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NINTH ALUMNAE WEEK-END

NOVEMBER 17-18, 1939
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17

10:00-10:30 A. M. Chapel Talk.

Speaker to be announced.

10:30-11:30 A.M. "Women in Politics."

Helen Douglas Mankin, member of Georgia Legislature and prominent
Atlanta lawyer.

11:30-12:30 A.M. "Women in Scientific Research."

Dr. Elizabeth Gambrell, professor of bio-chemistry at Emory University
and nationally recognized for her research on malaria.

12:30 P.M. Literary Luncheon in Rebekah Scott Dining Room.

Alumnae are the guests of the college.
Speakers: Dean Carrie Scandrett, Dr. J. R. McCain, Alumnae President

; Ann? (Hart) , Equep, and, the guests of honor.

All reservations must be made in the Alumnae Office by noon November 15.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

10:00-10:30 A.M. Chapel: Musical program.

String ensemble, directed by Mr. C. W. Dieckmann.

10:30-11:30 A.M. "World Affairs."

Dr. Leroy Loemker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

11:30-12:30 P.M. "Southern Thought."

Dr. Edd Winfield Parks, Professor of English at the University of Georgia.

12:30 P.M. Luncheon in the Silhouette Tea Room, Alumnae House. Fifty cents.

1:00-5:30 P.M. Book exhibit in the Library.

8:3 P.M. Blackfriars present "Seven Sisters," by Herzeg, translated from the Hun-

garian by Edith Ellis.

Miss Frances Gooch, directing.

Bucher Scott Auditorium.

Alumnae Week-End for the Semi-Centennial Year will be a gala event. Don't you want to
make a reservation for the luncheon on Friday, and be in the know on "Women in Professional
Fields"? Saturday's lectures will be most informative, and a reunion luncheon in the Tea Room
and an afternoon spent browsing in the book exhibit will make you feel like you've really been
to college again!

LET'S GO BACK TO COLLEGE!

ACROSS THE PRESIDENT'S DESK

Our Standing

The National Youth Administration reports more than
1,700 colleges of various kinds in the United States. Is
Agnes Scott to be just "a college," lost in the swarm of
others? From the standpoint of academic recognition, we
have achieved a great deal. Agnes Scott is one of 1 5 col-
leges for women on the list of the 132 Phi Beta Kappa
chapters. It is one of the four colleges for women among
the 69 chapters of Mortar Board. Its credits are univer-
sally accepted in this country and abroad.

When it comes to financial ratings and general equip-
ment, Agnes Scott has yet much to be attained. A com-
parison with the so-called "Seven Sisters," a group of
Eastern colleges that have been cooperating, shows how far
we have yet to go by their measurements; and they have
pointed out that even they are not so well equipped as
colleges for men of equal rank.

The following figures have been furnished by the in-
stitutions themselves:

Institution Endowment Total Assets

Agnes Scott . $1,637,027.84 $ 3,476,235.77

Barnard _ 4,S02,994.06 9,195,014.66

Byrn Mawr _ _ 6,400,000.00 10,850,000.00

Mt. Holyoke _ 4,944,012.30 10,341,963.39

Radcliffe _ 5,476,327.48 8,487,997.80

Smith _ _ 6,468,610.62 15,417,95 3.5 3

Vassar _ _ 9,436,922.00 19,488,774.00

Wellesley . _ 8,829,267.36 21,349,239.48

There are two crumbs of comfort in this showing. The
first is that during the last ten years we have increased
our assets nearly 80 per cent while the average for the
above group has been about 3 5 per cent increase. The
second is that we are now facing an opportunity to make
a long step forward. That is one reason why this semi-
centennial effort means so much more to us than a mere
celebration.

The University Center

It is fortunate for us that the development of the
University Center program for the South is timed so as
to fit in with our semi-centennial. We expect good results
from the movement. Cooperation with Emory University,
Georgia School of Technology, Columbia Seminary, High
Museum, and the University of Georgia, will make avail-
able to our students facilities that will be most valuable
and that we ourselves could not provide for many years
to come. Agnes Scott will maintain a strictly separate col-
lege for women as heretofore; but the advantages of the
cooperative plan will be economical, constructive, and
stimulating. Some alumnae may be interested in having
more details of the plan than it is possible to give in a brief
article, and I hope that any such will feel free to write
to me for more information.

General Education Board Offer
In order to promote the University Center and to help
us to attain our own institutional semi-centennial objec-
tives, the General Education Board of New York has of-
fered Agnes Scott $500,000. At the same time, Emory
University is offered $2,000,000. The larger sum for
Emory is due to the fact that it will carry the expensive
graduate and professional departments, while Agnes Scott

will continue only the undergraduate program hoping to
make it the very best. The condition of the above grants
is that Agnes Scott and Emory jointly raise an additional
$5,000,000, so that the total amount available will be
$7,500,000. The Agnes Scott part of this supplemental
sum is $1,000,000. The half million from the Board will
go into endowment; but the money contributed by other
friends will be largely used for buildings and equipment.
In raising our part of the great total, we must depend
upon many givers, for we do not have in prospect large
donations as Emory may expect.

Some Immediate Objectives

Literature in detail about our campaign will be prepared
and sent to all alumnae in the near future. We wish
each one to understand fully what is involved and how
we hope to proceed with the program. Only a few items
are mentioned here:

Music Building and Auditorium. It is expected that
work on this building will be in progress by the time this
Quarterly reaches you. It will be a beautiful structure
and will meet a long-felt need on the campus for a satis-
fying chapel and for stimulating surroundings for our
music work and for our plays and lectures.

Hopkins Hall. We do not have yet the money in sight,
but all on the campus agree that Number One Need of
the College is better living quarters for the students. We
wish a building that will be charming in appearance and
that will be comfortable and lasting in quality, a fitting
memorial to the one and only Miss Nannette Hopkins.

Central Dining Room. It is planned to have adjoining
Hopkins Hall a new dining room and kitchen, connected
with the dormitory by a short enclosed colonnade, so that
the two will make practically one building. The dining
hall is to be very attractive, quite similar in design to the
main reading room of the library. It will be capable of
seating the entire student body and faculty members at
one time, and will be ideal for alumnae reunions or for

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other large gatherings. The central eating place will en-
able all the students to come to know one another better,
and the operating of a single kitchen will make possible
the using of expensive equipment for better service that
would not be possible where two kitchens are involved.
It is expected that the new dining hall will have a terrace,
opening on the alumnae garden, which will be suitable for
outdoor parties or informal receptions.

Other Semi-Centennial Objectives
Our plans for the 50th anniversary program include
several other important items for which we hope to secure
the money, but which do not seem possible at once. These
include a new and up to date Science Hall; establishing
the Department of the Home; Faculty Apartments; a new
Infirmary; improving Main, Inman and Rebekah Scott
halls; gateways for the drives; and many other interesting
improvements.

Alumnae Support

In all of its previous campaigns, Agnes Scott has begun
its presentation of opportunities on the campus. Our Semi-
centennial Program was so outlined to faculty and stu-
dents last February, and they chose to set a goal for them-
selves of $40,000. In a wonderful ten-day campaign the
sum of $52,202.00 was pledged on February 24, 1939.
The over-subscription of the quota was very gratifying;
and the money, which is being paid in nicely, will help a
great deal; but the very best part of all is that every stu-
dent and every facility member had a part, so that there
was 100 per cent campus support.

We do not know what any alumna may be able to do,
and we have no idea of suggesting to any one her part;
but we do earnestly seek for the interest and cooperation
of all Agnes Scotters everywhere.

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Frontispiece Alumnae Week-End Program

Across the President's Desk 1

Let's Go Back to College 3

Araminta (Edwards) Pate, '25

To Namicffe Hopkins 4

Winifred Kellersberger, '3 8
Refngeeing from London ! 5

Evelyn Hanna, ex-'23

Agnes Scott's First Graduates Recall Escapades 7

Jean Chalmers, '3 8

Alumnae in the News 8

Chronologically Speaking 11

Nelle (Chamlee) Howard, '34

From a Tower Window 14

The Freshmen Eleanor Hutchens, '40
Agnes Scott Goes Cosmopolitan Mamie Lee Ratliff, '39

Concerning Ourselves 19

Campus Silhouettes Back Cover

Alice Cheeseman, '40

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.

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By Araminta (Edwards) Pate, '2 5
Chairman of Alumnae Week-End Committee

November 17 and 18 are the days chosen for the ninth
Alumnae Week-End. The program will open at ten
o'clock Friday, November 17, at chapel exercises at which
time the committee plans to have a prominent alumna start
the series of lectures. The Friday activities will take the
form of a woman's symposium, and two interesting and
colorful women who have achieved prominence in profes-
sional fields will be the speakers. At the ten-thirty hour
Helen Douglas Mankin, well-known Atlanta lawyer and
member of the Georgia legislature, will give us experiences
and reactions of a woman in a world so largely peopled by
men the political world.

Dr. Elizabeth Gambrell is the speaker for the eleven-
thirty hour and the committee is proud to make this an-
nouncement. Dr. Gambrell is a bacteriologist and research
worker of national prominence. Her work in malaria has
brought her international recognition and several national
awards for outstanding research. She is a professor of bio-
chemistry at Emory University at present, and in addi-
tion to her duties as professor, is carrying on extensive re-
search in undulant fever.

The Alumnae Week-End Luncheon is most eagerly an-
ticipated by the alumnae who frequently attend Alumnae
Week-End. The alumnae are the guests of the college at
lunch in Rebekah Scott Dining Room. Alumnae are asked
to make reservations with the Alumnae Office, Dearborn
1726, not later than noon Wednesday, November 15. The
Friday luncheon will be most entertaining this year, as
special guests will include several Georgians of literary
achievement in whom we are most interested.

Friday afternoon there are no planned events, but out-
of-town guests will no doubt use this time to renew friend-
ships among the faculty and to observe with wonder the
everchanging face of the campus itself. Others may wish
to take a trip to downtown Atlanta for Christmas
shopping.

Saturday morning Mr. D. W. Dieckmann, head of the
music department, and his well-trained string ensemble,
will give a musical program at the chapel period. Last
year the ensemble proved so popular that we have asked
for a repeat performance. They will, of course, have an

entirely new program and are planning several beautiful
numbers for that morning.

With the world in such chaos, we felt that at least one
lecture on world affairs would be in order. The commit-
tee wanted this talk to be both colorful and scholarly; we
wanted a personal reaction. We found no one so well qual-
ified to give such a talk as Dr. Leroy Loemker, professor
of philosophy at Emory University. Dr. Loemker has just
returned from an eight months study in Berlin. While
there, with his wife and three young daughters, he stayed
in the home of a retired general of the World War. Dr.
Loemker has been much in demand as a speaker on Ger-
many since his return.

Immediately following Dr. Loemker, at eleven-thirty.
Dr. Edd Winfield Parks, author of "Segments of Southern
Thought," and professor of English at the University of
Georgia, will be presented. Dr. Parks, whose articles on
the South have appeared in the leading magazines, is con-
sidered an authority on Southern thought. This is all the
more unusual when one considers that Dr. Parks is an Eng-
lishman by birth. He has nevertheless made a thorough
study of the South.

At the luncheon hour congenial groups will gather in
the Alumnae House and the Tea Room to lunch together.

Through the courtesy of Miss Edna Hanley, librarian,
the book exhibit has been arranged earlier than usual so
that the alumnae might have an opportunity to see the
newest and most interesting books, as well as the prized
first editions and rare books which comprise an Agnes
Scott book exhibit. The library will be open on Saturday
afternoon from one until five-thirty so that all of us may
have a chance to browse to our hearts content.

Blackfriars will present the first dramatic offering of
the season, "Seven Sisters," by Herzeg, translated from the
Hungarian by Edith Ellis, at eight-thirty in the Bucher
Scott Auditorium. Miss Frances Gooch will direct the per-
formance, assisted by Roberta Winter, '27. The alumnae
are cordially invited to attend this performance.

Won't you make your plans now to come back for this
gala alumnae homecoming? An exposure to such enter-
taining and informative lectures should make us all feel
that we've really been to college again!

RESERVATIONS FOR ALUMNAE WEEK-END

Please make a reservation for me for:

The Literary Luncheon, Friday, Rebekah Scott Dining Room. Alumnae are guests of the College. ( )

The Get-to-Gether Luncheon in the Silhouette Tea Room, Saturday. Price fifty cents. ( )

Reserve table for party of ( )

Room in the Alumnae House from to

RESERVATIONS MUST BE IN THE ALUMNAE OFFICE BY NOON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1 5

DEAN NANNETTE HOPKINS

Dec. 24, 1860 - Oct. 29, 1938

Her soul ivas like an early autumn day,

A day of gracious, glowing, sun-filled sky

And windless fields where rich-grained wheat sheaves lie.

Her mellow store of charm, her quiet way

Had simple beauty, as the first faint streak

Of scarlet on the leaves is softly still.

And with an humble grace she sought to fill

All life with plenty, as the reapers seek!

She gently shared the wealth of passing hours,

And lavished garnered stores of songs and tears

Enriched young hearts with tender, age-old powers

And freely gave the ripened fruits of years.

She and a child once gathered goldenrod.

She lives not; but the child has found her God!

Winifred Kellersberger, '38.

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Back in the days of the War Between the States, if I
remember correctly, there was an expression used in news-
paper communications, "this comes from our correspond-
ent at the seat of war." Fortunately or unfortunately, I
am not in the seat of this one, but if I had not been rushed
out of London on the day that war was declared, I should
have been. I became a reluctant refugee, and even that
experience was so interesting that I thought Georgians
might like to hear it.

I had spent two tranquil months in the very small, very
old town of Rye in Sussex, England, a town that had
known Norman depredations, the hallowed footsteps of
John Wesley, had been the birthplace of John Fletcher,
the playwright, the English home of Henry James, and
where E. F. Benson, Radclyffe Hall, and countless painters
now live. In this village jammed up high on a hill top
(the old land gate still stands as does Ypres tower) about
a mile from the southeast coast, there were few intima-
tions of war: everyone was required to have a gas mask,
but I thought that was a joke, and the practice "black-
outs" were just nice clean fun. I even asked permission
to be a "casualty," that is, stay out on the dark streets in
a certain place until picked up by an ambulance, but my
request was refused because I was an American.

Then quite suddenly the news of the Moscow-Berlin
pact came, and there was a crisis. We all said, "Oh, well,
there was a crisis last September. Perhaps they have them
every year at this time." But by Thursday, August 24,
the tension had become so great that Americans were be-
sieging the travel agencies for passage home. A friend of
mine, Floy Sadler, of New York, was to sail that day on
the He de France to join me for a vacation in France and
Switzerland. I wired her that morning, "I stand firm,
how about you?" and she replied, "I stand firm, too. Will
see you in London." By afternoon Joseph Kennedy, the
American ambassador, was advising all Americans to leave
England, the situation was much more serious, and I sent
another wire advising Floy not to sail, but it was too late.

We met in London, two fool-hardy Americans, on Aug-
ust 31, and the next morning the hotel maid informed us
that the Germans had bombed Poland. Even we knew
what that meant. I knew then that England had known
it was coming, that the removal of the beautiful stained
glass windows from Canterbury Cathedral had not been
a bluff, nor the closing of Westminster Abbey, nor the
hiding of precious manuscripts and books that had adorned
the British Museum, nor the removal of famous paintings
from the art galleries. Sandbags were stacked by the hun-
dreds and thousands in front of vulnerable buildings.

So what did we do in a case like this? We went shop-
ping. But strangely enough it wasn't much fun. I honest-
ly believe we were the only two shoppers in London that
day. We wandered all over famous old Liberty's, but the
stony colonels and their dowdy wives were missing. All
up and down Regent Street, all about Piccadilly Circus,
we had the shopping district to ourselves. Incidentally, by
the next day, most of the shops had been evacuated, even
Liberty's and the windows were ornamented with sand-
bags instead of mink coats.

On Friday night, September 1, London had the blackest
"black-out" that can be imagined, and it was raining, too,
so that the intermittent flickerings of traffic lights looked
like tiny glow worms. Every building was in complete
darkness; the cinemas and theatres were closed, no lights
anywhere except those of automobiles. My British agent,
Robert Sommerville, took us to the Cheshire Cheese that
night to sit in chairs once occupied by Dr. Johnson, David
Garrick and Boswell. As we drove through the midnight
streets, the roads glistened like wet rubber at one moment,
and the next they looked like lakes at an amusement park
and the few lights on the roadside might have been from
a casino. But the Londoners were very gay, bands of
young men marched down the city streets singing "Men
of Harlech." There was a woman whose children had been
evacuated (that is, sent to places of safety in the country
and billeted), and when a friend said to her, "Now why
don't you go, too?" she replied, "What? And leave my
old man to roam these dark streets at night?"

There is a lovely story, too, about a previous "black-
out" when it was still a matter for joking: so many ridicu-
lous things happened that readers were asked to send in
their experiences to the newspapers. And on the morning
following one, a newsboy stood on a corner crying, "Read
all about the black-out! Read it in Braille!"

On Saturday morning, September 2, the famous balloons
were ahoist all over London. They were filled with helium
gas, and are stationed rather low to prevent enemy planes
from flying lower. When the raiding planes are kept high,
they can be fired on by the anti-aircraft guns, but below
a certain distance the guns are ineffective. Consequently,
when the enemy planes try to come lower, they become
entangled with the ropes or wires hanging from the bal-
loons.

The American consulate on this day was advising all
Americans to go to Weston-super-Mare on the Bristol
Channel as soon as possible. But the trains and busses were
being used for the evacuation of children from the city
and until that was completed we made no attempt to get
away. Everyone was carrying his gas mask in the little
brown cardboard box slung over his shoulder or hanging
from his arm. And everyone had heard that war would
be declared on Sunday morning.

It was. Prime Minister Chamberlain was telling the peo-
ple of Britain that they were now at war the time was
about 1 1 in the morning when suddenly there was the
sound of sirens. People at the hotel rushed out into the
hall to ask if they were simply the accompaniment of the
war declaration, or if there was an air raid. Yes, planes
had been discovered near the east coast of England on
their way to London, "Hitler's answer to Great Britain."
So, we followed the red and blue arrows to the basement
of the hotel, wearing housecoats and carrying gas masks.
Everyone sat very calmly until we were told the danger
was over and we could go back upstairs. No sooner had
we reached our rooms than there was another signal, and
we meekly picked up our masks and started down again,

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but this time the shrill sound was intermittent and simply
meant "all clear," the attempted raid was over.

Then the mad rush began. Floy and I rode down to
Paddington Station the streets were deserted and when
we reached there we knew where all the Londoners were:
trying to buy tickets to get away. There was no such
thing as making reservations. If you got a place on the
train, well and good; if you did not, so much the worse
for you. We went back to the hotel to pack our seven
bags, trying to be intelligent about the packing, for we'd
been told that if we were evacuated we'd be allowed only
one bag, which theoretically we were supposed to be able
to carry ourselves. The banks and American Express of-
fice were closed, of course, and those who had no Eng-
lish money were out of luck. Then my agent, Mr. Som-
merville, called and said he would be down in half an hour
to help us get off.

Such a mad scramble! No taxis were available, 3,000
of the 5,000 had been taken over by the Government, but
Mr. Sommerville got a taxi for us and we arrived at Pad-
dington where there was more confusion than in the morn-
ing. Mothers with children who were too young to be
sent away by themselves, stern old ladies with dogs, and
aliens of every nationality, rich, poor, hungry, courteous,
rude, an assemblage of every type of humanity. By heavy
tipping we procured seats in a first-class compartment
with the wives of officials, but were allowed only one
small piece of baggage. Once on the train, we discovered
that those two pieces were my typewriter and a bag of
cosmetics! But once again Mr. Sommerville saved the day:
he procured Bristol labels and identification tags for the
other bags and had them placed in the van. The cor-
ridors of the cars were so packed that it was impossible to
move about, one did not dare leave his seat, and the train
seemed to stand there interminably taking on more and
more hot, dusty people.

Then at last we were off, out of the heat into the green
countryside; but no one could look at it and enjoy it,
because the thought uppermost in everyone's mind was,
"How long will it be like that?" There were the flower
beds, bright with geraniums, dahlias, begonias; there was
the calm, tree-shadowed Thames, and velvety grass of in-
credible greenness. We felt ourselves becoming very Brit-
ish and saying, "Why, why must it be destroyed?"

The women in the compartment began talking to us,
one of them had canaries with her which she could not
bear to leave behind. And all of us began telling "Hitler
jokes," and we became hungrier and hungrier. It was 6
o'clock, 6:30, and we had had nothing but a cup of tea
since breakfast. There was no diner on the train. One
of the women had a basket of lunch which she had pro-
cured at her hotel, but we had not thought of food. Some
of the others had biscuits (crackers) which they gener-
ously shared with us, but the woman with the basket
containing beautiful watercress sandwiches, cakes, fruit,
cheese and biscuits just took it for granted that Ameri-
cans should not get hungry or if they did, they deserved
it for being over here at this time.

So at last (at about 10 o'clock), we came to Bristol
in the rain and darkness (for the black-out was being en-
forced all over England) and we had our first touch of
panic: we could not find our bags, we could not find a
porter, we could see the train pulling out with our five

cases, leaving us with a typewriter and a bag of cosmetics.
But thanks to the labels, they were taken off. I don't
know how. For I had gone into the vans searching for
them, some stowaways had held matches to help me find
them, all to no avail. Evidently the British railway service
is efficient even in wartime.

We waited hours for a porter, and when we got our
luggage to the platform, there were no taxis, just dark-
ness and rain. When a taxi was procured there were
women with babies who needed it worse than we did, and
an old crippled lady in a wheel chair. So as we sat there
the hotels became full, and by the time we got away,
there were no rooms available. The driver had what he
considered a very bright idea and finally deposited us in
a sort of pub-hotel. Downstairs the rooms were full of
smoke and Englishmen who had sipped long and heartily
of ale; when they came out they stumbled, and we hoped
it was because of the darkness. We went up a thousand
steps to our room, wondering what our relatives would
say if they knew about it. The bed looked as if it had
been sand dunes in a former incarnation, and the pillows
must have been made of bones and dried skin of geese, in-
stead of the customary feathers or down. But we had food,
baked ham, English tomatoes which are notoriously bad,
cheese and bread, and hot milk in mugs. All aliens have to
fill out forms for police records and the maid came run-
ning up with a very suspicious look in her eyes to tell us
that ours were not done properly. As it happened they
were; we were the first aliens they had had in over a year,
but she and the landlady whispered about us to our backs
and we decided they suspected us of being spies. The next
morning they told us an American liner with over 1,000
people on board had been bombed this was the Athenia,
we learned later, and not an American ship.

The American consul at Bristol told us in no uncertain
terms that we had best get ourselves on to Weston-super-
Mare where arrangements would be made for us to leave
as soon as possible. We will be allowed one case which we
may have to carry the intervening mile and a half (we
will be given two hours notice for packing and getting
there), then we will be taken in a "lighter" or tender to
the United States liner.

In the meantime, the world is beautiful. Weston is a
charming resort, our hotel room overlooks the water; yes-
terday we went over to Cardiff, Wales, for the day (and
incidentally our "slacks" almost caused a riot). We have
the inevitable blackout every night, but otherwise war
seems very remote, except for the drilling of young cadets
in the parks and on the boulevard. One wonders if this
is not a false calm, even Britishers say things are going
too well. We can only wait and see, and do a little high-
pressure praying on the side.

(Editor's Note: Miss Hanna got back to the States
quickly and safely, although this article leaves us rather
worried about the outcome of her trip. She is in Thomas-
ton, Georgia, at present, busily engaged in writing feature
stories about her trip and the interesting observations
made in England during August. When the editors asked
her permission to reprint the above article they also asked
if she didn't have the material for another book about
ready. Miss Hanna laughingly said that it takes a long
time to get together a book, but that she did get some ideas
while in England! )

Agnes Scott's First Graduates Recall Escapad

es

By Jean Chalmers, '38

Recalling the night in the gay nineties when they dressed
up the statue of Venus in the parlor and the days when
they threw their bags of dirty clothes out a third-story
window to a laundryman waiting below, the three oldest
graduates of Agnes Scott College held a regular "bull ses-
sion" at the school's fiftieth anniversary celebration in
June.

The classes of '93 and '94 were 100 per cent in attend-
ance. Every member of the first class is named Mary, is
the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, is a resident of
South Carolina and was graduated with honors.

The secret of that statement is that the first graduating
class had only two girls. The next year, in 1894, a third
Mary was graduated with honors but she also finished at
the foot of her class, because she was the only graduate
in it.

Mary Barnett (Mrs. A. V.) Martin, of Clinton, S. C,
and her one classmate, Mary Mack (Mrs. W. B. ) Ardrey,
jf Fort Mill, S. C, received diplomas in the days when
Agnes Scott Institute, not yet a college, was startling the
residents of DeKalb County with its new-fangled lighting
system. Living with these two Marys in the famous old
"Tower Room" of Main Dormitory was a third Mary, now
Mrs. William J. Kendrick, of Atlanta. As Mary Neel she
made up the entire class of 1894.

With Rena Brandon (Mrs. Harley F.) Lawson the Marys
were known by their young men acquaintances as the
"Four Frauds of Flirting Hollow." But flirting in those
days was confined to the campus, for young ladies .were
never allowed to wander off unchaperoned.

On Sundays the student body lined up, two by two, and
with their hair swept up and skirts pulled down around
their ankles they marched, parasols in hand, to church.
Not permitted to nod or speak, they were disgraced if one
of their number so much as turned her head in church.

Those were the days when all the west end of Main
Building was part of the chapel, including Mr. Dieck-
mann's studio and the old "Y" cabinet room. The steam
plant, incidentally, was right underneath the windows of
the "Y" room, which like all the rest of the building (the
"most modern structure of its kind in the state") was
completely carpeted and fabulously furnished in dark oak.
As part of its reputation for being the latest thing in mod-
ern architecture, Agnes Scott Hall boasted the only gen-
uine lighting system in Decatur, and all the Decatur citi-
zenry used to come over at dusk to watch the institute
"light up."

And it must have been at just about that twilight hour
that Mr. Murphey Candler and another staunch supporter
of the school, a Mr. Williams, came over to see if the girls
were safe and had everything they needed, for it was far
from ladylike for a lady to order coal and such smutty
necessities.

But life was anything but dull during the gay nineties
at Agnes Scott. What the sweet girl graduates lacked in
dances, automobiles and trips to town they made up for
in their dormitory escapades.

When they disliked a teacher they didn't stop at com-
plaining about her among themselves. They swept into
action.

Once there was "Frizzy Top," so named because of her

peculiar hair-dress, who didn't last long. The girls didn't
like her because she peeped through the keyholes to check
up on their activities. And besides, she was a Yankee!

A coughing campaign was the punishment decided on,
explained the three Marys. "One night after lights were
out we all started coughing at the top of our lungs. Just
as Frizzy Top would dash down to our room to see what
was the matter, the girls at the other end of the hall would
start the same choking and sputtering. We had her run-
ning back and forth until she was worn out and we
were too."

"That was too hard on us two nights in succession, so
our next line of attack was shoving windows up and down
and then rattling the transoms. And you can just take
our word for it, all that made plenty of noise."

Perhaps their strenuous life somewhat explained the fact
that they never seemed to get enough to eat. Sending out
an S. O. S. to some young men in Fort Mill, S. O, they
obtained relief from their famine on the next mail.

Accompanied by a formal composition entitled "Benefit
Relief No. 1," came a food box of weird assortment. One
apple, a bag of salt, a pickle, a pound of bacon, one stick
of peppermint candy, a rubber snake, a pair of suspenders
and a package of cigarettes.

Another gentleman from Atlanta, whom a group of the
girls had met on a week-end visit to town, politely sent
them a crate of oranges. Merely sitting down and eating
oranges seemed too unexciting and prosaic, so a group of
seniors decided to hold an orange race. The one who ate
the most oranges was to receive as her award the young
man who had sent the gift of fruit.

With judges and time-keepers ready, the contestants
lined up. Their friends peeled oranges as fast as possible,
and the eating was on. Orange after orange was consumed,
and after each entrant slowed down and finally dropped
out with capacity reached, Kate Logan was proclaimed the
victor. Whether she claimed the donor as reward was not
revealed.

A more difficult food donation was smuggled up to the
Tower Room once in a paper bag. It was a baked turkey.
That animal narrowly escaped bringing down disaster on
the Marys. One Sunday morning the girls were dressed
for church in spotless white hat, dress, shoes and kid gloves.
There were only a few minutes left before the church bell,
at which signal the girls had to line up downstairs and
answer to church roll call.

They placed the turkey in a precarious position on the
window ledge so that anyone coming in the room would
not see the forbidden food.

But fate was against the Tower Room, and just as the
bell rang, down fell the turkey. Mary Mack Ardrey knew
they were doomed if a teacher saw the greasy bundle below.

Gathering her several petticoats and her full skirt in her
hands she made a dash for the steps, ran down the three
flights to the brick square in front of the building, seized
the turkey in her two gloved hands, ran back upstairs to
replace the turkey, then down again, and was in line to
answer present when the teacher called the roll!

The classes of '93 and '94 were successful in more than
attaining graduation with honor.

ALUMNAE IN THE NEWS

(Editor's note: This is the first of a series of articles about Agnes Scott alumnae who are headlining in various
professions. A check of the professional files in the alumnae office indicates that our graduates are engaged in 112
different professions, which include practically every profession open to women. They range all the way from
aviatriscs to professional caterers, and public lecturers to lawyers and school manns.)

LOUISE (CAPEN) BAKER. '27. Seed Analyst

Headliner for the month is Louise (Capen) Baker, '27,
who is Mrs. Clinton L. Baker, of Memphis, in private life.
Louise is a seed analyst, a profession comparatively new
for women, but one in which women are supreme, and in
the laboratory of her own home she guards the purity and
germination of much of the seed used in the South.

Louise is a commercial analyst, working independently'
in her own lab, and she is hired by seed dealers or indi-
viduals, in contrast with the "official" analyst employed in
the state or Federal laboratory. She does the testing for
four large Memphis seed concerns, analyzing some 2 500
samples yearly, and in addition analyzes annually about
1000 samples for other dealers and farmers in the Southern
states.

According to the Department of Agriculture, seed test-
ing has been developed to aid agriculture in avoiding some
of the hazards of crop production by furnishing all possi-
ble information about seed that are to be used for planting
purposes. The ultimate purpose of every test is to de-
termine the value of the seed for planting. Definitions
and fundamental procedures are agreed upon in seed analy-
sis, and the Department suggests and recommends methods
and procedures to be closely followed by private analysts
in order to insure dependable results.

Seed analysis protects the farmer most of all, because
it tells him just what he is buying whether the alfalfa
seed is full of dodder, or the Sudan grass is full of John-
son grass, or what per cent of the seed will germinate. And
it tells him, too, whether or not he is paying seed prices
for large weights of chaff and trash, or whether he gets
pure seed. It also has the support of the honest seedmen
for it protects them from unscrupulous competition, from
dishonest wholesalers, and from penalty from the new
laws. The most valuable service is that of giving them
standards by which they may value and advertise their
seeds.

The rush season in the seed testing business begins about
the first of August, and at the height of the season the
samples pour in so fast that Louise and three assistants are
kept working far into the night. Usually, however, things
are not so hectic, and she finds time to make frequent trips
with the family, for her lab hours are easily adapted to her
private life.

Louise tests seeds for purity and germination most fre-
ouently. Her tests for purity have been so accurate that
in the seven years she has worked as seed analyst, her find-
ings have never been disputed in court. Purity is deter-
mined by weighing and counting sorting through hun-
dreds of thousands of seeds in a sample and picking out each
tiny noxious weed seed, each bit of trash, every seed of
some crop other than that intended for the batch. The
minute quality of her purity tests is illustrated in the ex-
ceeding smallness of some of the seeds she may have to
analyze. Bent grass seed, for example, is so small that it

has a half million seeds to the ounce! The work is pains-
taking and meticulous, for inaccuracy could mean law-
suits or criminal prosecution or damage to the reputation
of the firm for whom she makes the report.

No less exacting are the tests for germination. Appar-
ently trifling faults in the conditions under which seeds
are sprouted may make costly errors in the final result,
and in consequence many tests are made in triplicate or
even in sets of four, so that the results of each test may
be checked against one another.

In the Baker basement are five electric refrigerators, or-
dinary in outward appearance, but each is equipped with
controls for temperature and moisture, and has attach-
ments for heating as well as cooling. In these refrigerators
are placed the seeds, on moist rolls of paper toweling, or
on trays. Temperatures and humidities are carefullv
guarded to approximate as nearly as possible the actual
growing conditions the seeds would experience. Other
tests are made outside the refrigerators, in "daylight" germ-
inators, or in trays of sand.

All results are carefully recorded and kept on file, both
for future reference in case of dispute and for tabulating
in research data. One of the experiments in germination
in which Louise has been particularly interested is the
germination of rye. She has studied this problem for three
years, in an effort to find out why rye seed shows higher
germinating power in the summer, and low power in the
fall. Louise expects to continue this experiment for two
more years, and then to publish her findings, which she
has checked frequently with the Department of Agricul-
ture.

When asked about the history of this profession, Louise
stated: "The seed trade seventy-five years ago was badly
in need of regulation. In Saxony in the late 1860's the
first seed testing was performed. The practice spread, first
to Switzerland, then to England, and finally to this coun-
try. Connecticut took it up, and in 1896 the Department
of Agriculture began seed analysis. A year later Maine
passed the first state seed law and now only two states
have no seed control."

Three weeds are the particular curse of the seed farmer:
Johnson grass, dodder and wild onion. State law in Tenn-
essee says that a seed sample may contain no Johnson grass
whatever if it is sold in Tennessee. Arkansas allows only
five Johnson grass seeds per pound. Texas allows ninety-
five. When a Memphis dealer buys Sudan grass seed from
a Texas dealer, Louise is asked to check a sample of it, and
if she finds no Johnson grass seed, the Memphis dealer or-
ders a car load from the Texas firm. When the seed ar-
rives in Memphis, Louise checks a sample from the car
load and if she finds no Johnson grass on this second check,
the car is unloaded. Frequently she is asked to check the
seeds one more time before they are put on the market in
individual packages. Each package is tagged to show the

NOVEMBER, 1939

state of origin, year of harvest, purity, inert matter, germ-
inations, weed seeds and date of test.

Louise confesses that she just stumbled over seed analy-
sis as a profession, but she had unintentionally taken just
the right college courses to prepare herself for the job.
She majored in chemistry and biology at Agnes Scott, and
says that Miss Mac's and Mr. Holt's insistance on accuracy
and the "scientific attitude" has always stood her in good
stead. To use her own words, "I learned a lot in their
class rooms that couldn't be learned in textbooks!" Along
with her degree from Agnes Scott she acquired a most in-
teresting husband, who had courted Louise "on the sofa
in the Main parlor between the portraits of Miss Hopkins
and Dr. Gaines." Clinton is an Emory graduate, and after
their marriage he and Louise both studied in New York
and Detroit. Louise did lab work at the Museum of
Natural History, and at the Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons, while Clinton was getting his
Ph.D. After a year in Detroit, the Bakers moved to Mem-
phis, where Clifton is professor of biology at Southwestern,
and director of a biological station on Reelfoot Lake.

It was just at this time that seed houses were faced with
the necessity for assurance that they were complying with

the strict new seed laws. A Memphis firm turned to Dr.
Baker for advice, and he suggested that Louise's training
would be adaptable to seed analysis. In consequence she
began to sit in on botany courses and to study seed analy-
sis tests, and to visit seed laboratories. Now she is on the
threshold of a senior membership in the Commercial Seed
Analysts' Association, and has amassed an intricate seed
knowledge preeminent in the South.

In private life Louise finds time to devote to her two
adorable children, Clinton, Jr., aged ten, and Eve, aged
two, who both "take after" their father, according to their
mother. The elasticity of her hours in .the lab makes it
possible for her to take the children to the zoo, and to go
on trips with her husband just as often as she wishes. The
Bakers have recently purchased a home in Memphis, and
their pet hobby at the moment is to fix it over themselves,
and its huge lawn with many trees is a constant joy to the
entire family.

Louise's interesting professional life was the subject of
a feature article in the Memphis Commercial Appeal dur-
ing the summer, and the story was a splendid introduction
to the public of this most unusual career.

ELIZABETH (WOLTZ) CURRIE. '25
Chairman of the Moore County Maternal Weliare Committee

Moore County is situated in the sandhill section of
North Carolina in which are located the famous winter
resorts of Pinehurst and Southern Pines. Our winter resi-
dents by their interest and leadership in health and wel-
fare work have played an important part in awakening our
citizens to health questions. Our combined efforts cul-
minated in the establishment of a Welfare Department
years ago, of a splendid County Hospital, and in 1928 of
the County Health Department. For two years an infancy
and maternity nurse was maintained, but her services were
discontinued in 1930.

As a mother, I had been interested in the maternity ques-
tion for a number of years. My indignation over the indif-
ference of the public to conditions grew as the Seventy-
first Congress defeated the Sheppard-Towner Maternity
Bill of 1931, and the State Legislature refused as late as
193 3 to require midwives to secure certificates from the
State Board of Health.

However, it was the articles by Paul de Kruif, pub-
lished in "The Ladies Home Journal" during the winter of
193 5, which aroused my interest to the point of doing
something. His inspiring account of the miraculous record
of the Chicago Maternity Center in preventing the deaths
of mothers made me cry with him, "Why should mothers
die" in North Carolina, in Moore County?

A survey of death certificates revealed that we had lost
57 mothers in a few years. Moreover, there had been an
increase in the number of deaths from two in 1927 to
eight in 193 5 which was one mother for every 56 live
babies that year.

I wondered if other citizens would not agree with me
that this was a disgrace to our progressive county. So I
wrote to thirty women, prominent in civic affairs in their
own localities, to meet with me in March of 1936 to dis-
cuss this matter. Eighteen of them came. It was decided
to send a committee from this group to ask the County
Commissioners for a maternity nurse for the next fiscal
year, beginning in July. The fact that the Social Security
Act had just been passed gave us a wonderful opportunity.
We urged county participation in the state program and
our pleas were granted.

Soon after the account of our first meeting appeared in
the local papers, Mrs. James Boyd, of Southern Pines, of-
fered to help in our undertaking. When the committee
was organized in November of the same year, she became
co-chairman. According to the plan of the New York
Maternity Center Association, this committee included
the health officer, the maternity nurse, a hospital execu-
tive, a representative nurse, an officer of the Medical So-
ciety, president of the Hospital Auxiliary, the Home
Demonstration health leaders, and ten women civic lead-
ers from all sections of the countv and four doctors as
medical advisors.

Knowing how great the tendency is in every small town
to over-organize and we have no town with a popula-
tion of over 2,500 we thought it best not to attempt to
form a county association, so we asked the most influen-
tial club in each town to sponsor our plans in their Social
Service or Health Departments. Three Parent-Teacher
Associations, three women's clubs, three book clubs, one
civic club and one church Missionary Society agreed to do
so, and appointed a chairman and committee.

The first work of the local committee was to find two
rooms, well-lighted and heated, in which to hold the
monthly prenatal clinics, established by September in six
centers of the county by the new maternity nurse. A
local doctor was asked each month to hold the clinic, and
it has been largely through this splendid cooperation that
the clinics have been a success. One is now held in the
county hospital and serves four towns; one is held in the
local doctor's office. All serve more than one community.

The second duty of the committee is to furnish trans-
portation to out-of-town patients who cannot furnish it
themselves or whom the nurses cannot bring into the
clinic. The local committees are assisted in the work by
the Hospital Motor Corps. The clinic chairman and all
parties are notified of the time of the clinic by the Health
Department each month.

The interest of the committee in the patient docs not
end here. An account is kept of the progress of mother
and baby until three months after delivery. One commit-
tee has made layettes and fitted bassinets for 8 5 babies in

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the last two years and a half. Often supplementary food,
milk, or medicine for the baby or mother is furnished by
the local committee or from the county maternity fund.
This fund is raised by the county committee members,
usually through private donations. Our budget for this
year, $1,000.00, provides, in addition to the above items,
a supplement to doctors, hospital deliveries, and to the sal-
ary of the nurse-midwife (and midwife fees for indigent
cases) .

This brings us to the place of the midwife in our set-up.
It appeared from the list of our first clinic patients that
a large percentage of deliveries among the colored people
and a few among the white women were by midwives.
Of the 52 midwives registered in 1930, only sixteen had
qualified for service in 193 5, while twenty-eight, we dis-
covered, made deliveries that year. Although the clinics
were reaching an ever-increasing number of mothers and
the number of deaths had been reduced by half over 193 5,
we felt sure that closer supervision of midwives and clinic
patients than was then possible would increase the number
of doctor's deliveries, and decrease the number of criti-
cally ill patients still being brought into the hospital for
delivery, and thus decrease the number of deaths still
further.

Mrs. Boyd, who had a particular interest in the work of
the Lobenstine School of Midwifery in New York, ar-
ranged, through Miss Hazel Corbin, of the Maternity Cen-
ter Association, to enter a nurse in one of the midwifery
courses in 1937. Again the County Committee sought
the help of the Board of Commissioners. In response to
our earnest pleading for a nurse-midwife, these far-sighted
officials agreed to appropriate $1,500.00 for the year from
countv funds. With their consent, we used the first
$600.00 to pay the expenses of a graduate nurse, recom-
mended to us by the State Board of Health, at the Loben-
stine School, for to our deep disappointment, we were un-
able to secure a Rockefeller Scholarship for 1937. And
we did not wish to wait another year.

Since our nurse-midwife, Mrs. Edith Harris, returned
last February, there has not been a single death among the
clinic patients. She usually attends the doctor in the ex-
amination room at the clinics. Then, she takes complete
charge of all patients after they have attended their last
clinic before confinement and of all abnormal cases when
the dangerous symptoms are first discovered. She advises

them and helps make arrangements for their confinement.
Where there is need, sheets, gowns, and supplies may be
lent from the Loan Closet maintained by the county com-
mittee.

In case hospitalization is recommended by the clinic
doctor, she makes these arrangements. If the patient
wishes a midwife for delivery, the nurse-midwife is noti-
fied at the same time the midwife is called. Sometimes
she may attend the delivery, but, if not, she is on call in
case all does not progress normally. She, in turn, calls the
doctor, if necessary. Moreover, she makes postnatal visits
to all clinic patients to be certain that mother and child
are progressing satisfactorily. She has done wonders with
the midwives. The number of them has been reduced to
twelve, and all of these have passed the course of the ten
monthly lessons given by her in the clinic rooms of the
county seat. Their work has been observed during two
deliveries each, and their pride in their work has increased
greatly.

With over six hundred births in the county last year,
there were 489 clinic patients, eighty-five new white and
163 new colored. There were eleven hospitalized. During
January of 193 8 we lost four mothers: two had attended
three clinics, and two were not clinic patients. This was
before our nurse-midwife came. There was one death in
the county last summer of a white mother who would not
attend the clinic, although the nurse called for her twice.

The greatest problem is in reaching these white mothers
who are not of the poorest, yet will not have a doctor un-
til delivery. We are trying to teach these that the clinic
is a public health service and not charity, as they are too
proud to wish to accept charity. It is significant to note
that the ratio of deaths of five colored to three white in
193 5 has been reversed to one colored to four white in
1938.

The county committee holds three meetings a year. The
chairmen of the local committees, who are ex-officio mem-
bers of the county committee, .hold three additional meet-
ings. Last year we held an open meeting to which every-
one in the county who was interested in Maternity Wel-
fare was invited. We hope to make this an annual affair
in March of each year.

Editor's Note: This article is reprinted from the Octo-
ber Mortar Board Quarterly by permission of the author.

CHRONOLOGICALLY SPEAKING

1799

By Nelle (Chamlee) Howard, '34

Although Agnes Scott was actually founded in 1889, the history of the college and education for women in Geor-
gia can be traced hack further than that. Agnes Scott really started with the birth of Mrs. Agnes Irvine Scott, and
with that thought in mind the Quarterly editors have undertaken to present a chronological outline of the period pre-
ceding the actual founding of the college and the first years of its history. The outline will be continued throughout the
Semi-Centennial scries of the Quarterlies, tracing the completed development of the college through 19)9-40.

fo'lowing resolution, "Resolved: that
we determine to establish at once a
school of high character." It was un-
animously adopted, and committees
to canvass for pupils, to secure a
proper building to house the school, to
formulate a plan of organization, and
to secure teachers for the school were
appointed. The group adjourned with
the resolution to meet again on the
following Monday.

July 22: The Committee met
again and Dr. Gaines opened the ses-
sion with prayer. The Committee on
Pupils and Building reported that
thirty-nine had been subscribed, with
a strong probability of ten more, and
that negotiations for a building were
under way. The Committee on Or-
ganization reported in writing a pro-
posed charter and scheme. M. A. and
S. M. Candler were requested to em-
body the suggestion of the commit-
tee into a petition to the Superior
Court of DeKalb County for a char-
ter under the name of "Decatur Fe-
male Seminary."

July 27. The committee met for
the third time, and its chairman, Dr.
Gaines, was authorized to visit Vir-
ginia in an effort to secure the proper
person for principal.

