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Please! T/;e President insists on remaining in the background of an all-College picture as students
chant, "Dr. McCain in front!" Photographer Dorothy Calder caught him just as, laughing, he tried to shush
his 500 admirers. The whole College had trooped out to the hockey field to pose before a rotating camera
immediately after the luncheon which launched the $1,^00,000 Campaign (see Page 17). Standing from left
to right, with an occasional student inten>ening, are Martha Ray Lasseter '44 (now Mrs. Wallace Storey),
behind and aboi>e the balloon; Rebekah McDuffie Clarke, with dark scarf under collar of white blouse;
Emily Higgins Bradley '45, silver clip in hair; Molly Milam '45, most of face in shadow; Betty Bowman '44,
looking over Dr. McCain's right hand; Lillie Belle Drake '40, at his left; Dr. Elizabeth F. Jackson; Eloise
Lyndon Rudy '45; Roberta Winter '27, looking as if about to sneeze; Priscilla Lobeck, Susan Pope '48, Mar-
garet McDow MacDougall '24.

The Alumnae Association Of Acnes Scott College

Officers

Betty Lou Houck Smith '35

Isabf.llf. Leonard Spearman '29

Araminta Edwards Pate '25

Vice-President

Molly Jones Monroe '37

Kenneth Maner Powell '27

Vice-President

Pernette Adams Carter '29

Jane Taylor White '42

Betty Medlock '42

Vella Marie Behm Cowan '35

Garden

,,. n , , Jean Bailey Owen '39

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Special Events

Secretary Hayden Sanford Sams '39

Entertainment

Treasurer Mary Wallace Kirk '11

Trustees

Eliza KiniJ <FasckS\ll s "3$

Virginia Wood '35

Alumna Trustee

Frances W'nShip . W/> lters Inst.

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Chairmen

Jane Guthrie Rhodes '38

Publications

Vocational Cuidanc

Frances Radford Mauldin '43

Class Officers

Staff

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Emily Hiccins Bradley' '45

House and Office Manager

Hattie Lee West Candler Inst.

House Decorations

Margaret Milam '45

Office Assistant

MEMBER AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL

THE AGNES SCOTT ALUMNAE QUARTERLY is published four times a year (November, February, April and July) by the
Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott College at Decatur, Georgia. Contributors to the Alumnae Fund receive the magazine. Yearly
subscription. $2.00. Single copy, 50 cents. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office of Decatur, Georgia, under Act of
August 24, 1912.

Agnes Scott

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

llgnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Volume 27 , No. 2

WINTER, 1949

Pressing Needs at Agnes Scott 2

On the Alumnae Appraisal 3

J. R. McCain

Intellectual Beauty and Agnes Scott 6

George P. Hayes

A Summer Term in Europe (book review) 9

Ellen Douglass Leyburn

Faculty Reading Lists 11

Art Is a Necessity 12

Henry Chandlee Forman

Representing Agnes Scott 14

Frances Wilson Hurst
Mary Hamilton McKnight

Campus Doubles Its Quota 17

Husbands' Committee 20

Class Reunions 20

Alumnae Weekend Brings 100 Back 21

Events at the College 23

The President's Voice 23

Agnes Scott Clubs 24

Faculty and Staff 27

Class News 30

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40, Editor

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Pressing Needs At Agnes Scott

Faculty Salary Increases. The calibre of Agnes Scott depends, naturally, on the calibre of the in
struction it offers. If this instruction is to remain up to Agnes Scott standards and to advance
those standards to even higher levels, at least $500,000 and preferably $1,000,000 must be add
ed to the present endowment very soon.

A New Science Hall. The old one is completely outworn and must be replaced by a building with
more space and with modern equipment. Further delay will be seriously detrimental to out
work in the sciences. Funds on hand for this purpose lack about $200,000 of being sufficient.

Renovation Of Rebekah Scott Dormitory. Main and In man have been completely done over inside, each
at a cost larger than that of the original building. If $75,000 can be secured for the purpose,
Rebekah Scott will be remodeled next summer.

HopkillS Hall. In the last campaign, alumnae raised more than $100,000 to build this new dormi-
tory. The war prevented its construction; now it will take at least that much more to erect
the type of building needed.

President's House. Agnes Scott has never had a President's Home suitable for the kind of entertain-
ment which should make it, as it is on many campuses, the center of a gracious social life for
faculty, students, and visitors. At least $50,000 will be needed to provide one.

Alumnae House Improvement. Tea Room equipment and upstairs furnishings have arrived at a de-
plorable state for lack of substantial annual sums to keep them up to standard. About $2,000
should be spent on the Tea Room for kitchen equipment, decoration, silver, and linen, and
about $3,000 on .the second floor for furniture, redecoration, and linen. It is hoped that an
interested alumna will give this $5,000 and arrange for some kind of endowment which would
yield the Alumnae House an income sufficient for its proper upkeep.

Scholarships. These are always necessary in order that good student material may not be lost
to the College. The 1949 raise in tuition will make them more important than before. The
sum of $10,000 in endowment is regarded as a full scholarship, although at present interest
rates it does not pay the full tuition.

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One year ago The Quarterly published a summary, prepared by the
Education Committee, of ansiuers by 2,000 alumnae to the question:
"In the light of your experience, what tilings from your Agnes Scott
training seem to be most valuable to you, and what, in your opinion,
should be added to the academic or social life of students today?" Re-
plies to the second half of the inquiry varied widely, contradicting each
other and sometimes the ansiverer's own response to the first half.
However, a few major issues stood out. The Education Committee has
asked President McCain to comment on the Alumnae Appraisal with
these issues in mind.

On The Alumnae Appraisa

>y J. R. McCain, President

In connection with the Alumnae Appraisal, tin-
ier the auspices of the very efficient Education
Committee of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa-
ion, several hundred interesting suggestions of
arious kinds about the operation of the College
vere made. These are summarized in the Wintei
:ssue of the Alumnae Quarterly of 1948. From
ime to time, alumnae, either as individuals or as
;roups, make other proposals. Occasionally, we
ire asked whether such suggestions are welcome,
rhey certainly are received gladly and given cor-
iial consideration. I hope the fact that some of
hem are not accepted and that others are con-
dderably delayed in execution will not prevent
i feeling of freedom in making them. Over a
Deriod of years, a surprising number are adopted.

We are glad that alumnae are represented in
:he various groups who operate the College. Of
the 1,802 institutions of higher education in the
United States, Agnes Scott is one of the few col-
leges not having either church or state control,
[t is independent, and its management is vested
in twenty-seven trustees. While only two of these
are required by charter to be alumnae, three others
have been elected by the Board itself. As a matter
of custom, the President of the Alumnae Associa-
tion and the Dean of Students, who is herself an
alumna, are always invited to sit with the Board
so as to furnish any needed information about
either alumnae or students. Fifteen of the men
trustees have had wives, daughters, or other close
relatives as students here, so that presumably they
can think of Agnes Scott as something more than
a business institution.

There are eleven alumnae on the teaching staff
of the college. This is important, because under
our by-laws the faculty determine the academic
policy of the College, fix requirements for admis-
sion and for the degree, approve the courses of
instruction and the general administration of the
curriculum. Six of the men faculty are also hus-
bands or fathers of alumnae.

There are thirteen Agnes Scott graduates in the
administrative departments which carry out the
regulations of the trustees and of the faculty and
which have largely to do with the social and reli-
gious life of the students, though the latter func-
tions are shared also by the faculty. Agnes Scott
could not be the college which we love if it were
not for the unselfish services of her daughters in
these many relationships.

Returning to the subject of suggestions, I might
explain that one reason why proposals are not al-
ways adopted is that the alumnae themselves do
not agree as to what should be done. I would like
to illustrate this point by three specific examples
which we have faced recently. The first concerns
the keeping of the White House in our plan of
permanent development. Some have strongly advo-
cated that the building be torn down and that the
area be landscaped so as to improve the campus
along the street and railroad. Others think that it
should be kept as a prized possession because the
College was started in part of the building. It is
a matter of policy which the trustees must decide.
What should they do?

A second subject of division concerns the intro-
duction of vocational subjects into the curriculum,
including home economics, secretarial work, and

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the like. I suppose that we have had more sugges-
tions, and more urgent ones, advocating this de-
velopment than on any other subject. On the oth-
er hand, we have had strong urging to maintain
the position of the College as a definitely liberal
arts institution and to avoid strictly the inclusion
of such vocational courses. This involves a faculty
decision. What should be done?

A third area for suggestion has been on the
introduction of dancing in order to enliven the
social life; but we have had from alumnae and
others the expression of fear that this would
change the character of our campus life and
would weaken the interesting relations which we
have had with students from Columbia Theologi-
cal Seminary and with the theological students at
Emory University. This is primarily an adminis-
trative problem. In the light of conflicting opin-
ion, what choice should be made?

