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NOVEMBER, 1941

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"AGNES SCDTT FACES FACTS"

C^leventh ^.^lumnae l/Ueeh-C^nd f roaram

Saturday, NDVEmber 15, 1941

10:30 College chapel exercises.

11:00-1:00 Panel discussion, "Agnes Scott Faces Facts."
MacLean Auditorium, Presser Building.

Leader Dr. Philip Davidson, Agnes Scott College.

Participants

Miss Josephine Wilkins, Georgia Facts Finding
Committee.

_ .^ ^ Dean S. G. Stukes, Professor of Psychology at Agnes

'<=%',% c','.\,*i;/.' Scott College.

-''''.'f cj' ''' ' ^^- Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution.

'.'/., ;j5"' ^'- Henry Mcintosh, Editor of The Albany Herald,
and Chairman of the Post-Defense Planning of
the National Resources Planning Board.

1:00 Luncheon in Rebekah Scott Dining Hall. College is host
to guest speakers and alumnae. Reservations must be
made in the Alumnae Office, DE. 1726, no later than
noon, Wednesday, November 12.

YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS THIS

NOVEMBER WEEK-END AT YOUR

ALMA MATER!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

"Affiles Scoff Faces Facts" Eleven//) Aliiniiuie Week-EmI Frontispiece

Sfate bnlitutioin of Hif^her Eiluca//oir in Georii^ia 2

By Dr. James Ross McCain

Introilucin'^ Mrs. Smith 5

By Nelle Howard

Our New Office Staff 7

From the Tower Wiiulow 8

Coiicernnri^ Oiirsehes 1"

"We Come of Age" Back Cover

Published quarterly by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association, Afrnes Scott Co] lege, Decatur. Georgia. Entered a
second class matter under the Act of Congress. 1912. Subscription rate, $2 yeariy.

STATE INSTITUTIDNS

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HIGHER EDUCATION IN GEORGIA

Note: There are many requests for a public c/isciissioiiof this siihjcc/; but, while ilic Southern Association is
investigating the matter, I feel it wonld be best for the University System that it be not agitated. Houeier, there
can be no objection to talking of if "in the Agnes Scott family." J. R. McCain.

In order to understand the present difficulties of the
state-supported institutions of higher learning in Georgia,
it is necessary to review the situation prior to 1931. At
that time, there were at least twenty-three so-called col-
leges or universities under state control having more than
400 trustees. Many of them had been founded through
local pride and had gotten on the state's support through
political "pull." They were engaged in cut-throat compe-
tition with one another, and officers and trustees were
log-rolling at every meeting of the Legislature for appro-
priations. In educational matters, Georgia was at the very
bottom of the ladder of progress. There was no real System.

A Single Board

In 1931, the Reorganization Act provided that all edu-
cational institutions of higher types under state control be
placed under a single Board of Regents. This Act was a
non-partisan movement, influenced in part by educational
troubles in other states. As a rule, the governors have been
cooperative and have been willing to leave the management
of the University System to the Board of Regents, who in
turn operated through a chancellor of the whole System
and the presidents of the various individual units. The
internal educational programs could be handled without in-
terference or molestation.

Rapid Progress

It was soon found possible to arrange for a single grant
from the Legislature and for the Regents to apportion the
money on an equitable basis among the institutions. A
survey of the educational needs and activities in Georgia
was arranged under the direction of a group of experienced
educators of national reputation. Following this survey, the
Regents combined or abolished seven of the state institu-
tions and reduced others to the rank of junior colleges, and
re-allocated various departments and functions.

Evidences of improvement were soon found. Standards
began to be raised. Much economy was found possible.
Last year, with only two-thirds as much income as was
available in 1931, Georgia institutions taught twice the
number of students as were enrolled in the earlier period,
and taught them better. A careful study by competent
scholars declared that Georgia ranked second in the United
States in the amount of progress made in the last decade.

With the aid of the national Government, a remarkable
building program has been carried on through the state,
and more than seventy fine buildings on the various cam-
puses have been erected. Others have been modernized and
renovated. We may now look with pride as Georgians on
any one of our state schools.

Good Spirit in the State

The fine spirit of cooperation which was manifest among
the state institutions extended to relations with private and
denominational colleges within the state. For the first time

within the memory of Man, Baptists and Methodists and
Presbyterians and others felt real cordiality toward publicly
supported colleges and toward one another.

Out of this cordial relationship in part grew the Univer-
sity Center idea and the fine grant of $2,5 00,000.00 for
Emory and Agnes Scott if they would raise enough more
to make a total sum of $7,500,000.00. We are thankful
that the General Education Board has no thought of can-
celling this offer, even though conditions have changed in
such a disappointing manner since it was made; but it will
be a serious blow to the whole program if Georgia Tech and
the University of Georgia are crippled in any way.

The wonderful progress and the fine cooperation which
was manifested in all parts of the state, in spite of the worst
depression in history, encouraged the Regents to present the
needs of the University System to the great philanthropic
foundations. At the request of the Regents and on the basis
of the prospects for improvement, five of these great foun-
dations gave or made tentative grants of more than
$1,700,000.00 for state higher education in Georgia. This
is a remarkable endorsement of the total cooperative pro-
gram in Georgia.

Factional Politics

The present outlook for the stiate education in Georgia is
most discouraging. These changes, which will be described
in more detail later, came about largely through factional
politics, but are not due entirely to any one faction. During
the regime of Governor Rivers, the Board was enlarged
from twelve to sixteen members, and this change was of
doubtful value. Governor Rivers and the Legislature were
badly split during his last term, and he sent no appoint-
ments to the Senate for confirmation. I would not attempt
to appraise the fault in the matter. The result was that,
when Governor Talmadge came into office, two Regents
were serving beyond their terms because their successors
had not been appointed, and six others had been appointed
but not confirmed by the Senate. If state educational mat-
ters had been handled on a high plane at this point, many
later difficulties might have been avoided.

When Governor Talmadge took office, he became ex-
oflicio a member of the Board of Regents and had the legal
right to appoint one other whose term would be concurrent
with his own. In addition, he had the eight vacancies
mentioned above at his disposal.

Governor Talmadge was elected on an economy program,
and various abuses under the previous administration led
the legislators to agree to give practically dictatorial power
to the Governor in making all state budgets and in ar-
ranging these on a quarterly basis, and further providing
that he could strike out individual items in the various
budgets which were submitted to him. The Legislature
went so far as to give him the power to dismiss officers
provided under the Constitution and elected by the people
if they should obstruct his will in financial policies. Only

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factional politics and abuses would have opened the way for
any such powers as were granted to the new Governor.

Talmadge Takes Charge

The Chairman of the Board of Regents, who had been a
member from its organization in 1931, found that he
would not be able to serve under the changed conditions
and resigned. The Governor named the officers of the
Board, and had himself named Chairman of the all-power-
ful Committee on Education and Finance. It became im-
mediately evident that he was not to be a mere ex-officio
member, but to manage the entire organization.

At a routine meeting of the Board on May 30, 1941, the
Governor proposed to dismiss Dean Walter D. Cocking of
the University of Georgia, and President Marvin S. Pittman
of Georgia State Teachers College. Dean Cocking had been
recommended for reappointment bv President Caldwell of
the University, and the recommendation had been endorsed
by the Chancellor. President Pittman had been nominated
directly by the Chancellor. Under the urgency of the Gov-
ernor, the Board at first voted to drop these two officers;
but, after remonstrance from President Caldwell, the mat-
ter was reconsidered, and it was determined that a hearing
would be given to the officials.

Contrary to every known principle of wisdom and ex-
perience in such matters, the Governor insisted that the
trials be conducted publicly. While he was overruled by
the Regents in the first hearing on June 16, he had his
way and made a combination of a political rally and a
county fair of the second so-called trial of July 14.

The Trials

At the first hearing before the Board of Regents on June
16, Dean Cocking was accused of advocating racial views
or ideas which were not in accordance with the ideals of the
South. The testimony and evidence were overwhelming to
the effect that the charges were entirely fanciful, and the
Regents voted 8 to 7 (the Chairman, who was favorable to
Cocking, not voting) in favor of retaining him. He was
so notified.

Under all rules of democratic practice and according to
every principle of American jurisprudence, a case having
been heard and a decision rendered is settled. Governor
Talmadge has claimed to be a great advocate of having the
majority rule. However, he immediately expressed his dis-
appointment and disapproval of the decision rendered by a
majority of the Board of Regents, most of them his ap-
pointees; and, through the press and on the public platform,
he insisted that he would get rid of Cocking.

He at once demanded the resignations of three of his
recent appointees to the Board of Regents on the ground
that he had illegally appointed them. However, they were
sustained by the Attorney General in retaining their places
and refused to resign.

Still determined to carry his point, he changed the date
of appointment which he himself had set for one of the
Regents and persuaded two others to resign. Without any
action by the Board of Regents, he insisted that Dean
Cocking come to trial before the reorganized Board.

It is no secret that on the day before the so-called trial
the majority of the Regents held a caucus, drew up in de-
tail a program for dismissing the accused officials, and even
prepared a resolution of congratulation to the Governor
for having achieved his objectives all before the accused
were told what the charges would be or before any evidence
for defense had been presented.

Other Steps
Several employees in various units of the System were
dropped bv the Regents, and some were struck off the list
of employees bv the Governor through his exercise of veto

power in the details of budgets.

The Governor had previously expressed a desire to have
"Red" Barron as President of Georgia Tech or as Vice-
President, with a view to later succession. The storm of
protests by alumni and students deterred the carrying out
of the full purpose; but, on the Governor's insistence, he
was elected Dean of Men at Georgia Tech, a position
which he has been wise enough not to accept.

When the attention of the Governor was directed to the
fact that in all probability accrediting associations would
drop from membership Georgia institutions, he replied that,
if this were done, the salaries of the professors in the in-
stitutions would be cut in half. This was no idle threat so
far as his ability to enforce such a salary reduction for any
cause, if he saw fit, is concerned; it only indicates the
extent of the power which has been committed to him.

The result in the state has been most distressing. Not an
officer or a faculty member in any state institution has
dared to make any public protest about the events that
have transpired, though in private they are bitter in their
denunciation of the steps taken. The denunciation by the
Governor of "furriners" in state schools has led many of the
ablest and most loyal teachers to feel a sense of insecurity.
Many have resigned, and numerous others arc planning to
make changes as soon as openings are available. Initiative
and enthusiasm are largely swept away. Many of the ablest
students in the state schools have transferred to other in-
stitutions, and still others desired to do so, but were not
able to make the arrangements.

Educational Recognition

Since the Governor and Board of Regents have violated
almost all educational ideals and standards of practice in
handling these many details, it would seem quite impossible
for the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools to refrain from discipline in the matter. It has
always stood firmly for educational administration rather
than for political dictation. Since in no case have the
institutions themselves seemingly been at fault in these de-
velopments, but are the innocent sufferers, it would seem
necessary that every institution controlled by the Board of
Regents be dropped from membership whether or not actual
dismissals or interference have occurred on that particular
campus. It is a matter of control and dictatorial power
which is at stake and which touches the whole state, rather
than the merits or demerits of individual units of the
System.

It will be a very serious blow to the state schools and to
the private and denominational schools, also, since our in-
terests are so intertwined, if the Georgia institutions are
dropped. There seems to be no alternative, however, but to
"hit bottom", so to speak, before It may be possible to
start a real upgrade movement that will clear the whole
situation.

The Public Schools

While the elementar\' and high schools of Georgia are
not under the Board of Regents, the Governor has exer-
cised a great deal more than ex-officio influence during
recent months. Partially at least through the fault of fac-
tional politics during the previous administration, the
Governor was able to appoint a majority of the State Board
of Education which operates the public schools. He had
himself named the Chairman of the Board and has taken
charge of its affairs as definitely as of the institutions of
higher learning. We are not concerned here in the details
of administration, but it is Interesting to note that he has
arranged an inquisition into the books which may be used
as texts or placed in libraries (with some highly interest-
ing results) and h.is insisted on having the state of Georgia
take over and opcr.ue the school at Monroe, Georgia, which

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hand, Agnes Scott has never beHeved in educating the
races together and in social intermingling. The students
have frequently felt that we have been unusually restrictive
in regulations on this subject and in failing to give per-
mission for them to attend interracial meetings. No one
who has really investigated the situation has ever felt that
there was any cause for complaint about our attitude, and
certainly no foundation has ever been interested in our re-
lations or would have been moved by them if we had been
so lacking in moral character as to govern our policies with
such ends in view.

The truth is that any attack on Agnes Scott or other
institutions is an attempt to evade the real issues. After the
various associations and accrediting agencies have fully in-
ot perhaps a dozen tours of inspection made by relatively
small groups of Sociology students, including trips to Mil-
ledgeville, Pine Mountain, Copperhill, Federal Prison, Tech-
wood Housing Project and numerous others. In every case
the girls were making the trips voluntarily and at their
request. Every safeguard was provided for their transporta-
tion, chaperonage, and other needs so that no parent or
alumna need feel the least anxiety. At Tuskegee, for ex-
ample, there was no staying in Negro dormitories or eating
in Negro dining halls or any mixing or mingling that
could be objectionable from Southern viewpoints.

Inspection trips have been made by other groups to the
various campuses around Atlanta, both for whites and
blacks; to many institutions doing social service; and even
to the Governor's office; but no one who has really under-
stood the facts has suggested any valid criticisms of the
program.

As our present students know and as our alumnae of
other years well understand, Agnes Scott has always stood
for fair treatment for Negroes and for giving them a good
chance to be educated and to make a living. On the other

Just as Governor Talmadge resented the fact that his
own appointees on the Board of Regents voted according
to the evidence, so he resented, also, the fact that educa-
tors, at the request of the President of the University,
would testify in the case; and he so expressed his resent-
ment in a radio address.

Shortly after the ouster of Pittman and Cocking, I was
requested by the Decatur Rotary Club to tell something
of the effect on education of the whole situation. A little
later, I was invited to speak before the Kiwanis Club of
Griffin on ways and means for improving the situation.
In both cases I spoke as an individual and not in any official
capacity; but the Governor and his associates attacked
Agnes Scott College as a Negro-loving institution, citing
particularly a trip made by our girls to Tuskegee Institute.

This case illustrates very well the unfairness of the Gov-
ernor and his associates and the carelessness with which
some of them handle facts. The Tuskegee trip was more
_than six years ago, in the spring of 1935. It was only one
is under the management of "Red" Barron. Many of the
best teachers in the state, anticipating political domination
and interference with educational programs, resigned; and
there has been great difficulty in finding suitable teachers
for public school work. On the other hand, all private
schools have been swamped with applications, showing that
the public schools were dreaded as places in which to work.
Agnes Scott Involvld

At the first trial to which Dean Cocking was subjected.
President Caldwell of the University of Georgia requested
that President Cox of Emory and I tell of our knowledge
of Dean Cocking and of our experience with him. We
were glad to do this because we had come to know him
well through cooperation in the University Center move-
ment and truthfully could not say anything but good
points about his character, reputation, and ideals.

vestigated the situation and taken action, the issues will
be clearly drawn, and the question will have to be decided
by Georgia itself as to whether it wishes educational ad-
ministration or political dictation.

Next Steps to Be Taken

In Mississippi, Louisiana, North Dakota, and other places,
situations very similar to those now prevailing in Georgia
developed som.e years ago. In every case, after the people
of the states learned the facts, they rose up in indignation
and overthrew the political forces, however strongly en-
trenched. Most people with whom I have talked feel that
similar results will be found in Georgia.

Personally, I would hate very much to have the educa-
tional interests of our state involved in a political race.
On such an issue, I think the Talmadge regime would be
overthrown; but I am afraid that a new administration,
even though a reform one, would eventually play politics,
also. We cannot solve education problems by putting the
"ins" out and the "outs" in.

I am satisfied that the real solution will be found in a
non-partisan program for governing the state institutions
which probably might be agreed to by all candidates for
governor and by the various candidates for the Legislature.
I have no reason to admire Governor Talmadge or to trust
him; but any fair-minded citizen of the state must know
that he has some good points and that some of his policies
have been helpful to Georgia. I have no idea who his
opponent or opponents may be in any political race and
whether they might be objectionable or not. I would hope
that the next political race could be made on whatever
general issue might be involved, but that education might
be set aside as too sacred and too important a matter to be
involved in ballots.

Alumni and Alumnae Groups

It is just here that the alumnae of Agnes Scott College
and the alumni and alumnae of other institutions through-
out the state, both public and private or denominational,
can be of real assistance. It is proposed that a non-partisan
educational bill be drawn by friends of the University
System and proposed before any announcements of candi-
dates may be expected. It is hoped that friends of education
throughout the state will be able to unite on this measure
as a non-partisan affair and provide permanent security. It
is hoped that these alumni and alumnae groups throughout
the state can cooperate in sponsoring the proposals and
that members of the Georgia Education Association (a
great proportion of whom would be included in the groups,
anyway) may likewise encourage such legislation.

Along such lines in other states, real progress has been
made, and out of the disasters have in several cases come
such an educational renaissance that the institutions have
moved forward splendidly. We may surely hope that in
this state all the citizens may come to feel the importance
of higher state education and the need of more generous
and wholehearted support for the various units of the
University System.

Agnes Scott Alumnae
In former days, when relations were less cordial and
cooperation between state and private institutions more
rare, our college and its alumnae might have been merely
interested spectators in such a state tragedy. Now, any-
thing that injures Georgia State College for Women or the
University of Georgia or Georgia School of Technology is
of immediate concern to Mercer University or to Emory or
to Agnes Scott. We are now partners, in spirit at least, in
the education work of our state; and we do bespeak the
keen interest and earnest cooperation on the part of all our
alumnae in working out a fair and constructive solution of
the whole problem.

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Although Mrs. Smith is a "Senior" at Agnes Scott, few
rectify matters somewhat in this artich on the work don,

"Whom can I get to hang
my curtains in Inman 59?"
asked the green httle Fresh-
man of her sponsor, about
the middle of the first week
of school.

"And what do I do with
my suitcase and that trunk
that we've already emptied?"
asks her roommate wistfully.
"I certainly would like to
get our room straight before
my mother comes back this
week-end. Mother says that
sister left me some rugs and
a chair when she graduated
last June, but where in
heaven's name do you sup-
pose they are?"

"Just see Mrs. Smith, girls;
see Mrs. Smith in Main. She
can straighten out all your
problems," replies the know-
it-all sponsor, and right she
is!

"Mrs. Smith" is Mrs. An-
nie Mae F. Smith, supervisor
of dormitories, whose new
office on ground floor of
Main is the center of almost
as much activity as Dr. Mc-
Cain's desk in Buttrick.

Mrs. Smith came to Agnes
Scott in the fall of 193 8,
and, as she puts it, "is a
Senior this year." A former
teacher and administrator in the Florida school system, she
had always lived in Florida until her decision to come to
Decatur. She is a graduate of F. S. C. W., and has com-
pleted her Master's degree with the exception of her thesis,
by doing work at Tallahassee, Duke, and the University of
Florida.

In answer to our question as to how she happened to
come to Agnes Scott, Mrs. Smith was very modest, but she
did give us this information: she was doing graduate work
at Tallahassee, when the personnel director there received a
letter concerning the vacancy at Agnes Scott College.
Three weeks later she had signed a contract and was
making plans for her new job at Agnes Scott.

Mrs. Smith insists that she really had had no special
training for this type of work, up to this point. She was
one of a family of ten, and even before she kept her own
home, she had assisted her mother in the complex organi-
zation that was involved in so large a family. Perhaps her
most valuable trait is "plain, common horse sense," for this
phrase has unfailingly appeared in her references, from the
time she first filled out applications for admission into col-
lege until the present.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Smith took advantage of an opportu-
nity to attend the first "house mother's training school"
in the United States, a Summer session at Perdue Univer-

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w campus personalities in a series of features this year,
alumnae haie had occasion to meet her, and we hope to
by her department.)

sity, given for the benefit of
deans, house mothers, and
supervisors of dormitories.
Classes on food, house man-
agement, personnel, wages,
and hours, uniforms, and re-
quirements were held each
morning. In the afternoons
field trips to various build-
ings in the Perdue college
plant were scheduled, and
discussions with the business
manager, comptroller, pur-
chasing agent, and deans of
men and women brought
forth much valuable infor-
mation. Sample furniture,
mattresses, chair cushions,
tapestry, and rugs, linens,
and even dishes were studied.
After such a course, taken
with 12 5 other dormitory
directors from all over the
country, one would feel much
better equipped to tackle
such a job!

From the green little
Freshman coming from a
small high school building to
the majority of the new staff
members, the first impression
of Agnes Scott is unfail-
ing, overwhelming, and Mrs.
Smith was no exception!
After eighteen years in one-
story school buildings, where
everything is more or less connected, a college plant of
thirty-six buildings spread over some twenty-five acres of
campus was almost too much!

Consequently when Mrs. Smith found that her assign-
ment included only sixteen of these buildings, it seemed
smaller by comparison, and she immediately made plans
to take care of three dormitories, eight cottages. White
House, Buttrick, Presser, Murphey Candler and Harrison
Hut.

Her staff includes a full-time assistant, and two student
assistants who give nine hours weekly. Under her imme-
diate supervision are twenty-eight regular servants, seven
men and twenty-one women. (This does not include the
staff maintained in the dining rooms, the gardeners, the
servants for the library, science hall, laundry, gym or
mfirmary.) Her maximum staff of fifty-two is employed
the fiffteenth of August when the tremendous cleaning,
necessary to get the college ready for opening, begins. The
maximum pay roll has been $400 weekly, and the average
for the year is approximately $200 (for this cleaning staff
only). Servants have no group insurance as yet, but they
are given half salary on sick leave, and arc paid one week
extra at Christmas and full time during spring vacation,
even though the\ h.ue one week off at this later time.
Oldest member of the staff is Mary Cox, who worked at the

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college for over fifty years, and who is still on the pay
roll at half salary, as her "pension." (Dr. McCain says
that Mary Cox is probably the richest person on the
campus; at any rate she owns more real estate than any-
body else on the staff!)

With the inauguration of a new system under a Super-
visor of dormitories, the whole campus underwent a
thorough checking. Storage space, which has been misused
for several years, has now become available for students and
faculty residents under a very workable plan. Over a
period of four years the following improvements have been
made in storage: Inman attic is used for trunks from the
whole campus. No longer are the halls httered with half-
closed trunks; each girl's is arranged according to the
floor on which she lives, and so spaced that it may be
opened without moving other trunks. While the attic has
to be locked, a student may get to her trunk at any time
by simply asking Mrs. Smith. The closets in the halls
in Rebekah Scott, Main, and Inman had housed the ancient
white crockery pitchers, basins, and jars which were a relic
of the Institute days. Many of these antiques have been
sold, to the servants or other people, and the remainder
of them given to the Colored Nursery School in Decatur.
The closets are now the property of the students on the
floor, and their hatboxes and light baggage are kept in
them, easily accessible for spur-of-the-moment week-ends.
The old wooden double and single beds have been sold to
the servants, or disposed of in other ways, so that Main
fourth floor is now available for all types of storage. Sum-
mer storage has been so well organized that if a student
starts wiring back for the lamp or chair, which she forgot
(minus description, size, color, or original location), Mrs.
Smith can easily find it and send it to her. Now every
article left for storage is registered with Mrs. Smith, and
the owner's name, dormitory address and a description of
the article are filed in the office. Chairs, boxes, lamps,
radios, books are all stored during the summer, and, on
requisition from the student when she returns in the fall,
are delivered to her new campus address through the super-
visor's maneuvering.

