ALUMNI
ISSUE
OCTOBER 1953
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MARYVILLE COLLEGE BULLETIN
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FOUNDERS AND HOMECOMING DAY
21st Annual Observance
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1953
9:45 a. m.— Founders Day Service (Alumni Gymnasium)
3:00 p. m.— Cross Country Meet with William Jennings Bryan University
5:45 p. m.— Homecoming Barbecue on the Baseball Field (in case of rain, in the
Alumni Gymnasium). Price 50 cents per "plate."
8:00 p. m.— Homecoming Football Game with Newberry College, on Honaker
Field. (Get your special alumni ticket at the Alumni Office or at
the Barbecue; special reduced price, 75 cents)
1954 COMMENCEMENT
May 15, Saturday— Alumni Day
May 16, Sunday— Baccalaureate Day
May 19, Wednesday— Commencement Day
OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
1953-1954
President Dr. James N. Proffitt, '38
Vice-President Mr. Charles C. Parvin, '52
Recording Secretary Miss Winifred L. Painter, '15
Executive Committee
Class of 1954: Mr. Stuart P. McNiell, Jr., '50; Mrs. Ernest C. Taylor, '14; Miss Mary Sloane
Welsh, '34.
Class of 1955: Mrs. Joe D. Beals, Jr., '47; Mrs. Maynard L. Dunn, '27; Mr. James W. King, '25.
Class of 1956: Mrs. James B. Cornett, '50; Mr. Linton Loy Lane, '32; Mr. Tom J. West, ex '33.
MARYVILLE COLLEGE BULLETIN
Published by Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee
Ralph Waldo Lloyd, President
VOL. LII October, 1953 No. 4
Published quarterly by Maryville College. Entered May 24, 1904, at Maryville, Tennessee, as second-
class mail matter. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of
October 3, 1947, authorized February 10, 1919.
COVER PICTURE: Sue Binnion, senior from Wichita Fall, Texas, is the band
sponsor this year. She is wearing the Scotch kilt costume which for several years
the band sponsor has worn — a forerunner of the new band uniforms.
JAMES NICHOLAS PROFFITT, PRESIDENT OF
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Dr. Proffitt was graduated from Maryvillc in 1938
and from Vanderbilt University Medical School in
1942. He served his internship, assistant residency,
and residency at the Vanderbilt University Hospital.
From 1943 to 1946 he was in the Army Medical
Corps, serving in the European Theater. In the fall
of 1949 he began practice in Maryville.
He is the son of H. H. Proffitt, Prep. '05, and
Leila Graham Proffitt, '12. His wife is the former
Ruth Goddard, daughter of Volta F. Goddard, '13.
They have three children, Jimmy, eight, Beth, four,
and Ann, three.
Dear Maryville College Alumni:
The more than four thousand Maryville College alumni scattered over the world are the chief
stockholders of this institution. Therefore, this letter is directed to you, the alumni.
Building on the Samuel Tyndale Wilson Chapel is progressing rapidly. By Homecoming Day,
October 24, you will be able to make out the arrangement. This building will still require financial
aid from the alumni to complete the amount to be spent in its erection.
Even Coach Honaker admits football prospects for this fall are "pretty good." The Highlanders
certainly looked big and aggressive in their opening workouts. But win or lose they will exhibit a
wholesome attitude and a competitive spirit that has typified Maryville teams.
The privately endowed college needs some system of alumni help if it is to survive. The high
cost of living, and low interest rates, have worked together to squeeze the privately endowed school.
State financed schools have flourished because higher incomes have made greater sums available for
education. In particular, the salaries of teachers in the private schools have not risen. Many are
working for less than they could get elsewhere. We appreciate their sacrifice, but that doesn't clothe
them, feed them, nor will it replace them when they are gone. This writer feels that the greatest
source of future financial help will have to be the alumni. Your suggestions and reactions will be
appreciated.
Please send any news items to the alumni office.
The Alumni Executive Committee is planning to see you on Homecoming, October 24. A previ-
ous letter indicated that the Barbecue will be at 5:45 p.m. and the football game with Newberry will
follow at 8:00 p.m. Tickets for both will be available at the Barbecue.
With best regards,
President of Alumni Association
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President Lloyd's Page
TO ALL ALUMNI OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE
The College's 135th year is now well under way. The
days are filled with classes and activities in the way which
you remember. Each morning we gather for chapel and hear
announcements of special events ahead, unite in hymns,
scripture reading, and prayer, and then go our ways to the
appointments of the "A period." Campus life is one of the
best combinations I know of the old and the new— in both
program and people. It can be a rich experience for students,
faculty, and staff, and we work and pray constantly that it
may be so.
Our total enrollment is still under the number for which
we are organized, as it has been for the past two years. The
graduation of the large "veterans" classes and a temporary
decrease in the number of freshmen entering (due to smaller
high school classes, uncertainties of military service, and
abundance of jobs) have brought a smaller total for a few
years. High school enrollments are now due to increase
sharply, which will soon be reflected in the colleges. The
number of our entering freshmen advanced seventeen per cent
this fall, indicating a swing upward. The total number in our
four classes is smaller than we need from a financial standpoint,
but is excellent for effective college work.
The Chapel construction is making steady progress, as
pictures on another page show. By the time this is printed
and read, the building will be advanced considerably beyond
the point where it was when the pictures were taken. We
expect to be holding chapel services there by the time of the
February Meetings and to hold dedication exercises later in
the year.
The Chapel Fund. It is a very useful and permanent
structure which we are building. It is planned for the long
future and has grown far beyond a chapel auditorium. The
theater, the Little Chapel, the extensive facilities for choir,
for instruction and practical work in the fields of speech and
drama; the center court, the spacious lobbies, and the colon-
nade, all will combine to supply long-time needs of the College.
It is clear that, measured by present day costs, we are getting
a great deal for our money. But while the $400,000 thus far
raised would have paid for the single large auditorium origi-
nally planned, it is not sufficient for the project as it has been
expanded. To complete the whole building and equip it, we
must raise another $200,000. We shall, therefore, be sending
out new appeals soon. I hope that all alumni who have not
thus far contributed to the Chapel will do so, and that many
who have given will be able to add to their gifts.
Opportunity Giving. It is with sincere gratitude that I
can announce to our alumni another generous benefaction to
Maryville College. Upon recommendation of its Women's
Committee, and with the approval of the Executive Committee
of the National Council of Women's Organizations, the Board
of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in the USA
has made a new dormitory for women at Maryville College the
Christian Education object of women's "Opportunity Giving"
in 1954. Opportunity Giving to National and Foreign Missions
and Christian Education is a special enterprise of Presbyterian
women above their regular budgeted benevolences. Literature
on the Maryville dormitory will soon be ready for the use of
women's organizations throughout the Presbyterian Church.
The College will be giving its full cooperation. The Synod
and Synodical Society of Mid-South have voted to promote
our dormitory fund. In the winter you will be receiving in-
formation on how to help, if you are a Presbyterian. Estimates
of the Opportunity Gift which may be reasonably expected by
Maryville College in 1954 are from $50,000 to $65,000. We
now have in hand $82,000, and campaigns are being organized
among women and churches to secure the additional funds
needed to construct a modern dormitory. We are deeply grate-
ful to the Presbyterian women who have chosen Maryville Col-
lege as a special cause next year.
Cordially yours,
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HOMECOMING - OCTOBER 24
Alumni in the United Sl.tlrs will have received a letter
from President Jim l'roffitt concerning Homecoming on October
2-1, and it is hoped that main will have made plans to attend.
The day's program will start with the Founders Day Serv-
iee in the Ahmmi Gymnasium at 9:45 A.M. In the afternoon
there will be a parade downtown and a cross country meet
with William Jennings Bryan University.
The barbecue will be held on the baseball field at 5:45
P.M. ( 50c per person). All alumni and their families and
friends are welcome. Last year approximately 450 attended.
The Homecoming Queen, elected by the students, will be
introduced at the barbecue, although the crowning ceremony
will take place on the football field just before the game.
A registration and information table for alumni will be
near the Gymnasium after the Founders Day Service and from
two to five o'clock in the Student Center. It will be moved
to the barbecue field about five o'clock. The special 75c
general admission tickets to the game with Newberry College
will be on sale at the registration table. They will not be on
sale at the gate.
October in the Smokies, a football game, and meeting
with old friends is a combination which each year brings many
alumni to the campus. Your Alumni Association hopes that
more and more of you will make Homecoming an annual event
in your own calendar.
NEW BAND UNIFORMS
The Maryville College baud has appeared in white pants
and sweaters or shirts for all the six years since the Chapel
fire destroyed its uniforms. Last year a movement was initi-
ated to Finance new uniforms. The net receipts of something
over $1,000 from the post-season football game promoted by
community boosters were for that purpose. The College ap-
propriated another $1,000. The total cost will be about $4,000.
An effort is being made to schedule a benefit game this fall.
It has been decided to go ahead in faith that the money
will be found. The uniforms will be Scotch Highlander kilts.
The plans call for bagpipes also. If the manufacturer can
deliver them by the Homecoming football game on October
24, the band will be in uniform at that time.
CROSS COUNTRY SCHEDULE
September 30 University of Tennessee Away
October 9 Davidson College Away
October 17 Georgia Institute of Technology Away
October 24 W. J. Bryan University Home (Homecoming)
October 30 University of the South Away
November 4 University of Tennessee Home
November 14 W. J. Bryan University Away
November 20 University of the South Home
November 21 Invitational meet at W. J. Bryan University
The Moderator of the Presbyterian, USA, Genera) Assembly, Presi-
dent John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary, is shown
the new chapel by President Lloyd. Dr. Mackay was on the campus
in June for the meetings of the Synods of Mid-South and Tennessee.
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THE 1953 COMMENCEMENT
THE CLASS OF 1903
The annual Commencement, May 15-20, provided the
traditional climax to the College's 134th year. One hundred
and twenty-one seniors were graduated on Commencement
Day, ten finished at the end of the first semester, and six
completed their work during the summer, making the Class of
1953 number 137. This is the last of the large classes which
followed the war, and it is only slightly larger than the pre-
war average. The Class of 1952 totaled 157; the Class of
1951, 168; and the Class of 1950, 177, the largest class ever
graduated. The senior class this year and for the next two
or three years will be small, reflecting the nation-wide smaller
freshman classes of the last few years.
Three honorary degrees were conferred. The Doctor of
Divinity degree was conferred upon the Rev. Dr. Frank H.
Caldwell, President of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Semi-
nary, who gave the Commencement address on "The Art of
Imagineering." Dr. Caldwell is one of the most prominent
leaders in the Presbyterian Church U. S. and in the movement
for church union, and is an outstanding preacher as well. He
led the February Meetings in 1945.
The Doctor of Divinity degree was conferred also upon
the Rev. Robert O. Franklin, '03, now living in St. Augustine,
Florida. Dr. Franklin served for many years in Thailand, first
as President of Bangkok Christian College and later as Sec-
retary of the American Bible Society of Southeast Asia.
The Doctor of Pedagogy degree was conferred upon Volta
F. Goddard, '13, Superintendent of Schools of Alcoa since
1924, and an influential leader among the public school officials
of Tennessee.
The Commencement Play, "Antigone" by Sophocles, was
to be staged on the steps of Thaw Hall, but the weather re-
fused to cooperate and on both Friday and Tuesday evenings
it was necessary to give it in the Alumni Gymnasium. While
perhaps not quite as effective as the outdoor setting of steps
and white pillars would have made it, it was nevertheless a
very successful presentation.
Ten persons graduated fifty years ago in the spring of
1903. Of these ten, four have died. Five of the six living
members were at the Alumni Dinner and four of the six at-
tended the Graduation Exercises on May 20.
Mr. Thomas Guthrie Brown and Mrs. Brown came from
Orlando, Florida, where they have been living since Mr.
Brown's retirement a few years ago. He was Principal of
the Boys' Technical High School of Milwaukee for many years
before his retirement.
Rev. Dennis White Crawford and Mrs. Crawford came
from Knoxville, where Mr. Crawford teaches in the public
schools. He was graduated from McCormick Theological Semi-
nary and was pastor of several churches before entering the
field of teaching.
Mr. Hugh Rankin Crawford, who lives in Maryville and
is a brother to Dennis Crawford, attended all the Commence-
ment events. He has been a hardware merchant in Maryville
for the past forty-three years, and is a Director of the College.
Rev. Robert Otterbein Franklin and Mrs. Franklin came
from St. Augustine, Florida, where they have been living since
they retired from missionary service in Thailand. On Com-
mencement Day, the College conferred upon Mr. Franklin the
Doctor of Divinity degree. Dr. Franklin continues to serve
part time as a pastoral visitor and precentor at Memorial
Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine. The Franklins had not
only a college reunion but a family reunion as well as their
son Wilbur, pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church, Newburgh,
New York, was here for his twenty-fifth reunion.
Rev. Dr. Robert Horace McCaslin came from Orlando,
Florida, for Alumni Day but had to return before the Gradu-
ation Exercises on Wednesday. Mrs. McCaslin was not able
to come with him. This summer he retired from the pastorate
of the Park Lake Presbyterian Church in Orlando, to which
he went twelve years ago from a pastorate in Memphis. He
and Mrs. McCaslin will continue to live in Orlando.
Mabel Franklin (Mrs. J. M.) Dorton, who lives in Hills-
boro, Tennessee, was not able to come to the reunion, and her
Fifty-Year Certificate was mailed to her with the greetings of
her classmates.
