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millsaps college magazine
winter, 1970
MERGED INSTITUTIONS: Grenada
College, Whitworth College, Millsaps
College.
MEMBER: American Alumni Council,
American College Public Relations As-
sociation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2. Presidential Views
3. The Making of the Millsaps
President
4. New Academic Complex Readv
by Fall
7. The Fire of Criticism
10. Majors Record Best Season
Under Coaches Davis and
Ranager
13. Busy Year in Alumni Relations
14 Events of Note
16. Major Miscellany
18. Future Alumni
18. In Memoriam
19. From This Day
19. Schedule of Major Events
FRONT COVER: Beauty reigns supreme.
Voted the most beautiful girls on campus
are Pam Tippens (left on stairs) of Brook-
haven; Fran Houser, Jackson, Tennessee;
Dina Apostle, Jackson; Angelyn Sloan,
Jackson; Stephanie Parsutt, Matagorda,
Texas; and Phebe Heard, Natchez, In the
foreground from left are Susan Nicholson,
Jackson; loanna Mitzelliotou, Yazoo City:
and Trudy Little, Jackson. Not pictured is
Brenda Brown, of Jackson.
Volume 11 February, 1970 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
Dick Rennick, Editor
Bob Shuttleworth, Photographer
Presidential Views
by Dr. Benjamin B. Graves
1890 - 1970 — 80 years from the date of founding of
Millsaps. The saga of the college during those eight
decades covers the whole spectrum of human emotion —
joy, sorrow, even defeat, accomplishment, depression,
ebullience and always spirit and heart.
Where will Millsaps go as she enters the decade of
the 70's — a decade for America's Bicentennial and
Mississippi's Sesqui-Centennial. These are thoughts
which race through my mind as I reflect on my own
fascinating, even if at times trying, experiences at Mill-
saps, and as I try to peer into her future.
Fortunately, the historical record is now being re-
searched. It will be written. Ronald Goodbread, B.A. in
History, Millsaps, 1966, and a candidate for the Ph.D.
in History at The University of Georgia, has chosen the
history of Millsaps as the subject for his doctoral dis-
sertation. Mr. Goodbread's keen intelligence, his ability
to write, and a dedication toward scholarly effort will
assure us of a faithful recording.
Incidental, but still important to the history project,
is the matter of funds for its ultimate publication in book
form. We estimate that getting the history into publica-
tion will cost about $15,000. However, it is our belief
that much, if not all, of this cost can be recovered
through sales of the book to alumni and friends. If there
are those who would like to participate in this worth-
while underwriting, gifts would be welcome and ex-
emplary acts of faith.
The other side of the question is where does Mill-
saps go from here? Though predictions are fraught with
danger in this day of rapid change — technological,
economic, social, cultural — and spiraling costs, one can
be quite certain that those same emotional experiences
which characterized the first 80 years will recur again
and again. They will occur more frequently and per-
haps even sequentially. Let us hope, however, that the
characteristics of spirit and heart may always prevail.
Having now been a part of her past, I shall always
want to be a part of her future. My own feeling toward
Millsaps can be best expressed by the cogent words of
Daniel Webster spoken more than a century ago. When
called to defend Dartmouth College in a legal case be-
fore the nation's highest court, he said, "It is a small
college, and yet there are those who love it." Let us
all join hands with my successor and pledge to him sup-
port with our concern, devotion, and resources. May the
Millsaps beacon continue to shine on those now here as
well as those yet to come. May it also extend to the whole
of society of which we are but a part.
The Making of the Millsaps President
By James B. Cam})bell
Chairman of the Millsaps Board of Trustees
A person who used to be a close friend of mine
recently remarked, "Campbell, it didn't take Ben Graves
long to get enough of you!" I hope this isn't an omen
of things to come, and really I don't think it had a
great deal to do with Dr. Graves' resignation.
His resignation did present the Board of Trustees
with another problem, however — that of finding a new
President for the College. All Boards of Trustees of
Colleges face many dilemmas these days, and I know
of no other more capable group of men and women with
whom I would rather face these many issues than the
Board of Trustees of Millsaps College.
I Where do we go from here, what do we do, how do
we look? It seems like a formidable task, and it is,
but in this day and time, the path is well blazed, be-
cause of the many institutions who have recently or
are now traveling on this same trail.
The Executive Committee of the Board first ap-
iroved a Presidential Selection Committee, whose respon-
'libility it is to make recommendations to the Board of
Trustees for the election of our next President. This
"cmmittee is composed of representatives of the Board,
he faculty, the student body, the administration, the
lumni and the Associates, — virtually all of the con-
tituencies of the College.
NAMES POURING IN
At the first meeting of this Committee, qualifica-
tions of the man we are seeking were discussed in
much detail, the procedures of obtaining names, infoi"-
mation, and the ultimate screening and interviewing of
prospective candidates were outlined and agreed upon.
Then the wheels began to turn. Names are presently
pouring in — the faculty has formed a Committee to
aid in the screening, as have the students. Files have
been set up, information is being gathered. We need
the broadest possible list of names from which to choose.
Anyone who knows of a likely candidate for this office
is requested, in fact urged, to send the name to us.
Mr. Barry Brindley is acting as secretary of the Selec-
tion Committee and the committee welcomes the sug-
gestions of all.
This period of transition can be a traumatic experi-
ence in the life of a college. I am convinced that it
won't be for Millsaps — for Dr. Graves has, over the
years of his tenure, developed a well-oiled, highly effi-
cient group of associates in the faculty and the admin-
istration, who are all able and capable. I know I speak
for the Board of Trustees in assuring you that the next
President of Millsaps College will be a man possessing
the same traits of excellence as Dr. Graves.
THE DECISION MAKERS
Fourteen members are included on the Millsaps Presidential Selection Committee
which has met twice to consider a list of some ninety potential candidates.
Forty of the names have been eliminated from the initial list and the committee
now has four top candidates and forty-six others for further consideration.
James B. Campbell is chairman of the committee and J. Barry Brindley is sec-
retary. Others serving are Bishop E. J. Pendergrass, George Pickett, the Reverend
James T. McCafferty, Dr. Ross Moore, Dean Harold S. Jacoby, Dr. Frank Laney, W.
H. Mounger, Ron Yarbrough, Becky Barnes. Jack Reed, the Reverend David Mcin-
tosh, and Thomas R. Ward.
Yarbrough and Miss Barnes are student members.
Innovations in $2.8 Million Stiuctiue
New Academic Complex Ready By Fall
'Phenomenal Design and Strength"
By Bob Shiittlewoith
The $2.8 million Academic Complex which has so
long been a dream at Millsaps becomes reality next
fall when the unique facility will begin to function as a
teaching unit.
The new structure, whose progress everyone at Mill-
saps has watched daily for months, includes several
new innovations not previously seen in buildings in this
part of the country.
Tom Biggs of Biggs, Weir, Neal and Chastain, archi-
tects for the project, noted the entire building is con-
structed on five-foot square modules. To do this, work-
ers first put down pljwood, and on top of this they
placed inverted plastic pans. After pouring and curing
the concrete, the plywood and plastic pans are removed
leaving the ceiling with a perforated effect. This meth-
od is used to prevent cracks in the building caused by
shifting soil. Not only that, but the foundation of the
building goes down 40 feet, also to minimize soil shift.
"This is one of the finest buildings I've ever
worked on'' says John McClure, superintendent of
construction with Becknell Construction Company.
"The design and strength of the building is phe-
nomenal." McClure has worked recently with NASA
at Cape Kennedy in the construction of their build- .
ings.
The Academic Complex will serve a double purpose.
iv:ot only will it house the Music, Art, Computer, Busi-
ness and Library Departments, but it will also contain
an area capable of parking 170 cars. This area will be
under the building and be easily accessible to the Lib-
rary. Murrah Hall, or the elevator to the Academic
Complex.
CONSTRUCTED OF CONCRETE
This will be one of the first buildings in the area
to be constructed completely of concrete. Some of the
walls will be bricked in, and the two outer walls con-
necting the Complex to Murrah Hall and to the Lib-
Workmen perch precariously on scaffolding.
rary will be made of brick to provide the smooth tran-
sition of the old to the new. But the rest of the building
will come from 7,500 yards of concrete.
The 95,000 square feet of floor space houses 700 tons
of steel and 325 tons of air-conditioning equipment. In
order to make room for the building, the workers had
to remove 20,000 cubic yards of dirt.
SUSPENDED FROM CEILING
Another feature is that the third floor over the re-
cital and lecture halls will be suspended from the ceil-
ing. To do this, workers poured the third floor with shor-
ing under it. Shoring is the metal platforming used to
support construction until some other sort of built-in
support is added. The columns were poured from the
floor to the ceiling. In each of these columns are eight
cables, each able to withstand 196,000 pounds of weight.
After the ceiling is poured and cured, the cables will
be tightened and the shoring removed. The architects
decided to suspend the floor so there would be no visi-
ble barriers to the students in the lecture and recital
halls.
The Academic Complex will be 90 feet deep and
330 feet long, longer than a football field. The center
portion of the building will contain the "Learning Cen-
ter" and Forum Room on the first two floors, open to
the art studios above on the third floor. Adjacent to
the Library and connected to it, the two upper floors
are devoted to library expansion. The first floor con-
tains the Computer Center and the Audiovisual Center,
both visible from the plaza outside. The other portion of
the building attached to Murrah Hall contains the Music
Department on the first two floors and a multi-purpose
activity hall on the upper floor.
Skylights "bubble-up" on top of new library extension.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVANCED STUDY
The first floor of the Music Department contains
two acoustically isolated classrooms as well as a large
rehearsal room for singers and dancers. A listening
laboratory with several listening stations and a music
library will provide opportunities for advanced study in
the field.
The proposed library expansion will double the floor
area of the existing Library. Built on a modular sys-
tem to accommodate future rearrangements of stacks
and partitions, it will contain space for the science and
social sciences collections, including periodicals. It can
also be used as a map room, print room, and group
study room.
The Recital Hall, seating 450, is actually a multi-
purpose auditorium. Besides music recitals, it may be
used for lectures, pro.jection, TV, and testing. In addi-
tion, by a unique conversion plan, the seating and stage
may be adapted to theatre-in-the-round, by extending,,
the stage and relocating over 100 of the auditorium seats,
on to the new stage. Complete lighting is provided for]
such a theatre presentation, and the Rehearsal Hall is'
converted to backstage dressing room use. In addition, i|
the Music Department will have 24 practice rooms of
varying sizes.
The second floor lobby opens directly upward to
the skylit art studio, a single, large, undivided space I
admitting north light the entire length of the room. An
extra high ceiling supplies the spaciousness needed in
a modern art studio.
By connecting both Murrah Hall and the existing
Library with the Academic Complex, which should be
completed by August, Millsaps takes a giant step toward
becoming a unified urban campus.
Memories of Dr. Watson
The Fire of Criticism
An Address Delivered by
Ronald Goodbread, Director of the Millsa{)s Archives,
to the Early Days Club at Homecoming, October 11, 1969
When the old Main Building was destroyed by fire
in 1914, President Alexander F. Watkins noted that it
was "a calamity .... To the College this is nothing
less than a crisis in its history." The feeling of his
contemporaries was expressed by W. L. Duren, who
wrote Dr. Watkins "to tell you of my sincere regret
at the. . .loss of our 'Main Building.' It seems to me,"
he said, "that it was a part of my college life. With
all its imperfections, my heart was attached to it."
It was more than a personal loss; it was indeed
the historical calamity that Dr. Watkins had predicted.
For with it were destroyed the papers of Presidents
William B. Murrah and David C. Hull, resulting in a
large void in our present History of Millsaps College
Project. It is therefore necessary to begin this small
segment of the story with what survives of Dr. Watkins
papers — a source, nevertheless, which is rich in Mill-
saps memorabilia.
The Reverend Alexander Farrar Watkins had been
associated with Millsaps College since before it was
opened. He was a member of the Mississippi Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1883 un-
til his death in 1929. In 1889, he was appointed field
agent for the new Methodist college in Jackson that
was not to open for another three years, and it was
largely through his efforts that the additional endow-
ment of the college was obtained. He was a member
of the original Board of Trustees and Vice President
of that body until his election in 1912 as the third Presi-
dent of Millsaps College.
UNCEASING EFFORTS
Dr. Watkins not only was the President of the col-
1 lege, he was also its pastor, recruiter, admissions coun-
sellor, and public relations director. From his desk
came much of the promotional literature for Ihc col-
lege and he was unceasing in his efforts at publicizing
Millsaps. "It is a great thing to be alive at this time,"
(he wrote to one prospective student, "and a far greater
;| thing to be a young man in this most wonderful
time of opportunity. A new world is being made be-
fore our very eyes, and this new world is going to be-
long to the educated man."
For Mississippi parents at the turn of the century,
that period of American history known as the "Prog-
■ ressive Era," sending a boy off to college could be a
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heart-rending, traumatic experience. One father on see-
ing his son off, wrote Dr. Watkins to tell him, "I am
going to leave it all up to you. . . you put him where
you think best and send me the bills." He told Presi-
dent Watkins:
He is g'oing to make good this time, do all you
can to help him. he is not a disobedient boy. he
wants to be a christian ... oh I do pray you can
GOODBREAD
help my boy. I love him so dear. He smokes sig-
erettes (sic) too much. I believe it has already
ingered (sic) his health, poor boy says he cant quit.
so weak, tell the good christian boys to please take
hold of him. and be kind to him. and try to help
him all they can to a higher life, and try to help
him quit sigeretts: He is not a bad boy, never took
a drink in his life, never gambled, did swear a few
times; may God help you to lead my dear boy and
make a man of him.
The parents always found Dr. Watkins receptive to
their feelings, however. "I sympathize very much with
the solicitude that a man feels when his boy first goes
off to college," he wrote one upset father in Byhalia,
Mississippi. "It is like a plunge into the water that we
used to have to take when we went swimming, but the
plunge has to be made. . . ."
PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT
And for the boy too, a period of adjustment was re-
quired. Here is a common and very old story in a letter
from a father in Leakesville to President Watkins: "My
son seems to be somewhat discouraged on account of
the way he is being treated," said the father worried
with suspicion. "Says he is working hard and can't make
any grades. In high school he was one of the leading
pupils . . . ." Of course Jackson was not Leakesville
and the boy was in a new and strangely indifferent
world. But certainly to the father the fault must lie
with the school and not with the boy. "I really think,"
he affirmed, that "he needs encouragement which he
is not getting at your school. Want you to give and also
instruct your facility (sic) to give him a chance. As I
know he will make Kood if given a chance." Yet any-
one who has been on this side of the lectern knows this
story well. "It is a notorious fact that. . .the Freshman
class is the graveyard of many a reputation won in
high school," wrote Dr. Watkins.
When one father finally got a copy of his son's
grades in the mail, he immediately dashed off a heated
letter to Dr. Watkins. "I hlame the boy lor not appreci-
ating his opportunity— the effort and sacrifice that his
.Mother and I are making to give him an education,"
he said, noting his son's poor marks. "I blame the fac-
ulty for accepting recitations day after day that would
not warrant a better final report." He charged that the
college was apparently interested only in his money and
not the boy's welfare. "I feel that my money and his
past term has (sic) been thrown away," he complained.
