavett)
Mrs. Paul Radzewicz
(Ethel Cole)
William Riecken, Jr.
Mrs. Paul E. Russell
(Barbara Lee McBride)
Roy H. Ryan
J. P. Stafford
Mrs. Deck Stone
(Sandra Lee Campbell)
Mrs. William R. Taylor
(Ann Heggie)
Harmon E. Tillman
Cleveland Turner, Jr.
Mrs. Cleveland Turner
(Dot Jernigan)
Glyn 0. Wiygul
Ching Yien Yao
James Leon Young
1953
Mrs. Flavius Alford
(Mary Ann O'Neil)
Mrs. W. E. Ayres
(Diane Brown)
Lynn Bacot
Mrs. Martin H. Baker
(Susana Alford)
Mrs. J. B. Barlow
(Mary Ann Babington)
J. Barry Brindley
Mildred Carpenter
Mrs. William R. Clement
(Ethel Cecile Brown)
Neil R. Covington
Mrs. Robert L. Crawford
(Mabel Clair Buckley)
Mrs. George T. Currey
(Mary Nell Williams)
Pat H. Curtis
Mrs. Walter L. Dean
(Anne Roberts)
Mrs. Loyal Durand
(Wesley Ann Travis)
Mrs. Rome Emmons
(Cola O'Neal)
Mrs. Charles H. Foster
(Elizabeth Lester)
Ewin D. Gaby, Jr.
Sedley Joseph Greer
Mrs. Milton Haden
(Adalee Matheny)
James E. Hardin
Durward L. Harrison
Byron T. Hetrick
Mrs. Wilton S. Holston
(Shirley Shipp)
Mrs. James R. Howerton
(Gretchen Mars)
Mrs. Joel G. King
(Annabelle Crisler)
John T. Lewis, III
Mrs. Rodney A. Little
(Nancy Earle Howell)
Wilbur I. Luke
Mrs. John H. Miller
(Jerry Jean Stevens')
Henry P. Mills. Jr.
John W. Moore
Mrs. John W. Moore
(Virginia Edge)
Shirley Parker
Tulane E. Posey
Mrs. James R. Ransom
(Margueritte Denny)
Mrs. George Reid
(Nona Ewing)
Robert L. Richte>-
Mrs. James W. Ridgway
(Betty Jean Langston)
John C. Sandefur
Mrs. R. G. Sibbald
(Mary Ann Derrick)
Kenneth W. Simons
Mrs. Alexander Sivewright
(Josephine Lampton)
William L. Stewart
Forrest Tohill
Mrs. Forrest Tohill
(Ruth Lowry)
W. Lamar Weems
Mrs. Walter H. Williams
(Alyce Aline Kyle)
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Page Seventeen
Mrs. Charles N. Wright
(Bettv Small)
Mrs. William D. Wright
(Jo Anne Bratton)
1954
W. E. Ayres
Jack Roy Birchum
Mrs. George V. Bokas
(Aspasia Athas)
Mrs. T. H. Boone
(Edna Khayat)
Hugh Burford
Mrs. James P. Burnett
(Julia Allen)
L. E. Buzarde, Jr.
Mrs. L. E. Buzarde
(Linda Lou McCuller)
William R. Clement
M. S. Corban
Mrs. Neil R. Covington
(Myrene Punshon)
J. O. Emmerich
Mrs. Richard Feltus
(Jeanette Sanders)
Mrs. Jodie Kyzar George
Edgar A. Gossard
Mrs. Edgar A. Gossard
(Sarah Dennis)
Mrs. Paul G. Green
(Bernice Edgar)
Louis W. Hodges
Mrs. Louis W. Hodges
(Helen Davis)
Mrs. James D. Holden
(Joan Wilson)
Yeager Hudson
Mrs. Yeager Hudson
(Louise Hight)
Mrs. Joseph R. Huggins
(Barbara Walker)
Mrs. George L. Hunt
(Jo Glyn Hughes)
Mrs. William J. James
(Svbil Foy)
Rodney A. Little
Frank B. Mangum
Mrs. John W. Morris
(Margaret Falkner)
Leslie J. Page, Jr.
Thomas E. Parker
Mrs. Robert L. Richter
(Sara Nell Linn)
Mrs. William Riecken, Ir.
(Jeanenne Pridgen)
William C. Robinson
William S. Romey
Louie C. Short.
Mrs. Louie C. Short
(Frances Jo Peacock)
Lee Andrew Stricklin
Mrs. Richard L. Tourtellotte
(Janella Lansing)
Mrs. Robert Vansuch
(Jo Anne Cooper)
Mrs. W. Lamar Weems
(Nanette Weaver)
Morris E. White
James Llovd Williams
Walter H." Williams
Jess Douglas Wofford
Robert Thomas Woodard
19.55
Benjamin F. Banahan
Pulton Barksdale
Frederick E. Blumer
Mrs. Howard B. Burch
(Clarice Black)
James P. Burnett
Frances Catchings
Mrs. Paul D. Eppinger
(Sybil Casbeer')
Dorothy Dee Ford
Mrs. Ewin D. Gaby
(Carolyn Hudspeth)
Robert M. Gibson
Nancy Ann Harris
P. Harry Hawkins
George L. Hunt, Jr.
William J. James
Alvin Jon King
Mrs. J. Willard Leggett
(Carol Mae Brown)
Mrs. John T. Lewis
(Helen Fay Head)
John B. Lott
Roy A. Parker
Roy B. Price, Jr.
Ann Marie Ragan
Mrs. B. H. Reed
(Amelia Ann Pendergraft)
Ellnora Riecken
Mrs. John C. Sandefur
(Mary Louise Flowers)
Jeneanne Sharp
Blarv Alice Shields
B. M. Stevens
Mrs. Tommy Taylor
(Betty Robbins)
Mrs. Hughston Thomas
(Carolyn Lamon)
William T. Weathersby
Mrs. R. T. Woodard
(Frances Moore)
Ernest Workman
Mrs. James L. Young
(Joan Wignall)
1956
Patrick G. Allen
John M. Awad
Mrs. J. B. Barkley
(Julia Parks)
Merle Blalock
Mrs. Frederick E. Blumer
(Ann Anderson)
Thomas H. Boone
Mrs. James L. Bovd
(Charlotte Elliott)
Jesse W. Brasher
Mrs. J. Barry Brindley
(Elsie Drake)
Shirley Caldwell
John B. Campbell
Mrs. Wendell Childs
(Carol Poole)
Joseph S. Conti
Mrs. William S. Cook
(Barbara Jones)
Chai-les M. Deaton
Henry Easley
John H. Evans
Albert W. Felsher, Jr.
