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MAJOR 

notes 

millsaps  college 

alumni  magazine 
winter,  1963 


I    I     European  Tour 
Family-Style 

I    I     Art  Equals  Love 


MAJOIL 

notes 


millsaps  college  alumni  magazine 
winter,  1963 


MERGED  INSTITUTION'*:  Grenada 
College,  Whitworth  College,  Millsaps 
College. 

MEMBER:  American  Alumni  Council, 
American  College  Public  Relations  As- 
sociation. 


CONTENTS 

2  From  the  President 

3  Millsaps  1963 

4  Events  of  Note 

5  European  Tour,   Family-Style 

— by   Carol  Bergmark 

10  Art  Equals  Love 

—by  Karl  Wolfe 

13  Major  Miscellany 

15  In  Memoriam 
Future  Alumni 
From  This  Day 


Volume  4 


January,   1963 


Number  2 


Published  quarterly  by  Millsaps  College  in  Jackson, 
Mississippi.  Entered  as  second  class  matter  on  Oc- 
tober 15,  1959,  at  the  Post  Office  in  Jackson,  Mis- 
sissippi,   under    the    Act    of    August    24,    1912. 


Jane    Petty,    Editor 

James    J.    Livesay,    '41,    Executive    Director,   Alumni 
Association 

Photography    by    Doug    Price,    '64 


Statistics    of   Births,   Marriages,    Deaths 
by    Linda    Perkins,    '64 


compiled 


From   the  President 

The  Board  of  Trustees  has  announced  a  tuition-feei 
increase  for  1963-64.  The  semester  tuition  increase  is  S50,i 
the  semester  increase  for  fees,  $25. 

A  part  of  the  increase  in  fees  will  be  made  available 
to  the  student  organizations  and  activities  —  Singers, 
Players,  Publications,  Athletics.  An  additional  part  of 
the  increase  will  be  allocated  to  the  Library.  The  re- 
mainder of  the  increase  in  fees  will  help  meet  the  growings 
cost  of  administration  and  maintenance. 

The  additional  tuition  income  will  make  possible  a 
modest  advancement  in  the  salary  schedule  and  an  en- 
larged faculty.  New  instructors  will  be  added  in  Mathe- 
matics, Romance  Languages,  Psychology  and  Education. 
These  departments  have  had  acute  needs  for  several  years. 

Alumni  and  friends  can  help  to  interpret  the  need  for 
the  College's  expecting  the  student  and  his  family  to  as- 
sume a  larger  percentage  of  the  cost  of  his  education. 
Neither  the  Board  nor  the  Administration  is  unmindful 
of  the  difficulties  experienced  by  many  loyal  friends  with 
fixed  and  modest  incomes.  At  the  same  time  these  same 
friends  will  support  the  Board  in  making  every  reasonable 
effort  to  hold  at  the  prevailing  high  level  the  over-all 
program  —  academic  and  otherwise  —  of  IMillsaps  College. 

In  speaking  to  Alumni  about  this  announcement  from 
the  Board,  I  want  to  mention  two  other  relevant  matters. 
The  College  continuously  makes  every  possible  effort 
to  provide  financial  assistance  for  students  with  estab- 
lished needs.  The  total  scholarship  program  for  1963-64 
will  be  almost  370,000.  We  have  friends  who  sponsor 
students  in  amounts  ranging  from  SlOO  a  year  to  SI. 000. 
I  know  of  nothing  that  brings  greater  gratification  to  the 
donor.  You  may  know  of  some  people  who  would  welcome 
such  an  opportunity.  You  may  even  wish  to  suggest  their 
names  to  us. 

The  second  thing  I  now  mention  has  to  do  with  job 
opportunities  available  in  Jackson  to  ambitious  students. 
You  may  have  read  of  the  Millsaps  College  alumnus  who 
has  recently  been  named  an  officer  in  one  of  the  Jackson 
banks,  the  youngest  man  ever  to  be  named  an  officer.  He 
achieved  some  of  his  seniority  as  an  undergraduate  at  the 
College  during  which  time  he  worked  at  the  bank.  We 
could  not  guarantee  too  many  recurrences  of  this  success 
story.  We  can  help  many  students  identify  work  oppor- 
tunities that  will   in   themselves  be  educationally  useful. 


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ON  THE  COVER— The  mosaic 
and  bird  are  the  work  of  Karl 
Wolfe,  whose  ideas  on  art  are 
described  on  page  10  of  this 
issue.  The  terra  cotta  sculp- 
ture is  by  Mrs.  Wolfe  (Mildred 
Nungester)  who  instructs  part- 
time  at  Millsaps.  Mr.  Wolfe 
has  been  an  instructor  of  art 
at  Millsaps  since  1946. 


MILLSAPS 

1963 


A  Campus  Is  .  .  . 

winter  laughter 

with  snowflakes  gone 

in  sudden  sun, 

quick  jovs 

that  come  and  go 

by  worn  path,  hallwav, 

open  door, 

.  .  .   .and  new  ideas, 
eml:)raced,  renounced, 
beheved  again 
by  people  — 

glad  and  pensive,  brave,  afraid, 
together  on  the  edge  of  tomorrow. 


Events  of  Note 


TUITION  INCREASE 

A  tuition-fee  increase  for  1963-64  was 
approved  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  at 
the  February  board  meeting.  Tuition 
will  be  increased  $50,  fees  $25,  for  a 
total  $75  increase  per  semester. 

The  additional  income  from  tuition 
will  be  used  by  the  college  for  salaries 
and  an  expanded  faculty.  The  increase 
in  fees  will,  in  part,  be  allocated  to  ad- 
ministration and  maintenance.  Student 
organizations  will  also  benefit  from 
the  additional  funds. 

The  increase  for  1963-64  is  analyzed 
by  Dr.  H.  E.  Finger,  Jr.,  in  his  "Pres- 
ident's Column,"  found  on  page  two 
of  this  issue. 


rection  to  be  one  of  the  largest  in  the 
south.  This  year's  tournament  attract- 
ed debaters  from  as  far  west  as  Texas 
and  as  far  north  as  Iowa,  with  forty  de- 
bate teams  competing  in  the  invita- 
tional tournament.  Eight  states  and 
seventeen  colleges  were  represented 
this  year. 


DEBATE  TOURNAMENT 

Dr.  E.  S.  Wallace  successfully  car- 
ried out  the  Millsaps  tradition  that  he 
began  in  1941  by  heading  the  twenty- 
third  annual  Millsaps  Debate  tourna- 
ment January  11-12  at  the  Christian 
Center.  The  tournament,  initiated  by 
Dr.  Wallace,  has  grown  under  his  di- 


GRANTS  TO  MILLSAPS 

Three  grants  were  recently  awarded 
to  Millsaps.  The  department  of  chenri-( 
istry  was  recipient  of  a  $5000  grant  " 
from  the  Du  Pont  Company,  and  Dr. 
J.  B.  Price,  chairman  of  the  chemistry 
department,  announced  that  the  grant 
will  be  used  to  purchase  new  laboratory 
apparatus,  including  a  gas  chromato- 
graph,  an  infra-red  spectrophotometer, 
a  recording  polarograph  and  attach- 
ments for  the  Beckmann  DU  spectro- 
photometer. 

The  Esso  Education  Foundation 
awarded  an  unrestricted  grant  of  $3,500 
to  Millsaps,  and  the  Shell  Companies 
Foundation  made  a  $1500  grant  to  the 
college. 


The  Shell  grant  is  divided  into  three 
separate  grants  of  $500,  the  first  desig- 
nated for  any  institutional  use  decided 
by  the  president.  A  fund  for  general 
faculty  development  is  provided  in  the 
second  grant,  and  the  third  is  designat- 
ed for  the  discretionary  use  of  adminis- 
trative officers  in  the  departments  of 
chemistry,  mathematics,  physics  and 
astronomy. 


ARTS   FESTIVAL 

-  The  annual  Arts  Festival  attracted  a 
capacity  audience  from  Millsaps  and 
the  community.  The  student  literary 
magazine,  "Stylus,"  sponsored  by  the 
Department  of  English,  was  released 
the  evening  of  the  festival,  and  is  now 
on  sale  in  the  book  store.  Paintings 
and  ceramics,  by  art  students,  were 
displayed,  and  the  program  featured 
readings  of  poems  and  stories  from 
"Stylus,"  accompanied  by  The  Sun- 
downers, the  popular  Millsaps  trio  of 
folk  singers. 


PAST  SCENES   REMEMBERED  — 
at  the  Fine  Arts  Festival. 


through  Players'   photographic   exhibit 


THORNTON   HEADS   MAJORS 

College  officials  recently  announced 
the  appointment  of  Ray  Thornton  to 
the  positions  of  head  football  coach  for 
the  Majors,  baseball  coach,  and  assist- 
ant professor  in  the  Department  of  Ath- 
letics. 

Mr.  Thornton  is  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  INIississippi  and  for  the 
past  three  j  ears  has  served  as  assistant 
football  coach  at  Wake  Forest  College. 
He  assumed  his  duties  at  Millsaps  on 
February  1.  During  the  summer,  he 
will  complete  work  on  his  M.  A.  degree. 

The  new  coach  formerly  served  as 
head  football  coach  at  DeKalb  High 
School  and  Itawamba  Junior  College, 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Church.  Mrs.  Thornton  is  the  former 
Gene  Still  Kirk,  of  Tupelo,  and  the 
Thorntons  have  three  children:  Caro- 
lyn, 9:  Kim,  5;   and  Dixon,  5  months. 

Bill  Dupes,  who  coached  the  Majors 
during  the  fall  season,  and  compiled  a 
3-4-1  record,  has  accepted  a  similar  po- 
sition at  Austin  Peay  State  Teachers 
College. 

(Continued  on  Page  14) 


European  Tour 
Family  -  Style 


By  CAROL  BERGMARK 


.DRAWINGS      BY     JOHN      LAWRENCE  65 


Wherever  The  Tent,  The  Home  Was  Happy 


That  long  awaited  day,  February  13.  1962,  had  come  at 
last,  and  we  were  actually  aboard  the  S.  S.  Ryndam 
headed  for  Europe.  Of  all  the  exciting  days  we  were  to 
experience  in  the  next  six  months,  perhaps  none  was  more 
thrilling  than  this,  for  now  we  realized  that  our  dream 
was  becoming  a  reality.  Bob's  Sabbatical  leave  from 
Millsaps  College  had  been  granted  and.  after  a  year  of 
making  definite  plans  and  arrangements,  we  were  on 
our  way. 

Exploring  our  ship  with  its  raised  door  sills,  interesting 
bunks,  doors  with  catches  on  them  to  keep  them  from 
swaying  with  the  ship,  and  dining  chairs  anchored  to  the 
floor  were  the  first  of  many  exciting  ventures  for 
IMartha,  thirteen.  Edward,  eleven,  and  Christine,  ten,  as 
well  as  for  Bob  and  me. 

How  were  we  to  accomplish  this  incredible  tour,  five 
and  a  half  months  on  European  soil  for  a  family  of  five? 
We  had  been  told  that  we  could  live  on  our  budget  of  $10 
a  day  while  camping.  This  we  managed  to  do.  but  it  was  not 
until  April  1  in  Toledo.  Spain,  that  the  weather  made 
camping  possible.  During  the  previous  six  weeks,  by  ac- 
cepting only  the  most  modest  hotel  accomodations,  we 
managed  to  live  on  an  average  of  S15  a  day  for  the  five 
of  us.  This  included  food,  lodging,  and  everything  for  the 
car  —  a  Volkswagen  Camper. 

We  really  are  not  the  camping  type.  That's  why  we 
say  —  if  we  can  do  it,  anyone  can.  Each  had  his  own  jobs, 
and  when  w^e  were  really  organized  and  working  at  top 
speed,  we  could  select  a  nice  flat  camp  site  at  one  of  the 
many  European  camps,  set  up  our  happy  home,  and  pre- 
pare a  delicious  hot  supper  of  soup  and  a  full  course  meal, 
all  within  an  hour. 

There  was  time  to  read  and  think  and  study  and  talk 
and  play  and  learn  and  worship  together  without  the  many 


The  author  is  a  well  known  Jackson  musician,  a  teacher  of  piano 
and  a  contralto  soloist.  She  appeared  onstage  most  recently  in  the 
Millsaps  Christmas  presentation  of  Handel's  "The  Messiah,"  the 
seventh  consecutive  year  she  has  sung  the  contralto  lead  in 
the  annual  Millsaps  production  of  the  oratorio.  She  is  contralto 
soloist    at    Galloway    Methodist    Church    and    is    active    in    P.    T.    A. 

A  native  of  San  Antonio,  Texas,  Mrs.  Bergmark  received  her  B.  A. 
degree  from  Trinity  University,  San  Antonio,  and  did  post  graduate 
study    at    Westminster    Choir    College,    Princeton,    N.    J. 

Her  husband,  Dr.  Robert  Edward  Bergmark,  is  associate  Professor 
of  Philosophy  and  Chairman  of  the  Department  of  Philosophy  at 
Millsaps.  The  Bergmarks  have  three  children,  who  shared  the 
experiences  warmly  described  by  Mrs.  Bergmark  in  the  accompany- 
ing   article,    written    especially    for    "Major    Notes  " 


distractions  of  our  complex  world  pulling  us  in  five  dif- 
ferent directions. 

In  Europe  people  camp  in  order  to  travel  rather  than 
travel  in  order  to  camp.  Facilities  are  not  of  the  rustic 
nature  that  we  find  in  the  United  States  but  close  to 
and  often  nestled  within  the  city,  oftentimes  with  public 
transportation   at  one's   disposal. 

What  is  the  fascination  of  Europe,  and  why  is  it  that 
after  being  home  only  five  months  we  already  have  a 
burning  desire  to  return? 

Was  it  worth  those  sometimes  discouraging  days  of 
planning  a  seven-month  trip  for  a  family  of  five  —  the 
very  minimum  of  clothing  for  all  kinds  of  weather  and 
occasions,  from  worship  to  concerts  and  musicals  to 
camping,  as  well  as  for  our  only  physically  luxurious  days 
—  those  memorable  ones  on  board  ship?  Was  it  worth 
those  anxious  days  of  wondering  who  the  occupants  of 
our  house  would  be  and  consequently  how  many  of  our 
personal  belongings  would  have  to  be  put  into  storage? 
Was  it  worth  the  numerous  trips  to  the  dentist  and  all  the 
shots  from  A  to  Z,  including  cholera,  since  we  planned 
to  camp?  Was  it  worth  the  compilation  of  that  priceless 
little  black  book,  all  indexed  with  lists  and 
instructions  for  everything  —  to  each  last  item  of 
clothing  we  would  take,  to  each  cooking  utensil,  to  each 
drug  that  we  just  might  need,  but  thankfully  never  did? 
There  was  the  listing  and  packing  of  mattresses,  pillows, 
sleeping  bags  and  liners,  plus  three  complete  sets  of 
school  books  for  the  children,  since  we  were  to  be  their 
teachers.  There  seemed  an  endless  amount  of  travel  in- 
formation and  instructions  and  those  priceless  dictionaries. 
Was  it  worth  carrying  all  that  water  in  our  yellow  plastic 
bucket  for  cooking  and  washing  our  clothes?  Was  it  worth 
eating,  sleeping,  riding,  and  studying  in  a  Volkswagen 
Camper  for  four  out  of  five  and  a  half  months?  Was  it 
worth  all  those  lunches  of  hard  boiled  eggs,  bananas, 
apples,  and  bread?  Was  it  worth  setting  up  camp  seventy- 
two  times,  averaging  only  two  nights  in  each  camp  with 
most  of  them  only  one  night  stands? 

We  realized  that  this  was  a  once  in  a  lifetime  experi- 
ence for  all  of  us  together  as  a  family,  and  we  were  all 
geared  to  one  and  the  same  goal  —  getting  the  ultimate 
from  our  European  experience.  We  were  to  travel  14,000 
miles  on  European  soil,  averaging  100  miles  a  day.  Our 
general  plan  was  to  go  south  where  camping  would  be 
possible  at  the  earliest  date  and  then  to  progress  in  a 
northerly  direction  with  the  coming  of  spring. 


We  landed  at  Southampton  on  February  22.  What  a 
thrill  it  was  to  realize  that  we  were  actually  riding  through 
the  magnificent  countryside  —  the  hedge  rows  on  either 
side  of  the  "dual  carriage  way"  and  the  cozy  inn  at  the 
"round  about " 

To  us  the  green  grass  meant  that  spring  had  already 
begun.  This  was  our  first  misconception,  for  we  later 
learned  that  the  grass  is  always  green  in  England.  Some- 
how, the  gorgeous  spring  flowers  in  the  window  boxes 
seemed  to  be  immune  to  the  freezing  weather  and  to 
the  snows  that  we  were  to  experience  during  our  first 
two  and  a  half  weeks  in  England. 

No  previous  descriptions  quite  prepared  us  for  some 
of  the  things  we  were  to  experience.  Driving  on  the  left 
hand  side  of  the  road,  particularly  at  night,  when  only 
parking  lights  are  used,  was  a  constant  challenge  and 
source  of  amusement.  We  found  it  particularly  surprising 
to  have  oncoming  vehicles  approach  us  from  unexpected 
angles. 

We  spent  two  weeks  in  London,  Oxford  and  Cam- 
bridge, visiting  points  of  interest  that  we  knew  would  be 
crowded  on  our  return  visit  in  July.  What  a  thrill  it  was 
to  see  Big  Ben,  the  House  of  Parliament,  Westminster 
Abbey,  John  Wesley's  home  and  Chapel,  Trafalgar  Square, 
and  to  explore  the  riches  of  the  marvelous  museums.  The 
Church  of  England  was  to  give  us  spiritual  enrichment 
throughout  much  of  our  trip,  for  particularly  in  the 
southern  countries  we  really  had  to  search  for  English- 
speaking  Protestant  Churches. 

How  exciting  it  was  to  visit  Cambridge  and  Oxford  and 
to  see  the  young  scholars  with  their  academic  robes,  and 
their  colored  mufflers,  denoting  their  various  colleges. 
We  renewed  our  acquaintance  with  Dr.  Marjorie  Reeves, 
once  a  speaker  at  Millsaps  College,  at  St.  Anne's  College, 
Oxford  University,  and  met  and  talked  with  Dr.  Alfred 
Cyril  Ewing,  of  Cambridge  University,  one  of  the  scholars 
about  whom  Bob  wrote  in  his  dissertation.  We  visited 
with  the  family  of  Dr.  William  H.  Willis,  of  Magdalen 
College,  Oxford  University,  on  leave  from  the  University 
of  Mississippi. 

On  January  9  we  crossed  the  Channel  to  France  and 
had  our  first  look  at  Paris.  Our  hotel  rooms,  reached 
only  by  six  flights  of  stairs,  made  us  feel  like  characters 
in  La  Boheme,  and  we  too  often  had  a  diet  of  apples  and 
bread  —  the  long  thin  variety  called  a  baguette  that  you 
see  being  carried,  unwrapped,  in  every  conceivable  way, 
from  a  bicycle  rack,  protruding  from  a  hand  bag,  or  just 
being  clutched  by  a  child's  hand. 

It  was  here  that  we  experienced  the  language  barrier 
for  the  first  time.  Any  misconception  about  English  being 
spoken  "everywhere"  was  quickly  dispelled.  In  France 
just  what  we  would  have  done  without  our  meager  know- 
ledge of  the  language  we  can  not  quite  imagine,  but  we 
were  neither  seeking  English  nor  the  American  way  of 
life.  We  had  come  to  see  Europe  and  her  people  as  they 
are.  We  know  a  bit  more  Spanish  than  French,  but  after 
struggling  so  hard  with  French,  we  found  it  amusing 
to  be  mistaken  for  French  rather  than  Americans  when, 
on  our  first  day  in  Barcelona,  we  persisted  in  saying  "oui" 
Instead  of  "si"  and  "merci  beaucoup"  instead  of  "muchas 
gracias." 

France  is  more  than  Paris  with  her  Notre  Dame, 
Champs  Elysees,  her  Eiffel  Tower,  and  the  picturesque 
Seine  River.  It  is  the  way  the  man  in  the  market  takes 
pride  in  the  artistic  display  of  his  fruit  and  vegetables 
and  the  way  the  man  in  the  next  stall  fondles  the  piece 
of  meat  as  he  wraps  it  with  great  care.  It  is  the  music  of 
his    voice    and    language    and    his    intriguing    personality 


that  make  you  forget  even  to  try  to  understand  his  lang- 
uage that  you  labored  so  to  learn.  It  is  the  way  they  say 
"Voila"  and  "Madame"  and  the  way  the  little  Citroen  cars 
scurry  about  the  beautiful  broad  avenues.  It  is  the 
yellow  tinted  headlights  and  the  way  the  filling  station 
attendant  ushers  you  out  to  the  main  road  and  signals 
for  you  when  the  road  is  clear.  With  courtesies  such  as 
these  you  soon  become  accustomed  to  the  European  cus- 
tom of  cleaning  your  own  "windscreen." 

The  magnificent  cathedrals  in  France  are  beyond 
any  description  I  might  attempt,  and  to  hear  a  tremen- 
dous organ  with  such  acoustics  is  almost  overwhelming. 
We  loved  Versailles,  Chartres,  Mont  St.  Michel,  Normandy, 
and  Brittany  with  her  storks  nesting  on  the  chimneys  and 
her  women  wearing  lovely  lace  coifs  and  long  black  dresses 
as  they  made  their  way  from  place  to  place  in  the  village 
or  down  the  country  road  on  their  bicycles.  We  loved  the 
way  their  beautiful  churches  with  their  filigree  towers 
dominated  the  peaceful  countryside.  The  Lascaux  Caves 
of  central  France  made  a  memorable  impression  with 
their  pre-historic  painting  of  some  15  to  25  thousand 
years  ago. 

We  cannot  imagine  ever  losing  the  excitement  of  cros- 
sing the  border  from  one  country  to  another  with  the  ad- 
ded, though  always  unnecessary,  anxiety  of  going  through 
customs.  The  way  the  architecture,  customs,  language, 
and  terrain  changed  across  those  imaginary  lines  never 
ceased  to  amaze  us.  Spring  came  later  than  we  had  plan- 
ned, but  at  last,  on  April  1,  in  Toledo,  Spain,  we  were  an 
exuberant  family  when  we  set  up  our  first  camp.  With 
the  exception  of  only  four  nights,  this  was  to  be  our  way 
of  life  until  we  returned  to  our  "Bed  and  Breakfast" 
place  in  London,  on  July  31,  to  repack  for  our  return 
journey. 

We  had  quite  an  audience  as  we  set  up  this  first  of 
72  camp  homes  for  ourselves.  The  bright  red  and  white 
striped  tent  attached  to  our  Camper  formed  our  kitchen 
and  general  living  quarters.  The  green  umbrella  tent 
provided  a  sleeping  room  for  the  three  children,  and  we 
slept  on  the  bed  which  makes  down  in  the  Camper.  In 
the  daytime,  our  bed  was  transformed  into  a  table  and 
benches,  and  it  was  here  that  we  had  our  meals,  shielded 
from  the  cold,  wind,  and  rain,  that  were  to  prove  rather 
general  in  our  travels.  We  had  purchased  a  two  burner 
cooking  stove  and  a  little  gas  reflector  type  heater  in 
Zaragosa  which  completed  our  paraphernalia. 


Of  our  72  different  camp  sites,  with  only  one  night  in 
nost  places,  our  longer  stays  were  five  nights  in  Rome 
ind  four  nights  each  in  Florence,  Athens,  Vienna,  Zurich, 
md  Amsterdam.  Several  of  the  camp  sites  were  quite 
jlaborate,  but  usually  any  lack  of  refined  facilities  was 
nore  than  compensated  by  the  warmth  and  fascination  of 
he  people  and  by  the  spectacularly  beautiful  surroundings. 

In  Kavala,  Greece,  which  is  old  Neopolis  of  Roman 
imes,  we  were  just  fifty  feet  from  the  Aegean  Sea,  within 
light  of  where  the  Apostle  Paul  landed  on  his  journey 
o  Philippi.  Georgeous  mountains  were  right  behind  us. 
A'e  "lived"  with  the  Rock  of  Gibraltar  within  sight  of  our 
'front  door,"  and  on  the  hill  overlooking  Belgrade,  Yugo- 
;lavia.  We  camped  on  the  shores  of  the  Atlantic,  the 
Mediterranean,  the  Ionian,  the  Aegean,  the  North  Sea, 
he  Rhine,  the  Seine,  and  the  Avon,  at  Stratford-upon- 
\von.  We  camped  in  the  Alps,  the  Black  Forest,  the 
k'^ienna  Woods,  and  in  cherry,  orange,  palm,  and  olive 
proves.  Yes,  we  even  camped  at  a  football  stadium  in 
Portugal,  a  Farmer's  School  in  Greece,  and  at  an  exclusive 
•acing  course  in  Leicester,  England,  while  Bob  attended 
;he  joint  meetings  of  the  Aristotelian  Society  and  Mind 
Association. 

In  Spain  we  loved  the  guitars,  the  multi-colored  flow- 
ers, the  trees  laden  with  oranges,  and  the  Catalan  dancing 
n  the  park  in  Barcelona,  the  broad  avenues  and  narrow 
streets  of  Madrid  and  the  magnificent  Moorish  archi- 
;ecture. 

Our  first  grocery  shopping  for  a  full  supper  in  Toledo 
:roved  rather  typical.  First  we  made  the  mistake  of  try- 
ng  to  shop  in  the  afternoon  when  everything  was  com- 
Dletely  shut  down.  At  4:33,  when  they  re-opened  for  the 
iay,  we  went  to  one  little  market  for  potatoes  and  apples, 
mother  for  beef,  another  for  eggs,  which  were  carefully 
Dlaced  in  an  open  cone  made  from  newspaper,  and  still 
mother  little  store  for  margarine  and  condensed  milk 
n  a  tube  and  vegetables.  No  bags  are  provided,  and  we 
lad  not  yet  learned  to  provide  our  own.  It  was  a  good 
:h!ng  there  were  five  of  us,  for  ten  arms  were  hardly 
sufficient  for  even  these  few  unwrapped  provisions. 

Toledo  is  like  all  of  Spain  in  one  concentrated  and 


picturesque  area  —  streets  almost  too  narrow  for  even 
the  smallest  cars  to  negotiate  a  turn,  balconies  almost 
meeting  over  our  heads,  the  strum  of  a  guitar  and  the 
voice  of  one  singing  at  her  work  from  a  remote  upstairs 
window. 

As  we  approached  our  camp  at  an  athletic  field  in 
historic  Evora,  Portugal,  we  watched  the  men  and  women 
leaving  their  work  in  the  fields  and  vast  stone  quarries, 
laughing  and  talking  as  they  returned  to  their  homes. 
The  women  looked  like  pictures  of  the  women  in  the  Andes 
with  their  black  knee  boots  and  their  wide  brimmed  black 
hats  over  their  kerchiefed  heads.  The  men  wore  crude 
brown  sheepskin  jackets  and  carried  lunch  baskets  on 
the  backs  of  their  bicycles.  Portugal  was  like  Spain  —  but 
painted  white  and  beautiful,  sobered  only  by  the  many 
black  arm  bands  worn  by  the  men,  designating  the  loss 
of  a  member  of  the  family.  There  were  magnificent 
Roman  ruins  here,  again  reminding  us  of  the  vastness 
of  that  great  Empire. 

We  took  a  boat  to  Africa,  across  the  Strait  of  Gibraltar, 
from  Algeciras,  Spain,  to  Tangier,  Morocco.  Such  a  color- 
ful picture  we  got  of  this  vast  continent  in  one  afternoon 
—  Tangier,  a  city  with  three  holy  days  each  week  —  Friday 
for  the  Moslems.  Saturday  for  the  Jews,  and  Sunday  for 
the  Christians.  There  was  the  Sultan's  Palace  and  the 
snake  charmer,  and  there  were  veiled  women  in  the 
market  places. 

On  the  French  Riveria  there  was  the  thrill  of  seeing 
the  shades  cf  coloring  from  blue  to  green  in  the  Mediter- 
ranean, just  as  Picasso  splashes  them  on  his  canvases. 
How  exciting  it  is  to  go  from  country  to  country  and  to  see 
how  the  spirit  and  unique  beauty  of  each  country  is  ex- 
pressed by  such  artists  as  Verdi,  Rossini,  and  Scarlatti  of 
Italy,  that  glorious  country  with  its  gaily  colored  houses, 
its  terraced  mountains  dropping  down  into  the  Mediter- 
ranean, and  the  magnificent  ruins  that  strike  us  with  the 
awe  cf  our  glorious  heritage  and  our  responsibility  to  it. 

In  Florence  and  Rom.e,  as  in  each  fascinating  new 
city,  we  thrilled  at  making  them  our  own  as  we  studied 
the  city  maps  and  literature.  Though  finding  our  way 
around  each  city  was  more  time-consuming,  but  less  ex- 


pensive  than  engaging  in  a  tour,  we  learned  much  more 
than  just  the  beaten  path  and  felt  that  we  got  more  of  the 
essence  of  each  place. 

Twenty-two  hours  on  the  azure  blue  waters  of  the 
Adriatic  took  us  from  the  boot  of  Italy  to  Patras,  on  the 
western  Peloponnesus  of  Greece.  A  lack  of  time  and 
money  prevented  our  going  further  east  than  Greece  and 
Yugoslavia.  For  this  reason  we  were  most  anxious  to 
assimilate  evidences  of  Eastern  culture,  architecture,  and 
the  Byzantine  influence.  Perhaps  it  was  the  influence 
of  that  classic  civilization  pressing  down  on  us,  but  as 
we  landed  at  sunset  and  drove  along  the  deserted  roads 
in  the  creeping  darkness,  we  truly  felt  that  we  were  in 
a  different  part  of  the  world.  In  each  village  men  gathered 
to  chat  in  the  streets  or  in  front  of  the  coffee  houses,  and 
there  was  always  the  bearded  Greek  Orthodox  priest  in 
his  flowing  black  robes  and  his  black  hat. 

The  Acropolis  with  its  magnificent  Parthenon,  tower- 
ing above  the  intriguing  city  of  Athens,  is  truly  a  sight 
to  behold.  One  is  surrounded  by  evidences  of  that  classical 
Greek  civilization  which  shaped  our  own.  This  was  the 
home  of  Socrates,  Plato,  and  Aristotle.  The  impressive 
"Sound  and  Light"  spectacle,  with  the  ruins  of  ancient 
Athens  as  the  performers,  added  a  tremendous  new  di- 
mension to  our  several  visits  to  these  historical  monuments 
of  450  B.  C. 

The  exciting  aspect  of  Greece  was  walking  where  the 
Apostle  Paul  walked  in  Corinth  and  roaming  Mars  Hill 
next  to  the  Acropolis  where  he  preached  his  sermon  we 
read  in  the  Book  of  Acts.  It  was  the  man  with  the  ox-drawn 
cart  getting  water  at  the  stream  and  the  red  poppies 
growing  between  the  steps  at  the  ancient  theatre  at  Philip- 
pi.  It  was  the  thrill  of  exploring  the  ruins  at  Delphi  and 
seeing  Mount  Olympus  shrouded  in  the  clouds.  It  was 
trying  to  read  the  Greek  letters  of  the  street  signs  in 
Athens.  And  it  was  talking  with  Christus  Zaphiris  at  our 
camp  in  Palea  Epidaurus  and  hearing  this  wonderful  old 
Greek  man  say  in  his  seldom  used  English,  "When  you  go 
back  home,  tell  the  people  that  there  is  an  old  man  in 
Greece  who  loves  the  United  States."  He  had  returned 
from  Marlboro,  Massachusetts,  to  fight  for  his  country 
in  1913. 

It  was  fascinating  to  visit  Yugoslavia  and  to  see  real 
supermarkets  for  almost  the  first  time  since  leaving  home. 
The  roads  through  the  interior  were  the  best  we  had 
seen  in  some  months,  and  since  there  are  very  few  auto- 
mobiles, we  had  the  roads  practically  to  ourselves.  The 
cities  were  lovely,  with  no  signs  of  advertising,  and  the 
traffic  officers  in  Belgrade  were  handsomely  uniformed 
all  in  white.  The  Austrian  influence  in  the  northern  area 
of  Yugoslavia  is  considerable.  It  was  wonderful  to  see 
so  many  church  steeples  and  to  hear  the  bells  peal  out 
their  call  in  the  evening. 

From  Yugoslavia  we  drove  on  to  the  troubled  city  of 
Trieste,  now  belonging  to  Italy,  and  then  to  that  most 
fairy-like  of  all  cities  —  Venice.  We  almost  had  the  feel- 
ing that  we  would  soon  be  awakened  from  a  dream  as  we 
chugged  along  the  canals  in  the  Vaporetto  (water  bus) 
and  watched  the  boats  used  for  the  services  of  ambu- 
lances, policemen,  and  even  for  the  collection  of  garbage. 

Music  filled  the  air  as  it  did  in  Austria.  Surely  all  of 
Austria  is  a  musician's  paradise.  The  many  lovely  statues 
of  Brahms,  Mozart,  Beethoven,  and  Strauss,  make  you  feel 
that  they  live  on  there  with  their  music,  and  visiting  their 
homes  and  their  habitat  add  new  dimensions  to  their  musi- 
cal masterpieces.  Mozart's  "The  Magic  Flute"  at  the 
Volksoper  in  Vienna  was  perhaps  the  most  perfect  and 
satisfying  production  of  any  opera  that  we  had  ever  seen. 


What  a  glorious  experience  it  was  to  hear  the  music  of 
Buxtehude  and  Bach  in  St.  Stephen's  Cathedral  as  twilight 
and  darkness  followed  the  sunset. 

The  southern  influence  completely  behind  us  now, 
we  were  on  our  way  to  Switzerland  and  Germany.  Our 
visit  to  the  chalet  of  the  International  Headquarters  of  the 
Girl  Scouts,  in  Adelboden,  Switzerland,  proved  to  be  a 
worthwhile  venture.  This  took  us  into  a  more  remote  and 
beautiful  area  of  this  gorgeous  country  where  we  enjoyed 
the  rushing  mountain  streams,  the  snow-covered  Alps,  and 
the  many  Heidi-like  houses.  We  loved  the  wooden  bridge 
at  Lucerne,  the  bears  in  the  bear  pit  at  Berne,  the  beau- 
tiful town  clocks,  quaint  streets,  and  the  potted  flowers 
lining  the  streets. 

How  refreshing  it  was  to  go  through  customs  in 
Switzerland  with  just  a  wave  from  the  officials  and  a  brief 
look  at  our  passport  by  the  Germans.  Our  first  acquaint- 
ance with  Germany  was  the  beautiful  Black  Forest  with 
the  appealing  hand-carved  and  painted  direction  signs  at 
Titisee.  Our  visit  to  Fritz  Wetzel's  wood-carving  shop  was 
like  a  real  life  visit  to  the  workshop  of  Santa  Claus  himself. 

We  dipped  into  France  again  to  visit  Albert  Schweit- 
zer's home  and  church  at  Gunsbach  and  then  on  to  Stutt- 
gart, Germany,  for  a  memorable  visit  with  the  Spiess  fam- 
ily. We  had  met  this  outstanding  family  in  April  while 
camping  on  the  southern  coast  of  France.  Now,  as  we 
approached  Stuttgart,  they  were  working  in  the  flower 
garden  of  their  lovely  modern  home.  They  insisted  that 
we  stay  with  them  rather  than  camp  in  their  municipal 
camping  area,  and  after  a  delightful  visit  and  walk  in  their 
neighborhood,  we  sat  at  their  table  for  dinner  —  with 
Herr  and  Frau  Speiss,  Heidrun,  20,  and  Peter,  10.  Their 
18  year  old  daughter,  Ute,  was  studying  in  California,  as 
an  exchange  student  with  the  American  Field  Service. 
Three  older  children  have  left  home  and  begun  their 
careers.  We  had  a  wonderful  visit  together,  even  though 
Heidrun  was  the  only  one  who  knew  all  that  had  been 
said,  since  he  had  the  greatest  command  of  the  two  lang- 
uages. 

Herr  Speiss  is  a  lawyer,  who  works  in  the  Finance 
Division  of  the  government  of  the  Federal  German  Re- 
public. He  gave  us  an  extended  tour  of  Stuttgart  on  foot 
the  following  day,  and  it  was  a  revelation  to  see  how 
beautifully  they  are  re-building  this  city  which  was  sev- 
enty percent  destroyed  during  the  war. 

After  seeing  beautiful  Heidelberg,  w-e  visited  with  an 
army  couple  we  had  camped  with  several  times  in  Italy. 
It  was  fascinating  to  see  how  so  many  of  our  fellow  Ameri- 
cans live  at  the  U.  S.  Army  installations  in  Baumholder, 
Germany.  How  different  it  was  to  sleep  in  a  real  bed  and 
to  eat  real  American  food  from  an  American  commissary. 
We  even  had  hot  showers  without  putting  a  pfennig  in 
a  slot  and  having  to  hurry  before  our  meter  ran  down. 

From  there  we  made  our  way  up  the  Rhine  Valley 
toward  the  Netherlands.  How  often  we  had  pictured  the 
Rhine  River  as  we  listened  to  Wagner's  music,  and  there 
we  were,  camping  within  twenty  feet  of  it.  Imagine  hang- 
ing your  clothes  to  dry  as  you  look  out  over  this  busy  river 
with  barges  and  ships  going  to  and  fro,  trains  running 
along  the  other  side  of  the  river,  and  busy  highways  on 
either  side.  The  several  castles  we  could  see  from  our 
own  area  were  reminiscent  of  a  vastly  different  past. 
What  stories  their  ruined  walls  could  tell. 

The  magnificent  cathedral  at  Cologne  with  its  twin 
filigree  towers  was  quite  a  contrast  to  the  six  modern 
bridges  that  span  the  Rhine  there.  The  concert  halls  with 
the   beautiful   restaurants   beckoned   their  welcome. 


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Holland  is  like  a  huge  Van  Gogh  canvas.  The  yellows 
-eally  are  the  color  of  straw  and  the  canals  are  even 
nore  numerous  than  we  expected.  Here  a  modern  bridge, 
and  there  a  quaint  one.  How  amazing  their  dykes  are  and 
A-hat  a  persistent  battle  they  have  with  the  sea  to  keep 
;heir  beautiful  land.  Perhaps  we  should  not  have  been 
surprised,  but  we  did  not  expect  to  see  such  a  large 
Driental  element  there.  It  was  a  delightful  contrast.  In 
f\msterdam  we  visited  the  Rijks  Museum  and  the  home 
3f.  Rembrandt,  and  at  the  Hague  we  saw  the  house  in 
ivhich  Spinoza  lived. 

In  Belgium  it  was  as  if  we  were  back  in  the  Middle 
Ages.  We  stood  in  the  square  in  Brussels  known  as  La 
3rande  Place,  surrounded  by  the  ancient  Guild  Halls  and 
the  Hotel  de  Ville,  or  City  Hall.  How  magnificent  they  are 
with  their  brilliantly  colored  medieval  flags  and  cornices 
af  gold  leaf. 

Getting  back  to  Paris  and  particularly  back  to  Great 
Britain  was  like  getting  back  home.  The  three  and  a  half 
weeks  that  we  had  scheduled  for  our  final  tour  of  Great 
Britain  did  not  allow  us  the  leisure  we  had  anticipated. 
There  is  so  much  to  see  and  to  absorb  in  this  wonderful 
island  that  has  contributed  so  much  to  the  growth  and 
development  of  our  own  country.  There  was  the  picnic 
we  had  at  Runnymede,  where  King  John  signed  the  Magna 
Carta.  There  were  the  memorable  visits  to  the  cathedrals 
at  Coventry,  Canterbury,  Lincoln  and  Durham.  There 
were  visits  in  the  homes  of  Shakespeare,  John  Bunyan 
and  Wordsworth.  Hadrian's  Wall  just  south  of  Scotland 
impressed  us  again  with  the  vast  reaches  of  the  Roman 
Empire. 

There  was  Princess  Street  in  Edinburgh  and  the  castle 
high  on  the  hill  guarded  by  those  fascinating  Scots  wear- 
ing their  Sutherland  Tartans.  Edinburgh  University,  St. 
Gile's  Church,  and  the  home  of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson, 
"with  a  lamp  beside  the  door,"  caused  chills  to  run  up  and 
down  our  spines  once  again. 

We  had  been  living  in  another  world  where  history 
WES  made,  but  history  had  not  stopped.  .As  we  camped 
south  of  Loch  Lomond,  we  saw  the  first  Telstar  telecast 
take  place. 

In  Wales,  we  last  encountered  the  fascinating  exper- 
ience with  a  foreign  language,  though  English  is  widely 
spoken.  There  really  is  a  place  called  Llanfairpwllgwyng- 
yllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandyslliogogogoch,  but  which  ev- 
en the  local  inhabitants  call  Llanfair. 

August  5.  1962  —  We  were  back  on  our  Dutch  ship, 
the  S.  S.  Ryndam.  That  dream  of  all  dreams  had  become 
a  reality,  but  now,  somehow,  it  seemed  more  like  a  dream 
than  e\er  before.  The  whole  trip  had  far  exceeded  our 
most  fantastic  expectations.  The  children  had  maintained 
an  amazing  degree  of  enthusiasm  until  the  very  end.  It 
had  increased  our  knowledge  and  our  desire  for  know- 
ledge and  our  love  for  the  wonderful  people  of  those 
countries  whose  wonders  we  had  explored. 

When  we  worshiped  at  the  beautifully  simple  Re- 
formed Church  in  Begijnof  Square  in  Amsterdam,  where 
the  pilgrims  had  worshiped  before  sailing  to  America,  we 
sang  these  words  of  John  Wesley: 

"O  Lord  enlarge  our  scanty  thought 
To  know  the  wonders  Thou  hast  wrought; 
Unloose  our  stammering  tongues. 
To  tell  Thy  love  immense,  unsearchable." 

Our  scanty  thoughts  had  been  enlarged,  and,  oh,  the 
wonders  that  we  had  experienced!  Would  that  we  could 
"unloose  our  stammering  tongues  to  tell  His  love  immense, 
unsearchable." 


Albert  Schweitzer's  church  in  Guns- 
bach  .  .  .  "it  dominated  the  country- 
side." 


St.    James    Palace    in    London    .    .    . 

"the  children  were  fascinated   by   the 
dignified    guards." 


The  Bergmarks:  Edward,  Martha,  Dr. 
Bergmark,  Mrs.  Bergmark  and 
Christina  .  .  .  "the  inevitable  pass- 
port photo  and  the  beginning  of 
our  great  adventure." 


"ART  EQUALS  LOVE 


By  KARL  WOLFE 


Karl  Wolfe,  noted  Mississippi  artist  and  instructor  of  art  since  1946  at  Millsaps 
College,  will  present  a  program,  "Religious  Implications  in  Visual  Art,"  Monday 
evening,    April    29,    in    the   assembly    room    of    the   Municipal    Library. 

Mr.  Wolfe's  presentation  is  included  in  the  fine  arts  series  sponsored  by  the 
library  on  Monday  evenings,  which  will  also  feature  a  program  by  Jackson 
author  Eudora  Welty  April  I.  (Miss  Welty,  a  familiar  figure  at  Millsaps,  will  be 
a    guest    at    the    upcoming    Southern    Literary    Festival    at    Millsaps    April     18-20.) 

Mr.  Wolfe  gave  permission  to  the  editors  to  publish  the  following  excerpts 
from  his  forthcoming  lecture  —  a  treat,  we  feel,  for  far-flung  alumni  unable 
to  be  in  Jackson  April  29  —  and  a  teaser  for  the  Millsaps  group  who  will 
attend  the  event  at  the  library.  Mr.  Wolfe  will  show  slides  to  accompany  his 
talk.     The    art    reproduced    on    these    pages    is    an    example    of    his    work. 


People   in    Church 

(painted  by  the  artist  in   1943,  awarded  gold 

medal  from  Parthenon,   Nashville.) 


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IN  its  largest  sense,  Art  is  like  love.  You  can't 
see  love,  you  can  only  feel  it.  The  v\/ay  we  know 
it  exists,  otherwise,  is  through  an  act:  an  act  of  love. 
This  may  take  a  variety  of  forms,  from  a  kind  word 
to  total  sacrifice.  An  art-form  or  a  work  of  art  is  the 
thing  that  shows  us  Art  exists. 


I'm  not  sure  where  the  idea  of  representation 
came  from,  and  the  more  I  think  about  it,  the  less 
I  understand  it.  A  better  word  is  image.  An  image 
is  a  thing  that  is  created,  not  copied  ...  or  you  could 
say  it  is  a  state  of  mind  made  visible. 


.  .  .  What  I  would  like  to  establish  is  that  since 
our  religion  is  totally  dependent  on  love,  and  since 
art  has  exactly  this  same  dependence,  then  we  can 
say  that  art  and  religion  are  very  close:  almost  the 
same  thing.  For  what  we  love  most  is  really  what  we 
worship,  no  matter  what  we  do  on  Sunday.  At  least 
we  can  say  that  the  art  impulse  and  the  religious 
impulse  originate  in  the  same  compartment  of  that 
mysterious  apparatus  we  call  the  human  soul. 


Now  this  faculty  to  love  is  a  most  ordinary  part 
of  every  person's  makeup  .  .  .  but  if  you  had  asked 
AAr.  Robert  Frost  what  he  thought  a  man  ought  to  do 
with  this  faculty,  you'd  find  he  had  already  given  a 
quick  and  definite  answer:  "Man's  got  to  love  what's 
loveable  and  hate  what's  hateable." 


The  Artist  at  work  in  his  Studio 


Our  species  has  arrived  at  an  age  of  fear,  after 
what  seems  an  incredibly  short  time  on  this  planet.  In 
our  hands  is  the  instrument  of  our  destruction,  which 
we  are  told  could  also  operate  to  give  the  race  of 
man  undreamed  benefits.  This  is  our  dilemma,  and 
it  seems  that  after  centuries  of  prayer  to  be  delivered 
from  the  wrath  of  God,  most  of  us  are  too  shame- 
faced to  ask  to  be  delivered  from  our  own  in- 
adequacies. 


It  has  been  said  that  the  artists  who  painted  these 
animals  (on  the  cave  walls  at  Lascaux,  in  southern 
France,  20,000  years  ago)  belonged  to  a  race  of  people 
whose  remains  show  them  to  have  been  magnificent 
physical  specimens,  the  ideal  noble  savage  .  .  .  And 
when  we  learn  that  the  Lascaux  paintings  represent 
a  peak  of  achievement,  followed  by  later  paintings 
not  nearly  as  fine  and  later  ones  worse  still,  we  are 
confronted  at  this  early  date  in  history  with  a  firm 
denial  of  the  idea  that  progress  has  been  one  long 
unbroken  development  to  our  day,  and  that  we  sit 
on  the  highest  peak  of  human  achievement. 


Blind  Date  (1943) 


11 


Behold  Thy  Son  (1962) 


.  .  .  Why  were  all  Egyptian  artists  for  centuries 
compelled  to  draw  the  same  way?  The  answer  is 
that  the  ancient  Egyptian  government  was  a  hierarchy, 
something  like  a  totalitarian  state,  completely  domi- 
nated by  the  God-pharaoh  and  a  caste  of  priests  .  .  . 
But  even  in  this  rigidity,  we  come  across  occasional 
expressions  of  simple  emotions  so  identical  with  ours 
that  across  the  centuries  we  feel  again  what  was 
felt  by  unknown  people  who  worked,  rested,  loved 
and  suffered  as  we  do. 


For  centuries  (in  Greece)  each  new  generation  of 
sensitive  Hellenes  was  surrounded  by  more  and  more 
superb  objects,  from  a  jar  to  hold  oil  in  a  kitchen,  to 
the  temples  which  crowned  their  Acropolis;  each 
object  warmly  human,  each  a  witness  to  what  man 
can  do,  each  mutely  affirming  what  Socrates  echoed 
—  that  since  men  can  be  much,  simply  to  be  is  not 
enough. 


One  dominant  Greek  idea  was  contained  in  two 
words:  know  thyself.  These  might  be  emblazoned 
on  the  walls  of  our  classrooms  and  perhaps  express 
the  largest  aim  of  education  .  .  .  The  Greek  found  the 
pattern  for  himself,  within  himself.  He  demanded  the 
right  to  become  all  it  was  possible  for  him  to  be- 
come, thought  it  immoral  to  be  less. 


The  architecture  of  the  Chartres  cathedral  came 
out  of  books,  but  not  the  kind  Palladio  compiled.  In 
the  second  century  A.  D.,  St.  Augustine  wrote  that 
the  enjoyment  of  heaven  might  be  like  the  deep 
pleasure  that  comes  from  listening  to  a  great  sym- 
phony in  which  all  elements  have  been  brought  to 
a  state  of  harmony  and  concord.  This  idea,  poetic 
to  us,  was  to  the  planners  of  Gothic  churches  a 
glimpse  of  ultimate  reality. 


12 


We  tend  to  think  that  art  of  the  past  is  superior 
to  that  created  today,  and  often  doubt  that  contem- 
porary artists  can  compete  wih  the  ancients.  Art  of 
the  past  is  often  full  of  rich  meaning,  because  this 
was  demanded  of  it  —  in  vigorous  times  —  when 
meaning  was  demanded  of  everything  ...  It  is  hard 
to  tell  whether  we  today  are  vigorous  or  decadent, 
but  easy  to  see  that  we  are  ridden  by  anxiety  and 
confusion  ...  In  our  world  the  customer  is  always 
right,  and  all  products,  even  art,  are  geared  to  this 
level.  But  customer  demand  is  largely  due  to  pres- 
sures of  advertising  and  planned  obsolescence,  and 
there  are  so  many  experts  to  tell  us  what  to  see, 
think,  feel,  and  how  to  do  our  hair,  that  the  exercise 
of  imaginative,  free  choice  or  discrimination  seems 
all  but  extinguished  .  .  .  History  seems  to  prove  that 
man's  best  environment  (artistically)  is  not  ease,  but 
struggle. 


Things  from  the  past  are  not  good  because 
they  are  old,  any  more  than  new  things  are  good 
because  they  are  new. 

Quality,  virtue  or  goodness  is  timeless.  It  re- 
mains the  same  whether  acclaimed  or  undiscovered. 

Our  measure  is  not  how  fast  or  far  we  can  go  .  .  . 
Our  stature,  even  on  the  moon,  will  be  measured  by 
what  we  love. 


Neither  the  Greek  spirit,  nor  the  luminous  Greek 
mind  can  be  acquired  by  building  a  house  with  Greek 
columns.  They  scorned  imitation.  If  we  would  pos- 
sess their  quality,  we  must  invent  a  house  of  our  own, 
for  our  own  spirit. 


Bebe   in   a   Bonnet  (1953) 
(portrait  of  the  Wolfes'  daughter) 


Major  Miscellany 

19001919 

Harvey  K.  Bubenzer,  '01.  paid  a  visit 
to  the  campus  recently,  and  dropped  by 
the  alumni  office  with  a  June,  1899 
issue  of  "The  Collegian"  (forerunner 
of  the  Purple  and  White  and  Boba- 
shela.)  Mr.  Bubenzer,  who  enrolled  at 
Millsaps  in  1897,  lives  in  Bunkie,  La., 
where  he  is  owner  of  H.  K.  Bubenzer 
Farms,  Inc.,  and  vice-president  of 
Meeker  Sugar  Cooperative,  a  sugar  re- 
finery firm.  He  has  four  children, 
twelve  grand-children  and  one  great 
grand-child. 

Judge  R.  E.  Jackson,  '06,  retired  from 
the  bench  after  serving  forty  years  as 
circuit  and  chancery  judge  of  Bolivar 
County.  He  received  his  LLB  degree 
from  the  Millsaps  Law  School  and 
served  two  years  in  the  Mississippi 
Senate  before  becoming  a  judge. 

His  last  official  act  before  retirement 
was  administering  the  oath  of  office 
to  two  fellow  Millsaps  alumni.  Judge 
Ed.  H.  Green,  '12,  took  the  oath  as 
Circuit  Judge  for  the  sixth  time.  Judge 
Green  was  elected  to  the  Mississippi 
Legislature  in  1915,  served  one  session 
from  Hinds  County,  and  resigned  in 
1917  to  enter  the  U.  S.  Army.  He  served 
11  years  as  prosecuting  attorney  for 
Bolivar  County  and  since  becoming 
Circuit  Judge  in  1943  has  been  reelect- 
ed  without  opposition.  Judge  William 
H.  Bizzell,  '39,  was  sworn  in  as  succes- 
sor to  Judge  Jackson.  He  was  elected 
chancery  judge  this  year. 

The  1963  First  Federal  Foundation 
Award  was  presented  to  Fred  B.  Smith, 
'12.  One  of  three  Mississippians  so 
honored  this  year,  Mr.  Smith  is  a  native 
of  Tippah  County  and  an  attorney  in 
Ripley,  Miss.  Winners  of  the  award, 
presented  annually  by  the  University 
of  ^lississippi,  are  selected  as  a  result 
of  nominations  submitted  throughout 
the  state.  The  awards  program  honors 
Mississippians  for  outstanding  achieve- 
ments and  distinguished  service  in  be- 
half of  the  state. 

W.  S.  Henley,  '18.  was  a  featured 
speaker  and  participant  in  the  annual 
Mississippi  Law  Institute  held  in  Jack- 
son. A  former  president  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi Bar  Association,  Mr.  Henley 
is  a  fellow,  American  Bar  Foun- 
dation and  American  College  of 
Trial  Lawyers.  The  subject  of  his 
presentation  to  the  Institute  was  "Se- 
cured  Transactions." 

J.  S.  Shipman,  '18,  reports  that  he  is 
"still  well  and  working"  as  an  attend- 
ing eye  surgeon  at  Wills  Eye  Hospital, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Ship- 
man  lives  with  his  wife  and  daughters 
in  Camden,  N.  J. 


1920-1929 

Charles  H.  Carr,  '20-'22,  a  resident 
of  Los  Angeles,  California,  has  been 
appointed  judge  of  the  U.  S.  District 
Court. 

Mrs.  R.  W.  Campbell  (Texas  Mitchell, 
'23-'25)  is  listed  in  the  new  edition  of 
"Who's  Who  of  American  Women," 
published  by  A.  N.  Marquis  Co. 

W.  Merle  Mann,  '28,  was  named  1963 
president  of  the  2300-member  Jackson 
Chamber  of  Commerce  at  the  cham- 
ber's annual  meeting  held  at  the  Mis- 
sissippi Coliseum.  Mrs.  Mann  is  the 
former  Frances  VVortman,  '28.  In  his 
speech  as  the  new  president.  Mr.  Mann 
gave  members  a  preview  of  the  1963 
program  for  the  city.  Chamber  execu- 
tive vice-president  Mendell  Davis,  '37, 
introduced  guest  speakers  at  the  meet- 
ing, and  Dr.  W.  B.  Selah,  pastor  of 
Galloway  Memorial  IMethodist  Church, 
gave  the  invocation.  A  record-breaking 
crowd  of  over  1000  attended. 
1930-1939 

Mrs.  Leora  Thompson  (Leora  Cor- 
delia White,  '37)  was  recipient  of  a 
$300  award  from  the  "Wall  Street 
Journal."  She  used  the  funds  to  study 
Law  of  Communications,  Researc'n 
Methods  in  Journalism  and  French  at 
the  University  of  Indiana.  Mrs.  Thomp- 
son teaches  at  Edwardsville  High 
School  in  Edwardsville,  Illinois. 