On these and on most problems that involve
either trustees, faculty, or administration, Agnes
Scott has tended to what might be thought of as
a middle-of-the-road policy. I think it may tend
slightly to be on the conservative side. If we fol-
low our general policy in regard to the above mat-
ters, we probably would eventually tear down the
White House in order to improve the campus,
but we would be somewhat slow about doing this
because we need the housing for students at the
present time. We will doubtless undertake to pro-
vide better training for homemaking than we now
give; but it is likely that the program will be
largely extra-curricular and that vocational sub-
jects will not be much extended for degree credit.
We cannot expand our program to any apprecia-
ble extent without a good deal more financial
support. We have found it wise and helpful to
introduce dancing on a rather informal basis as
a form of entertainment, but we have tried to safe-
guard the arrangement so that it will not be the
form and so that boys and girls who do not wish
to dance may find plenty of other recreation on
the campus.

In considering suggestions for changes, whether
from alumnae or others, trustees, faculty, and of-
ficers must always keep in mind certain factors
or relationships which are important to us. The
founders of the College were very much concerned
that the institution have Presbyterian influences,
but be kept free of any ecclesiastical control. They

were concerned that the distinctly liberal element
be emphasized in the curriculum and that the
Bible be always a textbook. They were concerned
that, in the selection of teachers, both intellectual
and spiritual elements be given consideration.

Agnes Scott is an important unit in the Univer-
sity Center in Georgia, which includes Emory Uni-
versity, Columbia Theological Seminary, the Uni-
versity of Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology,
and the Atlanta Art Association. This relationship
has been very valuable to Agnes Scott, particularly
in eliminating competition with Emory for stu-
dents; but it does provide for a limitation of our
activities and for a good many responsibilities in
the educational field. In the selection of staff
members, it does make it important for us to
secure those who can work effectively with the
other institutions.

In all phases of our work and activities, we must
always keep in mind that about 40% of our stu-
dents are local girls and do not live in dormitories.
We must remember, too, that we are located in a
large metropolitan area where there are probably
100,000 men whom we do not know. We have
many advantages, but also some complications
which institutions like Sweet Briar and Hollins do
not face.

These factors and other considerations men-
tioned above are listed to explain why there are
sometimes delays in solving problems and why
sometimes favorable action cannot be taken on
ideas which might be good for other institutions,
but which are not practicable for us. I would like
to urge that our entire Agnes Scott family feel
perfectly free in trying to help us in decisions
about the future of the College and that you be
patient with us if things do not seem to move as
promptly and as adequately as you may desire.

While I am writing on the alumnae and the
College, may I not reverse the emphasis and con-
sider for a moment the keen interest which we
on the campus have in the varied activities of our
daughters far and near? It has been my privilege
recently to make a study of the work and service
of our alumnae. We have had to estimate the
results, but this has been done on the basis of
some factors which have been established.

We have taken into consideration all who have
attended either the College or the Institute or the
Academy. These number 8,555 students. We have

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awarded the B.A. degree to 2,834 of these.

Our girls have established more than 6,200
homes, for the most part well ordered and effi-
cient and exercising a wholesome influence in a
great many communities all over the world. This
is doubtless the greatest of all the services ren-
dered by our alumnae.

We believe that more than 5,000 of our former
students serve as volunteer workers in the church-
es or Sunday Schools of perhaps twenty denomi-
nations, and we have furnished about 550 paid
workers in various forms of religious activities.

Considerably more than half of our alumnae,
possibly 5,700, have served in important commun-
ity activities as board members for the Red Cross
jr YWCA or family welfare societies. Others have
shared on a voluntary basis in almost countless
i-ocational, civic, health, or recreational organiza-
tions. Almost every important city in the South
ras had a good share of such leaders. We have had
about 850 paid workers in these various social
service fields.

Our largest group of paid workers has been
in the field of education, more than 2,350 in num-
ber. They have served in all phases of school work
from running a private kindergarten to filling the
Dffice of deans in great universities. The em-
phasis of Agnes Scott alumnae for high educational
standards has made a profound impression on
nany entire communities.

Various forms of business have claimed nearly a
housand of our alumnae; and professions, induci-
ng medicine, law, nursing, technical work and
he like, have enlisted several hundred others. It
s impossible to enumerate the whole list, for more
han sixty leading occupations have been followed
uccessfully by Agnes Scott women.

Alumnae have also made good citizens in nearly
:very part of the world. They have not always
>een as conscientious about voting as we would
ike, but they have certainly surpassed average
:itizens in the performance of this duty. They
lave been alert for fair play among all people,
or justice in the courts, for good government on
ill levels of activity, and for the hearty support
)f all agencies which make for the better develop-
nent of young people.

Our College has its fullest life in the lives of
ur alumnae. The influence of an institution is
'ery much like the shadow of a tree. It extends

far beyond the location of the tree itself. Many
of you will remember the great oak on our front
campus, the largest tree in Decatur, we think.
It was sometimes designated as the "Senior Oak"
because the senior class formerly held under its
shade the last vesper services of the session. In
the early morning, the shadow of this tree falls far
across College Avenue and even beyond the rail-
road tracks. In the late afternoon, its shadow is
thrown across the Colonnade and against Main
Building itself. In like manner, the College never
moves from Decatur, with our 550 students and
more than 100 staff members; but the shadow of
its influence is carried around the earth by the
8,555 who have gone on before.

As those of us at the home base think of the
many who are away, we are reminded of the ques-
tions which the Apostle Paul put to some of his
friends. In one of his letters he writes, "What is
our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? Are not
even ye?"

Dr. McCain and Doris Sullivan, president of
Mortar Board, anticipate the kickoff for the con-
test between Agnes Scott and Greenback teams in
the campus campaign. With a goal of $20,000,
faculty, students and staff pledged $40,219 to give
the College drive for $1,500,000 a speedy start (see
Page 17).

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Investiture Address

Intellectual Beauty
And Agnes Scott

by George P. Hayes

Professor of English

In a famous sonnet Edna St. Vincent Millay
describes the moment when Eticlid made a great
scientific discovery. That moment of brilliant dis-
covery did four things simultaneously to Euclid:
it seemed to blind or overwhelm him; it lifted up
his spirit in exaltation; it enabled him to pene-
trate more deeply into the nature of reality; and it
effaced Euclid personally.

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized! Euclid alone
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Who. though once only and then but far away
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

When Miss Millay wrote that sonnet, she too, for
a moment, "looked on Beauty bare." This poem
is our twentieth century American "Hymn to In-
tellectual Beauty."

Miss MilJay has described here a high moment
of contemplative experience. Without attempting
to distinguish the types and degrees of contempla-
tion we may say that Euclid's experience has at
least something in common with Plato's famous
account in The Symposium of how one learns to
pierce behind the shifting shapes of sense to their
underlying patterns or forms. Euclid's experience
is parallel, in another sphere, to Wordsworth's
sense sublime

Of something far more deeply interfused,

to Browning's "flash of the will that can," to St.
Paul's blinding on the road to Damascus and to
Pascal's experience of "fire . . . certitude . . . joy
. . . renunciation" during two notable hours on the

night of November 23, 1654. It is similar to the
flash overcoming Dante, at the summit of Para-
dise, that brought his will into final accord with
the will that moves the sun and the other stars.
According to Theodore Greene, at Princeton you
can always spot the scholar in theoretical mathe-
matics by his beatific, other worldly expression
like that of the angels in medieval art who gaze
upon the face of God.

The mind finds its secret affinities for contem-
plation in strange ways and places. Sir Thomas
Browne would fall into "a deep fit of devotion and
a profound contemplation of the First Composer"
on hearing tavern music, the seventeenth century
counterpart of the juke-boxes. Browne's contem-
porary, the scientist William Harvey, said he could
best contemplate in the dark. Milton too was in
the dark when he meditated from four to seven
each morning. Archimedes was evidently in con-
genial surroundings in a bathtub. St. Teresa and
Brother Lawrence found God among the kitchen
pots and pans. Once when in the army, Socrates
meditated without intermission for twenty-four
hours. Carlyle received his fire-baptism in a grimy
city street. St. Francis of Assisi was at one with
God whether in his cell or among the sister Larks
or when being cauterized by brother Fire. And
the romantic nature poets annihilated all that's
made to a green thought in a green shade.

Contcmplatives, beneath their surface existence,
live a second life, a life within life. They reserve
for themselves what Montaigne calls a back-shop,
where their real living goes on a life which, says
Brother Lawrence, may go forward even in sleep.

At this point we may ask, What is contempla-
tion? Historically, contemplation is the word used
by St. Augustine and others to describe their ap-
prehension of God and their sense of union with
Him. The term is used more broadly to mean
meditation, continued concentration upon a par-
ticular subject. In this sense it would include
poetic insight, philosophic reflection, scientific
imagination. Contemplation, then, describes the
inner life of man the fusion of his intellectual
and spiritual activity, his love and will as he
strives to understand and possess the reality of the
universe, especially the ultimate and highest real-
ity.