Robert L. Harper
Stearns L. Hayward
Mrs. Gordon Hensley
(Claire King)
Charles F. Hill
John R. Hubbard
J. Willard Leggett, III
Walton Lipscomb. IH
Ann Holmes McShane
Robert M. Maddox
W. Powers Moore, II
John W. Morris
William F. Powell
Mrs. William F. Powell
(Joan Lee)
Tom 0. Prewitt, Jr.
Anita Barry Reed
Thomas R. Spell, III
Mrs. Harmon Tillman
(Nona Kinchloe)
0. Gerald Trigg
John E. Turner, Jr.
Edwin T. Upton
Mrs. Summer Walters
(Betty Barfield)
Fred Harris Williams
Albert Williamson
J. W. Wood
Donald R. Youngs
1957
Mrs. Jim A. Boyd
(Cara Lloyd Hemphill)
Henry Carney
Reynolds S. Cheney
Milton Olin Cook
Mrs. Milton Olin Cook
(Millicent King)
Mrs. Frank Corban
(Lady Nelson Gill)
Mrs. M. S. Corban
(Margaret Hathorn)
Bettv Dvess
Mrs." Paul Illk
(Goldie Crippen)
Mrs. James E. Inkster
(Lucy Price)
Sam L. Jones
Mrs. Sam L. Jones
(Nancy Peacock)
Jack B. King
Mrs. Jack B. King
(Ilah Nicholas)
Walter Jean Lamb
Mrs. Alvah C. Long
(Lynnice Parker)
James Ray McCormick
Mrs. James R. McCormick
(Patricia Chunn)
Mrs. Jack M. McDonald
(Bettv Louise Landfair)
Mrs. Ed'ward W. McRae
(Martina Riley)
Mrs. S. M. Mohon
(Annette Leshe)
Mrs. W. Powers Moore
(Janis Edgar)
Carolyn Yvonne Moss
Mrs. Thomas E. Parker
(Mary Ruth Brasher)
Dorothy Anita Perry
Mrs. Tom O. Prewitt
(Patricia Morgan)
Mrs. Roy B. Price
(Barbara Swann)
George Reid
Mrs. K. L. Simmons
(Marianna Simmons)
Edward Stewart
Mrs. O. Gerald Trigg
(Rose Cunningham)
Larry Tynes
Summer Walters
Glenn Wimbish, Jr.
Mrs. Donald R. Youngs
(Cindy Falkenberry)
1958
Mrs. Raymond T. Arnold
(Janice Mae Bower)
Mrs. Willis D. Bethay
(Louise Ruth Riddell)
Carol E. Broun
Mrs. Jo Anne Gibbs Collins
James M. Ewing
Thomas B. Fanning
William L. Graham
Mrs. William L. Graham
(Betty Garrison)
Ruth Ann Hall
Howard S. Jones
Jack M. McDonald
Jimmie Newell, Jr.
John B. Sharp
B. J. Smith
John H. Stone
Mrs. John Ed Thomas
(Margaret Ewing)
Sam A. Tomlinson, III
Bettv Gail Trapp
Donald G. Triplett
Jim L. Waits
Herbert A. Ward, Jr.
Mrs. Joseph E. Wilson
(Nancy Caroline Vines)
Mrs. Robert F. Workman
(Mabel Gill)
V. D. Youngblood
1959
Julia Ann Beckes
Arnold A. Bush, Jr.
Mrs. Reynolds S. Cheney
(Allan Walker)
Richard L. Cooke
Joseph R. Cowart
Carol Ann Edwards
Mrs. Albert Felsher
(Rosemary Parent)
John D. Humphrey
Mrs. John L. Lipscomb
(Colleen Thompson)
Elise Mcintosh
Palmer Manning
Nancy Neyman
Mrs. Leslie J. Page, Jr.
(Frances Irene West)
W. B. Selah
Homer Sledge
Suanna Smith
Mrs. John Mac Thames
(Barbara Yeagley)
John Ed Thomas
Ophelia Tisdale
After 1959
Wesley David Boyett
James E. Inkster
Mrs. Glenn Wimbish
(Evelyn Godbold)
Avit J. Hebert
John L. Lipscomb
No Year Given
Mrs. R. P. Travis
(Dorothy Butts)
Mrs. J. M. Walker
(Virginia Helen Brent)
Corporate Alumnus Program
Connecticut General Life
Insurance Company
(William P. Williams)
Dow Chemical Company
(A. G. Snelgrove)
Gulf Oil Corporation
(George Waverly Hall)
Tennessee Gas Transmission
(0. L. Brooks)
Friends
Mrs. C. A. Bowen
Homer Lee Howie
Raymond King
Mrs. Robert T. Morrison
Henry Peyton Noland
J. Earl Rhea
Francis B. Stevens
O. B. Walton, Jr.
Ellis T. Woolfolk
Page Eighteen
MAJOR NOTES
MAJOR INVESTORS
Listed below' are the names of alumni and friends whose gifts to the Fund totaled $100 or more.
The significant increase over 1958-59 (from 84 donors to 122) in this category is most en-
couraging. More gifts of this type are urgently needed and, we believe, will be forthcoming as
more and more alumni become aware of the importance of their support to the strength of their
Alma I^.Iater.
Henry V. Allen, Jr.
C. C. Applewhite
Sam Ashmore
Thomas A. Baines
Mrs. Ross Barnett
A. V. Beacham
Robert E. Blount
Mrs. Robert E. Blount
Norman U. Boone
John C. Boswell
Mrs. John C. Boswell
R. R. Branton
Mrs. R. R. Branton
O. Levon Brooks
Carolyn Bufkin
Webster M. Buie
Mrs. Webster M. Buie
E. Dean Calloway
A. Boyd Campbell
William J. Caraway
Mrs. William J. Caraway
Craig Castle
G. C. Clark
M. F. Clegg
Joseph W. Coker
Gilbert P. Cook, Sr.
Eugene H. Countiss
Robert L. Crawford
Mrs. Robert L. Crawford
William L. Crouch
Mrs. William L. Crouch
Mrs. R. A. Doggett
John R. Enochs
John W. Evans
James M. Ewing
Mrs. James M. E^ving
Robert L. Ezelle, Jr.