Dr.  C.  Ray  Hozendorf,  '34,  was  re- 
cently elected  to  the  Board  of  Publica- 
tions of  the  Methodist  Church.  Dr. 
Hozendorf  is  pastor  of  the  First  Meth- 
odist Church,  El  Dorado,  Ark. 

C.  R.  Ridgway,  '35,  was  elected  to 
the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  First 
National  Bank,  Jackson. 


19401949 

Mrs.  John  Harrison  Sivley  (Martha 
Mansfield,  '42)  is  living  with  her  fam- 
ily in  Bedford,  Virginia,  where  Mr. 
Sivley  is  rector  of  St.  John's  Episcopal 
Church.  The  Sivleys  are  parents  of 
nine  year  old  twins  James   and  John. 

Robert  M.  Yarbrough,  Jr.,  '47,  head- 
master of  Christchurch  School,  Christ- 
church,  Virginia,  was  recently  elected 
to  the  executive  committee  of  the  Vir- 
ginia Association  of  Preparatory 
Schools.  He  is  president-elect  for 
1963-64. 

Bruce  C.  Carruth,  '49,  ha*  terminated 
his  work  as  clinical  psychologist  with 
the  Mental  Health  Center,  Johnson 
City,  Tenn.,  and  is  now  Professor  of 
Psychology,  Emory  and  Henry  College, 
Emory,   Virginia. 

Alan  R.  Holmes,  '43,  is  author  of 
"The  New  York  Foreign  Exchange 
Market,"  a  book  describing  the  market 
as  it  exists  today.  He  lives  in  South 
Orange,  N.  J. 

Tom  B.  Scott,  Jr.,  '40-43,  was  rec- 
ently named  president  of  First  Federal 
Savings  and  Loan  Association.  He  and 
Mrs.  Scott  (Betty  Hewes,  '42-'44)  have 
four  children.  Mrs.  Scott  is  presently 
serving  as  president  of  the  Jackson 
Symphony  League,  and  Mr.  Scott  is 
a  member  of  the  board  of  the  Jackson 
Symphony  Association. 

The  Reverend  Robert  F.  Nay,  '49, 
pastor  of  the  Methodist  Church  in 
Westmoreland,  N.  Y.,  and  the  Reverend 
Harold  I.  Thomas,  '49,  pastor  of  Pine 
Hills  Methodist  Church,  Orlando,  Fla., 
recently  worked  together  on  a  project 
to  aid  Cuban  refugees.  Mr.  Nay  called 
his  Millsaps  classmate  in  Orlando  to 
ask  his  aid  in  delivering  7,000  pounds 
of  clothing  to  the  refugee  center  in 
Miami.  The  two  alumni,  who  also 
attended  Candler  School  of  Theology 
at  Emory  University,  successfully  com- 
pleted the  refugee-aid  project  and  re- 
newed an  old  friendship  as  well.  Mrs. 
Nay  is  the  former  Mary  Ethel  Mize,  '46. 

1950-1959 

M.  S.  Corban,  '54.  recently  began  his 
first  year  of  a  four  year  orthopedic 
residency  at  Charity  Hospital,  New 
Orleans. 

Lt.  (jg)  William  T.  Jeanes,  '59,  is 
serving  as  a  senior  watch  officer  and 
underway  officer  of  the  deck  aboard 
the  aircraft  carrier  USS  Intrepid. 

The  Reverend  C.  E.  DeWeese,  Jr.,  '51, 
is  author  of  the  morning  worship  ma- 
terials to  be  published  in  the  spring 
issues  of  "Roundtable,"  national  Meth- 
odist magazine  for  senior  high  school 
students. 


13 


Byrd  Hillman,  Jr.,  '52  '57,  was  grad- 
uated from  the  Candler  School  of  The- 
ology, Emory  University,  in  December, 
and  has  accepted  an  appointment  as 
pastor  of  the  Buckatunna-State  Line 
Charge.  His  new  address  is  Buckatun- 
na,  Mississippi. 

William  D.  Bailey,  '53-'54,  has  been 
appointed  to  the  membership  service 
committee  of  the  American  Chamber  of 
Commerce  Executives,  the  national 
management  association  of  over  2000 
Chamber  of  Commerce  executives.  Mr. 
Bailey  is  manager  of  the  Pascagoula, 
Miss.,  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Charles  W.  Allen,  Jr.,  '54,  teaches 
business  administration  courses  in  the 
U.C.L.A.  Extension  division  and  is  as- 
sistant to  the  comptroller.  Space  Tech- 
nology Laboratories.  He  and  Mrs. 
Allen  (Lynn  McGrath,  '54)  live  in  Ca- 
noga  Park,  Calif. 

Robert  B.  Mims,  '57,  has  been  ap- 
pointed general  agent  for  Jackson, 
Miss.,  by  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  In- 
surance Company. 

Henry  Pipes  Mills,  Jr.,  '53,  is  in  his 
final  semester  of  opthamology  residen- 
cy at  Baylor  University  Medical  School. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mills,  and  their  three 
children,  live  in  Houston,  Texas. 

Pat  H.  Curtis,  '53,  was  recently  com- 
missioned an  "admiral"  in  the  Nebraska 
Navy.  Gov.  Frank  B.  Morrison  issued 
the  commission.  Since  1931,  admiral 
rank  in  the  mythical  "fresh  water  flo- 
tilla" has  been  awarded  outstanding 
citizens.  Another  recent  "admiral" 
named  was  Vice  President  Lyndon  B. 
Johnson. 

Dot    Hubbard,    '51,    is    a    Methodist 
missionary  in  Taejon,  Korea. 
1960-1962 

Frank  G.  Carney,  '61,  a  student  at 
Duke  Divinity  School,  was  recently 
elected  treasurer  of  the  student  body. 


Events  Of  Note  .  .  . 

(Continued  from  Page  4) 

WILSON   FELLOWS 

Millsaps  graduates  ranked  high 
among  Methodist  colleges  and  universi- 
ties in  the  1961-62  statistical  report  rec- 
ently released  by  the  Woodrow  Wilson 
Fellowship   Foundation. 

Three  hundred  seventy  fellows  elect- 
ed by  the  foundation  are  graduates  of 
53  Methodist-related  colleges  and  uni- 
versities, and  Millsaps  ranked  eighth 
in   the    top    ten,   with   fifteen    fellows. 

For  the  year  1962-63,  the  foundation 
awarded  sixty-two  fellowships  from  23 
Methodist  schools,  with  the  year's  top 
ten  showing  Millsaps  in  sixth  place, 
with  four  fellowships. 


lection  available  are  the  Singers'  two 
most  recent  recordings  plus  their  orig- 
inal record,  directed  by  the  founder  of 
the  Millsaps  Singers,  Dr.  Alvin  Jon 
"Pop"  King. 


^SINGERS  TOUR 

The  1963  tour  of  the  Millsaps  Singers 
will  include  eight  states,  and  the  con- 
cert touring  choir,  under  the  direction 
of  Leland  Byler,  "hits  the  road"  April 
5,  returning  April  20.  Fifty-two  student 
members  of  the  choir,  accompanied  by 
Mr.  Byler  and  two  chaperons,  will  per- 
form by  invitation  at  churches,  colleges 
and  hospitals  in  Tennessee,  Virginia, 
Maryland,  North  Carolina,  South  Caro- 
lina, Georgia,  Alabama,  and  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.  A  tour  highlight  for  the 
Singers  will  be  a  special  tour  of  the 
White  House. 

Three  long-play  recordings  by  the 
Singers  are  now  available.  The  records 
are  on  sale  at  the  College  for  $3.50 
each,  and  orders  should  be  mailed  to 
Department  of  Public  Relations,  Mill- 
saps, accompanied  by  check  or  money 
order  made  to  Millsaps  College,  with 
a  notation  indicating  the  check  is  for 
a  Singers  record.    Included  in  the  se- 


14       I. 


DANFORTH    AWARD 

^jQaath,an  Sweat,  associate  professor 
of  music,^  has  been  awarded  a  1963-64 
Danforth  teacher  grant  by  the  Danforth 
Foundation.  Mr.  Sweat,  a  member  of 
the  faculty  since  1958,  was  one  of  forty 
faculty  members  in  the  United  States, 
out  of  461  nominees,  chosen  by  the 
foundation.  A  native  of  Corinth,  he 
was  the  only  nominee  from  a  Missis- 
sippi college  or  university  selected. 
Nominations  to  the  foundation  were 
provided  by  deans  of  senior  colleges 
and  universities,  with  selection  made 
on  the  basis  of  academic  ability,  per- 
sonal qualities  promising  success  in 
teaching,  and  religious  commitment 
and  inquiry  in  the  candidate's  own 
faith. 

Mr.  Sweat  will  engage  in  study 
toward  the  Ph.  D.  degree  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan.  The  award  pro- 
vides a  calendar  year  of  graduate  study 
of  the  candidate's  choosing. 


RIDGWAY  GIFT 

The  family  of  Mrs.  C.  R.  Ridgway, 
Sr.,  and  the  late  Mr.  Ridgway  presented 
a  Moeller/  pipe  organ  to  the  College. 
The  handsome  organ  is  a  two  manual 
pipe  organ  consisting  of  eighteen  ranks. 
The  wood  finish  is  light  oak.  The  gift 
was  made  by  members  of  the  Ridgway 
family  to  honor  their  mother  and  as 
a  memorial  to  their  father. 

The  organ  was  formally  dedicated  in 
a  recital  presented  by  Donald  Kilmer, 
instructor  of  music. 

The  children  of  Mrs.  Ridgway,  Sr., 
and  her  late  husband  are  all  Millsaps 
alumni,  and  two  grand-daughters  are 
now  members  of  the  freshman  class. 
Mrs.  Ridgway,  Sr.,  nee  Hattie  Hum- 
phries Lewis,  attended  Millsaps  during 
the  1903-04  session  and  received  her 
A.  B.  degree  from  Whitworth  College 
in  1907.  The  late  Mr.  Ridgway  was  a 
Millsaps  graduate  in  the  class  of  1904. 

Members  of  the  Ridgway  family  pre- 
senting the  organ  are:  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
C.  R.  Ridgway,  Jr.,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bryant 
Ridgway,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  Clark  Bos- 
well  (nee  Ruth  Ridgway),  Jackson;  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Walter  Ridgway,  New  Canaan, 
Connecticut;  and  General  and  Mrs. 
R.  E.  Blount  (nee  Alice  Ridgway),  Che- 
vy Chase,  Md. 


The  New  Moeller  Pipe  Organ,  played 
by  Donald  Kilmer  in  the  dedicatory 
recital  at  the  Millsaps  Christian  Center 
Auditorium. 


Tmi^^ 


VUTU^t  AlO^^N' 


Children  listed  in  this  column  must 

under  one  year  of  age.    Please  re- 
rt   births  promptly   to   assure   publi- 
:ion). 
rravis  Neal  Calhoun,  born  March  24 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Neal  Calhoun  (Mary 
larton,  "47),  of  Madisonville,  Ken- 
:ky.  Carolyn,  9,  Charles,  7.  and  Rosie, 
complete  the  family. 
Vliriam  Carol  Conerly,  born  Decem- 
r  18  to  Dr.  and  I\Irs.  J.  B.  Conerly 
heresa  Terry),  '52  and  '55,  of  Colum- 
1,  Mississippi.  She  was  welcomed  by 
r  brother.   Clay. 

Christine  Elizabeth  Corban,  born  to 
■.  and  Mrs.  M.  S.  Corban  (Margaret 
ithorn),  '54  and  '52-'53,  of  Metairie, 
luisiana,  on  September  14. 
[Ihuel  Peyton  Dickinson,  Jr.,  born 
ly  21  to  Mr.  &  Mrs.  Rhuel  Peyton 
ckinson  (Eugenia  Kelly,  '57),  of  Ya- 
0  City. 
Lloyd   A.   Doyle,   III,    born    April    13 

the  Reverend  and  Mrs.  Lloyd  A. 
)yle,  of  Paducah.  Kentucky.  The 
!verend  Doyle  was  graduated  in  1957. 
Grady  Oberry  Floyd,  Jr.,  born  Octo- 
r  3  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grady  Oberry 
oyd.  Sr.  (Sara  Nell  Dyess,  '52),  of 
intsville,  Alabama. 
Mary  Frances  Hillman,  born  to  the 
;verend  and  Mrs.  Byrd  Hillman,  Jr., 
Buckatunna,  Mississippi,  on  June 
.  The  Reverend  Hillman  attended 
illsaps.  '52-'57.  Mary  Frances  was 
?lcomed  by  a  brother,  Byrd,  III. 
Lewis  Wayne  Hunt,  born  September 

to  l\Ir.  and  Mrs.  George  L.  Hunt,  Jr. 
0  Glyn  Hughes),  '55  and  '54,  of  Ark- 
lelphia,  Arkansas. 

Jennifer  Marie  Lampkin,  born  De- 
mber  31  to  the  Reverend  and  Mrs. 
.  R.  Lampkin  (Johnnie  Marie  Swin- 
ill),  '60  and  '57,  of  Ripley,  Mississippi. 
Margaret  Kelly  Lemon,  born  to  Mr. 
id  Mrs.  Brad  Lemon,  of  Jackson,  on 
ily  2.  Mrs.  Lemon  is  the  former 
ancy  Neyman,  '59. 

Julie  Katherine  McAtee,  born  No- 
■mber  28  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  McAtee 
'arolyn  Mahaffey),  '60  and  •58-'59,  of 
ayton,  Utah. 

Charles  Brian  Parker,  4  months, 
lopted  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  E. 
arker  (Mary  Ruth  Brasher),  '54  and 
3-'54,   of  McComb,   on   December  20. 


Steve  Smiley  Ratcliff,  III,  born  Oc- 
tober 17  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Steve  Smiley 
Ratcliff,  Jr.  (Tita  Reid),  both  '59,  of 
Jackson.  Steve  was  welcomed  by  two- 
year-old  Randy  Lynn. 

Stacey  Patricia  Smith,  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Charles  R.  Smith  (Malese 
Brunson,  '60),  of  Norfolk,  'Virginia,  on 
September   14. 

Margaret  Suzette  Songy,  born  Octo- 
ber 10,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  J. 
Songy  (Claudette  Westerfield,  '56),  of 
Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey.  She  was  wel- 
comed by  Kean,  3V2,  and  Claude,  2. 

Rhy  Still,  born  November  15  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Robert  M.  Still  (Mary  Lee 
Bethune.  '56-'58),  of  Gary,  North  Caro- 
lina. He  was  welcomed  by  two  broth- 
ers, Rob,  3,  and  Wright,  16  months. 


3n  i^emoriam 

This  column  is  dedicated  to  the  mem- 
ory 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  pos- 
sible. Those  whose  memory  we  honor 
are  as  follows: 

James  R.  Bain,  '25-'27,  who  died  De- 
cember 16  after  a  long  illness.  He  was 
a  resident  of  Vicksburg. 

U'illiam  H.  Bell,  ■27-'30,  who  died 
November  16.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Jackson. 

Richard  G.  Caldwell,  '35,  who  died 
November  24  after  a  lengthy  illness. 
He  was  a  resident  of  Flora,  Mississippi. 

N.  L.  Cassibry,  Sr.,  '09-'14,  who  died 
in  April.  He  was  a  resident  of  Cleve- 
land. Mississippi. 

Robert  L.  Durr,  '48-'49,  who  died 
January  22  in  Leghorn,  Italy,  where 
he  was  serving  with  the  U.  S.  Army 
Engineers.  He  had  formerly  lived  in 
IMemphis. 

Mrs.  Elsie  Barge  Hennington  (Elsie 
Barge),  Whitworth  '14-15,  who  died 
December  16.  She  was  a  resident  of 
Brookhaven. 

Mrs.  John  H.  Howie  (Mary  Tally  Nor- 
grejs),  Whitworth,  '96-'97,  who  died  No- 
vember 29.  She  was  a  resident  of 
Jackson. 

Miss  Alice  Myrtle  Johnson,  '11,  who 
died  November  23  following  a  lengthy 
illness.    She  was  a  resident  of  Jackson. 

Mrs.  J.  W.  Malone,  former  faculty 
member  of  Grenada  College  and  widow 
of  one  of  the  institution's  presidents, 
who  died  September  30.  She  was  a  res- 
ident of  Pass  Christian., 

Frank    L.    Mayes,    '03-'05,    who    died 


September  12.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Jackson. 

The  Reverend  B.  B.  Rogers,  '36-'39, 
who  died  in  an  automobile  accident 
January  25.  He  was  the  'Vicksburg 
District  Superintendent  for  the  Meth- 
odist  Church. 

Mrs.  George  C.  Swearingen  (Anne 
Buckley),  Whitworth  '90,  who  died  No- 
vember 26.  She  was  the  widow  of  Dr. 
George  Crawford  Swearingen,  who  was 
a  professor  of  classical  languages  at 
Millsaps.  Mrs.  Swearingen  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Jackson. 


Beatrice  Ann  Burke,  '60,  to  Jerry 
Thomas  Fenton.  Living  in  Denver, 
Colorado. 

Nina  Lorine  Cunningham,  '61  to  Ed- 
win Linfield  Redding,  Jr.,  '61.  Living 
in  Memphis. 

Judith  Conley  Curry,  '62,  to  Jefferson 
Davis  Harris,  Jr.,  '58.  Living  in  Jackson 
where  Mr.  Harris  is  on  the  staff  at 
Millsaps. 

Sandra  Lynn  Forsythe,  '60-'61,  to 
Leonard  Bostic  Sanford.  Living  in 
Jackson. 

Barbara  Lynn  Henderson  to  Charles 
Eugene  Phillips,  '59-'62.  Living  in 
Jackson. 

Matelyn  Hines  to  John  Richard 
Countiss,  III,  '50.  Living  in  Jack- 
son. 

Jan  Elizabeth  Hudson,  '59-'62,  to 
Stanley  V.  West.  Living  in  Hatties- 
burg  where  Mrs.  West  is  completing 
her  studies  at  the  University  of  South- 
ern Mississippi. 

Faye  Maria  Johnson  to  W.  Kent 
Prince,  '60.  Living  in  Jackson  where 
Mr.  Prince  is  head  of  publications  and 
public  relations  at  Hinds  Jr.  College. 

Bettye  Jo  Lawrence,  '61,  to  Lt.  Harry 
F.  Sharp.    Living  in  Kingsville,  Texas. 

Barbara  Lynn  Michel,  '62,  to  Joseph 
Edward  Smith,  Jr.    Living  in  Jackson. 

Brenda  Joyce  Parker,  '62,  to  Dr.  Ben- 
ton Mclnnis  Hilbun.  Living  in  Jackson. 

Jonita  Sharp  to  James  Franklin 
Haynes,  '62.  Living  in  Cartersville, 
Georgia. 

Emily  Ruth  Shields,  '60,  to  Lt.  John 
Thomas  Beaver,  U.  S.  N. 

Barbara  Ann  Waybourn  to  Jackie 
Rush  Giffin,  '60.  Living  in  Tulsa, 
Oklahoma. 


15 


Millsaps  College 


Coming  Events  of  Major  Interest: 


Literary  Festival  Highlights 

Speakers: 

Eudora    Welty    —    "Words    into 
Fiction" 

Shelby  Foote  —  "Faulkner  and 
the  Craft  of  the  Novel" 

Nash  Burger  —  "Writine  at  the 
South" 

Laurence  Perrine  —  "On  Poetry" 

Alumni  Day  Highlights 

Special  Reunion 

Honoring  Dr.  Ross  Moore 
Including   History   Majors 
Members  of  I.R.C.  &  O.D.K. 

Special  Reunion 

Grenada  &  Whitworth  Alumnae 

Symposium:  Millsaps  Faculty 

Baseball  Game,  Majors 
Alumni  Day  Banquet 
Play 


Southern   Literary   Festival  — 

April  18,  19,  20 

Alumni  Day,  Special  Reunions  — 

Saturday,  May  4 


MAJOR 

notes 

millsaps  college 
alumni  magazine 

spring,  1963 


I    I     Social  Responsibility: 
the  price  of  excellence 

n     Freedom  Without  Fanfare 


-I 


"What  Right  Has  This  Man?" 

—  special  feature,  page  9 


MAJOIL 

notes 


millsaps  college  alumni  magazine 
spring,   1963 


MERGED  INSTITUTIONS:  Grenada 
College,  Whitworth  College,  Millsaps 
College. 

MEMBER:  American  Alumni  Council, 
American  College  Public  Relations  As- 
sociation. 


CONTENTS 

2  From  the  President 

3  Millsaps  Spring,  '63 

4  Events  of  Note 

5  Social  Responsibility 

—  by  James  Carroll  Simms 

9  What  Right  Has  This  Man? 

25  Freedom  Without  Fanfare 

—  by  Ross  H.  Moore 

26  Major  Miscellany 

27  In  Memoriam 

28  Trustees  Pay  Tribute 

29  From  This  Day 
Future  Alumni 

30  Eye  of  the  Camera 


Volume  4 


April,  1963 


Number  3 


Published  quarterly  by  Millsaps  College  in  Jackson, 
Mississippi.  Entered  as  second  class  matter  on  Oc- 
tober 15,  1959,  at  the  Post  Office  in  Jackson,  Mis- 
sissippi,   under   the    Act    of    August    24,    1912. 


Jane   Petty,    Editor 

James    J.    Livesay,    '41,    Executive    Director,    Alumni 
Association 

Photography    by    Doug    Price,    '64 

Statistics   of   Births,   Marriages,   Deaths    compiled   by 
Linda    Perkins,    '64 


From  the  President 

A  contract  was  let  in  late  May  for  the  renovation 
of  Sullivan-Han-ell  Hall  at  a  cost  of  $291,000.  An  ap- 
preciable amount  of  new  equipment  will  be  added  to 
the  improved  facilities.  Total  cost  for  the  project  in- 
cluding architect's  fees  will  be  $350,000. 

From  the  first  phase  of  the  Development  Program,  a 
total  of  $150,000  has  been  allocated  to  the  project.  The 
United  States  Steel  Grant  of  $15,000  will  be  applied  to 
the  purchase  of  equipment.  The  additional  cost  will  be 
met  by  new  money  which  will  be  secured  through  the 
efforts  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  the  Alumni,  and  the 
Millsaps  Associates. 

The  "new"  building  will  be  ready  for  use  when  the 
September  session  opens.  It  is  hoped  that  our  Alumni 
will  plan  to  see  the  improved  facilities  on  Homecoming 
Day  in  November  or  at  the  earliest  opportunity. 

Millsaps  College  makes  a  substantial  contribution  tc 
the  study  of  science.  A  recent  NASA  study  of  the  Missis 
sippi  educational  system's  ability  to  serve  the  needs  ol 
science  and  industry  reveals  that  our  institution's  percent 
age  of  Bachelor  of  Science  candidates — 26 — is  the  highest 
of  any  college  of  arts  and  sciences  in  the  state.  Only  twc 
universities  have  a  larger  number.  The  number  of  B5 
candidates  at  Millsaps  College  is  237.  Only  two  institu 
tions  show  a  larger  number  —  one  reports  329  in  arts 
and  sciences  and  one  520  in  the  total  enrollment.  Boti 
of  these  institutions  have  undergraduate  enrollments  twc 
to  four  times  as  large  as  the  Millsaps  registration. 

The  College  continues  to  be  highly  respected  in  its 
pre-medical  course  of  study.  Marked  progress  has  beer 
made  in  the  study  of  pure  science. 

In  the  NASA  study  a  number  of  deficiencies  are  alsc 
identified.  The  improved  facilities  and  equipment  wil 
correct  some  of  these.  The  major  challenge  is  in  main 
taining  our  competent  faculty,  providing  them  with  op 
portunities  for  research  and  compensating  them  with  ade 
quate  salaries.  The  administration  is  addressing  itsel 
to  these  problems. 

Our  gratitude  goes  continuously  to  all  alumni  anc 
other  friends  who  show  such  generous  interest  in  anc 
concern  for  the  growing  usefulness  of  our  beloved  Alms 
Mater. 


ON  THE  COVER  —  Dr.  Ros 
Moore,  center,  is  pictured  witl 
four  members  of  the  Class  o 
1963,  all  robed  in  celebratioi 
of  the  graduation  event,  a) 
attentive  to  the  presence  of  ; 
beloved  professor.  The  disting 
uished  teacher,  who  was  hon 
ored  as  senior  member  of  thi 
Millsaps  College  faculty  oi 
Alumni  Day,  expresses  hi 
views  on  academic  freedom  o 
page  25.  The  honor  graduate 
are,  left  to  right:  Frank  Car 
son,  Jackson;  Edward  Harris 
Natchez;  Minnie  Lawson  Law 
hon,  Tupelo;  Cora  Minei 
Meridian. 


MILLSAPS  SPRING,  '63 


.  .  .  atmosphere  for  excellence 


A.  Boyd  Campbell 


"A  requirement  for  excellence  is  an  atmosphere  in  which  it  can  flourish.  Free- 
dom to  pursue  scholarly  research  wherever  it  leads,  to  re-examine  cherished  be- 
liefs and  doctrines,  and  to  teach  the  tiaith,  as  one  sees  it,  is  essential  to  quality 
higher  education.  Faculty  members  have  the  obligation  to  observe  high  standards 
of  integritv  and  behavior,  but, they  must  be  free  to  learn  and  teach." 


Within  Our  Reach,  report  b\'  The  Commission  on  Goals  for  Higher 
Education  in  the  South.  The  late  A.  Boyd  Camp- 
bell, distinguished  Millsaps  College  alumnus,  was 
a  member  of  the  Commission,  which  was  created 
by  the  Southern  Regional  Education  Board. 


Events  of  Note 


LITERARY  FESTIVAL 

Millsaps  was  host  to  the  1963  South- 
ern Literary  Festival  April  18-20, 
which  was  headlined  by  five  disting- 
uished writers  and  attended  by  dele- 
gates from  thirty  member  colleges 
and  universities. 

The  scheduled  addresses  and  semi- 
nars also  attracted  hundreds  of  Mill- 
saps  College  alumni  and  members  of 
the  community.  Dr.  George  Boyd, 
chairman  of  the  department  of  Eng- 
lish, was  president  of  the  1983  festival, 
and  Minnie  Lawson  Lawhon,  Tupelo, 
who  was  graduated  cum  laude  with 
the  1933  class  in  June,  won  first  place 
in  the  festival's  playwrighting  com- 
petition. Johnny  Freeman,  Millsaps 
junior  from  Jackson,  placed  third  in 
the    formal    essay    competition,     and 


Miss  Lawhon  was  awarded  a  third 
place  prize  in  the  short  story  category. 
Sweepstakes  winner  was  Barbara  Dil- 
worth,  M.S.U.,  for  her  entry  in  the 
poetry  category. 

Jacksonian  Eudora  Welly  led  the 
slate  of  distinguished  guest  writers 
who  lectured  and  conducted  seminars 
at  the  festival.  The  Christian  Center 
auditorium  was  filled  to  capacity  on 
the  opening  night  for  Miss  Welly's  ad- 
dress, "Words  Into  Fiction."  The  re- 
nowned author,  a  native  Mississippian, 
also  read  her  short  story,  "Power- 
house," to  the  delegates  and  guests 
attending.  It  was  the  first  time  Miss 
Welty  had  read  the  prize-winning  story 
to  any  audience.  She  conducted  a  sem- 
inar on  the  short  story  the  following 
afternoon. 

The  guest  authors,  three  of  them  na- 
tive Mississippians,  were,  in  addition 
to    Miss    Welty:    Shelby    Foote,    Nash 


Burger,  '25-'27,  Laurence  Perrine  ai 
Robert  Canzoneri. 


1       ,*^ 


FOUNDERS  DAY 

On  Founders  Day,  February  21,  i\ 
Board  of  Trustees  announced  its  di 
cision  to  name  the  campus  studei 
center  the  Boyd  Campbell  Student  Cei 
ter,  in  memory  of  the  late  A.  Boy 
Campbell,  outstanding  Millsaps  Co 
lege  alumnus  and  member  of  th 
board,  who  died  February  20. 

Bishop  Marvin  A.  Franklin,  chaii 
man  of  the  board,  said: 

"Mr.  Campbell  was  advised  of  th 
board's  decision  some  time  ago,  an 
it  was  his  desire  that  no  announce 
ment  be  made  until  after  his  death. 

Dr.  Ross  Moore  was  Founders  Da 
speaker,  and  many  alumni  and  friend 
Df  the  college  attended  the  convocatioi 


U.  S.  STEEL  GRANT 

The  U.  S.  Steel  Foundation  awarde 
a  $15,000  grant  to  Millsaps  College 
and  Dr.  Finger  announced  that  th 
special  grant  will  be  used  as  a  part  c 
the  Ten  Year  Development  Prograr 
funds.  The  development  program  ha 
as  its  long  range  goal,  by  1970,  $7,000 
000  for  endowment  and  capital  irr 
provements. 

Commenting  on  the  special  grant 
Dr.  Finger  said: 

"This  is  another  example  of  ecc 
nomic  statesmanship  on  the  part  c 
business  and  industry.  It  is  most  er 
couraging  to  see  this  growing  recog 
nition  of  the  need  for  greatly  increasei 
support  of  the  nation's  independen 
colleges  and  universities." 


SINGERS  TO  EUROPE 

The  Millsaps  Singers,  conducted  b; 
C.  Leland  Byler,  chairman  of  the  de 
partment  of  music,  have  been  selectei 
by  the  National  Music  Council,  U.  S 
Department  of  Defense,  to  participat 
in  the  U.S.O.  1964  spring  Europeai 
tour.  The  Singers,  who  competed  will 
university  and  college  choral  group 
throughout  the  nation  for  this  honor 
(Continued  on  Page  8) 

REUNION  AT  MILLSAPS  —  Jacb 
son  author  Eudora  Welty  renews  ai 
old  friendship  with  Nash  Burger,  '2£ 
'27,  at  the  Southern  Literary  Festival 
Mr.  Burger,  an  editor  of  the  New  Yorl 
Times  Book  Review,  was  a  classmati 
of  Miss  Welty's  in  the  Jackson  public 
schools. 


SOCIAL  RESPONSIBILITY: 

the   price  of  excellence  in  higher  education 


By  James  Carroll  Simms 


Sociologists  sometimes  are  reluctant  to  discuss  "social 
■^responsibility,"  not  because  they  have  any  distaste 
or  the  subject,  nor  because  they  are  themselves  irre- 
iponsible,  but  perhaps  instead  because  of  the  rather 
rightening  denotative  aspects  of  the  term  itself. 

"Responsibility"  has  many  meanings.  It  means, 
among  other  things,  to  be  ansvv'erable,  to  be  accountable; 
t  refers  to  an  ability  one  may  have  to  respond  or  answer 
'or  his  conduct.  If  one  is  liable  to  respond  in  this  manner, 
;hen  we  can  say  he  is  responsible.  Something  further  is 
mplied  and  assumed  in  this  definition,  for  when  we  speak 
)f  someone  responding  in  this  manner  we  not  only  as- 
sume that  he  is  freely  able  to  do  so,  but  we  further  as- 
lume  that  he  has  the  character  of  a  free  moral  agent. 
rhese  assumptions  further  imply  a  view  of  human  nature, 
'or  if  man  is  free,  then  he  must  also  at  least  have  the 
;apacity  to  become  self-determining  as  well  as  self-reg- 
ilating  —  he  must  at  least  have  the  capacity  to  become 
I  self-controlling  organism  —  and  if  he  has  the  character 
)f  a  moral  agent,  he  must  also  be  capable  of  discerning 
good  from  evil,  and  of  acting  upon  the  world,  of  building 
t,  creating  it,  changing  it.  In  this  view,  man  becomes 
lot  merely  an  actor  who  recites  shallow  and  trivial  lines 
is  he  plays  his  role,  but  a  free  and  creative,  moral  agent 
.vho  sees  the  world  as  a  place  of  action  and  a  place 
vhere  his  actions  have  some  effect. 

I  do  not  need  to  remind  any  of  you  that  this  view  of 
nan  is  not  the  most  typical  one  to  be  found  in  the  social 
sciences.  Our  sometimes  unconvincing  rhetoric  and  our 
specialized  terminology  serve  as  barriers  when  such 
;erms  are  even  momentarily  entertained.  Our  concern 
Afith  other  concepts,  our  theoretical  interests,  and  our 
methodological  requirements  prevent  us  from  utilizing 
;hese  views  in  research,  while  perhaps  our  determination 
;o  show  some  perceptible  degree  of  professional  sophis- 
tication inhibits  their  use  in  the  classroom. 

In  some  cases,  this  has  resulted  in  a  view  of  man  as 
an  animal,  determined  in  his  actions  by  heredity,  by 
subtle  and  often  hidden  social  and  psychological  forces, 
and  by  all  of  his  past  experience.  Man  becomes  a  crea- 
;ure  bound  to  his  culture,  geared  to  his  peer  group,  and 
noved  by  the  dominant  values  of  his  society.  On  occasion, 
jne  may  even  get  the  impression  that  society  is  compar- 
able to  an  inscrutable  machine  with  culture  as  its  dom- 
inant and  most  salient  characteristic;  man  then  becomes 
[ittle  more  than  a  sponge  who,  in  the  socialization  process, 
soaks  up  the  values  of  his  culture  analogous  to  the  way 


James  Carroll  Simms,  assistant  professor  of  sociology,  prepared 
the  accompanying  article  to  deliver  as  a  chapel  address  at 
Millsaps  College.  Mr.  Simms'  subject,  social  responsibility,  related 
to  the  theme,  academic  freedom,  is  particularly  appropriate  for 
this  issue  of  Major  Notes.  Mr.  Simms  received  his  A.B.  and 
A.M.  degrees  at  the  University  of  Maryland.  JaasLjipne  advanced 
eiadaato  worli-«t-EmeTy-^Jnt\'ersity.  1  "; 


a  sponge  soaks  up  water;  in  a  somewhat  mechanical 
and  yet  somewhat  mysterious  world  man  reacts  as  a 
cultural  response  mechanism;  in  a  world  of  relative 
values,  he  is  determined  in  his  actions,  and  therefore 
responsible  for  nothing. 

Let  me  go  on  record  as  saying  that  I  believe  all  such 
views  to  be  erroneous.  If  man  is  not  responsible,  if  he 
does  not  have  the  power  to  create  and  to  care,  there  is 
little  to  be  said  on  his  behalf.  If  the  world  is  no  more 
than  a  place  where  man  is  bantered  about  by  every  sort 
of  stimulus  with  which  he  finds  contact,  and  if  man  in 
turn  is  no  more  than  a  responding  mechanism,  then 
morality  indeed  is  impossible.  All  of  my  experience  —  all 
that  I  have  ever  learned  —  leads  me  to  deny  the  validity 
of  any  notion  suggesting  that  man  is  merely  the  battle- 
ground upon  which  hidden  and  mysterious  forces  make 
their  play;  my  intellect  rebels  at  the  thought  of  the  world 
being  so  fearful  a  place.  Let  me  then  affirm  the  view  of 
man  stated  earlier:  Man  at  the  very  least  has  the 
potentiality  and  the  capacity  to  become  free  and  creative, 
as  well  as  the  potential  for  responsibility. 

.  .  .  one  must  be  free,  one  must  be  un- 
shackled to  be  creative;  and  he  must  also  be 
responsible. 

I  should  like  to  suggest  to  you  that  being  free,  and 
being  creative,  and  being  responsible  are  all  bound  up 
together.  One  cannot  really  be  free  without  being  re- 
sponsible, anymore  than  one  can  be  responsible  without 
being  free.  Likewise,  the  person  who  is  tied  to  his  social 
life,  to  the  expectations  of  his  peers,  and  to  what  may 
be  summed  up  under  the  term  "popular  culture"  cannot 
really  be  creative;  one  must  be  free,  one  must  be  un- 
shackled to  be  creative;  and  he  must  also  be  responsible. 
Creativeness  and  responsibility  are  neither  mutually  ex- 
clusive nor  contradictory,  but  instead  are  reciprocal  and 
mutually  reinforcing. 

Freedom,  creativeness,  and  responsibility  are,  in  my 
view,  all  aspects  of  man's  nature.  But  they  are  not  fixed 
aspects,  nor  are  they  aspects  which  are  realized  under 
any  simple  or  easy  conditions.  They  are  aspects  which 
may  occur  in  the  life  of  a  man  if  he  is  willing  to  pay  the 
price  which  is  involved.  It  is  in  the  process  of  education 
that  one  is  asked  to  pay  this  price,  and  it  is  in  the  paying 
that  one  is  literally  led  out  of  darkness,  as  the  term 
"education"  suggests.  When  effective,  education  suc- 
ceeds in  awakening  the  individual,  and  in  creating  the 
conditions  necessary  for  him  to  develop  every  aspect  of 
his  being  ;  consequently,  the  educated  man  is  a  marked 
man,  as  someone  once  so  aptly  put  it.  He  is  known  to 
have  undergone  not  only  intellectual  development,  but 
aesthetic  and  ethical  development  as  well.  In  undergoing 
such  aesthetic  and  ethical  development,  human  beings 
develop  sensitivity  and  a  corresponding  ability  to  respond. 


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It  is  precisely  this  responsiveness  or  ability  to  respond 
which,  at  heart,  is  what  is  involved  in  our  being  respon- 
sible. 

It  is  because  this  ability  is  a  latent  one  which  must  be 
developed  that  we  must  speak  of  responsibility  as  a 
human  potentiality.  You  will  note  that  I  have  not 
broached  the  subject  from  the  standpoint  of  ethics,  but 
rather  from  the  standpoint  of  human  development.  Al- 
though responsibility  as  an  abstraction  may  become  a 
point  for  discussion  in  ethics,  and  thus  dealt  with  as  a  mor- 
al issue,  in  many  concrete  ways  responsibility  pertains 
to  a  characteristic  of  human  nature.  Thus,  I  would 
claim  that  there  is  more  to  being  socially  responsible 
than  merely  being  accountable  due  to  another's  authority 
or  the  fear  of  punishment,  or  due  to  one's  commitment  to 
a  system  of  ethics,  and  I  would  submit  that  responsibility 
is  as  real  and  as  empirical  a  category  as  any  natural 
phenomenon.  It  is  an  aspect  of  human  nature  which 
may  be  realized,  given  the  right  effort  and  given  the  right 
conditions:  Creating  these  conditions  and  making  this 
effort  are  part  of  the  price  which  is  paid  for  its  realization, 
and  part  of  the  price  of  excellence  in  higher  education. 

.  .  .  the  truly  educated  person  is  not 
coarse  and  without  feeling;  instead,  he  re- 
sponds to  the  world  —  because  he  cares. 

Now,  what  does  this  mean?  It  means  that  if  we  are 
to  develop  as  mature  and  socially  responsible  men  and 
women,  we  must  be  willing  to  feel.  It  is  feeling  that  is 
lacking  in  our  education,  not  ideas!  Feeling  is  necessary 
because  through  feeling  we  develop  sensitivity.  Being 
sensitive  means  having  the  capacity  to  use  one's  senses 
—  responsively.  Thus,  the  truly  educated  person  is  not 
coarse  and  without  feeling;  instead,  he  responds  to  the 
world  —  because  he  cares.  He  cares  and  he  loves,  and 
therefore  he  gives.  He  gives  himself,  and  he  tries  to 
bring  some  good  into  this  life.  This  he  does  because 
from  his  experience  he  has  learned  that  this  way,  of 
all  ways,  makes  the  most  sense,  emotionally  if  not  always 
intellectually. 

I  think  that  there  are  a  good  many  of  us  who  are 
afraid  to  feel.  Some  of  us  may,  at  times,  even  think  it 
inappropriate  to  feel.  A  few  of  us,  unfortunately,  may  be 
unable  to  feel.  I  will  suggest  to  you,  however,  that  feel- 
ing is  necessary.  Feeling,  and  the  accompanying  pain 
which  sometimes  results  from  caring  too  much,  are 
part  of  the  price  exacted  from  us  in  the  pursuit  of  ex- 
cellence. Why  is  this  so?  The  reason  for  this  is  rooted 
in  the  nature  of  man,  and  has  been  expressed  very 
adequately  by  Erich  Fromm: 

Man  is  gifted  with  reason;  he  is  life  being  aware  of  itself; 
he  has  awareness  of  himself,  of  his  fellow  man,  of  his  past, 
and  of  the  possibilities  of  his  future.  This  awareness  of 
himself  as  a  separate  entity,  the  awareness  of  his  own  short 
life  span,  of  the  fact  that  without  his  will  he  is  born  and 
against  his  will  he  dies,  that  he  will  die  before  those  whom 
he  loves,  or  they  before  him,  the  awareness  of  his  aloneness 
and  separateness,  of  his  helplessness  before  the  forces  of 
nature  and  society,  all  this  makes  his  separate,  disunited 
existence  an  unbearable  prison.  He  would  become  insane  could 
he  not  liberate  himself  from  this  prison  and  reach  out,  unite 
himself  in  some  form  or  other  with  men,  with  the  world  outside. 

The  way  to  unite  with  the  world  and  to  transcend 
the  meaninglessness  of  a  temporal  existence  is,  of  course, 
through  love  —  through  developing  the  capacity  to  feel. 
Fromm  reminds  us  that  "the  awareness  of  human  sepa- 
ration, without  reunion  by  love,  is  the  source  of  shame 
(and  that)  it  is  at  the  same  time  the  source  of  guilt  and 
anxiety." 

It  sometimes  takes  an  extended  period  of  time  for 


one  to  realize  this  redemptive  power  of  love,  just  as  it 
sometimes  may  take  considerable  time  for  any  given 
person  to  realize  the  creative  power  of  man.  I  do  not 
believe,  however,  that  one  can  be  socially  responsible 
without    having    had    these    realizations. 

Learning  to  feel  is  a  necessary  part  of  the 
educational  process,  and  a  necessary  condi- 
tion for  the  development  of  social  responsi- 
bility. 

1  want  to  suggest  to  you  this  morning,  then,  that 
feeling  —  the  exercised  ability  to  feel,  to  be  responsive, 
to  love  —  is  the  foremost  quality  necessary  for  achiev- 
ing social  responsibility.  Learning  to  feel  is  a  necessary 
part  of  the  educational  process,  and  a  necessary  condition 
for  the  development  of  social  responsibility.  The  process 
of  education  in  and  of  itself,  however,  cannot  and  will  not 
do  all  that  is  necessary  for  the  individual.  The  student, 
of  necessity,  must  enter  into  the  educational  process  with 
sufficient  courage  and  humility  as  well  as  a  willingness 
to  meet  the  challenge  head-on.  The  ability  to  feel  is 
cultivated  by  the  willing  submission  of  the  human  spirit, 
by  the  yielding  of  self,  the  resignation  of  self,  the  negation 
of  self.  These  are  actions  involving  commitment  to  life 
and  surrender  of  self-interest.  These  constitute  part  oi 
the  price  of  excellence  in  higher  education.  I  believe  this 
to  be  the  path  taken  by  every  great  religious  teacher, 
more  than  one  of  whom  has  made  an  effort  to  demonstrate 
that  the  ability  to  feel  is  an  inwardness  or  activity  which 
in  some  peculiar  way,  redeems  man  from  his  suffering, 
when  it  is  realized.  The  urgency  of  realizing  this  capacity 
is,  I  believe,  the  central  message  of  every  religion,  the 
problem  of  every  society,  and  the  foremost  task  of  every 
individual. 

Very  often  we  are  given  the  impression  that  only 
the  arts  can  create  in  us  the  ability  to  feel.  Music, 
literature,  and  painting  are  most  often  cited  in  this 
connection.  I  would  like  to  suggest  to  you  that  the  ability 
to  feel  is  not  cultivated  by  any  art,  neither  is  it  cultivated 
by  science  or  philosophy,  but  rather  it  is  cultivated 
through  our  response  to  these  materials.  If  art  or  philos- 
ophy help  cultivate  this  feeling,  study  art  and  philosophy; 
if  science  should  help,  study  science.  Do  whatever  be- 
comes necessary  for  this  experience  to  be  realized,  foi 
without  compassion  the  human  spirit  warps  and  eventually 
dies. 

Some  of  you  may  be  interested  in  knowing  how  soci- 
ology may  help  or  just  where  sociology  fits  into  the  total 
educational  experience  I  have  suggested  as  desirable 
Sociology  claims  to  offer  to  the  student  a  new  point  ol 
view,  and  intellectual  perspective  which  enables  hin: 
to  see  the  world  in  a  new  light. 

"Who  am  I?  Who  are  all  these  others? 
How  am  I  related  to  them,  and  how  are  they 
related  to  me?" 

As  an  intellectual  experience,  it  begins  not  in  the 
classroom  where  it  first  may  be  studied,  but  instead, 
at  that  point  in  the  student's  career  where  he  first  begins 
to  ask  for  order  in  the  scheme  of  things,  at  that  point 
where  he  first  asks  the  questions:  "Who  am  I?  Who  are 
all  these  others?  How  am  I  related  to  them,  and  how  are 
they  related  to  me?  What  is  all  of  the  activity?  Whal 
are  all  of  these  people  doing?  What  does  it  all  mean?' 
If  one  believes  that  he  already  has  the  answers  to  such 


questions,  sociology  may  be  able  to  give  him  a  certain 
jmount  of  factual  information  about  the  social  world, 
)ut  it  certainly  cannot  be  the  same  stimulating  experi- 
jnce  that  may  otherwise  become  possible.  No  one  learns 
intil  and  unless  he  has  some  need  to  learn;  if  the  world 
ilready  appears  orderly,  if  it  seems  to  make  sense,  if  all 
)f  the  nice  pat  answers  seem  workable  you  don't  need 
,0  study  sociology.  But  if  you  are  genuinely  curious,  if 
he  network  of  social  relations  which  you  encounter  seems 
lomehow  inscrutable,  if  the  institutional  definitions  and 
lolutions  offered  to  you  seem  meaningless,  then  a  socio- 
ogical  journey  may  be  indicated.  Sociology  provides 
)ne  with  a  set  of  concepts  and  other  analytical  tools 
vhich  enable  him  to  create  an  intellectual  structure  of 
lis  own,  a  structure  which  represents  the  world  of  real- 
ty at  least  to  an  approximate  extent,  within  an  overall 
ramework  which  serves  to  explain  social  action.  Con- 
sequently, sociology  is  essentially  an  intellectual  under- 
;aking.  Unfortunately,  some  persons  lacking  this  under- 
standing of  the  discipline  have  alleged  that  it  offers 
jnly  pseudo-explanations  of  reality. 


If  man  is  to  realize  his  full  potential,  he 
must  create;  nothing  would  seem  more  im- 
portant than  this,  and  anything  less  would 
>eem  immoral. 

Let  me  make  myself  clear.  I  realize  that  these  state- 
ments are  made  at  the  risk  of  my  seeming  to  be  overly 
defensive,  but  it  is  my  claim  that  sociology  can  give  one 
as  full  an  experience  as  one  can  obtain  from  the  study 
Df  art  or  literature,  philosophy,  or  science.  It  gives  one 
not  a  different  understanding,  but  merely  takes  him  down 
a  different  path.  It  is  a  discipline  which,  if  properly 
taught  and  properly  studied,  can  lead  an  individual  to 
as  thorough  an  understanding  of  the  structure  of  society, 
and  his  place  in  that  structure,  as  any  discipline  can  give. 
Through  this  understanding  the  student  is  enabled  to 
make  that  basic  commitment  to  life  so  necessary  for 
his  development  as  a  socially  responsible  person.  With- 
out this  understanding  the  student  is  apt  to  accept  pseudo- 
explanations  indeed,  and  become  a  mere  carbon  copy 
of  his  culture  rather  than  a  creator  of  culture.  If  man 
is  to  realize  his  full  potential,  he  must  create;  nothing 
would  seem  more  important  than  this,  and  anything  less 
would  seem  immoral.  Creative  activity  and  feeling  go 
hand-in-hand  in  the  development  of  the  responsive  ca- 
pacity; they  are  both  the  concomitants  and  the  results 
of  disciplined  intellectual  inquiry.  I  believe  that  per- 
haps no  other  point  has  been  as  much  misunderstood  as 
this  one.  Disciplines  such  as  art  and  literature  which 
are  frequently  associated  with  the  education  of  feeling 
do  not  operate  to  the  exclusion  of  genuinely  intellectual 
activity;  likewise  the  sciences  and  other  scientifically 
oriented  disciplines  do  not  operate  to  the  exclusion  of 
feeling.  The  creative  scientist  has  fully  as  much  passion 
for  reality,  and  fully  as  much  desire  to  gain  access  to 
it  as  has  the  creative  artist.  A  person  with  no  capacity 
to  feel,  to  be  empathic,  can  learn  little  indeed  from  the 
sciences  —  "natural"  or  social.  If,  however,  one  does 
have  the  capacity  to  feel,  and  if  at  the  same  time  he  is 
willing  to  subject  himself  to  rigid  intellectual  discipline, 
he  may  find  in  the  social  sciences  the  means  to  under- 
standing his  fellow  man  and  the  knowledge  to  help  him. 
It  is  through  a  "fusion  of  the  intellect  with  feeUng"  as 
James  C.  Malin  has  put  it,  that  one  is  led  to  the  point 


of  both  knowing  enough  and  caring  enough  to  commit 
himself  to  action.  For  such  fusion  to  occur  a  high  price, 
indeed,  must  be  paid.  One  must  be  willing  to  question 
his  every  basic  premise,  to  get  at  the  core  of  his  very 
existence  where  he  will  find  his  capacity  to  love  and  to 
care  —  the  capacity  to  feel  —  where  he  will  find  what 
some  call  the  "soul",  and  in  the  process  he  must  be 
willing  to  let  all  intellectual  structures  obtained  from  his 
many  indoctrinating  social  experiences  come  crashing 
to  the  ground  with  resounding  thunder.  After  such  an 
experience,  if  one  is  indeed  still  willing  and  able,  he  may 
pick  himself  up  and  begin  to  build  anew.  Nothing  short 
of  a  tortuous  emotional  and  intellectual  struggle  accom- 
panies this  process.  It  is  the  highest  price  to  be  paid  in 
the  pursuit  of  excellence.  Anyone  who  has  paid  this  price, 
understands  the  meaning  of  what  I  have  said.  That  such 
experiences  are  rare  is  perhaps  obvious.  All  too  often 
perhaps,  we  are  willing  to  pay  a  lesser  price  for  a  more 
pleasurable  and  immediate  satisfaction.  The  road  which 
must  be  taken  for  the  development  of  this  capacity  to 
respond  —  for  the  emergence  of  social  responsibility  — 
has  been  indicated  in  a  very  beautiful  way  by  no  lesser 
figure  than  the  late  Robert  Frost: 

THE   ROAD   NOT   TAKEN 

Two  roads  diverged  in  a  yellow  wood. 
And  sorry  I  could  not  travel  both 
And  be  one  traveler,  long  I  stood 
And  looked  down  one  as  far  as   I  could 
To  where  it  bent  in  the  undergrowth; 

Then   took   the    other,    as    just   and    fair, 
And  having  perhaps  the  better  claim, 
Because  it  was  grassy  and  wanted  wear; 
Though  as  for  that  the   passing  there 
Had  worn  them  really  about  the  same, 

And  both  that  morning  equally  lay 
In  leaves   no   step  had  trodden  black. 
Oh,  I  kept  the  first  for  another  day ! 
Yet  knowing  how  way  leads  on  to  way, 
I  doubted  if  I  should  ever  come  back. 

I  shall  be  telling  this  with  a  sigh 

Somewhere  ages  and  ages  hence: 

Two  roads  diverged  in  a  wood,  and  I  — 

I  took  the  one  less  traveled   by. 

And  that  has  made  all  the  difference. 

Let  me  close  by  quoting  a  young  and  anonymous  stu- 
dent whose  words  betray  a  wisdom  far  beyond  his  youth 
and  experience. 

As  of  now,  our  generation  has  had  no  hand  in  shaping  the 
world.  It's  true  that  we  have  inherited  a  far  more  prosperous  and 
convenient  way  of  life  than  did  our  parents  and  grandparents. 
But  to  settle  for  these  things  —  these  physical  comforts  of  life, 
I  feel,  is  to  deny  something  real  which  is  within  all  of  us  —  to 
settle  for  the  things  —  the  destinations  that  our  parents  have 
already  reached  is  to  deny  and  perhaps  to  lose  our  individuality 
and  with  it  our  dreams  and  our  values,  I  can't  exactly  put 
these  things  —  into  a  few  short  sentences;  —  perhaps  I  don't 
have   to.     Maybe   it's   already   been   said   by   Robert   Frost: 

I  shall  be  telling  this  with  a  sigh 
Somewhere  ages  and  ages  hence: 
Two  roads  diverged  in  a  wood,  and  I  — 
I  took  the  one  less  traveled  by, 
And  that  has  made  all  the  difference. 

And  that  is  aU  that  I  can  tell  you. 


Events  Of  Note 


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will  be  presented  in  concert  in  Ger- 
many, France  and  northern  Italy.  The 
length  of  the  spring  tour  is  seven 
weeks. 

According  to  a  statement  from  an 
executive  of  the  National  Music  Coun- 
cil: 

"The  tour  offers  a  real  opportunity 
for  the  Millsaps  group  to  be  unofficial 
ambassadors  for  the  United  States  in 
the  foreign  countries  visited.  There  is 
also  an  unusual  educational  opportun- 
ity for  the  members  of  the  group.  A 
number  of  colleges  and  universities 
have  successfully  integrated  the  tour 
with  the  academic  studies,  and  pro- 
vided the  students  with  background 
on  the  life  and  culture  of  the  countries 
visited  to  enrich  their  foreign  travel 
experience." 

ALUMNI  DAY 

The  annual  Alumni  Day  program 
was  climaxed  by  the  naming  of  new 
officers  of  the  Alumni  Association,  an- 
nounced at  the  banquet  Saturday,  May 
4,  in  the  cafeteria  at  the  Boyd  Camp- 
bell  Student  Center. 

William  E.  Barksdale,  Jackson, 
Chamber  of  Commerce  executive,  was 
named  president  by  members  of  the 
Alumni  Association  in  the  ballot-by- 
mail  election.  He  takes  office  July 
1,  succeeding  Fred  J.  Ezelle,  Jackson, 
vice-president  of  Mississippi  Bedding 
Company. 

Vice-presidents  elected  were;  Dr. 
Thomas  F.  McDonnell,  Hazelhurst; 
Judge  Carl  Guernsey,  Jackson;  Barry 
Brindley,  Jackson.  Mrs.  Thomas  H. 
Boone,  Jackson,  was  elected  secre- 
tary. 

Mr.  Barksdale  will  name  twelve 
new  members  to  the  Alumni  Associa- 
tion's 45-member  board  of  directors 
and  appoint  an  Alumni  Fund  chairman 
as  his  first  official  act  after  taking 
office  in  July. 

BELLAMANN  GIFT 

Directors  of  the  Henry  Bellamann 
Foundation  presented  a  gift  of  $3,000 
to  Millsaps  College  at  special  cere- 
monies during  the  Southern  Literary 
Festival  held  this  year  on  the  college 
campus.  Dr.  George  Boyd,  chairman 
of  the  department  of  English  and  pres- 
ident of  the  festival,  accepted  the  gift 
for  Millsaps.  Grants  by  the  Bellamann 
Foundation  are  to  be  used,  according 
to  Edith  Sansom,  president  of  the 
foundation,  "to  encourage  young  art- 
ists and  to  recognize  outstanding  ac- 
complishments in  the  creative   arts." 