President Lloyd preached the Baccalaureate sermon on
"Have You Been Made Free?" Rev. Dr. Donald A. Spencer,
Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, who
is a Director of the College and who had a daughter in the
graduating class, preached the Commencement Vespers sermon
on "Christ, Our Friend."
More than 350 people attended the Alumni Dinner on
Saturday evening. Five of the six living members of the Fifty
Year Class were present, and a large number of the Twenty-
Five Year Class. Reports of these classes and of the business
meeting of the Alumni Association are given elsewhere in this
issue.
THE ARTISTS SERIES
Charles Laughton will give "An Evening with Charles
Laughton" at the College on November 30. Tickets ($2.00)
may be ordered from Mr. Harry H. Harter, chairman of the
Artists Series Committee.
This will be the only attraction of the Series this year.
The Committee decided to have one program by a distin-
guished and popular artist; and since for a number of years
all the artists have been musicians, it was decided to have a
dramatist. Mr. Laughton is considered one of the outstanding
actors of the present day. The New York Times calls him
"the greatest attraction traveling America today."
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A TWENTY-FIVE YEAR REUNION?
MR. BLACK RETIRES
ASK THE CLASS OF 1928!
We feel that our reunion this past spring was a success.
Since so many were impressed with the way our class celc-
brated, we would like to pass on our methods to any who may
have the task, and, I would add. the pleasure, of making plans
for a class reunion.
"It is of utmost importance to have a local reunion commit-
tee, the chairman of which should he appointed by the
permanent class president. This committee then has the au-
thority to call meetings of local members. This we did in the
fall of last year, and we made plans for the reunion and for
information letters to be sent to each member of the class.
The first letter was mailed January first and had three
purposes: to remind members of the approaching reunion; to
gather personal information, for which a questionnaire was
included; and to enclose a mailing list of all class members.
The responses were enthusiastic and from them was compiled
the second letter, chuck full of personal information. This
letter also asked for suggestions for the reunion program— what
did alumni want most to do when they returned to Maryville?
From the results of that letter was composed the third letter.
It contained the proposed reunion program and other informa-
tion.
The most outstanding events of the reunion were: the first
evening at Dunns ( Maynard, '28 and Kathleen Hunnicutt, '27 )
where we met to renew acquaintance and to discuss what we
could do to help the College; the Class Luncheon Saturday
noon, when Dr. Joseph J. Copeland of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Knoxville, the junior member of the College's Board
of Directors, addressed us most interestingly and purposefully;
the gathering at the Crawfords (John, '27 and America Moore,
'28) that afternoon, which included a beautiful memorial serv-
ice for our five departed members, and a tea for members of
the faculty-of-our-day; the Alumni Banquet, where we had the
largest attendance of any group; the Sunday luncheon, which
included the families of class members; the Sunday afternoon
session at Crawfords, where Dr. Lloyd showed pictures which
included some he made in India of our two missionary class-
mates, Dorothy Ferris and Elsie Gleason.
Every minute of time was filled, and all felt that it was
a happy reunion.
To those who were not able to be with us: We assure
you that you were greatly missed and much talked about. Let
us all remember that we decided to have another reunion, our
thirtieth, in 1958!
Alice Stinecipher Blackburn
Reunion Chairman
PRESIDENT LLOYD HONORED
The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) was
conferred upon President Lloyd by the University of Chatta-
nooga on June 8. In the citation read, Dr. Lloyd was called
"the dean of Tennessee college executives." No one else now
serving as president of a Tennessee college or university was
in office when Dr. Lloyd became president of Maryville Col-
lege in 1930. President Lockmiller of the University, in his
formal statement, referred to Dr. Lloyd as "son as well as
leader of our fine sister institution, distinguished clergyman
and scholar, and champion of Christian education at home and
abroad."
Dr. Lloyd received the Doctor of Laws degree- also from
Centre College of Kentucky in 1941. Maryville College
awarded him a Doctor of Divinit) degree in 1929, while he
was still a pastor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Mr. Louis A. Black, Director of Maintenance at Maryville
College since December 1931, retired from active service on
October 1, 1953. lie pissed the College's official retirement
age of seventy some years ago, but at the request of the Col-
lege has remained in charge of the important maintenance
program until this time.
All Maryville people arc-
glad that he plans to live at
his present residence, 711
Hillside Avenue, jusl oil the
campus. His daughter
Marion and her live-year-old
son Buddy live there with
him.
Mrs. Black ( the former
Susan Allen Green) retired
as Professor of Biology in
1950, after forty-four years
of service. She is at present
in a nursing home in Alcoa
but is cheerful and friendly
as always when friends call
to see her. She and Mr.
Black were married on De-
cember 30, 1946. Mr. Black's
period of sen-ice at the Col-
lege is twenty-two years, just half that of Mrs. Black. Thus,
the two of them have given a total of sixty-six years to the
College.
Before coming to Maryville College in 1931, Mr. Black
had a long and successful experience as an administrator and
a religious leader, chiefly as a general secretary in the YMCA.
During the four years just preceding 1931 he was Executive
Secretary of the Estes Park Conference in Colorado.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Meiselwitz came to Maryville
College in the fall of 1929 and therefore this fall becomes a
member of the Twenty-Five Year Club.
She is a native of Wis-
consin and both her bache-
lor's and master's degrees are
from the University of Wis-
consin. She came to Mary-
ville through the recom-
mendation of her sister,
Elvera Meiselwitz, who
taught Home Economics at
Maryville College from 1925
to 1930. ( Elvera is now Mrs.
R. J. Mullen, of Webster
Groves, Missouri. )
Miss Gertrude Meisel-
witz became head of the
work in Home Economics upon the resignation of Miss Clara
Jane Brown in 1935 and still holds that position. Her teach-
ing field is foods and nutrition.
At the first meeting of the Faculty Club, on October 5,
recognition was taken of Miss Meiselwitz' twenty-five years'
service and she was presented with the traditional twenty-five
roses.
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MARRIAGES
Clara Robison, '27, to Harry Salis, August 11, 1953, in
Juneau, Alaska.
Hubert Dean Stone, ex '46, to Agnes Shirley, September
12, 1953, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Laura Jane Trotter, '46, to Louis S. Rullman, July 19,
1953, in Maryville.
John Craig, Jr., '47, to Betty Richards, August 2, 1952.
Carleen Stephens, '47, to Rev. Clyde F. Whitehead,
August 24, 1953, in Maryville.
Rev. George William Vogel, Jr., '48, to Eugenia Jackson,
'54, August 6, 1953, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mary Jane Blizzard, ex '49, to George L. Thurston, July
5, 1952.
Grady Carroll, '50, to Betty Simmons Blackwelder, August
9, 1953, in Polkton, North Carolina.
Margaret A. Newland, '50, to Ensign William W. Nish,
'50, June 7, 1953.
Mary Matlock Watt, '50, to Theodore Flaherty, June 25,
1953, at Greenback, Tennessee.
George P. Barber, '51, to Gail Patricia Crislip, August 9,
1953, in Rock Creek, Ohio.
Leon Berrong, '51, to Mary Lynn Lambert, ex '53, Sep-
tember 10, 1953, in Maryville.
Dorothy Anne Higdon, '51 to John William Laney, '51,
August 18, 1953, in Mayfield, Kentucky.
James E. Ladiam, '51, to Rudi JoAnn Phillipps, August 24,
1953, in Warrendale, Pennsylvania.
Ruth Mason, '51, to Clarence Reaser, '52, June 6, 1953, in
Riverton, New Jersey.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, '51, to Pfc. Maynard A.
Noble, ex '51, July 21, 1953, at La Rochelle, France.
Lt. (j.g. ) James P. Thurston, '51, to Betty Hyman, ex '53,
February, 1953, in Clearwater, Florida.
William D. V'arker, '51, to Eugenia Harris, August 26,
1953, in Macon, Georgia.
Mary Virginia Wills, '51, to Robert A. Larson, '51, June
6, 1953, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Rosa Lynn Law, ex '51 to S/Sgt. Richard Mather Bacon,
August 8, 1953, in Maryville.
George William Day, '52, to Helen Mary Crose, July 17,
1953, in San Anselmo, California.
Jessie Dye, '52, to Branin Boyd, '52, June 23, 1953, in
Dover, New Jersey.
Nina Ruth Gillette, '52, to David Lee Thomas, '54, June
13, 1953, in Vineland, New Jersey.
Joy Hickman, '52, to Kennedy Upham, '52, June 13, 1953,
in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
June Hood, '52, to Charles Huffman, '49, June 11, 1953,
in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Thomas L. Jones, '52, to Marilyn Ruth Mitchell, August
29, 1953, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Margaret Ann Kettles, '52, to Miles Owen Weaver, July
11, 1953, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Nancy Carolyn Marshall, '52, to Joseph Michael Bender,
'53, September 5, 1953, in Lenoir City, Tennessee.
Betsy Moore, '52, to J. A. Cameron, '51, September 17,
1953, in Decatur, Georgia.
Helen Joan Sims, '52, to Donald C. Stilwell, '52, in
Evanston, Illinois.
Beryl Stewart, '52, to Ensign Archie Swarztrauber, '51,
June 27, 1953.
Margaret Anne Warren, '52, to Harold L. Glad, '53,
August 28, 1953, in Selma, Alabama.
LaDonna Baylor, '53, to Harry G. (Hap) Brahams, '50,
June 20, 1953, in Sturgis, Michigan.
Vernon C. Bowman, '53, to Juanita Fugate, September 9,
1953.
Mildred Cooper, '53, to William N. Robinson, '52, August
2, 1953, in Hyde Park, New York.
Ruth Carroll Cross, '53, to Charles Edward Reid, '53, May
27, 1953, in Munford, Tennessee.
Beverly Ruth Edwards, '53, to John Willis Bright, III, ex
'53, September 12, 1953, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
William Homer Garren, Jr., '53, to Beverly Ann Brooks,
ex '56, August 29, 1953, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Patricia Lewis, '53, to Paul S. Kidder, '51, August 26,
1953, in Union, Mississippi.
Dorothy Lee Miller, '53, to Bill A. Trentham, April 9,
1953.
William B. Short, '53, to Kathy Morrison, ex '55, June 27,
1953.
Sue Carson Summers, '53, to David Harold Grubbs, '51,
June 24, 1953.
Arthur VanAlstyne, '53, to Elizabeth Ann Turk, June 6,
1953, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Fannie Weber, '53, to Richard E. Heimlich, September 13.
Barbara Ann Young, '53, to Howard Dewey Gress, Jr., '53,
September 24, 1953.
Martha Coyner, ex '53, to Guilford Andrew Kyker (son
of Ethel' Sharp Kyker, '25), August 8, 1953, in Knoxville, Ten-
nessee.
John Gill, ex '53, to Helen Elayne Talley, August 22, 1953,
at East Dubuque, Illinois.
Lee Hodgson, '55, to Leo Neff, '56, August 22, 1953, in
Dayton, Ohio.
Romeo Franklin Greene, ex '55, to Thelma Lois Jackson,
June 29, 1953, in Maryville.
Beverly Kingston, ex '55, to Ralph Shear, July 11, 1953, in
Springville, New York.
Marcia McKinney, ex '55, to Harvey Rex Nowell, August
29, 1953, in Jacksonville, Florida.
Gerry Moore, ex '55, to Corbett Humphrey, July. 17, 1953,
in Beuchel, Kentucky.
Hazel Ann Robinson, ex '55, to Robert W. Imes, June 11,
1953, in Maryville.
Leonard Lee, '56, to Nancy Harmon, May 22, 1953, in
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Elaine Barker, ex '55, to Donald T. Etheridge, ex '55,
June 27, 1953, in Bonny Blue, Virginia.
Roberta J. Hadley, ex '55, to Louis Kunis, August 17,
1953, in Kingsland, Georgia.
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FOOTBALL
The prospects for the football season look "pretty good,"
to quote Coach Honaker. The squad of forty-five is not as
large as in some years and is composed chiefly of sophomores
and freshmen, but it is a heavier squad than usual. There are
eighteen lettermen back. Kenneth Shepard is captain and
Jerry King is alternate captain. The schedule of games is
given below.
On September 17 a banquet was given in Pearsons Dining
Hall for the squad by the "boosters" in the community. The
coaches and senior class members of all the high school teams
in Blount County also were invited. About 275 persons were
present. Earl Blazer, '30, was chairman; "Brute" Crow, '30,
was toastmaster, and among the speakers were President Lloyd,
Coach Honaker, and Dr. Proffitt, president of the Alumni
Association.
1953 Schedule
September 19 Hiwassee College Home
September 26 State College, Jacksonville, Ala Away
October 3 Centre College Home
October 10 East Tennessee State College Home
October 17 Emory and Henry College Away
October 24 Newberry College (S. Car.) Homecoming
November 7 Carson-Newman College Home
November 14 Concord State College (W. Va.) Away
After weeks of beautiful weather it rained the Saturday
of the first game, and it was necessary to postpone it until
Monday, September 21, for the sake of the field and the
spectators. The postponement did not seem to disturb the
team in any way as they won the game 55 to 6.
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FACULTY NEWS
On June 3 Mr. Cooper, Associate Professor of French,
received the Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. He has
returned to the College this fall after being on leave last year
to teach at the University of Tennessee.
Mr. Reber, Assistant Professor of German, received his
M.A. degree from Indiana University in September.