In the parlance of the time he concluded, "I sent my
boy to Millsaps with the full confidence that if anything
was in him the faculty would get it out and if he did
not do well, 1 would be notified," and he said, he did
not "think that the boy, his parents, or the institution
has had a square deal"
In response to investigation into this particular
case, Professor E. Y. Burton, secretary to the faculty,
apparently smelling a rat, wrote President Watkins that
the boy's reports had been sent home for the past two
years, so that the father should have known all along
that his son had been doing poorly. "I do not remem-
ber. . .being notified that (the father). . .was not re-
ceiving these reports," said Dr. Burton. And he con-
cluded rather dryly, that the son "ought to be able to
throw some light on the subject." Dr. Burton knew
that while neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night
could stay the postman, an intercepting, clandestine,
and heavy-handed son with sticky fingers might cause
grade reports to go astray.
TOO MUCH MONEY
The cost of higher education, however, has always
been a legitimate complaint among parents. Dr. J. U.
Perry of Shuqualak, wrote President Watkins in April,
1913, expressing the conviction, "that to my mind. . .
there is something wrong with the average Mississippi
College this day and time. The average boy is spending
entirely too much money, and my son Wendell Perry
now of Millsaps is one of them. ... I think that they
go to the city of Jackson too much, and boys get to-
gether down there and I think that they must vie with
each other to see who can spend the most money,"
he asserted. Another father wrote along the same lines,
saying, "my sone (sic) is down ther (sic) at your scool
(sic) hording (sic) at the K.A. House ... & I dont
think he is doing any thing Butt (sic) spending money
and having a good time and I am getting tired of it;
you will pleas (sic) look after him and if he dont gett
(sic) Buisey (sic) and gett (sic) down to work Send
him home and I will look after him."
At the same time we find in a financial report
to President Watkins from Dr. M. W. Swartz, Col-
lege Treasurer, that the total cost for tuition and
fees along with room rent during that period was $35
a semester. In discussing one such spendthrift young-
ster with his father, Dr. Watkins suggested, upon
learning that the boy was being granted an allow-
ance, that "I would advise that $5-a-week is too
much for a boy to spend. . . ."
There were, of course, ways to save money. For
instance, it cost more to live in the "luxury" of the
dormitory. In the summer of 1917, we therefore find
Dr. Watkins, in language strongly euphemistic, advis-
ing a father that "There are a number of cottages on
the campus in which many of our boys are accommo-
dated, where lodging may be had for $1 per month,
and in connection with this a co-operative dining system
in which the cost of meals varies from $10 to $11 per
month. These rooms have no furniture in them, and
the students have to furnish their own coal and lights.
. . . Coal costs about .50c per month and the furniture
will depend upon the taste of the boy." Those "cot-
tages," of course, were the notorious "shacks."
While it was heartbreaking for some parents to
send their sons off to college, others did so with a stoic,
even crass, attitude. And some had means, as did Mr.
W. A. McDonald, of dealing with children who knew not
the value of a dollar. Speaking of his son, he said, "I
want the very strictest rules and regulations enforced
upon him," he wrote President Watkins. "He is care-
less, and in that I've never seen his equal. I want
free privileges withheld. . .from him until he proves
himself worthy — My idea is he needs the Lether (sic)
strap a few times — & you will never hear one word
from me except my approval if he gets it." "I am
sending by him OK for 100$," the stern father conclud-
ed, "but take notice not 1$ must fall into his hands."
LURE OF THE CITY
Of course, where all this money was spent was in
the iniquities of downtown .Jackson. The lure of the
"city" (it we may call it that) was simply too much
for the boys from the country in an age when America
— and certainly Mississippi —had not yet fully made the
transition from rural to urban life. One friend of the
college wrote to Dr. Watkins saying that he knew of a
man in Morton who sent his son to Mississippi College
rather than to Millsaps for that reason. " 'It was my
intention to send him to Millsaps," he quoted the fa-
ther as saying, because, " 'It was my preference until
I was reliably informed that there are no restrictions
whatever around the student attending Millsaps, that
they are privileged to leave their rooms and spend as
much time in jackson (sic) as they wished. . .and to
do as they wished, that many of the students were
known to return to their rooms at 3 or 4 oclock (sic)
in the morning in an intoxicated condition. . . .' " Alas,
this was something of the hard realities of life which
even President Watkins had to admit, although he se-
verely detested such actions.
The situation became so critical that finally the col-
lege resorted to penalizing students for being "down
town at night without permission, twenty-five demerits."
The rule concluded, "When a student receives as many
as one hundred demerits he is subject to expulsion."
Yet the history of human nature had demonstrated
again and again that the severity of the penalty is lit-
tle or no deterrent to the crime. In this case, more-
over, the penalty simply made the offense that much
more attractive. The concept of not going downtown
without permission and of not drinking simply could
not be impressed upon the men at Millsaps, despite con-
tinual efforts by the faculty. Witness this excerpt from
a transcript of an inquest, the subject of which was
one such case:
You say you were not drunk?
No sir; Well. I was feeling: g^ood; the reason I
did it I heard a lot of boys talking about how good
they felt, how good you feel, and I just wanted to
see how it feels.
How what feels?
That stuff; but I will never do it again as long
as I live.
Were you sick when you came home?
Yes.
Was it before the street cars were taken off?
No the street cars were running.
. . . How many trips did you make over to the
Kappa Sigma house?
I left the Kappa Alpha and went to K.S. and
went to bed; got up this morning before first bell
rang.
Were you in that crap shooting scrape they had?
No sir; this is the first time I have ever done
anything like this.
What do you reckon your Grandmother would
think if we sent you home?
She would drop dead.
Been well had you thought about that yesterday.
Yes sir.
CRITICISM OF THE COLLEGE
Such activities, along with Millsaps' engagement in
intercollegiate athletics, the inauguration of dramatic
plays on the campus, and the prospect of a military
ball during the S.A.T.C. days of World War I, brought
; on more and more criticism of the college under Presi-
■ dent Watkins' administration. "My notion is. . .You have
a barrel of snakes," wrote one critic. In 1912, Major
Millsaps himself suggested to the President that in or-
der to improve the image of the college, "Would it not
' be well to organize a kind of publicity bureau in the
I interest of the college ... I am anxious that the 1st
I year of your succession shall show up well."
Finally, the culmination of contemporary criticism
came in 1915, when the Winona District Conference re-
solved that,
Millsaps College in our opinion is lacking in
dominant religious forces. . . . Christianity is not
made the most important in its educational work.
Many boys learn their first lessons in worldliness
at Millsaps. The impression is abroad in some parts
that the influence is starkly irreligious and we re-
quest that the Board of Education make a thorough
investigation of the real conditions. . . ."
I The investigation by the Board lasted for a month,
I after which the conclusion was put forth that Millsaps
was not perfect and could stand some improvement,
, but that the worst was not to be found there. In the
' m.eantime. President Watkins, after a great deal of
• letter-writing and circumlocution, boldly asserted him-
1 self and announced confidently, "There is not a pagt
, of the history of Millsaps College since I became con-
nected with it, that I desire to conceal."
The criticism of "that liberal college in Jackson"
did not cease however. Every once in a while. Dr.
Watkins, consummate Christian minister though he was,
I
allowed his patience to wear thin. Retorting to a mis-
sive by Rev. W. S. Lagrone of Drew, the President not-
ed that, "Every now and then I get a letter from some
brother with reference to conditions at Millsaps Col-
lege. Generally they are inspired by something that
the brother thinks is not as it s+lould be in the college.
It does not seem to occur to brethren to write to me
about things that are going well."
PURE IN MORALS
But Dr. Watkins was overlooking some things when
he complained that no one ever wrote to say nice things
about the college. One E. T. Powell wrote from
Sherman, Texas, to tell the President that "My son
Francis has returned from your school as pure in
morals, stronger in personality and richer in mind
than when he left home. I am grateful to you and Mill-
saps College for these happy results." And the stu-
dents themselves did not forget. J. D. Price wrote Dr.
Watkins during the campaign to rebuild the old admin-
istration building after it had burned in January of 1914.
With his contribution of ten dollars he expressed his ap-
preciation for "the privilege of having a small part in
the erechion (sic) of a new & better Millsaps College."
He added, however, that "I loved the old and always
shall. I shall never forget my school days at old Alillsaps,
neither shall I forget the teachers and Pres. Dr. Mur-
rah, and their kindness to me. Dr. Murrah told me one
day that I had made a good record there. I have thought
about what he said to me many times since, and you
may tell him for me that I am still trying to make a
good record."
This small vignette began with the burning of the
old Main Building and there it shall end as well. Crit-
icism has swirled around Millsaps College just as did
these flames razing the old Main Building. Vet a new
and better structure rose literally from the ashes. Such
endurance toward the destiny of excellence was due in
no small part to Dr. Alexander Farrar Watkins and
the many men and women who were affected by his
life. Through our History of Millsaps College Project,
he speaks to us today, even over the years and despite
the grave, and his words have special relevancy. All
who seek to force change by unfounded criticism, any
who would destroy without feeling an obligation to
build something on the ashes, should read his words
and mark them well.
I am an old man (said Dr. Watkins) and have
tasted of the bitter fruits of some of the vices, and
from them I would, if possible, save you as a man
would save his child frotn deadly disease. But if
the moral level of your unrestrained thought and
speech is indicated by . . . (what is evident before
me today), you have already laid the foundation of
a character that promises little for either the happi-
ness or honor of your life.
I shall not admit that I am an "old fogy;" for
1 am not. I count myself up to date, and fully capa-
ble of judging of both the privileges and perils of
young life today. If with the proverbial self-conceit
of youth, you look upon yourself as wiser than your
elders, and blushing aside their counsels, you give
way to the wayward impulses of your youth, you
will learn some day, to your shame, that you have
been not only wicked but a fool as well.
Majors Record Best Season Under
Coaches Davis and Ranager
By Jimmy Gentry
Millsaps Sports Writer
Clark Henderson evades clutching hands in Maryville game.
Mike Coop, left, and Melford Smith halt Randolph-Macon attacker.
Millsaps College's 13-7 win over pre-
viously undefeated and bowl-bound
Randolph-Macon was more than just
the sixth victory of the season for the
Majors. The decision gave .the Meth-
odists their best record (6-2-1) since
Millsaps coaches Harper Davis and
Tommy Ranager arrived on campus
six seasons ago to revive the Major's
sagging football fortunes.
In addition to the Randolph-Macon
victory, the Methodists stopped
Sewanee, Northwood Institute, South-
western at Memphis, Maryville and
Georgetown. Millsaps tied Harding
and lost to Henderson S.tate and
Ouachita.
Along the way the Purple and White
won all five home games and now has
lost but one game in Jackson in two
seasons.
As last year, the Majors were led
by the backfield twosome of tailback
Brett Adams and fullback Robbie
McLeod. Adams opened the season by
gaining more than 100 yards in ,the
Majors first three games before be-
ing slowed by an ankle injury. The
junior speedster rebounded from the
injury to top the 100-yard mark in the
final game of the season. McLeod
passed the 100-yard mark twice in the
season.
On the season Adams gained 733
yards and McLeod totaled 730 yards,
ar average of 81 yards a game for
both. McLeod easily topped his 574-
yard total of last season but the in-
jury kept Adams below his 877-yard
total of 1968.
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McLeod Takes Scoring Title
McLeod, a junior from Brandon,
also wrested the team scoring title
from Adams, gathering 48 points on
eight touchdowns. Adams was sec-
ond with 38 iwints on six touch-
downs and a two-point PAT.
Kicking specialist Buddy Bartling
was third in scoring with 32 points.
Eartling hit on 20 of 22 PAT kicks
and four of seven field goal attempts.
Scrappy Clark Henderson, a 140-
pound transfer from Delta Junior
College, quarterbacked the Majors in
the final three games of the year and
connected on 16 of 32 passes for 210
yards. Henderson also ran for 127
yards in the three contests.
The 1969 Majors proved quite adept
at taking the ball from opponents.
The Methodists recorded 48 turn-
overs, including 27 interceptions, 20
fumble recoveries and one blocked
punt. Monsterman Mike Carter, safe-
ty Mike Coker and linebacker Melford
Smith were the main Millsaps cul-
prits. Carter intercepted eight passes
and recovered one fumble. Coker
snagged six passes and two fumbles
and Smith grabbed four passes and
recovered four fumbles.
Defensively Millsaps held op-
ponents .to but 121 yards rushing and
106 points. The Majors stopped
Sewanee with minus 31 yards rushing
and allowed Georgetown no yards on
the ground.
On offense the Methodists averaged
287 yards total offense, including 216
yards overland. The Purple and White
enjoyed their best rushing day
against Sewanee with 369 yards. The
Millsaps' passing attack was at its
best against Northwood, picking up
137 yards in six completions of 14 at-
tempts.
Dale Keyes, a freshman from
Laurel, took over the punting chores
in the second game of the season and
averaged 37.2 yards a kick for the
final eight games.
Junior split end Ronnie Grantham
and Coker led .the Majors in pass re-
ceiving. Grantham snagged 11 passes
foi 159 yards and Coker grabbed 12
throws for 138.
Versatility Was Big Factor
The Purple and White has shown
steady improvement since Davis and
Ranager took the helm. After two
losing seasons, the Methodists fin-
ished 4-3-1 in 1966, fell to 1-6-1 in
1967, rebounded to 6-3 last season and
now the 6-2-1 slate.
A big factor in the Millsaps success
story this year was the versatility
of key players. Richie Newman,
middle guard last season, operated
at ti?ht end on offense and strong
end on defense. Linebacker Melford
Smith played guard last year and
operated at linebacker and tailback
in 1967. Coker played mostly of-
fense last year but went both ways
this season.
Freshman Rowan Torrey saw
action at cornerback, tailback and
caught a scoring pass while playing
split end. Mike Taylor quarterbacked
the Majors through the first six
Robby McLeod bursts through for more yardage against Sewanee.
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Buddy Bartlin^ kicks vital field goal against Randolph-Macon.
games of the season and then
swUched to split end.
The Majors' most satisfying victory
of the season was the decision over
Rtindolph-Macon. The win ended a
19-game victory streak for the
Yellowjackets. It also marked the
firs.t Millsaps win over the Jackets
in three tries.
Randolph-Macon, who finished the
season with a 9-1 slate, beat the Uni-
versity of Bridgeport 48-21 in the
Knute Rockne Bowl, an NCAA Col-
lege Division contest.
The Methodists will enter the 1970
campaign with but five members of
this year's squad graduated. Line-
backer Pat Amos, guard Thomas
Bryant, center Jo Jo Logan, Bart-
ling and Smith will be the missing
Majors.
MAJORS 1969 RESULTS
Millsaps
16
Henderson State College
27
(A)
Millsaps
42
University of the South
16
(H)
Millsaps
7
Harding College
7
(A)
Millsaps
17
Northwood Institute
7
(A)
Millsaps
44
Southwestern at Memphis
(H)
Millsaps
7
Ouachita University
23
(A)
Millsaps
14
Maryville College
12
(H)
Millsaps
22
Georgetown College
7
(H)
Millsaps
13
Randolph-Macon College
7
(H)
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Neiv Millsaps Clubs Created
Busy Year in Alumni Relations
By James J. Livesay
Associate Director of Development for Alumni and Church Relations
It's been an exciting year in Alumni Relations at
Millsaps under President Foster Collins' leadership.
Homecoming in October was the first big event and
attracted many graduates and former students who were
hack on campus for the first time. Climaxing the day
was the Homecoming Banquet, where the Reverend
Garland Holloman was honored as Alumnus of the Year,
followed by a solid victory over Southwestern across the
street at Newell Field.