William B. Fazakerly
Bama Finger
H. E. Finger, Jr.
Marietta Finger
Marvin Franklin
Martha Gerald
Garner W. Green
S. Cyril Hart
Robert T. Hollingsworth
Mrs. Homer Lee Howie
Charles S. Jackson, Jr.
George H. Jones
Maurice Jones
Mrs. Wylie V. Kees
Mrs. Raymond E. King
John T. Kimball
Mrs. John T. Kimball
Sam Lampton
Walton Lipscomb, III
Mrs. J. S. Love, Jr.
Raymond McClinton
Mrs. Raymond McClinton
James C. McGee
W. Merle Mann
Mrs. W. Merle Jlann
Raymond ^Martin
Marjorie Miller
Mrs. R. E. Dumas Milner
W. E. Moak
Mrs. W. E. Moak
Basil E. Moore
R. G. Moore
D. B. Morgan
Mrs. D. B. Morgan
Mrs. Howard Morris
W. D. Myers
C. L. Neill
Mrs. C. L. Neill
John A. Neill
Walter R. Neill
George A. Patton
William Isaac Peeler
Rubel L. Phillips
George Pickett
Mrs. W. K. Prince
Mrs. J. Earl Rhea
Henry C. Ricks, Jr.
C. R. Ridgway
Mrs. C. R. Ridg^vay
Walter S. Ridg^vay. II
W. Bryant Ridgway
Charlton Roby
Nat Rogers
Mrs. Nat Rogers
Thomas G. Ross
Albert G. Sanders
John S. Sanders
Mrs. Dewey Sanderson, Jr.
Mrs. Brevik Schimmel
Frank T. Scott
W. B. Selah
Fred B. Smith
Lemuel 0. Smith
Mrs. Lemuel 0. Smith
Benjamin M. Stevens
Mrs. Francis B. Stevens
Curtis M. Swango
Orrin H. Swayze
Mrs. Orrin H. Swayze
Frederick E. Tatum
Zachary Taylor, Jr.
Mrs. Zachary Taylor, Jr.
A. T. Tucker
Mrs. 0. B. Walton, Jr.
H. Vaughan Watkins, Jr.
D. M. White
James E. Wilson
John D. Wofford
Jlrs. John D. Wofford
Noel Womack
Mrs. Noel Womack
Charles N. Wright
Mrs. Charles N. Wright
Dan A. Wright
V. D. Youngblood
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Page Ninefeerii
SPECIAL GIFTS
Memorial Gifts
IN MEMORY OF
Joseph E. Carruth, '05
Robert L. Morrison, '07-'O8
Harvey T. Newell, Jr., '33
GIFT MADE BY
Mrs. Joseph E. Carruth
Mrs. R. L. Morrison
Charlton S. Roby
Designated Gifts
DONOR
J. W. Alford
Jefferson G. Artz
Mr. & Mrs. Webster M. Buie
Mrs. Perry Bunch
Mrs. Hersee Moody Carson
Craig Castle
H. L. Daniels
John F. Egger, Sr.
J. 0. Emmerich
Marvin Franklin
Frank B. Hays
J. H. Holleman
Robert A. Ivy
Mrs. H. Grady Jackson
J. Walton Lipscomb
Mrs. J. S. Love, Jr.
Robert M. Maddox
Robert Mayo
Mrs. Howard Morris
George Pickett
Mr. & Mrs. R. T. Pickett
Mr. & Mrs. Roy B. Price, Jr.
William C. Robinson
Frank Scott
Charles Selman
Robert S. Simpson
B. M. Stevens
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Thompson
RECIPIENT
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Millsaps Room, Library
Choir Robes
Grenada- Whitworth Reunion
Athletic Publicity
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Maintenance Fund
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Founders Hall Improvements
Millsaps Room, Library
Choir Robes
Library Books
Millsaps Room, Library
Music Department
Music Department
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Music Department
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Choir Robes
Memorial Book Fund Gifts
IN MEMORY OF
Mrs. J. T. Brown
Mrs. Mary B. Clark
John F. Dacy
J. W. Fleming
John K. Foster
A. W. Garraway
Marcellus Green
Dr. G. L. Harrell
Jim Henry
Mrs. Mattie A. Kean
J. H. Morrow
W. H. Phillips
W. H. Watkins
G. A. Woodliff
DONOR
H. E. Finger, Jr.
George Pickett
Robert L. Ezelle, Sr.
Robert L. Ezelle, Sr.
Dr. & Mrs. James D. Powell
H. E. Finger, Jr.
James N. McLeod
Robert L. Ezelle, Sr.
Robert L. Ezelle, Sr.
Mrs. I. C. Enochs
H. E. Finger, Jr.
J. S. Ferguson
C. R. Ridgway
Kathleen Carmichael
Dr. & Mrs. T. F. McDonnell
Dr. & Mrs. Charles Wright
George Pickett
C. R. Ridgway
George Pickett
Mr. & Mrs. H. Peyton Noland
Mr. & Mrs. R. T. Pickett, Jr.
Page Twenty
MAJOR NOTES
And Another Year Begins
*-S^
The 1960-61 Alumni Fund has hitched its wagon to a space
rocket.
A glance back at last year's Alumni Fund shows the specta-
cular climb we made. It is a challenge to put this year's fund into
upper space. We have no limiting goal. Not even the sky is a
limit. We ourselves will establish our outer boundary.
The first shows as a boundary expressed in dollars. Then it
unfolds and reveals boundaries reaching out in ever expanding
circles like the splash of childhood's pebble on the pond's surface.
First the boundary of our interest. Then the boundary of
our help to our Alma Mater. Next to the circle of those whom the
College serves — students, faculty, staff and communities. On even
to the reach of future generations. How far these boundaries will
extend and how strong our wave of influence will be is limited
only by the impact of our cumulative interest.
Here is found one reason for the Alumni Fund. This, too, is
an opportunity for us to return through coming generations a part
of that given us.
Reynolds S. Cheney, Chairman
Millsaps College Alumni Fund
The College is looking to the members of the inner circle,
it's alumni, to take the lead in undergirding its mission today and
in the years ahead.