CLASS  OF  1963 

One  hundred  thirty-seven  graduates 
received  their  diplomas  at  commence- 
ment exercises  June  2.  The  Class  of 
1963  is  the  sixty-ninth  class  to  receive 
degrees  from  Millsaps  College,  since 
its  founding  in  1890. 

Dr.  John  W.  Johannaber,  academic 
dean  of  Scarritt  College,  preached  the 
baccalaureate  sermon  at  Galloway 
Memorial  Methodist  Church,  and  Dr. 
Hans  W.  Rosenhaupt,  national  director 
of  the  Woodrow  Wilson  Fellowship 
Foundation,  delivered  the  commence- 
ment address. 

Education  led  the  major  fields  chos- 
en by  the  graduates,  followed  in  order 
by  English,  chemistry,  history,  biol- 
ogy, religion,  economics,  political 
science. 

In  his  commencement  address,  Dr. 
Rosenhaupt  described  Millsaps  College 
as  "one  of  America's  outstanding  lib- 
eral arts  colleges."  Its  excellence,  he 
said,  is  shown  in  the  records  of  many 
distinguished  alumni  and  in  the  statis- 
tics showing  that  almost  half  the  stu- 
dents attend  graduate  and  professional 
schools  after  graduation.  He  said 
that  faculty  salaries  have  shown  sig- 
nificant recent  improvements,  and  he 
praised  the  Millsaps  College  program 
of  sabbatical  leave. 

Dr.  Rosenhaupt  warned  the  new 
graduates  of  the  hidden  dangers  in 
modern-day  specialization,  and  said 
that  in  the  world  of  scholars,  special- 
ization can  lead  to  triviality  and  pe- 
dantry, as  well  as  to  arrogance.  He 
emphasized  the  scholar-specialist's 
need  for  awareness  of  and  concern 
for  the  entire  world  surrounding  him. 

"My  colleagues  in  the  sciences  will 
forgive  me,  I  hope,  when  I  say  that 
I  would  cheerfully  trade  the  so-called 
scientific  and  technological  advances 
of  the  last  fifty  years  in  return  for  a 
large  supply  of  as  old-fashioned  and 
non-specialized  a  staple  as  love  of 
fellow  men." 


PRAISE  FOR  PLAYERS 

The  Millsaps  Players'  concludini 
production  of  the  1962-63  season  was  i 
musical-drama,  "The  Threepenny  Op 
era,"  by  Kurt  Weill  and  Bertolt  Brecht 
directed  by  Lance  Goss,  associate  pro 
fessor  of  speech  and  director  of  the 
Players.  Frank  Hains,  drama  critic 
for  the  Jackson  press,  called  the  Mill 
saps  College  presentation  "one  of  tht 
most  important  events  in  Mississippi 
theatre."  Richard  Alderson,  instruc 
tor  of  music,  was  musical  director. 

The  production  was  a  first  for  Mis- 
sissippi  audiences. 

At  the  thirteenth  annual  Millsaps 
Players  banquet,  "Arena  62,"  tht 
double-bill  of  "Suddenly  Last  Sum- 
mer" and  "The  American  Dream,' 
was  named  the  year's  best  production 
The  Players'  year  was  dominated  bj 
classics.  The  season  also  included 
"The  Madwoman  of  Chaillot,"  by  Jear 
Giradoux,  and  "The  Seagull,"  by  An- 
ton Chekhov. 

FOUNDATION  INCREASE 

The  Mississippi  Foundation  of  Inde- 
pendent Colleges  neared  the  $100, OOC 
mark  in  collections  for  non-tax-sup- 
ported colleges  of  the  state,  it  was 
reported  at  the  annual  meeting  held 
recently  in  Jackson.  The  report,  pre- 
sented by  Mrs.  Virginia  Fox  Metz, 
executive  secretary  of  the  foundation, 
showed  a  substantial  increase  in  gifts 
from  business  and  industry  during  this 
fiscal  year. 

Representing  Millsaps  College  at  the 
annual  meeting  were  Dr.  Finger  and 
V.  D.  Youngblood  of  Brookhaven,  a 
member  of  the  college's  board  of  trus- 
tees, and  treasurer  of  the  board  of  the 
foundation. 

Dr.  Finger,  recently  selected  as  a 
member  of  the  national  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  Independent  College 
Foundation  of  America,  is  the  only 
Mississippian  elected  in  the  history 
of  the  foundation. 


EDITOR'S  NOTE: 

Academic  Freedom  is  the  selected  theme  of  this  issue 
of  "Major  Notes".  It  is  a  basic  concept  that  is  often 
taken  for  granted  by  teachers,  students,  and  alumni,  often 
misunderstood  by  laymen.  The  values  and  complexities 
of  academic  freedom  are  seldom  investigated  until  this 
basic  freedom  is  threatened  or  withdrawn.  Yet  most 
educators  regard  it  as  the  primary  requisite  of  new  dis- 
covery, as  well  as  the  key  for  unlocking  old  truths.  A 
statement  of  the  purpose  of  Millsaps  College,  adopted 
by  the  faculty  and  board  of  trustees  in  1956,  includes  the 
following:  "As  an  institution  of  higher  learning,  Mill- 
saps College  fosters  an  attitude  of  continuing  intellectual 
awareness,  of  tolerance,  and  of  unbiased  inquiry,  without 
which  true  education  cannot  exist.  "  The  article,  opposite, 
on  academic  freedom,  was  prepared  for  exclusive  publi- 
cation in  alumni  magazines. 


8 


WHAT 
RIGHT 

HAS 
THIS 

MAN... 


HE  HOLDS  a  position  of  power  equaled  by  few  occu- 
pations in  our  society. 

His  influence  upon  the  rest  of  us — and  upon  our 
children — is  enormous. 

His  place  in  society  is  so  critical  that  no  totali- 
tarian state  would  (or  does)  trust  him  fully.  Yet  in 
our  country  his  fellow  citizens  grant  him  a  greater 
degree  of  freedom  than  they  grant  even  to  them- 
selves. 

He  is  a  college  teacher.  It  would  be  difficult  to 
exaggerate  the  power  that  he  holds. 

►  He  originates  a  large  part  of  our  society's  new 
ideas  and  knowledge. 

►  He  is  the  interpreter  and  disseminator  of  the 
knowledge  we  have  inherited  from  the  past. 

►  He  makes  discoveries  in  science  that  can  both 
kill  us  and  heal  us. 

►  He  develops  theories  that  can  change  our  eco- 
nomics, our  politics,  our  social  structures. 

►  As  the  custodian,  discoverer,  challenger,  tester, 
and  interpreter  of  knowledge  he  then  enters  a  class- 
room and  tells  our  young  people  what  he  knows — or 
what  he  thinks  he  knows — and  thus  influences  the 
thinking  of  milhons. 

What  right  has  this  man  to  such  power  and  in- 
fluence? 

Who  supervises  him,  to  whom  we  entrust  so 
much? 

Do  we  the  people?  Do  we,  the  parents  whose 
children  he  instructs,  the  regents  or  trustees  whose 
institutions  he  staffs,  the  taxpayers  and  philan- 
thropists by  whose  money  he  is  sustained? 

On  the  contrary:  We  arm  him  with  safeguards 
against  our  doing  so. 

What  can  we  be  thinking  of,  to  permit  such  a 
system  as  this? 


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HdVinO     idCdS    ^^^  disseminating  them,  is  a 

risky  business.  It  has  always 

been  so — and  therein  lies  a  strange  paradox.  The  march 

of  civilization  has  been  quick  or  slow  in  direct  ratio  to 


the  production,  testing,  and  acceptance  of  ideas;  yet 
virtually  all  great  ideas  were  opposed  when  they  were 
introduced.  Their  authors  and  teachers  have  been  cen- 
sured,   ostracized,    exiled,    martyred,    and   crucified^ 


usually  because  the  ideas  clashed  with  an  accepted  set 
of  beUefs  or  prejudices  or  with  the  interests  of  a  ruler 
or  privileged  class. 

Are  we  wiser  and  more  receptive  to  ideas  today? 


Even  in  the  Western  world,  although  methods  of  pun- 
ishment have  been  refined,  the  propagator  of  a  new 
idea  may  find  himself  risking  his  social  status,  his  poHti- 
cal  acceptability,  his  job,  and  hence  his  very  liveUhood. 


For  the  teacher:  special 
risks,  special  rights 


NORMALLY,  in  our  society,  we  are  wary  of  per- 
sons whose  positions  give  them  an  oppor- 
tunity to  exert  unusual  power  and  influence. 

But  we  grant  the  college  teacher  a  degree  of 
freedom  far  greater  than  most  of  the  rest  of  us 
enjoy. 

Our  reasoning  comes  from  a  basic  fact  about  our 
civilization: 

Its  vitality  flows  from,  and  is  sustained  by,  ideas. 

Ideas  in  science,  ideas  in  medicine,  ideas  in  poli- 
tics. Ideas  that  sometimes  rub  people  the  wrong 
way.  Ideas  that  at  times  seem  pointless.  Ideas  that 
may  alarm,  when  first  broached.  Ideas  that  may  be 
so  novel  or  revolutionary  that  some  persons  may 
propose  that  they  be  suppressed.  Ideas — all  sorts — 
that  provide  the  sinews  of  our  civilization. 

They  will  be  disturbing.  Often  they  will  irritate. 

But  the  more  freely  they  are  produced — and  the 
more  rigorously  they  are  tested — the  more  surely 
will  our  civilization  stay  alive. 

THIS  IS  THE  THEORY.  Applying  it,  man  has  de- 
veloped institutions  for  the  specific  purpose  of 
incubating,  nourishing,  evaluating,  and  spread- 
ing ideas.  They  are  our  colleges  and  universities.  As 
their  function  is  unique,  so  is  the  responsibility  with 
which  we  charge  the  man  or  woman  who  staff's  them. 

We  give  the  coUege  teacher  the  professional  duty 
of  pursuing  knowledge — and  of  conveying  it  to  oth- 
ers— with  complete  honesty  and  open-mindedness. 
We  tell  him  to  find  errors  in  what  we  now  know. 
We  tell  him  to  plug  the  gaps  in  it.  We  tell  him  to 
add  new  material  to  it. 

We  teU  him  to  do  these  things  without  fear  of  the 
consequences  and  without  favor  to  any  interest  save 
the  pursuit  of  truth. 

We  know — and  he  knows — that  to  meet  this  re- 
sponsibility may  entail  risk  for  the  college  teacher. 
The  knowledge  that  he  develops  and  then  teaches  to 
others  will  frequently  produce  ground-shaking  re- 
sults. 

It  will  lead  at  times  to  weapons  that  at  the  press 
of  a  button  can  erase  human  lives.  Conversely,  it 
win  lead  at  other  times  to  medical  miracles  that 
will  save  human  lives.  It  may  unsettle  theology,  as 


did  Darwinian  biology  in  the  late  1800's,  and  as  did 
countless  other  discoveries  in  earlier  centuries.  Con- 
versely, it  may  confirm  or  strengthen  the  elements 
of  one's  faith.  It  wiU  produce  intensely  personal 
results:  the  loss  of  a  job  to  automation  or,  con- 
versely, the  creation  of  a  job  in  a  new  industry. 

Dealing  in  ideas,  the  teacher  may  be  subjected  to 
strong,  and  at  times  bitter,  criticism.  It  may  come 
from  unexpected  quarters:  even  the  man  or  woman 
who  is  well  aware  that  free  research  and  education 
are  essential  to  the  common  good  may  become 
understandably  upset  when  free  research  and  edu- 
cation affect  his  own  livelihood,  his  own  customs, 
his  own  beliefs. 

And,  under  stress,  the  critics  may  attempt  to 
coerce  the  teacher.  The  twentieth  century  has  its 
own  versions  of  past  centuries'  persecutions:  social 
ostracism  for  the  scholar,  the  withdrawal  of  finan- 
cial support,  the  threat  of  political  sanctions,  an 
attempt  to  deprive  the  teacher  of  his  job. 

Wherever  coercion  has  been  widely  applied — in 
Nazi  Germany,  in  the  Soviet  Union — the  develop- 
ment of  ideas  has  been  seriously  curtailed.    Were 


such  coercion  to  succeed  here,  the  very  sinews  of  our 
civilization  would  be  weakened,  leaving  us  without 
strength. 

WE  RECOGNIZE  these  facts.   So  we  have  de- 
veloped special  safeguards  for  ideas,  by 
developing  special  safeguards  for  him  who 
fosters  ideas:  the  coUege  teacher. 


We  have  developed  these  safeguards  in  the  calm 
(and  civilized)  realization  that  they  are  safeguards 
against  our  own  impetuousness  in  times  of  stress. 
They  are  a  declaration  of  our  willingness  to  risk  the 
consequences  of  the  scholar's  quest  for  truth.  They 
are,  in  short,  an  expression  of  our  behef  that  we 
should  seek  the  truth  because  the  truth,  in  time, 
shall  make  us  free. 


What  the  teacher's 
special  rights  consist  of 


THE  SPECIAL  FREEDOM  that  we  grant  to  a 
college  teacher  goes  beyond  anything  guaran- 
teed by  law  or  constitution. 

As  a  citizen  like  the  rest  of  us,  he  has  the  right 
to  speak  critically  or  unpopvdarly  without  fear  of 
governmental  reprisal  or  restraint. 

As  a  teacher  enjoying  a  special  freedom,  however, 
he  has  the  right  to  speak  without  restraint  not  only 
from  government  but  from  almost  any  other  source, 
including  his  own  employer. 

Thus — although  he  draws  his  salary  from  a  col- 
lege or  university,  holds  his  title  in  a  coUege  or 
university,  and  does  his  work  at  a  college  or  uni- 
versity— he  has  an  independence  from  his  employer 
which  in  most  other  occupations  would  be  denied 
to  him. 

Here  are  some  of  the  rights  he  enjoys: 

►  He  may,  if  his  honest  thinking  dictates,  expound 
views  that  clash  with  those  held  by  the  vast  ma- 
jority of  his  feUow  countrymen.  He  will  not  be 
restrained  from  doing  so. 

►  He  may,  if  his  honest  thinking  dictates,  pub- 
hcly  challenge  the  findings  of  his  closest  colleagues, 
even  if  they  outrank  him.  He  will  not  be  restrained 
from  doing  so. 

►  He  may,  if  his  honest  thinking  dictates,  make 
statements  that  oppose  the  views  of  the  president 
of  his  college,  or  of  a  prominent  trustee,  or  of  a 
generous  benefactor,  or  of  the  leaders  of  the  state 
legislature.  No  matter  how  much  pain  he  may  bring 
to  such  persons,  or  to  the  coUege  administrators 
entrusted  with  maintaining  good  relations  with 
them,  he  will  not  be  restrained  from  doing  so. 

Such  freedom  is  not  written  into  law.  It  exists 
on  the  college  campus  because  (1)  the  teacher  claims 


and  enforces  it  and  (2)  the  public,  although  wincing 
on  occasion,  grants  the  vaUdity  of  the  teacher's 
claim. 

WE  GRANT  the  teacher  this  special  freedom 
for  our  own  benefit. 
Although  "orthodox"  critics  of  educa- 
tion frequently  protest,  there  is  a  strong  experi- 
mental emphasis  in  college  teaching  in  this  country. 
This  emphasis  owes  its  existence  to  several  in- 
fluences, including  the  utilitarian  nature  of  our 
society;  it  is  one  of  the  ways  in  which  our  institu- 


tions  of  higher  education  differ  from  many  in 
Europe. 

Hence  we  often  measure  the  effectiveness  of  our 
colleges  and  universities  by  a  pragmatic  yardstick: 
Does  our  society  derive  a  practical  benefit  from 
their  practices? 

The  teacher's  special  freedom  meets  this  test. 
The  unfettered  mind,  searching  for  truth  in  science, 
in  philosophy,  in  social  sciences,  in  engineering,  in 
professional  areas — and  then  teaching  the  findings 
to  millions — has  produced  impressive  practical  re- 
sults, whether  or  not  these  were  the  original  ob- 
jectives of  its  search: 

The  technology  that  produced  instruments  of 
victory  in  World  War  II.  The  sciences  that  have 
produced,  in  a  matter  of  decades,  incredible  gains 
in  man's  struggle  against  disease.  The  science  and 
engineering  that  have  taken  us  across  the  threshold 
of  outer  space.  The  dazzling  progress  in  agricultural 
productivity.  The  damping,  to  an  unprecedented 
degree,  of  wild  fluctuations  in  the  business  cycle. 
The  appearance  and  application  of  a  new  architec- 
ture. The  development  of  a  "scientific  approach"  in 
the  management  of  business  and  of  labor  unions. 
The  ever-increasing  maturity  and  power  of  ovu* 
historians,  hterary  critics,  and  poets.  The  gradua- 
tion of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  coUege-trained 
men  and  women  with  the  wit  and  skill  to  learn  and 
broaden  and  apply  these  things. 

Would  similar  results  have  been  possible  without 
campus  freedom?  In  moments  of  national  panic  (as 
when  the  Russians  appear  to  be  outdistancing  us  in 
the  space  race),  there  are  voices  that  suggest  that 
less  freedom  and  more  centralized  direction  of  our 
educational  and  research  resources  would  be  more 
"eflBcient."  Disregard,  for  a  moment,  the  fact  that 
such  contentions  display  an  appalling  ignorance 
and  indifference  about  the  fimdamental  philosophies 
of  freedom,  and  answer  them  on  their  own  ground. 


Weighed  carefully,  the  evidence  seems  generally  to 
support  the  contrary  view.  Freedom  does  work — 
quite  practically. 

Many  point  out  that  there  are  even  more  im- 
portant reasons  for  supporting  the  teacher's  special 
freedom  than  its  practical  benefits.  Says  one  such 
person,  the  conservative  writer  Russell  Kirk: 

"I  do  not  believe  that  academic  freedom  deserves 
preservation  chiefly  because  it  'serves  the  commu- 
nity,' although  this  incidental  function  is  important. 
I  think,  rather,  that  the  principal  importance  of 
academic  freedom  is  the  opportunity  it  affords  for 
the  highest  development  of  private  reason  and  im- 
agination, the  improvement  of  mind  and  heart  by 
the  apprehension  of  Truth,  whether  or  not  that  de- 
velopment is  of  any  immediate  use  to  'democratic 
society'." 

The  conclusion,  however,  is  the  same,  whether  the 
reasoning  is  conducted  on  practical,  philosophical, 
or  reUgious  groiuids — or  on  all  three:  The  unusual 
freedom  claimed  by  (and  accorded  to)  the  college 
teacher  is  strongly  justified. 

"This  freedom  is  immediately  applicable  only  to  a 
Umited  number  of  individuals,"  says  the  statement 
of  principles  of  a  professors'  organization,  "but  it  is 
profoundly  important  for  the  pubUc  at  large.  It  safe- 
guards the  methods  by  which  we  explore  the  un- 
known and  test  the  accepted.  It  may  afford  a  key  to 
open  the  way  to  remedies  for  bodily  or  social  iUs,  or 
it  may  confirm  our  faith  in  the  familiar.  Its  preser- 
vation is  necessary  if  there  is  to  be  scholarship  in 
any  true  sense  of  the  word.  The  advantages  accrue 
as  much  to  the  public  as  to  the  scholars  themselves." 

Hence  we  give  teachers  an  extension  of  freedom — 
academic  freedom — that  we  give  to  no  other  group 
in  our  society:  a  special  set  of  guarantees  designed  to 
encourage  and  insure  their  boldness,  their  forth- 
rightness,  their  objectivity,  and  (if  necessary)  their 
criticism  of  us  who  maintain  them. 


The  idea  works  most 
of  the  time,  but .  .  . 


■  IKE  MANY  good  theories,  this  one  works  for 
I  most  of  the  time  at  most  colleges  and  uni- 
ILb  versities.  But  it  is  subject  to  continual 
stresses.  And  it  suffers  occasional,  and  sometimes 
spectacular,  breakdowns. 

If  past  experience  can  be  taken  as  a  guide,  at  this 
very  moment: 

►  An  alumnus  is  composing  a  letter  threatening  to 
strike  his  abna  mater  from  his  will  unless  the  insti- 
tution removes  a  professor  whose  views  on  some 
controversial  issue — in  economics?  in  genetics?  in 
politics? — the  alumnus  finds  objectionable. 

►  The  president  of  a  college  or  university,  or  one 
of  his  aides,  is  composing  a  letter  to  an  alumnus  in 
which  he  tries  to  explain  why  the  institution  cannot 
remove  a  professor  whose  views  on  some  controver- 
sial issue  the  aliminus  finds  objectionable. 

►  A  group  of  liberal  legislators,  aroused  by  reports 
from  the  campus  of  their  state  university  that  a 
professor  of  economics  is  preaching  fiscal  conserva- 
tism, is  debating  whether  it  should  knock  some 
sense  into  the  university  by  cutting  its  appropria- 
tion for  next  year. 

►  A  group  of  conservative  legislators  is  aroused  by 
reports  that  another  professor  of  economics  is 
preaching  fiscal  HberaHsm.  This  group,  too,  is  con- 
sidering an  appropriation  cut. 

►  The  president  of  a  coUege,  faced  with  a  budget- 
ary crisis  in  his  biology  department,  is  pondering 
whether  or  not  he  should  have  a  heart-to-heart  chat 
with  a  teacher  whose  views  on  fallout,  set  forth  in  a 
letter  to  the  local  newspaper,  appear  to  be  scaring 
away  the  potential  donor  of  at  least  one  million 
dollars. 

►  The  chairman  of  an  academic  department,  still 
smarting  from  the  criticism  that  two  colleagues  lev- 
eled at  the  learned  paper  he  delivered  at  the  de- 
partmental seminar  last  week,  is  making  up  the  new 
class  schedules  and  wondering  why  the  two  up- 
starts wouldn't  be  just  the  right  persons  for  those 
7  a.m.  classes  which  increased  enrollments  will  ne- 
cessitate next  year. 

►  The  educational  board  of  a  rehgious  denomina- 
tion is  wondering  why  it  should  continue  to  permit 
the  employment,  at  one  of  the  colleges  under  its 


W/'J>^ 


control,  of  a  teacher  of  religion  who  is  openly  ques- 
tioning a  doctrinal  pronouncement  made  recently 
by  the  denomination's  leadership. 
►  The  managers  of  an  industrial  complex,  worried 
by  university  research  that  reportedly  is  linking 
their  product  with  a  major  health  problem,  are  won- 
dering how  much  it  might  cost  to  sponsor  university 
research  to  show  that  their  product  is  not  the  cause 
of  a  major  health  problem. 

Pressures,  inducements,  threats:  scores  of  exam- 
ples, most  of  them  never  publicized,  could  be  cited 
each  year  by  our  colleges  and  universities. 

In  addition  there  is  philosophical  opposition  to 
the  present  concept  of  academic  freedom  by  a  few 
who  sincerely  beUeve  it  is  wrong.  ("In  the  last 
analysis,"  one  such  critic,  WiUiam  F.  Buckley,  Jr., 
once  wrote,  "academic  freedom  must  mean  the 
freedom  of  men  and  women  to  supervise  the  educa- 
tional activities  and  aims  of  the  schools  they  oversee 
and  support.")  And,  considerably  less  important 
and  more  frequent,  there  is  opposition  by  emotion- 
alists and  crackpots. 

Since  criticism  and  coercion  do  exist,  and  since 
academic  freedom  has  virtually  no  basis  in  law,  how 
can  the  college  teacher  enforce  his  claim  to  it? 


X 


In  the  face  of  pressures, 
how  the  professor  stays  free 


IN  THE  mid-1800's,  many  professors  lost  their  jobs 
over  their  views  on  slavery  and  secession.  In  the 
1870's  and  '80's,  many  were  dismissed  for  their 
views  on  evolution.  Near  the  turn  of  the  century,  a 
number  lost  their  jobs  for  speaking  out  on  the  issue 
of  Free  Silver. 

The  trend  alarmed  many  college  teachers.  Until 
late  in  the  last  century,  most  teachers  on  this  side 
of  the  Atlantic  had  been  mere  purveyors  of  the 
knowledge  that  others  had  accumulated  and  written 
down.  But,  beginning  around  1870,  many  began  to 
perform  a  dual  function:  not  only  did  they  teach,  but 
they  themselves  began  to  investigate  the  world 
about  them. 

Assumption  of  the  latter  role,  previously  per- 
formed almost  exclusively  in  European  universi- 
ties, brought  a  new  vitahty  to  our  campuses.  It  also 
brought  perils  that  were  previously  unknown.  As 
long  as  they  had  dealt  only  in  ideas  that  were  clas- 
sical, generally  accepted,  and  therefore  safe,  teach- 
ers and  the  institutions  of  higher  learning  did  Uttle 
that  might  offend  their  governing  boards,  their 
alumni,  the  parents  of  their  students,  the  pubhc, 
and  the  state.  But  when  they  began  to  act  as  in- 
vestigators in  new  areas  of  knowledge,  they  found 
themselves  affecting  the  status  quo  and  the  inter- 
ests of  those  who  enjoyed  and  supported  it. 

And,  as  in  the  secession,  evolution,  and  silver  con- 
troversies, retaHation  was  sometimes  swift. 

In  1915,  spurred  by  their  growing  concern  over 
such  infringements  of  their  freedom,  a  group  of 
teachers  formed  the  American  Association  of  Uni- 
versity Professors.  It  now  has  52,000  members,  in 
the  United  States  and  Canada.  For  nearly  half  a 
century  an  AAUP  committee,  designated  as  "Com- 
mittee A,"  has  been  academic  freedom's  most  active 
— and  most  effective — defender. 

THE   AAUP's   defense  of  academic  freedom  is 
based  on  a  set  of  principles  that  its  members 
have  developed  and  refined  throughout  the  or- 
ganization's history.  Its  current  statement  of  these 
principles,  composed  in  collaboration  with  the  As- 
sociation of  American  Colleges,  says  in  part: 
"Institutions  of  higher  education  are  conducted 


for  the  common  good  and  not  to  further  the  interest 
of  either  the  individual  teacher  or  the  institution  as 
a  whole.  The  common  good  depends  upon  the  free 
search  for  truth  and  its  free  exposition." 

The  statement  spells  out  both  the  teacher's  rights 
and  his  duties: 

"The  teacher  is  entitled  to  full  freedom  in  re- 
search and  in  the  pubUcation  of  the  results,  subject 
to  the  adequate  performance  of  his  other  academic 
duties  .  .  . 

"The  teacher  is  entitled  to  freedom  in  the  class- 
room in  discussing  his  subject,  but  he  should  be 
careful  not  to  introduce  .  .  .  controversial  matter 
which  has  no  relation  to  his  subject  .  .  . 

"The  college  or  university  teacher  is  a  citizen,  a 
member  of  a  learned  profession,  and  an  officer  of  an 
educational  institution.  When  he  speaks  or  writes  as 
a  citizen,  he  should  be  free  from  institutional  censor- 
ship or  discipHne,  but  his  special  position  in  the 
community  imposes  special  obhgations.  As  a  man  of 
learning  and  an  educational  officer,  he  should  re- 
member that  the  pubHc  may  judge  his  profession 
and  his  institution  by  his  utterances.  Hence  he 
should  at  all  times  be  accurate,  should  exercise  ap- 
propriate restraint,  should  show  respect  for  the 
opinions  of  others,  and  should  make  every  effort  to 
indicate  that  he  is  not  an  institutional  spokesman." 

How  CAN  such  claims  to  academic  freedom  be 
enforced?  How  can  a  teacher  be  protected 
against  retaliation  if  the  truth,  as  he  finds  it 
and  teaches  it,  is  unpalatable  to  those  who  employ 
him? 
The  American  Association  of  University  Profes- 


sors  and  the  Association  of  American  Colleges  have 
formulated  this  answer:  permanent  job  security,  or 
tenure.  After  a  probationary  period  of  not  more  than 
seven  years,  agree  the  AAUP  and  the  AAC,  the 
teacher's  services  should  be  terminated  "only  for 
adequate  cause." 

If  a  teacher  were  dismissed  or  forced  to  resign 
simply  because  his  teaching  or  research  offended 
someone,  the  cause,  in  AAUP  and  AAC  terms, 
clearly  would  not  be  adequate. 

The  teacher's  recourse?  He  may  appeal  to  the 
AAUP,  which  first  tries  to  mediate  the  dispute  with- 
out pubUcity.  Failing  such  settlement,  the  AAUP 
conducts  a  full  investigation,  resulting  in  a  full  re- 
port to  Committee  A.  If  a  violation  of  academic 
freedom  and  tenure  is  found  to  have  occurred,  the 
committee  pubHshes  its  findings  in  the  association's 
Bulletin,  takes  the  case  to  the  AAUP  membership, 
and  often  asks  that  the  offending  college  or  univer- 
sity administration  be  censured. 


So  effective  is  an  AAUP  vote  of  censure  that  most 
college  administrators  will  go  to  great  lengths  to 
avoid  it.  Although  the  AAUP  does  not  engage  in 
boycotts,  many  of  its  members,  as  well  as  others  in 
the  academic  profession,  will  not  accept  jobs  in  cen- 
sured institutions.  Donors  of  funds,  including  many 
philanthropic  foundations,  undoubtedly  are  influ- 
enced; so  are  many  parents,  students,  alumni,  and 
present  faculty  members.  Other  organizations,  such 
as  the  American  Association  of  University  Women, 
will  not  recognize  a  college  on  the  AAUP's  censure 
list. 

As  the  present  academic  year  began,  eleven  insti- 
tutions were  on  the  AAUP's  hst  of  censured  admin- 
istrations. Charges  of  infringements  of  academic 
freedom  or  tenure  were  being  investigated  on  four- 
teen other  campuses.  In  the  past  three  years,  seven 
institutions,  having  corrected  the  situations  which 
had  led  to  AAUP  action,  have  been  removed  from 
the  censure  category. 


Has  the  teacher's  freedom 
no  limitations? 


How  SWEEPING  is  the  freedom  that  the  college 
teacher  claims? 
Does  it,  for  example,  entitle  a  member  of  the 
faculty  of  a  church-supported  college  or  university 
openly  to  question  the  existence  of  God? 

Does  it,  for  example,  entitle  a  professor  of  botany 
to  use  his  classroom  for  the  promulgation  of  pohtical 
beUefs? 

Does  it,  for  example,  apply  to  a  Communist? 
There  are  those  who  woxild  answer  some,  or  all, 
such  questions  with  an  unqualified  Yes.  They  would 


argue  that  academic  freedom  is  absolute.  They 
would  say  that  any  restriction,  however  it  may  be 
rationahzed,  effectively  negates  the  entire  academic- 
freedom  concept.  "You  are  either  free  or  not  free," 
says  one.  "There  are  no  halfway  freedoms." 

There  are  others — the  American  Association  of 
University  Professors  among  them — who  say  that 
freedom  can  be  hmited  in  some  instances  and,  by 
definition,  is  Umited  in  others,  without  fatal  damage 
being  done. 

Restrictions  at  church-supported 
colleges  and  universities 

The  AAUP-AAC  statement  of  principles  of  aca- 
demic freedom  impUcitly  allows  rehgious  restric- 
tions: 

"Limitations  of  academic  freedom  because  of  re- 
ligious or  other  aims  of  the  institution  should  be 
clearly  stated  in  writing  at  the  time  of  [the  teacher's] 
appointment  ..." 

Here  is  how  one  church-related  university  (Prot- 


estant)  states  such  a  "limitation"  to  its  faculty 
members: 

"Since  X  University  is  a  Christian  institution 
supported  by  a  religious  denomination,  a  member  of 
its  faculty  is  expected  to  be  in  sympathy  with  the 
university's  primary  objective — to  educate  its  stu- 
dents within  the  framework  of  a  Christian  culture. 
The  rights  and  privileges  of  the  instructor  should, 
therefore,  be  exercised  with  discretion  and  a  sense  of 
loyalty  to  the  supporting  institution  .  .  .  The  right  of 
dissent  is  a  correlative  of  the  right  of  assent.  Any 
undue  restriction  upon  an  instructor  in  the  exercise 
of  this  function  would  foster  a  suspicion  of  intoler- 
ance, degrade  the  university,  and  set  the  supporting 
denomination  in  a  false  hght  before  the  world." 

Another  church-related  institution  (Roman  Cath- 
olic) teUs  its  teachers: 

"While  Y  College  is  operated  under  Catholic  aus- 
pices, there  is  no  regulation  which  requires  all  mem- 
bers of  the  faculty  to  be  members  of  the  Catholic 
faith.  A  faculty  member  is  expected  to  maintain  a 
standard  of  Hfe  and  conduct  consistent  with  the  phi- 
losophy and  objectives  of  the  college.  Accordingly, 
the  integrity  of  the  college  requires  that  all  faculty 
members  shall  maintain  a  sympathetic  attitude  to- 
ward CathoUc  beUefs  and  practices,  and  shall  make 
a  sincere  effort  to  appreciate  these  beliefs  and  prac- 
tices. Members  of  the  faculty  who  are  Catholic  are 
expected  to  set  a  good  example  by  the  regular  prac- 
tice of  Catholic  duties." 


A  teacher's  "competence" 

By  most  definitions  of  academic  freedom,  a  teach- 
er's rights  in  the  classroom  apply  only  to  the  field  in 
which  he  is  professionally  an  expert,  as  determined 
by  the  credentials  he  possesses.  They  do  not  extend 
to  subjects  that  are  foreign  to  his  specialty. 

"...  He  should  be  careful,"  says  the  American 
Association  of  University  Professors  and  the  Asso- 
ciation of  American  Colleges,  "not  to  introduce  into 
his  teaching  controversial  matter  which  has  no  re- 
lation to  his  subject." 

Hence  a  professor  of  botany  enjoys  an  undoubted 
freedom  to  expound  his  botanical  knowledge,  how- 
ever controversial  it  might  be.  (He  might  discover, 
and  teach,  that  some  widely  consumed  cereal  grain, 
known  for  its  energy-giving  properties,  actually  is  of 
Uttle  value  to  man  and  animals,  thus  causing  con- 
sternation and  angry  outcries  in  Battle  Creek.  No 
one  on  the  campus  is  likely  to  challenge  his  right  to 
do  so.)  He  probably  enjoys  the  right  to  comment, 
from  a  botanist's  standpoint,  upon  a  conservation 
bill  pending  in  Congress.  But  the  principles  of  aca- 
demic freedom  might  not  entitle  the  botanist  to  take 


a  classroom  stand  on,  say,  a  bill  deaHng  with  traflSc 
laws  in  his  state. 

As  a  private  citizen,  of  course,  off  the  college  cam- 
pus, he  is  as  free  as  any  other  citizen  to  speak  on 
whatever  topic  he  chooses — and  as  liable  to  criti- 
cism of  what  he  says.  He  has  no  special  privileges 
when  he  acts  outside  his  academic  role.  Indeed,  the 
AAUP-AAC  statement  of  principles  suggests  that 
he  take  special  pains,  when  he  speaks  privately,  not 
to  be  identified  as  a  spokesman  for  his  institution. 

HENCE,  at  least  in  the  view  of  the  most  influen- 
tial of  teachers'  organizations,  the  freedom  of 
the  coUege  teacher  is  less  than  absolute.  But 
the  hmitations  are  estabhshed  for  strictly  defined 
purposes:  (1)  to  recognize  the  reUgious  auspices  of 
many  colleges  and  universities  and  (2)  to  lay  down 
certain  ground  niles  for  scholarly  procedure  and  con- 
duct. 

In  recent  decades,  a  new  question  has  arisen  to 
haunt  those  who  wovild  define  and  protect  academic 
freedom:  the  problem  of  the  Communist.  When  it 
began  to  be  apparent  that  the  Communist  was  not 
simply  a  member  of  a  pohtical  party,  willing  (like 
other  pohtical  partisans)  to  submit  to  estabhshed 
democratic  processes,  the  question  of  his  eUgibility 
to  the  rights  of  a  free  college  teacher  was  seriously 
posed. 

So  pressing — and  so  worrisome  to  our  colleges 
and  universities — has  this  question  become  that  a 
separate  section  of  this  report  is  devoted  to  it. 


The  Communist: 
a  special  case? 


SHOULD  A  Communist  Party  member  enjoy  the 
privileges  of  academic  freedom?  Should  he  be 
permitted  to  hold  a  position  on  a  college  or 
imiversity  faculty? 

On  few  questions,  however  "obvious"  the  answer 
may  be  to  some  persons,  can  complete  agreement 
be  found  in  a  free  society.  In  a  group  as  conditioned 
to  controversy  and  as  insistent  upon  hard  proof  as 
are  college  teachers,  a  consensus  is  even  more  rare. 

It  would  thus  be  a  miracle  if  there  were  agree- 
ment on  the  rights  of  a  Communist  Party  member 
to  enjoy  academic  privileges.  Indeed,  the  miracle 
has  not  yet  come  to  pass.  The  question  is  stiU 
warmly  debated  on  many  campuses,  even  where 
there  is  not  a  Communist  in  sight.  The  American 
Association  of  University  Professors  is  still  in  the 
process  of  defining  its  stand. 

The  difficulty,  for  some,  lies  in  determining 
whether  or  not  a  communist  teacher  actually  propa- 
gates his  behefs  among  students.  The  question  is 
asked,  Should  a  commimist  gym  instructor,  whose 
utterances  to  his  students  are  confined  largely  to 
the  hup-two-three-four  that  he  chants  when  he 
leads  the  cahsthenics  drill,  be  summarily  dismissed? 
Should  a  chemist,  who  confines  his  campus  activities 
solely  to  chemistry?  Until  he  overtly  preaches  com- 
mvmism,  or  permits  it  to  taint  his  research,  his 
writings,  or  his  teaching  (some  say),  the  Commimist 
should  enjoy  the  same  rights  as  all  other  faculty 
members. 

Others — and  they  appear  to  be  a  growing  num- 
ber— have  concluded  that  proof  of  Communist 
Party  membership  is  in  itself  sufficient  grounds  for 
dismissal  from  a  college  faculty. 

To  support  the  argument  of  this  group,  Professor 
Arthur  O.  Lovejoy,  who  in  1913  began  the  move- 
ment that  led  to  the  estabUshment  of  the  AAUP, 
has  quoted  a  statement  that  he  wrote  in  1920,  long 
before  communism  on  the  campus  became  a  hvely 
issue: 

"Society  ...  is  not  getting  from  the  scholar  the 
particular  service  which  is  the  principal  raison 
d'etre  of  his  caUing,  unless  it  gets  from  him  his 
honest  report  of  what  he  finds,  or  beheves,  to  be 
true,  after  careful  study  of  the  problems  with  which 


he  deals.  Insofar,  then,  as  faculties  are  made  up  of 
men  whose  teachings  express,  not  the  results  of  their 
own  research  and  reflection  and  that  of  their  feUow- 
speciaHsts,  but  rather  the  opinions  of  other  men — 
whether  holders  of  public  office  or  private  persons 
from  whom  endowments  are  received — just  so  far 
are  colleges  and  universities  perverted  from  their 
proper  function  ..." 

(His  statement  is  the  more  pertinent.  Professor 
Lovejoy  notes,  because  it  was  originally  the  basis 
of  "a  criticism  of  an  American  college  for  accepting 
from  a  'capitahst'  an  endowment  for  a  special  pro- 
fessorship to  be  devoted  to  showing  'the  fallacies  of 
sociahsm  and  kindred  theories  and  practices.'  I 
have  now  added  only  the  words  'holders  of  pubUc 
office.'  ") 

Let  us  quote  Professor  Lovejoy  at  some  length, 
as  he  looks  at  the  conMnunist  teacher  today: 

"It  is  a  very  simple  argument;  it  can  best  be  put, 
in  the  logician's  fashion,  in  a  series  of  nimabered 
theorems: 

"1.  Freedom  of  inquiry,  of  opinion,  and  of  teach- 
ing in  universities  is  a  prerequisite,  if  the  academic 
scholar  is  to  perform  the  proper  function  of  his 
profession. 

"2.  The  Communist  Party  in  the  United  States 
is  an  organization  whose  aim  is  to  bring  about  the 
establishment  in  this  country  of  a  political  as  well 
as  an  economic  system  essentially  similar  to  that 
which  now  exists  in  the  Soviet  Union. 

"3.  That  system  does  not  permit  freedom  of  in- 
quiry, of  opinion,  and  of  teaching,  either  in  or 
outside  of  universities;  in  it  the  poKtical  govern- 
ment claims  and  exercises  the  right  to  dictate  to 
scholars  what  conclusions  they  must  accept,  or  at 
least  profess  to  accept,  even  on  questions  lying 
within  their  own  specialties — for  example,  in  philos- 
ophy, in  history,  in  aesthetics  and  Uterary  criticism, 
in  economics,  in  biology. 

"4.  A  member  of  the  Communist  Party  is  there- 
fore engaged  in  a  movement  which  has  already  ex- 
tingtiished  academic  freedom  in  many  countries  and 
would — if  it  were  successful  here — result  in  the 
abolition  of  such  freedom  in  American  universities. 

"5.  No  one,  therefore,  who  desires  to  maintain 


academic  freedom  in  America  can  consistently  favor 
that  movement,  or  give  indirect  assistance  to  it  by 
accepting  as  fit  members  of  the  faculties  of  xini- 
versities,  persons  who  have  voluntarily  adhered  to 
an  organization  one  of  whose  aims  is  to  abolish 
academic  freedom. 

"Of  these  five  propositions,  the  first  is  one  of 
principle.  For  those  who  do  not  accept  it,  the  con- 
clusion does  not  follow.  The  argument  is  addressed 
only  to  those  who  do  accept  that  premise.  The 
second,  third,  and  fourth  propositions  are  state- 
ments of  fact.  I  submit  that  they  cannot  be  honestly 
gainsaid  by  any  who  are  acquainted  with  the 
relevant  facts  . .  . 

"It  will  perhaps  be  objected  that  the  exclusion  of 
communist  teachers  would  itself  be  a  restriction 
upon  freedom  of  opinion  and  of  teaching— i;J2.,  of 
the  opinion  and  teaching  that  intellectual  freedom 
should  be  abolished  in  and  outside  of  universities; 
and  that  it  is  self-contradictory  to  argue  for  the 
restriction  of  freedom  in  the  name  of  freedom.  The 
argument  has  a  specious  air  of  logicality,  but  it  is 
in  fact  an  absurdity.  The  behever  in  the  indis- 
pensability  of  freedom,  whether  academic  or  politi- 


cal, is  not  thereby  committed  to  the  conclusion  that 
it  is  his  duty  to  faciUtate  its  destruction,  by  placing 
its  enemies  in  strategic  positions  of  power,  prestige, 
or  influence  .  .  .  The  conception  of  freedom  is  not 
one  which  implies  the  legitimacy  and  inevitabiUty 
of  its  own  suicide.  It  is,  on  the  contrary,  a  concep- 
tion which,  so  to  say,  defines  the  limit  of  its  own 
appUcability;  what  it  implies  is  that  there  is  one 
kind  of  freedom  which  is  inadmissible — the  freedom 
to  destroy  freedom.  The  defender  of  hberty  of 
thought  and  speech  is  not  morally  bound  to  enter 
the  fight  with  both  hands  tied  behind  his  back.  And 
those  who  would  deny  such  freedom  to  others,  if 
they  could,  have  no  moral  or  logical  basis  for  the 
claim  to  enjoy  the  freedom  which  they  would  deny . . . 
"In  the  professional  code  of  the  scholar,  the  man 
of  science,  the  teacher,  the  first  commandment  is: 
Thou  shalt  not  knowingly  misrepresent  facts,  nor 
tell  hes  to  students  or  to  the  pubHc.  Those  who  not 
merely  sometimes  break  this  commandment,  but 
repudiate  any  obhgation  to  respect  it,  are  obviously 
disquahfied  for  membership  in  any  body  of  investi- 
gators and  teachers  which  maintains  the  elementary 
requirements  of  professional  integrity. 


"To  say  these  things  is  not  to  say  that  the  eco- 
nomic and  even  the  political  doctrines  of  commu- 
nism should  not  be  presented  and  freely  discussed 
within  academic  walls.  To  treat  them  simply  as 
'dangerous  thought,'  with  which  students  should 
not  be  permitted  to  have  any  contact,  would  give 
rise  to  a  plausible  suspicion  that  they  are  taboo 
because  they  would,  if  presented,  be  all  too  con- 
vincing; and  out  of  that  suspicion  young  Commu- 
nists are  bred.  These  doctrines,  moreover,  are  his- 
torical facts;  for  better  or  worse,  they  play  an 
immense  part  in  the  intellectual  and  political  con- 
troversies of  the  present  age.  To  deny  to  students 
means  of  learning  accurately  what  they  are,  and  of 
reaching  informed  judgments  about  them,  would 
be  to  fail  in  one  of  the  major  pedagogic  obligations 
of  a  university — to  enable  students  to  understand 
the  world  in  which  they  will  live,  and  to  take  an 
intelligent  part  in  its  affairs  ..." 

IF  EVERY  COMMUNIST  admitted  he  belonged  to  the 
party — or  if  the  public,  including  college  teachers 
and  administrators,  somehow  had  access  to  party 
membership  lists — such  a  policy  might  not  be  diffi- 
cult to  apply.  In  practice,  of  course,  such  is  not  the 
case.  A  two-pronged  danger  may  result:  (1)  we  may 
not  "spot"  all  Communists,  and  (2)  unless  we  are 
very  careful,  we  may  do  serious  injustice  to  persons 
who  are  not  Communists  at  all. 

What,  for  example,  constitutes  proof  of  Commu- 
nist Party  membership?  Does  refusal  to  take  a 
loyalty  oath?  (Many  non-Communists,  as  a  matter 
of  principle,  have  declined  to  subscribe  to  "dis- 
criminatory" oaths — oaths  required  of  one  group 
in  society,  e.g.,  teachers,  but  not  of  others.)  Does 


invoking  the  Fifth  Amendment?  Of  some  200  dis- 
missals from  college  and  university  faculties  in  the 
past  fifteen  years,  where  communism  was  an  issue, 
according  to  AAUP  records,  most  were  on  grounds 
such  as  these.  Only  a  handful  of  teachers  were  in- 
controvertibly  proved,  either  by  their  own  admission 
or  by  other  hard  evidence,  to  be  Communist  Party 
members. 

Instead  of  relying  on  less-than-conclusive  evi- 
dence of  party  membership,  say  some  observers, 
we  would  be  wiser — and  the  results  would  be  surer — 
if  we  were  to  decide  each  case  by  determining 
whether  the  teacher  has  in  fact  violated  his  trust. 
Has  he  been  intellectually  dishonest?  Has  he  mis- 
stated facts?  Has  he  published  a  distorted  bibli- 
ography? Has  he  preached  a  party  line  in  his  class- 
room? By  such  a  determination  we  would  be  able 
to  bar  the  practicing  Communist  from  our  campuses, 
along  with  all  others  guilty  of  academic  dishonesty 
or  charlatanry. 

How  can  the  facts  be  estabhshed? 

As  one  who  holds  a  position  of  unusual  trust,  say 
most  educators  (including  the  teachers'  own  or- 
ganization, the  AAUP),  the  teacher  has  a  special 
obligation:  if  responsible  persons  make  serious 
charges  against  his  professional  integrity  or  his  in- 
tellectual honesty,  he  should  be  willing  to  submit 
to  examination  by  his  colleagues.  If  his  answers  to 
the  charges  are  unsatisfactory — evasive,  or  not  in 
accord  with  evidence — formal  charges  should  be 
brought  against  him  and  an  academic  hearing,  con- 
ducted according  to  due  process,  should  be  held. 
Thus,  say  many  close  observers  of  the  academic 
scene,  society  can  be  sure  that  justice  is  done — 
both  to  itself  and  to  the  accused. 


Is  the  college  teacher's  freedom 
in  any  real  jeopardy? 


How  FREE  is  the  college  teacher  today?  What 
are  his  prospects  for  tomorrow?  Either  here 
or  on  the  horizon,  are  there  any  serious 
threats  to  his  freedom,  besides  those  threats  to  the 
freedom  of  us  aU? 

Any  reader  of  history  knows  that  it  is  wise  to 
adopt  the  view  that  freedom  is  always  in  jeopardy. 
With  such  a  view,  one  is  likely  to  maintain  safe- 


guards. Without  safeguards,  freedom  is  sure  to  be 
eroded  and  soon  lost. 

So  it  is  with  the  special  freedom  of  the  college 
teacher — the  freedom  of  ideas  on  which  our  civiliza- 
tion banks  so  much. 

Periodically,  this  freedom  is  buffeted  heavily.  In 
part  of  the  past  decade,  the  weather  was  particular- 
ly stormy.  College  teachers  were  singled  out  for 


Are  matters  of  academic  freedom  eas^ 

Try  handling  some  of  ttiesi 


You  are 

a  college  president. 

Your  college  is  your  life.  You  have 
thrown  every  talent  you  possess  into 
its  development.  No  use  being  mod- 
est about  it:  your  achievements 
have  been  great. 

The  faculty  has  been  strength- 
ened immeasurably.  The  student 
body  has  grown  not  only  in  size  but 
in  academic  quality  and  aptitude. 
The  campus  itself — dormitories,  lab- 
oratories, classroom  buildings — 
would  hardly  be  recognized  by  any- 
one who  hasn't  seen  it  since  before 
you  took  over. 

Your  greatest  ambition  is  yet  to 
be  reahzed:  the  construction  of  a 
new  Ubrary.  But  at  last  it  seems  to 
be  in  sight.  Its  principal  donor,  a 
wealthy  man  whom  you  have  culti- 
vated for  years,  has  only  the  techni- 
calities— but  what  important  tech- 
nicalities!— to  complete:  assigning 
to  the  college  a  large  block  of  secur- 
ities which,  when  sold,  will  provide 
the  necessary  $3,000,000. 

This  afternoon,  a  newspaper  re- 
porter stopped  you  as  you  crossed 
the  campus.  "Is  it  true,"  he  asked, 
"that  John  X,  of  your  economics 
department,  is  about  to  appear  on 
coast-to-coast  television  advocating 
deficit  spending  as  a  cornerstone  of 
federal  fiscal  policy?  I'd  like  to  do 
an  advance  story  about  it,  with  your 
comments." 

You  were  not  sidestepping  the 
question  when  you  told  the  reporter 
you  did  not  know.  To  tell  the  truth, 
you  had  never  met  John  X,  unless 
it  had  been  for  a  moment  or  two  of 
small-talk  at  a  faculty  tea.  On  a 
faculty  numbering  several  hundred, 
there  are  bound  to  be  many  whom 
you  know  so  slightly  that  you  might 
not  recognize  them  if  they  passed 
you  on  the  street. 

Deficit  spending!  Only  last  night, 


your  wealthy  library-donor  held 
forth  for  two  hours  at  the  dinner 
table  on  the  immorality  of  it.  By 
the  end  of  the  evening,  his  words 
were  almost  choleric.  He  phoned  this 
morning  to  apologize.  "It's  the  one 
subject  I  get  rabid  about,"  he  said. 
"Thank  heavens  you're  not  teaching 
that  sort  of  thing  on  your  campus." 

You  had  your  secretary  discreetly 
check:  John  X's  telecast  is  sched- 
uled for  next  week.  It  will  be  at 
least  two  months  before  you  get 
those  library  funds.  There  is  John 
X's  extension  number,  and  there  is 
the  telephone.  And  there  are  your 
lifetime's  dreams. 

Should  you  .  .  .? 

You  are 

a  university  scientist. 

You  are  deeply  involved  in  highly 
complex  research.  Not  only  the 
equipment  you  use,  but  also  the 
laboratory  assistance  you  require, 
is  expensive.  The  cost  is  far  more 
than  the  budget  of  your  university 
department  could  afiford  to  pay. 

So,  like  many  of  your  colleagues, 
you  depend  upon  a  governmental 
agency  for  most  of  your  financial 
support.  Its  research  grants  and 
contracts  make  your  work  possible. 

But  now,  as  a  result  of  your 
studies  and  experiments,  you  have 
come  to  a  conclusion  that  is  dia- 
metrically opposite  to  that  which 
forms  the  oflScial  policy  of  the 
agency  that  finances  you — a  policy 
that  potentially  affects  the  welfare 
of  every  citizen. 

You  have  outUned,  and  docu- 
mented, your  conclusion  forcefully, 
in  confidential  memoranda.  Re- 
sponsible officials  beheve  you  are 
mistaken;  you  are  certain  you  are 
not.  The  disagreement  is  profound. 
Clearly  the  government  wUl  not 
accept  your  view.  Yet  you  are  con- 


vinced that  it  is  so  vital  to  your 
country's  welfare  that  you  should 
not  keep  it  to  yourself. 

You  are  a  man  of  more  than  one 
heavy  responsibility,  and  you  feel 
them  keenly.  You  are,  of  course,  re- 
sponsible to  your  university.  You 
have  a  responsibility  to  your  col- 
leagues, many  of  whose  work  is 
financed  similarly  to  yours.  You  are, 
naturally,  responsible  to  your  coun- 
try. You  bear  the  responsibility  of  a 
teacher,  who  is  expected  to  hold 
back  no  knowledge  from  his  stu- 
dents. You  have  a  responsibility  to 
your  own  career.  And  you  feel  a 
responsibility  to  the  people  you  see 
on  the  street,  whom  you  know  your 
knowledge  affects. 

Loyalties,  conscience,  Ufetime  fi- 
nancial considerations:  your  di- 
lemma has  many  horns. 

Should  you  .  .  .? 

You  are 

a  business  man. 

You  make  toothpaste.  It  is  good 
toothpaste.  You  maintain  a  research 
department,  at  considerable  ex- 
pense, to  keep  it  that  way. 

A  disturbing  rumor  reached  you 
this  morning.  Actually,  it's  more 
than  a  rumor;  you  could  class  it  as 
a  well-founded  report.  The  dental 
school  of  a  famous  university  is 
about  to  publish  the  results  of  a 
study  of  toothpastes.  And,  if  your 
informant  had  the  facts  straight,  it 
can  do  nothing  but  harm  to  your 
current  selling  campaign. 

You  know  the  dean  of  the  dental 
school  quite  well.  Your  company, 
as  part  of  its  poUcy  of  supporting 
good  works  in  dental  science,  has 
been  a  regular  and  substantial  con- 
tributor to  the  school's  development 
fund. 

It's  not  as  if  you  were  thinking  of 
suppressing  anything;  your  record 


o  solve? 
problems. 


of  turning  out  a  good  product — the 
best  you  know — is  ample  proof  of 
that.  But  if  that  report  were  to 
come  out  now,  in  the  midst  of  your 
campaign,  it  could  be  ruinous.  A 
few  months  from  now,  and  no  harm 
would  be  done. 

Would  there  be  anything  wrong 
if  you  . . .? 

Your  daughter 
is  at  State. 

You're  proud  of  her;  first  in  her 
class  at  high  school;  pretty  girl; 
popular;  extraordinarily  sensible, 
in  spite  of  having  lots  of  things  to 
turn  her  head. 

It  was  hard  to  send  her  off  to  the 
university  last  fall.  She  had  never 
been  away  from  the  family  for  more 
than  a  day  or  two  at  a  time.  But 
you  had  to  cut  the  apron-strings. 
And  no  experience  is  a  better  teacher 
than  going  away  to  college. 

You  got  a  letter  from  her  this 
morning.  Chatty,  breezy,  a  bit  sassy 
in  a  delightful  way.  You  smiled  as 
you  read  her  youthful  jargon.  She 
dehghts  in  using  it  on  you,  because 
she  remembers  how  you  grimaced 
in  mock  horror  whenever  you  heard 
it  around  the  house. 