Most enlightening to the old grad are the changes which
have been made in the students' living quarters themselves.
In addition to the wonderful improvements in parlors and
reception rooms in the buildings are various additions to
the student living quarters. On each dormitory floor and
in every cottage a "sitting room" has been fitted up. The
wide lobbies of second and third Rebekah, Inman and
Main are now attractively curtained, draped and chaired,
and provide a gathering place for the entire floor. Al-
though Main is the only dormitory fortunate enough to
have entirely new furniture, other dormitory rooms do
have new mattresses and beds, redecorated dressers (one
each now), double desks, and two closets! And wonder
of wonders, the college has made each girl a present of a
broom, dust pan, and a non-leakable trash-basket!

While we aren't exactly living in the lap of luxury these
days, we do have some things to make life wonderful, and
Tabbie is one of them. When Main was done over this
summer, Tabbie came into her own with a real pressing
room, and she holds forth every Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday from 1 to 5 with an iron and the "best clothes"
of every girl on the campus. The adoption of standard
prices for pressing evening dresses and ironing pajamas
makes this luxury fit any girl's budget, and the funds
collected go to make "pin money" for the dormitory direc-
tor's department. Then if you are one of those people who
"did your own", you'll be overwhelmed with the jam-up
pressing rooms on each floor of Main, equipped with clothes
lines and ironing boards, as well as cabinets and hot plates
for the traditional Sunday night snack! No longer are we

threatened with lawsuits from the irate students who get
tangled up in the backstair-variety-of-clothesline!

We almost made the terrific mistake of asking Mrs.
Smith to itemize her duties for a day, but came to, with
the sudden realization that she could no more do that than
our mothers could itemize theirs. Just for a rough idea,
multiply your one house and two children by sixteen
buildings and six hundred people, and you'll begin to
understand.

The first hour in the morning she spends in her new
supply room on the ground floor of Main (thanks to re-
cent innovations), dispensing supplies to the servants on
her staff and to those who keep other buildings as well.
Each department makes requisition for supplies, which are
ordered by Mr. Cunningham, and then turned over to the
servants via Mrs. Smith. A file is kept of the material used
by each servant so that any discrepancy such as the amount
of soap used for third Main (when second Main houses the
same number of students) is immediately evident. Maids'
uniforms, men's white coats, linen for the thirty senior
residents, fresh curtains, light bulbs, tissue paper, paper
towels, bags, cleaning supplies, furniture and silver polish
are all dispensed. The servant with a cold is reminded
that he must go to the Infirmary for treatment; the health
certificate that was late in coming in is examined and filed;
the new maid is asked to bring in her tuberculin and
blood-test certificates before she comes back to work. All
this goes on in these daily conferences with the servants.

9:30-10:30 is open to students, and the requests run
about like this:

"Mrs. Smith: Would you please have someone put up a
bar in my room, next to my closet, so that I can hang
my evening clothes up, as it is against the regulations to
use the pipe already there. Thank you in advance." J. B.,
No. 6 5 Inman.

"Mrs. Smith: Please send me a man at 8:30 in the morn-
ing." Unsigned.

"Mrs. Smith: Will you please have someone tighten the
spring of the right-hand bed in No. 57 Inman?" (Note:
New beds have cut down on this request.)

"Mrs. Smith: Please see about the heat soon, because our
room is very cold in the morning and afternoon." No. 86
Main. (Note: North side of Main is very cozy, now that
the building has been done over.)

"Mrs. Smith: The bell in Boyd is not ringing. Could
you please have it fixed as soon as possible? I'm afraid the
girls might miss breakfast in the morning!" The house
president.

"Mrs. Smith: We need a new pencil sharpener on second
floor Rebekah, or at least the old one needs to be sharp-
ened!"

And from the little Freshman who appears weekly with
a request: "This time I've come to tell you how much we
appreciate having the bulb and curtain rods put in so
promptly. I wish we could meet you personally some time,
but you seem to be like the good fairy whose presence is
felt but not seen. Thank you so much." B. D.

And in the midst of this deluge of written requests will
come some of the students themselves. This one thinks she
has lost her laundry, but Mrs. Smith locates it on her shelf.
The student had just forgotten to put her name in the
bundle. Another wants to get her room sprayed; there
was a mosquito in it last night. The president of Athletic
Association wanders in, to discuss plans for a party at Har-
rison Hut this coming week-end, and she and Mrs. Smith
discuss how much wood will be needed for the oven and
two bonfires, how many people are to be served so that
there will be plenty of dishes available. Half way out the
door the president remembers that she is to have Senior
Coffee in two weeks, and again asks for fires, this time in

NOVEMBER, 1941

the Murphey Candler, and a man to run errands on the ap-
pointed day. Not a social event takes place on the campus
without this department's being involved in some way.

But it isn't all business between Mrs. Smith and the
girls, for frequently they come in just to visit and to look
over an interesting collection of books on her desk. Emily
Post's Persojialify of a House gets all the engaged girls;
every student has thumbed through Your Best Foot For-
ivard, or A Girl Grous Up. The fact that Mrs. Smith has
known Dean Stratton and Director of Residence Schleman
at Perdue only makes the student more determined to put
her "Best Foot Forward."

The next two hours are spent supervising students'
rooms and giving the dormitories a general once-over en
route. Room-inspection blanks have been inaugurated, on
which the inspector checks unsatisfactory items, and indi-
cates whether the student must or must not come by for a
conference. If a "summons" for a conference is disre-
garded, the slip is turned over to the dean's oifice. News
to us was the following report which is turned in to the
dean each commencement:

Name

School Year

Alumnae House Has
New Staff Members

I. General Appearance of Room.

1. Orderly and well kept.

2. Attractive and inviting.

3. Some time disorderly and untidy.

4. Usually disorderly and untidy, and poorly kept.

5. Consistently disorderly.

6. Much improvement during the year.

II. Clothes in Closets and Dresser Drawers.

1. Orderly.

2. Usually orderly.

3. Usually disorderly.

4. Very disorderly and on room floor.

III. Attitude and Cooperation.

1. Satisfactory and pleasing.

2. Satisfactory and indifferent.

3. Unsatisfactory.

Even the students have become aware of how much this
can indicate, and many of them are giving Mrs. Smith's
name for one of the five references in the permanent file.

The time-honored custom of having to pay the maid for
making your bed // you get caught still goes, for:

"Here's your dime, my dear Mrs. Sviitb,
For having someone make our bed.
Since you are gone, I'll give it to
The maid exactly like you said.
(Drawing of a dime.)

We tvould have brought it without request.
In fact, we would have gladly paid if
But somehow we got all mixed up
And each thought the other'd made it."

[Drawing of bed from which issues snoring!)
We are delighted that some people still have a sense
of humor!

The afternoons are divided between office hours for the
students and time for supervising all the duties that fall in
her category. Old materials are constantly being reworked
to make new curtains for some room, new slipcovers for
some chairs, or new uniforms for some servants. Mary
Cox's aprons are even cut down to fit some of the more
streamlined maids. Somebody's watchful eye must be ob-
serving! Old rugs have been sent to Olscn, old wicker
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Luul.MA S\ .MMS, '36

The office Is particularly fortunate in having Eugenia
Symms, '3 6, as assistant alumnae secretary this year.
Eugenia worked with the Richmond County Department
of Public Welfare as a case worker for two years, and then
became assistant group work secretary for the Y. W. C. A.
Her splendid training in this work has admirably qualified
her for the work of the alumnae office, and she is bringing
many new ideas, keen enthusiasm, and a fresh viewpoint to
the staff.

Student assistants include Betty Bacon, '44, of Jackson-
ville, Florida; Marjorie Patterson, '43, who has transferred
to Agnes Scott this year, and who is from Winston-Salem;
and Emily Higgins, '45, of Dalton, Georgia.

The new manager of the Silhouette Tea House is Mrs.
Annette Smyth Breeden, of Selma, Alabama. Mrs. Brecden
is a graduate of Mississippi State College for Women, and
has served as home demonstration agent for Selma County,
Alabama, for thirteen years. She has managed her own tea
loom in New York City, and for the past three years has
been in charge of foods and personnel for the Quartermas-
ter's cafeteria at Fort Myer, Virginia. She is rapidly making
for herself a place on the Agnes Scott campus, and our
best wishes for a most successful year are hers.

from A Tower Window

Music

Appreciation

Hours

1 he Music Apprcciutioii Hours, presented last year under
direction of Mr. C. W. Dieckmann and Hr. Hugh Hodgson
of the University of Georgia, are being continued this year.

Programs will be presented on the first and third Mon-
days of each month, in Gaines Chapel, at 8:30 o'clock.

Mr. Hodgson opened the program with a piano recital on
October 6; on October 20, a two-piano and organ program
was presented by Miss Eda Bartholomew, Nell Hemphill
('38), and Mr. Dieckmann.

November 3, University of Georgia will illustrate the
Development of Melody; November 17, the Agnes Scott
String Ensemble will present a classical program.

Mr. Hodgson's program for December 1 will develop the
dance rhythm and popular music. The last program for
this month will be given on Sunday, December 14, when
the Glee Club presents its annual Christmas carol service.

Lecture Association Presents International Speakers

Second feature presented by Agnes Scott Lecture Asso-
ciation this year will be Dr. Ricardo Alfaro, Ex-President
of the Republic of Panama, speaking on November 5, at
8:30, in Gaines Chapel. He will discuss the problem of
"The Solidarity and Defense of the Americas." For thirty-
five of his fifty-eight years. Dr. Alfaro has served his coun-
try and the Pan-American idea in the field of diplomacy.
After serving his term as President, he returned to Wash-
ington as Minister, and during his tenure negotiated with
Secretary of State Hull the important Panama Canal treaty.
He has served as delegate to all the important Pan-Ameri-
can conferences of recent years. He is a member of the
Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague and one of
the founder-members and Secretary General of the Ameri-
can Institute of International Law. Decorated by six coun-
tries for his outstanding work in the diplomatic field, he
brings to the platform his magnihcent background of
achievement together with fine speaking ability and a beau-
tiful command of English.

On January 20, the Chekhov Players will present
Twelfth Ninht. Those who have seen these players before
say that their performances are excellent.

On October 24, Maurice Hindus, world-known author,
lecturer, and radio commentator, spoke on the subject,
"What's Happening in Russia?" As Mr. Hindus has just
returned from Europe, his authentic information about the
Russian situation was most revealing. He has been on the
border of Russia since May, and had first-hand news about
conditions there.

Some alumnae will remember his lecture at Agnes Scott
in 193 9, soon after his arrival from Czecho-Slovakia, where

he had. been gathering material for one one of his numerous
books. Among these are: Humanity U proofed , Green
Worlds, We Shall Lire Again, Sons and Fathers, Moscoiv
Skies, The Great Offensive, Red Bread, Broken Faith, The
Russian Peasant anil the Rcioliition.

Additions to the Teoching Stafi at Agnes Scott

Agnes Scott began its fifty-third session with several new
members of the faculty. Among these were Miss Susan
Parker Cobbs, B. A. Randolph-Macon Woman's College,
M, A. New York University, Ph. D. University of Chi-
cago, who had formerly been a Latin teacher at Randolph-
Macon. Her work at Agnes Scott is in the Latin and Greek
departments.

Mrs. Florence J. Dunstan, M. A. Southern Methodist
University, Ph. D. University of Texas, was formerly a
member of the faculty at Southern Methodist University.
Fler work at Agnes Scott will be in Spanish. Mrs. Dunstan
Is the wife of Major E. M. Dunstan, who is a medical super-
visor at Lawson Hospital just out from Atlanta.

Clara Morrison, Agnes Scott B. A. in '3 5, M. A. Emory
University, is teaching English at Agnes Scott. Clara was
under appointment to go to France as a Fellow from the
Institute of International Education in 1939, but was
unable to avail herself of this opportunity when the war
began.

Miss Ann Vann, B. A. Salem College, M. A. Columbia
University, is instructor in mathematics. Miss Vann is a
recent member of the faculty of Queens College. Dr. Rob-
inson continues his work at Fort McPherson, and is work-
ing with the advanced math students.

Margaret ( Whittingdon) Davis, Agnes Scott B. A. '26,
is assisting in the Chemistry Department this year.

Nell Hemphill, B. A. Agnes Scott '3 8, and certificate in
piano from Agnes Scott, is an instructor in music. Nell is
a former member of the Peace College faculty.

Beverly Coleman, ex-'41, and B. A. William and Mary, is
an assistant to the librarian. Betsy Kendrlck, '41, is keeper
of the bookstore and postmistress. Beryl Healy, '41, and
Grace Walker, '41, are Fellows in Biology and English, re-
spectively. Miss Louise Will is assistant dietitian. Miss
Carolyn Hewitt and Miss Caroline Dunbar are resident
nurses.

Dr. L. D. Haskcw, of Emory University, is also part-
time associate professor of Education at Agnes Scott.

Alumnae House Gets Beautiful "Fall Wardrobe"

Alumnae will be interested in knowing that the halls
and guest rooms of the Alumnae House have recently
been papered and painted, and that several additions have
been made to the furnishings in the living rooms. An
Audubon print, The Brown Pelican, has been placed on
the right wall of the living room. A gold portrait lamp
has been placed beneath the plaque of Miss Anna Young,
which is the central figure of the living room. A lovely
coffee table has also been added; the large sofa and three
chairs have been reupholstered. Two serpentine chests,
Chippendale reproductions, have been placed in the dining
room flanking the mirrored doors, and two lovely flower
prints have been added to complete this unit. The hall is
papered in a beautiful French paper with burgundy roses
forming a diamond pattern, and gray-green castles and
windmills giving the scenic background. The little sitting
room has been redecorated in gray-green. The upstairs

NOVEMBER, 19-il

rooms haven't been completed, but color schemes of green,
dusty rose, and ice blue have been planned, and much
progress is being macle.

Main Is Renovated
"Changeless forever stands the tower of Main," but
never again can we say that about its exciting new in-
terior! Main has had its face lifted, its internal face that
is, and even the Freshmen have caught something of the
lift that it gives the campus.

The once dark, gloomy halls are now attractive in
cream and tan paper, with a very up-to-date dado in cream
replacing the former walnut one. The small parlors are
done in lovely shades of green and eggshell, with all the
furniture done over and reupholstered. The most attractive
of these is centered around a lovely portrait of Miss
Nanette Hopkins, and the antique sofa which has been in
the main parlor has been done in a blue-and-rose stripe,
which plays up the colors in Miss Hopkins' portrait beauti-
fully. The chairs matching this sofa have been done over
in rose-and-blue crewel work. The large parlor on the
right of the entrance is centered around portraits of Col-
onel Scott and Mrs. Agnes Scott, and the gold-and-red
draperies here pick up the colors in the frames of these
portraits. Lovely wing chairs, odd tables and occasional
chairs complement the draperies and rugs, and make this
one of the most attractive of all.

The dean's office has enlarged its quarters to include
two small private offices for Miss Scandrett and Miss
Hunter, and a small reception room connecting these with
the main office. The switchboard has new quarters, and
Ella's office has been moved across the hall from its former
location. Even Ella didn't mind when she found that her
door was to be the shaft of the new elevator!

Most wonderful innovations upstairs are the beautiful
green-and-white tile baths. Two baths on each floor give
eight showers, two tubs, fourteen lavatories, and ten
commodes to thirty-five students. A pressing room, equip-
ped with hot plate and dish cabinets as well as ironmg
boards and clothes racks, makes life very enjoyable on the
second and third floors.

The halls are done with cream walls and a "caramel"
dado, which is very nice with the hardwood floors and bat-
tleship linoleum on the stairs.

Tech and Emory are blessing the "three phones per
floor" as well as the little devices that keep tab of the
"five minutes allowed" for each phone conversation.

Ground floor of the basement has been done over to
make a large day-student lounge, and here students have
tables and chairs for studying or lunching, lockers to
accommodate their wraps or books, and a very attractive
powder room.

Tabbie's pressing room has been mentioned elsewhere,
as have Mrs. Smith's office and the linen room. Also en-
throned in an office of his own is Mr. Armistead, the elec-
trician, and this is quite a help to the campus, for now we
know approximately where to find him when we need him.
Outside Main remains unchanged, except for the fact
that the ivy is greener and the pyrocanthus berries redder
than ever before. Come see for yourself at Alumnae Week-
End!

Agnes Scott Wins Again
For four consecutive years the Silhoiic/lc has received
the Ail-American rating. The 1941 Silhouette, with Gene
Slack as editor, and Helen Klugh as business manager, was
chosen as one of the forty-three annuals meriting AU-
American rating. There were 93 3 high school and college
yearbooks entered in the competition. Lutie Moore was edi-
tor in 1940, Adelaide Benson, 1939, and Virginia Watson,
193 8, and all three of these annuals received the same honor.

Twro Students From Foreign Countries
Entering a new school is nothing unusual for Inge
Probstein, who is a Freshman at Agnes Scott this year.
She was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and began boarding
school life at the age of three. In 1933 she and her mother
came to America. They crossed the ocean without spend-
ing a cent, for at that time they were allowed to take only
$2.50 out of Germany, and to land in America they had
to have at least $2.50.

Ginette Girardey, from France, is the foreign-exchange
student on the campus. She spent most of her life in
Algeria, as her father taught in the schools there. In 1939
she came to America to visit her aunt, Mrs. Linton B.
Swift. Mr. Swift is director of the Family Welfare Asso-
ciation of America. After war was declared she decided
not to return to France and attended a French school in
New York before she enrolled at Agnes Scott as a Junior.
Emory's 'Higher Learning' Is Very Popular

The Hottentots gracing the Emory campus are becom-
ing more and more numerous as time goes on. The campus
is beautiful, the classes are helpful, and they say that the
co-eds say 'tis worth the taxi fare. The most popular
courses are English history, sociology, journalism, account-
ing, and money and banking.

Some say there is an advantage to being the only girl
in the class, because the professor completely ignores her.
Others report that there are only two girls in their class,
.md the professor calls on the*^ nil the time. The most
embarrassing day in the journalum clasa v, a^ Ll,,. o.i) the
class was divided into couples to interview each other.
When our co-ed heard some of the personal questions her
partner asked, such as: "Which do you consider the more
important, a career or marriage?" she refused to answer.
This same girl was, however, made the society editor of
the school paper, The Emory Wheel.

All the girls describe study in the Emory Library as an
impossibility, because of the noise. (Can you think of an-
other word that rhymes with noise to make Studying there
impossible?)

Emory boys also take advantage of the courses on the
Agnes Scott Campus, and we sometimes see them in the
halls of Buttrick and Presser.

Class Honors

Dr. J. R. McCain announced that thirty-one girls at-
tained class honors in the 1940-41 Session.

They are as follows:

Class of 1942: Lavinia Brown, West Union, South
Carolina; Billie Gammon Davis, Brazil; Susan Dyer, Peters-
burg, West Virginia; Mary Lightfoot Elcan, Bainbridge,
Georgia; Margery Gray, Union, West Virginia; Ila Belle
Levie, Montezuma, Georgia; Mrs. Lois Ions Nichols, At-
lanta, Georgia; Jeanne Osborn, Atlanta, Georgia; Julia
Ann Patch, Spartanburg, South Carolina; Priscilla Reason-
er, Bradenton, Florida; Betty Sunderland, Decatur, Geoi-gia;
Frances Tucker, Laurel, Mississippi.

Class of 1943: Charity Crocker, Brazil; Martha Dale,
Atlanta, Georgia; Jane Dinsmore, Atlanta, Georgia; Jane
Elliott, Atlanta, Georgia; Dorothy Holloran, Lynchburg,
Virginia; Ruth Lineback, Atlanta, Georgia; Jane McDon-
ough. Fort Benning, Georgia; Dorothy Wheeler, Alexan-
dria, Virginia.

Class of 1944: Claire Bennett, Yazoo City, Mississippi;
Anastasia Carlos, Atlanta. Georgia; Lucy Cobb, Atlanta,
Georgia; Barbara Connally, Tampa, Florida; Betty Vec
Converse, Atlanta, Georgia; Mary Eloise Henry, Atlanta,
Georgia; Gwendolyn Hill, Atlanta, Georgia; Ruth Kolthoff,
Miami, Florida; Aiaysic Lyons, Decatur, Georgia; Mary
Florence McKce, Columbus, Georgia; Anne Ward. Selma.
Alabama.

MAGAZINES HANDLED BY ALUMNAE

OFFICE

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Mdgfl:/c 0f Year

American $2.50

American Girl 1.50

American Home 1.00

Arts and Decoration, comb,

with Spur 3.50

Better English 3.00

Better Homes and Gardens 1.00

Child Life 2.50

Children's Activities 3.00

Christian Herald 2.00

Collier's 2.00

Country Gentleman .25

Country Life 5.00

Dance Magazine 2.50

Etude 2.50

Flower Grower 2.00

Forbes 4.00

Foreign Affairs 5.00

Fortune 10.00

Good Housekeeping 2.50

Harper's Bazaar 5.00

Harper's Magazine 4.00

House Beautiful 2.50

House and Garden 3.00

Ladies Home Journal _ _ 1.00

Jack and Jill 2.00

Liberty 2.00

Life (Until Nov. 10) 3.50

Life (After Nov. 10) 4.50

Two

Three

$4.00

$6.00

2.00

3.00

1.50

2.00

6.00

5.00

1.50

2.00

4.00

5.00

5.00

6.00

2.50

4.00

3.50

5.00

.50

.75

8.00

4.00

5.00

4.00

3.00

6.00

8.00

17.00

4.50

6.00

7.50

10.00

6.00

8.00

4.00

6.00

4.00

6.00

1.50

2.00

3.00

3.00

4.00

7.00
9.00

10.00
13.50

Magazine One Year

Look $2.00

Magazine Digest ; 3.00

McCall's 1.00

Minicam ; 2.50

Motor Boating 3.00

Nature Magazine 3.00

Newsweek ' 4.00

Open Road ! 1.00

Out Doorsman 1.50

Parents' Magazine , 2.00

Physical Culture i 2.50

Popular Mechanics 2.50

Progressive Teacher 2.50

Readers' Digest 3.00

Readers' Digest (Special Xmas

Offer Oct. 25-Jan. 15, '42) 2.75
Extra subscriptions by same

person (one year only)-- 2.2 5

Red Book 2.50

Saturday Evening Post 2.00

Science III. 3.00

Scientific American 4.00

Time (new) 5.00

Time (renewal) 5.00

Town and Country j 5.00

Woman's Home Companion 1.00

World Digest 3.00

You and Your Child 3.00

Your Charm 1.50

Tun

Three

ii.so

$5.00

5.00

1.50

2.00

4.00

4.50

5.00

6.00

8.00

1.50

2.00

2.00

3.00

4.00

4.00

4.00

6.00

5.00

5.00

4.00
3.00
5.00
8.00
8.00
7.5
9.00
1.50
5.00
6.00

7.25

6.00

4.00

7.00

12.00

12.00

10.00

12.00

2.00

7.00

9.00

THE ANNA YDUNG ALUMNAE HOUSE

ERECTED IN 1921 FROM FUNDS JOINTLY SUPPLIED BY
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND THE AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE

ASSOCIATION

DEDICATED JANUARY, 1922

Our Alumnae House, the first of its kind in the country, is approaching its twenty-first birthday.
Next November it will come of age, and it is fitting that it begin to stand alone. For years the college
has been responsible for every major and minor piece of maintenance or upkeep necessary for the
House. The College has also made us a generous annual gift, which has substantially augmented our
budget for a number of years. Beginning this fall, the College is asking that we make the upkeep of
the House our own responsibility. However, the budget adopted last June and made out on the basis
of last year's income cannot be adjusted to include this emergency fund immediately. Two commit-
tees have taken their courage and their small allotment from the Alumnae Association budget, to do
wonders with paper and paint for the halls and three guest rooms. Such improvements make us overly
conscious of the dire need in other parts of the House. We do not want to solicit funds for such
things as "paper and paint"; an organization as large as ours should have a sinking fund for such
essentials.