Because of a vigorous and expanding alumni program, the
interested alumnus has many opportunities for service. He can
become a center of influence in interpreting the college to the
general public and in promoting it in his local community. He
can give of himself — his talent, his time, his means — in support of
the educational ideal which his Alma Mater symbolizes.
In the words of Edgar M. Carlson, "It must be the hallmark
of the alumni of our kind of institution that they are 'giving'
people. That applies to everything about them — their vocational
service, their family life, their church activity, and their com-
munity relations. But it should be evidenced also in their relation
to the college that persuaded them — or at least helped to persuade
them — to be that kind of people."
Someone has said, "Who gives me a little gift, he wishes
that I live." So that Millsaps may live and give to other student
generations the priceless gifts we received, I ask you to join me
in sending your contribution today to the Alumni Fund.
W. B. Dribben, President
Millsaps College Alumni Association
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Page Twenty-One-
EVENTS OF NOTE
from town and gown
Honors Program Set
In keeping- with a general trend to-
ward the tightening- of standards, an
Honors Program designed to permit a
greater opportunity for research and a
more thorough preparation for graduate
school will be inaugurated at Millsaps
this year.
Students participating in the course
will take special courses and write and
defend a research paper. The program
■will be administered through an Honors
Council, composed of one faculty mem-
ber from each division of the College.
The representatives will serve three-
year terms. Members of the first Coun-
cil are William Baskin, chairman; David
Bowen; and Dr. J. B. Price.
The program is a part of a general
trend which has included so far an ac-
celerated math program, the require-
ment of math for every student, and a
senior research paper for English
majors.
Under the program, a full-time stu-
dent with junior standing who has an
overall grade index of 2.0, or B, may,
with the consent of his major professor,
petition the Honors Council for permis-
sion to become a candidate for honors.
Upon acceptance, he will take nine hours
— one course each of three semesters —
of directed study in the Honors Pro-
gram. He will receive a letter grade
in the courses. He will prepare a re-
search paper according to rules es-
tablished by the Honors Council and
must present the paper to the Honors
Council and defend it before an Examin-
ing Board appointed by the Council.
The Examining Board will be composed
of at least three faculty members rep-
resenting the three divisions.
Candidates who complete both phases
of the program satisfactorily will be
eligible to graduate with the designation
of "with honors." To be eligible for
highest honors, a candidate must achieve
an average of 2.6 in the Honors work,
have a 2.5 overall index, and present a
superior Honors paper.
In current usage "honors" and "high-
est honors" are awarded on the basis of
point index. Under the new program
those students who have superior aca-
demic achievement but who do not parti-
cipate in the Honors Program will re-
ceive the designation "-with distinction"
or "with highest distinction."
The presentation and defense of the
Honors paper will replace the oral com-
prehensive for the Honors students at
the discretion of the major professor.
The Honors paper may also replace the
written comprehensive if the major pro-
fessor permits.
Among the Southern schools which
have Honors Programs are Southwestern
at Memphis; the University of North
Carolina; Stetson University, of Deland,
Florida; the University of Texas; Uni-
versity of Arkansas; and Davidson Col-
lege, of Davidson, North Carolina.
Math Program Revised
IMillsaps freshmen are participating in
a revised mathematics curriculum de-
signed to meet the needs of both non-
science majors and those who have spe-
cial ability in the field of mathematics.
The program offers students instruc-
tion in luathematical technique and will
help them attain a deeper understand-
ing of the basic concepts and structure
of mathematics. The courses are being-
taught by Mrs. Ayrlene McGahey Jones,
visiting associate professor of mathe-
matics, who is on leave from the Univer-
sity of Alabama.
Under the new program, a limited
number of highly qualified beginning
freshmen are taking an accelerated
course in modern mathematics. During
the first semester they are studying
such topics as mathematical methods,
sets, number and logarithmic functions,
and trigonometry. Emphasis is placed
on concepts and understanding.
The program includes a course for
students who are interested in areas of
study other than the scientific field.
Officials pointed out that the course
will fill a definite need since the appli-
cation of modern mathematics has been
extended into such fields as psychology,
sociology, economics, and industrial
quality control.
During the second semester the select
group will study calculus combined with
analytic geometry.
In discussing the program President
Finger said, "By offering this program
we are making it possible for students
with a keen interest and superior back-
ground in mathematics to move more
rapidly from basic material to advanced
courses in the scientific and pre-en-
gineering fields."
Arnold A. Ritchie is chairman of the
Millsaps College department of mathe-
matics.
Caraway Gives Services
William J. Caraway, '35, prominent
Delta citizen and legislator, has volun-
teered his services on a pai't-time basis
as director of development for the Col-
lege.
He will continue to serve as executive
vice-president of the Mississippi Muni-
cipal Association and a member of the
Mississippi Senate, but he also plans to
make contacts for the College in the
fields of foundations, industry, and busi-
ness.
Mr. Caraway's office will be located
in Murrah Hall, across from the Regis-
trar's Office. He will implement the
plan to increase endowment and develop
sources of additional gifts to the Col-
lege. He will also work closely with the
Alumni and Public Relations Office in
Page Twenty-Two
MAJOR NOTES
advancing understanding and support of
his Alma Mater.
He will endeavor to show leaders in
business and industry why higher educa-
tion, especially Christian higher educa-
tion, and more especially Millsaps, needs
and deserves their support and backing.
Caraway, who was named Alumnus
of the Year in 1955, was selected by the
press as the outstanding freshman mem-
ber of the Senate this year. He served
as mayor of Leland for thirteen years
before being elected, unopposed, to rep-
resent the 29t'-i District in the Senate.
He has been active in a number of
civic and church organizations and has
served as vice-president of the Alumni
Association and a member of the Millsaps
Associates. He has been one of Millsaps'
most loyal supporters.
Student Earns Honors
Gayle Graham, senior from Waynes-
boro and president of the Mississippi
Methodist Student Movement, was named
one of three new members of the Coun-
cil of the National Conference of the
Methodist Student Movement during the
group's annual meeting in June.
In addition to being elected to the
Council, she was chosen by the national
body to represent the Methodist Student
Movement for a four-year term on the
General Board of Education of the
Methodist Church and to serve as chair-
man of the steering committee of the
1960 Methodist Student Movement
Leadership Training Conference at Lake
Junaluska in August.
■^-^JSs
Discarded Chairs Bear
Evidence of Past
A few ghosts were revived when ren-
ovations in Murrah Hall brought about
the discarding of the chairs pictured.
