KHH 595EI NATIONAL II LIBRARY BIHDWP WEST SPR1N6FIEU 1 UST CI LVCUNO 1HOUN APOUS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/agnesscottalumna16agne lumnae Quarterly l. XVI fo. 1 EMBER 937 Seventh Alumnae Week-End, November 19-20, 1937 General Theme: New Emphases Friday, November 19 10:30 Chapel Talk "Indian Impressions" Dr. Mary Ann McKinney, '25, Women's Christian Medical College, Punjab, India 10:30-11:30 "Cross Currents in the Colleges" Dr. Goodrich C. White, Dean of Emory University 11:30-12:30 "New Emphases in World Affairs" Judge Samuel H. Sibley, United States Circuit Court of Appeals 12:30 Luncheon in Rebekah Scott Dining Room; alumnae are guests of the college. Speaker: Mr. S. G. Stuk.es, Registrar of Agnes Scott College Following lunch, alumnae and their guests are invited to a book display, arranged for Alumnae Week-End, in the browsing corner of the library. This exhibit of books is part of Book Week, held annually on the campus. Old books and manuscripts from private collections are also on exhibit. Saturday, November 20 10:00-10:30 Chapel Program Agnes Scott String Ensemble Director, Mr. C. W. Dieckmann, Agnes Scott College 10:30-11:30 "New.Mvipha<;esJn.thoDtqnta.atit[ the Theatre" Dr. TiSomAs, ,5iLc'E?CGL>isH,c Emory' University 11:30-12:30 "Contemporary Bols afld\ihe\$o\tti' Dr. Emma Ma V 'LAWey,' Agnes 'Scott College 12:30 Luncheon in th^e ; Anna Young'. Alumnae House. A moderately priced luncheon will be served to alumnae and guests. Please consider this a very personal invitation to you! If you live nearby, you need make no reservation except for the Friday luncheon. If you are an out-of-town alumna, make your reservation for a room in the Alumnae House as soon as possible. If you have planned to visit some local alumna for a long time, write her and arrange to come on this date. If you live in Atlanta or Decatur and have been wanting that old room- mate to spend a while with you, write her to come now. What a time you two will have going to school together again! DO COME, ALUMNAE! etters FROM TWO PRESIDENTS Dear Alumnae: This year we can extend a wholehearted and cheerful invitation for all of our alumnae to return for the week- end of November 19-20. On one basis or another, I am frequently asked to participate in these Week-End Pro- grams, but this year I am permitted to be a listener, and will enjoy with you a remarkably fine program. I am con- fident that the subject and the speakers will merit a trip to Agnes Scott and the best attention and cooperation which we could give. However good the speaking and other entertainment may be, we realize that one of the greatest values of such an occasion is the privilege of having together representa- tive alumnae from various classes and various places. It is a great joy to have you come back to your Alma Mater, and you would be surprised to know how much interest the present day generation of students take in the return of those who have gone on before. We do not have any startling additions to the campus or any notable changes of personnel to show you, but there will be old friends to give you a hearty welcome and enough of the old campus and old equipment to make even the earlier student of the Institute or College feel at home. Looking forward with deep interest to seeing as many of you as may possibly come, I am, Cordially, J. R. McCain, President. Dear Alumnae: Another school session begins and alumnae plans take on new vitality. What to center our efforts on during 1937-3 8 is not a difficult question. With the Semi-Cen- tennial coming in 1939 we must see what will most con- tribute to a highly successful celebration and must put our full energy back of the initial phases of the program. Preeminently this year our attention will be on tracing down the lost alumnae, whose inaccessibility became evi- dent through our issuance of the last spring Quarterly to all alumnae, unpaid as well as paid members of that large band of Agnes Scott's daughters. Some copies could not even be sent out, and many were returned unclaimed. If we can trace down these now almost unknown college daughters, so as to be in a position to print an authentic directory next fall, we shall have given probably our greatest assistance to the celebration of Agnes Scott's fifty years' existence. The college will use this directory exten- sively if we can get it in satisfactory shape by that time. Our biggest further support will come from ideas which we can suggest. If you have any suggestion as to the semi- centennial celebration, what things must be included and how they can best be presented, send them in to the alum- nae office. We can act as a clearing house for alumnae ideas and should be able to supply Dr. McCain with many valuable projects. Do you have any souvenirs of your col- lege days which might be of general interest? Perhaps we could have an exhibit. The possibilities along this and other lines are limitless. Just now our immediate interest is in Alumnae Week- End, which is to be held November 19th and 20th. Mrs. C. W. Dieckmann and her enthusiastic committee are pro- viding a splendid program. That will be an excellent time to come home and rest and be happy a while. Please, throughout the year, help us to make the Alum- nae Association what you wish it to be. Cordially, Daisy Francis Smith, President of Alumnae Association. TABLE OF CONTENTS Frontispiece Alumnae Week-End Program . . 1 Letters from Two Presidents Around the Globe with Agnes Scotters . . 2 "Japanese Silhouettes" .... Laura (Brown) Logan, '31 "Typical Tropical Tramp" . . . Ora (Glenn) Roberts, '16 "Little Aggie Has Lost Her Sheep" ... .... . . . . 4 Campus News and Office Notes . . 5 Concerning Ourselves . . 9 Reunion Time . . 21 sy/jj- ROUND THE GLOBE." With Agnes Scotters The Quarterly editors are hoping to publish in several issues sheltering arms." We hope you like the idea and we are deeply letters are to appear in the January Quarterly. JAPANESE SILHOUETTES The seventeenth of July, 1936, was a beautiful day, which seemed especially so to the passengers of the "Presi- dent McKinley," who had had nothing but cold and fog since leaving Seattle thirteen days before. Even the promised excitement of seeing the Aleutian Islands had turned to disap- pointment because of the ever-present fog. So, on approaching the harbor of Yoko- hama, the green hills, bobbing sam- pans, and even the pilot's boat looked very merry. What framed the picture and made it all beau- tiful was the majes- tic, calm, perfect cone of Fuji-yama rightly named "The Peerless One." What fascinated me more than its blue serenity, which became darker and more glorious as the sun sank behind it, was the fact that it was there and I was really seeing it. For the natives say that for a foreigner to see their holy mountain (a mere woman was not even allowed to climb it until a few years ago) on reaching Japan is a good omen for all his life here. I surely believe it, for the past six months here have been more picturesque, exciting and thrilling than I could pos- sibly have imagined. Recently I met some tourists, who are "doing Japan" in four days, and on leaving will prob- ably think that they have seen all there is to see. But I believe that every day I have seen something that is strange and new. The far-famed beauty of Japan meets one on every side, whether it is a miniature garden in a flower pot or the rugged beauty of the Japan Alps. One quality that, I believe, is unique, is the proximity of the sea, plains and mountains. To see mountain peaks and cliffs end abruptly at the edge of the sea often gives an unbelievably lovely effect. On a clear day, the blueness of the Inland Sea can- not be surpassed anywhere, I think to sit on a cliff above it and see the countless white-sailed fishing boats, one might easily imagine that time had gone back five hundred years. But the sudden appearance of an ocean liner on her way to Shanghai brings one back abruptly to the twentieth century. We spent the summer at a resort for foreigners, literally within the shadow of Mt. Asama the largest active volcano on the main island. Usually there was only a peaceful thread of smoke coming out, but at times there would be mighty rumblings accompanied by a fine ash that rained over everything and sometimes at night there would be giant fireworks with lava flowing down the mountain side. During one of these eruptions, we got this picture, which will give you some idea of the volume of smoke. letters such as these from alumnae who are living "jar from the grateful to the writers in this issue and to several others, whose Although my most successful talking is still in the sign language, I'm beginning to feel quite at home. Already I'm learning their custom of counting distance by time instead of mileage. "How far is Kobe from Tokyo?" "Eight hours by tsubame." No train in Japan is ever late and what is more remarkable, they are always crowded. As someone remarked, "Every railway station and train looks like the Christmas rush at home." Once during the New Year holiday season when they were especially crowd- ed, and the sleepers were sold out days in advance, some- one asked the head of the railroad department why more sleeping cars were not added. His answer was, "Well, we tried that once, but they were all full too, so it didn't help any." The station which we use most frequently here is said to be the busiest in the Orient as it is used by 200,000 people a day, and when hurrying to catch a train it some- times seems that the other 199,999 all want the same one! But life "in the country" is far different and more in- teresting to the newcomer than the hustle of a city, that is westernized at least on the surface. By "the country" a Japanese means any city under 100,000 or he almost means any place except Tokyo! Last autumn we spent about six weeks on the island of Shikoku, which is south of the Inland Sea. Here the great variety of vehicles that one sees was the first thing to catch my attention. Be- sides trains, cars, buses, carts and rickshas that one expects to see, was the bicycle being used for more purposes than you could possibly imagine. It is not only the delivery boy's chief joy, but often a whole florist shop may be transported in a small cart attached to a bicycle or the vegetable man will arrive on one with his wares behind him or a boy may ride nonchalantly by, balancing a stack of trays of oudon bowls (spaghetti). But even more in- teresting than this are the many uses of baby carriages. These may be filled with vegetables, fish, meat or what- ever the old woman pushing it has to sell. The mystery of this use of the baby carriage was explained to me one day and it is really very simple there is a tax on any vehicle pulled and none on those pushed! The Japanese house is unbelievably clean, bare, small and charming. No dirt from the street enters it by the simple device of removing one's shoes on entering. The size of the house is expressed by the number of mats that cover the floors (each one being 6x3 feet) an average room being eight mats. It seems much larger because of the lack of furniture and the shoji (sliding paper doors) so another room may be used if necessary. There are a few pillows scattered about and perhaps a low lacquer table on which the inevitable tea will be placed as soon as the many bows and salutatory phrases have been exchanged. The charm of the room is emphasized in the tokonoma, a low shelf where is a bowl of flowers sometimes only three blos- soms of varying heights to represent man, earth and heaven and a beautiful scroll, or some other work of art which represents the season of the year. By having this one beauty spot, the attention of the visitor is not distracted by many objects and he may feast his gaze on it as long as he likes. Our visit to Shikoku was at the rice harvesting season, and as this year's crop was a good one all the farmers were SEPTEMBER, 1937 in a good humor. At the suggestion of a friend, two of us decided that some harvesting would be fun and for an hour it was, but day after day it would be different. The people themselves are far more interesting than any of their scenery or customs. At first they all seem to look alike but the longer one sees them the more marked are the differences. A long, rather than an oval face, is con- sidered beautiful and contrary to the usual idea, many are not slant-eyed at all. Curly hair used to be considered a disgrace but now many are ardent devotees of the perma- nent wave idea. I think that their hands are their most beautiful feature, as they are small, sensitive and artistical- ly shaped. Generally speaking, most of the women still wear the kimona and obi, and most men (in the cities at least) have adopted the western style of clothes. But one may see every conceivable type of combination of the two; a man may wear a felt hat with his kimona, or geta (wooden clogs) with his business suit. All students wear uniforms which change with the calendar instead of the thermometer. To see school girls, during September, strug- gling along in heavy blue serge middy suits was terrific. Most babies still travel on their mothers' backs. They look very uncomfortable but whether asleep or awake, their ex- pression is usually quite contented and some are carried in this way until they are two or three years old. I was amused the other day to hear an animated conversation between a mother and a young child from the child's place on his mother's back. A Japanese rarely comes to make a call without bringing a present; fruit or flowers or something more permanent. In fact people give presents until they are poor. There is always a token inside called a nosbi a small piece of red paper shaped like an arrow to indicate that it is a gift. One of their customs that I certainly like, is to carry books, parcels or whatever one may have, in a large hand- kerchief, usually of beautiful silk in gorgeous colors, called a fwroshiki. I didn't realize the value of this article until a few weeks ago when, returning from a trip, I found that after packing I still had galoshes, writing materials and a few last-minute presents to be put somewhere. With the use of a furoshiki it made a pretty package! The Japanese reputation for politeness has not been ex- aggerated. Every one, though I am sure that they privately think we are very curious human beings, is extremely courteous. In spite of this, there is no doubt that this is a man's country. It is no uncommon sight to see every man on a street car, seated, reading his paper, while the women hang on the straps! On the street a couple rarely walk together but she a few respectful paces behind. Recently a lady told me she was taking her husband to their cot- tage at the seaside for a New Year's holiday and she re- marked that she was not taking a servant. "But," I said, "your husband will help you." Then she looked at me and said, "Do you know that my husband has never even closed a door behind him in all his life?" I had no more to say. Ever since summer the whole country has been in a state of great excitement over the 1940 Olympics. The five- circle symbol may be seen everywhere, hotels are being enlarged and rebuilt, taxi-drivers are learning English, and the reason given for rising prices is that the Olympics are coming! Soon after the announcement that Japan had been chosen, there was a newspaper account of an at- tempted suicide. The customary note had been left, with this in it: "My one regret is that I will not live to see the 