Your alumnae secretaries have undertaken to set up a magazine agency, and we now have the
authority to handle the better magazines as community representative, and on equal footing with any
salesman through whom you may have been subscribing for your periodicals. When you know that com-
missions range from twenty to fifty per cent of subscription price, you will realize that this agency
could make available several hundred dollars a year. Then we feel that you will give us your unreserved
support in our effort to establish a sinking fund. Enclosed in this Quarterly is a list of magazines we
handle with subscription rates. Won't you look over it carefully, considering it from the personal angle,
and as a possible solution for some names on your Christmas list?

AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE OFFICE
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"Truth crushed to earth will rise again;
The eternal years of life are hers;
While error, wounded, writhes in pain.
And dies among her worshippers."

Today on every hand we see educated men and women, and uneducated men
and women working hand in hand to equip and train our many lines of defense
on land, on the sea, and in the air. America is united as never before and all have
risen to their task in the time of crisis.

However, this terrible conflict between two ideas of life will pass, war will
cease, a new peace will be written and civilization will continue in the future as
it has for centuries in the past.

Those of us who see the sorrows of the present conflict might well resolve, more
earnestly than any group before, that out of this chaos of terror must be wrought
some system of safety for the future.

While we offer our interest, our time and our money for the emergencies of the
present we must also build for the future. Our schools and colleges now have
greater responsibilities than ever before. We all need to be taught to view the
long-time purpose for life. We must be calm and think clearly. Upon the shoul-
ders of the college-trained, will fall the responsibilities of sane planning for a
future life of liberty and happiness. This destruction by shot and shell will pass,
but education and our search for truth will endure. The roots of our lasting
defense are deeply imbedded within the walls of our schools and churches
everywhere.

THE AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

Vol. XX No. 2

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

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

ACROSS THE PRESIDENT'S DESK

Dear Alumnae:

A request has been made that I bring up to date the
status of the state schools in Georgia, and I am very glad
to give a brief supplementary statement.

As most of you will recall, on October 14 of this year
the University of Georgia was dropped from membership
in the Southern University Conference. Since the Confer-
ence is not an accrediting organization and since the
University of Georgia was the only member of the Uni-
versity System of Georgia to be affected, this dropping
was not particularly significant except that it indicated
the feeling of the educational world, and the unanimity
of action was impressive.

About two weeks later the Association of American
Universities dropped from its approved list the University
of Georgia and Georgia School of Technology. These were
the only two state institutions in Georgia which were on
their approved list. Very little has been said about this
action, but it is far more significant than the attention
given to it would indicate. The Association of American
Universities is the most powerful accrediting organization
in the world, and it deals with all the institutions in the
United States which wish distinction. It is not sectional or
regional in any sense for example, it is necessary for an
institution to be on the approved list of this Association
before it can be considered for membership in the Ameri-
can Association of University Women or before it can be
considered for chapters of Phi Beta Kappa or Mortar Board.
Recognition by this Association is essential for the credits
cf an institution to be accepted in foreign lands.

As ten units of the University of Georgia System held
membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools, and as this Association is recognized by
the United States Government and by most professional
groups as having jurisdiction in the South, it has been clear
that a great deal of importance would attach to the action
by this Association in its meetings on December 1-5. A
very able committee had been appointed to conduct hear-
ings, and they met several times. They conducted a two-
day hearing in Atlanta at which testimony was given by
most of the people and institutions directly involved. In
Louisville, Kentucky, where the Southern Association met,
the special committee reported and the matter was very
carefully considered by four different groups. These were
the Executive Council of the Higher Institutions, the
whole Commission of Higher Institutions, the Executive
Committee of the entire Association, and finally the Asso-
ciation itself. When the vote was taken, the decision was
unanimously in favor of the committee recommendations.

The decision was to drop all ten of the Georgia insti-
tutions under state control which belonged to the Asso-
ciation. The date of dropping was made September 1,
1942, so that those who are in the graduating class for
the current session, or who expect to graduate in the
summer, may not have their degrees invalidated. Similar
consideration was given to students in Mississippi institu-
tions and in Louisiana colleges when they were disciplined
some years ago.

The issues now are very simple and clear. All will de-
pend on the next Georgia election. If a governor and a
legislature are elected who will eliminate undue political
influence in educational matters, the institutions will stand
a good chance of reinstatement. They cannot be kept in

good standing unless adequate educational safeguards are
provided.

It is extremely important that this whole matter be
handled from a non-partisan standpoint. We hope that
all candidates for the position of governor and all candi-
dates for the legislature may agree on satisfactory bills.
If not, then the issue will be very clear as to which candi-
dates ought to be chosen.

It is hoped that the alumni and alumnae of the various
institutions concerned will take the initiative in preparing
suitable legislation, and that the alumni-alumnae groups
of all the other colleges in the state will cooperate with
them. It will be a sad day for Georgia if we lose this
opportunity.

Feeling sure that Agnes Scott alumnae will do their full
part, I am.

Cordially,

J. R. McCAIN, Prcshlcn/.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Frontispiece Editorial

Across the President's Desk 1

Two Great Teachers 2

By Dr. George P. Hayes

Variety Is the Spice 4

Agnes Scott in Defense 5

From the Editor's Notebook 6

Concerning Ourselves 7

Founder's Day Broadcast 17

TWO GREAT TEACHERS

By Dr. George P. Hayes

(This talk on high infrllec/ual attainment $o imprcsici! the students and faciclty that the editors are printing it here for the intellectual

stimulation of our readers.)

In my embarrassment at being asked to speak to such
an audience on such a topic as High Intellectual Attain-
ment, I went, as I often do, for consolation and relief to
Shakespeare, and found the fortifying words I needed in
Midsummer Night's Dream. You remember that in Act V
of that play Duke Theseus calls for entertainment to cele-
brate his wedding. His master of the revels, Philostrate,
tells him that a play has been prepared by "hard-handed
men that work in Athens", but it is such a crude perform-
ance that it is certainly not suitable for Duke Theseus; to
which Theseus replies,

'T will hear that play;
For never anything can be amiss,
When simpleness and duty tender it."
And so I tender these remarks to you in a spirit of "sim-
pleness" and duty.

When Betty Medlock gave me my topic for today she
said, "Make it attractive." I went to work on a speech,
and when I had finished I suddenly remembered what she
had said, and it came over me that I had not made intel-
lectual attainment attractive. Then I asked myself what
had made intellectual attainment attractive to me as an
ideal, and the answer came that it was due in part at least
to great teachers I had had. And so I present to you this
morning George Lyman Kittredge and Irving Babbitt.
And first, George Lyman Kittredge.

Professor Kittredge was a tall spare man, always dressed
immaculately in a silver gray suit the color of his cigar
ash, with keen blue eyes, a great white spade beard, and a
dome-like forehead crowned with pure white hair once
fiery red. In appearance as in mind he was every inch a
king: I never read King Lear that I do not picture him as
Mr. Kittredge.

He came of old Yankee stock, and he was typically
Yankee in his shrewd common sense, his realistic approach
to life, and his vast respect for learning. I always suspected
a Norse strain in his ancestors for he had the size and the
bearing of an ancient Scandinavian chieftain and at least
a touch of Berserker rage on occasion. Perhaps that is why
he rr>ade such a good teacher of Beowulf. As a student in
his class once remarked, "I am studying Beowulf with
old Beowulf himself."

He was the sort of man about whose name legends
gather. Many of these are trivial, foolish, and apocryphal.
One story runs to the effect that once in search of a bit
of information he got on a boat and went to England,
presenting himself at the British Museum incognito. There
he was told that only one man in the world could answer
his question and he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts
G. L. Kittredge. This anecdote never really happened to
Professor Kittredge, but something of the sort did once
occur to Kittredge's teacher, Francis James Child. A story
which is true tells how at a banquet when people were
saying that Bacon wrote the plays of Shakespeare, Kit-
tredge took the Baconian cipher and proved with it that
the poet Keats had written the menu of the banquet.
The Harvard students had such respect for his learning

that in their comic monthly magazine. The Lampoon, they
ran a cartoon representing Professor Kittredge lecturing
from his platform on Shakespeare while down in the front
row of seats, in Elizabethan doublet and hose, sat Shakes-
peare himself, industriously taking notes!

It is said that Professor Kittredge formed his teaching
method when he began his career as instructor in the
Classics in a preparatory school. He seems to have reached
the conclusion that the student body consisted of a com-
pound of ignorance, dullness, indifference, and conceit,
and that it was his task to whip it into shape with the whip
of terror. He was an actor; he used to say that the teach-
ing profession had all the advantages of the actor's pro-
fession with none of its risks. Picture him of a Monday
morning a blue Monday when the Harvard undergrad-
uates had returned to the Yard for relaxation after a
strenuous weekend. As he strode into the classroom his
white hair seemed fairly to bristle and his blue eyes seemed
fairly to burn. For the student that hour was sure to be
an "adventure perilous and golden."

His method of studying Shakespeare was minutely tex-
tual, with the aim of finding out "what Shakespeare said
and what he meant when he said it." "His ideal was com-
plete and accurate understanding." He would open the
class with questioning. As Stuart P. Sherman tells the
story:

" 'Mr. A! How does a play begin?' 'With dialogue,'
hazards Mr. A. 'Mr. B! How does a play begin?' 'With
the introduction of the characters,' stammers Mr. B anx-
iously. 'Mr. C! How does a play begin?' Mr. C, who is
from the Gold Coast, quietly mumbles, 'I don't know.'
The hunt is afoot. The next dozen men go down amid
derisive snickers no one dares to laugh aloud like clay
pipes before a crack marksman. Panic spreads. Half of us
refuse to answer to our names. The other half, in desperate
agitation between an attempt to conjure up any sort of
reply and a passionate desire to sink through the floor,
shudderlngly wait for the next victim, till the pursuer, at
last weary of the sport, cries out, 'A play begins in mediis
rebus!' Then we turn to the text. 'We would not die in
that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with
us.' 'Mr. X! Explain "that fears his fellowship to die with
us." ' Mr. X proffers something very elaborate and very con-
fused. 'Somebody explain that explanation' this with the
true Johnsonian shout. 'Mr. Y!' Mr. Y moistens his lips,
starts, hems, hesitates, fumbles for words. 'Come! Come!
Mr. Y, Times flies! Hell threatens! Heaven invites!' Mr. Y
shuns salvation and hangs silent in Limbo. . . . Like many
others of the great experiences of life, it was a rigorous
ordeal while one was undergoing it, but it was pleasant to
look back upon years afterwards, and, like Purgatory, it
was very salutary."

His method with graduate students was entirely differ-
ent: "Jupiter Tonans gave way to benignant Jove." One
of my friends said that listening to his lectures was like
taking an intellectual bath. His seminar courses met in
the evenings in his home, where his study overflowed with

JANUARY, 1942

books, notes, and papers. When the student had finished
reading aloud his course thesis to the small group assem-
bled, Professor Kittredge would go to his boxes of notes
and draw out the references which he had collected on that
very subject years before, and the student who thought
he had exhausted the subject would receive extensive addi-
tions to his knowledge. As Professor Sherburn has said,
"His final effectiveness depended on the fact that he never
seemed to be telling all that he knew. One got the im-
pression of vast reserves of literary and scholarly experi-
ence, and it was this vast reservoir that generated, so to
speak, his most powerful appeal. He did not get up lec-
tures; he lectured on topics that he had lived with."

The extent and accuracy of his learning might be illus-
trated by a story drawn from my own experience. I was
taking a course in Gothic, and was puzzled by a point
which the professor, then teaching the course for the first
time, had not made entirely clear. Immediately after the
Gothic class came a class with Mr. Kittredge. I asked him
the question in Gothic though his subject of instruction
was English only. Instantly he answered the question and
cleared up the obscurity entirely. He seemed to know an
almost indefinite number of languages. I have been told
that, needing to read an article written in Lithuanian, he
"got up" enough of this language to meet his purpose over
a week-end. But I think this story is an exaggeration.

When he was writing his book on witchcraft, he used
a carrel in the Harvard Library stack close to mine in
fact, too close for comfort. When he was there, or in
fact even when he was not, I felt that I was "ever in my
great Taskmaster's eye." Yet he was all kindness, sym-
pathy, and helpfulness in his dealings with the advanced
graduate students. This was particularly the case in the
doctoral examination. It was due primarily to him that
many can look back upon their three-hour "oral" as among
the pleasantest and even most thrilling experiences of a
lifetime. And the highest praise that a student could
receive was that which Mr. Kittredge accorded Mr. Lowes
when the latter completed his examination: "This has not
been a doctoral examination but a conference of scholars."
After the student had received his doctorate and had
begun his own teaching career, Professor Kittredge the
teacher merged in George Lyman Kittredge the friend. It
has been said that he inspired and helped in the produc-
tion of more works of scholarship than anyone else in this
country. His own greatest achievement was not the im-
posing books which he wrote nor even the great graduate
school which he built up, but rather it was the impress
which he left upon his many students.

And now for Irving Babbitt, nominally Professor of
French Literature in Harvard University, actually profes-
sor of things-in-general. He was in many ways the exact
counterpart of Mr. Kittredge. Kittredge was a product of
the German school. Babbitt of the French. Kittredge was
primarily concerned with determining the objective fact;
Babbitt was interested in general ideas. They were thus
complementary to each other in the education of the
student.

Those of you who are Freshmen might be particularly
interested in knowing what Irving Babbitt was like as a
Freshman in Harvard College. Already when he entered
Harvard he had read in high school Horace in Latin and
Sophocles in Greek. I have to record the sorrowful fact
that as a Freshman he cut more classes than anyone else
in his class. But he was spending his time reading in the
original such recondite authors as Porphyry and Apollonius
of Tyana. In other words, long before the days of honors'
reading and as a Freshman he was pursuing a privately

initiated course of that kind. Already as a Freshman he
was reveling in the glories of Faust (in the original) and
he was deep in the study of Buddhism (at this time in
translation only) . Already as a Freshman he had taken up
the fundamental positions for which he was to battle
throughout a lifetime a position which might be defined
roughly as Classicist in literature, Aristotelian in ethics,
and a sort of modified Buddhist in religion.

Now for Irving Babbitt as a teacher. His two principal
courses were the Romantic Movement in Europe and the
History of Literary Criticism. He would begin a lecture
at a given point in one of these fields, but he would soon
be ranging far away over the literary horizon in search of
material for illustration, comparison, or contrast. The best
description of Professor Babbitt's classroom method is by
Stuart P. Sherman, from which I quote:

"He deluged you with the wisdom of the world, his
thoughts were unpacked and poured out so fast you
couldn't keep up with them. You didn't know what he
was talking about, but you felt that he was extremely in
earnest, that it was tremendously important, that some
time it would count; that he was uttering dogmatically
things that cut into your beliefs, disposed derisively of
what you adored, driving you into a reconstruction of your
entire intellectual system. He was at you day after day
like a battering ram, knocking down your illusions. He
was building up a system of ideas.

"You never felt for a moment that he was a pedagogue
teaching pupils. You felt that he was a Coleridge, a Car-
lyle, a Buddha, pouring out the full-stuffed cornucopia of
the world's wisdom upon your head. You were no longer
in the elementary class. You were with a man who was
seeking through literature for illustrations of his philosophy
of life. You were dealing with questions on the answer to
which the welfare of nations and civilizations depended.
He himself seemed to know the right answer and was
building a thoroughfare of ideas from the Greeks to our
own day.

"You went out of the room laden down with general
ideas that he had made seem tremendously important, ideas
which you met in the newspaper, in the next book you
read, in the next man you met. He related for you a
multitude of separate and apparently disconnected tenden-
cies to the great central currents of thought. You carried
away also a sense of the need for immense reading. He
had given you theses about literature, about life, which you
would spend a lifetime in verifying."

It was a basic belief of Babbitt's that every age is domi-
nated by certain concepts, attitudes, "imaginatized ideas",
and that the worth of civilization is to be determined by
the soundness of its ideas. His method was, in effect, to
analyze the ideas of the principal civilizations of the past,
particularly the early nineteenth century, and to test them
by standards drawn largely, in the religious sphere, from
Christianity and Buddhism, and, in the humanistic sphere,
from Aristotle, Sophocles and Confucius. Judged by such
standards the romantic, sentimental and utilitarian cur-
rents of thought of modern times seemed to him far from
admirable, and he attacked them with gravity and force.
In cutting squarely across the main currents of his time he
awoke intense opposition on all sides, and he had to fight
his battle throughout a lifetime almost alone. It is only
today, nearly a "decade after his death, that his general
position is beginning to find wide acceptance. Courses in
Literary Criticism from Plato to Babbitt are now estab-
lished in Harvard. Yale, North Carolina, and other leading
universities.

[CnntiiiHcd iin I'lifH' 5)

^pom ^he C^ d it o r6 i lo te b o o h

CLUB CHATTER

Atlanta Agnes Scott Club will sponsor an autographing
party for Evelyn Hanna, ex-'23, on January 19, the pub-
lication date of her newest novel, ""Sugar in the Gourd".

The party will be held in Rich's Book Shop from three-
thirty until five. Invitations have been issued in the name
of the Atlanta Club to alumnae throughout the state.

Spring program for the club is a series of book reviews
by Emma Garrett Morris, these to begin with the March
meeting of the Club.

Atlanta Business Girls Club are sponsoring a study
course which meets on alternate Monday nights in the
Alumnae House. Mrs. Roff Sims, instructor in history at
the college, has begun a series of lectures on current
events, and will continue her discussions on the fourth
Tuesday of each month through April.

Roberta Winter, '27, professor of speech at Agnes Scott,
is giving a separate series of talks on modern drama, and
the concluding lecture in the series will come on the sec-
ond Tuesday in February.

The speaker for the January meeting of this group
will be Miss Emily Woodward, who will discuss "Women's
Part in National Defense".

Columbia, S. C: The Alumnae Secretaries had the good
fortune to meet with the Columbia, South Carolina, alum-
nae on December 2, while they were attending a confer-
ence at the University of South Carolina. Caroline
(Jones) Johnson, ex-'}l, is president of this group.
Katherine (Kirkland) Geiger entertained the club at
her home, and was assisted by Jo (Smith) Webb, '30,
and Eva (Wassum) Cunningham, '2 3. Among those
present were Eva (Gary) Copeland, ex-'40. Ruby (Hut-
ton) Barron, '36, Mary Ellen Whetsell, '39, Elizabeth
(Griffin) Smith, '25, Martha (Stigall) Donelan, ex-'33,
Mary G. (Rushin) Halsey, Academy, Helen (Wright)
Smith, '24, Elizabeth (Woolfolk) Moye, '31, of Batesburg,
S. C; Mimi (O'Beirne) Tarplee, ex-'32, Ellen (Davis)
Walters, '36, Louise (Sherfessee) Withers, Vera (Pruet)
LeCraw, '3 5, Jane (Fisher) Dana, ex-'19, Bess (Powell)
Stubbs, ex-'lO, Julia (Green) Heinz, Academy, Harriet
(Milledge) Sally, ex-'08, Eugenia Synims, '3 6, and Nelle
(Chamlee) Howard, '34.

TO ARMY WIVES AND THOSE
WHO MOVE

This war keeps us busy! When troops move some
Agnes Scott alumnae move too and then the alumnae
office has a hard time trying to keep the correct addresses
on all of their files. An alumna has her name on four
to seven separate files: a master file, a geographical file, a
married file, a class file, a file for those who have paid dues
in the past and a mailing list for all those who will receive
the Quarterlies this year.

We learn about some of these new addresses from con-
versations we hear, newspaper clippings or from the class
secretaries. Some thoughtful alumnae writes us a card
or letter and tell us. But there are many incorrect ad-
dresses in our files and often mail that we send out is
returned to us unclaimed.

We would like to make a request that would apply to
all alumnae and especially army wives. Please take time
out to drop us a card so we will have your new address
as soon as you move. If you ""are a part of the army" and
there is a possibility that your address will change often,
then send us your parents' address and let your mail be
forwarded to you by them.

We have been told by army officials that if we do not
know the Regiment and Company of the man in service,
the mail will not reach him; an address like Camp Shelby,
Miss., may not be of anv help to us in locating you
through your husband.

We do not want to lose any of you so please keep us
posted!

LECTURES ON THE CAMPUS

On February 8, the Lecture Association will present
Fay-Cooper Cole, Anthropologist, from the University of
Chicago. His subject will be. An Anthropologht'i View
of Race. This deals with race and race problems, particu-
larly as they relate to the present conflict in Europe and
Asia.

On April 7, Mr. H. S. Ede, formerly curator of the Tate
Gallery in London, will speak on the subject. The Pictures
ill the National Gallery in Washington. He will stay on
the campus most of the week for conferences with stu-
dents. He will speak to the students on The French School
of Painting and What Are Pictures? Mr. Ede was on the
campus several years ago and his wide popularity then has
prompted this invitation for a second visit. The alumnae
are invited to all three of these lectures.

Washington, D. C: The Washington Club's monthly
meetings have been very well planned, and the spring pro-
gram appears just as interesting as the fall meetings have
been. The January speaker is Phyllis Gallagher, currently
popular contributor to Good Housekeeping Magazine. The
February program promises a discussion of food by an
outstanding nutritionist. Rev. Peter Marshall will speak on
"'The Only Certainties in an Uncertain World", at the
March meeting. April promises a luncheon and a trip to
the Franciscan Monastery. May and June will be luncheon
and garden party tea respectively. Pat Collins is president
of this group, with Janice Brown as vice-president and
Margaret (Bell) Burt as secretary.