Contemplatives conceive of this ultimate reality
under the varying aspects of the true, the beautiful

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nd the holy. Apprehended as truth or knowledge,
t is the object of Marlowe's adoration "still
limbing after knowledge infinite" and of Ulys-
es'

yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star
Beyond the utmost bounds of human thought.

een in its highest form, as the holy, as God, this
iltimate reality is invoked in St. Catherine of
Jenoa's pfayer: "I do not want that which pro-
eedeth from Thee; I want Thyself alone, O ten-
ler Love." Envisaged as beauty, it is the youthful
.lilton's strenuous aim to possess:

What besides God has resolved concerning me I know
not, but this at least: He has instilled into me, if into
anyone, a vehement love of the beautiful. Not with so
much labor, as the fables have it, is Ceres said to have
sought her daughter Proserpine as it is my habit day
and night to seek for this idea of the beautiful, as for
a certain image of supreme beauty, through all the
forms and faces of things (for many are the shapes of
things divine) and to follow it as it leads me on by
some sure traces which I seem to recognize.

In its highest form contemplation gives a sense
f union with something other than self, and in-
initely greater and more holy.

Now the aims of the contemplatives are, deep
own, essentially yours here at college to pursue
nd to possess for oneself, with the mind's vision
nd the heart's experience, whatsoever things are
ue, lovely and of good report. None of us pre-
imably will ever reach the peaks of true con-tem-
lation; yet in our studies in the arts and sciences
nd in our search for religious, ethical and esthetic
alues we are moving toward that end. At what-
v'er distance from the leaders we too belong in the
lanterbury pilgrimage of "contemplatives. No
rivilege could be greater. We at Agnes Scott are
t the altar of the Most High and we study His
ays. Day unto day uttereth truth and night unto
ight showeth knowledge.

The end of education in the liberal arts college

contemplation. I do not question the place of
ther activities on the campus or the part that
achers and students should play in the life of
te community and the world. The practical world
eeds us as active citizens and we as social beings
eed the world. The fact still remains that the
rimary purpose of the Christian liberal arts col-
ge as a college is contemplation that is, be-
ading the bright countenance of truth, beauty

and holiness in the quiet and still air of delightful
studies.

If this vision is our proper birthright as members
of a college community, why do we not claim our
birthright in a firmer voice? Basically, because we
are loath to fulfill the conditions which the con-
templative life imposes. In the first place, contem-
plation takes time and cannot be hurried. It has
its own leisurely rhythm, slow as the procession of
the seasons. It was said, by a contemporary of the
Elizabethan poet, Samuel Daniel,

As the tortoise burieth himself all the winter in the
ground, so Mr. Daniel would lie hid. . . . for some
months together (the more retiredly to enjoy the com-
pany of the Muses) and then would appear in publick
to converse with his friends.

Eliminating our hurry and worry about trivial
things, we need to re-plan the use of our precious
waking hours in the light of our central aim.

Secondly, contemplation is like the arbutus,
which grows best in the shade, half hidden from
the eye. It requires an inner stillness. If we sit
silently in nature, the small woodland creatures
awake into activity close about us birds, rabbits,
chipmunks, little gray mice. If we contemplate a
Greek statue it comes alive and speaks. So with
all contemplation: in quiet the inner life awakes
and burns.

Finally, like any genuine achievement, the full
fruits of contemplation are to be won only by
consecrated, arduous toil, perseverance, and in-
tegrity of mind.

For the mind has a morality of its own. If you
read a book not for its own sake but for social
prestige, if you work for grades alone or if you
give up working because you decide you cannot
make better than a pass anyway or cannot make
the honor roll, you have done violence to your no-
ble and most sovereign reason. If you try to lay
rude hands on Truth, Beauty or Holiness in order
to use them for personal ends, they elude your
grasp.

On the other hand, when you find a bracing
joy in lonely labor and in meticulous accuracy in
detail, when you are openmindedly humble before
the fact and toughmindedly persevering in the pur-
suit of it, when you generously acknowledge your
indebtedness to others and gladly share your dis-
coveries with all, finally when you renounce easily
won results for the slow-paced effort to "elicit and

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realize the invisible" when you do this, you have
preserved your God-given intellectual and spiritual
integrity and you are moving ahead along the
contemplative way. That way you will find diffi-
cult at first but it will get easier as you go on,
until finally, we are told, it becomes play, joy,
and fruition in that which is higher than self as
self is transformed into an entire and loving self-
lessness.

This habit of contemplation, of which the su-
preme form is prayer and oneness with God, if
rooted in the mind and heart in the season of
youth, will be your sweetest, surest stay in adver-
sity and age. For as we grow older, we become
less active and more contemplative. Though the
decline of our physical powers teaches us many
renunciations, the joys of mind and spirit may
well increase. Through contemplation we learn
to get more and more from less and less and to
accept life's unearned graces with growing grati-
tude. "A straight back will stoop ... a fair face
will wither, a full eye will wax hollow." Dear
ones die and death approaches. But contemplation
gives command over an order of reality inviolable
so long as mind and spirit endure.

No one in his passionate twenties ever loved
more intensely than Dante loved Beatrice. But
one day the friends of Beatrice mocked at him in
her presence. Dante turned away, half fainting.
He realized that she could never be his. He said
to himself, "[Henceforth] Love hath placed all my
beatitude in that which cannot fail me . . . in those
words that praise my lady." Henceforth his beati-
tude was to consist in his poetic contemplation of
his lady. Beatrice could never be his in this world
of action. But she was forever his in contempla-
tion, where, indeed, illuminating his "study of
imagination," she became more real than in the
real world and far more moving-fair.

We belong to an age of inevitable specialization;
but in the basic, central demands of the mind,
heart and spirit specialization and technical train-
ing have no place. That is why an Agnes Scott
educaton is worth far more to you than is spe-
cialized training at the same age. As human beings
and creatures of God you inevitably crave, in the
roots of your nature, the true, the lovely and the
spiritual. This craving may be the means of growth
into high seriousness toward self, humanity and
God.

The material returns for contemplatives hav
always been small. Socrates tells us that grasshor.
pers were once human beings; but when the Muse
came and. song appeared, they were so ravishei
with delight that they were always singing am
never thought of eating and drinking, so tha
finally they died and were turned into grasshor.
pers, still singing. From the thirteenth centur
A. D. we have this anonymous song describinj
an academic procession:

See! Here they come!

More proud than pursuivants, sly as confessors,
With step scholastic and with time-worn gowns,
The spectacled, sweet, underpaid professors!

Finally, here speaks a seventeenth century Oxforc
professor, Robert Burton, of the life of scholars

after all their pains taken in the universities, cost ant
charge, expenses, irksome hours, laborious tasks, weari
some days . . . (barred from all pleasures which othe
men have, mewed up like hawks all their lives), if the
chance to wade through them, they shall in the end bi
. . . exposed to want, poverty and beggary . . . Th<
conceit of this alone is enough to make them all melan
choly . . . We can make majors and officers every year
but not scholars . . . Learning is not so quickly got
No labor in the world like unto study. [Yet] what ii
[the scholar's financial] reward? . . . Like an ass he wean
out his time for provender and can show ... an ok
torn gown, an ensign of his infelicity; he hath his laboi
for his pain, a modicum to keep him till he be decrepit
and that is all.

This is the moment at Agnes Scott at which we
are trying to change all that, with your generous
help. Your support of the present endowment
drive will enable the Agnes Scott community to
share even more amply than heretofore, in the
blessings of the contemplative life.

For the most part this morning we have been
considering the contemplative life in its lofty ar-
dors and right ecstasies; but in closing we should
note that it also has its innocent pleasures and
sweet recreations. A pure devotion to good books,
to fine art, to discovering the secrets of nature,
above all to holy living, is an outward and visible
sign of an inward and spiritual grace. It implies
a gentle benignity of soul which abhors dissension
and self-seeking and finds its last rest in simple
and eternal and delightful things. Contemplation,
by right of eminent domain, possesses all men's
goods without robbing a soul, as Izaak Walton
and Thoreau discovered the sweet content in other
men's fields which the owners themselves could

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ot find there. Thus the contemplative inherit
le earth, as theirs also is the kingdom of heaven.

Contemplation is the heart of living. It is
rowth, rhythm and illumination. It is joy, peace,
nd innocence of heart. It is the dew of the spirit
ad an invisible flame within us. It is "the sab-
ath of the mind."