Even  so,  you  turned  cold  when 
you  came  to  the  paragraph  about 
the  sociology  class.  The  so-called 
scientific  survey  that  the  professor 
had  made  of  the  sexual  behavior  of 
teen-agers.  This  is  the  sort  of  thing 
Margie  is  being  taught  at  State? 
You're  no  prude,  but  .  .  .  You  know 
a  member  of  the  education  com- 
mittee of  the  state  legislature. 
Should  you  .  .  .?  And  on  the  coffee 
table  is  the  letter  that  came  yester- 
day from  the  fund-raising  oflBce  at 
State;  you  were  planning  to  write  a 
modest  check  tonight.  To  support 
more  sociology  professors  and  their 
scientific  surveys?  Should  you  .  .  .? 


special  criticism  if  they  did  not  conform  to  popular 
patterns  of  thought.  They,  and  often  they  alone, 
were  required  to  take  oaths  of  loyalty — as  if  teach- 
ers, somehow,  were  uniquely  suspect. 

There  was  widespread  misunderstanding  of  the 
teacher's  role,  as  defined  by  one  university  presi- 
dent: 

"It  is  inconceivable  .  .  .  that  there  can  exist  a  true 
community  of  scholars  without  a  diversity  of  views 
emd  an  atmosphere  conducive  to  their  expression 
...  To  have  a  diversity  of  views,  it  is  essential  that 
we  as  individuals  be  willing  to  extend  to  our  col- 
leagues, to  our  students,  and  to  members  of  the  com- 
mvmity  the  privilege  of  presenting  opinions  which 
may,  in  fact,  be  in  sharp  conflict  with  those  which 
we  espouse.  To  have  an  atmosphere  of  freedom,  it  is 
essential  that  we  accord  to  such  diverse  views  the 
same  respect,  the  same  attentive  consideration,  that 
we  grant  to  those  who  express  opinions  with  which 
we  are  in  basic  agreement." 

THE  STORM  of  the  '50's  was  nationwide.  It  was 
felt  on  every  campus.  Today's  storms  are 
local;  some  campuses  measure  the  threat  to 
their  teachers'  freedom  at  hurricane  force,  while 
others  feel  hardly  a  breeze. 

Hence,  the  present — relatively  calm — is  a  good 
time  for  assessing  the  values  of  academic  freedom, 
and  for  appreciating  them.  The  future  is  certain  to 
bring  more  threats,  and  the  understanding  that  we 
can  build  today  may  stand  us  in  good  stead,  then. 

What  is  the  likely  nature  of  tomorrow's  threats? 

"It  is  my  sincere  impression  that  the  faculties  of 
our  universities  have  never  enjoyed  a  greater  lati- 
tude of  intellectual  freedom  than  they  do  today," 
says  the  president  of  an  institution  noted  for  its 
high  standards  of  scholarship  and  freedom.  "But 
this  is  a  judgment  relative  only  to  the  past. 

"The  search  for  truth  has  no  ending.  The  need  to 
seek  truth  for  its  own  sake  must  constantly  be  de- 
fended. Again  and  again  we  shall  have  to  insist 
upon  the  right  to  express  unorthodox  views  reached 
through  honest  and  competent  study. 

"Today  the  physical  sciences  offer  safe  ground  for 
speculation.  We  appear  to  have  made  our  peace 
with  biology,  even  with  the  rather  appalling  im- 
plications of  modern  genetics. 

"Now  it  is  the  social  sciences  that  have  entered 
the  arena.  These  are  young  sciences,  and  they  are 
diflSicult.  But  the  issues  involved — the  positions 
taken  with  respect  to  such  matters  as  economic 
growth,  the  tax  structure,  deficit  financing,  the  laws 


affecting  labor  and  management,  automation,  social 
welfare,  or  foreign  aid — are  of  enormous  conse- 
quence to  all  the  people  of  this  country.  If  the  critics 
of  our  universities  feel  strongly  on  these  questions, 
it  is  because  rightly  or  wrongly  they  have  identi- 
fied particular  solutions  uniquely  with  the  future 
prosperity  of  our  democracy.  All  else  must  then  be 
heresy." 

Opposition  to  such  "heresy" — and  hence  to  aca- 
demic freedom — is  certain  to  come. 

IN  THE  FUTURE,  as  at  present,  the  concept  of  aca- 
demic freedom  will  be  far  from  uncomplicated. 
Applying  its  principles  in  specific  cases  rarely 
will  be  easy.  Almost  never  will  the  facts  be  all  white 
or  all  black;  rather,  the  picture  that  they  form  is 
more  likely  to  be  painted  in  tones  of  gray. 

To  forget  this,  in  one's  haste  to  judge  the  right- 
ness  or  wrongness  of  a  case,  will  be  to  expose  oneself 


to  the  danger  of  acting  injudiciously — and  of  com- 
mitting injustice. 

The  subtleties  and  complexities  found  in  the  gray 
areas  will  be  endless.  Even  the  scope  of  academic 
freedom  will  be  involved.  Should  its  privileges,  for 
example,  apply  only  to  faculty  members?  Or  should 
they  extend  to  students,  as  well?  Should  students, 
as  well  as  faculty  members,  be  free  to  invite  con- 
troversial outsiders  to  the  campus  to  address  them? 
And  so  on  and  on. 

The  educated  alumnus  and  alumna,  faced  with 
specific  issues  involving  academic  freedom,  may 
well  ponder  these  and  other  questions  in  years  to 
come.  Legislators,  regents,  trustees,  college  ad- 
ministrators, students,  and  faculty  members  will  be 
pondering  them,  also.  They  will  look  to  the  alumnus 
and  alumna  for  understanding  and — if  the  cause  be 
just — for  support.  Let  no  reader  underestimate  the 
difficulty — or  the  importance — of  his  role. 


Illustrations  by  Robert  Ross 


"What  Right 


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The  University  of  Notre  Dame 

MARALYN  O.  GILLESPIE 

Swarthmore  College 

JEAN  D.  LINEHAN 


FRANCES  PROVENCE 

Baylor  University 

FRANK  J.  TATE 

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Carnegie  Institute  of  Technology 

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The  University  of  New  Hampshire 

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The  University  of  Oklahoma 

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American  Alumni  Council 


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Stanford  University 

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Executive  Editor 


Freedom  Without  Fanfare 


I 


AAUP  at  Millsaps 
Is  Nothing  New 


By   Ross  H.   Moore 


A  chapter  of  A  A  U  P  has  functioned  on  the  Millsaps  College  campus  for 
more  than  a  decade.  While  this  group  has  inspired  almost  no  news  stories, 
it  has  been  a  very  effective  organization  for  the  promotion  of  the  best  interests 
of  the  college. 

The  maintenance  of  academic  freedom,  which  is  one  of  the  principal 
interests  of  the  national  association,  has  never  been  an  issue  here  because 
the  position  of  the  administration  is  in  full  accord  with  that  of  the  faculty. 

AAUP  was  instrumental  in  secur-      meetings.    Other  matters  such  as  fac- 
ing the  college's  approval  of  the  state-      ulty  housing,  income  taxes  for  teach- 


ment  on  Academic  Freedom  and  Ten- 
ure which  has  also  been  approved  by 
the  Association  of  American  Colleges. 
Local  machinery  was  set  up  to  handle 
any  cases  of  this  nature  which  may 
arise,  but  fortunately  there  has  been 
no  need  for  such  action. 

A  definite  policy  on  criteria  for  facul- 
ty rank  and  promotion  has  been  adopt- 
ed according  to  A  A  U  P  recommen- 
dations. The  program  of  sabbatical 
leave  and  allowances  for  faculty  travel 
have  been  improved. 

A  committee  on  recruitment,  re- 
tention, and  retirement  of  faculty 
members  has  been  established  and  is 
functioning  effectively. 

The  chapter  has  been  concerned 
with  faculty  salaries  and  has  secured 
college  participation  in  the  compiling 
of  salary  data  to  be  included  in  the 
national  AAUP  Salary  Rating  Pro- 
gram. 

An  item  of  constant  interest  has  been 
the  development  of  an  insurance  pro- 
gram which  includes  a  variable  an- 
nuity system:  health,  disability,  and 
group  life  insurance,  which  have  been 
instituted  through  cooperation  of  the 
business  office  and  the  administration. 

A  thorough  study  of  faculty  teaching 
load  has  led  to  a  move  in  the  direction 
of  a  reduction  in  the  teaching  schedule. 

Another  benefit  has  been  the  faculty 
tuition  exchange  arrangement  which 
permits  children  of  faculty  members 
to  be  granted  free  tuition  at  partici- 
pating colleges  and  universities.  The 
plan  was  endorsed  by  the  local  chap- 
ter and  accepted  by  the  administra- 
tion. 

It  was  the  AAUP  which  secured 
from  the  Board  of  Trustees  an  invita- 
tion for  a  member  of  the  faculty  to  sit 
with  the  Board  and  participate  in  their 


ers,  the  establishment  of  an  honor  sys- 
tem, and  summer  school  salaries  have 
been  discussed.  The  chapter  has  con- 
stantly tried  to  encourage  faculty 
participation  in  college  policy-making 
and  government. 

A  member  of  the  state  organization, 
the  Millsaps  chapter  has  served  as 
host  for  all  of  these  meetings  and  has 
sent  representatives  to  regional  and 
national  meetings. 

Finally,  it  should  be  clearly  under- 
stood that  there  has  been  full  cooper- 
ation between  the  local  chapter  and 
the  administration  of  the  College 
which  has  added  to  the  effectiveness 
of  both. 


THE  AUTHOR:  Dr.  Ross  H. 
Moore,  chairman  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  History,  has  served  as 
president  of  the  Millsaps  College 
chapter,  AAUP,  and  the  state 
chapter.  He  was  a  delegate  to 
the  1963  national  convention  of 
AAUP,    held    in    San    Francisco. 


AT  GRADUATION  EXERCISES  —  Seated  are  Dr.  Hans  Rosenhaupt, 
commencement  speaker,  with  Dr.  H.  E.  Finger,  Jr.,  Millsaps  College 
president.  Standing,  left  to  right,  are  Dr.  Moore,  the  Rev.  R.  M.  Matheny, 
who  gave  the  invocation.  Dr.  Frank  M.  Laney,  Jr.,  academic  dean,  and 
the  Rev.  L.  A.  Wasson,  who  delivered  the  benediction.  Mr.  Matheny  and 
Mr.  Wasson  are  fathers  of  1963  graduates. 


25 


Major  Miscellany 

1900-1919 
William  C.  McLean,  '16,  head  of  the 
law  firm  McLean  &  McLean,  reports 
from  Tampa,  Florida,  that  he  is  the 
proud  grandfather  of  eight  grandchil- 
dren, Mrs.  McLean  is  a  former  Eng- 
lish teacher  at  Grenada  College,  and 
two  of  their  three  sons  are  members 
of  the  law  firm  in  Tampa.  The  third 
son  is  a  mechanical  engineer,  also 
working  in  Florida. 

1920-1929 
Wilmer  C.  Mabry,  '26,  has  been 
named  to  the  staff  of  the  Mississippi 
Test  Operations  of  the  Marshall  Space 
Flight  Center,  Gainesville,  Mississippi. 
He  will  assist  local  communities  with 
development  programs.  A  former  edi- 
tor and  publisher  of  the  Newton,  (Mis- 
sissippi) Record,  Mabry  also  worked 
as  public  relations  officer  for  the  Vet- 
erans Administration,  Jackson. 

1930-1939 

Juan  Jose  Menendez  Arias  and  Jes- 
sie Lola  Davis  de  Menendez  (nee 
Jessie  Lola  Davis,  '38)  recently  an- 
nounced the  adoption  of  a  child,  Jessie 
Milagros  Menendez  Davis,  born  June 
29,  1949.  Address  of  the  family  is  Ha- 
cienda Santa  Isabel,  Itagan,  Isabela, 
Phillipines. 

1940-1949 

J.  Pemble  Field,  Jr.,  '41,  has  been 
named  group  vice  president  of  Indus- 
trial Management  Corporation  of 
Memphis.  Mr.  Field,  his  wife  (the 
former  Madera  Elizabeth  Durley,  '40) 
and  their  two  daughters,  have  resided 
in  South  Bend,  Indiana,  will  now  live 
in  Memphis. 

The  Reverend  Duncan  Alexander 
Reily,  '44,  was  recently  elected  execu- 
tive secretary  of  the  Latin  American 
Board  of  Methodist  Missions.  He  is 
also  executive  secretary  of  Missions 
and  Evangelism  for  the  Methodist 
Church  of  Brazil,  resides  at  Caixa 
Postal  2009,  Sao  Paulo,  Brazil. 

Gene  Nettles,  '49,  concluded  a  suc- 
cessful theatrical  season  in  Oslo,  will 
return  to  Broadway.  In  Europe,  he 
directed  and  choreographed  a  musical 
comedy,  "The  Fantasticks,"  a  revue 
at  the  national  theatre,  and  a  tele- 
vision special. 

Lawrence  A.  Waring,  '42,  has  been 
appointed  utility  marketing  consultant 
for  Ebasco  Services  Incorporated. 

Joseph  H.  Brooks,  Jr.,  '41,  is  now  an 
instructor  in  journalism  at  San  Diego 
State  College,  in  addition  to  working  at 
a  regular  newspaper  job.  His  address 
is  4271  Appleton  Street,  San  Diego  17, 
California. 


CLASS  OF  1913  —  Dr.  Finger  gives  a  progress  report  to  alumni,  assembled 
for  their  fiftieth  reunion  Saturday,  June  1. 


William  R.  Crout,  '49,  has  been  ap- 
pointed assistant  in  the  Memorial 
Church,  Harvard  University,  by  the 
president  and  fellows  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege. He  is  completing  thesis  require- 
ments for  a  PhD  degree  in  the  philos- 
ophy of  religion  at  Harvard  University, 
is  a  student  of  Dr.  Paul  Tillich.  He 
has  also  been  appointed  to  the  Board 
of  Freshmen  Advisors  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege. 

Jean  M.  Calloway,  '44,  was  recently 
elected  chairman  of  the  Michigan  sec- 
tion of  the  Mathematical  Association 
of  America.  He  is  chairman  of  the 
department  of  mathematics,  Kalama- 
zoo College,  Kalamazoo,  Michigan. 
1950-1959 

Mrs.  Jerry  Gulledge  (Ann  Carter, 
'55),  was  named  "Mother  of  the  Year" 
by  the  newspaper  in  Crystal  Springs. 
Married  to  Dr.  Jerry  Gulledge,  '50-'53, 
she  is  the  mother  of  two  children,  and 
was  cited  by  the  newspaper  for  her 
community  work. 

Shirley  V.  Brown,  '57,  is  in  Frank- 
furt, Germany,  serving  as  recreation 
director  with  the  Special  Services  Unit, 
IRCB,  U.   S.  Army. 

Alfred  (Bo)  Statham,  '57,  has  joined 
the  Washington,  D.  C.  office  staff  of 
Senator  John  Stennis. 

The  Reverend  Eugene  C.  Holmes, 
'55,  is  author  of  an  article  in  the  South 
Carolina  Methodist  Advocate  entitled 
"In  the  Year  of  Our  Lord." 

Thomas  L.  Wright,  '50,  has  joined 
the  First  National  Bank,  Jackson,  as 
vice-president  with  general  banking 
responsibilities. 

William  B.  Sheppard,  '54,  has  been 
named  assistant  director  for  the  Jack- 
son, Mississippi,  Veterans  Administra- 
tion Center. 

Arthur  F.  A.  Goodsell,  '50,  was  mus- 


ical director  for  the  Jackson  Little 
Theatre's  annual  spring  musical  com- 
edy production.  Mrs.  Goodsell  (nee 
Alice  Dale  Whitfield,  '52)  was  assistant 
director  of  the  previous  play  and  also 
served  as  secretary  of  the  community 
theatre  for  the  1962-63  season. 

William  S.  Romey,  '54,  was  promot- 
ed to  senior  engineer  with  Pacific 
N.  W.,  Bell  Telephone  Co.  He  resides 
with  his  family  at  3406  -  74th  Ave., 
S.   E.,  Mercer  Island,  Washington. 

Dr.  Melvyn  Stem,  '56,  is  a  resident 
in  pediatrics  at  John  Gaston  Hospital, 
Memphis.  When  his  residency  is  com- 
pleted. Dr.  Stern  will  join  the  U.  S. 
Air  Force  as  a  medical  officer. 

L.  A.  Stricklin,  Jr.,  '54,  recently  ac- 
cepted an  executive  position  with  Hess 
Oil  and  Chemical  Corporation.  He, 
his  wife  and  three  daughters  reside 
at  47  Grace  Drive,  Old  Bridge,  New 
Jersey. 

Dr.  William  E.  Riecken,  Jr.,  '52, 
is  chairman  of  the  Section  on  Pre- 
ventative Medicine,  Mississippi  State 
Medical  Association,  and  recently  at- 
tended lectures  in  Aerospace  Medi- 
cine at  Brooks  Air  Force  Base,  Texas. 
Mrs.  Riecken  is  the  former  Jeanennt 
Pridgen,    '54. 

Lt.  William  H.  Long,  '58-'59,  is  sta- 
tioned with  the  U.  S.  Army  in  Stutt- 
gart, Germany.  The  new  address  for 
Lt.  and  Mrs.  Long  and  their  two  year 
old  daughter,  Tina  Hue,  is:  93rd  Engr. 
Co.   (F.B.),  APO  46,  N.  Y.,  N.  Y. 

Captain  Jesse  W.  Moore,  '56,  is  ser- 
ving as  chaplain  with  the  U.  S.  Army, 
is  stationed  in  St.  Nazaire,  France, 
Mrs.  Moore,  the  former  Anne  Hupper 
ich,  '58,  and  son,  Mark,  are  accom- 
panying him  on  the  tour.  The  Moore's 
address  is  3993  USAT/G,  APO  681; 
N.  Y.,  N.  Y. 


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Mrs.  Robert  Vansuch.  nee  Jo  Ann 
>oper,  '54,  Captain  Dave  Balius,  '53, 
ind   Mrs.    Balius,    nee   Virginia  Kelly, 

53,  had  a  reunion  in  Africa  recently. 
Jlrs.  Vansuch's  husband  is  principal 
if  the  school  at  Sidi  Slimane,  Air 
■"orce  Base,  Morocco,  and  the  two 
aniilies,  who  live  within  twelve  miles 
if  each  other,  met  in  Sidi  Yahia, 
klorocco.  Captain  Balius  is  command- 
ng  officer  of  a  detached  company  of 
ilarines. 

Betty  Dyess,  '57,  has  been  appointed 
Director  of  Children's  Work  for  the 
ilississippi  Conference  of  the  Metho- 
list  Church.  She  replaced  Mrs.  Fletch- 
■r  Wilson  Swink,  nee  Geneala  Van 
i^alkenburg,  '50,  who  resigned. 
1960-1962 

Jack  Ryan,  '61,  radio-television  di- 
rector for  Gordon  Marks  and  Com- 
)any,  contributed  his  theatrical  talents 
0  three  Jackson  stage  shows  this  sea- 
ion,  both  onstage  and  off.  He  was 
assistant  director  of  musical  comedies 
it  the  Jackson  Little  Theatre  when  he 
ioubled  as  performer  and  director, 
ind  at  Murrah  High  School,  and  ap- 
Deared  in  a  dramatic  role  in  a  Jack- 
ion  Little  Theatre  production  earlier 
n  the  season,  directed  by  Millsaps 
r'layers  director  Lance  Goss. 

Joe  Burnett,  '60,  was  named  chair- 
nan  for  the  1963  Red  Cross  fund  and 
nembership  campaign,  Jasper  Coun- 
;y,  Mississippi. 

Bettye  West,  '62,  fifth  grade  teacher 
n  Melbourne,  Florida,  recently  doub- 
ed  as  special  newspaper  correspon- 
lent  for  the  Yazoo  City  Herald,  send- 
ng  home  personalized  reports  of  her 
observations  at  Cape  Canaveral. 


3n  Jilemoriam 

This  column  is  dedicated  to  the 
memory  of  graduates,  former  stu- 
dents, 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: 

David  Horace  Bishop,  professor  of 
English  at  Millsaps,  '00-'04  and  '30-'32, 
who  died  January  8.  He  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Oxford. 

Alexander  Boyd  Campbell,  '10,  who 
died  February  20.  He  was  a  resident 
of  Jackson. 

John  Campbell,  '29-'33,  who  died  No- 
vember 30.  He  was  a  resident  of  Hot 
Springs,  Arkansas. 

Mrs.  Shelby  N.  Campbell  (Sam  Ap- 
plewhite), Grenada  '03,  who  died  April 
11.    She  was  a  resident  of  Jackson. 

Robert  R.  Chichester,  '09-'13,  who 
died  March  16.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Edwards,  Mississippi. 

The  Reverend  Victor  Cranberry  Clif- 
ford, '10-'13,  who  died  December  21, 
He  was  a  resident  of  Quitman,  Missis- 
sippi. 

R.  Burdette  Craig,  '12-'17,  who  died 
IMarch  29.  He  was  a  resident  of  Jones- 
boro,  Arkansas,  formerly  of  Houston, 
Mississippi. 

Mary  Ann  Damare,  '59,  who  died 
May  15.  She  was  a  resident  of  Hous- 
ton,   Texas,   formerly   of   Jackson. 


ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION  OFFICERS  —  William  E.  Barksdale,  center,  Jack- 
son Chamber  of  Commerce  executive,  was  named  president  for  1963-64. 
Pictured  with  Mr.  Barksdale,  left  to  right,  are  Judge  Carl  Guernsey,  vice- 
president;  Dr.  Finger,  Mrs.  Thomas  H.  Boone,  secretary;  Barry  Brindley, 
vice-president.  Dr.  Thomas  F.  McDonnell  was  also  elected  a  vice-president 
in  the  alumni  ballot-by-mail. 


SINGERS'  TOURING  BUS  arrives 
at  National  Cathedral,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Lemuel  H.  Doty,  '98,  who  died  in 
December.  He  was  a  resident  of  Bi- 
loxi. 

B.  W.  Downing,  ■23-'27,  who  died  in 
July.  He  was  a  resident  of  Mercedes, 
Texas. 

John  R.  Enochs,  '15-'16,  who  died 
November  26.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Osceola,  Arkansas. 

John  H.  Finger,  '28-'30,  who  died  in 
February.  He  was  a  resident  of  Rip- 
ley, Mississippi. 

Mrs.  Mittie  J.  Huddleston,  of  Jack- 
son, who  died  May  31.  She  was  the 
wife  of  the  late  Dr.  George  W.  Hud- 
dleston, a  Methodist  minister  and  pro- 
fessor at  Millsaps. 

W.  M.  Jones,  Jr.,  '50,  who  died 
March  24.  He  was  a  resident  of  Itta 
Bena,  Mississippi,  formerly  of  Jack- 
son. 

Pugh  Lightcap,  '30-'32,  who  died  May 
16.  He  was  a  resident  of  Silver  City, 
Mississippi. 

John  William  Loch,  '07,  who  died 
March  6.  He  was  a  resident  of  Mem- 
phis. 

Dr.  William  Robert  Lott,  Sr.,  11-12, 
who  died  February  2.  He  was  a  retired 
minister  who  lived  in  Kilmichael. 

Charlie  C.  Scott,  '05-'06,  who  died 
November  10.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Jackson. 

Colonel  Joe  R.  Simpson,  Jr.,  '39-'40, 
who  died  January  24  in  a  plane  crash. 
He  was  a  resident  of  Roswell,  New 
Mexico,  formerly  of  Jackson. 

Dr.  Roy  L.  Smith,  Lit.  D.  '44,  who 
died  in  May.  He  was  a  resident  of 
San  Bernardino,  California. 

Mrs.  Sam  Stanley  (Grace  Henry), 
Grenada,  '28-'32,  who  died  April  2. 
She  was  a  resident  of  North  Carroll- 
ton,  Mississippi. 

Mrs.  J.  Sam  Ward  (Susie  Newell), 
'28-'30,  who  died  February  25  after  a 
long  illness.  She  was  a  resident  of 
Harrisville,  Mississippi. 

Marvin  E.  Wiggins,  Sr.,  '06-'07,  who 
died  March  9.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Jackson. 


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Trustees 
Pay  Tribute 
To  Campbell 

A.  Boyd  Campbell  was  awarded 
the  B.S.  degree  from  Millsaps  Col- 
lege in  1910.  On  Wednesday,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1963,  he  died,  ending  a 
lifetime  of  service  to  the  commun- 
ity, to  the  state  and  nation,  and  to 
his  alma  mater.  On  the  day  after 
Mr.  Campbell's  death,  the  board 
of  trustees  of  Millsaps  College  met 
and  adopted  the  following  citation 
in  tribute  to  the  outstanding  Mill- 
saps alumnus: 

CITATION 

Millsaps  College  owes  to  no  man  in 
this  generation  a  more  profound  debt 
of  gratitude  than  that  which  it  owes 
to  Boyd  Campbell.  First  in  the  out- 
standing success  which  he  has  made 
in  the  business  world,  he  reflected 
honor  on  his  Alma  Mater.  He  went 
out  as  a  graduate  from  this  institution 
to  found  a  business  organization,  in 
a  comparatively  small  city,  on  such 
a  basis  and  with  such  success  that  he 
became  and  was  recognized  in  the 
commercial  world  as  a  national  figure. 

No  Mississippian  ever  gained  a  high- 
er pinnacle  of  recognition  in  the  busi- 
ness realm  than  that  attained  by 
him.  American  trade  is  pre-eminent 
throughout  the  world.  Its  present-day 
organization,  performance  and  dom- 
inance have  never  been  surpassed  in 
all  history.  The  supreme  commercial 
group,  standing  at  the  apex  of  the 
colossal  business  structures  of  this  na- 
tion, is  the  United  States  Chamber  of 
Connmerce,  an  organization  composed 
of  the  leaders  of  American  trade. 
There  is  no  more  coveted  nor  conspic- 
uous position  in  the  entire  business 
world,  than  the  presidency  of  that 
organization.  Boyd  Campbell  was  se- 
lected as  the  President  of  the  United 
States  Chamber  of  Commerce,  a  po- 
sition which  he  filled  with  such  fidelity 
and  distinction  that  he  attained  in- 
ternational prominence. 

He  held  numerous  other  honors  and 
high  positions  of  trust.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  one  of  the  great  rail- 
road systems  of  the  nation.  He  was 
on  the  board  of  a  great  utility  com- 
pany, a  leading  bank,  an  outstand- 
ing insurance  company  and  many 
other  business  organizations. 


THE  BOYD   CAMPBELL   STUDENT  CENTER  —  Scene   of   com- 
mencement exercises,  June  2,  1963. 


But  the  real  glory  of  his  life  cannot 
be  determined  by  material  calcula- 
tions. It  is  not  reckoned  by  fiscal 
standards;  it  is  not  measured  by  bus- 
iness success.  Its  splendor  lies  in  his 
achievements  each  day,  in  service  to 
mankind,  in  dreams  of  a  better, 
nobler,  and  more  exalted  world,  and 
in  the  exercising  of  that  courage,  faith 
and  effort  necessary  for  the  realiza- 
tion of  those  dreams.  Boyd  Camp- 
bell's untiring  efforts,  and  his  tremen- 
dous accomplishments  in  the  religious, 
educational,  the  civic  and  philanthrop- 
ic spheres,  surpassed  even  his  wonder- 
ful success  in  the  commercial  system. 

Many  worthy  causes,  many  benev- 
olent organizations,  many  splendid  in- 
stitutions were  benefited  and  became 
better  and  more  useful  as  a  result  of 
his  generous  contributions  and  untir- 
ing efforts.  But  in  all  the  field  of  his 
activities,  Millsaps  College  was  al- 
ways his  greatest  love.  From  the  time 
of  his  graduation  in  1910,  he  was  one 
of  the  college's  most  loyal  supporters. 
For  approximately  one-third  of  a  cen- 
tury, and  until  less  than  a  year  ago, 
he  served  Millsaps  in  the  vitally  im- 
portant position  of  Treasurer.  As  the 
Treasurer  of  the  institution,  he  gave 
unstintingly  of  his  valuable  time,  his 
splendid  ability,  his  sagacious  counsel, 
and  his  outstanding  business  capacity. 
Under  many  trying  circumstances  and 
severe  situations  down  through  the 
years,  his  wise  and  discerning  leader- 
ship has  transformed  financial  ad- 
versity into  successful  accomplish- 
ment. The  able  manner  in  which  he 
handled  the  monetary  affairs  of  the 
college  brought  almost  unbelievable 
results.  He  was  always  in  the  van- 
guard of  those  who  believe  in  the  sterl- 


ing value,  the  present  worth,  and  the 
great  future  of  Millsaps.  Believing  in 
those  things,  he  constantly  demonstrat- 
ed his  willingness  to  do  whatever  was 
necessary  to  insure  the  permanency  of 
the  institution,  to  the  end  that  it  might 
continue  to  bring  religious  education! 
of  the  highest  caliber  to  the  youth  of 
this  region. 

As  an  expression  of  its  lasting  ap-' 
preciation  for  the  life  and  service  of 
this  wonderful  friend  of  the  college, 
pursuant  to  a  recommendation  made 
by  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Board,  at  its  last  meeting  some  days 
ago,  the  Board  of  Trustees,  in  session 
assembled,  has  determined  as  an  evi- 
dence of  its  deep  sense  of  gratitude, 
to  announce  that  by  its  action  this  day 
taken,  the  structure  on  the  campus  of 
Millsaps  College,  heretofore  called  the 
Student  Union  Building,  shall  here^ 
after  be  designated  and  known  as  the 
Boyd   Campbell   Student   Center. 

Be  it  further  known  and  determined 
that  the  Board  of  Trustees  hereby  ex- 
presses its  genuine  appreciation  for 
the  devoted  service  Boyd  Campbell  al- 
ways rendered  to  the  institution,  and 
for  the  eminent  life  of  leadership,  use 
fulness,  illustrious  achievement,  and 
noble  service  which  he  has  given  to 
humanity. 

Along  with  thousands  of  others 
throughout  the  nation  Millsaps  mourns 
the  going  of  this  great  man  whose  life 
and  work  has  made  such  an  imprint 
on  the  State  of  Mississippi,  but  it  does 
so  with  the  realization  that  the 
achievements  of  such  a  one  do  not 
fade  with  the  mortal  body,  but  live 
on  as  a  blessing  in  the  minds  and 
hearts  of  those  who  knew  and  loved 
him. 


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Mary  Lene  Atkins  to  Newt  Parks 
Sarrison,  '57.  Living  in  Jackson  where 
Mr.  Harrison  is  associated  with  the 
law  firm  of  Brunini,  Everett,  Gran- 
tham,  and  Quin. 

Kay  Diane  Cullifer,  '61-'62,  to  Virgil 
Baker  Gunter,  Jr.    Living  in  Oxford. 

Pauline  Dickson,  '59-63,  to  Frank 
Frederick  Akers,  Jr.  Living  in  Lees- 
ville,  Louisiana. 

Ruth  Holmes  Elliott,  '60 '61,  to  Rob- 
ert Nicholas  Stockett.  Living  in  Ox- 
ford. 

Nancy  Gray,  '61-'62,  to  Thomas 
Smith  Doty,  Jr.    Living  in  Jackson. 

Barbara  Ann  Griffin,  '59 '61,  to  Ly- 
man Moody  Simms,  Jr.,  '62.  Living 
in  Charlottesville,  Virginia,  where  Mr. 
Simms  is  attending  graduate  school 
at  the  University  of  Virginia. 

Mary  Rich  Hobgood,  '60-'62,  to  Lynn 
Hugh  Sanders.  Living  in  Memphis, 
Tennessee,  where  Mrs.  Sanders  is 
presently  a  student  at  the  Memphis 
Academy  of  Art  and  Memphis  State 
University. 

Phyllis  Ruth  Johnson,  '61,  to  Carey 
Walton  Campbell.    Living  in  Jackson. 

Mary  Luran  Luper,  January,  '63,  to 
Howard  Curtis  Flowers,  Jr.,  '58-'61. 
Living  in  Cartersville,  Georgia,  where 
both  are  teaching. 

Betty  Marie  McMullen,  '63,  to  Alan 
Howard  Harrigill,  '63. 

Ola  Sue  May  to  Harry  Geotes,  '58. 
Living  in  Long  Beach,  Mississippi. 

Nancy  Bryan  Meek,  '59-'63,  to  Den- 
nis Melle  Graham. 

Peggy  Jean  Perry,  '58,  to  Walter 
McKennon  Denny,  Jr.  Living  in  Jack- 
son. 

Dee  Ann  Pettit  to  William  Murphey 
Rainey,  '59.  Living  in  Chapel  Hill, 
North  Carolina,  where  Mr.  Rainey  is 
studying  for  his  master's  degree. 

Hazel  Dean  Robison  to  Henry  Wyatt 
Clowe,    '33.     Living  in   Jackson. 

Martha  Jean  Scott,  '59-'62,  to  Rob- 
ert Edward  Aldridge,  '62.  Living  in 
Jackson. 

Mary  Ricks  Thornton  to  Dr.  Frank 
Howard  Tucker,  Jr.,  '58.  Living  in 
Jackson,  where  Dr.  Tucker  is  doing  a 
residency  in  general  surgery  at  the 
University  Medical  Center. 


Geneala  Van  Valkenburgh,  '50,  to  the 
Reverend  Fletcher  Wilson  Swink.  Liv- 
ing in  Falls  Church,  Virginia. 

Annie  Leon  Weaver,  '60,  to  Lt.  Je- 
rome Matthew  Modolo.  Living  in  To- 
peka,  Kansas. 

Sophie  Hutson  Weston  to  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Frank  Sistrunk,  '54.  Living  in 
Jackson. 

Beverly  Ann  Wilhite  to  Dan  Ander- 
son Mcintosh,  III,  '62.  Living  in  Ox- 
ford, Mississippi. 

Elizabeth  Ann  Willey,  '57-'58,  '61,  to 
Jimmy  Britt  Lovette.  Living  in  Clarks- 
dale,  where  Mrs.  Lovette  is  teaching 
high  school. 


V^TU^t  AtOf^N' 


(Children  listed  in  this  column  must 
be  under  one  year  of  age.  Please  re- 
port births  promptly  to  assure  publi- 
cation. ) 

Martha  Sue  Allen,  born  April  30  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clyde  R.  Allen,  Jr. 
(Nancy  Sue  Norton),  '59-'62,  of  Jack- 
son. 

Valerie  Ann  Balius,  born  September 
7  to  Captain  and  Mrs.  David  H.  Balius 
(Virginia  Kelly),  both  '53,  of  Kenitra, 
i\Iorocco.  Davy,  8,  and  Kelly,  5,  com- 
plete the  family. 


John  Scott  Barlow,  born  March  29 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  C.  Barlow,  Jr. 
(Lynn  Bacot,  '53),  of  Theodore,  Ala- 
bama. 

Lisa  Anne  Baumgartner,  born  De- 
cember 8  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Baum- 
gartner (Glenda  Glenn,  '55)  of  Water- 
ford,  Ireland.  She  was  welcomed  by 
Kay,  6,  and  David.  5. 

Catherine  Anne  Bourne,  born  August 
1  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Bourne, 
Jr.  (Jewel  Taylor,  '60)  of  Huntsville, 
Alabama. 

Peter  Emmett  Burnett,  born  Septem- 
ber 6  to  the  Reverend  and  Mrs.  James 
P.  Burnett  (Julia  Allen),  '55  and  '54, 
of  Sacramento,  California.  He  was 
welcomed  by  Bill,  4.  and  Bob,  2. 

Christopher  Rodger  Busbee,  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  K.  D.  Busbee  (Sue  Mo- 
zingo,  '59),  of  Dallas,  Texas  on  Feb- 
ruary 22. 

Joni  Renee  Case,  born  March  5  to 
the  Reverend  and  Mrs.  John  M.  Case 
(Ellen  McClung),  '59  and  '58-'59,  of 
Jackson.  She  was  welcomed  by  Mark, 
3. 

Van  A.  Cavett,  III,  born  February 
13  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Van  A.  Cavett,  Jr. 
of  Chattanooga,  Tennessee.  Mr.  Ca- 
vett graduated  in  1953. 

David  Earl  Cox,  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  D.  Cox  of  Jackson  on  March 
25.    Mr.  Cox  graduated  in  1947. 

Patricia  Ann  Curtis,  born  September 
17  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pat  H.  Curtis  of 
Omaha,  Nebraska.  Mr.  Curtis  grad- 
uated in  1953.  Lynn  and  Jann  com- 
plete the  family. 


ONE  HUNDRED  THIRTY-SEVEN  graduates  received  diplomas 
at  commencement  exercises.  Top  scholars  were  Carleen  Smith, 
Vicksburg;  Elise  Matheny,  Meridian;  Ann  Elizabeth  Jenkins,  Laurel; 
and  Lawrence  Coleman,  Meridian. 


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Allan  Thomas  Dawson,  born  Febru- 
ary 21  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allan  J.  Daw- 
son (Julia  Anne  Beckes,  '59)  of  Milton, 
Florida. 

Kathleen  Dawn  Day,  born  December 
31  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Day  of 
Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana.  Mr.  Day 
graduated  in  1951. 

Katherine  Louise  Feldmann,  born 
May  18,  1962,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kurt  L. 
Feldmann  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 
Mr.    Feldmann   graduated  in   1960. 

Brent  Randolph  Hardy,  born  Novem- 
ber 2  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  C.  Hardy 
(Ida  Fae  Emmerich,  '48),  of  San 
Antonio,  Texas.  Charles,  4,  and  Don- 
ald,  V/2,  complete  the  family. 

Stephen  Kary  Holston,  born  March 
19  to  the  Reverend  and  Mrs.  Wilton  S. 
Holston  (Shirley  Shipp),  '51  and  '49-'51, 
of  Cary  Mississippi.  He  was  welcomed 
by  Eva  Lynn,  6'/4,  and  Lisa,  2. 

Julia  Elizabeth  Johnson,  born  Feb- 
ruary 14  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  R. 
Johnson  (Gwen  Harwell),  both  '60,  of 
Clarksdale. 

Kevin  Nicholas  King,  born  January 
2  to  the  Reverend  and  Mrs.  Jack  B. 
King  (Ilah  Mae  Nicholas),  both  '57,  of 
Belden,  Mississippi.  He  was  welcomed 
by  Richard,  2. 

Lisa  Kay  King,  born  May  12  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Raymond  E.  King  (Frances 
Yvonne  Mclnturff,  '51),  of  Hesston, 
Kansas. 

John  Howard  Little,  born  February 
13  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  B.  Little,  Jr. 
(Lonetta  Wells),  both  '54,  of  Jackson. 
He  was  welcomed  by  Cindy,  4. 

Sherri  Lynn  Loflin,  born  March  25 
to  the  Reverend  and  Mrs.  Jack  Loflin 
(Martha  Jo  Nail),  '56  and  '54,  of  Bude, 
Mississippi.  She  was  welcomed  by 
Vickie,   SVz,   and  Ann,   2. 

Donna  Marie  McClung,  born  May  17 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  V.  McClung 
(Shirley  Faye  Dean),  '58-'60  and  '60- 
'62,  of  Monroe,  Louisiana. 

Patricia  Lynn  McCormick,  born  Feb- 
ruary 22  to  the  Reverend  and  Mrs. 
James  R.  McCormick  (Patricia  Louise 
Chunn),  both  '57,  of  Scottsdale,  Arizo- 
na. James  Mark,  3,  completes  the 
family. 

Susanne  Kathleen  Naylor,  born  Jan- 
uary 24  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomes  Her- 
bert Naylor  ("Judy"  Scales),  '58  and 
'57-'59,  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 

Clair  Rebecca  Powell,  born  to  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  William  F.  Powell  (Joan 
Lee),  both  '56,  of  Corpus  Christi, 
Texas,  on  August  24.  Martha,  3V2, 
welcomed  the  newcomer, 

Roy  Byrd  Price,  III,  born  February 
1  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roy  B.  Price,  Jr. 
(Barbara    Swann),     '55    and     '57,     of 
Columbus,    Mississippi.     He  was   wei- ■ 
comed  by  Elizabeth,  3. 

Robert  King  Rice,  IV2  months,  adopt- 


The  Eye  of  the  Camera 


is  a  constant  observer  of  campus  life. 
Our  camera's  watchful  eye  recorded 
these  1963  spring  highlights 
for  the  pleasure  of  the  alumni. 


ed  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  T.  Rice  (Kath- 
erine King,  '51-'53),  of  Gulfport,  on 
December  13. 

Leslie  Fisher  Smith,  born  March  21 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  K.  Smith,  Jr. 
(Almyra  Fisher),  '53  and  '56,  of  Mad- 
ison, Mississippi. 

Jennifer  Lynn  Tomlin,  born  Febru- 
ary 22  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Durand 
Tomlin  of  Jackson.  Mr.  Tomlin  at- 
tended '56-'59.  Mrs.  Tomlin  is  the 
former  Frances  Ann  Haynes,  daugh- 
ter of  R.  R.  Haynes,  retired  Millsaps 
professor. 

William  Stewart  Tomlinson,  born 
February  27  to  the  Reverend  and  Mrs. 
Samuel  A.  Tomlinson,  III  (Glenda 
Wadsworth),  both  '58,  of  Corinth,  Mis- 
sissippi. 


Rose  Lorene  Trigg,  born  March  22 
to  the  Reverend  and  Mrs.  O.  Gerald 
Trigg  (Rose  Cunningham),  '56  and  '57, 
of  Pascagoula,  Mississippi.  She  was 
welcomed  by  Mark,  3. 

John  Michael  Turnlpseed,  born  No- 
vember 30  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gene 
Turnipseed  (Sandra  Huggins),  '61  and 
'59,  of  Pensacola,  Florida. 

David  Thompson  Upton,  born  to  the 
Reverend  and  Mrs.  Edwin  T.  Upton 
of  Tulsa,  Oklahoma,  on  February  10. 
The  Reverend  Upton  graduated  in 
1956. 

Carl  Vines  Wilson,  born  April  25 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  Wilson,  Jr. 
(Nancy  Caroline  Vines,  '54-'56)  of 
Richardson,  Texas.  Joseph  Edward, 
2y2,  completes  the  family. 


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The  Singers  take  "time  out"  during  the  spring  tour 
for  hiking  by   a  mountain  stream. 


Millsaps  Player  Beth  Boswell 
— a  memorable  Jenny  in  the  Players' 
production    of    "Threepenny    Opera," 
directed  by  Lance  Goss. 


Partners  in  Success 
Brigadier  General  Robert  E.  Blount,  '28,  headed 
the    arrangements    committee    for    the    Singers' 
Washington,    D.    C,    concerts,    directed    by    C. 
Leland  Byler. 


Waiting    while    the    ladies    talk    —    a 

familiar    pastime    at    the    1913    class 

reunion. 


Around  the  punch  bowl,  and  in  committee  meetings,  Millsaps  alumni 
contribute  to  the  excellence  that  is  Millsaps  College. 


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MERGED  INSTITUTIONS:  Grenada 
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MEMBER:  American  Alumni  Council, 
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CONTENTS 

3  Campus  Summer 

6  SuUivan-Harrell  Renovated 

7  College  Plans  to  Lease  Land 

8  A  Short  History  of  Education 

11  From  This  Day 
Future  Alumni 
In  Memoriam 

12  Events  of  Note 
14  Major  Miscellany 


Volume  4 


July,  1963 


Number  4 


Published  quarterly  by  Millsaps  College  in  Jackson, 
Mississippi.  Entered  as  second  class  matter  on  Oc- 
tober 15,  1959,  at  the  Post  Office  in  Jackson,  Mis- 
sissippi,   under    the    Act    of    August    24,    1912. 


Shirley     Caldwell,     '56,     Editor 

James    J.    Livesay,    '41,    Executive    Director,    Alumni 
Association 

Photography    by    Lloyd    A  tor,    '66 

Statistics    of   Births,   Marriages,   Deaths   compiled    by 
Linda    Perkins,    '64 


Summer  on  the  campus  reveals  scenes  such  as  these  —  all  self-explanatory. 
Summer  without  tennis,  even  when  the  sun's  rays  bounce  off  the  court  and 
double  the  intensity  of  the  heat?  —  unheard  of.  Then  there's  tutoring, 
and  there  are  big  discussions  —  probably  of  politics  in  this  election  year. 
All  are  a  part  of  the  campus  and  of  summer. 


Campus 
Summer 


It's  a  beautiful  campus  in  the  sum- 
mer— perhaps  not  the  favorite  of  many 
who  prefer  the  softness  of  spring  or  the 
richness  of  autumn  —  but  beautiful, 
nevertheless.  The  days  are  long  and 
hot,  but  there  are  compensations  in 
the  shade  of  thick  foliage,  in  the  soft- 
ness of  carpets  of  grass,  in  the  sudden 
coolness  of  a  summer  shower,  in  the 
often  unbroken  stillness  of  the  cam- 
pus, in  the  peacefulness  of  dusk. 

The  pink  and  white  of  spring  are 
gone,  replaced  by  summer's  greens 
and  blues  and  yellows.  Summer's  col- 
ors are  serene,  giving  lie  to  the  in- 
tensity of  the  sun  and  the  heat.  Sum- 
mer itself  gives  an  antithetical  aura 
of  intensity  and  lassitude. 

Indeed,  both  moods  prevail.  Much 
work  must  be  accomplished  in  the  two 
five-week-long  summer  terms,  a  fact 
muted  by  the  casual  appearance  of 
students  and  faculty.  Much  prepara- 
tion for  the  coming  year  is  going  on 
in  the  offices,  but  lack  of  pressure  and 
deadlines  give  a  seeming  quietness. 
Many  changes  are  taking  place,  as 
in  the  renovation  of  SuUivan-Harrell 
Science  Hall  and  the  building  of  a 
sorority  lodge.  In  spite  of  the  heat, 
many  students  engage  in  athletic  ac- 
tivities such  as  swimming,  golf,  and 
tennis. 

But  the  main  atmosphere  is  seren- 
ity. Afternoons  all  one  hears  is  the 
clack  of  typewriters  or  calculators  or, 
occasionally,  the  roar  of  a  lawnmower 
outside.  Classes  end  at  12:10,  and 
students  retreat  to  the  coolness  and 
quietness  of  the  library  or  to  the  com- 
fort of  the  dormitory.  There  are  no 
rehearsals  to  attend,  no  practice  ses- 
sions for  athletics,  no  meetings  of 
honoraries  or  organizations  —  only 
study. 


Campus  Summef 


Dean  Frank  M.  Laney  directs  the 
summer  session.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Admissions   Committee. 


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n  Murrah  and  the  Union  Building 
administrative  duties  are  proceeding. 
The  Dean  of  Students  and  Dean  of 
Women  are  busy  making  dormitory 
room  assignments,  talldng  to  con- 
cerned parents  of  embryonic  adults, 
preparing  to  help  the  freshmen  ad- 
just to  a  new  life. 

In  the  Alumni  Office  plans  for  the 
new  year  are  being  processed.  Alumni 
Fund  records  for  the  old  year  are  be- 
ing closed  and  statistics  compiled. 
Homecoming  plans  are  taking  shape 
and  goals  for  the  new  year  are  being 
set.  Major  Notes  receives  its  share 
of  attention,  and  the  never-ending  pro- 


cess of  keeping  addresses  up  to  date 
goes  on.  Records  are  checked  and 
cross-checked,  personal  data  are  filed, 
mailings  are  sent  out. 

The  Admissions  Committee  is  at- 
tempting to  select  a  student  body 
which  will  best  benefit  by  what  Mill- 
saps  has  to  offer.  The  Registrar's 
Office  keeps  up  with  absences  and 
grades,  mails  transcripts,  keeps  files 
on  current  and  future  students.  The 
President's  Office,  the  Development 
Office,  the  Dean's  Office,  the  Busi- 
ness Office  —  all  are  busy  with  regu- 
lar and  coming-session  duties. 


Incoming  freshman  Margaret  Allen 
of  Greenville,  visits  the  campus  witJ 
her  mother  to  make  plans  for  the  fall 
Measuring  a  Founders  Hall  window  foi 
curtains  was  one  preparatory  task. 


The  Executive  Committee  of  th« 
Alumni  Association  is  one  of  the  groups 
active  in  the  summer.  Pictured  fronr 
the  left  are  J.  W.  Wood,  College  Busi 
ness  Manager;  J.  J.  Livesay,  Execu 
tive  Director  of  the  Alumni  Associa 
tion;  T.  F.  McDonnell,  vice-president; 
Charlton  Roby,  past  president;  W.  E 
Barksdale,  president;  Mrs.  T.  H 
Boone,  secretary;  Fred  Ezelle,  pasi 
president;  Barry  Brindley,  vice-presi 
dent;  Carl  Guernsey,  vice-president; 
and  Dean  Frank  Laney. 


Upper  left:  Millsaps'  version  of  "The 
rhinker"  contemplates  —  who  knows 
what? 

Upper  right:  Between  classes  stu- 
dents wait  until  the  last  minute  before 
venturing:  out  into  the  hot,  glaring  sun. 

Lower  right:  Study  is  the  principal 
occupation  of  the  summer  student, 
who  must  complete  a  semester's  work 
in  five  weeks. 

Below:  The  casual  look  belies  the 
hard  work  compressed  into  the  two 
summer  terms. 


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o  the  student  summer  is  an  op- 
portunity to  catch  a  ride  on  Time's 
coattails  —  to  reduce  the  number  of 
years  required  for  a  degree.  For  some 
it  is  a  time  to  strengthen  themselves 
in  subjects  in  which  they  were  weak. 
Others  simply  desire  to  speed  the 
process.  Still  others  wish  to  take  sub- 
jects which  they  cannot  work  into 
the  regular  session. 

Whatever  one's  purpose,  there's  a 
great  deal  of  work  involved.  Classes 
meet  six  days  a  week,  ninety  minutes 
each.  A  professor  teaching  his  first 
summer  session  was  surprised  to  note 


that  the  summer  student  spends  the 
same  amount  of  time  in  class  as  the 
regular  session  student.  There  are 
still  research  papers  to  write  and 
projects  to  complete. 

There's  very  little  outside  of  study 
to  occupy  the  student's  time.  Every- 
thing —  both  civic  and  collegiate  — 
slows  down.  There  are  no  concerts, 
no  recitals,  very  few  plays,  no  meet- 
ings. There  are  bridge  games,  sum- 
mer recreational  activities,  bridge 
games,  religious  activities,  bridge 
games,  and  movies. 


New  Look 
for 

Sullivan- 
Harrell 


Approximately  $350,000  is  being 
spent  to  renovate  Sullivan-Harrell 
Science  Hall  this  summer.  The  build- 
ing will  feature  seven  chemistry  lab- 
oratories, five  physics  laboratories, 
five  biology  laboratories,  eight  faculty 
offices,  and  two  lecture  rooms.  New 
equipment  will  be  installed  in  new 
research  laboratories.  All  classrooms, 
research  laboratories  and  faculty  of- 
fices will  be  air-conditioned.  The 
electrical  system  will  be  completely 
reworked. 

The  pictures  shown  here  are  inter- 
esting from  a  photographic  point  of 
view  more  than  because  of  what  they 
show  of  the  renovation.  Lloyd  Ator, 
'66,  was  the  photographer. 


Selj-Support  Plan  Presented 


College  Plans  to  Lease  Land 


In  the  never-ending  search  for  more 
'unds,  required  by  the  never-ending 
juest  for  ever-higher  quality  educa- 
;ion,  Millsaps  College  has  in  recent 
.veeks  found  itself  the  center  of  a 
controversy. 

Several  weeks  ago  the  College  an- 
lounced  that  23y2  acres  of  its  campus 
ivould  be  leased  for  the  erection  of 
a  shopping  center.  This  was  being 
lone  because  it  would  bring  to  the 
Zlollege  badly  needed  funds  for  im- 
provement of  faculty  salaries,  a  vital 
lecessity  in  the  recruitment  of  good 
Leachers,  and  for  other  improvements, 
rhe  College  operated  on  a  tighter-than- 
iisual  budget  in  1962-63. 

The  Mississippi  and  North  Missis- 
sippi Conferences  of  the  Methodist 
"hurch,  which  control  the  College, 
gave  overwhelming  approval  to  the 
plan.  The  Board  of  Trustees  approved 
it  unanimously.  The  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Alumni  Association  is- 
sued a  "Statement  of  Support"  which 
stated  in  part: 

"The  matter  of  the  use  of  the  land 
available  to  the  College  has  been  given 
careful  study  by  businessmen,  clerical 
leaders,  and  college  officials,  and  it 
is  their  considered  judgment  that  the 
leasing  of  this  property  will  in  no 
manner  limit  the  growth  or  effective 
functioning  of  the  College  as  an  in- 
stitution of  higher  education. 

"Institutions  independent  of  state 
control  are  facing  grave  financial  cri- 
ses. Current  sources  of  support  must 
be  dramatically  increased  and  new 
sources  of  support  must  be  quickly 
found  and  utilized  to  the  fullest  if 
these  institutions  are  to  serve  the 
future  as  they  have  the  past. 

"It  is,  therefore,  incumbent  upon 
institutions  such  as  Millsaps  College 
to  do  everything  they  can  to  help 
themselves  before  asking  others  to 
help.     The   leasing    of   this    land    will 


be  Millsaps'  effort  to  be  a  good  stew- 
ard of  its  own  possessions.  This  is 
not  only  sound  business,  it  is  evidence 
of  moral  responsibility." 

The  City  Council  agreed  tentatively 
to  rezone  the  property  for  restricted 
commercial  use.  Within  days  pro- 
tests were  being  received  by  the  Coun- 
cil and  the  College,  and  the  local 
papers  were  receiving  letters  decry- 
ing the  move.  A  hearing  on  the  re- 
zoning  was  postponed  on  a  plea  by 
a  lawyer  representing  the  dissenting 
group  and  at  this  point  is  still  in  the 
future. 

The  area  involved  is  the  northern 
section  of  the  campus  bordering  Wood- 
row  Wilson  between  North  State  and 
North  West  streets  —  23'2  acres  of 
the  College's   100. 

Midtown  Development  Corporation 
has  leased  the  land  for  99  years.  L.  T. 
Rogers,  Jr.,  owner,  stated  that  only 
quality  stores  would  be  allowed.  Plans 
have  been  made  for  1,900  off-the-street 
parking  spaces.  Mr.  Rogers  agreed 
to  give  the  State  Highway  Department 
sufficient  land  fronting  Woodrow  Wil- 
son to  convert  the  street  to  six  lanes 
and  to  set  aside  ten  or  fifteen  feet 
along  North  State  for  future  widening. 

City  Planning  Board  Spokesman 
Lloyd  Montgomery  said  a  "thorough 
study  of  the  entire  area  by  a  consult- 
ing engineer  shows  that  a  shopping 
center  is  not  the  best  use  for  the  land." 

Objectors  say  that  the  shopping  cen- 
ter would  destroy  the  beauty  of  the 
campus.  Sonne  insist  that  the  College 
can  obtain  sufficient  funds  without 
this  step.  Some  claim  that  Major  Mill- 
saps' vision  of  the  campus  when  he 
donated  the  land  did  not  include  such 
commercialization. 

On  the  other  side  of  the  picture,  Karl 
Wolfe,  Mississippi's  foremost  artist, 
asked,  "Do  we  have  to  assume  that 
commercialization    of    property    any- 


where in  this  city  necessarily  carries 
with  it  the  threat  of  ugliness?  If  we 
do,  we  thereby  declare  ourselves  void 
of  the  imagination  which,  given  proper 
encouragement,  can  make  architec- 
ture and  its  attendant  landscaping, 
commercial  or  otherwise,  an  asset,  a 
thing  of  beauty,  rather  than  a  mon- 
strous blight. 