1 THANKS TO THE GENEROUS RESPONSE

1 FROM THE CAMPUS AND THE ALUMNAE,

1 OUR MAGAZINE AGENCY IS QUITE A SUC-

I CESS. We have realized enough profit from it to

I date to pay for the papering and painting of the tea

T room, and we are very glad that we can make this

j contribution to the Alumnae Association budget.

i Our fervent hope is that you will remember the

! Alumnae Office subscription agency when you have

! to decide what to do with your left-over grocery

[ money, and when the problem of a suitable gift for

I a birthday or anniversary comes up.

THE PLACE TD STOP WHILE YDU ARE IN ATLANTA!

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EA^T LAKE.

ANNA YOUNG ALUMNAE HOUSE

133 South Candler Street

Decatur, Georgia

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Across the President's Desk 1

Economic S/gnpusts for a Post-Wcir World 3

Dr. Mildred Mell

Til enty-One Stales Represented in Founder's Day Meetings 6

Wanted: Contributions to Menioribilia i S

EuNA R. Hanley, Librarian I

From a Tower Window 10

]n Memoriam 11

Concerning Ourselves 12

Reunion in June 2 5

Commencement Week-end Inside Back Cover

ACROSS THE PRESIDENT'S DESK

Dear Agnes Scott Friends:

Most of you have probably seen in the daily papers a
report on the University Center financial campaign, but 1
think we may be jusified in making a record of it for
permanent purposes in our Alumnae Quarterly. It is " a
within-the-family " report.

An Amazing Total

The six institutions involved (Agnes Scott College,
Columbia Theological Seminary, Emory University, Georgia
School of Technology, University of Georgia, and Atlanta
Art Association) have received, in cash, gifts or bequests
during our campaign period amounting to slightly more
than $12,000,000. It is the largest sum that has ever been
secured in the South by a general campaign. Except for
the Duke Foundation, it is the largest contribution to
higher education in the South that has been made in our
history.

Emory University received by far the largest gifts in the
campaign, but a considerable part of its share was designated
for hospitals or medical development, so that it will not
have available for the development of a graduate school as
large a sum as we had hoped. Included in the Emory assets
are the Crawford Long Hospital, valued at approximately
$900,000; nearly $1,000,000 more for the enlargement and
development of this hospital; a gift of $5 50,000 to enlarge
the hospital on the campus; $175,000 for a new hospital
building in the Emory unit at Grady Hospital; approxi-
mately $750,000 for the endowment of departments in the
Medical School; and other smaller items.

Gifts for Columbia Seminary reach nearly $2 5 0,000.
A bequest for the Atlanta Art Association is estimated at
more than $700,000. The University of Georgia has re-
ceived through bequests or gifts in excess of $800,0.00, and
Georgi.i. School of Technology has received more than
$100,000.

Agnes Scott's Share

Our part in the total sum subscribed amounts to slightly
more than $1,500,000. While it is small in comparison
with the Emory amount, it will all be available for things
which we need most and will be a great blessing to the
institution. The General Education Board of New York
is furnishing $5 00,000 of our total sum. The officers were
50 certain that we would win in our campaign that they
took the unprecedented step of allowing us to have
$100,000 of their grant in advance, so that we might use
it for the erection of the much needed Presser Hall, Gaines
Chapel, and Maclean Auditorium.

One thing that encouraged our friends in the philan-
thropic foundations, and also other supporters of the
College, was the fine campus campaign among students and
faculty which inaugurated the effort and which furnished
more than $5 2,000 as a beginning in the total effort.
During the closing days of December, 1941, we received a
single check of $200,000 from a source which must be
anonymous for the erection of a new science hall when the
way is clear. Other valuable contributions were made
about the same time, so that to us last December will not
simply be the beginning of our war with the Axis, but
the closing of a great campaign.

Difficulties

No campaign is ever easy, and this particular one had its
full share of problems. It was somewhat complicated be-
cause Agnes Scott and Emory were combining their efforts,
and it is never easy to present two institutions at the same
rime. The public was somewhat confused, also, by the
University Center idea, which involved six institutions;
and it was hard to explain why only two of these were
actively seeking funds at the particular time.

World conditions were also far from settled. On the
very day that the newspapers carried the account of our
joint effort, Poland was invaded by Germany. During the
week of intensive soliciting in the Atlanta area, France
fell and the stock market went to pieces. During last
summer, when our efforts had spread to the wider areas of
the South, the University System of Georgia became in-
volved in political disputes, and our task was complicated.
When the final efforts were being made in December to
bring the campaign to a conclusion, the United States
entered the World War.

Our Seventh Campaign

While this was our first joint campaign, it was not by
any means the first one on our own account, as many of
you have good reason to know. It was our seventh effort
on a large scale.

Very soon after John D. Rockefeller, Sr., established the
General Education Board, Dr. Wallace Buttrick, its presi-
dent, on his own initiative approached Agnes Scott about a
conditional grant. In 1909, an offer of $100,000 was made
if the College would raise $250,000. That was before my
day at Agnes Scott. In all the others, I had some opportu
nity of participation.

The second offer by the Board was in 1919, with a gift
of $175,000 on condition that Agnes Scott raise an addi-
tional sum of $325,000. This was soon followed in 1921
with an offer of $100,000 if the College should raise an
additional $150,000. This particular grant was made to
encourage the College to raise its salaries. At that time, a

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

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

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

full m.m professor received $1,500, and a full woman
professor, S 1,000.

A period of nearly ten years elapsed, and in 1929 the
General Education Boai'd offered S3 00,000 if the College
would raise $600,000 from other sources. Almost imme-
diately, in 1930, the Board agreed to give $200,000
additional if the College would provide $400,000 from
other sources. We were in the midst of the depression at
that time, and collections were quite difficult. In 1934, the
General Education Board offered an additional $100,000 if
the College would collect in full the subscriptions which
were made in 1929 and 1930. As some of our subscribers
were not able to pay, it was necessary to raise new money
to a considerable extent.

In each of the seven campaigns which have been en-
couraged and sponsored by the General Education Board,
Agnes Scott has been able to get fully subscribed the
requisite amounts and also able to collect in full what was
needed. There have been more than 12,000 subscribers to
these various amounts, and it has been the large number of
these (not to mention their self-sacrificing loyalty) which
has encouraged the Rockefeller people to be continuously
interested in the College.

It is noteworthy that during all these years, with so
many gifts and so many relations, the General Education
Board authorities have never once made any suggestion as
to how the College ought to be run, and it has never shown
anything but approval of the spiritual emphasis which we
try to give.

Improvements

The alumnae campaign to raise $100,000 toward the
erection of Hopkins Hall, a fine new dormitory, has been
one of the notable features of our whole effort. It has
been ably directed by Mrs. Sam Inman Cooper (Augusta
Skeen) and is nearing its objective. If all of the money
given by alumnae had been applicable to this project, it
would have been " over the top " before this time. Quite a
number of gifts from former students have been desig-
nated for other worthy projects, and so perhaps $6,000

may yet be needed to make this worthy cause a complete
success.

The plans for Hopkins Hall are entirely completed and
can be submitted for bids as soon as general building
conditions are at all favorable. It will be a very wonderful
addition to our Agnes Scott campus.

Its total cost will doubtless be approximately $150,000,
and we are very anxious to erect, in connection with it, a
new dining hall and kitchen. We think we will be able to
get, out of our present subscriptions, part of the money for
these proposed additions; but some other funds will doubt-
less be necessary.

While a good building for our science department can be
erected with $200,000, we feel that it will take at least
S300,000 to provide a really distinguished building which
would be in keeping with the library, Buttrick, Presser, and
other recent additions.

The next great advance to which Agnes Scott looks
forward is the providing adequate funds to enable girls of
very limited means to enjoy its facilities. Its scholarship
funds amount to more than $200,000 now, and these are
supplemented from the regular endowment, but are far
from adequate.

It is our hope that additional funds for the various
projects will be supplied by individuals or foundations
through quiet efforts and that no general campaign will
be needed in the near future.

The College is profoundlv grateful to God for His bless-
ings and to its many friends, and particularly the alumnae,
who have sacrificed to make possible the developments
through recent years.

Cordially,

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Vresideiit.

March 13, 1942.

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C^conomlc S^ianpodtd ^or ^^r f-^ost- l/Uar l/i/o^ici

By Dr. Mildred R. Mell
Professor of Economics ami Sociology

(This talk was given at the monthly meeting of the International Relations Club on February 24, 1942.)

Anyone who attempts an anah'sis of some particular
aspect of our world today, much less of the world of
tomorrow, and attempts to limit that analysis to some
thirty minutes or so, must of course present material which
is highly selective and fragmentary. Even the selection
of a title for the discussion, which is obviously limiting, is
not enough. " Economic Signposts " would give me an
enormous range, so remember that I am picking out only a
few of them as they may be detected in our past and in
our present, and then I am going to attempt to show you
what they point toward in that state of world affairs which
will follow the cessation of hostilities. As I am talking,
please keep the three facts vividly in mind (1) that the
world is all of one piece, (2) that there is continuity with
the past, and (3) that my signposts cannot be read singly,
but must be read all together. But even reading the signs
that way is not suiKcient. Some years ago I remember
reading Robinson's The Mind in the Making because I
thought it was a book I ought to read. The first time I
read it I did not get very much from it, but several years
later I tried it again and found it a revolutionary book in
my personal experience. The theme of the book might be
stated as " bringing the mind up to date ", and in the years
between by two readings my mind had been brought up to
date so that I got his ideas. These economic signposts can
mean very little, unless we think in terms of the fifth
decade of the twentieth century and interpret what seems
to lie ahead, not in terms of the past, but in terms of the
present as it is becoming the future.

Having warned you to think in terms of the present, I
ask you to turn back a minute to the past and look at the
development of technology, so that I may point out my
first signpost. The social anthropologist can help us here.
From him we can get many descriptions of simple cultures
characteristic of peoples living in more or less geographic
isolation from other peoples, and providing themselves with
the necessities of hfe, according to their cultural concepts,
by utilizing the resources of their environments in a pattern
of technology of their own. For example, we can find some
nine or more types of culture among the American Indians
when the white man came into the territory which is now
the United States. Compare two of these types for a
minute, that of the Cherokees and that of the Plains
Indians. Our Cherokees used the wood from the forested
area of the Piedmont to make shelters for themselves, grew
Indian corn, a staple grain which was central to their
economic life, and made pottery and baskets to store their
food. On the other hand, the Indians of the Plains shel-
tered themselves in tepees made from the skms of the
buffalos which ranged the grassy stretches of the land, and
used the meat for food. They lived a wandering life in an
area in which the soil did not offer material for pottery,
and in which the pattern of life had no place for pottery.
Both of these Indian groups developed a culture which
registered the limitations set by the environment, and these
limitations were strengthened by another geographic factor,
that of isolation. Their technology their way of pro-
viding themselves with food, clothing, shelter, was the

outgrowth of their use of the materials provided by their
environment. We would find this to be true in looking at
other peoples of that early time, and looking at those few
spots in the world today where isolation is still a fact.
Leaving the anthropologist and his data and looking at
peoples perhaps better known to us through the historians,
we find the same picture modified only by a lessening of
geographical and cultural isolation. In Europe well down
into the nineteenth century, we get a picture of local
cultures characterized by colorful local ways of making
goods, which were different from those being produced
elsewhere. Looking further into Asia, the picture is again
cne of isolation characterized b}' local patterns of utiliza-
tion of the resources of the physical environment within
which the people lived.

Into such a world as this, a dynamic factor of such
import as to be called the Industrial Revolution entered.
You remember it got its early impetus and made its great-
est early strides in England. The most important aspects
of this revolution are: first, it brought a new technology
centering around the machine and utilizing raw materials
of a rather special kind; second, this new technology
brought mechanisms into being which have eliminated
distance from the world and therefore the impact of the
Industrial Revolution upon local technologies has been
terrific.

Look at the machine a minute and see what these two
things mean. The machine has been eagerly accepted by
the vast majority of mankind because it promises to give
them things to satisfy old and newly created wants speedily
and in quantity. But this machine calls for power to make
it go, materials out of which to make it, and materials to
feed into it; and this power and these materials of machine
technology do not differ, according to the pattern of the
local group, but tend to be uniform. All the world is
wanting the same raw materials to keep the machine tech-
nology going.

If the materials of this machine technology, and the
power to keep it going were fairly widely distributed and
rather equally distributed over the surface of the world,
we might conjure up a pleasant picture of local machine
technologies, running along smoothly with access to the
raw materials of the local areas. But such a picture has
no reality today for most of the people of the world, and
not complete reality for an advantaged people such as
we are.

Look for a minute at the way the spread of the machine
technology has gone far afield from the center from which
it spread England of the eighteenth century. Take for
example the United States. We are familiar with our use
of the machine, which we believe can make real today our
role as the arsenal of democracy. But we are not as
familiar with India. Recent conversations going on between
the Generalissimo of China and certain leaders in India
have made us conscious of the machine in that country,
where the Tata Iron & Steel Company's tremendous plants
impress even Americans. Army rfles, machine guns, anti-
aircraft guns, and ammunition are produced in India in

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

sufficient quantities to make us count on their delivery to
China if the Burma Road falls into Japanese hands. Aus-
tralia since 1915 has been a steel-producing area, and
since 1939 her machine tool industry has become some-
thing to count upon. Japan made us conscious of her
textile industry long before we became aware of her heavy
industries turning out WAR material for use in gaining
control of RAW materials which she lacks. China has
made desperate efforts to build new industries, and against
heavy odds she has succeeded to some extent at least. Java,
Thailand, Ceylon as industrial areas add to the picture of
the spread of the Industrial Revolution far afield. I have
emphasized these Far Eastern areas because of the present
concentrated interest in them, and because they are geo-
graphically far off from England; and I have emphasized
them as centers of the so-called heavy industries because
experience has led us to judge degree of industrialization of
an area by the development of these so-called heavy in-
dustries, more familiar examples of the spread of the
machine could be cited in Europe, where the older areas
of spread would be represented by Germany, France, and
the Scandinavian countries; and newer areas absorbing the
machine largely since World War I, would be represented
by the Balkan countries and Russia. These last two areas
and the Far East, together with the Dominions of the
British Commonwealth of Nations, represent the speeding
up of industrialization since World War I.

My first signpost then is this world technology using
certain specific raw materials not found equally in all areas
of the world's surface. My second signpost, as I said in
the beginning, goes right along with the first. To see it,
look at the pattern of world exchange of goods and see
what has happened to it. There, too, we have a spreading
out of the pattern, from the early development of exchange
over a limited geographical area as for example Europe
in the Middle Ages, or China before the day of the Open
Door to the enlarging pattern following the Industrial
Revolution, which brought vastly increased quantities of
goods to be exchanged and means of transportation to take
them to far-off places. In the early days of the Industrial
Revolution, those groups of people who got away to a rapid
start, were already trading with certain far-away places
where luxury goods, unique products of a folk culture,
were brought back to supplement articles of the home
economy. But as the older areas became more and more
industrialized, the need for certain basic natural resources
and raw materials developed a pattern of exchange which
we have habitually called a colonial economy an economy
in which finished products made by machine technology
have been exchanged for these basic natural resources and
raw materials. Now this pattern has changed radically,
particularly since the World War I. On the surface the
change is represented by the spread of a world technology,
based on the machine, from a point representing the center
of origin, which can fairly accurately be thought of as
England. As new areas came within the scope of the
spreading technology, the old colonial pattern of exchange
was thrown out of balance. England and her colonial pos-
sessions represented the changing patterns very vividly
during the 20's. No longer was the old balance maintained
with England's manufacturing and sending her finished
products throughout her far-flung Empire, and getting
back basic natural resources and raw materials necessary for
her machines to continue their production of goods for
the world's markets. The Empire was using the machine
and making goods which lessened its old-time absorption
of goods from the mother country. The United States also
can be used as a good example of the different situation, as
far as exchange relationships with other areas are con-

cerned. Up to the time of the first world war, our largest
volume of exports had consisted of raw materials, such as
agricultural products. Since that time our exports have
changed in character with manufactured and semi-manu-
factured goods becoming more and more important. This
was not peculiar to us, but was the sort of change which
everywhere has followed the spreading world technology.

Go back just a minute and look at the situation from
the standpoint of the dependence of this world technology
on certain basic natural resources and raw materials. That
has meant, that as the technology has spread, there has
come into our vocabulary particularly within recent years
the terms of " haves " and the " have-nots " by which we
have largely meant that there were nations which had
access to these resources and materials, and there were those
which did not. We have never meant to divide peoples
into those within whose geographic area these resources and
materials were available, and those who did not have them
within their own national areas. England, for instance,
lacks all basic material resources except coal and iron, and
must get raw materials from outside. We on the other
hand have no tin and practically no alloy metals; and we
are learning that we depended on the Far East for rubber.
But England and the United States were among the
" haves " because we had free access to the markets for
these, and we also had purchasing power to pay for them.
The " have-nots " were " have-nots " not because they did
not have free access to the markets where these resources
were to be bought, but they did not have the purchasing
power in the foreign exchange market, in order to buy
even though they had access to the market. This was due
to the fact that they were unable to sell sufficient manu-
factured goods by which to get the needed purchasing
power.

That brings me to my third signpost. As the old balance
of exchanging manufactured goods for natural resources
and raw materials was upset by the spread of world tech-
nology, the various older industriahzed nations failed to
readjustment their internal economies to this change. In-
stead they sought to find a way out by exercising control
in international economic relations. We raised our tariff
barriers higher than ever before, and also resorted to setting
up quotas so as to be sure that we would set a quantitative
limit to the goods to be brought in. The British Common-
wealth of Nations, born of the struggle of England and
her colonies to work out the problems of their old-time
economic relationships under the new conditions of a world
technology, developed a program of preferential agreements
giving the advantage in trade to members of the Common-
wealth. Germany developed exchange control, by which
the government got into its possession all the purchasing
power arising out of the sale of German goods outside her
boundaries; and in her use of this purchasing power almost
abandoned the older pattern of multilateral trade and put
in its place unilateral trade and even barter. Now this
situation perhaps represents something for which no one
national group can be blamed. Someone has compared it to
a chess game in which a stalemate was reached not because
ot any one move which was made on the chess board, but
to all the moves, the one growing out of the other and
conditioned by it. At any rate, this progressive hamstring-
ing of the international market worked ill to all, and no
lasting good to anyone as far as most analysts can see. It
illustrates as perfectly as anything in human history the
oneness of the world, and the inevitable dependence of good
for one on good for all.

These then are my signposts. It would seem that they
have significance only in so far as they can be depended on
to give us something in our experience of the past as a

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guide for the future, and I believe they do.

Two of our best economists of today, Keynes the Eng-
lishman, and Hansen the American, look forward to a post-
war world as a better world, in which we shall be able to
achieve peace for nations and security for individuals, based
on full production and full employment. They would
agree with those who set the goals to be reached as ex-
pressed in some such terms as the following: We must
reconstruct world interrelationships in such a way that
free peoples may live and prosper without war and without
conquest; for this we must reach high levels of efficiency
in production so that there may be increasingly high per
capita supplies of economic goods, with opportunities for
improvement in the economic status of all peoples and a
rising standard of living. Economists seem to be in agree-
ment that if democracy is to survive we must work out
ways and means by which an international economy char-
acterized by an expanding volume of mutually beneficial
trade can be made possible. They do not minimize the
difficulties of such a program, neither do they agree that
it is impossible. It can be done if the thinking of the people
can be brought up to date. A big //? Yes, but the alterna-
tives are rather appalling. We could so easily find our-
selves a part of a world facing almost continual interna-
tional warfare, each nation striving as of old to maintain
itself at the top and unmindful of all else, the result being
periodic open and increasingly deadly conflict. Or, there
might be some form of military domination by a power
strong enough to organize the world to suit itself, as Ger-
many is seeking to organize Europe today. That organiza-
tion is taking on a definite pattern which high-lights
Hitler's goal of a dominant racial group with a high stand-
ard of living, as its industrial development is steadily
expanded and fed raw materials by surrounding colonials,
forced to carry on activities which contribute to the
tconomic life of the dominant group, expecting only a low
standard of living for themselves.

Taking for granted that these last two possibilities are
ones which must be rejected by the democracies, let us
speculate as to how the better world of Keynes and Hansen
must be worked out, insofar as my signposts would give us
something to go on. Again the economist would help us
here. He would cast aside all thought of a self-sufficing
nationalistic economic life being desirable, and would hold
fast to the concept of the only economic life offering any
possibility of well-being for all, as one based upon interna-
tional and interregional trade. In such an economy there
would be free access to markets for all, free access to
sources of raw material, international division of labor with
industry shifting to low-cost geographical areas, and no
attempt to sustain relatively inefficient methods of produc-
tion by protection. This is no different from the free-
trade theories of the classical economists, except we do
not believe that such a set of international relations will
come about of itself, or can be counted upon to continue
without careful planning on our part.

Peter Drucker says: "Our approach to the international
economic organization of tomorrow cannot start from the
question of trade in goods." There is where the rub comes
in. We arc so conditioned by the past to think in terms
of markets and getting in on the ground floor, that it is
difficult for us to see in new terms. My three signposts
indicate three areas where new ways of thinking must be-
come creative or continuous war lies ahead. I cannot make
a. blueprint of the kind of organized world which can
carry out plans for free international and interregional
trade, for free markets, for free access to sources of raw

material and for an international division of labor based on
something like the old principle of comparative costs. But
I can say that the need for some truly all-embracing inter-
national league, which has authority, backed up by force,
to make and carry out decisions where conflict between
national policy and international welfare 'may arise, is in-
dicated in no uncertain terms.

If free access to markets is insured and free access to
raw materials, all peoples at whatever degree of industrial-
ization will have the chance to sell the goods which they
produce best, and have purchasing power thercbv with
which to buy raw materials. Along with this it would
seem that ways and means of raising the standard of living
of all peoples must be thought through and put into op-
eration. This need is indicated by the signpost showing
the international market as it has been affected by older
raw material areas becoming industrialized. Even in a
highly industrialized area such as the United States a large
proportion of our population, perhaps as much as one-
third, represents an untapped market for goods, which
with full employment would absorb much of the surpluses
in agricultural production for example, and would insure a
demand for manufactured consumers' goods which would
absorb an expanded industrial production. Apply this
idea of a raising standard of living to such less highly
developed areas as China, and there are unmeasured possi-
bilities of expansion of China's industry because of a home
market almost untapped. The same is true of Japan. The
odd thing about Japan is that she made no attempt to tap
the home market with her manufactured goods before
sending them into other markets and competing with goods
produced bv high-cost labor. This program to stimulate
standards of living among national populations so that an
expanding economic life may be possible without too much
dependence upon outside areas, does not offer as many dif-
ficulties as the next "must", as indicated by my signposts.

The stalemate reached in international economic life by
the outbreak of this war was partly due to the efforts on
the part of national groups to keep some high-cost indus-
tries going by tariffs, quotas, preferential agreements, and
what-not. In the final analysis such high-cost industries
must be permitted to fade out if in the long run the wel-
fare of all is served best thereby. This sort of adjustment
in a world which is all of one piece must be continuous,
and it does not take place easily or without planning or
control on the part of such an international organization as
I suggested just a while ago.