Mr. Bushing, Assistant Professor of English, has returned
to full-time teaching after being on leave last year for gradu-
ate study at the University of Tennessee.
Miss Blair, Assistant Professor of English, and Mrs. Stepp,
Instructor in Home Economics, are on leave this year for
graduate study.
Members of the faculty were engaged in graduate study
during the summer as follows: Mr. Harter (music) and Mr.
Schwam (Spanish) in New York City; Mr. Johnson (Physical
Education) and Mr. Reber (German) at Indiana University;
Mr. Pieper (Political Science) and Miss Walker (Economics)
at the University of North Carolina; Miss Rodemann ( Edu-
cation) at George Peabody College; Mr. Davis (Physical Edu-
cation) at the coaching school of the Tennessee State Athletic-
Association.
Dr. Briggs taught at Western Carolina College, Dr. Barker
at Furman University, and Dr. Griffitts and Mrs. Kramer at
the University of Tennessee.
President Lloyd was in Europe for three weeks during
August, to attend a meeting of the Executive Committee of
the World Presbyterian Alliance at Woudschoten, Holland.
Before the meeting he spent ten days traveling through the
Scandinavian countries and Finland.
Mr. and Mrs. Beard (art) traveled extensively in Europe,
and in October Mr. Beard will have an exhibit of the paintings
and sketches he did while abroad; Miss Davies, Miss Meisel-
witz, and Mrs. Ralph Colbert (now Executive Editor and
General Manager of the Maryville-Alcoa Daily Times) took a
month's National Education Association tour of Mexico; Miss
Crews also visited Mexico; the Cases took a camping trip to
Yellowstone and other national parks; the Walkers and Miss
Vawter drove to California as did Miss Guss and her family;
the Queeners visited in New Mexico; Miss Hunter, Miss Light-
foot, Miss Jackson, and Miss Henry spent two weeks in
Jamaica; Miss Wilkinson toured the French areas of eastern
Canada. Miss Craven again directed at the Camden Hills
Theater, in Maine; Dr. Buchanan was business manager of a
boys' camp in North Carolina; Miss Sellick did concert singing
at a summer resort in New York State; Mr. Fisher preached
every Sunday during the summer; Coach Honaker and Mrs.
Largen attended a workshop held by the State Department of
Education to write a new manual of Physical Education for
the State of Tennessee; Miss Crews, Florence Butman, '37, and
another member of the local chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma,
education fraternity, were invited to the regional meeting of
the organization in New Orleans to give a musical skit at one
of the evening meetings; Dr. and Mrs. Barker attended the
Southern Hazen Conference, held August 19 to 25 at Warren
Wilson College, as representatives of Maryville College.
And so the faculty spent varied and busy summers.
Walter Morton retired at the end of June after twenty-
one years on the maintenance staff. He and Mrs. Morton
continue to live in Maryville and to work at the Sunnybrook
Mission where they have long given very effective service.
Mrs. L. L. Williams resigned her position in the College
Maid Shop to become a "full-time housewife." She has
worked in the Maid Shop since 1942 and has been manager
since Mrs. McMurray's death in 1949.
Miss Home, after seventeen years on the Maryville College
music faculty, resigned to accept a position at Butler Uni-
versity, Indianapolis. Mrs. Home, part-time Assistant in the
Alumni Office since 1949, of course resigned to go with her
daughter. Mr. Hughes is now organist and choir director at
the Peachtree Christian Church, Atlanta.
Mrs. Eaddy, whose husband graduated in May, has gone
with him to Charleston, West Virginia, where he is on the
staff of the First Presbyterian Church. Miss Lloyd is study-
ing at Eastman School of Music this year. Mrs. Stewart did
not return this year because of the illness of her son. Mrs.
Moore accepted a position as a sorority chaperon at the State
College of Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Kiger have gone to Beaumont, California, to
make their home.
Mr. Ainsworth, formerly of the Social Sciences faculty,
visited the campus at the opening of college. He is stationed
at Ft. McNair, serving as an Intelligence Analyst in the
Pentagon.
Mrs. Frank Potter, formerly Josephine Hunter, a member
of the dormitory staff and part-time teacher between 1932 and
1936, has written a book "No One Fell Overboard," published
in September, about the eleven-month boat trip she and her
husband and four children took from Boston to Pittsburgh.
Miss Mary M. Hallock, Head of Baldwin Hall from 1936
to 1949, visited on the campus for a few days in September.
She continues to make her home in Monroe City, Missouri.
THE FALL PLAY
"Bell, Book, and Candle," a delightful comedy about
modern witchcraft by John Van Druten, will be given by the
Maryville College Playhouse on November 20 and 21. Ad-
dress Miss Kathleen Craven or the Playhouse for tickets.
THE MESSIAH
The 1953 performance of "The Messiah" will be given on
Sunday afternoon December 6 at three o'clock. It will be
given in the Alumni Gymnasium for the eighth and we expect
the last time. The 1946 performance was in the Elizabeth R.
Voorhees Chapel and the 1954 performance will be in the
Samuel Tyndale Wilson Chapel.
The annual Christmas Vespers will be held in the Gym-
nasium on December 13 at seven o'clock.
The first semester ends and College closes for the
Christmas holidays on December 18.
THE PROTESTANT HOUR
The Presbyterian USA Series of the Protestant Radio Hour
runs from October 4 through November 29. Other denomi-
nations have the other Sundays in the year. The Hour is
broadcast over stations in at least twenty-nine of the States.
Six of the nine ministers on the series this fall have a con-
nection with Maryville College. Three are Directors: Rev.
Dr. W. Wood Duff, of Nashville, October 4; Rev. Dr. Herman
L. Turner, of Atlanta, October 18; Rev. Dr. Donald A. Spencer,
of Chattanooga, October 25.
President Lloyd preaches on November 8; Rev. Dr. Earle
W. Crawford, '35, of Wichita Falls, Texas, on October 11;
and Rev. Dr. Francis W. Pritchard, new pastor of the New
Providence Church, Maryville, on November 22.
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Ruth E. Blackburn
James A. Bloy
Ralph H. Moore
Mrs. L. E. Sperry
Carolyn V. Symmes
Virginia Turrentine
Amelia Jo Wier
E. Newell Witherspoon
NEW FACULTY AND STAFF
The following new faculty and staff members have been
appointed for 1953-1954:
Ruth E. Blackburn, B.S., Instructor in Biology. She gradu-
ated from Maryville College last year, has been doing summer
graduate work at the University of Chicago, lives in Knoxville,
and is a member of a family long identified with Maryville and
the College.
James A. Bloy, B.A., B.M.. M.M., of Wisconsin, Instructor
in Music (piano, organ, and music literature). His degrees
are from North Central College, Illinois, and Eastman School
of Music.
Mrs. John A. Davis, Assistant in the Personnel Office. Mrs.
Davis, wife of Coach Davis, is returning to the position she
held in 1950-1951.
Mrs. F. A. Griffitts, B.A., Assistant in the Alumni Office.
Mrs. Griffitts is a graduate of Maryville College (Ruby Miller,
'32) and the wife of Professor Griffitts. She is working part
time in the Alumni Office to lill the vacancy left by the resig-
nation of Mrs. Home.
Jane I. Johnson, B.A., M.A., of Minnesota, Instructor in
Music (piano, special studies). Her degrees are from Carleton
College, Minnesota, and the Eastman School of Music.
Anna C. McMillan, B.A., of Georgia, Instructor in Music
(piano). She is a graduate of Georgia State College for
Women and has been studying at Eastman School ot Music.
Ralph II. Moore, B.S., M.A., of Ohio, Instructor in Music
(band and orchestra, wind instruments). He is a graduate ol
Western Reserve University and has Studied also at the Cleve-
land Institute of Music. He has had experience in high school
teaching and comes to Maryville from the faculty of Houghton
College. New York.
Mrs. Moore, B.A., B.S., Instructor in Music (piano). Mrs.
Moore is a graduate of the College of Wooster and of Kent
State University, Ohio, and will teach individual lessons in
piano.
Mrs. Thomas Purnell, of Tennessee, Assistant to the Head
of Pearsons Hall. She was formerly on the staff of the Monroe
Hardy Children's Home in Nashville.
Mrs. J. E. Spears, of Tennessee, Assistant to the Head of
Baldwin Hall. Mrs. Spears was on the staff at Tusculum Col-
lege and prior to that was assistant to the director of a YWCA
residence in Washington, D. C.
Mrs. L. E. Sperry, B.S., of Missouri, Instructor in Home
Economics. Mrs. Sperry is a graduate of Southeast Missouri
State College and has been in Maryville since her husband
was transferred to the McGhee Tyson Air Base here.
Carolyn V. Symmes, B.A., of New Jersey, Editorial Super-
visor of Special Studies and Assistant in the Library. Miss
Symmes, who was graduated from Maryville College last year,
was a student assistant in the Library- for two and a half years.
Virginia Eurrentine, B.A., M.A.L.S., of Tennessee. Li-
brarian. She attended Maryville College for one year. 1935-
1936, and was graduated from the University of Tennessee and
George Peabody College for Teachers. For eight years she
has been on the library staff of Florida State University, Talla-
hassee.
Amelia Jo Wier, B.A., M.A., of Tennessee. Assistant Pro-
fessor ol English. Hit degrees are from Birmingham Southern
College and the University of Alabama, and she has been
teaching at the University of Tennessee,
/.'. \cucll Witherspoon. B.A., of Tennessee, Instructor in
Economies and Business Administration. Mr. Witherspoon
was graduated from Maryville College in 1952 and has
studying at V.mderbilt University during the past year.
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ALUMNI CLUBS
The Philadelphia Maryville College Club held a dinner
meeting on Saturday evening, April 18, at the Covenant Pres-
byterian Church, where the next day the A Cappella Choir
were to make the first of their 1953 Choir Trip appearances.
The Club provided dinner for the Choir and the Choir pro-
vided the program for the meeting. Clyde W. Powell, '38,
1032 Eighth Avenue, Folsom, Pennsylvania, was elected chair-
man, succeeding George L. Hunt, '40.
The Ohio Valley Maryville College Club held a picnic
on July 11 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hunt, '36
(Eleanor Johnson, '35) in Kenwood, a suburb of Cincinnati.
Ray Swartzback, '47, was elected chairman, succeeding Ruth
E. Meineke, '44, and Ruth E. Moore, '39, was elected secretary-
treasurer. President Lloyd arranged his schedule so that he
could stop in Cincinnati for the meeting en route to Chicago.
The Club also met informally on Tuesday evening, April 28,
when the Choir sang at the Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church
in Cincinnati, the last of the 1953 Choir Trip appearances.
If you live in the Cincinnati area and are not on the mailing
list of the Ohio Valley Club, send your name and address to
the new secretary, Miss Ruth E. Moore, 430 Loveland Avenue,
Loveland, Ohio.
The alumni in the Chicago area held a dinner meeting
on April 30 at the Tower Club. Horace Dawson, '18, was
elected chairman, to succeed Glen A. Lloyd, '18. President
Lloyd was in Chicago for a meeting of the Presbyterian Col-
lege Union and so was able to be present and to give a report
on the College.
About fifty alumni and friends of the College attended
the Maryville College Breakfast at the Presbyterian General
Assembly in Minneapolis last May. The General Assembly is
to meet in Detroit in May, 1954, and all alumni in the Detroit
area as well as those attending the General Assembly are
cordially invited. Time and place will be announced in the
April Bulletin and on posters at General Assembly.
A RARE GIFT
In August Maryville College received a set of very
excellent photographic reproductions of the murals of the
Horyuji Temple, considered the highest example of Japan's
fine arts, as a gift from the Japanese University Accreditation
Association. In a letter to President Lloyd, Dr. Takashi Hashi-
moto, President of the Japanese University Accreditation Associ-
ation, explained that the member institutions of the Association
wished to express in some way their sense of gratitude to
American universities and colleges for their sympathy and as-
sistance to Japanese higher education since the close of the
war.
The universities and colleges of Japan contributed 240 of
these sets of photographs, and Maryville College was chosen
as one of the 240 American colleges and universities to receive
one.
The photographs will be exhibited in the Gallery of the
Fine Arts Center in January. They cannot be displayed sooner
because other exhibits have been booked for the entire first
semester.
FRED HOPE FUND
The 1953-1954 subscriptions to the Fred Hope Fund will
be taken at the Chapel service on October 2. For the second
successive year the Fund will be sent to Dorothy Lee Ferris,
M. D., '28, for use in connection with her work as head of the
Frances Newton Hospital, Ferozepore, India. The special
speaker on October 2 will be Miss Margaret Flory, Secretary
for Student Work, Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions,
who during the present year on a trip around the world visited
Dorothy Ferris in India. Last year the Fred Hope Fund gift
to the work of Dr. Ferris was $1,000, and a special additional
gift of $800 was sent to purchase a shadowless light for her
operating room.
Biography of Fred Hope
The College has received seven hundred copies of a
biography of Dr. Fred H. Hope, '06, famous Maryville College
missionary to West Africa, who died in 1946. It is a book of
208 pages, written by a kinswoman, Mrs. Josephine Hope
Westervelt, of Columbia, South Carolina. Much of the ma-
terial is based on the news filled letters he wrote to his mother
over a period of many years.