"It  has  been  estimated  by  experts 
that  the  needs  of  the  school  far  into  the 
future  can  be  adequately  served  by 
forty  acres.  The  same  experts  be- 
lieve new  buildings  should  be  taller 
and  closer  together  for  greater  ef- 
ficiency. Efficiency  is  one  of  the  needs 
of  most  schools." 

As  for  funds,  it  is  true  that  Millsaps 
alumni  have  given  over  $100,000  this 
year  through  the  Alumni  Fund,  the 
Development  Campaign,  scholarships, 
and  other  sources.  But  the  largest 
part  of  this  goes  for  physical  improve- 
ment, such  as  the  renovation  of  Sul- 
livan-Harrell  and  the  erection  of  a 
fine  arts  building.  Money  from  the 
Alumni  Fund  is  used  for  current  ex- 
penses  and  is  budgeted. 

This,  then,  is  the  picture.  It  should 
be  clear  to  all  that  the  "crisis  in 
higher  education"  which  has  been 
talked  about  so  long  is  no  longer  simp- 
ly "talk."  It  is  with  us,  and  Millsaps 
is  feeling  the  pinch.  Some  of  her  fin- 
est teachers  have  left  for  better-pay- 
ing jobs  in  areas  less  torn  by  strife. 
Replacement  —  real  replacement,  with 
teachers  equally  gifted  and  well  qual- 
ified —  will  be  difficult.  Millsaps  must 
be  able  to  offer  salaries  that  are  in 
line  with  her  reputation. 

It  was  felt  that  the  alumni,  above 
all,  should  be  informed  about  the 
College's  position.  The  issue  may  be 
settled  by  the  time  Major  Notes  is 
released.  Whatever  the  outcome,  it 
is  hoped  that  this  explanation  will 
help  the  alumni  to  understand  what 
was  and  is  involved. 


A  SHORT  HISTORY  OB 


By  Richard  Armour 


ILLUSTRATIONS     BY     CLYDE     SATTERWHITE. 


Prehistoric  Times 

Little  is  known  about  higher  education  during  the 
Stone  Age,  which  perhaps  is  just  as  well. 

Because  of  a  weakness  in  the  liberal  arts,  the  B.A. 
was  not  offered,  and  there  was  only  the  B.S.,  or  Bachelor 
of  Stones.  Laboratory  facilities  were  meager,  owing  to 
a  lack  of  government  contracts  and  support  from  private 
industry,  but  the  stars  were  readily  available,  on  clear 
nights,  for  those  interested  in  astronomy.  (Scholars,  who 
went  around  without  much  on,  looked  at  the  stars  with 
the  naked  eye.) 


Prehistoric  students,  being  before  history,  faile 
to  comprehend  the  fundamentals  of  the  subject,  such  i 
its   being   divided   into   Ancient,    Medieval,    and    Moderi 

There  were  no  College  Boards.  This  was  fortunati 
because  without  saw  or  plane,  boards  were  rough. 

Nor  were  there  any  fraternities.  The  only  clubs  o 
the  campus  were  those  carried  by  the  students  or,  i 
self-defense,  by  members  of  the  faculty. 

Alumni  organizations  were  in  their  infancy,  wher 
some  of  them  have  remained.  The  alumni  secretar 
occupied  a  small  cave,  left  behind  when  the  director  c 
development  moved  to  a  larger  one.  While  waiting  fc 
contributions  to  conne  in,  he  idly  doodled  on  the  wal 
completely  unaware  that  art  critics  would  someday  mis 
take  his  drawings  of  certain  members  of  the  board  c 
trustees  for  dinosaurs  and  saber-toothed  tigers. 

The  Alumni  Quarterly  came  out  every  quarter  of 

century,  and  was  as  eagerly  awaited  as  it  is  today.  [ 

I 

The  Classical  Period 

In  Ancient  Athens  everyone  knew  Greek,  and  i 
ancient  Rome  everyone  knew  Latin,  even  small  childre 
—  which  those  who  have  taken  Elementary  Greek  o 
Elementary  Latin  will  find  hard  to  believe.  Universitie 
wishing  to  teach  a  language  which  had  little  practica 
use  but  was  good  for  mental  discipline  could  have  of 
fered   English  if  they  had  thought  of  it. 

Buildings  were  all  in  the  classical  style,  and  wha 
looked  like  genuine  marble  was  genuine  marble.  How 
ever,  philosophy  classes  were  sometimes  held  on  th 
steps,  the  students  being  so  eager  to  learn  that  the; 
couldn't  wait  to  get  inside. 

The  Peripatetic  School  was  a  college  where  thi 
professors  kept  moving  from  town  to  town,  closely  folj 
lowed  by  students  and  creditors.  Sometimes  lectures  weni 
held  in  the  Groves  of  Academe,  where  students  couk 
munch  apples  and  olives  and  occasionally  cast  an  anxiou! 
eye  at  birds  in  the  branches  overhead. 

Under  the  Caesars,  taxation  became  so  burdensomf 
that  Romans  in  the  upper  brackets  found  they  might  a: 
well  give  money  to  their  Alma  Mater  instead  of  lettini 
the  State  have  it.  Thus  it  was  that  crowds  often  gatherec 
along  the  Appian  Way  to  applaud  a  spirited  chariot  race 
between  the  chairman  of  the  funds  drive  and  the  ta> 
collector,  each  trying  to  get  to  a  good  prospect  first. 

The  word  '.'donor"  comes  from  the  Latin  donare,  tc 
give,  and  is  not  to  be  confused  with  dunare,  to  dun,  thougi 
it  frequently  is. 


They   dreamed  of   quitting   before   exams   and   going 
off  on  a  crusade. 


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DUCATION 


English  could  have  been 
chosen  as  a  mental  discipline 
course. 

When  a  prominent  alumnus  was  thrown  to  the  lions, 
customary  procedure  in  the  alumni  offices  was  to  ob- 
serve a  moment  of  silence,  broken  only  by  the  sound  of 
munching.  Then  the  secretary,  wrapping  his  toga  a  little 
more  tightly  around  him,  solemnly  declared,  "Well,  we 
might  as  well  take  him  off  the  cultivation  list." 

rhe  Middle  Ages 

In  the  period  known  as  the  Dark  Ages,  or  nighthood, 
^veryone  was  in  the  dark.  Higher  education  survived  only 
because  of  illuminated  manuscripts,  which  were  dis- 
covered during  a  routine  burning  of  a  library.  It  is 
interesting  to  reconstruct  a  typical  classroom  scene:  a 
group  of  dedicated  students  clustered  around  a  glowing 
piece  of  parchment,  listening  to  a  lecture  in  Advanced 
Monasticism,  a  ten-year  course.  If  some  found  it  hard 
to  concentrate,  it  was  because  they  were  dreaming  about 
quitting  before  exams  and  going  off  on  a  crusade. 

Some  left  even  sooner,  before  the  end  of  the  lecture, 
having  spied  a  beautiful  damsel  being  pursued  by  a 
dragon  who  had  designs  on  her.  Damsels,  who  were 
invariably  in  distress,  wrought  havoc  on  a  young  man's 
grade-point  average. 

Members  of  the  faculty  were  better  off  than  previous- 
ly, because  they  wore  coats  of  armor.  Fully  accoutered, 
and  with  their  visors  down,  they  could  summon  up  enough 
courage  to  go  into  the  president's  office  and  ask  for  a 
promotion  even  though  they  had  not  published  a  thing. 

At  this  time  the  alumni  council  became  more  ag- 
gressive in  its  fund  drives,  using  such  persuasive  de- 
vices as  the  thumbscrew,  the  knout,  the  rack,  and  the 
wheel.  A  wealthy  alumnus  would  usually  donate  gen- 
erously if  a  sufficient  number  of  alumni,  armed  with 
pikestaffs  and  halberds,  could  cross  his  moat  and  storm 
his  castle  walls.  A  few  could  be  counted  on  to  survive 
the  rain  of  stones,  arrows,  and  molten  lead.  Such  a  group 
of  alumni,  known  as  "the  committee,"  was  customarily 
conducted  to  the  castle  by  a  troubador,  who  led  in  the 
singing  of  the  Alma  Mater  Song  the  while. 

The  Renaissance 

During  the  Renaissance,  universities  sprang  up  all 
over  Europe.  You  could  go  to  bed  at  night,  with  not  a 
university  around,  and  the  next  morning  there  would  be 
two  universities  right  down  the  street,  each  with  a 
faculty,  student  body,  campanile,  and  need  for  additional 
endowment. 

The  first  universities  were  in  Italy,  where  Dante  was 
required  reading.  Some  students  said  his  "Paradise" 
and  "Purgatory"  were  as  hard  as  "Hell."  Boccaccio 
was  not  required  but  was  read  anyhow,  and  in  the  original 
Italian,  so  much  being  lost  in  translation.  Other  institu- 
tions soon  followed,  such  as  Heidelberg,  where  a  popular 


elective  was  Duelling  103a, b,  usually  taken  concurrently 
with  First  Aid,  and  the  Sorbonne,  which  never  seemed 
to  catch  on  with  tourists  as  much  as  the  Eiffel  Tower, 
the  Folies  Bergere,  and  Napoleon's  Tomb.  In  England 
there  was  Oxford,  where  by  curious  coincidence,  all 
of  the  young  instructors  were  named  Don.  There  was 
also  Cambridge. 

The  important  thing  about  the  Renaissance,  which 
was  a  time  of  awakening  (even  in  the  classroom),  was 
education  of  the  Whole  Man.  Previously  such  vital  parts 
as  the  elbows  and  ear  lobes  had  been  neglected.  The 
graduate  of  a  university  was  supposed,  above  all,  to 
be  a  Gentleman.  This  meant  that  he  should  know  such 
things  as  archery,  falconry,  and  fencing  (subjects  now 
largely  relegated  to  Physical  Education  and  given  only 
one-half  credit  per  semester),  as  well  as,  in  the  senior 
year,  how  to  use  a  knife  and  fork. 

During  the  Renaissance,  the  works  of  Homer,  Virgil, 
and  other  classical  writers  were  rediscovered,  much  to 
the  disappointment  of  students. 

Alumni  officials  concentrated  their  efforts  on  secur- 
ing a  patron,  someone  rich  like  Lorenzo  de'  Medici,  some- 
one clever  like  Machiavelli,  or  (if  they  wished  to  get 
rid  of  a  troublesoine  member  of  the  administration) 
someone  really  useful  like  Lucrezia  Borgia. 

Colonial  America 

The  first  universities  in  America  were  founded  by 
the  Puritans.  This  explains  the  strict  regulations  about 
Late  Hours,  Compulsory  Chapel,  No  Liquor  on  the  Cam- 
pus, and  Off-Limits  to  Underclassmen  which  still  exist 
at  many  institutions. 

Some  crafts  were  taught,  but  witchcraft  was  an 
extracurricular  activity.  Witch-burning,  on  the  other 
hand,  was  the  seventeenth  century  equivalent  of  hanging 
a  football  coach  in  effigy  at  the  end  of  a  bad  season. 
Though  deplored,  it  was  passed  off  by  the  authorities 
as  attributable  to  "'youthful  exuberance." 

Harvard  set  the  example  for  naming  colleges  after 
donors.  William  and  Mary,  though  making  a  good  try, 
failed  to  starj;  a  trend  for  using  first  names.  It  was 
more  successful,  however,  in  starting  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  a 
fraternity  which  permitted  no  rough  stuff  in  its  initiations. 
At  first  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  key  was  worn  on  the  key 


ABOUT  THE  AUTHOR 

Richard  Armour  is  the  author  of  22  books  of  humor  and  satire, 
including  the  recent  Golf  Is  a  Four-Letter  Word.  In  addition  to  his 
books,  he  has  written  more  than  5,000  pieces  of  light  verse  and  prose 
for  magazines  in  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain.  He  is,  as  well, 
professor  of  English  and  dean  of  the  faculty  at  Scripps  College  in 
Claremont,     California. 

Professor  Armour  has  a  Ph.D.  from  Harvard.  He  has  taught  not 
only  at  Scripps  College,  where  he  has  been  on  the  faculty  since  1945, 
but  also  at  the  University  of  Texas,  Northwestern  University,  Wells 
College,   University    of    Freiburg,    and    University    of    Hawaii. 


ring,  but  the  practice  went  out  with  the  discovery  of  the 
watch  chain  and  vest. 

During  the  Colonial  Period,  alumni  officials  limited 
their  fund-raising  activities  to  those  times  when  an  alum- 
nus was  securely  fastened,  hands  and  legs,  in  the  stocks. 
In  this  position  he  was  completely  helpless  and  gave 
generously,  or  could  be  frisked. 

Revolutionary  America 

Higher  education  came  to  a  virtual  standstill  during 
the  Revolution  —  every  able-bodied  male  having  enlisted 
for  the  duration.  Since  the  ROTC  was  not  yet  established, 
college  men  were  forced  to  have  other  qualifications  for 
a  commission,  such  as  money. 

General  George  Washington  was  given  an  honorary 
degree  by  Harvard,  and  this  helped  see  him  through  the 
difficult  winter  at  Valley  Forge.  Since  he  gave  no  com- 
mencement address,  it  is  assumed  that  he  made  a  sub- 
stantial contribution  to  the  building  fund.  Then  again, 
mindful  of  the  reputation  he  had  gained  through  Parson 
Weems's  spreading  of  the  cherry  tree  story,  he  may 
have  established  a  chair  in  ethics. 

Unlike  the  situation  during  World  War  I,  when  col- 
leges and  universities  abandoned  the  teaching  of  Ger- 
man in  order  to  humiliate  the  Kaiser,  the  Colonists  waged 
the  Revolutionary  War  successfully  without  prohibiting 
the  teaching  of  English.  They  did,  however,  force  stu- 
dents to  substitute  such  good  old  American  words  as 
"suspenders"  for  "braces,"  and  themes  were  marked 
down  when  the  spelling  "tyre"  was  used  for  "tire"  and 
"colour"  for  "color." 

The  alumni  publication,  variously  called  the  Alumni 
Bulletin,  the  Alumni  Quarterly,  and  the  Alumni  News- 
letter, was  probably  invented  at  this  time  by  Benjamin 
Franklin,  who  invented  almost  everything  else,  including 
bifocals  and  kites.  The  first  such  publication  was  prob- 
ably Poor  Alumnus'  Almanac,  full  of  such  homely  sayings 
as  "Early  to  bed  and  early  to  rise  makes  a  man  healthy, 
wealthy,  and  wise  enough  to  write  his  Alma  Mater  into 
his  will." 

Contemporary  America 

In  the  nineteenth  century,  denominational  colleges 
were  founded  in  all  parts  of  the  country,  especially  Ohio. 
In  the  smaller  of  these  colleges,  money  was  mostly  given 
in  small  denominations.  A  few  colleges  were  not  named 
after  John  Wesley. 

State  universities  came  into  being  at  about  the  same 
time,  and  were  tax  supported.  Every  taxpayer  was 
therefore  a  donor,  but  without  getting  his  name  on  a 
building  or  being  invited  to  dinner  by  the  president.  The 
taxpayer,  in  short,  was  in  the  same  class  as  the  Anony- 
mous Giver,  but  not  because  he  asked  that  his  name 
be  withheld. 

About  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century,  women 
were  admitted  to  college.  This  was  done  (1)  to  relieve 
men  of  having  to  take  women's  parts  in  dramatic  produc- 
tions, (2)  to  provide  cheer  leaders  with  shapelier  legs, 
and  (3)  to  recruit  members  for  the  Women's  Glee  Club, 
which  was  not  prospering.  Women  students  came  to  be 
known  as  co-eds,  meaning  that  they  went  along  with  a 
man's  education,  and  he  could  study  and  date  simul- 
taneously. It  was  not  realized,  when  they  were  admitted, 
that  women  would  get  most  of  the  high  marks,  especially 
from  professors  who  graded  on  curves. 

In  the  twentieth  century,  important  strides  were 
made,  such  as  the  distinction  which  developed  between 
education  and  Education.  Teachers  came  to  be  trained 
in  what  were  at  first  called  Normal  Schools.    With  the 


The  Alumni  Council  became  more  aggressive  in  itsj 
fund  drives. 

I 
detection  of  certain  abnormalities,  the  name  was  changed' 
to  Teachers  Colleges. 

John  Dewey  introduced  Progressive  Education, 
whereby  students  quickly  knew  more  than  their  teachers; 
and  told  them  so.  Robert  Hutchins  turned  the  University 
of  Chicago  upside  down,  thereby  necessitating  a  new 
building  program.  At  St.  John's  College  everyone  studied 
the  Great  Books,  which  were  more  economical  because 
they  did  not  come  out  each  year  in  a  revised  edition. 
Educational  television  gave  college  professors  an  excuse 
for  owning  a  television  set,  which  they  had  previously 
maintained  would  destroy  the  reading  habit.  This  made 
it  possible  for  them  to  watch  Westerns  and  old  mpvies 
without  losing  status.  ' 

Of  recent  years,  an  increasing  number  of  students 
spend  their  junior  year  abroad.  This  enables  them  to  get 
a  glimpse  of  professors  who  have  been  away  for  several, 
years  on  Fulbrights  and  .Guggenheims. 

Student  government  has  grown  apace,  students  now 
not  only  governing  themselves  but  giving  valuable  sugges- 
tions, in  the  form  of  ultimatums,  to  the  presidents  and 
deans.  In  wide  use  is  the  Honor  System,  which  maKes 
the  professor  leave  the  room  during  an  examination 
because  he  is  not  to  be  trusted.  p 

Along  with  these  improvements  in  education  has 
come  a  subtle  change  in  the  American  alumnus.  No 
longer  interested  only  in  the  record  of  his  college's 
football  team,  he  is  likely  to  appear  at  his  class  reunion 
full  of  such  penetrating  questions  as  "Why  is  the  tuition 
higher  than  it  was  in  1934?"  "Is  it  true  that  85%  of  the 
members  of  the  faculty  are  Communists?"  and  "How 
can  I  get  my  son  (or  daughter)  in?" 

Alumni  magazines  have  kept  pace  with  such  advance- 
ments. The  writing  has  improved,  thanks  to  schools  of 
journalism,  until  there  is  excitement  and  suspense  even 
in  the  obituary  column.  Expression  has  reached  such 
a  high  point  of  originality  that  a  request  for  funds  may 
appear,  at  first  reading,  to  be  a  gift  offer. 

However,  if  pictorial  content  continues  to  increase, 
it  will  not  be  necessary  for  alumni  to  know  how  to  read. 

This  cannot  come  too  soon. 


10 


Sandra  Leigh  Aldridge,  '62,  to  Hugh 
Clifford  Shaw,  Jr.  Living  in  Neder- 
land,  Texas. 

Sherron  Bennett,  '60-'61,  to  James 
Walter  Hathcock. 

Nancy  Gene  Blackmon,  '63,  to  Hal 
Templeton  Fowlkes,  Jr.,  '63. 

Frances  Florence  Buttross,  '53-'54, 
to  Travis  Gurley  Payne. 

Jane  Pearson  Crisler,  '61,  to  1st  Lt. 
James  Paul  Wince. 

Sally  Cunningham,  '60-'61,  to  Robert 
L.  Gay. 

Sue  Jean  Downing,  '60,  to  Jim  S. 
Legan. 

Elaine  Everitt,  '60,  to  Raymond  Car- 
roll Turpin,  Jr. 

Carole  Jean  Goodgame  to  Edward 
Lee  Gieger,  Jr.,   '61. 

Elizabeth  Ann  Griffith  to  Lawrence 
\rnold  Coleman,  '63. 

Clara  Frances  Jackson,  '62,  to 
Stephen  Cardwell  Meisburg,  '63.  Liv- 
ng   in   Lexington,    Kentucky. 

Emily  Ann  Lemasson,  '62,  to  Dr. 
Don  Newcomb.  Living  in  Norfolk, 
i^'irginia. 

Nancy  Beth  Loper,  '63,  to  James 
Surke  Martin,  '58-'60.  Living  in  Gulf- 
Dort. 

Marcella  Anne  Lowry,  '58-'60,  to 
Robert  Oliver  Gray.  Living  at  Fair- 
;hild  Air  Force  Base,  Washington. 

Ella  Louise  McClinton,  '62,  to  James 
A^illiams  Shannon.  Living  in  Quitman, 
Vlississippi. 

Nancy  Elise  Matheny,  '63,  to  Robert 
Gardner  Shoemaker,  '63.  Living  in 
\ustin,  Texas. 

Judith  Ann  Monk,  '62,  to  Barrie  Mc- 
\rthur. 

Mary  Ann  Orndorff,  '61,  to  Charles 
Aubrey   Gullette.     Living   in   Jackson. 

Patricia  Lynn  Parker  to  Dr.  Leo 
\Jexander  Farmer,  '59.  Living  in 
Fackson. 

Nancy  Catherine  Regan,  '59-'60,  to 
5am  Nolen.  Living  in  Shreveport, 
Louisiana. 

Marion  Virginia  Slater,  '58,  to  Dr. 
William  Earl  Noblin,  III,  '59.  Living  in 
5an  Antonio,  Texas. 

Nell  Carleen  Smith,  '63,  to  Robert 
Velson  Leggett,  Jr.,  '62.  Living  in 
i:hapel  Hill,  North  Carolina. 

Lois  Carolyn  Summerford  to  Joseph 
Foshua  Stevens,  Jr.,  '62. 


Barbara  Sue  Thompson,  '62,  to  Don- 
ald Clifford  Michel.   Living  in  Jackson. 

Charlotte  Dianne  Utesch,  '62,  to 
Robert  Reed  Kain.  Living  in  Mel- 
bourne,  Florida. 

Katherine  Caruthers  Walt,  '62,  to 
Leslie  Crawford  Grice.  Living  in  In- 
diatlantic,  Florida. 

Flora  Neal  Wamble  to  William  Gar- 
land Wills,  III,  '51.    Living  in  Jackson. 

Mary  Alice  White,  '60,  to  David  Gun- 
ning Robinson.  Living  in  Fort  Myers, 
Florida. 

Ann  Kathleen  Williams  to  the  Rev- 
erend Robert  Enoch  Gentry,   '59. 

Penelope  Jane  Wofford,  '62,  to  Ed- 
ward Franklin  Cox.  Living  in  Eau 
Gallic,  Florida. 


^UTu^e  alomn' 


(Children  listed  in  this  column  must 
be  under  one  year  of  age.  Please  re- 
port births  promptly  to  assure  publi- 
cation.) 

Paul  Garrison  ("Gary")  Graham, 
born  May  16  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  William 
L.  Graham  (Betty  Garrison),  both 
'58,  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 

Harold  Edward  McDaniel,  II,  born 
March  1  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Max  Mc- 
Daniel (Sandra  Miller),  both  '57,  of 
Grand  Island,  New  York. 

Samuel  Oliver  Massey,  III,  born 
June  19  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Oli- 
ver Massey,  Jr.  (Mary  Lynn  Graves), 
'53  and  '55,  of  Picayune,  Mississippi. 
He  was  welcomed  by  Sheri  Lynn,  5'2, 
and  Sandra  Leigh, 4V2. 

Nancy  Elizabeth  Morse,  born  May 
6  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Philip  Morse 
(Claire  Manning,  '54-'55),  of  Kansas 
City,  Missouri. 

Melissa  Jo  Pearson,  born  November 
21  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Don  Ray  Pearson 
(Betty  Jo  Davis),  both  '51,  of  Fort 
Lauderdale,  Florida. 

Janet  Lamb  Reed,  born  April  14  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bryant  A.  Reed,  Jr. 
(Walter  Jean  Lamb,  '57),  of  Natchez. 
Janet    was    welcomed    by    Walt,    iy2. 

Laura  Ellen  White,  born  December 
16  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  L.  White,  Jr. 
(Mary  Alberta  Grantham),  '55  and  '54, 
of  Jackson.  Woody,  5,  and  Howard, 
iy2,    complete   the   family. 

George  Austin  Whitener,  born  Octo- 
ber 11  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Whiten- 


er (Joan  Anderson),  '56  and  '58,  of 
Herndon,  Virginia. 

John  E.  Wimberly,  Jr.,  born  May  4 
to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  E.  Wimberly 
(Clara  Srttith),  '58  and  '59,  of  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee. 

Thomas  David  Woodard,  born  July 
16  to  the  Reverend  and  Mrs.  Robert 
Thomas  Woodard  (Tomye  Frances 
Moore),  '54  and  '55,  of  Greenville, 
Mississippi.  Lynn,  5,  and  Susan  3, 
complete    the    family. 


The    Boyd    Campbell    Student 
Center  in  the  summer 


3n  illemoriam 

This  column  is.  dedicated  to  the 
memory  of  graduates,  former  stu- 
dents, 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: 

Mrs.  Janice  Drake  Cooper,  widow 
of  the  late  Dr.  Inman  W.  Cooper  of 
Whitworth  College,  who  died  May  14. 
She  was  a  resident  of  Church  Hill, 
Mississippi. 

Henry  Gerald  Felker,  '56-'59,  who 
died  May  26.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Columbia,  Mississippi. 

Mrs.  M.  E.  Morehead,  mother  of 
Miss  Mildred  Morehead,  instructor  of 
English  at  Millsaps,  who  died  April 
12,    She  was  a  resident  of  Jackson. 


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Events  of  Note 


Nominations  Accepted 

Nominations  for  the  Alumnus  of  the 
Year  for  1963  are  being  accepted  by 
an   alumni-student-faculty   committee. 

October  10  has  been  set  as  the  dead- 
line for  receipt  of  nominations.  The 
award  will  be  presented  at  the  annual 
Homecoming  banquet  on  November  2. 

Nominations  may  be  made  by  non- 
alumni  as  well  as  graduates  and  form- 
er students.  Any  person  who  has  at- 
tended Millsaps,  Grenada,  or  Whit- 
worth  as  a  full-time  student  is  eligible 
for  the  award. 

Nominees  are  considered  on  the 
basis  of  contribution  to  college,  com- 
munity, and  church,  with  emphasis  on 
contributions  during  the  past  year. 

Nominations  must  be  in  letter  form 
and  give  full  details  of  character  and 
service. 

The  recipient  will  be  presented  a 
certificate  of  appreciation,  and  his 
name  will  be  engraved  on  a  special 
plaque  honoring  recipients  of  the 
award.  The  plaque  is  prominently 
displayed  in  the  A.  Boyd  Campbell 
Student  Center. 

The  Alumnus  of  the  Year  Award  was 
established  in  1950.  In  1982  it  went 
to  C.  R.  Ridgway,  '35,  of  Jackson. 
Other  recipients  during  the  past  five 
years  include  the  late  A.  Boyd  Camp- 
bell, '10,  1961;  N.  S.  Rogers,  '41,  1960; 
Dr.  T.  G.  Ross,  '36,  1959;  and  Webb 
M.    Buie,    '36,    1958. 

Alumni  Give  $100,000 

Alumni  contributions  to  Millsaps  ex- 
ceeded $100,000  during  the  year  1982- 
63,  according  to  Fred  Ezelle,  president 
of  the  Alumni  Association  for  the  year 
just  ended. 

Mr.  Ezelle  said  the  amount  included 
some  $36,500  contributed  to  the  Alumni 
Fund  and  approximately  $63,000  in 
alumni  gifts  to  the  Development  Cam- 
paign. In  addition,  significant  scholar- 
ship grants  and  gifts  to  endowment 
were  made  by  alumni  during  the  year. 

A  40%  increase  over  1961-62  in  gifts 
to  the  Alumni  Fund  was  recorded,  Mr. 
Ezelle  said.  In  1961-62,  the  first  year 
of  concentrated  solicitation  for  the 
Development  Campaign,  the  Alumni 
Fund  total  was  approximately  $25,000. 

Orrin  Swayze  and  J.  W.  Campbell, 
both  of  Jackson,  served  as  chairmen 


of  the  Fund.  Some  85  area  chairmen 
and  500  class  managers  made  individ- 
ual contacts  on  behalf  of  the  College 
and  the  Fund.  A  personal  solicitation 
campaign  was  held  in  the  Jackson 
area. 

Money  from  the  Alumni  Fund  will 
be  used  to  meet  current  financial  ob- 
ligations and  is  a  part  of  the  school's 
budgeted  requirements.  Development 
Campaign  funds  will  be  used  for  con- 
struction and  expansion  of  College  fa- 
cilities and  for  strengthening  faculty 
salaries. 

Goal  for  the  1963-64  Fund  has  been 
set  at  $40,000. 

Peels  Named  Chairman 

Randolph  D.  Peets,  Sr.,  of  Jackson, 
has  been  named  chairman  of  the  1963- 
64  Alumni  Fund  drive. 

Mr.  Peets  will  direct  the  campaign 
to  obtain  a  minimum  goal  of  $40,000 
from  graduates  and  former  students. 
The  money  will,  as  in  the  past,  be  used 
to  meet  financial  obligations  of  the 
College. 

Alumni  Association  President  Wil- 
liam E.  Barksdale,  in  making  the  an- 
nouncement of  Mr.  Peets'  appoint- 
ment, said  that  the  Alumni  Fund  is 
one  of  several  important  sources  of 
money  for  the  College.  He  pointed 
out  that  tuition  has  recently  been  in- 
creased in  an  attempt  to  keep  the 
school  self-supporting.  Students  at 
Millsaps  pay  less  than  half  of  the 
amount  required  for  their  education. 

Pending  City  Council  approval,  the 
College  is  further  attempting  to  pro- 
vide for  itself  by  leasing  property  to 
the  north  of  the  academic  buildings. 
The  land  has  formed  a  part  of  the 
golf    course. 

Mr.  Peets  has  been  connected  with 
Mississippi  School  Supply  Company  for 
thirty-eight  years  and  is  now  vice- 
president  and  chairman  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee.  A  native  Mississip- 
pian,  he  attended  the  Copiah  County 
Public  Schools  and  graduated  from 
Millsaps  in  1912.  He  took  post-grad- 
uate work  at  the  University  of  Chicago 
and  taught  two  years  before  joining 
Mississippi  School  Supply. 

He  is  chairman  of  the  Advisory 
Board  of  the  Salvation  Army  and  the 
Jackson  Kiwanis  Club  and  chairman 
of  the  Scholarship  Fund  of  the  latter. 


He  IS  a  member  of  the  Appeals  Revie\ 
Board  and  the  Board  of  Directors  c 
the    Millsaps    Alumni    Association. 

Association  Board  Named 

Thirty-six  alumni  have  been  name 
to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Alurr 
ni    Association. 

They  are  H.  V.  Allen,  Jr.,  Jackson 
John  M.  Awad,  Mobile;  Martin  Bakei 
Hattiesburg;  W.  H.  Bizzell,  Cleveland 
Charles  Carmichael,  Jackson;  Gordo 
L.  Carr,  Vicksburg;  Mrs.  Harry  Cavc! 
lier,  Biloxi;  Neal  W.  Cirlot,  Jackson| 
Percy  Clifton,  Jackson;  Foster  E.  Co  ; 
lins,  Jackson;  Ernestine  Crisler,  Jack] 
son;  N.  A.  Dickson,  Columbia;  Bi 
ford  Ellington,  Nashville; 

Chauncey  Godwin,  Tupelo;  Game 
W.  Green,  Jackson;  J.  H.  HoUeman 
Columbus;  Howard  S.  Jones,  Jackson 
Warren  C.  Jones,  Forest;  Armand  Ka 
row,  Jackson;  Mrs.  Philip  Kolb,  Jack 
son;  J.  Howard  Lewis,  Greenwood 
J.  Clyde  McGee,  Jackson;  Suttoi 
Marks,  Jackson;  W.  F.  Murrah,  Merr 
phis; 

Richard  W.  Naef,  Jackson;  T.  H 
Naylor,  Jr.,  Jackson;  John  L.  Neill 
Decatur;  Julian  Prince,  Corinth;  Law 
rence  W.  Rabb,  Meridian;  W.  B.  Ridg 
way,  Jackson;  H.  Lowry  Rush,  Jr, 
Meridian;  Mrs.  W.  C.  Smallwood,  Ne\ 
Albany;  Cecil  H.  Smith,  Jackson;  Mrs 
Francis  Stevens,  Jackson;  Mrs.  J.  E 
Upshaw,  Louise;  Marcus  E.  Waring 
Tylertown. 

The  Directors  will  be  divided  into  si: 
committees  to  aid  the  College  in  th 
areas  of  student-alumni  relations,  lega 
advice,  development,  programs,  alum 
ni  participation,  and  finance. 

In  addition,  special  groups  callei 
the  Athletic  Boosters  and  the  Musii 
Auxiliary,  organized  last  year,  wil 
again  be  active. 

Other  members  of  the  Board  includi 
officers  elected  last  spring  in  ballot 
by-mail  voting.  In  addition  to  Mr 
Barksdale  they  are  Barry  Brindley 
Jackson,  Carl  Guernsey,  Jackson,  an( 
T.  F.  McDonnell,  Hazlehurst,  vice 
presidents;  and  Mrs.  T.  H.  Boone 
Jackson,  secretary.  James  J.  Livesa; 
is   executive   director. 

Plans  for  the  year  call  for  the  es 
tablishment  of  a  Key  Man  Committei 
and  a  Wills  and  Legacies  Committee 
Under  the  Key  Man  Plan  an  alumnu: 


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a  specific  area  would  be  appointed 
serve  as  College  representative  for 
ich  matters  as  student  recruitment 
id  College  personnel  appearances, 
tie  Wills  and  Legacies  Committee 
ould  have  as  its  goal  the  promotion 
'  the  idea  of  bequesting  money  to  the 
allege. 

In  addition  to  committee  meetings, 
e  Board  will  meet  in  joint  session 
I  Homecoming,  November  2,  and 
lumni  Day,  May  2. 
Other  projects  of  the  Association  in- 
ude  the  Alumni  Fund,  headed  this 
;ar  by  Randolph  Peets,  Sr.,  of  Jack- 
in,  and  the  Alumnus  of  the  Year 
ward,  given  annually  on  Homecom- 
g- 

ootball  Schedule  Given 

Athletic  Director  James  A.  Mont- 
imery  has  announced  the  following 
otbaU  schedule  for  the  1963  season: 
!pt  21  —  Arkansas  A.  &  M.  —  2:00 
p.m.  —  Alumni  Field 
;pt.  28  —  Sewanee  —  2:00  p.m.  — 
Alumni  Field 

:t.  5  —  Austin  —  2:00  p.m.  —  Sher- 
man, Texas 

;t.  12  —  Southwestern  —  2:00  p.m.  — 
Memphis 
:t.  19  —  Open 

;t.    26  —    Harding   —   7:30   p.m.    — 
Searcy,  Arkansas. 

3v.  2  —  Mary ville  —  HOMECOMING 
—  8:00  p.m.  —  Newell  Field 
ov.  9  —  Livingston  —  8:00  p.m.  — 
Newell  Field 

3V.  16  —  Ouachita  —  8:00  p.m.  — 
Arkadelphia,  Arkansas 
The  team  will  be  coached  this  year 
'  Ray  Thornton,  former  assistant 
otball  coach  at  Wake  Forest  College, 
r.  Thornton  joined  the  faculty  on 
;bruary  1  and  is  completing  work 
I  the  Master  of  Arts  degree  this 
mmer. 

The  College's  first  full-time  assistant 
otball  coach  will  also  join  the  staff 
is  fall.  Jackie  Frost,  who  has  coach- 
l  in  Mississippi  high  schools  since 
aduating  from  Mississippi  State  in 
59,  will  also  teach  physical  educa- 
m  and  coach  baseball. 
Nineteen  lettermen  will  return  for 
e  1963  season.  Last  year  the  Majors 
LJoyed  their  most  successful  season 


since  1957  in  compiling  a  3-4-1  record. 
In  spite  of  losses  in  recent  years. 
Coach  Montgomery  points  out  that  the 
Majors  have  a  better  than  50-50  record 
since  1946,  when  the  team  assumed 
nonsubsidized  status.  In  addition,  he 
said,  many  of  the  teams  the 
Majors  have  played  have  been  sub- 
sidized. 

If  the  Majors  play  in  your  area,  be 
sure  to  see  them. 

Thresher  Affects  Work 

Removed  as  they  may  seem,  the 
loss  of  the  submarine  Thresher  and 
the  building  of  two  modern  highways 
delayed  the  completion  of  the  three- 
year  National  Science  Foundation- 
sponsored  undergraduate  research 
program,  necessitating  a  fourth  year 
and    an   additional   $5,600. 

The  project  was  due  to  be  complet- 
ed at  the  close  of  the  1963  session. 
The  Director's  Report  to  the  NSF, 
released  in  late  June,  was  expected 
to  be  terminal.  It  became  instead  a 
report  of  renewed  research,  and  an 
additional  grant  of  $5,600  was  awarded 
by  the  NSF. 

In  the  report  Dr.  R.  R.  Priddy, 
chairman  of  the  geology  department 
and  director  of  the  program,  attributed 
delays  to  the  above-mentioned  rea- 
sons. 

"The  cutting  of  two  highways 
through  the  loess  bluffs  north  of  and 
east  of  Vicksburg  provided  many  fresh 
roadcuts  which  nearly  doubled  the 
geochemical  requirements,"  he  said. 
"The  geochronology  of  the  loess  is 
only  partially  known  because  radiation 
laboratory  personnel  doing  our  analy- 
ses were  diverted  to  searching  for  the 
wreck  of  the  atomic  submarine 
Thresher." 

The  project,  thus  far,  has  been 
termed  a  success.  Its  purpose  was 
the  study  of  loess  and  loessal  soils  in 
the  Vicksburg-Jackson  area,  including 
investigation  of  the  plant  and  animal 
life  and  the  effects  of  climatic  con- 
ditions on  the  soil.  Loess,  accord- 
ing to  Dr.  Priddy,  is  a  peculiar  deposit 
of  windblown  silt,  clay  and  very  fine 
sand  which  caps  bedrock  hills  in  a 
belt  bordering  the  Mississippi  Alluvial 
Plain  and  extends  as  a  progressively 


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thinning  mantle  northeast  to  Jackson. 

Dr.  Priddy  said,  "The  findings  were, 
in  most  respects,  greater  and  more 
rewarding  than  anticipated.  Students 
of  the  botany  and  zoology  teams 
amassed  a  vast  amount  of  data  on  the 
life  existing  on  the  surface  and  in  the 
near-surface,  and  chemists  and  geol- 
ogists, despite  several  revisions  in 
techniques,  obtained  a  good  under- 
standing of  the  geochemistry  of  the 
loess." 

Of  more  importance  to  Millsaps 
than  findings  is  the  achievement  of 
participants  in  the  program.  Of  the  24 
students  who  served  as  assistants  in 
the  program  in  the  first  two  years, 
18  graduated  and  17  have  gone  into 
medical  school  or  into  graduate  work 
in  science.  The  18th  became  a  forest 
ranger.  Nine  hold  assistantships  or 
scholarships.  Four  are  pursuing  grad- 
uate research  problems  which  were 
started  in  the  program. 

Five  seniors  were  among  the  par- 
ticipants in  this  year's  work,  and  of 
these  one  is  entering  medical  school, 
three  are  starting  other  graduate 
work,  and  one  is  taking  additional 
pre-med  courses  at  Millsaps. 

In  the  final  year  ten  student  partici- 
pants and  six  faculty  participants  de- 
livered ten  papers  directly  related  to 
the  loess  project  and  ten  papers  which 
were  secondary  to  the  investigation. 
Three  loess-oriented  papers  are  ab- 
stracted in  the  Academy  of  Science's 
1962  Journal  and  six  are  printed  in 
full  in  the  1961  Journal.  Other  1962 
papers  are  abstracted  or  are  printed 
in  full  in  biology  and  chemistry  publi- 
cations. 

The  NSF  grant  was  originally  in  the 
amount  of  $34,065.  An  additional  $1,- 
250  was  granted  for  the  meteorological 
phase. 

In  January  the  departments  of  phys- 
ics, chemistry,  and  geology  filed  a 
joint  request  with  NSF  for  a  grant  to 
study  the  geochemical-geophysical  as- 
pects of  the  loess.  In  late  June  the 
request  was  granted.  This  extension 
of  the  loess  investigation  will  pro- 
vide the  geochronology  and  geochem- 
ical data  that  new  highway  cuts  re- 
quire. 


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1898-1919 

August  6  was  the  94th  birthday  of 
Alexander  Harvey  Shannon,  1898,  of 
Washington,  D.  C.  A  recent  letter 
from  R.  W.  Harned  reported  that  Mr. 
Shannon  is  in  excellent  health  and 
sometimes  walks  from  the  YMCA  to 
the  Library  of  Congress,  more  than 
two  miles  each  way. 

A  pet  project  of  Manley  W.  Cooper, 

'12,  is  a  million  dollar  senior  citizens' 
home  in  Kerrville,  Texas,  which  is 
now  nearing  completion.  Mr.  Cooper 
recently  wrote  to  Sam  B.  Lampton, 
'13,  of  Tylertown,  Mississippi,  bring- 
ing him  up  to  date  on  his  activities 
since  leaving  Millsaps.  Now  in  a 
clothing  business  with  his  son  in  Kerr- 
ville, Mr.  Cooper  and  his  wife  had 
just  returned  from  a  Caribbean  cruise 
and  week-long  visits  in  Miami  and 
Houston. 

When  Texas  Technological  College 
opened  in  1925  Eunice  Joiner  Gates 
and  William  Bryan  Gates,  '18,  were 
among  its  faculty.  On  May  31  they 
retired  and  were  honored  by  the  Col- 
lege. Mrs.  Gates  was  professor  of 
Spanish  and  Portuguese  and  Dr.  Gates 
was  professor  of  English  and  dean  of 
the  graduate  school.  Both  were  auth- 
ors of  a  number  of  published  works. 
Dr.  Robert  C.  Goodwin,  president  of 
the  College,  wrote  of  them,  "May 
we  hope  that  they  will  not  depart  so 
far  from  us  that  we  shall  lose  their 
inspirational  influence,  as  we  know 
that  both  will  continue  their  scholarly 
work." 

1920-1929 

A  recent  article  in  the  Memphis 
Commercial  Appeal  featured  Mrs, 
Walter  Ely  (Ruby  Blackwell),  Grenada 
'28,  who  has  accepted  the  challeng- 
ing job  of  teaching  handicapped  child- 
ren. A  former  teacher  in  the  Clarks- 
dale,  Mississippi,  elementary  schools, 
Mrs.  Ely  has  taken  special  courses  to 
qualify  herself  for  this  teaching.  She 
finds  the  work  rewarding  and  satis- 
fying. 

1930-1939 

Dr.  B.  E.  Mitchell,  professor  emer- 
itus of  mathematics,  flew  to  Van- 
derbilt  for  the  Commencement  week- 
end activities.  He  was  inducted  into 
the  Quinq  Club,  an  organization  for 
those  who  graduated  a  half-century 
ago.  While  there,  he  visited  his  daugh- 
ter, Dorothea  Mitchell  Queen,  '35,  and 
son-in-law.  Dr.  Merritt  Queen,  who  is 
on  the  faculty  of  Scarritt  College  in 
Nashville. 


1940-1949 
Progressive  Farmer  magazine  has 
named  the  Reverend  W.  W.  Bagby, 
'43,  "Rural  Pastor  of  the  Year."  Mr. 
Bagby  is  pastor  of  the  Sandersville, 
Mississippi,  Presbyterian  Church  and 
two  other  small  churches. 

In  a  trailer  he  calls  "Mark's  Ark" 
the  Reverend  Mark  F.  Lytle,  '44,  and 
his  wife  plan  to  tour  the  country  to 
reach  many  of  the  four  million  people 
living  in  16,000  trailer  parks.  Mr. 
Lytle  recently  retired  from  active  as- 
sociation in  the  Mississippi  Conference 
of  the  Methodist  Church. 

The  production  of  a  sound  motion 
picture  on  the  work  of  the  Methodist 


was  recently  presented  the  award  h 
Thomas  H.  Naylor,  '25,  a  former  n; 
tional  officer.  The  award  has  bee 
presented  only  ninety-five  times  in  thi 


history  of  the  fraternity.  Mr.  Wrigh 
owner  of  Wright's  Music  Store  i 
Jackson,  is  alumnus  advisor  to  th 
Millsaps  chapter  of  the  fraternity. 

Recently  named  president  of  th 
Virginia  Association  of  Preparator 
Schools,  Robert  M.  Yarbrough,  '4' 
expressed  to  a  Richmond  News  Leade 
reporter  the  belief  that  teenagers  ar 
"measuring  up  better  than  those  c 
even  a  few  years  ago."  They  ar 
"far  more  serious,  far  more  respons 
ble,  far  more  mature  in  their  reac 
tions"  than  they  were  five  years  age 


Major 
Miscellany 


Children's  Home  in  Jackson  is  being 
supervised  by  Sam  Barefield,  '46,  for 
the  Television,  Radio,  and  Film  Com- 
mission of  the  Methodist  Church.  Mr. 
Barefield  is  associate  director  of  aud- 
io-visual resources  for  the  Commis- 
sion. The  information  was  passed  on 
to  Major  Notes  by  James  C.  Campbell, 
'51,  director  of  the  department  of 
audio-visual  resources.  Mrs.  Bare- 
field  is  the  former  Mary  Nell  Sells,  '46. 

Judge  Daniel  J.  Donahoe,  of  the 
Family  Court  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  recently  wrote  Mirl  W.  Whita- 
ker,  '47,  superintendent  of  the  Meth- 
odist Home  for  Children  in  Williams- 
ville,  New  York,  expressing  his  ap- 
preciation for  his  work.  "It  is  com- 
forting to  me,"  he  said,  "that  an 
institution  of  the  caliber  of  the  Meth- 
odist Home  for  Children  continues  to 
be  available  to  serve  the  citizens  of 
this  state  in  achieving  a  happy  and 
productive  life  for  so  many  of  its 
young  citizens."  Mrs.  Whitaker  is 
the  former  Jerry  McCormack,  '42-'43. 

The  first  Mississippian  ever  to  re- 
ceive Lambda  Chi  Alpha's  national 
Order  of  Merit,   Dan  A.   Wright,    '47, 


he  told  the  reporter.  Mr.  Yarbroug 
is  headmaster  of  Christchurch  Schoc 
in   Christchurch,   Virginia. 

Aline  Neal,  '48,  has  been  named  di 
rector  of  the  Sanders  School  for  Cere 
bral  Palsy  in  Jackson.  Several  year' 
ago  she  was  named  "Best  Elementar; 
Teacher  of  the  Year"  over  33,00 
other  teachers  in  a  national  contest 
She  has  taught  in  the  Jackson  school! 
and  served  as  supervisor  of  element! 
ary  schools  in  Rankin  County,  Missisi 
sippi. 

Three  Millsaps  alumni  are  in  th' 
race  for  top  offices  in  Mississippi  govi 
ernment.  Rubel  L.  Phillips,  '48,  is 
Republican  candidate  for  governor 
Troy  B.  Watkins,  '47,  is  seeking  th 
office  of  lieutenant  governor;  and  He 
ber  Ladner,  '29,  is  running  for  re-elec 
tion  as  secretary  of  state.  Mr' 
Phillips  is  currently  engaged  in  thi, 
practice  of  law  in  Jackson  and  Mri 
Watkins  is  a  businessman  and  for! 
mer  mayor  of  Natchez. 

On  January  1  Dale  Janssen,  '44-'45 
was  promoted  to  the  position  of  traf 
fie  manager  for  Missouri  Farmers  As 


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iociation's  Soybean  Processing  Plant 
it  Mexico,  Missouri.  He  has  also 
)een  admitted  to  practice  before  the 
interstate  Commerce  Commission  and 
lolds  a  Navy  Reserve  rank  of  lieuten- 
int  in  the  Supply  Corps  in  transporta- 
ion.  Now  residing  in  Columbia,  Mis- 
louri,  he  is  married  and  has  three 
;hildren. 

Walter  Butler,  '49,  received  the 
Sd.D.  degree  in  June.  He  is  teaching 
!uidance  and  education  at  Southeast- 
Tn  Louisiana  College  in  Hammond, 
Louisiana. 

Ralph  Hutto,  '49,  has  been  elected 
o  the  position  of  first  vice-president 
if  the  U.  S.  Senate  Press  Secretaries' 
i^ssociation  for  1963.  Mr.  Hutto  is  as- 
istant  editorial  director  of  the  Senate 
nternal  Security  Subcommittee,  head- 
id  by  Mississippi  Senator  James  O. 
Castland.  He  served  as  public  rela- 
ions  director  at  Millsaps  in  the  early 
iO's. 

1950-1959 
Dr.  David  H.  Shelton,  '51,  has  been 
ippointed  associate  professor  and  co- 
irdinator  for  economics  in  a  newly 
xeated  School  of  Business  and  Eco- 
lomics  at  the  University  of  Delaware, 
>fewark,  Delaware.  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
ihelton  (Margaret  Murff)  and  their 
hree  children  reside  in  Newark. 

Fort  Lauderdale,  Florida,  is  the 
lew  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Don  Pear- 
on  (Betty  Jo  Davis),  both  '51,  and 
heir  five  children  (see  Future  Alumni 
or  information  on  the  latest).  Mr. 
'earson  is  sales  and  merchandizing 
nanager  of  the  J.  C.  Penney  Store 
here. 

On  leave  from  the  University  of 
Jlasgow,  Dr.  Gaston  Hall,  '52,  taught 
he  second  semester  of  the  summer 
ession  at  the  University  of  California 
n  Berkley,  where  he  will  also  teach 
luring  the  coming  year.  He  is  teach- 
ng  regular  French  courses  and  a 
lourse  on  Moliere  in  the  graduate 
chool. 

The  Master  of  Public  Health  degree 
ifas  awarded  to  Steven  L.  Moore,  '53, 
in  June  13  by  Harvard  University. 

Certified  by  the  American  Board  of 
ladiology  in  December,  1962,  Dr.  Dan 
r.  Keel,  '54,  is  practicing  medicine  in 
Jrookhaven,  Mississippi,  limiting  his 
)ractice  to  radiology.  Mrs.  Keel  is 
he  former  Rose  Manton.  Children  in- 
ilude  Cindy  Lou,  7,  Christy,  4,  and 
)an,    III,    15   months. 

A  new  appointment  has  taken  the 
Varren  Wassons  from  their  new  par- 
lonage  in  Perry,  Florida,  to  the  Good 


Shepherd  Methodist  Church  in  Jack- 
sonville, Florida.  Mr.  Wasson,  '55, 
reports  that  it  is  a  suburban  church 
in  a  rapidly  growing  area  of  the  city. 

Dr.  (Captain)  Albert  Wallace  Coner- 

ly,  '57,  has  been  selected  Air  Training 
Command  Surgeon  of  the  Year  by  the 
Society  of  United  States  Air  Force 
Flight  Surgeons.  Stationed  at  Moody 
Air  Force  Base,  Georgia,  he  was  ac- 
corded the  honor  for  outstanding  pro- 
fessional competence  and  support  of 
the  Air  Force's  medical  program.  Mrs. 
Conerly  is  the  former  Frances  Bryan, 
'58. 

An  experimental  church  in  a  shop- 
ping center  is  the  new  assignment  of 
The  Reverend  James  R.  McCormick, 
'57.  The  church  will  be  built  in  an 
eighty-acre  center  in  Scottsdale,  Ari- 
zona. An  Associated  Press  story  quot- 
ed Mr.  McCormick  as  saying  that  the 
church  will  be  "meeting  people  where 
they  are  and  having  an  influence  on 
their  everyday  living."  Mrs.  McCor- 
mick is  the  former  Patricia  Chunn,  '57. 

The  Doctor  of  Education  degree  was 
awarded  to  M.  Olin  Cook,  '57,  by 
Auburn  University  in  June.  He  has 
been  employed  by  the  DeKalb  County 
School  System  as  school  psychologist 
and  moved  his  family  to  Atlanta  in 
July.  Mrs.  Cook  is  the  former  Milli- 
cent  King,  '57.  The  couple  has  a 
daughter,  Kimberly  Suzanne,  one  year 
old. 

Now  residing  in  Grand  Island,  New 
York,  Max  McDaniel,  '57,  is  a  human 
factors  engineer  at  Bell  Aerosystems 
Company  in  Buffalo.  Current  project 
is  vertical  take-off  and  landing  aircraft 
and  also  life  support  systems  for  space 
travel.  Mrs.  McDaniel  is  the  former 
Sandra  Miller,  '57.  Most  recent  addi- 
tion is  listed  in  "Future  Alumni." 

The  Master's  Degree  in  Pan  Ameri- 
can history  has  been  awarded  to  Rob- 
ert Patterson,  '58,  by  Tulane  Univers- 
ity. Mr.  Patterson  will  now  begin 
work  toward  the  doctorate.  Mrs.  Pat- 
terson is  the  former  Virginia  Alice 
Bookhart,    '60. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  A.  Logan 
have  moved  to  Drew,  Mississippi,  as 
a  result  of  a  change  of  jobs.  Mr.  Lo- 
gan is  employed  by  Industrial  Man- 
agement Corporation,  of  Memphis, 
and  has  been  sent  as  chief  engineer 
to  Drusteel  Corporation  in  Drew.  Mrs. 
Logan  is  the  former  Pat  Warren,  '54- 
'57. 

Dr.  John  E.  Wimberly,  '58,  is  a 
surgical  resident  at  Vanderbilt  Uni- 
versity Hospital  in  Nashville,  Tennes- 
see.    The   Wimberleys    (Clara   Smith, 


'59)  have  a  new  son,  born  in  May  and 
named  for  his  father. 

Linear  Programming  is  the  title  of 
a  book  written  by  Thomas  H.  Naylor, 

'58,  and  Eugene  T.  Byrne,  and  Mr. 
Naylor's  share  of  the  royalties  from 
the  volume  will  come  to  Millsaps.  Dr. 
Thomas  L.  Reynolds,  former  chairman 
of  the  Millsaps  mathematics  depart- 
ment and  now  chairman  of  the  math 
department  at  the  College  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary,  wrote  of  it,  "This 
will  make  a  very  nice  text  for  the 
student  of  business  and  industry  with 
a  weak  background  in  mathematics 
and  is  a  very  readable  book  even  for 
the  mathematician  who  wishes  a  brief 
introduction  to  linear  programming." 
Mr.  Naylor  is  completing  work  on  his 
Ph.D.   in  economics   at  Tulane. 

Gort,  Michael  Kelly's  brainchild,  is 
now  appearing  in  more  than  150  col- 
lege newspapers  and  in  the  Jackson 
Daily  News  and  San  Francisco  Chron- 
icle. Gort  is  a  cartoon  character  cre- 
ated by  Mr.  Kelly,  '55-'56  and  '58-'59, 
for  the  Purple  and  White  several  years 
ago.  He  has  become  Mr.  Kelly's  full- 
time  occupation  and  is,  according  to 
the  Chronicle,  "sonnething  of  a  phe- 
nomenon on  the  nation's  campuses." 

1960-1963 

Studying  toward  a  library  degree  at 
Columbia  University,  Hugh  Tidwell, 
'(50.  became  order  librarian  of  the  Gen- 
eral Theological  Seminary  in  New 
York  City  on  July  1.  He  has  com- 
pleted residency  work  at  the  College 
of  the  Bible,  graduate  seminary  of 
the  Disciples  of  Christ  Churches. 