Alumni activity began long before Homecoming, how-
ever. The Executive Committee went to work immedi-
ately in summer planning sessions. President Collins
met with Annual Fund Chairman Craig Castle and Exec-
utive Director Jim Livesay weekly to work out details
of the big push for alumni giving. By July committees
of the 100-member Board had been organized and had
I gone to work. Hundreds of man hours were invested to
get the alumni program in support of the College going.
A few of the results ar& summarized below:
1. The Annual Fund entered into competition with Mis-
sissippi College with a goal of $78,000 in observance
of the 78th Anniversary of the founding of the Col-
lege. At the present time more than 643 alumni have
given in excess of $24,888 with four months to go. Al-
though success in reaching the figure set as the goal
for money given seemed assured, members of the
Annual Fund Committee stressed the fact that many
more donors were needed if Millsaps was to surpass
Mississippi College in the percentage of alumni giving.
As a result of the continuing efforts of the Church Re-
lations Committee of the Board, the Boards of Edu-
cation of the two Methodist Conferences in Mississippi
took steps this fall to assure the appointment of Mill-
saps representatives both at the local church and
district levels.
The Alumni Participation Committee's project to es-
tablish a Key Man Program across the state met
with success in Laurel and Greenville where local
alumni met with President Collins and Executive Di-
rector Livesay and set up Key Man Committees in
these areas. With the assistance of the committees,
area Millsaps Clubs can be formed.
For the first time in its history, the College is mov-
ing toward a Parents Program and the Alumni Asso-
ciation is taking the lead in getting the program or-
ganized. President Collins, Mrs. Earl Rhea, Dr. and
Mrs. Lewis Crouch, Miss Carolyn Bufkin and Mrs.
Ralph Boozman are among the alumni giving time to
the project which has been developed through the
Student-Alumni Relations Committee of the Alumni
Board. Tentative plans have the first general meeting
of parents scheduled for Thursday, March 12.
5. With the help of the Programs Committee of the
Board, the College entertained almost 100 members
of the Classes of 1964-69 at an open house on December
29, the coldest, wettest night of the Christmas sea-
son. The first annual reunion of Millsaps' youngest
alumni was held in the Student Center and featured
a welcome by President Collins, films of the Mill-
saps-Randolph-Macon game, and enthusiastic fellow-
ship.
6. Two of the most interesting activities since July 1
have been the establishment of Millsaps Clubs in the
New England Area and the reactivation of the Mem-
phis Area Club. Dr. and Mrs. Ross Moore represented
the College at the New England meeting where Dr.
Moore was the featured speaker. He was the choice
of the Memphis Area alumni, too, and spoke fol-
lowing a performance of the Millsaps Troubadours.
New Area Club Officers
Officers of the New England Club are Jim Gabbert,
Lexington, Massachusetts, president; Mrs. William S.
Hicks (Lucile Pillow) Wayland, Massachusetts, vice
president; Miss Jennifer Laurence, Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, secretary; and Thomas Banks, Hingham, Mas-
sachusetts, treasurer.
Memphis Club officers are Ed Stewart, Memphis,
president; Max Ostner, Jr., Memphis, vice president;
Mrs. James Roberts (Margaret Allen) Memphis, secre-
tary - treasurer; and Robert Gentry, Memphis, board
member.
It was all a project of the Alumni Participation Com-
mittee.
Alumni are at work for Millsaps in many ways. Assist-
ance is being given by alumni to the committee respon-
sible for the selection of a new president. Recruitment
of students and faculty members is receiving the atten-
tion of other alumni. In addition to the efforts of the
Alumni Fund Committee, many alumni are making Mill-
saps' need for operating funds their personal concern
and are acquainting others with the opportunity for sig-
nificant giving which exists at the College.
All in all, it's been a very busy and very constructive
alumni year — and many more projects are planned
for the months ahead. Alumni Day, May 2, is the chief
on-campus event.
Officers of the Alumni Association, in addition to
Collins and Castle, are William Kimbrell, Greenville;
Dr. John McEachern, Meridian; and E. B. Strain, Jack-
son, vice presidents; and Mrs. W. L. Crouch, Jackson,
secretary.
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Events of Note
TO EDIT WEDEKIND DIARIES
Dr. Edward P. Harris, a 1963 Mill-
saps graduate who is now assistant
professor of German at the Univer-
sity of Cincinnati, has been selected
to edit the diaries of Frank Wedekind,
noted 19th Century German drama-
tist. The project was commissioned
by the Academy of Science and Lit-
erature at Mainz, Germany.
The diaries, formerly in possession
of Wedekind's heirs, are now being
transcribed at the Archives in
Munich. Dr. Harris will begin anno-
tation of the material upon com-
pletion of the transcription.
Dr. Harris expects the entire proj-
ect to take many years to complete.
He anticipates .ten volumes to be com-
pi'ed from the material in Wedekind's
diaries.
Born in 1864, Wedekind wrote such
plays as "The Awakening of Spring"
and "Pandora's Box." He died in 1918
in Munich.
In addition to this project. Dr. Har-
ris is co-editor of an historical-
critical edition of the works of F. M.
Klinger, an 18th Century German
dramatist, which will be issued this
year. He is also secretary-treasurer
of The Brecht Society and assistant
secretary-treasurer of the American
Lessing Society.
GOOD DEEDS DESERVE
MORE COVERAGE
Andre Clemandot, Jr., a 1962
graduate of Millsaps, who is press
secretary to Democratic Representa-
tive G. V. Montgomery of Meridian,
had the following letter published in
"Nation's Business":
The good deeds performed by col-
lege students across the nation de-
serve more coverage than the scant
six inches on Thiel College in your
June issue.
My alma mater, Millsaps College
in Jackson, Miss., would probably
be considered tiny by national stan-
dards—only 950 students— but it is
a giant academically. I feel busi-
ness leaders in Jackson also would
agree it is a giant when one con-
siders the many community serv-
ices it performs.
Its students freely give their time
to help community organizations.
Each year at Christmas time the
fraternities and sororities have
Christmas parties with gifts for the
local orphanages and nursing
homes. During the year they assist
in community-wide fund raising
campaigns for the Heart Fund,
Cancer Society and similar worth-
while groups.
My own fraternity. Kappa Alpha
Order, has adopted a small boy in
South America. It is not often a
little boy can say he has some 80
"fathers" who proudly display his
picture on their bulletin board and
look forward to his monthly letters.
I am proud and happy that my
parents and Millsaps College taught
me that community service ranks
far above community destruction.
NEW SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Millsaps will initiate a new scholar-
ship program this fall involving an
expenditure of $20,000 and aimed spe-
cifically at junior college students.
The program will initially provide
20 scholarships worth $500 each and
these will be renewable for a second
year when available funds will be
doubled to $40,000.
The scholarships have been named
in memory of Alexander Farrar Wat-
kins who served as third president of
Millsaps from 1912-1923.
Dr. Benjamin B. Graves in an-
nouncing the scholarships noted it has
long been his desire to establish clos-
er transi,tional relationships with the
junior colleges in Mississippi and
neighboring states. "Most students
who have done well at a junior col-
lege can do well at Millsaps. We know
this from experience, and a student
should find this program well worth
his while from the point of view of
his future career," he said.
An extensive recruiting campaign
already has been conducted by Mill-
saps personnel to inform students at
■the twenty-one junior colleges in the
State about the scholarships.
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DR. GINOTT
Dr. Ginott To Wind Up Series
Dr. Haim G. Ginott, well known psychologist-author,
will visit the campus May 14 as the final attraction in
this season's Arts and Lecture Series.
An adjunct professor of psychology at the New York
University Graduate Department of Psychology, Dr.
Ginott serves as consultant to mental health centers in
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
He is the author of a profession book "Group Psycho-
therapy with Children," and also has written two best
sellers, "Between Parent and Child" and "Between
Parent and Teenager."
Dr. Ginott has a regular monthly column in McCall's
magazine and has written articles published in The
Reader's Digest. In addition, he makes regular television
appearances on the Today Show and the Mike Douglas
Show.
Prior to Dr. Ginott's visit, the Millsaps Players will
present "Romeo and Juliet" March 11-14 in the Christian
Center. This is also included as part of the Arts and
Lecture Series.
THE MILLSAPS COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR
The 45-member Millsaps Concert Choir pictured outside the Jackson Civic Auditorium where they performed
with Dave Brubeck and his Trio in presenting the famed jazz pianist's composition "The Light in the Wilderness."
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Major
Miscellany
1900 - 1919
James A. Cunningham, '06, of
Booneville, will be 96 in February. He
is Mississippi's oldest practicing at-
torney, having been in the business
about 64 years.
1920 - 1929
Leigh Watkins, Jr., '23, has retired
as executive director of the head-
quarters office of the Mississippi
Bankers Association in Jackson. He
held the post twenty-four years. He is
being repjaced by John R. Hubbard,
'56, of Jackson.
Orrin Swayze, '27, has retired as
director of the School of Banking of
the South, Louisiana State Univer-
sity. He was presented with a Lincoln
Continental, a check, and golf equip-
ment, among other things from
friends, associates and alumni.
1930 - 1939
Edward A. Khayat, '32, of Moss
Point, director of the Mississippi As-
sociation of Supervisors, was featured
speaker January 15 at the Oktibbeha
County Chamber of Commerce a,t the
Mississippi State University Union.
1940 - 1949
Henry C. Ricks, Jr., "40, has been
promoted to clinical assistant pro-
fessor of psychiatry (Child psychia-
try) at Emory University's Woodruff
Medical Center.
Dr. Felix Sutphin, '40, president of
Wood Junior College since 1957, has
been elected president of the Southern
Association of Junior Colleges.
Mrs. William McDonnell (Lucile
McMuUan Fox, '41) of Jackson, has
been named as district advisor for
the Middle Mississippi Girl Scout
Council, a member agency of the
United Givers Fund of Jackson.
Mrs. Fred Ezelle (Katharine Ann
Grimes, '42) was one of the chairmen
of Jackson's successful Symphony
Ball held November 14 at the Heidel-
berg Hotel. She is a member of the
s.teering committee for the current
Millsaps Arts and Lecture Series.
Richard M. Allen, '44 - '47, has been
appointed Indianola's first municipal
judge. He is a former president of
the Sunflower County Bar Associa-
tion.
The Reverend Sam S. Barfield, '46,
is director of the department of com-
munications education of the Tele-
vision, Radio and Film Communica-
tion Organization of the United Meth-
odis.t Church.
Melvis O. Scarborough, '47, has re-
turned to his job as commander of
the 153rd Tactical Reconnaissance
Squadron of the Mississippi Air Na-
tional Guard at Meridian. He was on
a one year leave of absence for the
purpose of graduate study. During the
year jus.t past he attended both the
Air War College and Auburn Univer-
sity Graduate School. He became only
the third Air National Guard officer
in the country ever to be graduated
from all three Air Force professional
education schools. At the same time,
he earned the graduate degree of
Master of Political Science from
Auburn University.
Edward E. Wright, '47 - '48, be-
came general counsel for Mobil Oil
France, Inc. January 1, and will be
stationed in Paris, France. The com-
pany is one of the largest Mobil sub-
sidiaries.
John H. Christmas, '48, Dean of
Students at Millsaps, has been named
American College Personnel Associa-
tion membership chairman for Mis-
sissippi.
1950 - 1959
Mrs. J. W. Steen (Dorothy Jea
Lipham, '50) was recently electe
president of the North Carolina Bai
tist Ministers Wives. However, sh
moved January 15 wi.th her husban
who has resigned the pastorate of th
First Baptist Church, Clayton, Nort
Carolina, to become Editor of Adul
Materials in the Sunday School D(
partment of the Baptist Sunda
School Board, Nashville, Tennesse<
Dr. AUie Frazier, '53, associate pre
fessor of philosophy and religion z
Hollins College, Virginia, has won
grant for research on a new antho
ogy in the area of the philosophy c
religion. The grant was awarded b
Hollins which is matching $50,000 i
Ford Foundation funds over a foui
year period.
Dr. Steven L. Moore, '53, of Jacl
son, is Mississippi's new comprehei
sive health planning director. He ha
been with the State Board of Healt
since 1958.
Dr. W. Lamar Weems, '53, ha
been promoted from assistant profe;
sor of surgery (urology) to associat
professor at the University of Missi;
sippi School of Medicine in Jacksor
He is also chief of ,the Urology Div
sion.
Edgar Gossard, '54, of Nashvill(
has been promoted director of th
department of media resources b
the Television, Radio and Film Con
munication Organization of th
United Methodist Church. He ha
been a member of the staff since 196
and produced several TRAFCO pro,
ects.
Major John B. Little, Jr., '54, c
J;>ckson, has been awarded the Ma{
nolia Medal for outstanding servic
and efficiency. He joined the A i
Guard in 1954 and is a pilot. He i
now in his final year a,t Jackso
School of Law and is a civilian en
ployed by the Adjutant General's o
fice as state administrative office
for the Air Guard.
The Reverend Charles H. Pigoti
'54, was selected ,to appear in th
1969 edition of "Personalities of th
South." He has been pastor of Surr
mit United Methodist Church sine
June, 1968.
Joe Lee Porter, '55 - '57, has lei
Dallas to try for the big time in shoi
business in New York. He graduate'
in music from SMU, and was namei
a Fulbright Fellowship Alternate a
the University of Denver.
Mrs. Edward Story (Elizabet
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Jeneanne Sharp, '55) a first-grade
teacher at Lockard Elementary
School, is listed this year in "The
Outstanding Young Women of Ameri-
ca." She was nominated by the In-
dianola Culture Club.
Among the winners in the 1969
Creative Writing Competition spon-
sored by the Mississippi Council for
the Arts was Anne Carsley, '57, of
Jackson. She received $100 for her
essay "Summer of the Heat."
Edwin Reed Orr, HI, '57, of Grena-
da, has been promoted to lieutenant
colonel in the U. S. Air Force. At the
same time he was awarded the Dis-
.tinguished Flying Cross and the Air
Medal with two oak-leaf clusters. He
served fourteen months with the 8th
Tactical Fighter Wing in Ubon, Thai-
land, as flight surgeon, and also flew
51 combat missions. With his wife,
the former Gay Piper, '59, and daugh-
ter, Rachael, Lt. Colonel Orr is sta-
tioned at Wiesbaden, Germany, where
he is clinical chief, Clinical Consul-
tants Division, Headquarters USAFE.
Lieutenant Commander Levene O.
J Smith, '57, recently returned from
j Viet Nam where he was awarded the
, Bronze Star with combat device for
meritorious service, and four medals
j from the Government of Viet Nam
including the Vietnamese medal of
, honor. He worked mainly wi.th the
j Vietnamese community in helping to
[restore war damage. He is now as-
' signed as special projects officer at
,the U. S. Naval Station, Newport,
Rhode Island.
I Ed Stewart, '57, president of Finan-
cial Investments Corporation, Mem-
phis, Tennessee, has been elected
president of the Memphis Area
.Alumni Club.
i Glen Calloway, '58, of Jackson, has
ibeen promoted to Chief of the Right
of Way Division of ihe Mississippi
Highway Department. He has been
with the department since 1959.
I Mrs. Claudette Hall Miller
[(Claudette Hall, '58) has been elected
iMayor of Preston, Ontario, Canada,
:and is the only lady mayor in the
iprovince. It is believed she is the
ifirst woman in Canadian his.tory,
, without previous political experience,
ito be elected to a chief magistrate's
chair.
Dr. John Stone, '58, has been ap-
pointed director. Outpatient Medical
Services at Grady Memorial Hospital,
Atlanta, Georgia. He is the first per-
son to hold the newly created post.
In addition. Dr. Stone will serve as
assistant dean, Emory University
School of Medicine, and assistant
piofessor in the Department of Medi-
cine.