The biography is a readable, gripping account of the life
and work of one of the most consecrated and practical mis-
sionaries of our generation. It tells the story of Fred Hope's
student days at Maryville College, his call and going to the
foreign mission field, of his building and managing the great
Frank James Industrial School at Elat in the Cameroun, of his
thrilling experiences in Africa, his joys and sorrows, and his
heroic service for Christ and humanity.
Mrs. Westervelt is anxious that the book be a force not
only for preserving the memory of Fred Hope, but for winning
young people to Christ and to missionary service.
For $1.00 it will be sent postpaid by the Maryville College
Book Store. All money received will be turned over to the
Fred Hope Fund, which is subscribed by students and faculty
each year and is named for Fred Hope. Address orders to
the Maryville College Book Store, Maryville, Tennessee.
THE FEBRUARY MEETINGS
The Leader of the 1954 February Meetings will be the
Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Copeland, Pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church, Knoxville. Dr. Copeland came to Knoxville in 1952
from the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church, Denton,
Texas. He is a graduate of Trinity University, Texas, and of
McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago. A year ago he
was elected to the Board of Directors of Maryville College.
The Meetings will be held from February 10 to 18.
Please note that this date is a week later than that given in
the college catalog.
If the building program continues as planned, the 1954
February Meetings will be held in the Samuel Tyndale Wilson
Chapel. This will be an auspicious way to inaugurate the
Chapel and a wonderful "lift" to the Meetings.
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WILLARD HOUSE
In March, 1951, President and Mrs. Lloyd moved from
Willard House, where they had lived from the time they came
to Maryville in 1930, to Morningside in the College Woods.
The alumni magazine carried a story of that in April 1951.
Since that time Willard House has been unoccupied, except
for a considerable part of the Lloyds' furniture ( Morningside
was left furnished by Mrs. John Walker). It has been in
the plans to use it in connection with the residence or academic
program of the College.
During the past summer some remodeling and consider-
able repairing and painting have been done. The house has
been reopened as a sort of women's campus center. (Just the
right descriptive name has not yet been discovered. ) Much of
the Lloyd's furniture is being put into service again.
The house is occupied by Miss Frances Massey, Dean of
Women, who has an apartment on the first floor and is in
charge; Mrs. George H. Strick, Director of the Student Center;
and two new members of the music faculty, Miss Anna Mc-
Millan and Miss Jane Johnson. The two front rooms upstairs
are to be guest rooms and the parlors downstairs are available
for conferences.
There is a plaque on the front porch which states that the
house was built in 1890, as a home for the President, through
a gift from Mrs. Sylvester Willard, of Auburn, New York, in
memory of her husband. Until the present time it has always
been known as "The President's Home." Whether it will some
day be returned to such service is a matter for future decision.
But at present it promises to render a useful service as a
women's campus center.
SUMMER ON THE CAMPUS
Although there were no students here during the summer
and the campus seemed quiet, it really was a very busy place.
From June 14 to 20, the inter-racial Summer Leadership Train-
ing School of the South, jointly conducted by the Presbyterian
Boards of Christian Education and National Missions, was held
at the College for the third year. Approximately two hundred
people from fifteen states attended. The next week the
Synod, Synodical Society, and Westminster Fellowship of
Mid-South met on the campus as usual, and for the first time
the Synod of Tennessee of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S.
met with them. The two Synods held separate business meet-
ings but joined in the conference classes and popular meetings,
and, of course, shared the fellowship of dormitory life. About
four hundred people attended, with many more coming to the
open evening meetings at which distinguished church leaders
spoke. Immediately following this, the Laymen's Council of
Mid-South held a week-end meeting. A Young People's Con-
ference from June 29 to July 4, directed by James R. Smith,
'35, ended the summer conferences.
Just as soon as they were over, the maintenance crew
moved in and started the round of repairs, painting, papering,
etc., which are necessary each year.
And as the Smoky Mountains become more and more
popular with vacationists, more and more visitors stop to see
the College. Alumni might suggest to their friends planning
a trip to the Smokies that it would be a wonderful opportunity
to see a good College.
Thus to the staff who are here during the summer the
quiet is only comparative.
COMPETITIONS IN MUSIC AND ART
For the third year, the Fine Arts Division, on March 28,
conducted competitions in piano, voice, and art. Throughout
a whole day high school seniors from East Tennessee and
beyond performed in the Music Hall of the Fine Arts Center.
The judges decided in favor of the following three competitors
and the scholarship awards indicated have been made avail-
able to them:
Art ($100): Mr. Bobby Hassler, Birmingham, Alabama
Piano ($200): Miss Mary Louise Ogden, Knoxville, Tenn.
Voice ( $200 ) : Miss Gayle Wolfe, Knoxville, Tenn.
The awards listed above are provided by friends of the
College. The winners may attend any approved institution.
If they enroll at Maryville, the College adds $100 to each.
Reports at the end of September shows that Mary Louise
Ogden, winner of the piano competition, is enrolled at Mary-
ville College, and Gayle Wolfe, winner of the voice com-
petition, is at the University of Tennessee. Bobby Hassler,
winner in art, has not yet reported.
These competitions will be held again in the spring of
1954. The exact dates have not been set. The competitors
in art can mail their material in and therefore do not have to
come to Maryville; the competitors in music must appear at
the College on the day set. It is a good experience and a good
opportunity, and alumni who know of high school seniors who
have ability in these fields, are asked to suggest to them that
they write Miss Katharine C. Davies, Chairman of the Division
of Fine Arts, Maryville College, for information.
It will be of intcri'st to alumni to know that the total
Dumber of applicants for work in music and art is overflowing
the time of our teachers. The applicants are both college
students and pupils from the community.
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THE CLASS OF 1953 REPORTS
(See also Marriages)
William C. Addy— At Fort Dix, New Jersey for sixteen
weeks of basic training with Co. D., 47th Infantry Regiment,
U. S. Army.
Shirley Atwell Marble— Teaching third grade at the Eglin
Air Force Base Elementary School in Valpariso, Florida.
Rosemary Avery— Teaching fourth grade in Green Camp,
Ohio.
LaDonna Baylor Brahams— Living in Yakima, Washington,
where her husband is associate pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church.
Joseph M Bender— Stationed with the Marine Corps in
Quantico, Virginia.
Ruth E. Blackburn— Instructor in Biology at Maryville Col-
lege.
Agnes Ruth Bond— Teaching in a government school near
her home in Bethel, Oklahoma.
A. Kenneth Bowers— Teaching fifth grade in Hopewell,
New Jersey.
Vernon C. Bowman— Attending Louisville Presbyterian
Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.
Don Brakebill— Attending Westminster Choir College,
Princeton, New Jersey.
Sarah H. Brown— Graduate assistant in history at the Uni-
versity of Tennessee.
Hubert G. Buehler— Medical student at Vanderbilt Uni-
versity.
Theron H. Burchfield— Employed at the Aluminum Com-
pany in Alcoa.
Ruth E. Burgos— Studying for a master's degree in Chris-
tian Education at Union Theological Seminary in New York
City.
James C. Campbell—Stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky
with the 3rd Armored Division, U. S. Army.
George Carpenter— Attending Louisville Theological Semi-
nary.
Florence I. Clark— Teaching art at South Potomac Junior
High School in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Martha Lou Code— Teaching at Maury High School in
Dandridge, Tennessee.
Robert A. Coles— Attending McCormick Theological Semi-
nary, Chicago.
Dorothy Ann Coo/ey— Dietetic internship at Shadyside Hos-
pital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mildred Cooper Robinson— Studying for a master's degree
in Christian Education at Union Theological Seminary in New
York City.
Ruth Cross Reid— Keeping house and working in Princeton,
New Jersey while Charles is in seminary.
Richard O. Dart— Has been in service since July.
Sara E. Drum— Teaching grades one, two and three in
Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Joan Duerig— Teaching in Dover, Ohio.
Jack Durant— Has a graduate assistantship at the University
of Tennessee.
Conrad Eaddy— Minister of Music of the First Presbyterian
Church in Charleston, West Virginia.
Beverly Edwards Bright— Typist and Chief Mail Clerk at
the University of Syracuse, New York, where John is studying
forestry.
Nancy Ferguson — Reservationist and ticket agent for
Capital Airlines in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Emerson C. Flurkey— Working at Weirton Steel Company
in New Cumberland, West Virginia; plans to enter the Uni-
versity of Tennessee School of Medicine in March.
David Foskcy— Working as Claims Investigator for Liberty
Mutual Insurance Company, and living in Decatur, Georgia.
Homer Garren— Working for the Aluminum Company of
America in Lafayette, Indiana.
Bobby Gillenwater— Working in the office of an insurance
company in Maryville.
Harold Glad— Attending Columbia University in New York
City working toward a master's degree in physical education.
Grace Ann Greenawalt— Teaching Spanish and Latin at
Wasatch Academy, Mt. Pleasant, Utah and also serving as
house mother of Lincoln Dormitory. Wasatch is a Presbyterian
National Mission school. She and Carol Cornell, '54, attended
summer school at the University of Mexico.
Howard D. Gress— 2nd Lieut, in the Marine Corps.
Mary Jane Hahn— Is Director of Christian Education in the
Presbyterian Larger Parish of Dandridge, St. Paul and White
Pine, Tennessee.
Betty Hammers-On the staff of the Y.W.C.A. in York,
Pennsylvania serving as Program and Membership Director.
Arthur Hat/lock— Attending Southwestern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary in Forth Worth, Texas.
David Helwig— Working in the maps and surveys depart-
ment of the TVA in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Mary Ann Hicks— Doing graduate study at Union Seminary
in New York.
Gloria Ann Hineman— Teaching fourth grade in Parkin,
Arkansas.
Edwin Van Holland— Doing graduate study in English at
Indiana University, where he has a teaching fellowship.
Doris Holt de Nagy— Living in North Bend, Oregon. Bruce
is in military service.
Roberta James— Employed in the Personnel Department of
the General Chemical Division of the Allied Chemical and Dye
Corporation in New York.
Judy Johnson— Reservationist in the main office of Capital
Airlines in Washington, D. C.
Joyce Kaebnick— Student at McCormick Theological Semi-
nary.
Karole Kapp Leech— Keeping house in Verona, Pennsyl-
vania.
Joyce Keppel— Beginning a year of internship in dietetics
at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond.
Richard Kerr— Entering Navy Officer Candidate School at
Newport, Rhode Island, in November.
Peggy Ann Kessler— Doing graduate work in Botany at the
University of North Carolina where she has a graduate as-
sistantship.
Ann C. Kirkpatrick— -Teaching second grade in Ed. S. Cook
School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sarah Jo (Emert) and Roy Kramer— Living in Ann Arbor,
Michigan where Roy is a graduate student in physical edu-
cation at the University of Michigan.
Charles F. LaRue — Attending McCormick Theological
Seminary.
Mary E. Layton— Employed at John Shillito Company in
Cincinnati.
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Isabel Lettcft— Teaching fourth grade in Haworth, New
Jersey.
Randal LeQuire— In the Army; will be stationed at Fort
Jackson, South Carolina until December.
Patricia Lewis Kidder— Teaching English and social studies
in the seventh and eighth grades in Takoma Park Junior High
School near Washington, D. C.
George C. Lowe— Attending the graduate school of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Clyde E. McCampbell— Ensign in the Navy; a transporta-
tion officer stationed in Japan. He taught at Fulton Junior
High School in Knoxville before going to Japan in March. He
writes that he would appreciate hearing from classmates— ad-
dress him: Com. Fit. Act., Box 40, Navy 3923, c/o F.P.O.,
San Francisco, California.
Mary Edith McMillan— Is a youth worker and kindergarten
teacher in the First Presbyterian Church of Charleston, West
Virginia.
Paid F. Maier— Attending Princeton Theological Seminary.
Lesta Carol Merrick— Is a stenographer for the California
Texas Oil Company in Harrington Park, New Jersey; plans to
do volunteer nursing at the VA hospital.
Paul Merwin—V. S. Navy officer aboard a ship taking
supplies and troops to Europe.
Barbara Ann Miller— Teaching first grade in Kennett
Square, Pennsylvania.
Bruce R. Miller— Attending Princeton Theological Semi-
nary.
Dorothy Lee Miller Tren(/iam-Employed as secretary in
a doctor's office in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
William S. Morse— Plans to go to graduate school.
Herschel Mosier, Jr.— Beginning his course at McCormick
Seminary.
Mary Sue Munson— Doing graduate study in Biology at
the University of North Carolina.
Barbara Murphy— Dietetic internship at the Veteran's Ad-
ministration Hospital in the Bronx, New York.
Harry Newberry— Employed at the Aluminum Company
in Alcoa.
Richard Nystrom— Attending Western Theological Semi-
nary.
Richard Patton— In the Army.
Shirley Postlethwaite— Attending Princeton Theological
Seminary.
Mary Grace Pritchard— Living at home in Atlanta, Georgia.
Charles E. Reid— Attending Princeton Theological Semi-
nary.
George M. Roberts— In the Army.
Dorothy Jean (Ellis) and Tasher Robinctte-LWing in St.
Louis where Tasker is studying Hospital Administration at
Washington University.
S. Raymond Rose-Ensign in the Navy.
Shirland Etta Roussey- Teaching in the Lynnewood School
in Philadelphia.
Walter B. Rou/cy-Ensign in the Navy, aboard the USS
Bellatrix; home port, San Diego, Calif.
Eugene Russell— Working at the Aluminum Company in
Alcoa; will enter military service in near future.