August 24: Dr. Gaines reported
that after a visit to Virginia, the com-
mittee had secured the services of
Miss Nannette Hopkins as principal
of the school, for the salary of $600
a year, and Miss Mattie Cook, as as-
sistant, for $400 yearly. A commit-
tee to secure a matron, and to pur-
chase necessary school furniture, was
appointed.

August 31: At the fifth meeting
the charter incorporating the school
under the name of "Decatur Female
Seminary" was accepted. To finance
the Seminary, the charter provided for
a minimum of $5,000 in capital which
was provided by subscribers to shares
of stock selling for $50 a share. The
charter provided that the Seminary
should be controlled by a board of
five trustees to be elected as follows:
"The pastor of the Decatur Presby-
terian Church shall be ex-officio dur-
ing his pastorate a trustee. Two shall
be elected by the session of the Deca-
tur Presbyterian Church, and shall

June 1 3 : Agnes Irvine was born
in Bally Keel, County Down, Ireland,
the daughter of William and Mary
Stitt Irvine.

1816

March 20: Agnes Irvine, her moth-
er, and a brother and sister embarked
from Newry, Ireland, for America.
They landed in this country on May
3, 1816, and traveled from Philadel-
phia to the township of Alexandria,
in Huntingdon County, Penn., where
relatives from Ireland had already
preceded them.

1821

October 29: Agnes Irvine married
John Scott, a native of Adams Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, who was a prom-
inent manufacturer in the county.
Mr. Scott owned a shoe factory and
supplied the materials for it from his
own tannery. Mrs. Scott deposited a
certificate of membership in the
Hartslog Presbyterian Church, which
she had brought from the Church at
Kilkeel, and became very active in the
community life. Seven children were
born to the Scotts, the fourth of
whom was a son, George Washington
Scott, born on February 22, 1824.
1845

Idea of a Presbyterian school for
girls was discussed before the Synod
of Georgia, and Decatur and the
present site of Agnes Scott were sel-
ected as the most desirable location for
such a school.

1850

George Scott, at the age of twenty-
one, went to Florida for his health and
become active in business there.
After several years in Florida he mar-
ried Miss Rebekah Bucher.
1861

Col. Scott joined the Confederate
forces at the outbreak of the War Be-
tween the States with this explana-
tion to his astonished family: "The
South is my adopted home. I have
lived here for fifteen years, and I will
fight for the South." His brothers,
Alfred and John, joined the Northern
troops. During the war and the car-
petbagger era that followed, Col. Scott
lost all the property he had amassed

in Florida, and moved to Savannah to
become a member of' a fertilizer firm
there.

1876

Col. Scott started the development
of a great phosphate industry in South
Carolina with the discovery of a
formula for fertilizer which he manu-
factured in his own plant in Atlanta.
The concern operated under the name
of George W. Scott and Company,
and was soon the leading manufac-
turer of gossypium phosphate and
other commercial brands of fertilizer
in this country. The firm's prosper-
ity made Colonel Scott's fortune, and
it is here that he steps into the pic-
ture of Agnes Scott's founding.
1877

Agnes Irvine Scott died on October
23, at the age of seventy-eight years,
and was buried in the beautiful ceme-
tery at Alexandria. The only remain-
ing survivors were her sons, John and
George W. Scott.

1888

In September, Dr. Frank H. Gaines,
then pastor of the Falling Springs
Church, in Virginia, was called to
the pastorate of the Decatur Presby-
terian Church, and he arrived in De-
cember to take up the duties of his
new pastorate. Decatur was a city of
1,000 inhabitants; it had for its only
means of communication with the
city of Atlanta the Georgia railway;
it boasted for its only schools a pri-
vate elementary school run by Miss
Kate Hillyer, and a public school
taught in the old town academy. At
the close of the school session it was
a question as to what provision could
be made for schools the next term.
1889

July 17: A meeting of ten leading
members of the congregation of the
Decatur Presbyterian Church was
called at the Manse. Dr. Gaines was
called to the chair, and Dr. R. C.
Wood was appointed secretary. The
chairman stated that the object of
the meeting was to advise as to the
need and feasibility of establishing in
Decatur a school for young ladies, to
be of high order and under Presby-
terian control and influence. After
a discussion Col. Scott offered the

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be members of said church in good
and regular standing. The remaining
two shall be elected by the stockhold-
ers. The pastor of the Decatur Pres-
byterian Church shall be chairman of
the Board of Trustees."

September 24: The Seminary open-
ed its first session with sixty-three
pupils, three of whom were boarders.
It was of elementary and grammar
school grade. And strange though it
may seem, seven little boys were
among the sixty odd day pupils that
enrolled at the "Female Seminary."
1890
July: First catalogue of the "De-
catur Female Seminary" appeared, set-
ting forth the principles for which
the school was founded, the purpose
of the education given by the insti-
tute, the religious influences and their
teaching at the school. In describing
the location of the school the cata-
logue adds: "The Institute is located
on a commanding ridge, the waters
from which upon one side find their
way to the Gulf of Mexico, and from
the other to the Atlantic; the build-
ings about 1,050 feet above sea level.
The drainage is perfect, the water a
pure free stone, the climate unex-
celled, and the surroundings all desir-
able. Decatur, the county site of De-
Kalb, is six miles northeast of Atlan-
ta, on the Georgia railroad. Between
the two points are fourteen daily pas-
senger trains, with every reasonable
assurance of a "Dummy" or electric
road, and hourly trains by January,
next. The village has telephone, tele-
graph, and express offices; three
churches: Presbyterian, Methodist,
and Baptist, with resident pastors.
The society is educated, refined and
religious, and the founders of this
school are convinced that the location
is almost ideal." The tuition for the
boarding students was $185 for the
ten school months.

The catalogue listed, under Board-
ing Department regulations, the fol-
lowing rules:

"Boarders are required to attend
services at the Presbyterian Church
every Sabbath morning, when the
weather is not too inclement, under
the charge of the resident teachers.
No one will be excused for absence
from breakfast except in case of sick-
ness. Perfect neatness in dress is re-
quired at this, as well as at other
meals. No young lady is allowed to
appear in a wrapper out of her cham-
ber. Pupils are permitted to corres-
pond only with such gentlemen as
are especially named by parents. In-
discriminate novel reading is prohib-
ited.

"The folloling violations of the
laws of health are prohibited: Eating
imprudently at night; wearing thin,
low shoes in cold weather; going out
without wraps and overshoes; sitting
on the ground, and promenading out
of doors with the head uncovered; and
the too early removal of flannels or
any neglect to put them on at the ap-
proach of cold weather. The Institute
has ample grounds, halls and veran-
dahs, and boarders will be required to
take sufficient exercise to promote
health."

Completing the first catalogue was
this eloquent dismissal of co-educa-
tion at Agnes Scott: "The following
resident small boys were admitted in
the primary department during the
past session, to-wit: David Crockett,
Malcolm Hendee, Donald Donaldson,
Albert Mead, Albert Swanton, Lewis
Gaines, and Alfred Mead . . . N. B.
The Trustees, however, have decided
to exclude boys of any age during
the future; and the Institute is ex-
clusively for girls."

June 10: Commencement Day.
Milton A. Candler offered a medal to
the pupil making the highest average
in mathematics. The Board of Trus-
tees offered a "star medal to the grad-
uate making the highest general aver-
age, provided it was over 90." Mr.
Candler also gave a medal for the
best examination in Bible. A copy of
the Blue List was distributed among
the audience, containing the names of
those who attained the average of 90
for the year, and also those who at-
tained the required average of 80 and
were promoted.

September 3: Second term at Ag-
nes Scott opened with the addition to
the staff of Miss Louise McKinney,
English; Gustav Meyer, German and
music; Miss Clare Bidwell, primary
department; William Lycett, drawing
and painting; and Miss Maggie Mc-
Bryde, voice culture. A new build-
ing was under progress, funds having
been donated by Col. George Scott,
and the name of the school was legal-
ly changed to Agnes Scott Institute,
at the request of Colonel Scott. The
building was given by Col. Scott as
a memorial to his mother, whose love
of culture and belief in Christian edu-
cation had been instilled in her son
before her death. Enrolled in the sec-
ond year of its existence were one
hundred and thirty-eight pupils.
Board was advanced to $200, with an
explanation in the catalogue that the
school was not trying to make money,
but was struggling to get funds to
add muchly needed equipment.

November 13: A musicale was
presented by members of the music

department complimentary to the
Synod of Georgia, which was meet-
ing in Atlanta at that time.
1891

February 17: First program was
put on by the speech department, en-
titled "Character Sketches." Included
were modern, classic and historic
sketches presented by Annie Billups,
Marie Gower, Carrie Haygood, Eloise
and Olive Martin, Mary Neel, and
Emma Lowry Howell.

June 4: The Blue List was read
and awards and distinctions an-
nounced.

September 3: Agnes Scott Insti-
tute opened its third session of a new,
modern building. The staff was in-
creased to twenty-one, and there
were 292 students on roll, 94 of
whom boarded in the Institute.

Added to the catalogue was the
following section:

"The situation of Decatur, shelter-
ed from the cold winds of the more
northerly section by the Blue Ridge
range of mountains, and yet at an
altitude far beyond the malarial low-
lands of the South Atlantic and the
Gulf States, gives to the Institute
many of the pleasant and beneficial
effects of a delightful health resort.
Parents residing in South Georgia,
Florida, South Alabama, Mississippi,
and other Gulf States will find for
their daughters an atmosphere invig-
orating and bracing; but not severe;
while other residents in more north-
erly sections can escape the severities
of a rigorous winter climate without
encountering malarial or enervating
influences." . . . The Metropolitan
Street Railroad Company operates
hourly schedules over the Atlanta and
Decatur Dummy Line, the fare being
five cents each trip. Hurray for the
street cars!

Main Building, occupied for the
first time in 1891, "is a massive edi-
fice simple in architecture, yet not
lacking in impressiveness. It is com-
posed of brick, granite, and marble;
is one hundred and ninety-four feet
long, fifty-four feet wide and four
stories high, exclusive of the base-
ment, besides the engine room, elec-
tric light plant, and kitchen annexes,
which are apart from the main build-
ing. The building contains fifty sleep-
ing apartments, accommodating two
and four pupils each, and all with
outside windows. Over 500 feet of
wide halls, with necessary classrooms,
parlors, offices, and art studios. The
Conservatory of Music occupies the
entire fourth floor. Each floor is sup-
plied with water, bath and toilet
rooms, electric bells and ample hose

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and fire buckets. The building and
premises are supplied with water from
three wells, a tank on the tower con-
taining 8,000 gallons and a cistern
with a capacity of 30,000 gallons. A
watchman is on duty all night, and
his visits at numerous stations
throughout the building and around
the premises are registered by an
electric watchman's detector. The
building stands in the middle of am-
ple grounds with numerous walks,
croquet grounds and tennis courts,
affording abundant opportunity for
healthful outdoor exercise. A suite
of rooms in a retired section of the
building's second floor has been set
aside and will be used exclusively as
the Infirmary. During the three
years existence of the school, however,
there has not been in the Institute a
case of serious or acute illness, but in
several instances pupils with weak
constitutions have been decidedly
benefited by their residence in the
Institute."

October: The Mnemosynean Lit-
erary Society was organized with its
object to foster a taste for "Polite
literature, and to acquire on the part
of its members familiarity with
standard authors, musicians and ar-
tists. Readings, discussions, essays,
and musical numbers constitute its
program. Its members are actively
and successfully engaged in accumu-
lating a library of standard books.
This society also publishes the Mnem-
osynean Monthly, which has a large
circulation."

May 31: Emily Divver's "pig al-
bum" broke up a study hall on first
floor Main. Girls who were suppos-
edly studying for exams, spent the
period for the entire exam week
complying with Emily's request to
"draw a pig with your eyes shut
and sign your name." The Florida
collection of pigs was judged the most
artistic in the thirty-four specimens
collected, but the results did not jus-

tify the means, according to the fac-
ulty, who took steps to prevent its
occurrence again.

Commencement: Degrees in Clas-
sical Course and Scientific Course are
offered for the first time, with the
A.B. given those who complete the
courses satisfactorily.

September: School opened with
library reading room, chemistry lab
and physics lab equipped with the
necessary apparatus.

Wm. A. Moore gave first endow-
ment, legacy for $5,000, with the
stipulation that the fund shall be used
for the education of worthy girls of
Presbyterian parents, who are unable
to provide college for their daughters.

Agnes Scott Christian Band was
organized during the first months of
this session, and its regular Sunday
meetings began.

Note in the Catalogue: "Occasion-
al holidays, according to the needs of
the pupils, and the judgment of the
faculty, will be given."
1892

September 7: School opened with
262 pupils. The Institute inaugurated
a course of lectures for the student
body. First year lecture topics were
"Egypt, the Schoolroom of the Na-
tions," "The South Country of Ju-
dea," "A Trip to Scotland," and "Five
Moonlight Views of the Old World
Centers."

1893

Jane 14: Two first graduates re-
ceived diplomas: Mary Barnett and
Mary Mack.

September: School opened with
nineteen faculty members, one of
whom was Dr. McLean, who headed
the newly formed music department.

November 10: Music Department
presented first musical program, a
Mendelssohn evening, presenting
arias, songs, and piano arrangements
by the famous composer.

November 24: The Speech Depart-

ment presented a Dickens evening,
with readings and short passages from
his works.

December 15: Music Department
gave Beethoven evening.
1894

January 19: Mozart evening.

May 11: Miss Annie L. Howell
gave the first elocutionary recital.

May 22: Esther Boyle and Jennie
Smith gave piano recital.

May 29: Annual concert inaug-
urated by Music Department.

June: Commencement Mary Neel
graduated in the classical course.

September: Seventh session opened;
increasing library was chief aim of
the students and organizations.
1895

April: Polymnia Club was organ-
ized, composed of teachers and pupils
in the music department. The club
met every two weeks, and gave pro-
grams of instrumental and vocal num-
bers, and readings or essays upon mus-
ical subjects. The society gave thirty-
volumes to the library which were
known as the "Polymnia Collection."

Commencement: The Alumnae As-
sociation was organized by the three
graduates. A scholarship fund was
established and a successful reading
circle formed. Six graduates were
given classical diplomas.

September: Administration passed
new rule: "Young gentlemen are al-
lowed to call on students at the
school, provided they bring letters of
introduction from the parents of the
girl, to the President or Principal,
and then only at their discretion!"
1896

June: First annual gotten out by
the student body was released under
the name of "Aurora." It was hand-
somely illustrated and printed, and
gave many interesting historical facts
about the college and a full represen-
tation of the student life at Agnes
Scott.

From A Tower Window

THE FRESHMEN
By Eleanor Hutchens, '40

The first three weeks belong to
the freshmen, they say. Be that as
it may, it is certain that heroic and
prolonged efforts are made to get the
little bounders started off right.

Hearts and purple-and-white rib-
bons fluttered at the Terminal Sta-
tion September 19, as train after
train unloaded sections of the class of
'43 and left them to the tender mer-
cies of Christian Association repre-
sentatives. The latter, wavering be-
tween the desires to be bustlingly ef-
ficient and to be bored and glamorous,
took charge of baggage checks and
packed the furriners three-deep into
cars. The six miles out to Decatur
were marked by such comments as,
"Oh, how nice!" (speaking of Edge-
wood Avenue and its railroad-track
scenery) and, "Are we nearly
there?"

Excitement was great when the
Tower of Main appeared, poking up
above the maple trees, and was rec-
ognized by virtue of much previous
study of campus-scenes bulletins.
Freshmen were picked from cars lay-
er by layer and herded, suffocating
from nervousness and premature fall
clothes, up the white stone steps and
through the brick Romansque arch
into Main. There each was descended
upon by a student government offi-
cer, labeled with a tag bearing some
queer spelling of her name, and rang-
ed along the wall to await the arrival
of her sponsor.

This heavily cheerful individual
soon appeared and identified herself,
adding that now was the time to get
into the Dean's office and meet Miss
Scandrett. That lady, probably the

only calm person in the building,
smiled at the cowering freshman and
told her all about her room-mate.
And she never forgot a single girl's
face after that interview.

Thence the neophyte proceeded to
Buttrick to swell the line outside Mr.
Tart's door, praying that Father's
check had reached the college and
that eviction for non-payment was
not imminent.

Bearing the Treasurer's blessing,
she waited her weary way into Mr.
Stukes' office, where she filled out
small cards ("Last name first please
print") which made her a registered
college student.

But there remained the Admissions
Committee. Minds and courses were
changed indiscriminately ("Do I have
to take a science?") as it was made
plain that home economics was out
of the question.

Inman at last. Her sponsor led the
way ("47 let's see, that must be
on third . . .") to an unadorned room
in Spartan brown and white, with
naked striped mattress standing out
in relief. There the nerve-racked
freshman was kindly left to herself
for a few minutes, to take off her
shoes and brush her teeth and think
about first impressions. And to
brighten somewhat when a charming
individual burst in with the news
that she was the room-mate, and that
she had heard all about her, and wasn't
the whole place wonderful?

That night, after an afternoon of
unpacking and talking about curtains
and bedspreads, there was dancing in
the Murphey Candler building. Here
again the Christian Association offi-
ciated, keeping things going with in-
troductions and cookies.

Wednesday morning, the session
opened officially. The student body
gathered in Gaines Chapel the block
of suit-stocking-and-heeled freshmen
contrasting sharply with the sur-
rounding masses of old girls, clad
carelessly in summer clothes and sad-
dle oxfords to hear Mr. Samuel C.
Dobbs, of Atlanta, deliver a quick-
ening message on the value and
proper use of education.

"None of you will become Presi-
dent of the United States at least, I
hope you won't but your education
will go to found homes which will
keep this country great," he said,

speaking on a program which includ-
ed welcoming remarks by Dr. J. R.
McCain, Mr. George Winship, Chair-
man of the Board of Trustees; Mrs.
Murdock Equen, President of the
Alumnae Association; and Mr. An-
drew Robinson, Mayor of Decatur.

That afternoon, the freshmen came
again to the Chapel, to hear a talk
made particularly to them by Dr.
McCain.

Meanwhile, their elders were
shrieking greetings to each other
across the quadrangle, comparing sun-
tans, and strolling to Big Dec in
small groups for household necessities.
The talk of the day was the new tele-
phone system. Agnes Scott had
sprouted her own switchboard, located
next to the Dean's office in Main,
which replaces the old "tube" system
and serves fifty free telephones in-
stead of the old one-to-a-hall pay
machines.

There was also the sprinkler sys-
tem. Running along all dormitory
ceilings in every room, from Rebekah
basement to Main tower, were pipes
terminating in little sprinklers which
supposedly will start sprinkling when
fire heats them to a certain tempera-
ture. Supposedly for, so far, board-
ing students have resisted the temp-
tation to hold lighted matches under
them.

Placement test faded into library
class in the general freshman blur un-
til the Christian Association tea in the
Alumnae Garden brought forth for-
mal dresses and faculty members.
Numerous identical white dresses
with lace jackets, frothing around
the goldfish pool, proved to be the
1939 graduation outfits of Atlanta
Girls High School.

That evening provided the first
sing on the steps of Main, and the in-
evitable

"Tell me why the stars do shine,

Tell me why the ivy twines . . ."
plus the equally inevitable

"I'd rather be a Hottentot
Than a multi-multi-millionarie."

Friday morning, and classes. Butt-
rick blackboards were branded with
textbook titles, written in dashing
professional scrawls. The new man-
agers of the book store were swamped.
The book exchange in Main basement

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became a commercial center. ("How
about that Burton & Goodspeed? . . .
I got the last Schevill! . . . What! No
Woodworth?")

Saturday's dawn broke on the pros-
pect of a reception on the quadrangle
and dancing to the music of an or-
chestra in the gym. More never-to-
be-remembered introductions.

Sunday brought Dr. McCain's
Freshman Bible Class, a tour of At-
lanta, and another sing.

Handbook class after handbook
class bore fruit sometimes bitter
in the test Thursday afternoon. The
carefully-memorized Alma Mater and
Social Regulations were set down,
more or less accurately, by freshmen
wondering what would happen if
they flunked. The prize blunder,
which brought sighs of "How true!"
to the lips of cynical upperclassmen,
was this version of certain lines of
the Alma Mater:

"Still our hearts shall enshrine thee,
thou Crown of the South,
With mem'ries of pleasures fore-
gone."

The Library and Miss Hanley ceas-
ed to be lonesome as droves of paral-
lel-reading haunted scholars came to
wrap their saddle oxfords around the
rungs of reading-room chairs.

And talk of SAE's, Sigma Chi's,
and ATO's began as Emory, Tech,
et al. resumed operations.

On the field behind the library,
class colors clashed once more as the
blue, yellow, red, and coral hockey
uniforms of the four teams ran from
cage to cage, practicing in prepara-
tion for the opening games October
13.

And of course, the stunt. Chair-
men were elected, committees were
appointed, and yells resounded every
day after lunch from Inman lobby to
the big parlor in Main:
"Here's to the freshmen, loyal and

bold . . ."
and
"Here's to the soph'mores, oh hail, oh

hail, oh hail 'em,
There's nothing that they cannot
do . . ."
and, as always,

"Big Black Cat, Big Black Cat,
We wanta stroke that kitty's
fur . . ."

The Student Government Pledge
("As a member of the Student Gov-
ernment Association of Agnes Scott
College, I take it as my personal re-
sponsibility . . .") was repeated and
signed by new students in groups of
five, laboring to keep straight faces
before black-robed members of the
Executive Committee, October 3.

All tramps turned out for the

sophomore Hobo Party for the fresh-
men in the gym October 7, when the
lower order received their brown-
paper rat caps solemnly from the
Sophomore Commission, grim and for-
bidding in robes borrowed from sen-
iors. This indignity led on to Stunt
Night, when the two classes pitted
nonsense drama against nonsense
drama for the oft-belled Cat. After
Stunt Night, preliminaries are over,
the evil moment has been postponed
as long as possible, and Education
sets in.

Which all goes to prove that free
telephones may come and tubes may
go, but the traditional things the
songs and rivalries and personalities
peculiar to Agnes Scott persist from
fall to fall and from class to class,
changing little as the ivy thickens on
the walls of Main.
Alumna Husband Makes Quarterly News!

Of interest to all alumnae is the
announcement of the election of
Lamar Westcott, husband of Lulu
(Smith) Westcott, '19, to the Board
of Trustees of Agnes Scott. Lamar is
president of Cabin Crafts, North
Georgia manufacturing concern, and
is quite active in business and civic
interests in North Georgia.

Also elected to the Board are C. F.
Stone, president of the Atlantic Steel
Company, who is active in Atlanta
business and civic interests; and
George W. Woodruff, of Atlanta and
Daytona Beach, Florida, who is active
in the management of Coca-Cola
Company and the Continental Gin
Company.

Changes in the Alumnae Stafi

There are a number of departures
from Agnes Scott this year, but none
is so much a source of regret to the
Alumnae Association as that of Fan-
nie G. (Mayson) Donaldson. Fan-
nie G. resigned from her position as
executive secretary of the Alumnae
Association in June, just after the
close of the commencement festivi-
ties, and it was only because of its
respect for her judgment that the
Board accepted her resignation. She
had completed her second period of
service to the college as alumnae sec-
retary, having served previously from
1929 to 1932, and from 1936 through
commencement of 1939. A past presi-
dent of the Alumnae Association, and
an ardent lover of the college, her un-
tiring efforts for its advancement
have earned our sincerest admiration.
Her host of friends throughout the
alumnae ranks will miss her in the
Alumnae Office and through the
Quarterly pages.

Appointed as successor to Mrs.
Donaldson is Nelle (Chamlee) How-

Mamie Lee Ratliff, '39, Assistant
Alumnae Secretary

ard, '34, who has worked under her
for the past three years as assistant
alumnae secretary.

The new assistant secretary is
Mamie Lee Ratliff, '39, of Sherard,
Mississippi. Mamie Lee graduated with
honor from the class of '39, was vice-
president of Christian Association,
member of Phi Beta Kappa, of Mor-
tar Board, of K. U. B. (the journal-
ism club) and of the Agnes Scott
News staff. She is an English and
history major. Mamie Lee has already
endeared herself to the alumnae who
have been guests in the Alumnae
House since its opening on September
16, and she has made a host of friends
among the local alumnae. Her sincer-
ity and charm insure her success in
alumnae work.

Among other changes in the staff
of the alumnae association are two
new chairmen on the Executive Board.
Ruth (Blue) Barnes, '14, chairman of
the Committee on Local Clubs, re-
signed because of ill health and is suc-
ceeded by Fannie G. (Mayson) Don-
aldson, '12. Ray (Knight) Dean, '29,
also resigned because of ill health,
and she is succeeded as chairman of
the Constitution and By-Laws Com-
mittee by Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer, ex-
'10, of Decatur.

Coordination Program Progresses

A ten day tour of technical
schools from Atlanta to Boston took
Dean Guerry Stukes and Dr. Philip
Davidson from the campus October
14-24. As members of the Advisory
Faculty Council of the University
Center Group, they visited institu-
tions where cooperative action, sim-

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ilar to the University Center Group
in this vicinity, is being created.

The council is particularly inter-
ested in professional schools such as
those of public administration, be-
cause it hopes in time to develop serv-
ices of that type in this region. Ex-
plaining this plan, Dr. Davidson said
that there is a great need for them in
the South, there being "no graduate
school of business or public adminis-
tration from Duke to Tulane." Each
of the six schools in the University
Group sent two representatives on the
trip. Represented were Agnes Scott,
Emory, Georgia Tech, Columbia
Seminary, High Museum and School
of Art, and the University of Geor-
gia.

Alumnae House Receives Gifts

The Alumnae House wishes to ac-
knowledge the generosity of our
friends in providing several muchly-
needed properties to various rooms of
the house.

Virginia Prettyman, '34, has sent
two beautiful luggage racks to com-
plete the equipment in the college
guest room.

Olivia (Fewell) Taylor, Institute,
has won the undying gratitude of the
office force by her gift of some rich
wine colored draperies which are add-
ing much color to the office win-
dows.

The New York Club has sent a
check of $15 to be used by the House
Decorations Committee in purchasing
some needed article for the down-
stairs rooms in the Alumnae House.

Louise (Brown) Hastings, '23,
gave two lovely white cornucopias
for the tables beneath the windows in
the living room. The white vases and
magnolias made perfect pictures dur-
ing the commencement festivities,
and the staff is finding them just as
decorative with ivy in them now.

New Faculty
Newcomers at Agnes Scott are al-
ways a feature of interest, whether
they be students or faculty and ad-
ministration. The twelve new non-
students this year were honored at
the annual faculty "bacon bat,"
where they "relaxed intelligently,"
quoting the Agnes Scoff Nejcs. The
honored guests were Thelma Albright,
assistant professor of English; Loetta
Willis, assistant professor of physics
and astronomy; Isabella Wilson, '34,
secretary to the Dean; Roberta Win-
ter, '27, assistant in the speech de-
partment; Mildred Hagy, nurse; Ag-
nes Reagan, assistant librarian; Mary
Hollingsworth, '39, manager of book
store; Amelia Nickels, '39, secretary
for the campaign; Lou Pate, '39, sec-

retary to the Registrar; Mary Pennel
Simonton, '39, assistant librarian;
Mrs. M. M. Appling, assistant house-
keeper; Mary Ellen Whetsell, '39, fel-
low in science department; Mamie
Lee Ratliff 39, assistant alumnae
secretary.

Silhouette Honored

Agnes Scott alumnae are always
proud of the attainment of the vari-
ous active groups at Agnes Scott. We
are delighted to hear that the 1939
edition of our annual, the Silhouette,
received national recognition as an
outstanding yearbook for the second
consecutive year, being awarded Ail-
American rating by the National
Scholastic Press Association.

Last year's Silhouette, with Ade-
laide Benson, '39, as editor, repre-
sented campus life through a motion
picture theme. Color photography
was used for the first time by the Ag-
nes Scott annual; the Silhouette was
among the first publications of its
class to use this new type of photo-
graphy.

Granddaughters' Club Has Record
Membership

The Alumnae Association enter-
tained the 39 members of the Grand-
daughters' Club (girls whose mothers
were Agnes Scotters) at their first
meeting for the year in the Alumnae
House on October 11. Mary Mc-
Phaul, president of the club and
daughter of Ruth (Brown) McPhaul,
Academy, presided over the thirty
members who were present. Other
officers for this year are Florrie Guy,
daughter of Allie (Candler) Guy,
'13, vice president, and Billie Davis,
daughter of Elizabeth (Gammon)
Davis, '17, secretary and treasurer.

There are fifteen new members of
the club at Agnes Scott this year.
These are: Hartwell Bishop, daugh-
ter of Mary (Somerville) Bishop, In-
stitute; Alice Clements, daughter of
Mary (Weekes) Clements, ex-'20;
Ann Eagan, daughter of Susan
(Young) Eagan, Institute; Sarah
Handley, daughter of Julia (Costen)
Handley, Academy; Barbara Hast-
ings, daughter of Gladys (McDan-
iel) Hastings, ex-'21; Donata Home,
daughter of Mabel (Smith) Home,
Institute; Imogene King, daughter of
Priscilla (Nelson) King, ex-'18; Mary
Klingensmith, daughter of Lucile
(Harris) Klingensmith, ex-'H; Vir-
ginia Lambeth, daughter of Frances
Louise (Hamilton) Lambeth, ex-'21;
Margaret L. Smith, daughter of
Edith (Farlinger) Smith, ex-'lO;
Rosalie Sturtevant, daughter of
Norma (Tucker) Sturtevant, ex-'26;
Susan Spurlock, daughter of Daisy

(Wesley) Spurlock, Institute; Anne
Scott, daughter of Annie Pope
(Bryan) Scott, '15; Georgia Tate,
daughter of Elizabeth (Shippen)
Tate, Academy; and Jean Tucker,
daughter of Lavalette (Sloan) Tuc-
ker, '13.
8.6% ol Student Body Makes Honor Roll

As an occasion that warranted the
dignity of a full academic procession,
Honor Roll was announced for the
193 8-39 session at chapel exercises on
Saturday morning, September 30.

Among the thirty-one who attain-
ed honor standing, almost half were
from the present senior class. The
seniors who reached this standard
were: Elizabeth Alderman, Atlanta;
Evelyn Baty, Birmingham; Ruth
Eyles, Atlanta; Carolyn Forman, Bir-
mingham, daughter of Mary
(Dortch) Forman, Institute; Mary
Evelyn Francis, Clearwater, Fla.;
Mary Matthews, Smyrna, Ga.; Sophie
Montgomery, Decatur; Eva Ann Pir-
kle, Atlanta; Jane Salters, Florence,
S. C; Ruth Slack, Decatur, daughter
of Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex-'12;
Louise Sullivan, Decatur; Henrietta
Thompson, Atlanta; and Violet Jane
Watkins, Nashville, Tenn.

Members of the junior class who
rated this honor were: Sabine Brumby,
Clearwater, Fla.; Sara M. Lee, Dan-
ville, Ky.; Beatrice Shamos, Decatur;
Betty Stevenson, Atlanta; Mary Bon
Utterbach, Louisville, Ky.; Ida Jane
Vaughan, Jenkins, Ky.; and Doris
Weinkle, Atlanta.

The present sophomore class was
represented in the group by: Lavania
Brown, West Union, S. C; Gertrude
Cohen, Atlanta; Edith Dale, Colum-
bia, Tenn.; Billie Davis, Brazil, daugh-
ter of Elizabeth (Gammon) Davis,
'17; Sunette Dyer, Petersburg, W.
Va.; Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Bain-
bridge, Ga.; Jeanne Osborne, Atlanta;
Martha Roberts, Florence, Ala.; and
Frances Tucker, Laurel, Miss.

Nine members of 1939 were also
on the honor list.

History Professor Honored

Dr. Philip Davidson, professor of
history, has been selected as one of
the ten greatest living authorities on
Southern history who will be co-
authors of the publication of a his-
tory of the South during the period
from 1607 to 1940. This publication
is sponsored by two Southern univer-
sities, Louisiana State and the Univer-
sity of Texas.

Lectures Free for 1939-40

The Agnes Scott Student Lecture
Association is presenting four out-
standing lecturers on their 1939-40
program, and in commemoration of

NOVEMBER. 1939

17

the fiftieth anniversary of the col-
lege, all the lectures will be free to
the public.

Opening the season on Wednesday,
November 15, will be a lecture by
Pierre Van Paassen, noted foreign
correspondent and author of "Days
of Our Years," who will speak on the
subject "How the People of France,
Germany, Russia and England React
to the War." Mr. Van Paassen has
been everywhere, seen everything, and
everybody of importance in the world
of affairs in the past twenty years.
He was one of the first foreign cor-
respondents to interview Mussolini
and Hitler and to see in their rise an
ominous threat to the future freedom
and welfare of mankind. He has been
in a concentration camp and had his
life threatened many times. After a
summer in Europe, in which he inter-
viewed personally most of the Euro-
pean leaders, he returned to the Unit-
ed States in October, 1939, and brings
to lecture audiences the whole truth
of what he has observed in roaming
the news fronts of Europe.

Douglas Southal Freeman, journal-
ist, biographer, and historian, will lec-
ture on Thursday, January 2 5. Mr.
Freeman's distinguished work as ed-
itor of the Richmond News-Leader
led to his appointment as Professor of
Journalism at Columbia University.
His biography of Robert E. Lee was
awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1935.
His intimate knowledge of the South,
its history and its problems led to his
appointment on the General Educa-
tion Board. A Virginian of Virginia,
Mr. Freeman is not only an authoritv
in his field, but also a speaker of
great charm.

America's most distinguished poet,
Robert Frost, will lecture at the col-
lege on Tuesday, February 6. Mr.
Frost will discuss poetry in general
and read from his own work. He has
three times won the Pulitzer prize for
poetry, and the publication last May
of his Collected Poems was announced
as a literary event of national impor-
tance. In 1936 he was appointed
Charles Norton Professor of Poetry at
Harvard University, an honor not be-
fore given to an American poet.

The series will be concluded on
March 27, with a lecture by Harlow
Shapley, director of the Harvard Ob-
servatory, on "Exploring Stars and
Galaxies." Professor Shapley is the
foremost American astronomer, hav-
ing received the Rumford Medal of
the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the gold medal of the As-
tronomical Society of Great Britain,
and the Janssen prize of France. He
is the author of several authoritative

books and over two hundred impor-
tant articles, but those who have
heard him speak remember him
chiefly for his delightful wit and per-
sonality. He will discuss the nebulae
in the most distant outer regions of
the universe and will illustrate by
slides and a moving picture which is
revolutionary in exhibiting the colos-
sal activities on the sun.

All the lectures will be in Bucher
Scott Gymnasium at eight-thirty
o'clock.
Alumnae Association for New Students

Among the most outstanding
events in the social calendar of a
freshman's first few weeks at Agnes
Scott is the tea that the Alumnae As-
sociation has in honor of the new stu-
dents. This year the tea was in the
Anna Young Alumnae House on the
afternoon of September 29.

As the guests arrived, they were re-
ceived by Carrie Scandrett, '2 5, Dean;
Anne (Hart) Equen, '21, President
of the Alumnae Association; May-
beth (Carnes) Robison, ex-'2 3, chair-
man of the Entertainment Commit-
tee; Nelle (Chamlee) Howard, '34,
alumnae secretary; and Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain, President of Agnes Scott. Fan-
nie G. (Mayson) Donaldson, '12, and
Isabelle (Leonard) Spearman, ex-'29,
poured tea at the lovely tea table ar-
ranged by Louise (Brown) Hastings,
'23, who also decorated the house for
the afternoon's entertainment.

Other alumnae who assisted were
Aileen (Shortley) Whipple, '39; Vir-
ginia Cofer, '39; Amelia Nickels,
'39; Irene (Havis) Baggett, ex-'17;
Venice (Mayson) Fry, ex-'21; Eliza-
beth (Dimmock) Bloodworth, ex-'19;
Catherine (Baker) Matthews, '32;
and Mamie Lee Ratliff, '39.

Agnes Scott Goes Cosmopolitan!

By Mamie Lee Ratliff, '39

The one hundred and fifty new stu-
dents at Agnes Scott are always of
particular interest to the older mem-
bers of the campus community.
Among these this year are several who
have been given especial attention be-
cause they are from countries other
than the United States.

Nicole Giard, a twenty-one-year-
old Parisian, is the French exchange
student this year. Before coming to
Agnes Scott she studied nine years in
a convent in Paris, the Externat de
la Rue de Ruebeck, after which she
had three years of private classes and
lessons at the Sorbonne. Nicole ex-
cited the campus with her accounts
of her passage across the Atlantic,
which was even more interesting than
an ordinary crossing, because war was

declared while her ship was in mid-
ocean. She arrived safely in this
country, however, and visited several
weeks in Newark, which was the
home of her American grandmother.
Even though she has relatives in the
United States, she has never been in
this country before but has limited
her travel to England, France, Italy,
and other parts of the continent. Dur-
ing the summers when she's not trav-
eling she goes with her family to the
country just outside of Paris, where
they have a country home which is
about eight hundred years old.
Nicole's chief interest at present is
the mail that comes to her from
France, where her father and three
brothers are in the French Army.

Charity Crocker, who is from an
American family, even if she is from
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has considered
coming to Agnes Scott to school for
a long time, but it was not until
twelve days before her ship sailed that
she knew she really could come. It
just happened that friends of the
family were in South America at that
time, so that it was possible for her
to have traveling companions for the
long passage from Brazil. According
to Charity, it's a good thing that she
didn't have more than twelve days
for her plans to leave, because she
might not have come, had she had
longer to think about leaving Rio,
which she loves very much. It was
there that she did her regular five
years of grammar school work and
five of high school work that are re-
quired. After that for a year and a
half, she has been studying some ex-
tra French and chemistry. She has
interesting tales to tell about the
Italian and French Opera Companies
which come to Rio every year, as well
as the Concert Series and the Muni-
cipal theatre productions. Even
though Charity may miss Brazil, she
could hardly be homesick, because
her time is so full. When she was
caught long enough for a very brief
interview, she was just in the midst
of wondering how she could find
time to "try out" for Swimming
Club, because the only times open
were filled in her schedule with "try-
ing out" for Tennis Club and a golf
lesson! This young American from
Brazil is a very interesting person, and
a very diplomatic one as well, for
again and again she emphasized the
admiration of the South American
people for "the States"; this praise
was, of course, duly accepted and
acknowledged in behalf of those same
"States"!

Maria Felber, from Austria, is not
an exchange student but is a board-

18

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

ing freshman at Agnes Scott, with
her family living in Atlanta. Maria
lived in Vienna until a nine-month
stay in Yugoslavia last year, after
which the Felbers came to Atlanta to
live. The young Austrian girl, before
coming to this country, had complet-
ed the four years of grammar school
and was in the eighth year of high
school of the Austrian system. She
had not, however, taken the matricu-
lation examination that is taken at
the age of eighteen before entrance
is granted into the University. Maria
fascinates us with her accounts of the
winter sports that she and her friends
enjoyed in the old country. Among
her favorites, of course, were ice skat-
ing and skiing. Naturally, ths Felbers
miss many things about Austria, es-
pecially the theatre, opera, and con-
certs; Maria said that she likes Am-
erica very much and that for every
thing that she misses, there is some-
thing here to take its place. She par-
ticularly likes the South, because ev-
eryone "is so sweet to us." With a
parting smile, Maria said to be sure
to put that in, because she wanted
us to know that she likes us very
much. "Oh, yes," she added, "the
girls here are much prettier than they
are in Austria!" And with that she
was gone, and your editor was left
doubting a bit that last conclusion,
but deciding that perhaps our new
young friend was an exception to her
own statement.

The Life ol Betiy Hollis. '37

A short biography of Betty Hollis,
'37, who died during the summer aft-
er her graduation from Agnes Scott,
is being completed this fall. Both
those alumnae who were in school
with Betty and those who did not
know her will doubtless be interested
in this collection of stories about her
life at her home in Sautee, Georgia,
and at Agnes Scott, where she was
very active in Y. W. C. A. work.
The Christian Association of Agnes
Scott, which is sponsoring the publi-
cation of this work, is very anxious
to get an estimate on the possible
number of copies of this book which
will be desired. Will the alumnae who
are interested in getting a copy
please notify the alumnae office or
Katherine Patton, President of Chris-
tian Association?

Acknowledgement

The Quarterly editors wish to thank
Alice Cheeseman, '40, for the attrac-
tive display page she has executed for
the radio page. See last page of the
Quarterly for complete radio sched-
ule.

Black Cat Stunt
The annual freshman-sophomore
contest of wits that takes the form of
the Black Cat Stunt was presented
in the Bucher Scott Gymnasium on
Saturday, October 14. The chairman
of the freshman stunt was Clara
Rountree, of Decatur, while the soph-
omores were directed by Mary Louise
Palmour, of College Park, daughter
of Mary Louise (Crenshaw) Palmour,
Institute. Both the night of the
fourteenth in the gym and for days
before in Inman and in Main the two
groups cheered their classes on to a
possible victory with Caroline Smith,
Summerville, S. O, and Mabel Stowe,
Belmont, N. C.j as freshman cheer
leaders, and Bee Bradfield, Charlotte,
N. C, and Aha Webster, Homestead,
Fla., as the sophomore leaders. Betty
Ann Brooks, Decatur, headed the
writing committee for the sophomore
class, while Gloria Bramlett, San An-
tonio, Texas, chaired the writing
group for the freshmen. The campus
grew quite tense with excitement
during this time, with the sophomores,
according to Mary Louise, wishing

that they were all twins "so they
could work twice as hard," and with
the freshmen just as confident of
winning, as Clara, speaking for the
freshman class, advised the other
classes to "watch our smoke"!

The Committee Chairman for the
Freshmen "Greenhorns" included:
Betty Moore, Marna McGarraugh,
Shirley Gately, Betty Henderson,
Katherine Wilkinson, Dot Holloran,
Mary Wolford, Alice Clements, Betty
Burdette, Aileen Still, Pat Perry and
Mary Ward.

Mary Olive Thomas, Carolyn
Dunn, Mary Ann Faw, Jeanne Os-
borne, Betty Medlock, Susan Coch-
ran, Fletcher Mann, Elizabeth Rus-
sell, Betty Lee Clarkson, Edith Dale,
and Frances Tucker held down the
Committee Chairmanships for the
Sophomores. The Sophomore leads
were Jane Taylor, Louise Newton,
Edith Schwartz, Ann Gellerstedt, Gay
Currie, Cornelia Stuckey, Kathleen
Huck, Virginia Stanley, Mary Anne
Hannah, Myree Wells, Neva Jackson,
Mary Dean Lott, Martha Buffalow,
and Barbara San.

Freshman Clara Rountree and Sophomore Mary Louise Palmour, daughter of
Mary Louise (Crenshaw) Palmour, Institute, examine the Black Cat, which will
soon have a new bell for the present Sophomore class, winners on stunt night.

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Semi-Centennial Series

JANUARY, 1940

SONNETS OF A STUDENT

By Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20

Buildings of stately brick, lawns wide and green,

A toiver, tall against an evening sky,

Old, old oaks holding their branches high,

White flowering trees where recent woods have been:

These are beloved by us in thought serene,

For here, looking upon a solemn page,

We live in another hour, another age

As if the past laid hold with hand unseen.

We grieve with kings in stories Homer told,

And fight with men and gods at Troy's sack;

We sigh with Virgil for his hero bold,

Aeneas, when there was no turning back.

Carrying liis father, leading his little son.

Their fates arc ours to share and think upon.

Ours to share: the hopes of men long dead

And their despairs, their brave or bitter creeds,

The thoughts of Socrates for which he pleads

Not for his life as death can hold no dread

Of Dante tasting salt of strangers' bread

In exile but finding far beyond his bars

A love that moves the sun and other stars,

A hell and heaven where his dreams are fed;

Of Petrarch, now with soft, now savage tears.

Mourning a love that will not die with death;

And Villon sighing with each quickened breath

The lost light shows of all his yesteryears.

Dried are their tears now. Gone both love and lust.

But their dreams are ours, though their bones be dust.

Their dreams are ours and those that Shakespeare brought

To life's large stage, who, in his little span,

Felt all the sorroivs and the mirths of man,

All glory, all despair, all noble thought;

And those of Milton who in blindness wrought

Of man's first disobedience, a story,

Of angels' and archangels' ancient glory,

Of Eden lost, of Paradise long sought.

So with their dreams and in their past we go,

With the boy Blake who walking home could see

A prophet sitting in an apple tree;

With Keats who taught us all we need to know

That truth is beauty, beauty truth

Although we stand in alien corn with Ruth.

Their dreams are ours and those of all the ages;
The past is ours, an ancient trust to treasure,
The wealth that poets bring us without measure.
How 1 bright still shine their names upon our pages!
With them we suf) with kings and dine with sages
And break brown bread by humble men befriended
And jest with fools until all jesting's ended
Bound by the bars of time and life's brief cages.
The past is ours. Ours too today, tomorrow;
We cannot take the ivisdom men have given
Unless ivc strive as they have always striven
To lessen by some drops man's cup of sorrow.
This to remember and remember well
When we go forth from this safe citadel.