In the watches of the night, while the wakeful
ird sings darkling, or at hopeful dawn, have you
ot rejoiced in your solitary studies and delighted
ourselves with lonely contemplations? Has not
jlir imagination struck fire with the rising of the
in? At the dayspring have you not opened your
earts in gratitude for the greater dayspring of
lind and spirit now arising for you in the day-
)iing of life? At the dayspring have you not cried,

"Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born'?

Or behold now this college in the evening, lights
blaze from every window. "The shop of war
ays Milton] hath not there more anvils and haul-
iers waking to fashion out the plates and instru-
tents of armed justice in defense of beleaguered
uth than there be pens and heads there, sitting
.by their studious lamps, nursing, searching, re-

volving new notions and ideas . . . trying all things,
assenting to the force of reason and convincement."

Members of the Class of 1949, when you move
on out into the larger world in June, you will
take with you many precious memories of this
little campus: the rising sun sifting mistily
through the oaks and elms on a dewy spring
morning, the soft cooing of pigeons about the
tower of Main, the rain rustling on the roof of
this chapel, the flowering dogwood outside these
windows in April, the pelican brooding over your
heads as you enter Buttrick, the agonies and ardors
of the midnight lamp, minds touched with fire
and raying out to others the glory, the tranced
groups among the roses under the splendor of the
moon in May.

Beauty has been your portion at Agnes Scott
sensuous beauty, intellectual beauty, the beauty of
holiness.

There is such a thing as the death of the mind,
even among good people who continue to eat and
sleep and put on clothes in the morning. Keep
alive that pure "intellectual ray" which I see shin-
ing in your faces now.

"Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-
born!"

The author of this review knew Mr. Matthiessen
last summer at a gathering of Eiiglish critics arid
scholars at Kenyon College.

wo Teaching Terms In Europe

ROM THE HEART OF EUROPE, by F. O.

Matthiessen, 194 pp., Oxford University Press.
New York, 1948.

rom the Heart of Europe should give heart to
1 who are concerned with the delicate art of
>mmunication, for it is itself both an act of com-
unication and a record of such an act. The
ascription of it as a travel journal is a reviewer's

half truth. It is rather a confession of faith, a
statement of what an American can live by, wrought
out by Professor Matthiessen in the course of his
teaching in the summer of 1947 at Salzburg in the
school improvised by three enterprising Harvard
students in Reinhardt's castle and in the fall of
the same year at Prague, where weary but un-
daunted professors and students are trying to bring

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back to life the ancient Charles University. Both
undertakings are in themselves exhilarating, and
the American teacher's participation in the heroic
effort helps to make this a cheering book to read
in spite of its graphic setting forth of the lack of
food and fuel and books and the pressure of time
lost against which the European student must
struggle.

In fact, the abstract conception of the European
student gives place as one reads to the sense of a
company of individuals. The reader feels the im-
pact of their distinctness as acutely as that of the
colleague in the next office or the student in this
morning's class. There is Fritz Molden "now only
twenty-three, though with a long history of prison
terms, of forced army service and espionage, of
desertion and escape to our lines." There is Vit-
torio Gabrieli with his "Dantesque face and an
idealistic devotion to libertarian principles," who
in the seclusion of the Schloss Leopoldskron
kitchen during the big party which ended the
Salzburg session "began to talk about what it had
meant to have all your education during the pe-
riod of Mussolini. Never once, after he had begun
to think, had he felt either at school or college
that he could discuss anything freely, either with
his teachers or with his fellow students. There
were always the questions: who might overhear,
who might repeat, who could be trusted? His
grave aquiline face was even graver as he talked,
but then it lighted up: 'I suppose I've had more
discussions of matters of real importance to me
during these weeks here than during all the rest
of my life.' " There is Enrique Cruz-Salido, "a
slight, dark, finely handsome Spanish Loyalist. . . .
In a few quiet sentences he conveyed to me the
complex moral burden of being a political exile,
living from day to day, from year to year on the
one hope of return. He wants to be in his own
country, of whose landscape he speaks with fond
intimacy, as though he had been looking at it only
a day or two ago. He did not want to settle per-
manently in Latin America. He does not want to
be a Spaniard in Paris. But he recognizes now that
he must have roots, that this endless waiting to
begin his real life is slowly devouring his morale.
He feels cut off, sterile in isolation. His voice
was so low that I could just hear him. I have
never had a deeper insight into loneliness." But
not all the individuals are sad: "The Czech boy

in the Sokal shirt, Jaroslav Schejbal, seemed, with
his endless fund of energy, like a boy on any
Middle-Western campus, making the basketball
team and Phi Beta Kappa with the same undis-
tracted drive," and "Jan Stern is, at twenty-two,
a vigorous communist, but so outgoing and friend-
ly that he quickly became liked even by those
who most disagreed with him. Big and husky and
somewhat nearsighted, he bumps around like a
Saint Bernard puppy." And the corporate atmos-
phere at Salzburg is one of joyous enterprise.
This is felt not just on such occasions as the gala
musicale in honor of Hindemith and Helene
Thimig or the Sunday Ausflug to Wolfgangsee and
in experiences such as watching the German who
progressed from the sense of being an outcast to
organizing the final excursion to the Gross Glock-
ner pointing out the views and taking photographs
of the group or of the "day when Jan Stern de-
cided to drop 'Good morning, professor' and to go
the whole way to 'Hi!' " It comes out just as
strongly in the eager and indiscriminate way in
which American literature is devoured and the
conquering of the formality in the opening ses-
sions of the seminar by sheer warmth of interest
in ideas. One of Professor Matthiessen's problems
was choosing what American writers to present at
once to satisfy and to train this eagerness. His
comments on the reasons for his choices are pene-
trating in their insight into the significance of the
authors considered and into the human demands
of the situation. The vitality of the whole educa-
tional experiment is illustrated by the fact that
"Margaret Mead introduced her students to the
methods of cultural anthropology by turning them
loose on investigating the community of the Semi-
nar itself, just as though it was a South Sea island.
They watched our habits in and out of school,
though the student who had asked for the assign-
ment of observing who fell in love with whom de-
cided to give it up before he got into trouble. It
was startling enough to learn from a Dutch girl
one morning at breakfast that her assignment was
to examine the table-manners of Americans."

In the Prague section of the book I get the im-
pression of a soberer academic atmosphere. The
feeling for tradition is revealed in the pomp of
the ceremonial surrounding the inaugural lecture.
Yet the dean and the professors emerge from their
robes not just as real people, but as people having

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grasp of reality. The sojourn in Prague is punc-
ated with all sorts of festive excursions: going
1 the first Saturday night with Petr up the
ltava to his canoe club for the convivial cere-
ony of saying good-bye to the boats for the win-
r; taking tea in Jarka's family apartment where
ie youth showed his greatest treasure, "the twenty
ooks on the shelf over the stove"; having a quiet
iricheon in the home of the Prime Minister on
ie National Independence Day; going for Sun-
ay dinner with Zdenek Stribrny's family to a
illage twenty miles from Prague where the fa-
rer is the local carpenter and undertaker; and
aurneying even as far as Budapest, where the
ost of one delightful evening turned out to be
n admirer of Sarah Orne Jewett. In all these
xcursions food and drink of great interest and
ariety increase the spirit of good friendliness,
["he reader senses the pleasures of the palate after
he diet of potatoes and watery beer in Salzburg,
hough there is not the impression that it "snewed
mete and drynke" that we get later in Den-
nark.

The feeling of geography is sharply conveyed
:rom the opening account of a plane trip across
America, through the journeys in Germany and
thence to Prague and Brno, Bratislava, and Buda-
pest, and home by way of Copenhagen to Louis-
Durg Square on Christmas Eve. Of Prague Mat-
theissen says, "You begin to feel you belong to a
city when some of its sights and sounds are no
longer strange." The sights and sounds of many
places are familiar to our senses through his book.
But the heart of From the Heart of Europe is the
section called "Interlude Between Assignments,"
written in Paris and London in the weeks between
Salzburg and Prague. Here there is no mention
of surroundings, but a personal meditation which
goes beyond the review of one man's political ami
educational experience to assertions of faith which
can encourage us all whether or not we share the
particular commitments:

But I would differ from most orthodox Christians today,
and particularly from the tradition represented by T. S.
Eliot, in that, whatever the imperfections of man, the sec-
ond of the two great commandments, to love thy neighbor
as thyself, seems to me an imperative to social action. Evil
is not merely external, but external evils are many, and some
social systems are far more productive of them than others.
Thus my philosophical position is of the simplest. It is as
a Christian that I find my strongest propulsion to being
a socialist.