Kenneth M. Rutherford— Studying at Princeton Theological
Seminary.
Virginia Sanderson— Teaching physical education and hy-
giene at Dumont High School, Dumont, New Jersey.
Barbara Stidluim Schwoebel— Keeping house for Bob and
Mary Hope.
Barbara Scott— Teaching private piano lessons at her home
in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Edward Scott— Attending Union Theological Seminary in
Richmond, Virginia.
Katherine Sellers— Studying at East Carolina College,
Greenville, North Carolina.
Kenneth Shaffer— Employed by Leeds and Northrup Co.,
manufacturers of precision electrical measuring instruments, in
Philadelphia.
William B. Short— A student at Emory University Medical
School.
Gertrude Singleton— Working under the Board of National
Missions at La Marina Neighborhood House, in Mayaguez,
Puerto Rico.
John E. Sloan— "Working"; living in Walland, Tennessee.
Webster Smith— Teaching science in the high school in
Chase City, Virginia.
Catherine Snedeker— Internship in dietetics at the Medical
College of Virginia.
Anne Snider— Teaching fourth grade in Prospect, Ohio.
Mary Jane Spencer— Teaching mathematics and English
in Chattanooga High School— her "alma mater."
Betty Stiles— Working in Tampa, Florida, until January,
when she plans to enter Webber College in Babson Park,
Florida.
Sue Summers Grubb— Assistant librarian in Reserve Book
Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Carolyn Symmes— Editorial Supervisor of Special Studies
and Library Assistant at Maryville College.
Richard Thorn— With the Fifth Armored Division of the
U. S. Army, stationed at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas.
Hugh Walker— Teaching at Hillsboro High School in
Davidson County (Nashville), Tennessee, until he hears from
his Naval commission.
Patricia Walthall— Doing internship in dietetics in Nash-
ville, Tennessee.
Fannie Weber Heimlich— Assistant in the English Depart-
ment library, Ohio State University.
Phyllis West Gillespie— Keeping house in Greensboro,
North Carolina.
Sue White— Employed on general sales force at Shillito's
Department Store in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Curtis Wilbanks— On active duty as an officer candidate
in the USNR; after four months' training will be commissioned
as an ensign.
Sidney Jcanettc Wi/cy-Assistant in charge of Physical
Sciences Library' at the University of Tennessee.
Janet Woods— Teaching second grade in Monroeville,
Pennsylvania.
Lacy Woody— Teaching in the public schools in Detroit,
Michigan.
Barbara Ann Young Gress— With her husband.
Galen R. Work-Attending Lincoln Seminary in Pennsyl-
vania.
John C.'i//. ex '53, was graduated (cum laude) from the
University of Dubuque in June. He will remain at Dubuque
for his seminary training.
Norma Lou Loetz, ex '53-Doing graduate work in speech
at Vanderbilt University.
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Here and There
1899
Mr. and Mrs. Bob McCampbell (Stella Stoffell, Prep. '99),
of Knoxville, will celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary
on October 6. They have three children and four grand-
children, all living in or near Knoxville. Mr. McCampbell is
a brother of Miss Nellie P. McCampbell, '09.
1906
Rev. Dr. W. A. Freidinger was on campus in June to at-
tend the Summer Leadership Training School. He and Mrs.
Freidinger are living in Louisville, Kentucky.
1908
Dr. Burrell O. Raulston, who became Dean Emeritus of
the School of Medicine at the University of Southern California
July 1, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at
the University's commencement exercises in June. The citation
accompanying the degree read, in part: "Since 1929 he has
been a member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at
the University of Southern California where he is Professor of
Medicine and since 1943 Dean of the School. His contribu-
tion to medical education in the United States is significant
and lasting. . . . His dignity and sincerity and his great warmth
and understanding linked with his record of achievement make
him one of the truly great men of medicine."
1912
A. D. Huddleston, ex '12, on August 16 celebrated his
fortieth anniversary with the Aluminum Company of America.
In 1934 he became Manager of Public Relations, Tennessee
Operations, the position he holds today. He is one of the
most widely known men among the officials of the Aluminum
Company. He has been a Director of Maryville College since
1949.
1915
Martha Jackson Singleton, Prep. '15, has been a recent
visitor in Maryville. She graduated in Expression at Maryville
and later finished at the Leland Powers School of the Theatre,
in Boston. She is now a ceramist and miniaturist in ceramics,
and has a studio in Barbourville, Kentucky. She plans to
study in Rome after the first of the year.
1920
Hattie I. Hayes has resigned her teaching position at
Eoline School, Centreville, Alabama, and is now in Sarasota,
Florida, taking treatments at Happiness House Clinic for Polio
and Muscular Ailments.
Mrs. Francis B. Pratt (Mary Louise Hayes) is teaching
in the Alexander Elementary School, Centreville, Alabama.
Cola C. Turner, ex '20, now lives in Auburn, Kentucky.
1922
Dr. Samuel J. Hall is at present Medical Officer in charge
of the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital, Boston, Massachu-
setts. Mrs. Hall is the former Lillian Brandon, '22.
1923
Porter H. Turner last spring was elected General Secretary
of the YMCA in New Haven, Connecticut. He will have
charge of the Yale Night College and will teach a course in
Yale Divinity School besides his work in the YMCA.
Rev. R. H. Gorham, ex '23, who formerly was a pastor in
Pinson, Alabama, is now in Paducah, Kentucky.
1924
"The Sage and the Olive" by Florence Whitfield Barton
was published this summer by the United Lutheran Publica-
tion House. It is the story of Robert Estienne, leader of the
Reformation in France. Mrs. Barton lives in Wharton, Texas.
1927
John C. Crawford, Jr. was appointed Federal District At-
torney for East Tennessee and was sworn in on July 24. He
resigned as Mayor of Maryville in order to accept the position.
1928
In connection with their twenty-fifth reunion, the Class
of 1928 gathered as much information as possible about the
class members. Below are some of the news items which
have not appeared recently in the Alumni Bulletin.
Mary Helen Crowder Barrett ( Mrs. J. T. ) teaches in
Knoxville.
Dr. Walter Buchanan is a teacher and choral director in
Santa Barbara, California.
Lena Strawbridge Carson ( Mrs. Sam ) underwent eye
surgery this past summer and is recuperating nicely.
Lota Dougherty teaches biology and chemistry, and farms
near Maryville.
Louise Baird Edmondson (Mrs. Nat), ex '28, is now living
in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mary Eleanor Welbon Fluhrer, who lives in Davenport,
Iowa, is head of the drama department of a girls' school, di-
rects the Children's Theater, and participates in local plays.
Elsie Gleason, who is auditor for the North India Missions,
arrived in this country in June to spend a year on furlough.
Buena Hixon Graham ( Mrs. Frank ) teaches evening
classes for adults, and also does substitute teaching in the
public schools of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
Genevra McDonald Gurnsey ( Mrs. D. L. ) lives in Lexing-
ton, Massachusetts. The older of her two musically talented
daughters won a four-year full tuition national competitive
scholarship upon graduation from high school.
Vera Bowden Haile (Mrs. Frank) teaches Bible in the
city schools of Knoxville.
Sam Hembree teaches in high school in Roselle, New
Jersey.
Elizabeth Knight Jones (Mrs. Robert), her husband and
family moved last year to Heavener, Oklahoma.
Perry Keyes is principal of a high school in Kingsport,
Tennessee.
Lucy Horton Martin lives in Pasadena, California. She
heads the music departments in two private schools and does
radio work.
Reta McCall is a teacher in one of the schools of Knox
County.
Leland McDonald teaches at Emory and Henry College
in Emory, Virginia.
Pearl Stephenson McDonald (Mrs. Leland) teaches at
Elon College in North Carolina.
Harry Miller is with the power company in Lincoln,
Illinois.
Bland Morrow is one of the directors of the Tennessee
Welfare Department in Nashville.
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Betty Griffes Newberry (Mrs. Wagner) teaches English
at the University of Tennessee. She and her husband and
daughter enjoyed a trip to Europe this past summer.
Catherine "Jimmie" Rule O'Neill (Mrs. J. J.) teaches
voice, directs children's choirs, and takes leading roles in civic
operettas in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Roy Paul works for the Victor Chemical Company, and at
present is in Butte, Montana.
Elizabeth Crow Phillips (Mrs. Joe) received the Ph.D.
degree from the University of Tennessee in August and is
teaching English at Memphis State College, Memphis, Ten-
nessee.
Ethel Proffitt teaches in Asheville, North Carolina.
Stirl Rule, M. D., practices in Covington, Tennessee.
Rev. Arthur Sargis' new address is 4251 Irving Park Road,
Kelvyn Park, Illinois, where he is with the Irving Park YMCA.
Lillian Robinson Spitzer (Mrs. Allen) is a social case
worker with the Catholic Social Service in San Francisco.
Noah Webster and his brother operate a poultry farm
near Harriman, Tennessee. He remains the class batchelor.
Elizabeth Newman Yonan, whose husband died five years
ago, teaches in Gary, Indiana.
Arthur Young is superintendent of schools at Glen Alpine,
North Carolina.
Nelle Watkins Young (Mrs. Arthur) teaches vocational
guidance in Glen Alpine. She entertained the guests at the
Alumni Banquet with two original readings and "brought down
the house."
Rev. William T. Swaim, Jr., ex '28, is Executive Secreary
of the Presbyterian Homes of Central Pennsylvania, six homes
for the aging. This summer he was leader of a workshop
group on "Preparation for Later Maturity" at an international
conference on the Church and Older Persons, in Wisconsin.
Nine daughters and sons of the Class are currently en-
rolled in Maryville College:
Don Allen, son of Ada Burns Allen.
Alice Marie Blackburn, daughter of Alice Stinecipher
Blackburn and Roy, ex '30.
Jim Crawford, son of George Crawford and Mary Daven-
port, '29.
Nancy Dunn, daughter of Maynard Dunn and Kathleen
Hunnicut, '27.
Joan and Elizabeth Frei, daughters of Rev. Ernest Frei.
Kenneth and Lee, sons of Luther Hammond and Phil
Anderson, ex '27.
Sarah Pledger, daughter of Frances Easley Pledger.
1929
Rev. Edward A. Driscoll has taken the position of Execu-
tive Secretary of the Georgia Council of Churches, with head-
quarters in Atlanta.
Elizabeth Campbell (Mrs. G. M.) Woodward and her
husband and two children live in Germantown, Kentucky.
1930
Earl Blazer was an official delegate to the World Metho-
dist Convocation on Evangelism which met in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania in June.
E. C. Crow has been elected chairman of the Blount
County chapter of the American Red Cross. Dr. McClelland,
as past chairman, is 2nd vice chairman, and Miss Clemmie J.
Henry is secretary.
Mrs. R. B. Gafford (Esther Hunter) is a technician at the
Princeton Hospital, Princeton, New Jersey.
Helen B. Gleason is secretary to the dean of Hamma
Divinity School, which is the seminary connected with Witten-
berg College in Ohio.
1931
Col. John Kemp Davis was named surgical consultant to
the Eighth Army surgeon in Korea in March, 1953. He was
previously on the staff of a specialized medical treatment
center near Santa Barbara, California. His wife ( Edith Nash,
'30) continues to live in Santa Barbara.
Colonel William M. Delaney, ex '31, has served with the
Korean Communications Zone since July 1952. His wife and
younger daughter joined him in Japan in August. His older
daughter, Edith Merle Largcn, '48, is Instructor in Physical
Education at the College.
1932
Dr. Lea Callaway was elected Mayor of Maryville and
took office September 1, succeeding John C. Crawford, Jr., '27.
Fred Dolinsck visited the campus during the summer. It
was the first time since his graduation. He now lives in
Lincoln, Illinois.
Mrs. L. B. Ramsey ( Lenore West ) is teaching second
grade in Maryville this year.
1933
James W. Hitch is Regional Representative of the Isotopes
Division of the Atomic Energy Commission for the western
part of the United States. His home is in Maryville but he
spend a great deal of time traveling in the western states
where he contacts hospitals, industrial firms, colleges and uni-
versities which request isotypes or are already using them.
John Tope has been appointed assistant manager of the
Washington office of Republic Steel Corporation.
Nathalia Wright has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellow-
ship and is on leave of absence from the University of Ten-
nessee to write a biography of Horatio Greenough, an early
American sculptor, on which she has been working for some
time.
Kenneth Blades, ex '33, received the M.S. in Ed. degree
from the University of Tennessee in August. He has been a
supervising principal in Blount County for six years. Mrs.
Blades is the former Ruth E. McCampbell, '32.
A. S. Bradshaw, ex '33, who formerly taught at Transly-
vania College in Kentucky, is now on the faculty of the Depart-
ment of Zoology at Ohio Wesleyan University.
1934
Chaplain (Major) Albert G. Karnell in April was trans-
ferred from Sampson Air Force Base to Starlings Air Base,
Kinston, North Carolina. He returned to active duty in
September, 1948 and for a time was stationed in Japan as
Wing Chaplain of the Northern Defense Command.
Rev. Frank R. Mease, who was Director of the Egyptian
Lower Parish in Illinois for several years, has moved to western
Iowa where he is pastor of the Vail and Westside churches.
Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Spilatore (Marjorie Jones) have
moved from New Jersey to Mount Dora, Florida, where they
have built a new home and offices and plan to live perma-
nently.