1940 Olympics." It has been said that of all farewell words, the Japanese is the most beautiful since it is not "Goodbye" at all, but means, "Since it must be so." And so with that I close Sayonara. Laura (Brown) Logan, '31. J L TYPICAL TROPICAL TRAMP An announcer on the Breakfast Club of the Air recently used this term. I wonder how many daughters of Agnes Scott can qualify as members of this organization? I do not know whether membership depends upon the number of years spent tropical- ly, the number of countries lived in, or the degree to which one fulfills the prophecy, "Once you have lived be- neath the Southern Cross you will al- ways come back." Since 1919 it has been my lot to enjoy living in four dif- ferent parts of the tropics. Almost nine years in Brazil, a few months in Puerto Rico, seven years on St. Croix, the largest of Uncle Sam's Virgin Islands, and a year in the Dominican Republic are enough to make one feel at home amid banana groves and palm trees perhaps even to qualify as a T. T. T.! Impressions tend to become dim after some time, so that what would have impressed one years ago as being strange and different in the Dominican Republic now seems quite the expected thing. However, each country has its characteristic points of interest. Certainly this small re- public can claim its full share, although perhaps. Haiti, in spite of being the smaller half of this island, has had much the larger share of colorful publicity. On last October twelfth a news reel was made showing the transfer of Columbus' bones to a new silver urn pre- sented by the President of the Republic. Historically Columbus is the central figure which attracts visitors to this, the oldest settlement in the New World. Many ruins of former important buildings are connected with members of the Columbus family. In recent years the terrible hurricane of 193 brought Santa Domingo to the notice of the world. The marvelous recovery of the people and the rebuilding of the city now known as Trujillo City in honor of the president who had been in office only three weeks when that disaster took place, have been most noteworthy. One now finds a clean, attractive city with an industrious population, a modern harbor and every evidence of a progressive, forward-look- ing nation. Among the new and odd sights I have seen here are a half cent piece, and women smoking cigars. Tobacco is grown in the country and cigars are cheaper than cigar- ettes so those who can't afford the latter proudly enjoy the former. Whereas on United States soil in St. Croix we used Danish money until two years ago, here U. S. currency is common, although some Dominican coins are used, including a two cent piece the size of a dime, and the half cent piece. "Home is where the heart is," and being happy in far- away places is easy when the heart is in a happy home. There are always opportunities for service, and friends to win, educational possibilities in every new experience, and, always, in the background, grand memories of friends of other days. Especially close seem Agnes Scott and all who comprise the segment of her life from 1912 to 1916. Salu- dos cordiales a Todos! Ora (Glenn) Roblrts, '16. "Little Aggie Has Lost Her Sheep" (With apologies to Mother Goose) Can you help her find them? This is the first of a long list to be published each issue. If you know the addresses of any of these, PLEASE, PLEASE write to the Alumnae Office. ACADEMY Bowdoin, Nellie (Mrs. Roy Ham- mond) Brady, Elizabeth (Mrs. M. W . How- ard, Jr.) Broyles, Lucy (Mrs. Philip A. Mc Ar- thur) Clarke, Eppy Cooper, Mary Thornton (Mrs. C. A. Trice) Crockett, Louise Dekle, Allie (Mrs. H. R. Speake) Dolvin, Marv Frances (Mrs. E. A. Wells) Dougan, Elsie M. (Mrs. J. H. Barton) Gibson, Ethel Byrd Glenn, Annie Mae Grogg, Mary Alice (Mrs. George Ely Garretson) Hamilton, Isabel (Mrs. D. B. Spratt) Howald, Frank Elizabeth (Mrs. Olin L. Brooks) Huson, Winifred Johnson, Grace Kerr, Addie Willis Killebrew, Annie Lou (Mrs. V. G. A. Tallent) Lampkin, Susie (Mrs. Thomas F. Joy) Lawrence, Virginia (Mrs. Scott N. Braznell) Lenoir, Annie Lee Makinson, Mary Louise (Mrs. Dennis R. Blenis) Martin, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. J. Boyce Worthy) McGoodwin, Trilby (Mrs. Willis Reeves Dortch) McLarthy, Mary Lou (Mrs. Wm. Henry Fitzhugh) Michael, Mary Candler Milledge, Adeline (Mrs. Donald L. Woodward) Monk, Lucy (Mrs. H. C. Faulken- berry) Niblack, Julia Norwood, Evelyn B. (Mrs. J. J. Smith) Parker, Mary Patton, Joy (Mrs. W. Russell Thomp- son) Phillips, Claire (Mrs. Claire Phillips Barnet) Ricbards, Anne Elizabeth Roberts, Lucy Scandrett, Marie Scott, Helen Shipley, Mamie Smith, Lucy (Mrs. F. E. Grant) Stevens, Marguerite (Mrs. James D. Price) Strain, Emma (Mrs. J. A. Bland) Summerall, Cornelia Nellie (Mrs. A. C. Harllee) Taylor, Elizabeth Boyd (Mrs. Law- rence Merritt) Taylor, Ruth Catherine (Mrs. Glover M. Burney) Thomas, Gladys (Mrs. Thomas H. Wbarton) Thomas, Winifred Trader, Edna Earle (Mrs. A. L. Ros- ier) Trask, Dorothy Vogelbach, Florence B. Walthall, Annie May Warner, Elizabeth Wilson, Mary Hall (Mrs. Paul T. Har- ber) INSTITUTE Adderton, Winifred (Mrs. Richard Bragaw) Akers, Lucy (Mrs. Lucy Akers Tay- lor) Almond, Floy (Mrs. J. Bain Terrell) Anderson, Walter (Mrs. P. H. Gra- ham) Appleyard, Mary Barry, Mae Bryon (Mrs. Henry T. Watkins) Barry, Ruth (Mrs. James S. Riley) Beecher, Blanche Berry, Etta Bishop, Minnie B. Block, Lucretia (Mrs. Richard Rob- erts ) Bowie, Jeanie (Mrs. Charles B. Cop- erton Bovd, Mrs. Martha McRee Braswell, Cleo Bell Brown, Lula Kathryn (Mrs. Alford F. Zachry) Brown, Marie Schley Brown, Nelle Brumby, Alice Brevard (Mrs. John C. Stickney) Buchanan, Myrtis (Mrs. F. W. Risse) Conrad, Agnes Conrad, Elizabeth Cotton, Connie S. (Mrs. T. S. Hodges) Cotten, Margaret A. Cramer, Helen S. (Mrs. Helen S. Shurtliff) Crane, Arabella Farr (Mrs. Arabella Crane Des Champs) Dickson, Bessie (Mrs. Geo. K. Taylor) Duke, Meta (Mrs. Ralph J. Brown) Edwards, Idalene (Mrs. Lee D. Lew- man) Farnsworth, Beulah (Mrs. M. Lee Hardeman) Fleming, Mary Matilda (Mrs. Edward O'Donnell) Fraser, Irene (Mrs. Wm. H. LaPrade, Jr.) Gammon, Rosa (Mrs. E. Heyward Os- born) George, Virginia Gloer, Jewell (Mrs. O. L. Teasley) Guess, Hattie (Mrs. C. A. Goddard) Hall, Katie Hamil, Louise B. (Mrs. D. H. Fain) Harper, Blanche (Mrs. G. G. Word) Harris, Elizabeth Baldwin (Mrs. John Mitchell Holmes) Haygood, Caroline Foot (Mrs. Stev- ens T. Harris) Heflev, Bessie Claire (Mrs. George Walter) Hightower, Vera (Mrs. Luscome Simp- son) Hill, Marv Belle Holt, Ellerbee (Mrs. Wilbur Fowler) Hooper, Edith (Mrs. J. Tom Morgan) Hooper, Mrs. Mary Darling Hosch. Rose Eula Howell, Mary (Mrs. Wm. J. Egbert) Hunter, Susan (Mrs. Albert S. Mead) Huson, Brownie Jewett, Mabel L. (Mrs. J. N. G. Miles) Johnson, Marian (Mrs. G. L. Bell, Jr.) Jones, Edna (Mrs. Edna Jones Wat- son) Kendrick, Beulah (Mrs. J. Lee Tel- ford) King, Eva Ethel Laing, Margaret Lupo, Lillian (Mrs. L. M. Savell) Lemon, Annie Lee (Mrs. T. L. S. Mc- Lain) McClelland, Katie (Mrs. H. H. Sum- mey) McDaniel, Maude McDuffie, Annie Laura (Mrs. C. A. Shuler) McGaughey, Laura (Mrs. C. F. Crouch) McGill, Lillian (Mrs. J. M. Worsham) McMahon, Lila St. Clair McWilliams, Susie Mead, Helen E. (Mrs. Lachlin Coffey) Menefee, Gwendolin Meriwether, Annie (Mrs. E. F. Chil- dress) Milledge, Rose Lamar (Mrs. Emory Moss Pattillo) McRae, Delia (Mrs. Charles Montgom- ery) Morgan, Rixford Parkins, Jessie Peabody, Maggie Pendleton, Virginia Fay (Mrs. I. J. Hill) Phillips, Emma J. Phillips, Katie A. Phillips, Marie (Mrs. W. B. Mills) Pierce, Minnie (Mrs. Charles G. Tur- ner) Redding, Nellie Mae (Mrs. J. M. Fen- nell) Render, Lena (Mrs. John R. Baldwin) Reneau, Kathryn (Mrs. J. A. Alley) Ward, Marybeth (Mrs. A. E. Rich- mond) Robertson, Kathleen Rogers, Lizzie Neal Rosasco, Anna (Mrs. Henry G. Wells) Sharp, Susie Lott (Mrs. Thomas Ea- son Sams) Shaw, Ola (Mrs. Stephen E. Key) Shiplett, Mrs. Clifton Simpson, Mary Louise Simril, Corinne Skinner, Anna (Mrs. Anna Skinner Verroni) Smith, Dora May Smith, Reba Spilman, Ona (Mrs. P. E. Morse) Tilly, Olivia (Mrs. John Lipsley) Thomson, Virginia (Mrs. Y. J. John- son) Thornton, Wayne (Mrs. H. H. White) Tottne, Eda (Mrs. W. P. Enmis) Trawick, Myra B. (Mrs. Myra Bar- ganier) Turner, Hattie (Mrs. C. J. Hurst) Tye, Ethel (Mrs. John M. Gilchrist) Vance, Aline (Mrs. Wadley Allen) Virgin, Annie Judith (Mrs. A. V. Hall) Webb, Polly (Mrs. Myron W. South- well) Wesley, Daisy (Mrs. B. H. Spurlock) Wilson, Nona Womack, Jetta (Mrs. W. D. Paschal) Word, Gussye Wright, Nell Gwinn (Mrs. Michael P. O'Brien) Zenor, Mary D. (Mrs. Mary Zenor Palmer) CA M Pu< o F n e w s and F ic College Opens The college opened officially on September 8 th with the chapel serv- ices which we all remember: greetings from the Board of Trustees, the Alum- nae Association president, songs by the Glee Club, welcome from the various denominations in Decatur brought by their pastors, and one talk emphasiz- ing an appropriate theme. Space pre- vents our quoting from all, but the following from Daisy Frances Smith's welcome from the alumnae seems par- ticularly appropriate, for we know it is exactly how you feel: ". . . We have invested four years of our lives in Agnes Scott. We gave, when we were here, all we then had to give. Not what we would give now if we could come back and live those four years over, for we are different individuals, more mature; but we did invest ourselves then as far as we knew to do so. As we think of Agnes Scott, it seems home to us. Surely we have made sufficient investment, have sufficient interest, to be called silent partners. The students are the active members of the concern. Whatever Agnes Scott becomes, you girls make her. "We do not wish to interfere; but we are glad to advise and to help when you need us. I wish I could get you to think of the alumnae, those 7,000 of whom Dr. McCain spoke, not as a mass of people, but as individuals such as the individual alumnae you know. No Agnes Scott girl can do anything fine, anything outstanding this year but that all alumnae who know of it will throw back their shoulders and lift their heads with a sense of pride and interest. "... I said before that Agnes Scott was home to the alumnae. In a sense we are her older generation. You girls have just said good-bye to one home but surely the alumnae of the college's older generation, who think of you with interest and affection, can be considered 'loved ones' here, and wel- come you home again." Alumnae Association Fetes the Newcomers The Alumnae Association enter- tained at the first real event on its social calendar on Tuesday, September 28th, in the Alumnae House in honor of the new students. The Entertain- ment Committee, Irene (Havis) Bag- gett, chairman, arranged a beautiful tea with a tea table in purple and white flowers and candles, and the rest of the lower floor of the House was also lovely with fall flowers and a cheery fire burning in the living room to add color and warmth on a cool fall day to the scene. The girls were shown over the Alumnae House, the guides explaining the use of the upper floor and the of- fice, etc., and inviting them to come often to the Tea Room and to use the privilege of having their mothers and sisters as guest for the night. We think they were properly im- pressed at least from all comments and for the interest of alumnae, we want you to know that the new Agnes Scotters impressed us! It is always of interest to alumnae to know what the present student body is like and we believe that you also would agree with us that it is one of the finest groups we have had. Shall We or the Moths Get Your Cap and Gown? We have often published an appeal for the caps and gowns of alumnae who have no further use for them and never has this appeal gone entirely un- answered. So once again we are broad- casting our cry. Probably you do not know that the Alumnae Association has twenty-five gowns and even more caps which we rent rent each year to the senior class for one dollar each. This is a double kindness: there is no other place where girls can rent them and many girls do not feel that they can invest many dollars in the pur- chase of the academic costume; and also the Alumnae Association adds to its income to the tune of some fifty- odd dollars, which is a very great help! We appreciate that mothers of daughters will not want their robes to go before the daughters graduate and there may be other circumstances which would make it impossible for alumnae to part with their caps and gowns but we feel that there are many, many alumnae who would like to make this contribution to the Alum- nae Association budget, and, after all, it is lots better than taking it out E Nq T Es once a year, airing it, packing it away again in moth balls (and how moths do love the costume!). If you feel that this is one thing which you would like to contribute, will you mail your cap and gown, either one or both, to the Alumnae Secretary, Agnes Scott College, in the same city of Decatur, Ga., and win our eternal gratitude? We have rented every one in our possession and many girls are clamoring for them, so if you can do it immediately, it will add to the gift! Missing! Through the years of Quarterly publication, the office has tried to keep a complete file but in some way there are several issues which are miss- ing, although the library does have a perfect file. If you are one of those rare people who keep old magazines, will you look in your files for the fol- lowing numbers and mail them to the Alumnae Office? We promise to guard them from now on! January, 1934; November, 1933; January, 1933; July, 1932; January, 1931; November, 1930; January, 1930; November, 1929; January, 1926; January, 1924. This Is For You! Whether you are a nearby or dis- tant alumna, Agnes Scott needs your active help in many, many ways which may seem small to you but which are very great services both to the college and to the Alumnae Asso- ciation. Will you help us whenever you can in any of the following ways? 1. Please put the much - talked about thinking cap on and have an idea or ideas for our part in the Ag- nes Scott Semi-Centennial Celebration which will come in 1939. Dr. McCain has requested all of us to begin now in our planning for this great celebra- tion of our fiftieth year and we want every idea which occurs to every alum- na in this connection. 2. Will you keep an eye out in your local papers for write-ups and pictures of alumnae and cut them out and mail to the Alumnae Office? We cannot stress this service too much for often it is months before we learn of an alumna's new job or new husband or new baby or new address when many alumnae may have seen said The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY "newness" in their papers and have thought nothing about letting us have the clippings. We would like to have a letter from you when you send it in but if time is precious, just slip it in an envelope and mail it in to be wel- comed with open arms by the office force. 3. And about that choice girl or girls whom you have rather had in mind for Agnes Scott as she grew up in your town; won't you write us or the office of the Registrar and ask that she be contacted? And will you lend your own Agnes Scott spirit and charm to persuading her from your end of the line? This is one of the most definite contributions you can make: to help Agnes Scott in its choice of the very best students of your vi- cinity. 