There will be an immediate and pressing problem of
rehabilitation facing us just after this war is over. The
problems of that time are not the ones for which I have
been suggesting solutions. I would look upon it and its
immediate short-time programs as offering a little time
for getting things in hand for that new world order which
I have been looking at. For both that transitional period
when all of us shall be busy with rehabilitating a war-
torn world, and that time when we shall have made some
beginnings with the new democratic world order, it would
seem that we are developing some techniques and some
experience to which we can turn. I am talking about the
various cooperative war controls. For example, we are
trying to pool shipping, and materials, and to some degree
finances, and to work out cooperative control. I would
say even the types of control for war strategy itself should
give us something on which to build world cooperation in
economics. Let us hope that we shall utilize to the fullest
all the techniques and all the experience we may have for a
cooperative effort to build the better world of Keynes and
Hansen after this w.ir is over.

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ALABAMA

Atibitrn Alabama Group IV met
in Auburn for luncheon on Monday,
February 23, and Martha North
(Watson) Smith was their very capa-
ble chairman. The group reports that
they thoroughly enjoyed the record
of Miss Alexander, Mary Cox, and
Ella, and that for next year they want
more of the same! Caroline (Car-
michael) Wheeler, of Lafayette, was
elected chairman for next meeting. A
gift to the Tearoom Committee from
the group meeting in Auburn was
most appreciated. Among those pres-
ent at the meeting were Frances
(Dearing) Hay, Lettie (McKay) Van
Landingham, Alberta (Palmour) Mc-
Millan, Catherine (Nash) Goff, and
Martha (Watson) Smith, of Auburn;
Frances (Bowling) Frazer, and Edith
(McGranahan) Smith T, of Opelika.

Montgomery Olive (Weeks) Col-
lins was chairman for the Mont-
gomery (Ala.) group meeting and was
able to gather thirteen alumnae for a
luncheon on February 21. After the
introduction of new members, Nancy
(Harwell) Smith told them what
Agnes Scott graduates are doing
now. Each person present wrote a
note to the alumnae office, giving
news about themselves, and then the
group listened to the victrola records
and looked at the Quarterlies and Biil-
lefiiis. They especially liked the in-
formal program and the records. The
following alumnae were present:
Nancy (Jones) Smith, Annie Wilson
Terry, Bessie (Sentelle) Martin,
Marion (Black) Cantelou, Olive
(Weeks) Collins, Netta Jones, Ellen
(Smith) Gaddis, Claude (Martin)
Lee, Margaret Booth, Jennie (Simms)
Parks, Gladys (McMillan) Gunn,
Genie Blue (Howard) Matthews, and
Emma Sue Robinson.

ARKANSAS

Camden, Arkansas, alumnae were
notified of the broadcast by Frances
Amis; the four of them listened in to
the program.

CALIFORNIA

Berkeley, California, was the center
of a reunion of California alumnae on
Feb. 21, when Clara Mae (Allen)
Reinero planned a delightful lunch-
eon for them at the Black Sheep Res-
taurant. After luncheon and a de-
lightful hour spent pouring over the
view books and Quarterlies, the group

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adjourned to a downtown store to
play the victrola records, and reports
that the records were the high spot
of the entire meeting. Leila Ander-
son, Frances Harper and Clara Mae
(Allen) Reinero, of Berkeley, v/ere
joined by Frances (Gary) Taylor, of
Oakland, for the meeting. The next
meeting is to be a tea at Clara Mae's
home in the spring.

CONNECTICUT

Polly (Stone) Buck sent invitations
to all alumnae in her state and invited
them to meet at the home of Jennie
Lynn (DuVall) Nyman. We would
like to quote Polly's letter for the re-
port. "Alas, our Connecticut Agnes
Scott meeting boiled down to two
faithful souls, Jennie Lynn and me.
But although we couldn't get any-
thing on the radio we enjoyed the rec-
ords tremendously and read all the
things you sent, and had a jolly eve-
ning. Her two little daughters who
will some day come to Agnes Scott,
and a couple of their friends, listened
to the records, too. . . . Our 'meet-
ing' had a large stack of cards from
the girls, all telling of their interest
in it all, many saying they would try
to get the program where they were."
It seems that many people in Connec-
ticut go to ski in Vermont or go
to New York over the week-end or
stay at home with the husbands who
will soon go into active military ser-
vice. Therefore only two alumnae at
the meeting. This group promised to
send a gift of some linens to the
Alumnae House.

FLORIDA

Jacksonville Club met for tea with
Marjorie (Simmons) Palmer and sent
the following wire: "Fifteen alumnae
are meeting with Marjorie (Simmons)
Palmer this afternoon. Are with you
in spirit." Mary Virginia Brown was
chairman of this Club, with Martha
(Zellner) Webb acting as co-chair-
man. The Club voted a gift of five
dollars to the Alumnae House and it
is most gratefully received.

Miami Club celebrated Founder's
Day with a buffet supper at the home
of Frances (Dukes) Wynne on Sat-
urday, February 21. Elizabeth (Shaw)
McClamroch, the president, presented
a speaker from the Dade County
Defense Council, who represented the
Consumer Interest Committee. New
officers elected were: Montie (Sewell)

Burns, president; Helen Hardie, vice-
president; Marie (Whittle) Welles-
lager, secretary; and Frances Hamp-
ton, treasurer. The treasurer, with the
approval of the club, sent the Alum-
nae House a box of towels, given by
the club at a shower, and a gift of
one dollar to be turned over to the
Tea Room Committee. Among those
present were: Miss Lillian Smith,
Frances Hampton, Mary Buchholz,
Bessie (Stockton) Crossland, Grace
Elizabeth (Anderson) Cooper, Mette
Williamson, Ruth (Lawrence) Mc-
Caskill, Garth (Gray) Hall, Chopin
(Hudson) Hankins, Montie (Sewellj
Burns, Aileen (Moore) Topping,
Helen Hardie, Elizabeth (Shaw) Mc-
Clamrock and Marie (Whittle) Wel-
leslager.

Orlando Central Florida alumnae
met for luncheon in Orlando on Sat-
urday, Feb. 21, and enjoyed a delight-
ful program planned by Imogene (Al-
len) Booth and Mary Allen, both of
Tavares. This was the first alumnae
meeting in this region, and the group
organized for annual Founder's Day
meetings, and as many others as could
be scheduled. Imogene (Allen) Booth
was elected chairman, with Grace
(Bargeron) Rambo, co - chairman.
Those attending included: Elizabeth
Ruprecht, Margaret (Nolen) Stewart,
Grace (Bargeron) Rambo, Faustelle
(Williams) Kennedy, Lucile (Smith)
Bishop, Cynthia (Pace) Radcliffe, all
of Orlando; Ruth (Guffin) Griffin
of Kissimee, Mary Rice Allen of Ply-
mouth, Mrs. S. H. Allen of Decatur,
Georgia, Margaret McGarity of Win-
ter Garden, and the chairman, Imo-
gene (Allen) Booth of Tavares.

Tampa Violet (Denton) West
was chairman for the Tampa Club,
and the group had a wonderful meet-
ing. Julia Moseley, Frances (Line-
weaver) Hill, and Margery (Moore)
Macaulay served on the planning
committee. They were disappointed
that they could not have Julia Lake
(Skinner) Kellersberger as their guest
speaker at the Feb. 21 luncheon, but
they enjoyed the records and informal
talk about college days. The private
room in the Mirasol Hotel on Davis
Island was attractively decorated in
red, white and blue, with flower ar-
rangements of red and white gladioli,
and blue ribbon down the tables. The
place cards were centered with a

APRIL, 1942

miniature Agnes Scott sticker, and on
the back of each one the guests wrote
news of themselves for the Quarterly.
Plans for a meeting to honor prospec-
tive students were made, and names
of two students were sent to the col-
lege. New officers are Violet (Den-
ton) West, president; Margery
(Moore) Macaulay, vice-president;
Mary Evelyn Francis, secretary-treas-
urer, and Nell (Frye) Johnston, pub-
licity chairman. Among those pres-
ent were: Marguerite Russell, Mary
Evelyn Francis, Julia Moseley, Marion
(Albury) Pitts, Martha (Moody)
Laseter, Mary Lou (Robinson) Black,
Violet (Denton) West, Venie Belle
(Grant) Jones, Mary (Hudmon)
Simmons, Nell (Frye) Johnston,
Ruth (Embry) Touchstone, Rosalind
(Wurm) Council, Blanche (Cope-
land) Gifford, Margery (Moore) Mac-
aulay, Nina (Anderson) Thomas,
Helen Gilmer, Ellen (Allen) Irsch,
and Ruth (Marion) Wisdom. A gift
of $1.80 from the club was made to
the Tea Room Committee, and it is
most appreciated.

GEORGIA

Atlanta The Atlanta, Business
Girls', and Decatur Club enjoyed
their annual meeting together on Feb.
21. A luncheon attended by ninety
alumnae, and held on the campus for
the first time in several years was the
feature of the week-end. Mrs. Alex
Brown, author of "Red Hill," was
the principal speaker. Honor guests
were Dean Carrie Scandrett, Dr. J. R.
McCain, and Dean S. G. Stukes. Mary
Gladys (Steffner) Kincaid presided
over the meeting, as president of the
Atlanta Club. Elizabeth Nicolassen,
president of the Business Girls' Club,
was in charge of decorations, and Eva
(Towers) Hendee, president of the
Decatur Club, and her committee,
made all arrangements for the lunch-
eon. A color scheme of red, white
and blue was effectively carried out in
flower arrangements of red carnations,
white glads, and blue narcissi. Flower
mints in these colors, and red-white-
and-blue ribbons down the centers of
the tables further carried out the
scheme.

Augusta On Saturday, Feb. 21,
twelve alumnae gathered in Augusta,
Georgia. They listened to the records
and talked about Agnes Scott and
drank tea. They elected Mary
(Hutchinson) Jackson as their chair-
man for the next meeting. Mary Lyon
Hull was the president for the past
year; the following people attended
the meeting: Mathilde (Brenner)
Gercke, Sarah (Smith) Merry, Downs
(Lander) Fordyce, Gena (Calloway)

Merry, Christine (Sinclair) Parsons,
Sara Fullbright, Janet Newton, Phyllis
Johnson, Ruth McAulifle, Mary
(Hutchinson) Jackson and Elizabeth
Baethke, Ellen Little and Jane (Lewis)
Chandler were a grand help to her in
sending out 100 invitations to alum-
nae near Augusta.

Dalton, Georgia, alumnae met at
the home of Mary Stuart (Sims) Mc-
Camy for tea on Sunday, Feb. 22.
Among those attending were Mary
Fay (Martin) Brumby, Martha Lin
(Manly) Hogshead, Gertrude (Man-
ly) McFarland, Lulu (Smith) West-
cott, Lottie (Anderson) Pruden, Vir-
ginia (Gaines) Ragland, Frances
(Napier) Jones, Eulalia (Napier) Sut-
ton, Margaretta (Womelsdorf ) Lump-
kin, Mrs. O. C. Alley, Mrs. Keeley
Greer, and the hostess. Lulu (Smith)
Westcott was chairman of notifica-
tions for this group.

Elbert oil Babbie (Adams) Weer-
sing and "Shorty" had supper with
Florence (Lasseter) Rambo and Olin
and they listened to the records. They
say that "even the hubbies laughed
with us over Ella and Mary Cox and
marveled over Mr. George Winship's
account of the campaign."
ILLINOIS

The Chicago Club met for tea on
Sunday, Feb. 22, at the attractive
apartment of Giddy (Erwin) Dyer.
The hours from three-thirty until six
were spent listening for the radio
broadcast, to the records and news
from the college, and to autobiogra-
phical accounts from each member of
the time since she had last visited the
college. Mildred (Davis) Adams was
the very capable chairman for this
meeting, and succeeded in getting ten
alumnae out of the fifteen in the
vicinity at the meeting. Those pres-
ent included: Josephine Bertolli, Lois
(Bolles) Knox, Annette (Carter)
Colwell, Reba Blanche Vinnedge,
Elizabeth (Henderson) Palmer, Gret-
chen (Kleybecker) Chandler, Mildred
(Davis) Adams, and the hostess. Gid-
dy (Erwin) Dyer, all of Chicago;
Martha (Brenner) Shryock, of Kenil-
worth, and Elizabeth (Heaton) Mul-
lino, of Racine, Wisconsin. The next
meeting of the club will be in April.
MASSACHUSETTS

Boston Alumnae celebrated Foun-
der's Day with a luncheon on Feb. 24,
at a quaint place called Memory Lane.
Featured on the program were the
victrola records, and the news and
material sent by the alumnae office.
Mary (McDonald) Sledd is chairman
for this group.

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi State Alumnae Club sent
the following wire to Dr. McCain

from Elizabeth (Watkins) Hulen's,
where they enjoyed a delightful tea
on Feb. 22: "We are meeting with
Elizabeth Hulen for Agnes Scott pro-
gram. Were unable to get the broad-
cast but heard with pleasure the rec-
ords and reading of your talk. We
are very proud of achievements of the
University Center Campaign and have
enjoyed being brought up to date on
other activities."

MISSOURI

St. Louis alumnae gathered for tea
Monday, Feb. 23, at the home of
Georgia (Crane) Clarke, and, under
the direction of Florence (Preston)
Bockhurst, enjoyed an interesting pro-
gram. Christine (Evans) Murray was
elected chairman of the group for
next year, and plans for more than
one meeting a year were approved.
Those attending included: Alva
(Baum) Baum, Christine (Evans)
Murray, Lucile (Lane) Bailey and
Millicent (Caldwell) Jones, all of St.
Louis; Martine (Tuller) Joyner, of
Clayton; Georgia (Crane) Clarke, of
Webster Groves; and Florence (Pres-
ton) Bockhorst, of Kirkwood.
NEW YORK

The Neu' York Club observed
Founder's Day with a delightful din-
ner on Feb. 2 5. The program included
the records sent by the college, which
were most effective, thanks to the
mechanical aptitude of Baxter Gen-
try, and a talk made by a representa-
tive from the New York Defense
Council. Dora (Ferrell) Gentry, the
president, introduced the alumnae
present and presided over the business
session, during which the club voted
a gift of fifteen dollars to the Tea
Room Committee. New officers are:
Ruth (Pirkle) Berkeley, president;
Margaret (Hansell) Potter, vice-presi-
dent; Julia Stokes, secretary, and
Polly (Gordon) Woods, treasurer.
Alumnae from New Jersey, New
York and Connecticut attended the
meeting.

NORTH CAROLINA

Charlotte, N. C, Alumnae Club
met for tea at Maude (Shute) Squires
on Malvern Road, and enjoyed a love-
ly party with the records, a report on
campus developments by their presi-
dent, Rebecca (Whaley) Rountrec,
who had recently visited on the cam-
pus, and plans for taking high school
seniors down for May Day as features
of the program. Romola (Davis)
Hardy, vice-president of the club,
presided over the tea table.

Durham, N. C. Allene Ramage

was hostess to six Durham alumnae

and one adopted alumnae at tea on

Feb. 22. The group could not hear

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WANTED: CDntributions to Agnes
Scott Memorabilia

An important collection in a col-
lege library are the publications of the
school and its students. In the library
at Agnes Scott all the available stu-
dent and faculty publications have
been segregated in one location and an
effort is now being made to secure
copies of issues which have thus far
not been found. Grateful acknowl-
edgement is made to Miss Louise Mc-
Kinney who has not only given data
for this article but also has given us
quite a collection of early publications,
especially programs of senior opera,
freshman and sophomore stunts and
some musical events. During this past
year Polly (Stone) Buck sent us some
Auroras and some programs of college
activities. A few other alumnae have
added to this collection in other years.

At this time we are calling for ad-
ditional assistance from the alumnae
and herewith are listing some of the
publications lacking in the college file.

Mnemosynean

The earliest student publication at
Agnes Scott was the Mnemosynean.
The first issue was published in 1891
and the editor for the year 1891-92
was Kate (Logan) Good. Unfortu-
nately there are no copies of this first
volume in the library. The only issues
of the Mnemosynean on file are:

Volume 2, number 8, June, 1893.

Volume 3, number 7, Mar., 1894.

Volume 3, number 9, June, 1894.

Volume 4, number 1, Sept., 1894.

In the 1898 issue of the Aurora was
found a list of the editors of this stu-
dent publication for the years stated.
They are:

1892-93 Editor Eloise Martin.
1893-94 Editor Mary (Barnett)

Martin.
1894-95 Editor -Esther (Boyle) Bap-
tist.
1895-96 Editor Caroline (Haygood)

Harris.
1896-97 Editors Cora Strong and

M. Eugenia (Mandeville) Watkins.
1897-98 Editors Luciie Alexander

and Nellie (Mandeville) Henderson.
1898-99 Editors Evelyn (Ramspeck)

Glenn and Annie Gash.

Do these names refresh your mem-
ory, or give any clue to the possible
location of some of these volumes?

Please send cont

By Edna R. Hanley

Librarian

Aurora Other issues of this volume are lack-

The next student publication to be ing. For volumes 24, 2 5, 26 there are
issued was the Aurora. The earliest no copies. Volume 24 (1914-15) was
issue in the collection is a second vol- edited by Emma (Jones) Smith; vol-
ume published in 1898. During the ume 25 (1915-16) was edited by
first years it was published as an An- Louise (Wilson) Williams, and vol-
nual. In this second volume reference ume 26 (1916-17) came out under
is made to the first volume published the editorship of India (Hunt) Balch.
in 1897. We would be delighted to The first complete volume of Au-

have in the library a copy of the first rora on file in the library is numbered
Aurora. Volume 3 of the Aurora was 27 and covers the school year of
published in 1899 and of this issue 1917-18. Of volume 28 (1918-19)
there are several copies. From Miss numbers 3 and 4 are missing. Dorothy
Alexander and Miss McKinney we (Thigpen) Shea was the editor. Of
learn that because of a scarlet fever volume 30 (1920-21) we lack the
epidemic the school was closed in fourth number, which was edited by
March, 1900 for the remainder of the Rachel (Rushton) Upham. Numbers
year, and no Annual was published. 3 and 4 of volume 31 (1921-22),

In 1900-1901 the Aurora appeared edited by Elizabeth Wilson, are also
as a monthly publication, edited by the missing. In volume 41 (1931-32)
two literary societies. Undoubtedly, number 4 is missing, and in volume
at this time the publication of the 42, number 1 is missing.
Mnemosynean was discontinued but Silhouette

the numbering of the volumes was As for the file of Silhouette this is

continued with the Aurora. Under rnore complete. The first issue ap-
the editorship of Marie L. Wilson we peared in 1902 with Meta Barker, '02,
have a copy of volume 10, number and Emily Winn, '03, as editors.
5, April, 1901 issue; other issues of Quoting from the preface "With this

issue the Agnes Scott Annual again
makes its appearance after an inter-
mission of two years. In some re-
spects, however, this is not a contin-
uance of the former one. In the first
place it has been more decidedly a
private enterprise of the students. The
entire responsibility has rested upon
them. Then a new name graces our
volume. When the former 'Annual'
was discontinued its title 'Aurora'
was bequeathed to the monthly pub-
lication of the two societies." Volume
2 of the Silhouette appeared in 1903.
There is a question as to whether an
Annual was published in 1904, as the
Annual for 1905, edited by Martha
(Merrill) Thompson and Sarah
(Boals) Spinks, is marked volume 3.
Neither do we have an issue for 1906.
The 1907 Silhouette, edited by Eliza-

this volume are missing. For the years
1901 through 1913 no copies of the
Aurora have been located. These
would be numbered 11 through 22,
and from the Silhouette the following
information has been gathered in re-
gard to the editors for the various
years.
1901-1902 Editor Martha Cobb

(Howard) Spear.
1902-1903 Editor Emily Winn
1903-1904 Editor?
1904-190 5 Editor May (McKowen)

Taylor.
1905-1906 Editor?
1906-1907 Editor Sarah (Boals)

Spinks.
1907-1908 Editor Mary (Dillard)

Nettles.
1908-1909 Editor Ruth (Marion)

Wisdom.
1909-1910 Editor Mildred Thomson. beth (Curry) Winn, is marked vol-

1910-1911 Editor Geraldine (Hood)

Burns.
1911-1912 Editor Antoinette

(Blackburn) Rust.
1912-1913 Editor Emma L. (Jones)

Smith.

The May, 1914 issue, edited by
Charlotte (Jackson) Mitchell is
marked number 7 of volume 23.

ume 4, however, the issue for 1908 is
marked volume 6. The file for 1907
through 1918 is complete. The issue
for 1919 is lacking. It is thought that
this one may have been omitted be-
cause of the World War, but we
would like to verify this statement.
The only other issue missing is for the

year 1929.
ributions to Edna R. Hanley, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga. _

APRIL, 1942

The Agnostic File

During the year 1915-16 the need
was felt for a college weekly publica-
tion. The promoters of this idea were
Spottswood Payne and Anne (Kyle)
McLaughlin, and February 11, 1916,
under the editorship of Laurie (Cald-
well) Tucker was published the first
issue of the Agonistic. The library
lacks all the other issues of this first
volume. For a file of volume 2
(1916-17) we are indebted to Lois
(Eve) Rozier, however, numbers 12
and 19 are lacking.

Below are listed the volume and the
editor for the various years with a
notation of the numbers missing in
the college file:

Volume 3 (1917-18) Editor Mar-
garet (Rowe) Jones. All issues miss-
ing.

Volume 4 (1918-19) Editor ? All
issues missing.

Volume 5 (1919-20) Editor
Frances (Markley) Roberts. All is-
sues missing.

Volume 6 (1920-21) Editor Nell
(Buchanan) Starcher. All issues miss-
ing except 12, 15, 19.

Volume 7 (1921-22) Editor Elea-
nor Ffyde, Numbers 2, 6, 8, 10, 11,
14, 17, 19 to end of year are missing.

Volume 8 (1922-23) Editor Mary
Hemphill Greene. Numbers 3, 4, 5,
8, 9, 11 to end of year are missing.

Volume 9 (1923-24) Editor Mary
Hemphill Greene. All issues from
17 to end of year are missing.

Volume 10 (1924-25) Editor
Dorothy (Keith) Hunter. All issues
except 16, 17, 18 are lacking.

Volume 11 (1925-26) Editor-
Louisa Duls. Numbers 4 to end of
year are lacking.

Volume 1 2 File is complete.

Volume 13 (1927-28) Editor
Carolyne (Essig) Frederick. Lack all
numbers.

Volume 14 File is complete.

Volume 15 (1929-30) Editor
Alice (Jernigan) Dow ling. All issues
are lacking.

Volume 16 (1930-31) Editor
Julia (Thompson) Smith. Numbers
11 and 18 are lacking.

Volume 17 (1931-32) Editor
Betty Bonham. Numbers 16 and 22
are lacking.

Volume 18 (1932-33) Editor
Elizabeth Lynch. The Commencement
issue is lacking.