John Talmage returned in September to Korea after a
furlough spent in this country. He is a missionary under the
Presbyterian Church, U. S.
Rev. Harry P. Walrond has resigned from the pastorate of
the Greencastle, Indiana, Presbyterian Church to accept that
of the First Presbyterian, Kokomo, Indiana.
Mary Sloane Welsh received an M.A. degree from the
University of Tennessee in June. She teaches at Everett High
School, in Maryville.
1935
Lillian Armstrong has moved from Fort Myers to Stuart,
Florida, where she is General Supervisor of the Martin County
Schools.
Mrs. Philip A. DiCarlo (Jessie Kavanagh). Jimmy, and
"Flip" reached Japan April 22nd to join Captain DiCarlo at
Kyushu Field.
Rev. Robert W. Ruybum received the Master of Theology
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degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in May. He is
a pastor in Charlotte, North Carolina.
William Talmage is pastor of the Central Presbyterian
Church in Anniston, Alabama.
1936
Rev. Samuel W. Blizzard, Jr., is on leave from Pennsyl-
vania State College to serve as Visiting Professor of Social
Science at Union Theological Seminary, New York City.
Moses H. Gamble represented Blount County at the recent
Tennessee Constitutional Convention, and since then has
spoken to many of the civic organizations in Maryville and the
County explaining the proposed changes in the State Consti-
tution.
Dr. James B. Wilson has been promoted to the rank of
full professor at Los Angeles State College. His subject fields
are philosophy and sociology.
G. Edward Friar, ex '36, is Secretary of the Department
of State of the State of Tennessee.
1937
Sam Henry Blevens received the degree of Master of
Science in Education from the University of Tennessee in
August. He is principal of Eagleton School in Blount County.
Lynn Crawford has been released from active service with
the Navy and he and his wife ( Janice Graybeal, '42 ) and two
children have returned to their home in Maryville.
Donald D. Hallam is practicing law in Hobbs, New
Mexico.
William M. Whiteley, ex '37, is working as a chemist for
the Dorr Company, in Westport, Connecticut.
1938
Rev. Edward Brubaker, who for five years has been pastor
of the Central Presbyterian Church, Fayetteville, Arkansas, has
accepted a position as pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian
Church and Director of the Westminster Foundation of the
Presbytery of Philadelphia. As Director he will be in charge
of the present work with Presbyterian students at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania and will gradually enlarge the present
staff to develop the work in Drexel, Temple, Presbyterian
Medical Center, and other institutions of higher learning in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Harry G. Priggemeier (Mary Haines), with her
husband and son, visited the College recently for the first
time since her graduation. She lives in Westville, New Jersey.
Rev. Don Rugh, who has been handling relief matters for
the National Christian Council of India on a part-time basis
in connection with his work as a Methodist missionary, last
spring was appointed full time Director of Relief for the N.C.C.
with offices in Delhi. Joy (Joy Pinneo, '39) and the children
were to spend the summer in the hills, and move to Delhi in
September.
Janet Talmage received the degree of Bachelor of Nursing
from Washington University of St. Louis, Missouri, in June.
She is returning to mission work in Korea under the Presby-
terian Church, U. S.
Roy Talmage is Associate Professor of Biology at Rice
Institute. He specializes in isotopes and has spent the past
three summers at Oak Ridge.
1939
Rev. Ernest Crawford, who spent the past year doing
special study at Princeton Seminary, has accepted the pastorate
of the First Presbyterian Church of Kennett, Missouri.
Edith Gillette Grondorf's husband is a senior in San
Francisco Theological Seminary this year. They and their
two children spent the summer up in the lumbering country,
where he worked in a lumber mill and in a National Missions
church.
Mary Jo Husk received the degree of Master of Science
in Education from the University of Tennessee in August. She
teaches at the Sam Houston Elementary School in Maryville.
J. Palmer Mayo, M.D., entered the Army Medical Corps
in February, 1951 and was discharged in December, 1952.
He spent sixteen months in Japan at Camp Eta Jima, where
his wife and daughter joined him. At the present time he is
in a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Kaiser
Foundation Hospitals in Oakland and Vallejo, California.
Rev. and Mrs. Hugh L. Smith and their two children have
moved from Marietta, Georgia, to Cedartown, Georgia, where
Dr. Smith took up his duties as pastor of the First Baptist
Church on August 1.
1940
Captain John N. Badgett has recently been transferred
from Memphis to Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Rev. Richard B. Heydinger has resigned from the pastorate
of First Church, Morrison, Illinois to accept that of the West-
minster Presbyterian Church, Dubuque, Iowa.
Last March Chaplain (Lt. Comdr. ) Earle Vaughn Lyons,
Jr., received front page notice for his participation in the
evacuation of the dead and wounded from a battlefront in
Korea. He has been in naval service since 1944.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reed ( Ernestine Tipton, '36 ) have
moved to Etowah, Tennessee, where Mr. Reed will be band
director in the high school.
Rev. Bruce E. Robinson has resigned his charges in Elys-
burg and Sunbury, Pennsylvania, to accept a call to churches
in Orgas and Whitesville, West Virginia.
One of the recent studies published by the Bureau of
Business Research of West Virginia University was by Dr.
James H. Thompson, Associate Professor of Economics and
Assistant Director of the Bureau, on "Markets and Marketing
Methods of the West Virginia Coal Industry."
Vernon A. Clark, ex '40, visited on the campus this sum-
mer. He is with the Graphic Chemical & Ink Co., Villa Park,
Illinois.
1941
Rev. John B. Astles and his wife, (Agnes Jane Carter, '41)
and family have recently returned from Edinburgh, Scotland,
where he studied for two years at the University of Edin-
burgh. He is now pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church in Covington, Kentucky.
Boydson H. Baird wrote in May that he was finishing his
first year as varsity basketball coach at the College of William
& Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He hopes that "anyone
from Maryville College who comes through here will stop in
and say hello." He had already seen Ken Cooper, '43, and
Les Luxton, ex '40, who is a doctor in Waynesburg, Virginia.
Dr. Margaret Peters Evans is an anaesthesiologist in the
Army Hospital in Toyko, Japan.
Wood Everett received the degree of Master of Science
from the University of Tennessee in August.
Scott Honaker was awarded the degree of Doctor of Edu-
cation from the University of Tennessee in August. This fall
he is teaching in the Department of Education at the Uni-
versity.
Rev. Robert J. Lamont began his ministry of the First
Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, on September 27. He was
formerly pastor of the Narberth Presbyterian Church near
Philadelphia.
Mrs. W. T. Smith, Jr. (Miriam Nethery), her husband
and two sons have recently moved from Iowa City to Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, where Dr. Smith is Associate Professor of
Chemistry at the University of Kentucky.
Rev. Roland Tapp is teaching several classes of Greek
and Hebrew at San Francisco Theological Seminary, where he
is doing graduate study.
David Talmage, ex '41, is Assistant Professor of Medicine
at the School of Medicine of the University of Chicago.
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1942
Dr. Charles S. McCammon is now living in Jackson,
Mississippi.
F. LcRoy McGaha has recently been promoted to Assistant
Road Foreman of Engines for the Cumberland Division, Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, with headquarters at
Cumberland, Maryland.
Rev. Allan G. Moore has moved from Aberdeen, Mary-
land, where he was pastor of the Grove Presbyterian Church,
to Baltimore where he is serving as New Church Developer
for the Presbytery of Baltimore and Executive Secretary of the
Presbyterian Association for Church Extension.
Dr. and Mrs. Quentin Myers ( Elizabeth Ann Huddleston,
'41) and their daughter visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Huddleston, ex '18, (Anne Crane, '15) in Maryville this sum-
mer and then went to Camp Pendleton, California, where Dr.
Myers is to be in Navy service.
Mrs. Cornelius Post ( Katherine Anne Gardner, ex '42),
her husband and three of her four children (Stephen, 18
months, stayed home with his grandmother) visited the campus
during the summer. She wrote to the Alumni Office after
they returned to their home in St. Augustine, Florida: "I was
so glad to see the new chapel underway; my fondest memories
of Maryville are of the morning chapel services."
Rev. and Mrs. Francis Seely (Ruth West, '40) and their
children sailed from Los Angeles, California, in July to return
to their mission post in Thailand, after a year's furlough.
Capt. Fred L. Speer, ex '42, was among the prisoners re-
leased in Korea, and reached San Francisco on September 20.
He was captured late in 1950.
1943
Mrs. Edward Berry ( Lois Roberts, '43 ) and her husband
have returned to Brazil, where they are missionaries of the
Southern Baptist Convention, after spending several months
in Maryville with her family.
Mary Cowan spent the past year in Leeds, England where
she studied at the University of Leeds. She is now on the
faculty of Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, in the department
of textiles and clothing.
Jonathan Edward Kidder, Jr., is on leave of absence from
Washington University to study in Japan on a Fullbright
scholarship. His field is Japanese art. His wife ( Cordelia
Dellinger, '44 ) and son are with him.
Mrs. Howard G. Searles (Patricia Kinne, ex '43) is now
living in Schenectady, New York.
J. D. Williams, ex '43, Assistant Professor of Elementary
Education at the University of Wyoming, is this year studying
toward a doctorate at the University of Tennessee.
1944
Rev. Donald L. Barker, his wife (Eleanor Stout, '46) and
two children are now living in White Pine, Tennessee. Don
is Director of the Presbyterian Larger Parish of Dandridge, St.
Paul and White Pine.
Rev. Lawrence F. Sthreshley, pastor of the Squires Me-
morial Church, Norfolk, Virginia, occupied the pulpit of Second
Presbyterian Church, Arlington, Virginia, during July while
his classmate, Rev. Benjamin A. Lynt, was on vacation.
1945
Lois Collett, who was program director for the YM-YWCA
in Tiffin, Ohio, has, since September 20th, been Adult Pro-
gram Director for the YVVCA in Spokane, Washington. She
writes that she hopes that any Maryville alumni "there or
there-about will look her up."
J. Edward Gates received a Master of Sacred Theology
degree from Harvard University on June 11.
Dr. and Mrs. Trevor G. Williams, ex '45 (Jean Messer,
'47) are now living in Pcnsacola, Florida.
1946
Melba Holder visited the Alumni Office in September.
She reports that she spent the summer of 1952 traveling in
Europe with three Canadian friends. She is now a research
assistant in the department of medicine at Ohio State Uni-
versity, and is also doing graduate study in physiology.
Mrs. Robert E. L. Nesbitt (Verne Allen Feeback, ex '46)
and her husband expect to be at Bad Krctiznoch, Germany, a
year and a half, and "will welcome any old Maryville friends."
1st Lt. June Barton, ex '46, is serving at the Tokyo Army
Hospital in Japan as a surgical nurse, according to work re-
ceived in April. She has been in the Army since May, 1951.
June E. Lane, ex '46, began work in August as secretary
in a doctors clinic in Rockdale, Texas. She was formerly in
the Blount County Health Office.
1947
Rev. Jay R. Bishop has resigned the pastorate of the
Presbyterian Church in Crescent City, Florida to become the
pastor of the Rosewood Avenue Presbyterian Church in Toledo,
Ohio.
On May 1, Rev. John Craig, Jr., began his pastorate of
the First Presbyterian Church, Greenport, Long Island.
Robert C. Dockendorf is working with the Baltimore
League for Crippled Children and Adults in Baltimore, Mary-
land.
Rev, William R. Grosh and his wife (Frances Harris
Grosh, '44) and their two children spent some time in Mary-
ville this summer visiting her family. They have now returned
to Hawaii where he is a missionary of the Episcopal Church.
Rev. A. Thomas Horst and his wife (June Garland, '48)
are now living in Knoxville, where Tom is pastor of the
Washington Presbyterian Church.
Rev. and Mrs. Harold E. Huffman (Ada Yadon, '47) are
living in Greenville, Ohio, where Harold is pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church.
Howard A. Meineke received the Ph.D. degree from the
University of Cincinnati in June.
Rev. Harvey Overton, Jr. is now pastor of a church in
Douglas, Georgia. He was previously in Monticello, Georgia.
Charles Pepper and his wife (Geraldine Hogan, '43) and
their three sons have moved from Oak Ridge, Tennessee to
Harrison, Ohio. Charlie is doing spectrographic work at the
Fernald plant of the National Lead Co. of Ohio.
Mrs. Walter J. Zarnowski (Ruth Broadhead) has been
living in Monterey, California for the past year. Her husband
has been studying Polish in the Army Language School there.
1948
Donald Conkle is working on a Ph. D. degree in Biology
at Ohio State University.
Rev. Charles B. Hoglan, Jr., who is rector of St. Peter's
Episcopal Church in Conway, Arkansas, was guest preacher at
St. Andrew's Church in Maryville one Sunday this summer.
He and his wife (Ruth Duggan, '42) were visiting her family
in Knoxville.
Mary Edna Smith visited on the campus in July on her
way home from Los Gatos, California, where she has been
house mother in the Ming Quong Home for Chinese children.
She planned to spend some time at her home in Grove City,
Pennsylvania, and then to enter the graduate school of the
University of Pittsburgh this fall for a Master's degree in
medical social work.
1949
James B. M. Frost was separated from active duty as
first lieutenant in the U. S. Army in May and is now Field
Scout Executive with the Finger Lakes Council Incorporated,
Number 391, Boy Scouts of America, in Geneva, New York.
He is living in Lyons, New York.