(This is one of the winning poems submitted in the poetry contest held in honor of the semi-centennial of Agnes Scott College.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sonnets of a Student Frontispiece

By Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20

Across the President's Desk 2

Travelogue 4

By Mary (Enzor) Bynum, '13

The Value of Books 6

By Jean Bailey, '39

Alumnae in the News S

Club Notes 9

From a Tower Window 10

"On the Campus," by Anne Enloe, '40

Concerning Ourselves 16

Fifteenth Founder's Day Broadcast 29

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.

ACROSS THE PRESIDENT'S DESK

THE ALUMNAE CAMPAIGN

General Plans

The goal which Agnes Scott College and Emory Uni-
versity have set for the development of the two institu-
tions, and for the promoting of the much needed Univer-
sity Center in the southeast, is the largest which has ever
been suggested in the South. The attempt is being made
to raise $7,500,000. Of this amount, Emory would have
$6,000,000, and Agnes Scott, $1,500,000. The amounts
may seem disproportionate until one considers that Em-
ory has assumed responsibility for graduate work, for
a medical school, a law school, a theological department,
a library school, and a school of business administration.
Agnes Scott expects to remain a small, undergraduate col-
lege for women, but it wishes to be the best possible school
of this type.

Plans are now being formulated to press our appeal as
soon as practicable. It is generally understood that we ought
to be able to have everything in readiness by April 1, and
during that month to raise the amount which we need. It
will take the very best efforts of the alumni of Emory,
the alumnae of Agnes Scott, and all our friends to do this.

Alumnae Executive Committee

In order to get the Agnes Scott alumnae present pro-
grams organized in good fashion, it was decided that an
executive committee should be appointed for the purpose
of advising about general plans. This committee is com-

posed of Mrs. Murdock Equen (Anne Hart), chairman;
Mrs. John J. Eagan (Susan Young), vice-chairman; Mrs.
Samuel M. Inman (representing the Trustees), Mrs. Clark
Howell, Sr. (Margaret Cannon), Mrs. D. B. Donaldson
(Fannie G. Mayson), Mrs. J. Frazer Durrett (Cora Frazer
Morton), and Mrs. Sam Inman Cooper (Augusta Skeen).
This group met at lunch on November 28 with the Presi-
dent of the College and with representatives of the Ameri-
can City Bureau, and talked over most of the problems
of the coming effort.

Campaign Director
After discussing the matter fully, it was decided that
the best procedure would be to elect one person to be the
official leader in organizing the alumnae and in presenting
to them our objectives. For this leader, Mrs. Sam Inman
Cooper was unanimously and enthusiastically chosen. She
accepted with a readiness that did our hearts good, but
with the understanding that she would have the undivided
loyalty of the Executive Committee and of the alumnae
in general. We are sure that she will have this support and
we believe that, with such an Executive Committee and
with such a campaign director, a most excellent start has
been made. Mrs. Cooper has had extensive experience in
alumnae work and in Atlanta projects, and everything
which she has handled has been an unquestioned success.
We seek for her the very best thought and cooperation of
every alumna.

Hopkins Hall

This is the architects' conception of how Agnes Scott's new tine Arts building will look after its completion some time next year. The Pres-
ses Building, named for Theodore Presscr, of Philadelphia, is being erected on one of the most prominent sites on the campus at the corner of
South McDonongh Street and Buttrick Drive. Construction was begun late in the fall and has progressed rapidly. At the present time excava-
tion has been completed and work is going forward on the pilings for the foundations. Students may look forward to using the building, which

will house the music and art departments, next fall.

Hopkins Hall

After thinking over all the needs of the College, in con-
nection with the approaching campaign, it was unani-
mously decided that a new dormitory in honor of Miss
Hopkins and dedicated to her memory would be the most
useful and most appropriate object on which the alumnae
may center their effort. Nothing is more needed on the
campus than better quarters for students; and a new dormi-
tory would certainly add to the prestige of the College
and to its usefulness. Before Miss Hopkins passed away,
she had made plans for such a building and was keenly
desirous that it should be erected. We wish a building that
will be charming in appearance and that will be comforta-
ble and lasting in quality, a fitting memorial to the one
and only Miss Nannette Hopkins.

It is planned to have adjoining Hopkins Hall a new din-
ing room and kitchen, connected with the dormitory by a
short enclosed colonnade, so that the two will make prac-
tically one building. The dining hall is to be very attrac-
tive, quite similar in design to the main reading room of
the library. It will be capable of seating the entire stu-
dent body and faculty members at one time, and will be
ideal for alumnae reunions or for other large gatherings.
The central eating place will enable all the students to
come to know one another better, and the operating of a
single kitchen will make possible the using of expensive
equipment for better service that would not be possible
where two kitchens are involved. It is expected that the
new dining hall will have a terrace, opening on the alum-
nae garden, which will be suitable for outdoor parties or
informal receptions.

This new building would cost at least $100,000, and it
was tentatively thought that the alumnae should have no

great difficulty in raising this amount. During the cam-
paign of 1929-1930, the alumnae subscribed more than
$100,000; and, during the intervening ten years, many
more alumnae have been graduated, so that the total num-
ber should find this project not too difficult. It is inter-
esting to note in this connection that the 5,000 alumnae
of Goucher College are undertaking to raise $3 60,000 for
a dormitory and have already subscribed more than
$100,000.

Other Details

It will be very helpful if suggestions in regard to the
campaign may be sent directly to Mrs. Sam Inman Cooper,
132 5 Peachtree Street, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia, or to the
President of the College. We will need very much volun-
teer workers in the various cities and communities where
alumnae are located. We need to have questions asked
about points that are not clear so that we may be sure
that our literature includes important items. We would
like to have advice as to whether the Executive Committee
should make suggestions in regard to individual quotas,
though it is already quite certain that it will not wish to
suggest what any individual should do.

We have the utmost confidence to believe that what-
ever ought to be done can be done; and we have learned
through many years that the alumnae of Agnes Scott arc
interested and loyal, so that we are going into this cam-
paign with a great deal of happiness and confidence. We
believe that by May 1, 1940, we will be able to report,
"Success!"

Cordially,

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Travelogue - - - -

By Mary (Enzor) Bynum, '13

Logically an account of a trip should begin at the be-
ginning, but my trip around the world is an exception,
because it culminated in England late in August just when
the war clouds loomed blackest. All the varied and fas-
cinating experiences in strange and distant lands tempor-
arily paled into insignificance as we saw air-raid preven-
tion measures on every hand, and walked endless miles from
one shipping office to another seeking passage to America.

The grand finale of our trip was to have been ten days
in England and Scotland, but Hitler spoiled much of that
by the rapproachement between Germany and Russia. The
"Caledonia," out of Glasgow, was immediately cancelled
and we were forced to remain in London, partly to seek
passage on other lines, partly for fear we would not be
able to return for sailing if the evacuation of London
should begin. We finally booked passage on the "Man-
hattan," gladly accepting cots without question as to loca-
tion or comfort, and sailed September 1 as the German
army invaded Poland. Discomforts of crowd and rough
waters were completely overshadowed by the fact that we
were on an American ship, not "blacked out" as were
English and French ships, but with a huge American flag
floodlighted above us. The news of the sinking of the
"Athenia" horrified us but did not frighten us. Somehow
I felt as if a little of the good old U. S. A. was under my
feet; and we were safe at home before the "Iroquois" inci-
dent occurred to shake our sense of security.

Only a Richard Halliburton could do justice to the
varied thrills and colorful scenes of a trip around the
world. That so much could be experienced in so brief a
period as three months and one week is almost unbeliev-
able, even to those participating. Yet in that time our
congenial little party "sailed the seven seas"; traveled by
ship, motor, express train, airplane, camel, elephant, and
ricksha; and visited nineteen countries and ports of call
in the Far East, Near East, and Western Europe. We swam
at Waikiki Beach and in the mountain pool at Brastagi
(Sumatra); danced at least the rest of the party did
at the Moana Hotel and the Raffles in Singapore; shopped
in every port and country; attended Japanese opera and
Egyptian and Parisian cabarets; and feasted our eyes on
such beauties as the Taj Mahal, the Parthenon, Westmin-
ister Abbey and the iris garden in full bloom in the Im-
perial Palace grounds of Tokyo.

Each country had its own peculiar charm. Words are
inadequate to describe the royal welcome and farewell our
ship received in Honolulu, our first stop after sailing from
Vancouver on the "Empress of Japan" on June 10. The
waiting crowds were laden with fragrant many-colored
leis, and the official band and the magnificent chorus of
men's and women's voices simply enveloped us in Hawaiian
music as we slipped into the harbor and docked, and again
as we sailed the following day. Even the absence of the
famous Hawaiian moonlight could not break the magic
spell, and, needless to say, we cast our leis back into the
water as we left, trusting the tradition that as the waves
carry the leis back to the shore, so travelers may hope to
return.

The Pacific was kind to us, and "The Japan" was such
a lovely ship that almost with regret we reached the Land
of Cherry Blossoms and disembarked June 24. For ten
days, with a competent, courteous guide as our constant
companion, we reveled in the sights and ceremonies of
Japan, seeking no profound explanation of political and
economic problems, available in many books, but instead
giving ourselves up to the enjoyment of the scenery, the
people, and their characteristic customs which give Japan
its charm. We loved the temples, shrines, and pagodas; the
ancient avenue of crytomeria trees approaching the shrine
of Nikko; the rice fields in the planting season; a geisha
girl performance which enlivened a sukiyaki dinner; a
ceremonial tea; a lesson in flower arrangement (Japanese
style) ; even a fencing and jiu-jitsu school in full tilt; and
last but not least, a night in a famous Japanese inn where
we wore kimonas and slept in a Japanese bed but failed
ignominously to acquire the art of sitting on our heels.

Conspicuous by their absence were evidences of the mili-
tary spirit which the world has come to associate with
Japan in recent years. Only a few soldiers, apparently
home on furlough, and small patriotic demonstrations to
honor young men departing for the front were to be seen
in the railway stations. Each individual was made a hero,
happy to offer his life in the service of the emperor whom
they worship. It helped us to understand the psychology
of the Japanese which makes them such good soldiers; yet
the war in China was never mentioned except in the papers.

Our next long visit was in Indo-China which delighted
us with its sacred white elephants, its buffalo carts, the
rickshas operated by boys on bicycles, who were never sat-
isfied with what an American paid them, and its exquisite
and inexpensive silver work. Silver is abundant and cheap
there, and the most interesting building we visited in
Phnom Penh was the Silver Pagoda, so-called because of
its solid silver floor, which contains one Buddha of solid
gold studded with diamonds and another of pure jade.

The climax of this inland trip, however, was our visit to
the stupendous ruins of Angkor, reclaimed from the jungle
about a century ago. The entire city was deserted some
six hundred years ago because of war between the Cam-
bodians and the Siamese, who stripped the temple towers
of their silver and gold covering. Since then the jungle
with its penetrating roots has done great damage, yet the
numerous towering stone masses still pay silent tribute to
the wealth and skill of that earlier civilization which we
attempted to reconstruct in our imaginations as we
watched the royal Cambodian dancers by torchlight on the
vast terrace before Angkor Wat.

Bangkok proved to be a sort of Far Western Venice with
its miles of canals lined with native houses and crowded
with tiny canoe "shops" meat, vegetables, cloth, coffee,
all exposed to flies and dirt in strange contrast to the
magnificent Temple of the Emerald Buddha and the Por-
celain Pagoda which characterize "the other half" of
Bangkok.

Space is inadequate to describe our ports of call, every
one of which fascinated us. Hongkong, Manila, Singapore,

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Belawan and Sabang, Colombo, and Aden, all contributed
to the kaleidoscopic picture of the East; rubber and pine-
apple plantations; banana groves; Chinese junks and sam-
pans; orchids and monkeys; kimonos, pajamas, sarongs,
and saris; jewels and ivory; rush and mud huts and the
palace of the Sultan of Johore truly a world of contrasts.

In India we stayed one week, traveled two thousand
miles, and visited Bombay, Agra, and Delhi. The express
trains on which we traveled were equipped with a shower
in each first class compartment; yet we had to provide
our own bearers (servants) , bedding, towels, toilet paper,
and even for our own safety carried bottled water for
brushing our teeth. Strange institutions like the Parsi
Towers of Silence and the public laundry in Bombay, the
ancient cave temples, the snake charmers and trained birds
vied in interest with forts and palaces so vast that, as one
of our party said, they made the builder of the Versailles
Palace look like a piker.

Akbar and Shasjahan must have spared neither their
own treasure nor that of their subjects to embody such
strength, size, and beauty in buildings. The magnificence
of Napoleon's Tomb is nothing compared to that of Akbar
near Agra. Three buildings are especially noteworthy for
their exquisite beauty. The Jasmine Tower in Agra was
built as the apartment of Mumtaz Mahal, the lady of the
Taj; and the Hall of Private Audiences in Delhi, once the
seat of the famous gold Peacock Throne, is so lovely of
proportion, materials, and decoration that Shahjahan had
carved on its walls the famous lines: "If there be a Para-
dise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this." Both of these
buildings are of white marble with decorative mosaic pat-
terns of precious and semi-precious stones, and they pre-
pare one somewhat for the breath-taking loveliness of the
Taj Mahal by day or by moonlight. With its satin marble
walls, pure white except for its mosaic decorations, its
marble screens, its domes and minarets, it is a beautiful
monument to the love of the woman for whom it was
built and to her husband, the builder, who is buried beside
her. It has the ethereal beauty of a fairy palace unbelievably
materialized.

The first unpleasantness of our trip occurred when we
sailed from Bombay in a monsoon. Just when I had
thought my sea legs well established, I had my first attack
of sea sickness and the only one except for the first few
days of our Atlantic crossing on the crowded "Manhat-
tan." I was never down and out, however, and soon re-
covered to enjoy the blue of the Red Sea, but not the swel-
tering heat. The temperature couldn't have been less than
120 degrees, although the stewardess insisted it was only
96 degrees.

The heat continued in Egypt, Palestine, and Athens, but
nothing could spoil our enjoyment of those countries. In
Cairo we climbed through the galleries to the burial cham-
bers of King Cheops in the very heart of the Great Pyra-
mid, gazed at the Sphinx, now completely excavated, and
wandered through the Museum of Cairo, where we saw
the solid gold sarcophogus of King Tut. But we were in-
terested, too, in the Citadel built by Saladin in the twelfth
century and in the loveliest mosque we saw anywhere, the
Pearl Mosque of India not excepted. It was a dream in
marble and alabaster, with enormous columns and carved
screens which cast a lovely patterned shadow on the amber
windows. This is the mosque which contains the famous
"Wishing Door" in which if you wish, believing and
wisely the wish will surely come true.

One of the strange institutions of Cairo is "Old Cairo,"
made up of houses built not for the living but for the dead.
Only a few tombs are on open lots. The "city" streets
are almost deserted except on Friday when the families

visit their tombs. The Marmelukes and some of the pres-
ent royal family are interred in the same building, which
we were permitted to enter after removing our shoes.

We completed our visit to Cairo with a sail on the Nile
in the gentle evening breeze, the twinkling lights and sil-
houetted buildings giving us another lovely picture to add
to our collection of beautiful memories.

We flew from Cairo to Jerusalem. I wish I could pic-
ture for you the beauties of that trip: the shadows of the
clouds below us drifting across the desert sands, the wind-
ing Suez Canal outlined in green fields, and then the blue
of the Mediterranean which seemed to merge with the blue
of the sky, separated only by a bar of clouds and coast
which took on a pinkish tone under the sun.

Palestine today is a paradox. Soldiers and armored cars
and barricades form a strange setting for the Garden of
Gethsemane, and the poverty of the people, always great,
has been intensified in recent years by the struggle between
Arabs and Jews for the control of the "Holy Land." The
Judean Hills, gay with flowers in the rainy season, were
bare, eroded, and rocky in August, and must have furn-
ished the barest subsistence to the shepherds and flocks we
saw there.

Jewish immigrants have accomplished marvels in re-
claiming desert lands and turning them into thriving
orange groves and prosperous towns like Tel-aviv, con-
nected by paved roads. They have bought up the Valley
of Sharon, the best farming lands in all Palestine, and by
economic progress are gradually pushing back the unpro-
gressive Arab. It is interesting to note that nearly one-
fourth of the Jewish colonists are actually living on the
farms and are attempting to disprove the idea that Jews
can and will live only in cities.

Leaving Palestine enroute to Greece, we sailed for four
days on the beautiful Mediterranean on the Rumanian
S. S. "Transilvania," stopping for many hours at Beirut
and Alexandria. In both places we saw mute evidence of
the tense international situation contrasting strangely with
the peaceful sea and sunlit city streets. A ship load of
French soldiers disembarking at Beirut and a harbor full
of British naval vessels at Alexandria overshadowed ancient
Roman ruins in interest. There must have been ovei
twenty-five craft at Alexandria submarines, hydroplanes,
light and heavy cruisers, and big battleships while float-
ing in the harbor entrance there were long strings of black
objects that we guessed to be mines ready at any moment
for completing the protective blockade.

The last day of the cruise the "Transilvania" sailed
among numerous tiny Aegean Islands, on one of which the
Venus de Milo was found, bringing us late one afternoon
to Piraeus. I couldn't reconstruct, as I looked at that
thriving, modern port, the same harbor in the days of
Themistocles and Pericles, but once we reached Athens and
came within sight of the Acropolis my imagination ran
riot. To see at last the historic and artistic ruins in which
Miss Mary L. Cady interested me years ago in her history
class seemed too good to be true. I gazed with awe and
reverence at the ruins of the Propylaea which inspired the
name of one of the old literary societies, long since out-
grown by Agnes Scott; at the Erechtheum with its unique
Porch of the Maidens; and at the Parthenon, whose sim-
plicity, proportion and grace of lines were evident even in
ruins.

A week would have been all too short to loiter in
Athens, but time was slipping fast and most of the mem-
bers of our little party were due back in America early in
September. In fact, when we took the Simplon Orient
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By Jean Bailey, '39

Discussing the value of books is like making a talk on
the American flag, or transportation. Never did Solomon
hit the nail on the head with more disheartening accuracy
than when he made the remark about there being nothing
new under the sun. Books, and their value, have been the
stock-in-trade of speakers from the three-minute im-
promptu affairs of the fifth and sixth grade right on down
to the baccalaureate sermons at state universities. And yet,
the fact remains that they are valuable to different peo-
ple for different reasons. And whether or not those rea-
sons seem logical to you and me, they are genuine.

For some people they are valuable as an outward sign
of an inward culture which these people have not obtained
either because they lacked the opportunity, or the intelli-
gence, or the zeal to acquire it. To that group belong
those who you have heard have wooden blocks painted to
resemble books to fill their library shelves, or who ask a
store to send out some books for a living room. They cer-
tainly don't value the books for their content, and yet,
they certainly do value books, because they sense that pos-
session of them is a mark of culture, and culture is an
asset, either socially, or in business.

Then there is another group who buy books artistically.
Again, the content is of no moment to them, but they
have a certain esthetic appreciation of what fits, a pair
of book-ends they are using feature dainty alabaster danc-
ers, or they select a large book of philosophy because some
other book-ends are bronze replicas of the Thinker. They
value books, too.

There are some who get books because they know they
should read and they honestly try, and get nothing from
the experience, but again, books have a value for them.
They represent a sort of hidden world into which it would
be interesting to be initiated, but it is like so many fancy
foods. The taste must be acquired; it isn't native.

And then, there is a fourth group to which most of us
pretend to belong. That, too, is divided and sub-divided;
but it is made up chiefly of those who find some value in
what is between the covers of a book. And the danger of
belonging to this last group is that the border between it
and the other three is sharp, but very thin. It's so easy
to become snobbish about loving books. I've caught my-
self once or twice on the verge of making the simple state-
ment that I love books. Well, the statement is simple
and simple-minded. No one loves books, just books in gen-
eral. At least no one whom society allows to roam around
unguarded. And anyone who says he loves books, just
loves books, is either lying, or is a fertile field for a
psychiatrist.

What each of us does love is individual and specific
books. And they are different for each person. Some like
poetry because with rhythm and music it says the sort of
thing they've tried to say again and again only to have it
catch in their throats.

"This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning."

They love it for lines that express an almost divine per-
ception.

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?"

They find lines that fling hope down like a cloak for
the man to step on who has failed. They love it because
it possesses a grace and a gallantry denied to most of us.
"Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
The liquefaction of her clothes."

And poetry comes in books, reason enough to value
them.

Others of us like biography because in the lives of others
we recognize certain likenesses to our own. It's comfort-
ing to find that someone else thought our thoughts, shared
our problems, and made our mistakes. To have another
man's faults explained gives us insight into those of others
and may give us tolerance. For instance, I have just read
G. K. Chesterton's biography of St. Francis of Assisi, in
which he made the point that while we of this enlightened
age proclaim war as immoral, we say with equal confidence
that St. Francis was impractical when he tried to convert
the Moslems instead of fighting them as the Crusaders
were doing. That is: "We call any moral method imprac-
tical, when we have just called any practical method im-
moral." For me, that voices the paradox of our modern
philosophy in tangible form, and I understand not only
St. Francis, but a good many other people. That was in
a book, and it's valuable.

Quite a few of us like non-fiction of a miscellaneous
type. We find at present a whole flood of books on the
international situation, each of which has a different ap-
peal. Vincent Sheean's Not Peace But a Sword is personal
opinion, but it is opinion based upon thought and under-
standing. It brings to the reader a host of ideas, observa-
tions, facts about our modern world, through the mind of
one man ideas which we value because they have in them
something universal. They're far from new, and it is for
that reason we have confidence in them. We accept the
statements of these writers as signs of the times, because
the world seems to be running true to form. On the other
hand, we find Nora Wain's Reaching for the Stars worth-
while because it is written with beauty and restraint and
out of a deep regard for the great spontaneous good in the
German people and the loveliness of the German country-
side. It has about it warmth, affection, artistry, and deli-
cacy that are satisfying within themselves, that make it
the kind of book you want to hold fast and defend against
criticism, for when you've finished, it's the long, dusty
shafts of light down the streets in Beethoven's own city of
Bonn and the many shaded green terraces up the slopes
along the Rhine that you remember, and not the friends
who disappeared into Nazi concentration camps over-night.
There must be value in a book that can do that during this
second World War.

In analyzing why writers write, Anne Lindberg says that
many authors of semi-autobiographical books belong to "a
strange race of people who feel half-cheated of an experi-
ence unless it is retold." Certainly Margaret Halsey, of
With Malice Toward Some, has enjoyed the humor of her
British experiences a hundred times over for having writ-
ten them down. People who love particular books are that
way about reading them. A book hasn't caught hold un-
less it contains certain passages that bear reading and re-

JANUARY, 1940

reading. Sometimes it is because they have a sweep and
heroism we'd like to have ourselves. They express the right
view our view on a controversial subject with such em-
phasis, climax, smoothness, and conviction, that had we
been able to muster them ourselves no one could conceiv-
ably have continued to disagree with us. Sometimes they
recognize a beaut}' we have been conscious of and describe
it in words that come back and back until it is enriched
with a thousand connotations. Sometimes these paragraphs
are peculiarly true, and represent a long, keen look into
something below the surface of our ordinary thoughts so
that we gain a new perspective and clearer view of a thing
for having seen it from a strange angle. Just as G. K.
Chesterton says, we always have a new, and perhaps truer,
impression of a room if we have looked at it upside down.
Sometimes they are merely comfortably familiar. We like
to reread certain passages because with them there is a
feeling like settling back into a comfortable position after
having sat very straight for a long time in order to appear
crisp and business-like.

But the real reason some books bear rereading and lov-
ing is that they are so close to fundamental truth that the)'
fit each person differently, but many at a time equallv
well. There is no book everyone values equally, but it
would be fairly safe to say that there is no book valued
by only one person. If you really treasure a book you'll
find a friend who loves the same book, albeit for a dif-

ferent reason. Lin Yutang, in The Importance of Living,
says: "What does literature do except give us the atmos-
phere and color, the fragrant smell of the pastures and the
stench of city gutters? The book which takes us away
from this human life is not literature, and the more
humanly true a book is, the better literature we consider it.
What novel ever appeals to a reader if it contains only a
cold analysis, if it fails to give us the salt and tang and
flavor of life?" It's the same old story of loving life. And
if I can't have all the experiences and all the thoughts, I
want a book that will mirror them for me.

Perhaps all this trying to analyze why we value books is
a fruitless pursuit, because, like fine silk, this affection
for books must be washed and ironed carefully. It can't
be boiled and rubbed and hung in the hot sunshine with-
out losing its sheen. And so, like our navy, having built
a fleet of unsinkable battleships, I'll fire this final shot that
will sink anything afloat and say that when we've read a
book that leaves us deaf to the dinner bell and unconscious
of a good bull session next door, let's not make a list of
the ways in which it is "humanly true"; let's not write on
the flyleaf, "I like this book because . . ." If we reallv did
like it, we won't be able to refrain from using an example
from it in our next term paper anyway. And that's time
enough to subject it to the cold light of our collegiate in-
tellects. Finally, there is, after all, only one thing to be
said about books: Read many; love a few.

Travelogue -

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Express for Paris, we felt that we were really headed for
home.

We had been so busy enjoying ourselves that for several
days we knew nothing of what was happening in the politi-
cal world. News of the imminent signing of the Russo-
German treaty and its consequences fell like a bomb in
our midst as we stepped off the train in Paris on August
22. To us, as to others, war seemed unbelievable in a
sane world; so, while motor lorries filled with soldiers and
supplies rumbled through the streets, the two of us who
had never been to Paris before visited Versailles, the Louvre,
Notre Dame, Saint Chapelle, and the other places a tourist
doesn't miss on his first trip to France. The lower chapel
of Saint Chapelle was filled already with boxes awaiting
the packing of the lovely stained glass windows at the
first threat of war, but the French people went calmly
and courageously about their work, a spirit maintained
after the inevitability of war was obvious.

We completed our program in Paris uneventfully and
went on to England before we felt personally the effects
of the crisis. The rest of our party sailed August 25,
leaving my friend and me still hoping for the best and
determined not to give up the last lovely part of our tour;
but we were too optimistic. Not only were we unable to
visit North England and Scotland, as previously men-
tioned, but even in London our plans were upset. The
British Museum was closed before we could see the Magna
Carta and the Elgin Marbles, and we dared not leave Lon-
don, even to visit nearby places like Canterbury and Win-

chester. My most delightful experiences were visits to
Stoke Poges, Stratford, Oxford University, Warwick Cas-
tle, and the "Comey Hither" Inn, near quaint old Dorches-
ter Abbey, where we enjoyed a cup of good American
coffee so rare in Europe. We attended service at West-
minister, watched the changing of the guards at Bucking-
ham Palace, dined at Simpson's Fish Ordinary, saw three
English plays, and listened to speeches on many subjects
at Marble Arch in Hyde Park. They were pleasant inci-
dents and helped to relieve the tension, but they increased
my regret that so much was being left undone or unseen
in the rest of Britain.

Any account of that last week of August would be in-
complete without a tribute to the British people. Faced
with insular insecurity for the first time in centuries, tense
with dread of air raids on their cities should war be de-
clared, and keyed to a high pitch of preparation and ex-
pectation, the men and women in the street mingled their
prayers for peace with an unmistakably grim determination
that there should not be another Munich. No one who was
in London on the eve of the war could believe there would
be any backing down on the part of either the people or
their political leaders. To me there was no evidence of the
decadence of which England has been accused by some of
her enemies in recent years. However strongly I disagreed
with the British attitude, voiced by many, that it was the
duty of America to help fight this war, my admiration for
the British spirit was great.

Because I liked England so much and cherished a hope
of some day finishing my interrupted visit, I wanted to
say, as we sailed from Southampton, not "Goodbye," but
"Auf Wiedersehen."

ALUMNAE IN THE NEWS

Pat Collins, '28, Special Deputy Attorney-General

It is through no fault of her own that Patricia Collins,
'28, known to all of her contemporaries on the campus as
Pat, is in one of the most bewildering buildings in the
Nation's Capitol. It takes a large building, of course, to
house the world's largest law office and accommodate the
many lawyers engaged in Uncle Sam's varied legal activi-
ties. But it is with a feeling a little like panic that one
leaves Pennsylvania Avenue, with its reassuring view of
the Capitol dome, which serves as a sort of compass in
emergency, to enter the Department of Justice Building
with its branching corridors looking so much alike as to
defy identification and lead one in circles in search of a
hint of the familiar. Having conquered many doors marked
"Lands Division," you finally find Pat's door by means
of a neat blue and white sign marked briefly, in the simple
uniformity of all the other impersonal doors: "Miss Col-
lins."

Once inside assurance returns with the sight of Pat's
familiar face. She will tell you, by way of sympathizing
with you after your long trek, that some of her associates
jolly her because she insists upon being so feminine as to
keep a few friendly keepsakes around, ". . . just to relieve
the austerity of the Government law office." There is a
little statuette, atop her bookcases, of five old Dutch
women seated on a bench engaged in chatting over their
knitting and weaving. One, in the middle, leans neither
to right nor left but seems to have her ears ready for tid-
bits of gossip from either side. The group has been dubbed,
as she explains with a smile, the Supreme Court of the
future. Reflecting earlier days rather than the future is
the miniature replica of a covered wagon drawn across the
top of another bookcase by two little hand-carved oxen.
A playful porcelain bear serves as a paperweight.

In answer to the unspoken question in your face, Pat
will tell you something of her work. The place of a Lands
Division in the Department of Justice seems puzzling un-
til you learn something of its functions. It seems that the
title of every piece of property purchased by the United
States Government must be examined there, and that all
litigation arising out of land purchases or transfers, which
involve the United States, is handled in that Division. The
institution of all suits for the condemnation of lands for
public purposes throughout the United States originates in
the Lands Division as when a dam is built, for instance,
or a canal is constructed or interstate highways are laid.
In addition to these functions, the Lands Division has sole
responsibility for litigation involving the rights of Ameri-
can Indians who are still the wards of the United States.

When, prior to and following Civil War days, treaties
were made with the Indians and they were placed on reser-
vations, certain portions of land were awarded to them as
homesteads. The Indian Bureau in the Department of
Interior was established to serve in a guardian capacity and
as a go-between for the Indian with the white man. All
matters involving Indians are handled directly by Con-
gressional Act and when the interpretation of these acts
results in litigation for the protection of the Indian's real
or personal property, the case is referred from the Interior
Department to the Lands Division of the Justice Depart-
ment. It is this phase of the work that engages most of
Pat's attention. She is enthusiastic about this branch of
the law with which she has had little opportunity for

familiarity, prior to her present assignment, because as
she explains, we in Georgia have little reason to dwell
upon Indian law, since we see few Indians except at the
circus, the Southeastern Fair, or on reservations in Florida.

All of which takes us back to Georgia, and inspires curi-
osity as to the activities of the intervening years since
graduation in 1928. In answer to the two-fold question
which seems invariably to arise in connection with one
who has followed a consistent career, namely, "What steps
did you take to prepare yourself for your present work,
and can you point to any definite incident in your life
which influenced you in selecting your profession?" Pat
replied by answering the latter half of the question first.
With unconcealed humor she tells of an incident which
she says came as near to affecting her decision to choose
a career as any if one isolated incident can be considered
the instrument which directs a choice, and serves, as she
puts it, as an example of reverse prophecy. It seems that
one of her classmates at Agnes Scott frequently wrote fea-
ture articles for Atlanta papers, and on one occasion she
elected to foretell the careers which would, in all probabil-
ity, be followed after college by all the members of a
group with which Pat was intimate.

"The article was written in a humorous vein," contin-
ued Pat, "and purported to be the wise predictions of a
mystic seer. I was concerned nevertheless to find that my
future was not the subject of a prophecy along with the
others, so I decided then and there that the challenge had
been given. If my past had not indicated a future in the
world of careers, my future would be different. We have
often laughed about the incident since, and the reverse
angle lies in the fact that none of the group is engaged in
any sort of work at all now; in fact, most of them are
pleased to forget the work-a-day world in the contentment
of their own homes and families."

Pat confesses, however, that her work at Agnes Scott
was selected with the possibility of a law course in mind.
She specialized in history and English courses, and aided
and abetted by Miss Jackson, she concentrated extra-cur-
ricular time on Pi Alpha Phi and debating. Consequently
she applied for her first job in the Atlanta Legal Aid So-
ciety armed with an A.B. degree and an L.L.B. from the
Emory University Law School, acquired in the three years
following graduation.

Work at the Legal Aid office, a Community Chest
agency established to give legal assistance to indigent
clients, was purely for experience for the first seven or
eight months, and it was a red-letter day for Pat when a
salary sufficient to pay for her carfare and lunches was
awarded by the Board of Directors. She believes that the
connection was the most valuable that she could have made
from the standpoint of experience and opportunity for
familiarity with the courts, not to mention pleasant asso-
ciations. Work in the Legal Aid office was supplemented
by a job in legal research which consisted of reading, clas-
sifying, and listing cases which interpret the Georgia law
dealing with contracts. The experience gained in that
assignment served her in good stead when, two vears ago
she was appointed one of five members of the Codification
Board which was set up by Congressional Act to direct
the codification of all Federal rules and regulations. Pat
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JANUARY, 1940

CLUB NOTES

Birmingham, Ala., Club

The Birmingham Club had its first meeting since last
June on November 18, at Mary Beard's Tearoom, with nine
members present for an informal luncheon.

The president, Enid Middleton, announced a formal
business meeting of the club on December 9 to make plans
for the tea to be given in honor of the high school seniors
during the Christmas holidays.

The members who attended the luncheon were: Ade-
laide (Ransom) Bairnsfather, Louise (Abney) Beech, Ros-
sie (Ritchie) Johnston, Margaret Loranz, Harriet Smith,
Olivia Swann, Mary (Bryan) Winn, Ellene Winn, and
Enid Middleton.

New York, N. Y., Club

The New York Club had its first meeting of the year
on Wednesday, December 13, with Dr. J. R. McCain as
guest speaker.

Mary Catherine Williamson, '31, the newly-elected pres-
ident of the club, presided at the meeting. Other new of-
ficers are Genevieve Knight, '29, vice-president; Eleanor
(Bennett) Warlick, ex-'2 8, secretary, and Gertrude
(Amundsen) Sigueland, '17, treasurer.

The group met for a most enjoyable tea at Dorothy
(Hutton) Mount's.

Charlotte, N. C, Club

The Charlotte Agnes Scott Club had its fall meeting at
Thackers at six o'clock on the evening of November 21
with Dr. J. R. McCain, President of Agnes Scott College,
as guest speaker.

The president, Barton Jackson, '37, presided. After din-
ner she introduced the officers and group chairmen, as
follows: Frances Miller, vice-president; Frances (Medlin)
Walker, secretary and treasurer; Irene Lowrance, publicity
chairman. The group chairmen are Belle (Stowe) Aber-
nathy, Eddie (Hunter) Pease, Martha (Young) Bell, Eliz-
abeth (Fore) Crawford, Iris (Jarrell) Morris, Anne (Gil-
leylen) Quarles, Maude (Shute) Squires.

Dr. McCain spoke informally of changes and improve-
ments at Agnes Scott. When he told the group of the
telephone exchange and some of the "unheard of" priv-
ileges the girls enjoy now, most of the club decided that
they had been born just so many years too soon! The sec-
retary of the club in her report of the meeting spoke for

the members as she wrote that they were especially envious
of those who are enjoying the lovely new buildings and the
ones that are to be erected in the future. Among the forty-
one people at the meeting, there were several from neigh-
boring towns and several mothers of Agnes Scott alumnae.

Those who were present are: Barton Jackson, Mary
Sprinkle, Jane McLaughlin, Elizabeth (Sutton) Gray,
Martha (Young) Bell, Mary Margaret (Stowe) Hunter,
Belle (Stowe) Abernathy, Adele Arbuckle from Davidson,
Josephine Houston, Elizabeth (Fore) Crawford, Sarah
(Dunlap) Bobbitt, Mary (Boyd) Jones, Sally (Cothran)
Lambeth, Gentry Burks, Lalla Marshall, Clyde (McDaniel)
Jackson, Alice (Cowles) Barringer, Mrs. L. H. Wilkinson,
Frances Miller, Ruth (Crowell) Choate, Julia (Hagood)
Cuthbertson, Mary Brock (Mallard) Reynolds, Maude
(Shute) Squires, Jennie Lou (Powell) Grice, Margaret
(Ladd) May, Ruth (Reilley) Wilkes, Mabel (Ardrey)
Stewart, Louise (Leonard) McLeod, Maria Rose, Mary
(Keesler) Dalton, Louisa Duls, Anne (Kyle) McLaughlin,
Lida (Caldwell) Wilson, Louise (Wadsworth) Patton,
Eddie (Hunter) Pease, Romola (Davis) Hardy, Mrs.
M. A. Bland, mother of Margaret (Bland) Sewell; Mrs.
R. E. Thigpen, president of Central High School P.-T. A.;
Irene Lowrance, and Frances (Medlin) Walker.

The next meeting of the Charlotte Agnes Scott Club
will be for the Founder's Day celebration on the twenty-
second of February.

Nashville, Tenn., Club

The Nashville Club held its fall meeting at the Cen-
tennial Club on October 27. and had as speaker Dr. J. R.
McCain, ' wh^'was in 'NashviMe in connection with the
memorial services for" Chancellor Kirkland at Vanderbilt.

Lavalette (Sloan) Tu< ker and Anna Marie (Landress)
Cate-acted |s hostesses At a tea for Nashville alumnae and
those from 'several nearby cities. The seventeen alumnae
present iiliatVcd: India'. (Jones) Mizell, of Brentwood;
Ella (Smith)" SHayesy of 'Brentwood; Annie Lee Crowell,
Cecelia Baird, Genevieve Baird, Eudora (Campbell) Hay-
nie, Olive Graves, Mary Frances (Hale) Stringe, Elizabeth
(Smith) DeWitt, Georgia (Weaver) Wigginton, Emma
Jean Mitchell, Mrs. J. T. Watkins, aunt of Violet Jane
Watkins, '40; Mary Elizabeth Moss, Shirley Steele, Rebecca
McRee, Harriet Von Gremp, and the hostess.

ALUMNAE IN THE NEWS
{Continued from Page 8)
explained that this work, now almost completed, will be
published in a series of twenty-five volumes in the very
near future by the Government Printing Office, and added
that it should prove most helpful, particularly to lawyers
who have been somewhat confused not only by the number
of agencies established by the New Deal but more so by
the many regulations they have issued.

And speaking of the New Deal recalls to our minds
Pat's first acquaintance with Washington, for it was when
the Blue Eagle was a healthy bird and everyone was
N. R. A. -conscious that she went to the Department of
Justice as an attorney in the Anti-Trust Division. She
remembers that Washington seemed so full of contrasts
to her. Every place was crowded; hotel lobbies bristled
with important people looking solemn and intent and
every second person seemed to be carrying a heavy brief
case. Code hearings were being held in cramped quarters;
new codes appeared every day, and no industry was over-
looked. Living quarters were at a premium, and meals in

a public restaurant were not to be had without a long
wait. But time hung heavily in the halls of the Depart-
ment of Justice. People seemed to tread softly so as not
to disturb those officials who worked day and night be-
hind closed doors.

"It was so interesting," she reflected, "to see people
working on portions of the brief in the Schecter case and
the Railroad Retirement case and others which I had read
about in the papers. I think I was most impressed, how-
ever, by the fact that people, well-known and preeminent
in their respective fields, were drawn by the Administra-
tion to Washington to unite their contribution of special-
ized experience with that of specialists in other fields. The
interesting people have a never-failing fascination, I think,
for the newcomer here."

When questioned about her hobbies, Pat replied that she
had always found it hard to limit her activities in such a
way as to say truthfully she had a particular hobby.
Whether accurate or not, we can't say, but we suspected
that her interest in the Washington stage with its many
shifts of scenery has all the dimensions of a hobby.

^ j/ &<h

from A Tower Window

By ANNE ENLOE, '40

With the stunt unsuccessfully over,
as far as they were concerned, quoth
the freshmen, "Nevermore!", and set-
tled down to the serious side of life,
egged on by Miss Hunter and her
time - and - worry - effacing - study-
schedules. But despite the stunt hang-
overs and the vision of not - far -
enough - away six weeks tests, many
campusites found time for a jaunt to
Emory to hear Cornelia Otis Skinner
and an hour or so at the Southeastern
Fair in Atlanta. They came back*
either feeling exotically like ore of
the wives of Henry VIII or weighted
down under cowboy hats, leis, and
former cotton candy.

Honor Week under the sponsorship
of Student Government held sway for
a week and made the campus feel so
honor conscious one felt bad about
using her roommate's tooth-paste, and
one freshman went so far as to go
dutifully to the Dean's office to re-
port that she had ridden from the li-
brary over to Inman with a day stu-
dent.

Two announcements shook the hal-
lowed halls the same week. One was
the startling statement from Aurora
editor Mary Matthews that Agnes
Scott-Emory cooperation had reached
the point of combining the Aurora
with Emory's Phoenix. We thought
that cooperation stuff had gone far
enough when they had to move a
piano over to Buttrick so that the lat-
est crop of co-eds would not have to
go up to fourth floor Main to har-
mony classes. And the other thing
was Lecture Association's announce-
ment that all five of their extra spe-
cially good lectures this year would
be absolutely free to everybody.

Andre Maurois' Travel Notes on
America as he saw it on his last
year's lecture tour were published and

revealed astoundingly good impres-
sions of Agnes Scott, especially one
unidentified charmer whom he de-
scribed as having "... a serious and
tender air . . . Oh, Chateaubriand!"
Oh, M. Maurois! Or does the fourth
ideal really work while one is still an
undergrad?

Dr. McCain displayed his jewels
(guess who?) again when the South-
ern University Conference was inter-
mingled with the girls for dinner in
Rebekah Scott on October 31. But
tuberculin tests and chapeltime
movies on the ravages of the terrible
plague made most of the campus cer-
tain they "had it" and useless it
would be to pursue a higher education.

The next week belonged entirely to
the seniors, as they saw eight of their
members recognized by Who's Who
Among Students in American Univer-
sities and Colleges, had their fling at
Little Girls' Day, and found the real
meaning of Seniorhood at Investiture.
And such flinging as Friday morning
brought forth twins, triplets, and a
set . of sextuplets who went the
Dionrtes. tone 'better, all tripped
through the 'dining rooms singing
their version of the old favorite, mak-
ing it "Shoo, mosquito, don't bother
me!", just to keep up with what's
go\nj$ on on the campus, took "An
Apple to the Teacher" and went
through all the traditional chapel-
period games, completely casting off
their elderly place on the campus and
putting one foot in the groove.

Miss Helen Carlson's Investiture
talk on "The Inadvisability of Reach-
ing Conclusions" and the actual cap-
ping ceremony brought the seniors
around to some sudden realizations,
and brought some sudden tears with
the singing of the Alma Mater. Nine-
ty-five seniors were capped by Miss
Scandrett, and the procession was led
by little Agnes Scott, class mascot
and a descendant of the original Ag-
nes Scott.

"Please remit" notices were sent out
by the campaign committee and the
grand and glorious part of making a
contribution seemed over. Then on
the morning of November fifteenth
there was a joyous earthquake as
ground was broken for the new Press-
er Building which is usurping the va-
cant lot over beyond Buttrick, and
everybody promptly decided to quit
the tea house (with apologies to the
alumnae) and pay their pledge.

Duff Cooper and his glamour-wom-
an wife, Lady Diana Manners, thrill-
ed the campus for a day as the former
First Lord of the Admiralty came to
open the lecture season. But the big-
gest excitement came that night when
a frenzied Lecture Committee backed
up by a Stukes-Christian-Davidson
line turned away, or tried to turn
away, about five hundred people,
after the walls of the gym were al-
ready bulging.

After practically everybody went
to grandmother's house for one
Thanksgiving and home for the other
one, the college really came into the
limelight as football took the place
by storm. The idea was incubated in
Gaines Cottage, whose varsity eleven
challenged the Boyd team in what the
press insisted on calling the "Curve
Bowl" game, in spite of some squelch-
ing official statements that the game
was "not a part of the regular extra-
curricular program and was not spon-
sored by the college." At any rate, the
press ran rife on the hockey field that
afternoon, as the game actually was
played, and as Dr. Davidson refereed,
at the same time giving little hints
like, "That's right," "Run on down
that way," etc.

In the meantime, Mortar Board had
introduced the sophomores to some
"eligible young men of Decatur and
Atlanta," most of whom are already
firmly hooked by some Mortar Board
herself or some other smooth friend of
hers; everybody that wasn't cam-
pused had made a mad dash to town
to stand in line for three hours and
try to get real good, real cheap tic-
kets for "Gone With the Wind"; then
things settled all too firmly down to
exam week, with the freshmen putting
pennies in a little box every time they
mentioned that horrible word at the
table.

But even the worst couldn't go on
forever, and December 19 finally ar-
rived, only to be greeted with a gen-
eral exodus to the nearest train or bus
station, accompanied by piles of lug-
gage and extra coats, and shrieks of
"Merry Christmas," and "See you
after New Year's" emerging from the
taxis piled six deep with homeward-
bound Hottentots.

Baby Alumnae Have First Huddle

Pennant place cards with ribbons of
black and gold, the class colors, hold-
ing tiny footballs in place, made it
evident that the class of 1939 was

JANUARY, 1940

11

having its first reunion as the cards
announced the celebration of its
"First Huddle."