Ellen Douglass Leyburn '27

Faculty Reading Lists
Still Obtainable

The Alumnae Office still offers the service in-
stituted in 1947 by the Education Committee of
the Alumnae Association: supplying reading lists
to alumnae on request. Slowly but steadily, re-
quests have come in for them. Here reprinted are
the topics for which lists are available and the
names of the faculty members who compiled them
for the Committee:

Astronomy

Philosophy

Greek Drama

Shakespeare

Russia

The Novel

Modern Poetry

Race Relations, Minority

Groups
The French Novel
American History
American Government
Nineteenth Century English

Poetry
The Writing of the Short

Story
Comparative Government
American Government
The Theatre

Mr. Calder
Miss Dexter
Miss Glick
Mr. Hayes
Miss Jackson

I Miss Laney

Miss Mell

Miss Phythian
Mr. Posey

i Miss Preston

iMiss Smith
Miss Wintei

Four professors have expressed their willing-
ness to suggest material to alumnae who write
directly to them: Mrs. Adolf Lapp, on chil-
dren's exercises and music for dancing; Paid Gar-
ber, on religion and the Bible; Henry Robinson,
on statistics, finance, and other fields of mathe-
matics; and Mrs. Rolf Sims, on current affairs.

The Education Committee urges that alumnae
interested in general intellectual development, eith-
er singly or in groups, write to the Great Books
Foundation, 20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, lor
the list made famous by Chancellor Hutchins of
Chicago and other leaders in liberal education.

The Committee, whose chairman is Mary Wal-
lace Kirk '11, Locust Hill, Tuscumbia, Alabama,
would like very much to hear from any alumnae
who have used its suggestions.

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Art is a Necessity

By Henry Chandlee Forman

Professor of Art

In April of 1947 the Louise Lewis Art
Collection, a group of pictures to be rented
individually at nominal cost to students for
their dormitory rooms, was presented to the
College. This is Professor Forman' s address
for the occasion.

We are gathered in this place to do honor to a
teacher who faithfully served Agnes Scott for forty-two
years; for her this group of color reproductions and
originals has been named, "The Louise Lewis Collection
of Fine Arts Prints." This is a small beginning. Event-
ually there may be a picture for every dormitory room.
In order to make it a true fine arts collection, there
will also be artistic photographs of sculpture and ar-
chitecture.

In human life pictures have always played an im-
portant role. Before man made letters, he sketched and
painted. In truth, the earliest letters grew out of pic-
tures. Twelve thousand years ago, a few of the first
Americans painted in Nevada caves. Parenthetically,
some antique animal meat belonging to the early Ameri-
cans was recently dug up in Alaska, after having been
frozen for twelve millenia; the anthropologist con-
cerned in the excavation stated that he ate this meat
"mildly cooked." At any rate, in Europe the Mag-
dalenian cave paintings are of about the same antiquity
as the American art works. Through all these hundred
and twenty centuries, or more, the picture has been
significant in the history of civilization.

Furthermore, men and women have consistently
brought to the creation of the fine arts the best and
most spiritual capacities which they have, and in them
they have presented their deepest thoughts about the
world in which they live and the other worlds to which
they aspire. May I remind you that no important civil-
ization ever flourished Chinese, French, Greek or
Maya without producing an art of its own. Art is
no luxury; it is a necessity. Civilized men and women
cannot live without it. 1

The present-day understanding of the arts is not

John Sloan, head of the Bryn Mawr College History of Are de
partment, in the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, June, 1942.

as widespread in this county as in the century of set-
tlement. The Jamestonians and Plymouth Rock people
had, for example, a greater knowledge of, and sensitivity
to, design, composition and proportion, than we of to-
day. Most of us, I fear, have as little knowledge of the
arts as the Quakers, who upon religious grounds looked
upon the arts with suspicion. Undoubtedly the average
person in the street knows as much about the language
cf the arts as that lady who innocently told Turner, a
brilliant colorist, that she had never seen a sunset like
one he had painted. "Don't you wish you could?" was
his reply. Or perhaps his or her knowledge of architec-
ture is as vague as that of him who declared that "the
Victorian Gothic style includes many different types
all thrown together in one madness." 2 Longfellow, it
may be recalled, stated that architecture is "the noblest
art of all the arts." 3 Or possibly our knowledge of
sculpture is on a par with that of the United States
Custom Inspectors who about ten years ago barred en-
trance into this country of nineteen abstract sculptures
because they did not consider them works of art. 4 The
law of the land defined sculpture as an imitation of
natural objects, and these particular "abstracts" by no
stretch of the imagination resembled natural objects.

We look to the colleges and universities of this
country to raise our standards of taste in the fine arts
and to counteract this widespread backwardness.

In the liberal arts college there are two aspects of
art education. First, the History and Criticism of Art
is a training or discipline in the study of man which
is upon an intellectual level with philosophy, literature
and language. 5 Also, like poetry, it is a subject which
develops in the individual a capacity for enjoyment, the
possibilities of which many people never even suspect.

2. Student examination paper. 3. "Michelangelo." 4. Museum of
Modern Art bulletin. 5. Bulletin of the Association of American
Colleges, vol. xxii, no. 1, March 1936, p. 7.

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l studying the arts of Florence, you learn of the lives
f the artists and their works, of the social significance
f the arts and their place in Florentine society, of the
itent to which the sciences, literature and drama af-
icted the arts. You touch upon politics, furniture, cos-
jme, city plans, garden designs. Art becomes an illus-
ation of human history, and a powerfully graphic one
; that. The enjoyment of seeing the great master-
eces of mankind in their forms and colors will long
main with you.

It was stated that History of Art was on an in-
llectual level. Let me quote from Morey's Medieval
rt. Dr. Morey of Princeton is the leading authority on
hristian art. 6 He writes: "The curious eclecticism of
le Turonian art, seeking to revive antique artistic
irms as Alcuin labored to restore Latinity, is to be seen

the frontispiece of the Gospels in the Bible of Vivian,
here Christ sits on the globe as in the Italo-Gallic
ories or mosaics, but is surrounded by the oriental
andorla, which combines with the globe to make a
gure 8."

Fortunately, most art books are more readable than
'orey's. But the point is this: How well do you know
ie history of Christianity, and how familiar are you
ith the Christian point of view, without a knowl-
ge of what the Early Christian and Gothic artists per-
rmed? Morey describes and pictures the world's finest
atue of Our Lord, but how many know where it is,
hat it looks like, and what relation it bears to that
eatest of centuries, the thirteenth?

The best thing about History of Art in a liberal
ts college is that it is a subject which closely bor-
rs on all the other humanities, and has the unusual
wer of coordinating and integrating them. 7 Well-
unded art lectures and seminars touch upon the music,
story, literature, language and philosophy of a civil-
ition, and literally illustrate the very setting where
ese same humanities arose. History of Art sets for
:elf a very high ideal, as follows: The humanistic
acher of the arts must have explored his own terri-
ry so expansively that the boundaries thereof have
sappeared and the contours of the neighboring areas

knowledge have acquired a familiar aspect. 7 In most
>eral arts colleges there exists what is informally
town as the departmental "interchange" of art lec-
res. At Agnes Scott College three departments have

C. R. Morey (former Marquand professor of art and archaeology,
Princeton, now Cultural Attache, American embassy, Rome),
Medieval Art, New York, 1942.

Bulletin of the Association of American Colleges, vol. xxii, no. 1,
March, 1936.

already cooperated with the Department of Art in this
plan to further the objectives of a liberal education.

The second aspect of art education in college is
practice of art, or more particularly, creative drawing,
painting and modelling. In work of this nature we have
a complement to History and Criticism; in fact, each
phase of the subject helps in understanding the other.
Creative art stimulates the imagination, develops dex-
terity to a high degree, brings a sense of order. Here,
too, the individual discovers a capacity for enjoyment,
the possibilities of which most people never suspect.
It is all too true that no one ever sees anything as a
whole unless he draws it. He sees only part of it. Fur-
ther, only those who have worked long in color see the
colors of nature. The majority of people have an un-
developed color sense.

Most of us, I hope, have an understanding of cre-
ative art better than that of Mark Twain. Walking
into Whistler's studio one day, Mark carelessly ex-
tended his hand toward a part of a freshly painted
picture, as if to rub it out, saying at the same time, "I'd
do away with that cloud if I were you." Shouted
Whistler, "Good Heavens, man, have a care. Don't you
see the paint is still wet?" "Oh, that doesn't matter,"
replied Mark; "I've got my gloves on."

What a pitiful understanding of the creative spirit!
After all, there could have been no history of art with-
out creative art, as there could have been no literature
without authors. Some of our living artists and archi-
tects are moulding the history of art of today and to-
morrow.