John M. Carter, '59, assistant di-
rector of Ubraries at Mississippi State
University, has been selected by the
editors of the Library Journal .to
write six of the 12 guest editorials
scheduled in the internationally cir-
culated magazine next year. He is a
former director of the Jackson Mu-
nicipal Library.
Joe M. Hinds, Jr., '59, has been
elected to the board of directors of
tlie Lamar County Bank. He resides
in Hattiesburg with his wife and three
children.
1960 - 1969
David D. Husband, '61, received
the Ph.D. degree from the Depart-
ment of Biological Science at Purdue
University and has obtained a posi-
tion as assistant professor in the Bio-
logy Department a,t the University of
South Carolina at Columbia.
Dr. William S. Moore, '62, will be
on the faculty of the State Univer-
sity of New York at Stony Brook as
a visiting professor of oceanography
during the coming year. He will be
on leave from the Naval Oceanogra-
phic Office.
Ann Perry, '62, of Crystal Springs,
has joined the staff of Congressman
Charles H. Griffin in Washington,
D. C.
The Board of Directors of Applied
Urbane.tics, Inc., Washington, D. C,
has elected Richard Stuart Roberts,
'62 - '64, as its president and chief
executive officer. In addition to serv-
ing as corporation president, Roberts
has been selected to serve as presid-
ing officer of the board of directors.
As president of the new corporation,
Roberts will be responsible for over-
all operations of .the corporation
which include using computers on a
vast scale in America's cities for im-
proving the human environment.
J. Gibson Wells, '62, of Jackson,
has been named assistant professor
of sociology at Western Kentucky
University at BowUng Green, and has
received the doctor of philosophy de-
gree in sociology from Florida State
University.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Mason, III, have
moved recently to Jackson from
Houston, Texas. He is associated with
Pan American Petroleum Corpora-
.tion and will be in charge of land
operations for the company In Missis-
sippi. Mrs. Mason is the former Bet-
tye Carr West, '62.
Dr. Richard Dale Caldwell, '63, as-
sistant professor of biology at the
University of Montevallo, Alabama,
has been awarded the doctor
of philosophy degree in biology by the
University of Alabama.
Richard Clayton, '64, has been ap-
pointed field representative for the
Mississippi Easter Seal Society and
will work with 82 counties in promot-
ing local organizations and fund-rais-
ing campaigns.
Edward L. Chaney, '65, of Vicks-
burg, has received his Ph.D. in phy-
sics from the University of Ten-
nessee, with a major in atomic and
molecular physics. He has accepted
a post-doctoral fellowship at the Uni-
versity of Western Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Peggy Whittington Coleman
(Peggy Whittington, '65) of O'Neil,
Miss., is an assistant professor of
pharmacology at the University of
Mississippi Medical Center. The au-
thor of some 14 published papers, her
principal research interest is cardio-
vascular pharmacology.
Bob Lewis, '65, who for the past 18
months has been assistant adminis-
trator of LeBonheur Children's Hos-
pital in Memphis and an officer of
the Memphis Hospital Council, has
accepted a position as an Assistant
Administrator of ,the 1,200 bed Uni-
versity of Texas Hospital in Galves-
ton. He holds a Masters degree in
Hospital Administration from Georgia
State University.
Jimmie M. Purser, '65, received his
Ph.D. in chemis,try from the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He is presently assistant professor of
chemistry and tennis coach at North
Carolina Wesleyan College. He is
married to the former Paulette War-
ren, '67.
William K. Journey, Jr., '66, has
joined the research staff of Applied
Urbanetics, in Washington, D. C. Mr.
Journey's main duties will include the
compilation of a data base for a fed-
eral assistance retrieval system.
Prior to joining the Washington-based
system design firm, Mr. Journey
served in the Peace Corps. More re-
cently he has been involved with the
Baltimore County Community Action
Agency is Baltimore, Maryland.
Paul B. Calvert, '67, of Jackson, has
been commissioned a second lieuten-
ant in the U. S. Air Force upon grad-
uation from Officer Training School
at Lackland AFB, Texas, and has
been assigned to Vance AFB, Okla-
homa, for pilot training.
Mrs. Charles T. Cassandras (Bar-
bara Ruth Hunt, '67) received her
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Master of Arts degree in Theatre
from Memphis State University and
is presently in charge of the drama
group at Le Moyne-Owen College,
Memphis. She Reaches modern dance
and is lighting designer for the Crea-
tive Arts Ballet Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kernell, '67, of
Berkley, California, are deeply in-
volved in higher education these days.
He is teaching a course in Govern-
ment at the University of California,
and she is enrolled working .toward
her teachers certificate. She plans
to teach history. Mrs. Kernell is the
former Sherry Dianne Anderson, '67.
Mrs. Thomas D. Matthews
(Jacquelyn White, '67) is working on
her M. A. degree in sociology at
Western Kentucky University.
The Reverend Lovett Ha yes
VVeems, Jr., '67, of Forest, is the new
minister of Johnston Chapel United
Methodist Church near McComb.
While at Millsaps he was presiden.t
o*" the Ministerial Association, and the
1966 winner of the Charles Belts Gal-
loway Award in Preaching.
Mrs. Charles M. Cobbe (Lucy
Cavett, '68) is in Atlanta, Georgia,
where she and her husband are work-
ing with underpriviledged children.
They are in the Peace Corps and will
be going overseas soon.
Marilyn Hinton '68, Virginia Ann
Jones, '68, and Betsy Stone, '68, have
all received Master of Librarianship
degrees from Emory University.
Marilyn is head librarian at North-
side Branch of the Jackson Municipal
Library; Virginia Ann is reference li-
brarian for the Medical School of the
University of Tennessee, Memphis;
and Be.tsy is children's librarian at
Atlanta Public Library.
Second Lieutenant James N. Rob-
ertson, '68, of Jackson, has been
awarded silver wings upon gradua-
tion from U. S. Air Force navigator
training at Mather AFB, California,
and has been assigned to a Missis-
sippi Air National Guard uni.t in Jack-
son.
Robert R. Kemp, Jr., '69, of Pas-
cagoula, has been commissioned a
second lieutenant in the U. S. Air
Force upon graduation from Officer
Training School at Lackland AFB,
Texas. He has been assigned to La-
redo AFB, Texas, for pilot training.
WilUam E. Lax, Jr., '69, of Natchez
Trace Village, Madison, has been
commissioned a second lieutenant in
the U. S. Air Force after graduating
from Officer Training School at Lack-
land AFB, Texas. He is now at Ran-
dolph AFB, Texas, for pilot training.
Dr. William H. Baskin, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Academic Dean for
Administrative Affairs and head of
the Language Division at the North
Carolina School of the Arts. Among
his teaching appointments before go-
ing to Winston-Salem he was chair-
man of ,the Romance Languages De-
partment at Millsaps for about five
years.
f UTU^t AlOf^N'
James Franklin Brooke, IV, born
July 15, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. James
F. Brooke, III, of Annandale, Virginia.
Mrs. Brooke is the former Margaret
Woodall, '60.
Riahard Walker Byars, born August
5, 1969, to Dr. and Mrs. Vance Byars,
'61, of Jackson. Mrs. Byars is the
former Martha Ellen Walker. '63.
Walker joins his older brother, Mil-
,ton Vance Byars, III.
Elizabeth Ann Cole, born Novem-
ber 18, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. Sam
G. Cole, "64, of Jackson. He is as-
sociate director of admissions at Mill-
saps. Mrs. Cole is the former Ruth
Pickett, '65.
James Andrew Dabney, born Feb-
ruary 11, 1969, to Dr. and Mrs. Con-
way Dabney (Betsy Murphy, '65) of
Belleville, Illinois. He was welcomed
by Billy, age 3.
Charles Allen Ernst, Jr., born Octo-
ber 9, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Allen Ernst of Merritt Island, Florida.
Mrs. Ernst is the former Faye Trip-
lett, '65.
Bryant Hollingsworth Graves, born
September 18, 1969, .to Mr. and Mrs.
William E. Graves, '65. They are both
attending graduate school at LSU.
Mrs. Graves is the former Kay Hol-
Jingsworth, '65.
Ginger Hubbard, born October 3,
1989. to Mr. and Mrs. John Hubbard,
'56, of Jackson. She is welcomed by
Reed, age 5, and Sam, age 4.
Michael Steen Lee, born March 4,
1969, ,to Mr. and Mrs. Don E. Lee
(Marylyn McNeill, '57) of Crystal
Springs.
Michael Conerly Lipscomb, born
March 16, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. John
L. Lipscomb, '58 -'61, of Memphis,
Tennessee. Mrs. Lipscomb is the
former Colleen Thompson, '59.
Mary Denise Matthews, born July
17, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
D. Matthews (Jacquelyn White, '66)
of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Donna Danette Moreland, born July
8, 1969, .to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Patrich
Moreland, Sr. (Alice Wells, '63) ol
Jackson. She was welcomed by Lloyd
Jr., Eleanor, and Kathryn.
John Phillip O'Hara, Jr., b o r r
March 2, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. Johr
Phillip O'Hara (Martha Ann Smith
'57) of Merritt Island, Florida.
Joye Michelle Price, adopted Julj
7, 1969, by the Reverend and Mrs
John R. Price (Elizabeth Box, '63) o
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Allen Wesley Richmond, born Maj
19, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. Donald E
Richmond (Carolyn Jus,tine Allen
'59) of McComb. Donna Carolyn, 7
and Lauren Adele, 4, welcomed theii
new brother.
Carolyn Samantha Tate, born Octo
ber 13, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. Pet(
Ta,te, '61, of Houston, Texas. She wai
welcomed by Timmy and Cathy.
Marcus Alfred Treadway, III, bori
October 30, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs
Marcus A. Treadway, Jr., '59 - '63, o
Jackson. Mrs. Treadway is the for
mer Ellen Burns, '62.
Ward William Van Skiver, born Sep
tember 8, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. Wan
Van Skiver, '66, of Jackson. Mrs
Van Skiver is the former Carolyi
Tabb, '67.
Angela August Wade, born Angus
2, 1939, to Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Wad(
of Greenville. Mrs. Wade is the for
mer Carol Ann Walker, '68.
Elizabeth Crawford White, b o r i
September 23, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs
Dudley Hearn White, Jr. (Susai
Crawford Slocumb, '65) of Brandon
Miss.
In Memoriam
Dr. J. R. Bane, Jr., '42 - '47, diei
October, 1969.
James D. Douglass, '64, of Jackson
died November 25, 1969.
James Greer George, '50, of South
aven, died December 19, 1969.
The Reverend William M. O'Don
nell, '16, of Memphis, Tennessee, diei
November 3, 1969.
Mrs. L. C. Ramsey (Vivian Alford
Whitworth) of Gallman.
Mrs. Austin Schuman (Ann EUza
beth Spongier, '42) of Melbourne
Florida, died December 28. 1969.
Henry Yandell Swayze, '23 - '25, o
Benton, died August, 1969.
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Award
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Moore, Jr., September 20, 1969. They
are living in Jackson.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
3 Confessions of An Academic
Maverick
8 The Rape of the Environment
10 Farewell Reception for Dr. and
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16 Major Miscellany
18 From This Day
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19 Future Alumni
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FRONT COVER: From time to time it
is good to take stock, look at ourselves,
and examine our purpose in life. Dr. Jacoby
does this in an article in which he defines
a liberal arts education. Our cover depicts
many of the books a student at Millsaps
must study en route to graduation.
Volume 11
May, 1970
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.
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Defininfi, A Liberal Education
Confessions of an Academic Maverick
An Address By Dean Harold S. Jacoby
In all honesty, I am not sure exactly what the an-
nounced subject of my remarks implies. I suggested
several title possibilities and left the selection up to Dr.
Keiff. Perhaps "ramblings" would have been a better
word than "confessions." since I have no intentions of
making any public admission of the many errors and
transgressions of my 40 years of academic life.
What I have in mind is the undertaking of a ritual
that has come to be associated with the assumption of
a deanship in a liberal arts college. This consists of the
public presentation of an effort to define liberal educa-
tion.
Up until now, I have successfully resisted the temp-
tation to conform to this ritual. Part of this may be
due to the fact I have — until now — never been asked.
Even in my earlier California incarnation, the appro-
priate occasion never arose. Actually, Dr. Reiff did not
specify this topic, but I had a feeling that sooner or later
the demands of custom and tradition had to be answered,
and so I have elected to expose my thinking on this
subject to your critical view.
Initially, as we approach this subject, I feel we must
distinguish between the "liberal arts" and a "liberal
education." It is my contention they are not necessarily
related. Mastery of the liberal arts does not auto-
matically produce a liberally educated person. And it
is possible to become liberally educated with only mod-
est acauaintanceship with the liberal arts.
Since I don't expect you to accept this without an
argument, let me share with you the details of my rea-
soning.
As all of you recognize, the term "liberal" comes
from the Latin verb "liber," meaning "to free." Thus,
that which is "liberal" is that which is liberating. Now,
it has been our error to assume that the power to lib-
erate was inherent in a particular body of knowledges
and understandings known as the "liberal arts." What
we have failed to see is that liberation is every bit as
much a matter of the restricting and confining cir-
cumstances from which we seek liberation as it is a
matter of the means that are utilized in such circum-
stances. What may have been liberating in one type of
social order may be utterly irrelevant and inconsequen-
tial in another order. And what may have been con-
sidered of no "liberating" consequence in one period
may abruptly become an essential ingredient of a truly
liberal education in another.
Sacred Mythology
Our traditional formulation of the liberal arts de-
veloped in relation to the medieval universities and con-
sisted of two sets of studies: the trivium — grammar,
rhetoric, and logic; and the quadrivium — arithmetic,
astronomy, geometry, and music. These studies consti-
tuted the curriculum of the Arts faculties of the early
Dean Harold S. Jacoby
universities, and around this curriculum and around
these universities there arose a mythology of such
sacred proportions that it has become almost sacrilegious
to inquire into the actual circumstances of that day.
Generally, the medieval university is pictured as a
center of learning built around these seven liberal arts
— the trivium and the quadrivium — and characterized in
large measure by the ideal of learning for learning's
sake. The students are represented as being eager in-
tellectuals, and the education they received as having no
function other than the elevation of the mind and the
enrichment of the human spirit. And it is in the direc-
tion of these conditions that many of our modem writers
would have the contemporary liberal arts college return
in order to have it merit the title of which it boasts.
Now, this picture is not wholly in error, but it so
overstates the true nature of the early universities that
it is hazardous to reason from this picture to the col-
lege and universities of the present day.
Contrary to general impression, vocational or pro-
fessional interests were by no means absent. In many
universities, particularly on the continent, separate fa-
culties of law, of theology, and of medicine existed along-
3
side the faculty of arts, to prepare young men for pro-
fessional careers in these fields. These were in no sense
Kraduate schools, but rather represented options open
to the students as they sought entrance to the university.
And if the motivations of the students themselves with
respect to these options were different from those of
today's students, the concerns of the parents were not.
Haskins. for instance, reports that parents on occasion
ur'-;cd their sons to study the less expensive and more
practical courses.
An ambitious student at Orleans who asks for
money to buy a Bible and begin theology is advised
by his father to turn to some more lucrative pro-
fession.
Theologians on occasion condemned the study of
canon law because its lucrati\e possibilities — reflecting
the need for lawyers in the medieval church — drew stu-
dents away from pure learning.