4. And if prosperity has 'rounded the corner long ago in your experi- ence and you feel that you would like to do something in a material way for the Alumnae House, may we suggest some items? Linens of all kinds, such as towels, double bed sheets, pillow cases, table cloths and napkins for the private dining room, blankets if you feel quite wealthy any contribution, small or large, to the Alumnae Garden Committee, either in bulbs, plants, or quarters or dollars, or perhaps you pre- fer to send in something toward one of the lovely new dining room chairs which cost around $35.00 and of which we have now five and need three more to complete the dining room ensemble. Or if none of these items appeal, write us and we can suggest many other needs. Reunion Thanksgiving- Grads! -1937 Thanksgiving and the Tech-Georgia game are just around the corner. Even more exciting than they are is the first reunion of the Class of '37 on Friday, November 26, the day after Thanks- giving and the day before the big game. Can you imagine a more ideal day to have it on? The Class of '37 will gather in full force in the Alum- nae House for dinner at 6:45 and everybody will have a chance to catch up on campus gossip, to find out who is married and who has a good job. Did you know there were twenty-one teachers out of the class; five South- ern-Belles; two at Retail Credit, and seven who haven't yet had enough of school, and who are being exposed to more? Reservations for the dinner may be made by calling the Alumnae House, Dearborn 1726, or writing the Alum- nae Secretary. The price is eighty cents (80c). Martha Summers will be writing you all the details a little later, but this is advance notice to save this week-end, to write to the best friend in the 193 8 class that you'll be back to stay with her, or wouldn't you like to be real "alumnaeish" and stay in the Alumnae House? Here's for the best reunion ever! And How Do You Like the New Quarterly? We'd like a flood of answers to this question? Do you or don't you? Of course, you are rather in the position of your husband or best friend when you ask them how they like that new fall hat! But, honestly, we want to know! We have noticed that the style of magazines has been changing in the last years to this type and we rather felt you wanted Agnes Scott not to be too far behind. This is our first attempt with new type, new size pages, and new headings. We hope to improve the headings, and to make better use of our material in the next issue. The staff is greatly indebted to Leone (Bowers) Hamilton for draw- ings and for advice in the lay-out of the magazine. Please be lenient in your judgment of the details of this issue, but do give us your real opinion of the general set-up. "Little Sisters" Twenty-two out of the one hundred seventy-five new students enrolled this year are "little sisters." They are: Mary Brainard Bell, sister of Margaret Bell, '3 3; Susanne Bellingrath, sister of Elmore (Bellingrath) Bartlett, '31; Dorothy Debele, sister of Margaret (Debele) Maner, '26; Florence Gra- ham, sister of Dorothy Graham, '39; Caroline Gray, sister of Janet Gray, '36; Mary Alice Home, sister of Gary Home, '40; Mary Ivy, sister of Alma Earle Ivy, '33, and Claire Ivy, '34; Helen Jester, sister of Dorothy Jester, '37; Betty Kyle, sister of Virginia Kyle, '39; Nellie Richardson, sister of Isabel Richardson, '37; Jean Slack, sis- ter of Ruth Slack, '40, and daughter of Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, '12; Ar- lene Steinback, sister of Selma Stein- back, '39; Grace Walker, sister of Jo Walker, '29, and Ellen Walker, '25; Cornelia Willis, sister of Betty Willis, '37; and Anita Woolfolk, sister of Elizabeth Woolfolk, '31, and Jacque- line Woolfolk, '3 5. Among the day students are: Beatrice Shamos, sister of Rachel (Shamos) Glazer, '37; Jean Denni- son, sister of Lucile Dennison, '37; Tommay Turner, sister of Jane Tur- ner, '3 8, and Sarah Turner, '36; Mar- tha Jane Dunn, sister of Doris Dunn, ex-'3 8; Doris Weinkle, sister of Eve- lyn Weinkle, ex-'40; Marjorie Merlin, sister of Edith Merlin, '3 6; and Elsie York, sister of Madge (York) Wes- ley, '33, and Johnnie Mae (York) Rumble, '34. FACULTY NEWS Dr. J. R. McCain was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Senate at the nine- teenth triennial council which met in Atlanta, Sept. 5-6. Miss Hopkins has not been well this fall, but is feeling much better now. Miss Louise McKinney and Dr. Mary Sweet spent the summer travel- ing in the New England states and at Little Switzerland, N. C. Dr. Mary Stuart MacDougall spent most of the summer on the cimpus working on her textbook, which Hel- ene (Norwood) Lammers, ex-'22, is illustrating. Llewellyn Wilburn, '19, was coun- selor at Rockbridge Camp in Brevard, N. C, and spent some time at Myrtle Beach the last of the summer. Miss Muriel Harn spent the summer studying in Germany and visiting friends abroad. Miss Leslie Gaylord did some work in Chicago the early part of the sum- mer and then traveled through the West. Miss Catherine Torrance, accom- panied by her sister, Miss Mary Tor- rance, and her neice, Mary Catherine Williamson, '31, spent August travel- ing on the Gaspe Peninsula and in the New England States. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, '27, spent a month in Santa Monica, Calif., with Page Ackerman, '3 3. Dick Scandrett, '24, and Alberta Palmour, '3 5, traveled in Europe with a group of Agnes Scott girls. It was an Open Road Tour and they met lots of interesting people in France and Italy. Miss Edna Hanley spent most of her vacation at home in Illinois, but came back by New York and reports a delightful time with all the new plays accounted for. Miss Frances Gooch spent the sum- mer in London at the London School of Speech. She was accompanied by Vera Frances Pruet, '3 5, who won a scholarship offered by the school, and who studied there during the summer session. Janef Preston, '21, spent a few weeks at Montreat, N. C. Martha Stansfield, '21, spent the summer traveling in California, Wash- ington, and British Columbia. Mar- tha accompanied Miss Narka Nelson SEPTEMBER, 1937 home to California and spent some time visiting her before going on north to Canada. She reports a delightful trip through Vancouver and British Columbia. Miss Katherine Omwake spent the summer traveling in England, France, Germany and Switzerland. Frances McCalla, '3 5, spent the summer at Mountain Lake, Va., study- ing and doing research work in biol- ogy- Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker spent nine weeks at Chatauqua, N. Y., this summer. Mrs. Sydenstricker took courses in Paul, Creative Education, and Hindu Philosophy, this last course being taught by the renown Hindu lecturer, Dr. Joshi, who is professor of Comparative Religions at Dartmouth. Mrs. Sydenstricker also visited her son and daughter in Nashville. Bee Miller, '30, spent the summer in Texas, Detroit, and at home "en- joying life" as she puts it! Miss Louise Lewis and her sister spent the summer traveling in Eng- land, France and Belgium. Miss Lewis reports that they made a "cathedral tour" of England. Miss Narka Nelson spent the sum- mer at La Jolla, Calif., and had as her guests during the vacation Miss Les- lie Gaylord and Martha Stansfield. Miss Emily Dexter and Miss Kath- erine Omwake are the authors of a textbook, Introduction to the Fields of Psychology, which is being used as a supplement to the introductory course in psychology which is given on the campus. Virginia Prettyman, '34, spent the summer in the mountains of North Carolina and at her home in Summer- ville, S. C. Ada Page Foote, former assistant in the library and special student at Ag- nes Scott, was married to Durahn Corban, of Brookhaven, Miss., in August. Miss Mary Linda Vardell, professor of biology last year, was married to the Reverend Ellison Adger Smyth, of Lexington, Va., on July 1 in Blow- ing Rock, N. C. Miss Louise Hale spent the summer in Nice, France. Two members of the faculty have been distinguished by high honors conferred upon them. Margaret Phy- thian, '16, has been granted a fellow- ship by the General Education Board and will spend a second year studying in France for her doctorate. Laura Colvin, assistant librarian, is on leave of absence for this year, and will study at the University of Michigan. Miss Colvin was granted a fellowship by the Carnegie Corporation. New Faculty Among the new faculty members on the staff this year are: Dr. Florence Swanson, associate college physician, who has her B.S. from the University of Oregon and her M.D. from the University of Washington. She has been staff physi- cian at the Pratt Hospital in Balti- more for the past three years. Dr. Swanson is taking over the position formerly held by Dr. Mary Sweet, who is now professor of hygiene emer- ita and will serve in an advisory ca- pacity, and as resident physician and associate professor of hygiene. Dean Georg F. hinder, of the At- lanta Conservatory of Music, will teach violin. Dr. Mary Ann McKinney, who is a graduate of Agnes Scott, Class of 1925, M.A., Columbia University, and M.D., Tulane University, is on leave of absence from her work at the Women's Christian Medical College, Punjab, India, and is teaching biology at the college. Virginia Gray, '32, who has her B.S.I.S. from the University of Illi- nois, is instructor in French. Virginia has been teaching in the Central School for Missionaries' Children in Bibanga, Belgian Congo, Africa. Laura Cummings, B.A., University of Toledo; B.A.L.S., University of Michigan, assistant in the library. Mrs. Sarah Rhodes Graham, B.A., Western College, B.S.L.S., Columbia University, assistant in the library. Mary (Walker) Fox, '3 6, assistant in chemistry. Evelyn Wall, '37, assistant in the voice department. Academic Honors Announcement of academic honors for the 1936-37 session was made by Dr. McCain October 1. Those among the seniors making this rating include: Jean Chalmers, Hortense Jones and Mary Ann Kernan, of Atlanta; Elsie Blackstone, East Point; Mildred Da- vis, Orlando, Fla.; Eliza King, Colum- bia, S. C. ; Elise Seay, Macon, Ga.; Anne Thompson, Richmond, Va.; and Louise Young, Soochow, Ku, China. The juniors are: Emily Harris, Cora Kay Hutchins, and Sarah Thurman, of Atlanta; Marie Merritt, Eufaula, Ala.; Mary Ruth Murphy, Hot Springs, Ark.; Lou Pate, Newborn, Tenn. ; Mamie Lee Ratliff, Sherard, Miss.; Virginia Tumlin, Cave Springs, Ga.; and Mary Ellen Whetsell, Colum- bia, S. C. The sophomores are: Eva Ann Pirkle, of Atlanta; Antoinette and Florence Sledd, of Decatur; Eve- lyn Baty, of Birmingham; Louise Hughston, of Spartanburg, S. C. ; Mary Cox Reins, of College Park; and Violet Jane Watkins, of Nashville, Tenn. Foreign Students Exchange students this year are: Therese Poumaillou, of Tours, France; Ursula Mayer, of Stuttgart, Germany; and Tomiko Okamura, of Mura Shizuoka, Japan. Tomiko was a student at Agnes Scott last year and is continuing her studies in Bible and English. Among the American born students from foreign countries are: Janet McKim, of Mexico City, fresh- man; Nell Allison, of Kiangyin, China; Emma McMullen, sister of C'Lena McMullen, '34, of Hangchow, China; Louise Young, of Soochow, China; Julia Lancaster, of Taichow; and Sophie Montgomery, of Hawaii. The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY NEWS FROM THE CLUBS Agnes Scott Business Girls' Club In May of this year the Agnes Scott Business Girls' Club made its first ap- pearance. Prior to that time we had been a group affiliated with the At- lanta Alumnae Club, our founder. Our independence is the result of their careful guidance and the ever present watchfulness of Augusta (Skeen) Cooper. We hope that our emergence as a new and independent Alumnae Club will be a stimulus for our con- tinued growth and a challenge to our- selves. The outstanding achievement of our club during the past year was the raising of a fund which assured us that we will be numbered among those presenting a chair for the dining room of the Alumnae House. Our program for the past two years has included a speaker at our monthly dinner meetings, and a study course presented by a member of the college faculty. This year the theme of our monthly meetings will be "Political Situations in Various Countries" and speakers are invited for each month through June. Our study class is ten- tatively planned and we expect to have Dr. Hayes lead us in a study of the contemporary novel. We held our first meeting of this year in September with Dr. McCain and Miss Daisy Frances Smith as our guests. Their messages were challeng- ing and inspirational and we believe that they, together with the large group of new alumnae present, will be a stimulus that will carry the Busi- ness Girls' Club through to a success- ful year. Atlanta, Ga., Club The Atlanta Agnes Scott Club ex- pects to have another fine year with its varied programs, activities and projects. We are fortunate in having a splendid program chairman who has planned an interesting series of speak- ers. Our activities will include assist- ance at the college when needed, and at the Founder's Day Banquet with the Decatur Club and the Business Girls' Club. Our projects will be con- tinued improvement of the Alumnae House and Garden, and a benefit bridge. The policies of the club will be to try to draw the Atlanta Club to a closer relationship with the General Association in order that we may feel ourselves a unit of the whole. We shall try to increase membership with special regard to the Class of '37, and to bring about a closer friendship among our members. The officers for the year 1937-3 8 are: President, Dorothy (Walker) Palmer, '34; First Vice-President, Ade- line (Arnold) Loridans, Institute; Second Vice-President, Mary (Miller) Brown, '32; Treasurer, Sara (Carter) Massee, '29; Corresponding Secretary, Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFarland, '25. Decatur, Ga., Club The new officers for 1937-3 8 are: Helene (Norwood) Lammers, presi- dent; Annie (Johnson) Sylvester, vice- president; Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer, secretary and treasurer. The first meeting of the fall was held in the Alumnae House, September 27th, with thirty-six present. Dr. McCain was the special guest and made an inter- esting talk on the changes in Agnes Scott as the fall term opens. There are several projects which the club is considering and it is hoping to help with substantial contributions, as it did last year, both the Alumnae House and the Alumnae Garden. New Orleans, La., Club "Our New Orleans group had a lit- tle get-together meeting recently in Stuart (Sanderson) Dixon's new home, which is very lovely. Each one brought a luncheon set for the Alum- nae House, which we hope will prove useful." So wrote the president, Grace (Carr) Clark. (And following the letter there came a big box filled with beautiful luncheon sets for the House and although this is Grace's report, we must write from the Alumnae Asso- ciation's viewpoint here and tell this group what their gifts meant to us here. "From rags to riches" would cover the situation perfectly, for from having to place salt cellars and sugar bowls carefully to cover the holes last year we now proudly set the table with never a qualm.) Mississippi State Club The Mississippi group sent in a five dollar contribution with no strings attached and after considering almost every committee's needs in our organization, the House and Tea Room Committee won out and this commit- tee is using the gift to help buy the new electric refrigerator which be- came a necessity last spring in the Tea Room