Volume 19 (1933-34) (incor-
rectly marked v. 14) Editor Mary
Hamilton. Of this volume we need
the first issue.

Volume 20 (1934-3 5) Editor
Loice Richards. Numbers 7, 8, 9 and
Commencement issue are lacking.

Volume 21-22 complete.

Volume 23 (1937-38) Editor
Hortense Jones. Number 9 is lacking.

Keading Terrace at Agnes Scott Library

FOUNDER'S DAY MEETINGS

(Continued from Page 7)
the broadcast but they "listened to
the records and talked and had a good
time."

SOUTH CAROLINA

Columbia, S. C, alumnae met for
tea on March 6, and had a delightful
post-Founder's Day celebration. They
enjoyed the records and the material
sent from the college. A very gener-
ous gift of seven dollars to the Alum-
nae House was sent in by the secre-
tary, Martie (Stigall) Donelan. Caro-
line (Jones) Johnson is the president
of this group.

Florence, S. C. South Carolina Dis-
trict IV met for tea on Saturday, Feb.
21, at the home of Elizabeth (Cole)
Shaw in Florence, S. C. Five Florence
alumnae, one from Hartsville, and
three high school seniors enjoyed the
afternoon together. "Variety is the
Spice" from the last Quarterly, the
news letters, and the records composed
their program. Attending were Lucy
(Goss) Herbert, Rowena Barringer,
Claude (Wright) Williams, Eileen
(Culpepper) Allen, Elizabeth (Cole)
Shaw of Florence, and Leonora
(Briggs) Bellamy, of Hartsville, who
said that even the tire situation could-
n't keep her away. The three seniors
attending were Margaret Edmonds,

Sue Perrin, and Alma Chose Mobley.
TENNESSEE

Memphis, headquarters for Tennes-
see District I, had its Founder's Day
meeting at the Hotel Peabody Sky-
way, with luncheon on Saturday.
Louise (Capen) Baker presided over
the meeting. Sarah (Armfield) Hill
is the newly elected chairman of the
group, and will be in charge of the
meeting next Founder's Day. High-
lighted on the program were the cop-
ies of the Quarterlies and the college
publications sent, and the alumnae
present contributed much in stories
of their own school days. Attending
the luncheon were Alice Virden, Mary
Shewmaker, Sara (Armfield) Hill,
Louise (Capen) Baker, and Rose
(Harwood) Taylor, of Brownsville,
Tenn.

The Nashville, Tennessee, District
had its Founder's Day meeting at tea
with Ella (Smith) Hayes at her love-
ly Brentwood, Tenn., home. Elizabeth
(Smith) DcWitt contacted the Nash-
ville .Uumnae and Anna Marie (Lan-
dress) Cate wrote to those scattered
throughout the district. Anna Marie
was elected chairman for next year.
Among those present for the tea were
Charlotte (Bell) Linton, Ann (Hous-
ton) Shires, Elizabeth (Smith) De-
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from A Tower Window

Associations Drop Colleges From List

In February, four national organ-
izations took action to show their dis-
approval of Governor Eugene Tal-
madge's interference in the State
Schools in Georgia.

The American Medical Association
dropped the University of Georgia
from its list but said that the grad-
uates of this year will still be recog-
nized.

The National Association of Teach-
ers' Colleges met in San Francisco and
decided to drop from its accredited
list the Georgia State Teachers' Col-
lege at Statesboro and the Georgia
State College for Women at Milledge-
ville. Graduates of these schools may
not be able to obtain teaching licenses
outside the state after this year.

The American Association of Uni-
versity Women sent out a notice from
Washington saying that it had
dropped the University of Georgia
from its approved list because of "un-
precedented and unjustifiable political
interference" on the part of Gover-
nor Talmadge.

Reports of action taken by other
Associations were mentioned in the
articles by Dr. McCain in the two
previous issues of the Quarterly.
Science Groups to Meet

Dr. Schuyler Christian, professor of
Physics, announced that the Georgia
Academy of Science will hold its an-
nual meeting in Atlanta during the
first week in April. Agnes Scott Col-
lege, Georgia School of Technology
and Emory University will be joint
hosts and meetings will be held on
the Emory campus.

The Southern Association for the
Advancement of Science will convene
in Atlanta at the same time. The two
organizations will hold joint meetings
to discuss national defense and the
special way southern scientists may
participate.

Alumnae Invited to Lecture
On April 7, Mr. H. S. Ede will
lecture on our National Gallery of Art
in Washington, D. C. For fifteen
years he was curator at the National
Gallery of British Art in London. He
will show slides of pictures of the
M'ellon-Kress collection and will dis-
cuss the relation of people's srt to
their history and philosophy. Tickets
may be purchased at the door.

In addition to the public lecture,
Mr. Ede will give two lectures to the
college community and alumnae. On
Thursday afternoon April 9 at 5:00
o'clock, in the old chapel, he will
speak on Dhtorfion in Art, and at the
regular chapel period on Friday morn-
ing, April 10, he will speak on the
French School. These lectures will
also be illustrated by slides.

Mrs. Kenneman Is New Tea Room
Manager
Mrs. Elizabeth Adams Kinneman,
of Cedartown, Ga., arrived to take
over the tea room on March 1. Mrs.
Kenneman graduated from the Uni-
versity of Georgia, with a B.S. in
Home Economics in 1941. She has
been interning at the Hahneman Hos-
pital in Philadelphia since that time.
Her training and experience have al-
ready been effectively displayed in her
efficient management of the Tea
House, and her personality has won
her a host of friends on the campus.
Charm Expert Visits Campus
Miss Elizabeth M .Osborne, of New
York City, was the expert chosen for
"Charm Week" sponsored by Mortar
Board and other campus organizations
during February. Miss Osborne gave
six chapel lectures on posture, diet,
grooming, and mannerisms, and in
addition devoted her entire week to
a series of interviews with groups of
students. The drastic changes in
hair-dos and grooming that have ap-
peared recently are directly traceable
to her suggestions to the students.
Atlanta Club to Present Book Reviews
Members of the Atlanta Agnes
Scott Club will hear Mrs. Emma Gar-
rett Morris review fictional, factual
and philosophical literature of the
current World War at a series of lec-
tures to be presented at their March,
April and May meetings. Mrs. Morris
opened the series on March 17 with
discussions of Ethel Vance's "Escape";
Storm Jameson's "The Fort"; Philip
Gibbs' "This Nettle, Danger; Broken
Pledges; Sons of the Others"; Erika
Mann's "The Lights Grow Down";

David Cornell De Jong's "The Day of
the Trumpet"; Angela Thirkell's
"Cheerfulness Breaks In"; and Kress-
man Taylor's "Address Unknown".
Founder's Day Radio Program

Representatives of the class of '24
(and one '24 backwards, '42), helped
to produce a grand program. On Sun-
day afternoon our radio stars gath-
ered at the studio at W.S.B. They had
been informed that a Senator was
speaking on the program just ahead of
them and if he happened to talk over-
time they would not be able to go on
the air at four o'clock. They watched
the clock anxiously . . . The Senator
was kind, and promptly at four Mr.
Dieckmann began playing "Ancient
of Days" on the organ. The an-
nouncer said, "Agnes Scott College
celebrates Founder's Day" and the
program began. Carrie Scandrett, '24,
Dean of Women, spoke a word of
greeting; then Presdient J. R. McCain,
an alumna, and a senior sent greet-
ings. President McCain spoke of
Colonel Scott the founder, and of
other "men and women who have
labored for the College and molded
its life and ideals with their own."
He announced that $1,5 00,000 has
been subscribed for the University
Center campaign and $1,182,000 has
been collected.

Then, Frances (Gilliland) Stukes,
'24, sang "On Guard America," the
words of which were written by
Polly (Stone) Buck, '24.

Miss Scandrett told about the every
day happenings on the campus such
as black cat stunt, Blackfriars play,
Junior banquet and the other events
that each generation of students learns
to look forward to and then remem-
bers.

Frances Tucker, '42, spoke of the
college preparations for defense the
War Council, the black-outs, the con-
servation committee and the first aid
and knitting classes.

As the program came to a close Mr.
Dieckmann played the Alma Mater
and we hoped that the alumnae, who
were gathered around their radios,
sang with us.

We are grateful to all who helped
to make the program a success and
especially Florence (Perkins) Ferry,
'26, Roberta Winter, '27, and Penelope
(Brown) Barnett, '32, for they are
the Radio Committee who made all
the plans for the program. Roberta
was also the writer of the scrip and
director of the program.

APRIL, 1942

11

Anne Cbaitihlt'ss, of Atlanta, who will ride on

May Day

Ann Chambless, an attendant in
May Court since her freshman year,
will be the May Queen at the annual
festival on Saturday, May 2, at 5:00
o'clock E. W. T. Margaret Wagnon,
May Day chairman, announces that
Ann is the first Queen ever to be
elected in the first poll, from which
the nominees are usually selected. A
second election is usually required to
select the queen.

Ann is vice-president of Mortar
Board and chairman of discussion
groups and religious sources for
Christian Association.

Modesta Hance was selected as
Maid of Honor and the following girls
are in the May Queen's court: Mar-
garet Sheftall, Jane Taylor, Edith
Dale, Mary Robertson, Rebecca
Stamper, Olivia White, Margaret
Wagnon, Ann Hilsman, Marjorie Wil-
son, Leona Leavitt, Mable Stowe,
Martha Rhodes, Sally Knight, and
Virginia Lee Brown.

Report of Dr. Davidson's Book
in Saturday Review

Dr. Philip Davidson's book, Propa-
ganda in the American Revolution,
was reviewed in a special issue, about
propaganda and censorship, of the
Saturday Review of Literature on
March 7. Peter Odegard, president of
the Treasury Department, wrote this
feature article.

the annual May Day Festival May 2, and Modesta Hance, of Wilmington, Del, who h to be
her maid -of -honor.

Phi Beta Kappa Announcements
Dr. Marjorie Hope Nicolson, first
woman president of Phi Beta Kappa,
spoke in chapel on January 25. The
subject of her delightful talk was
"The Romance of Scholarship."

After the address, Miss Muriel
Harn, secretary of the Georgia Beta
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, an-
nounced the 1942 elections. They are
Billie Gammon Davis, daughter of
Mary Elizabeth (Gammon) Davis,
'17, Susan Arnette Dyar, Jeanne Os-
borne and Julia Ann Patch.

Miss Emma May Laney, president of
the local chapter, presided over the
initiation banquet that was held in
the Alumnae House that evening.
Miss Florence Smith, vice-president;
Dr. Ernest Runyon, treasurer, and
Dr. James Ross McCain, senator in
the national organization, were among
those at the speaker's table. Fifty
faculty and alumnae members attend-
ed the banquet.

IN MEMORIAM
Olive (Laing) Hoggins, 1896 from
Institute, died February 8 at the Crest-
view Convalescent Home in Kansas
City, Mo. She had been a teacher in
Georgia and South Carolina, a former
book reviewer for the Atlanta news-
papers, a pharmacist and a lawyer. As
a lawyer, she was said to have been
one of the first women admitted to
the Georgia bar. She combined legal

practice with real estate business, and
made quite a success of both; she gave
up this work to do Red Cross work
during the last World War. She con-
tributed much to the Kansas City ar-
chives with her history of the Kansas
City churches. Mrs. Hoggins re-
turned to Kansas in 1937 and devoted
two years of her life to founding the
Kansas City Museum. She is survived
by two sisters, Margaret Laing, 1895
from Institute, and Elizabeth (Laing)
Smith, Institute.

Mary Clyde White, Institute, died
at the home of her brother in Atlanta,
on March 10. She was a graduate of
the Presbyterian Assembly's Training
School for Lay Workers, Richmond,
Va., and was active in church work
in Sparta and Atlanta until ill health
forced her retirement.

Sadie (Young) Sheffield, Institute,
died at the Lake Shore Hospital in
Lake City, Fla., on January 7.

Virginia Lambeth, ex-'43, was still
a student at the time of her death,
December 11. She was a member of
the Granddaughter's Club, active in
the Christian Association on the cam-
pus, president of the Presbytery
Council of Young People, and a vol-
unteer worker in the Decatur mission.
She died from a blood infection.

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REUNION CLASSES

1897, 1899, 1900, 1916, 1917, 1918,
1919, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1941

PROGRAM

May 30 . . . Trustees' Luncheon, honoring alumnae and seniors.
Rebekah Scott Dining Room, 1 o'clock.

Phi Beta Kappa Banquet.
Alumnae House, 6:30 o'clock.

Program by the Deparlment of Speech.
8:30 o'clock.

May 31 . . . Baccalaureate Sermon, Bishop Clare Purcell, M. E. Church of
Charlotte, N. C. Gaines Chapel, 1 1 o'clock.

After-Dinner Coffee, 2 o'clock in Murphey Candler Building.

Vespers, 6 o'clock.

Alumnae Garden Party, Alumnae Gardens, 6:30 o'clock.

June 1 Reunion Luncheons for '97, '99, '00, '16, '17, '18, and '19.

Alumnae House, 12:30 o'clock.

Class Day, May Day Dell, 4 o'clock.

Reunion Dinner for '35, '36, '37, '38, and '41.
Alumnae House, 6:30 o'clock.

June 2 . . . . Commencement Exercises, Gaines Chapel, 10 o'clock.
Dr. Alfred Noyes, speaker.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Across the President's Desk 1

Agnes Scott's War Effort 2

By Eleanor Hutchens, '40

Wanted: Contributions to Memorabilia 4

Annual Committee Reports I 5

Commencement Awards 8

Concerning Ourselves 9

To the Alumnae Back Cover

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

Act of Congress, 1912. Subscription rate, S2 yearly.

ACROSS THE PRESIDENT'S DESK

DiAR Agnes Scott Alumnae:

The opportunity of sending you a message in each issue
of the Quarterly is greatly appreciated. These are fre-
quently disconnected, as this letter will be, but I hope
that they may express in some slight measure the enthusi-
asm which I feel for the accomplishments of our alumnae
and of our present students and faculty. In recent weeks,
I have seen a great deal of other colleges and other groups,
and I am more than ever thankful that I have the privi-
lege of serving Agnes Scott.

One of the notable achievements of our 1941-1942 ses-
sion, or of our entire fifty-three years of history, has been
the accomplishments of the Agnes Scott War Council.
You have heard of it in various ways, and this issue of
the Quarterly has a detailed article concerning it; but I
wish in my letter to summarize some of the outstanding
events. The Council has touched every individual on the
campus and a great many people in the entire Atlanta area.

AGNES SCOTT

WAR COUNCIL

MISS CARRI

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Instruction

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Miss Susan

Miss Llewellyn

Miss Frances

Miss Florence

Dr. Schuyler

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Tucker

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Miss Dorothy

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Knitting

As almost every family connected with Agnes Scott is
involved in the present emergency, and as the strain and
stress of the war become more intense, I would like for us
to develop an Agnes Scott attitude which may character-
ize us individually and as a group. There is nothing
original in the suggestion which I make, but I am noting a
few items which may be worth while.

May we be ready to do our part. We believe in our
cause and will want to advance it in every possible way.
This means that we should be physically and mentally fit.

We will recognize that there are values in simple living.
It may mean victorious living for our children and loved
ones. Jesus taught by example and precept that life does
(Conliinied on /'i','<c 3 )

^^ a n e 6 ^ c o 1 1 S l/U a r C^ f f o r t

Alumnae Lelters Supply Jtlcas for Ciimpus War Work.

By Eleanor Hutchins, '40

The usual it's-all-over feeling did not prevail on the
campus this year when students and faculty came piling
back to school in January. The traditional post-Christmas
letdown was lost in the new sensation of being part of a
huge war machine, come to life around us since Pearl
Harbor. Everybody wanted to do something, or to see
something being done, to help win the war.

Various ideas sprang from different sources and were
put into force: First Aid classes began, somebody started
collecting waste paper, there was a poster campaign to
save electricity. These were all separate enterprises, with
no central authority to coordinate them.

There were a few students, however, whose notions were
definite about the organization of Agnes Scott's war effort.
They were student government officers fresh from the
December convention of National Students Federation of
America, where they had heard Chester Williams, of the
National Education Administration, speak on college co-
operation in the war.

Acting on the suggestions of these students. Dr. McCain
appointed Agnes Scott's first War Council, comprising
eight members and Miss Scandrett as chairman. Its pur-
pose was, and is, to coordinate campus war work already
in progress and to promote and expedite further activity.

At the Council's first meeting, held January 2 3, war
work already completed or in progress on the campus was
found to include the following projects:

1. ,$753.00 raised by subscription for the American
Red Cross

2. $524.00 raised for the World Student Service Fund
(before Pearl Harbor)

3. Red Cross knitting organized under a student
chairman

4. First Aid classes with 100 students and faculty
enrolled

5. Victory Book campaign directed by the Librarian.

General activities to be directed by the Council were
listed as follows, with chairmen or committees appointed
for each:

1. Adjustment of student activities to war needs and
conditions: Frances Tucker

2. Blackout planning: Mr. Schuyler Christian and
Polly Frink

3. Conservation: Miss Susan Cobbs and Betty Sunder-
land

4. Public instruction: Miss Florence Smith and Dor-
othy Cremin

5. Publicitv: Eleanor Hutchens.

Since the Physical Education department was already
directing First Aid, Miss Wilburn was asked to supervise
the organization of other war courses such as Home Nurs-
ing.

In its weekly meetings the Council heard reports from
the different committees and planned further develop-
ment of its projects. At the end of the year, a report
submitted to Chester Williams summarized progress made
in the four months of the Council's existence:

Adjiisttneiif of Student Activities: Campus leaders have
been urged to turn the energies of their organizations
toward war work. Several groups have bought bonds. A
student representative to the Council for 1942-43 has been
elected whose chief duty will be to promote this program.

Blackout Planning: There are twelve trained air raid
wardens on the campus. Two systems have been devised
and practiced: one for blackouts only, and one for air
raid alarms. During a scheduled blackout, dormitory stu-
dents shut and shade the windows of their rooms and go
into the halls, closing all room doors. The halls and lava-
tories are hghted and are equipped with blackout curtains.
But when a raid alarm is sounded, students take flat-heeled
shoes and a coat, leave their rooms as in a blackout, and
walk to their assigned places in Presser Hall or the Library,
where they are checked present by student wardens. These
wardens arc responsible for the observance of blackout
regulations in the dormitories. In each raid shelter a First
Aid post has been set up, staffed and equipped. Blackout
drills for individual dormitories and for the whole campus
have been held successfully; and in the city wide blackout,
the Agnes Scott campus was reported the first section in
Decatur to black out 100 per cent. The Blackout Plan-
ning committee also arranged for the showing of an edu-
cational film on incendiary bombs.

Conservation: A campuswide campaign has been waged
for the collection of paper, with special boxes placed in
the buildings and students appointed to empty them. In
three monthly collections, five truckloads of paper have
gone out from Agnes Scott. Before the WPB announce-
ment made it impossible to purchase toothpaste without
turning in a tube, the Conservation committee had asked
students to save tubes; after the announcement, the com-
mittee urged them to turn in accumulated tubes to drug
stores. This committee also appointed students to encour-
age the conservation of electricity and water, and a chapel
program in February presented the need for conservation
of the different resources.

Public Instruction: Wednesday was designated as War

JULY, 1942

Day, with the Council in charge of the chapel program
and a five-o'clock lecture hour. Mrs. Roflf Sims of the
History department spoke on alternate Wednesdays, re-
viewing current events in chapel. Other chapel speakers
have been Count Carlo Sforza, on Free Italy; Miss Antonia
Bell, on war conditions in England; Major Henry Robin-
son, on his own system for the classification of selectees;
Miss Mildred Mell, on consumer problems; and three rep-
resentatives of A.W.V.S., including Penelope (Brown)
Barnett, '32. Five-o'clock lecturers, speaking on more
technical subjects, were Dr. Amey Chappell, on social
problems growing out of the war status; Mr. Robert Holt,
on war gases; and Miss Philippa Gilchrist, on nutrition.

Publicity: Aims and activities of the War Council were
publicized by means of posters, stories in the Agnes Scott
News, bulletin board notices, and a conversation campaign
to encourage cooperation with the Council.

War Courses: The college community now boasts fif-
teen First Aid instructors, thirty advanced First Aiders,
and one hundred holders of standard certificates.. A com-
plete First Aid unit, the first in DeKalb County, has been
organized on the campus, with Dr. Eugenia Jones as head
and Miss Ellen Douglass Leyburn as custodian of the flag.
Seven people completed the Home Nursing course, taught
by Miss Carolyn Hewitt, resident nurse at the Infirmary,
and Miss Bastin.

As these projects began to take shape, drawing all cam-
pus groups into the effort, additional help came from
another quarter. Long, earnest letters, full of careful
thought and definite advice, began coming to Dr. Mc-
Cain's desk from alumnae. They were answers to his
Christmas letter, in which he had asked old Agnes Scot-
ters to express their opinions ?.s to what the College could
do to help win the war and make the peace. Some sug-
gested improvements which have long been in force at
Agnes Scott; some had ideas which paralleled those being
developed by the War Council; many sent advice which
was recognized as sound and acted upon by the Council.

The War Council, wishing to express its gratitude for
this help, directed that its activities be set forth in the
Quarterly so that alumnae might know that their sugges-
tions are being used to advantage. A few quotations from
alumnae letters will serve to show how closely campus and
off-campus thinking coincide as to Agnes Scott's duty to
its students and its country in the war.

"I should suggest that while still at college the girls be
given many opportunities to hear and discuss the problems
of the present world. I even go further in thinking this
should be included in the curriculum." (War Council
made suggestions for new courses relating to the war, to
be considered by the faculty curriculum committee. Some
of these have been accepted for next year.)

". . . should have opportunity to hear discussed world
atfairs; the war, its effect on economics, education, relig-
ion; also how economics is related to this war." (War
Council has had qualified speakers on most of this subject
matter; Mrs. Sims' Thursday afternoon discussion groups
and Wednesday morning chapel talks have kept students
interested and informed.)

"I wonder if Agnes Scott could somehow become a more
integral part of the Decatur-Atlanta community than it
is." (War Council has assumed responsibility for Agnes
Scott's part in the work of the Civihan Morale Service;
Council members served as the campus sugar rationing
board; the Council supplied information about campus
entertainments to A.W.V.S. for transient soldiers.)

"Purchase of Defense Bonds, conservation of time and
materials, training for Civilian Defense and encouraging
others to do so will help the national defense program."
(War Council took the recent bond census on the cam-
pus; it has encouraged student organizations to work for
money to buy bonds and to give their time to war work
and study; it sponsored a civilian registration day on the
campus. Conservation of materials and organization of
defense courses are two of its primary projects.)

". . . more newspapers and new^s periodicals available,
not in the library, but in more usual and accessible places."
(War Council has placed a daily paper in Murphey Candler
student buildmg. The library, which is a very usual and
accessible place nowadays, subscribes to four daily papers
and several news periodicals which are in constant use.
Large maps on the lobby wall show the progress of the
war, battle lines marked with pins and kept up to date by
Mrs. Sims.)