These pictures collected in honor of your forme-
teacher are not necessarily loaned to stimulate art ap-
preciation, but rather to help raise the standards of
taste and to create an "understanding heart." We have
here, as it were, a survey of painting over half a thou-
sand years, from Ghirlandaio to Zorach. Keep them on
your walls to enjoy, to reflect upon the great men
who painted the originals, and in the larger view, upon
the civilizations which produced them. Art is a care-
ful record, and the first record, of civilization. As the
great Rodin once said, it is contemplation, it is the
joy of the intellect which sees clearly into the universe
and which recreates it, with conscientious vision. Art is
the most sublime mission of man, since it is the
expression of thought seeking to understand the world
and make it understood. 8

S. "Conversations."

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REPRESENTING ACNES SCOTT
AT ACADEMIC FUNCTIONS

University Of Wisconsin
Centennial Conference

by Frances Wilson Hurst '37

It was a pleasure to attend the University of
Wisconsin's centennial conference in October as
Agnes Scott's representative. There were about
300 representatives of 175 colleges, universities, and
educational organizations. The roster included
some 40 presidents and 75 deans and directors.
The conference was covered by Time and News-
week and educational journals.

On Friday afternoon I attended a round table
on "Financial Support for Higher Education,"
choosing it because Professor Harold Groves, who
was its chairman, is always lively. The case for
public funds was put by Robert B. Stewart, vice-
president of Purdue University, who forecast that
the federal government would have to pay as much
as 60 per cent of the costs of a college education
in the future, as it has been doing for GFs. He
recognized the danger of governmental dictation
in the colleges or, as he put it, the fact that "he
who pays the piper calls the tune"; but he saw
no other way to finance the greatly increasing en-
rollments. Charles Dollard, youthful president of
the Carnegie Corporation, spoke for private funds
in higher education. Naming private sources of
schools' income in the order of their emergency,
he said income from churches is no longer impor-
tant as a large source; gifts of individuals are be-
ing dried up by taxation; gifts from alumnae are
perhaps the "richest and least developed" source;
the number of philanthropic foundations is stead-
ily increasing but their gifts are generally for re-
search rather than for building or endowment so
that they will help to keep education dynamic
but will not keep it solvent; corporations are an
increasing source of funds for research but they
will rarely endow institutions or pay operating

expenses and there is a real question as to whether
they may properly give away the stockholders'
money to educational institutions; lastly, the gen-
eral public is a source which might be tapped by a
joint plea of colleges of a single state or region as
the United Negro College Fund has done so suc-
cessfully. Mr. Dollard fears federal even more
than state funds as the sole support for higher
education, in that freedom, flexibility, and the
participation of donors in college plans would be
lost if private support were lost.

A speech by President Frank Graham of the
University of North Carolina, which I heard Fri-
day evening, was perhaps the highlight of the
weekend for me. I came to admire Dr. Graham, as
did everyone else who knew him, when he was a
member of the National War Labor Board and
I was one of its lowly employees. He seems toj
have all the Christian virtues: to be gentle, fear-
less, humble, humane.

On the program with Dr. Graham was President
DuBridge of California Institute of Technology,
who gave a lively talk on higher education and
research. He discussed the relationship of teach-
ers' scholarship to the students' education and held
that an active research worker makes a better
teacher than one who merely instructs, because
the former is more stimulating. "Education and
research are two sides of one coin scholarship."
"The ideal is to have all the faculty true scholars,
all the students there for intellectual endeavour."

"Faculty and lay participation in policy formul
lation" was the title of the round table I attended
Saturday afternoon. I chose this one because one
of the speakers was G. C. Sellery, retired dean of
the liberal arts college here, and former acting
president of the university. He spoke pungently
(as always) and, on this subject, straight from his
own experience. A good deal of this discussion
concerned department heads, school heads, regents,
and such intricacies of a large university's hier-
archy. Dean Sellery quoted Frederick Jackson

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rurner (of whom the U.W. is justly and loudly
jroud): "II you want to form a great Univer-
ity you need only appoint good professors and
urn them loose." A young professor from Teach-
:rs College, Columbia, Freeman Butts, went into
greater detail as to how to increase efficiency by
uller participation of all groups. He urged a
vritten procedure between the faculty and admin-
stration on control of faculty hiring and firing,
enure, promotions, etc. He thought the faculty
Iiould have some voice (nominating or serving
m committee) in choosing their president. Mr.
iutts defined laymen as the administration, pai-
nts, students, alumnae, board of control (trus-
ses). Dean Sellery used the term "laymen" to
lean regents and legislature (in regard to a state
niversity, of course.)

One of the few people I met at the conference
'as Sweet Briar's director of publicity, who knows
)orothy Jester well and says that, as assistant to
le dean and in charge of granting permissions,
)orothy is "always gentle, so that the girls love
er, but they never get away with anything."
ounds like another Miss Hopkins in the making.

resident Eisenhower's
laugural Ceremonies

y Mary Hamilron McKnight '34

When Dr. McCain asked me to represent Agnes
:ott at Dwight D. Eisenhower's installation as
resident of Columbia University, I accepted with
lixed feelings. I was proud and grateful that
e had chosen me but at the same time a little
ervous. I am a housewife, pure and simple, and
ly reading rarely goes deeper than the latest
acket detective yarn. I was afraid I would be out
: place in a scholarly assemblage. At one time

even considered writing Dr. McCain that I
>uldn't do it. Now I am very, very thankful that

did not, for it was a never-to-be-forgotten oc-
;sion.

The event itself has been covered fully by press
id radio, and I will not go over that ground
;ain here. Instead I will try to give my rather
ileidoscopic impressions of it.

On the evening before the inauguration there
as a reception in honor of the former general and
s wife. There I discovered first-hand why many

people would have liked to have made Eisenhower
president of the country instead of a university.
My meeting with him was brief a handshake, a
smile, a word of greeting but in that short mo-
ment I had a glimpse of the warmth and charm
of his personality. He said, "I'm so glad you could
come"; what is more, he sounded as if he meant it.

Mrs. Eisenhower was very gracious. In a white
satin evening dress with full hooped skirt she was
attractive and youthful-looking. From her smile
and the twinkle in her eyes I gathered that she has
a well-developed sense of humor and is probably
a person it would be quite a lot of fun to know.

Columbus Day, which was chosen for the event,
dawned mild and misty. I deposited my children
with a kind neighbor and started out for New
York with my cap and hood in a hatbox. I car-
ried my robe over my arm and hoped it looked
like a coat. It probably didn't, though, for sev-
eral people looked at me questioningly.

I have lived in New York or thereabouts for
over five years. One would think that by now
I would know my way around. But I don't. I
boarded the subway at Penn Station and got off
several stops later expecting to find myself in the
heart of Columbia. Instead I was in the middle
of Lennox Avenue. It was one-thirty. I was sup-
posed to be there at one-forty. Luckily I found a
cab and the driver whisked me across town, all
the while consoling me with tales of others who
had wound up in Harlem when they meant to go
to Broadway. And so I reached the designated
place on time.

The procession was a masterpiece of organiza-
tion. No one knew what he was supposed to do
at least I know I didn't and yet everything went
off without a hitch. There were almost four hun-
dred delegates from leading universities and col-
leges both here and abroad. Representatives were
lined up according to the dates their schools had
been founded, and I drew for a partner a graduate
of the University of Idaho, which has the same
birth date (1889) as Agnes Scott. He was only a
lowly alumnus too, and we gave each other moral
courage in the midst of a spectacle of gold tassels
and academic royalty.

There were many great men present. Sir Oliver
Franks, the British ambassador, represented Ox-
ford. Conant of Harvard was there and Stassen,
Pennsylvania's new' president. I could not begin

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to name them all. I am sorry that Dr. McCain was
unable to attend and take his rightful place among
them.

In the past I have been wont to disparage pomp
and ceremony as empty things. Not any more.
That day at Columbia I learned how exhilarating
it can be to be a part of a great, splendid pageant.
I have never seen a more colorful assembly. Al-
though the traditional black predominated, there
were many gowns of varied hues. One was light
blue trimmed with ermine, another was rich bur-
gundy and still another a royal purple. Instead
of a mortar board one of the delegates Wore an

oversized beret of heavy velvet. There is probably
some special name for it, but I'm not up on acade-
mic fashions. Most of the unusual attires belonged
to representatives of the foreign universities, I
imagine.

Eisenhower remained very human in spite of
all his regal robes. He flashed his famous smile
at friends in the audience as he marched in, and
on his way out he stepped out of line to give Mrs.
Eisenhower a little reassuring tap on the shoulder.
From the ovation he received it was evident that
the crowd loved him.

For that matter, so did I.

Dorothea Snodgrass Townsend ex-'10

Our Alma Mater was written by Dorothea Snodgrass of Chattanooga,
some time between 1907 and 1909. As well as I can remember, it was
a spontaneous thing and not the outgrowth of any competition.

Dorothea was always trying her hand at verse, but she never seemed
concerned about its value and was amazed that any lines of hers should
gain any form of perpetuity.

Dorothea was a colorful figure. She would have been vivid in a
much larger college and perhaps better appreciated. She was both the
despair and the joy of her professors. She had no patience with boredom
and was allergic to the exact sciences, but she reveled in all the fine
arts. So of course she chose to become "an irregular."