Arts of Secondary Importance
If we turn to Bologna, the oldest of the "studia
generale," we find that the arts were of secondary im-
portance, the earliest and most important faculty being
that of law. Rhetoric and grammar were important areas
of learning, but they served chiefly to train
professional scribes and notaries on whom de-
volved the greater part of the labor of medieval
correspondence.
At one time, moreover, this university went so far as
to advertise ''short and practical courses" as a means
of meeting the demand.
At Oxford and Cambridge, separate professional fa-
culties did not exist, but the situation was apparently
much the same. Powicke and Emden point out
To the great mass of younger students. . .the uni-
versity was simply a door to the church; and the
door to the church at that time meant the door to
professional life.
Daly, moreover, points out that:
Ecclesiastical reformers complained loudly of the
way in which the universities were thronged by
beneficed ecclesiastics hanging on in search of bet-
ter preferment.
Who were the students who came to the universities?
They were by no means broadly representative of all
levels of society, but tended rather to come from the
more privileged classes. Medieval society was highly
stratified, and only families of the higher strata had the
resources or opportunities to provide their sons with the
essentials necessary for gaining access to the univer-
sities. \s Da'.y has pointed out,
. . . after all, as we see from the University rec-
ords, it was only a very small proportion of the stu-
dents in a university, and a still smaller proportion
of university graduates, who belong to the pauper
or servitor c'ass. The vast majority of scholars were
of a social position intermediate between the high-
est and the very lowest — sons of knights and yeo-
men, merchants, tradesmen or thrifty artisans,
nephews of successful ecclesiastics, or promising
lads who had attracted the notice of a neighboring
abbott or archdeacon.
What brought these young men to the universities?
One widely held image would suggest that it was the
love of learning, but if the historians of the medieval
university are to be believed, this was not the sole — or
even the most important single — reason for their at-
tendance. Powicke and Emden find little difference be-
tween the medieval university and the modern univer-
sity in this respect:
The brilliant pictures which imaginative historians
have sometimes drawn of swarms of enthusiastic
students eagerly drinking in the wisdom that fell
from the lips of famous masters have somewhat
blinded us to the fact that the motives which drove
men to the university exhibited much the same mix-
ture and much the same variety as they do now.
And in the same vein, Daly asserts
The earnest students were probably — except per-
haps in the age of Abelard or in the very first blush
of Aristotelian renaissance — a minority.
Apart from the vocational training what was the
function of university education? In a practical sense,
neither the individual nor his society needed the un-
versity. To see this, we must consider the nature of
medieval society.
Custom and Tradition
Medieval society may be characterized as being
stable and traditional. Such change as occurred came
about slowly and gradually, and was hardly noticeable
from one generation to the next. A grandfather could
instruct a grandson in the ways of life and of the
world, and what he had to pass along was relevant and
useful to the world in which the grandson lived. Agri-
culture, handicraft industry, political life, family life,
and even religion were all areas that evidenced little
change from generation to generation, operating largely
on a basis of custom and tradition. With rare exceptions,
there was no need to go to the university to find out
how to face the problems of one's career or of the
community. These could be learned at home through
t'ne informal educational procedures of the family or by
means of some apprenticeship system. Most of the im-
portant operations in medieval society, moreover, were
carried on by those who were socially or economically
ineligible to attend a university.
The matters of primary interest and concern to the
large niass of people, moreover, were those which most
immediately and directly affected their lives. Regional
and national issues were the concern of the church or
of government, and these were areas in which the gen-
eral run of the population had no voice or power.
"Public opinion" as we know it today did not exist,
and democracy was unknown as a principle of political
decision making.
A liberal education, then, was not a way of pre-
paring for life, but for escaping from the day-to-day re-
sponsibilities of life. It made little difference what was
studied — so long as it was pre-eminently irrelevant to
the problems of everyday living. It was a means of
acquiring a status symbol that announced to the world
th:it the holder was a member of a privileged segment
of society that could successfully ignore the problems
of making a living or participating in the routine affairs
of the community. Fortunately, the society of that day
was in a position to afford the luxury of this condition.
Life would go on, decisions would be made, problems
would be solved on the basis of the work and activities
of people who had largely inherited both their positions
in life £»nd their wa\s of carrying out their tasks.
Of course, the universities became storehouses of
human knowledge, and today we benefit from this
knowledge. But such knowledge was not relevant to the
tasks of maintaining and operating society, and it is
debatable whether the universities would have survived
on this basis alone. But they did contribute to the
maintenance and perpetuation of the class system of
that day, and for this reason they were not merely
tolerated but supported and encouraged.
Radically Changed
All that is now radically changed. In place of the
static social order with its simple, unchanging technology
that was handed down from father to son or by means
of an apprenticeship system that operated outside the
formal education system — and remember that only 100
years ago few of our lawyers or medical doctors ever
went to a university — we have created a complex, dy-
namic society, with a technology that makes home learn-
ing for economic usefulness ridiculously impossible.
Even in agriculture, what one generation of farm op-
erators knows is hardly sufficient to guide the next
generation in its farming activities. New chemicals, new
plant species, new types of machines — all call for new
understandings and techniques. Furthermore, along with
this sophisticated technology we have created a gigantic
system of economic organization, highly complex in its
structure; so much so that it has called mto being a
whole series of new professions and sub-professional oc-
cupations: managers, accountants, corporation lawyers,
industrial consultants, etc.
And just as we have built up a complex structure
of economic operations, so we have committed ourselves
to a great experiment in social and political self-govern-
ment that in its own way represents a revolutionary
change from medieval life: an experiment that pre-
sumes the participation of all of us in the determination
of the general conditions that affect each one of us. No
longer are these decisions to be left to a limited, elitist
group. n.nd being an experiment under novel conditions
no ancient body of wisdom and tradition exists to exert
a beneficent hand.
This socio-political experiment has multiple dimen-
sions, and I would like to point out two of them. The
most noticeable is the governmental. This is the one
most readily called to mind as we contemplate the doc-
trine of democracy. It involves such activities as vot-
ing, participating in political party affairs, running for
office, and lobbying for legislation. Certainly such activ-
ities are vital to the great experiment we are under-
taking.
But there is another dimension that is of great
jimportance particularly in our American scheme of
things, and this is our emphasis on voluntary organiza-
ition. Historically, we have not wanted to turn over all
activities to government. Instead, we have operated
jthrough voluntary efforts to build churches, establish
schools, develop health and welfare programs, and raise
money for these and similar services to our society. The
precise relationship between government and voluntary
jeffort has changed during the years, but not the ex-
itent that voluntary effort is of no consequence to the
well-being of society. And it stands today as a vital
ipliase of this great experiment in the self-operation of
our society.
Now, all this is commonplace to you, I am sure.
What you may not have thought about is the extent to
which our lives are bound up in and made dependent
upon the successful operation of these huge economic,
political, and social enterprises. Let them falter — as they
have on a few occasions — and vast amounts of personal
discomfort and injury are the consequence. On the other
hand, their successful operation is capable of providing
us with a way of life of richness, comfort, and well-
being such as has never been developed in any other
society-
Romantic Nonsense
Put differently, our freedom is inextricably bound
up in the successful and ever improving operation of this
complex system on which we so extensively depend.
There are those, of course, who would return to a simple
hfe, who advocate that we allow this whole elaborate
scheme of things to collapse, and that we go back to
some modern Walden Pond or to the plains of Taos.
Such a suggestion, however seriously and sincerely
made, at best is merely romantic nonsense. We have
developed in ourselves a trained incompetence for cop-
ing with or accepting frontier conditions. A forced
return to such conditions would not constitute freedom for
most of us; our greatest hope for true freedom lies in
the mastery of this complex, cumbersome, but highly
important system.
Now, this is precisely where we must begin seriously
to rethink the essential meaning of a "liberating" educa-
tion. Does our education serve to "liberate" us from
concern and involvement in the operation of these enter-
prises? Or does it "liberate" us by providing us with
the skills and understandings so essential to the ensur-
ing that these enterprises operate in fashions truly bene-
ficial to all persons in our society?
Let's look briefly at certain implications of the
economic situation. In the past we have tended to make
an invidious distinction between liberal education and
vocational education. This is an unfortunate state of
affairs. Remember that even in the medieval university
— where the liberal arts were held in such high esteem
— a vast amount of the education was vocationally
oriented. And today, at a time when more than 50 per-
cent of our high school seniors are electing to go to
college, it is apparent that our college population does
not consist in any large measure of offspring of fami-
lies of such affluence that they need not be troubled
about acquiring some form of employable skill. And liv-
ing, as we do, in a money economy, we are not pro-
viding a "liberating" education to young people if they
leave our sacred halls with no prospects for making
themselves useful in economic society. This is not to
say that vocational education is all there is to a "lib-
erating" education, but it must be seen as a very es-
sential aspect of such an education.
But there is another perspective to this matter of
vocational education. We are accustomed to thinking
about it in terms of the individual— helping him to find
a way to be useful in economic society. Equally impor-
tant in our complex order is the consideration of the
needs of that order.
As a society we have come to depend on a rich
variety of health services, which annually require an
ever increasing number of medical personnel of all
types. Our freedom to enjoy the best our society has to
offer is dependent in considerable measure on our col-
leges and universities being aware of this need, and
taking steps to assist and encourage young people to
prepare themselves for work in this field.
I could go on to outline other areas of our life,
but I trust you will be able to do this for yourselves.
What 1 am trying to say is that from the standpoint
of both the individual and the social system, vocational
or professional education can have "liberating" implica-
tions, and these should not be brushed aside as having
no relevance for "liberal education."
Economic Illiterates
Somewhat more important— and more a matter of lib-
eral education— is the gaining by everyone of knowledge
about the economic order that so intimately affects our
lives. By and large vvc are economic illiterates. Most
of us are babes in the wood so far as knowledge of
contemporary economic affairs is concerned. As con-
sumers of goods and services, we have only limited
ideas how to go about ensuring ourselves that we are
getting what we need and what we pay for. We are
unable to reason effectively about the economic effects
of this or that bit of legislation. Our attitudes toward
taxes arc based on emotion, half-truth, and the limited
wisdom gained from operating a family budget. Most of
us don't know the difference between stocks and bonds,
profits and dividends, wages and labor costs. We are
alarmed at trade unions and their demands, but take
almost no notice of the pricing policies of large corpora-
tions. I'm not suggesting that a liberally educated in-
dividual must major in economics, but 1 do not see how
anyone can be a "liberated" person in our society if he
is ignorant of economic knowledge.
Now, the same condition exists in the area of our
political and social organization. The success of our ex-
periment in self-governance calls for the participation
of everyone, but we have passed the day when good
will and common sense are sufficient equipment for ef-
fective participation. Time was when Justices of the
Peace and even higher judges were not required to have
training in law. Such a situation has become unthinkable
today (even though it is still the case in many rural areas
of our country). In many states, public officials enjoy
short terms of office and may not be re-elected. Such
practices reflect the frontier beliefs that such positions
leiquire little training, and experience is corrupting. But
with the growing complexity of government and of the
conditions with which government must concern itself,
we must give up the ".'miateurs only" point of view if
we are to realize the full effectiveness of our govern-
mental system.
Here 1 would not limit my remarks to those who
actually seek governmental office. Successful political
democracy requires far more than merely a body of
trained and intelligent office holders. And it requires
much more than merely turning up to vote on appro-
priate occasions. It involves, as well, the intelligent par-
ticipation of the general population in the affairs of
political parties where candidates are selected and is-
sues debated. It involves the continuous following of
legislative action and administrative policy, and the de-
velopment of means of ready communication with our
elected representatives.
To too great an extent our colleges and universities
have crippled their graduates with respect to effective
functioning in this area of our common life. They have
crippled them by failing to offer opportimities for a
realistic consideration of political issues and techniques
But more important, they have crippled generations ol
college students by transmitting a snobbish and disdain-
ful attitude toward "politics" — which has resulted ir
the avoidance of service in the political and governmental
fields by the intellectual cream of our population,
Fortunately, some changes are appearing on the hori-
zon, but all too often these are taking place in spite of
and not because of, the concern of the faculties and th€
curricula of the colleges.
In the area of voluntary activity, a similar situation
exists. As our communities have grown from rural ham
lets to vast metropolitan areas, new needs have arisen
and old needs have multiplied in volume and complexity
At the same time, our traditional ways of meeting such
needs have become less and less relevant to the condi
lions we face. Simple neighborliness, based on friendship
and direct awareness of need, is a useless techniqut
foi- coping with the human problems of a great city
The spontaneous gathering of friends to rebuild a hom«
destroyed by fire was a part of our rural heritage
but it IS hardly a realistic approach to similar catas
trophies in our urban world.
New Understandings and Techniques
We can, of course, back off from all such instance;
of need and call on government to handle the problem
but this is a solution most of us would not advocate
If we are to retain our traditions of voluntary action
we must first of all recognize that these situations cal
for new understandings and new techniques. The need!
we encounter cannot be understood in terms of tradi
tional explanations. Nor is their amelioration a mattei
of a vague good will.
I grew up in a respectable, urban, middle-class en
vironment that subscribed piously to the concept tha
poverty was evidence of a moral defect and that any
one who really wanted to work could get a job. Anc
then I had the rare good fortune as a senior in college
to find myself in a beginning sociology course. Th(
course wasn't particularly well taught; but for a tern
paper, and without special purpose in mind I selectee
the topic of unemployment.
This was prior to the stock market crash of '29
prior to the great despression of the '30's. It was in th(
period of Hoover prosperity, in the period of the Nev
Economic Order. In view of all this, it was an eye
opening experience for me to discover the great exten
of unemployment — and to find out that all of the easy
smug, moralistic explanations of worklessness commoi
to my world were utterly without foundation. Nev
urban, industrial conditions had entered the picture, anc
a heritage of rural wisdom was not enough to provid*
an understanding of this type of need.
Again, I would not suggest that everyone must ma
jor in sociology if he is to participate effectively in vol
untary community action. But I could hardly considei
a person in our modern world "liberally educated" i:
he is without some basic understandings of the dy
namics of urban society and some appreciation of th(
complexities of need and effective social action ii
such areas.
So far, I have tried to deal with three areas o:
our common life: the economic, the governmental, anc
--for want of a better word — the community. I have
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tried to suggest their critical importance for the exis-
tence of everyone of us, and have tried to indicate that
a truly liberal — a "liberating" — education is one that
equips us to comprehend and function effectively in
these areas. But a liberal education must be something
more tlian merely understandings and techniques. These
are tremendously important, but we have need for at
least two more ingredients.
Sense of Direction
The first of these is a sense of direction. Time was
when we had implicit faith in a world of change that
would carry us with sureness and certainty — and with
little or no effort on our part — to ever increasing levels
of peace, justice, and brotherhood. Initially elaborated
in the late 18th century by the French encyclopedist
Condofcet in his Esquisse, an inquiry into the unlimited
perfectability of the human being, reinforced by a mis-
reading of Darwin's evolutionary doctrine of the survival
of the fittest, this doctrine of progress found its most
complete literary expression in Tennyson's "Locksley
Hall":
Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing pur-
pose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with
the process of the suns. Not in vain the distance bea-
cons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the g^reat
world spin forever down the ringing grooves of
change.
But a better reading of history and the experiences
of the past three or four decades have rather effectively
demolished this naive form of optimism. Increasingly we
are becoming aware of the fact that our universe has
no goals, no ultimate objectives, unless we ourselves
articulate and establish them. Establishing them by no
means assures us of success in their attainment; but
our failure to do so means the absence of any reference
points that would give purpose and direction to our ef-
forts.