Another  alumnus  in  feature-type 
news  recently  was  Reavis  H.  Lindsay, 
'60,  whose  digging  (literally)  in  Jack- 
son's Riverside  Park  attracted  the 
attention  of  the  Clarion-Ledger's  Elsie 
May  Chambers.  Mr.  Lindsay  was 
digging  for  fifty  million-year-old  in- 
sects in  search  of  information  for  his 
doctoral  thesis  at  the  University  of 
Missouri. 

New  U.  S.  Women's  Open  Golf 
Champion  is  Mary  Mills,  '62,  who  had 
an  impressive  record  in  Mississippi 
competition  while  in  school.  Miss  Mills 
defeated  Sandra  Haynie  and  Louise 
Suggs  at  Kenwood  Country  Club  in 
Cincinnati.  She  credits  college  edu- 
cation with  bettering  her  game.  She 
was  quoted  as  saying,  "I  believe  it 
made  me  more  mature." 


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millsaps  college  alumni  magazine 
fall,   1963 


MERGED  INSTITUTIONS:  Grenada 
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CONTENTS 
3  Alembic  in  Limbo 
7  Alumni  Fund   Report 

22  Events  of  Note 

24  Columns 

26  Major  Miscellany 


Volume  5 


October,  1963 


Number  1 


Published  quarterly  by  Millsaps  College  in  Jackson, 
Mississippi.  Entered  as  second  class  matter  on  Oc- 
tober 15,  1959,  at  the  Post  Office  in  Jackson,  Mis- 
sissippi,   under   the    Act    of    August    24,    1912. 


Shirley     Caldwell,     '56,     Editor 


James    J.    Livesay,    '41,    Executive    Director,    Alumni 
Association 


Photography  by  Doug  Price,  '64 


Statistics   of   Births,   Marriages,   Deaths    compiled   by 
Linda    Perkins,    '64 


/Alembic  in  Limbo:  A  College  Dialogue 


By  David  McCord 


Quo  Animo  ("By  what  mind,  with  what  intent"  — 
lereafter  Q.):  Driving  a  car  or  shaving  or  falling  asleep, 
laven't  I   heard   you   somewhere   before? 

Alter  Idem  ("Second  self"  —  hereafter  A.):  I  have 
nany  disguises:  conscience,  inspiration,  elan  vital,  the 
nner  check,  Monday  morning  quarterback,  the  brass- 
ack  salesmen,  echo,  the  private  I.  You  are  asking  my 
lelp? 

Q.  What  can  you  tell  me  about  the  general  use  of 
ligher  education?  Please  observe  that  I  emphasize  the 
idjectives. 

A.  Something  —  just  possibly.  I  have  lived  in  three 
iifferent  college  towns. 

Q.  A  man  might  live  in  Camembert,  and  not  know 
low  to  make  cheese. 

A.  I  spent  four  years  in  a  college. 

Q.  And  then? 

A.  I  hung  around  for  another  forty  just  to  see  what  I 
lad  got  out  of  —  pardon  me  —  derived  from  it. 


Q.  You  have  steeped  yourself  in  Alma  Mater? 
Tiust  reek  of  the  place ! 


You 


A.  I  am  unaware  of  that.  Apart  from  accurate  esti- 
mates of  my  true  vocation,  I  have  been  taken  for  a  chess 
player,  an  orchardist,  a  reporter  at  large,  a  patent  law- 
yer,  print  collector,  past  president  of  a  narrow-guage 
railroad,  editor  of  a  defunct  quarterly,  and  a  dealer  in 
movable  type.  It  is  only  in  Greek  and  German  restau- 
rants that  I  am  sometimes  called  professor. 

Q.  You  know  you  are  not  a  professor. 

A.  In  extended  argument,  some  of  my  friends  will 
say  that  I  missed  my  calling,  though  not  by  much.  No: 
I  am  a  lifelong  student.  Do  you  remember  what  James 
Bryant  Conant  said  in  1936,  at  the  time  of  the  Harvard 
Tercentenary?  "He  who  enters  a  university  walks  on 
hallowed  ground." 

Q.  But  a  college  or  university  surely  is  not  life. 


"It  matters  not  whether  the  light  breaks  through  in 
poetry,  linguistics  ...  It  may  tremble  in  the  turn  of 
a  phrase  on  a  teacher's  tongue." 


A.  Perhaps.  But  at  least  it  is  a  stage;  and  on  the 
stage,  says  Thornton  Wilder,  "it  is  always  now."  The 
only  difference  is  that  on  Broadway  or  in  London  you 
have  the  same  actors  in  different  dramas;  in  college  you 
have  successive  actors  in  the  same  dramas.  Take  your 
choice. 

Q.  All  right;  you  have  taken  yours.  Am  I  correct  in 
suspecting  that  you  are  puzzled  by  the  current  popular 
image  of  the  college?  We  all  know  what  that  is:  the 
passport  to  a  better  job  —  where  "better"  is  an  unre- 
quited comparative;  a  package  deal  of  contacts-that-will- 
help-me-in-later-life,  organized  or  spectator  sports,  bull 
sessions,  desultory  reading,  dates  unlimited,  freedom  of 
supervision,  and  the  technical  mastery  of  an  early 
warning  against  the  examiners'  attack.  College  is  also 
a  place  to  go  back  to,  a  football  team,  a  target  for  stray 
criticism,  a  box  of  dreams  in  camphor,  an  experiment  in 
architecture,  a  prestige  name  to  boast  of,  an  annual- 
giving  fund. 

A.  This  isn't  everyman's  indictment,  even  among 
the  young. 

Q.  I  called  it  the  popular  image;  largely  in  the  minds 
of  the  unacquainted. 

A.  "All  music  (I  am  quoting  Whitman)  is  what 
awakes  in  you  when  you  are  reminded  by  the  instru- 
ments." When  the  mind  awakes,  the  student  —  and  then 
only  —  has  a  right  to  be  so  called.    He  has  found  himself. 

Q.  Has  it  ever  crossed  your  mind  that  a  Maine  guide's 
license  —  not  to  be  come  by  lightly  —  is  in  one  respect 
worth  more  than  the  A.  B.  degree?  It  is,  in  fair  part,  a 
guarantee  against  getting  lost.  The  A.  B.  guarantees 
nothing  .  .  . 

A.  Think  that  through.  Anyone  who  does  not  commit 
himself  to  being  lost  in  college  will  never  know  what 
he's  really  there  for.  And  what  is  he,  may  I  ask  you, 
if  not  for  the  joy  of  discovery? 

I   take   the   red   lance   of   the   westering    sun 
And  break  my  shield  upon  it;  who  shall  say 
I  am  not  victor?    only  that  the  wound 
Heals  not,  and  that  I  fall  again. 

Something  to  tilt  against:  something  to  win  from  or  win 
in,  and  lose  to  and  win  from  or  in  again.    It  matters  not 


Copyright     1963    by    Editorial    Projects    for    Education.     All    rights 
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A  college  is  at  least  a  stage 
.  .  .  "The  only  difference  is 
that  on  Broadway  or  in  Lon- 
don you  have  the  same  actors 
in  different  dramas ;  in  college 
you  have  successive  actors  in 
the  same  drama." 


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whether  the  light  breaks  through  in  poetry,  linguistics, 
acoustical  theory,  choral  composition,  Sanscript,  en- 
gineering, steroids,  heavy  water,  or  mycology.  Call  it 
revelation,  if  you  like.  It  may  tremble  in  the  turn  of 
phrase  on  a  teacher's  tongue;  it  may  lie  hidden  in  an  oil 
or  water  color  hanging  in  the  college  museum;  it  may 
settle  as  yellow  substance  at  the  bottom  of  a  test  tube,  or 
break  forth  in  a  single  chord  of  Palestrina.  G.  M. 
Trevelyan  has  spoken  of  "the  poetry  of  handling  old  Mss. 
which  every  researcher  feels."  Harlow  Shapley,  the 
astronomer,  has  said  that  on  opening  a  book  on  mathe- 
matics he  was  sometimes  moved  by  the  same  emotions 
he  had  when  he  entered  a  great  cathedral.  Some  day 
(and  I  regret  to  predict  it)  there  will  be  a  monitor 
station,  with  a  dean  in  charge,  in  every  college  in  the 
land:  a  light  will  flash,  and  Freshman  X  will  be  credited 
with  his  awakening.  "Three  years,  Mr.  Y,  and  I  must 
inform  you  that  as  yet  your  light  has  not  come  on."  But 
enough  of  that!  To  be  young  and  in  college,  if  only  the 
young  and  in  college  knew  it,  is  looking  up  at  the  night 
sky,  mobile  under  scattered  clouds,  when  no  two  stars 
are  of  one  constellation.  Now  and  then  the  heavens  will 
open  wide;  but  oftener  not.  Consider  Mr.  Frost's  poem, 
"Lost  in  Heaven,"  from  which  I  draw  my  star-talk: 
"Let's  let  my  heavenly  lostness  overwhelm  me." 
Q.  That  seems  an  elaborate  metaphor  for  one  who 
frequently  quotes  Ellis,  what?  "Be  clear,  be  clear,  be 
not  too  clear."  In  the  popular  image,  of  course,  there 
is  no  room  for  footnotes  like  the  one  that  Christopher 
Morley's  father.  Professor  of  Mathematics  at  the  Hop- 
kins, appended  to  a  tough  examination  paper  he  had  set. 
"If  an  exact  answer  does  not  suggest  itself,  an  inspired 
guess  will  not  be  without  value."  To  the  image  makers, 
college  is  .   .  . 

A.  Colleges,  if  we  adhere  to  the  prefab  image  of  so 
many  young  matriculants,  would  feed  the  dream  direct 


ABOUT     THE     AUTHOR: 

Poet,  essayist,  editor,  painter,  and  alumni  fund-raiser.  David  McCord 
recently  retired  from  the  Harvard  Fund  Council,  which  he  had  served 
as  executive  director  since  1925.  Counting  his  undergraduate  years 
(he  was  graduated  in  1921),  he  has  been  associated  with  Harvard  for 
45  years;  and  the  accompanying  article  is  a  distillation  ot  his  beliefs 
about  a  college  and  the  relation  ot  its  graduates  to  it. 

Mr.  McCord  has  written  20  books  of  poetry,  light  verse,  and 
essays  and  has  edited  four  others,  among  which  is  his  well-known  an- 
thology. What  Cheer.  His  second  volume  of  verse  for  children,  Take 
Sky,  has  just  recently  appeared.  In  his  university  career  Mr.  McCord 
also  was  editor  of  the  iiarvard  Alumni  Bulletin,  1940-46;  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  poet  at  Harvard,  Tufts,  and  William  and  Mary;  lecturer  on 
many  campuses;  Fellow  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences  and  recipient  in  1956  of  the  first  honorary  Doctorate  of 
Humane   Letters   ever   conferred   by    Harvard. 


to  the  computers.  But  this  will  never  be,  make  no  mii 
take;  for  somewhere  on  some  campus  there  is  alwa; 
coming  up  an  Emerson,  Webster,  Brandeis,  Millika 
Jane  Addams,  Thurber,  Cather,  Gushing,  Carson,  Sal 
De  Voto,  or  Marquand  who  find  exactly  what  they  nee 
flourish  often  in  creative  loneliness  or  at  variance  wi' 
tradition.  In  the  renewal  of  achievement,  they  wi 
mend  the  leaks  in  the  true  legend  of  what  a  college  i 
And  please  to  note  here  that  the  legend  is  always  be 
ter  than  the  popular  image,  just  as  in  poetry  the  metaph( 
is  stronger  than  the  simile.  Observe  with  pleasure  th; 
the  legend  is  always  of  the  college.  Longfellow  of  Bo\ 
doin,  for  example. 

Q.  We  are  not  forgetting  (a)  that  the  awakenir 
process  frequently  occurs  at  the  grade-school  level;  (I 
that  for  many  remarkable  individuals  college  was  an 
remains  outside  their  ken:  witness  Franklin,  Whitmai 
Mark  Twain,  Winslow  Homer,  Edison,  Burbank,  Hemini 
way, 

A.  We  are  not  forgetting  that  to  the  early-awakene 
the  college  is  a  paradise.  For  the  writer  and  the  arti: 
it  helps  provide  an  intelligent,  widening  audience.  A 
to  inventors:  it  is  unlikely  in  the  future  that  the  gre; 
ones  will  not  be  trained  in  universities  or  technical  ii 
stitutes.  It  is  quite  a  day's  journey  to  the  frontier  ( 
science. 

Q.  You  will  grant  that  in  spite  of  inflation,  internecin 
war  over  who  gets  whom  among  the  teaching  giants,  an 
the  magnified  problem  of  balance  between  the  humai 
ities  and  the  sciences  —  our  colleges  survive  as  island 
of  light  across  the  nation.  The  young  ones  struggle  towar 
accreditation;  the  old  ones  to  keep  their  place,  or  bette 
the  peck  order  in  achievement  and  endowment.  At  th 
same  time  they  are  beginning  to  function  as  the  cultur; 
centers  of  their  communities  and  sometimes  (as  in  pai 
ticular  with  certain  state  universities)  of  their  state: 
They  are  the  new  patrons  of  the  arts  —  and  of  th 
sciences,  too;  on  the  air  and  on  the  screen  and  on  th 
public  platform.  Faculty,  students,  facilities  —  all  ar 
variously  involved. 

A.  But  still  the  tragic  failure  of  our  colleges  involve 
the  average  alumnus  —  and  I  am  using  the  masculine  b 
grammatical  convention.  He  is  like  a  three-stage  rocket 
the  first  takes  him  up  through  the  twelve  grades  int 
coUege;  the  second  takes  him  through  college  and  eve 
through  graduate  school;  but  the  third  one  frequentl 
fails  to  ignite,  or  flames  out  before  he  goes  into  orbil 


All  the  little  time  I  have  been  away  from  painting  (wrote 
Edward  Lear  in  1859,  when  he  was  47)  goes  in  Greek  .  .  . 
[  am  almost  thanking  God  that  I  was  never  educated, 
;'or  it  seems  to  me  that  999  of  those  who  are  so,  expensive- 
y  and  laboriously,  have  lost  all  before  they  arrive  at 
-ny  age  —  and  remain  like  Swift's  Stulbruggs  —  cut  and 
iry  for  life,  making  no  use  of  their  earlier-gained  treas- 
ires:  whereas,  I  seem  to  be  on  the  threshold  of  know- 
edge." 
;       Q.  Well.  .  . 

A.  Let  me  say  it  for  you.  The  average  men  or 
women  of  thirty-five,  graduated  from  college,  many  of 
hem  having  sensed  the  landfall  or  having  seen  the  bea- 
con; well  aware  of  benefits  —  of  doors  that  opened,  of 
Dooks  that  pointed  on  toward  other  books,  of  speculation 
Dremising  delight  —  can  only  say  with  Coleridge:  "My 
magination  lies  like  a  cold  snuff  on  the  circular  rim 
)f  a   brass   candlestick."     If  they   learned   to   haunt   old 


.  .  somewhere  on  some  campus  there  is  always  comingr 
ip  an  Emerson,  Webster,  Brandeis,  Millikan,  Jane  Ad- 
iams,  Thurber,  Gather,  Gushing,  Garson,  Salk,  DeVoto, 
ir  Ma-quand  who  find  exactly  what  they  need,  flourish 
ften  in  creative  loneliness  or  at  variance  with  tra- 
lition  ..." 


bookstores,  did  they  continue  the  habit  until  they  had 
put  together  a  self-selected  library  of  two  or  three  thous- 
and volumes?  Very  few  of  them.  Do  you  think  they  really 
know  and  value  and  re-examine  the  heart  of  a  dozen  great 
books?  I  strongly  doubt  it.  Do  they  read  twelve  worth- 
while books  a  year?  I  doubt  that,  too  —  more  strongly. 
When  they  learn  that  Johnny  can  neither  read  nor  write, 
do  they  ever  stop  to  listen  to  the  sound  of  their  own 
speech?  read  the  letters  which  they  themselves  have 
written?  think  before  they  parrot  back  cliches?  Have 
they  acquired  a  modest  judgment  respecting  prints  or 
water  colors,  etchings,  aquatints,  or  wood  engravings? 
In  most  cases,  no.  Do  their  homes  and  offices  reflect 
in  taste  what  a  hundred  dollars  or  so  a  year  for  fifteen 
years  would  gratify?  Make  a  mental  check  of  the  next  ten 
of  each  you  visit.  Music  I  except  because  the  stereo 
mind  was  likely  developed  independent  of  the  college 
years;  and  this  is  the  one  art  truly  catholic  in  our  time. 
As  for  the  drama,  I  cannot  even  guess.  It  is  surely 
strong  in  the  colleges,  and  the  stock  companies  (freshly 
stocked)  are  witness  to  that  strength.  I  am  minded, 
rather,  of  Dorothy  Parker's  account  of  a  Benchley-Ross 
exchange  in  the  New  Yorker  office.  "On  one  of  Mr. 
Benchley's  manuscripts  Ross  wrote  in  the  margin  op- 
posite 'Andromache,'  'Who  he?'  Mr.  Benchley  wrote 
back.  You  keep  out  of  this.'  "  Perhaps  I  should  have 
kept  out  of  this  dialogue. 

Q.  Not  at  all.  Someone  may  shift  Mr.  Benchley's 
"Who  he?"  to  plain  "Who?  Me?"  Someone  who  thinks 
that  the  ethos  of  college  is  still  with  him;  who  is  rusting 
on  his  undergraduate  laurels  for  whatever  they  were 
worth;  who  has  neither  found  the  time  nor  taken  the 
trouble  to  form  an  exemplary  taste  for  anything  —  in 
anything.  You  remember  what  a  character  in  H.  M. 
Puiham,  Esquire  said?  "On  leaving  college  (twenty- 
five  years  ago)  I  started  Gibbon's  Decline  and  Fall  of  the 
Roman  Empire  and  Nicolay  and  Hay's  Lincoln.  I  am  still 
working  on  them  in  my  spare  time."  Amusing,  yes: 
but  sadder  than  amusing  —  and  pathetic  in  its  sadness. 

A.  The  prevailing  notion  is  that  one  passes  through 
college  on  the  way  up  —  toward  success,  achievement,  or 
som.e  satisfying  approximation.  Under  this  assumption, 
the  college  appears  as  a  point  —  a  little  gold  star  —  on 
the  curve:  about  twenty-one  years  out  on  the  X  hori- 
zontal axis.  Interpretation''  Enter,  exit  the  college. 
Agreed?  No,  that  is  wrong.  It  is,  in  truth,  the  basic 
tragedy.  Ideally  the  college  remains  a  function  of  the 
curve  and  not  a  point  upon  it  —  a  determining  factor 
of  its  ultimate  character  or  direction.  For  example: 
if  against  the  X  life-span  you  plot  the  vertical  Y  as  the 
sum  of  special  knowledge  —  what  the  individual  knows 
in  detail  respecting  many  subjects  —  the  peak  of  the 
curve  may  well  reinain  at  twenty-one,  since  after  grad- 
uation most  diversified  special  knowledge  tends  largely 
to  decrease.  An  honors  student  —  a  good  student,  for  that 
matter  —  may  never  know  again  so  much  in  several 
fields  as  he  does  in  the  final  week  of  senior  examinations. 
On  the  other  hand,  remembering  Whitehead's  disclaimer 
anent  the  value  of  "scraps  of  information,"  Y  may  (and 
should)  assume  a  much  nobler  role  —  intellectual  power, 
for  one.  Granting  that,  then,  any  moment  on  the  curve 
will  reflect  the  increasing  functional  share  of  the  college 
in  the  value  of  the  individual  to  himself  and  to  society. 
For  want  of  a  better  name,  let's  call  that  function  "the 
habitual  vision  of  greatness." 

Q.  Since  many  have  a  natural  distaste  for  graphs 
(graphobia),  why  not  choose  the  river  symbol?  The  curve 
suggests  a  river. 

A.  Bear  in  mind  that  the  curve  (ideally)  runs  up,  the 


river  down.  But  fortunately  the  river  runs  toward  bigger 
and  even  better  things  —  the  fertile  valley  and  the  sea, 
for  instance.  You  may  flow  with  it  or  let  it  float  things 
past  you,  as  you  wish.  Poets  frequently  stand  close  to 
fishermen  in  thought.  "Poets,"  says  Archibald  MacLeish, 
"are  always  wading  and  seining  at  the  edge  of  the  slow 
flux  of  language  for  something  they  can  fish  out  and  put 
to  their  own  uses."  Let  me  argue,  then,  that  if  we  think 
of  the  college  as  a  river  in  the  slow  flux  of  being,  we 
shall  always  find  something  to  fish  out  of  it.  Erstwhile 
students  of  such  famous  teachers  as  Churchill  of  Amherst, 
Winch  of  Wesleyan,  John  McCook  of  Trinity,  Woodberry 
of  Columbia,  Strunk  of  Cornell,  David  Lambuth  of  Dart- 
mouth, Bliss  Perry  and  Copey  of  Harvard  have  done  such 
fishing  and  such  finding.  To  this  day  I  remember  my  high 
school  teacher  of  German  —  rich  in  the  culture  of  the 
Jewish  race  —  shaking  her  finger  at  us,  saying:  "Never 
let  a  day  go  by  without  looking  on  three  beautiful  things." 
Trying  not  to  fail  her  in  life  meant  trying  not  to  fail  my- 
self. 

Q.  Are  you  suggesting  that  it  is  only  between  the  best 
teachers  and  the  most  responsive  students  that  this  flux 
of  being  can  be  perpetuated? 

A.  Not  at  all.  The  great  critic  George  Saintsbury 
said  of  Oxford:  "For  those  who  really  wish  to  drink  deep 
of  the  spring  —  they  are  never  likely  to  crowd  even  a 
few  colleges  —  let  there  be  every  opportunity,  let  them  in- 
deed be  freed  from  certain  disabilities  which  modern  re- 
forms have  put  on  them.  But  exclude  not  from  the  bene- 
ficent splash  and  spray  of  the  fountain  those  who  are  not 
prepared  to  drink  very  deep,  and  let  them  play  pleasantly 
by  its  waters."  Almost  a  hundred  years  ago,  Andrew 
Preston  Peabody,  Acting  President  of  Harvard,  pleaded 
publicly  for  all  those  of  "blameless  moral  character" 
who  stood  scholastically  at  the  bottom  of  their  class. 
"The  ninetieth  scholar  in  a  class  of  a  hundred  has  an 
appreciable  rank,"  he  said,  "which  he  will  endeavor  at 
least  to  maintain,  if  possible  to  improve.  But  if  the  ten 
below  him  be  dismissed  or  degraded,  so  that  he  finds 
himself  at  the  foot  of  his  class,  the  depressing  influence 
of  this  position  will  almost  inevitably  check  his  industry 
and  quench  his  ambition."  Today,  under  the  pressure  of 
increasing  competition,  some  reasonably  good  minds  will 
function  somewhere  near  the  foot  of  every  class.  Pro- 
vided that  they  see  the  light,  who  else  will  be  more 
avid  to  enjoy  what  Justice  Holmes  has  called  "the  subtle 
rapture  of  a  postponed  power"? 

Q.  Perhaps  it  is  largely  the  city  which  stands  be- 
tween the  college  and  the  disciples.  Within  its  arcane 
babel  it  is  hard  to  distinguish  echoes  from  that  other 
world.  And  with  days  pressing  in  and  time  running  out 
—  in  the  city,  in  traffic,  in  confusion  —  doubly  hard  to 
remember  that  the  physicist  has  room  for  Andrew  Wyeth, 
the  classicist  for  Tarka  the  Otter,  the  Bauhaus  architect 
for  Walden,  the  musicologist  for  Freya  Stark,  the  masters 
of  Univac  for  the  sight  of  polygonella  articulata  burning  in 
the  autumn  wind  by  sandy  edges  of  expressways  into 
Maine,  the  floundering  economist  for  spotting  Indian 
watermarks   in  southernmost  Wyoming. 

A.  No  wilderness  bewildered  Academe  a  hundred 
years  ago;  but  megatropolis  is  something  else  again. 
Man  on  his  plundered  planet,  in  his  silent  spring,  must 
come  to  terms  with  nature  long  before  his  packaged 
plankton  supersedes  the  boxtop  cereal.  The  colleges, 
backwater  stations  as  they  once  were  called,  are  all 
we  have  here  on  the  last  frontier.  Alumni  who  support 
them  ask  and  take  too  little  in  return.  It  is  their  own 
fault,  to  be  sure.    As  Samuel  Butler  could  lament  that 


"Our  colleges  survive  as  islands  of  light,  .  .  .  beginning 
to  function  as  the  cultural  centers  of  their  communi- 
ties .  .  ."  Above,  Leland  Byler  directs  the  Singers. 
Below,  students  view  pictures  from  a  Players  production 
at  the  annual  Arts  Festival. 

there  was  (and  is)  no  Professor  of  Wit  at  Oxford  or 
Cambridge,  so  one  may  deplore  —  why  not?  —  the  lack 
in  all  our  colleges  and  universities  of  an  Emerson  Chair 
of  the  Spirit.  You  may  take  that  small  suggestion  in- 
directly from  Matthew  Arnold.  And  a  Henry  Thoreau 
Chair  of  Self-Sufficiency.  "It  is  time  that  villages  were 
universities,"  said  Henry.  The  time  is  coming  when 
they  will  be.  Better  than  that:  when  man  will  be  a 
college  to  himself,  not  least  of  all  lest  "things  grown 
common  lose  their  dear  delight." 


a 


in  college 
you  have  successive 
actors 
in  the  same  drama 


» 


. . .  it  is  mainly  for 
future  casts  that  the 
Alumni  Fund  exists. 


Alumni  Fund  Report  1962-63 


. . .  to  insure 
the  preservation 
of  the  best 
that  we  hnow . . . 


General  Contributions   1,179  $14,911.50 

Major  Investors   131  21,011.00 

Friends  15  1,016.00 

Corporate  Alumnus  Program 7  1,235.00 

Total  Gifts 1,332  $38,173.50 

—22 

Total  Alumni  Gifts   .1,310 

Designated    Gifts    ."    5,613.75 

Total  Unrestricted  Gifts  $32,559.75 


TOP  TEN  CLASSES  IN 
AMOUNT  CONTRIBUTED 


TOP   TEN   CLASSES   IN 
NUMBER    GIVING 


1944 


$2,997.50   1957  53 


1936  2,041.00 

1924  1,901.50 

1947  1,209.00 

1917  1,119.50 

1934  966.00 

1948 961.50 

1940  886.00 

1950 870.00 

1941  815.50 


1958 
1954 
1959 
1947 
1949 
1953 
1956 
1960 
1936 
1940 
1951 
1955 


50 
46 
44 
44 
43 
41 
41 
40 
37 
37 
37 
37 


TOP    TEN    CLASSES   IN 
PERCENTAGE    GIVING 

1900  50% 

1907  50% 

1913  40% 

1904  39% 

1902  38% 

1912  38% 

1906  36% 

1921  36% 

1909  35% 

1920  34^ 


8 


/Kfl/l 

tL 

VlP     t 

'It  irnvi 

P'yy) 

Class      No 

.in  Class 

No.  Giving  Percentage 

Amount 

.  ,   .  i/H'i'iyi' 

l-l 

^/C-       I 

yty  i'JL'KJ  k'i 

u/  y 

1931 

127 

24 

19% 

576.25 

of  things 

that 

1932 
1933 

109 
108 

13 
19 

12% 
18% 

450.50 
480.75 

1934 

100 

26 

26  7o 

966.00 

will  he 

necessary 

1935 
1936 

138 
122 

30 

37 

22% 
33% 

985.50 
2,141.00 

1937 

101 

21 

21% 

690.00 

to  guarantee 

existence 

1938 

117 

27 

23% 

825.00 

1939 

125 

22 

18% 

670.00 

in  a 

1940 

131 

37 

28% 

986.00 

1941 

161 

36 

22% 

1,015.50 

1942 

149 

30 

20% 

782.50 

:han2in2 

ivorld . . . 

1943 

158 

20 

13% 

475.00 

O        C' 

J 

1944 

143 

26 

18% 

2,997.50 

1945 

113 

10 

9% 

122.50 

1946 

102 

24 

24% 

408.00 

1947 

174 

44 

25% 

1,334.00 

1948 

176 

33 

19% 

961.50 

1949 

272 

43 

16% 

496.00 

Class      No. in  Class  No 

.  Giving  Percentage 

Amount 

1950 

289 

20 

10% 

870.00 

Before  1900 

13 

2 

2% 

$    137.50 

1951 

219 

37 

12% 

700.50 

1900 

8 

4 

50% 

70.00 

1952 

189 

27 

14% 

626.25 

1901 

5 

1953 

216 

41 

19% 

727.00 

1902 

8 

3 

38% 

15.00 

1954 

234 

46 

20% 

605.75 

1903 

8 

1 

13% 

45.00 

1955 

186 

37 

20% 

511.50 

1904 

13 

5 

39% 

275.00 

1956 

265 

41 

15% 

491.00 

1905 

15 

4 

28% 

325.00 

1957 

260 

53 

20% 

470.50 

1906 

11 

4 

36% 

100.00 

1958 

306 

50 

16% 

670.50 

1907 

14 

7 

50% 

286.00 

1959 

280 

44 

16% 

544.50 

1908 

24 

8 

33% 

215.00 

1960 

421 

40 

10% 

390.50 

1909 

20 

7 

35% 

190.00 

1961 

468 

21 

4% 

189.00 

1910 

19 

4 

21% 

220.00 

1962 

381 

6 

2% 

69.00 

1911 

23 

6 

26% 

133.00 

Year  Unknown 

12 

124.00 

1912 

29 

11 

38% 

552.00 

Friends 

15 

1,041.00 

1913 

26 

10 

40% 

430.00 

Corporate  Alumnus 

1914 

25 

5 

20% 

100.00 

Program 

7 

1,235.00 

1915 

28 

4 

14% 

70.00 

1916 

36 

10 

28% 

320.00 

1,332 

$38,173.50 

1917 

31 

9 

29% 

1,119.50 

1918 

30 

9 

30% 

312.50 

-  22 

1919 

25 

5 

20% 

148.00 

1,310 

1920 

38 

13 

34% 

360.00 

1921 

30 

11 

36% 

273.00 

1922 

46 

4 

8% 

120.00 

1923 

53 

15 

29% 

385.00 

1924 

81 

18 

22% 

1,901.50 

1925 

76 

23 

30% 

517.50 

1926 

87 

13 

14% 

232.50 

1927 

79 

17 

21% 

585.00 

T) 

)rt 

u 

r^i 

1928 

84 

26 

31% 

733.00 

Kepc 

by 

Lla; 

sses 

1929 

128 

21 

17% 

847.00 

J 

1930 

115 

26 

23% 

523.50 

Official  List  of  Contributors 


Before  1900 

Garner  W.  Green,  Sr. 
Harris  A.   Jones 

1900 

William  J.  Baker 
Joseph  B.  Dabney 
Clarence  Norman  Guice 
Thomas  M.  Lemiy 

1902 

W.   L.   Duren 
Mrs.  Mary  H.  Scott 
(Mary  Holloman) 
James  D.  Tillrhan 

1903 

O.  S.  Lewis 

1904 

Massena  L.  Culley 
James  M.  Kennedy 
Charles  F.  Reddoch 
Lovick  P.  Wasson 
Benton  Z.   Welch 

1S05 

Lizzie  Horn 
Aubrey  C.  Griffin 
James  Clyde  McGee 
John  B.  Ricketts 

1906 

C.  A.  Bowen 

E.  D.  Lewis 

Mrs.  Albert  H.  McLemore 

(Anne  Tillman) 
John  L.  NeiU 

1907 

John  Russell  Allen 
C.  C.  Applewhite 
John  William  Loch 
J.  A.  McKee 
Mrs.  C.  L.  Neill 

(Susie  Ridgway) 
Mrs.  C.  R.  Ridgway,  Sr. 

(Hattie  Lewis) 
Mrs.  Charles  T.  Wadlington 

(Emily  Lee  Lucius) 

1908 

Orlando  P.  Adams 
James  A.   Blount 
Mrs.  R.  W.  Carruth 

(Allie  Adams) 
Gilbert  Cook,  Sr. 
Mrs.  L.  A.  Dubard,  Sr. 

(Alma  Beck) 
W.  F.  Murrah 
Mrs.  Maude  Simmons 

(Maude  Newton) 
Miss   Bob  Tillman 

1909 

Jason  A.  Alford 
W.  R.  Applewhite 
J.  H.  Brooks 
W.  B.  McCarty,  Sr. 
Mrs.  Leon  McCluer 

(Mary  Moore) 
Tom  Stennis 
Mrs.  Cid  R.  Sumner 

(Bertha  Ricketts) 


1910 

A,  Boyd  Campbell 
John  W.   Crisler 
Mrs.   W.   C.   Faulk 

(Patty  Tindall) 
Charles  R.   Raw 


1911 

Mrs.  Forrest  G.  Cooper 
(Marguerite  Park) 

Mrs.   R.  A.   Doggett 
(Jennie  Mills) 

Edgar  Dade  Gunning 

T.    H.    Phillips 

Neely  Powers 

James  O.  Ware 


1912 

Mrs.   Ben  S.   Beall 

(Tallulah  Lipscomb) 
Manley  W.  Cooper 
Bama  Finger 
Mrs.  Tom  Guy  ton 
(Maude  Rogers) 
William  L.   Lewis 
Thomas  E.  Lott 
Joe  H.  Morris 
Randolph  Peets,  Sr. 
Fred  B.  Smith 
William  N.  Thomas 
Jessie  Van  Osdel 


1913 

William  M.  Colmer 
Louise  Cortright 
J.    B.   Honeycutt 
Sam  Lampton 
Herbert  H.  Lester 
Mrs.  V.  M.  Roby 
(Edith  Stevens) 
Logan  Scarborough 
Frank  T.  Scott 
Mary  Weems 
J.   D.   Wroten,   Sr. 

1914 

Thomas  M.  Cooper 
Marietta  Finger 
Eckford  L.  Summer 
Mrs.  J.  D.  Wroten,  Sr. 
(Birdie  Gray  Steen) 

1915 

Mrs.  W.  R.  Applewhite 

(Ruth  Mitchell) 
Sallie  W.  Baley 
C.  C.  Clark 
Robert  T.  Henry 
E.  L.  Hillman 

1916 

Mrs.  Guy  M.  Carlon 
(Frieda  McNeill) 

Leon  F.  Hendrick 

Mrs.  P.  M.  Hollis 
(Nelle  York) 

Mrs.   J.   L  Hurst 
(Ary  Carruth) 

Annie  Lester 

Leon  McCluer 

William  C.  McLean 

Percy  A.  Matthews 

James  Ridgway 

J.  C.  Wasson 


1917 

Albert  L.  Bennett 
Otie  G.   Branstetter 
Mrs.  E.  L.  Brien 

(Elizabeth  H.  Watkins) 
Mrs.  Hersee  M.  Carson 

(Hersee   Moody) 
Mrs.  E.  A.  Harwell 

(Mary  Shurlds) 
Frances  Loeb 
Howard  B.  McGehee 
R.   G.   Moore 
D.   M.    White 

1918 

Mrs.   Leo   Douglas 

(Maude  Kennedy) 
W.  B.  Gates 
Mrs.  Thomas  D.  Hendrix 

(Mary  Flowers) 
J.  L.  Lancaster 
Mrs.  Howard  B.  McGehee 

(Fannie  Virden) 
W.   D.   Myers 
J.   S.   Shipman 
William   E.   Toles 

1919 

Sam  E.  Ashmore 
Dewey  S.  Dearman 
Mrs.  Edith  B.  Hays 

(Edith  Brown) 
Richard  A.  McRee,  Jr. 
Mrs.  J.   Ralph  Wilson 

(Elizabeth  Manship) 

1920 

Mabel  Barnes 
Charles  W.  Brooks 
Hugh  H.  Clegg 
Mrs.  L  C.  Enochs 

(Crawford  Swearingen) 
Alexander  P.  Harmon 
Kathryn  Harris 
C.  G.  Howorth 
M.  C.  Huntley 

B.  L.  Kearney 
R.  Bays  Lamb 
Thomas  G.  Pears 
R.  E.  Simpson 
Aimee  Wilcox 

1921 

J.  A.  Bostick 
Andrew  J.  Boyles 
Boyd  C.  Edwards 
Eugene  McGee  Ervin 
Mrs.  W.  F.  Goodman 

(Marguerite  Waitkins) 
Robert  F.  Harrell 
Brunner  M.  Hunt 
Thelma  Moody 
Mrs.  L.  J.  Page 

(Thelma  Horn) 
Austin  L.  Shipman 

C.  C.  Sullivan. 

1922 

Henry  B.  Collins 
Burton  C.  Ford 
Vernon  W.   Holleman 
Warren  Ware 

1923 

F.  L.  Applewhite 


E,  B.  Boatner 
Mrs.  Gus  Ford 

(Normastel  Peatross) 
W.   B.   Fowler 
Mrs.  W.  C.  Harrison 

(Martha  Parks) 
Joseph  M.  Howorth 
Mrs.  R.  H.  Hutto 

(Ruby  McClellan) 
Austin  L.  Joyner 
Mrs.  Walter  R.  Lee 

(Helen  Ball) 
Laura  Bell  Lindsey 
Ross  H.  Moore 
Mrs.  W.  C.  Smallwood 

(Hazel  Holley) 
M.  B.  Swearingen 
Virginia  Thomas 
Leigh  Watkins 
Mrs.  Leigh  Watkins 

(Henrietta  Skinner) 


1924 

Francis  E.  Ballard 
Mrs.  James  E.  Barbee 

(Ruth  Thompson) 
Ernestine  Barnes 
Mrs.  E.  B.  Boatner 

(Maxine   Tull) 
Russell  Brown  Booth 
James  W.  Campbell 
Charles  Carr 
Eli  M.   Chatoney 
William  W.  Combs 
Mrs.  Louis  I.  Dailey 

(Thelma  Davis  Alford) 
Mrs.  Erwin  Heinen 

(Emily  Plummer) 
Caroline  Howie 
Rolfe  L.  Hunt 
Hermes  H.  Knoblock 
Mrs.  Ross  H.  Moore 

(Alice  Sutton) 
Mrs.  Florence  Myers 

(Florence  Jones) 
Mrs.  Joe  Pugh 

(Eva   Clower) 
Oliver  B.  Triplett 


1925 

G.  Wallace  Allred 
Mrs.  J.  Curtis  Burrow 

(Maggie  May  Jones) 
Frank  A.  Calhoun 
Mrs.  James  W.  Campbell 

(Evelyn  Flowers) 
Kathleen  Carmichael 
W.  L.  Channell 
William  G.  Cook 
Floyd  W.  Cunningham 
Mrs.  James  T.  Geraghty 

(Jessie  Craig) 
Clyde  Gunn 
George  H.  Jones 
Mrs.  R.  T.  Keys 

(Sara  Gladney) 
Mrs.  L.  E.  Lester 

(Eleanor  Prentiss) 
William  F.   McCormick 
Fred  L.  Martin 
T.  H.  Naylor 
J.  T.  Schultz 
Walter  Spiva 
Mrs.  Walter  Spiva 

(Mary  Davenport) 
Bethany  Swearingen 


10 


Alberta  C.  Taylor 
W.  P.  Woolley 
John  W.  Young 

1926 

James  E.  Baxter 

W.  A.  Bealle 

Mrs.  Morgan  Bishop 

(Lucie  Mae  McMuUan) 
Mrs.  CM.  Chapman 

(Eurania  Pyron) 
Chester  F.  Nelson 
Isaac  A.  Newton 
John  D.   Noble 
Mrs.  John  D.  Noble 

(Natoma  Campbell) 
R.  T.  Pickett,  Jr. 
J.   B.   Price 
I.  H.  Sells 
F.  W.  Vaughan 
H.  W.  F.  Vaughan 


1927 

Charles  B.  Alford 

R.  R.  Branton 

Mrs.  R.  W.  Campbell 

(Texas  Mitchell) 
Joe  W.  Coker 
John  F.  Egger 
Arden  O.  French 
Mrs.  Maurine  Guion 

(Maurine  Warbutton) 
M.  D.  Jones 
Amanda  Lowther 
Hazel  Neville 
Mrs.  W.  B.  Seals 

(Daisy  Newman) 
Orrin  Swayze 
Mrs.  Orrin  H.  Swayze 

(Catherine  Power) 
Ruth  Tucker 
Mrs.  E.  W.  Walker 

(Millicent  Price) 


to  seek  out  the 
Entersons,  Websters,  Brandeises, 
Millikaiis,  Jane  Adamses, 
Thurbers,    Gathers,   Cushings, 
Carsons,  Stalks,  DeVotos, 
and  Marquands 


A.  Gayden  Ward 
Mrs.  Henry  W.  Williams 
(Thelma  McKeithen) 


1928 

William  C.  Alford 
Mrs.  A.  K.  Anderson 

(Elizabeth  Setzler) 
A.  V.   Beacham 
R.  E.  Blount 
Mrs.  R.  R.  Branton 

(Doris  Alford) 
Cecil  L.  Clements 
H,    B.   Cottrell 
Mrs.  C.  W.  Dibble 

(Winnie   Crenshaw) 
Mrs.  Walter  Ely 

(Ruby  Blackwell) 
Mrs.  James  M,  Ewing 

(Maggie  Flowers) 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Gardner 

(Katherine  Bryson) 
William  T.  Hankins 
Mernelle  Heuck 
L.  S.  Kendrick 
Mrs.  T.  F.  Larche 

(Mary  Ellen  Wilcox) 
Wesley  Merle  Mann 
Mrs.  Wesley  Merle  Mann 

(Frances  Wortman) 
Sam  Robert  Moody 
Dwyn  M.  Mounger 
Mrs.  T.  H.  Naylor 

(Martha  Watkins) 
Solon  F.   Riley 
George  Oscar  Robinson 
Marjorie  Smith 
Mrs.  M.  B.  Swearingen 

(Mary  Louise  Foster) 
Mrs.  George  Vinsonhaler 

(Therese  Barksdale) 
V.  L.  Wharton 
E.  B.  Whitten 


1929 

Ruth  Alford 
E.    L.   Anderson,   Jr. 
George  R.  Armistead 
Mrs.  R.  E.  Blount 

(Alice  Ridgway) 
Phillip  M.  Catchings 
Mrs.  Charles  Chamberlin 

(Jane  Power) 
Mrs.  W.  W.  Chatham 

(Mattie  Mae  Boswell) 
Willie  F.   Coleman 
Eugene  H,  Countiss 
Alfred  M.  Ellison,  Jr. 
Robert  C.  Embry 
Mrs.  Luther  Flowers 

(Sarah  Hughes) 
Mrs.   Evon  Ford 

(Elizabeth  Heidelberg) 
Heber  Ladner 
John  S.  McManus 
Mrs.  J.  M.  Maclachlan 

(Emily  Stevens) 
Theodore  K.  Scott 
James  W.  Sells 
Eugene  Thompson 
Leon  L.  Wheeless 
James  E.  Wilson 

1930 

Mrs.  L.  M.  Adams 

(Bessie  Donald) 
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  Annette  LeNoir) 
William  D.  Carmichael 
Mrs.  Harry  N.  Cavalier 

(Helen  Grace  Welch) 
Mrs.  Hugh  Clegg 

(Ruby   Fields) 
Mrs.  George  Ford 

(Marv  Hudson) 
E.  Frank  Griffin 
Mrs.    J.    H.    Hager 

(Frances  Baker) 
Mrs.  Walter  Lee  Head 

(Margaret  Whisenhunt) 
Mildred  Home 
Ransom  Cary  Jones 
Mrs.  Philip  Kolb 

(Warrene  Ramsey) 
Mrs.  George  W.  Miller,  Jr. 

(Maurine  Smith) 
Mary  Miller  Murry 
James   Q.   Perkins 
Robert  S.  Simpson 
L.   O.   Smith 
C.   Arthur  Sullivan 
Ira  A.   Travis 
Mrs.   Ralph  Webb 

(Rosa  Lee  McKeithen) 
Ralph  P.  Welsh 

1931 

Elsie  Abney 
Edwin  B.  Bell 
Alice  K.  Casey 
Reynolds  Cheney 
Mary  Joan  Finger 
Garner  W.  Green,  Jr. 
Emmitte  W.  Haining 
Marshall  Hester 
Mrs.  Marshall  Hester 

(Winifred  Scott) 
Merrill  O.  Hines 
J.  Howard  Lewis 
Floyd  L.  Looney 
Lealon  E.  Martin 
Robert  C.  Maynor 
Mary  Miller  Murry 
Robert  P.  Neblett,  Jr. 
George  B.  Pickett 
John  B.  Shearer 
Martell  H.  Twitchell 
L.   Alton  Wasson 
R.   E.  Wasson 
Victor  H.  Watts 
Mrs.  Leon  L.  Wheeless 

(Frances  King) 
Annie  Mae  Young 

1932 

Mrs.  Edwin  B.  Bell 

(Frances  Decell) 
Leroy  Brooks 
Wiliam  I.  Brown 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Cameron 

(Burnell  Gillaspy) 
William  L.  Ervin,  Jr. 
William  R.  Ferris 
Spurgeon  Gaskin 
Edward  A.  Khayat 
Philip  Kolb 
Mrs.  M.  C.  Mansell 

(Mary  Velma  Simpson) 
Mrs.   Robert  Massengill 

(Virginia  Youngblood) 
Elizabeth  Perkins 
Mrs.   C.   E.    Rhett 

(Ellie  Broadfoot) 

1933 

Mrs.  William  E.  Barksdale 

(Mary  Eleanor  Alford) 
Norman  U.    Boone 
Steve  Burwell,  Jr. 


11 


Mrs.  Reynolds  Cheney 

(Winifred  Green) 
W.  Moncure  Dabney 
Mrs.  T.  D.  Faust,  Jr. 

(Louise  Colbert) 
Stewart   Gammill 
Mrs.  Spurgeon  Gaskin 

(Carlee  Swayze) 
William  E.  Hester,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Wylie  V.  Kees 

(Mary  Sue  Burnham) 
Rabian  Lane 
Floyd  O.  Lewis 
Mrs.   Marcelle   McDonald 

(Marcelle  Tubb) 
Thomas   Fair  Neblett 
Mrs.  R.  T.  Pickett 

(Mary  Eleanor  Chisholm) 
J.  D.  Slay 
Henry  B.  Varner 
Henry  V.  Watkins,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Kathryn  H.  Weir 

(Kathryn  Herbert  > 

1934 

D.  C.  Brumfield 
Mrs.  Billie  Carson 

(Audrey  Briscoe) 
John   O.   Cresap 
Henry  C.   Dorris 
Mrs.  Stewart  Gammill 

(Lora  Hooper) 
R.  Gordon  Grantham 
Robert  S.  Higdon 
Garland  Holloman 
C.  Ray  Hozendorf 
Mrs.  Marks  W.  Jenkins 

(Daree  Winstead) 
Maurice  Jones 
J.  T.  Kimball 
Richard  F.  Kinnaird 
Mrs.  Rabian  Lane 

(Maude  McLean) 
Maggie  LeGuin 
Theron  M.  Lemly 
Mrs.  J.  W.  Lipscomb 

(Ann  Dubard) 
Mrs.  Tom  McDonnell 

(Alice  Weems) 
Fred  W.  McEwen 
Mrs.  Victor  W.  Maxwell 

(Edith  Crawford) 
Duncan  Naylor 
J.  Melvin  Richardson 
Arthur  L'.  Rogers,  Jr. 
Mrs.  L.  O.  Smith 

(Margaret  Flowers) 
William  Tremaine,  Jr. 
Ruth  Young 

1935 

Thomas  S.  Boswell 
Charles  E.  Brown 
Mrs.  Steve  Burwell,  Jr. 

(Carolyn  Hand) 
Mrs.  Frank  Cabell 

(Helen  Hargrave) 
Catherine  Allen  Carruth 
Mrs.  Arey  S.  ChUds 

(Arey  Stephens) 
Albert  Collins 
Mrs.  J.  N.  Dykes 

(Ethel  McMurry) 
Robert  L.   Ezelle,   Jr. 
Chauncey  R.  Godwin 
Mrs.  Aden  Graves 

(Mildred    Smith) 
Paul  D.  Hardin 
Warfield  W.  Hester 
Mrs.  Henry  Hinkle 

(Wanda  Tremaine) 
Warren  C.  Jones 
Armand  Karow 
Reber  B.  Layton 


Thomas  F.  McDonnell 
Mrs.  John  McEachin 

(Alma  Katherine  Dubard) 
Mrs.  Robert  C.  Maynor 

(Grace  Mason) 
Mrs.  Frank  Potts 

(Virginia  Averitte) 
Mrs.  Merritt  B.  Queen 

(Dorothea  Mitchell) 
Paul  Ramsey 
Robert  P.  Regan 
Charles  R.  Ridgway,  Jr. 
Louise  Sharp 
Mrs.  Swepson  S.  Taylor,  Jr. 

(Margaret  Black) 
James  T.  Vance 
Mrs.  James  T.  Vance 

(Mary  Hughes) 
David  Z.  Walley 

1936 

Henry  V.  Allen,  Jr. 
Mrs.    Richard  Aubert 

(Vivian  Ramsey) 
Mrs.  Battle  M.  Barksdale 

(Grace  Harris) 
Charles  H.  Birdsong 
Dorothy  Boyles 
Webb  Buie 
Mrs.  Webb  Buie 

(Ora  Lee  Graves) 
Hubert  M.  Carmichael 
W.  Harris  Collins 
Mrs.  H.  C.  Dodge 

(Annie  Frances  Hines) 
Caxton  Doggett 
Read  Patton  Dunn 
Mrs.  George  Faxon 

(Nancy    Blanton   Plummer) 
Roger  G.   Fuller 
Nora  Graves 
Mrs.  Tom  Hederman 

(Bernice  Flowers) 
J.  Noel  Hinson 
Mrs.  R.  C.  Hubbard 

(Marion  Dubard) 
Mrs.  Harry  Lambdin 

(Norvelle  Beard) 
James  A.  Lauderdale 
James  H.  Lemly 
Raymond  McClinton 
Mrs.  G.  F.  McDougal 

(Sue  Yelvington) 
Margaret  McNeil 
John  E.  Melvin 
Alton  F.   Minor 
Helen  Morehead 
Margaret  Myers 
Mrs.  P.  B.  Nations 

(Viola  Johnson) 
Mrs.  James  Peet 

(Dorothy  Broadfoot) 
Joseph  C.  Pickett 
Mrs.  Robert  P.  Regan 

(Mary  Gordon) 
Thomas  G.  Ross 
Harold  Stacy 
George  R.  Stephenson 
P.  K.  Sturgeon 
C.  T.  Williams,  Sr. 

1937 

Mrs.  Paul  Brandes 

(Melba  Sherman) 
Bradford  B.  Breeland 
Kathleen  Clardy 
Mendell   M.   Davis 
Fred  Ezelle 
James  S.  Ferguson 
Mrs.  S.  E.  Field 

(Mildred  Ruoff) 
H.  E.  Finger,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Joseph  R.  Godsell 

(Wealtha  Suydam) 
H.  J.  Hendrick 


It  is  for  the  new  casts 
that  the  old  casts,   who 
have  yielded  their  roles, 
work  -  the  1,310  who 
contributed  money,   the 
more  than  500  who  gave 
of  their  time  and 
influence  and,   in  most 
cases,   money  also. 


Mrs.  Armand  Karow 

(Eunice  Durham) 
Edna  May  Kennedy 
Mrs.  H.  L.  Mathews 

(Mary  Emma  Vandevere) 
Robert  M.  Mayo 
George  L.  Morelock 
William  H.  Parker 
William  R.  Richerson 
A.  T.  Tatum 
Swepson  S.  Taylor,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Leora  Thompson 

(Leora  White) 
Mrs.   George   R.   Voorhees 

(Phyllis  Matthews) 


1938 

R.  A.  Brannon,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Charles  E.  Brown 

(Mary  Rebecca  Taylor) 
G.  C.  Clark 
Leonard  E.  Clark 
Marvin   A.    Cohen 
James  S.  Conner 
Mrs.  Harry  A.  Dinham 

(Charlotte   Hamilton) 
Mrs.  Robert  T.  Edgar 

(Annie  Katherine  Dement) 
Mrs.  Abbott  L.  Ferriss 

(Ruth  Sparks) 
Mrs.  Lewis  R.  Freeman 

(Lucille    Strahan) 
Alex   Gordon 
Jefferson  M.  Hester 
Mrs.  Ransom  Gary  Jones 

(Jessie  Vic  Russell) 
Mrs.  L  Richard  Krevar 
Josephine  Lewis 
Mrs.  Harry  S.  McGehee 

(Marguerite   Coltharp) 
Mrs.  William  McClintock 

(Catherine  Wofford) 
Eugenia  Mauldin 
Mrs.  Juan  Jose  Menendez 

(Jessie  Lola  Davis) 
George  E.  Patton 
Nell    Permenter 
Malcolm  L.   Pigford 
John  R.   Rimmer 
Vic  Roby 
Lee   Rogers,   Jr. 
Carroll  H.  Varner 
Mrs.  James  R.  Wilson 

(Ava  Sanders) 


1939 

William  H.   BizzeU 
Fred  J.   Bush 
Paul  Carruth 
Foster  Collins 
Gilbert  Cook,  Jr. 
Robert  E.  Cox 
Roy  DeLamotte 
Blanton  Doggett 
George  T.  Dorris 
Ben  P.  Evans 
Mrs.  J.  T.  Gabbert 

(Eleanor  Lickfold) 
John  W.   Godbold 
Jeremiah  H.   Holleman 
Robert  A.  Ivy 
Hugh  B.  Landrum,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Raymond  McClinton 

(Rowena  McRae) 
Mrs.  Fred  E.  Massey 

(Corinne  Mitchell) 
Donald  O'Connor 
Mrs.  Donald  O'Connor 

(OUie  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  Ck)nnor) 
John  C.  Batte,  Jr. 
James  L.   Booth 
Charles  L.   Clark,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Gilbert  Cook,  Jr. 