Names of individuals, initials, towns,
years, schools, courses, fraternities and
sororities, and, most abundantly, wads of
chewing gum (see picture) — all were in-
dications of times past. All, if they
could have been seen by persons of
corresponding eras, would have brought
back memories.
Some of the legible writings were re-
cent. "Marett" probably referred to
Larry Marett, '60, star quarterback of
the football team, star center on the
basketball team, president of the senior
class (and we're certainly not suggest-
ing that Mr, Marett, or anybody else
whose names we may mention, made
the markings himself). "Dick Phares
sits here" lacked only a date ('57) to be
complete. Somebody with a love of the
theater had carved the title "The Diary
of Anne Frank."
Other names which were gleaned in-
cluded "Cecil Walley," "Allred," "Mc-
Eachern," "Flint McAuly," "D. Walley,"
"White, 29," "Hathorn," "H, L, Villee,"
"Juanita," "Dace, 34," and "Moffett."
Many others were not quite legible, but
with approximately forty years of car-
ving on them it was to be expected.
Deposit Guaranty Bank, in Jackson, was the scene of a final effort to
bring the Alumni Fund total to new heights. Alumni on both ends of
the line seemed to enjoy it.
'60 Class Gives Gift
Instead of the traditional campus
monument, members of the senior class
of 1960 chose to contribute money for
the purchase of books for the library as
its gift to the College,
This is the second year such a gift
has been made, and library officials, at
least, are hoping that the practice will
become as much a tradition as the gift.
Miss Bethany Swearingen, librarian,
said that in both cases the money has
been used to buy books which the staff
feels the students would like to have
available. She said that the books rep-
resent the various fields.
The Class of 1960 gave §105 to the
library.
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Page Twenty-Three
Do You Remember?
The most discussed topics at Millsaps the year the
above picture was taken were the Honors System, its decline
and fall; football; school spirit or the lack of it; and radios.
The April Fool edition of the Purple and White, edited
by James D. "Kid" Arrington, featured a large In Memoriam
box on the demise of the Honors System. The system was
discussed editorially, culminating in an article which de-
claimed, "Because Millsaps no longer has an honor system
is no sign that the students are without honor ... To show
this belief in the honor of Millsaps students, the majority of
the faculty have resolved to continue their examinations
on a basis of honor."
In football the Majors compiled a 6-3-1 record, but the
team scored 166 points as opposed to 44 for the opponents.
A special train took the students to Starkville to see the
Majors hold the A&M team to a 0-0 tie — "Only an untimely
fumble on the three-yard line kept them from sending the
Aggies down in defeat." A 7-0 victory over Mississippi
College was a high point. The Whitworth girls came up to
help with the cheering for that g'ame.
Judging by the enthusiasm of the P&W, school spii'it,
especially concerning football, should have been high. But
the editorials gave a different picture: "Never before in
our experience with Millsaps cheering and Millsaps spirit
have both been nearer the verge of nothing at all." An
age-old story.
A local radio dealer presented to the College a radio,
which was placed in the chapel. There was an idea that the
chapel period might sometimes be devoted to a listening
session "to the new Jackson broadcasting station, as soon as
that station begins sending out morning programs."
"Gone is the ancient prejudice! Progress has been
made!" reported the P&W. "One day last week over twenty
small boxes, each containing three sample packs of the kind
of cigarettes that satisfy, arrived at the grill, and they were
all addressed to the coeds."
The glee club, directed by A. P. Hamilton, toured the
northern part of the state, and the Players, directed by
M. C. White and R. H. Moore, gave performances off-campus
as well as on.
"Believe it or not, by rip, the female element at Millsaps
is almost unanimously opposed to the long dress fashion,"
.surmised the P&W after a poll.
A new science hall had been erected at a cost of .$175,000,
and attempts were made to make the old Webster Science
Hall a student activities building.
M. C. White departed in February for the University of
Wisconsin to continue his study for the Ph.D. degree, but
he returned in time for the summer session, and Magnolia
Simpson planned to study in Rome.
Campus leaders were as follows: president of senior
class, David Longinotti; Bobashela editor, David Longinotti;
P&W editor, Buford Yerger, Barron Ricketts, and Harry
Ash; top beauty, Sarah Owen King; Master Major, Gilmer
McLaurin. ;
It was the year 1930.
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MAJOR NOTES
MAJOR MISCELLANY
1892-1919
One of the Grenada College alumnae
who expressed great interest in the
Grenada- Whitworth reunions in May
was Mrs. Guy Cazort (Willie May Mc-
intosh, '09), whose father, Dr. W. M.
Mcintosh, served as president of Grena-
da. Mrs. Cazort has received a number
of honors for her outstanding service in
P.T.A. and civic activities and her un-
usual interest in gardening and garden
clubs. She was selected Arkansas
Mother of the Year in 1953.
Miss Gertrude Davis, Whitworth '12
and a former teacher at Millsaps, re-
signed her position as dean of women
at Hinds Junior College this year after
suffering a heart attack. She had held
the office since 1934, serving in various
other capacities of leadership and
counseling during that time. She is now
living in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
The father of Mississippi's system of
junior colleges, Knox M. Broom, '15, has
been confined to the Veterans Adminis-
tration Hospital in Jackson for the past
few months. Mr. Broom gave forty years
of service to Mississippi's public school
system before his resignation as gui-
dance director at Hinds Junior College
a few years ago. Mrs. Broom writes
that her husband would welcome visitors.
1920-1929
The August, 1960, issue of the Atlan-
tic Monthly carries an article entitled
"The Social Security Bill 25 Years
After," by Thomas H. Eliot, who served
as counsel for the committee which
drafted the bill, was later elected to
Congress, and is now on the faculty of
Washington University. In recounting
his story of the drafting of the bill and
its passage, he mentions Leonard Cal-
houn, '21, who was Mississippi Senator
Pat Harrison's assistant (Mr. Harrison
was chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee). Mr. Eliot recalls that Mr.
Calhoun gave him his first indication
that he might become general counsel
of the Social Security Board when Mr.
Calhoun asked if he might })e one of
his assistants, which he was.
New editor of the Honolulu Star
Bulletin is William H. Ewing, '27, who
succeeded to the position after ten years
of serving as managing editor of the
afternoon newspaper. Before joining
the staff of the Star Bulletin in 1936 he
served as state editor of the Jackson
Daily News and political correspondent
for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Archie K. Shields, '27, is a vice-presi-
dent in charge of the foreign languages
division of Henry Holt and Company.