Thirty-five of the class of 1939
gathered at the Alumnae House on
the evening of Friday, November 24,
for their first reunion. After much
chattering and laughing and exchang-
ing of news, a breathing space offered
an opportunity for reading the tele-
grams and letters that had come for
the class. Cary Wheeler, life presi-
dent of the class, wired from Athens,
Ga.: "To think our class has only one
first reunion and I must miss it. Love
to each of you." Marie Merritt wired
from Lexington, Miss.: "Best wishes
for a grand reunion. Wish I were
there."

From all indications, this reunion
at the Alumnae House evidently was
not the only one of the class of 1939,
because a wire from Washington sign-
ed Giniebelle, Ellabelle and Fannibelle
(who of course are Virginia Kyle,
Elinor Tyler, and Mary Frances Guth-
rie), announced that "three dopey
Hottentots" were having "a sappy
time loose in Washington." They
added that they "bet our reunion
beats yours."

We who were at the reunion ban-
quet at Agnes Scott doubt that a bit,
because, what with the fun of seeing
thirty-five of our class all together
again, both at the banquet and at
after-dinner coffee in Murphey Cand-
ler with the active chapter of Mortar
Board as hostesses, it really was quite
a celebration.

Those who were present are: Jane
Jones, Sara Thurman, Emily Harris,
Cora Kay Hutchins, Jean Bailey,
Helen Lichten, Virginia (Tumlin)
Guffin, Catherine Farrar, Lou Pate,
Amelia Nickels, Henrietta Blackwell,
Lucy Hill Doty, Florence Wade, Toni
Newton, Elizabeth Shepherd, Mary
Ruth Wills, Sarah Joyce Cunningham,
Jane Moore Hamilton, Virginia Far-
rar, Catherine Ivie, Mary Allen, Caro-
line (Carmichael) Wheeler, Dorothy
Lazenby, Dorothy Graham, Virginia
Broyles Morris, Mary Hollingsworth,
Virginia Cofer, Dorothy Still, Mary
Frances Thompson, Aileen Shortley,
Kay Toole, Susan Goodwyn, Alice
Cheeseman, Olive Mae Reeves, and
Mamie Lee Ratliff.

Delegates to Associated Collegiate Press
Convention

Five students attended the annual
Associated Collegiate Press Conven-
tion in October in Des Moines, Iowa.
They were: Lutie Moore and Nell Pin-
ner, of the Silhouette; Eleanor Hut-
chens, Mary Louise Dobbs, and Hazel
Solomon, of the Agnes Scott News.

Changes in the Lecture Association Series
(or 1939-1940

Pierre van Paassen, author of "Days
of Our Years," and scheduled as first
lecturer on the Agnes Scott series for
the year of 1939-1940, was unable
to appear on November 15 as was
first announced, since ill health forc-
ed him to cancel all fall engagements.
The Lecture Committee felt that they
were particularly fortunate, however,
in getting for the night of Novem-
ber 1 5 the Right Honorable Alfred
Duff Cooper, who would now be in
control of England's navy had he not
resigned his post as First Lord of the
British Admiralty last year when he
could not agree with Prime Minister
Chamberlain's appeasement policy in
the October, 1938, Czechoslovakian
crisis.

Speaking to a packed auditorium,
from which many had been turned
away, Mr. Cooper discussed the sub-
ject, "The Survival of Liberty."
After the lecture Mr. Cooper and his
wife, the former Lady Diana Man-
ners, of the British screen and the
American stage, shared honors at a
reception in the Murphey Candler
building, when the Lecture Associa-
tion was host to Mr. Cooper's audience
who wished to meet him and his cele-
brated wife.

There has also been one other
change in the program for the year,
as announced in the fall by Miss
Emma May Laney, faculty chairman
for the Lecture Committee. In addi-
tion to the originally scheduled lec-
tures for the year, Duff Cooper,
Douglas Freeman, Robert Frost, and
Harlow Shapley, the committee an-
nounced for December 1 5 the lecture-
recital of Ernest Hutcheson, president
and director of Juilliard School of
Music in New York City. The campus
is particularly interested in having Mr.
Hutcheson this year in celebration of
the construction of the Presser Fine
Arts Building.

The schedule for the remaining lec-
tures follows:

Thursday, January 2 5, 1940: Doug-
las Southall Freeman, journalist, bio-
grapher, historian, will lecture. Mr.
Freeman's distinguished work as ed-
itor of the Richmond News-Leader
led to his appointment as Professor of
Journalism at Columbia University.
His biography of Robert E. Lee was
awarded the Pulitzer prize in 193 5.
His intimate knowledge of the South,
its history, and its problems, led to
his appointment on the General Edu-
cation Board. A Virginian of Virginia,
Mr. Freeman is not only an authority
in his field, but also a speaker of
great charm. His lecture is under the

joint auspices of Phi Beta Kappa and
the Lecture Association. Mr. Free-
man's new book, The South to Pos-
terity, recently published by Scrib-
ners, is being widely and enthusiasti-
cally reviewed.

Tuesday, February 6, 1940: Rob-
ert Frost, America's most distinguish-
ed poet, will talk about poetry and
read from his own work. Mr. Frost
has three times won the Pulitzer
prize for poetry, and the publication
last May of his Collected Poems was
announced as a literary event of na-
tional importance. In 1936 he was
appointed Charles Norton Professor
of Poetry at Harvard University, an
honor never before given to an Amer-
ican poet. On the rare occasions when
he can be persuaded to give public
lectures, Mr. Frost delights his audi-
ences with his dry humor and his rich
wisdom.

Wednesday, March 17, 1940: Har-
low Shapley, Director of the Harvard
Observatory, will give an illustrated
lecture on "Exploring Stars and
Galaxies." Mr. Shapley is the fore-
most American astronomer, having
received the Draper medal of the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the Jannsen prize in France,
and the gold medal of the Royal As-
tronomical Society of Great Britain.
He is the author of several authorita-
tive books in the field, but those who
have heard him speak remember him
chiefly for his delightful wit and per-
sonality. He will discuss the nebulae
in the most distant outer regions of
the universe and will illustrate by
slides and a moving picture that is
revolutionary in exhibiting the colos-
sal activities on the sun.

English Debaters Visit Agnes Scott

Through an invitation and arrange-
ments made by the National Student
Federation of America, Agnes Scott
was included again in the annual de-
bating tour made by the team from
Oxford, England, during the late fall.

Defending the affirmative side,
"Resolved, That American Foreign
Policy Should Be One of Complete
Isolation," E. R. G. Heath and E. P.
Street, from Oxford University, de-
bated Margaret Hopkins, '40, and
Marjorie Merlin, '41.

Mortar Board Recognition Service

Dr. George P. Hayes, professor of
English, spoke on "The Ideals of Mor-
tar Board" at the Mortar Board rec-
ognition service late in November,
emphasizing scholarship.

The traditional academic proces-
sional preceded the actual program,
which consisted of a prayer by Dr.
McCain and an introduction of Dr.

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

Hayes by Ruth Slack, president of
Mortar Board, and daughter of Julia
Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex-'12.

The purpose of the recognition
service is to bring before the students
the ideals of Mortar Board and to help
them better realize their meaning. The
service recognizing those chosen to
be members of next year's chapter of
Mortar Board will take place some
time in the spring.

Members of the honorary fratern-
ity, which seeks to promote service,
leadership, and scholarship on the
campus, are: Evelyn Baty, Carolyn
Forman, daughter of Mary (Dortch)
Forman, Institute; Margaret Hopkins,
Eleanor Hutchens, Sophie Montgom-
ery, Lutie Moore, Jane Moses, daugh-
ter of Frances (Thatcher) Moses, '17;
Katherine Patton, daughter of Kather-
ine (Jones) Patton, ex-'18; Ruth
Slack, and Henrietta Thompson.

Tallahassee Alumnae Association Pays Us
a Visit

The alumnae secretaries had the
pleasure of having Miss Charlotte
Stevens, alumnae secretary at Florida
State College for Women, in Talla-
hassee, Florida, and Mrs. F. D. Moor,
president of the Tallahassee Alumnae
Association, spend an afternoon with
them November 16. F. S. C. W. has
just completed a beautiful student ac-
tivities building which houses the
alumnae office, in addition to other
offices, and Miss Stevens was appoint-
ed alumnae secretary last spring. The
Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
wishes them the best of luck in their
undertaking to establish a permanent
alumnae organization at F. S. C. W.

Southern University Conference Meets at
Agnes Scott

Delegates from forty-one colleges
and universities gathered at Agnes
Scott for an evening session on Octo-
ber 30, 1939, when the Southern Uni-
versity Conference held its annual
meeting in Atlanta the end of Oc-
tober.

The program at Agnes Scott in-
cluded dinner in Rebekah Scott din-
ing room, music by the Emory Glee
Club, and an address by Dr. H. J.
Cody, president of the University of
Toronto. In connection with the
theme for the conference this year,
"Cooperative Movements Affecting
Higher Education in the South," Dr.
Cody spoke on "Cooperation in High-
er Education in Canada."

The Alumnae House was very
happy to have Dr. Cody as guest on
the campus during the time that he
Was attending the A^nes Scott part
of the program.

Social Authority Visits Campus

Mrs. Mildred Morgan

All baby-talk is now banned from
Agnes Scott, and there is a marked
increase in the demand for heavier
reading and a rush for the daily news-
papers as the students put into prac-
tice the suggestions given them by
Mrs. Mildred Morgan during her
three-day visit on the Agnes Scott
campus in November.

Through talks in chapel, discus-
sions with the various class groups, in-
formal round tables with selected
g-roups of students, and individual
conferences, Mrs. Morgan brought the
attention of the campus to the ques-
tion of what the normal social rela-
tions of a college girl should be, and
made suggestions of how college stu-
dents should react to social situations.
As key points of her discussions on
the campus, Mrs. Morgan talked in
chapel, first asking "Are We Acting
Our Age?" and bringing part of the
problems to a focus with her talk on
"Standards in a Day of Change."

Mrs. Mildred Morgan is an author-
ity on family relations and personal
adjustments. As a lecturer and leader
of forums and discussion groups in
the field of family relationships and
personal adjustments, she has visited
over fifty colleges and universities
and some hundred high schools. Mrs.
Morgan graduated from Kansas State
College in Home Economics and re-
ceived her Master's degree there in
religious education. She later obtained
her Doctorate in Child Welfare and
Parent Education at Teachers Col-
lege, Columbia University. During a
period of years when both she and
her husband were studying in New
York City, Mrs. Morgan was associat-

ed with Mrs. Sophia Lynn Fahs of the
Union School of Religion. She served
also as co-chairman of a commission
which produced the book, "The Sex
Life of Youth." Dr. and Mrs. Mor-
gan later transferred to Iowa City,
where the former is connected with
the University of Iowa.

Hockey Stick Awarded Gay Currie

One of the annual occurrences at
Agnes Scott is the presentation at the
varsity-sub-varsity hockey game of
a hockey stick to the sophomore play-
er who, according to the senior class,
is the best player in her class. This
year the stick was awarded to Gay
Currie, '42, of Shanghai, China, a
student assistant in the Alumnae Of-
fice.

Alumnae of Class of '39 Honored

Agnes Scott students of the class of
'39 received first honors in the field
of composition at the Coker College
Literary Festival in Hartsville, S. C,
in October. Taking first place in the
essay contest was Douglas (Lyle)
Rowlett, '39, with "Ubi Sunt," and
in the poetry contest Cora Kay Hut-
chins, '39, with "On a Drop of
Blood."

Jean Bailey, '39, with her essay,
"Fairies," won second place in the es-
say division, while Margaret Lentz,
ex-'41, placed second in the poetry
section with "Winter Alchemy."
Henrietta Blackwell, '39, won fourth
place in the short story contest with
"The Locket."

Miss Emma May Laney, associate
professor of English, Mary Matthews,
editor of the Aurora, and V. J. Wat-
kins, president of Poetry Club, chose
the selections, most of which were
published in last year's Aurora.

Agnes Scott Aurora and Emory Phoenix
Merge

Mary Matthews, editor of the
Aurora, and Marcellus Steadman, ed-
itor of the Emory Phoenix, reached a
satisfactory agreement late in Octo-
ber by which the two publications
have united. Beginning with the win-
ter issue, the two will continue as
one magazine, containing contribu-
tions from both campuses.

Mrs. Richards Is Mortar Board Guest

The local chapter of Mortar Board
had as its guest on the Agnes Scott
campus the end of October, Mrs.
Harold Richards, national editor of
the Mortar Board Quarterly. Mrs.
Richards was on a tour of colleges in
the South, studying various methods
of service through the Mortar Board
chapters.

Mrs. Richards proved to be of great
help to the active Mortar Board mem-
bers as they planned the details of
their work for the present school year.

JANUARY, 1940

13

Maurois Describes Agnes Scolt Visit in
"Travel Notes"

Many friends and patrons of Ag-
nes Scott will remember that as one
of the features of the Lecture Asso-
ciation's program last year, Andre
Maurois, outstanding French writer,
spoke charmingly on the subject,
"French Wit and English and Ameri-
can Humor." Recently the Agnes
Scott News printed some interesting
material about the newly-published
account of his opinions of the South
and of Agnes Scott. Thinking that
this would be of interest to the alum-
nae, the Quarterly is reprinting, with
the consent of the editor, the feature
as it was run in the campus weekly
paper:

When M. Maurois returned to
France, his countrymen insisted on
hearing immediately what their re-
nowned author and lecturer thought
of America; the demand was so great
that he published his notes at once,
without revision. Here are his remarks
on the South and Agnes Scott, slight-
ly marred by our attempt at transla-
tion:

"Travel Notes (not retouched;
therefore, not a work of art, but a
document), published without delay
because the French people are anxious
to know what Americans are thinking
in these critical times. An inquiry
into public opinion made in March,
April, and May, 1939, by an observer
who has endeavored to report with-
out distorting.

"March 28, Atlanta, Ga. First con-
tact with the South. The tempo is
slower than in the rest of America,
voices more modulated, activity less
constant. I am pleased with the
beauty of Southern women, and with
their gentle sweetness. You find
again here that quality so rare in New
York and Chicago: leisureliness. So
indolent, these Southerners, that they
have devised a scheme whereby they
do their shopping without leaving
their cars. This is called curb service.
A woman stops in front of her gro-
cery or drug store; she blows her
horn; a clerk emerges promptly, takes
her order, and a little later, brings it
to the car; the shopper has not left
her seat.

"I was to speak one night at a
young woman's college (Agnes
Scott), and three of the students
came to meet me at the station. No
formality. They at once adopted me
as a comrade. I soon found again the
inexpressible happiness which the com-
pany of the young always brings me.
One of them especially, with a serious
and tender air ... O Chateaubriand!
I left her as I would a wild flower

seen on the roadside, perfuming my
way. ... At the school, I met a young
French girl who was there for the
year. With a degree in geography,
witty, intelligent. An excellent type
of student to send over. She gave a
true and pleasant idea of France. I
asked her about her impressions:

" 'They are all so nice. I have a con-
fidence in them all that, at home, in
a girls' school, I should have only in
my closest friend. . . . Only, they
work very little.'

" 'You don't think they are cul-
tured?'

" 'Oh, yes! They have a certain
type of culture. . . . Some are very
well read. . . . But they don't know
things thoroughly. ... In France, very
few of them could go up for the bac-
calaureate.'

" 'Do they read in French?'
' 'Yes; we are now studying French
dramatic art.'

" 'And what do they admire?'
" 'Ruy Bias; Cyrano. . . . They en-
dure Corneille . . . Racine bores them
to tears.'

"The memory that I keep of that
charming school, like that of Beloit
College, and Princeton and Vassar in
former years, is one of those which
make me love America."

There is not much for us to add to
this account. But we thank M. Mau-
rois for "them kind words," and hope
some future generation of Agnes
Scotters will have the opportunity
that we who were here last year had
of hearing him speak and of meet-
ing him.

And especially we thank the Lec-
ture Association, not only for luring
the great man down here, but for
sending him away with such an im-
pression. His mention of the college
is enough to give it a national repu-
tation in his country.

But and this is not editorial pol-
icy, but personal interest we do
wonder who that wild flower was!

(Editor's Note: We wish to thank
the Agnes Scott News for the trans-
lation of M. Maurois' notes as well
as for the comments that the editor
made on them.)

Biology Classes on Field Trip
In November eleven members of
the present and former invertebrate
biology classes enjoyed the annual
field trip sponsored by the biology
department. The trip this year was
to Beacon Beach near Panama City,
Florida. The party was at the beach
over the week-end, spending the time
in collecting and dredging marine in-
vertebrates.

Two Emory students, W. B. Baker
and James Mackey, who attended the

Emory summer class at Beacon Beach,
accompanied the party as guides. Miss
Mary MacDougall, Blanche Miller, '30,
Frances McCalla, '3 5, Mary Ellen
Whetsell, '39, and Jeanne Matthews,
'3 8, were the instructors in charge of
the trip.

Campus Silhouettes
"Ah time, stop here! This is a happy
place
Where memory can keep a morning
face."
These lines from Carolina (Mc-
Call) Chapin's poem on Agnes Scott,
which are the theme lines of our ra-
dio broadcasts, are particularly ap-
propriate to our January programs.
We are presenting scenes from the
early days of the college in dramatiza-
tions based upon Dr. Gaines' The
Story of Agnes Scott and Miss Mc-
Kinney's lively reminiscences. Ap-
propriately enough, the Granddaugh-
ters' Club has charge of the first
February program. The campaign
will figure prominently in February;
so tune in then if you are interested
in its progress. In March we begin a
series of programs presenting recent
graduates telling about such interest-
ingly varied kinds of work and living
as to convince us that the liberal col-
lege still prepares for something. Re-
member that "you alumnae who are
'far from the reach of her sheltering
arms' are as close to Agnes Scott as
the dial on your radio. Tune in to
WSB next Wednesday at 5:00 and
take part in our weekly reunion."
Blackfriars Present
As its first production of the sea-
son and as part of the Ninth Alumnae
Week-End at Agnes Scott, Black-
friars presented "Seven Sisters," a
modern Hungarian comedy, in the
Bucher Scott Auditorium, on No-
vember 1 8.

The roles were cast as follows: Mrs.
Gyurkovico, Laura Sale; the "Seven
Sisters" (her daughters), Katinka,
Margaret Hopkins; Sari, Mary Light-
foot Elcan; Ella, Eugenia Bridges;
Mitzi, Lib Barrett; Kerka, Frances
Butt; Liza, Margaret Hartsook; and
Klara, Florence Ellis.

Emory Players portrayed the male
parts, with Covington Hardee taking
the leading role as Lerenz Hockoy.
Miss Frances Gooch, and Roberta
Winter, '27, directed the play.
Honor Week at Agnes Scott
Student Government sponsored one
week of activities with particular em-
phasis given to the honor system on
the campus and honor in various parts
of one's life during the first quarter.
Dr. William V. Gardner, of First
Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, spoke
in chapel on "Christian Principles of

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

Honor." Besides the faculty view-
point as presented by Miss Katherine
Glick, assistant professor of Latin
and Greek, and student ideas about
the honor system as outlined by sev-
eral students, Frances (Craighead)
Dwyer, '28, presented a lawyer's out-
look as she discussed "Honor in the
Business World."

Seniors Grow Up
There are no longer any children at
Agnes Scott! The seniors have out-
grown the childish tricks that were
so very much in evidence on Little
Girls' Day, November 3. For years
this has been the time when the sen-
iors get caught up with their pranks
and jokes and games, preparing for
the dignity of seniorhood.

Beginning the day with singing
"Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me," at
breakfast, the "Little Girls" spent a
morning eating all-day suckers, tak-
ing apples to Dr. Hayes and Dr.
Davidson, and playing London Bridge
Is Falling Down, jumping rope, and
all the other favorite children's party
games. All the fun-making, however,
faded into sweet memories as the time
came for the serious business of get-
ting invested.

Ninety-five seniors knelt to receive
their caps from Carrie Scandrett, '24,
Dean of Students, on Saturday,- No-
vember 4, at the annual Investiture
service in the
Bucher Scott
Auditorium. As
the procession of
seniors made its
way from Inman
Hall to the gym-
nasium, white-
clad sophomores
preceded their sis-
ter class and
formed a double
line through
which the seniors
passed.

The speaker for
the service this
year was a senior
advisor, Miss
Helen Carlson,
acting assistant
professor of
French. Of par-
ticular interest
for all those in-
terested in Agnes
Scott is the fact
that as mascot
for the class the
seniors chose
four . - year - old
Agnes Scott,
daughter of An-
nie Pope (Bryan) j ane Mo
Scott, '15, and

descendant of the Agnes Scott for
whom the college is named.

The tradition of Investiture is a
unique one at Agnes Scott. Accord-
ing to Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
the college, in a statement to the
Agnes Scott News: "It was instituted
as the result of the desire of the col-
lege to testify to the confidence plac-
ed in the seniors. In token of this,
Miss Hopkins, in 1908, first placed
the caps on the seniors after the fash-
ion of the medieval accolade. As the
college grew, the custom became more
important to the members of each
succeeding senior class, and the cere-
mony grew in beauty and impressive-
ness."

The Aggie continues: "Few innova-
tions have been made. Up until 1921,
the seniors met at Dr. Gaines' home,
where Mrs. Gaines put on their aca-
demic robes before the procession was
formed. The 1937 ceremony saw two
changes. The service was held in the
gymnasium instead of in Gaines
Chapel, and for the first time, Carrie
Scandrett put on the caps instead of
Miss Hopkins."

Agnes Scott Seniors in Who's Who

Eight seniors at Agnes Scott this
year will have their biographies in the

1939-1940 issue of Who's Who
Among Students in American Uni-
versities and Colleges, which will be
released in January or February.

Girls attaining this honor are: Eve-
lyn Baty, managing editor of Agnes
Scott News; Carolyn Forman, vice-
president of Student Government, and
daughter of Mary (Dortch) Forman,
Institute; Eleanor Hutchens, editor
of the Agnes Scott News; Virginia
Milner, president of Athletic Associa-
tion; Lutie Moore, editor of the Sil-
houette; Katherine Patton, president
of Christian Association, daughter of
Katherine (Jones) Patton, ex-'18;
Ruth Slack, president of Mortar Board
and daughter of Julia Pratt (Smith)
Slack, ex-'12; and Henrietta Thomp-
son, president of Student Govern-
ment.

Who's Who is published through
cooperation of over five hundred Am-
erican universities and colleges and is
the only means of national recogni-
tion of students which is devoid of
politics, fees, and dues.

The purpose of Who's Who is to
serve as an incentive for students to
get the most out of their college car-
eers, as a recommendation to the
business world, and as a standard of
measurement for students.

daughte

of Frances (Thatcher) Moses, '17, Henrietta Thompson, and Ruth Slack, daughter of Julia
Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex-'U, on "Little Girl Day."

JANUARY, 1940

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FACULTY NEWS

News oi Miss Nannette Hopkins' Family
The Alumnae Office is always glad
to have any news from the family of
Miss Nannette Hopkins, former Dean
at Agnes Scott. A letter last fall
from Miss Orra Hopkins brought the
news that both she and Mrs. Dejar-
nette are well and quite busy. Dr.
Dejarnette celebrated his fiftieth an-
niversary of continuous service at
the Western State Hospital on July
21, 1939. The office is very grateful
to Miss Orra for this bit of news of
Miss Hopkins' family, as well as for
the picture of her that was printed
in the November Quarterly.
Miss Lillian Smith
The office has had several letters
this fall from Miss Lillian Smith, for-
mer Latin Professor at Agnes Scott.
Miss Smith is now in Miami, Florida,
for the winter, her address there be-
ing 123 North East 97th Street. She
writes that she is enjoying Miami
again, after her summer in Syracuse,
N. Y. Miss Smith was happy at hav-
ing met a former student there, Zoe
Wells, '3 8, who is in the Personnel
Department at Sears and Roebuck in
that city.
Agnes Scott Librarian Publishes Book
Of interest to the college commun-
ity is the publication during the sum-
mer of "College and University
Buildings," a book written by Miss
Edna Ruth Hanley, librarian at Agnes
Scott. Published by the American
Library Association, the volume con-
tains a foreword written by Dr.
W. W. Bishop, of the University of
Michigan.

Miss Hanley began the book as a
part of her graduate work. It con-
tains plans for forty-two recently
erected college libraries, including
floor plans, exterior views, and a des-
criptive article pointing out the good
and bad features of each.

Miss Jackson Speaks on Tour
As director of the South Atlantic
Section of AAUW, Miss Elizabeth
Fuller Jackson, Associate Professor of
history at Agnes Scott, made several
trips during the fall to speak to
groups of this organization.

On October 28 Miss Jackson spoke
at the Georgia State Executive Board
meeting at the Georgian Terrace Ho-
tel in Atlanta. On November 3, she
was guest speaker for the South Car-
olina state meeting in Sumter, South
Carolina, where she used as part of her
lecture a film of the national conven-
tion which met in Denver, Colorado,
last summer. Miss Jackson also talked
to the Rome, Georgia, branch of the

organization on November 16.

During fall quarter examinations,
Miss Jackson made a tour of Virginia,
speaking at Lexington, Marion and
Lynchburg.

Dr. McCain on Community Fund Committee

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, was a member of
the organization committee of the
DeKalb County division of the At-
lanta Community Fund. Dr. McCain
represented the City of Decatur as
the drive for the Fund reached its

peak during the month of November,
1939.

Former Agnes Scott Nurse
Miss Harriete V. Daugherty, nurse
at Agnes Scott for many years, and
replaced this year by Miss Mildred
Hagy, is now in New York. Miss
Daugherty's new address is 34-33
90th Street, Jackson Heights, Long
Island, New York, Apt. F-13. Miss
Daugherty sent word to the office
that Miss Emma Miller, former Ma-
tron at Agnes Scott, is now in Brad-
ford, Ontario.

That Agnes Scott made the head-
lines in the AP newspapers when the
girls here caught the fall enthusiasm
for football so badly that they had to
try it out themsleves? The headline
of Pat Monroe's story in the Atlanta
Journal told the story briefly as it
announced that "Boyd Sinks Gaines,
33-0, in the Agnes Scott Thriller!"
But that was scarcely all that hap-
pened at that game, because no one
but the ones who were there watch-
ing the girls from the two cottages
defending their respective goals could
get a complete idea of what a girls'
football game is like.

With the players clad in sweat
shirts, gym trousers, riding jodhpurs,
and other such attire, with the lines-
men carrying a rope tied to two old
brooms, with the heads of the history
and English departments as the offi-
cials for the game, there was great ex-
citement on the hockey field at Ag-
nes Scott as Boyd succeeded in doing
more than "holding that line." The
final outcome was a score of 33-0,
with Boyd as victor. The score was
not the most important thing, how-
ever, because it was not the outcome
of the game, but the fun that every-
one both participants and those who
cheered the two teams had that was
the topic for conversation at both
student and faculty tables that night
at dinner!

And Did You Know?

There are six descendants of Agnes
Scott who are directly connected with
the college this year, besides all the
others in the Scott family in Deca-
tur and Atlanta.

First of all there is the mascot of
the senior class, young five-year-old
Agnes Scott, of Decatur, whose sister,
Anne, is a member of the freshman
class. Her father is Milton Scott, a
son of the Bucher Scott for whom the
gymnasium was named; and her
mother is the former Annie Pope
Bryan of the class of '15.

Also there are the Wilds sisters,
Mary Scott and Annie. They are
the daughters of Laura (Candler)
Wilds, Institute, whose father was
Murphey Candler and whose mother
was Mary Scott Candler. Laura Wilds
has three brothers one is G. Scott
Candler, trustee of Agnes Scott and
former mayor of Decatur. The sec-
ond is Murphey Candler, editor of the
DeKalb New Era and a member of
the state legislature. He is the father
of Edith (Candler) Shaw, ex-'42.
The third brother is Milton Candler,
who is conected with the Southern
Bell Telephone System and whose
elder daughter is Marion (Candler)
Emrey, ex-'41. He also has a young
daughter, Rebekah Scott.

Louise Sams, a junior this year, is
the daughter of Louise (Scott) Sams,
Institute.

The donor of the Laura Candler
Mathematics Award, which is present-
ed at commencement, is one of the
older members of the family living in
the vicinity. She is Mrs. Nellie Scott
Candler, who gives the award as a
memorial to her mother, who is also
the grandmother for whom Scotty
Wilds' mother was named. Mrs.
Candler's granddaughter, Nell Scott
(Earthman) Molton, is a graduate of
the class of 193 8.

A Date to Keep!

FEBRUARY 22, 1940

Agnes Scott's Fifteenth Annual
Founder's Day Broadcast

WSB, Atlanta Journal Station, 740 Kilocycles

This year, more than ever before, Agnes Scott alumnae will want to be with-
in reach of the "sheltering arms" when the program for the Fifteenth Founder's
Day Broadcast goes out over the air waves. Thanks to the gracious gift of radio
time on WSB, the thousands of Agnes Scott girls who cannot be on the campus
will be able to feel that they are near their Alma Mater in spirit, at the time of
her golden anniversary celebration.

Join the chain of Agnes Scotters that circles the globe as we listen to the Fif-
teenth Founder's Day Broadcast, dedicated to the memory of our beloved founder,
Colonel George W. Scott, and to the others who have made Agnes Scott what she
is through their unselfish devotion during the past fifty years.

Get all the alumnae in your vicinity together to share with you the thrill of
this special program. Send a wire of congratulations to the college on this occa-
sion, or write us that you are olanning to listen in. Then we will know that the
vast chain of alumnae are with us in spirit on Founder's Day.

"Alma Mater, whose name we revere and adore,
May thy strength and thy power ne'er decline."

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APRIL, 1940

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Friday, May 3 Senior Opera, Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium, 8:30 P. M.

Saturday, May 4 May Day Festival

"The Heritage of Women," in
the May Day Dell, 5:00 P. M.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

May Day Frontispiece

The Campaign of 1940 2

Trustee Viewpoint George Winship

President's Viewpoint Dr. J. R. McCain

Academic Results Dr. Philip Davidson

From the Field Llewellyn Wilburn, '19

We Take t he Air 4

The University Center as Seen by an Outsider 6

From the Guinea Pig's Point of View 7

Eliza Keng, '3 8

"Heritage of Woman" is May Day Fete 9

Mary Anne Kernan, '3 8

Alumnae in the Neus 11

Hallie (Alexander) Turner, '18

57 Alumnae Groups Observe Pounder's Day 13

From a Tower Window 17

Campus Code 20

Concerning Ourselves 21

Agnes Scott College 37

Hazel (Pettingell) Whittle, Ex-'14

Commencement Program 38

Published quarterly by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia. Entered as second class matter under the

Act of Congress, August, 1912. Subscription rate, $2 yearly.

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1940

TRUSTEE VIEWPOINT

Chairman George Winship

While the Trustees are interested in all parts of the
College life, they feel a particular concern for the finan-
cial soundness of the institution. Legally and technically,
the Trustees are the corporation. They wish the College
to operate on a balanced budget and to live within its
means. They are concerned about the permanence of the
institution and with its good standing in the community.

There are many developments in recent years which
have given anxiety to all the Trustees of independent or
denominational colleges. One of these is the rising cost of
education. The equipment for operating any educational
plant is much more extensive and also expensive than in
previous years. The large number of elective subjects re-
quire many more teachers and more highly trained teach-
ers than was previously the case.

At the same time, the interest which may be secured
from any investment is much lower than in any other
period of Agnes Scott's experience, and the total income
from invested funds is diminishing in spite of the fact
that the endowment itself is increasing.

It has been prophesied by many educational leaders that
most of our small denominational or independent colleges
must perish, and indeed this has been true from generation
to generation throughout American history. We believe
that circumstances are now less favorable, however, for the
small college than in any previous time.

The Trustees of Agnes Scott feel that the institution is
now on a permanent basis. Educational records indicate
that no institution with as much as a million dollars of
well-invested endowment has ever gone out of existence
since the world began. Agnes Scott has more applications
now for admission than ever before, and is more widely
and generally recognized than at any time in its fifty years
of existence.

The campaign in which we are now engaged is impor-
tant from the Trustee standpoint in that it will add a mil-
lion and a half dollars to the assets of the College, if we
are successful, and will still further enhance the stability
and prestige of the institution. The addition of $5 00,000
of endowment will be a tremendous help.

From an operating standpoint, it will not be particularly
advantageous to erect our Music Building or a Science
Hall, though we recognize that these units will be most
valuable from an educational viewpoint. It will be of
practical value to secure Hopkins Hall as a dormitory, and
a new dining hall and kitchen. These units will be produc-
tive from a financial standpoint as well as attractive in
appearance. We believe, also, that the establishment of the
Department of the Home will be economically sound, be-
cause we will be able to give training for future usefulness
that has been sorely needed and that may directly benefit
the health and comfort of the students while in college.

The Trustees are working very hard to win in this cam-
paign, and we appreciate the interest and co-operation
given by other friends.

PRESIDENT'S VIEWPOINT
President J. R. McCain

Twenty-five years ago, I came to Agnes Scott as Regis-
trar and part-time teacher. It has been my privilege to
participate in five very active campaigns for the College.
In all of these, the faculty have had a large part, and
there has scarcely been a year during the quarter of a cen-
tury when most of the faculty were not on some sort of a
subscription list in behalf of the institution. While the
alumnae, trustees, and students have not been called into
all of these special efforts, they have been enlisted in most
of them and have shown a wonderful spirit of co-operation.

Humanly speaking, the College could not have survived
without the resources which the campaigns brought; and
it certainly could not have taken a place of real leadership
in the country without each and all of the efforts that
have been made. When I came to the College in 1915, its
assets were approximately a half-million dollars, and now
they have grown to nearly four million. More than four-
fifths of our degrees have been given during that period,
and most of our building resources have come through the
campaign gifts.

As we face the present campaign, I am really very happy
to have any part. I do not know where the money will
come from, but I firmly believe we will secure it. As has
been true in our other experiences, there will be sacrifices
on the part of many, but I do not know any of our sup-
porters through the years who have really suffered because
of contributions; and, for very many, the investments
made here or in similar enterprises are the only permanent
ones which they have laid up. For most people, it is really
true that giving is good for the soul.

I believe so strongly that Agnes Scott is founded for the
glory of God and that its development means the exten-
sion of His Kingdom that I am quite certain that those
who tithe may properly invest here any portion of their
income which they may designate to the Lord's work. Miss
Nannette Hopkins, who was one of the saintliest persons I
have ever known, frequently remarked: "I believe the
money which I give to Agnes Scott is the most consecrated
of all my gifts."

There is an unselfish aspect of this Semi-Centennial
campaign which appeals to me strongly. Agnes Scott will
profit by the $1,500,000 which we hope to secure and to
use, but in our efforts we are making possible a total of
$7,500,000 which assuredly would not be available as a
whole without the Agnes Scott leadership and emphasis.
This large sum will be available on the campus of our
neighbor institution, Emory, and will help to bring a
blessing in the educational experiences of thousands of our
neighbors and friends, including our own students and
alumnae. We are striving for very large objectives. It will
be necessary for us to think in large terms and to give in
generous measure.

While we at Agnes Scott have campaigned with a great

deal of zest and enthusiasm for many special objects

through the years, I believe we have never had a more

appealing special project than the erection of Hopkins

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APRIL, 1940

THE ACADEMIC RESULTS OF THE CAMPAIGN
Philip Davidson, Jr.

The present campaign for a million and a half dollars
will obviously have important academic effects upon Ag-
nes Scott College. The previous campaigns certainly have.
As we look over the really inspiring campaign records, it
is easy to see the results. Each campaign may be indenti-
fied, of course, by the buildings it produced Bucher
Scott Gymnasium, Buttrick Hall, and the new library
but these buildings themselves have had a strong influence
on the academic life of the college. Buttrick Hall has
made possible much more effective teaching, and the new
library has changed the whole atmosphere of study on the
campus. Improved physical equipment, indeed, can have
direct academic effects. A new dormitory, for example,
can be constructed to be conducive to study.

But previous campaigns have done more. The intellec-
tual growth of the college is intimately connected with
them. The steadily increasing endowment has meant bet-
ter salaries, and hence a more highly trained faculty. The
financial growth of the college has been, in fact, imme-
diately and directly reflected in its intellectual growth.

If Patrick Henry's lamp of experience can guide us here,
you will see the same intellectual invigoration as a result
of this campaign. Concretely, what will it mean to the
academic life of the institution?

In the first place, the campaign will mean a strength-
ening of the present program. Agnes Scott is a good col-
lege, and its standards are unquestioned, but the faculty is
far from convinced that it is doing the job that ought to
be done. The objective of its efforts is the best possible
B. A. degree that it can give. That will mean, among
other things, higher standards of faculty salaries, addi-
tional instructors, greatly increased library facilities, en-
larged collections in the fine arts, and better laboratory
facilities. These additions to our present resources must
be made in order to strengthen the present program, not
to expand it; we must first do outstandingly well what
we are now attempting.

In the second place, the campaign in relation to the co-
operative University Center movement will mean the en-
richment of the Agnes Scott degree. As funds are avail-
able, offerings in new fields will surely come as they have
in the past. The strengthening of our present program
must come first, however, and it must come principally
through strengthening our own resources; the enrichment
of our program in the immediate future can come prin-
cipally through co-operation with our neighboring institu-
tions. Agnes Scott students already have open to them
the larger program at Emory, with its work in many sub-
jects that we cannot offer, and as additional funds become
available to Emory, others will be added. Furthermore,
by strengthening graduate work at Emory University and
at the University of Georgia and by increasing opportuni-
ties for professional work in social service training, public
administration, as well as in many other fields, the cam-
paign will mean a great deal to Agnes Scott students.

The very process of the campaign itself is stimulating
to the academic life of the campus. Faced with the op-
portunities the campaign will present, faculty members
will re-study and clarify their objectives and examine their
work for its points of weakness and strength. The work
is more enthusiastically undertaken because there is tan-
gible hope that those weaknesses will be overcome and
those points of strength strengthened.

To the intellectual life of the campus, then, this cam-
paign will mean, as previous campaigns have meant, first,
strengthening; then, enrichment; and, throughout, stimu-
lation.

FROM THE FIELD
Llewellyn Wilburn, '19

When Dr. McCain requested me to withdraw entirely
from the Department of Physical Education for a period
of four months, I hestitated, particularly since we were
in the midst of preparations for our historic May Day
celebration. An invitation to serve in our Semi-Centennial
campaign, however, could not be refused, and I knew that
the co-operation of the other departmental members
would make it possible for me to leave. I have been away
from the college since the first of January and will prob-
ably not return until May the first.

I was not sure how our Alumnae would feel about an-
other campaign, but I have found them most co-operative
about serving on the campaign committees and assisting
me in many w r ays. I have had a great deal of happiness
and satisfaction in visiting the Agnes Scott alumnae in the
vicinities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Richmond, and Charlotte. I would like to
give a few personal impressions of my experiences.

First of all, I am impressed with the attractive person-
alities and qualities of leadership of our alumnae. They
are engaged in many types of professional work and in
homemaking under varying circumstances. They are
women of whom we may well be proud. They evidently
have the confidence and esteem of their associates in com-
munities, large or small, and we are proud to claim them
as Agnes Scott daughters.

I have been impressed with their loyalty, even though
they are at such a great distance from the College and
though many of them are not able to return except at
rare intervals. I find that they are eager for news of cam-
pus developments and campus personalities. Most of them
recall with sincere pleasure their college days, and they
generally agree that their training was good. Even though
a "campaign" is frequently a poor attraction for rallying
either men or women, I found that our girls have come to
group conferences with readiness and enthusiasm. They
have been ready to assume the responsibilities of group
leaders or captains and have been following through the
duties assigned them with diligence and effectiveness.

Some of our alumnae have been troubled because of
pledges to former campaigns which they were unable to
pay, but most of these have been unwilling to cancel their
subscriptions and have rather preferred to renew them on
the present campaign, as is quite possible. Such a renewal
we find quite important, because it enables us to claim
fifty cents from the General Education Board for every
dollar pledged by us at this time.

Even though the majority of our alumnae do not belong
to the large income group, there has certainly been general
response. Our alumnae have always been generous, but it
is going to take all we can do to secure the $100,000. We
cannot make cash donations to this amount all at one time
we know, but by taking advantage of the opportunity to
subscribe over a period of three to five years, we can do
surprising things. We must have these pledges to reach
our goal.

The alumnae, I find, feel that it is very fitting for their
project to be the erection of a splendid dormitory which
will be a memorial to Miss Nannette Hopkins. While
gifts may be designated for other purposes, and, in some
cases, have been, a great majority of the donors will be
happy to see Hopkins Hall built in honor of our former
Dean.

I wish to express appreciation to all of those who have
co-operated so willingly in the work of the past two
months, and I look forward with confidence to the suc-
cessful completion of our campaign by May the first!

WE TAKE

Campus Silhouettes/' the Agnes Sa

Students Express Their Views

Announcer: Campus Silhouettes presents the views of an
Agnes Scott freshman, who hopes that the Campaign
of 1940 will result in the building of a new dormi-
tory-dining-room.

Freshman: I am one of 308 students living on the Agnes
Scott campus. The present dormitories at Agnes Scott
have seen years of hard, wearing service. Because of
their age they are hard to keep clean and almost im-
possible to decorate attractively. Baths, too, are old-
fashioned and limited in number, yet we haven't room
to remodel. We have promised also to house the women
graduate students of Emory, so a new dormitory must
soon be completed. Besides the blessing of more room,
one big central dining room will bring us all together,
at least at meal-time. Then we will all get to know
each other better. One dining room and kitchen in-
stead of two will, I am told, cut operating expenses
by about 15%. Usually, new buildings add upkeep
expense, but in this case we can actually save money.
And it may be that we can start here our Department
of the Home that we are so anxious to have. Here's
hoping the new dormitory will be ready by the fall of
1941. I must live there when I'm a junior.

Announcer: The comments of an Agnes Scott Sophomore,
who wishes the Campaign of 1940 to produce a new
science hall.

Sophomore: I'm a science major at Agnes Scott, so of
course I think science is vital to a woman's education.
What can be closer to real life than biology and chem-
istry, related as they are to people themselves, their
children, the analysis of food, diet, and the improve-
ment of conditions that affect the whole human race?
A modern college must prepare a girl for living as
well as for making a living so that physics, astronomy
and geology also have a place in the campus program.
At Agnes Scott our present Science Hall, the gift in
1911 of Col. and Mrs. Robert L. Lowry, has long been
outgrown and in many ways is unsafe for use by large
numbers of students. There is no room whatever for
faculty research on important problems. Here, too,
the Department of the Home will do much of its
work. An expansion of quarters and an increase in
equipment are essential if Agnes Scott is to maintain
her first-class undergraduate instruction in science for
the university center.

Announcer: The opinion of the Agnes Scott junior, who
regrets that during her college career there was avail-
able at Agnes Scott no Department of the Home.
The Junior.

Junior: This is my third year at Agnes Scott. I've been
studying English and languages and history and math-
ematics; and I realize how important all these sub-

jects are. But after all, my career after college may
center around managing a house and bringing up
children. I wish I felt better prepared to make a suc-
cess of that career. I've read of a department at Vas-
sar that was started in 1928. It's called euthenics.
I believe it's the only experiment in teaching home-
making that's been tried among the stronger colleges
for women. I wish we could have such a department
at Agnes Scott. I've been told that Dr. Gaines, the
first president of the college, outlined a plan for a
department of the home nearly 20 years ago. He in-
cluded all that Vassar later stressed and a great deal
more. Because this work is new and experimental it
must be established on a very high basis in order to
have real standing on the Campus. Both money and
equipment will be necessary. The facilities of the new
dormitory and science hall will be required; additional
hospital facilities where studies in the health of girls of
college age may be made, a nursery school for the
study of small children, and a home in which theories
may be practiced will all be needed to make a De-
partment of the Home effective. Of course I shall
not have a chance to enjoy it but I hope this will be
one result of the Campaign of 1940.

Announcer: The ideas of an Agnes Scott senior, who, pre-
paring for her future, visualizes her Alma Mater in
wider fields of service.

Senior: Like many other seniors, I'm thinking of graduate
work. We seniors wish further study in Law, in
Medicine, in Engineering, in Journalism, and in many
other professional fields. When Dr. Douglas S. Free-
man, the noted author and journalist, was on the
Agnes Scott campus, he stressed the importance of the
University Center program. He pointed out that be-
cause seniors don't have facilities for graduate study
in this section, they go away for further instruction,
taking the best brains of the South to the East and
West. These graduate Students remain in the regions
to which they go for study; thus. Dr. Freeman pointed
out, the South is being impoverished of future leaders
by failing to offer strong graduate work nearer home.
The University Center program will do away with
this condition and give far-reaching benefits to the
entire South. I think Agnes Scott has very important
contributions to make to this program. I'd never
want to see Agnes Scott become a graduate or pro-
fessional school. I think her share should consist in
developing and increasing the number of her under-
graduate courses. I'd like to see her develop in the
realm of the fine arts, mostly in co-operation with
other institutions. I think she should work to raise
the standards of all levels of education, encourage
adult education, continue the thorough undergraduate
training already given by her, and unify the combined
efforts of the members of the University Center.

THE AIR

lio program, presents two broadcasts.

Alumnae Viewpoint

Hear the story of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
as told by Miss Louise McKinney, who was at Agnes Scott
Institute when the Association was formed.