Her instinct for good literature was strengthened by early and per-
sistent habits of reading. At ten she started Dickens, and by the time
she was twelve she had most of his characters deeply rooted in her con-
sciousness. Her taste for poetry was discriminating and keen. Her amaz-
ing verbal memory enabled her to quote endlessly from her favorites.

Perhaps her most apparent qualities were her wit, her gaiety, and
her love of the whimsical and the ludicrous. She had rich resources
within herself for the enjoyment of life and an ability to pass on some
of that zest to others.

Music was a real part of her life. She played and sang for her
own enjoyment and was familiar with a wide range of music.

She was never restrained by too great conventionality and was
consequently often delightfully unpredictable.

As she grew older her humor grew kinder. An unhappy marriage
did not embitter her.

When the last war came, she threw herself wholeheartedly and
unselfishly into whatever war work came to hand. Her whole desire
was to help end the struggle that had taken almost immediately the
life of one of her beloved nephews and was holding another in a Japanese
prison camp.

Then she was struck by the incurable disease of leukemia. She did
not live to know that her young nephew was to be among those rescued
at the close of the war. But she kept alive that hope during her trying
illness. Her courage was supreme through great suffering.

As one who loved Dorothea Snodgrass Townsend, I welcome the
opportunity to pay her this tribute.

Margaret McCallie '09

Jule Hunter Bethea '33

The shocking news of the
death of Jule Bethea from leu-
kemia on August 20 grieved
many alumnae, for Jule was one
of those rare girls in a class that
everyone in the college knew
and liked.

She was born in Louisville,
Georgia, graduated from the
Louisville Academy in 1929 and
graduated from, Agnes Scott in
the class of '33. She was a chem-
istry and German major, won
her AS in athletics with her
hockey, swimming and golf.
She belonged to Blackfriars and
Cotillion and was a Grand-
daughter. She was business man-
ager of the Silhouette her sen-
ior year. After graduation she
took the laboratory technician's
course at the Graduate Hospi-
tal in Philadelphia and, after a
few years at the Student Health
Service of the University of
Pennsylvania, became technician
for Dr. David Reisman, a prom-
inent Philadelphia physician.
After his death, she remained
with his partner, Dr. David A.
Cooper, until her own death.

Jule could always see the
humorous side of every situa-
tion, even in her last illness.
She was a staunch and unsslfish
friend. Her great charm lay in
the fact that she was always
"Jule" and never made any pre-
tense of being anyone else a
completely genuine and unaf-
fected personality.

Mary Sturtevant Bean '33

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The huge luncheon in the Gym which inaugurated the campus campaign. Trustees and campaign prin-
cipals are on the stage; faculty and staff at the tables running from left to right just below; and the classes
n the foreground.

CAMPUS DOUBLES ITS QUOTA

n Launching Of $1,500,000 Campaign

"If all our alumnae and friends could be here
oday," said Dr. McCain, "we'd have the $1,500,000
ight now."

He spoke from the stage of Presser Hall in the
>rief silence following the campus community's
heering and applause at its own prowess in rais-
ng $40,219 in the $20,000 campaign kickoff drive.
According to Agnes Scott tradition, the campus
tudents, faculty and staff had undertaken to
>rovide a healthy starter for the million-dollar
College campaign. Doubling their quota, they won
: two-day celebration holiday which they chose to
ake on the Friday and Saturday after Thanks-
;iving.

Dr. McCain's brief speech recognized the power
of the phenomenal community spirit which had
caught up the campus in the two weeks preceding
the final reckoning in chapel. What he said was
true: no one who had ever been connected with
Agnes Scott could have beheld that closing rally
without wanting to become a part of it.

The campus drive had started with a mammoth
luncheon, arranged by Miss Leslie Gaylord of the
Department of Mathematics, in the Gymnasium.
With college officials and trustees seated at a ta-
ble on the stage, students and faculty members
filled the main floor 600 strong amid giant decora-
tions following a football motif (the theme of

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the campus campaign). Professor Walter B. Posey
of the History Department acted as master of cere-
monies; Dr. McCain and George Winship, chair-
man of the Board of Trustees, spoke on the aims
of the campaign; spokesmen for the five teams
(four classes and faculty) expressed the determina-
tion of their respective groups to do their share.
Cheer leaders exhorted the teams to a high pitch
of excitement in the singing of special campaign
compositions in the boastful manner associated
with football yells. (The punch line of the faculty
song was "This is one time we'll pass you all!")
Lewis Johnson and Rebekah McDuffie Clarke of
the Music Department, with Helena Williams of
the Physical Education contingent, stood on chairs
to urge their colleagues to greater vocal achieve-
ment. A uniformed student band, complete with
a gifted freshman majorette, boomed out football
airs in the intervals. Life-size football players, in-
geniously contrived of chicken wire and crepe pa-
per, hung from the walls in various characteristic
attitudes, including that proper to centering the
ball. Purple and white streamers made a huge

canopy over the entire room, and table decorations
and favors identified the teams.

That occasion, on October 28, marked the be-
ginning of serious campaigning. A miniature foot-
ball field in the lobby of Buttrick showed the

On the edge of the powwow: Tribe Members
Lobeck, Ham, Stakes, Alston, and Glick, with
Christie, Clarke, and Laney behind them. Pa-
pooses in left foreground were provided by mem-
bers of the cast.

Chief McCain (left) hears conflicting advice from Tribe Brain Trusters Leyburn, Omwake, MacDou-
gall, Dunstan, Mell, and Jackson. A moment of mingled emotions in the faculty campaign skit.

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Agues Scott players poised to meet their toes the
Greenbacks. Class solicitors organized, as was the
whole campus drive, by Mortar Board, worked
energetically through the dormitories and day
student haunts for 100 per cent subscriptions.
Student organizations were approached for pledges;
students wrote to their parents. Mathematics Pro-
fessor Henry Robinson and Mortar Board Presi-
dent Doris Sullivan (sister of Louise Sullivan Fry,
life president of the Class of 1940) kept the wheels
turning. The five teams gave chapel skits, the
faculty whooping down the aisle of Presser dressed
in feathers and blankets and holding a powwow
on the stage around Chief McCain, who sported
a full fndian headdress.

Actual subscribing took place November 8-11.
its progress shown by that of the miniature play-

One of the class campaign skits, pursuing the
football theme.

ers representing each team on the field in Buttrick.
An anonymous donor had offered $1000 each to
the classes (1) first reporting 100 per cent sub-
scription, (2) raising the largest total amount, (3)
turning in the largest individual gift, and (4) do-
ing the best campaign promotion. The prizes, of
course, were to be added to the contributions of the
winning classes.

Came the day, when Gaines Chapel was packed
with cheering partisans. A student built up sus-
pense from behind the microphone on the stage
as Chairmen Sullivan and Robinson added up
last-minute totals and at last chalked the results
on a blackboard:

Faculty and Staff $11,633.00

Seniors 8,341.00

Juniors 4,277.50

Sophomores 4,762.50

Freshmen 5,483.00

Organizations 1,185.00

Class of 1948 537.00

Prizes (all won by Senior Class) 4,000.00

Students had a wonderful time at the luncheon,
then went forth and raised double their quota.
Every student contributed, and gifts from their
parents ranged up to $2,500.

$40,219.00
The loudest ovation of the day went to John
Flint, headwaiter in the College dining room and
an Agnes Scott employee of 39 years' standing,
who appeared at the microphone to announce that
the 65 colored employees had contributed 100 per
cent. He and Henry Simmons, who is known to
Agnes Scott students of the last 22 years, had
undertaken the solicitation.

The doubly successful conclusion of the cam-

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pus drive, to which every person in the College
community contributed, was the signal for the
beginning of the campaign among alumnae and
other friends of Agnes Scott. It was a magnificent
performance by students and their parents, who
had already been informed that tuition and board
would be raised from $1000 to $1200 next year,
and by the faculty, who had been told regretfully
by Dr. McCain that the brickmasons at work on
the Frances Winship Walters infirmary were be-
ing paid at a higher rate than they were.

Husbands' Committee
Organizes Auxiliary
College Campaign

Husbands of Agnes Scott alumnae stepped for-
ward early in December to lend aid to their wives
in the $1,500,000 campaign. With Henry E. New-
ton (Maryellen Harvey '16) as chairman, a central
committee drawn from the Atlanta area met at
the Alumnae House December 3 to plan a special
appeal to their fellow alumnae husbands.