His two older children, Albert and Alice,
ai'e attending Cornell and Randolph-
Macon, while Virginia, 12, is in junior
high school.
Robert E. Blount, '28, has been pro-
moted from the rank of colonel to
brigadier general in the Army Medical
Corps. He now serves as chief .of the
Department of Medicine, Brooke Army
Medical Center, in Fort Sam Houston,
Texas. The Blounts (Alice Ridgway, '2:i)
have three children: Bob and Dick are
both graduates of Millsaps ('53 and
'59) and both received acting awards
for their work with the Millsaps Play-
ers; and Jane Elizabeth, 16, is a student
at National Cathedral School for Girls
in Washington, D. C. Bob is an intern
at Duke. Dick is a laboratory techni-
cian with the Army Medical Service.
1930-1939
Mrs. Hoy Mitchell (Mary Lee Stone,
'30) was named principal of Power
Elementary School, in Jackson, this
year. Teaching off and on since her
graduation, Mrs. Mitchell taught ten
years at Power before accepting a posi-
tion as Jackson Public Schools Elemen-
tary School Music Supervisor, which she
held four years. She's the proud grand-
mother of Prentiss Mitchell, 4, and
Marcy Ann, 1, children of Mr. and Mrs.
Prentiss Mitchell (Martha Ann Vance.
'54-'55).
Follo^ving a year of research in Lon-
don, Dr. Harley Shands, '32-'33, has re-
turned to the University of North Caro-
lina School of Medicine, where he
teaches psychiatry. Studying under a
Commonwealth Fellowship, he was doing
research for a book which he titled
Psj'chotherapy and Thinking and which
will be published by the Harvard Uni-
versity Press in December.
Civitan International presented an
Honor Key Award to Dr. Thomas G.
Ross, '36, of Jackson, at its meeting in
Miami Beach, Florida, in July. He was
one of five men receiving the award,
given each year for "consecrated and
dedicated service."
1940-1949
An honorary life membership was
awarded to Mrs. A. C. Kruse (Evaline
Khayat, '42) by Coliseum Street School
P.T.A. (Los Angeles) in June. Mrs.
Kruse was cited for her work as chair-
man of numerous committees, as his-
torian, financial secretary, and first and
second vice-president. Money will be
given in her name to a scholarship fund
for students who are in need of finan-
cial help for undergraduate work, pre-
ferably in the teaching field.
The Southerner as American, a collec-
tion of eight essays edited by Charles
Grier Sellers, Jr., contains essays by a
Millsaps alumnus and a former Mill-
saps teacher. "The Southerner as a
Fighting Man" was \vi-itten by David
Donald, '41, professor of history at
Princeton. Grady McWhiney, former
assistant professor of history at Mill-
saps and now assistant professor of his-
tory at Northwestern, wrote "Recon-
struction: Index of Americanism." The
book was published by the University of
North Carolina Press.
A summer visitor to the campus was
Joe Brooks, '41, who brought his son,
David, 13, to tour the campus of his
Alma Mater. Mr. Brooks is a reporter
for the San Diego LTnion. In his off-
duty hours he does more writing —
publicity work for organizations in the
city.
Charlotte Capers, '30- '32, director of
the Department of Archives and History
for the state of Mississippi, has an-
nounced the appointment of Mrs. Lind-
say Grimes (Maxyne Madden. '45) to the
staff as catalog librarian. Mrs. Grimes
has served as associate librarian at Mill-
saps, and, before her marriage, as libr-
arian with the Department of Archives
and History.
James F. Noble, Jr., '43-'46, was un-
animously elected second vice-president
of the Mississippi State Bar Association
for the term 1960-61. He served as
president of the Junior Bar Section of
the Association in 1959-60, representing
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Page Twenty-Five
his organization at the Junior Bar Con-
ference of the American Bar Associa-
tion in 1959 at Miami Beach. Mr. Noble
lives in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Advancing in the educational field as
vi'ell as in the literary, Otis Singletary,
'47, has been named administrative
assistant to the president of the Univer-
sity of Texas. He was promoted from
the position of associate dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences. His books
in the historical field have been well
received.
The Prudential Insurance Company of
America has announced the promotion
of Phil Irby, Jr., '49, to the position of
division manager in the Mississippi
agency. Mr. Irby joined Prudential as
a special agent in 1949.
After completing a new church which
had been his chief project for two years
and leaving only $5,000 indebtedness on
a $120,000 building, the Reverend Rob-
ert F. Nay, '49, was moved from Elkin,
North Carolina, to the Camp Ground
Charge, with four churches. He will
live in Waxhaw, North Carolina. One
of his charges is the scene of one of
Methodism's few remaining camp-meet-
ings in the Carolinas. Mr. Nay writes,
"The Pleasant Grove church is located
with the huge tabernacle within the
'square' of 90 'tents' where hundreds of
people come and live August 14-21.
They have a pastor's tent pi-ovided and
are thrilled that they, after many years,
have a pastor who is not afi'aid of the
'sawdust'." Mrs. Nay is the former
Mary Ethel Mize, '4G.
Among the chaplains from Germany,
France, Italy, and North Africa who
attended the annual Army European
Protestant Chaplains' Retreat in Berch-
tesgaden, Germany, was Captain Joseph
W. Jones, '49. Captain Jones is chaplain
for the Second Calvary Regiment in
Germany.
Selected as Mississippi's "Rural Minis-
ter of the Year" in 1959, the Reverend
W. F. Appleby, '50, has received an
award for general progress during the
period 1956 to 1960 for the Guntown
Saltillo Circuit, which was chosen "Cir-
cuit of the Quadrennium" at the South-
eastern Jurisdictional Conference of the
Methodist Church in July.
1950-1960
Under the auspices of the National
Defense Education Act of 1958, Dr.
Sanford H. Newell, '50, professor of
romance languages at Converse College
in Spartanburg, North Carolina, direct-
ed a summer language institute for high
school teachers of French and Spanish.
Around 300 applications were received
for the second institute, and 39 teachers
were selected to participate. During the
summer of 1959 Dr. Newell took ten
students to France under the Experi-
ment in International Living for two
months. During the first month each
student lived with a French family, and
during the second they took a camping
tour of southern Prance, the Alps, north-
ern Italy, and Switzerland and spent a
week in Paris. Mrs. Newell is the
former Ceress Hyland, who attended
during the summers of 1949 and 1950.