Miss McKinney: Agnes Scott is celebrating her 50th birth-
day. The Alumnae Association is only 44 years old.
I remember perfectly well when it was organized back
in 1895. There were about nine members. They made
Mary Barnett the first president because she'd been
the first Agnes Scott graduate. I remember how puz-
zled the girls were to decide what to do after they'd
organized.

Grad. I: (uncertainly) Well . . . now that we're here and
have our officers and are organized what are we
going to do? What's the purpose of the Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association?

Grad. II: We might form a reading circle. We could
study some more and pursue cultural interest.

Grad. Ill: Let's ask Miss Hopkins and Miss McKinney
what we can do.

Grad. IV: Why couldn't we raise some money for the In-
stitute?

Grad. I: I know. Let's raise enough to pay somebody's
tuition.

Grad. II: S60? Ooh. Do you think we could?

Grad. Ill: We could sew while we read aloud and sell the
things we make.

Grad. IV: We could make candy and sell it.

Grad. I: We could give a bazaar.

All Grads: When shall we start? Let's meet again next
week. I can make some sofa cushions. We can meet
at my house.

Miss McKinney: Miss Hopkins and Dr. Gaines helped and
advised the little group, and for ten years they de-
vised small schemes to make money; they worked,
they dreamed dreams, they formulated the ideal of
loyalty and service that has characterized the Alum-
nae Association for 44 years. Soon after the turn of
the century, Miss Shepherd, one of the teachers, an-
nounced that she would give $1,000 if the Associa-
tion would raise that much; and that was the real
beginning of money-making in the organization. I
suppose the first thousand dollars are the hardest, be-
cause after that the contributions to Agnes Scott were
even more generous.

Voice I: In 1904 we initiated the effort to raise funds to
buy the house that ever since has been Agnes Scott's
infirmary. The last note on the infirmary was paid
in 1908.

Voice II: We assumed indebtedness for enlarging the din-
ing rooms on the campus.

Voice III: We started a student loan fund and contributed
to the endowment fund.

Voice IV: We helped pay for the portraits of Dr. Gaines
and Miss Hopkins.

Voice I: We affiliated with the City Federation of Clubs
and co-operated with the Southern Association of Col-
lege Women.

Voice II: We opened a tea room on the campus.

Miss McKinney: All these activities indicated industrious
members and faithful officers of the organization.
One of the early presidents of the Alumnae Associa-
tion was Lucile Alexander, who can tell you better
than I can about what happened when she was presi-
dent.

Miss Alexander: The early catalogues of Agnes Scott In-
stitute disclose a quaint simplicity that is amusing to-
day. Our Dean was "lady principal" firmly solici-
tious that every student be provided with gossamer,
umbrella, and rubber shoes; and that she avoid such
imprudences as "thin low shoes in cold weather, prom-
enading out of doors with the head uncovered, the
too-early removal of flannels or any neglect to put
them on at the approach of cold weather." The Alum-
nae Association was for a while correspondingly
quaint. But the college grew and the Association
grew with it. Work was more serious. Objectives
became more difficult of achievement. The Alumnae
Association did its share in the larger enterprises of
the college with joy over the opportunity to serve.
The first big task was the college campaign of 1909.
The goal was the raising of $2 5 0,000 to meet the
General Education Board's first offer of $100,000.
Atlanta's interest was stimulated by a great electric
clock at Five Points to mark the progress of the cam-
paign. Our slogan was "raising money by the clock."
Time limit drew on apace: $50,000 yet to be raised
and 50 hours to do it $1,000 an hour! The alumnae
did their share in making the Campaign of 1909 a
success.

Miss McKinney: It was very exciting, wasn't it? Miss
Hopkins was always so pleased when a venture was
successful. She and the college and the Alumnae As-
sociation grew up together. Emma Pope Moss Dieck-
mann was one of the presidents of the Association.
Emma Pope, I wonder if you won't tell us about the
days when you were president?

Mrs. Dicckmann: Our interests were centered around
what is known now as the Campaign of 1919. It was
carried on very quietly you remember because just as
it was ready to open, the United States entered the
World War. At Agnes Scott, of course, as every-
where else, Liberty Bonds and Red Cross work came
first; yet the college needs were so great that it was
decided to do what we could for the campaign and
be patriotic at the same time. Our hopes amounted to
$600,000 of which the Alumnae were asked to raise
$30,000. Our appeal to the faculty and students was
met, in characteristic fashion with generosity in

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^he University Center As .Seen ^By An Outsider

"I say to you that, whether you realize it or not, there
has never been a job as important to your city and state
and the South, as this one which has been started in co-or-
dinating your educational institutions." This was the
statement made in Atlanta recently to a group of college
and civic leaders by Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, who
was in the city for the purpose of delivering an address at
Agnes Scott. Dr. Freeman, distinguished most recently
for his prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee, has been
widely known for years as an educator and journalist, and
at present is a member of the executive committee of the
General Education Board and a trustee of the Rockefeller
Foundation.

"The General Education Board," he said, "has seen fit
to turn over $2,500,000 to the efforts here in Atlanta and
Georgia to make what you have called a University Cen-
ter, but what really is the co-ordination of educational
facilities . . . The educational hierarchy too often is afraid
of experiment. But here you are doing it because your
university heads are men of vision."

The great advantages of such a center for education lie
not only in reducing the expense of overlapping courses
and effort in teaching, but in the widening of college cur-
ricula, the improvement of library, laboratory, and other
facilities, and' in offering for the first time, in this large

area, real opportunity for graduate work. The independ-
ent college undoubtedly fills a great need, but its very life
in this country now depends on strengthening its resources.
The state cannot possibly assume the task of these col-
leges and universities because the elementary educational
program itself is all that the state's taxes can afford.

Dr. Freeman declared: "We are sending away our best
brains from the South because we have not been able to
give them the work they want. They go away to get it,
and they stay away. I know of one Southern institution
which has furnished the heads of ten institutions of more
than $10,000,000 each in corporate value. They went
away to get their graduate work. They remained away."
Such continuous loss to the South can be prevented by the
establishment of university centers.

The present development of such a center by Agnes
Scott, Emory, Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia,
Columbia Theological Seminary, and the Atlanta Art As-
sociation is being watched by colleges all over the country.
In many cases the very life of institutions and perhaps the
very future of education throughout a wide section de-
pends on emulating this plan. The results of so vital an
experiment are too great and far-reaching to risk anything
but success.

A Reality In 1940

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The Presser Music Building, now under construction on the campus, will be ready for use in September, 1940.

^rom the Quinea Tig's ^Voint of Uielv

By Eliza King, '38

(Editor's Note: The author, who is now with the Na-
tional Youth Administration for Georgia, describes here
her experiences as a "government intern" with the Na-
tional Institute of Public Affairs in Washington, D. C,
last year.)

Usually interns study guinea pigs. But we were dif-
ferent. We were interns and guinea pigs at the same time.
As "government interns" we were the subjects in a "model
experiment" in recruiting for the federal service. As
"government interns" we spent nine months in Washing-
ton studying and working in government offices, seeing at
first hand what makes this body politic run.

The need for medical students to supplement theory
with actual experience under the supervision of full-
fledged doctors has long been recognized. It was not
until about five years ago, though, that this concept of
combining study with practice invaded the field of public
administration. When the possibilities of such a plan were
discussed at a congress of the National Student Federation
of America, it became evident that there was no existing
institution which could administer such a plan. To study
you had to stay in college and to get experience you had
to get a job with the government, except in a few in-
stances where individual colleges made arrangements with
individual offices. There was nothing to bridge the gap
between the two. In 1934 the National Institute of Pub-
lic Affairs was incorporated to act as a go-between for
educational institutions and government offices by provid-
ing opportunities for "practical training in operations of
the Federal Government" to young college graduates who
had the necessary academic background and were inter-
ested in a "career in the public service." The first regular
group of internes was selected two years later from a na-
tion-wide competition on the basis of scholarship, leader-
ship, and aptitude for public affairs.

There were forty-one of us in the third group of in-
terns. We came from more than thirty colleges and uni-
versities and from twenty-two states scattered from
Vermont to New Mexico, and from Washington to Texas.
In spite of the differences in the way we talked, though,
we liked to talk about the same things. We shared an in-
terest in public affairs and a desire to translate that in-
terest into "public service." To use our inadequate phrase,
we wanted to "do something about it." We had common
academic backgrounds in political and social science. We
had common backgrounds of academic and extra-curri-
cular honors. A third of us could wear Phi Beta Kappa
keys and most of the others belonged to local honorary
societies. The majority of us had had both hands in run-
ning local campus affairs class activities, student govern-
ments, current history clubs, publications, religious organ-
izations, athletic associations. The predominance of de-
bating among our activities proved that we were in the
habit of stating our convictions. What finally brought us
together as government interns was our belief that after
four years or more of stating them we should act on those
convictions and contribute something to the solutions of
public problems.

But before we could be of service we had to see how
things actually work. When Congress passes an Act and
creates an Administration, a Bureau, a Board, a Commis-
sion, what actually happens? Where do the people who

administer the law come from? What do they do? What
building do they work in? Where does the money come
from, after it gets into the Appropriations Bill? How
does an Administrator "decide policies"? How much of
his time does he spend in conferences, in writing letters,
in studying, in making speeches? What does a director of
finance do eight hours a day, five and one-half days a
week? What does a clerk do? What happens to the mail?
Who opens it? Who answers it? Who decides how many
desks there are in one room? How many telephones?
These and other things we wanted to find out for our-
selves. We needed some stepping-stone from the theory
of a college campus to the reality of actual participation;
in other words, we needed an internship.

First, we applicants had to get our colleges to recom-
mend or nominate us for internships. After filing our de-
tailed blanks and sending in records and references, we
had to write short essays on why we wanted an internship,
what connection we thought it would have with what we
had done so far in our lives and what connections it had
with our plans for the future.

To most of us trying to put down in "the's" and
"and's" why we had an interest in public affairs was like
trying to say why you like pretzels. You just do or you
don't, that's all and we did. Some of us could attribute
it to a high school teacher, some to a freshman government
course, but in most cases our attempts to rationalize our
natural inclinations boiled down to the bare fact that "the
whole family always had been interested in things like
that."

The final step in the application procedure was a per-
sonal interview with the directors of the Institute. Each
year they travel throughout the country interviewing
educators and students in their efforts to as they put it
skim the "cream of the college crop." After talking with
some three hundred applicants that year, they chose us
nine women and 32 men to form the third group of
government interns.

In September we arrived in Washington to take our
unique positions among government personnel as students
and practitioners at the same time. Before deciding defi-
nitely where we should work, we had to become oriented
to the organization and functions of the various govern-
ment offices. At the same time we became oriented to the
city. Official Washington is a pretty big campus, and we
soon learned that the blocks are long and taxis are cheap.
With government conference rooms as our classrooms and
administrators for professors, we learned what they do
from the people who do it. The executive director of the
Social Security Board described for us the functions of the
Board, its organization, and his own duties. One of the
highest administrative officials of the Civil Service Com-
mission explained how the civil service is administered.
Finance directors, personnel directors, and public relations
experts gave us first hand accounts of their eight-to-six-
teen-hours-a-day jobs.

We soon realized that in order to decide where we should
work, we had to narrow down and make more specific our
"interest in public affairs." Some were interested in so-
cial security but what phase of social security, which
bureau, what phase of that bureau's work? "Interested in
personnel," but that's a broad field and there are personnel

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

offices throughout the government. What aspect of per-
sonnel and in what agency? And so it went, with each
of us rather reluctantly deciding which "trade" we should
become masters of.

A Northwestern co-ed combined an interest in person-
nel and an interest in sociology in the Personnel Division
of the Bureau of the Census. A liking for law led one
California intern to the Anti-Trust Division of the De-
partment of Justice, and one from Colorado to the Re-
search Division of the National Labor Relations Board.
Several decided on research, but in different fields and dif-
ferent agencies. By the end of the orientation period we
were scattered all over Washington in six of the ten
major departments, thirteen of the independent agencies,
in the offices of four Senators and one Congressman, and
in two extra-governmental agencies, the Group Health As-
sociation and the Washington branch of the International
Labor Office.

From then on, each internship was different. The work
had to be on a training rather than on a productive basis,
and had to be under the supervision of the administrator
to whom we were assigned. Within those limits, though,
we could follow our individual likes and needs and make
of our internship what we wanted. There was no danger
of our taking the place of a regular employee because as
soon as we really learned one phase of the work, we went
on to something else. At the same time, however, we were
of some value to the government. We earned our board
and keep by being general handy-men for our supervisors
and by doing special odd jobs that were necessary but
which nobody else had the time to do.

Take me for example. My journalistic leaning had
landed me in the Radio Division of the Office of Educa-
tion, where I got experience in public relations. The whole
function of the Radio Division, of course, is public rela-
tions and education by radio, but an important part of
preparing and presenting these broadcasts is to publicize
the programs so that there will be an audience for them.
I got experience in both of these phases of public relation.
I learned first that there is a lot more to producing these
programs than writing a script and talking into a micro-
phone. People expect their government to speak with
authority, even when the facts which it presents are dram-
atized into a radio program, and so months of research
and hours of conference have to go into the preparation of
each broadcast. For the first two and one-half months
that's where I helped. I worked in the research section,
investigating and collecting material on subjects for a
series of programs now being broadcast over the Columbia
Broadcasting System, "Democracy in Action."

My experience here studying, writing, and sitting in on
conferences besides opening my eyes to questions of pol-
icy and procedure made me familiar with the many
sources of information throughout the government. And
of course it made me familiar with the subject I was in-
vestigating. From research I went to audience prepara-
tion, which is just that announcing the program to the
public and trying to give them some background on which
to base an understanding of the broadcast. Here I did
everything from answering telephone inquiries to writing
promotional letters, preparing supplements to the broad-
casts and making a case study in building an audience for
a broadcast. I spent the last six weeks of my internship in
the office of the Director of the Radio Division. From
this vantage point, I could view the work of the Division
as a whole and could see how each section fitted into the
general picture.

Such was the practice or experience side of an intern-
ship. The theory or study side came in classes at the
American University Graduate School of Public Affairs
and in weekly meetings with legislators, administrators,
and experts arranged by the Institute for the interns. At
American University we combined background courses in
political and social sciences with specialized courses in sub-
jects pertaining to our individual internships. At the
Monday evening meetings at the Institute we discussed
current problems with experts who were most closely con-
nected with them. Many of them were individuals whom
we had known as names in the papers, but who now be-
came distinct personalities, and it is amazing how much
easier it is to remember a man's economic philosophy when
you know the color of his eyes, the sound of his voice, and
the quirk in his smile.

Each phase of the internship had that effect of bring-
ing to life, and making real, people who had been before
merely names and titles. It even changed Washington
landmarks, such as the Lincoln Memorial and the White
House from pictures you see on postcards to old friends.
It was quite a thrill actually to see the places and the
people, to chat informally with such notables as Secretary
Perkins, Senator Taft, and Raymond Clapper. And speak-
ing of thrills, meeting the President was in a class by it-
self. One sunny morning late in May, the interns de-
scended upon the White House in a body and were ushered
into the waiting room of the west wing, which houses the
Executive Offices. After going through several ante-
rooms, each with its quota of secret service men, we
reached the President's office, where he sat at that famous
desk, radiating that famous Roosevelt charm, waiting to
shake hands with each of us and tell us how glad he was to
meet us. We left in a daze, feeling somewhat like young
knights who had just received the accolade.

As I look back on my internship, it seems like a kind of
post-graduate lab course. As is always the case in social
science, there could be no "controls," except to see every-
thing as it really is. We tested existing theories and per-
haps formulated a few of our own on the basis of our ob-
servations of what actually does happen. A lot of us are
still in this amazing lab; we have started on what we hope
will become careers in the public service. Some of our
group of interns are taking more academic work as fur-
ther preparation for coming back to government work.
Some plan to stay in academic circles, to give future stu-
dents the benefit of their experience. A small group have
taken into private business their clearer understanding of
the workings of government.

We have no degrees and no certificates to show for our
year as guinea pigs. We carried this concept of training
for public service into the offices in which we worked
and brought it that much closer to realization. We dem-
onstrated to these offices that, given some practical experi-
ence, young people with training and ability can be def-
inite assets. We did some jobs that would not have been
done otherwise. Most of us got jobs or fellowships be-
cause of our intern training. Most important, though,
from our point of view, are those intangible things we got
an understanding and appreciation of a working demo-
cratic government and a realization of our responsibility
for that government. No matter what profession we fol-
low, whether we become public administrators, lawyers,
teachers, or industrialists, our internships have provided us
with a frame of reference for our thoughts and actions in
our practice of that greater profession of citizenship.

Heritage of Woman" Is May Day Fete

Saturday, May 4,
will be the climax of
the Semi - Centennial
program with the pres-
entation of The Heri-
tage of Woman, his-
toric story of the de-
velopment of woman
through the ages, as vis-
ualized and presented
by the May Day Com-
mittee.

Bottom and Titania
have fled from the May
Day Dell, Comus and
his crew are gone, and
even Orpheus and Eu-
rydice no longer haunt
the shadows. The grass
grows green and the
trees put out their
leaves for a very differ-
ent May Day this year.
Fairy tales and legends,
even Shakespeare and
Milton, have been laid
aside in planning the
Semi - Centennial May
Day. History and imag-
ination have furnished
the material for this
pageant in honor of
half a hundred years of
growth.

The rather thrilling
idea of a half century
of development in a
woman's college sug-
gested the theme of
woman's progress
through the ages. This
theme was developed
under the title of The
Heritage of Woman,
briefly presenting wo-
man in various stages
of her history from
primitive times to the
modern age.

The pageant opens
with a prologue in the
present showing Wo-
man, a symbolic figure,
alone and disconsolate

fleeing from the evil forces, such as hatred, intolerance,
greed, and force, which are loose in the world. When
these have ceased tormenting Woman, Memory, the
mother of the Muses, appears and comforts Woman.
Memory and the Muses advise Woman to draw strength
and hope from her past, which Memory then sum-
mons. The theme of the entire pageant is that Woman
will solve her present problems through a knowledge of
her past struggles and a realization of her own abilities.
Throughout Woman, the part to be taken by Carolyn Al-

Mary Anne Kernan, '3 8

Carolyn Alley, '40, of Dalton, Georgia, who will rule over
the annual May Day festival. She will take the part of Woman
in the historic pageant, "The Heritage of Woman."

ley, lovely May Queen
of 1940, is in the back-
ground watching the
progress of her his-
tory.

The selection of high
points in this history
was obviously difficult
and the writing com-
mittee fought and wept
over many scenes be-
fore a final choice was
made. The principal di-
visions of the pageant
are Primitive, Greek
and Roman, Medieval,
and Modern. In each of
these periods women are
shown in characteristic
occupations which in-
dicate their state of ad-
vancement and their
place in civilization.
Throughout most of
these periods there is
the constant struggle
for the advantages of
education. This is a
struggle against men
who think women not
worthy of opportunity,
against women who
care nothing for educa-
tion, and even against
the state and general
social organization.

Ten to twelve separ-
ate scenes will make up
the pageant with, of
course, several dances
in each scene. However
the entire May Day has
been planned to run no
longer than an hour
and a quarter. It will
be presented Saturday
afternoon, May 4, at
5:00, in the May Day
Dell. As always if there
there is rain Saturday
(which Dr. McCain as-
sures us never happens)
the pageant will be postponed until Monday afternoon
at the same hour.

Llewellyn Wilburn, '19, is the director of May Day,
while Eloise Lennard is the student chairman and Miss
Catherine Torrance and Ellen Douglas Leyburn, '27, are
faculty advisors. Mrs. Harriette Haynes Lapp's Dance
Club will do the Greek and Roman episodes and Eugenie
Dozier's ('27) modern dancing class will present the primi-
tive group of agricultural, hunting, and household dances.
The complete cast of May Day this year will be un-

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

usually large because of the addition of a number of
alumnae in one of the special dances in the Modern epi-
sode. This period portrays the development of education
in the United States and particularly the South. One part
of this episode calls for a daisy chain dance symbolic of the
growth of educational institutions for women. Interesting
plans have been made to form the chain of fifty alumnae
of the college dressed in costumes of various periods rep-
resenting the fifty years of Agnes Scott's development.
Jennie (Champion) Nardin, '3 5, (Mrs. Gene Nardin, 1323
Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, Ga.) is in charge of the alum-
nae arrangements for this part of the scenario. She is ex-
tremely anxious to get in touch with alumnae who would
like to be in the pageant and with any who may have cos-
tumes of the last fifty years. Out-of-town alumnae who
will be in Decatur for the May Day celebration are espe-
cially urged to participate in this feature and everyone is
entreated to visit the attic and clean out old trunks in the
hope that some amazing style discoveries will be made.

The entire May Day Committee is anxious to have as
much alumnae participation as possible in this pageant be-
cause of the significance of the Semi-Centennial celebra-
tion. Many of the committees working on particular fea-
tures of The Heritage of Woman include alumnae mem-
bers. Julia Sewell, '39, is working on costumes and is as-

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pledges and with many ingenious devices for aug-
menting their total. Cardboard strips for saving a
mile of pennies or of dimes were distributed and sent
to alumnae; those small white celluloid banks with
purple towers of Main were in everyone's pocket;
pencils were sold; and all small services on the campus
were charged for B. E. F. benefit endowment fund.
Groups of alumnae gave benefit parties, sold fine
needlework and old newspapers. Their final success
extended the campus to include the present May Day
Dell and the Conn property lying between Rebekah
Scott dormitory and McDonough Street, which is to-
day furnishing the site for the new Presser Music
Building that is under construction.

Miss McKinney: You did a wonderful piece of work,
Emma Pope. And not long after your administration
Mary Wallace Kirk was elected president of the Asso-
ciation. Mary Wallace had a genius for organization
and executive work. I wish she were here to tell us
some of the fine things the Association accomplished
while she was president. She transformed what had
really been a few local clubs into a national associa-
tion by establishing additional branches of the Alum-
nae Association all over the country. She gave the
impetus that was to result in even more rapid growth
in the nineteen twenties.

Voice I: In 1921 the Anna Young Alumnae House was
opened. It was the first alumnae house ever to be
built on a college campus.

Voice IT. In 1924 the first full alumnae secretary was em-
ployed.

Voice III: In 1926 the first Founder's Day Broadcast from
WSB started the annual radio message to Agnes Scott
alumnae.

Miss McKinney: It was late in the twenties and in the
thirties that Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson was work-
ing so wonderfully for the association as president,
and Executive Secretary, and as friend. Fannie G., tell
us about some of the achievements of those days.

Mrs. Donaldson: It was my good fortune to be in the

sembling quite a collection of dolls on which to experi-
ment. The large number of characters and the variety of
scenes will make necessary an extensive wardrobe for the
cast. Miss Louise Lewis, of the Art Department, is advis-
ing the costume committee and has provided very tangible
help in the form of an extensive file of Harper's Bazaar,
which the committee will use as source material. The
entire writing committee was made up of alumnae since
there was no scenario contest this year. Members of this
committee were Lita Goss, '36, Hortense Jones, '3 8, Mar-
garet (Bland) Sewell, '20, and Mary Anne Kernan, '38,
chairman.

A particular feature of this May Day celebration will
be the spoken lines connecting the various scenes in the
pageant. Margaret (Bland) Sewell has written the spoken
part and Miss Frances K. Gooch, head of the Spoken Eng-
lish Department, will coach the speaker. Music, also, joins
with dance and speech to make this year's May Day un-
usual. Mr. C. W. Dieckmann, professor of music at Agnes
Scott, is writing the music for the entire pageant.

The price of admission for the May Dav pageant will
be twenty-five cents. However, all alumnae can get com-
plimentary tickets through the Alumnae Office if they are
secured before the pageant on May 4.

Alumnae Office during what might be called the
"golden years," years built on the plans and work of
loyal alumnae through three decades. In '29 and '30
we found ourselves again called upon to assist our col-
lege in a campaign for a million dollars to meet the
$500,000 offer of the General Education Board. This
successful campaign secured our administration
classroom building, Buttrick Hall, and our beautiful
library. In the fall of '31, the Alumnae Week-End was
inaugurated, now an annual event drawing back many
alumnae for two mornings of lectures with many de-
lightful social features. The year 1931 saw also the
beginnings of our long-dreamed-of-Alumnae Garden
where the first actual work was done by Mrs. Donald
Hastings. On April 14, 1932, the first of the weekly
radio programs, of which this afternoon's is a descend-
ant, was given over WSB under the gifted guidance of
Janef Preston. The last few years have been consumed
in enlargement of our general program, in beautifica-
tion of our house and grounds, in publication of an-
other Alumnae Directory, and in celebrating Arumnae
Homecoming last June at the Golden Jubilee. Surely
it has been a privilege to serve as secreetary of the As-
sociation, founded on the love and vision of alumnae
of the nineties and faithfully carried on by succeed-
ing daughters of Agnes Scott.

Miss McKinney: This is a far cry from the times when the
first tiny group of alumnae set to work in 1895. The
wonderful thing is that the Association is still grow-
ing. The work gets harder all the time but the Alum-
nae Association finds more and more joy in accom-
plishing the impossible. Historv repeats itself, but in
a larger way; and we hear the echo of the voices of
that first group as they puzzle over how to serve best.
1940:

Alum. I: Well now that we've accomplished so much,
what are we going to do next? Isn't there something
else we ought to do?

Alum. II: Let's ask Dr. McCain what we can do.

Alum. Ill: Why can't we help with the Campaign of
1940?

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ALUMNAE IN THE NEWS

^ Private Alitor

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Hallie (Alexander) Turner, 1918

My real job is, of course, to speak tritely, but none the
less truly, my husband, my children, and my home. But,
with the modern, economical house-keeping conveniences,
a splendid, but by no means extravagantly paid servant,
three normal, healthy children, and the best-tempered
husband on earth, I have worlds of time. In fact, during
the year in which my third child was born, 1932, I kept,
just for fun, a record of my bridge-playing, and found
that I played over 300 times! No, little Audrey, the chil-
dren were NOT neglected, the house ran smoothly, and
everybody was happy, in spite of that being THE De-
pression Year. And I took a whole MONTH out to have
the baby. So you see, I was wasting a good deal of time at
the bridge table, and was becoming disgusted with it.

However as luck would have it, my niece asked me
about that time to review her for some Latin tests. De-
lighted at the prospect of discovering whether all of Miss
Smith's Latin training at A. S. C. had left me, I agreed.
From this start a number of other coaching pupils ap-
peared, and I began to sense a need for a private school in
Columbus. There seemed to be some children who needed
more than coaching, who needed individual attention regu-
larly.

I mentioned to one of my pupils that I was considering
a private school and soon afterwards an acquaintance,
Mrs. Dudley, called to say she wanted to go in with me;
she could teach the younger pupils in grade work, since
she had had no secondary school training. This crystal-
lized my intentions, and we visited the Superintendent of
Schools for advice and good-will. On a visit to a former
private school teacher, an elderly lady, we were advised to
be "wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove" in dealing
with our clients advice by which we profited.

Forthwith, we ran a small ad in the daily paper in Jan-
uary, 193 5, result one pupil in February. But it was a
start. This girl had got into difficulties at High School
and was bitterly discouraged; wanted to drop out of
Sophomore Class and give up her education completely. An
aunt saw our ad and sent money from New York each
month for her tuition. We two grown women worked
over that child for three hours every morning. But she
found herself and did splendid work (she had no chance
to do otherwise). She returned to the Public High School
the next fall and graduated with her class.

Later in the Spring we got another girl a fifth grade
child who was so nervous that she was on the verge of a
break-down domestic troubles between her father and
mother caused her nerves. Then came a bright little girl
who had broken her leg, who stayed with us for six weeks.
Our fourth pupil came from the fourth grade, a boy of
12 who was almost blind, and whose muscles of speech
and action did not co-ordinate. He had never really
learned anything in Public School, and his mother's de-
cision to send him to me came when, after receiving an-
other bad report card, he asked her just to send him on to
the Asylum at Milledgeville. That boy is still with me,
and, in spite of serious illnesses and financial reverses
which caused him to lose a lot of time, he is now doing

Sophomore High School work. Of course he has never
been able to do detailed mathematical drudgery, or tech-
nical English, but he has done as much as he will ever be
able to use. And the effect on his personality and on his
"Inferiority Complex" has been incalculable. He is as
near to being a normal child as he can be. My own chil-
dren reported that at 2:3 0, when Grammar School turned
out, he was there to mingle with the boys; then at 3 p. m.,
when High School turned out, again he pretended he was
coming away from there his pitiable desire to attain the
impossible, and be "like other boys." His mother realizes
that he is really making little actual book progress, but she
says that to take him away from the "Turner School"
would mean his very life. He sleeps with his books under
his bed, and begins to read and copy and spell at five
o'clock in the morning.

By the fall of '3 5 we had become fairly well-known; a
sixteen year old boy who couldn't get out of the sixth
grade was sent to us. He was an only child (by the way
90 yc of my pupils seem to be only sons) and he was badly
spoiled. We got no co-operation from him or his parents,
they expected us to work a miracle, and he is an example
of complete failure on our part. Another was a 20 year
old boy, who, because he was slightly afflicted in a phys-
ical way, had never been made to do anything he didn't
want to do. His mind was all right, but was rusty from
total lack of use. He's the one who told me that Shakes-
peare's first name was Jack; when I objected, he guessed,
"Charlie"; and finally, when I told him the answer,
blurted out: "Well, what difference does it make?" And
I couldn't tell him!

Most of my pupils have been either "Can'ts" or
"Won'ts." I have one sweet 16 years old who has been
with me four years. He has a severe impediment in his
speech and never said a word until he was ten years old.
I started him with the primer, and, when he began to
"click," he progressed by leaps and bounds. He is now
doing sixth, seventh, and eighth grade work. He can't
go too fast in English grammar and arithmetic, because he
must have the fundamentals; but in history, literature,
etc., he goes very rapidly. His people are of the mill-
class; I suspect his father of being a bootlegger, and his
mother says, "I seen," and "I taken," but they are good
people; they will not allow that boy to be embarrassed by
going to public school.

Another afflicted child was Billy; he had always been
very delicate, was diabetic, and only wanted to play the
piano. He failed continually in public school, but I gave
him as little of the things that were foreign to music as
I could; we studied lives of musicians, poetry, a little
French, and let him receive a "diploma" for high school
work when he finished. His mother says nothing had
ever thrilled him so much as that "graduation," held with
a few intimate friends present, at his home one night.
Now he is studying pipe organ, has three piano pupils, and
plays accompaniments for a busy singing teacher. He
plays beautifully, and has all the "learning" necessary to
be a useful citizen. I have "graduated" three other pupils

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

in more or less similar situations fitting round pegs into
square holes, as it were.

Now the "Won'ts" are not so interesting or attractive;
they are usually spoiled children, or, as one mother said in
the presence of her son Johnny, they are "problem chil-
dren." This Johnny always got spring fever, and she al-
lowed him to drop out of school. I took him in the spring
of the seventh grade, found him very bright, gave him the
same final examinations that the public school gave, and
he made very high grades. So I asked his mother to send
him on to high school, and when he felt a touch of spring
fever coming on, to send him to me for tutoring, to keep
him up in his classes. But no, she sent him to Riverside;
he stood that just three weeks; tried high school for two
weeks; and is now back with me. He comes to school on
an average of three days a week; is still quite bright, but I
can't teach him when he isn't present.

Another boy, Jack, has a queer mother; she babies her-
self and him; for a long time, in fact, for three years, I got
no results from him; but this year he is progressing in
spite of his mother. He seems to have developed pride in
his work, and a seemingly hopeless case has become one
of my best pupils.

By far the most attractive pupils have been army chil-
dren. Due to a lack of co-ordination in the high school
curricula of various states, many children sent to Fort
Benning are not quite prepared to take their places in Co-
lumbus High School. I take them for a term and give
them what they lack for this particular high school. They
are usually bright, normal children, and are always a
pleasure to teach.

My first co-teacher had to give up the work on account
of her health. So for a year and a half I carried on alone
I taught some 40 or 50 classes between the hours of nine
a. m. and twelve noon. Anything from reading "Treas-
ure Island" to the almost blind boy, and drilling multipli-
cation tables, to plane goemetry, French, and biology.
This year, however, I have a new assistant, Mrs. Compton,
who relieves me of much drudgery, who helps nurse the
only really simple child we have, and who also takes the
responsibility in case my own family gets sick. If I have
to be away for any reason, it is a relief to have somebody
to take charge; and while she can't teach French, Latin, or
higher math, she can do as well in readin', writin', and
'rithmetic, as I can. We work smoothly together, and
both have as much as we can attend to, with this year's
crop of eight students. We keep our time within three

hours, thus leaving plenty of time for our own household
duties and families.

As for my building, the main idea in the beginning was
to keep down the overhead, so I have always taught right
in my own home. I put up card tables in the bedrooms,
put rag rugs under their big feet, and put aside a little of
my earnings for "rent" and heat. When the floors be-
come too scuffed, I have them done over, and charge that
to overhead. I once considered building a two-room ga-
rage apartment with bath and kitchenette, in case I ever
wanted to rent it out; but my daughter goes to A. S. C.
next fall, and will leave a vast emptiness in her place, so
I think we'll continue with our "Home-School"; there is
plenty of room for it, for my own children are at their
schools while mine is in progress. Of course, if the school
grows too much, I'll have to build the school-house, but
right now, there is no need.

Now, although I am running a Private School, my one
ambition for my pupils is to get them back into public
school whenever it is possible. There is no training in
democracy to equal our public school system, and when-
ever a pupil applies for admission to my school, I advise his
remaining in public school. If he is failing, I suggest a
series of afternoon coaching lessons to see if we can find
what his trouble is, and remedy it. The school authorities
here co-operate with me, send me pupils, and lend me
books for my work. If a child breaks a leg or an arm, he
can come to me, keep up his work, and receive credit when
he returns. It took them a long time to grant me this
courtesy, because a "private tutor" was considered an easy
mark, who did all the pupil's work. I never asked any
favor of the school authorities, but they found that I ex-
pected the pupil to do his own work, that I preferred an
entrance examination to be given on his return to public
school. So now that my reputation is established, they
take my recommendations without question.

Now and then my own children will jokingly beg me
to let them come to my school. I answer that I consider
myself particularly blessed that my own do not HAVE to
go to a private school. Oh how lucky we are when we
are normal, and have to act as normal human beings!

The work is fascinating, however, and there is nothing
more exciting than to see the dawn break in a clouded
little mind! The money I make goes for the luxuries that
we love to give our children for those Scout Dues; that
new evening dress that she really doesn't need, but wants;
for the thousand and one pleasant things that they
COULD do without.

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Alum. IV: I know. Let's build the new dormitory.

Alum. I: And dedicate it to the memory of Miss Hopkins.

Alum. II: $100,000? Ooh. Do you think we could?

Miss McKinney: It's quite an undertaking. But in what
better way could you uphold the ideal of loyalty and
service that has been the spirit of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation since 1895? In what better way could you pay
tribute to Miss Hopkins, who was so interested in the
Association from its earliest beginnings?
Miss Hopkins, about whom an alumna has said:

Miss Alexander: "We remember with gratitude our asso-
ciation with Miss Hopkins; we are daily aware of her
continuing influence among us, an influence that is
gracious and fortifying; we rejoice in the rare quality

of her spirit. Having once been put into the world,
such a spirit of its own accord lives, breathes, grows
eternally. It is for us to resolve that she shall con-
tine her quiet work among us."

PRESIDENT'S VIEWPOINT
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Hall. It will render a great and needed service on the
campus, and it will be a splendid memorial for one of the
greatest spirits that has ever influenced our campus. I
believe that our alumnae are going to enjoy thoroughly
even the strenuous task of raising the money, and I know
they will rejoice in the results which we expect to be ac-
complished.

It is my earnest hope that we may not only secure the
fund, but that we may secure it from as nearly 100% of
"our girls" as may be at all possible. The unanimity of
support on the part of students, faculty, officers, and
trustees encourages us to look for similar devotion on the
part of those who have "gone on before."

57 Alumnae Groups Observe Founder's Day

Anderson, S. C, group met at the
home of Jack (Evans) Brownlee from
six-thirty until eight, and had an in-
teresting program. Eunice (Dean)
Major was chairman for the group
and rounded up five loyal Agnes
Scotters to listen in to the broadcast
and read the news letter. The alumnae
attending were Stella (McClelland)
Clotfelter, Jean Kirkpatrick, Juliet
(Foster) Speer, Eunice (Evans)
Brownlee, and Eunice (Dean) Major.

Atlanta, Decatur, and Business
Girls' Clubs joined forces for a splen-
did banquet at the Atlanta Athletic-
Club at seven o'clock. The attractive
gold and white programs, designed by
Leone (Bowers) Hamilton, presented
a theme of "The Gates of Agnes Scott
Are Open to the Past and the Future."
Maryellen (Harvey) Newton, presi-
dent of the Decatur Club, presided
at the banquet. Frances (Gilliland)
Stukes opened the program by sing-
ing "The Angel's Serenade," a song
sung at the first commencement of
Agnes Scott. Martha (Rogers) Noble,
president of the Atlanta Club, gave
an interesting sketch of the Nineties,
and Almeda Flutcheson, president of
the Business Girls' Club, sketched the
Nineteen-Hundreds. Frances Stukes
and Amelia Nickels led the group in
singing "In the Shade of the Old Ap-
ple Tree," reminiscent of that era at
the college. Anne (Hart) Equen,
president of the Alumnae Association,
painted a vivid word picture of the
Teens and Twenties, after which the
whole group joined in singing "It's a
Long, Long Way to Tipperary" and
"There's a Long, Long Trail A-Wind-
ing." Dean Carrie Scandrett brought
glimpses of the present at Agnes
Scott, and Dr. J. R. McCain outlined
dreams of the future with Agnes
Scott and the University Center.
Captain George Scott Candler, grand-
son of the founder of the college, set
the pace for the future, with an in-
spiring talk on "Agnes Scott for
America." Beautifully executed dec-
orations in gold carried out the Semi-
centennial idea, and grateful thanks
go to Jane (Harwell) Rutland, Essie
(Roberts) Dupre, Edythe (Coleman)
Paris, and Martine (Tuller) Joyner of
the Atlanta Club for their contribu-
tions. Eighty local alumnae with their
husbands and escorts enjoyed this oc-
casion.

Asheville, North Carolina, alumnae
met at the S. and W. for dinner, and
heard the broadcast together, Martha

Alice (Green) Earle acted as chair-
man for the group, and arranged a
program including the record, news
letter, and general discussion of plans
at Agnes Scott. The group planned
their next meeting for March 2, at
which time they gave a tea for
Llewellyn Wilburn. Present at the
Feb. 22 meeting were Miss Mary
Westall, former professor of Biology
at Agnes Scott; Marian (Hodges)
Anthony, Elizabeth Sanders, Maurine
(Bledsoe) Bramlett, Mary Lillian Fair-
ly, Virginia Earle, Martha Alice
(Green) Earle, and Mrs. R. Bedinger.

Athens and Winder Georgia,
groups met together at the home of
Mrs. H. H. Cobb on Milledge, and
sent the following wire to the radio
station: "Love and Congratulations
from Athens and Winder girls meet-
ing together." Mary Louise (Schu-
man) Simpson was chairman of the
Athens group and Carolyn Russell of
the Winder alumnae.

Augusta, Georgia, Club met at the
Blue Moon Tea Room for dinner on
Feb. 22. The group listened to the
broadcast, and after dinner, had the
privilege of hearing Dr. Philip David-
son, professor of history at Agnes
Scott, speak on plans for the Univer-
sity Center. New officers were elected
at the meeting and are: president,
Fannie Mae (Morris) Stephens; vice-
president, Sara Fullbright; secretary,
Jeannette (Victor) Levy; and treas-
urer, Eugenia Symms. The meeting
was presided over by Elizabeth
Baethke, president, and alumnae at-
tending include: Eugenia Symms,
Mary (Willis) Smith, Katheryn (Lei-
pold) Johnson, Carolyn White, Mary
Hull, Minnie (Clarke) Cordle, Jean-
nette (Victor) Levy, Margaret
(Jones) Clark, Janet Newton, Vir-
gina Stephens, Fannie Mae (Morris)
Stephens, Jane (Lewis) Chandler,
Sara Fullbright, Eva (Constantine)
Nicholson, Elizabeth Baethke, Mrs. C.
A. Scruggs, and Dr. and Mrs. Philip
Davidson.

Austin, Texas, has the distinction
of having a club composed of two
members, Lula Daniel Ames, and her
car David Peter, who have faithfullv
listened in to the broadcast for the
past two years. Lulu reports a grand
reception in Texas and a good time
singing the Alma Mater with Frances
Stukes.

Blooiuingfon, Indiana, group, com-
posed of Martha (Brenner) Shryock
and her two prospective Agnes Scott-

ers, ages seven and five, listened in
and report a fair reception, "good
enough to get all the thrills" as Mar-
tha puts it!

Birmingham, Alabama, Club met at
the Moulton Hotel for dinner. Enid
Middleton, president of the Club,
gave a greeting and read the news let-
ter from the college. The Club lis-
tened to the broadcast and the record,
which was "the hit of the program."
New officers elected are: President,
Katherine Woodbury; vice-president,
Louise (Abney) Beech; secretary,
Eleanor Gresham. The club will meet
again for luncheon on March 23.
Members attending the Founder's Day
meeting were Katherine Woodbury,
Lucile (Woodbury) Ranck, of Fort
Riley, Kansas; Adelaide (Ransom)
Bairnsfather, Rossie (Ritchie) John-
ston; Alice (Gillespy) Lawson, Mar-
garet Loranz, Louise (Abney) Beech,
Nell (Allison) Sheldon, Nell (Echols)
Burks, Edith Gilchrist, Eleanor Gres-
ham, Sally (Horton) Lay, Gretchen
Kleybecker and Enid Middleton. The
following wire was read over the radio
program: "Happy birthday, Alma
Mater! Will be listening tonight.
Proud of your fifty years progress and
one hundred percent behind your fu-
ture plans!"

Brunswick, Georgia, group met
with Lousie (Pheiffer) Ringel, who
acted as chairman for Brunswick.

Camden, Arkansas, alumnae gath-
ered at the home of Ethel (Freeland)
Darden to hear the broadcast and have
supper together. The news letters and
the record of Dr. McCain's voice were
greatly enjoyed. The four alumnae in
Camden were present at the meeting
and they are: Frances Amis, Irene
(Watts) McDonald, Helen (Watts)
McGill, and Ethel (Freeland) Darden.

Cartersville, Georgia, alumnae
could not get together to hear the pro-
gram, but Octavia (Young) Harvey
called them all to tell them of the
hour of the program.

Chapel Hill and Durham, North
Carolina, alumnae met in Chapel Hill
at the Carolina Inn for dinner. Ann
Worthy Johnson and Mary Venetia
(Smith) Bryan rounded up both
groups for a good time together. Fea-
tures of the program were Dr. Mc-
Cain's record and the broadcast,
which they enjoyed very much. The
group attending the meeting included:
Sara McCain, Julia McConnell, Betty
Moore, Bertha Merrill, Mary Venetia
(Smith) Bryan, Susan (Rose) Saun-

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ders, Frances Brown, Page Ackerman,
and Ann Worthy Johnson.

Charleston, South Carolina, Club
met at the Magic Lantern for dinner.
The group listened to the radio pro-
gram, and had the record broadcast
through courtesy of a Charleston radio
station. The chairman, Margaret
Burge, reports that the Club will meet
again in the spring, as so many of the
members were sick that they did not
have a quorum. Those present at the
meeting on Feb. 22 included: Mr. and
Mrs. Hansford Sams, Mr. and Mrs.
John Van de Erve, and their daugh-
ter, Jeannette, who is a prospective
Agnes Scotter; Helen Clark Martin,
and Margaret E. Burge.

Charlotte, N. C, Club met at
Thacker's for dinner, and had Llewel-
lyn Wilburn as guest speaker for the
evening. Barton Jackson, president,
presided over the meeting, and Frances
Miller, vice-president of the Club, in-
troduced Miss Wilburn, who spoke on
"Agnes Scott Yesterday, Today, and
Tomorrow." Maria Rose was ap-
pointed chairman of a nominating
committee and committee members
are Irene Lowrance, and Cama (Bur-
gess) Clarkson. Forty members of
the Charlotte Club attended the meet-
ing and sent the following wire of
congratulations: "Forty Alumnae en-
joyed broadcast and Miss Wilburn's
presence. Congratulations!"

Chattanooga, Tenn., Club, with
Mary (Malone) White as chairman,
met at Alice McCallie's home on Shal-
lowford Road for tea. Mary (Ma-
lone) White read the news letter; each
person was given a question and an-
swer from the campaign quiz and the
chairman acted as Dr. Quiz; the
group enjoyed the record very much,
and all sang the Alma Mater as fi-
nale. Plans for a spring meeting in
honor of the high school seniors were
made. Attending the Feb. 22 meet-
ing were: Rosemary (May) Kent,
Sarah (Stansell) Felts, Elizabeth
(Stoops) Sibold, Fidesah (Edwards)
Ingram, Frances Swaney, Emily
(Hutter) Stewart, Elma (Swaney)
Nelson, Jean (Austin) Meacham,
Mary Henderson, of Chickamauga,
Georgia; Alma (Roberts) Betts, Anne
McCallie, Shirley Christian, Alice Mc-
Callie, Frances (Thatcher) Moses,
Marion Chapman, Martha (England)
Gunn, and Mary (Malone) White.
Hostesses for the occasion were: Anne
McCallie, Alice McCallie, Shirley
Christian, and Mary (Malone) White.