and was bought on more faith than money. Charlotte, N. C, Club The Charlotte Club entertained at a charming garden party in the early summer at the home of Julia (Hagood) Cuthbertson's mother and father. The special honor guests of the tea were Cama (Burgess) Clarkson, the incom- ing president; Charlotte Hunter, vice- president; Frances Ellen (Medlin) Walker, secretary and treasurer. And the club invited also as its guests twen- ty-five girls from the high schools. To quote Irene Lowrance, the out- going president: "After the guests ar- rived, we were all seated and Louisa Duls introduced the girls who went down for May Day, and three of them made talks on their trip. Then we dis- solved into small groups and later went into the garden for punch and sand- wiches, beautiful to see as well as to taste, for they were made by Clyde (McDaniel) Barton, mother of Bar- ton Jackson, now at Agnes Scott, and creamy mints, made by Pernette (Ad- ams) Carter's mother, though Per- nette was absent, due to two cases of measles. Altogether, the party was a success and I know the effort was worth while for the girls." NECROLOGY Elizabeth Hollis, '37, died of acute oedemia at her home in Sautee, Ga., on June 27. Elizabeth was vice-presi- dent of Y. W. C. A. last year and was prominent in all campus affairs. She was a neice of Janie McGaughey, '13. Janet Gray, '36, was killed in an automobile accident near Nice, France, on June 5, 1937. Janet was studying abroad and teaching Eng- lish at L'Ecole Normale d'Institutrices in La Rochelle, France. Janet was an honor graduate and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Elizabeth Kump, ex-'34, died on January 9, at her home in Elkins, W. Va., from an injury resulting from a fall. Elizabeth was a student at Ag- nes Scott her freshman and sophomore years and graduated at the University of West Virginia. She is a sister of Margaret (Kump) Roberts, '34, and Hazel (Turner) Kump, ex-'3 5, both of Elkins. Sarah (Dell) Yoder, ex-'34, died of pleurisy, December 18, 193 6, at her home in Knoxville. Emily (Squires) Hanning, '32, died in Leysin, Switzerland, in the spring after a long illness. Emily had been living in Paris where her hus- band is in business and was in Switzer- land at a hospital. Martha (Cardoza) Vaughn, Insti- tute, died on December 22, 1936, after a long illness. Annie E. Cameron, ex-' 16, died Oc- tober 3, 1937, in Durant, Okla. Mary Frances Barnhart, ex-'21, died in September, following a long illness. Mary (Ferguson) Boots, ex-'16. Mattie (Winn) Wright, Institute. Alma (Mayson) Neal, Institute. Kate L. Harralson, Institute. Sarah (Cranston) Barrett, Institute. Laura (Erwin) Lide, Academy. Irene (Fraser) LaPrade, Institute, died in May, 1937. REUNION TIME . . . June 4th - June 7th "Changeless forever stands the Tower of Main To call remembered daughters hack again." 00 , 01 , 02 , 03 '19 , '20 , 21 , '22 Class of 37 Class at Large (includes all alumnae of other classes than reunion classes who may find 1938 the best year to come back) "Oh, better than the minting of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory of a lovely thing." Che AGNES SCOTT Alumnae Quarterly Vol. XVI No. 2 JANUARY 1938 A DATE TO KEEP ! February 22nd, Founder's Day Radio Broadcast WSB, Atlanta Journal Station, 740 Kilocycles This may be the thirteenth time Agnes Scott has broadcast its Founder's Day pro- gram but don't get the idea that we think it is unlucky! Please "red-letter" February 22nd on that new calendar and when late afternoon rolls 'round, if you are the lone alumna of your town, settle yourself in a comfortable spot to hear the first strains of "When Far From the Reach ..." If you are fortunate enough to be where alumnae are gathered in group meetings at homes or clubs or hotels to have dinner and enjoy the broadcast together, then you want to set aside that whole evening, for, after the broadcast, there'll be talk, and news, and songs, and fun! Due to the fact that the January Quarterly had to be in the printer's hands around the first of December and the Journal had not at that time made up its new year's calendar, the actual hour of the broadcast cannot be published in this issue. But the Atlanta Journal Radio heads have promised the date and the time will probably be the same as last year's, six p. m., central standard time, with the half-promise that the station will give us the half hour this year rather than the fifteen minute period of last year. All groups will be notified definitely as to the time and won't you individual alumnae either write us that you are interested in the hour or tune in your radio late that afternoon and leave it at 740 kilocycles until the program comes in? We regret that our Quarterly publication does not coincide a little better with the time for getting this announcement to you but we feel that, after so many years, alumnae will be counting on this event and will secure the time, if you are not in the groups which are notified. It is hoped to have the familiar voices and melodies on this program and ambitious ideas for some new features are being considered. And for alumnae, far and near, we bid you welcome to the thirteenth broadcast of Agnes Scott's Founder's Day program, And we DO mean YOU! Cfje Bgm* ^cott Hlumnae O^uarterlp Published in November, January, April, and July by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association Entered as second class matter under the Act of Congress, August, 1912 CONTENTS A Date to Keep Frontispiece Contemporary Poets and the South Dr. Emma May Laney 2 The Pleasures of Reading Ellen Douglass Leyburn, '27 7 The Clock Struck Twelve 8 More Lost Sheep 9 Campus News and Office Notes 10 Granddaughters Club 13 Concerning Ourselves 14 Commencement Time 25 CALENDAR January 11-15 Charm Week, Myra Jervey, '32, lecturer. January 25 Lecture Association presents H. S. Ede, Cura- tor of Tate Gallery, London. February 8-12 Dr. R. E. Speir, Religious Week. February 15-17 Citizenship Institute. February 19 Shaw's "Pygmalion," Blackfriars. February 22 Founder's Day Banquet. Founder's Day Broadcast over WSB. March 5 Glee Club presents Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado". March 10 Nelson Eddy Concert in Atlanta. March 16-22 Spring Holidays. March 25 Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, feature of Lecture Association program. March 3 1 St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in Atlanta. AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION Officers of the (^Association President, Daisy Frances Smith, '24 First Vice-President, Janice Stewart Brown, '24 Second Vice-President, Nannie Campbell, '23 Secretary, Helene Norwood Lammers (Mrs. C. J.), '22 Treasurer, Margaret Ridley, '3 3 Executive Secretary, Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson (Mrs. D. B.), '12 Assistant Secretary, Nelle Chamlee, '34 Committee chairmen: Betty Lou Houck Smith (Mrs. Bealy), '3!, Martha Stansfield, '21, House and Tea Room; Sarah Slaughter, '26, Radio; Letitia Rockmore Lange (Mrs. J. Harry), *33, Publicity; Emma Pope Moss Dieckmann (Mrs. C. W.), '13, Alumnae Week-End; Clubs; Eloise Gay Brawley (Mrs. Foote), '16, Grounds; Irene Havis Baggett (Mrs. L. G.), Entertainment; Kenneth Maner, '27, Student Loan; Mary Crenshaw Palmour (Mrs. Oscar), Institute, Constitution; Sarah Belle Brodnax Hansell (Mrs. Granger), '23, House Decorations; Alberta Palmour, '35, Preparatory Schools. k. Contemporary Poets and the South ^j This address, made by Miss Laney as one of the features of our Alumnae Week-End prograr, who could not be present may have the opportunity of enjoying this masterly presentation. Dr. Emma May Laney is being published that many alumnae Some years ago when H. L. Mencken was commenting caustically on everything in America, he called the South the literary desert of the Beaux Arts. The years since his statement have given ample refutation to it, as is best evi- denced by the fact that four times within the contempo- rary period has the Pulitzer prize novelist been a southerner Julia Peterkin, Margaret Mitchell, Caroline Miller, and T. S. Stribling, while other novelists such as Stark Young, Ellen Glascow, and James Branch Cabell have ranked with the best modern writers of fiction. The South has likewise produced such notable biography as Freeman's Lee and Donald Wade's Longstreet, and such notable history as W. E. Dodd's Old South, and distinguished studies like W. T. Couch's Culture in the South, and E. Mimms, The Advancing South. In poetry also has there been a distinct revival in the form of poetry magazines, poetry societies, and volumes of verse. There are various reasons for this literary productiveness in what had up to the contemporary period been a some- what barren region. A wave of literary activity spread over America in the years preceding and following the world war, and the South sufficiently recovered from the economic effects of the reconstruction period to share in this activity. Furthermore, art is rooted in local tradition, and the South offers material, romantic and legendary, which had scarcely been touched before this time. Finally the advancing industrialism in the South quickened the sense of the value of this material and naturally resulted in the desire to preserve in literature the traditions and scenes that were passing. Whatever the reason for the Southern literary revival between the years 1910 and 1938, it is significant that most of the literature produced is regional, that poets out- side the South have found inspiration in the South, and that its spirit is in distinct contrast to that in most of the earlier literature of the South. In the days following the Civil War, the "Old South" was always treated sentimen- tally. Someone has called this the period of moonlight and nightingales. O. Henry, as has frequently been pointed out, started the satire of this sham sentimentality and glit- tering romanticism in a story which he called "The Rose of Dixie." "The Rose of Dixie" was a publication devoted to fostering and voicing of Southern genius ... it was of, for, and by the South. The editor's purpose was to con- duct the magazine so that the fragrance and beauty of the South would permeate the whole world. When the maga- zine was tottering on the brink of failure, an assistant business manager urged the publication of material of more general interest, and the editor after a long mental struggle consented to print an article by a northerner. He published it, however, with this caption, "Written for 'The Rose of Dixie' by a member of the well-known Bullock family of Georgia, T. Roosevelt." O. Henry was followed by a long list of satirical writers including Ellen Glascow and Frances Newman, and extending to Thomas Woolfe. But even while this critical attitude was predominant, there came about a change in the form of an attempt to revalue the social and political traditions of the South. This spirit informs the novels of James Boyd and Margaret Mitchell, and is particularly characteristic of the contem- porary poetry about the South. It is a tendency to regard the old South as a chapter not in local but in American history. The most important contemporary poem about the South illustrates what I mean by this new attitude. It is John Brown's Body, a three hundred and seventy-eight page epic of the Civil War, by Stephen Vincent Benet, a Pennsyl- vanian by birth, graduate of Yale, who lived in Augusta, Georgia, long enough to know first hand Southern tradi- tions and the Southern scene. The prelude to the poem presents scenes so vivid that the reader smells the fetid odor of the blacks on a slave boat which is bringing them to America and hears their grievous sobbing: Oh Lordy Jesus Won't you come find me I'm feeling poorly Yes, mighty poorly 1 ain't gi no strength. Following this prelude, the action of the poem begins with John Brown's raid and continues through the assassination of Lincoln. By a zig-zag method which moves from Con- necticut to Virginia, to Tennessee, to Georgia, to Missis- sippi, and back again, Benet gives a cross-section of Civil War days in cineomatic scenes that show battle, marching, sickness, hunger, as they affect the Pennsylvania farmer, Jake Diefer; the Georgia aristocrat, Clay Wingate; Jack Ellyott of Connecticut; Splade, the runaway slave; Breck- inbridge, the Tennessee mountaineer; Sally DuPree, the Southern belle; and Melora Villas, daughter of a wandering ne'er-do-well. The conflict is of cotton against wheat and iron; of man against man; but primarily the story is the tragedy of human beings caught in a tide of events for which they are not responsible. John Brown's body, which lies mouldering in the ground and from which spring the armies and the swords of battle as well as the steel of the new industrialism which begins after reconstruction days, is the symbol of this destiny. The poem is, then, neither a glorification nor a condem- nation of either North or South as such, but rather as ex- posure of the evils of war: It is cold. It is wet. We marched until we could not stand up. It is muddy here. I wish you could see us here. They would knoiv what war is like. and again War is an endless procession of dirty boots, Filling pitchers and emptying out the slops, And making cornhusk beds for unshaved men . . . War isn't a thing for ladies . . . (Sophie, chamber maid in the hotel, said) . War was a throat that swallowed things And you could not cure it with conjurings. JANUARY, 1938 With no attempt to glorify the South, the poem is rich in its scenes of the South. There is a picture of Georgia which is accurately descriptive of Georgia today: So Sherman goes from Atlanta to the sea Through the red-earth heart of the land, through the pine-smoke haze Of the warm, last months of the year. In the evenings The skies are green as the thin, clear ice on the pools That melts to water again in the heat of the noon. A few black trees are solemn against those skies. The soldiers feel the winter touching the air With a little ice. But when the sun has come up When they halt at noonday, mopping their sweaty brows, The skies are bine and soft and without a cloud. And again of a market town which is more than faintly reminiscent of Decatur: On Saturday, in Southern market towns, When 1 was a boy with twenty cents to spend, The carts began to drift in with the morning, And, by the afternoon, the slipshod Square And all Broad Center Street were lined with them; Moth-eaten mules that whickered at each other Betu'een the mended shafts of rattle-trap wagons, Mud-spattered buggies, mouldy phaetons, There was always a Courthouse in the Square, A cupolaed Courthouse, drowsing Time away Behind the grey-white pillars of its porch Like an old sleepy judge in a spotted gown; And down the Square, ahcays a languid jail . . . And also of the whole country: This country was too new Too straggley, unplanned, too muddy with great Uncomfortable floods, too roughly cut with a broad hatchet from a hard tree. The poem is likewise vivid in its portrayal of Southern folk: Fat Aunt Bess is older than Time But her eyes still shine like a bright, new dime, Though two generations hate gone to rest On the sleepy mountain of her breast. Wingate children in Wingate Hall, From the first weak cry in the bearing-bed She has petted and punished them, one and all, She has closed their eyes when they lay dead. She raised Marse Billy when he was puny, She cared for the Squire when he got loony, She has had children of her own, But the white-skinned ones are