In an age of moral change and confusion, we need
to rethinlt our values. We need to establish for our-
selves a sense of direction not merely for our individual
lives but for the society of which we are a part. No
amount of sophisticated comprehension of the c o m-
plexities of our world, no amount of skill in participation,
is going to be of much value Lf we have no clear idea
of where we would most like to get to.
I wish the process were as simple as an evening
radio program — "Back to the Bible" — would have its
listeners believe. Unfortunately, it is not "back" to any-
thing — but forward to some new value formulations and
social goals. And here is where one's college experience,
if it is to be truly liberating, must make a contribution.
If any student in this or any other college graduates
with the same limited value orientations he had as a
freshman, and with the same personal and social goals,
I care not what courses he took or what grades he
earned, that student has not received a liberal education.
The final ingredient is the desire to participate, a
drive to employ understandings and skills in the at-
tainment of goals. As a nation we are paralyzed in this
by a number of conditions that are certainly a part of
life. We are already busy — in an endless round of tra-
ditional and generally directless activities. We are over-
awed by the principle of the division of labor in society,
and somehow the thing to be done always seems to fall
in someone else's department. We have acquired the
virus of spectatoritis, which makes us content to sit
in the bleachers and alternately cheer and boo the par-
ticipants.
Adam Smith Doctrine
There are many who hold that society is merely
the sum of its many constituent elements and that if
each element — whether considered as an individual, a
family, or a neighborhood — will merely take care of its
own needs — its own little garden — this is all that is needed
to ensure general social well-being. This was the basic
doctrine Adam Smith enunciated in 1776 in his Wealth
of Nations. It was frankly an appeal to self interest,
and it provided a moral rationale for social irresponsi-
bility that is with us to this day.
Now, I am not one who is cynical about man's
capacity for self-sacrifice. There is too much evidence
around us of the continuous readiness of many people to
act on other bases than narrow self-interest. But neither
do I feel that we can ever achieve the level and ex-
tent of social participation our society requires motivated
solely by a sense of obligation and self-sacrifice.
What we need to recognize is that our individual
welfare is inextricably bound up in the successful opera-
tion of this complex socio-economic-political world that
we have inherited, and that if it ever is to serve
our needs as it is capable of doing, we must bestir
ourselves to become participants in its operation. If this
is selfishness, so be it. It is an eminently practical
form ot self-interest that harmonizes well with the
conditions of life we face today.
Understandings about the nature of the highly tech-
nical, impersonal world about us; skills that equip us
to cope with this world; values that clarify the goals
most worthy of seeking; and motivation to apply our
knowledge and skills to the attainment of these goals:
these are the essentials of freedom in our society. And
these are the staff of which a truly liberal education
should be made.
I would not be so foolish as to insist that these
constitute the whole of liberal education. Time has not
permitted me to discuss my maverick ideas about the
natural sciences. Certainly their role in "liberal educa-
tion" requires serious thought. Nor do I wish by indirec-
tion or innuendo to imply that I am declaring war on
the humanities. My concern here is with priorities, not
with setting up hard and fast lines between what are
and what are not liberating studies. Perhaps my posi-
tion is somewhat illustrated by a silly little story I once
heard:
An old woodsman was serving as a guide to an
eminent scholar, and they were fishing from a boat in
a mountain lake. The scholar asked the woodsman if
he had ever read Homer. When the woodsman said no,
the scholar said, "You have missed half your life."
A little later the scholar asked again if the woodsman
had ever listened to Bach's music. Again the answer
was no, and again the scholar observed that the woods-
man had missed half his life. Just then the boat sprang
a leak, and the woodsman asked the scholar if he could
swim. When the scholar said no, the woodsman ob-
served, "Then you're going to miss all your life."
Earth Day At Mill saps
The Rape of the Environment
By Ron Bell
Chairman of the ^lillsaps Biology Department
Editor's Note: Like hundreds of other colleges across the nation,
Mlllsaps participated in an Environmental Teach-in April 20-22.
One hard hitting speech made during this period was by Professor
Ron Bell who believes in "telling it like It is."
When you awoke this morning in clean, clear Jack-
son, you were not aware of the parts per million you
were breathing of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and
hydrocarbons from auto exhausts, utility smokestacks,
oil refineries — part of 150 million tons of crud Americans
annually pour into the atmosphere — like smoking two
cigarettes before breakfast whether you smoke or not.
In New York City, a person on the streets takes
into his lungs the equivalent in toxic materials of 38
cigarettes a day just by breathing. When the sulfur
dioxide content of the air in New York City rises above
0.2 parts per million, 10 to 20 people die as a result.
In the past five years, sulfur dioxide has reached this
level at least once every ten days.
American women carry in their breasts milk that
has anywhere from thi-ee to 10 times more of the pes-
ticide DDT than the federal government allows in dairy
milk meant for human consumption. You now store 12 to
14 parts per million DDT in your fatty tissue — cattle and
hogs with 7 parts per million are taken off the market.
Be grateful that you had potable water for coffee.
Many places don't; Lake Erie is dead; Huron and
Michigan have seen better days; the great western lakes
Tahoe and Mead are not immune.
We drive or walk along billboard alleys, through
tawdry tinsel, rivers of neon, motel strips, hamburger
havens, pizza parlors — perhaps the glittering, psychedelic
effect pleases us — America's great pop art — or are we
so anesthetized, such environmental zombies, that we
can't see the ugliness around us when it hits us in the
face.
Urban Blight
The great urban blight of America is manifested
in both surburbia and in the ghetto. This urban blight
is now increasingly related by sociologists and psycholo-
gists to crime, insanity, suicide, drug abuse, et cetera
ad nauseam. Problems of the social environment — pov-
eity, race, and peace — are inextricably related to prob-
lems of the physical environment— they are both the
cause and the effect.
Rural areas are no longer exempt. Acres of un-
spoiled areas vanish weekly. Each year the United
States alone paves over one million acres of oxygen-
producing trees. Whole countrysides are invaded by
armies with banners fluttering in the breeze to proclaim
"Peaceful Estates— $25 down. $10 per month". The last
vestiges of clean air noted by the Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center was near Flagstaff, Arizona, but it dis-
appeared seven years ago when air pollution from the
California coast reached the northern Arizona city.
The United States now has to deal with 3.5 billion
tons of solid wastes each year, and the figure is grow-
ing. It includes 30 million tons of household and com-
mercial trash. Cities spend $4.5 billion a year to collect
and dispose of refuse. In 1966, as an average American,
you threw away: 118 pounds of paper, 250 metal cans,
135 bottles, 338 caps and jars, and $2.50 worth of mis-
cellaneous packaging.
A recent survey of litter along a one-mile stretch of
Kansas highway turned up the following: 770 paper
cups, 730 empty cigarette packs, 590 beer cans, 130 soft-
drink bottles, 120 beer bottles, 110 whiskey bottles and
90 beer cartons. On Monday, April 13, the Jackson, Mis-
sissippi Clarion - Ledger published a photograph of two
truckloads of beer cans and litter collected from a one-
mile stretch of highway near Hazlehurst.
As we shared the first views of our planet with
the Lunar explorers, it became clear that we live on
earth; or, better still, at the interface of a plastic,
dynamic, capricious canopy and a brown and azure
hydro-lithosphere. The totality of the prerequisites for
life is herein contained. SpoUage of this interface spells
doom.
^Vhat Price A Leopardskin Coat?
The historical roots of our ecological crisis are con-
stituted in Judeo - Christian tradition, since western man
has been imbued with a perception of nature in which
air, land, and water are exploitable because they are
assumed to have been created to serve his purposes.
This tradition tells us that man is for the glory of God,
but I would submit that the same is true for all the
creations of the Creator.
How long will it take to make the last pair of shoes
or pocketbooks from the skin of the alligator? How much
more green turtle soup can we expect? What will be the
price tor the last leopardskin coat?
One hundred and fifty years ago there were vast
herds of buffalo, hunted by bands of Indians. There
v>ere passenger pigeons and Eskimo curlews.
Today there are no more Eskimo curlews, no more
passenger pigeons; they are extinct. The few buffalo
left have become semi-domesticated and the Indians who
hunted them have been butchered into subhuman exis-
tence. ,
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We seem unable to manage change; we appear only
to react to change. In a highly technological society
with brilliant environmental scientists such as Eugene
Odum, Paul Ehrlich, and Barry Commoner, we manage
to turn deaf ears to their warnings. Seven years ago
Rachel Carson warned us about the dangers of pes-
ticides, yet it was not until the levels of DDT affected
the economy of the salmon industry in Michigan, or the
crab industry of California, or caused complications in
the cotton, rice, and sugar cane crops in Louisiana that
bills were introduced to ban the sale, use or posesslon
of persistent pesticides.
There is no question that in the long run, the en-
vironmental challenge is the greatest faced by mankind.
Distinguished scientific authorities have been warning
for years that mankind is rapidly destroying the very
habitat on which he depends for survival.
In addition, population continues to increase world-
wide — while scientists and sociologists warn that we may
already have passed sustainable population levels.
Malthusians argue that the "only check on the growth
of population is starvation and misery, and that any
technological improvement will Increase the sum of mis-
ery by permitting a larger proportion to live in the
same state of misery and starvation."
How Much Time?
If there is a rational solution to the population prob-
lem, how much time do we have to put such a solution
into effect? Some rredict as much as 30-35 years, but
others .say five years or less. Not only is the population
increasing but the rate at which population is increasing
is itself increasing. This makes the situation explosive.
At the present rate of growth, the world's population
will double in only 30 years.
Fifteen thousand years ago, the earth probably held
fewer people than New York City does today. The popu-
lation doubled slowly at that time — say every 40 thou-
sand years. Today there are more than 3 billion people
in the world and the rate of increase is almost a
thousand times greater. DoubUng occurs in less than
40 year.1.
On a graph the human population line now rises
almost vertically, which will not continue — there must
be a leveling off or a decline. Leveling seems rational.
DecUne can be a landslide, as the hisitory of the Irish
and the 'emmir.g imply. The critical period near a popu-
lation peak is likely to be a time of anxiety, of extreme
uneasiness, of social upheavals.
In the United States, where we have been experienc-
ing a declining birthrate since 1957, a huge majority
sees population as infinitely less threatening than crime
and communism. The population crisis in America tends
to become a cliche — a joke in the newspapers about
standing room only in the year 2600. After which the
matter may be dismissed — possibly it's something the
Chinese are up to.
The population problem is world-wide. Picture this.
In Calcutta, 600,000 people eat, sleep, and live in the
streets. The American visitor sees these thousands lying
upon the ground "like bundles of rags"; sees women
"huddling over little pieces of manure, patting it into
cakes for fuel; children competing with dogs for refuse."
and the American visitor reacts with shock and revul-
sion.
Calcutta stands for three world-wide forces — burgeon-
ing population; food shortage; and a torrent of migra-
tion to the cities.
This is typical of many of the world's underdeveloped
nations. But how about the world's affluent societies?
How about the United States?
Declining Birthrate
The U. S. birthrate has been declining since 1957
to one per cent in 1969. Even if this decline continues,
population will grow at an accelerating pace for some
decades to come. There were 100 million Americans
about 50 years ago. There are over 200 million today;
there v/ill be over 300 million by 2000 — assuming the
continued decline in the birthrate. And there could well
be 40 million by 2015 or 2020. Note that each time the
population increases by 100 million, it takes less time
than it took to add the previous 100 milUon.
To Americans, growth has always been a "good
thing" — growth stocks, the "soaring sixties," the "baby
boom", the "Biggest Little City in the South", etc.
All of this is rather well-known. Some aspects of the
situation are less well-known. For example:
1. Water, h recent writer in Science said, "A per-
manent water shortage affecting our standard of living
will occur before the year 2000". This, of course, has
all sorts of ramifications. Consider just one. In the west-
ern states, 40 per cent of all agriculture — and much
allied enterprise — depends on irrigation. Much of this
may have to be abandoned. Some of this agriculture
may have to be shifted back to the more humid zones
in the next 50 years. And, of course, the more humid
eastern zones are precisely the ones now urbanizing most
rapidly.
2. Urbanization. We are spreading out over the
landscape at a phenomenal rate. Highways in the United
States now cover with concrete an area the size of
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, and
Delaware combined. In downtown Los Angeles, 66 per
cent of the land is devoted to automobile traffic — park-
ing lots or streets. In the entire Los Angeles area, one-
third of the land is paved, and the trend nationally, is
toward the creation of Los Angeles everywhere.
3. Farm lands. The spread of the cities takes at
least a million and a half acres of open land every year;
50 per cent more than a decade ago. The popular out-
cry has been minor. After all, we have had huge crop
surpluses. The U. S. seems unlikely to have a f o o d
problem soon. It has enormous capabilities in food pro-
duction. This capability, however, has a price.
4. Pollution. Everybody knows something about air
and water pollution today, but there are exotic effects
which remain less well-known. Pesticides are essential
to high-yield agriculture as now practiced in the United
States. Pesticides wash from field to river to sea,
where they are concentrated by diatoms. Our supply
of atmospheric oxygen comes largely from these dia-
toms—they replenish all of the atmospheric oxygen every
2000 years as it is used up. But if our pesticides should
be reducing the supply of diatoms or forcing evolution
of less productive mutants, we might find ourselves run-
ning out of atmospheric oxygen.
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A Farewell Reception for Presid
1. 1
Dr. Graves chats with Marion L. Smith who was president
of Miilsaps from 1938-1952.
James B. Campbell reads citation.
Hundreds Gathered i
Hundreds of friends and associates
gathered in the Boyd Campbell Stu-
dent Center March 12 to honor Dr.
and Mrs. Benjamin B. Graves. Dr.
Graves announced his resignation
from the College which he has headed
since 1965 to accept the post of presi-
dent of the University of Alabama
at Hunts ville.
In addition to Dr. and Mrs. Graves,
the receiving line at the reception in-
J.
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James B. Campbell assists Mrs. Graves in opening gift package.
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it and Mrs. Benjamin B. Graves
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udent Center
)ean and Mrs. Harold S.
Mr. and Mrs. James Boyd
I, Mr. and Mrs. Tom B. Scott
Mrs. I. C. Enochs.
the evening numerous gifts
■esented to Dr. and Mrs.
and a citation read by James
)bell, Chairman of the Mill-
ird of Trustees. The citation
isented to Dr. Graves by
coby.
Alumni President Foster E. Collins
greets old friend.
The farewell reception was a sad
occasion for Mrs. Graves.
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(Continued from page 9)
What To Do
Seventy per cent of the eartli's oxygen is produced
by ocean phytoplanl<ton. If the super-tanker Torrey Can-
yon had leaked hcrhicidcs rather than oil, the spillage
vould have wiped out all plankton life in the North Sea.
The examples of the rape of our environment are
infinite.
Well, so what? What can one person do?
First, he can learn to understand something about
the oriijin of environmental problems. He can construct
for himself a frame of reference from which to act
on the solutions.
Second, he can gain understanding of these principles
ol citizen effectiveness in environmental action. Webster
defines emotion as a psychic and physical reaction to
an environmental phenomenon — an arousal. Most people
go through life half dead— they never get up on their
hind legs about anything— for fear of stepping on toes.
Many college students today are excited. They have
jumped out of the poverty, race, Viet Nam frying pan
Into the environmental fire. But they are bringing
the same old, worn-out slogans and extinguishers with
them: "Clean air now!", "Pure water now!", "Ban auto-
mobiles today'", "Stamp out General Motors!"