Chicago, Illinois, Club met for din-
ner at Fred Harvey's in the Loop, and
had an interesting program with the
news letter, the campaign quiz, and
the record of Dr. McCain. Lilly Weeks
acted as chairman for the group and

meeting with her were: Josephine
Bertolli, Mildred (Davis) Adams,
Eloise Lower, Amelia O'Neal, Blanche
(Ryan) Brim, Margaret (Sienknecht)
Lotz, Charis (Hood) Barwick, Mary
Clay Price, Mary (Walton) Berry,
and Jane Allen (Webb) Moore.

Columbus, Georgia, Club met at the
Woman's Club for dinner, with Myr-
tle Blackmon and Georgia Mae
(Burns) Bristow acting as co-chair-
men for the meeting. Fifteen alumnae
heard the broadcast, the record, the
news letter and the general conversa-
tion about Agnes Scott. A wire from
the group was sent to the Association,
reading: "Happy birthday to Agnes
Scott. Will be listening in tonight."
The group reports on .the program as
follows: "Dr. McCain's talk was the
perfect ending to the most delightful
occasion. We all joined in our thanks
to the one who had the brilliant idea
of recording the voices of those we
love. We only wish we had one of
Miss Hopkins speaking to her girls."
The Columbus alumnae present were:
Hallie (Alexander) Turner, Louise
(Baker) Knight, Myrtle Blackmon,
Antoinette (Blackburn) Rust, Martha
(Bradford) Thurmond, Ruth (Bral-
ford) Crayton, Sara Lou Bullock,
Georgia Mae (Burns) Bristow, Clarkie
Davis, Lillian (Eason) Duncan, Eliza-
beth (Heath) Singletary, Louise
(Schuessler) Patterson, Mary Louise
(Thames) Cartledge, Charlotte Gol-
den, and Josephine (Schuessler) Ste-
vens.

Dalton, Georgia, alumnae met with
Jane Moore Hamilton for tea on the
afternoon of Feb. 22. Present were:
Lottie (Anderson) Pruden, Mary
Hamilton, Martha Lin (Manly)
Hogshead, Gertrude (Manly) McFar-
land, Margaretta (Womelsdorf)
Lumpkin, Mary Stuart (Sims) Mc-
Camy, Ethel (Flemister) Fite, Fannie
B. Harris, Ethelyn (Johnson) Rob-
erts, Lulu (Smith) Wescott, Mary
Emma (Ashcraft) Greer, Eulalia
(Napier) Sutton, Jane Moore Hamil-
ton, and Mrs. Ogburn Alley and Mrs.
J. J. Copeland.

Dayton, Tennessee, alumnae listen-
ing in to the broadcast were Frances
Robinson and Andrewena (Robinson)
Davis, who sent the following wire:
"Another Founder's Day, another
year of progress. Congratulations.
We will be listening."

Dot ban, Alabama, alumnae were
notified of the broadcast by Annie
Houston Newton and Margaret Doak,
but were unable to get together this
year.

Elberton, Georgia, alumnae met for
the first time at the home of Jean
Barry (Adams) Weersing, who acted
as chairman for the group. They re-

port a splendid reception of the broad-
cast, keen enthusiasm for Dr. Mc-
Cain's record, the reading of the news
letter interspersed with reminiscences,
the campaign question box and "chat-
ter." Present were: Zelma (Allen)
Tabor, Dorothy (Dudley) McCIana-
han, Florence Lasseter, Marigene
(Payne) Funsten, Arnaldina Thorn-
ton, and the hostess, Jean Barry
(Adams) Weersing.

Florence, Alabama, also met for the
first time, and had a dinner meeting
with their chairman, Josephine (Stan-
ley) Marbut. The group is small and
will not have a definite organization
but plans to meet again next year.
They reported good radio reception
and an interesting program. Attend-
ing were: Hazel (Rogers) Marks,
Anne Hudmon, and Jo (Marbut)
Stanley.

Gainesville, Florida, alumnae met
with Anna (Humber) Little for tea
on Feb. 22. A program including the
record, campaign questions and the
news letter proved enjoyable to the
four alumnae who were able to at-
tend the meeting. They were: Mary
Jane Tigert, Lucille Cairns, Frances
Norman, and Anne (Humber) Little.

Griffin, Georgia, Club had a splen-
did meeting with Elizabeth Cousins
and Marguerite (Cousins) Holley at
Experiment, Georgia. The program
included the news letter and the
broadcast. The house was attractive-
ly decorated with purple and white
hyacinths, and a delicious salad course
was served by the hostesses. Enjoy-
ing this delightful party were: Laura
(Cooper) Christopher, Katharine
(Gilliland) Higgins, Mariwill (Hanes)
Hulsey, Elizabeth (McDowell) Scott,
Sarah (McDowell) Joiner, Jeannette
(Nichols) Wheaton, Rossie Belle
Newton, Fanny Willis (Niles) Bolton,
Emma (Reckerman) Hayes, Kather-
ine Wolcott, Mary Ella (Hammond)
McDowell, Elizabeth Cousins, and
Marguerite (Cousins) Holley, and
Marie (Johnson) Fort.

Gulfport, Mississippi: Sarah (Till)
Davis was ill in Gulfport and unable
to attend the Mississippi meeting in
Jackson, so she wired us: "Sick abed
but listening in and never forgetting
Agnes Scott."

Henclcrsoniillc, N. C, alumnae
were too widely scattered on Feb. 22
to have a meeting, but Laura (Cand-
ler) Wilds sent the following message:
"Mothers and fathers of Henderson-
ville alumnae send greetings."

Jacksonville, Fla., Club met for tea
at the home of Mary (Goodrich)
Meredith. Marjorie Simmons presided
over the meeting and the group lis-
tened to the record from Dr. McCain,
the news letter, and the campaign

APRIL, 1940

15

material. Plans for a meeting in May
were made and the following new of-
ficers were elected: president, Mar-
jorie Simmons; secretary, Helen (Mer-
rill) Slappey, and treasurer, Dorothy
(Cheek) Callaway. Those present in-
cluded: Gertrude (Henry) Wall,
Mary Helen (Mack) Wimberly, Anne
(Waddell) Bethea, Mary (Goodrich)
Meredith, Gertrude (Briesenick) Ross,
Margaret (Wood) Watson, Dorothy
(Sheek) Callaway, Mary Ellen Colyer,
Martha Zellner, Beth Paris, Jane
Coughlin, Helen (Merrill) Slappey,
and Marjorie Simmons.

Little Rock, Arkansas, group made
plans to meet with Helon (Brown)
Williams on Feb. 22, but postponed
the meeting one week because of flu
epidemic in Little Rock. Helon sent
the following wire on Feb. 22: "Radio
program just over and still thrilling
my elder daughter and me. Flu post-
poned meeting at my house till next
week. Plan to talk over hearing pro-
gram and Agnes Scott past, present
and future. Hope to have Elizabeth
McKee, bride-elect, with us then.
Love to every single one!"

Lynchburg, Virginia, Club met at
the home of Katie (Mitchell) Lynn
for dessert and heard the broadcast to-
gether. Hostesses were Dorothy Jes-
ter, Courtney Wilkinson, and Katie
(Mitchell) Lynn. The newly elected
chairman of this group is Courtney
Wilkinson. The club plans to meet
again next year. Seven Lynchburg
alumnae attended the meeting.

Macon, Georgia, alumnae were in-
vited to meet with Sara (Johnston)
Carter at her home, but the unex-
pected illness of Sara's husband neces-
sitated a trip to Florida where he was
in a hospital, and the meeting was
indefinitely postponed.

Marietta, Georgia, alumnae were
contacted by Sarah (Tate) Tumlin
and invited to listen to the broadcast
at her home.

Memphis, Tennessee, alumnae were
invited to the home of Margaret
(Rowe) Jones in Dogwood Hills, for
tea on Feb. 22. Margaret (Smith)
Lyon is president of the Memphis
Club, but was called out of town be-
cause of serious illnesses in her family.

Miami, Florida, Club had a splendid
meeting with twenty-one present at
the Housekeeper's Club in Coconut
Grove. Elizabeth (Shaw) McClam-
rock was the very capable chairman
and directed a program including the
record, news from the campus, the
broadcast and the election of new of-
ficers. The club was organized to
have regular quarterly meetings, and
the following officers were elected:
president, Chopin (Hudson) Han-
kins; vice-president, Mary Buchholz;

secretary, Zoe Wells; and treasurer,
Elizabeth (Shaw) McClamrock. The
next meeting of the club will be when
the campaign representatives are in
Miami. Speaker of the evening was
Miss Lillian Smith, former professor
of Latin at Agnes Scott, who chose as
her subject "On the Campus." The
program was concluded by a true-
false test on facts about Agnes Scott,
and the singing of the Alma Mater.
The following wire was sent by the
club: "Got the program beautifully at
dinner meeting tonight. Organized a
club and elected officers. Best wishes
for Agnes Scott." Present were: Mar-
garet Brinson, Frances (Dukes)
Wynne, Garth (Gray) Hall, Frances
Hampton, Chopin (Hudson) Han-
kins, Mary (West) Thatcher, Pauline
Wynne, Isabel (Carr) Battle, Nina
Parke, Elizabeth (Shaw) McClam-
rock, Mary Buchholz, Zoe Wells, Bue-
lah (Kendrick) Telford, Robert
(Stockton) Crossland, Elva (Brehm)
Florrid, Miss Lillian Smith, Eleanor
Nelson, Josephine (Stephens) Ayer,
Ruth Taylor and Anne (Houston)
Shires.

Mississippi State Club had their an-
nual meeting at Jackson, Mississippi,
with President Catherine Ricks presid-
ing over a luncheon at Helen Chas-
tain's Tea Room. The program in-
cluded the news letter, the record and
a quiz on Agnes Scott. The group
planned a spring meeting to honor the
high school seniors, and hope to have
Miss Wilburn at the meeting. Those
present at the Feb. 22 meeting in-
cluded: Ruth Virden, Shirlev (Fair-
ley) Hendrick, Virginia Louise New-
ton, Miriam Jones, Marguerite (Wat-
kins) Goodman, Catherine Ricks, Bur-
nett (Maganos) Hatcher, and Mrs. S.
C. Saby, and Mrs. S. A. Robinson.

M. S. C. W. Club at Columbus,
Mississippi, writes that the two of
them heard the broadcast together
and then had dinner in the college tea
room. Anna Katherine Fulton and
Annie Tait Jenkins listened in to the
broadcast and reminisced over their
dinner together.

Mobile, Alabama, alumnae met with
Grace (Harris) Durant at her home
from five-thirty to six-thirty for an
informal tea. Although they were
unable to get the radio program they
did enjoy the record and news letters.
We congratulate the group on getting
together for this Feb. 22, after having
unsuccessfully tried to arrange meet-
ings for the last several years. Present
at this meeting were: Mary Donna
Crawford, Mary (Danner) Frazer,
Mary (Harris) Coffin, Edith Rich-
ards, and Grace (Harris) Durant.

Monroe, Georgia, alumnae met with
Allie (Felker) Nunnally for tea. The

group sent the following wire to the
radio station: "The Monroe Agnes
Scott Club listening in with great en-
thusiasm." Present at the meeting
were: Florence (Day) Ellis, Clara
Knox (Nunnally) Roberts, Willie
(Peek) Almand, and Allie (Felker)
Nunnally.

Monroe, Louisiana, alumna listen-
ing in was Dean McKoin, who sent
the following wire: "Love and best
wishes for continued developments
and prosperity."

Nacogdoches, Texas, was not too
far from WSB, according to Mary
Ann McKinney who reported that she
listened to the broadcast and joined
in the Alma Mater with all the other
people listening in.

Nashville, Tennessee, Club had a
splendid meeting with Lavalette
(Sloan) Tucker and Anna Marie
(Landress) Cate as hostesses to twelve
local alumnae at the Ceentennial Club.
Mary Elizabeth Moss read the news
letter to the group as they sat around
sat around a fire in the lounge.
After tea in the dining room, they
closed with the record, "a fitting
climax to the meeting! We felt that
Dr. McCain was in the room with us."
Present at the meeting were: India
(Jones) Mizell, Sarah (Robinson)
Sharp, Lavalette (Sloan) Tucker,
Elizabeth (Smith) DeWitt, Eudora
(Campbell) Haynie, Olive Graves,
Mary Elizabeth Moss, Annie Lee
Crowell, Mary Frances (Hale) Stringe,
Anne Marie (Landress) Cate, Sarah
(Harrison) Parker, and Amy (Wal-
den) Harrell.

Neiv Haven, Connecticut, Club
met at the Y. W. C. A. for a dinner
in a private dining room. Polly
(Stone) Buck was hostess for the
group, and Flora (Crowe) Whitmire
served as chairman. Virginia Pretty-
man, who was a member of the college
faculty last year, gave up-to-date re-
ports of the college, which were great-
ly enjoyed. The broadcast did not
come through clearly, in spite of a
splendid radio, but the record and the
campaign material were enjoyed by
those present. Representing the Con-
necticut alumnae were Jennie Lynn
(DuVal) Nyman, Josephine (Merritt)
Johnston, Katherine Seay, Virginia
Prettyman, Polly (Stone) Buck, Jose-
phine Barry Brown, and Flora
(Crowe) Whitmire.

New Orleans, Louisiana, Club met
with Helen Lane (Comfort) Sanders
for tea, and heard the broadcast, the
record and the news letter together.
The group sent the following wire:
"Thirteen loyal Agnes Scotters meet-
ing at Helen Lane Sanders' house en-
joying the program, record, letter and
each other!" Among the thirteen

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

were: Kitty Reid, Imogene Hudson,
Elizabeth Lightcap, Clara (Waldrop)
Loving, Sarah (Turner) Ryan, Geor-
gia May (Little) Owens, Cornelia
Wallace, Lelia (Joiner) Cooper, Laura
(Spivey) Massie, Almon (Hooper)
Drane, Muriel (Bultman) Francis, and
Stuart (Sanderson) Clay. Assisting
the hostess was Grace (Carr) Clark.

Neiv York Alumnae Club had their
Founder's Day meeting on Feb. 27 at
a downtown tea room. The club en-
joyed a delightful dinner together, and
a very interesting program. The presi-
dent, Mary Catherine Williamson,
presided over a "Dr. Quiz" game that
taxed everybody's memory about Ag-
nes Scott. A beautiful pen and ink
drawing of Main Tower, drawn by
Leone (Bowers) Hamilton, was given
as a prize in the quiz. The New York
Club sent this wire: "We are proud to
be alumnae of Agnes Scott. May
your wonderful work go on and on
and may the beautiful spirit of Agnes
Scott be in each of our hearts always.
Our love and greetings to each and
every one today," signed by Mary
Catherine Williamson, president of the
N. Y. Club. And from the Four
Horsemen of New York came this
amusing wire: "Twenty-niners four in
count, Hatchett, Knight, Gash and
Mount GREETINGS!"

Ouincy, Florida, alumnae met with
Helen (Etheredge) Griffin at seven
o'clock, and enjoyed a program in-
cluding the broadcast, the news let-
ter and informal discussions of days at
Agnes Scott together. Attending the
meeting were: Helen (Barton) Clay-
ton, Attie (DuVal) Lamar, Sallie Key,
Sarah May Love, Sallie (McRee)
Maxwell, Pearl (Trodgon) Love, of
Defuniak Springs, and Helen (Ether-
edge) Griffin.

Richmond, Virginia, Club rounded
up by capable Isabel (McCain) Brown
met for dinner at the Gypsy Tavern,
and had a grand time together. Fea-

tured on the program were the broad-
cast, the phonograph record also over
the radio, the campaign quiz, the news
letter, and the election of Kate
(Lumpkin) Wicker as new chairman
for the group. Listening in were:
Nannie Campbell, Juliet (Cox) Cole-
man, Gladys Gaines, Isabel (McCain)
Brown, Margaret Wakefield, Harriet
Williams, Margaret Douglas, Mary
Junkin, and Mary (Champe) Raftery,
who came up from Ashlands to attend
the meeting.

Ridgefield, N . J., alumnae listening
in were Julia Stokes and Dorothy
(Mitchell) Ellis, who met at the
Stokes home and had tea together.
Julia writes that they had much fun
looking at the new Quarterly, and
making plans for a trip over to New
York to the Club dinner on Feb. 27.

St. Louis, Missouri, alumnae met
with Charlotte Hunter, assistant dean
of the college, who was in St. Louis
attending a dean's conference on
Founder's Day. Charlotte entertained
the alumnae at tea at the Statler Ho-
tel. Those attending were: Alva Baum,
Lucile (Lane) Bailey, and Florence
(Preston) Bockhurst.

St. Petersburg, Florida, alumnae
were unable to have a meeting, but
Hazel (Wolfle) Frakes notified them
all of the program, and she, Dorothy
Brown, and Frances West heard the
broadcast.

Stone Mountain, Georgia, alumnae
sent the following wire: "The Stone
Mountain Alumnae salute you on your
anniversary." Louise (McCain) Boyce
is chairman of this group.

Tallahassee, Florida, alumnae met at
the home of Ermine (Malone) Owen-
by for dinner on Feb. 22. Elizabeth
Lynn, chairman of the group, reports
that they enjoyed the record extreme-
ly, but found the radio program too
short. The Tallahassee alumnae are
planning a steak fry at the home of
Gertrude (Ausley) Kelley later in the

The New Haven Alumnae Club, the club most distant from the college, pictured at their
Founder's Day meeting.

spring. Present at the Feb. 22 meet-
ing were: Ermine (Malone) Owenby,
Gertrude (Ansley) Kelley, Estelle
Bryan, Olive (Hard wick) Cross,
Elizabeth Lynn, and Marjorie Ann
Young.

Tampa, Florida, Club met at the
home of Helen (Smith) Taylor, pres-
ident of the club, for tea. They en-
joyed an interesting program of news
from the college, and the record, and
elected new officers for next year.
Helen (Smith) Taylor was re-elected
president; Nina (Anderson) Thomas
is the new vice-president; Nelle
(Frye) Johnston is secretary, and
Gregory (Rowlett) Weidman, pub-
licity chairman. Present at the meet-
ing were: Nell (Frye) Johnston, Nina
(Anderson) Thomas, Ruth (Marion)
Wisdom, Elizabeth (Parham) Wil-
liams, Audrey (Peacock) Lott, Mar-
gery (Moore) Macauley, Blanche
(Copeland) Gifford, Margaret Deav-
er, Mary Louise Robinson, Marian
(Albury) Pitts, Rosalind (Wurm)
Council, Nellie (Blackburn) Airth,
Helen (Smith) Taylor, Gregory
(Rowlett) Weidman, and Mrs. Em-
mett Anderson.

Thomaston, Georgia, alumnae met
for the second consecutive year, at the
home of their chairman, Elinor
(Hamilton) Hightower. Six local
alumnae enjoyed tea together and a
program composed of the record, the
news letter, and the view booklets.
Attending the meeting were: Martha
(Red wine) Rountree, Ernestine

(Black) Binford, Sara (Matthews)
Britt, Josephine (Pou) Vainer, Mar-
tha (Whitner) Simpson, and Elinor
(Hamilton) Hightower.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, alumnae met
for tea at the home of Julia (Nuzum)
Morris. Helen (Friedman) Black-
shear was chairman for this group.

Valdosta, Georgia, alumnae met for
the first time with Mary (Gillespie)
Thompson acting as chairman. Eight
alumnae met at Hyta Plowden's to
hear the broadcast and the record. Ac-
cording to the chairman, "We had a
grand time and talked a blue streak
about school days. We liked the rec-
ord best of all and played it six times!"

Williston, Florida, was not repre-
sented with an alumnae meeting, but
Susan (Young) Eagan and her daugh-
ter, Anne, wired from Williston on
their way to Miami: "Ann and I send
love and all good wishes to our col-
lege."

Winston-Salem, N. C, Club met at
Meriel (Bull) Mitchell's new home
at seven and heard the broadcast, the
record, and read the quiz and the news
letter. Cleo (McLaurin) Baldridge,
of Hanes, was selected president for
the next year.

front A Tower Window

WINTER QUARTER, 1940

By SABINE BRUMBY. '41

Nobody seems to remember any-
thing important that happened in
1940 on the campus further back
than the Great Snow unless it was
the Great Ice a week or two before.
The first morning when we awoke to
find ourselves under six inches of
snow and getting farther under all
the time, not a soul could take life se-
riously or go to class without wonder-
ing how teachers expected a girl to
recite her lessons when everything was
all still and white, and everybody was
throwing snowballs (faculty includ-
ed). The radio news reporter in-
formed hopeful Hottentots that
schools were being closed in Atlanta
and vicinity, Rome, and Gainesville.,
but failed to mention Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia. A number
of sculpturesses materialized around
campus, and produced at least one
masterpiece a buxom young woman
with scarlet finger-nails, corkscrew
curls, and very much of a bustle.
There is just no telling how many
girls posed for the camera beside this
maiden, and sent the snapshots home
to the family, saying: "Look what I
made!"

The Sophomore-Senior coalition
split, and fought the Major Conflict
of the week on the northwest corner
of the hockey field with snowballs as
ammunition. Neither side was partic-
ular about whom they recruited; in
fact, a good part of Emory University
became involved as well as all fresh-
men and juniors who were in the
mood. Like all wars, the battle didn't
prove a thing. The Emory boys de-
serted, (got cold feet) and every girl
went home all ha^py because her team
had won.

The snow was still three inches
deep when Dr. McCain led the student
body and faculty from chapel over to
the front of Buttrick to have its pic-
ture taken. The photographer, re-
markably enthusiastic considering the
temperature, took matters in hand im-
mediately, and waved his arm in wide
circles, and roared: "Faculty! Oh,
Faculty! Hurry up and take your
seats on the front row!" We all looked
pleasant three times for the camera.
With the last click, the photographer
leaped forward, shouting on the leap:
"Now Faculty, pick up your bench
and move it a little bit forward, so

the girls can get down." A whole
row of professors gallantly and cheer-
fully moved their bench to clear the
way for the students.

Snow reminds us of the Agnes Scott
News' scoop of the year. Everyone
was looking forward to hearing Rob-
ert Frost lecture, when the News came
out with the headlines: "He tried to

come anyway ," and prominent

campus journalists strutted around
smirking: "Ah-ha-a! We've known
since Monday!" Unfortunately his
physicians, Mr. Frost said, would not
allow him to fulfill his engagement at
the scheduled time. He says that he
owes us a visit, however, and will not
disappoint us.

Mortar Board, the institution for
the betterment of local social condi-
tions, instigated a little subtle reform
in Agnes Scott etiquette by the pub-
lication of the Campus Code, contain-
ing the final words on how the liber-
ally educated young girl behaves at
the dinner table, in the chapel, at Sen-
ior coffee, on the Decatur street car,
in the date parlor, etc., etc. I
wouldn't doubt that the Code is the
most quoted, and most quotable, lit-
erary work extant on campus. For
instance, when, hurrying to beat time
limit from Decatur, you run up be-
hind a solid block of Agnes Scott girls
who don't know how late it is, noth-
ing clears the sidewalk quite so fast as
(I quote) "Three is enough of a
crowd to walk together and four is a
road hog." This neat booklet is full
of truth and literary merit. How is
this for a definition of the librarv?
"The library sanctuary of quiet (?)
study is an intermediary step be-
tween the dormitory and the class-
room for those most likely to suc-
ceed."

The Sophomores went on the cam-
paign last month (to help raise their
pledge to Mr. Cunningham) by enter-
taining the campus with a real old-
fashioned barn dance and candy pull.
Everybody dragged out their last
summer's rags shorts, slacks, ging-
ham blouses, and tennis shoes that is,
everybody but a few individualists
such as the couple who came wrapped
in red and white crepe paper from
their ankles to their necks and said
they were masquerading as pepper-
mint sticks! The climax of the floor
show was the dramatic presentation
of that favorite in the Spoken Eng-
lish department beginning:

"Esquire Nimble Frog sat on a big log,
Just as happy as he could be;"
We have it from certain perennial
Junior Banqueters that this year's ban-
quet was the very best ever. But we
know that it is one of the old Agnes
Scott traditions that every banquet is
the best. The two most distinctive
features were ( 1 ) lack of after-dinner
speeches, (2) lack of any speeches ex-
cept a welcoming word by the class
president. Guests patted their feet to
the music of the Emory Aces. Girls
looked happy and animated over just
about every word said, from "Pass the
peas," to "Gosh, you look swell in
that blue thing!" And, as usual, there
was the mob of curious students who
hung over the bannisters of the Re-
bekah staircase and stared and criti-
cized.

Considering the seriousness of the
flu and mumps epidemics with their
dreadful toll in human liveliness, the
Swimming Club's pageant, Narcissus
and Echo, was written, practiced, and
presented in record time. It was a
sad tale told in simple, graceful, and
well-timed swimming strokes against
a background fraught with local color
(the lighting effects were wonder-
ful!). Like all great human trage-
dies, it began without a hint of im-
pending doom. Nobody exactly cried
when a group of Nymphs tripped to
the edge of the pool and warbled:
"Little Miss Echo, how do you do?

Hell-o . . . 'Hell-o'
How has Narcissus been treating vou?
Hell-o . . . 'Hello-o'."
In an open forum last month, Stu-
dent Government allowed the stu-
dents to unburden their minds in pub-
lic on the subject of the Telephone
Situation. It's a chronic problem
around campus how to get some-
body else's Bill to sign off so that your
own Bill can get a call through. We

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were practically unanimously agreed
that the switchboard operator, who in
her official capacity is nothing more
than an impersonal Voice and there-
fore cannot be sworn at with any sat-
isfaction that this operator be al-
lowed to use coercion in the form of
disconnecting the line, if the conver-
sation stretched out into a campus
date. Of course, this does not elimi-
nate the probability of Bill's calling
back two seconds later and taking up
where he was interrupted. But some-
times there's a little joy in making
others feel awkward!

There must be several reasons for
being glad we have a Founder's Day,
but the most familiar is the Holiday-
Banquet-Cotillion Dance reason. We
have a new George Washington every
year, even if he doesn't wear a new
suit. This year had more of the spirit
of the Civil War than that of the
Revolution. A few Rebels made
themselves evident by refusing (loud-
ly) to sing "Yankee Doodle." But
the Northerners retaliated by remain-
ing blatantly seated during the sing-
ing of "Dixie." The "Alma Mater,"
however, preserved the Union. Every-
body happily adjourned to the gym
to watch a number of prominent and
graceful Seniors prove that the mod-
ern girl can keep the 'swing' out of a
stately minuet.

This just about brings us around to
that tri-annual Exam Week that
long week of blue books, and blotters,
and inky fingers, of early morning ex-
cursions to the library, and coffee-
making in the halls late at night.
Think of it! Why, every morning at
8:50 a long column of stoical girls
tramp from the chapel to Buttrick
like prisoners to the death house! But
misery cannot last forever, or we die.
Spring holidays come like cold water
after a pill; and we, like Ferdinand,
will just sit and be happy.

Fine Arts Building Progresses

Rapid progress is being made on the
new Fine Arts Building now that the
snow and ice are gone and the archi-
tect has recovered from his old-fash-
ioned case of mumps! In this Presser
Building there will be a lovely new
small chapel as well as a new audi-
torium which will more satisfactorily
accommodate the crowds which gath-
er at the Agnes Scott festivities. The
art, speech, and music departments
are excited about being in a building
just for them. Here they will find
plenty of room for all the activities of
these three departments, to say noth-
ing of excellent equipment for the
departments such as good pianos and
a new organ and the blessing to the
rest of the campus, sound-proof prac-
tice rooms!

Lecture Association Features

Robert Frost, distinguished Amer-
ican poet, who was to be presented at
Agnes Scott on February 6 could not
fill his engagement because of ill
health. He will, however, be on the
campus on Mav 15, 16, and 17. He
will lecture publicly on the night of
May 16.

Harlow Shapley, Director of the
Harvard Observatory, lectured on
Wednesday, March 27, on "Exploring
Stars and Galaxies." The audience en-
joyed his discussion of the nebulae in
the most distant outer regions of the
universe and his illustrations by slides
and moving pictures which made his
explanations clearer.

On Thursday, January 25, in the
midst of the snow-storm that covered
Atlanta with ten inches of snow, Dr.
Douglas Southal Freeman, journalist,
biographer, and historian lectured at
Agnes Scott. He was presented under
the joint auspices of the Lecture Asso-
ciation and Phi Beta Kappa, the initia-
tion of new members being scheduled
during his visit. On Thursday evening,
immediately after the initiation, there
was a formal banquet at which the
honor guests were Dr. Freeman and
the four initiates: Evelyn Baty, Bir-
mingham; Ruth Eyles, Atlanta; Eva
Ann Pirkle, Atlanta; and Jane Salters,
Florence, S. C. Dr. Freeman spoke in-
formally and extemporaneously at the
banquet, the topic of his own choice
being "Evidences of the Greek Ideal in
American Life Today." Following
the banquet, Dr. Freeman spoke at the
lecture which was free to the public,
as a special Semi-Centennial celebra-
tion. He, as a biographer of Robert
E. Lee, spoke on styles and abilities of
biographies and a comparison of their
values.

Death of Mrs. Murphey Candler

The entire college community and
friends of Agnes Scott are sympathiz-
ing with the family of Mrs. Murphey
Candler, who died in February. Mrs.
Candler was the daughter of the foun-
der of Agnes Scott, Col. George
Washington Scott; wife of Mr. Mur-
phey Candler, who was trustee of the
college for longer than any other
trustee; mother of an alumna, Laura
(Candler) Wilds, Institute; and
grandmother of two Agnes Scott stu-
dents, Annie and Mary Scott Wilds.
Agnes Scott Radio Series

Often during the spring people have
said: "The Agnes Scott Radio pro-
grams are better than they have ever
been before." We think that they
have been unusually good and that
special mention should be made of the
ones who are responsible for them.
The chairman of the Radio Commit-
tee of the Alumnae Association, Ellen

Douglass Leyburn, '27, with her com-
mittee, planned the series of programs
for the year. Details of the work on
the scripts and the technicalities of
producing radio programs are being
worked out by Roberta Winter, '27,
Assistant in the Speech Department
at Agnes Scott, who had special train-
ing in presentation of radio programs
at New York University last summer.

Immediately after the Christmas
holidays a series of programs was pre-
sented on the history of Agnes Scott.
The topics of these programs were:
"The Story of Agnes Scott," "The
New Building," "The Agnes Scott
Ideal," and "Fifty Years of Progress."
To bring this series up to date, there
was a program entitled "Daughters
and Granddaughters," showing the
differences at Agnes Scott of two suc-
cessive generations of students, as pre-
sented by the Granddaughters' Club,
membership to which is limited to
those students whose mothers attended
Agnes Scott.

The next series of programs was a
discussion of the campaign at Agnes
Scott and the University Center and
its importance. First Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain and Anne (Hart) Equen, '21,
president of the Alumnae Association,
conducted a questionnaire of facts
concerning the growth of the idea of
the University Center during the past
ten years and subsequent development.
Then the history of the Alumnae As-
sociation was traced in connection
with its part in other campaigns. The
story was told by Miss Louise McKin-
ney, Professor Emeritus of English at
Agnes Scott. Alumnae who have been
president of the Alumnae Association
and who discussed the activities of
the Association during their presi-
dency are Lucile Alexander, '11,
Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, '13,
and Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson,
'12. The work of Mary Wallace
Kirk, '11, another able president of
the Association, was discussed by Miss
McKinney. The final program on the
campaign was a student discussion of
the campaign and the University Cen-
ter to show the campus attitude to-
ward them.

Beginning the first of March and
continuing throughout the year, there
will be a series of programs by young
alumnae as they discuss their work in
interesting fields. Those on these
programs are: Mary Ellen Whetsell,
'39; Jean Bailey, '38; Laura Coit, '38;
Eliza King, '3 8; Laura Steele, '37;
Amelia Nickels, '39; Mary Anne Ker-
nan, '3 8; Jeanne Flynt, '39; Emma
McMullen, '39, and Mamie Lee Rat-
liff, '39. Mary Hollingsworth, '39,
is in charge of background music for
the series of interviews.

APRIL, 1940

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May Day Week-End

Plans are under way for May Day
Week-End. On Friday, May 3, Sen-
ior Opera is to be presented, with
Henrietta Thompson, president of the
student body, as chairman of the
opera.

The May Day pageant is to be pre-
sented at five o'clock on Saturday,
May 4. The May Queen is Carolyn
Alley, from Dalton, Georgia, one of
the assistants in the Alumnae Office.
As this is the Semi-Centennial Year,
elaborate plans have been worked out
for a May Day festival to be presented
under the auspices of the Alumnae As-
sociation. The scenario for the pag-
eant was written by a committee of
alumnae, and the cast will include
fifty Agnes Scott alumnae, one rep-
resentative for each year of the
school's life. Costumed to portray the
period which each represents, these
characters will be used to develop a
theme dealing with the progress of
women in education. With the dances
planned by the dance classes of the
gym department, the music for the
scenario written by Mr. Dieckmann,
and the arrangements worked out by
the student and alumnae committees,
the pageant, which will be presented
in the May Day Dell on the afternoon
of May 4 should really be a fitting
climax to Agnes Scott's Semi-Centen-
nial celebration.

Gilbert and Sullivan at Agnes Scott

The Emory Little Symphony Or-
chestra, under the baton of Dr. Mal-
colm H. Dewey, director of music at
Emory University, was in the pit
when the curtain went up on the Ag-
nes Scott and Emory Glee Club pres-
entation of Gilbert and Sullivan's
operetta, "Iolanthe," on March 29 at
Agnes Scott and on March 30 at
Emory. The cast of the operetta, un-
der the direction of Mr. Lewis H.
Johnson, teacher of voice at Agnes
Scott, was made up of members of
the two clubs. The soprano lead was
sung by Ruth Tate, ex-'39, who was
brought back on the campus just for
these presentations.

Alumnae Secretaries Attend
Williamsburg Meeting

Your Executive Secretary, Nelle
(Chamlee) Howard, '34, and Assist-
ant Secretary, Mamie Lee Ratliff, '39,
attended the annual meeting of Dis-
trict III of the American Alumni
Council, an organization of Alumnae
and Alumni Secretaries. The meeting
this year was in Williamsburg, Vir-
ginia. Next year the meeting will be
in Atlanta, with Emory as host. Nelle
(Chamlee) Howard is to be program
chairman.

Emory Journalism Courses Offered
Agnes Scotters

It has been announced that Agnes
Scott students who want to major in
journalism or business administration
will be able to take courses in these
subjects at Emory next year. This
year some students have been taking
French and philosophy courses which
they could not get at Agnes Scott (to
say nothing of Agnes Scott's having
a co-ed from Emory in the harmony
classes), but now under new arrange-
ments made possible through plans for
the University Center, Agnes Scott
students will be eligible to take
courses at Emory for any of the six-
teen Agnes Scott majors.

Religious Emphasis Week

The annual Religious Emphasis
Week speaker this year was Dr. R. C.
Long, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Greenwood, S. C, who was
on the campus February 12-17. Us-
ing "Integrated Christian Personality"
as the theme of his talks and discus-
sions with the students, Dr. Long
made a real place for himself on the
campus, giving much help in campus
problems of young people.

Athletic Association Week
This year Athletic Association had
a special week set aside for its particu-
lar activities. During the week of
February 19-24, A. A. featured water
pageants, fencing and badminton ex-
hibitions, the traditional Brown Jug
basketball contest, a health contest,
and A. A. open house. Winners of
the health contest's first and third
prizes were two sisters who are daugh-
ters of an alumna, Julia Pratt (Smith)
Slack, ex-' 12. The daughter who won
first prize was Gene Slack, '41, with
sister Ruth, '40, following her in the
third place. The Slack family certain-
ly must be a healthy one!

Founder's Day Celebration On the Campus

With groups of alumnae meeting all
over the country in celebration of
Founder's Day on February 22, the
students on the campus were also con-
scious that it was a special occasion.
First of all there was the annual holi-
day, which this year was welcome
either for trips to town or to those
whose term papers were due the next
week! No matter how the students
spent the day, however, they gathered
in the evening for the banquet in the
two dining rooms, where the members
of the Senior class were dressed and
made speeches to represent such col-
onial figures as George and Martha
Washington, Paul Revere, Daniel
Boone, and all the others. After the
banquet all the students were guests
of Cotillion Club at a dance in the

gym, where dancing was enjoyed to
the music of the Georgia Tech Ram-
blers.

Personnel Head Discusses Careers

In connection with the program of
the class in Applied Psychology,
which stresses vocational guidance,
Miss Frances Rannels, head of the
Training Division of the Personnel
Department of Rich's, discussed at
regular class period in February, "Ca-
reers for College Women in Retail
Stores." Miss Rannells, who was pre-
sented by Miss Katherine Omwake,
assistant professor of Psychology and
Education, discussed with all students
who were interested in this field the
demands and attractions of personnel
work as a career and the various op-
portunities open to college women in
a department store.

Also as part of the work in voca-
tional guidance done by the Applied
Psychology class, Mrs. Elizabeth
Gregg McGibbon, author of "Manners
in Business," published by Macmillan
Company in 1936, talked on "Careers
for College Women" in February. The
meeting of the class was open to all
students interested in hearing Mrs.
MacGibbon's discussion as well as in
asking her questions about vocations
for women.

Acknowledgement of Gifts
The Alumnae Office gratefully ac-
knowledges several gifts which have
been made by clubs and individuals to
the Alumnae House: A beautiful linen
damask table cloth for the dining
room from Mary (West) Thatcher,
'15; two towel sets from Janet New-
ton, '17; and a check for 4.50 from
the Mississippi Club.

Junior Banquet Is "Superlative"
According to those in the Junior
class and to all the alumnae who ever
went to a Junior Banquet and remem-
ber those weeks of planning and that
week-end of excitement, it really is
quite an occasion. Very appropriately
timed this year, the annual Junior
Banquet was on February 17, imme-
diately after Valentine's Day. Ac-
cording to custom, the freshmen had
their own share in the excitement as
they delivered the corsages which
came to Ella's office and as they
peered over the banisters of the Re-
bekah steps to watch the arrival of
the dates. After the banquet, at
which Ann Henry, of Macon, Geor-
gia, president of the class, was hostess,
the Juniors and their dates were enter-
tained by Mortar Board at after-din-
ner coffee in the Murphey Candler
Building.

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

CAMPUS CODE

The active chapter of Mortar Board
has had an interesting project for this
year. The members have published
"Campus Code," an etiquette book
based on Social Usage tests that were
given last year to all the students and
this year to the freshmen. This book-
let, written in a light, breezy style, is
delightful as well as informing and
helpful for local campus etiquette.
The following are a few excerpts from
the booklet:

"Dining room coffee is a little weak
to cause coffee nerves, but even the
best constitutions shrink from slam-
ming doors. The noise brings up hor-
rible thoughts of bombs and such in
these times of war, anyway. No less
jangling on the nerves is 'Telephone,
Mary; it's a man!' Walking is still
good these days."

"When you are running around the
dormitory, you may be safer in a
housecoat, even a faded one. Some
pretty embarrassing situations occur
when the electrician or plumber comes
sneaking up to work. The Christmas
slip may be pretty, but the hall is not
the place to show it off. Nor do tow-
els offer sufficient coverage on return
trips from the bathtub." . . .

Personal appearance "is important,
since it contributes definitely to the
pleasant or unpleasant atmosphere
at your table. Unconcealed curlers are
taboo at all times; also bandanas, ex-
cept at breakfast. A little make-up
applied before breakfast helps to take
away that just-out-of-bed-and-it's-
awful look." . . .

In class discussions, "don't be con-
spicuous unless you have something to
offer the class, and then don't be con-
spicuous about offering it." . . .

"Did you know that there are quiet
signs in Buttrick, too? They deserve
attention at all times, and especially
during exams. Remember when you
stagger from the room and discuss the
nightmare that some people on the
other side of the transom are still try-
ing to think. We've also heard that
when morning Coca-Cola drinkers
congregate in the bookstore, their
chatter can be heard in the classrooms
near by. Experimental psychology
and bookstore gossip don't mix." . . .

"Social relations are an integral
part of our campus life. But social is
not synonomous with 'date.' Looking
around in our own backyard, we can

hardly miss seeing the faculty. And
then for the most part we close our
eyes. Not because we find them par-
ticularly disagreeable, but because
there has grown up a silly idea that
they know too much to be interested
in talking to us, and that they would
just suspect us of trying to pull up
our merit hours anyway. There are
already many opportunities to meet
the faculty on a more sensible basis,
and many more which we ourselves
could make; whether we take advan-
tage of them must of necessity be a
personal matter." . . .

"What most of us need when it
comes to the subject of such social
functions as teas, coffees, and recep-
tions is purely a matter of definition.
Their purpose is frequently misunder-
stood. We do not give a reception or
tea because we wish to fatten our
friends on rare delicacies. That pur-
pose is at least secondary in the best
circles; and the primary reason is
strictly social. Hostesses, please plan
refreshments accordingly." . . .

"Don't butt in on other people's
parties to Atlanta. If a certain group
plans to go in for a show and dinner
together, it may be they are celebrat-
ing a reunion of their freshman-year
table or spoken English class, for all
you know. Let them ask you if you'd
like to come; don't just attach your-
self to them for the day." . . .

"Then there is the street car. If
vou must be in town by a certain
time, it is best to step off the campus
about forty-five minutes beforehand.
No one has ever been able to deter-
mine how frequently the cars come;
so there is no telling, inside of thirty
minutes, how long you may have to
wait. If a car turns the corner as you
are jumping the hedge on front cam-
pus, there is no use loping over the
railroad tracks, with death bearing
down on you from four directions, to
catch it. There simply isn't time. It
is equally ineffective to shout at the
conductor; he is both deaf and unin-
terested." . . .

"Dating on the campus more or
less puts you on the spot. You have
to assume a few virtues of the hostess
and simultaneously attempt to make
the evening an enjoyable one. To be
specific, such a sentence as 'It is not
permissible to smoke in the date par-
lors' may not be found in the latest

book on "How to Hold Your Man;
yet it can be said tactfully but firmly
and save you both embarrassment
later. It is certain that no book on
popularity sanctions vandalism. If
you must date that sort of fellow,
control him. Somebody evidently
thought the furniture necessary." . . .
"Walking with the date on the
campus does by no means make you
invisible. It is perfectly all right and
even smiled upon to speak to friends
whom you pass, and to make intro-
ductions if convenient. The date will
probably think all the more of you if
you seem to know a few people and
are friendly, and are not ashamed or
scared to introduce him to your good-
looking friends." . . .

Ever since the publication of this
book, Campus Code, the campus has
become extremely manners-conscious.
Perhaps it's a good thing if five hun-
dred students can learn all the best
pointers about campus etiquette in
this "one easy lesson"!

FACULTY NEWS

Agnes Scott is always proud of the
accomplishment of its faculty and of-
ficers. Miss Laura Colvin, assistant
librarian, has been named editor of the
catalogue of all books available
through the libraries of the schools
represented in the University Center.

Our president, Dr. J. R. McCain,
has been elected to a place of honor.
At the twenty-fourth annual session
of the Association of Georgia Col-
leges, which met this year at Macon,
Georgia, Dr. McCain was elected pres-
ident of that association.

Representing the classical depart-
ment of Agnes Scott, Miss Katherine
Glick, assistant professor of Latin and
Greek, read a paper before the South-
ern Classical Association at its meet-
ing during the winter at San Antonio,
Texas.

Miss Elizabeth Fuller Jackson at-
tended a meeting of the American As-
sociation of University Women in
Miami, Florida, in March.

Miss Mary Stuart McDougall was
in Washington in February to meet
with the committee of which she is a
member, granting fellowships through
the AAUW.

Charlotte Hunter, '29, Assistant
Dean, represented Agnes Scott at the
annual meeting of Deans of Women's
Colleges which met in St. Louis, Mis-
souri, the later part of February.

2gnes 3cott College
3n Celebration of the 50th 3nntoersaru

For training of the mind and of the heart

These acres long ago were set apart;

And for the sake of one who loved this spot,

It bears the cherished name of Agnes Scott.

Her would we honor as we come today

Our debt of love and gratitude to pay.

We hold in reverence, too, that company

Of men and women who so faithfully

Have given to us for noble heritage,

The sweetest, fairest culture of our age.

They fashioned here a purpose most ideal

And symbolized it on the college seal

The opened book of Life beneath the bright

Illumined rays of Truth's most bounteous light.

Around the seal, these ancient words, still true

"To Faith add virtue and all knowledge too."

They chose for colors, purple and white's purity

As emblem of devotion's loyalty.

Fruits of the spirit here have found a place

Love, faith and goodness, chastity and grace.