The Reverend and Mrs. John W.
Steen (Dorothy Jean Lipham, '50) have
moved to Winston-Salem, North Caro-
lina, where Mr. Steen is serving as
pastor of the Oaklawn Baptist Church.
The Steens moved from Milledgeville,
Georgia, where Mr. Steen was associate
minister and director of student work
at the First Baptist Church.
Milligan College, of Milligan College,
Tennessee, has announced the appoint-
ment of Dale L. Hudson, '50, to the
position of assistant professor of music.
Mr. Hudson received the Bachelor of
Music and Master of Music degrees
from Mississippi Southern and has also
studied at Michigan State University,
Florida State University, and Trieste,
Italy. He has taught at Jones County
Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi,
and served as a graduate assistant at
Florida State.
The Helena, Arkansas, chapter of the
Junior Auxiliary has selected Mrs. Car-
los Smith (Dorris Liming, '50) to serve
as president, and the Vicksburg Chap-
ter has chosen Mrs. Murray Pinkston,
Jr., (Clara Parks Booth, '56) for mem-
bership. The husbands of both ladies
are Millsaps graduates, Mr. Smith a
member of the class of 1949 and Mr.
Pinkston a member of the 1956 class.
Serving as pathologist on the staff of
the Memorial Hospital in Charlotte,
North Carolina, Dr. Charles W. Mark-
ham, '51, has recently moved into a
new home with his wife, Robbie, and his
son. Chuck, 1%. The Markhams plan to
make Charlotte their permanent home.
The last production of the 1959-60
Jackson Little Theater year and two
major summer workshop productions
featured a number of Millsaps alumni.
"Babes in Arms," the first musical ever
produced at the Little Theater, was di-
rected by Lance Goss, '49, with Barbara
Webb, '59, as assistant director. It
starred Barry Brindley, '53; Karen Gil-
foy, '56: Betty Katherine Denton, junior;
Nancy Boyd, '60; J. T. Noblin, junior; |
Tom Spengler, '42; and Bill Fortinberry,
senior. "Stage Door," a workshop pro-
duction, was directed by Mrs. Bill Coile ;
(Gail Morehead, '57) ; and "Career," di- i
rected by Mr. Goss and Miss Webb,
featured Hagan Thompson, '50; Bob
Myers, '54; Bill Fortinberry; J. T. Nob- !
lin; Hank McDaniel, sophomore; and
Tern Fowlkes, sophomore.
A candidate for the Ph.D. degree in
economics at Vanderbilt University,
David McFarland, '53, has accepted a
position on the economics faculty at
Princeton University. He served as an
instructor of economics at Vanderbilt in
1959-60. Mrs. McFarland is the former
Mary Ruth Pittman.
The Reverend William T. Gober, '50-
'52, associate minister of Leavell Woods
Methodist Church in Jackson, served as
music director for the National Hi-Y
and Tri-Hi-Y Congress held in Oxford,
Ohio, in July. He also produced the
thirty-act talent show which was a
highlight of the conference. Mr. and
Mrs. Gober (Dot Dye, '49-'50) have four
children.
Specializing in surgery, Hiram Polk,
Jr., '56, has begun his internship at
Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
He was awarded the MD degree with
honor and distinction by Harvard School
of Medicine. Mrs. Polk is the former
Wanda Waddell, '52-'54. The couple has
a daughter, Susan Elizabeth, born
March 16.
Alumni in El Dorado, Arkansas, will
have a daily reminder of Millsaps if
they watch KTVE-TV. Henry Clements,
'56, familiar to many alumni for his
roles in the Players' productions of
"South Pacific," "The Rainmaker," and
"Bullfight," will announce news, wea-
ther, and a children's program. He'll
also be pledging wedding vows in the
near future.
The University of Rochester awarded
advanced degrees to John P. Potter and
Samuel L. Jones, both '57. Mr. Potter,
who attended the university on an
Atomic Energy Commission fellowship,
was awarded a Master of Science degree
in radiation biology. Mr. Jones received
the Doctor of Philosophy degree in
musical composition. Mrs. Potter is the
former Jeanette Ratcliff, '57, and Mrs.
Jones is the former Nancy Peacock, '57..
Both Mr. and Mrs. John Y. Fenton,
'51-'53 and '58, are attending Pennsyl-
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vania State University, Mr. Fenton serv-
ing as research associate in religion and
higher education and Mrs. Fenton work-
ing as a graduate assistant in the
counseling office while she studies psy-
chological testing. Mr. Fenton, who has
recently received the Master of Arts
degree in religion from Princeton, will
be working toward the Ph.D. degree.
Mrs. Fenton is the former Julia Ann
Gray.
Wyeth Laboratories, Philadelphia phar-
maceutical concern, has announced the
appointment of Henry Burton Jackson,
Jr., '56, to the sales staff. Mr. Jackson
and his wife, the former Hazel Truluck,
'58, will live in Jackson. Mr. Jackson
has recently completed three years of
commissioned service with the U. S.
Navy.
Lawrence H. Shepherd, '57, has re-
turned to the University of Illinois to
continue his study toward the Ph.D.
degree in organic chemistry after a
summer of association with the Research
and Development Division of Humble
Oil and Refining Company. He received
his Master of Science degree from the
University of Hlinois in 1959.
At the Mississippi Annual Conference
in June Betty Dyess, '57, was consecrated
as a director of Christian education. She
served a church in Natchez, Mississippi,
during the summer and has returned to
Scarritt for further study.
Lois Love Bain, '55-'56, to Peter
Mayerson. Living in New Orleans.
Carley Gay Brantley, '54-'56, to Rob-
ert Graves Ratcliff. Living at State
College, Mississippi.
Mary Edith Brown, '60, to Robert
Ronald Young, '53-'54. Living in Jack-
son.
Norma Jane Busse, '54, to James A.
Farish. Living in Denver, Colorado.
Mary Carol Caughman, '60, to William
Joseph Burnett, '60. Living in Laurel
Mississippi.
Mary Lou Chandler, '48-'49, to Walter
C. Dobbs, Jr. Living in Wichita Falls,
Texas.
Marian Elizabeth Clarke to Brister
Hagaman Ware, '54-'56. Living in De-
catur, Georgia.