War Council expects to be even more active next year.
New student members have been appointed; new projects
and extension of the old ones are in view. Meanwhile,
further suggestions from the biggest part of the Agnes
Scott family will be welcomed and put to good use
whenever possible.

THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER

(Contimied from Page 1 )

not consist in having an abundance of things.

Emergencies are very apt to come to most homes. They
may be financial or physical or emotional. I hope that we
may not be afraid of trouble. Most characters which are
worth while are developed by it. I hope that we may
avoid worry.

Most of us will not be called to positions of outstanding
leadership. For most of us, it is best that we go ahead with
our own work, but do it better than before. Whether in
the home or in the office or in the schoolroom or in other
places, our duties well performed will be an encouragement
to our neighbors and fellow-workers.

May we not be too pessimistic. Other days lie ahead.

We are better off than any other people in the world. We
will have a great privilege in leading and serving as a
nation when peace comes. I hope that we may not be
swept away with hatred and prejudices.

Finally, I hope that our faith in God will be quickened
and developed through these days. He has blessed us as a
college and blessed us as individuals beyond all our deserv-
ing. He has blessed us as a nation and protected us
through many years.

"This is my Father's world,
I rest me in the thought,

That, though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet."

Your sincere friend,

J. R. McCain.
June T, 1942

WANTED: Contributions to Agnes Scott
Memorabilia Part II

The response to the "Wanted: Con-
tributions to Agnes Scott Memora-
biha" article published in the April
Quarterly, has brought us several
muchly needed copies of the publica-
tions mentioned there. We would like
to remind you that any programs of
college activities, and any newspaper
cippings concerning the college and
its alumnae will be of value to us.

Students' Hand Book

We have in the library copies of
the Students' Hand Book, presented
by the Young Women's Christian As-
sociation of Agnes Scott College, for
the years 1918-19, 1923-24, 1924-25,
and 1927-28. Just when this particu-
lar publication was first published and
when it ceased publication we do not
know.

In addition to the publication of
the Christian Association, there has
also been a booklet published annually,
entitled "Students' Hand Book" hav-
ing been sponsored by the Student
Government Association of Agnes
Scott, and containing Rules and Reg-
ulations, General Suggestions and In-
formation. The file in the library be-
gins with the issue of 1922-23 and is
complete up to the present. We would
appreciate any information as to when
these publications v.'ere first issued.

Some alumnae authors have been
quite generous in sending us copies of
any books or articles they have had
published, and following is a list of
material on file in the library of
Agnes Scott:

Books

Askew, Clara Lundie

Sparks from the Anvil
Bland, Margaret

Pink and Patches

The Princess Who Could Not Dance

The Spinach Spitters
Boyd, Minnie Clare

Alabama in the Fifties
Coleman, Juliet Cox

Hearts Up
Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight

Land of Sand
Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight and
H. J. Eckenrode

E. H. Harriman the Little Giant of
Wall Street
Garrett, Dorothy

The Book of College Verse, 193 8
Hanna, Evelyn

Blackberry Winter

Sugar in the Gourd
Herman, Leonora Owsley

Rather Personal

Hobson, Margaret W.

Songs and Stories From Magnolia
Grove
Kellersberger, Julia Lake

Congo Crosses
Knight, Mary

On My Known

Girl Reporter in Paris, in Lyons
"We Cover the World"
Knox, Rose B.

The Boys and Sally
Lewis, Mary Owen

The Flight of the Rokh
Ogden, Dunbar H.

The Heart of Mary

Pettus, Clyde

Subject Headings in Education
Phythian, Margaret T.

La Geographic des Alpes Francaises
dans les Romanciers contempor-
ains
Roberts, Frances Markley

Western Travelers to China

They Saw China's Far West
Sims, Marian

The World With a Fence

Memo, to Timothy Sheldon

The City on the Hill

Call It Freedom

Thompson, Helen Ward

O, Journey Again! and other poems
Virden, Alice Mayes, ed.

Singing Mississippi
Ware, Louise

Jacob A. Riis, police reporter, re-
former, useful citizen
Winter, Roberta
Bridal Chorus

Magazine Articles
Dieckmann, Emma Pope M.

The meaning of Burdoun in
Chaucer (In Modern Philology, v.
26, No. 3, Feb. 1929, p. 279-282),
Moore feelynge than had Boece (In
Modern Language Notes, March,
1938, p. 177-180)
Greenfield, Ellen Vossen

Love, Desideratum, Migration,
My grief, and The mermaid (In
Georgia Poets, 1932, p. 40-42
Kellersberger, Julia Lake

Rotten rows (In Without the
Camp, Summer, 1941, p. 3 8-42)
Leyburn, Ellen Douglass

The translations of the mottoes
and quotations in the Rambler (In
the Review of English Studies, v.
16, p. 1-8, April, 1940), Bishop
Berkeley: the querist (In Proceed-
ings of the Royal Irish Academy,
v. 44, p. 75-98, 1937.)
Preston, Janef

Midsummer morning, and Mid-
(Continued on Page 21)

Major Henry A. Robinson, formerly our professor of mathematics,
has just been assigned to the faculty of the Adjutant General's College
at Fort Washington. Ever since be left Agnes Scott, he has been head
of the reception center at Fort McPherson. Army Signal Corps Photo.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Minutes oi the Annual Meeting,
May 30, 1942

The Alumnae Association of Agnes
Scott College held its annual meeting
on Sa,turday, May 3 0, in Rebekah
Scott Chapel. Penny (Brown) Bar-
nett called the meeting to order, and
presented the various committee
chairmen, the treasurer and the two
alumnae secretaries, who gave their
reports for the year. (See below for
reports in full.)

Mrs. Barnett announced that the
committees has raised $759.32 in addi-
tion to their allotments from the As-
sociation Budget, and that a total of
$1,041.32 had been spent on the
Alumnae House during the year.

Mrs. Robert B. Holt, wife of the
head of the Chemistry Department,
was voted an honorary life member-
ship in the Association, in gratitude
for her unselfish and loyal assistance
with the alumnae garden.

A motion was made and carried
that a letter from the president of the
Association be sent to all the Georgia
members of the Alumnae Association,
urging them to register and vote m
the coming elections.

The recommendation of the nomi-
nating committee, which was present-
ed by Sarah Fulton, the chairman,
was unanimously accepted, and the
following new officers were elected:
president, Margaret Ridley, '3 3; sec-
ond vice-president, Cama (Burgess)
Clarkson, '29; treasurer, Frances Mc-
Calla, '3 5; radio chairman, Jean
Bailey, '3 8; alumnae week-end chair-
man, Virginia (Heard) Feder, '3 3; en-
tertainment chairman, Isabel (Leon-
ard) Spearman, '29. The recommen-
dation of the Association was that in
the future some short biography of
each of the committee nominees ac-
company the ballot, so that the people
who were not personally acquainted
with the nominees would be better
qualified to vote.

Margaret Ridley, the incoming
president, accepted the gavel from
Penelope (Brown) Barnett, and made
a short acceptance talk. The Associa-
tion gave the retiring president a ris-
ing vote of thanks for her splendid
regime. The meeting was adjourned.

Repcrt of the Executive Secretary

Among the major projects in which
the secretary assisted durmg the fall
quarter were the redecor.iting done by
the House Decorations Committee,
and the program planned by the

Alumnae Week-End Committee, both
of which are fully reported on by the
chairmen. The work with the Tea
Room Committee was supervisory
until December 9, at which time the
secretaries felt it necessary to take
over the management of the tea
room, and do what they could to
build the business up again. During
the ten weeks in which the secretaries
were managing the tea room, the
cffice schedule was of necessity adjust-
ed to fit the demands of the other
work, but the opportunities for
student contacts and the chances to
explain our regular assignment of
alumnae work, gave us ample reward
for the adjustments. By the end of
March, the office was up with its reg-
ular work again, and not one thing
had been omitted from the Founder's
Day preparations that bad been done
in former years.

The plans for Founder's Day were
made on the basis of the district di-
visions created last year, and twenty-
one states were represented in the
forty odd group meetings held in
honor of this occasion. The gifts from
the clubs at Founder's Day were ex-
ceptionally generous, and the tea
room and second floor committees
were able to complete some of their
plans through use of these contribu-
tions.

The record series begun in 1940
was added to, with a reproduction of
Miss Alexander interviewing Mary
Co and Ella Carey, which was re-
corded by Roberta Winter on the
college equipment. Kodak pictures of
the participants made by the assistant
serretary were sent out with the rec-
ords. The usual suggestions for pro-
grams and reports were also sent to
the groups, and approximately 200
personal letters were written by the
secretary in working out details.

The dues drive has been conducted
largely through personal mail, with
om^ 1,100 letters sent out in four
different series. Approaches to the
1939 and 1940 mailing list (now ex-
pired) in April brought a ten per cent
response in the month before school
closed. Sample copies of the Novem-
ber Quarterly sent to alumnae whose
class section included an interesting
persona! about them, did not bring
justifiable results, even though accom-
panied by a personal letter congratu-
lating them on the new job, baby, hus-
band, or what-have-you. The April
Quarterly, with Miss Hanley's articl.'

on missing memorabilia, was mailed
to fifty former editors of publications,
whose names are not on our mailing
list, and a dues notice was inserted.
Most effective of the dues notices this
vear has been the editorial type of
letter.

Special work with the students has
been done through the job clinics,
held in April, and the small after-din-
ner parties given for the seniors in
May. These "Coca-Cola parties"
served their purpose admirably, for
the students were given a thorough
tour of the alumnae office, and now
have a very different impression of the
work done by the Association and its
staff.

The magazine subscription project
begun in the fall netted us $60 in
commission, and with funds raised
through the Gorham Silver project
put on by the office and gifts, enabled
us to purchase two desks and two
chairs for the office. With the bal-
ance of our fund, and what we raise
next fall, we hope to complete the
decoration of the office.

The History of the Association
which the secretary was asked to
write is completed through the
Building of the Alumnae House in
1921-22, and will be finished by the
end of the school year. This has been
most interesting work.

Four issues of the Quarterly have
b"en published this year, all with col-
ored covers. We are quite proud of
th fact that we are the first women's
college to present an alumnae maga-
zine with four-color plates on the
covers. We have changed the style
of editing the class news section, to
conserve space, and are finding this
most economical.

The secretary has enjoyed her asso-
ciation with the out-going Board, and
feels that they are to be congratulat-
ed on the successful completion of
so many undertakings during the past
year. To the assistant secretary go
our best wishes for next year in her
work in the registrar's office!

Report of the Asst. Alumnae Secretary

The report of the Assistant Alum-
nae Secretary will tell of the detailed
work of the Alumnae office and re-
sponsibilities as hostess for the house
fci the session 1941-1942. The Assis-
tant Secretary supervised the work of
the three scholarship girls who helped
tL' keep the files up to date on 7,000

The AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

alumnae. A change of name means
that we have to make changes on
seven cards in the file. We mimeo-
graphed and mailed 3,500 letters and
cards to new students, Seniors, Board
members, members of reunion classes,
dues notices and class secretaries, let-
ters about Founder's Day, and Com-
mencement and tracer cards for lost
alumnae. The scholarship girls also
paste newspaper clippings and pictures
in the class scrap books.

The Assistant Secretary worked
with the Second Floor Committee
when they redecorated the five bed-
rooms upstairs and with the Radio
Committee in making plans for the
Founder's Day Broadcast. She also
assisted with some of the work of the
other committees, helped edit the
Quarterly and worked in the Tea
Room. Both of the secretaries at-
tended the monthly meetings of the
Atlanta Club, the Decatur Club and
the Business Girls Club and repre-
sented Agnes Scott at the Convention
of the American Alumni Council for
this district in Columbia, S. C, in
December.

The student contact included the
fall tea for new students. Vocational
Guidance Clinics, parties for seniors
and meetings of Granddaughters Club
that has a membership of 29.

One very interesting part of the
job was being hostess for the 71 pay-
ing house guests and the 1 5 people
who were guests of the college.

The duties involved herein var)-
from arranging flowers for a recep-
tion for a bride to securing Coca-
Colas for Charles Morgan, and lemon-
ade every night for the Charm Lady.

I am indeed happy to have been
your Assistant Secretary this year, for
it has been a real pleasure to be asso-
ciated with the Agnes Scott alumnae
and the people on the campus.
Respectfully submitted,

Eugenia Symms, '36,
Assistant Secretary.

Report of the Radio Committee

The work of the Radio Committee
this year consisted of planning the
Founder's Day broadcast, which was
given on February 22 over WSB at
four p. m. Dr. McCain, Dean Carrie
Scandrett, and Frances Tucker, '42,
were the speakers. Frances (Gilliland)
Stukes, '24, sang Polly (Stone)
Buck's '(24) patriotic song, "On
Guard America". Mr. C. W. Dieck-
mann played the accompaniment,
and played as introduction "Ancient
of Days, and as conclusion the Alma
Mater.

Respectfully submitted,

Florence (Perkins) Ferry, '26,

Chairman; Committee: Roberta Win-
ter, '27, Penelope (Brown) Barnett,
'32, Eugenia Symms, '36.

Report of the Garden Committee, 1941-42

E.XPENDITURES:

Labor $3 3.60

Fertilizer 10.50

Blue phlox 10.80

Spirea (Three) 1.00

Pansies 2.00

Petunias S.2!

Spray for rose 1.00

Labor 5.20

Total Disbursements $69.3 5

Income:

Balance from last year $ 6.27

Gift from Mrs. Holt 2.00

Gift from Augusta (Skeen) Cooper 5.00

Gift from Jo (Clark) Fleming 10.00

Alumnae Association Budget Allotment 50.00

Total Income $73.27

Less Disbursements 69.3 5

Balance s 3.92

In addition the Committee has
S40.75 in savings which are being
held until such time as it is deemed
advisable to undertake the planting
in front of the Alumnae Fiouse.

The committee wishes to express its
gratitude to Mr. Guy Smith, of Mur-
ray FFill Florist, for the gift of pan-
sies for the garden. The chairman
wishes to express her thanks to Fran-
ces (Gilliland) Stukes and Mrs. Rob-
ert B. Fiolt for carrying on the work
of the chairman during her absence
in May.

Respectfully submitted,

Josephine (Clark) Fleming, '3 3,
Chairman; Committee: Frances (Gil-
liland) Stukes, '24, Mrs. Robert B.
Fiolt, Sara (Shadburn) Heath, '3 3.

Report of the Constitution and By-Laws
Committee

The Constitution and By-Laws
Committee had a meeting but decided
that it would not be necessary to
make any changes in the Constitution
or By-Laws.

Respectfully submitted,

Emma Pope (Moss) Dieckmann,
'13, EUzabeth (Moss) Mitchell, '29,
Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer, ex-'lO,
Chairman.

Report of the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Weed-End Committee

"Agnes Scott Faces Facts" was the
excellent and timely subject of the
1941-42 Alumnae Week-End pro-
gram. At a meeting of the Alumnae
Week-end Committee held in the
early fall, it was decided to tem-
porarily change the plan for Alumnae
Week-End from a two-day program
to one of a single day.

The program, "Agnes Scott Faces
Facts" took the form of a panel dis-
cussion, which came to life at 11
o'clock Saturday morning, November
15, 1941, in the Maclean Auditorium.

Di. Philip Davidson of the Agnes
Scott Flistory Department made a
brief survey of the history of the
Southeastern section of the country
and then directed the well informed
and alert group in the discussion,
which developed the following prob-
lems:

1. Housing, household employ-
ment and health.

2. Education and its effect on our
economic status.

3. Development of economic in-
equality in the South, through the
tariff and the dearth of statesmanship
that made for increased power of
politicians.

4. Exploitation of natural resources
and misuse of raw materials.

The participants in the discussion
were :

1. Miss Josephine Wilkins, Georgia
Fact Finding Committee.

2. Dean S. G. Stukes of Agnes
Scott College.

3. Mr. Ralph McGill, Atlanta Con-
stitution.

4. Mr. Henry Mcintosh, Editor of
the Albany Herald and Chairman of
the Post Defense Planning Board.

One hundred alumnae were present
for the discussion and ninety four
alumnae attended the luncheon which
was gracously given by the college.

Notes of thanks were sent from the
Alumnae Office to the speakers who so
abl) contributed to the success of the
occasion.

As chairman of the Alumnae
Week-End Committee, I wish to
thank Frances G. Stukes, Margaret
Phythian, Eliza King, Eleanor Hutch-
ens, Cora (Morton) Durrett, Mar-
garet (Bland) Sewell, Mrs. Robert
Holt, Frances (Craighead) Dwyer,
Fannie G. (Mason) Donaldson, Pen-
ny (Brown) Barnett, members of the
committee who gave fine support.
Thanks also go to Dr. Davidson, who
gave advice, thought and time help-
ing to organize the panel; to Nelle
(Chamlee) Howard and Eugenia
Symms, who worked untiringly and
efficiently; to Dr. McCain who gave
wise council and understanding help.

It has been a pleasure and a privi-
lege to serve as chairman of the
Alumnae Week-End Committee 1940-
1942.

Maryellen (Harvey) Newton,
Chairman.

JULY, 1942

Report of the Tea Room Committee

The Tea Room Committee presents
the following report:

Income:

Budget $ 50.00

Leone (Bowers) Hamilton 5.00

Wm. H. Tribble 3.00

Augusta (Skeen) Cooper 5.00

Elizabeth (Cole) Shaw 1.00

California Club 2.00

Jacksonville Club S.OO

Auburn Club 2. SO

Tampa Club 1.80

Columbia Club 7.00

Miami Club 1.00

New York Club H.OO

Birmingham Club 2.50

Decatur Club 3.65

Miscellaneous gifts ^ S.16

Balance from last year . 3.43

Income from magazine subscriptions 7.5 5

Washington Club 38.10

Atlanta Club 20.00

Total $178.69

Disbursements:

New tea room equipment $ 39.98

Repairs on equipment 12.52

Coca-Cola cabinet 10.00

Papering, lights and painting of

tea room 115.90

Total $178.40

Balance .29

In addition to the gifts of money
which the committee has received are
a set of blue crocheted mats, given by
Penny (Brown) Barnett, and four
Mexican gourd strings given by Nelle
(Chamlee) Howard.

Through the generosity of the
Alumnae Office, the funds for re-
decorating the tea room were ad-
vanced as a loan, so that this work
could be done while materials were
available. The Committee has been
able to repay all of this $115 loan
since Christmas.

Mrs. Breeden, the manager with
whom we contracted last July, was
forced to leave in December because
of her health. The accounts of Mrs.
Breeden were liquidated, and the tea
room operated by the alumnae secre-
taries until the arrival of Mrs. Eliza-
beth Adams Kinneman on March 2.
Mrs. Kinneman has successfully oper-
ated the tea room for the past three
months, and plans are for her to con-
tinue in this work during the 1942-43
session.

Grace (Fincher) Trimble,
Chairman.

Report of the Second Floor Committee

Income:

Allotment from the Association $ 50.00

Gift frjm Willie Belle McWhorter _ 10.00
Gift from Hallie (Smith) Walker. __ 5.10

Balance from last year 3.28

Gift from Helon (Brown) Williams.- .50

Gift from Penny (Brown) Barnett 5.00

Sale of two mirrors 1.50

Gift from Decatur Club 17.00

Profit from Berea and Penland Sale.. 54.60

Gift from Atlanta Club 15.00

Gift from Charlotte Club 10.00

Gift from Florine (Brown) Arnold __ 1.00

Total Income $152.98

Expenditures:

Gift to House Decorations Committee

for hall papering $ 5.00

For materials and labor for papering

and painting 3 rooms 45.00

Paint for green furniture 2.47

Labor for green furniture 3.50

Material for blue soft slipcover 7.3 5

Labor for blue sofa slipcover 9.50

Lamp shades 1.08

Hall curtains 3. 98

Chair bottoms re-caned 6.00

Material for blue and white bath

decorations 2.84

Bath mat and cover 2.49

2 pairs of curtains 7.96

Papering and painting for green room

and bath 29.30

Papering and paint for yellow room

and furniture 19.00

4 sheets 6.36

Total disbursements $151.83

This leaves a balance of $ 1.15

In addition to gifts of money, the
committee has received the following
gifts of linen, valued at $39.86: Three
chenille bedspreads, from Ethel (Alex-
ander) Gaines, Marie (Simpson) Rut-
land, and the chairman; a pair of or-
gandie curtains and three blotters for
the desks from the chairman; three
shades from Willie Belle (Jackson)
McWhorter; a bowl from Marie
(Simpson) Rutland; 13 guest towels
from the Miami Club; and three
towels and two pairs of pillowcases
from the Connecticut Club.

Respectfully submitted.

Committee:

Elizabeth (Simpson) Wilson, '31,
Chairman; Alice (McDonald) Rich-
ardson, '29, Marie (Simpson) Rut-
land, '3 5, Alsine (Shultze) Brown,
'3^.

Report of the House Decorations CJommittee

Cash on hand June 1, 1941 $ 50.98

Deposits during September 1941:

Check for 1941 budget allotment 50.00

Check for 1942 budget advanced to

committee 50.00

Loan from Alumnae Association as

advance on possible contributions

from local clubs 50.00

Gift from Second Floor Committee.. 5.00
Interest from undesignated gift to

College 50.00

Check from New York Club for 1941

gift 15.00

Check from Mrs. J. J. Eagan 50.00

Check from Mrs. Granger Hanscll 17.50

Check from Mrs. Joseph Read 15.00

Gift from Mrs. Paul Brown 10.00

Check from Mrs. Fonville McWhorter 100.00
Alumnae contributions and anonymous

gifts 119.00

Total cash income $582.98

Additional gifts included a Tole
lamp for the den given by Mrs.

Lewis Johnson (value $7.00), and a
portrait light for the placque of Miss
Anna Young, given by Nelle (Cham-
lee) Howard (valued at $11.00).

Disbursement:

September 1941: Paper for halls,

paint, labor, lumber $157.53

Incidentals (painting wicker furni-
ture, baseboards in living and

dining rooms, etc.) 10.00

November 1941: To W. E. Browne
Decorating Co.:

Chests for dining room 13 5.00

Upholstering sofa and 3 chairs 80.00

December 1941: To Browne

Prints over chests in dining room 32.50

Audubon print for living room 70.00

Coffee table 23.00

May 1942: Mirror for hall 74.95

Total disbursements $582.98

Respectfully submitted,

Willie Belle (Jackson) McWhorter,
'17; Committee: Mary (Warren)
Read, '29, Lucile Alexander, '11,
Gussie (O'Neal) Johnson, ex-'ll,
Susie (Young) Eagan, Inst., Mary
Gladys (Steffner) Buncaid, ex-oiScio
'29, Eva (Towers) Hendee, ex-officio,
'10, Penelope (Brown) Barnett, ex-
officio, '32.