Here are eyes opened to horizons new;

Here, ears unstopped and given discernment too;

Hearts here find kinship with humanity;

Minds are un-fettered; spirits are made free;

Here friendships, sweet and lasting, have been made;

Here youth has met the challenge, unafraid

To spend itself to seek, yes, and to find

The highest, noblest treasures of the mind;

To know the deep contentment that can be

The lot of one who lives in harmony

With heaven's eternal truth, and light, and peace,

And dedicates her life to their increase.

She holds no selfish privilege as her goal

But, disciplined, possessing her own soul,

She knows the joy of fellowship with them

Who strive to build the New Jerusalem.

For such as these the world has need again.
God give us grace to follow in their train.

Hazel Pettingell Whittle, ex-'14

COMMENCEMENT WEEK-END
June 1 - June 4

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PROGRAM

May 31 Decatur Club Party for Alumnae Children at 4 P. M.

June 1 Trustees' Luncheon at 1 P. M., Rebekah Scott Dining Room.

Annual Meeting General Alumnae Association. Election of Officers.
Phi Beta Kappa Banquet, 6:30 P. M., Alumnae House.
Blackfriars Play, Bucher Scott Auditorium, 8:30 P. M.
Miss Frances Gooch, directing.

June 2 Baccalaureate Service, Bucher Scott Auditorium, 1 1 A. M.

Dean's After Luncheon Coffee in Murphey Candler Building, 2 P. M.
Alumnae Open House, Alumnae Gardens, 6:30 P. M.

June 3 Reunion Luncheons, 12:30 P. M., Alumnae House.
Class Day, 4:30 P. M., May Day Dell.
1939 Reunion Dinner, 6:30 P. M., Alumnae House.
Glee Club Performance, Bucher Scott Auditorium, 8 :30 P. M.
Mr. Lewis H. Johnson, directing.

June 4 Commencement Exercises, Bucher Scott Auditorium, 10 A. M.

Dr. Harmon Caldwell, President of University of Georgia,
speaker.

Trie Aqntk Scott

Alumnae QuantenJu

JULY, 1940

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Across the President's Desk 1

Hopkins Hall Drive Progresses 2

Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson, '12

Commencement Echoes 3

Heritage of Woman 4

Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20

President Calduell Addresses Graduates 6

Annual Reports 9

Club News 14

Published quarterly by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia. Entered as second class matter under the

Act of Congress, August, 1912. Subscription rate, $2 yearly.

ACROSS THE PRESIDENT'S DESK

Dear Alumnae:

As partners in the greatest educational development pro-
gram ever undertaken in the South, you will be interested
to hear of the progress of the University Center effort.
We feel that you have a right to know all of the facts in
regard to the entire situation.

As you are aware, Agnes Scott and Emory University
undertook to secure $7,500,000 (four-fifths of which
would be used by Emory for graduate or professional
school development, and one-fifth for Agnes Scott in the
promotion of its own undergraduate program). The Gen-
eral Education Board started our campaign with an offer
of $2,500,000 towards the general objective. By January
1, 1940, we had secured from other foundations or from
individuals $3,100,000 more, though some of this was
designated for purposes which might not be approved by
the conditional offer of the General Education Board.

On January 1, 1940, we lacked only $1,900,000 of
being able to complete the total of $7,5 00,000 should the
designated funds above mentioned prove acceptable to the
General Education Board. Agnes Scott and Emory set up
three special campaigns. The Agnes Scott alumnae decided
to raise $100,000 for the erection of Hopkins Hall (though
the estimated cost of the dormitory would be about $12 5,-
000, the Trustees undertaking to handle the cost above
the proposed $100,000 gift from the alumnae). The Emory
alumni planned to secure $400,000 for a student activities
building on their campus, and the Methodist ministers
proposed to raise $100,000 for Theology.

Assuming the success ultimately of these three special
projects amounting to $600,000, the officers and Trustees
of Emory and Agnes Scott put on a campaign for $1,300,-
000 in Atlanta. After careful preparation and after the
organizing of approximately 1,000 volunteer workers, the
institutions went to the public on April 29 and, after a
very vigorous campaign for two weeks, reached the amount
of $1,322,000.

In the whole amount that has been subscribed to date,
there was designated at least $500,000 for hospitalization
and at least $100,000 for current expenses, which in all
probability the General Education Board will not recog-
nize as allowable under their contract with us. In addi-
tion, the report from the Atlanta campaign, when care-
fully audited, showed that approximately $100,000 sub-
scribed in that effort was designated for Emory alumni,
Agnes Scott alumnae, or the Methodist preachers, so that
there has been a duplication or overlapping of subscrip-
tion credits. Until we submit the actual figures to the
General Education Board we cannot tell the exact amount
yet to be raised, but it will certainly be in excess of
$1,000,000.

Present Status of the Campaign Results

Grand Objective _ -.-$7,500,000

Pledged by the General Education Board __$2, 500, 000
Raised by January 1, 1940. _ . 3,100,000

(Some of this probably not allowable.)
Raised in Atlanta . 1,300,000

(Some overlapping; some not allowable.)
Allocated to be raised by A. S. C. Alumnae 100,000

(Approximately half raised at present.)
Allocated to be raised by Emory Alumni - _ 400,000

(Approximately one-third raised at present.)
Allocated as the Parker Recognition Fund 100,000

(Approximately half raised at present.)
Grand Total When Raised- $7,500,000

Where We Are Short of Our Objectives:
Money specified for hospitalization not

contemplated in contract with General

Education Board .. __$ 6 5 0,000
Subscribed for current funds 100,000

(Not allowable.)
Balance lacking on Agnes Scott, Emory

and Parker Recognition Fund Objectives 300,000
Balance To Be Raised ...$ 1,050,000

We have come so far and aroused so much interest that
we are satisfied we will be able eventually to get our money
subscribed. We have until June 1, 1942, to get the sub-
scriptions, and until June 1, 1944, to secure the actual
cash. As our large givers have all been enlisted, it is going
to take the loyal and cooperative support of our alumnae
and other friends who are not able to give largely, but who
can give helpfully.

We ask very earnestly for your continued interest and
support.

Cordially,

J. R. McCain, President.

Hopkins Hal Drive Progresses

Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson, '12

Since Dr. McCain is reporting to you on the progress
of the general campaign, it falls to me as one of your rep-
resentatives on the Campaign Committee to tell you in a
more personal way something of our own progress in the
alumnae campaign for Hopkins Hall and also something
of the building plans of our project.

As I look over the literature which has been mailed to
you during the past year on the campaign theme and on
the buildings which Agnes Scott wishes to acquire by its
successful conclusion, I realize that the plan of the new
dormitory, which is our responsibility and our contribu-
tion to the Agnes Scott of the future, has never been
placed before you in detail, and that this is probably what
you would like to have described. Hopkins Hall, located
where Gaines Cottage is now, extending back toward
South Candler Street and overlooking the Alumnae Garden
on one side and Science Hall on the other, is to be five
stories in height with elevator service. It will accommo-
date one hundred and eight girls and three faculty ad-
visors. A large recreation room will be an attractive fea-
ture of the ground floor. On the first or main floor there
will be a large parlor, two suites for the use of distin-
guished guests of the college, a number of small study par-
lors, and bedrooms for the students. The other floors will
be given over entirely to student bedrooms and baths;
some double rooms, some single rooms, attractively de-
signed according to the latest plans for rooms of this type.
Connecting Hopkins Hall and the new dining room unit
there will be an enclosed colonnade and the top level of
this connection will be used as a sundeck and sleeping
porch. The dining room unit is to be a separate building
and does not come under the designation "Hopkins Hall."
Its cost will be around SI 50,000 and this sum is entirely
apart from the S 100,000 which is being asked of the alum-
nae for Hopkins Hall.

Again may we state the cost of the building of Hopkins
Hall? It is estimated at Sl25,000, and the Trustees have
guaranteed the erection of this dormitory if the alumnae

raise Si 00,000. It is not necessary to go into the manner
devised for securing this amount as we know that letters
and personal calls have explained the procedure to you.
Our hope is that each alumna will see her way clear to
make a pledge for three years, since only by promising a
much larger amount than any of us could give in a cash
payment will we be able to reach our goal. Llewellyn Wil-
burn and Blanche Miller, both alumnae, have been travel-
ing the length and breadth of the Atlantic seaboard in the
interest of the campaign. Augusta Skeen Cooper has
worked untiringly as the alumnae head of this undertak-
ing, planning literature and letters and trips in order to
make each alumna conscious of the really gigantic task
before us today. Dr. McCain's letter tells you how we
stand financially with reference to the whole amount to
be raised for the University Center. Would you like to
know how much has been pledged toward our alumnae
part of the fund?

So far S42,802.91 has been pledged by the alumnae: of
this amount, 531,090.41 has been pledged by alumnae out-
side of the Atlanta area; Si 1,712.50 has been given by the
alumnae in the Atlanta area. The gifts of other friends of
the college to Hopkins Hall have raised the total for this
dormitory to S46.7 17.91. We need each alumna as a con-
tributor, whether her donation is large or small, and many
more dollars if we are to invest S 100,000 in a building
erected in memory of Miss Hopkins.

Thus I might go on forever recounting tales of dollars
and floor plans and still not touch the hearts of many
Agnes Scotters; but when your own thoughts stray back
as you read this and you visualize the college of your
hopes, the opportunities which she may offer for count-
less girls of future generations, your own pride in her state-
lv buildings and beautiful campus, her reputation for high
scholarship and fine ideals then, each of you will realize
that the future of your college is always in your heart and
that your feeling of responsibility to her is a joyful sup-
port of all her visions and high hopes.

Hopkins Hall

Commencement Echoes

Commencement of 1940 has come and gone, and only
the echoes of joyous voices linger in the halls and on the
quadrangle as we take a backward look.

The first commencement in the second half century of
our history was just as outstanding as the fiftieth com-
mencement in its own way. Beginning with the party for
alumnae children which the Decatur Agnes Scott Club
gave on Friday afternoon, it was a joyous occasion for all
those attending. Forty alumnae children and a few alum-
nae mothers shared a lovely story hour, and Agnes Scott's
birthday cake on the grassy terrace behind the Alumnae
Garden.

Saturday noon brought out three hundred alumnae,
seniors and faculty members to enjoy the Trustees' Lunch-
eon. The beautifully decorated tables lent an air of festiv-
ity to this most eagerly anticipated event on the com-
mencement program. Short greetings from Mr. Winship,
Dr. McCain, Anne (Hart) Equen, and Louise Sullivan,
president of the senior class, the announcement of alum-
nae engagements by Mamie Lee Ratliff, '39, and a very
interesting discussion of the work done by the Faculty
Council on the University Center by Dr. Phdip Davidson
rounded out the program. The annual Alumnae Associa-
tion meeting and the election of new officers wound up
the business of the day, and the rest of the week-end was
devoted to social events entirely.

Blackfriars' presentation of "I'll Leave It To You" on
Saturday evening was a highlight of the week-end. Our
grateful thanks go to Miss Gooch and Roberta Winter,
'27, for a job well done.

Sunday morning brought white dresses and Baccalaur-
eate, with a most impressive processional into the audi-
torium. Dr. Wade Boggs, of Shreveport, La., and father
of one of the seniors, delivered a most inspiring address.
Highlights on the program were the solo, "God's Paradise,"
by Jane Thatcher Moses, daughter of Frances (Thatcher)
Moses, '17, and Shelley's "Hark, Hark My Soul," by the
Glee Club.

Dean Scandrett's coffee in the Murphey Candler Build-
ing attracted a host of parents and friends of the seniors,
and the alumnae who were present at this occasion enjoyed
themselves tremendously. Senior vespers at six were fol-
lowed by the alumnae open house in the Alumnae Gardens,
and a delightful supper served on the terrace of the gar-
dens drew a host of friends and alumnae.

Reunion luncheons in the Alumnae House Monday
brought many members of the Classes of 1927, 1928, 1929,
and 1930 back to the campus. The interim between lunch-
eon and class day was spent in checking up on missing
classmates, and getting all the latest dope on husbands,
jobs, and families.

The Class Day exercises in the May Day Dell were most
interesting and amusing, and all the alumnae present were
forced to concede that the daisy chain was the prettiest in
years.

The cornerstone of the Presser Building was laid at a
simple but impressive ceremony immediately after the Class
Day exercises.

Dr. McCain presided over the ceremony, and called on
Dean Stukes, general chairman of the Semi-Centennial
Committee, for an outline of the celebration on the cam-
pus. Llewellyn Wilburn, '19, outlined the unusual May
Day pageant presented this year as part of the Semi-Cen-
tennial program. Prof. Emma May Laney gave a resume

of the speakers presented by the Student Lecture Associa-
tion to the general public this year, and Nelle (Chamlee)
Howard gave a brief outline of the work done by the
Alumnae Home-Coming Committee, headed by Penelope
(Brown) Barnett, '32. Dean Carrie Scandrett, '24, placed
the box of memoribilia in the cornerstone, and told the
audience just what was being placed in the box. Dr. J. G.
Patton gave the dedicatory prayer, and the stone was slow-
ly swung into place in the new fine arts building.

Mortar Board was host to the seniors and their guests
at a reception on the Quadrangle immediately following
the laying of the cornerstone, and many alumnae and par-
ents lingered on the Quadrangle to chat with friends and
faculty.

Monday evening the music department presented a re-
cital with students from the piano, organ, and voice de-
partments, and as an outstanding feature of the program
the string ensemble, Mr. Lewis H. Johnson and Mr. C. W.
Dieckmann planned and directed the program.

After the musicale hundreds of people gathered in front
of Main for the historic book burning, and long-hated
notes and textbooks were thrown into the fire with ve-
hemence as the seniors gave vent to their pet dislikes and
phobias. Capping of the juniors in the May Day Dell
afterward completed the day's program and sent hundreds
of tired Hottentots home to pack all night.

Graduation day dawned bright and beautiful, and 98
seniors marched across the stage to get their diplomas and
have their hoods put on by Dean Carrie Scandrett. An-
nouncement of the award of the Hopkins Jewel to Ruth
Slack, daughter of Julia Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex-'12, of
Decatur, retiring president of Mortar Board, brought
cheers and loud applause from the audience, and sincere
congratulations from the members of the class. Also Dr.
McCain announced the award of the Quennelle Harrold
Fellowship to Ruth Eyles, of Atlanta, and the award of
the collegiate scholarship to Billie Gammon Davis, '42,
daughter of Elizabeth (Gammon) Davis. '17.

On the campus for commencement were:

Institute

Emma Wesley, Rusha Wesley, Gertrude Pollard, Kate
Reagan, Bessie (Young) Brown and Claude (Candler)
McKinney.

1908
Lizzabel Saxon.

1910
Lucy (Reagan) Redwine and Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer.

1911
Theodosia (Willingham) Anderson, Lucile Alexander,
Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, Susie Johnson, Alice (Hudson)
Whitaker, Florine (Brown) Arnold, Adelaide Cunning-
ham, Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann, and Allie (Cand-
ler) Guy.

1912
Ruth (Slack) Smith, of Durham, N. C; Fannie G.
(Mayson) Donaldson, Cornelia Cooper, and Carol
(Stearns) Wey.

1913
Eleanor (Pinkston) Stokes, of Greenville, Ga.
1914

Martha (Rogers) Noble and Ruth (McElmurray)
Cothran.

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THE HERITAGE OF WOMAN

(This poem is the script read by Martha Skeen, '34, a.
Quarterly with the kind permission of the author.)

Prologue

"All old tales of far-off things have told
Of woman's beauty and her power. Poets
From age to age have fashioned songs in praise
Of her gentleness and grace. They have sung of
That famed face that launched a thousand ships
But not of the mind of woman that has tried
To find a nobler place beside her brothers'
In spheres of art, philosophy, and thought.
They have sung of fair ladies who drop manna
In the way of starved people but not of those
Who work to find a way that people may not
Starve. They too have sung the ministering angels
Who in time of war have touched with cool hands
The fevered brows of wounded soldiers, not those
Who give their days and nights to work, hoping
To find a way to lead the world to peace.
They too have sung full praise of those who study
Household good and all the little wisdoms
Of our daily life but not of those who have
A thirst for larger knowledge, not of those
Who yearningly have sought far greater tasks
But always through the ages there have been
Some few women who have nobly striven
That homekeeping leave them not with homely wits
But rather that all full experience
Be seized and purged, then dedicated
To understanding and the bettering of the mind."
Episode I

"Across our stage of modern times comes woman
A symbol of all thoughtful womanhood
Alone she comes and frightened for she fears
Powers of greed and cunning and of war,
Powers of regimented force that will
Leave of slow-built culture only chaos.
Even as she fears, such forces come
With lashing whips, with jeers, and frenzied glee.
She watches at the glowing flames of their
Destructiveness, then sadly turns away.
But, as she turns in sadness, Memory comes.
Seeking to comfort woman in her sorrow,
She calls the Muses nine and Graces three
Who beg her to look not long nor sadly
At bewildering days of present time but to turn
For strength anew to years gone by and thus
To seek some hope of future from the past.
So Memory summons forth from earliest time
The women who preserved in primitive
Wandering days the hard-learned simple arts,
Women who sow and reap within the fields
They call their own, who weave and spin their cloth
And teach to children standing by the homely
Wisdoms they have garnered through the years.
But even as the children learn, husbands
And fathers returning from their hunting grounds
Urge them to leave these lands where they have lived
And worked to seek again strange fields and woods
Where men may hunt widely. Sad indeed
Are they to find their men so restless-hearted
But bravely they go, wasting not fresh tears
Over such old griefs but in their going
Strive to take with them all they have learned
That in new places they may build new fires."

By Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20

the spoken part of the May Day pageant, and is published in this

Episode II
"Again for woman's comfort, Memory calls
Upon the past. This time are summoned forth
Peoples of Ancient Greece, no longer Huntsmen
Who wander here and there, but men who have
Builded by their blue sea temples and shrines,
Men who stand about the market place
To talk of life together and of death,
Of men and gods and all philosophy.
Here women too may have some share of that
Larger life of mind and intellect;
But there are those Xantippe-like so bound
By wheel and distaff and by cares of home
That they feel not the full freedom of
The mind and look upon philosophers
As idlers, dawdlers, men who think, and talk,
But never do, and often in impatience drive
Such men even the noble Socrates
With loud insults from out the market place.
But there are also those who Sappho-like,
With wheel and distaff laid away, string lyres
And write on scrolls and sing in unison
The songs that they themselves have fashioned
From their full hearts. And there are those of Sparta
Who, like their men, fight and run and throw
The discus that they may grow more strong of body
As of mind. And all are eager to discover
Whatever freedoms women may enjoy.
With telling finger. Memory points also
To Ancient Rome where Vestal Virgins bear
The sacred fires that light eternal hearths
Of temples to their gods, where Roman matrons
Hold high and honored places in the realm
Because 'tis they that hold dear their
Lares and Penates, because 'tis they also
That cherish well the unity of home."

Episode III

"But Memory can not show only the bright
Paths of freedom where women have
Happily walked, for there come from time to time
In history ages of darkness when much that once
Was gained seems again lost.
So it is with sadness that Memory points
To a time when all the grace and freedom
Of the classic w^orld is overthrown and
Rude barbaric lords hold sway.
She points to streets of towns in Middle Ages
Where brawling fishwives haggle with merchants
Over the price of goods or, carrying their clothes
For washing to the stream, fall
Into vulgar scolding one with the other.
Nor is the highborn lady who appears
One who seeks the freedom of the mind.
Rather is she a vain pretentious person
Wearing her faith as but the fashion of her hat
That men may see and ardently admire.
She cares not to think but just to dance,
To dress and troll the tongue and roll the eye.
But that woman may not grow too sad
In watching fishwives and vain ladies
Who care not for any heritage
Of learning, Memory shows also

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5

The quiet nuns who with their gift

For serene living have treasured

The art of writing and some few books,

Who, every evening after vespers,

Study far into the night until sleep

Falls upon them and their weary heads

Rest upon their books."

Episode IV (The Renaissance)
'Then Memory shows another time of history

When learning again is highly prized

And much sought after. The full tide of the

Renaissance stirs men's minds to arguments.

They talk and read and learn old languages

And wonder oft among themselves whether

The hand that gave to woman beauty

Gave to her also a mind with which to think.

But even as most men are wondering

There are those like Vittorina da Feltra.

He wastes not time in idle arguments

But offers the learning that is his to all

Who come to eager women and to earnest youths alike.

Episode V (Modern Episode)
'Through the full years after the Renaissance

Slowly gain here and there a place

In intellectual life. But many fields

Of fine endeavor still stay closed to them.

For, during the early years even in England

And America, the doors of the school houses

Are opened only for the sons of the household.

So, Memory shows to woman how often

Sad-eyed sisters must sit at home and sew

On samplers while less ambitious brothers

Preferring fishing rods to books

Slyly try to escape their tutors.

But here and there some understanding fathers

Seeing how daughters yearn for further learning

Give to them their books.

And still other men more far-visioned

Than the rest think even to establish

Colleges and schools where women too

May learn the liberal arts of all the ages.

And, as year after year, women

Work to prove to men their worth,

New fields are open to them, even such as

Science, medicine, and law,

And life itself presents a freer aspect."

Epilogue
'As woman and Memory looked on, the past
Has led them through the years again to present days.
But now even with the new freedoms and the new

interests
Woman can not rest content, for the world
Today is no less bewildering, no less terrifying
Than in. years gone by-
Greed is seen entering groups of happy workers
That he may teach selfishness to one or two
And thus may taint them all.
And Evil Power can be seen walking
Up and down about the world, lashing
All his fearful followers into regimented step.
But finally Humanity breaks her chains
And to her help quickly come
Freedom, learning, tolerance, and peace.
Evil power seeks to drive them forth
But, failing, he in discouragement marshalls
His own forces and with them sneaks away.
Now woman, leading Memory, happily joins
Those forces that stand for what is good
And has been good throughout the ages
Those thoughts and fine philosophies
That have been handed down through learning
Cherished by the liberal arts in colleges.
Here is Memory crowned and all the group
Happily show hope that even in present days
Of great bewilderment there are those
Who still hold high the light of learning
And will strive to keep it burning
Brightly through the years."

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1915
Annie Pope (Bryan) Scott.
1916
Margaret Phythian, Marvellen (Harvey) Newton, and
Hallie (Smith) Walker.

1917
Augusta (Skeen) Cooper, Frances (Thatcher) Moses, of
Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mynelle (Blue) Grove.
1918
E. Katherine Anderson, of Marietta; Belle Cooper, Eva-
maie (Willingham) Park, and Margaret (Levburn) Foster.
1919
Llewellyn Wilburn.

1920
Elizabeth (Reid) LeBey, Lois (Mclntyre) Bell, Eliza-
beth (Marsh) Hill, and Margaret (Bland) Sewell.
19^21
Thelma Brown, Sarah Fulton, Elizabeth Floding, Tanef
Preston, and Anne (Hart) Equen.
1922
Helene (Norwood) Lammers.

1923
Lucile (Little) Morgan, of Heflin, Ala.; Jennye (Hall)
Lemon, Maybeth (Carnes) Robison, Philippa Gilchrist,
and Hilda (McConnell) Adams.
1924
Augusta (Thomas) Lanier, Martha (Eakes) Matthews,
Frances (Gilliland) Stukes, and Dick Scandrett.
1925
Clyde Passmore, Mary Ben (Wright) Erwin, and Ruth

(Guff in) Griffin, of Kissimee, Fla.
1926

Sarah Slaughter, Mary Ella (Hammond) McDowell, of
Griffin; Leone (Bowers) Hamilton, Florence (Perkins)
Ferry, Ladie Sue (Wallace) Nolan, of Rutledge, Ga.; Mar-
garet (Whittingdon) Davis, and Edythe (Coleman) Paris.
1927

Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Roberta Winter, Katharine
(Gilliland) Higgins, of Griffin; Wiilie Mae (Coleman)
Duncan, Mildred (Cowan) Wright, Grace (Carr) Clark,
cf New Orleans, La.; Emily Stead, Lucia Nimmons, Eve-
lyn (Allbright) Caldwell, Louise (Plumb) Stephens, of
Arlngton, Va., and Louise (Lovejoy) Jackson, of Barnes-
ville.

1928

Evangeline Papageorge, Martha Lou Overton, Olive
Graves, of Nashville; Grace (Ball) Sanders, Irene Low-
rance, of Charlotte, N. C; Frances (Craighead) Dwyer,
Mary (Sayward) Rogers, Alma Metcalfe, Louise (Hunter)
Rasnake, Mary Jane (McCoy) Gardner, of McDonough,
Ga., and Jac Anderson, of Berkeley, Calif.
1929

Charlotte Hunter, Flelon (Brown) Williams, of Little
Reck, Ark.; Augusta Roberts, Elizabeth (Moss) Mitchell,
and Mary (Warren) Read.

1930

Bee Miller, Margaret (Ogden) Stewart, Conyers, Ga.;
Crystal Hope (Wellborn) Gregg, McClellanville, S. C;
Marie Baker, Frances (Fletcher) McGeachy, Octavia
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PRESIDENT HARMON CALDWELL ADDRESSES GRADUATES

I count it an honor and a privilege
to be the guest of Agnes Scott Col-
lege on this occasion. The worthy
aims and the high standards of this
college have given it a place of dis-
tinction among the educational insti-
tutions of America. The work of
Agnes Scott College during the past
fifty years has benefited thousands of
homes and hundreds of churches and
schools. To President McCain and his
colleagues and also to their predeces-
sors, Georgia and the nation owe a
debt of gratitude. The results of their
efforts will long be felt.

I wish to take this opportunity to
congratulate Agnes Scott on the suc-
cessful completion of a drive for funds
with which to enlarge its facilities
and to increase its endowment. A long
step has been taken toward building
in this state a great university center
whose influences will stimulate and
enrich the lives of our people. All are
helped by the work of institutions
which have as their aim the raising of
the intellectual, cultural, and eco-
nomic levels of the people of a region;
all should be glad, therefore, to see
such institutions become strong and
more useful. The University of Geor-
gia is happy to have the privilege of
working with Agnes Scott and the
other institutions of the University
Center. This co-operative effort
means that all of us can strive more
effectively for the achievement of our
several purposes and that all of us
will move more rapidly toward our
common goal.

We are assembled here today to
celebrate the completion by these
young women of their prescribed
courses of study. Let us offer them
our sincere congratulations on their
educational accomplishments; they
have reason to be proud of this aca-
demic recognition from Agnes Scott.
Let us also offer them our best wishes
as they go forth into life to make
realities of those ideals which have
been held before them by this College
and which they have adopted as their
own. This suggests the subject about
which I should like to speak to you
briefly today the ideals on which
you and I, as citizens of one of the
few surviving democratic states,
should fix our thoughts in these
perilous and uncertain days, in these
times that try the souls of men.

Did you ever take time to think
carefully about the importance of

ideals? They are the intangible forces
which make men and things, which
build civilizations and destroy them.
In the life of a man an ideal plays the
part which in plant life is played by
that mysterious force which shapes
the tree and fashions the delicate and
symmetrical design of the flower. A
man's work is the expression of his
thought and ideals. The statue of the
Olympian Jupiter by Phidias was one
of the greatest achievements of Gre-
cian art. That statue existed in the
mind of Phidias before it existed in
marble. It was the tangible expres-
sion of Phidias' thought. The opera
Lohengrin existed as a conception of
the mind of Richard Wagner before
its harmonies and melodies moved the
science for the solution of every
problem. The remedies for the dislo-
cations produced by science is, they
say, more science.

Modern scientific research has
loosed in the world new and powerful
forces. These forces, from a moral
standpoint, are neutral. They may be
used for the advancement of the de-
struction of mankind, for the build-
ing of a greater civilization or for the
tearing down of that which we have.
Our people have been so busy with
science and its practical applications
that they have failed to cultivate the
spirit and acquire the wisdom which
would assuredly give proper direction
to the new forces which science has
brought into existence. They have
given their attention to the material
results which science could produce
rather than to the development of
that spirit which ought to inspire all
creative work. We have tended to be-
come materialists; to make things,
money, and power the goal of our en-
deavors; to measure the value of all
things by material standards.

It is surprising to observe the extent
to which the methods of science, its
terminology, and its spirit have been
carried over into other fields. Sociol-
ogy, economics, and history have be-
come the "social sciences"; methods
of education have become "scien-
tific"; law is now described as the
"science of social engineering." In
reading the bulletin of one of our
large universities, I noticed that its
School of Theology had recently been
converted into a "School of the Sacred
Sciences."

Our colleges have tended to move
with the trend of the times. Like

commercial organizations, they have
talked of their size, physical equip-
ment, and financial resources as if
these things were ends in themselves.
They have said so much about the
pecuniary value of a college education
that their graduates feel they have
been cheated if the doors of the busi-
ness world do not open before the
magic wave of diplomas.

Although I believe heartily in voca-
tional training, I wonder if some of
our colleges have not been too strong-
ly influenced by the spirit of a scien-
tific and practical world. So-called
practical courses have been developed
to prepare students for every conceiv-
able vocation and avocation. In recent
college catalogues, I have seen listings
of courses in salmon fishing, dancing,
embalming; courses telling how to
teach English in the third grade;
other courses in how to teach English
in the fifth grade and in the seventh
grade. I am told that in one cata-
logue there is listed a course bearing
the title, "How to Manage the School
Janitor." The fundamentals of the
old cultural courses the classics, arts,
literature, philosophy seem to be in
disfavor. Students shun those studies
whose humanizing influences are
needed to offset the emphasis on the
practical and to guide into proper
channels the forces of the new world
of science.

If our colleges and their graduates
are content with a philosophy of scien-
tific materialism, a philosophy that
thinks of the advance of civilization
in terms of technological develop-
ment, a philosophy which subordi-
nates human interests and human
values to things and material power,
what will be the future of our civili-
zation? Perhaps we shall be content
to read, as I did recently, an article
entitled "The Influence of Coal Tar
on Civilization," without thinking of
the influence of ideas and ideals on
civilization; perhaps we shall be will-
ing to read about "The Modern Po-
tato Problem" and give no thought to
vital human problems; perhaps some
of our best minds will devote all their
energies to the creation of an artificial
demand for cigarettes, chewing gum,
and hundreds of other harmless but
useless commodities, untroubled by
the thought that they ought also to
be ministering to deeper human needs;
perhaps the soulless form of science
will ultimately become a Frankenstein

JULY, 1940

monster and destroy those who have
created it.

When I think of the concern of
some of us with the material things
of life and our almost total lack of
appreciation of spiritual and human
values, I think of a certain newspa-
per's account of a robbery. It said
that the victim had put his valuables
into his safe just before the robber
came, so fortunately he lost nothing
but his life.

There are those who, alarmed by
the trend of the times, would sup-
press science altogether, believing
that it is a menace to the human race.
Ghandi, for instance, condemns all
scientific discoveries from cotton ma-
chinery to prevention medicine. Cer-
tainly these are wrong attitudes. That
which is potentially good should not
be cast aside.

We should encourage the expansion
of scientific knowledge and its prac-
tical applications, but we should also
encourage the development of those
attitudes of mind, those habits of
thought, that wisdom which can give
proper direction to the vast new pow-
er at our command. Science must not
be the master; it is the servant. If
mankind is to progress, science must
be the servant of all and not of a few
who would use it for the promotion
of their own selfish interests.

I have urged you to give first place
in your thinking to human and spir-
itual values. If this should be done
universally, I am wondering if it
would not mean the end of much of
the suffering, strife, and bloodshed
that through the centuries have filled
the world with misery and horror. If
we sincerely believe that an individ-
ual may be worth more than money
and things more, even, than our own
money and our own things can there
any longer be merciless exploitation
of human beings by their fellows?
Will there exist any longer a cause
for class hatreds and bitterness? When
the lives and happiness of individuals
weigh more heavily in our thinking
than do our notions about racial su-
periority and national grandeur, there
will be fewer racial and national con-
flicts in which individuals and their
happiness are destroyed. The concep-
tion we need is that of the brother-
hood of all men. The attitudes and
thoughts flowing from this concep-
tion will bring tolerance, understand-
ing, and love to our hearts.

I have spoken about our attitude
regarding our relation to other persons
and to things. Let me say a word re-
garding the ideals which should gov-
ern our thinking about our relation
to the State. Our democratic insti-
tutions are threatened as never before

in their history. Already from more
than half the countries of the world
democracy has disappeared. With
democracy have gone the things that
democracy stands for freedom of
speech, freedom of the press, freedom
of religious worship, and other priv-
ileges guaranteed to us by our Bill of
Rights. Our own institutions are im-
periled by crime and corruption and
by the indifference of our citizens.
Millions of our people do lip service
to the principles of democracy; from
time to time they utter a few feeble
words of criticism of dangerous
trends but they are unwilling to do
anything that requires any consider-
able effort. Millions refuse even to
exercise their privilege to participate
in the selection of public officials.
Edmund Burke said that democracy
might fail because of citizens' feeling
of irresponsibility. This is the thing
which is about to happen today. What
we need is a deep conviction of the
worth of our democratic institutions;
the ability to analyze problems of
government in terms of the human
interests involved; the intelligence to
recognize that some internal condi-
tions may be as dangerous as external
enemies; an appreciation of the duty
that rests upon each individual citi-
zen to take affirmative action to de-
fend his state and to perpetuate its
ideals and traditions; the courage to
fight for the preservation of all that
is good in our governmental and social
order. In the field of government,
our ideal should be one of construc-
tive patriotism.

What should be our attitude about
the home? What ideal should shape
our thinking about this institution?
It is sometimes said that the home is
disintegrating under the influences of
modern civilization and there is un-
doubtedly some truth in the state-
ment. Is the home worth saving and,
if so, what kind of a home should it
be? No other institution has been
found which can rear satisfactorily
the youth of the land. The home is
essential to the preservation of society
as we know it. Henry Grady said that
it was the strength of the American
Republic. It is in the home that the
ideals of youth are formed; it is there
that the forces are at work that de-
termine whether civilization shall go
forward or backward. Long ago it
was said that the hand that rocks the
cradle rules the world. The impor-
tance of the work of the home and its
potentialities for good cannot be over-
estimated. It is the task of the wife
and mother to provide in the home
food and fire for the mind as well as
for the body. This work requires all
the training, experience, and wisdom

which any college can give. Certainly
no woman who builds a home should
feel that her abilities have been wast-
ed. The highest product to social evo-
lution is the civilized home. The mak-
ing of such a home should be the
ideal of the vast majority of college
women.

What should be our attitude re-
garding the sort of individual that
should be produced in our homes and
schools? What should be his domi-
nating purposes? In what sort of
things should he be taught to find his
pleasures and enjoyment? May I offer
one or two suggestions?

First of all, he should have an ap-
preciation of eternal values. He should
have an abiding consciousness of the
Infinite. Only as a man gains some
faint conception of the Creator and
His purposes, will life have any mean-
ing for him. In every human soul,
there is a yearning for something that
lies outside the range of human exper-
ience; there is a longing for a closer
contact with the source of all wisdom
and power. Man is instinctively reli-
gious and he can be completely happy
and satisfied only when this instinct
is allowed full and free expression.
Science is no enemy of religion; its re-
cent discoveries confirm the age-old
belief that man's personality is not
the product of his brain and glands
but that it is a spiritual thing. Science
takes us to the very brink of the In-
finite. Although it cannot tell us the
nature of the world which lies beyond
the reach of our material senses, it
helps us to appreciate the mysteries of
the Universe about us and enables us
to feel a sense of awe and reverence
in the presence of the infinite intelli-
gence and power which we cannot
fully understand.

Another ideal for the individual is
freedom of expression of the human
spirit. The monotonous and routine
work of the world particularly since
the advent of the Machine Age has
tended to numb the senses of the
worker. The constant dreary grind
has tended to destroy his initiative and
hope and has made of man a being
without deep feeling and without the
sensibilities that would enable him to
respond to the beauties and joys of
existence. Edwin Markham, after see-
ing Millet's painting of the Toiler,
wrote:
"Who made him dead to rapture and

despair,
A thing that grieves not and that

never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the

ox?

How will you ever straighten up this
shape;

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

Touch it again with immortality;

Give back the upward looking and
the light;

Rebuild in it the music and the
dream . . .?"
Markham is describing the worker,
but isn't his description equally appli-
cable to any man whose spirit is
bound in the chains of a sordid ma-
terialism? Those who are interested
in the full development of the fine
potentialities of the individual must
strive to free the human spirit from
those influences that would crush it.
Our ideal should be a social and eco-
nomic order that provides for every
individual the opportunity for some
creative work. An intelligent man is
happier when he is making his own
plans and decisions than when he is
being required to follow to the letter
the orders and directions of another.
I agree with those thinkers of our
time who say that we should have
more individual ownership of prop-
erty and more personally controlled
and directed business enterprises as
distinguished from those which are
subject to corporate control. All our
people must know the joy of creative
effort a joy that is different in kind
and quality from the crude satisfac-
tion afforded by even the successful
performance of routine duties or the
accumulation of money and things of
the human spirit, by making ourselves
and others more interested in litera-
ture, music, art, the crafts. As edu-
cated men and women we should un-
dertake to bring to others an under-
standing and an appreciation of the
need for the expression of the crea-
tive instincts that reside within the
individual, and of the simple and
wholesome pleasure which such ex-
pression affords. The peoples of many
lands have come to know the value
of folk dances, songs, pageants, plays,

music, opera, and other forms of artis-
tic expression. Our American people
have not made the progress they
should have made in this respect.

I have not urged upon you any
specific program of action; I have
merely suggested certain attitudes to
his Creator, his fellowmen, his State,
and his home, which, I believe, are
worthy of your consideration. If these
attitudes and ideals are yours, they
will influence your thoughts and ac-
tions throughout the years to come
and the thinking of those with whom
you come in contact will be appre-
ciably affected.

I have called your attention to
these attitudes because, as educated
women, you will have iar better op-
portunities than others for making
them effective. Indeed, upon edu-
cated women has devolved a large
share of the responsibility for putting
the proper ideals and attitudes into
the stream of thought that flows
through the minds of our people.

There was a time and it has not
been so long ago when women had
no opportunities to go to college,
when the average woman was little
more than a domestic drudge. It was
the fashion for women to marry early
and die young. A century ago there
prevailed even in America a philoso-
phy similar to that of Schopenhauer,
who said: "She (woman) is not called
to great things. Girls should be
brought up to the habits of domes-
ticity and servility." This philosophy
regarding woman's place in the world
is being revived today in the totali-
tarian states. The current doctrine in
Germany is to the effect that wom-
an's sphere of work is in the kitchen,
cellar, nursery, schoolroom, and
church. A hundred years ago it was
doubted even in America that women
had the intellectual capacity to re-

ceive a college education.

Today the situation is quite differ-
ent in America. Women have the
same opportunities for education as
men have and they have demonstrated
their ability to hold their own with
men, not only in college but also in
the business and professional world.
Women occupy positions of power
and influence in practically every
field of human endeavor. Those tasks
to which American women set them-
selves with determination, they ac-
complish. It is apparent even to the
casual observer that to an ever great-
er extent women are becoming the
dreamers of the race; that they are
assuming more and more of the re-
sponsibility for fashioning the ideals
of our people; that they conceive and
execute plans of political and social
reform; that they demand and get
better educational opportunities for
their children; that they lay out the
lines which our cultural development
shall follow; that they determine how
civilization shall develop and what its
ultimate goals shall be. Young women,
your capabilities and your position in
the modern world make you potent
influences in shaping the world of to-
morrow. Your ideals and your atti-
tudes will have much to do with the
future of our people and civilization.

Allow me again to congratulate
you on the fact that you are now
graduates of Agnes Scott College and
that you are going out into the world
at a time when woman's powers and
opportunities are greater than at any
previous time in history. Our prayer
is that you will be able in your homes,
your schools, and your communities
to realize fully the high ambitions and
purposes which have been instilled
into you by this grand old institution.
May our fondest hopes for your suc-
cess and happiness be fulfilled!

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(Young) Harvey, of Cartersville;
Evalyn Wilder, of Albany; Ruth
(Bradford) Caryton, of Columbus,
and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Jacobs.
1932
Louise Stakely, Miriam Thompson,
Margaret Ridgely, Lois (Ions) Nichols,
and Julia (Thompson) Smith.
1933
Tish (Rockmore) Lange and Violet
(Denton) West.

1934
Elizabeth (Winn) Wilson, Bella
Wilson, Mardie Friend, of Athens;
Marv McDonald, Louise (McCain)
Boyce, Mary Sloan, Sarah Austin, and
Nelle (Chamlee) Howard.
1935
Ida Lois McDaniel, Vella Marie
Behm, Martha (Redwine) Rountree,
of Thomaston; Katherine Hertzka,

Frances McCalla, Marie (Simpson)
Rutland, Vera (Pruett) LeCraw,
Clara Morrison, and Alice Dunbar, of
Troy, Ala.

1936

Mary (Walker) Fox, Elizabeth For-
man, of Birmingham, Ala.; Catherine
Bates, and Agnes (Jamison) McKoy.
1937

Laura Steele, Sarah Johnson, Mary
(Malone) White, of Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Rose Northcross, of Trenton,
Tenn.; Isabel (McCain) Brown, of
Richmond, Va.; Vivienne (Long) Mc-
Cain, Kathleen (Daniel) Spicer, Mary
Landrum Johnson and Mary (Kneale)
Avrett.

1938

Eliza King, Bee (Sexton) Howard,
Primrose Noble, of Raleigh, N. C;
Elizabeth Warden and Alice Reins.

1939

Mary Allen, Catherine Farrar, Ma-
mie Lee Ratliff, Catherine Caldwell,
of Winnsboro, S. C; Cary Wheeler, of
Athens, Ga.; Lou Pate, Penny Simon-
ton, Mary Hollingsworth, Marv Ellen
Whetsell, Dorothy Lazenby, Martha
Zellners, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Sara
Joyce Cunningham, Henrietta Black-
well, of Laurens, S. O; Amelia Nick-
els, Rachel (Campbell) Gibson, Emily
Harris, Ella Hunter Mallard, of Green-
ville, S. C; Jane (Dryfoos) Bijur,
Olive Mai Rives, Catherine Ivie, Helen
Lichten, Alice Caldwell, of Bristol,
Tenn.; Cora Kay Hutchins, Callie
(Carmichael) Wheeler, Virginia Cofer,
Sarah Carter, of Bamberg, S. C; Julia
Sewell, Sarah Thurman, Jeanne Flynt,
Jean Bailey, Mary Frances Thompson,
Alice Cheeseman, and Selma Steinback.

^Annual T^e ports

Minutes of the General Alumnae
Association Meeting, June 1, 1940

The annual meeting of the Alum-
nae Association was held following
the Trustees' Luncheon on Saturday,
June 1. The president, Anne (Hart)
Equen, called the meeting to order
and read her annual report.

Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer, chairman
of the Constitution and By-Laws
Committee, read the proposed amend-
ment to the by-laws, which would
do away with the office of chairman
of the Local Clubs Committee. The
motion was made, seconded, and car-
ried that the constitution be amended
to omit this club chairmanship and
committee.

The proposed budget for 1940-41
was presented by Blanche Miller,
chairman of the Finance Committee,
and was unanimously accepted.

The report of the Nominating
Committee was read, and the
committee nominations unanimously
elected.

A rising vote of thanks was given
Anne (Hart) Equen for her years of
service as president of the Alumnae
Association, after which the meeting
was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Edythe (Coleman) Paris,

Secretary.

Minutes of the Alumnae Council Meeting,
May 29, 1940

The Alumnae Council met Wednes-
day, May 29, at 3:30 o'clock in the
Anna Young Alumnae House. Anne
(Hart) Equen called the meeting to
order. The minutes of the last meet-
ing were dispensed with, since they
were published in full in the July,
1939, Quarterly.

Dr. J. R. McCain spoke of the
University Center campaign, the plans
for laying the cornerstone of the
Presser Building at commencement,
and the prospects of beginning work
on Hopkins Hall this summer. Dr.
McCain stressed the importance of the
college limiting its expenditures to its
income, with world conditions as
they are.

Dean Carrie Scandrett reported the
outstanding social and cultural events
on the campus this year, manv of
which were part of the Semi-Centen-
nial celebration. She outlined the co-
operation with Emory in the joint
publication of the literary magazine,
the joint presentation of the Glee
Clubs, in the dramatic presentations,

radio programs, and social events.
Dean Scandrett asked the help of the
Council in combating the idea that
Agnes Scott is "too hard" for the
average student. She stated that the
alumnae and the students do not want
the academic standards lowered. A
questionnaire sent to the students
showed that they do not consider their
work too hard, but that they find dif-
ficulty in budgeting their times to al-
low sufficient study periods along
with time for extra curricular and
social events.

Nelle (Chamlee) Howard and
Mamie Lee Ratliff outlined the work
carried on in the Alumnae Office dur-
ing the year.

The Alumnae Week-End Commit-
tee reported a total attendance of 2 50
at the program of lectures given No-
vember 17-18.

Hallie (Smith) Walker reported
the acquisition of new curtains for
the tea room, replacements in the
kitchen, and in the bedrooms. She
announced the resignation of Mrs.
Lanning, the present tea room man-
ager, and told the Council of the new
manager who will take over in Sep-
tember.

Frances (Gilliland) Stukes reported
the improvements in the Alumnae
Garden.

An outline of the program for the
entertainment committee was given
and an invitation issued to the alum-
nae present to attend the commence-
ment festivities at which the com-
mittee will function.