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Mrs. Harold W. Hebele (Violet Summerville) is now
living in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Harold Hunter is editor this year of "The Princeton Semi-
narian," a monthly publication by students of Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary. Wes Miles, '52, was circulation manager
last year.
Juanita J. Johnson is now on the staff of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Delaware.
Carl M. Lazenby received the Bachelor of Divinity degree
from Columbia Theological Seminary in May and is now pastor
of the Presbyterian Church in Jonesville, Louisiana.
Mrs. Robert C. Lodwick ( Hedy Nabholtz ) and her hus-
band are in Condekerque, France (outside of Dunkirk) work-
ing with CIMADE, the youth movement of the French
Reformed Church. They are under appointment of the Over-
seas Interchurch Service of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
for a term of five years.
James A. Newman has accepted the position of principal
of Norris High School, Norris, Tennessee. He had formerly
held a similar position in Blount County.
Charles Nelson Robinson received the Ph.D. degree in
Chemistry from the University of Tennessee in June. He is
now at the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he has a
post doctoral fellowship in organic chemistry and is studying
under Dr. Roger Adams.
Margaret Weaver has recently begun her duties as Cata-
loger on the staff of the Furman University Library in Green-
ville, South Carolina. She writes that while in New York
during the past summer she saw Bob Watkins, ex '50, who
has been working there for almost two years, and Bob Holley,
ex '51, who is working for CBS and rooming with Fred
Sieber, '51.
Madelyn L. Willis's father died more than a year ago and
she has been living at home in Detroit with her mother.
Dr. Joe M. Grubb, ex '49, who received his D.D.S. degree
from the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry in
March, has opened an office in Helena, Arkansas.
Mrs. Irwin Hedrick ( Mary Maude Cunningham, ex '49 )
spent six weeks of the past summer traveling in Europe, visit-
ing Italy, France, Switzerland and England.
1950
Sue Althouse is a senior at McCormick Seminary, working
toward an M.A. in Christian Education.
Kenneth V. Anderson has accepted a call to the Plainwell
Presbyterian Church, Plainwell, Michigan. This is his first
pastorate.
Curtis Barnett is out of the Army and planning to go to
McCormick Seminary this fall. His sister, Carol, '52, has been
working at Milliken University and this year will be on the
teaching staff.
William L. Claghorn received the B.D. degree from Louis-
ville Theological Seminary in June and has assumed his first
pastorate, at the New Harrisburg Presbyterian Church in
Carrolton, Ohio.
Howard Davis has accepted the position of coach at
Hiwassee College in Madisonville, Tennessee.
Leon Dunsmore, who has been with the First Federal
Savings and Loan Bank of Maryville, is now with the Mag-
nesium Company of America, in Knoxville.
Mrs. Theodore Flaherty ( Mary Watt ) and her husband
are in Japan where they will serve as missionaries under the
Reformed Church in America. They will be in Tokyo for a
year of language study.
Aubrey Galyon received the B.D. degree from the Uni-
versity of Chicago Divinity School last spring, and is now
doing graduate work at the University of Chicago.
Louis E. Hofferbert is a Lieutenant j.g. in the Navy, and
may be addressed USS Oakhill (LSD7), c/o Postmaster, New
York, New York.
J. Raymond Holsey was graduated from Princeton Semi-
nary last spring and is now pastor of the Makemie Memorial
Church, Snow Hill, Maryland.
Robert E. Kribbs graduated magna cum laude from
Columbia Theological Seminary in May, and on July 12 was
ordained and installed as pastor of Eusebia and Houston Me-
morial Churches in Blount County. Mrs. Kribbs is the former
Vera Dockendorf, ex '49.
Frank G. Ladner, Jr. received the Bachelor of Divinity
degree from McCormick Theological Seminary on May 7. On
May 10 he was ordained to the ministry and installed as
pastor of the Troy Grove Presbyterian Church, Troy Grove,
Illinois. Rev. James R. Smith, '53, delivered the ordination
sermon.
After graduating from Union Theological Seminary, Rich-
mond, Virginia, Herbert McCallum has taken his first post of
duty as a chaplain at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
Walter Menges, Jr., having completed his course at
Princeton Theological Seminary, has accepted the pastorate of
the Scotchtown Presbyterian Church in Middletown, New York.
Preston Mulford received a Bachelor of Laws degree from
Rutgers University on June 3.
Ensign and Mrs. William W. Nish ( Margaret Newland )
are living in Monterey, California. After graduating from
Officer Candidate School last spring, Bill began a communica-
tions course at the Navy postgraduate school in Monterey.
When Pierce Herbert Parsons received the B.D. degree
from Louisville Theological Seminary in June, he was given
the Charles Pratt Field Work Award as the senior doing the
most outstanding work in the field. He is now Minister of
Education, Riverside Presbyterian Church, Jacksonville, Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Paxton (Anne Gates) visited the Col-
lege briefly on their way from Virginia to Columbia, Missouri,
where Ben is this year teaching speech and doing graduate
work at the University of Missouri.
Richard Ray Rowley was graduated from Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary in May and has taken his first pastorate,
Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Winifred Schaumburg is now Mrs. Ben T. Welch, San
Antonio.
Virginia Schwarz, who has been teaching in Greece, is
this year studying at the University of Wisconsin on a scholar-
ship.
Carroll Stegall, Jr. received the Bachelor of Divinity de-
gree from Columbia Theological Seminary in May.
Lambert E. Stewart expects to do graduate work at
Temple University, Philadelphia.
Stuart C. Saul is Assistant Pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Benjamin E. Sheldon was graduated from Princeton in
May and is in Korea for three years under the Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions.
Orval Wintermute is a senior at McCormick Seminary.
Joy (Parker), '51, is teaching primary grades in a Chicago
school.
Paul D. Woodbury, Jr. expects to graduate from the
Westminster Theological Seminary, Westminster, Maryland, in
January. He and Mrs. Woodbury ( Minnie Highsmith, '51 )
are living in the parsonage at Bedford Valley, Pennsylvania
and serving a circuit of four churches.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Disbrow, ex '50 ( Helen M. Disbrow,
'50) are living in Berkeley, California. Lewis has entered the
Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and Helen is work-
ing in the office of the Dean of the School of Business Ad-
ministration at the University of California.
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Jack D. Hancox, ex '50, was awarded tlie Bachelor of
Divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
of Louisville, Kentucky in May. On July 1 lie reported for
active duty as chaplain in the Navy. He is now at the Navy
Chaplain's School in Newport, Rhode Island. His wife, Doris
White Hancox, '49, and daughter are with her parents in
Williamsport, Tennessee.
Robert Hal Stanhery, ex '50, is Assistant Pastor of the
Grosse Pointe Woods Church, Grosse Pointc Woods, Michigan.
This is his first pastorate.
1951
Chesley S. Anderson received the M.S. in Ed. degree from
U.T. last June. This year he is a teacher and assistant coach
at Farragut High School, Knoxville.
Carolyn Balch has been appointed instructor in chemistry
at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland.
Janet Cummings was awarded a fellowship by the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for two months' special study
during the past summer. She did her work at the Municipal
Hospital in Pittsburgh, under the direction of Dr. Jessie Wright,
inventor of the rocking-bed, and also had the opportunity of
working with Dr. Sauk, who is well known for his research on
gamma globulin. Janet is now in her third year at North-
western University Medical School in Chicago and is working
as an extern at St. Joseph's Hospital.
James C. Dance received the Master of Science degree
from the Columbia University School of Library Science in
February. At that time he accepted a position as head of the
Psychology Library, one of the departmental libraries which
comprise the Columbia University Libraries. He will also
study toward a further degree.
James R. Dooley is employed at Rich's Inc. in Atlanta,
Georgia. He is assistant to the Supervisor of Unit Control in
the store for homes.
Andy Clark, Bob Neill, '52 and Bob Moser ,'52, all stu-
dents at Western Seminary, Pittsburgh, were among those who
spent three months at McCormick Seminary this summer in
the Ministers-in-Industry project of the Presbyterian Institute
of Industrial Relations.
Glen Gage writes that he "has been a civilian since August
5" (after serving in the United States Marine Corps) and is
now employed by the E. I. Dupont Co. at their plant just out-
side Woodbury, New Jersey.
David Grubbs is doing graduate study in political science
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hazel Holm is at Indiana University on a scholarship
studying for a master's in social work.
Mary ( Murt ) Kennedy, who has been in Haines, Alaska
under the Presbyterian Board of National Missions since gradu-
ation, is this fall beginning work on the staff of the Second
Presbyterian Church, Bloomington, Illinois.
Paul S. Kidder is a student at American University in
Washington, D. C. where he is studying for a master's degree.
Mr. and Mrs. John Laney (Dorothy Anne Higdon, '51)
are living in Chester, Pennsylvania, where John is in his last
year at Crozer Seminary and Dorothy is teaching filth grade
in a school nearby.
Bob and Mary (Wills) Larson are living at the Presby-
terian manse in Springfield, Kentucky, where Bob is serving as
student pastor. He is a senior at Louisville Presbyterian Semi-
nary this year.
Friends will sympathize with Phyllis Jackson Moser and
her husband in the death of their infant son Peter last winter.
Mr. Moser is a senior at McCormick Theological Seminary,
Chicago, and Phyllis is working as secretary of the Presby-
terian Institute of Industrial Relations.
Lois Johanson received the M.A. degree from the Assembly
Training School in Richmond in May ami this year is teaching
Bible and English at Montreat Preparatory School for Girls,
Montreat, North Carolina.
Harriet McClain Lopez writes that her husband has been
transferred to an Air Force Base in Florida and they are living
in Orlando.
Mary Lycrly is still with Delta-C & S Airlines in Atlanta,
and is taking advantage of her travel opportunities. This
summer she has been in Nassau, California, Chicago, and
Montreat.
On July 10, after a four months' training course at New-
port, Rhode Island, Robert L. Newman received an officer's
commission in the Navy.
Mrs. Maynard A. Noble ( Margaret E. Sangster ) writes
from La Rochelle, France, where Maynard, ex '51, is stationed
with the Army. Margaret went over on the Queen Elizabeth
and they were married in July, spent a month traveling by car
through the continent and the British Isles, and are now in
France where they expect to be for a year.
Robert Schwoebel is doing graduate study in history at
the University of Mississippi.
William Henry Shields received the degree of Bachelor
of Laws from the University of Tennessee in June, and was
admitted to the Tennessee Bar Association in July.
Lt. (j.g. ) James P. Thurston wrote us in July from "at
sea" on his way to the Far East again. After spending a year
aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard he returned to the
States in January, was married ( see marriages ) in February
and he and Betty spent five months on the west coast where
he was "in school." During that time they visited several
alumni: John ('51) and Mary (Hammelman) Baird, ex '51,
in San Francisco, Gerald, ex '54, and Grace ( Myers, ex '54 )
Knecht at the University of California, and ran into Dan
Dunbar, ex '53, at Treasure Island.
William J. Carroll, ex '51, is a chemist for Trojan Powder
Co. in Allentown, Pennsylvania where he and his wife (Edna
Burkins, '50) lives.
Mary Hicks (Mrs. George R. ) Williams, ex '51, received
a B.S. in nursing at Emory University a year ago and is now
working in the Blount County Health Office in Maryville.
1952
J. T. Anderson and his wife Edith Marianne Anderson
(special student in 1950) are in Germany visiting her family.
They exject to visit several other countries in Europe before
returning to this country next spring. J. T. attended the
Georgetown School of Foreign Service for six months this year.
Grady Carroll attended summer school at the University
of North Carolina and began work toward a master's degTee.
A/3c Robert S. Fuller is stationed at Keesler Air Force Base
in Mississippi, where he is taking courses in electronics.
Mrs. Edwin F. George (Betty Roach) spent the month
of August traveling in Italy.
Ann Leeder is now teaching in the Woodstock School,
Landour, Mussoorie, India.
Annabelle Libby is teaching ninth grade English in the
Whittier Junior High School of Lorain, Ohio.
Janice Marion has recently moved to Indianapolis, Indiana,
where she is secretary to the pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church.
Mary Jo Pribble is employed as Case Reviewer and Visitor
for the West Virginia Department of Public Assistance in the
district office located in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Bill Robinson is attending Union Theological Seminary in
New York City where he is working toward a Master's degree
in Sacred Music.
Lt. Barbara Roscnsteel has been transferred to the Letter-
man General Hospital in San Francisco. She visited on the
campus en route home for a brief furlough before reporting
for her new assignment.
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Donald Stilwell was ordained a deacon of the Northwest
Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church this past June.
He is serving as pastor of a church in Hanna, Indiana, while
continuing his studies at the Garrett Biblical Institute in
Evanston, Illinois. His wife ( Helen Sims ) is a dietician at
the Evanston Hospital.
Mary Elizabeth Butts, ex '52, was graduated, magna cum
laude, from the School of Nursing of Vanderbilt University in
June. She has accepted an appointment, to be effective in
November, from the Board of National Missions of the Presby-
terian Church, U.S.A. to the Sage Memorial Hospital in
Ganado, Arizona.
The Alumni Office was glad to receive the following news
items from the members of the Class of 1952 who are at
McCormick Theological Seminary:
Claude Cowan, a middler, this summer was supply pastor
for the area of Birmingham, Alabama.
Marilyn Edge, now a senior working on an M.A. in
Church Social Work, taught at a Bible School and two youth
conferences, and served as a Church Visitor in the Memorial
Presbyterian Church of Dover, New Jersey.