bone of her bone. They may not be hers, but she is theirs. And if the share were unequal shares, She does not know it, now she is old. They will keep her out of the rain and cold. And some were naughty, and some were good, But she will be warm while they have wood, Rule them and spoil them and play physician With the vast, insensate force of tradition, Half a nuisance and half a mother And legally neither one nor the other, Till at last they follow her to her grave, The family despot, and the slave. And then the mountaineer: Luke Breckinridge, his rifle on his shoulder, Slipped through green forest alleys toward the town, A gawky boy with smoldering eyes, whose feet Whispered the crooked paths like moccasins. (He meets his Cousin Jim) "Might go along a piece together," he said. Luke didn't move. Their eyes clashed for a moment, Then Luke spoke, casually. "I hear the Kelceys Air goin' to fight in tins here war," he said. Jim nodded slowly, "Yuh, I heerd that too." He watched Luke's trigger-hand. "I might be goin' Myself sometime," he said reflectively Sliding his own hand doivn. Luke saw the movement. "We'uns don't like the Kelceys much," he said With his eyes down to pinpoints. Then Jim smiled. "We-uns neither," he said. His hand slid back. They went along together after that But neither of them spoke for half-a-mile, Then finally, Jim said, half-diffidently, "You know who we air goin' to fight outside? I heard it was the British. Air that so?" "Hell, no," said Luke, with scorn. He puckered his brows. "Dunno's I rightly know just who they air." He admitted finally, "But 'tain't the British. It's some trash-lot of furriners, that's shore. They call 'em Yankees near as I kin make if, But they ain't Injund neither." "Well," said Jim Smoothingly, "Reckon it don't rightly matter Long as the Kelceys take the other side." These pictures are a part of the new realism with which everything is painted from the scraping of lint and mend- ing of rusty stirrups with rusty wire to the prostitutes who changed the flags on their garters from confederate to fed- eral as the armies moved; the poem is new likewise in form with the shifting rhythms from blank to free verse, from prose to spiritual and ballad; but chiefly new in the pre- senting the whole civil war as a human conflict fraught with tragedy but inevitable. Since the South is rich in history and legend, and possess- es a landscape varying from the majesty of the Smokies to the languous low country, it is not surprising that the spirit of place should be strong in it and that this spirit should express itself in lyrical poetry. Such is that case. Most Southern poetry of today is lyrical and much of it is indigeneous, concerning itself with the local scene, local folk, local history, and local tradition. Some of the lyrics present the impact of the new indus- trial era on the old South. Such is the theme of Dubose Heyward in a "Chant for an Old Town". Heyward said whimsically once that he was a member of an old Charles- ton family and as a business man engaged in selling insur- ance is an ambassador between the old Charleston and the The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY new. Anyone who has visited Charleston recently and seen the huge skyscraper tourist hotels which over-shadow some of the quiet little streets can understand his prayer in this poem to the "builders of white towers in the sun" to pause before this ruin is complete. Following this invocation, he describes in regular pentameters the building of the city by men "whose hands loved the feel of stone and knew the elusive ways of Beauty . . ." In a parallel section of the poem he presents in nervous free verse the engines that come and breathe their iron breathing and snarl and shat- ter, shatter, shatter this frail beauty to make a hotel the mate to twenty others in great American cities. In another such poem, "Fire on Belmont Street," Don- ald Davidson of Vanderbilt University uses the incident from Anglo-Saxon poetry of a surprise attack at night on a Teutonic band by a tribe with which they thought they had just patched up peace, as a symbol of the insidious encroachment of ovens, furnaces, and factories on a rural civilization where there was peace and serenity. Neither poet is facing backward with sentimental nostalgia. Don- ald Davidson in writing as a member of a group that has become famous for its defense of the agrarian way of life against an industrial civilization and DuBose Heyward is pleading not for a return of the old South, but for the keeping inviolate a beauty not made by hands. The white columned colonial house which is such a char- acteristic feature of the Southern landscape is a favorite subject with the poets and three poems in this theme illus- trate three of the schools of contemporary poetry. One of these, called "Ghosts of an Old Flouse," is by John Gould Fletcher, member of an aristocratic Arkansas delta family, Harvard graduate, friend of Amy Lowell, member of the imagist group of poets. The poem in free verse after the imagist manner, falls into three divisions, attic, house, lawn, each of which consists of half a dozen brief poems in which the poet tries by details to convey to the reader his feeling about the House, Nursery, Little Chair, Old Barn, Back Stairs; for instance, THE ATTIC Dust bangs clogged so thick The air has a dusty taste; Spider threads cling to my face, From the broad pine-beams. There is nothing living here, The house below might be quite empty, No sound comes from it. The old broken trunks and boxes, Cracked and dusty pictures, Legless chairs and shattered tables, Seem to be crying Softly in the stillness Because no one has brushed them. No one has any use for them, now. Yet I often wonder If these things are really dead: If the old trunks never open Letting out grey flapping things at twilight? If it is all as safe and dull As it seems? Why then is the stair so steep, Why is the doorway always locked, Why does nobody ever come? Quite different is "The Old Mansion" by John Crowe Ransome, also of the Vanderbilt University group of poets. He has passed many times such a house, each time absorb- ing some new feature of it, and realizing that it is crumb- ling into decay, he decides to go in but is rebuffed in bis attempt. His poem is a witty comment on his experiences. He describes himself as an intruder, trudging with careful innocence to mask a meddlesome stare and exhaling his cigar ("foreign weed"). He sees himself dismissed as tour- ists in Europe are: The old mistress was ill, and sent my dismissal By one even more wrappered and lean and dark Than that warped concierge and imperturbable vassal Who bids you begone from her master's Gothic park. In still a different manner does Janef Preston of the Agnes Scott faculty express the effect on her of such a house in Louisiana's low country: DESERTED HOUSE ON A BAYOU These broken columns, once so proudly tall, Upljold too long the roof that men disown; Too many summers' grass has split the stone Of steps that bear no more a light footfall. Unmarked by feast- or fast-day, seasons crawl Across the chimneys that long since have sown Their sparks upon the dust, or thinly blown Blue smoke upon the day at matin call. The sundial mocks, "Horas non numero Nisi serenas." While slow hours pass, The garden's marred and sunken patterns show Like skeletons half covered in the grass. Time lingers on this threshold but to taunt The house that has outlived man's utmost want. In the form of a Shakespearean sonnet, she expresses her sense of irony that the house has lived beyond man's need; the house thus becomes a symbol of the ruins of time and the poem takes its place in the long line of English poems from the Anglo-Saxon "Ruined City" to "The Deserted Village." The imagist with his free verse, the metaphysical poet with his wit, and the traditional poet with vigorous real- ism each has in turn found materials of poetry in the Southern ante-bellum house. Important chapters of colonial history were enacted in the South, and novels and books like Caroline Couper Lovell's The Golden Isles of Georgia have perpetuated the memory of these events. Poetry likewise has found themes in them. The reconstruction of Williamsburg, Virginia, has had no small part in stimulating interest in historic places in the South, and Williamsburg lives in a series of sonnets by Virginia Lyne Turnstall. "Spring Dusk in Wil- liamsburg" in her imagination brings back not only the rosy apple's blossom's scented snow but also gentle ghosts to Duke of Gloucester Street. The peace of Bruton Church yard is recreated in "They Sleep So Quietly." Daniel Whitehead Hicky, of Atlanta, in "Thirteen Son- nets of Georgia" has paid his tribute to the historic Georgia Coast. Fort Frederica, established by Oglethorpe in 1736, is described as a mass of tabby-stone at the marsh's edge, where rhythmed waters from the sea whisper against grey and shell-torn walls, telling of strange new ships that came to be. Nearby is Christ's church, established by the Wes- leys, and the peace of that churchyard is well described, CHRIST CHURCHYARD Beneath this muted conference of oak Spreading an emerald heaven overhead, With grey moss hanging like a phantom smoke, Time counts the timeless hours of the dead. No spoken word awakes the quiet here, No footfall, save the darkness and the dawn, JANUARY, 1938 No stir save jasmine breathing on the air, Dropping their dying petals on each stone. Deep in our hearts they sleep, these pioneers, The young, the brave, the beautiful, the old, Who made an alien world so wholly theirs! Down the slow centuries as the years are told By Tune's cold fingers at his crumbling door They are at peace with earth. They ask no more. Amy Lowell in 1921 writing of Charleston said: "Charleston has more poetic appeal than almost any city in America ... It is a place for poets, indeed. History touches legend in Charleston . . . The town is beautiful with the past, and glorious with the present ... Its wealth of folk-lore has been little touched with poetry. The scene is set. Now for the actors." The actors, primarily Dubose Heyward and Hervey Allen, both better known now for novels than for poetry, made Charleston the center of a poetry revival in the South. The Charleston Poetry So- ciety brought distinguished poets South, offered prizes for poetry, and from it sprang up between 1921 and 1930 a host of poetry societies and poetry magazines extending from Norfolk, Virginia, to Dallas, Texas. Charleston, its gardens, its coasts, its folk furnished material for poets of north as well as at home. One of the most vivid pictures of the city itself was written by Hervey Allen, a Pennsyl- vanian who spent a few of the post war years teaching in Charleston: PALMETTO TOWN Sea-island winds sweep through Palmetto Tcnvn, Bringing with piney tang the old romance Of Pirates and of smuggling gentlemen; And tongues as languorous as southern France Flow down her streets like wafer-talk at fords; While through iron gates where pickaninnies sprawl; The sound floats back, in rippled banjo chords, From lush magnolia shade where mockers call. Mornings, the flower-women haivk their wares Bronze caryatids of a genial race, Bearing the bloom-heaped baskets on their heads; Lithe, with their arms akimbo in ivide grace, Their jasmine nods jestingly at cares Turbaned they are, deep-chested, straight and tall, Bandying old English words now seldom heard, But sweet as Provencal. Dreams peer like prisoners through her harp-like gates, From molten gardens mottled with gray-gloom, Where lichened sundials shadow ancient dates, And deep piazzas loom. The gardens, which draw pilgrims each year when japon- ica and azalea blossom, have inspired both New England Amy Lowell and New England Henry Bellaman. Amy Lowell omitted from her published works the poem in which she affronted Charlestonians by calling the magenta azaleas obscene, but she included a free verse description of Middleton Place. Henry Bellaman, brought to the South by his wife's illness, became music director in a college in Columbia, S. C. He has written a series of poems on the Carolina coast country. In one of these, "Garden on the Santee," he captures the spirit of the stately formal 18th century Middleton garden. The river folds about the terraces where the afternoon stretches its shining length and sleeps. Walled in by hedges the pools of perfume deepen fed by hidden springs of jasmine and grass-tangled roses. I have come too late. A lovely play is over, and the stage is empty. But I have heard, as one half hears, half dreams, last sounds of festivals at the distant turn of some long avenue; I have heard the brittle sound of brocade and the gay passage of red and silver heels behind azalea banks; I have heard the tournament of swift hoofs along the road, and the slow circling sound of negro boats songs from the hidden river bend. In another, Magnolia Gardens, he seizes the exotic beauty. This sudden, thick, unearthly flame Of flowers is too violent; It feeds on some dark stain Deep in the soil A stain that seeps sometimes Into the black lagoons, Whose horror is not wholly hid By creeping swirls of pale wistaria petals Dripping through the Spanish moss. The white azaleas are too white To hold the slightest floiv of life In their waxed whiteness Too much like ringless hands Under a coffin glass. The hard clash of crimson on magenta Is a warning discord See the shattered red Trickling across the sand. I must go out from this smother of stillness I must feel some breath of air Blotting across cool grass, And sees leaves moving. It is, however, Josephine Pinckney of Charleston, who has given in her volume "Sea Drinking Cities" realistic, lightly ironic pictures of Charleston folk, from the Gulla negro to the antiquated before-the-war ladies. Such is the portrait of Mikel dawdling at his milking, admitting that a planter's son should know how to curry a horse and take care of a cow, but preferring to imagine himself the re- deemer of this defeated land and muttering, "I wish I'd of met that white trash Sherman ... I swear the ole boll weevil, I'd of fed him Paris green." Or picture the Misses Poar: Out from the tall plantation gate Issue the Misses Poar in state. Neatly darned are their black silk mitts, And straight each stately sister sits. Their carriage dresses, brushed and steamed The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY Cover their decent limbs; they seemed No finer, really, before the War When money was free in the house of Poar. The negro coachman in bearer hat, Slightly nibbled by moth and rat, Smooths his frock-coat of greenish hue, But fitting as trim as when it was new With which he stiffens his spine of pride By tightly buttoning himself inside. To drive in this elegant equipage A yoke of oxen of doubtful age. (They've had no horses since sixty- four When the Yankees stopped at the Ixmse of Poar.) The ladies move to the square front pew, Their Christian meekness in ample view, And follow the youthful parson's word With reverence meet for a legate of God Up to the moment when he prates Of the President of the United States; Then knotting full well that Heaven can't Expect them to pray for General Grant, They bury their noses' patrician hook In dear Great-grand-papa's prayer book, Wherein are found urbane petitions To guard the Crown against seditions And rest King Charles the Martyr's soul. Not that they hold King Charles so dear, Although their blood is Cavalier, But it suits their piety, on the