Allie (Candler) Guy announced
that four loans had been made by the
Student Loan Committee during the
year, and that five overdue accounts
had been collected during the year.

Henrietta Thompson, president of
the Student Government, reported
that Student Government had held
its second retreat early in the fall, had
presented a series of chapel programs
to educate the student body up to the
present rules in force, and had raised
enough money to buy a new mimeo-
graphing machine, and to give Ella
a radio.

Katherine Patton, president of the
Christian Association, reported that
their program for the year had fea-
tured discussion groups, the publica-
tion of a quarterly bulletin present-
ing ideas on religion called the "Chris-
tian Exchange," had sponsored social
activities in co-operation with other

campus organizations, and had pre-
sented Religious Emphasis Week.

Ruth Slack reported that Mortar
Board had sponsored the social activi-
ties on the campus during the year,
and had published the "Campus
Code," a book on college etiquette.

Mary Evelyn Francis, president of
the Day Students, announced that the
day students had decided to disband
as an organization, and would en-
deavor to be more closely allied with
the campus organizations.

Past presidents of the alumnae as-
sociation, class secretaries and repre-
sentatives were introduced.

There being no further business,
the Council adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Edythe (Coleman) Paris,

Secretary.

Annual Report of President of the
Alumnae Association

It is with a feeling of regret that I
make this my final report as presi-
dent of the Agnes Scott Alumnae As-
sociation. The years have a way of
slipping away and it is hard to be-
lieve that the Fiftieth Anniversary of
Agnes Scott and her Semi-Centennial
celebration have come and gone. I
have enjoyed my term of office. It
has been a genuine privilege to have
headed so splendid a group as this as-
sociation.

As is customary, at this annual
meeting, I shall incorporate in my re-
port the reports of the various stand-
ing committees. This is done merely
as a time saver. However, it would
be far better if each chairman could
give her own complete report as I feel
sure that you would be interested in
hearing in detail all the constructive
things that these alumnae have done
for their Alma Mater.

The Garden Committee has no big
projects to report this spring. Rather,
it has spent its time and money keep-
ing in good condition what it already
has. The college gave this committee
$100 to use for outside labor in the
garden. Mrs. Holt took personal
charge of this fund and has adminis-
tered it economically and wisely. The
committee did not spend all this
amount and will return to the college
treasurer at the end of the school year
a goodly sum. Of the $65.00 the
alumnae budget allowed this commit-
tee it has $18.25 left, which is in it-
self a record as most committees run
over their budgets each year. It is

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

hard to measure the worth of a gar-
den by how much money has been
spent on it. The true value of any
garden is in the amount of pleasure
it gives to all who enjoy it. The
Alumnae Garden gives happiness to
hundreds of girls each day.

The Entertainment Committee, one
of the hardest working committees in
the association, has functioned as us-
ual. The regular parties that fill the
calendar for the school year were given
and enjoyed by all who attended them.
Too much cannot be said as to the
merits of this committee. It is lots of
trouble to give parties even in our
own homes and it has been doubly
hard to bring food, etc., and enter-
tain at the Alumnae House. However,
the labors of the Entertainment Com-
mittee are duly appreciated and with-
out the gay functions put on by it,
the social life of the students would
be curtailed.

The report of the Local Clubs
Committee is based on the work done
by the alumnae secretaries in the fur-
therance of club organizations and
their activities. Believing that there
is an overlapping of the work done by
the chairman of this committee and
the alumnae secretaries and feeling
that the work done by this commit-
tee has become outmoded, the chair-
man strongly suggests that in the fu-
ture this committee be done away
with. It is no longer necessary be-
cause of the effectiveness with which
the two secretaries function. This
fact is brought to the consideration
of the Board as a suggestion for a
possible amendment to the constitu-
tion.

Everyone these days realizes the
value of the radio as a means of bring-
ing to the attention of the public
things of momentous account. The
Radio Committee of the Alumnae As-
sociation has kept the radio audience
in touch with events and personages
in the Agnes Scott campus. It has
functioned ably, putting on each week
some interesting and informative pro-
gram. It helped greatly in laying be-
fore the public facts concerning the
University Center drives. This is a
worthwhile committee and one that
reflects credit on the college.

The usual publicity work for the
year has been done with special em-
phasis at the time of Alumnae Week-
end in November. Through Mr. Er-
nest Rogers, of the Atlanta Journal,
we have received the greatest help on
our radio publicity at such times as
our program was allowed to continue
its regular schedule. The chairman
has also kept up the scrapbook of
printed news from her committee.

The Tea Room Committee regret-

fully announces the resignation of
Mrs. Lanning, its manager for the
last four years, and announced with
pleasure the selection of Miss Mar-
garet Shatswell as its new Tea Room
manager. Miss Shatswell comes to this
office highly recommended and the
alumnae are indeed fortunate to have
secured her aid. Many gifts from
various clubs and alumnae have come
to this committee and for them it
wishes to extend heartiest thanks. At
last the refrigerator has been paid for,
much to the delight of the Tea Room
chairman and all others on her com-
mittee.

The House Decorations Committee,
although sadly hampered by lack of
funds, has functioned advantageously
with the result that the Anna Young
Alumnae House looks quite beautiful.
The committee is especially grateful
to Mrs. Fonville McWhorter for her
gift of a lovely dining room table.

The Alumnae Week-end Commit-
tee started plans for the November,
1939, week-end in September at its
first meeting. Much thought and en-
ergy were spent in securing good
speakers, with the result that the
week-end last fall was one of the most
interesting in the history of the col-
lege.

The report of the Treasurer of the
Alumnae Association will be given in
full in the next Quarterly, as well as
the figures of the Student Loan Fund.

The Alumnae Association is indeed
fortunate in having in its office two
excellent secretaries. The Executive
Secretary, Nelle (Chamlee) Howard,
and the Assistant Secretary, Mamie
Lee Ratliff, have both done excellent
work during the past year. They
have done all, and even more, than
was expected of them. They have
been patient with a president who
often would have forgotten important
engagements if it had not been for
their eternal vigilance. Under their
supervision the Alumnae House has
been kept attractive and inviting.
Especially homelike have been the
flower arrangements that have at all
times filled the house with their fra-
grance and beauty. They have both
done their share in carrying out in
perfect detail the arduous tasks that
have been theirs. It has been they
who have worked faithfully with the
chairman of each committee and with-
out them the Association could not
adequately function.

I want to thank you for electing
me president of the Alumnae Associa-
tion of Agnes Scott. My term has
been a happy one. All the success
that has come to the Association has
been due to the fact that I had excel-

lent chairmen with whom to work.
They did it all.

It has been a distinct honor to have
headed the Alumnae Association dur-
ing such momentous years in the his-
tory of the College.

Anne (Hart) Equen, '21,

President.

Treasurer's Report

1940-41

Esti- Proposed

Income Actual mated Total Budget

Dues $ 720.85 179.15 900.00 900.00

Tea Room Rent 25S.50 146.50 400.00 400.00

Room Rent 150.00 75.00 225.00 225.00

Rent from caps,
gowns and

hoods 03. 00 77.00 140.00 140.00

Gift from Col-
lege 1200.00 1200.00 1200.00

Savings (for in-
surance) 50.00 50.00

Miscellaneous - 119.28 85.00

Telephone

Tolls 3.21

Interest on

stock 85.00

Refund on

postage 31.07

Totals $2556.63 477.65 3034.28 2950.00

Less exchange

on checks 1.80

Total $2554.83

Checking ac-
count. Sept.
7. 1939 877.97

Total income --$3432.80
Less disburse-
ments 2759.34

Balance on hand 673.46

Decatur Bldg. &
Loan Stock _ 1700.00

Savings First
Xat'l Bank,
Decatur 100.15

Disbursements

Secretaries 880.00 120.00 1000.00 1000.00

Dues 32.50 32.50 32.50

Printing. Post-
age. Supplies- 1219.27 1219.27 1200.00

Alumnae House

Upkeep 66.12 33.88 100.00 100.00

Phone and Elec-

tricitv 102.75 7.25 110.00 110.00

Maid 100.00 20.00 120.00 120.00

Entertainment

Committee 41.52 68.48 110.00 110.00

Tea Room Com-
mittee 75.89 75.89 85.00

Radio Com-
mittee 7.50

House Decora-
tions 25.00

Garden Com-
mittee 50.30 14.70 65.00 65.00

Insurance ._ 76.50 76.50 25.00

Travel 50.00 50.00 40.00

Miscellaneous _ 04.49 30.00

Telephone

Tolls 6.44

Petty Cash _ 15.00
Alumnae

Week-end . 12.40
Radio Com-
mittee 3.65

Gift 25.00

Refund on
caps 2.00

Total Disburse-
ments $2759.34 264.31 3023.65 2950.00

Final Statement
May 11, 1940

Decatur Bldg. &

Loan $1700.00

Savings 50.90

Checking Ac-
count 673.46

Blanche Miller. '30. Treasurer.

Report of the Executive Secretary
The secretary is outlining in her
report the work of the Association in
general during the 1939-40 session,
and the assistant secretary will give
a report of the detailed work and the
office routine.

The first major event on our year's
program is the Alumnae Week-End,

JULY, 1940

11

and since the program for the Ninth
Alumnae Week-End is fully reported
by the chairman of that commit-
tee, we wish only to acknowledge the
splendid work of the committee, and
to thank them for their gracious and
unlimited cooperation in carrying out
this program. The office mailed com-
plete programs for the week-end to
all alumnae within a radius of fifty
miles, and we believe that this effort
paid dividends, as the total number
attending this Ninth Week-End ap-
proached 2 50.

Plans for the Founder's Day ob-
servance were under way the first of
December, and a personal letter to
each club president and group chair-
man brought good response. Through
the generosity of the college we were
able to include in the program ma-
terial a record of Dr. McCain's voice,
which added much to the programs
for all the groups, but especially to
those who were unable to hear the
radio program. The office inaugurated
a report blank to be filled in at the
meeting, which enables us to get cor-
related reports of the program and the
names and addresses of the alumnae
present, as well as newly-elected of-
ficers and suggestions for the next
year's programs. The secretary
planned and arranged for the Found-
er's Day program, and wishes to thank
Roberta Winter, '27, of the radio
committee, for her valuable assistance
in timing the program and in an-
nouncing it. We are proud to report
that fifty-seven groups of alumnae
observed Founder's Day, with groups
as far away as Texas, Arkansas, Illi-
nois, and Connecticut.

We have felt for some time that we
failed our local clubs by not supply-
ing their officers with some definite
ideas on what an alumnae club should
be. The secretaries collaborated with
the local clubs chairman, Mrs. Don-
aldson, on a handbook for club offi-
cers, which gives the purpose of the
club, a model constitution, definite
objectives, services the club can ren-
der the college, data about meetings
and programs, and suggested projects
for raising funds.

The publication of four issues of
the Alumnae Quarterly entails much
planning and work on the part of the
office. Our April Quarterly was
mailed out to the entire group of
alumnae, as a part of the campaign
plan, and the Alumnae Association
and the college shared the expenses of
this undertaking. We feel, however,
that this effort was definitely worth-
while, as we have had many expres-
sions of appreciation for this copy of
the magazine. The editor has insti-
tuted a new series of articles, in the

current issues, "Alumnae in the
News," which is devoted entirely to
alumnae and their work.

In an effort to clear up some un-
finished business connected with the
student loan accounts, the secretary
has assisted the chairman by comput-
ing the interest and settling several
long overdue accounts.

The secretary feels that a very def-
inite part of her work is establishing
contacts with alumnae not in the im-
mediate vicinity of the college, and
we have made every effort to enlarge
our acquaintance among the alumnae
during this year. The secretary rep-
resented the Alumnae Association at
the luncheon held by the Georgia Ag-
nes Scott teachers in Macon at the
meeting of the G. E. A. March 16.
This project has been sponsored by
Dean Carrie Scandrett for the past
two years, but the project is purely
an alumnae undertaking, and with
Dean Scandrett's cooperation, will be
undertaken by the office next year.

Since the campaign among the
alumnae is definitely of interest to the
General Association, and since the
countless visits with alumnae in or-
ganizing the work supplied a wonder-
ful oportunity to make personal con-
tacts, the secretary planned her work
in April so that she could make some
of the trips through Georgia. The
visits with alumnae in planning the
campaign organization and in actual
soliciting gave much proof of the loy-
alty and interest of our alumnae
throughout the state.

The office has endeavored to co-
operate with the various committees
in carrying out their plans to the
fullest of its ability, and it has been
a distinct pleasure to work with such
enthusiastic alumnae. Through the
loyalty and interest of the commit-
tees this year the general program has
continued to advance, and we are
proud of the report of the various
committees.

The secretary is particularly grate-
ful to Mamie Lee Ratliff for the un-
tiring cooperation which has charac-
terized her work during the year. Her
contacts on the campus, and her abil-
ity to meet the alumnae graciously
have made her most valuable in the
Alumnae House; her readiness to as-
sist in any plans undertaken by the
Association has endeared her to all of
us.

To the retiring members of the
Board we would express our sincere
regret that our work with them is to
be terminated; we trust that with the
aid of the newly nominated officers
for the next term we will be able to
maintain the standard set for us by
this capable group with whom we

have worked during the 193 8-40 ses-
sions.

Respectfully submitted,
Nelle (Chamlee) Howard, '34,

Executive Secretary.
Report of Assistant Alumnae Secretary

The Assistant Alumnae Secretary
wishes to report the detailed work of
the Alumnae Office for the year
1939-40. The college has furnished
four scholarship and NYA girls for
the use of the Alumnae Office. The)'
assist the Assistant Secretary and are
supervised by her as they keep the
alumnae files up to date and as they
help in getting out all the Quarterlies
and correspondence sent out by the
office.

The regular form letters sent from
the Alumnae Office have been sent to
Board and Council members, class
secretaries, for the dues, Alumnae
Week-End and Founder's Day ma-
terial, and commencement material.

One hundred and thirty letters
have gone to the members of the
Board and the Council announcing
the times of their meetings. The class
secretaries have been written four
times during the year, totaling 160
letters or cards. There have been forty
form letters to the local club chair-
men. The drive for dues payment, in-
cluding letters to the members of the
last graduating class, to the ex-es, and
to the women of the faculty, totaled
2 545 letters.

Special emphasis was given this year
to the Founder's Day celebration.
Penny post cards about the annual
banquet in Atlanta were sent out to
2 50 members of the three local clubs.
Postals to 200 out-of-town alumnae
in places where there were not enough
alumnae to have a group meeting were
sent about the annual Founder's Day
radio broadcast. This year, instead of
approaching the possible group chair-
man by a form letter, one hundred in-
dividual letters were written. One
hundred ten-page folders of news
and greetings from Agnes Scott were
sent to groups meeting for Founder's
Day celebrations throughout the
country. Also 100 forms were sent
for reports on the meetings to be kept
in the office files, accompanied bv
letters asking for a prompt report on
the meeting. This year the college was
very generous in presenting to the
Alumnae Association as an aid in the
Founder's Day meetings fifty copies
of a record which Dr. McCain made as
he spoke of this, our fiftieth celebra-
tion of the founding of our College.
Fifty letters from the Alumnae Of-
fice accompanied the records. The
correspondence and material about

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

Founder's Day totaled 900 letters or
cards.

The material about commencement
plans include 5 60 letters to the mem-
bers of the reuning classes, each of
which carried a copy of the Com-
mencement Week-End program, with
a blank to be returned to the office
whether or not they will be able to
attend. Also 45 copies of the ballot
for the annual General Alumnae As-
sociation elections were mailed to the
members of the Alumnae Association,
to be sent back to the office if they
will not be able to attend the general
meeting in June.

Besides the regular office routine,
140 letters and cards have been mailed
out from the Alumnae Office for the
radio committee announcing the pro-
gram. Also 200 copies of the fall
program were mimeographed for the
committee. One hundred and sixty
booklets were sent to the new stu-
dents about the conveniences of the
Alumnae House, telling them how
they might use it. Ninety letters
were sent to the 1939 graduates about
their Thanksgiving banquet. The of-
fice mailed out five hundred booklets
about Alumnae Week-End, besides
taking care of the correspondence
with speakers, arrangements for the
week-end, and the publicity.

This year the Alumnae Office has
found it possible to send all 100 mem-
bers of the graduating class a copy of
the April Quarterly in order to get
them interested in joining the Alum-
nae Association. Also 100 notes were
sent with the Quarterlies, calling at-
tention to particular parts of it. One
hundred invitations were sent to them
to come to tea in the Alumnae House
early in May. Folders about the
Alumnae Association were sent to all
seniors, as well as Alumnae Registers,
with dues notices in them. There
were also 100 letters about renting of
the senior hoods.

This total of 7,000 form letters was
mimeographed by the Assistant Sec-
retary and mailed out by her with the
assistance of the scholarship girls.

This year the September and Jan-
uary Quarterlies were mailed out to
the regular mailing list of 8 5 0.
Through the generosity of the col-
lege, however, the April Quarterly
was mailed out to 6,000 alumnae as a
special feature of the campaign ma-
terial sent out during the year. All
these quarterly envelopes were ad-
dressed and the quarterlies mailed
through the Alumnae Office.

All general correspondence has been
kept up, as well as 344 letters or cards
mailed out from the office in
acknowledgment of the payment of

annual dues to the Alumnae Associa-
tion.

The Granddaughter's Club, for
those students whose mothers attended
Agnes Scott, is sponsored by the
Alumnae Office. The Alumnae As-
sociation has been hostess to the group
three times during the year in Octo-
ber, January, and April. There have
been three other meetings during the
year, besides the annual banquet. The
granddaughters helped during Alum-
nae Week-End in registering the
alumnae who were on the campus dur-
ing that time. Also they served at
after-luncheon coffee on Friday in
the Alumnae House. Letters to all
forty granddaughters were written in-
dividually from the office to offer any
help that the Alumnae Office might
give during the year. These were sent
out just before the Alumnae Week-
End with the planned schedule for
the two days of the Week-End, for
the use of the girls themselves, as
well as for them to send to their
mothers. This year the forty grand-
daughters have been entertained by
the Decatur Alumnae Club at three
meetings during the year. On Febru-
ary 7, the Agnes Scott radio program
was "Daughters and Granddaughters"
as the conclusion of the programs dur-
ing January on the history of Agnes
Scott. This was a project of the
Granddaughters' Club.

The file of cuts established during
the past two years has been brought
up to date, including new pictures of
graduates in the classes from 193 3 to
1939. Also the scrapbooks of clip-
pings about alumnae are being reor-
ganized, so that for each class there
will be a book containing a page for
each graduate, all the books being uni-
form in size and appearance. A
change has been made this year in the
filing of class news to be used for
the Quarterly. Now, instead of the
old envelope style of filing, there is
for each class a stiff file of standard
size.

Outstanding guests in the Alumnae
House during the year include Dr.
Oldfather, head of classics at the Uni-
versity of Illinois; Dr. Cody, of the
University of Toronto; Dr. Ernest
Hutcheson, president of the Julliard
School of Music in New York; Dr.
Douglas S. Freeman, biographer of
Robert E. Lee; Dr. Harlow Shapley,
director of the Harvard Observatory.
It was reported at the January Board
meeting that there would be a per-
manent guest in the Alumnae House
for the rest of the year, unless there
was some change in arrangements.
That guest was here for only one
month. During the year forty-one
alumnae and thirty-three mothers of

students have been guests in the
Alumnae House.

The Assistant Secretary wishes to
thank the Executive Board as well as
the alumnae themselves for the oppor-
tunity of working with them during
the year. She has enjoyed the work in
itself, as well as the personal associa-
tion with the local alumnae, the cor-
respondence with those from out-of-
town, and the direct association with
those who have been guests in the
Alumnae House.

Respectfully submitted,

Mamie Lee Ratliff, '39,
Assistant Alumnae Secretary.
Garden Committee's Report
The Garden Committee has no big
projects to report this spring. Rather,
we have spent our time and money
keeping in good condition what we al-
ready have.

The College again gave us $100 to
use for outside labor in the garden.
Mrs. Holt takes personal charge of
this fund and has administered it eco-
nomically and wisely. We have never
used all the allotted amount but al-
ways have a good bit to turn back
to the college treasurer at the end of
the year. The College also had re-
pair work done on the fountain which
had been badly damaged by the snow
and ice.

At the beginning of this term the
Committee had on hand $27.00,
$25.00 of which had been saved from
the previous year to buy camellias.
The budget allows us $65.00. Of the
$92.00 we have spent $73.45 for fer-
tilizer, tools, shrubs, plants, bulbs,
and improvement around the front of
the house. The largest single expendi-
ture was $24.00 for four hardy cam-
ellias. We have left to date $18.55.

It is hard to measure the worth of
a garden by how much money has
been spent on it. We know that if
all the alumnae could hear the com-
ments and see the very real enjoy-
ment which the whole college com-
munity gets out of the garden they
would never regret any of the per-
sonal contributions or the budget
money which has gone into it. They
would realize how much happiness
they are giving to each Agnes Scott
girl as she pauses for a moment in the
paths of the Alumnae Garden to store
up a bit of beauty to take with her
about her daily tasks.

Respectfully submitted,
Frances (Gilliland) Stukes, '24,

Chairman.

Report of the Entertainment Committee
1939-40
The Entertainment Committee be-
gan its program for the year, shortly
after college opened in September,
with tea for the freshmen and new

JULY, 1940

13

students. The guests numbered about
one hundred and sixty and were re-
ceived in the living room of the
Alumnae House by the members of
the Executive Board, Miss Scandrett
and Dr. McCain.

In September, January, and April,
the Granddaughters' Club was enter-
tained at three lovely teas.

The Publicity Committee for
Alumnae Week-End was entertained
at a small tea in November. And on
Friday of Alumnae Week-End the
honor guests for the day were served
coffee and dainty cookies in the
Alumnae House, immediately follow-
ing the luncheon at the college.

Two teas for the senior class were
given on May 8 and 9. The commit-
tee is deeply grateful to Louise
(Brown) Hastings for furnishing and
arranging the quantities of lovely
spring flowers used in the decorations
and on the tea table.

On Sunday, June 2, a supper was
served in the Alumnae Garden in
honor of the alumnae, seniors, their
friends, and the members of the fac-
ulty. This is the largest affair of the
year, the guests usually numbering
around three hundred.

I feel sure no entertainment chair-
man could function without the able
and willing support of the two alum-
nae secretaries, Nelle (Chamlee)
Howard and Mamie Lee Ratliff. My
most sincere appreciation and thanks
to them and the members of the com-
mittee.

Expenses
$20.51 Tea for New Students

2.2 5 Granddaughters' Tea

2.50 Publicity Tea for Alumnae

Week-End
1.80 Granddaughters' Tea
1.60 Granddaughters' Tea

12.86 Senior Teas

$41.52 Total on May 25

At the time this report was writ-
ten, there remained a balance of
$68.48 to be spent on the Alumnae
Supper, June 2.

Committee:

Irene (Havis) Baggett, ex-'17.

Venice (Mayson) Fry, ex-'21.

Elizabeth (Dimmock) Bloodworth,
ex-'19.

Mynelle (Blue) Grove, ex-' 17.

Sarah Bell (Broadnax) Hansell, '23.

Louise (Brown) Hastings, '23.

Catherine (Baker) Matthews, '32.

Isabelle (Leonard) Spearman, ex-
'29.

Mary Palmer (Caldwell) McFar-
land, '2 5.

Respectfully submitted,
Maybeth (Carnes) Robison, ex-'23,

Chairman.

Report to House Decorations Committee
The Committee wishes to acknowl-
edge with much appreciation a gift to
the House in memory of Miss Anna
Young. A lovely dining room table
with banquet ends was presented by
Willie Belle (Jackson) McWhorter.
This was much needed and is a lovely
acquisition to the House.

Funds Received
$15.00 from the New York City

Club
25.75 from the Decatur, Ga., Club
25.00 from the Atlanta, Ga., Club
2 5.00 from a Member of Committee

$90.75 Total amount received

Disbursements
$45.00 Love-seat re-upholstered
19.00 Wicker furniture painted and

re-upholstered
15.00 Office desk refinished
3.50 Advertisements

S82.50 Total disbursements
$ 8.2 5 Balance on hand

Submitted by,
Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, Chairman
Lucile Alexander
Susan (Young) Eagan
Willie Belle (Jackson) McWhorter
Mary (Warren) Read
Martha (Rogers) Noble (ex-officio)
Mary Ellen (Harvey) Newton
(ex-officio)

Local Clubs Committee
The report of this committee is
based on the work done by the alum-
nae secretaries in the furtherance of
club organizations and their activities.
Thirty-five clubs held meetings
during 1939-1940, varying from the
one meeting a year on Founder's Day
to monthly meetings, depending on
the size and interest of the different
groups. Of these thirty-five clubs,
the following inactive clubs reorgan-
ized this year and are functioning
very satisfactorily. Chicago, with
monthly meetings; Jacksonville, with
plans for an active club year; Miami,
with Chopin (Hudson) Hawkins
president; Richmond, Kate (Richard-
son) Wicker, president; and Tallahas-
see and Quincy clubs, working to-
gether toward an active combination,
with Elizabeth Lynn and Helen
(Etheredge) Griffin co-chairmen.

The most outstanding achievement
was the preparation of a hand-book
for club officers which will fill a
long-expressed needed among the club
organizations for information as to
objectives for clubs, a model consti-
tution, the services clubs can render
the college, organization methods,
and suggested projects for fund-rais-
ing. One hundred of these have been
mimeographed in the Alumnae Office
and made into attractive pamphlets to

be mailed to our clubs.

I would like to bring to the con-
sideration of the Board this suggestion
as a possible amendment to the consti-
tution. Having been in the Alumna;
Office and also on this committee, I
can appreciate more than anyone else
probably the utter futility of this
committee's existence. It was very
worthwhile in the early history of our
Association, but with the Alumnae
Office so effective now in its work-
ings, this committee has become use-
less. The correspondence with club
officers and prospective clubs, all
plans for meeting and work programs
must be done by the alumnae secre-
taries who are in touch with the situa-
tions everywhere. It has often seemed
to. the office that it was poor policy
to elect an alumna to this office and
let her come enthusiastically to the
task to find that she can not do any-
thing very effectively, that it is an
office matter, that there is really
nothing to do but consult the Alum-
nae Secretary at the end of the year
as to what to report. It seems to be
a committee which has been outmoded
and I feel that my experience on both
sides of this dilemma makes it im-
perative that I explain this situation
and ask if the time has not come to
abolish this committee, thereby free-
ing the secretaries to act authorita-
tively and releasing alumnae for other
committees where their services can
be so valuable.

Respectfully submitted,

Fannie G. (Mayson) Donaldson, '12.

Student Loan Fund
June 1, 1939
Cash on hand ._ __ $477.44

Received June 1st, 1939, to

May 1st, 1940 __ __$384.08

Loans made June, 1939, to May,
1940:
$100.00
100.00
185.00
100.00

$485.00

Cash on hand May 1, 1940 __ $366.22

Loans paid in full:

$ 75.00

75.00

100.00

75.00

50.00

50.00

Outstanding due $346.50

Respectfully submitted,
Allie (Candler) Guy, '13,

Chairman.

Alumnae Association for 1939-40
The Radio Committee has been
especially fortunate this year in hav-
ing Roberta Winter, '27, who is now

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

a member of the Speech Department
at Agnes Scott, to direct our weekly
programs over station WSB. We owe
to her a new feature of Campus Sil-
houettes, the Agnes Scott Amplifier,
which broadcasts news of alumnae
and of events connected with the
progress and prestige of the college.
In the effort to establish more wide-
spread interest through participation,
we have had as a part of all pro-
grams the Voice of Agnes Scott, rep-
resented each week by a different stu-
dent or alumna. Miss Gooch, head of
the speech department, has been of
great help in selecting and coaching
the "voices," whose function is that
of announcer. The programs for the
year have consisted of faculty talks
in October, a variety of musical pro-
grams under the direction of Mr.
C. W. Dieckmann in November and
December, episodes from college his-
tory in January, campaign programs
in February, and in the spring were
interviews with young alumnae show-
ing the value of liberal arts college
training in the various types of inter-
esting work they are doing.

A pleasant aspect of the dramati-
zations which Miss Winter composed
and directed in January and Febru-
ary was the cooperation of Mr. Leath-
erwood and the Emory Radio Guild,
without which the playlets could
scarcely have been presented. We
have received splendid response from
all those whom we have asked to take
part in the programs. Our thanks are
due to the college for letting us use
the college car for transportation; to
the alumnae office for sending out
publicity to local clubs; to the Asso-
ciation for letting us have money to
buy a record of the Alma Mater and
a gift of paints for the student who
has made us posters all year; to Mor-
tar Board for handling publicity on
the campus; and to Carolina (McCall)
Chapin, '27, for our theme lines taken
from her semi-centennial prize poem.

The great difficulty of our work
has been in getting any cooperation
from WSB since the reorganization of
the Atlanta Journal. The old friends
of the college who straightened out
our difficulties in getting a fixed
hour last year are powerless; and we
can get no assurances of having an
hour at all from week to week. We
were not allowed to give programs
from the middle of March to the
middle of April and have just had the
hour shifted for a second time since
we resumed. Since we cannot hope to
maintain an audience under such cir-
cumstances and since our old relation
with WSB has no sifnificance to the
new staff, it is my suggestion that we

change to station WGST, where we
have reason to think we should re-
ceive more courteous treatment and
be allowed to do our work for the
college effectively.

Another suggestion which I should
like to make as retiring chairman is
the inclusion of a small allotment of
funds for incidental expenses con-
nected with the radio in the regular
budget of the Alumnae Association.
Respectfully submitted,
Ellen Douglass Leyburn, '27,

Radio Chairman.

Report of Newspaper Publicity
The usual publicity work for the
year has been done, with special em-
phasis at the time of the Alumnae
Week-End in November. Through
Mr. Ernest Rogers, of the Atlanta
Journal, we have received the great-
est help on our radio publicity, at
such times as our program was al-
lowed to continue its regular schedule.
The chairman has also kept up the
scrapbook of printed news from her
committee.

Respectfully submitted,
Letitia (Rockmore) Lange, '33,
Chairman Newspaper Publicity.

Report oi Tea Room Committee
The Tea Room Committee of the
Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
wishes to present the following re-
port:

Cash Assets
$ 80.00 Allotment from Alumnae
4.50 Mississippi Club

.75 Sale of Mirror
9.26 Hallie (Smith) Walker
1.00 Lavalette (Sloan) Tucker
10.00 Decatur Club

,105. U Total

Expenditures
> 41.25 Curtains for Tea Room
41.67 Payments on Refrigerator,
1939-40
4.63 Payments on Refrigerator,

1938-39
2.48 Kitchen Utensils
1.5 Lamp
4.25 Dish Pans
4.30 Banquet Cloths
2.98 Bed Spread

$103.06 Total

Balance on hand, $2.45.

Gifts received, 1939-40:

Two boudoir lamps.

One voile bedspread, Leone B.
Hamilton.

One rug.

One damask cloth, Mary W.
Thatcher.

Two towel sets, Janet Newton.

$4.50 Mississippi Club.

$1.00 Lavalette (Sloan) Tucker.

$ .75 (mirror) House.

$9.26 Hallie (Smith) Walker.

One bedspread, House Committee.

For all these gifts the Committee
wishes to extend the heartiest thanks.

The Tea Room Committee regret-
fully announces the resignation of
Mrs. Lanning, our manager for the
last four years. We thank her for her
many services and wish for her suc-
cess in her new undertaking.

The Tea Room Committee an-
nounces with pleasure the selection of
Miss Margaret Shatswell, of Winter
Haven, Florida, as our new Tea Room
Manager. We are proud to have se-
cured her as the Committee thinks
she is particularly fit to fill this place.
She is a graduate of Radcliffe College
and has received a degree from the
Florida State College for Women in
Tallahassee in Dietetics.

As Chairman of the Tea Room
Committee I wish to thank the Alum-
nae Secretary, Nelle (Chamlee) How-
ard, and her assistant, Mamie Lee Rat-
liff, and my co-chairman, Leone
(Bowers) Hamilton, and all the
members of the committee for their
loyal support and helpfulness.
Respectfully submitted,
Hallie (Smith) Walker, ex-'16,

Tea Room Chairman.

Report oi the Constitution and By-Laws
Committee

The committee reports that on a
recommendation from the Executive
Board it drew up the following reso-
lution:

To amend the By-Laws, Article
IV, Section 3, by leaving out commit-
tee on local clubs.

By leaving out (j) in Article IV,
Section 5.

Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer, Chairman.
Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann.
Elizabeth (Moss) Mitchell.
Granddaughters in the News

As surely as spring comes on a
college campus, there is the excite-
ment of student elections and tapping
to honor societies. Among the out-
standing students at Agnes Scott are
several Granddaughters. Mary Scott
Wilds, daughter of Laura (Candler)
Wilds, Institute, was elected as presi-
dent of Christian Association for the
coming year. The new business man-
ager for the Agnes Scott News is
Florence Ellis, daughter of Florence
(Day) Ellis, ex-'16. Gene Slack,
daughter of Julia Pratt (Smith)
Slack, ex-'12, was chosen as the editor
of the Agnes Scott annual, the Sil-
houette.

Jane Moses, '40, daughter of
Frances (Thatcher) Moses, '17, was
presented in vocal recital by Mr.
Lewis Johnson on Wednesday, May
22, at 8:30 in the Gaines Chapel, as-
sisted by Jeannette Carroll, soprano.

From A Tower Window

By Elaine Stubbs, '41
At the beginning of this quarter
when we walked in the dining room
we wondered if we were really at
Agnes Scott and if we were, why
the muddy pipes hadn't cleared up
yet, since the great snow had come
and gone over a month before. Every-
one seemed to have changed color.
Upon further questioning we found
that many of the students had spent
Spring holidays trying to improve
their wrecked nerves in the famed
Florida life-giving sunshine, but had
merely succeeded in losing their skins.
We could spot the vacationers clear
across the campus by their invariably
similar actions a rush to compare
tans, followed by minute examination
of the progress of peeling.

No sooner had we returned to a
steady, even life than elections came
to mar everyone's composure, partic-
ularly that of the juniors, who just
couldn't believe that they were to be
leaders next year. And when nomina-
tions were over, excitement reigned
supreme as windows were thrown
open during votes, re-votes, and re-
revotes. Vote counters cultivated pro-
vokingly successful poker faces, the
seniors felt an air of detachment, and
freshmen again bewailed the fact that
pink voting slips, regardless of their
beauty, counted only a half. Two
days of suspense, a week of conven-
tions, and the new officers took the
reins fearfully but hopefully.

The student government and pub-
lications representatives convened this
year in New Orleans. Happy repre-
sentatives this time couldn't bring
back tales of sleigh rides, as boasted
of by Christmas delegates, but they
did tell of moonlight boat rides down
the Mississippi, and doughnuts and
French coffee; and all those at home
were afforded the thrill of tasting pra-
lines, "fresh from New Orleans'

French quarter." Best of all, Tech
and Agnes Scott convinced nineteen
other colleges represented that Atlan-
ta was the only logical place for next
year's Southeastern convention, and
that Tech and Agnes Scott were the
only colleges which could possibly
play the parts of host and hostess in
1941.

The night of March 27 found
Agnes Scott students and "friends" of
the college gladly transferred from
"this terrestial globe" to the mystery
of the heavens, at Dr. Harlowe Shap-
ley's lecture-picture on "Exploring
Stars and Galaxies." With this offer-
ing of something different, Lecture
Association scored another hit.

Seniors then started making plans
to leave all their Friday afternoons
open for a series of marriage classes
sponsored by Mortar Board under the
direction of Dr. Florence Swanson.
Not that many of them were plan-
ning to get married soon, since their
"ideals were too high," but just as a
preparation in case they were ever dis-
illusioned.

April 6 was another red-letter day
for the campus, beginning with cere-
mony and ending with celebration.
Hearts thrilled and those peculiar lit-
tle catches arose in our throats as
robed Mortar Board members pro-
ceeded down the aisle to the familiar,
formal chords of "Ancient of Days."
Nine new members walked proudly
out to be greeted and congratulated
by friends for their leadership, schol-
arship, and service.

The atmosphere changed abruptly
that afternoon as stooges from every
organization put on their oldest
clothes, grabbed hammers and nails,
fortified their minds with originality,
and prepared to work on the hopeless
looking board platforms with ropes
attached (?) called "floats," asking
themselves, "How can we make this
into a prize-winning movie represen-
tation?" Evidently all worry about
success was entirely out of place, since
on-lookers maintained that the cele-
bration was one of the best Mardi
Gras ever. The production by the
junior class of "He Ain't Done Right
By Nell" brought forth hisses for the
villain from an appreciative audi-
ence.

News about this time that Dr. Mc-
Cain had been elected to the General
Education Board drove away all other
thoughts from our minds as we

praised our president and paid tribute
to his exceptional ability and intel-
lectuality.

Metropolitan's appearance this year
in Atlanta may have drawn bevies of
Agnes Scott beauties to the Auditor-
ium to swoon over Martini, Crooks,
and Melchior, but it did not lower
campus enthusiasm over Senior Opera
one iota. The class of 1940 dared to
change tradition enough to swerve
away from the custom of a parody on
classical opera and give a completely
modernized diversion, a take-off on
"Gone With the Wind," starring
Ruby O'Horror and Rhatt, assisted
by Ghastly, Felonie, the Culture
Twins, Horti and Agri, and Belle
Waddling. The most surprising and
pleasing fact about the whole opera
was that the players sang (or at least
tried to sing) "in voice." A "Gone
With the Draft" ball in the Murphey
Candler Building on the eve of the
performance, featuring disguised lem-
onades that passed for mint juleps,
lent a true Old South atmosphere.

May Day came, but so did cold
weather. Beauty Court, togged out in
their most flowing, flattering chiffons
sat during the whole performance
looking very beautiful and composed,
but secretly devoting all time and en-
ergy to keeping their teeth from chat-
tering noticeably, and filling their
minds with thoughts that after all
they were just as beautiful in fur
coats. However, they survived, and
were able to thaw out sufficiently
enough to walk gracefully out after
viewing a pageant entitled, "The
Heritage of Woman," in which both
alumnae and students took part.

An announcement in chapel during
the first part of May that members
of the General Education Board
would visit us made students who
were accustomed to beer jackets and
moccasins determine to transform
themselves for a day into attractive
young college women worthy of con-
sideration from such a group of peo-
ple. Dr. McCain's announcement in
chapel that John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
would be here and that "He is very
young and interesting" was followed
bv all sorts of visions in the minds of
the hopeful and a buzz of excitement.
The anti-climax and let-down came
with a deadly suddenness the next
moment with Dr. McCain's three
words, "But he's married." But still

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The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

we all "impressed" to the best of our
several abilities.

In the meantime the Agnes Scott
Neu's had made its faux pas of the
year, and almost succeeded in making
the activity of the campus as late as
Arkansas trains, when it advised stu-
dents to turn the clocks back for
daylight savings time. Ella Carey
saved the day by calling attention
to it.

If anybody wondered why Hotten-
tots had black fingertips for a week,
it wasn't because they had all joined
some secret organization, but because
they were all being fingerprinted
"not for the purpose of criminal
identification," but so we could get
found after we got lost. Our finger-
prints will be filed in Washington.

And speaking of Washington re-
minds us of the straw ballot for
president of the United States, spon-
sored by the News, in which Roose-
velt led by a great majority, with 45
percent of the votes. According to
the Agnes Scott students, he should
run against Thomas A. Dewey, who
was first choice among the Republi-
can possibilities.

May 16 finally brought Robert
Frost, called the most rewarding and
most richly integrated poet of his
generation, to the campus as the con-
cluding speaker in this year's lecture
series. His formal lecture, informal
talk in chapel, and chats with cer-
tain campus groups took the students
and faculty by storm. Scene of proof:
Dr. McCain and Mr. Stukes arguing
over which one should carry Mr.
Frost's bags from his room in the
Alumnae House to the taxi waiting
downstairs at 10 P. M.

Exams and measles hit the campus
the same week, creating a glorified
"reign of terror." It is rumored that
some of the seniors were given the
measles for graduation, since special
nurses are always in order for con-
tagious diseases. Everyone blundered
on, plowing slowly forward for ten
days, either blind from the measles or
too much cramming.

However, there seems to be an as-
pirin for every headache, since both
exam troubles and measles finally
cleared up, leaving us to a round of
entertaining the graduating class and
being entertained by them. The
sophomores started the festivities with
a luncheon at the Druid Hills Golf
Club, and the seniors retaliated with
a breakfast for them. The banquet
the juniors gave their graduating sis-
ters, based on astrology, was inter-
rupted by a spiritualistic seance tak-
ing off the seniors. Then followed the
Trustees' Luncheon with Dr. David-
son as the principal speaker. By this

time, fond mothers and fathers were
filling every nook and corner of the
campus, and we adopted "How do
you do?" for a theme song.

The strains of "Ancient of Days"
again floated on the breezes blowing
across the quadrangle as the second
Phi Beta Kappa elections were an-
nounced. Five senior brain trusts and
two alumnae received at last some
tangible reward for their efforts.

A tinge of sadness subdued the
gaiety of the last two days, as seniors
went through acts of finality class
day, with the sophomore daisy chain,
followed by the laying of the corner-
stone of the Presser Building, book
burning, junior capping, and finally
graduation. Each honor announced
was followed by gasps of surprise and
pleasure, then deafening applause.
After Dr. Caldwell's address on the
value of ideals we joined together to
sing the Alma Mater, as the "Crown
of the South" sent out another group
of alumnae.

CLUB NOTES

The Atlanta Agnes Scott Club has
had a year of splendid speakers, under
Martha Crowe as program chairman.

A canvas has been made of all pos-
sible Atlanta alumnae, sounding out
their interest, finding many who have
moved, some who are to be introduced
to the Business Girls' Club. We feel
that this will be of great value to us
in plans for coming years. Ida Lois
McDaniel has been the very efficient
membership chairman, who put this
through.

Since the Atlanta Club has become
unwieldy from the large number of
alumnae in Atlanta, it is felt that it
has outgrown its set-up, and during
the summer discussions are planned
for suggestions of changes which, it
is hoped, will bring the membership
into a closer relationship.

Martha (Rogers) Noble, '14,

President.
Atlanta Agnes Scott Business Girls' Club
The chief objective of the Agnes
Scott Business Women's Club during
the past year has been increased mem-
bership. For a large measure of our
success in achieving this objective we
are indebted to the speakers we were
fortunate enough to have at the meet-
ings throughout the year. These in-
cluded Dr. McCain, Miss Gaylord,
Rabbi Marx, Mr. Skidmore, Director
of High Museum, Miss Harn, Mr.
Raymond Kline, and Mrs. Rothemel,
"Sally Saver" of the Constitution.
Almeda Hutcheson, '19,

President.
Birmingham, Ala., Club

New officers in the Birmingham
Club are, president, Lucile Woodbury;
vice-president, Louise (Abney) Beach,

and secretary, Eleanor Gresham. The
Birmingham Club followed up the
Founder's Day meeting with a de-
lightful luncheon the last Saturday in
March at one of the Birmingham
hotels. Present at the luncheon was
former Alumnae Secretary Polly
(Stone) Buck, who was in Birming-
ham with Dr. Buck for a short time.
Chattanooga, Tenn.. Club

The Chattanooga Club has devoted
all of its time and effort this spring
to the work for the University Cen-
ter. The club met with Llewellyn
Wilburn as honor guest and speaker
in April, and organized for the cam-
paign. Mary (Malone) White acted
as chairman, and captains included
Lois (Leavitt) Ragan, Frances
(Thatcher) Moses, Jean (Austin)
Meacham, Shirley Christian, Anne
McCallie, Alice McCallie, Mary Hen-
derson, of Chickamauga, Ga.; Marion
Chapman, and Margaret McCallie.

Some of the Chattanooga alumnae
have been doing individual work with
the high school students, and the club
plans to do something for the high
school seniors during the next year.
Decatur Club

One of the outstanding features of
our year's work was our beautifully
planned year book. It was attractively
bound in purple and white; its con-
tents stabilized the work for the year
and provided a mechanism for a
smooth-running program.

The club held eight meetings dur-
ing the year, one in collaboration with
the other clubs at Founder's Day. The
increase in membership brought new
life and enthusiasm into the club. The
Decatur group planned and arranged
the program for the Founder's Day
banquet. At the regular meetings of
the club, members of the Grand-
daughters' Club have been enter-
tained, ten being invited to each of
the spring meetings.

The last project of the year is the
Children's Party, which will be given
on May 31, in honor of the children
of alumnae.
Maryellen (Harvey) Newton, '16,

President.
Washington, D. C, Club

The Washington Alumnae Club
held its final meeting of the year at
the Women's National Democratic
Club on May 4. Twenty local alum-
nae attended the luncheon meeting
and elected the following new offi-
cers: president, Pat Collins; vice-
president, Janice Brown; secretary,
Margaret (Bell) Burt; chairman of
the hospitality committee, Jessie
(Watts) Rustin; chairman of the
program committee, Maude (Foster)
Jackson; and publicity chairman,
Elizabeth (Skeen) Dawsey.

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C/ass of '30

HcVow (Brown) Williams, '29, and
daughter, Brownie, of Uttle Rock

The Children's Party

Crate (Carr) Clark, '27, and daugh-
ter, of Neu. Orleans

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