Betty Jane Crockett to Bobby Ray
Tickell, '60. Living in Hermanville, Mis-
sissippi.
Deborah Welles Cockrell, '59-'60, to
Daniel Mack Swain, Jr. Living in Jack-
son.
Dorothy Lynn Crosby to Stewart
Gammill, IH, '55-'57. Living in Jackson.
Selma V. Earnest, '60, to Rayburn
Hunter Ridgway, current student. Living
in Jackson.
Eliza Jane Ellis, '60, to Richard Lee
Soehner. Living in Jackson.
Willie Amanda Farmer, '60, to James
Ray Hood, '58. Living in Jackson.
Jo Jeff Ford to James Don Gordon,
'57. Living in New Orleans.
Josephine .\nne Goodwin, '60, to
Thomas Clyde Welch, '59. Living in
Jackson.
Ann Pigford Hale, '56-'57, to Dr. John
Edward Green. Living in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Betty Ann Hamilton, '60, to John Kees
Stubbs.
Nancy Hertz, '57-'60, to Ernest Berk-
man. Living in El Paso, Texas.
Betty Loraine Home, '59, to Jimmy
Alfred Whisnant. Living in Pensacola,
Florida.
Mary Carolyn Hutchins, '58, to Fred
Angus Tarpley, Jr. Living in New
Orleans.
Mary Ruth King, '56-'5S. to George
H. East, Jr.
Wanda Louise Koski to Russell Roy
Lucas, '56-'57. Living in Hattiesburg,
Mississippi.
Virginia HoUaday Lamb, '58-'59, to
Jimmy Meter MacNaughton. Living at
University, Mississippi.
Walter Jean Lamb, '57, to Bryant A.
Reed, Jr. Living in Natchez.
Madeline Sharon Lancaster, '59, to
Alex William Langley, '58-'60. Living in
Jackson.
Claudia Henry McMullan, '57-'60, to
John Robert Burnett, '56-'60. Living in
Starkville, Mississippi
Mary Elizabeth Magee, '59-'60, to
Thermon Ray Crocker. Living in Jack-
son.
Anitra Pearl Matthews, '57-'58, to
Jesse Decell Daughdrill. Living at Clin-
ton, Mississippi.
Bobbye Sue Mozingo, '57, to Kline
Daniel Busbee, Jr. Living in Dallas.
Ina Carolyn Paine, '60, to Nicholas
Dick Davis. Living in Jackson.
Patsy Jean Robbins, '59, to James
Edgar Robinson.
Mary Nell Roberts, '58, to Richard
Wells Mansker. Living in Mobile, Ala.
Sue Belle Roberts, '60, to William Ed-
win McKnight, '60. Living in Lexington.
Kentucky.
Jacquelyn Rogers, '43, to Lt. Floyd
H. Whitehorn. Living in Washington,
D. C.
Clara Irene Smith, '59, to John Evan
Wimberly, '58. Living in Houston, Tex.
Vivian Jeannette Sylvester, '58, to
Ralph Edwin King, Jr., '58. Living in
Boston.
Wanda Faye Wenger, '60. to Harry
Poster, Jr. Living in Jackson.
Joan Elizabeth Whitten to Frank
Howard Tucker, Jr., '58. Living in
Jackson.
Elizabeth Ann Wise to Dr. Clyde
Xenophon Copeland, Jr., '56. Living in
Gainesville, Florida.
Frances Hilary Yeargen to Claude W.
Johnson, Jr., '49. Living in Coffeeville,
Mississippi.
Nancy Cai-olyn Younger to Ronald
Keith Ward, '56-'57. Living in Atlanta.
FACULTY CHANGES . . .
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Donald D. Kilmer, instructor of music
— BM and MM, Indiana University;
further study. Union Theological Semi-
nary, University of Kansas. University
of Illinois:
Mrs. Myrtis Flowers Meaders, asso-
ciate professor of education — BS, Mill-
saps; M.Ed., Mississippi College;
R. Edgar Moore, chairman of the edu-
cation department — AB, Birmingham-
Southern; MA, University of Alabama;
Ed.D., George Peabody;
Robert H. Padgett, assistant professor
of English — BA, Texas Christian Uni-
versity; MA, January, 1961, Vanderbilt;
further study at Universite de Clermont-
Ferrand; residence requirements for
Ph.D., Vanderbilt;
Lee H. Reiff, assistant professor of
religion — BA and BD, Southern
Methodist University; MA. Yale; study
toward PhD., Yale;
Charles W. Tapp, instructor in politi-
cal science — BA, Louisiana State Uni-
versity; study toward MA, LSU, toward
Ph.D., Duke;
Mrs. Joyce B. Watson, dean of women
— BA, University of Mississippi; MA,
Columbia University; further study,
Tulane;
Frederick L. Whitam, acting chairman
of the sociology department — B.\. Mill-
saps; MA, Indiana University; further
study. University of Chicago. Indiana
University, Columbia University;
James T. Whitehead, instructor of
English — BA, MA, Vanderbilt;
Wilfred Wilson, visiting professor of
mathematics — BS, University of Lon-
don; Ph.D., University of Amsterdam;
A. E. Wood, visiting professor of
chemistry — BS, Mercer University;
MS, Vanderbilt; Ph.D., University of
Pittsburgh; honorary degrees from Mis-
sissippi College and Mercer.
FALL
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Calendar of Events
Millsaps College
1960-61
November 2-5 "Julius Caesar," Millsaps Players :
November 5 Parents Day
November 5 : Millsaps-Austin College Football Game
November 13 -.-.: Schubert "Mass in G," Millsaps Singers
November 19 High School Day
December 1-10 Play In-the-Round, Millsaps Players
December 4 "The Messiah," Millsaps Singers
January 6-7 Millsaps Invitational Debate Tournament
March 8-11 Millsaps Players Production
March 21 Singers Appear with Memphis Sinfonietta
in Memphis
April 20 ...Stunt Night
May 3-6 Millsaps Players Production
May 6 Alumni Day
May 9 Madrigal Singers Concert
May 28 __ Commencement
First Sunday in every month: Culture and Education Forum I'rogram
Home Basketball Gaines
December 14 Sewanee
December 15 Sewanee
January 11 Belhaven
January 14 Lambuth
January 17 Belhaven
January 20 Southwestern
January 31 ^ Huntingdon
February 3 Birmingham-Southern
February 4 Howard
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