(Virginia  Wilson) 
Mrs.  Alvin  Flannes 

(Sara  Nell  Rhymes) 
Gerald  P.  Gable 
Mrs.  John  W.  Godbold 

(Marguerite  Darden) 
Annie  Mae  Gunn 
Vernon  B.  Hathorn 
Mrs.  W.  A.  Hays 

(Mamie  McRaney) 
Martha  Ann  Kendrick 
Henry  Grady  Kersh,  Jr. 
Richard  G.  Lord,  Jr. 
Edwin  W.  Lowther 
Ralph  McCool 


12 


^ 


Mrs.  Ralph  McCool 

(Bert  Watkins) 
Mrs.  Lawrence  B.  Martin 

(Louise  Moorer) 
Dr.  Clayton  Morgan 
Mrs.  Howard  Morris 

(Sarah   Buie) 
A.  M.  Oliver 
Lem   Phillips 
Mrs.  J.  Melvin  Richardson 

(Elsie  Virginia  Gaddy) 
Henry  C.  Ricks,  Jr. 
W.  B.  Ridgway 
Mrs.  Redd  S.  Russ 

(Mary  Therese  Burdette) 
Mrs.  G.  O.  Sanford 

(Bessie  McCafferty) 
Mrs.  A.  G.  Snelgrove 

(Frances  Ogden) 
Mrs.  Warren  B.  Trimble 

(Celia   Brevard) 
Joseph  S.  Vandiver 
Mrs.  S.  M.  Vauclain 

(Edwina  Flowers) 
Terry  H.  Walters 
Kate  Wells 
Jennie  Youngblood 
Paul  Whitsett 
James  R.  Wilson 

1941 

Mrs.  Max  M.  Ainsworth 

(Myrtle  Chatham) 
Mrs.  Pat  Barrett 

(Sara  Ruth  Stephens) 
Walter  C.  Beard 
Joseph  H.   Brooks 
James  R.  Cavett,  Jr. 
Elizabeth  Lenoir  Cavin 
Mrs.  R.  L.  Chapman 

(Wye   Naylor) 
Roy  C.   Clark 

Eugene  Thomas  Fortenberry 
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 
Joseph  T.  Humphries 
Gwin  Kolb 
James  J.  Livesay 


Joel  D.  McDavid 

Margaret  McDougal 

Joe  Miles 

Marjorie  Miller 

Mrs.  R.  E.  Dumas  Milner 

(Myrtle  Ruth  Howard) 
Charles  M.  Murry 
Eugene  Peacock 
Mrs.  Lem  Phillips 

(Ruth  Blanche  Borum) 
Mrs.  Paul  Ramsey 

(Effie  Register) 
Thomas  Robertson,  Jr. 
Nat  Rogers 
Mrs.  William  S.  Sims 

(Mary  Newsom) 
James  B.  Sumrall 
W.  O.  Tynes,  Jr. 
Mrs.  J.  D.  Upshaw 

(Christine  Ferguson) 
Mrs.  Terry  H.  Walters 

(Virginia  James) 
L.  H.  Wilson 
Robert  Wingate 

1942 

Mrs.  Walter  Adams 

(Mary  Louise  Sheridan) 
W.  B.  Bell 
Mrs.  W.  B.  Bell 

(Florence  DeCell) 
Mrs.  H.  Harris  Brister 

(Mary  Stone) 
Mrs.  B.  E.  Burris 

(Eva  Tynes) 
Wilford  C.   Doss 
Mrs.  Wilford  C.   Doss 

(Mary  Margaret  McRae) 
Mrs.  Fred  Ezelle 

(Katherine  Ann  Grimes) 
Edward  S.  Fleming 
Mrs.  J.  Stanley  Gresley 

(EUzabeth  Landstreet) 
Edgar  B.  Horn 
Mrs.  Gwin  Kolb 

(Ruth  Godbold) 
Mrs.  Al  C.  Kruse 

(Evaline  Khayat) 
W.  Baldwin  Lloyd 
Raymond  S.   Martin 
Robert  M.  Matheny 
Lawrence  W.  Rabb 
Herbert  W.  Phillips 
W.  Avery  Philp 
Charlton   S.    Roby 


Mrs.  Nat  Rogers 

(Helen   Ricks) 
William  D.  Ross,  Jr. 
Mrs.  William  D.  Ross,  Jr. 

(Nell  Triplett) 
Albert  G.  Sanders,  Jr. 
Mrs.  John  H.  Sivley 

(Martha  Jane  Mansfield) 
Mrs.  Francis  B.  Stevens 

(Ann  Elizabeth  Herbert) 
Mrs.   Monroe  Stewart 

(Virginia  Mansell) 
J.  B.  Welborn 
Mrs.  V.  L.  Wharton 

(Beverly  Dickerson) 
Mrs.  Louis  H.  Wilson 

(Jane  Clark) 

1943 

Mrs.  Ross  F.  Bass 

(Betty  Jo  Holcomb) 
J.    Reid   Bingham 
Otho  M.  Brantley 
H.  Harris  Brister 
Dolores  Craft 
Harwell  Dabbs 
Mrs.  Edward  S.  Fleming 

(Helen  Mae  Ruoff) 
Davis   Haughton 
Dewitt  B.  James 
Mrs.  Everett  P.  Johnson 

(Frances  Wroten) 
Mrs.  Paul  C.  Kenny 

(Ruth  Gibbons) 
Mrs.  Henry  Grady  Kersh 

(Josephine  Kemp) 
Mrs.  James  J.  Livesay 

(Mary  Lee  Busby) 
Mrs.  Robert  C.  Montana 

(Patricia  Jones) 
Mrs.  A.  M.  Oliver 

(Elizabeth  Barrett) 
Robert  D.  Pearson 
Mrs.  Robert  D.  Pearson 

(Sylvia  Roberts) 
Walter  S.  Ridgway 
Mrs.  Watts  Thornton 

(Hazel  Bailey) 
Janice  Trimble 

1944 

Clay  R.  Alexander 
Buford  C.   Blount 
Mrs.  Jack  L.  Caldwell 

(Marjorie  Ann  Murphy) 
Jean  M.  Calloway 
Mrs.  James  R.  Cavett,  Jr. 

(Clara  Porter) 
Victor  B.  Gotten 
G.  C.  Dean,  Jr. 
John  W.  Denser 
Mrs.  J.  L.  Fort 

(Elizabeth  Nail) 
Edith  M.  Hart 
Mrs.  Robert  Holland 

(Gertrude  Pepper) 
Mrs.  Warren  H.  Karstedt 

(Anne  Louise  West) 
Mrs.  J.  T.  Kimball 

(Louise  Day) 
Mrs.  E.  D.  Lavender 

(Virginia  Sherman) 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Longest 

(Doy  Payne) 
Mrs.  Gordon  L.  Nazor 

(Jean  Morris) 
Mrs.  William  S.  Neal 

(Priscilla  Morson) 
Waudine  Nelson 
Ross  A.  Pickett 
F.  Wilson  Ray 
Duncan  A.  Reily 
Mrs.  Brevik  Schimmel 

(Edith  Cortwright) 


B.  H.  Smith 
Zach  Taylor,  Jr. 
Noel   C.   Womack 
Mrs.  Noel  C.  Womack 
(Flora  Mae  Arant) 

1945 

James  E.  Calloway 
Mrs.  Harwell  Dabbs 

(Beth  Barron) 
Mrs.  Harry  C.  Frye 

(Helen  McGehee) 
Mrs.  M.  J.  Hensley 

(Elva  Tharp) 
Mrs.  W.  Baldwin  Lloyd 

(Ann  Rae  Wolfe) 
Nina  Reeves 
Mrs.  Zach  Taylor,  Jr. 

(Dot  Jones) 
Elton  Waring 
Clay   N.   Wells 
Joseph  E.  Wroten 

1946 

John  Roy  Bane,  Jr. 
Sam  Barefield 
Mrs.  Sam  Barefield 

(Mary  Nell  Sells) 
Boyer  M.   Brady 
Mrs.  Fleming  L.  Brown 

(Dorothy  Mai  Eady) 
Mrs.  Samuel  L.  Collins 

(Joelyon  Marie  Dent) 
P.  Truly  Conerly,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Wayne  E.  Derrington 

(Annie  Clara  Foy) 
Thad  H.   Doggett 
Dorothy   Lauderdale 
N.  A.  McKinnon,  Jr. 
William  E.  Moak 
Mrs.  William  E.  Moak 

(Lucy  Gerald) 
Mrs.    Claribel  Moncure 

(Claribel  Hunt) 
J.  H.   Morrow,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Robert  F.  Nay 

(Mary  Ethel  Mize) 
Robert  G.  Nichols,  Jr. 
Mrs.   J.  T.   Oxner 

(Margene  Summers) 
Mrs.    C.    E.    Salter 

(Marjorie  Carol  Burdsal) 
Barry  S.  Seng 
W.  E.  Shanks 
Mrs.  John  S.  Thompson 

(Peggy  Anne  Weppler) 
Mrs.  M.  W.  Whitaker 

(Jerry  McCormack) 
Claude  J.  Williams,  Jr. 

1947 

Jim  C.  Barnett 
Mrs.  Jack  Bew 

(Christine  Droke) 
William  F.  Blatz 
Mrs.  Howard  K.  Bowman 

(Sarah  Frances  Clark) 
Mrs.  John  F.  Buchanan 

(Peggy  Helen  Carr) 
Carolyn  Bufkin 
Mrs.  Neal  Calhoun 

(Mary  Edgar  Wharton) 
J.   H.   Cameron 
Craig  Castle 
B.  K.  Chapman 
Victor  S.  Coleman 
Mrs.  James  S.  Conner 

(Betty  Langdon) 
Wallace  L.  Cook 
Mrs.  Harry  L.  Corban 

(Eleanor  Johnson) 
Clarence  H.  Denser 
Mrs.   Roger  Elgert 

(Laura  Mae  Godbold) 


13 


Mrs.  H.  W.  Ferguson,  Jr. 

(Willie  Nell  White) 
Mrs.   Kenneth   I.   Franks 

(.^nn  Marie  Hobbs) 
Harry  C.   Frye 
Mrs.  Hugh  L.  Gowan 

(Mary  Anne  Jiggets) 
Robert  T.  Hollingsworth 
Nat  Hovious 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Izard 

(Betty   Klumb) 
I\Irs.  Catherine  P.  Klipple 

(Catherine  Powell) 
Dart  McCuUen 
I\Irs.  Sutton  Marks 

(Helen    Murphy) 
Jesse  P.  Matthews,  Jr. 
Rex    Murff 
Betty  Sue  Pittman 
James  D.  Powell 
Esther  Read 
Mrs.  W.  G.  Riley 

(Elizabeth  Welsh) 
Mrs.  W.  E.  Shanks 

(Alice  Josephine  Crisler) 
Otis  Singletary     . 
Rufus  P.  Stainback 
G.  Kinsey  Stewart 
Mrs.  G.  Kinsey  Stewart 

(Margueritte  Stanley) 
William  G.  Toland 
M.  W.  Whitaker 
Mrs.  James  S.  Worley 

(Rosemary  Nichols) 
Daniel  Andrews  Wright 
Robert  M.   Yarbrough,   Jr. 
Donald  S.   Youngblood 
H.  H.  Youngblood 


1948 

Albert  E.  Allen 
W.   D.   Bethea,   Jr. 
L.  H.   Brandon 
Elmer  Dean  Calloway 
William  O.  Carter,  Jr. 
Mrs.   Jerry  Chang 

(Ruth    Chang) 
N.   E.   Clarkson,   Jr. 
Mrs.  N.  E.  Clarkson,  Jr. 

(Betty    Weems) 
Mrs.   F.  G.  Cox,  Jr. 

(Alma  Van  Hook) 
Mrs.  Horace  F.  Crout 

(Cavie  Clark) 
Mrs.   Vincent  Danna,  Jr. 

(Lois    Bending) 
Frances  Galloway 
Clyde  Gunn 
Mrs.  R.  C.  Hardy 

(Ida  Fae  Emmerich) 
Mrs.  H.  G.  Hase 

(Ethel  Nola  Eastman) 
Mrs.  Harry  Helman 

(Louise  Blumer) 
Howard  G.  Hilton 
James  S.  Holmes,  Jr. 
Mrs.  George  P.  Koribanic 

(Helene  Minyard) 
Charles   Lehman 
George  M.  McWilliams 
Mrs.  George  L.  Maddox 

(Evelyn  Godbold) 
Robert  F.   Mantz,  Jr. 
Sutton   Marks 
Mrs.  Samuel  H.  Poston 

(Bobbie  Gillis) 
H.  Lowry  Rush 
Mrs.  Joe  F.  Sanderson 

(Ann  Spitchley) 
Gordon   Shomaker,    Jr. 
Mrs.  Otis  A.  Singletary 

(Gloria  W'alton) 
Mrs.  Ann  S.  Walasek 

(Ann  Stockton) 


Mrs.  William  W.  Watson 

(Clara  Ruth  Wcdig) 
Charles   N.    Wright 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Youngblood 
(Frances  Caroline  Gray) 


1949 

Mrs.  Albert  Babbitt 

(Carol  Hutto) 
Martin   H.    Baker 
Mrs.  W.  D.  Bethea 

(Anne  Jenkins) 
Mrs.  R.  C.  Brinson 

(Catherine  May  Shumaker) 
William  H.   Bush 
Gordon  L.  Carr 
Bruce  C.  Carruth 
Robert  H.  Conerly 
William  Ray  Crout 
Harry  H.  Cunningham 
Charles  L.  Darby 
Mrs.  Henry  Dupree 

(Mary  Ruth  Hicks) 
Frank  G.  Fowler 
John  Garrard 
William  F.  Goodman,  Jr. 
Shin  Hayao 
Floyd  E.  Heard 
Mrs.   Nat  Hovious 

(Lucy   Robinson) 
Ralph  Hutto 
Philip  E.  Irby,  Jr. 
Preston  L.  Jackson 
James  H.  Jenkins,  Jr. 
Michael  L.  Kidda 
George  D.  Lee 
Mrs.  George  M.  McWilliams 

(Dorothy  Rue  Myers) 
George  L.  Maddox 
William  C.  Nabors 
Richard  W.   Naef 
Mrs.   Richard  W.  Naef 

(Jane   Ellen   Newell) 
Robert  F.  Nay 
IMrs.  James  D.  Powell 

(Elizabeth    Lampton) 
Jesse  D.   Puckett,  Jr. 
Kenneth  H.   Quin 
Ernest    P.    Reeves 
Mrs.  John  Schindler 

(Chris   Hall) 
Sidney   Sebren 
Carlos  Reid  Smith 
William  W.  Watson 
Mrs.  Charles  C.  Wiggers 

(Mary  Tennent) 
Mrs.  B.  L.  Wilson 

(Bobbie  Nell  Holder) 
William  D.  Wright 
J.    W.    Youngblood 
Mrs.  J.  W.   Youngblood 

(Nora  Louise  Havard) 


1950 

Thomas  B.  Abernathy 
Randle    L.    Brown 
Mrs.  Gordon  L.  Carr 

(Elizabeth  Ann  Williams) 
John   R.    Countiss 
Mrs.  Tom  Crosby,  Jr. 

(Wilma  Dyess) 
Arthur  F.  A.  Goodsell 
Mrs.  S.  J.  Greer 

(Annie  Ruth  Junkin) 
S.  Richard  Harris 
Joseph  R.  Huggins 
Johnny  E.  Jabour 
William  H.  Jacobs 
Mrs.  Cecil  G.  Jenkins 

(Patsy   Abernathy) 
Earl  T.  Lewis 
Herman  J.  McKenzie 


W.    M.    Nelson 
Dick  T.  Patterson 
Howard   T.    Payne 
Carl  Wayne  Phillips 
James  W.   Ridgway 
Mrs.  Louise  Robbins 

(Louise  Hardin) 
Mrs.  H.  L.  Rush,  Jr. 

(Betty  Joyce  McLemore) 
Paul  Eugene  Russell 
Mrs.    Dewey   Sanderson 

(Fannie  Buck  Leonard) 
Mrs.  Carlos  Reid  Smith 

( Dorris  Liming) 
Charles  Lee  Taylor 
John  S.  Thompson 
Charles   C.    Wiggers 
W.   H.   Youngblood 


1951 

Mrs.  M.  C.  Adams 

(Doris   Puckett) 
Tip  H.   Allen,   Jr. 
Mrs.  Joe  V.  Anglin 

(Linda  McCluney) 
Mrs.  W.  W.  Aycock,  Jr. 

(Joyce  Jean  Caradine) 
Richard    L.    Berry 
IMrs.  Charles  W.   Boone 

(Stella  Lucas) 
Rex  I.   Brown 
Audley  O.  Burford 
William  R.  Burt 
Mrs.  Sid  Champion 

(IMary  Johnson  Lipscy) 
I\Irs.  William  Chenault 

(Ann  Marae  Simpson) 
Mrs.  Stanley  Christensen 

(Beverly  Barstow) 
Cooper  C.  Clements,  Jr. 
Ed  Deweese 
OUie  Dillon,  Jr. 
Carolyn   Estcs 
E.   Lawrence  Gibson 
Mrs.  W.  Thad  Godwin,  Jr. 

(Jo  Anne  Weissinger) 
George  W.  B.  Hall,  Jr. 
Dot   Hubbard 
Cecil   G.   Jenkins 
IVIrs.  William  F.  Johnson 

(Frances  Beacham) 
Mrs.  Raymond  E.  King 

(Yvonne   Mclnturlf) 
Wilson  S.  Lambert 
Mrs.  Earl  T.  Lewis 

(Mary  Sue  Enochs) 
Yancey  M.  Lott,  Jr. 
Evelyn  Inez  McCoy 
Mrs.   Wiliam  P.   Martin 

(Milly    East) 
Mrs.  Joe  H.  Morris,  Jr. 

(Virginia  Price) 
Hubert    R.    Robinson 
David  H.   Shelton 
Mrs.   Lonnie  Thompson,   Jr. 

(Pattie  Golding) 
S.  L.  Varnado 
Mrs.  O.  B.  Walton,  Jr. 

(Frances   Pat  Patterson) 
Mrs.   G.   R.   Wood,   Jr. 

(Anna  Louise  Coleman) 
Bennie  Frank  Youngblood 
Mrs.    Herman    Yueh 

(Grace  Chang) 


1952 

Beulah   Abel 

Mrs.  Harold  D.  Bell 

(Claire   Luster) 
Edward  I\I.   Collins 
J.   B.  Conerly 
William  E.  Curtis 
Robert  L.  Crawford 


Mrs.  Grady  O.  Floyd 

(.Sarah  Nell  Dyess) 
Marvin    P'ranklin 
Mrs.  Arthur  F.  A.  Goodsell 

(Alice  Dale  Whitfield) 
Billy    M.    Graham 
William   A.   Hays 
.Mrs.  .lames  H.  Jenkins.  ,)r. 

( Marianne  Chunn) 
Ransom  Lanier  Jones 
Curtis  .McGown 
.lames    D.    .Xewsome 
Mrs.    Paul   A.    Hadzewicz 

(Ethel    Cole) 
William    Kiecken,    Jr. 
Mrs.    Paul    E.    Russell 

(Barbara  Lee  McBnde) 
Roy  H.   Ryan 
Mrs.    Blanehard   Sanchez 

(  Patsy  Martinson) 
Harmon  L.   Smith,  Jr. 
Mrs.   Harmon  L.   Smith 

(Bettye  Watkins) 
J.   P.  Stafford 
Mrs.   Deck  Stone 

(Sandra  Lee  Campbell) 
Mrs.  Robert  D.  Vought 

(Mary  Joy  Hill) 
Glyn  O.   Wiygul 
James  Leon  Young 

1953 

Mrs.   Flavius  Alford 

(.Mary  Ann  O'Neill) 
James  E.  Allen 
Mrs.  W.   E.  Allen 

(Bettye  Smith) 
Mrs.  W.  E.  Ay  res 

( Diane   Brown ) 
IMrs.  John  C.  Barlow.  Jr. 

(Lynn  Bacot) 
Mrs.  .Martin  H.   Baker 

(Susana    .Alford) 
David  H.   Balius 
Mrs.  David  H.  Balius 

(Virginia  Kelly ) 
Mrs.  J.   B.   Barlow 

(Mary  .Ann  Babington) 
James    Barry    Brindley 
Mrs.   Shirley   Callen 

(Shirley   Parker) 
Mrs.  William  R.  Clement 

(Ethel  Cecile  Brown; 
Peter  J.  Costas 
Mrs.    Robert    L.    Crawford 

(.Mabel  Clair  Buckley) 
Pat  H.   Curtis 
IMrs.  Walter  L.  Dean 

(Anne  Roberts) 
Mrs.  Loyal  Durand 

(Wesley   .Ann   Travis) 
Mrs.    Rome    Emmons 

(Cola  O'Neal) 
William  G.   Fuzak.  Jr. 
Sedley  Joseph  Greer 
IMrs.   IMilton  Haden 

( Adalee  Matheny ) 
Mrs.  Henry  E.  Hettchen 

(Martha  Sue  Montgomer 
Mrs.    Carl    Legate 

(Louise  Campbell) 
John  T.  Lewis,  III 
T.  W^  Lewis,  HI 
Samuel  O.  IMassey,  Jr. 
John  W.   Moore 
IMrs.  John  W.  Moore 

(Virginia    Edge) 
Mrs.  James  R.  Ransom 

(Margueritte  Denny) 
Mrs.  James  W.   Ridgway 

(Betty  Jean  Langston) 
John   C.    Sandefur 
IMrs.  R.  G.  Sibbald 

(Mary  Ann  Derrick) 


14 


Kenneth  \V.  Simons 

Mrs.  Alexander  Sivewright 

(Josephine  Lampton) 
\\'illiam  L.   Stewart 
Irby   Turner,   Jr. 
William  Lamar  Weems 
Mrs.    Frank    Ray    Wheat 

(Virginia    Breazeale) 
Mrs.  Walter  H.  Williams 

(Alyce  Aline  Kyle) 
iMrs.  Charles  N.  Wright 

(Betty  Small) 
Mrs.  William  D.  Wright 

(Jo  Anne  Bratton) 

1954 

Charles  Allen 
Mrs.  Charles  Allen 

(Lynn  McGrath) 
W.  E.  Ayres 
Mrs.  George  V.  Bokas 

(Aspasia  Athas) 
Mrs.   T.   H.    Boone 

(Edna  Khayat) 
Hugh  Burford 
Mrs.  James  P.  Burnett 

(Juha  Allen) 
T.  H.   Butler 
William  R.  Clement 
David  W.   Colbert 
Jack  Roy  Birchum 
Mrs.  Edward  M.  Collins 

(Peggv  Suthoff) 
M.  S.  Corban 
Jack  F.  Dunbar 
Mrs.  Jack  F.  Dunbar 

(Carolyn  Anne  Hand) 
Mrs.   Richard  Feltus,   Jr. 

(Jeanette  Sanders) 
Mrs.  David  D.  Franks 

(Audrey  Jennings) 
Mrs.  Jodie  K.  George 

(Jodie    Kyzar) 


Mrs.   Paul  G.  Green 

(Bernice  Edgar) 
Sidney  A.  Head 
Mrs.  James  D.  Holden 

(Joan  Wilson) 
Mrs.  Joseph  R.  Huggins 

(Barbara  Walker) 
Mrs.  George  L.  Hunt 

(Jo  Glyn  Hughes) 
Mrs.  William  H.  Jacobs 

(Barbara  Myers) 
Mrs.  William  J.  James 

(Svliil   Foy) 
Dan   T,    Keel,    Jr. 
Robert  C.  Kelley 
Mrs.   Robert  C.  Kelley 

(Josephine  Booth) 
Albert   B.   Lee 
Mrs.  T.  W.  Lewis,  III 

(Julia  Aust) 
Frank  B.   IVIangum 
Mrs.  John  W.  Morris 

(Peggye    Falkner) 
Leslie  J.  Page,  Jr. 
Thomas   E.   Parker 
David   D.   Powell 
Mrs.   David  D.   Powell 

(Sue  Lott) 
Mrs.  William  Riecken,  Jr. 

(Jeanenne  Pridgen) 
William   S.    Romey 
William  F.  Sistrunk 
Lee  Andrew  Stricklin 
Mrs.   Richard  L.  Tourtellotte 

(Janella   Lansing) 
Mrs.   Robert  Vansuch 

(Jo  Anne  Cooper) 
Mrs.  Lamar  Weems 

(Nanette  Weaver) 
Morris   E.   White 
Walter  H.    Williams 
Jerry  M.  Williamson 


1955 

Eugene  B.  Antley 

Mrs.   Dorothy   F.   Bainton 

(Dorothy  Ford) 
Fulton  Barksdale 
Mrs.  John  C.  Baumgartner 

(Glenda  Glenn) 
Frederick  E.  Blumcr 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Bratton,  Jr. 

(Alleen   Sharp   Davis) 
Mrs.  Howard  B.  Burch 

(Clarice   Black) 
James  P.  Burnett 
Frances  Catchings 
Mrs.   J.   B.  Conerly 

(Theresa   Terry) 
Mrs.   Paul  D.   Eppinger 

(Sybil  Casbeer) 
John  Y.   Fenton 
Mrs.  Garland  G.  Gee 

(Dorothy  Wiseman) 
Nancy  Ann  Harris 
P.  Harry  Hawkins 
George  Lewis  Hunt,  Jr. 
William   J.   James 
Alvin  Jon  King 
Mrs.   John  W.   Leggctt,   IH 

(Carol  Mae  Brown) 
Mrs.    John   T.    Lewis 

(Helen  Fay  Head) 
James    E.    Long 
John  B.  Lott 
Mrs.  Samuel  O.  Massey,  Jr. 

(Mary  Lynn  Graves) 
L.  Leslie  Nabors,  Jr. 
Mrs.  B.  H.  Reed 

(Amelia  Ann  Pendcrgraft) 
Mrs.  A.  T.  Rice 

(Lettie  King) 
Ellnora  Riecken 
Mrs.  John  C.  Sandefur 

(iVIary  Louise  Flowers) 
Mrs.  Peter  Segota 

(Mary  Price) 
Jeneanne  Sharp 
Mary  Alice  Shields 
B.  AI.  Stevens 
Marion  Swayze 
Mrs.  Tommy  Taylor 

(Betty  Robbins) 
R.  Warren  Wasson 
Ernest  Workman 
Mrs.  James  Leon  Young 

(Joan  Wignall) 

1956 

Mrs.  John  J.  Albrycht 

(Marjorie  Boleware) 
Patrick    G.    Allen 
John   !\L   Awad 
Airs.   Frederick  E.   Blumer 

(Ann    Anderson) 
T.   H.   Boone 
Mrs.  James  L.  Boyd 

(Charlotte  Elliott) 
Jesse  W.  Brasher 
Mrs.  J.  Barry  Brindley 

(Elsie   Drake) 
Shirley  Caldwell 
John  B.  Campbell 
Floyd  T.  Carey 
Tomye   Carnes 
Joseph  S.   Conti 
Mrs.  William  S.  Cook 

(Barbara  Jones) 


The  alumni  who  made  person- 
al contacts  are  the  real  keys 
to  the  success  of  the  Alumni 
Fund.  They  demonstrated  the 
fact  that  they  are  concerned 
about  Millsaps. 


Mrs.  M.  S.  Corban 

(Margaret  C.    Hathorn) 
Mrs.    Berry  Grain 

( Inez  Claud) 
Zorah   Currv 
Albert  W.  Felsher,  Jr. 
Stearns  L.  Hayward 
Mrs.  Gordon  Hensley 

(Claire    King) 
John  Hubbard 
Mrs.  Wayne  Hudson 

(Clydell  Carter) 
Richard  Johnson 
Mrs.   Richard  .Johnson 

(Lucy  Lee  Jones ) 
John  W.  Leggett,  HI 
Walton   Lipscomb 
Ann  Holmes   McShane 
Jesse  W.   Moore 
W.  Powers  .Moore,  II 
John  W.  IMorris 
Mrs.  Dan  S.  Murrell 

(Pat  llillman) 
Robert  H.  Parnell 
Murray  Pinkston 
Mrs.  J.  Murray  Pinkston 

(Clara    Booth) 
Anita  Barrv  Reed 
O.   Gerald  Trigg 
Edwin  T.   Upton 
Mrs.  Summer  Walters 

(Betty  Barficld) 
Fred  H.  Williams 
Albert  N.  Williamson 
J.   W.   Wood 


1957 

Ezra   M.   Alexander • 
Mrs.  Tip  H.  Allen,  Jr. 

(Margaret  Buchanan) 
Daniel  T.  Anderson 
Richard  C.  Barineau 
Mrs.  E.   E.  Barlow,  Jr. 

(Dorothy  Anita  Perry) 
Mrs.   William   D.   Bealle 

(Catherine    Northam) 
Kathryn   Bufkin 
J.   B.  Campbell 
Henry  Carney 
Reynolds  Cheney 
Milton  Olin  Cook 
Mrs.  Milton  Olin  Cook 

(Millicent  King) 
Mrs.  Frank  Corban,  Jr. 

(Lady  Nelson  Gill) 
Kenneth   Dew 
Mrs.   Peyton  Dickinson 

(Eugenia   Kelly) 
Billy  L.   Dowdle 
Oscar   Dowdle,   Jr. 
Lloyd   Allen   Doyle 
Betty   Dyess 
Joseph  C.   Franklin 
David  D.  Franks 
Mrs.  Sterling  Gillis 

(Jane  Pickering) 
James  Don  Gordon 
Mrs.  J.  W.  Griffis,  Jr. 

(Nena  Doiron) 
Graham  Lee  Hales,  Jr. 
Newt  P.   Harrison 
Brooks  Hudson 
Mrs.  Paul  J.  Illk 

(Goldie  Crippen) 
Hugh    H.    Johnson 
Sam  L.   Jones 
iMrs.  Sam  L.  Jones 

(Nancy  Peacock) 
Mrs.  Alvah  C.  Long,  Jr. 

(Lynnice   Parker) 
Max  Harold  AlcDaniel 
Mrs.  Max  McDaniel 

(Sandra   Miller) 


L 


15 


Mrs.  Jack  M.  McDonald 

(Betty  Louise  Landfair) 
Mrs.  Edward  W.  McRae 

(Martina   Riley) 
Robert  B.   Mims 
Hal  Miller,  Jr. 
Mrs.  S.  M.   Mohon 

(Annette  Leshe) 
Mrs.  W.  Powers  Moore,  II 

(Janis  Edgar) 
John  D.  Morgan 
Mrs.  Thomas  E.  Parker 

(Mary  Ruth  Brasher) 
John  Philley 
Mrs.   Bryant  A.   Reed,   Jr. 

(Walter   Jean  Lamb) 
Daphne  Ann  Richardson 
Alfred  Paul  Statham 
Edward  Stewart 
Mrs.    Gerald    Trigg 

(Rose  Cunningham) 
Jo  Anne  Tucker 
Larry   Tynes 
Summer  Walters,  Jr. 
Robert  B.  Wesley 
Glenn  Wimbish,  Jr. 


1958 

Mrs.  Raymond  T.  Arnold 

(Janice  Mae  Bower) 
John  E.  Baxter 
Ronald  P.  Black 
Mrs.  Billy  Chapman 

(Betty  Gail  Trapp) 
W.  D.  Creekmore,  Jr. 
T.  H.  Dinkins,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Richard  W.  Dortch 

(Joyce  Nail) 
Betty  Louise  Eakin 
James  H.   Everitt,   Jr. 
Thomas   B.   Fanning 
Mrs.  John  Y.  Fenton 

(Julia  Ann  Gray) 
Mrs.   John  O.  Gossett 

(Edna  Gail  Wixon) 
William  L.  Graham 
Mrs.  William  L.  Graham 

(Betty  Garrison) 
J.  W.  Griffis,  Jr. 
Ruith  Ann  Hall 
William  J.  Hardin 
Mrs.  WiUiam  J.  Hardin 

(Mary  Jeffrey) 
Mrs.  William  M.  Hilbun,  Jr. 

(Lucy  Claire  Ewing) 
James  Hodges 
Curtis  O.  HoUaday 
Sarah  A.  Hulsey 
Howard  S.  Jones 
Mrs.  Peter  J.  Liacouras 

(Anne  Locke  Myers) 
Jack   M.    McDonald 
Mrs.   Bailey  Moncrief 

(Charlotte  Oswalt) 
Ray  H.  Montgomery 
Mrs.  John  P.  Morse 

(Claire  Elizabeth  Manning 
Bill  Rush  Mosby,  Jr. 
Jimmie  NeweU,  Jr. 
Benny  Owen 
Mrs.  Benny  Owen 

(Linda  Carruth) 
John  P.  Potter 
Mrs.   John  P.  Potter 

(Jeanette  Ratcliff) 
Shelby  Jean  Roten 
Clarence  M.  Shannon 
John  B.  Sharp 
Russell  H.  Stovall,  Jr. 
Mrs.  John  Ed  Thomas 

(Margaret  Ewing) 
Keith  Tonkel 
Donald  Grey  Triplett 
Jim  L.  Waits 


Myma  Flo  Wallace 
Herbert  Arthur  Ward,  Jr. 
Kennard  W.  Wellons 
Don  G.  Williams 
Edwin  Williams,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Joseph  E.  Wilson,  Jr. 

(Nancy  Caroline  Vines) 
Mrs.  Robert  F.  Workman,  Jr. 

(Mabel  Gill) 
V.  D.  Youngblood 


1959 

Robert  L.  Abney,  III 

Mrs.  Robert  L.  Abney,  III 

(Shirley  Habeeb) 
Jeanine  Adcock 
Rex  Alman 
WiUiam  D.  Balgord 
Arnold  A.  Bush,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Reynolds  S.  Cheney 

(Allan  Walker) 
Mrs.  Billy  O.  Cherry 

(Shirley  Mae  Stoker) 
Richard  L.  Cooke 
Joseph  R.  Cowart 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Creekmore,  Jr. 

(Betsy  Salisbury) 
Mrs.  Allen  J.  Dawson 

(Julia  Anne  Beckes) 
Fred    Dowling 
Mrs.  Richard  B.  Ellison 

(Judith    Forbes) 
Mrs.  Albert  W.  Felsher 

(Rosemary  Parent) 
Robert  E.   Gentry 
Mrs.  James  Y.  Harpole 

(Jeanette   Lundquist) 
Avit  J.  Hebert 
William  R.  Hendee 
Ben  G.  Hinton 
Mrs.  T.  Brooks  Hudson 

(Helen  Dall  Barnes) 
John  D.  Humphrey 
William  T.   Jeanes 
Mrs.  Bradford  Lemon 

(Nancy  Neyman) 
Mrs.  Esther  R.  Levine 
Mrs.  John  L.  Lipscomb 

(Colleen  Thompson) 
Edwin  P.   McKaskel 
Palmer  Manning 
Bailey   Moncrief 
Mrs.  Bill  Rush  Mosby 

(Ellen  Dixon) 
Mrs.  James  Lamar  Nation 

(Dorothy  Casey) 
Mrs.  Leslie  Joe  Page,  Jr. 

(Frances  Irene  West) 
Virginia  Perry 
Katherine  Pilley 
James  P.  Rush 
Sam  E.  Scott 
W.  B.  Selah 
M.  Arnold  Stanford 
Mrs.  Russell  Stovall 

(Mary  Charles  Price) 
John  Ed  Thomas 
Ophelia  Tisdale 
D.  Clifton  Ware,  Jr. 
Thomas  C.   Welch 
Mrs.  Robert  B.  Wesley 

(Frances  Furr) 


1960 

Marilyn  Dee  Bates 
Mrs.  J.  D.  Bourne,  Jr. 

(Jewel  Taylor) 
Albert  Y.  Brown,  Jr. 
Mrs.  James  T.  Brown 

(Joan    Frazier) 
Mrs.  Jerry  K.  Bryant 

(Carolyn  Edwards) 


Mrs.  Robert  C.  Burrows 

(Virginia  Helen  Walker) 
Mrs.  Arnold  A.  Bush 

(Zoe   Harvey) 
Cathy  Carlson 
Hunter  McKelva  Cole 
Kurt  L.  Feldmann 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Files 

(Glenda  Faye  Chapman) 
Mrs.  John  E.  Green 

(Ann  Hale) 
Mrs.  William  R.  Hendee 

(Jeannie  Wesley) 
Mrs.  William  S.  Hicks 

(Lucile  Pillow) 
Charles  R.  Jennings 
Mrs,  Charles  R.  Jennings 

(Ann  Snuggs) 
Ann  Ryland  Kelly 
Kay  Kirschenbaum 
James  B.  Lange 
James  Ronny  Langston 
Donald  D.  Lewis 
Robert  E.  McArthur 
James  E.  McAtee 
Mrs.  J.  L.  Maynard 

(Marcia  Anne  Brocato) 
Mrs.  Hal  Miller,  Jr. 

(Dorothy  Huddleston) 
Mrs.  Robert  B.  Mims 

(Susan  Medley) 
Mrs.  Jesse  W.  Moore 

(Mildred  Anne  Hupperich) 
Mrs.  James  A.  Nicholas 

(Mary  Sue  Cater) 
James  F.  Oaks 
John  T.  Rush 
Mrs.  Sam  E.  Scott 

(Mariella  Lingle) 
Mrs.  Charles  R.  Smith 

(Malese  Brunson) 
Mrs.  Kenneth  Steiner,  Jr. 

(Grace  Louise  Frost) 
Mrs.  Robert  M.  Still 

(Mary  Lee  Bethune) 
Mrs.  D.  Clifton  Ware,  Jr. 

(Betty  Oldham) 
Mrs.  Thomas  C.  Welch 

(Josephine  Anne  Goodwin) 
George  R.  Williams 
Mrs.  Glenn  Wimbish 

(Evelyn  Godbold) 
Anonymous 
Anonymous 


1961 

Lynn  Abernethy,  Jr. 

Mrs.  William  B.  Baker,  Jr. 

(Nancy  Shirley  Dunshee) 
Ella   Lou   Butler 
Frank  G.  Carney 
Mrs.  R.  C.  Carter 

(Evelyn  Grant) 
William  J.  Crosby 
Sam  Weeks  Currie 
Mrs.  Fred  Dowling 

(Betty  Jean  Burgdorff) 
Edwin  L.  Frost,  III 
Edward  L.  Gieger,  Jr. 
Lucy   Hamblin 
James  L.  Humphries 
David  D.  Husband 
Frances  Kerr 
Mrs.  Donald  D.  Lewis 

(Ruth  Marie  Tomlinson) 
Claudia  Mabus 
Janis   Mitchell 
Henry  James  Rhodes,  III 
Donald  R.  Stacy 
Mrs.  M.  Arnold  Stanford 

(Jane    Perkins) 
Mrs.   Robert  Taylor 

(Eleanor  Crabtree) 


1962 

Richard  B.  Blount 
Ivan  Burnett,  Jr. 
Ellen  Burns 
John  L.  Lipscomb 
Mrs.  James  E.  McAtee 

(Carolyn  Mahaffey) 
Mrs.  Phineas  Stevens 

(Patricia  Land) 


Year  Unknown 

Mrs.  Mary  Belle  Beacham 

(Mary  Belle  Wright) 
UUie  Ellis 
Miss  Melvin  EUis 
Mrs.  R.  C.  Moore 

(Mary  Collins) 
Mrs.  Turner  Ray 

(Corinne  Wiygul) 
Mrs.  Smith  Richardson 
Mrs.  Hubert  Scrivener 

(Martha  Evelyn  O'Brien) 
Mrs.  Mattie  Williamson 

(Mattie  Murff) 
Mabel  Wessels 
Mrs.  Shelby  Wilson 

(Susie  Gaines) 
Mrs.  George  C.  Wofford 

(Grace  Kirk) 
Mrs.  J.  Will  Yon 

(Lucille  Cooper) 


Friends 

Mrs.  C.  A.   Bowen 

Frank  Cabell 

Mrs.  Robert  M.  Gibson 

Raymond  King 

J.  W.   Reily 

D.  R.  Sanderson,  Sr. 

Mrs.  D.  R.  Sanderson,  Sr. 

D.  R.  Sanderson,  Jr. 

Joe  F.  Sanderson 

Francis  B.  Stevens 

Phineas   Stevens 

Mrs.  Ellis  T.  Woolfolk 


Corporate  Alumnus  Program 

American    &    Foreign    Powe 

Co.,  Inc.    'Matching  gift  b 

Mr.    &   Mrs.    John  T.    Kirr 

ball) 
Armstrong  Cork  Company 

(Matching   gift   by   Dick   1 

Patterson) 
Burroughs  Corporation 

(Matching  gift  by  James  ^ 

McLeod) 
Continental  Oil  Company 

(Matching  gift  by  Floyd  E 

Heard) 
Deering  Milliken  Service  Coi 

poration 

(Matching    gift    by    A.    M 

Sivewright) 
Gulf  Oil  Corporation 

(Matching    gift    by    Georg 

W.  B.  Hall) 
U.  S.  Borax  &  Chemical  Coi 

poration 

(Matching  gift  by  Robert  1 

Edgar) 


16 


Major  Investors 

Alumni    who    contributed 
$100    or    more    in    1962-63 


I.  W.  Alford,  '30 
Henry  V.  Allen,  Jr.,  '36 
Edgar  L.  Anderson,  '25-'27 
Dr.  C.  C.  Applewhite,  '07 
Sam  E.  Ashmore,   '16-'17 
W.  E.  Ayres,  '54 
Mrs.  W.  E.  Ayres,  '53 

(Diane  Brown) 
Dr.  A.  V.  Beacham,  '28 
W.  A.  Bealle,  '26 
Rev.  Norman  U.  Boone,  '33 
aev.  R.  R.  Branton,  '27 
Mrs.   R.   R.   Branton,   '28 

(Doris  Alford) 
Mrs.  James  H.  Bratton,  Jr. 

(Alleen  Davis) 
Rex  I.  Brown,  '51 
William  I.  Brown,  '28-'30 
Z^arolyn  Bufkin,   '47 
Webb  Buie,  '36 
Mrs.  Webb  Buie,  '36 

(Ora  Lee  Graves) 
Mrs.  Frank  Cabell,  '35 

(Helen  Hargrave) 
Dr.  Dean  Calloway,  '48 
Rev.  J.  H.  Cameron,  '47 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Cameron,  '32 

(Burnell  Gillaspy) 
^.  Boyd  CampbeU,   '10 
Charles   H.   Carr,   '20-'22 
"raig  Castle,   '47 
G.  C.  Clark,  '38 
Joe  W.  Coker,   '27 
Harris  Collins,  '36 
Gilbert  P.  Cook,  Sr.,  '08 
Manley  W.  Cooper,  '12 
Victor  B.  Gotten,  '40-'41 
Dr.  Eugene  H.  Countiss,  '29 
Robert  L.  Crawford,  '52 
Mrs.  Robert  L.  Crawford,  '49-'52 

(Mabel  Clair  Buckley) 
Pat  H.  Curtis,  '53 
Dr.  Clarence  H.  Denser,  '47 
George  T.  Dorris,  '39 
Dr.  Wilford  C.  Doss,   '42 
Mrs.  Wilford  C.  Doss,  '42 

(Mary  Margaret  McRae) 
Mrs.  Robert  T.  Edgar,  '38 

(Katherine  Dement) 
Mrs.  I.  C.  Enochs,  '16-'18 

(Crawford  Swearingen) 
Fred  Ezelle,  '37 


Mrs.  Fred  Ezelle,  '42 

(Katherine  Ann  Grimes) 
Robert  L.  Ezelle,  '35 
Mrs.  George  Faxon,  '36 

(Nancy  Plummer) 
Albert  W.   Felsher,   '56 
Mrs.  Albert  W.  Felsher,  '55-'56 

(Rosemary    Parent) 
H.  E.  Finger,  Jr.,  '37 
Edward  S.  Fleming,  '42 
Mrs.    Edward   S.    Fleming,    '43 

(Helen  Mae  Ruoff) 
W.  B.  Fowler,  '23 
Bishop  Marvin  Franklin,  '52 
Stewart  Gammill,   Jr.,   '29-'31 
Mrs.  Stewart  Gammill,  Jr.,  '30-'32 

(Lora  Hooper) 
S.  Richard  Harris,  '50 
Mrs.  Erwin  Heinen,  '20-'22,  '24-'25 

(Emily  Plummer) 
Warfield  W.  Hester,  '35 
Howard  G.  Hilton,   '44-'45,  '47-'48 
Dr.  MerriU  O.  Hines,  '31 
Dr.  Robert  T.  Hollingsworth,  '47 
Dr.  Dewitt  B.  James,  '43 
Harris  A.  Jones,  '99 
Howard  S.  Jones,  '58 
Maurice   Jones,    '34 
Dan  T.  Keel,  Jr.,  '54 
Mrs.  Wiley  V.  Kees,   '33 

(Mary  Sue  Bumham) 
John  T.  Kimball,  '34 
Mrs.  John  T.  Kimball,  '44 

(Louise  Day) 
Mrs.  Raymond  E.  King,  '51 

(Yvonne  Mclnturff) 
Mrs.  Catherine  Klipple,  '47 

(Caitherine  Powell) 
Phihp  Kolb,  '28-'31 
Mrs.  Philip  Kolb,  '30 

(Warrene  Ramsey) 
Sam  B.  Lampton,  '13 
Herbert  H.  Lester,   '13 
Dr.  Earl  T.  Lewis,  '50 
Mrs.  Earl  T.  Lewis,  '51 

(Mary  Sue  Enochs) 
Richard  G.  Lord,  Jr.,  '36-'38 
W.   B.  McCarty,  Sr.,   '05-'09 
WilUam  C.  McLean,  '16 
Raymond  McClinton,  '36 
Mrs.  Raymond  McCUnton,  '35-'37 

(Rowena  McRae) 


Ralph  McCool,   '36-'37 
Mrs.  Ralph  McCool,  '40 

(Bert  Watkins) 
J.   Clyde  McGee,    '01-'03 
Marjorie  Miller,  '41 
Mrs.  R.  E.  Dumas  Milner,  '41 

(Myrtle  Ruth  Howard) 
Dr.  Wilham  F.  Moak,  '42-'44 
Mrs.  William  F.  Moak,  '42-'44 

(Lucy  Gerald) 
Dr.  Charles  M.  Murry,   '41 
W.  D.  Myers,  '14-'17 
Mrs.  W.  D.  Myers,  Whit.  '18 

(Inez  King) 
George  B.   Pickett,    '27-'30 
Charles  R.  Rew,  '10 
John  B.   Ricketts,   '05 
Mrs.  C.  R.  Ridgway,  Sr.,  W.  '07 

(Hattie  Lewis) 
Charles  R.   Ridgway,   '35 
W.  B.  Ridgway,  '36-'38 
Dr.  W.  S.  Ridgway,  '43 
Solon  F.  Riley,  '28 
Vic  Roby,  '38 
Nat  S.  Rogers,  '41 
Mrs.   Nat  Rogers,   '42 

(Helen  Ricks) 
Dr.  Thomas  G.  Ross,  '36 
Albert  G.  Sanders,  Jr.,  '42 
Mrs.  Dewey  Sanderson,  '50 

(Fannie  Buck  Leonard) 
Mrs.  Joe  F.  Sanderson,  '44-'45 

(Ann  Spitchley) 
Mrs.  Brevik  Schimmel,  '40-'42 

(Edith  Cortright) 
Sidney  Sebren,  '49 
W.  B.  Selah,  '59 
Austin  L.  Shipman,  '21 
Fred  B.  Smith,  '12 
Walter  Spiva,  '25 
Mrs.  Walter  Spiva,  '25 

(Mary  Davenport) 
B.  M.  Stevens,  '55 
Mrs.  Francis  B.  Stevens,  '42 

(Ann  Elizabeth  Herbert) 
Mrs.  Phineas  Stevens,  '58-'59 

(Patricia  Land) 
Edward  Stewart,  '57 
Mrs.  Deck  Stone,  '52 

(Sandra  Lee  Campbell) 
Orrin  H.  Swayze,  '27 
Mrs.  Orrin  H.  Swayze,  '27 

(Catherine   Power) 
WilUam  N.  Thomas,  '08-'12 
Mrs.  Lonnie  Thompson,  Jr.,  '51 

(Pattie  Golding) 
OUver  B.   Triplett,   Jr.,    '24 
A.  T.  Tucker,  '39 
Rev.  Lovick  P.  Wasson,  '04 
Dan  M.  White,  '17 
Dr.  Noel  C.  Womack,  '44 
Mrs.  Noel  C.  Womack,  '44 

(Flora  Mae  Arant) 
Dr.  Charles  N.  Wright,  '48 
Mrs.  Charles  N.  Wright,  '53 

(Betty  SmaU) 
Dan  A.  Wright,  '47 
V.  D.  Youngblood,  '58 


17 


Memorial  Book  Fund 


IN   MEMORY   OF  DONOR 

Frances   Weslgate   Butlcrfield    ..     Joseph  M.  Howorth 

A.  B.  Hobbs,  Jr George  B.  Pickett 

S.  B.  Lawrence   C.  R.  Ridgway 

Kenneth  A.  I'aine  George  B.  I'ickett 

Les  M.  Taylor  ...      George  B.  Pickett 

Garner  Green,   Sr. 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Reynolds  Cheney 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Joshua  CIreen 


Memorial  Gifts 


IN   MEMORY  OF 

Edwin  Jones     .    .  . 
Evelyn  McGahey  . 


Edwin  L.   Redding   

Mrs.  Susie  Newell  Ward 


DONOR 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Allen 
Henry  V.  Allen,  Jr. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  E.  Barksdale 


Chester  Lee  Beacham  A.  V.  Beacham 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moody Mrs.  Hcrsee  M.  Carson 

Mrs.  O.  S.  Lewis       Gilbert  P.  Cook,  Sr. 

James  A.  High   W.  L.  Duren 

George  C.  Wallace   Mrs.  L  C.  Enochs 

Lester  Bear  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Ezelle 

T.  H.  Naylor       

Lester  Bear  

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  L.  Lowe       

Ed  Redding  


Mrs.  Susie  Newell  Ward 

Ed  Redding       

Mrs.  E.  S.  Willis   


Robert  L.  Ezelle,  Jr. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Plummer  Mrs.  George  Faxon 

Arthur  Rogers    Mary  Joan  Finger 

Robert  M.  Gibson   Mrs.  Robert  M.  Gibson 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Plummer  Mrs.  Ervin  Heinen 

Jerry    Felker    Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Lipscomb 

Ed  Redding Anonymous 

M.  L.  Kerr     

Mrs.  Susie  Newell  Ward       

Victor  Wallace    

R.  L.  Ezelle,  Sr 

Ed    Redding    Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  M.  Mann 

Meddie  Cox     John  D.  Morgan 

R.    D.   Cartledge         Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Powell 

William    E.    Riecken,   Sr Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  E.  Riecken,  Jr. 

J.  E.  F.  Ferguson Charlton   Roby 

Lester   Bear  Bethany  Swearingen 

Mrs.  W.  D.  Noel       Rlrs.  Harry  Weir 

P.  K.  Thomas         Mrs.  G.  C.  Wolf'ord 

Edwin    L.    Redding        Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  N.  Wright 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leon  J.  Lowe   Joseph  E.  Wroten 


Boyd  Campbell 
Scholarship  Fund 


DONOR 

Mrs.  Thomas  D.  Hendrix 

Martha  Ann  Kendrick 

Gilbert  Cook,  Sr. 

Mrs.  Battle  M.  Barksdale 

Ellen  Burns 

Mrs.  R.  W.  Ferguson,  Jr. 

Mrs.  Luther  Flowers 

Mrs.  Gus  Ford 

Edna  May  Kennedy 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Howard  McGehee 

Neely  Powers 

Henry  V.  Watkins,  Jr. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  E.  Brown 

Mendell  Davis 


Mrs.  Wylie  V.  Kees  ' 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nat  Rogers  I 

V.   D.   Youngblood  | 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  E.  Barksdal 
Robert  L.  Ezelle,  Jr. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  N.  Wright 
Mr.  and  I\Irs.  Wesley  Merle  Mann 
Bethany  Swearingen 
Mrs.  L  C.   Enochs 

(Crawford  Swearingen) 
Nancy  Ann  Harris 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Ezelle 
J.  Clyde  McGee 
Anonymous  I 


18 


/I.  C.  White 
Scholarship  Fund 


Anonymous 

Janice  Trimble 

Mrs.  Warren  B.  Trimble 

C.  R,  Ridgway,  Jr. 

Mrs.  C.  R.  Ridgway,  Sr. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webb  Buie 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Spiva 

Mendell  Davis 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ross  H.  Moore 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  W.  Campbell 


Roy  DeLamotte 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gwin  Kolb 

Mrs.  Gordon  Nazor 

Mrs.  T.  F.  Larciie 

Mrs.  W.  F.  Goodman,  Sr. 

Mrs.  Ross  F.  Bass 

Maurice  Jones 

Gilbert  P.  Cook,  Sr. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  D.  Powell 


PURPOSE 


DONOR 


)esignated  Gifts 
I 


Endowment  Fund  in  Memory  of 

Mrs.  G.  C.  Swearingen Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webb  Buie 

Rex  I.  Brown 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Spiva 
Mrs.   W.    F.   Goodman 
Mrs.  E.  L.  Brien 

Singers  Tour       Mrs.  L.  M.  Adams 

William  C.  Alford 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Blount 

Mrs.  Guy  M.  Carlon 

Mrs.  W.  W.  Chatham 

William  M.  Colmer 

Read  P.  Dunn,  Jr. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Felsher 

Percy  A.  Matthews 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leon  L.  Wheeless 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  H.  Wilson 

Alice  Casey 

Mrs.  Abbott  L.  Ferriss 

Robert  S.  Higdon 

Mrs.  William  S.  Sims,  Jr. 

Henry  B.  Collins,  Jr. 

Ralph  Hutto 

Victor  Watts 

Art  Department  Howard  S.  Jones 

Endowment    S.  Richard  Harris 

German    Department    Howard  S.  Jones 

Harvey  T.  Newell  Endowed 

Scholarship  Fund    Charles  M.  Murry 

Harvey  T.  Newell  Endowed 
Scholarship  Fund  in  memory  of 
Mrs.  Susie  Newell  Ward     Vic  Roby 

John  R.  Countiss  Memorial  Fund   .    John  R.  Countiss,  HI 

Kimball  Student  Aid  Fund Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  T.  Kimball 

Library    Anonymous 

Mrs.  Loyal   Durand 

Mrs.  L  C.  Enochs 

Mrs.  James  H.  Bratton,  Jr. 

Maintenance  Marvin  Franklin 

In  Honor  of  Dr.  Ross  Moore  — 
History  books  for  Library 

Music  Department  —  piano 
instruction 


.  Albert  Y.   Brown,   Jr. 
.  Edith  M.  Hart 


19 


DEVELOPMENT  CAMPAIGN 
196  3 


Alumni   Gifts   to   the   Development   Campaign 

(Alumni  listed  are  only  those  whose  gifts  were  sent  to  the  College  or  whose 
churches  furnished  lists.  Many  alumni  gave  through  churches  which  did  not 
send  lists  of  donors.    The  fiscal  year  began  July  1,  1962,  and  ended  June  30,  1963.) 

Total  Number  of  Persons 234 

Total  Contributed   $62,634.24 


Mrs.  John  H.  Albritton,  '26 

(Mary  Nelle  Newell) 
Ruth  C.  Alford,  '29 
Henry  V.  Allen,  Jr.;  '36 
R.  E.  Anding,  '48 
Mrs.  R.  E.  Anding,  '47 

(Billie  Jeanne  Brewer) 
C.  C.  Applewhite,  '07 
W.  R.  Applewhite,   '09 
Mrs.    W.    R.    Applewhite, 

Gre.  '15 

(Ruth  Mitchell) 
Charles  Arrington,  '36 
Sam  E.  Ashmore,  '16-'17 
Frank  Baird,  Jr.,  '47-'48 
W.  K.  Barnes,  '28 
Mrs.  W.  K.  Barnes,  '28 

(Helen  Lucille  NeweU) 
Mrs.  Ross  R.  Barnett,  '26 

(Pearl  Crawford) 
A.  V.  Beacham,  '28 
Mrs.  Lester  Bear,  '42 

(Ida  Sylvia  Hart) 
Walter  Bivins,  '46 
E.  H.  Blackwell,  '52 
Mrs.    Thomas    H.    Blake, 

'24-'27 

(Carolyn  Townes) 
Robert  E.  Blount,  '28 
Mrs.  Robert  E.  Blount,  '29 

(Alice   Ridgway) 
H.  E.  Boone,  Sr.,  '30 
Mrs.  Howard  E.  Boone,  Jr., 

'58-'60 

(Bethany  Stockett) 
Norman  U.  Boone,  '33 
J.  A.  Bostick,  '17-'20 
John  Clark  Boswell,  '29-'30 
Mrs.    John    Clark    BosweU, 

'32 

(Ruth  Ridgway) 
Charles  W.  Brooks,  '20 
Joseph  H.  Brooks,  '09 
Randle  L.  Brown,  '50 
W.  Ross  Brown,  '18-'19 
W.  M.  Buie,  Jr.,  '36 
Mrs.  W.  M.  Buie,  Jr.,  '36 

(Ora  Lee  Graves) 
Steve  BurweU,  '29-'30 
Mrs.  Steve  Burwell,   '35 

(Carolyn  Hand) 
James  B.  Campbell,  '49-'51 
J.  W.  Campbell,  '24 
Mrs.  J.  W.  Campbell,  '25 

(Evelyn  Flowers) 
Kathleen   Carmichael^    '25 
Reynolds  Cheney,  '31 
Mrs.  Reynolds  Cheney,  '33 

(Winifred  Green) 
C.  C.  Clark,  '15 
G.  C.  Clark,  '38 


Leonard  E.  Clark,  '38 
Joy  Cockrell,  '60 
Marvin  A.  Cohen,  '34-'35 
Henry  B.  Collins,  '22 
O.  W.  Conner,  111,  '49 
William  G.  Cook,   '21-'24 
John  W.  Crisler,  '10 
Roy  A.  Eaton,  '52 
Mrs.  1.  C.  Enochs,  '16-'18 

(Crawford  Swearingen) 
E.  M.   Ervin,   '21 
Fred  Ezelle,   '37 
Mrs.   Fred  Ezelle,   '42 

(Katherine  Ann  Grimes) 
Robert  L.  Ezelle,  Jr.,  '35 
L.  S.  Felder,  '96-'97 
James  S.  Ferguson,  '37 
H.  E.  Finger,  Jr.,  '37 
Gene  T.  Fleming,  '49 
Mrs.   Gene  T.   Fleming, 

'47-'49  (Lou  Kern) 
Henry  G.  Flowers,  '31 
C.  H.  Foster,  Jr.,  '48-'50 
Mrs.  C.  H.  Foster,  Jr.,  '53 

(Elizabeth  Lester) 
Marvin  Franklin,   '52 
John   Gaddis,    '46-'49 
Mrs.  E.  M.  Gerald,  Whit. 