whole, Better to pray for the Restoration Than the overseer of a patch-uork nation. Charleston legends are recorded in a volume called Caro- lina Chanson. Allen and Heyward bought a boat and went around the coast gathering from cove dwellers legends of pirates and blockaders . . . One of the best "The Priest and the Pirate," tells what happened to Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the U. S., when she sailed from Georgetown, S. C, for New York on a steamer which was never heard of again. Another deep South section which has inspired poets is the country lying around the Mississippi River. J. G. Fletcher, whose Ghosts of the Old House, was discussed earlier, has written a group of poems called "Down the Mississippi" which describes the river as making its way through dull masses of dense green Like an enormous serpent, dilating, uncoiling, Displaying a broad scaly back of earth-smeared gold. The heat pressing down upon the earth with irresistible languor, the rotted logs in the swamp, the stevedores roll- ing cotton over the gang plank with thudding sound, the roar and shudder of the whistle as the blast shakes the sleepy town in its night landing are realistic details. Will Alexander Percy, a native Mississippian, was one of the first contemporary Southern poets to receive national recognition. It is not legend or history of the Mississippi that appeals to him, but the peace that is symbolized by the molten river and the broad stretches of flat land. His poem "Home" stands with such poems of nostalgia as Browning's "Oh, To Be in England Now That April Is There," and Rupert Brooke's "Grantchester." Writing from New York, he says: 7 have a need of silence and of stars; Too much is said too loudly; I am dazed. The silken sound of ivhirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard. I once knew men as earnest and less shrill. Back where the breakers of deep sunlight roll Across flat fields that love and touch the sky; Back to the more of earth, the less of man, Where there is still a plain simplicity, And friendship, poor in everything but love, And faith, unwise, unquestioned, but a star. Soon now the peace of summer will be there With cloudy fire of myrtles in full bloom; Ami when the marvelous wide evenings come, Across the molten river one can see The misty willow-green of Arcady And then the summer stars . . . I will go home. The cotton picker of this section as well as of South Georgia is well described by Hickey: Beneath the glittering dew fall, they are gone Into the broad fields, down the endless rows Flouing like silent music beneath the sun, And, with a measured tune that no one knows Save those tvho gather cotton, they are one In rhythm and in stark simplicity The bonneted heads of girls scarce in their 'teens, The tall bronze men, their women who shall be Doun with another child ere autumn wanes, The young boys picking, rising, bending doun, Pausing to watch the first train into town. In striking contrast to this low country is the mountain section of the South our last frontier. It has found its poets in Olive Tilford Dargan and Dubose Heyward. Hey- ward compares this region in its power, its slowness, its in- articulateness to a yoke of steers which "will arrive in its appointed hour, unhurried by the goad of lesser wills" while Dargan describes Clingman Dome where balsam is bluer for leaning on the sky and Sail's Gap from trough to tip thick with laurel. But the best poetry of the moun- tains describes the mountain folk who have changed little since Luke Breckenridge, in John Brown's Body, went to the Civil War. In poems as vigorous and realistic as those in which Frost describes the New Englander, Dubose Hey- ward portrays them. Their feuds live in a sonnet called "Black Christmas." The Mountain Girl whose fresh young womanhood quickly fades into burned out and sunken age, the raw-boned and thunder-voiced mountain preacher who with brandished fist shouted about an arrant egoist swift to avenge a wrong; these and more are to be found in Heyward's volume, "Skylines". Typical is the moun- tain woman whose stoic endurance of the tragedies of her life is broken when her husband returning home drunk breaks the scarlet geranium which is her only treasure. In conclusion, contemporary poetry about the South makes only a small chapter in the account of contempor- ary American letters. In volume it is small; in quality, for the most part, minor. It does, however, mirror the absorp- tion of the present day with experimentation in form; it does reflect the current realism; that of it which lives will achieve permanence by its sincere, unsentimental, and true representation of traditions and people important in Ameri- can history and legend. t THE PLEASURES OF READING I ELLEN DOUGLASS LEYBURN, "27 {Investiture address given on November 6th in Bucher Scott gymnasium. Ellen Douglass is one of the faculty advisors lor the class of 1938.) In this year when colleges and universities everywhere are celebrating with Oberlin the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of college training for women and when our growth is marked by our having to leave the chapel for Investiture, perhaps it would be appropriate to consider the century of progress since the day when men feared that higher education would make women desert their babies for quadratic equations. But I prefer to discuss with you this morning a delight of the mind more intimate than the atmosphere of the chapel and one enjoyed by girls for hun- dreds of years before it occurred to them to seek an equal footing with their brothers in institutions of higher learn- ing. It is the sheer pleasure of reading books which I covet for you, a pleasure not dependent upon college training and sad to say, not even fostered by it in many cases, for the pressure of being a part of the busy college community and of working at books too often precludes the concep- tion of them as a source of fun. How many college stu- dents and consequently college graduates there are who deserve the pity Nathaniel in Love's Labour's Lost bestows on him who has never "fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished." The zest for books has been a peculiar gift of women since men first provided books for them to enjoy. You re- member Ascham's charming account of his discovery of Lady Jane Grey's zest for reading: I found her. in her Chamber, readinge Phaedon Platonis in Greeke. and that with as moch delite as som ientlemen wold read a merie tale in Bocase. After Salutation, and dewtie done, with som other taulke, I asked her, whie she wold leese soch pastime in the Parke! Smiling she answered me; I wisse all their sporte in the Parke is but a shoadoe to that pleasure, that I find in Plato: Alas good folks, they never felt what trewe pleasure meant. The daughters of Lady Jane in every generation have taken the same exquisite delight in books . . . At the beginning of the next century, Dorothy Words- worth, busy about mending William's shirts and baking William's bread never dreaming of competing with him in learning yet tasted with rapture the rich feast of books. Her journal is as much a record of her reading as of the changes of her Grasmere countryside: We sat snugly round the fire. I read to them the tale of Custance and the Syrian monarch, in the Man of Laive's Tale ... In the after- noon we sate by the fire; I read Chaucer aloud and Mary read the first canto of the Fairy Queen. After tea Mary and I walked to Am- bleside for letters . . . Read Tom Jones ... I read a little of Bos- well's Life of Johnson. I went to lie down in the garden . . . Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, and ballads. Sauntered a little in the garden. The skobby sate quietly in its nest, rocked by the wind, and beaten by the rain . . . Read part of Knight's Tale with exquisite delight . . . We spent the morning in the orchard reading the Prothalamium of Spenser; walked backwards and forwards. It seems to me deplorable that we should come to think of books in terms of assignments, that in advancing to- ward college degrees, we should lose the high joy of our less educated grandmothers, the joy which most of us have actually felt as children in the tales of Uncle Remus or the Brothers Grimm. We can keep the same spirit of de- light, though the object of it changes from the Golden Goblin to The Faerie Queene, from At the Big House to Boswell's Johnson. Another related pleasure to be found in books is the stretching of the sinews of the mind. Few of us know enough philosophy and physics to understand Eddington's Nature of the Physical World; but the effort to under- stand it is exciting mental exercise. And such use of the mind has the same tonic effect that physical exercise has upon the body. An even more important satisfaction which books af- ford us is that of finding in them our own experiences in- tensified and clarified through the expression given them by great writers, by men and women who before they are masters in the craft of writing have been human beings living through much the same situations that we live through and who because of their gift of speech can un- lock their hearts in words. When we are bewildered by the conflict between the old and the new in our beliefs, Arnold speaks to our spirits with: Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. When we are moved by the spirit of evening, Words- worth's: It is a beauteous evening calm and free The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration gives expression to what we would express. When we are tempted to manage other people's affairs, we can laugh at ourselves deliciously in Jane Austen's Emma. When the awful mystery of death confronts us, we can be steadied by Emily Dickinson's: The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth. The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity. When we are in love, almost the whole range of poetry and fiction is at our command. Perhaps what we turn to is John Donne's: All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday. Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. In almost every shade of emotion that comes to us, we have been preceded by those who have been able to give utterance to feeling. And this is one of the fortunate ways in which we are the heirs of all the ages. But the most profound effect of reading seems to me to lie beyond this recognition of ourselves in literature. Few of us shall witness so noble a nature as Othello's so hideous- ly destroyed by jealousy as his. We are not to share Ores- tes' fate of being compelled by a relentless destiny to the murder of a mother. Yet we are definitely the poorer if we have not given ourselves up to the tragedies of Shake- speare and Aeschylus. Milton has said that A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. We live ourselves, we become something different through association with the greatest life; and this touching of the sources of being is the best gift that books, or that our col- lege, can offer us, for Spirits are not finely Touched but to fine issues. ^> The following explanation of the requirements for entrance and the expenses for a year at Agnes Scott was written for the Quar- terly in answer to many requests from alumnae for a simple statement about these matters. Characters: Agnes Alumna A. S. Catalogue (The scene is the home of Agnes Alumna, who sits wear- ily at a desk on which is a catalogue and a sheaf of dis- arranged papers. A clock points in horror at two min- utes till twelve.) Alumna (sighing) : I cannot get this straight at all, Though I'm a former Hottentot, So many changes have been made Since I attended Agnes Scott. I want to send my daughter there, I know it is the best of schools; But how can I enroll her when I do not understand the rules? This catalogue is just a maze Of units and curriculum; I give it up the Horrid thing! Oh, dear, I'm 'most asleep ho Hum. (Her head sinks on the desk as the clock strikes twelve.) Catalogue (standing up and ruffling his pages in indigna- tion) : Madam, I assure you I resent your groundless slurs You blame me for your trouble But the fault is really yours. Alumna (startled) : Oh, sir, I beg your pardon, I intended no insults. Catalogue (mollified) : Well, all right. Now let's get started: We will get some good results. I understand you want your child To enter Agnes Scott next fall. Alumna: That's right, but I can't understand Your complicated rules at all. Catalogue (sternly) : Let me tell you, Madam, I am formed with utmost clarity. That I converse with you at all Is proof of my kind charity. Alumna: Excuse me, sir, and please accept My deep appreciation. Catalogue: Well, we'll proceed, but do desist Your ill insinuation. Suppose we start with counting costs To prove our fine economy. Alumna: I tried to, but I quite got lost In your-uh-lovely physiognomy. Catalogue (Bowing) : Well, here the required fees are in store On page one-hundred-forty-four. But to give them clearly at this time, Allow me please to cease from rhyme. Boarding student (total), $700.00; day student (total), $300.00; gymnasium outfit, (for the four years), $10.00; (paid on entrance of student and $10.00 is the amount whether girl is here four years or for a shorter period) ; laboratory fee, (if a science is taken), $9.00; special fees are required for extras such as piano, organ, violin, voice, art, and individual lessons in spoken English. If a well rounded budget you wish to plan Consider these items and have payment on hand: Concert series ticket (in Atlanta), $6.00; student budget (covers the three campus publications and al- lows participation in all activities), $15.00; books, approximately $20.00; outstanding lecturers on the campus, about $2.00. For information as to when, where, and how you are to pay Write Mr. S. G. Stukes, the Registrar, right away. Alumna: There they are so clearly planned, How could I so misunderstand? Catalogue: And now let us attack with glee The entrance units you should foresee. Though they've eluded you, they're seen Completely told on page eighteen: For entrance, sixteen units you must present The lack of which you will lament. Of prescribed units twelve there are: Four English, one geometry, and two algebra. Prescribed units in Latin number four And one year of history which is rarely a bore. If four years of Latin don't seem nice Two of Latin and two of modern language will suffice. The other four units are entirely elective Which give you the chance to be selective: You may choose from civics, Bible, geography, Home ec, any science and history. Alumna (gleefully) : My daughter has 'most all of these, I am so glad to find it out! Catalogue: Well, that's fine. Now let's proceed To find out all we can about The courses that our Agnes Scott Offers each new Hottentot: English your freshman daughter must take, And Math, Latin, or Greek for the classics sake. The modern language from high school will need con- tinuation For her mastery of all points of grammar and pronun- ciation. Sciences are offered, Chemistry, Physics, or Biology Or she might prefer a thorough course in History. There are elective courses she may start Bible, Spoken English, Sight-Singing or History of Art. Alumna: I like those things; they're planned to start My child to become a Bachelor of Arts. How can I wait until next fall To pack my Mary off? This seems {Continued on Page 13) "Some More of Aggie's Lost Sheep" The response of alumnae to our cry for help ivith the list of lost alumnae published was so wonderful, we are publishing the second installment. Please read carefully and send in any information about any of these and our thanks are yours. 