Report of the Entertainment Committee

for 1941-1942

Tea for new students on Sept. 25. '41 $17.49
Three parties for Granddaughters' Club 6.77

Candy for vocational groups .76

Senior group teas 5.09

Flowers for Trustees Luncheon and tip 4.3
Sunday night supper 74.48

Total disbursements $108.89

Approximately 120 people attended
the party for the new students in Sep-
tember. The Granddaughters' Club
has averaged twenty per meeting. The
Alumnae Office requested that the
customary senior tea, given on one
afternoon for the whole class, be va-
ried this year, and that they be al-
lowed to invite the class groups over
for refreshments at specified times.
Three groups averaging twenty each,
were invited for after dinner, and one
group of day students, numbering 30,
was invited for five o'clock. This gave
the secretaries a better opportunity to
explain class organization and alum-
nae-hood to the prospective alumnae,
so this plan is considered very suc-
cessful.

266 people were served at the Sun-
day Night Supper in the Alumnae
Garden, and twenty-six arrangements
of flowers for the Trustees' Luncheon
w ere prepared by this committee.
Respectfully submitted,
Catherine (Baker) Matthews,
'3 3, Chairman.

Commencement Awards

Jane Shannon Taylor, daughter of
May (McKowen) Taylor, '06, was
awarded the Hopkins' Jewel.

Announcement of the collegiate
awards by Dr. McCain at the gradua-
tion exercises was headed by the award
of the Hopkins J:wel to Jane Shannon
Taylor, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
daughter of May (McKowen) Tay-
lor, 1906. This award is given an-
nually to the member of the senior
class who most nearly lives up to the
ideals of Miss Nanette Hopkins. As
the faculty committee of selection can
interpret them, these ideals include
conspicuous loyalty to the college,
ideals of service, ability to cooperate,
physical fitness, poise and gracious
ness.

The collegiate scholarship was
awarded to Jean Moore, '43, of Lewis-
burg, W. Va., with honorable mention
to Anne Ward, '44, of Selma, Ala-
bama. The Rich Prize, given to the
freshman making the best record for
the session, went to Virginia Carter,
Norton, Va., with Inge Probstein, of
Drexel Hill, Pa., winning honorable
mention.

The piano scholarship was divided
between Elizabeth Edwards, '44, De-
cptui', and Jean Rucks, '45, of Nash-
ville, Tenn. Barbara Connally, '44, of
1 ampa, Florida, won the voice schol-
arship. Virginia Lucas, '43, of At-
lanta, won the speech scholarship, and
Florence Crane, '45, of Jacks :n,
Mississippi, won the art scholarship.
Suenette Dyer, '42, of Petersburg, Va.,
won the Laura Candler Prize in
Mathematics. Mary Florence McKee,
'44, of Columbus, Ga., won the Mot-
ley Medal in Mathematics.

The Louise McKinney Book Prize
was given to Anastasia Carlos, '44, of

Atlanta, with honorable mention for
Mary Olive Thomas, '42, of Auburn,
Ala. Martha Jane Buffalo, '42, of
Chattanooga, was awarded a certifi-
cate in piano.

Graduating with high honors were
Billie Gammon Davis, of Es de Minas,
Brazil, daughter of Elizabeth (Gam-
mon) Davis, '17; Suenette Dyar, of
Petersburg, W. Va.; Margaret Gray,
of Union, W. Va., sister of Virginia
(Gray) Pruitt, '32, Julia Ann Patch,
of Decatur. Honors went to Lavinia
Brown, West Union, S. C; Mary
Lightfoot Elcan, Bainbridge, Ga.; Ila
Belle Levie, Montezuma, Ga.; Lois
(Ions) Nichols (ex-'32 and '42), of

Billie Davis, daughter of Elizabeth
(Gammon) Davis, 'IS, who graduated
ivith high honor June 2. Billie was
Phi Beta Kappa and president of
Christian Association.

Atlanta; Jeanne Osborne, Atlanta;
and Frances Tucker, of Laurel, Miss.

Neva Jackson, of Columbia, S. C,
wen the Claude Bennett trophy for
outstanding acting ability, and Pat
Reasoner, niece of Julia (Reasoner)
Hastings, '20, won the Chi Beta Phi
key for the best work in science this
year.

Club Notes

Atlanta New officers for the At-
lanta Agnes Scott Club are: president,
Araminta (Edwards) Pate; vice-presi-
dent, Olive (Spencer) Jones; second
vice-president, Mary (Prim) Fowler;
recording secretary, Alice (McDon-
ald) Richardson; corresponding secre-
tary, Mary (Warren) Read; and
treasurer, Kathleen (Daniel) Spicer.
The club finished a very successful
year under the leadership of Mary
Gladys (Steffner) Kincaid, with their
May meeting. Dr. Philip Davidson
and Mrs. Emma Garrett Morris gave
the two series of lectures presented by
the club this year.

Decatur Club officers are president,
Marie (Simpson) Rutland; vice-presi-
dent, Lucy (Johnson) Ozmer; and
secretary-treasurer, Willie May (Cole-
man) Duncan.

Business Girls' Club New officers
for the Atlanta Business Girls' Club
are president, Mary Louise Dobbs;
first vice-president, Eliza King; sec-
ond vice-president, Virginia Milner;
secretary, Rudene Taffar, and treas-
urer, Orisue Jones. The club com-
pleted a successful year with its May
meeting in the Alumnae House.
Speakers for the study course this year
included Mrs. Roff Sims and Roberta
Winter, '27.

Birmingham Club had its annual
June picnic, with Louise (Abney)
Beach, the new chairman, in charge
cf arrangements. The club had a good
meeting on February 22, and then
honored Dr. McCain at a tea March
3 0, while he was in Birmingham to
address Phi Beta Kappa.

Washington Club had a grand year,
with well-attended monthly mestings,
and a very imposing slate of speakers.
The Club made a contribution of
$38.10 to the Tea Room Committee,
this donation being second only to the
contributions from the Atlanta Club
this year. New officers elected in May
are: president, Jessie (Watts) Rus-
tin; vice-president, Kenneth (Maner)
Powell; secretary-treasurer, Virginia
(Browning) Tyler.

Betti Ann Brooks, of Decatur, who
was elected life president of the Class
of '42, after hai'ing served as class
president for her freshman, junior
and senior years.

_yo tne

AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE
IN GEORGIA

At the annual meeting of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association
on May 30, a motion was made and carried that a letter from the
president be sent to all the Georgia alumnae, urging them to register
and vote in the coming elections. In the interests of higher educa-
tion, whose standards are at stake, I urge you, both officially and
personal]^, to make a special effort to vote in the coming guber-
natorial primary, and to exert what influence you can among your
friends. It is your duty as a citizen of Georgia, and as an alumna
of Agnes Scott.

Vote as your conscience guides, but VOTE!

Penelope (Brown) Barnett, '3 2
President Agnes Scott Alumnae Association

SUPPLEMENT TO

^he Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly

Vol. XX

No. 1

NOVEMBER, 1941

Published quarterly by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia. Entered as
second class matter under the Act of Congress, 1912. Subscription rate, $2 yearly.

Due to errors made by the printers in the final arrange-
ment of paragraphs on page 4 of the November Quarterly,
we deem it necessary to mail you this reprint of the entire
article. The Editors.

STATE INSTITUTIONS

of

HIGHER EDUCATION IN GEORGIA

Note: There arc many requests for a public discussion of this suhject; hut, ubile the Southern Association is
iaiestigafing the matter, I feel it uouU be best for the Uniiersity System that it be not agitated. Houeier, there
can be no objection to talking of it "in the Agnes Scott family." ^,1. R. McCaix.

In order to understand the present ditfculties of the
state-supported institutions of higher learning in Georgia,
it is necessar\- to review the situation prior to 1931. At
that time, there were at least menty-three so-called col-
leges or universities under state control having more than
400 trustees. Many of them had been founded through
local pride and had gotten on the state's support through
political "pull." Thev were engaged in cut-throat compe-
tition with one another, and officers and trustees were
log-rolling at every meeting of the Legislature for appro-
priations. In educational matters, Georgia was at the very
bottom of the ladder of progress. There was no real System.

A SrNGLE Bo.\RD

In 1951, the Reorganization Act pro^-ided that all edu-
cational institutions of higher types under state control be
placed under a single Board of Regents. This Act was a
non-partisan movement, influenced in part by educational
troubles in other states. As a rule, the governors have been
cooperative and have been willing to leave the management
of the University System to the Board of Regents, who in
turn operated through a chancellor of the whole System
and the presidents of the various individual units. The
internal educational programs could be handled without in-
terference or molestarion.

R.\piD Progress

It was soon found possible to arrange for a single grant
from the Legislature and for the Regents to apportion the
monev on an equitable basis .imong the insritutions. A
survey of the educational needs and activities in Georgia
was arranged under the direction of a group of experienced
educators of national reputation. Following this survey, the
Regents combined or abolished seven of the state institu-
tions and reduced others to the rank of junior colleges, and
re-aUocated various departments and functions.

Evidences of improvement were soon foimd. Standards
began to be raised. Much economv was found possible.
Last year, with only two-thirds as much income as was
available in 19.' 1, Georgia institutions taught twice the
number of students as were enrolled in the earlier period,
and taught them better. A careful study by competent
scholars declared that Georgia ranked second in the United
States in the amount of progress made in the last decade.

Vv'ith the aid of the national Government, a remarkable
building program has been carried on through the state,
and more than seventy tine buildings on the various cam-
puses have b<xn erected. Others have been modernized and
renovated, ^'e may now look with pride as Georgians on
any one of our state schools.

Good Spirit in the St.\te

The fine spirit of cooperation which was manifest among
the st.iie iastitutions extended to relations with private and
denominational colicj^ within the state. For the first rime

within the memor\- of M.in, Baptists and Methodists and
Presbyterians .ind others felt real cordiality toward publicly
supported colleges and toward one another.

Out of this cordial relationship in part grew the Univer-
sity Center idea -md the fine grant of 52,500,000.00 for
Emory and Agnes Scott if they would r.use enough more
to make a total sum of 57,500,000.00. "^"e are thankful
that the General Education Bo.ird has no thought of can-
celling this offer, even though conditions have ch.uiged in
such a disappointing manner since it was made; but it will
be a serious blow to the whole program if Georgia Tech and
the L^niversity of Georgia are crippled in any w.iy.

The wonderful progress .md the fine cooperation which
was manifested in all parts of the state, in spite of the worst
depression in history, encouraged the Regents to present the
needs of the L^niversity System to the great philanthropic
foundations. At the request of the Regents and on the basis
of the prospects for improvement, five of these great foun-
dations gave or made tentative grants of more than
51,700,000.00 for state higher education in Georgia. This
is a remarkable endorsement of the total cooperative pro-
gram in Georgia.

Factionai. Politics

The present outlook for the state education in Georgia is
most discouraging. These changes, which will be described
in more det.iil later, came about largely through factional
poUtics, but are not due entirely to .inv one faction. During
the regime of Governor Rivers, the Board was enlarged
from twelve to sixteen members, and this change was of
doubtful value. Governor Rivers and the Legislature were
badly split during his last term, and he sent no appoint-
ments to the Senate for confirmation. I would not attempt
to appraise the fault in the matter. The result was that,
when Governor Talmadge came into office, two Regents
were serving beyond their terms because their successors
had not been appointed, and six others had been appointed
but not confirmed by the Senate. If state educational mat-
ters had been handled on a high plane at this point, many
later difficulties might have been avoided.

^"hen Governor Talmadge took office, he became ex-
officio a member of the Board of Regents and had the legal
right to appoint one other whose term would be concurrent
with his own. In addition, he had the eight vacancies
mentioned above at his disposal.

Governor Talmadge was elected on an economy program,
and various abuses under the previous administration led
the legislators to agree to give practically dictatorial power
to the Governor in making all state budgets and in ar-
ranging these on a quarterly basis, and further providing
that he could strike out individual items in the various
budgets which were submitted to him. The Legislature
went so far as to give him the power to dismiss officers
provided under the Constitution and elected by the people
if thev should obstruct his will in financial policies. Only

factional politics and abuses would have opened the way for
any such powers as were granted to the new Governor.

Talmauge Takes Charge

The Chairman of the Board of Regents, who had been a
member from its organization in 1931, found that he
would not be able to serve under the changed conditions
and resigned. The Governor named the officers of the
Board, and had himself named Chairman of the all-power-
ful Committee on Education and Finance. It became im-
mediately evident that he was not to be a mere ex-officio
member, but to manage the entire organization.

At a routine meeting of the Board on May 30, 1941, the
Governor proposed to dismiss Dean Walter D. Cocking of
the University of Georgia, and President Marvin S. Pittman
of Georgia State Teachers College. Dean Cocking had been
recommended for reappointment by President Caldwell of
the University, and the recommendation had been endorsed
by the Chancellor. President Pittman had been nominated
directly by the Chancellor. Under the urgency of the Gov-
ernor, the Board at first voted to drop these two officers;
but, after remonstrance from President Caldwell, the mat-
ter was reconsidered, and it was determined that a hearing
would be given to the officials.

Contrary to every known principle of wisdom and ex-
perience in such matters, the Governor insisted that the
trials be conducted publicly. While he was overruled by
the Regents in the first hearing on June 16, he had his
way and made a combination of a pohtical rally and a
county fair of the second so-called trial of July 14.

The Trials

At the first hearing before the Board of Regents on June
16, Dean Cocking was accused of advocating racial views
or ideas which were not in accordance with the ideals of the
South. The testimony and evidence were overwhelming to
the effect that the charges were entirely fanciful, and the
Regents voted 8 to 7 (the Chairman, who was favorable to
Cocking, not voting) in favor of retaining him. He was
so notified.

Under all rules of democratic practice and according to
every principle of American jurisprudence, a case having
been heard and a decision rendered is settled. Governor
Talmadge has claimed to be a great advocate of having the
majority rule. However, he immediately expressed his dis-
appointment and disapproval of the decision rendered by a
majority of the Board of Regents, most of them his ap-
pointees; and, through the press and on the public platform,
he insisted that he would get rid of Cocking.

He at once demanded the resignations of three of his
recent appointees to the Board of Regents on the ground
that he had illegally appointed them. However, they were
sustained by the Attorney General in retaining their places
and refused to resign.

Still determined to carry his point, he changed the date
of appointment which he himself had set for one of the
Regents and persuaded two others to resign. Without any
action by the Board of Regents, he insisted that Dean
Cocking come to trial before the reorganized Board.

It is no secret that on the day before the so-called trial
the majority of the Regents held a caucus, drew up in de-
tail a program for dismissing the accused officials, and even
prepared a resolution of congratulation to the Governor
for having achieved his objectives all before the accused
were told what the charges would be or before any evidence
for defense had been presented.

Other Steps
Several employees in various units of the System were
dropped by the Regents, and some were struck off the list
of employees by the Governor through his exercise of veto

power in the details of budgets.

The Governor had previously expressed a desire to have
"Red" Barron as President of Georgia Tech or as Vice-
President, with a view to later succession. The storm of
protests by alumni and students deterred the carrying out
of the full purpose; but, on the Governor's insistence, he
was elected Dean of Men at Georgia Tech, a position
which he has been wise enough not to accept.

When the attention of the Governor was directed to the
fact that in all probability accrediting associations would
drop from membership Georgia institutions, he replied that,
if this were done, the salaries of the professors in the in-
stitutions would be cut in half. This was no idle threat so
far as his ability to enforce such a salary reduction for any
cause, if he saw fit, is concerned; it only indicates the
extent of the power which has been committed to him.

The result in the state has been most distressing. Not an
officer or a faculty member in any state institution has
dared to make any public protest about the events that
have transpired, though in private they are bitter in their
denunciation of the steps taken. The denunciation by the
Governor of "furriners" in state schools has led many of the
ablest and most loyal teachers to feel a sense of insecurity.
Many have resigned, and numerous others are planning to
make changes as soon as openings are available. Initiative
and enthusiasm are largely swept away. Many of the ablest
students in the state schools have transferred to other in-
stitutions, and still others desired to do so, but were not
able to make the arrangements.

Educational Recognition

Since the Governor and Board of Regents have violated
almost all educational ideals and standards of practice in
handling these many details, it would seem quite impossible
for the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools to refrain from discipline in the matter. It has
always stood firmly for educational administration rather
than for political dictation. Since in no case have the
institutions themselves seemingly been at fault in these de-
velopments, but are the innocent suff^erers, it would seem
necessary that every institution controlled by the Board of
Regents be dropped from membership whether or not actual
dismissals or interference have occurred on that particular
campus. It is a matter of control and dictatorial power
which is at stake and which touches the whole state, rather
than the merits or demerits of individual units of the
System.

It will be a very serious blow to the state schools and to
the private and denominational schools, also, since our in-
terests are so intertwined, if the Georgia institutions are
dropped. There seems to be no alternative, however, but to
"hit bottom", so to speak, before it may be possible to
start a real upgrade movement that will clear the whole
situation.

The Public Schools

While the elementary and high schools of Georgia are
not under the Board of Regents, the Governor has exer-
cised a great deal more than ex-officio influence during
recent months. Partially at least through the fault of fac-
tional politics during the previous administration, the
Governor was able to appoint a majority of the State Board
of Education which operates the public schools. He had
himself named the Chairman of the Board and has taken
charge of its affairs as definitely as of the institutions of
higher learning. We are not concerned here in the details
of administration, but it is interesting to note that he has
arranged an inquisition into the books which may be used
as texts or placed in libraries (with some highK interest-
ing results) and has insisted on having the state of Georgia
take over and operate the school at Monroe, Georgia, which

is under the management of "Red" Barron. Many of the
best teachers in the state, anticipating poHtical domination
and interference with educational programs, resigned; and
there has been great difficulty in finding suitable teachers
for public school work. On the other hand, all private
schools have been swamped with applications, showing that
the public schools were dreaded as places in which to work.
Agnes Scott Involved

At the first trial to which Dean Cocking was subjected,
President Caldwell of the University of Georgia requested
that President Cox of Emory and I tell of our knowledge
of Dean Cocking and of our experience with him. We
were glad to do this because we had come to know him
well through cooperation in the University Center move-
ment and truthfully could not say anything but good
points about his character, reputation, and ideals.

Just as Governor Talmadge resented the fact that his
own appointees on the Board of Regents voted according
to the evidence, so he resented, also, the fact that educa-
tors, at the request of the President of the University,
would testify in the case; and he so expressed his resent-
ment in a radio address.

Shortly after the ouster of Pittman and Cocking, 1 was
requested by the Decatur Rotary Club to tell something
of the effect on education of the whole situation. A little
later, I was invited to speak before the Kiwanis Club of
Griffin on ways and means for improving the situation.
In both cases I spoke as an individual and not in any official
capacity; but the Governor and his associates attacked
Agnes Scott College as a Negro-loving institution, citing
particularly a trip made by our girls to Tuskegee Institute.

This case illustrates very well the unfairness of the Gov-
ernor and his associates and the carelessness with which
some of them handle facts. The Tuskegee trip was more
than six years ago, in the spring of 193 5. It was only one
of perhaps a dozen tours of inspection made by relatively
small groups of Sociology students, including trips to Mil-
ledgeville. Pine Mountain, Copperhill, Federal Prison, Tech-
wood Housing Project and numerous others. In every case
the girls were making the trips voluntarily and at their
request. Every safeguard was provided for their transporta-
tion, chaperonage, and other needs so that no parent or
alumna need feel the least anxiety. At Tuskegee, for ex-
ample, there was no staying in Negro dormitories or eating
in Negro dining halls or any mixing or mingling that
could be objectionable from Southern viewpoints.

Inspection trips have been made by other groups to the
various campuses around Atlanta, both for whites and
blacks; to many institutions doing social service; and even
to the Governor's office; but no one who has really under-
stood the facts has suggested an)' valid criticisms of the
program.

As our present students know and as our alumnae of
other years well understand, Agnes Scott has always stood
for fair treatment for Negroes and for giving them a good
chance to be educated and to make a living. On the other
hand, Agnes Scott has never believed in educating the
races together and in social intermingling. The students
have frequently felt that we have been unusually restrictive
in regulations on this subject and in failing to give per-
mission for them to attend interracial meetings. No one
who has really investigated the situation has ever felt that
there was any cause for complaint about our attitude, and
certainly no foundation has ever been interested in our re-
lations or would have been moved by them if we had been
so lacking in moral character as to govern our pohcies with
such ends in view.

The truth is that any attack on Agnes Scott or other
institutions is an attempt to evade the real issues. After the
various associations and accrediting agencies have fully in-

vestigated the situation and taken action, the issues will
be clearly drawn, and the question will have to be decided
by Georgia itself as to whether it wishes educational ad-
ministration or political dictation.

Next Steps to Be Taken

In Mississippi, Louisiana, North Dakota, and other places,
situations very similar to those now prevailing in Georgia
developed some years ago. In every case, after the people
of the states learned the facts, they rose up in indignation
and overthrew the political forces, however strongly en-
trenched. Most people with whom I have talked feel that
similar results will be found in Georgia.

Personally, I would hate very much to have the educa-
tional interests of our state involved in a political race.
On such an issue, I think the Talmadge regime would be
overthrown; but I am afraid that a new administration,
even though a reform one, would eventually play politics,
also. We cannot solve education problems by putting the
"ins" out and the "outs" in.

I am satisfied that the real solution will be found in a
non-partisan program for governing the state institutions
which probably might be agreed to by all candidates for
governor and by the various candidates for the Legislature.
I have no reason to admire Governor Talmadge or to trust
him; but any fair-minded citizen of the state must know
that he has some good points and that some of his policies
have been helpful to Georgia. I have no idea who his
opponent or opponents may be in any political race and
whether they might be objectionable or not. I would hope
that the next political race could be made on whatever
general issue might be involved, but that education might
be set aside as too sacred and too important a matter to be
involved in ballots.

Alumni and Alumnae Groups

It is just here that the alumnae of Agnes Scott College
and the alumni and alumnae of other institutions through-
out the state, both public and private or denominational,
can be of real assistance. It is proposed that a non-partisan
educational bill be drawn by friends of the University
System and proposed before any announcements of candi-
dates may be expected. It is hoped that friends of education
throughout the state will be able to unite on this measure
as a non-partisan affair and provide permanent security. It
is hoped that these alumni and alumnae groups throughout
the state can cooperate in sponsoring the proposals and
that members of the Georgia Education Association (a
great proportion of whom would be included in the groups,
anyway) may likewise encourage such legislation.

Along such lines in other states, real progress has been
made, and out of the disasters have in several cases come
such an educational renaissance that the institutions have
moved forward splendidly. We may surely hope that in
this state all the citizens may come to feel the importance
of higher state education and the need of more generous
and wholehearted support for the various units of the
University System.

Agnes Scott Alumnae
In former days, when relations were less cordial and
cooperation between state and private institutions more
rare, our college and its alumnae might have been merely
interested spectators in such a state tragedy. Now, any-
thing that injures Georgia State College for Women or the
University of Georgia or Georgia School of Technology is
of immediate concern to Mercer University or to Emory or
to Agnes Scott. We are now partners, in spirit at least, in
the education work of our state; and we do bespeak the
keen interest and earnest cooperation on the part of all our
alumnae in working out a fair and constructive solution of
the whole problem.

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