Their concern, their impatience is admirable — their
behavior characteristically juvenile. Raised and nurtured
in the affluent, Dr. Spock society — where Daddy and
Mommy provide every need— they are too immature to
understand the sweat, toil, tears, and learning needed to
leally solve problems. They wsint instant solutions. In
the battle for a quality environment, facts, research,
knowledge, persuasion will win the day. Not binding and
gagging polluters in their offices or parading baby car-
riages in front of bulldozers.
What can one man do? He can help restructure
our social value system by changing his own attitude.
He can start by being concerned about the quality ol
life.
He can make an emotional commitment to the
environmental ethic, but not an emotional commitmeni
unassociated with knowledge of ecological principles.
He can strive to be informed and knowledgeable
about environmental issues and answers.
He can avoid the mistake of being a "one-issue'
conservationist by being concerned and informed abou'
the total environment.
He can communicate with all members of societj
in his efforts to seek solutions.
He can seek alternatives because therein lie the
true solutions.
Finally, he can learn to use effectively all of the
tools — research, political action, legislation, litigation
new institutional arrangements — he can play them all
like a string orchestra — to achieve a quality environment
MILLSAPS EARTH DAY PANELISTS — Participating in a panel discus-
sion in the Christian Center on pollution were Sen. Dan Martin, of Brandon,
standing left, chairman Senate Water and Irrigation Committee; James E.
Leker, Laurel, by-products manager, Masonite Corporation; Billy Joe Cross,
director Mississippi Game and Fish Commission; Dr. John Withers, National
Science Foundation; and Forrest Cox, farm editor, WLBT Television.
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Events of Note
FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED
Two young theologians whose aca-
demic pedigrees were cast from al-
most identical molds have combined
talents to publish their first book — an
introduction to Christian ethics.
Dr. Harmon L. Smith, associate
professor of moral theology at Duke
Divinity School, and Dr. Louis W.
Hodges, professor of religion at Wash-
ington and Lee University, knew
each other casually as under-
graduates at Millsaps.
Each earned an A.B. degree here.
Their association became closer dur-
ing seminary years at Duke as they
studied for their bachelor of divinity
degrees — Smith's coming in 1955,
Hodges' two years later.
Both men completed doctoral de-
grees in Christian ethics at Duke in
the early 1960's. Smith had returned
to study after serving four years in
the parish ministry of The Methodist
Church.
Now, Abingdon Press has released
their book, "The Christian and His
Decisions."
Smith says the 328-page work is
"simply an introduction to Christian
ethics — but one offering a new and
different approach."
The authors' method avoids any
list of "rights and wrongs." Instead,
its major tenet is that Christian eth-
ics is a way Christians go about mak-
ing ethical decisions about such things
as sex, race, poverty, politics, and
abortion.
Smith and Hodges combined a se-
ries of original essays with readings
from contemporary theologians. Their
design was not so much to provide
a history of Christian ethics in our
time, but "to show how Christian eth-
icists seek to operate," according to
the Duke professor.
Emphasis in their approach to
Christian decision-making actually is
a mature and easy blend on insights
of classical Protestant theology with
the outlook of certain of our modern
social scientists.
In any discussion of foundations
and principals of ethical decision-
making, the names of Paul Tillich,
the Niebuhrs — Richard and Rein-
hold — John A. T. Robinson, Karl
Barth, Paul Ramsey, Emil Brunner,
Bernhard Anderson, P. T. Forsyth,
Amos Wilder, and others quickly
come to the fore.
ALUMNI OFFICERS
New officers of the MiUsaps Alumni
Association to take over July 1 are
William G. Kimbrell, of Greenville,
president; Dr. Robert Blount, the
Rev. Clay Lee and Mrs. J. Earl
Rhea, vice-presidents, all of Jack-
son; and Mrs. Joe Stevens, Jackson,
secretary.
Kimbrell is president of the Office
Supply Co., in Greenville. He is the
immediate past president of the Of-
fice Products Association, has served
as president of the Mississippi Retail
Merchants Association, president of
the Greenville Chamber of Commerce
and is a member of the board of
directors of the Mississippi Economic
Council.
He is a member of the Millsaps Stu-
dent Executive Board, the ODK, and
the Pi Kappa Delta fraternity.
STILL ON THE JOB
Some 18,000 copies of MAJOR
NOTES are distributed four times
each year and the magazine enjoys
a wide readership in many parts of
the United States.
In the last issue mention was made
of Mr. James A. Cunningham who at
96 is Mississippi's oldest practicing
attorney having been 64 years in the
business.
Mr. G. H. McMorrough of Lexing-
ton, Miss., (not an alumnus) saw the
item in "Major Miscellany" and al-
though he is not as old as Mr. Cun-
ningham he wrote to tell us he has
practiced law longer. He graduated
in the 1900 law class at the Univer-
sity of Mississippi and after short
shifts at Columbia and Biloxi, he has
practiced in Lexington since 1907. And
after 70 years he's still on the job.
BRIDGE THAT GAP
Mississippi College is reportedly
leading Millsaps by a narrow margin
in the first Inter-Alumni Annual
Fund Competition between the two
institutions.
Craig Castle, of Jackson, Annual
Fund Chairman, announced more
than 900 gilts of $5 or more have been
received so far compared with more
than 1,300 last year.
"Our chief interest is in the per-
centage of alumni giving, and not just
a large donation from one individual,"
Castle said, noting that the competi-
tion will run through June 30 after
which an independent judge will audit
the records.
The final result will be announced
at an appropriate ceremony during
which the winning college will receive
an award.
Millsaps has a goal of $78,000 this
year to match the 78th anniversary of
the College.
CAMPUS VISITOR
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH.
Harvard professor, noted author and
former U. S. Ambassador, visited
Millsaps and discussed the economic
impact of the Vietnam War with
students.
MEMORIALIZED
Dr. J. B. Price, Professor of Che
istry at Millsaps for over 30 yearsi
until his death in 1963, was memorial-!
ized recently through a contribution!
to the Millsaps-Wilson Library. Th«
gift, $3,500 to be spent for books ini
the field of science, was collected by|
a special committee of friends, col-1
leagues, and former students headed!
by Dr. Allen Bishop and including!
Bishop Homer E. Finger, Dr. Jamesi
S. Ferguson, Dr. R. E. Blount, Dr,
O. D. Bonner, Mr. John T. Kimball,
Dr. Franz Posey, Dr. Willard S.|
Moore, Dr. Lawrence Colman, Mr.
Fred B. Dowling and Mr. W. C. Jones.t
In appreciation, a bronze plaque re
cording the significant contribution!
has been hung in the library and at
special memorial bookplate will bei
placed in each book purchased^
through the fund. The contributors I
felt that by helping to build a strong)]
college library they were perpetuating
not only the memory but the sub
stance of Dr. Price's life as an edu-
cator.
OFF TO ICELAND — Preparing for their fourth
USO tour abroad are these current members of the
popular Millsaps singing group, The Troubadours. This
summer they will be performing for the armed services
stationed in Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland.
Traveling Troubadours will be Jamie Anding, of Jackson,
standing left; David Mcintosh, Meridian; Lynn Shurley,
Meridian; Claudia Carithers, Salt Lake City; Sandy Wil-
liamson, Crystal Springs; Bob Lacour, Meridian; William
Young, Jackson; and Louis Cocke, Jackson. Seated, Bob
Lundy, Greenville; Lucy Hathom, Oxford; Debbie Col-
lins, Jackson; Kay Mitchell, Atlanta; Carol Quinn, Yazoo
City; and Mark Bebensee, Meridian.
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SPORTS HALL OF FAME — Honored with member- Gaddy, H. L. "Hook" Stone, and E. W. "Goat" Hale,
ship in the Millsaps Sports Hall of Fame during Alumni All four former Millsaps coaches were recogiiized at the
Weekend were B. O. Van Hook, left, T. L. "Tranny" college's All-Sports Banquet.
Alumni Weekend, 1970
PAST PRESIDENTS DAY — Fifteen former presi-
dents of the Millsaps Alumni Association returned to the
campus May 1 to participate in Past President's Day
and Alumni Weekend. Among those present were Dr.
Noel C. Womack, of Jackson, seated left; Gilbert Cook,
Canton; Zach Taylor, Jr., Jackson; Mrs. Ayrlene M.
Jones, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Foster E. Collins (current presi-
dent) Jackson; and Webb Buie, Jackson. Standing, Dean
Harold S. Jacoby, left, James J. Livesay, Dr. Thomas
G. Ross, H. V. Allen, Jr., Dr. Robert Mayo, Garner M.
Lester and William E. Barksdale, all of Jackson. Also
attending, but not pictured, were Mendel M. Davis, T. H.
Naylor, Jr., Dr. Raymond Martin, and Heber Ladner, all
of Jackson.
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Major
Miscellany
Before 1900
Garner W. Green, '98, former Jack-
son attorney and local civic leader,
has received the 1970 Golden Deeds
Award from the Jackson Exchange
Club. While at Millsaps, he was
awarded the Founder's Medal and
was one of the first members of the
Jackson Kappa Alpha Alumni Asso-
ciation.
1900-1919
Circuit Court Judge E. H. Green,
'12, of Cleveland, will retire in July
after 27 years service to the State as
a circuit judge. He served in the Mis-
sissippi legislature during World War
I, and for many years was county
attorney for Bolivar County.
1920-1929
Dr. J. E. (Jim) Baxter, '26, has
been selected for membership in the
Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. For
12 years a State legislator, he retired
last year from the University of Mis-
sissippi where he was Director of
Placement and Professor of Educa-
tion.
1930-1939
Dr. Merrill O. Hines, '31, medical
director of the Ochsner Clinic, New
Orleans, has been elected president
of the Alton Ochsner Medical Founda-
tion. He has previously served as
president of the American Proctologic
Society, the American Board of Colon
and Rectal Surgery, and as a mem-
ber of the board of governors of the
American College of Surgeons.
J. Howard Lewis, '31, Greenwood
business and civic leader, was named
Leflore County's Outstanding Citizen
of 1969 by the Greenwood Lions
Club. He is president of Henderson
and Baird Hardware Company.
George W. Hymers, Jr., '32-'35, re-
cently became a grandfather for the
first and second time — all in the same
day. A grandson was born in Jack-
son, Miss., and a grandaughter in
Pittsburgh, Pa. Hymers is personnel
and security head at Jackson-Madi-
son County General Hospital, Jack-
son, Tennessee.
Norman Bradley, '34, is senior as-
sociate editor and editorial page
columnist for the Chattanooga Times.
He was editor of the Purple and White
at Millsaps.
Charles R. Arrington, '36, has been
elected to the advisory board of the
Deposit Guaranty National Bank of
Jackson. A native of Hattiesburg and
first vice-president of the bank, he
has served in various capacities in
the Mississippi Bankers Association
and the Southeastern Chapter of Rob-
ert Morris Associates.
Dr. James S. Ferguson, '37, Chan-
cellor of the University of North
Carolina in Greensboro, was one of
the speakers at the symposium on
"The Emerging South" sponsored by
the L. Q. C. Lamar Society last month
at Memphis. James Walton Lipscomb,
'56. CPA, of Millsaps College, is trea-
surer of the organization.
William H. Bizzell, '39, reigned as
king at the annual charity ball of the
Cleveland Junior Auxiliary. He is
president of the Board of Trustees of
East Bolivar County Hospital, and
since 1963 has served as Chancery
Judge of the Seventh Chancery Court,
District of Mississippi.
Robert A. Ivy, '39, a native of West
Point, and a 31-year resident of Co-
lumbus, is new administrator of the
Lowndes General Hospital. He is also
governor of the Southeastern Region
of the American College of Hospital
Administrators.
Colonel Paul R. Sheffield, '39, Dep-
uty Division Engineer for the Lower
Mississippi Valley Division of the
Corps of Engineers, was among a
select group inducted May 1 into the
Hall of Fame of the Engineer Officer
Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Bel-
voir, Virginia. This is the second ma-
jor honor received by Colonel Shef-
field recently. Earlier, he was named
"Boss of the Year" by the Vicksburg
Chapter of the National Secretaries
Association.
1940-1949
Alex McKeigney, '40, of Jackson,
was named Chairman of the State
Citizens' Committee for National Li-
brary Week celebrated last month. He
is a former executive secretary to two
Mississippi governors.
Lewis H. Wilson, '41, a Brandon
born Marine who won the Medal of
Honor in World War II has been pro-
moted to Major General and h a e
taken command of the Third Marine
Division on Okinawa. He was a recent
guest of the Mississippi legislature.
Mrs. Randolph Peets, Jr., '42-'44, ol
Jackson, served as executive chair
man of this year's Mississippi Arts
Festival. She is the wife of a Missis
sippi School Supply vice-presideni
whom she met at Millsaps.
Raymond A. Gallagher, '43-'44, na
tional commander in chief of t h (
VFW visited Millsaps on a recen
trip to Mississippi. A luncheon wai
held in his honor and a citation pre
sented.
Joe Wroten, '45, a Greenville attor
ney and former Mississippi legislato:
has announced his candidacy for th(
post of Washington County C o u r
Judge. He is a past president of th(
Millsaps Alumni Association.
Carl E. Guernsey, '48, judge o
Hinds County Court and Youth Court
has announced his candidacy for re
election in the June 2 primary. Hi
has served as Youth Court Judgi
more than 10 years and handled mor
than 10,000 cases.
Dr. George Maddox, '49, a facult
member at Duke University, has beei
named chairman of the Internationa
Conference on Geriatrics. Convention
are held every four years and th
next is scheduled for Kiev in 1972.
J. D. Prince, '49, superintendent c
the McComb Public Schools was ke>
note speaker at the 15th Annua
Secretarial Institute last March i
Jackson. His address was "Self In
provement With Enthusiasm."
Dr. Ernest P. Reeves, '49, has bee
elected a director of the Firs
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Guaranty Savings and Loan Associa-
' tion in Collins, Miss. He is a practic-
! ing physician.
1950-1959
Charles Dillingham, *50, of Jack-
son, received an honorable mention
award in the music and dance
division of the Creative Writing for
.Television Awards Competition spon-
1 sored by the Mississippi Authority for
! Educational Television. He is produc-
tion manager for Gordon Marks and
Company, Inc., a Jackson advertising
agency.
, Dr. John D. Wofford, '50, of Green-
Swood, has been elected president of
jthe Leflore County Heart Association.
' Oliver Emmerich, LL.B. '54, Mc-
Comb newspaper editor, was convoca-
tion speaker March 10 at Mississippi
jState University.
! Major Howard D. Gage, '54-'55, of
Laurel, has been decorated with the
■Distinguished Flying Cross for extra-
^ordinary achievement in Southeast
'Asia. He is now stationed at Barks-
dale, AFB, La., where he serves with
la unit of the Air Weather Service pro-
viding information for military flight
operations.
li Yeager Hudson, '54, has been pro-
Imoled associate professor at Colby
College effective in September. He is
a member of the philosophy depart-
ment, and prior to joining the college
in 1959 was pastor of a Methodist
Church in Vicksburg.
Major John B. Little, Jr., '54, of
Jackson, has received the Mississippi
IMagnolia Medal for outstanding serv-
lice and efficiency in the Mississippi
Air National Guard. He is detachment
commander of the 172nd Military Air-
■Jift Group.
Leslie J. Page, '54, of Nashville,
Tennessee, has joined the staff of the
Methodist Publishing House and is
supervisor of audio-visual publishing.
' Dr. Dorothy Ford Bainton, '55, was
iinvited to present her menatology
' -(blood) research papers at the World
Hematologist Convention in West Ber-
lin. This is considered one of the high
est honors in the field of world re-
search on blood.