1907 Green, Rebecca Frances (Mrs. J. H. Hinds) McDonald, May (Mrs. Harry M. Mills) 1908 Brown, Alva (Mrs. Hiram Baum) Patton, Clemmie Rasborough, Caroline Sentelle, Bessie (Mrs. Motte Martin) Tenney, Mary Castle (Mrs. J. W. Vick- rey) 1909 Candler, Caroline G. (Mrs. W. Arthur Branan) Zachary, Roberta (Mrs. Robert B. Ingle) 1910 Dillard, Fay (Mrs. Harry Lee Spratt) Mabbett, Mamie Ponder, Marion 1911 Collins, Blanche T. (Mrs. H. Marsh Smith) Hooper, Almon Fay (Mrs. Henry T. Drane) Leech, Mary Louise Macgregor, Margaret McAdams, Josie Hall McCormick, Christine (Mrs. Christine Rust) McDougald, Kate Nicolassen, Agnes (Mrs. Thomas Jesse Wharton) Oliver, Lizzie Mae (Mrs. R. E. Mc- Afee, Jr.) Parry, Annie Marie (Mrs. Edwin H. Blanchard) Smith, Agnes Amanda (Mrs. Lindsey Forrester) Thomas, Ruth White, Katurah (Mrs. Cecil J. Mar- shall) 1912 Craig, Elizabeth Duncan, Ruth Rebecca Williams, Jesse (Mrs. Jesse W. Ir- vine) Wood, Anna Lou (Mrs. Thornlev West) 1913 Bogacki, Olivia (Mrs. Ashlev E. Hill) Gillespie, Nancv Edlena (Mrs. Earl C. Steele) Lewis, Walter (Mrs. Pence Ryal) Slemons, Margaret (Mrs. Harold Britton) Williams, Sarah 1914 Curtner, Flo-Wilma (Mrs. Frank M. Dobson) Delay, Louise Rogers, Hazel (Mrs. Lee Marks) 1915 Anderson, Mary (Mrs. J. G. Ponder) Elkins, Willie Mae (Mrs. H. D. House) Flegal, Irene Norwood, Isabel Rudich, Pearl (Mrs. Abe Abrahams) 1916 Fields, Margaret Phillips (Mrs. L. A. Wilkinson) Hay, Katherine F. (Mrs. W. E. Rouse) Johnson, Leila (Mrs. Lawrence P. Moore) King, Daisy Anderson (Mrs. Donald R. Ottman) Mustin, Dorothy M. (Mrs. Lyman F. Buttolph) 1917 Hedges, Charlotte Augusta (Mrs. G. P. Kellogg) Hooper, Carolyn Louise (Mrs. Paul L. Pierce) Lawrence, Grace (Mrs. Jessie Neal George) Nichols, Ora (Mrs. Owen H. Mere- dith) Penn, Kathrina (Mrs. Henry F. Par- ker) Thiesen, Olga M. (Mrs. John Acosta) Townsley, Hope White, Georgiana (Mrs. Walter I. Miller) 1918 Bowers, Mary Perry (Mrs. William Hooper Collier) Fromberg, Rebekah Pauline Shambaugh, Marguerite Smith, May West, Elizabeth C. (Mrs. Thomas M. Jarman) Weston, Ella 1919 Hillhouse, Ruth Krauss, Leone (Mrs. Howard F. Stearns) Randolph, Sarah Nichols (Mrs. L. K. Truscott, Jr.) Tatham, Mary Ellen (Mrs. Hugh E. Wright) Warren, Edith (Mrs. Wm. F. Black- ard) Whaley, Clauzelle 1920 Alford, Nellie Flora Coston, Sarah Clark Ellett, Margaret Ingles (Mrs. Mar- garet Ellett Parrish) Harper, Marion Stewart (Mrs. Don- ald L. Kellogg) Hudson, Mary Emily (Mrs. George S. Andrews) Hutton, Cornelia (Mrs. John S. Hazelhurst) Jenkins, Lillian (Mrs. Willoughby Middleton) Mcintosh, Margaret L. (Mrs. J. N. Convoer) Rabun, Wilhelmina (Mrs. M. L. Van- nerson) Reese, Sarah Evelyn Sparks, Kathleen (Mrs. Fred Yar- borough) Veal, Reta Gladys Walker, Dorothy Caldwell (Mrs. J. C. Burruss) Walker, Emily Webb, Martha (Mrs. T. T. Shepard) 1921 Anderson, Susie Marie Ashcraft, Martha Pemberton Bloch, Alice N. (Mrs. E. M. Cohen) Born, Carrie Lou (Mrs. Wm. Mal- lard) Brinson, Margaret Brittain, Mary Gibson (Mrs. R. N. Stokes) Eagan, Evelyn Collins (Mrs. Clark Taylor) Gilbert, Helen Rubles Hanes, Mariwel (Mrs. Ernest C. Hul- sey) Saunders, Rebecca Stanton, Kathleen (Mrs. Wm. F. Stewart) Woodward, Nita (Mrs. P. C. Higgin- botham) 1922 Allen, Harriett (Mrs. W. T. Garrard, Jr.) Belcher, Kathleen (Mrs. John M. Gaines) Bell, Leura (Mrs. A. O. Jemigan) Brown, Ruth (Mrs. Lawrence) Campbell, Margaret Ruth Carmichael, Ruth (Mrs. O. J. Ooster- houdt) Cate, Alice Elizabeth (Mrs. Thoburn Taggart) Colville, Margaret Vance (Mrs. J. M. Carmack) Cranford, Hallie (Mrs. L. L. Daugh- erty, Jr.) Davis, Lurline (Mrs. H. C. Cate) Fish, Marjorie Hearring, Lady Blanche (Mrs. Lyon Perry Wilbur) Hunter, Gertrude (Mrs. Alfred M. Rebman) Kerns, Edith Kight, Martha (Mrs. Wm. Edward Cardinal) McLellan, Joyce (Mrs. Samuel Fisher) Newton, Winnie Sue (Mrs. Clinton Provost) Nichols, Rhoda Paxton, Jean R. (Mrs. Wm. E. Gil- lam) Polhill, Lois (Mrs. Robert Murphy Smith) Porter, Evelyn Smith, Catherine (Mrs. Robert E. Ed- gar) Stephens, Louise Dean (Mrs. Robt. Lee Hays, Jr.) Whaley, Julia (Mrs. John R. Guthrie) 1923 Adams, Fanibel Bittick, Ethel (Mrs. B. M. Mitchell) Brown, Ada Elizabeth (Mrs. Charles S. Sydnor) Cooper, Mary Mitchell (Mrs. Philip D. Christian) Knight, Jane Marcia Langford, Carolyn Clark (Mrs. H. C. Plunkett) Little, Mary (Mrs. Eric R. Jette) Mack, Mary Helen (Mrs. Robert P. Wimberly) Moore, Anne Ruth (Mrs. Thomas Philips Crawford) Pope, Mary Lucia (Mrs. Joseph Green) Wilhelm, Mary Lee (Mrs. W. A. Sat- terwhite) Young, Nelle c A M PU< Op N E W S and Ft c E Seventh Annual Alumnae Week-End We quote from the Agonistic: "To the student body, Alumnae Week-End meant sausage and coffee for luncheon, both unusual treats since the advent of the Hollywood diet, but to the alumnae who came back home it meant renewing their youth with squeals of 'Oh, hello, I'm so thrilled to see you! You old darl- ing, what are you doing here?' (This last to old classmates whose names they couldn't quite remember, al- though they sat in the third seat from the end in Bible class.) Even more frequently it was: 'Why, you don't look a day older than when we dress- ed up for Little Girl Day!' all the while counting wrinkles and pounds. And of course the new buildings bought forth wails of dismay and ex- clamations of 'Why didn't we have these when we were here?' But Ella and Mary Cox and the 10:15 A. M. train during the chapel hour convinc- ed them that it really hasn't changed a bit." Alumnae Week-End was homecom- ing for one hundred and fifty old girls who came back to school again. The theme, "New Emphases," was discussed in such widely different fields that every alumna found some- thing of particular value to her in her work and understanding of current events. Mr. Stukes' after-luncheon speech on "New Methods in Educa- tion" and Dean White's talk on "Cross Currents in the Colleges" an- swered questions about child educa- tion problems from the teen age on through college. Dr. Thomas Eng- lish's discussion of "New Emphasis in the Theatre and Drama" was a scho- larly presentation of interest to all educated women. Judge S. H. Sib- ley's wit and eloquence delighted those who heard his discussion on the Constitution, and Dr. Emma May Laney's presentation of the South as the inspiration for an entirely new type of poetry brought thrills of de- light to her listeners and aroused our Southern pride to its fullest. Mary Ann McKinney's chapel talk on Christianity as she found it in India was inspirational and informative. For sheer delight the exhibit of wild flowers painted in water colors by Mrs. Mary Motz Wills and the scores of books on exhibit for National Book Week, both in the library, could not be excelled. For an evening en- tertainment the Blackfriars presented Ben Levy's "Mrs. Moonlight," and the string ensemble music program under direction of Mr. Dieckmann in chapel on Saturday was a half hour of real pleasure. The only flaws in a delightful week-end were the downpour of rain that came Friday and the icy winds on Saturday. In spite of the weather 150 alumnae and 25 visitors were present at one or all of the lectures. Little Girls Transformed Into Dignified Seniors Overnight! With ruffles ruffling, be-ribboned hair flying, and goose-pimpled knees bravely exposed to frost-bite, eighty- three little girls accompanied by one Boy Scout took possession of the cam- pus November 5 with a jumping rope, a Big Apple dance on the Quadrangle, and a hundred childish games. A stranger on the campus would have thought Agnes Scott was running a kindergarten for backward children, but any well-informed person knew it was just "Little Girl Day." On Saturday, November 6, Investi- ture bequeathed those same frisky lit- tle girls with caps and gowns and sen- ior dignity in the presence of a thou- sand friends and relatives. For the first time since the tradition of Investiture was begun, the cere- No T Es mony was not performed in the Chapel, and Miss Nannette Hopkins was not able to officiate. The service was held in Bucher Scott gymnasium to accommodate the increasing num- ber of friends of the college who at- tend. Louise McKinney Hill, daugh- ter of Caroline (McKinney) Hill, '27, granddaughter of Claude (Candler) McKinney, Inst., and great-niece of Miss Louise McKinney, was class mas- cot and led the academic procession. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, '27, faculty advisor, gave the Investiture address, which is printed in this issue of the Quarterly. Carrie Scandrett, '24, as- sistant dean, capped the eighty-four seniors. The singing of the Alma Mater and the recessional to "Ancient of Days" completed this best loved of Agnes Scott traditions. Lecture Association Program for 1938 The Student Lecture Association will present two outstanding figures on the Lecture Program this season. On January 2 5 th, Mr. H. S. Ede, Curator of the Tate Gallery in Lon- don, will present an informative lec- ture on "How to Recognize the Beau- tiful in Art" and will illustrate his talk with slides from the Tate collec- tions. Mr. Tate is a widely-known artist, lecturer and author. The second lecturer announced for this season is the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, woman of letters who is known throughout the civil- ized countries for her ability. The Grand Duchess Marie will lecture here on March 2 5 th and her topic will be "Russia As I Knew It." New Privileges at Agnes Scott The alumnae of a few years back are almost in a position to say: "What will those college girls do next! When I was at Agnes Scott we never thought of such a thing!" and all be- cause of the success of the honor sys- tem at the college and the consequent increase in the privileges allowed the upperclassmen. Juniors and seniors are allowed to return to the college from a destina- tion unchaperoned as late as 11:45 on week nights, and on Saturdays they may go to the college dances and re- turn at 12:30. Underclassmen have to have chaperons to return this late, but since thirty-one members of the senior class have qualified for the JANUARY, 1938 11 position of senior chaperons, the girls have no trouble in securing the re- quired "big sister." This new ruling has lessened the need for a "place to sign out to" and has kept the stu- dents from imposing on friends in town so much. The senior chaperons have signed an agreement to follow strictly the rules of the college and be personally responsible for the under- classmen. Louise McKinney Hill Mascot of the class, of '3 8, as she wore her cap and gown on Investiture Day. Reunion for 1937 The Class of 1937 spent a gala Thanksgiving week-end on the cam- pus and climaxed their homecoming with a reunion on Friday evening in the Anna Young Alumnae House. Thirty-four members of the class were present at the banquet Friday night. Martha Johnson, chairman of the decorations committee, arranged a beautiful banquet table with holly, pine branches and cones, and red candles, and the same effective dec- orations were used throughout the Alumnae House. Martha Summers, life president of the class, presided at the banquet and welcomed the alum- nae back for this first reunion. After dinner Mortar Board honored the vis- itors with coffee in the Murphey Candler Building. Among those returning for the re- union were Frances Belford, Lucile Cairns, Frances Cary, Cornelia Christie, Ann Cox, Kathleen Daniel, Lucile Dennison, Jane Estes, Charline (Fleece) Halverstadt, Mary Gillespie, Nellie Margaret Gilroy, Margaret Hansell, Martha Head, Barton Jack- son, Dorothy Jester, Martha Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Kitty Jones, Mary Jane King, Jean Kirkpatrick, Mary Kneale, Wayve Lewis, Mary Malone, Katherine Maxwell, Ellen O'Donnell, Frances Steele, Laura Steele, Marie Stalker, Martha Summers, Alice (Taylor) Wilcox, Mary Jane Tigert, Mildred Tilly and Margaret Watson. "Three Girls in a Room"; WSB at 9:15 Every Wednesday Agnes Scott's radio program has been changed from 5 p. m. on Wednesday afternoon to 9:15 a. m. The program is broadcast over WSB, (740 kilocycles) and a group of alumnae and students take parts in the skit. Betty Lou (Houck) Smith, '3 5, is the author of the skit, and Alberta Palmour, '3 5, is helping her get ma- terial. The characters are Peg, a sen- ior; Pudge, a sophomore; Ginger, a fophomore, and Mickey, a freshman. Peg, Pudge and Ginger are room- mates and befriend poor little Mickey. These characters are played by Betty Lou (Houck) Smith, Mary (Free- man) Curtis, '2 6, Frances James, '36, and Carrie Phinney Latimer, '36, respectively. The extra voices are furnished by Joyce Roper, '3 8, and Ida Lois McDaniel, '3 5. Typical Ag- nes Scott students as they are, the girls encounter all the usual (and some unusual) events of the college year. A Summer Course at Oxford The Woman's Colleges of Oxford University have announced a summer course for American women gradu- ates and teachers to be held for the fourth time in Oxford in July, 1938. These vacation courses are arranged to provide opportunities to qualified American graduates and teachers to experience scholastic life in this his- toric institution, and to enjoy the unique environment and associations of this ancient seat of learning. The subject of the course will be, "Eng- land in the Past Fifty Years." A number of England's outstanding scholars will lecture on the literature, history, politics, and thought of the period. There will be opportunities, also, for discussing topics of the lec- tures with Oxford University teach- ers. The course will open on Wednes- day, July 6, and close on Wednesday, July 27, 193 8. The fee will include full board, residence in the women's colleges, lectures, classes, excursions, and concerts. The organizing secre- tary in this country is Miss Marion L. Day, 9 St. Luke's Place, New York City. Are You Planning a European Trip? All Agnes Scott alumnae who are planning to tour Europe in the sum- mer of 193 8 will be interested to learn that Miss Leslie Gaylord will again conduct a small party, sailing June 18th on the Aquitania and spending two months in travel in France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Hol- land, England, and Scotland. Every detail of the trip has been planned to assure a maximum of comfort, pleas- ure, and profit at a minimum of ex- pense. For a descriptive itinerary and detailed information write to Miss Gaylord, Agnes Scott College, Deca- tur, Ga. Carrie Scandrett Assistant Jean, '24, "capping" a senior at Investiture. Do You Need a Change? Any alumnae who are interested in changing professions or in changing the locale in which they are practic- ing their professions, are requested to communicate with Mr. S. G. Stukes, Registrar, Agnes Scott College. Mr. Stukes is constantly being asked to recommend Agnes Scott girls for var- ious positions, and is unable to sug- gest as many people as there are in- quiries for lack of information about alumnae who are interested in a change. All correspondence about this matter will be regarded as strictly confidential. A Gift to the Tea Room The tea room is very much indebt- ed to Martha Stansfield, '21, for a useful gift which she presented to Mrs. Kerrison, the manager. It is a Star "Quick-Serv" Toaster Grill which has greatly increased the facili- ties for making toast in the kitchen. 