Don Gray, a junior, was a social worker in Alton State
Mental Hospital at Alton, Illinois, this summer. Virginia
( Cooper ) , ex '53, is teaching first grade at Roselle, Illinois.
Katherine Blackburn McNiel is employed as a histological
technician at the Chicago Medical School. Paul, '50, a senior
at McCormick, participated in the Ministers-in-Industry pro-
gram this summer.
Russ Owens, a middler, worked during the summer at
Eugene Dietzgen Company, Chicago, where Evelyn (Smith),
'51, is employed.
Charles Schwenke, a middler, this summer preached at
Three churches in a larger parish and taught at two Bible
schools.
Ralph Thiesse, a middler, acted as supply pastor and
worked as a research technician at the American Gas Associ-
ation Laboratories in Cleveland.
Kennedy Upham was employed for the summer at the
American Can Company, Chicago. Joy ( Hickman ) worked as
an interviewer at Merit Coil and Transformer Corp., Chicago,
and this fall entered McCormick to work for an M.A. is
Christian Education.
Ex-1954
Charles Blackburn has entered the Navy; he is at the
Naval Air Base in Pensacola, Florida.
DEATHS
Emma Augusta Newman ( Mrs. David A. ) Clemens, of
the Class of 1885, died in June, 1953, at Boise, Idaho, at the
age of ninety-two. So far as is known, she was the earliest
living graduate. She was a native of Jefferson County, Ten-
nessee. In 1903, she married a classmate, Rev. David A.
Clemens, who died in 1927. For many years she lived in
Caldwell, Idaho, but in recent years had made her home in
Boise. She is survived by a brother, John Grant Newman, '88,
a sister, Edith Newman Stoffell, '00, and other relatives.
According to the Alumni Office's records, Mrs. Clemens'
death leaves as the earliest living graduates two members of
the Class of 1886— Mrs. Edward Swabey (Clara Lyon Bartlett)
and William Walter Hastings.
Anna Lee McCall, Prep. '03, died July 23, 1953, in Knox-
ville. She was seventy-two years old. Miss McCall had
taught in Knox and Blount County schools, and was very active
in church work. She is survived by a sister, Jennie McCall,
Prep. '06, and a brother.
Rev. Paul R. Dickie, '04, died this summer in Pasadena,
California. He was a minister of the Reformed Church in
America, and for many years before his retirement was pastor
of the Bethany Memorial Church in New York City. He is
survived by his wife.
Ida G. Stanton, '12, died June 5, 1953, in Douglas,
Arizona. After her graduation from Maryville, she attended
the University of Tennessee, the University of Southern Cali-
fornia, and the University of Mexico. Her teaching experience
included four years in the Philippine Islands and twenty years
in the city schools of Douglas. She retired five years ago.
She is survived by two brothers, one of whom is William O.
Stanton, Prep. '12.
Dr. Robert S. Gamon, '17, died suddenly last spring while
attending a medical convention in Atlantic City. His home
was in Camden, New Jersey, where he was senior surgeon at
Cooper Hospital. He was a Fellow of the American College
of Surgeons, and was consulting surgeon for many industrial
firms in the Camden area. He is survived by his wife and
two children.
Lillian Jackson ( Mrs. Frank ) Rosa, '28, was killed in an
automobile accident on July 18, 1953. Mr. Rosa, '27, was
injured seriously but not critically. Three children also survive.
Their home is in Montgomery, Alabama. Rev. James L. Jack-
son, '23, is her brother.
Vennor Lowry, '32, died July 11, 1953, in Maryville, after
a brief illness. He was forty-five years old. He had recently
returned to Maryville after living for several years in Alabama
where he was manager of various Kress stores. He is survived
by his wife, his mother, and a brother, Henry Lowry, '33.
Joseph Whitner McCaslin, ex '44, died in August at the
age of thirty. He left Maryville College because of ill health
and had not been well since. However, he still hoped to enter
the ministry and this year had enrolled in seminary; but he
became ill and returned to his home in Sanford, Florida. His
father is Dr. Herbert H. McCaslin, Prep. '07, and his uncle is
Dr. Robert H. McCaslin, '03.
Louise Masters (Mrs. G. Edward) Scott, '52, died on July
31, 1953, in Richmond, Virginia, of a brain tumor. Louise
and Ed were married last December and lived in Maryville
until Ed's graduation in May, when they moved to Richmond
and he entered Union Theological Seminary.
Gerald Eugene Williams, '52, was killed accidentally on
June 6, 1953, in Alcoa. Since graduation he had been study-
ing at the University of Tennessee and held a graduate as-
sistantship in mathematics. He is survived by his parents.
1954 REUNIONS
The Classes of 1904, 1914, 1924, 1929, 1934, 1939, 1944
and 1949 are the scheduled reunion classes this year. Since
no word has been received in the Alumni Office of any definite
plans by any of these classes, the persons listed below have
been asked to serve as contact secretaries. They would like
to hear from other members of their classes as to their interest
in planning for active reunions.
1904-Mrs. A. E. McCulloch (Freddie Goddard)
Oakland Apts., Melvin Road, Maryville
1914-Mrs. S. E. Crawford (Irma Hall)
P. O. Box 284, Maryville
1924-Dr. Verton M. Queener
Maryville College, Maryville
1929-Mrs. Edward Lyle (Edna McCamy)
310 Indiana Avenue, Maryville
and Mr. Harold ("Tillie") Bird
P. O. Box 406, Maryville
1934-Mrs. Herbert R. Dodd (Thelma lies)
307 West Outer Drive, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
1939— Mrs. James Howard Schwam (Sara Fay Kittrell)
20 Crest Road, Maryville
1944_Mrs. Albert Dockter, Jr. (Dorothy Gredig)
871 Poplar Street, Alcoa
1949-Mrs. William F. Proffitt (Vera Lusk)
Louisville Pike, Maryville
Twenty-two
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Woodward (Elizabeth Campbell,
'29), their second child, a daughter, Anna Elizabeth, December
12, 1952.
Mr. and Mrs. James O. Bell (Betty Bacon, '34), an
adopted son, James Bacon, horn August 3, 19.52.
Mr. and Mrs. John Samuel Kiser, '35, a son, in July, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mattesheard (Dolores Burchette,
'35), a son, David William, February 8, 1953.
Rev. and Mrs. J. Lawrence Driskill (Lillian Cassel, '37),
their second child, a daughter, Mary Lillian, September 17,
1952, in Japan.
Mr. and Mrs. Romulus Meares, '37 (Lucile Goyne, ex
'41), a daughter, Elizabeth Price, September 21, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Thames, '39 ( Mary Sue Waters,
ex '40), a daughter, Virginia Carol, August 17, 1953.
Rev. and Mrs. Robert Lamar Lucero, '39 (Ruth Raulston,
'40), their fourth child, a son, Fred D., May 1, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Ralph Daniels (Jessie Curtis, '40), a
son, Ivan Van Nosdall, March 21, 1953.
Rev. and Mrs. George L. Hunt, '40 (Mary Alice Minear,
ex '41), an adopted son, Laurence Minear, born March 11,
1952, and adopted June 13, 1952.
Mr. and Mrs. Boydson H. Baird, '41, their second and
third children, Frank Weldon and Ann Hubbart, August 25,
1952.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward McMillan (Betty Moore, '41), a
daughter, Jean, August 18, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Julius M. Nicely, '41, their first child, a son,
Julius Martin III, June 2, 1953.
Rev. and Mrs. Roland Tapp, '41 (Helen Pratt, '42), their
third child, a son, Neil Alan, August 23, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Brooks Smith ( Berneice Tontz, '41), an
adopted son, Richard Warfield, age three months.
Mr. and Mrs. John Norman Hooker, '42 ( Ila Goad, '41),
a son, Henry Clay, in July, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Crawford, '43 (Dorothy Jobes, ex
'43), their second child, a daughter, Serena Ann, June 12,
1953.
Dr. and Mrs. Virgil LeQuire, '43, their second child, a
son, Paul Shields, May 26, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Pratt, '43, their second
daughter, Melinda Hazel, January 24, 1953.
Dr. and Mrs. William J. Sweeney, '43 (Viola James, ex
'43), their second son, David Michael, August 4, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Williams, Jr. ( Ruth Stribling, '43),
their first child, a daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth, June 15,
1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Jamieson (Betty Ballard, '45), their
third child, a son, John Ballard, August 15, 1953.
Rev. and Mrs. Robert E. Seel, '45 (Jean Almy, '48), their
second child, a son, Robert "Robin" James, August 4, 1953.
1st Lt. and Mrs. Robert E. L. Nesbitt (Verne Allen Fee-
back, ex '46), a daughter, Marcia Evans, April 6, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Shue, '46 (Elizabeth Snead, '40),
their first child, a daughter, Nancy Anne, July 17, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Garza (Mary Ruth Barber, '47), their
first child, a son, Roger Allen, September 23, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Hurd (Geneva Jo Robertson, '47),
their first child, a daughter, Lily Kathryn, August 21, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parkinson, '47 (Joan Liddell, '47),
a son. Ralph Thomas, Jr., April 19, 1953.
Lt. and Mrs. Walter J. Zarnowski (Ruth Broadhead, '47),
their second child, a daughter, Janet Kay, July 3, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Henry, '49, their third child, a son,
Michael Pleas, August 10, 1953.
Rev. and Mrs. Carl M. Lazenby, '49 ( Mildred Linnea
Johnson, '50), their second child, a daughter, Deborah Joyce,
September 11, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Baldwin Lucas, '49 ( Dorothy Shields
Long, '48), their first child, a daughter, Malinda Ann, June
27, 1953.
Rev. and Mrs. Donald Floyd Taylor, '49, a daughter, Janet
Eileen, September 5, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Torrey, '49 ( Marilyn Hartpence,
'48), their second child, a daughter, March 18, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Bennett, '50 ( Ilda Mosby, '49),
their second daughter, Rebecca Ann, June 16, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burkins (Ruth Heaps, '50), a
daughter, Karen Elaine, March 14, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Chambers, '50, a son, Thomas Ivan,
April 14, 1953.
Lt. and Mrs. Robert Mac Law, ex '50 ( Margarette An-
drews, '49), their first child, a daughter, Stephanie Anne, April
17, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lugo (Jane McCullough, '50),
their first child, a daughter, Elizabeth Jane, September 10,
1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Allen Anderson, '51, a daughter,
Debra Lynn, August 8, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Bursey (June Elaine Spaulding,
'51), a son, Charles Dean, December 16, 1952.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Greaser, '52, a son, Michael Ralph,
June 8, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McClure, Jr. (Margaret Shields
McCIure, '52), their first child, a son, William Thomas III,
September 8, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Theron H. Burchfield, '53, their first child,
a son, Daniel Cleveland, July 24, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Newberry, '53 (Christine Stephens,
ex '52), a daughter, Pamela Kay, May 6, 1953.
Ensign and Mrs. S. Raymond Rose, Jr., '53, (Peggy Points,
ex '54), their first child, a son, July 28, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stout (Barbara Paine, ex '53), a
son, Richard Derris, June 8, 1953.
A LETTER FROM JAPAN
President Lloyd recently received a letter from Mr. Tam-
isaburo Sugimoto, who spent about eight weeks in the fall of
1951 at Maryville College and will be remembered by all
students enrolled that se-
mester. He is General Secre-
tary of the Meiji Gakuin
College, a Christian college
and high school of 3,500 stu-
g— , . dents in Tokyo. He writes:
Wp "Though it is more than one
* I ^^A year since I came home, I
j can clearly remember the
happy days in Maryville . . .
| At times, I talk with Mr.
Watanabe about you and
Maryville College. Bob Barker ('46) has been in Kyoto
(ancient capital, about eight hours by express from Tokyo),
but he is coming back shortly to teach in our college. Then
I shall have two friends here with whom I can talk of Mary-
ville. ... I am enclosing pictures of our kids. These were
taken with my camera which I bought at a store in Maryville."
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THE ALUMNI BUSINESS MEETING
The Annual Alumni Dinner and business meeting was
held in Pearsons Dining Hall Saturday, May 16, with retiring
President Carl M. Storey, '31, presiding. The slate of officers
presented by the Chairman of the Nominating Committee,
H. F. Lamon, Jr., '40, was unanimously elected and is as fol-
lows: President— James Nicholas Proffitt, M. D., '38; Vice
President— Charles Clinton Parvin, '52; Recording Secretary—
Winifred L. Painter, '15; as members of the Executive Commit-
tee, to serve three years- Betty Crawford (Mrs. James B.)
Cornett, '50; Linton Loy Lane, '32; and Tom James West, ex
'33.
The report of the Executive Committee was read by Miss
Painter, Recording Secretary. Below is given the financial
report for the year ending May 31, 1953:
Receipts
Balance on hand, May 31, 1952 $ 821.98
Dues 1,951.00
Barbecue and Alumni Dinner tickets 678.65
TOTAL RECEIPTS $3,451.63
Expenditures
Office supplies and postage 438.24
New typewriter for office 163.45
Toward office secretary's salary 200.00
October 1952 and April 1953
issues of Bulletin 1,326.34
Homecoming and Alumni Day Dinner 636.79
TOTAL EXPENDITURES $2,764.82
Balance on hand, May 31, 1953 $ 686.81
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order, cash to The Alumni Office, Maryville College, Maryville,
Tennessee.
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in the amount of $
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for Living Endowment (unrestricted
current use)
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