William S. Boswell, Jr., '56-'59, a
certified public accountant, has been
presented the Cleveland (Miss.) Jay-
icees Distinguished Service Award for
1969.
Robert Maddox, '56, senior vice-
president of State Bank and Trust
' Company in Brookhaven, served as
Lincoln County Chairman of the
I American Cancer Crusade Month in
1 April.
T. J. (Ted) Alexander, '58, was
named Outstanding Young Educator
of 1970 by the Mississippi Jaycees. He
was chosen for the annual award,
which carries a $500 scholarship, from
36 nominees from across the State. He
is presently principal of Pascagoula
High School.
Jeff D. Harris, '58, has been named
personnel manager for the New York
headquarters office of Dunn & Brad-
street, Inc. Previously, he was assist-
ant to the senior vice president and
secretary, and prior to that held a
number of supervisory personnel posi-
tions with the company including
serving as at :rstant to the vice presi-
dent-personn. 1.
Michael Kelly, '55-'59, has joined
the Mississippi Educational Tele-
vision staff in Jackson as senior pro-
ducer. His previous television experi-
ence includes work as art director for
WLBT-TV, Jackson, and sales service
director for KTBS-TV, Shreveport,
Louisiana.
Thomas H. Naylor, '58, of Durham,
North Carolina, has been elected exe-
cutive secretary of the L. Q. C. La-
mar Society, a non-profit educational
organization committed to the pre-
mise that southerners can find practi-
cal solutions to the South's major
problems.
Cy Vance, '58, is now superinten-
dent of Brandon Academy af^er be-
ing employed in the Jackson public
schools for the last 12 years. His last
position was assistant principal at
Callaway High School in Jackson.
Dr. John E. Wimberly, '58, is now
a Doctor practicing surgery at the
Medical Center Clinic in Pensacola,
Florida.
Dr. Dudley D. Culley, Jr., '59, and
his wife Penny are employed at Loui-
siana State University in Baton
Rouge. Dr. Culley is teaching courses
in Aquatic Biology in the graduate
school, conducting research in water
pollution biology and developing
techniques for rearing amphibians to
be used in medical and biological re-
search. His wife, the former Penny
Lee Tumbleson, '63, is working with
the Coastal Studies Institute as a pro-
grammar and data reductions analyst.
Dr. William R. Hendee, '59, radia-
tion physicist at the University of
Colorado Medical Center, has been
promoted to associate professor of
radiology in the CU School of Medi-
cine. Dr. Hendee has been a mem-
ber of the medical faculty since 1965,
when he was appointed an assistant
professor of radiology.
W. S. (Bill) MuUins, III, '59, has
been appointed Jones County Heart
Association Chairman for the 1970
fund drive. He is a partner in the
law firm of Gibbes and Graves of
Laurel.
Captain Russell D. Thompson, '59,
of Jackson, is a member of a unit
that has earned the U. S. Air Force
Outstanding Unit Award. Captain
Thompson, a legal officer in the 437th
Military Airlift Wing, Charleston
AFB, South Carolina, will wear a dis-
tinctive service ribbon to mark his
affiliation with the unit. The wing was
cited for meritorious service in sup-
port of military operations from
July, 1968, to July, 1969.
Wayland R. Clifton, Jr., '59-'60, has
been appointed criminal justice spe-
cialist on the Governor's Division of
Law Enforcement Assistance. He will
assist in planning Mississippi's 1970
Comprehensive Plan for Law En-
forcement.
1960-1969
Pat L. Gilliland, '60, personnel di-
rector at the University of Mississippi
Medical Center, has been chosen
Chairman of the 1970 Hinds County
Mental Health membership drive. He
is president of the Mississippi Per-
sonnel Association.
James Edward McAtee. '60, of
Jackson, graduated from Golden Gate
Baptist Theological Seminary, Straw-
berry Point, Mill Valley, California,
May 1, with the Master of Divinity
degree. He is presently serving as
pastor of the Hampton Baptist Church
in Ha>ward, California.
Dr. William J. Bufkin, '62, of At-
lanta, Georgia, has been selected by
the American College of Radiology to
receive a fellowship in radiologic
pathology for study at the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology in Wash-
ington, D. C.
Dr. Albert E. Elmore, '62, is the
author of an article, "Color and Cos-
mos in The Great Gatsby," appearing
in the summer, 1970 issue of The
Sevvanee Review. He has also been
awarded a summer research grant by
Hampden-Sydney College, where he
teaches English, to work on a study
of the poet Robert Herrick.
Mary Mills, '62, is a seven year
veteran on the Ladies Professional
Golf Tour. Before turning pro she won
10 State amateur titles. Her biggest
pro wins were the US Open in 1963
and the LPGA title in 1964.
Bonnie Jean Coleman, '63, of Mag-
nolia, is working in the music depart-
ment of Holt, Rhinehart and Winston
in Atlanta, Georgia. She is responsible
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for eleven states and presents music
proerams at workshops and instructs
teachers how to use them more ef-
ficiently.
W. B. Greene, '63-'65, has been ap-
pointed Surburban Manager for South
Central Bell Telephone Company with
his headquarters in Hattiesburg. He
played varsity football at Millsaps.
A. Howard Harrigill, '63, has be-
come an associate in the general
practice of law with Carter. Mitchell
and Robinson of Jackson. He was
formerly associated with the FBI.
James R. Allen, '64, a Carthage at-
torney, was named Leake County
Chairman of the 1970 Easter Seals
campaign, a post he has held for the
last two years.
Thomas I... Cooley, '64, was named
recently Outstanding Young Educator
of Columbus and Lowndes County.
He was presented the honor at the
annual distinguished service awards
banquet of the Columbus Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce. He is guidance
counselor at Robert Caldwell Junior
High in Columbus.
Second Lieutenant Charles E. Gib-
son, III, '64, of Coden, Alabama, has
been awarded silver pilot wings upon
graduation at Laredo AFB, Texas.
Lieutenant Gibson, an Air National
Guardsman, is returning to his Mis-
sissippi ANG unit at Thompson Field.
His wife, Catherine, is the daughter of
Mayor and Mrs. Russell C. Davis of
Jackson,
Edward L. Chaney, '65, received his
Ph.D. in Physics in December, 1969,
at the University of Tennessee. The
title of his dissertation was "Electron
Attachment to Polyatomic M o 1 e-
cules," and he has accepted a post-
doctoral research position at the Uni-
versity of Western Ontario. London,
Ontario. He is married to the former
Lillian Ann Thomell, '65.
Wayne Dowdy, '65, was named City
Judge of McComb. He is a partner
in the law firm of Guy and Dowdy.
Robert E. Lewis, '65, has joined the
administrative staff responsible for
the management of the nine-hospital
University of Texas Medical Branch
Complex. He was formerly assistant
administrator at LeBonheur Chil-
dren's Hospital, Memphis.
Gaines IVIassey, '65, has been pro-
moted to manager of the Jackson
Agency with United Fidelity Life In-
surance Company.
Captain Paul M. Miller, II, '65, of
Bay St. Louis, has been awarded the
U. S. Air Force silver pilot wings up-
on graduation at Reese AFB, Texas.
Captain Miller is being assigned to
Charleston AFB, South Carolina, for
flying duty on the C141 Starlifter
cargo-troop carrier. He will serve
with a unit of the Air Training Com-
mand which provides flying, technical
and basic military training for USAF
personnel.
Jimmie M. Purser, '65, received the
Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in August of 1969. He is
presently assistant professor of chem-
istry and coach of the varsity tennis
team at North Carolina Wesleyan Col-
lege. He is married to the former
Paulette Warren, '67.
Gerald D. Lard, '66, received a
Master's degree from the University
of Tennessee last year, and is now a
lieutenant in military intelligence,
U. S. Army, stationed in Germany.
U. S. Air Force First Lieutenant
Charles R. Rains, '66, of Jackson, is
on duty at Tyndall AFB, Florida.
Lieutenant Rains, a weapons director,
is with the 678th Radar Squadron, a
unit of the Aerospace Defense Com-
mand, which protects the U, S.
against hostile aircraft and missiles.
He previously served at Udorn Royal
Thai AFB, Thailand.
Mrs. James Lamar Roberts (Bren-
da Newson, '66) of Oxford, has joined
the staff of the Mississippi Special
Education Services Center. She will
serve a five county area as a social
worker.
Michael P. Staiano, '66, has been
promoted to captain in the USAF. He
is stationed at Fuchu Air Station,
Tokyo, where he is Air Base Squad-
ron Personnel Services Officer.
Lt. James L. Carroll, '67, of Her-
nando, was selected the number one
graduate of his Officer Candidate
School class at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
He was also named leadership grad-
uate.
Kathryn Marie McKinnon, '67-'69,
of Jackson, has been awarded the
silver wings of an American Airlines
stewardess and has now been as-
signed to flight duty out of New York
City. She received her wings as a
graduate in the first class this year at
the American Airlines Stewardess
College, Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to
joining American Airlines, she was
employed in the accounting depart-
ment of School Pictures, Inc., in Jack-
son.
James Keith Smith, '67, of Jack-
son, displayed his outstanding mineral
collection in the competitive division at
the 11th annual Rock and Gem show in
Jackson. A geologist, he is employed
by the Cities Service Oil Company.
Steve Farrington, '69, is employed
as a sales representative with Bryce
Griffin and Associates of Atlanta,
Georgia, with the responsibility of
covering Alabama, Mississippi and
West Tennessee.
Dr. Roy A. Berry, Assistant Profes-
sor of Chemistry at Millsaps, has
been named chairman of the steering
committee of the Southeast Section of
the American Chemical Society.
William D. Rowell, Chairman of the
Millsaps Art Department, was select-
ed as Mississippi Chairman for the
5th Annual Gulf Coast Juried A r t
Exhibition.
Susan Barry, '64, to Frank M. Duke
Now living in Jackson.
Suzanne Lamb, '64, to Robert J
Stevens. Now living in San Francisco
California.
Barbara Ann Lefeve, '64, to Williarr
F. McCleefe. Now living in Jackson
Mary Frances Payne, '68, to Josepl
E. Garrison. Now living in Memphis
Tennessee.
Kay Stauffer, '69, to Nicky Easter
ling. Now living in Starkville.
Janice Pearl Williams, '66, t(
James Laws. Now living in Jackson
In Memoriam
Fred W'. Carr, Jr., '55- '56, of Santi
Ana, Cahfornia, died March, 1970.
Mrs. Juan Jose Menendez (Loh
Davis, '38) died April 2 in Manili
Medical Center, Manila, Philippines
after a lengthy illness.
Mrs. Mary Holloman Scott (Mar;
Holloman, '02) of Bossier City, Loui
siana, and formerly of Itta Bena, diec
April 18, 1970.
Howard Selman, '30, of Orange
California, died in 1970.
Mrs. Joseph E. Smith, Jr. (Barban
Lynn Michel, '62) of Jackson, die(
January 30, 1969.
Harry S. Wheeler, '13-'14, of t h i
Love community, died October 2, 1969
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Faye Tatum Ballard, born Decem-
,ber 6, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
Ballard of New Orleans, Louisiana.
, She was welcomed by a sister, Elise
|Terhune. Mrs. Ballard is the former
Bernice Faye Tatum, '64.
Patrick Kevin Barron, Jr., born De-
cember 21, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. P. K.
Barron, of Knoxville, Tennessee. Mrs.
Barron is the former Winifred Cal-
houn Cheney, '66.
Mary Caroline Boutwell, born Feb-
ruary 6, 1970, to Mr. and Mrs. James
Gary Boutwell, '61, of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Boutwell is the
iformer Susan Hymers, '63.
! Josephine Ann Clark, born April 9,
1970, to Mr. and Mrs. John S. Clark,
'65, of Houston, Texas. She was wel-
comed by Dona Griffin, 3, and Joy
Eloise, 14 months. Mrs. Clark is the
(former Laura McEachern, '65.
Stephen Andrew Cooper, born Jan-
uary 29, 1970, to Mr. and Mrs. John
E. (Jack) Cooper, Jr., '54, of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. He was welcomed
by Bradley David, age 6, and Janet
Lynne, age 2.
Melanie Lynn Dawson, born Octo-
ber 15, 1969, to Commander and Mrs.
Allan Dawson, '59, of Montrey, Cali-
ifornia. She was welcomed by Allan,
'age 7, and John, age 5.
Jeannie Lynn Fields, born Novem-
iber 6, 1969, to Mr. and Mrs. James
|0. Fields, of West Point, Mississippi.
JMrs. Fields is the former Minnie
Dora Mitchell, '56. Jennie was wel-
^comed by Jimmy, age 10.
Charles Coleman Frye, III, born
'February 6, 1970, to Mr. and Mrs.
'Charles Coleman Frye, Jr., of Jack-
'son. Mrs. Frye is the former Kathy
Hymers, '66.
Stephanie Elaine Fulton, born De-
cember 30, 1969, to the Reverend and
Mrs. Travis R. Fulton, '64, of Atlanta,
Georgia.
Ward Thomas McCraney, III, born
October 22, 1969, to Dr. and Mrs.
Ward T. McCraney, Jr., of Marietta,
Georgia. Mrs. McCraney is the
former Jane Owen, '65.
Cynthia Jean MeCraw, born Jan-
SCHEDULE
of
MAJOR
EVENTS
June 6 Registration for Summer School Session.
June 19-21 Southern Conference on World Affairs. Christian Center
Auditorium.
July 1-4 Musical: "Damn Yankees." Millsaps Players. Christian
Center Auditorium.
July 13 Second Term Classes Begin for Summer School.
Aug. 5-8 Play: "Joan of Lorraine." Millsaps Players. Christian
Center Auditorium.
MILLSAPS COLLEGE 1970
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
DATE OPPONENT
Sept. 19 Sewanee
Sept. 2S Harding
Oct. 3 Gardner-Webb
Oct. 10 Georgetown
Oct. 17 Emory and Henry
Oct. 24
Oct. 31 Maryville
Nov. 7 Southerh Ark. State
Nov. 14 Randolph-Macon
Nov. 21 Missouri Southern
PLACE
TIME
Sewanee, Tenn.
2:00 P.M.
Jackson, Miss.
Boiling Springs, N. C.
7:30 P.M.
Jackson, Miss.
2:00 P.M.
Emory, Va.
2:00 P.M.
Maryville, Tenn.
2:00 P.M.
Jackson, Miss.
2:00 P.M.
Ashland, Va.
2:00 P.M.
Jackson, Miss.
2:00 P.M.
uary 10, 1970, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Wells McCraw, of Hattiesburg. Mrs.
McCraw is the former Shirley Jean
Prouty, '62.
Anthony Theodore Tampary, Jr.,
born January 28, 1970, to Mr. and
Mrs. Anthony T. Tampary, of Pensa-
cola, Florida. Mrs. Tampary is the
former Dorothy Greer, '67.
Jon Richmond Whitwell, born Jan-
uary 27, 1970, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe
W. Whitwell, '61, of Doraville, Geor-
gia. He was welcomed by Joe, III,
age 4, and Christel, age 2.
James Edward Williams, born Feb-
ruary 8, 1970, to the Reverend and
Mrs. Jon E. Williams, '59, of Takoma
Park, Maryland. Mrs. Williams is the
former Harley Harris, '62.
David Lawrence Wimberly, born
January 19, 1970, to Dr. and Mrs. John
E. Wimberly, '58, of Pensacola, Flor-
ida. Mrs. Wimberly is the former
Clara Smith, '58. They have two other
children, John, age 6, and Laura, age
5.
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omore, has been selected top campus beauty by the Student Body and
is featured in the 1970 Bobashela.
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