12 The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY CLUB NEWS Atlanta, Ga. The Atlanta Club had its major project of the year on November 12 th when it staged a benefit bridge. Sev- eral hundred alumnae and their friends were present to enjoy bridge and also a fashion show which used as its models some of the Agnes Scott students. Around a hundred and fif- ty dollars was cleared by this affair and the club plans to use most of this sum in helping the Alumnae House and Alumnae Garden Committees in their year's plans. Augusta, Ga. "About our Alumnae Club in Augusta we are still so young that we are afraid to step out into deep water. We are hoping to have Al- berta Palmour down for our dinner in February to talk to us about the col- lege and tell us what the other clubs are doing. We hope to do something definite for the college next year." Decatur, Ga. The regular meetings have been held in the Alumnae House with in- teresting programs; our November meeting was a book review given by Mrs. Emma Garrett Morris to which friends of the club members were also invited. An interesting exhibit and sale of Penland, N. C, pewter was staged by Gussie (O'Neal) John- son, with the assistance of Mrs. R. B. Holt, and a very sizeable remunera- tion was gained from the sale of this exquisite metal work. Charlotte, N. C. Charlotte had the privilege of hav- ing Dr. McCain as its guest speaker on November 16th when the alumnae from Charlotte gathered at the home of the new president, Cama (Burgess) Clarkson, for the first meeting of the new year. There were also many out-of-town visitors: Mary (Mack) Ardrey, who is a member of the first graduating class, '93, of Fort Mills, S. C. ; Vivian (Gregory) Dungan, ex-'21, and Alice (Cannon) Guille, ex-'20, of Salisbury, N. C; Mrs. H. B. Arbuckle and Dell Arbuckle, '31, of Davidson, N. C; and Mary Margaret Stowe, '36, of Belmont. About forty alumnae were in attendance to hear the inspiring message of Dr. McCain. As special guests the club had the mothers of the girls who are now at Agnes Scott: Mrs. W. E. Adams, Jean Barry's mother; Mrs. H. B. Pat- terson, Patty's mother; Mrs. Bert Pat- terson, Free Sproles' mother; Mrs. Peter Burke, Gentry's mother; Mrs. Leon Lawrence, Katherine's mother. As one reporter writes: "It was truly a delightful meeting and you can readily understand why when I tell you that Maria Rose, Mary (Kess- ler) Dalton, and Sally (Cothran) Lambeth had charge of arrange- ments." Faculty News Miss Nannette Hopkins is rapidly regaining her strength after four months in bed, and was able to go in town to her physician the middle of December. Miss Lillian Smith is much im- proved but has decided to take leave of absence for the remainder of this session and is spending the winter in Florida. Her address is 123 N. E. 97th St., Miami. Carrie Scandrett, '24, assistant dean, was elected president of the Georgia Association of Women's Deans at the meeting of this organi- zation in Milledgeville, October 29-30. Mr. S. G. Stukes has been appointed a member of a committee to unify teacher training requirements in the southern states by the Southern Uni- versity Conference. Agnes Scott is the only woman's college boasting a committee member. Miss Catherine Torrance, accom- panied by Miss Narka Nelson, of the Latin department, attended a meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in New Or- leans Thanksgiving holidays. Miss Torrance was one of the speakers on the program. Professor C. W. Dieckmann has had three original compositions accepted for publication this fall. An anthem dedicated to Joseph Reagan, director of All Saints' Choir, a solo which is a setting of Rosetti's "Uphill," and a Benedictus. Miss Melissa Cilley was selected as one of the ten speakers at the tenth annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, which met in Rock Hill, S. C, in November. Miss Cilley spoke on "Spanish Contri- butions to Civilization." Elizabeth (Mable) Cloud, Institute, Enrolls Again! Elizabeth (Mable) Cloud, Insti- tute, mother, grandmother, sister among seven sisters, all of whom at- tended Agnes Scott, flower lover, artist, and book lover, but charming, gracious woman above all, is enrolled at Agnes Scott College again after forty years away from the college of her young womanhood. Mrs. Cloud, who entered Agnes Scott for the first time in 1896, has told her children for years that when she got them all educated and through school, she herself was going back; now that all six children have finished and are fully equipped to make lives for themselves, she is back, with her easel and paintbrushes, studying art with Miss Louise Lewis. One of the seven Mable sisters of Decatur, Mrs. Cloud was practically brought up at Agnes Scott. In 1896, just a few years after she was mar- ried, Elizabeth Cloud matriculated at Agnes Scott Institute to study art. Although the care of two small sons, ages three and one, took a great deal of her time, she managed to study at the college for four years, or until she and her family moved to North Caro- lina. There in a small town this ac- tive woman developed the interests which have kept her literally on her toes since then: she did social work with the people who worked in the mills around Rockingham, Cheraw, and Hamlet, people who were super- ior to the average mill worker, for they were of the better class of farm- ers who had been unable to make a living in those mountains, and who brought their families to these mill towns where they had gained some- thing of security. There were no for- eigners here and no strikes. These people had their own schools and churches, and, with the help of Eliza- beth Cloud and others like her, soon had their own libraries and parks and gardens. But in those earliest days she nursed, rode horseback with the doc- tor to assist in operations and deliv- eries. Second to no other interests in her life is her garden which spreads over four acres surrounding her home in Hamlet. There is a wild garden, for which she has gathered flowers from the surrounding woods, filled with azaleas, rhodendron, and mountain laurel. Her iris garden contains all the twenty varieties of wild iris for which North Carolina is fam- ous. Her bulb garden is unbelievably beautiful in the spring, for she has every variety of daffodil and jonquil known to botanists planted in her gardens. The garden of her heart is her "friendship garden" in which things grow in great abundance to be shared with friends and neighbors. There are four sons and two daughters to whom she has been mother, and, since 1915, father also. Lewis, Jr., graduated at Georgia Tech and is sales manager of General Houses, Inc., in North Carolina. Joel graduated at Davidson and is manager of the Furness-Withy Steam- ship Lines in Baltimore. Fayette also JANUARY, 1938 13 went to Tech and is in charge of the Cloud Ballast Pit, a sand and gravel mine in Hamlet. Curtis graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1937 and is with the Southeastern Underwriters in Columbus, Ga. The girls, Elizabeth and Polly, are both at home in Hamlet now, but Eliza- beth graduated at Converse, married, and after the death of her husband, brought her daughter, Elizabeth Breeden, home with her. Polly grad- uated from Sweetbriar, and has man- aged the house for her mother since then. The other four grand children are Betty, Martha, Pete and Fayette, Jr., children of her second son. Next in importance to her garden and her children is her house, which is beautifully furnished in antiques. Mrs. Cloud drew the plan for her house and was her own contractor. The garden she designed as a setting for the house and it is a perfect pic- ture. Beyond the gardens lie the sta- bles and the pasture in which her fav- orite saddle horse runs. Mrs. Cloud still rides horseback and insists that she would be driving a horse and car- riage if the automobiles hadn't driven her off the road. The greatest joy she gets from her house is in enter- taining guests in it, and when the for- tieth anniversary of her wedding ar- rived a few years ago she planned a houseparty for her six bridesmaids, all of whom are widows now, and the seven girlhood friends had a most glorious visit together. Very close to her heart are the six sisters with whom she grew up and with whom she came to Agnes Scott: Cliff Mable, 1893-96; Clio (Mable) Cates, 1893-96; Katie Mable, 1890- 96; Leila Mable, 1891-94; Lottie (Mable) Cromartie, 1891-94; and Lucy (Mable) LeSeur, 1891-93. Three of them still live in the old Mable home in Decatur, and Mrs. Cloud is living there while she is studying at Agnes Scott. The courage and enthusiasm of this white-haired lady, who, undaunted by four flights of stairs to the art studio, climbs each day to the top and spends her mornings painting and sketching with her art teacher, are an inspiration to those young students who see her going about her work each day. Reminiscent of a genera- tion of gracious Southern women whose appearance was deceptive in that it masked a degree of vitality and will power unsuspected by those who knew them best, she is one whom Agnes Scott is proud to call her own. (Continued from page 8) Just like the happiness of dreams. You've pulled me out of all this bog, You dear old palsy Catalogue. Catalogue: Alas! I live but one short year, But if I've helped you from your bogs, I am content at last to go The way of all good catalogues! The End. "Not in the Catalogue": As for the necessities, the average allowance at Agnes Scott is $10 per month. The majority of girls have less than $10, some few, more, $5.00 being sufficient unless the person in question has the "drug store habit" to extreme. Clothes average $150 to $400 a year, the expenditure being more the first year than any other, since there is a tendency to outgrow clothes left over from high school days and there is some extra output as the student gets ready for college. The smartest campus clothes are sweaters and skirts or tailored dresses. In addition to any "Sunday" dresses, a student needs two evening dresses at least and some sort of evening wrap, these being needed for Wednesday night dinners on the campus and concerts and other events in Atlanta and at the college. GRANDDAUGHTERS' CLUB The officers of the Granddaugh- ters' Club, who are pictured above, are Caroline Armistead, '39, presi- dent; Margaret Douglas, '3 8, vice- president; and Susan Goodwyn, '39, secretary-treasurer. The Granddaughters' Club is com- posed of those girls whose mothers at- tended Agnes Scott, too, and has its meetings in the Alumnae House at frequent intervals. The meetings are usually informal teas with the one elaborate meeting of the year a ban- quet in the spring. The Granddaugh- ters had their first meeting early in November with twenty-seven present. The Club for the current session numbers thirty-one members includ- ing: Caroline Armistead, '39, daugh- ter of Frances (McCrory) Armis- tead, Acad.; Betty Boote, '41, daugh- ter of Mary (Ferguson) Boote, ex- '16; Marion Candler, '41, daughter of Marion (Symmes) Candler, ex-'15; Elizabeth Cousins, '3 8, daughter of Pearl (Estes) Cousins, Inst.; Margaret Douglas, '3 8, daughter of Annie Belle (Monroe) Douglas, Inst.; Karhryn Donehoo, '41, daughter of Florence (Kellogg) Donehoo, ex-'17; Nell Scott Earthman, '3 8, daughter of Eliza (Candler) Earthman, ex-'12; Florence Ellis, '41, daughter of Flor- ence (Day) Ellis, ex-'16; Catherine Farrar, '39, daughter of Berta Lena (David) Farrar, Acad.; Martha Fite, '40, daughter of Ethyl (Flemister) Fite, ex-'06; Carolyn Forman, '40, daughter of Mary (Dortch) Forman, Inst.; Susan Goodwyn, '39, daughter of Linda (Simril) Goodwyn, Inst.; Penn Hammond, '40, daughter of the late Elizabeth (Denman) Hammond, '18; Kathleen Jones, '39, and Leonora Jones, '40, daughters of Elizabeth (Parks) Jones, Inst.; Winifred Kel- lersberger, '38, daughter of Julia Lake (Skinner) Kellersberger, '19; Martha Marshall, '39, daughter of Mattie (Hunter) Marshall, '10; Sarah Bond Matthews, '40, daughter of the late Annie Parks (Bond) Mat- thews, Inst.; Mary McPhaul, '40, daughter of Ruth Lynn (Brown) Mc- Phaul, Acad.; Jane Moses, '40, daugh- ter of Frances (Thatcher) Moses, '17; Katherine Patton, '40, daughter of Katherine (Jones) Patton, ex-'18; Jeanne Redwine, '39, daughter of Lucy (Reagan) Redwine, '10; Louise Scott Sams, '41, daughter of Louise (Scott) Sams, Inst.; Julia Sewell, '39, daughter of Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20; Gene Slack, '41, and Ruth Slack, '40, daughters of Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex-'12; Betty Sloan, '41, daughter of Eunice (Briesenick) Sloan, ex-'12; Ellen Vereen Stuart, '40, daughter of the late Pearl (Vereen) Stuart, ex-'ll; Mary Nell Tribble, '3 8, daughter of Martha (Schaefer) Tribble, Inst.; Bonnie Westbrook, '41, daughter of Ida (White) Westbrook, Inst.; and Mary Scott Wilds, '41, daughter of Laura (Candler) Wilds, Inst. COMMENCEMENT TIME June 4th June 7th January's snows, February's chills, March's winds, April's showers, May's flowers, then . . . June - cfAgnes Scott - And you AGAIN WE CALL THE ROLL OF REUNION CLASSES: '00, '01, '02, '03 '19, '20, '21, '22 Class of '37 And all others who want to make a trip back to the college this June, whether this is your class reunion or not. It is none too early to write that room- mate to meet you here ! It is just the time to extract a promise that the family will gladly take care of little Jimmy and Susie ! And the Boss ought to be in a genial holi- day mood to approach for time off from June 4th to June 7th ! Agnes Scott is planning already for your coming in June /&.\3 The AGNES SCOTT Alumnae Quarterly Vol. XVI No. 3 APRIL 1938 Agnes Scott College Decatur, Georgia WELCOME, ALUMNAE! As the Commencement season draws near, we "old-timers" at Agnes Scott begin to long for our daughters to come home. We are glad that you are busy and that you have important work to do, but in a real family the home members like for the absent ones to report on what you are doing. We are proud of your accomplishments. If you have accumulated husbands and children, we will be glad to see them too. If they cannot come, perhaps you are not as indispensable in the home as you think, and they may spare you for a little while. As we are finishing the forty-ninth year of our history, we would like to have your wisdom in making plans for the Semi-Centennial. We would like for the celebration of that event to be the most noteworthy in the entire history of the College. We have a splendid committee composed of Trustees, Faculty, and Alumnae, with Professor S. G. Stukes, as Chairman, but they have not yet formulated plans, and are open to suggestions. Many of you will be interested in one suggestion that has been submitted. It is only tentative because the Trustees have not yet passed upon it, but it is an illustration of many ideas which will be interesting. The proposal is that we erect a new dormitory, to be known as Hopkins Hall in honor of our beloved Dean, and that we include in it a single dining room and kitchen which would be adequate to take care of the entire campus community as now constituted so that all the girls, and the faculty who care to eat in the dining room, may be together, and thus avoid the separation that is in- evitable when we have two dining rooms. We would certainly like to honor Miss Hop- kins, and we need the dormitory space, and it would be economical and perhaps desirable to have a single dining room. It is therefore a suggestion which interests us very much. What would you like to propose? Cordially, <^<= President. Cfje HgneS Jkott Hlumnae