(Mary  Lee  Hardin) 
Martha  Gerald,   '41 
Mrs.    W.    F.    Goodman, 

'17-'18 

(Marguerite  Watkins) 
W.  F.  Goodman,  Jr.,  '49 
J.  R.  Gouldman,  '30 
Mrs.  Owen  F.  Gregory, 

'30-'33 

(Harriet  Carothers) 
John    G.    Hand,    '25-'26, 

'27-'28 
Paul  D.  Hardin,  '35 
Elizabeth  Harrell,  '31 
Jeff  Harris,  '58 
Mrs.  Jeff  Harris,  '62 

(Judy  Curry) 
Richard  Harris,  '50 
Harry  Hawkins,  '55 
Mrs.  Gordon  R.  HazeU, 

'50-'52 

(Eleanor  Millsaps) 
L.  G.  Head,   '18-'19 
Mrs.  Arnold  Hederman, 

'35-'39 

(Mary    Eleanor    Shaugh- 

nessy) 
Mrs.  R.  M.  Hederman,  '32 

(Sara  Smith) 
Mrs.  Tom  Hederman, 

'32-'35 

(Bernice  Flowers) 
Julian  Hendrick,  '37 


Mrs.  Thomas  D.  Hendrix, 

Whit.  '18 

(Mary  Flowers) 
W.   S.   Henley,    '18 
R.  T.  Hollings worth,  '47 
Garland  HoIIoman,  '34 
Mrs.  Homer  Lee  Howie,  '4 

(June  Madeline  Eckert) 

B.  M.  Hunt,  '21 
Cecil  G.  Jenkins,   '51 
Mrs.  Cecil  G.  Jenkins,  '50 

(Patsy  Abernathy) 
J.    Howard    Jenkins,    Jr., 

'49 
Mrs.    J.    Howard    Jenkins 

Jr.,   '48-'49 

(Marianne  Chunn) 
Warren  W.  Johnson, '50 

C.  Edmonson  Jones,  Jr., 
'52-'53 

R.  Gary  Jones,   '26-'28 
Mrs.  R.  Cary  Jones,  '34-'3 

(Jessie  Vic  Russell) 
Robert  L.  Kates,  '50 
E.  A.  Kelly,   '27-'31 
C.  C.  Koskie,  '54 
Mrs.  J.  Harry  Lambdin,  'i 

(Norvelle  Beard) 
WiUiam  E.  Lampton,  '56 
Mrs.  William  E.  Lampton, 

'56-'57 

(Sandra  Jo  Watson) 
Mrs.  Tom  F.  Larche,  '28 

(Mary  Ellen  Wilcox) 
Mrs.  Frank  Leavell,  '42 

(Glenn  Sweany) 
J.  W.  Leggett,  Jr., 

'28-'29,   '30-'31 
Garner  M.  Lester,  '19 
Herbert  H.  Lester,  '13 
H.    E.    Lewis,    '52-'55 
Josephine  Lewis,  '38 
Mrs.  M.  A.  Lewis,  Jr., 

'26-'28 

(Sadie  Vee  Watkins) 
Walton  Lipscomb,   111,    '5( 
Thomas  F.  McDonnell,  '35 
Mrs.  T.  F.  McDonnell,  '34 

(Alice  Weems) 
David  A.  Mcintosh,  '49 
Mrs.  David  A.  Mcintosh, 

'46-'49 

(Rosemary  Thigpen) 
William  C.   McLelland,    '4 
Mrs.  William  C.  McLeUand 

'39-'41 

(Wilma  Lee  Floyd) 
George  McMurry,  '29-'32 
Mrs.  George  McMurry,  '3 

(Grace  Horton) 
Wesley  M.  Mann,  '28 


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Mrs.  Wesley  M.  Mann,   '28 

(Frances  Wortman) 
Raymond  E.  Martin,  '42 
Mrs.  Elby  Matthews,   '30 

(Mary  Martha  Miller) 
Mrs.  Joe  H.  Maw,  '29 

(Gladys  Jones) 
Mrs.  R.  E.  Dumas  Milner, 

'41 

(Myrtle  Ruth  Howard) 
Mrs.   John  Moffett,   '42-'44 

(Alice  Owens) 
Elise  H.  Moore,  '18 
Ross  H.  Moore,  '23 
Mrs.  Ross  H.  Moore,  '20-'21 

(Alice  Sutton) 
Mrs.   John  W.   Morgan,   '41 

(Virginia  May  Davis) 
3.  B.  Myers,  '07-'08 
r.  H.  Naylor,  '58 
Richard  W.  Naef,  '49 
Mrs.  Richard  W.  Naef,  '49 

(Jane  Ellen  Newell) 
::harles  L.  Neill,  '36 
Walter  R.  Neill,  '43 
John  D.  Noble,  '22-'23 
Mrs.  John  D.  Noble,  '22-'24 

(Natoma  Campbell) 
IV.  L.  Norton,   '34-'36 
Mrs.    W.    L.    Norton,    '37 

(Martha  Lee  Newell) 
Mrs.  W.  S.  Owen,  '42 

(Carolyn   McPherson) 
Roy  A.  Parker,  '55 
Mrs.  Henry  Pate,  '40 

(Glenn  Phifer) 
Randolph  Peets,  Jr.,  '42-'44 
Mrs.  Randolph  Peets,  Jr., 

'46 

(Charlotte  Gulledge) 
Randolph  Peets,  Sr.,  '12 


Lem  Phillips,  '40 
Mrs.  Lem  Phillips,  '41 

(Ruth  Blanche  Borum) 
Mrs.  Ralph  T.  Phillips,  '30 

(Hattie  WiUiams) 
George  Pickett,  '27-'30 

Percy    H.    Powers,    Jr., 

'43-'46 
J.  B.  Price,  '26 
David  E.  Pryor,  '55 
Mrs.  David  E.  Pryor,  '58 

(Aden  Coleman) 
Mrs.  Joe  Pugh,  Gre.  '24 

(Eva  Clower) 
Mrs.  Fred  Purser,  '28 

(Ruth  Buck) 
Mrs.  Paul  A.  Radzewicz,  '52 

(Ethel  Cole) 
John  T.  Ray,  Jr.,  '60 
Mrs.  F.  E.  Rehfeldt,  '06-'08 

(Mattie  Cooper) 
Mrs.  J.  Earl  Rhea,  '38 

(Mildred  Clegg) 
J.    Melvin    Richardson,    '34 
Mrs.  J.  Melvin  Richardson, 

'40  (Virginia  Gaddy) 
William  R.  Richerson,  '37 
C.  R.  Ridgway,  '35 
W.   B.    Ridgway,    '36-'38 
W.   S.   Ridgway,   '08 
W.  L.  Robinson,  '53 
Charlton  Roby,  '42 
Nat  Rogers,  '41 
Mrs.  Nat  Rogers,  '42 

(Helen  Ricks) 
John   Rollins,    '49 
Albert  G.  Sanders,  Jr.,  '42 
Charles  C.  Scott,  '43 
Mrs.  Clyde  C.  Scott,  '45-'48 

(Agatha  Adcock) 


SuUivan-Harrell  Science  Hall  renovations  and  new  scientific  equipment  are 
the  first  visible  results  of  the  Development  Campaign.  SuUivan-Harrell  was 
formally  opened  ui  ceremonies  on  October  24. 


Frank  T.  Scott,  '13 
Herbert  M.  Scott,  '62 
Tom  B.  Scott,  Jr.,  '40-'43 
Mrs.    Tom    B.    Scott,    Jr., 

•42-'44 

(Betty  Hewes) 
J.  D.  Slay,  '33 
Fred  B.  Smith,  '12 
Mrs.  Hugh  O.  Smith,  '20-'21 

(Alice  Briscoe) 
Lem  O.  Smith,  '26-'27 
Mrs.  Lem  O.  Smith,  '35 

(Margaret  Flowers) 
Mrs.   Stokes  H.   Smith, 

'55-'56 

(Jane  Fatheree) 
Sydney  A.  Smith,  Jr.,  '36 
Mrs.  A.  G.  Snelgrove,  '40 

(Frances  Ogden) 
J.  R.  Sparkman,  '18-'20 

B.  M.  Stevens,  '55 

Mrs.  Francis  B.  Stevens, 

'42  (Ann  Herbert) 
Joe  R.   Stephens,   '37 
Mrs.  Joe  R.  Stevens,  '34-'35 

(Stella  Galloway) 

C.  C.  Sullivan,  '17-'20 
Mrs.    Bruce   M.    Sutton, 

'58-'59  (Lodena  Sessums) 
A.  T.  Tatum,   '37 
Frank  M.  Tatum,   '12-'15 
Mrs.  Robert  E.  Taylor,  Jr., 

'61  (Eleanor  Crabtree) 
W.  E.  Toles,  '14-'15 
A.  T.   Tucker,   '39 
Franklin   W.    Vaughan,    '26 
H.  W.  F.  Vaughan,  '26 
Jim  Waits,    '58 
John  F.  Waits,  '20-'22 
James  O.  Ware, 

'07-'08,  '13-'14,  '15-'16 
M.  E.  Waring,  '45 
H.  V.  Watkins,  '33 
Thomas  Henry  Watkins, 

'33 
Mary  Weems,  Whit.  '13 
J.   T.  Weems,   '13 
Mrs.  Alton  G.  Westbrook, 

'22-'24 

(Katherine  Smith) 
Dan  M.  White,  '17 
George  R.  Williams,  '60 
John  C.  Williamson,   '53 
H.  S.  Williford,  '22-'24 
Mrs.  H.  S.  Williford, 

'21-'22,     '23-'24 

(Amanda  Hines) 
Kenneth  W.  Wills,   '32 
J.  L.  Wofford,  '43 
Mrs.  J.  L.  Wofford,   '47 

(Mary  Ridgway) 
Roy  Wolfe,  '26-'28 
Mrs.  Roy  Wolfe,  '53 

(Sarah  Hillman) 
J.  W.  Wood,   '56 
Mrs.  J.  W.  Wood,  '39 

(Grace  Cunningham) 
E.  E.  Woodall,  Jr.,  '62 
W.  P.  Woolley,   '25 
Dan  A.  Wright,  '47 
T.  L.  Wright,  '50 
J.  D.  Wroten,  Jr.,  '41 
Mrs.  J.  D.  Wroten,  Jr., 

'40-'41,  '51-'52 

(Faola  Lowe) 
Robert  R.  Young,  '53-'54 
Mrs.  Robert  R.  Young,  '60 

(Mary  Edith  Brown) 
V.  D.  Youngblood,  '58 

D.  R.   Youngs,   '56 

Mrs.  D.  R.  Youngs,  '53-'54 
(Cindy  Falkenberry) 


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Events  of  Note 


A  NEW  YEAR 

Slowly  students  began  to  drift  onto 
the  campus  —  to  prepare  the  first 
issue  of  the  Purple  and  White,  to  get 
ready  for  rush,  to  plan  orientation. 
There  was  a  Singers  retreat,  an  orien- 
tation counselors  retreat,  and  a  faculty 
retreat.    And  another  year  began. 

September  14  was  the  official  be- 
ginning date  —  the  day  the  dormitories 
opened.  There  were  three  days  de- 
voted exclusively  to  orientation,  and 
then  registration  and  rush  began  and, 
finally,  the  campus  settled  down  to  a 
regular  routine. 

Statistics  have  not  as  yet  been  re- 
leased regarding  the  size  of  the  stu- 
dent body,  etc.,  but  Dean  of  Students 
John  Christmas  and  Dean  of  Women 
Glenn  Pate  commented  that  the  fresh- 
man class  seemed  to  be  an  unusually 
good  one.  "They  seem  so  alert  and  in- 
terested," Mrs.   Pate  noted. 

NEW  FACULTY 

Thirteen  full-time  and  two  part-time 
teachers  were  also  adjusting  to  the 
Millsaps  pattern  during  the  first  two 
weeks. 

The  new  teachers  are  Dr.  Herbert  R. 
Blackwell,  assistant  professor  of  Eng- 
lish; Mrs.  W.  H.  Blackwell,  instructor 
of  English;  Clifton  D.  Bryant,  assist- 
ant professor  and  acting  chairman  of 
the  sociology  department;  Lawrence 
Crawford,  instructor  of  music;  Mrs. 
G.  W.  Elia,  instructor  of  education; 
Jack  L.  Frost,  assistant  football  coach 
and  instructor  of  physical  education; 
William  C.  Harris,  assistant  professor 
of  history;  Dr.  William  D.  Horan,  as- 
sistant professor  of  romance  lang- 
uages; Huey  Latham,  Jr.,  assistant 
professor  and  acting  chairman  of  the 
economics  department;  Herman  L. 
McKenzie,  instructor  of  mathematics; 
Samuel  J.  Nicholas,  assistant  profes- 
sor of  economics;  Joseph  T.  Rawlins, 
instructor  of  music;  and  Dr.  T.  K. 
Scott,  Jr.,  assistant  professor  of  phil- 
osophy. 

Dr.  Clifton  T.  Mansfield  is  teaching 
part-time  in  the  chemistry  depart- 
ment and  the  Reverend  George  R. 
Stephenson  is  a  part-time  member  of 
the  classical  languages  faculty. 

Two  of  the  teachers,  it  should  be 
noted,  are  Millsaps  alumni:  Dr.  T.  K. 
Scott,  '58,  and  Herman  L.  McKenzie, 
'50. 


Dr.  Blackwell  is  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia. He  has  the  Bachelor  of  Arts 
and  Master  of  Arts  degrees  from  the 
University  of  Richmond  and  has  stud- 
ied further  at  Duke  University  and 
the  University  of  Virginia.  He  has 
taught  at  Delta  State  College  and  the 
University  of  Virginia. 

A  native  of  Clinton,  Mrs.  Black- 
well  has  taught  English  at  Clinton 
High  School  for  nine  years.  She  holds 
the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  from 
Mississippi  College  and  is  scheduled  to 
receive  the  Master's  degree  there  also. 
She  has  had  poetry  published  in  sev- 
eral   poetry    magazines. 

Mr.  Bryant,  a  Jacksonian,  holds  the 
Bachelor  and  Master  of  Arts  degrees 
from  the  University  of  Mississippi.  He 
expects  to  receive  the  Ph.D.  degree 
from  Louisiana  State  University  in 
January.  He  has  taught  at  Pennsyl- 
vania State  University  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  Georgia. 

Mr.  Crawford  received  the  Bachelor 
of  Arts  and  Master  of  Music  degrees 
from  the  University  of  Oregon  and 
has  completed  some  doctoral  work  at 
the  University  of  Michigan.  He  has 
received  a  number  of  scholarships. 

Mrs.   Elia  received  the  Bachelor  of 


Science  in  Education  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Arkansas  and  the  Master  I 
of  Science  in  Education  fronn  Arkansas 
State  Teachers  College.  She  has 
served  as  music  supervisor  of  the  Fay 
etteville,  Arkansas,  schools  and  as  i 
teacher  in  the  Little  Rock  Schools. 

A  graduate  of  Itawamba  Junior  Col- 
lege and  Mississippi  State  University, 
Mr.  Frost  has  coached  in  the  South! 
Panola  Schools  and  the  West  Point; 
Separate  School  District.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Mississippi  Association; 
of  Coaches  and  the  Mississippi  Educa  i 
tion  Association.  ] 

Mr.  Harris  received  the  Bachelor' 
of  Arts  and  Master  of  Arts  degrees! 
from  the  University  of  Alabama  and 
has  completed  work  toward  his  doc- 
torate. He  is  a  member  of  Phi  Alpha 
Theta,  history  honorary,  and  Pi  Sigma 
Alpha,  political  science  honorary.  He 
is  the  author  of  Leroy  Pope  Walker: i 
Confederate  Secretary  of  War. 

Presently  completing  general  ex- 
aminations for  the  Ph.D.  at  Louisiana 
State  University,  Mr.  Latham  received 
his  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  from  Lou- 
isiana College  and  the  Master  of  Arts 
degree  from  LSU.  He  has  taught  at 
LSU.    He  served  as  vice-president  and 


Among  the  new  faculty  members  assuming  positions  this  year  were,  seated. 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Blackwell  and  Samuel  J.  Nicholas;  and,  standing,  Clifton  Bryant, 
Jack  Frost,  and  Herbert  R.  Blackwell. 


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treasurer  of  the  Graduate  Economics 
Club  at  LSU  and  was  a  member  of  Pi 
Sigma  Alpha,  national  political  science 
honorary. 

For  the  past  four  and  one-half  years 
Mr.  McKenzie  has  taught  at  Green- 
wood High  School.  After  graduation 
from  Millsaps  he  received  a  Master's 
iegree  in  education  and  a  Master  of 
Science  degree  in  combined  sciences 
Tom  the  University  of  Mississippi. 

Mr.  Nicholas  received  both  his  Bach- 
dor's  and  ]\Iaster's  degrees  in  business 
administration  from  the  University  of 
Vlississippi.  He  has  been  a  manage- 
nent  trainee  at  First  National  Bank 
n  Jackson  and  has  taught  at  the 
Jniversity  of  Southwestern  Louisiana. 
ie  was  the  recipient  of  the  Wall  Street 
Fournal  Award  in  1962. 

Mr.  Rawlins  comes  to  Millsaps  from 
^unta  Gorda,  Florida,  where  he  was 
;horal  director  for  Charlotte  High 
ichool.  He  holds  the  degrees  of  Assoc- 
ate  of  Arts  from  the  University  of 
■"lorida  and  Bachelor  of  Music  and 
/Taster  of  Music  from  LSU.  He  has 
tudied  with  Dallas  Draper  and  Dr. 
'eter  Paul  Fuchs  of  LSU.  Delbert 
Iterrett  of  the  University  of  Florida, 
ind  Dr.   Norman  Abelson  of  the  Uni- 


versity of  Kansas.  He  sang  the  leading 
role  in  the  Jackson  Opera  Guild's  pro- 
duction of  Die  Fledermaus  in  1959.  He 
is  minister  of  music  at  St.  Luke's 
Methodist  Church. 

Dr.  Scott  studied  under  a  Fulbright 
Grant  at  the  University  of  Goettingen, 
Germany,  in  1958-59.  He  received  his 
Ph.D.  from  Columbia  University.  He 
is  the  author  of  a  book  to  be  published 
this  year  and  of  several  book  reviews 
which  have  appeared  in  the  Journal 
of  Philosophy.  He  has  been  a  lecturer 
at  the  University  of  Connecticut  and 
the  City  College  of  New  York  and  an 
instructor   at   Columbia. 

FACULTY  RETREAT 

Before  it  all  began  the  faculty  with- 
drew to  Camp  Wesley  Pines,  at  Gall- 
man,  to  discuss  plans  for  the  year  and 
to  begin  a  study  of  the  curriculum  of 
a  liberal  arts  college.  Dr.  A.  J.  Brum- 
baugh, consultant  for  research  for  the 
Southern  Regional  Education  Board, 
was  the  featured  speaker  during  the 
two-day  confab. 

Perhaps  it  would  not  be  amiss  to 
note  here  that  the  strength  of  the 
Millsaps   faculty    lies    partially    in   its 


liese  six  teachers  are  also  new  to  the  faculty.  Seated,  from  the  left,  are 
Uliam  D.  Horan,  T.  Kermit  Scott,  and  Huey  Latham,  Jr.  Standing  are 
erman  L.   McKenzie,   Lawrence   Crawford,    and   William   C.    Harris. 


continuing     self-evaluation     and     ap- 
praisal. 

CHAIR  ESTABLISHED 

The  first  chair  of  instruction  ever 
to  be  endowed  by  an  alumnus  was  es- 
tablished this  year. 

It  is  the  Dan  M.  White  Chair  of 
Economics.  Mr.  White,  a  New  Orleans 
businessman,  is  a  member  of  the  Class 
of  1917. 

Huey  Latham,  acting  chairman  of 
the  department  of  economics,  has  been 
named  to  the  Chair  for  the  year  1963- 
64.  The  permanent  occupant  will  be 
named  for  the  1964-65  session. 

The  endowment  is,  according  to  Mr. 
White,  an  expression  of  his  interest 
in  the  advancement  of  Christian  higher 
education  and  in  church-related  col- 
leges, which  are  independent  of  politi- 
cal control  and  governmental  pres- 
sures. Such  colleges,  he  said,  are  im- 
portant for  the  perpetuation  of  free- 
dom in  all  phases  of  American  life. 

In  making  the  endowment  Mr.  White 
requested  that  the  economics  depart- 
ment offer  each  year  in  one  or  more 
courses  descriptions  of  the  nature, 
merits,  and  advantages  of  the  Ameri- 
can free  enterprise  system  and  com- 
parisons with  other  economic  systems. 
Ten  Millsaps  courses  treat  the  free 
enterprise  system. 

Other  than  the  free  enterprise  sys- 
tem provision,  no  limitations  were 
placed  on  the  occupant  of  the  Chair 
which  would  restrict  the  normal  rights 
of   academic   freedom. 

Since  leaving  the  Army  in  1918,  Mr. 
White  has  been  engaged  in  many  bus- 
iness, civic,  and  cultural  activities 
throughout  the  country.  He  was  in- 
strumental in  the  establishment  and 
operation  of  more  than  one  hundred 
financial  institutions  throughout  the 
South  and  West,  Mexico,  and  Puerto 
Rico.  Some  of  these  are  The  Andrew 
Jackson  Life  Insurance  Company,  An- 
drew Jackson  Casualty  Insurance 
Company,  and  Guardian  Trust  Com- 
pany, all  of  Jackson;  Industrial  Fin- 
ance and  Thrift  Corporation,  Bank  of 
New  Orleans,  Stonewall  Jackson  Life 
Insurance  Company,  and  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  of  the  South,  all  of  New 
Orleans.  Mr.  White  still  serves  as 
Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  of  the  South  and  as  a 
director  in  many  other  companies. 


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The  endowed  Chair  is  a  contribution 
to  the  College's  Development  Pro- 
gram. A  minimum  of  one  million  dol- 
lars is  expected  to  be  subscribed  by 
alumni,  friends,  and  business  organiza- 
tions during  the  1963-64  academic  year. 
In  the  first  phase  subscriptions  exceed- 
ed two  million  dollars.  The  more  than 
$200,000  made  available  by  Mr.  White 
for  the  Chair  of  Economics  is  in  ad- 
dition to  the  amounts  subscribed  and 
expected  from  other  alumni,  friends, 
and  business  organizations. 
GRANTS  AWARDED 

Three  grants  amounting  to  $19,700 
have  been  awarded  to  the  College  by 
the  National  Science  Foundation. 

Two  of  the  three  grants  are  the  di- 
rect result  of  a  three-year  undergrad- 
uate research  program  which  ended 
last  year.  The  program,  a  study  of 
loess  and  loessal  soils  in  the  Jackson- 
Vicksburg  area,  was  considered  in- 
complete by  Millsaps  project  directors 
because  of  last-minute  findings. 

The  new  grant  not  related  to  the 
loess  project,  in  the  amount  of  $6,700, 
was  received  by  the  biology  depart- 
ment for  an  ecologic  study  of  certain 
biotic  communities  of  Central  Missis- 
sippi. 

The  departments  of  physics,  chemis- 
try, and  geology  were  awarded  $5,600 
for  a  joint  study  of  geochemical-geo- 
physical  aspects  of  loess. 

An  institutional  grant  in  the  amount 
of  $7,400  has  also  been  received. 

The  biology  program  will  be  headed 
by  Dr.  Robert  P.  Ward,  acting  chair- 
man of  the  department.  The  1963-64 
session  will  be  the  fifth  year  of  stu- 
dent-oriented research  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  NSF.  This  year's  research 
will  be  based  on  the  concept  that  or- 
ganisms are  intricately  balanced  to 
their  external  environment  by  genetic- 
ally controlled  internal  mechanisms 
and  that  such  mechanisms  are 
likely  to  be  severely  tested  by  the 
selective  pressures  of  the  environment. 
Test  organisms  will  be  the  varieties  of 
southern  red  oak  in  the  area.  An  at- 
tempt will  be  made  to  relate  the  genet- 
ically adapted  varieties  to  specific 
habitats. 

During  1962-63  the  cutting  of  two 
highways  through  the  loess  bluffs 
north  and  east  of  Vicksburg  provided 
many  fresh  roadcuts  which  nearly 
doubled  the  geochemical  requirements 
for  the  situdy.  Because  of  this,  and 
because  the  geochronology  of  the  loess 
is  only  partially  known  because  rad- 
iation laboratory  personnel  doing  the 
analyses  were  diverted  to  searching 
for  the  wreck  of  the  atomic  submarine 
Thresher,  this  work  will  be  continued 
in  1963-64.  It  will  be  directed  by  Dr. 
Richard   R.   Priddy,   chairman  of  the 


geology  department  and  the  director 
of  the  three-year  program. 

Established  in  1960,  institutional 
grants  are  designed  to  assist  colleges 
and  universities  in  the  development 
and  maintenance  of  sound,  well-bal- 
anced programs  of  research  and  edu- 
cation in  the  sciences.  Millsaps  Col- 
lege was  eligible  for  this  grant  be- 
cause of  the  program  of  undergraduate 
research  and  because  of  a  basic  re- 
search grant  to  Dr.  Donald  Caplenor, 
former  chairman  of  the  department 
of   biology. 

NSF  sponsorship  of  the  undergrad- 
uate research  program  over  the  past 
four  years  has  amounted  to  more  than 
$35,000. 

FOOTBALL   TEAM   FETED 

Football  fever  seems  stronger  than 
usual  this  year.  Some  1500  fans  turned 
out  to  see  the  Majors  open  the  season 
against  Arkansas  A  &  M  on  Alumni 
Field  —  and  saw  the  team  hold  its 
own  for  three  quarters  before  bowing 
29-14. 

Following  what  is  now  a  tradition, 
alumni  treated  the  football  team  to  a 
chicken  fry  on  September  26.  The  af- 
fair was  a  project  of  the  Athletic 
Boosters  Club,  a  product  of  the  Alum- 
ni Association.  Former  Coach  B.  O. 
Van  Hook,  '18,  was  the  featured  speak- 
er. A  film  of  last  year's  game  with 
Sewanee,  whom  the  Majors  were  to 
meet  the  following  Saturday,  was 
shown.  Football  players  were  intro- 
duced, along  with  Head  Coach  Ray 
Thornton  and  Assistant  Coach  Jack 
Frost. 

SINGERS.  FLAYERS  PLAN 

Before  the  year  was  very  far  along 
Leland  Byler  had  announced  that  the 
Singers  would  appear  by  invitation 
at  the  Memphis  Fine  Arts  Festival  and 
Lance  Goss  was  holding  tryouts  for 
Friedrich  Duerrenmatt's  chilling  "The 
Visit." 

The  Singers'  appearance  in  Mem- 
phis, their  fifth  in  four  years,  was  in 
a  prime  spot  on  October  6.  The  choir's 
popularity  with  Memphis  audiences 
seems  well  established  by  two  suc- 
cessive guest  appearances  with  the 
Memphis  Symphony  and  two  appear- 
ances there  last  year. 

The  choir  prepared  for  the  concert 
with  six-hour-a-day  rehearsals  during 
their  pre-school  retreat. 

"The  Visit,"  which  opened  on  Broad- 
way in  1958  with  Alfred  Lunt  and  Lynn 
Fontanne,  will  be  presented  November 
6-9  in  the  Christian  Center  auditorium. 
At  press  time  final  casting  had  not 
been  completed,  but  both  students  and 
director  were  enthusiastic  about  the 
large-cast  play. 

Plans  are  also  underway  for  the  an- 


nual Fine  Arts  Festival,  to  be  heli 
November  20  in  the  Union  Building,  foi 
several  faculty  recitals,  for  the  BobI 
ashela  beauty  review  —  the  list  i 
endless.  They're  all  the  things  whicl 
make  attending,  working  at,  or  livin 
near  a  college  exciting. 

HIGH  SCHOOL  DAY  SCHEDULED 

High  School  Day  has  been  set  fo 
November  23.  Committees  are  al 
ready  at  work  on  plans  for  the  day 
and  invitations  are  being  prepared. 

For   those    who    may    be    interestei 
in    bringing    prospective    students    t 
the  campus  for  the  day  the  followin; 
schedule  of  activities  is  given.    A  Hig) 
School  Day  brochure  may  be  obtainei 
by    writing    Director   of   Public    Rela 
tions,  Millsaps  College,  Jackson,  Mis 
sissippi,   39210. 
8:00  A.M.— Registration 
Reception 
Refreshments 
9:00  A.M.— Entertainment    and    Conj 
vocation  I 

9:45  A.M.— Scholarship  Tests 
(Optional) 
Guided  Tours 
11:30  A.M.— Lunch 
12:30  P.M.— Conferences  with  Facult; 

and  Staff 
2:00  P.M.— Variety   Show 
3:30  P.M.— Visits  to  Houses  of  Socia 

Groups 
5:00  P.M.— "Dutch"   Supper 
8:15  P.M.— All-Campus   Party 

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and  White  Business  Manager  Sam  Coll 
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3n  illemoriam 


This  column  is  dedicated  to  th( 
memory  of  graduates,  former  stu 
dents,  and  friends  who  have  passec 
away  in  recent  months.  Every  effor 
has  been  made  to  compile  an  accurati 
list,  but  there  will  be  unintentiona 
omissions.  Your  help  is  solicited  ir 
order  that  we  may  make  the  columr 
as  complete  as  possible.  Those  whos( 
memory  we  honor  are  as  follows: 

James  Milton  Brown,  Sr.,  '11-'12 
who  died  July  15,  following  a  stroke 
He  was  a  resident  of  Fulton,  Missis- 
sippi. 

John  Wilson  Flanagan,  '50,  who  diec 


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in  August.  He  was  a  resident  of  Jack- 
son. 

The  Reverend  George  T.  Fortner, 
'56-'57,  who  died  in  September.  He 
was  pastor  of  the  Justice  Heights 
Methodist  Church  in  Laurel,  Missis- 
sippi. 

The  Reverend  William  B.  Hooker, 
'19-'20,  who  died  July  27  in  a  truck- 
train  collision.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Edwards,  Mississippi. 

Mrs.  Fred  Lotterhos  (Margaret 
Green,  '19-'20),  who  died  September 
20.    She  was  a  resident  of  Jackson. 

Mrs.  Stuart  G.  Noble,  widow  of  Dr. 
Stuart  G.  Noble,  former  instructor  of 
English  and  organizer  of  the  depart- 
ment of  education  at  Millsaps.  She 
died  September  30.  She  was  a  resident 
of  Jackson. 

Dr.  Wendell  S.  Phillips,  '23,  who  died 
September  7.  He  was  a  resident  of 
Jamestown,  North  Dakota. 

Miss  Janie  Watkins,  '28,  who  died 
August  12.  She  was  a  resident  of  Vicks- 
burg,  Mississippi. 


Kathryn  Burdick,  '59-'61,  to  David 
fclark  Ives.  Living  in  Bainbridge,  New 
York. 

I  Mary  Clyde  Burrow  to  John  Edward 
puis,  '57-'59.  Living  in  Vicksburg,  Mis- 
sissippi. 

I  Barbara  Ann  Clack  to  Robert  H. 
Parnell,  '56.  Living  in  Buffalo,  New 
York. 

Flora  Maxine  Dobbs,  '61,  to  William 

.  Crawford. 

Bonnie  Patricia  Fitzgerald,  current 
student,  to  Charles  Edgar  Grissom, 
60-'63.    Living  in  Jackson. 

Martha  Winchester  Gordon,  '59-'61, 
;o  Kenneth  Myles  Walcott,  Jr.,  '58-'61. 
jiving  in  Starkville,  Mississippi. 

Sandra  Lee  Graves,  '63,  to  Charles 
aecherd  Guess,  '62-'63.  Living  in 
ilackson. 

Faye  Jane  Harris,  '61-'62,  to  Law- 
rence Gregory  Ramirez. 

Carol  Elizabeth  Hayward  to  Frank 
piodwin  Carney,  '61.  Living  in  Durham, 
Xorth  Carolina. 

Viola  Sue  Heidel  to  the  Reverend 
tennis  Ray  Johnston,  '61.  Living  in 
Sbenezer,   Mississippi. 


Barbara  Allen  Hendrix  to  Horace 
Durward  Mathews,  '59-'60. 

Sheryl  Christine  Hughes  to  James 
Eldridge  Rogers,  '62.  Living  in  Hop- 
kinsville,  Kentucky. 

Susan  Helen  Hymers,  '63,  to  James 
Gary  Boutwell,  '61. 

Hazel  Elizabeth  Jamail  to  Charles 
David  Woods,  '59.    Living  in  Jackson. 

Joy  Elizabeth  Johnson  to  Dr.  Noel 
Lang  Mills,  '58.  Living  in  New  York, 
New  York. 

Miriam  Locke  Jordan,  '63,  to  Lt. 
Kenneth  Ray  Devero.  Living  in  Jack- 
sonville, North  Carolina. 

Dianne  Luster  to  Lynn  Dunlap  Aber- 
nethy,  Jr.,  '57-'59.  Living  in  Oxford, 
Mississippi. 

Eugenia  Anderson  McLaurin,  '62,  to 
Ronald  Wayne  Bryant.  Living  in  Lake 
Charles,  Louisiana. 

Claudia  Nan  Mabus,  '61,  to  Lieuten- 
ant Edwin  H.  Wenzel. 

Marilyn  Jane  Marion  to  Edward 
Paxton  Harris,  '63.  Living  in  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana. 

Janis  Mitchell,  '61,  to  Robert  Alvin 
Weems,    '59.    Living  in  Jackson. 

Ann  Marie  Oliver,  '61,  to  Ensign 
James  Byrd  Stowers. 

Elma  Carolyn  Reynolds,  '54-'56,  to 
Thomas  Wayne  Fortenberry. 

Joy  Jeannette  Simon  to  Henry  A. 
McDaniel,  Jr.,  '59-'61. 

Elizabeth  Douglass  Warren,  '62,  to 
Richards  Hails  Foster,  Jr. 


f  UTU^t  AtpiAN/ 


(Children  listed  in  this  column  must 
be  under  one  year  of  age.  Please  re- 
port births  promptly  to  assure  publi- 
cation.) 

David  Wayne  Allen,  born  September 
1  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L.  Allen,  Jr. 
(Ann  Cox,  '60-'61)  of  Pascagoula,  Mis- 
sissippi. 

Stephen  Clayton  Anthony,  born  Au- 
gust 7  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clyde  Clayton 
Anthony  (Melanie  Matthews),  '58  and 
'59,  of  Wichita  Falls,  Texas. 

Bruce  Glen  Bainton,  born  August 
20  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cedric  R.  Bainton 
(Dorothy  Dee  Ford,  '55),  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, California.  He  was  welcomed 
by  Roland  Jeronae,  2. 


Kimberly  Ann  Berkman,  born  Sep- 
tember 9  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ernest  Berk- 
man  (Nancy  Hertz,  '57-'60),  of  Wichita 
Falls,  Texas. 

Shonn  Phillip  Hendee,  born  August 
23  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  William  Richard 
Hendee  (Jeannie  Wesley),  '59  and  '60, 
of  Jackson.  He  was  welcomed  by 
Mikal  Kyp,  2%. 

Kristian  Jones,  born  February  9  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sydney  R.  Jones  (Hanne 
Aurbakken),  both  '62,   of  Jackson. 

Janis  Kay  Lewis,  born  August  30  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  T.  Lewis,  III 
(Helen  Fay  Head),  '53  and  '55,  of  Nac- 
ogdoches, Texas. 

Lorraine  Denise  Loucks,  born  De- 
cember 30  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lonnie 
Loucks  (Lois  Shetler),  both  '61,  of  Den- 
ver, Colorado. 

Kerry  Anne  Love,  born  July  9  to  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Kimble  Love  (Anne  Hyman), 
'60  and  '57-'58,  of  Jackson.  She  was 
welcomed  by  Kimble,  Jr.,  and  Keaton. 

Michele  Elizabeth  Munsey,  born 
May  1  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stanley 
Edward  Munsey,  Sr.,  of  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana.  Mr.  Munsey  graduated  in 
1961.  Stan,  Jr.,  8,  welcomed  the  new 
arrival. 

Leigh   Ellen   Scott,   bom  September 

26  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  E.  Scott 
(Mariella  Lingle),  '59  and  '60,  of  Jack- 
son. She  was  welcomed  by  Jean  Mere- 
dith, 21/2. 

Philip  David  Smith,  born  November 

27  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David  A.  Smith, 
of  Jackson.  Mr.  Smith  graduated  in 
1963.  The  newcomer  was  welcomed 
by  Debbie,  5. 

William  Campbell  Stewart,  born  Feb- 
uary  11  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
Leonard  Stewart  of  Gulfport,  Missis- 
sippi.   Mr.  Stewart  graduated  in  1953. 

Elizabeth  Luise  Wallace,  born  Sep- 
tember 3  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  Charles 
Wallace  (May  Garland),  '61  and  '62, 
of  High  Point,  North  Carolina. 

Anna  Leah  Walley,  born  December 
5  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Oscar  N.  Walley, 
Jr.,  of  Monroe,  Louisiana.  Dr.  Walley 
graduated  in  1954.  The  newcomer  was 
welcomed  by  William  Mark,  6,  and 
Mary   Beth,    4. 

Samuel  Wynn  Warde,  born  April  6 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  B.  Warde, 
Jr.  (Patricia  Nell  Wynn,  '59),  of  Fay- 
etteville,  Arkansas. 

Elizabeth  Ann  Workman,  born  Au- 
gust 7  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  F.  Workman, 
Jr.  (Mabel  Gill,  '58),  of  Dundee,  Mis- 
sissippi. Vivian,  2V2,  greeted  her  sis- 
ter. 

Robert  Ronald  Young,  Jr.,  born  Sep- 
tember 18  to  Mr  and  Mrs.  Robert  R. 
Young  (Mary  Edith  Brown),  '53-'54 
and  '60,  of  Jackson. 


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Major 
Miscellany 


1898-1919 

Featured  speaker  at  the  College's 
annual  Alumni-Football  Team  Chicken 
Fry  in  September  was  B.  O.  Van  Hook, 
'18,  now  a  member  of  the  faculty  of 
the  University  of  Southern  Mississippi. 
An  athlete  himself  in  his  undergrad- 
uate days,  he  returned  to  his  Alma 
Mater  to  teach  mathematics  and  coach 
football,  basketball,  and  track.  He 
was  introduced  by  Heber  Ladner,  '29, 
chairman  of  the  Athletic  Boosters 
Club. 

1920-1929 
Wmiam  H.  Watkins,  Jr.,  '21-'23,  has 
been  named  circuit  judge  of  the  14th 
Mississippi  district,  which  includes 
Copiah,  Lincoln,  Pike,  and  Walthall 
counties.  He  was  a  partner  in  a  Mc- 
Comb  law  firm  before  accepting  the 
judgeship.  He  is  married  to  the  for- 
mer Katie  Reagan. 

A  fall  early  in  September  resulted 
in  a  broken  hip  for  Emmie  Lou  Patton, 
'22-'23,  who  teaches  speech  and  directs 
dramatics  at  Murrah  High  School  in 
Jackson.  At  last  report  she  was  out 
of  the  hospital  and  planning  to  return 
to  teaching  in  a  few  months. 

1930-1939 

George  Washington  University 
School  of  Medicine  has  acquired  the 
services  of  Colonel  Robert  S.  Higdon, 
'34,  as  professor  of  dermatology.  Col- 
onel Higdon  retired  from  the  Army 
after  more  than  twenty-five  years 
to  accept  the  position.  He  was  first 
commanding  officer  of  McDonald  Ar- 
my Hospital  at  Fort  Eustis,  Virginia, 
at  the  time  of  his  retirement. 

1940-49 

After  serving  as  pastor  of  Capitol 
Street  Methodist  Church  in  Jackson 
for  ten  years,  the  Reverend  Roy  C. 
Clark,  '41,  moved  in  September  to  St. 
John's  Methodist  Church  in  Memphis. 
The  Reverend  W.  J.  Cunningham,  '25- 


'27,  moved  fronn  St.  John's  to  Galloway 
Memorial  Methodist  Church  in  Jack- 
son, replacing  Dr.  W.  B.  Selah,  LLD 
'59,  who  is  now  vice-president  of  Cen- 
tral Methodist  College  in  Fayette,  Mis- 
souri. 

Chief  consulting  physician  and  sur- 
geon for  Disneyland  is  Dr.  J.  D.  Leg- 
gett,  '42,  who  is  engaged  in  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine,  specializing  in  sur- 
gery and  fractures,  in  Garden  Groves, 
California.  Dr.  Leggett  visited  the 
campus  late  in  September. 

Lt.  Col.  Harold  K.  Boutwell,  '39-'41, 
has  been  assigned  to  the  office  of 
deputy  inspector  general  at  Norton 
Air  Force  Base,  California.  He  is 
assigned  to  the  Division  of  Aerospace 
Safety.  A  command  pilot  with  nearly 
4,000  hours  of  flying  time.  Colonel 
Boutwell  began  his  military  career 
following  graduation  from  West  Point 
in  1944. 

Dr.  John  Roy  Bane,  Jr.,  '42-'44,  '45- 
'47,  president  of  the  Mississippi  Acad- 
emy of  General  Practice,  presided  at 
the  15th  annual  assembly  in  Jackson  in 
September.  Dr.  Bane  has  an  office  in 
Jackson. 

1950-1959 

Former  aide  to  the  U.  S.  Ambassador 
to  NATO  in  Paris,  Edward  E.  Wright, 
'47-'48,  is  now  a  law  clerk  to  U.  S. 
District  Judge  Harold  Cox  in  Jackson. 
Mr.  Wright  was  foreign  service  officer 
from  1957-1962,  serving  on  the  Brazil 
Desk  in  the  State  Department.  He 
also  served  as  deputy  special  assist- 
ant to  Under-Secretaries  of  State 
Christian  Herter  and  Douglas  Dillon. 
Mrs.  Wright,  the  former  Shelley  Pep- 
per, is  currently  taking  courses  at 
Millsaps. 

Chaplain  (Captain)  Robert  N.  Arin- 
der,  '51,  has  been  assigned  to  Aviano 
Air   Base,    Italy.     He   was    previously 


assigned    to    Wright    -    Patterson    Ai 
Force  Base,  Ohio. 

The    Gilbert    and   Sullivan    operetti! 
"The  Sorcerer"  will  be  the  first  pro 
duction  of  the  year  for  Hinds  Junioil 
College,   at  Raymond,  Mississippi.    I'l 
will    be    under   the    direction   of   Mrs 
Kent  Prince,  with  musical  direction  bj 
Leslie    Reeves,    '51,    chairman   of   th( 
music  department.    Mr.  Prince,  '60,  i; 
director  of   public   relations   at  Hinds 
and  teaches  several   English  courses 

I 

The  designation  of  Chartered  Lift 
Underwriter  has  been  awarded  to  Pal 
H.  Curtis,  '53,  by  the  American  College 
of  Life  Underwriters.  The  designa 
tion  is  awarded  on  the  basis  of  a  series 
of  professional  examinations,  exper 
ience,  and  ethical  requirements.  Mr 
Curtis  has  been  associated  with  th« 
Lincoln  National  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany for  five  years.  He  and  his  wife 
Ann,  reside  with  their  three  childrer 
in  Omaha,  Nebraska. 

Ph.D.  degrees  in  psychology  have 
been  awarded  to  Oscar  Walley,  '54 
and  John  T.  Lewis,  '53.  Dr.  Walley  re- 
ceived  his  doctorate  from  the  Univers- 
ity of  Southern  Mississippi  and  is  now 
assistant  professor  of  psychology  at 
Northeast  Louisiana  State  in  Mow 
roe.  Dr.  Lewis'  doctorate  was  award- 
ed by  the  University  of  Mississippi.  He 
teaches  at  Stephen  F.  Austin  State 
Teachers  College  in  Nacogdoches, 
Texas.  Mrs.  Lewis  is  the  former  Heler 
Fay  Head,  '55. 

The  Goar  Award,  presented  by  the 
Baylor  Medical  School  Department  of 
Ophthalmology  for  the  best  paper 
and  research  project,  went  this  year 
to  Dr.  Henry  P.  Mills,  Jr.,  '53.  Dr. 
Mills  is  in  private  practice  in  Jackson. 

First  show  in  the  Jackson  Little 
Theatre's  new  building  was  directed 
by  Barry  Brindley,  '53.  "Write  Me  A 
Murder"  was  Mr.  Brindley's  first  as- 


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iignment  in  the  directing  field  after 
i  number  of  stints  on  tiie  other  side 
)f  the  footlights.  The  Brindleys  (Elsie 
Drake,  '56)  recently  moved  into  a  new 
lome  in  Jackson. 

Charles  E.  Underhill,  '56,  has  been 
promoted  to  the  position  of  division 
manager  of  the  J.  C.  Penney  depart- 
ment store  at  Delmont  Village  in  Ba- 
;on  Rouge.  Mr.  Underhill  was  for 
several  years  department  manager  in 
the  Jackson  store.  Mrs.  Underhill  is 
the  former  Alma  Hyde  Carpenter,  '57. 

A  chaplain  in  the  Fifth  Ordnance 
Battalion's  Headquarters  Company  at 
Fort  Chaffee,  Arkansas,  Captain 
James  W.  Griffis,  '58,  participated  in 
Exercise  Swift  Strike  III  during  the 
summer.  The  exercise  pitted  two  task 
forces  against  each  other  in  a  four- 
iveek  mock  war.  Mrs.  Griffis  is  the 
former  Nena  Doiron,  '57. 

Rlonsanto  Chemical  Company  has 
secured  the  services  of  Frank  Eakin, 
who  has  moved  his  wife,  the  former 
Laurene  Walker,  '58,  and  son,  Frank 
\shley,  to  Luling,  Louisiana,  to  es- 
tablish their  home  there.  Mr.  Eakin 
worked  for  Mississippi  Chemical  Cor- 
poration in  Yazoo  City  prior  to  mak- 
ing the  move. 

Returning  from  a  holiday  in  Sweden 
Claudette  Hall,  '58,  stopped  off  in  Ire- 
land —  and  decided  to  stay.  At  last 
report  she  was  seeking  employment 
there.  A  native  of  Kitchener,  Ontario, 
she  worked  for  an  airline  in  Toronto 
before  departing  for  her  adventures 
abroad. 

Recuperating  from  a  serious  illness 
last  summer,  Mrs.  Clyde  Clayton 
Anthony  (Melanie  Matthews,  '59)  is 
stiU  under  close  medical  supervision. 
The  Anthonys  live  in  Wichita  Falls, 
Texas,  where  Mr.  Anthony,  '58,  is  a 
geologist  for  Texaco.  They  have  a 
new  son,  information  on  whose  birth  is 
given  in  "Future  Alumni." 

Having  completed  the  orientation 
course  for  officers  of  the  Medical  Serv- 
ice at  Gunter  Air  Force  Base,  Ala- 
bama, Dr.  (Captain)  John  H.  Miller, 
'59,  has  been  assigned  to  the  408th 
Medical  Group  at  Grand  Forks  AFB, 
North  Dakota.  He  was  associated  with 
the  Memorial  Hospital  of  Chatham 
County,  Savannah,  Georgia,  prior  to 
entering  the  Air  Force. 

Smiley  Rateliff,  '59,  has  joined  the 
Chastain  Junior  High  School  staff  in 
Jackson  as  head  basketball  coach  and 
assistant  football  and  track  coach.  Mr. 
Rateliff   was   recently    released    from 


active  duty  with  the  Marine  Corps. 
He  is  married  to  the  former  Tita  Reid, 
'59. 

Two  recent  graduates  who  have  en- 
tered the  field  of  teaching  in  higher 
education  are  Clifton  Ware,  '59,  who 
has  accepted  a  position  at  the  Univers- 
ity of  Southern  Mississippi,  and  Au- 
brey Jerome  Ford,  '58,  who  is  teach- 
ing German  at  the  University  of  Mis- 
sissippi. Mr.  Ware  is  a  member  of 
the  music  department  at  Southern. 
Mrs.  Ware  is  the  former  Bettye  Old- 
ham, '60. 

1960-1963 

Neil  Bowman,  '60,  has  accepted  the 

position  of   executive   director  of   the 

Third  Street  Music  School  Settlement 

and  is  now  residing  in  New  York  City. 

A  commission  as  second  lieutenant 
in  the  Air  Force  has  been  awarded 
to  Robert  S.  Gulledge,  III,  '60,  fol- 
lowing his  graduation  from  officer 
training  school.  He  was  selected  for 
the  training  course  through  competi- 
tive examinations  with  other  college 
graduates.  Lt.  Gulledge  has  been  re- 
assigned to  Lowry  Air  Force  Base, 
Colorado,  to  attend  the  nuclear  weap- 
ons officer  course. 

The  lead  in  Memphis  Front  Street 
Theatre's  production  of  "Annie  Get 
Your  Gun"  was  played  by  Mrs.  David 
Weaver  (Pat  Long,  '58-'60).  The 
Irving  Berlin  musical  was  the  sea- 
son's opener  for  the  theatre.  At  Mill- 
saps  Mrs.  Weaver  played  the  female 
lead  in  the  Players'  production  of 
"Paint  Your  Wagon."  Mr.  Weaver, 
who  is  in  dental  school  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Tennessee,  is  a  '60  grad- 
uate. 

A  full  schedule  and  a  new  daughter 
are  keeping  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lonnie 
Loucks  (Lois  Shetler),  both  '61,  busy 
in  Denver.  Mr.  Loucks  is  attending 
classes  for  his  teacher's  certification 
for  the  state  of  Colorado  and  working 
at  night.  Mrs.  Loucks  works  four  days 
a  week  as  legal  secretary  for  two  at- 
torneys who  are  state  representatives, 
serves  as  minister  of  music  at  the 
First  Mennonite  Church,  and  teaches 
private  lessons  in  piano  and  voice. 

One  of  twenty-seven  young  men  and 
women  who  began  two  years  of  home 
missionary  service  this  fall  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Methodist  Church,  Nell 
Ross,  '61,  is  a  nurse  at  the  Newark 
Hospital  in  El  Paso,  Texas.  Miss  Ross 
recently  received  the  Bachelor  of 
Science  Degree  in  nursing  from  the 
University  of  Mississippi. 

A  U.  S.   Public  Health  Service  Fel- 


lowship for  1963-65  has  been  awarded 
to  Cecil  A.  Rogers,  Jr.,  '61,  who  re- 
ceived his  Master  of  Science  degree  in 
psychology  from  Tulane  in  August.  He 
will  complete  work  on  his  doctorate 
and  conduct  research  on  the  physiol- 
ogy of  and  psychological  influences  on 
the  pupillary  reflex  in  birds,  animals, 
and  human  beings.  Mrs.  Rogers  is  the 
former  Floyce  Ann  Addkison,  '60.  They 
have  a  daughter.  Celeste  Jeanine,  2'/i. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Larry  G.  Pierson 
(Bunny  Cowan,  '61)  have  moved  from 
Memphis  to  Greenville,  Mississippi. 
Mr.  Pierson  is  associated  with  Kraft 
Foods.  The  couple  has  a  son,  Edwin 
Lawrence,  3. 

Among  the  Millsaps  alumni  teach- 
ing at  Murrah  High  School  in  Jackson 
this  year  are  Mrs.  Syd  Jones  (Hanna 
Aurbakken,  '62)  and  Karen  Gilfoy,  '56. 
Mrs.  Jones  is  teaching  French.  Her 
husband,  also  a  '62  graduate,  is  at- 
tending the  University  of  Mississippi 
INIedical  School.  Miss  Gilfoy  moved 
from  Provine  High  School,  also  in 
Jackson,  to  Murrah  this  year  as  choral 
music  director. 

A  cruise  on  the  Caribbean  —  in  the 
interests  of  science  rather  than  pleas- 
ure —  was  on  the  summer  agenda  of 
Willard  S.  Moore,  '62,  who  is  study- 
ing geochemistry  at  Columbia  Uni- 
versity. He  served  as  chief  chemist 
aboard  the  research  vessel  Conrad. 

Memorial  Methodist  Church,  in  Eliz- 
abeth town,  Kentucky,  has  secured  the 
services  of  Johnnette  Wilkerson,  '63, 
as  religious  education  director.  Miss 
Wilkerson  began  on  the  job  on  Oc- 
tober 1. 

An  upcoming  episode  of  "Burke's 
Law"  will  include  a  familiar  face  to 
many  alumni.  Barbara  Hemphill,  '59- 
'61,  plays  a  role  in  a  show  featuring 
Keenan  Wynn  and  Rita  Moreno.  Miss 
Hemphill  was  interviewed  by  Steve 
Allen  on  his  show  and  was  later  con- 
tacted by  an  agent  as  a  result,  but 
she  has  since  decided  against  an  act- 
ing career.  She  is  working  for  a  pub- 
lic relations  firm  in  Los  Angeles. 

Three  recent  alumni  are  sharing  an 
apartment  in  New  York  City  while 
they  pursue  careers  and  study.  Bon- 
nie Jean  Coleman,  '63,  is  executive 
secretary  to  the  music  editor  of  Holdt, 
Rinehart  and  Winston.  Charlotte  Og- 
den,  '61,  has  recently  been  promoted 
to  editorial  assistant  in  the  music  di- 
vision of  the  same  publishing  house. 
Twinkle  Lawhon,  '63,  is  studying  at 
Columbia  University  under  the  aus- 
pices of  a  Woodrow  Wilson  grant. 


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Millsaps  College 
Jackson,   Miss. 


Fall  equals  fair, 

when  even  the  stateliest  senior 

forgets  all  those  papers  and  tests 

and  reverts  a  few  years 

to  more  carefree  days.