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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. 


Page  Two 


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 

Page    Five 


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. 


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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 


He  theme  oi  tne  aearcn  iqa-  i-ne     ■        ,  ■       a  I     ■"  ' 

ig*tee€fvfey."tJie  I  ntemBi^iHtV. 

r^g-^A    A  ■  ,  I        r        l^^s  Jji  it.    The  only  gref 

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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 


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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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Poge   Thirteen 


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- 

(Continued    from    Page    13) 

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. 


Page   Fourteen 


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 


WINTER 


Poge    Fifteen, 


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. 


WINTER 


POETIC  VALUES- 

(Continued  from    Page   8) 

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. 


Page    Eighteen 


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 


Page   Nineteen 


'\ . .  an  investment 
that  makes 
all  other 
investments 
worthwhile 


^^ 


JOHN    COLLYER 

Chairman  of  the  Board 

The  B.  F.  Goodrich  Company 


"For  much  of  our  nation's  progress,  technologically,  economically  and 
socially,  we  must  look  to  the  excellence  of  our  institutions  of  learning, 
whose  students  of  today  will  be  the  scientists,  the  managers,  the  states- 
men and  the  cultural  and  i-eligious  leaders  of  tomorrow. 

"It  is  the  responsibility  of  the  American  people  and  American  industry 
to  provide  the  financial  aid  so  urgently  needed  now  by  our  colleges  and 
universities. 

"Join  this  important  crusade.  Contribute  today  to  the  university  or 
college  of  your  choice.  You  will  be  making  an  investment  that  makes  all 
other  investments  worthwhile." 


If  you  want  more  information  on  the  problems  faced  by  higher  education,  write  tO: 
Council  for  Financial  Aid  to  Education,  Inc.,  6  E.  45th  Street,  New  York  17,  N.  Y. 


^illsaps  College  Alumni  Association 

Sponsored  as  a  public  service,  in  cooperation  irith  tlic 
Council  for  Financial  Aid  to  Education 


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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. 


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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 


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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. 


'^"^ALUMN^^A 


Alumnus  +  alumnus 

Many  people  cling  to  the  odd  notion  that  in  this  cai 


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- 


ilumni-or  does  it? 

be  group  somehow  differs  from  the  sum  of  its  parts 


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. 

THE  ACHIEVEMENTS,  in  short,  beUe  the  popular  image. 
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. 


memo:  from  ^Y^iveS 

Husbands 


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." 


1 — r 


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. 


THE 


ALUMN^y. 


'A 


The  material  on  this  and  the  preceding  15 
pages  was  prepared  in  behalf  of  more  than  350 
schools,  colleges,  and  universities  in  the  United 
States,  Canada,  and  Mexico  by  the  staff  listed 
below,  who  have  formed  editorial  projects 
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organization  associated  with  the  American 
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ment is  2,900,000. 

DAVID  A.  BURR 

The  University  of  Oklahoma 

GEORGE  J.  COOKE 

Princeton  University 

DAN  ENDSLEY 

Stanford  University 

DAN  H.  FENN,  JR. 

Harvard  Business  School 

RANDOLPH  L.  FORT 

Emory  University 

J.  ALFRED  GUEST 

Amherst  College 

L.  FRANKUN  HEALD 

The  University  of  New  Hampshire 

CHARLES  M.  HELMKEN 

Saint  John's  University 

JEAN  D.  LINEHAN 

American  Alumni  Council 

MARALYN  ORBISON 

Swarthmore  College 

ROBERT  L.  PAYTON 

Washington  University 

FRANCES  PROVENCE 

Baylor  University 

ROBERT  M.  RHODES 

Lehigh  University 

WILLIAM  SCHRAMM,  JR. 

The  University  of  Pennsylvania 

VERNE  A.  STADTMAN 

The  University  of  California 

FREDERIC  A.  STOTT 

Phillips  Academy  {Andover) 

FRANK  J.  TATE 

The  Ohio  State  University 

ERIK  WENSBERG 

Columbia  University 

CHARLES  E.  WIDMAYER 

Dartmouth  College 

REBA  WILCOXON 

The  University  of  Arkansas 

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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. 


SPRING 


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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. 


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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! 


,  ^  /%  In 


\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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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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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, 

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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 


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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." 


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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." 


Page    Fourteen 


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. 


SUMMER 


Page  Fifteen 


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 


Page  Seventeen 


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 


Page   Nineteen 


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, 

Page  Twenty-Two 


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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MAJOR 


Millsaps  College  Alumni  News^ 


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; 
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Page  Three 


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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. 


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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 


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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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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. 


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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. 


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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 


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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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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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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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MAJOR  NOTES 


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  .  .  . 

(Continued  from  Page  2) 

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 


Page   Twenty-Seven 


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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