At the dinner meeting were Samuel Inman Coop-
er (Augusta Skeen '17), Hugh Dorsey, Jr. (Laura
Whitner '35), Holcombe Green (Kitty Woltz '33),
Boisfeuillet Jones (Laura Coit '38), Robert L.
MacDougall (Margaret McDow '24), Dr. J. C. Mas-
see (Sara Carter '29), Walter Paschall (Eliza King
'38), Searcy B. Slack (Julia Pratt Smith '12), and
Bealy Smith (Betty Lou Houck '35). Dowse B.
Donaldson (Fannie G. Mayson '12) and Phil Nar-
more (Nancy Lou Knight '27), both members of
the committee, were absent. President McCain;
George Winship, chairman of the Board of Trus-
tees; Dean S. G. Stukes; Betty Lou Houck Smith
'35, president of the Alumnae Association, and
Eleanor Hutchens '40, director of alumnae affairs,
also were at the session.

After examining campaign objectives and dis-
cussing various plans of action, the committee de-
cided to begin its work by mailing an appeal to
all alumnae husbands before the end of 1948 and
by inviting about forty out-of-town husbands to
take over area chairmanships.

Mr. Newton, father of Jane Anne Newton Mar-
quess '46 and of Reese Newton, who as a senior
this year holds the presidency of her class for the

At the speakers' table: George Winship, chair-
man of the Board of Trustees of the College; Made-
laine Dunseith Alston ex-28, wife of the vice-presi-
dent; Toastmaster Waller Posey; President McCain.

fourth time, dispatched the first general husband
appeal in the middle of December just as The
Quarterly went to the printer, so that a report on
the response must come later.

Class Reunions, 1949

Fourteen instead of the usual thirteen classes
probably will hold reunions at Agnes Scott next
June 4.

Scheduled to come back are alumnae of 1906,
1907, 1908, 1909; 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928; 1944,
1945, 1946, 1947, and. 1948. Some of the Class of
1924, which had its official reunion last year, are
writing their fellow members suggesting a bigger
and better one this year in celebration of their
twenty-fifth anniversary.

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ALUMNAE WEEKEND BRINGS
100 BACK FOR CLASSES, TALKS

The first alumnae Weekend since the war, held
>n the campus November 19 and 20, drew more
han 100 alumnae back to Agnes Scott to sit in
hi classes, hear reports on the state of the Col-
ege, lunch together, and expose their children
o mutual admiration.

Two special events focused interest on current
ducation: a talk on high school preparation for
he liberal arts college by Ruth Slack Smith '12,
ind a review of James Bryant Conant's Education
n a Divided World by Dr. Catherine Sims of the
iistory Department. In a spirited general discus-
ion after Mrs. Smith's address, which she delivered
rom her experience and standing as dean of un-
lergraduate instruction at the Woman's College
if Duke University, alumnae expressed themselves
trongly in favor of more substantial high school
[reparation with less peripheral material. In-
identally, those at the meeting stood firmly for
he continuance of the pure liberal arts tradition
t Agnes Scott. One young housewife and mother
eatly summed up the several comments thus:

"Faced with the choice between European Clas-
ics and cooking, I might have been stupid enough
d take cooking. I am glad I was not given that
hoice . . . There is a need and a demand for a
allege of high academic standing in this part of
le country. Please let Agnes Scott go on being
lat college!"

Practically all groups concerned directly with
ducation were represented at the meeting and
ere heard: mothers of children from pre-school
) college age, public school teachers, at least one
rivate school teacher, and several college teach-
:s. One of the last alumnae, a member of the
gnes Scott faculty, described the discussion later
i "the most exciting and heartening thing I've
eard in a long time."

A free-lance journalist, not an alumna, had asked

permission to attend the meeting and took notes
which resulted in the appearance of an article
called "Too Many Educational Fads?", by Asso-
ciate Editor Doris Lockerman of The Atlanta Con-
stitution.

"The position that secondary education should
prepare boys and girls to think, and give them a
basis of history and culture against which to bal-
ance their judgment, is being discussed more and
more in educational circles," Mrs. Lockerman ob-
served after reviewing Mrs. Smith's talk. "As the
pendulum has swung abruptly to include prepara-
tions for practical living, there are forces pulling
it back to the days when Latin was required . . ."

Besides Mrs. Smith and Dr. Sims, alumnae heard
President McCain; their own President Betty Lou
Houck Smith '35 who threw them and the stu-
dent body into the aisles of Gaines Chapel with
her statistics on how many diapers she had changed,
noses she had blown, drops of cod liver oil she
had administered, and baths she had given since
the first of her five children was born; Vice-Presi-
dent Wallace Alston; Professor George Hayes; and
the College Choir. They saw Blackfriars do a
rollicking good job in Our Hearts Were Young
and Gay, and they and their children watched
German puppet films at a party which ended the
Weekend. They socialized with each other at two
luncheons and with the faculty at a coffee fol-
lowing Dr. Sims review, and they went away so
Weekend Chairman Jean Bailey Owen '39 hoped
having recaptured the flavor of academic life
and seen their friends again in the atmosphere
where memory had always held them.

The months of planning and working for the
Weekend were the contribution of Mrs. Owen
and her committee: Lucile Alexander '11, Nelle
Chamlee Howard '34, and Elizabeth Winn Wilson
'34. Hayden Sanford Sams '39 and Douglas Lyle
Rowlett '39 stepped in to take charge of social

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entertainment and the children's party, respec-
tively.

On campus for Alumnae Weekend to represent
Institute classes were Annie Wiley Preston, Caro-
line Haygood Harris, Lula Kingsberry Wilson.
Clare Harden Barber, Mary McPherson Alston,
and Roba Goss Ansley.

Susie Johnson represented the Academy; Lizza-
bel Saxon, the Class of 1908; Jennie Anderson and
Lucy Johnson Ozmer, the Class of 1910.

From the Class of 1911 were Gussie O'Neal John-
son, Florinne Brown Arnold, Theodosia Willing-
ham, and Lucile Alexander. Members of the Class
of 1912 who were at the College are Fannie G.
Mayson Donaldson, Ruth Slack Smith, Julia Pratt
Smith Slack, Cornelia Cooper and Martha Hall
Young.

Emma Pope Moss Dieckmann '13, Linda Miller
Summer '14, Martha Rogers Noble '14, Maryellen
Harvey Newton '16, Isabel Dew '17, Eva Maie
Willingham Park '18, Llewellyn Wilburn '19, and
Thelma Brown Aiken '21 were on hand for the
Weekend.

Representing the Class of '22 were Laurie Belle
Stubbs Johns, Ruth Hall Bryant, Jeannette Archer
Neal, and Elizabeth Nichols Lowndes. Joyce Alex-
ander Rhyne and Carolyn Langford Plunket of
the Class of '23 were back. Dick Scandrett and
Frances Gilliland Strikes of the Class of '24 and
Mary Ben Wright Erwin '25 were present.

Mrs. Wallace Alston (Madelaine Dunseith ex-
'28) at the Alumnae Weekend faculty coffee with
Martha Rogers Noble '14, Dr. Catherine Sims of
the Department of History and Political Science,
and Linda Miller Summer '14.

From the Class of '26 were Ellen Fain Bowen,
Catherine Mock Hodgin, Polly Perkins Ferry, Peg-
gy Whittemore Flowers, Mary Elizabeth Gregory,
Edythe Coleman Paris, Louise Bennett, and Sarah
Quinn Slaughter.

From the Class of '27 were Kenneth Manei
Powell, Mary Weems Rogers, and Willie May
Coleman Duncan.

Mary Sayward Rogers, Madelaine Dunseith Als
ton, Louise Girardeau Cook, Alice Louise Hunter
Rasnake, Frances Craighead Dwyer, and Dorothy
Harper Nix talked over old times of the Class ol
'28. From '29 were Julia Wayne Poss, Mary War
ren Read, Hazel Hood, and Sarah Mae Rikard.

Katherine Crawford Adams, Frances Brown Mil
ton, Lillian Dale Thomas, and Crystal Hope Well
born Gregg represented the Class of '30. From
'31 were Marion Fielder Martin and Martha Tow
er Dance.

Alumnae of '32 back were Penelope Brown
Barnett, Mary Sutton Miller Brown, Flora Riley
Bynum, Grace Fincher Trimble, Catherine Bakei
Matthews, Elizabeth Hughes, and Mildred Hall
Cornwell.

Kitty Woltz Green and Polly Jones Jackson of
the Class of '33 were present. Nelle Chamlee How-
ard, Frances Adair, Elizabeth Winn Wilson, and
Bella Wilson registered for 1934.

Betty Lou Houck Smith, Fidesah Edwards In-
gram, Mary Lillian Deason, Elizabeth Alexander
Higgins, Vella Marie Behm Cowan, and Mary Vir-
ginia Allen were present for '35.

Representing the Class of 1937 were Ann Cox
Williams, Sarah Johnson Linney, Frances Steele
Gordy, Molly Jones Monroe, Helen DuPree Park,
and Laura Steele.

From the Class of '38 were Eliza King Paschal],
Jean Chalmers Smith, Eleanor Whitson Lassetter,
and Mary Elizabeth Galloway Blount. From
were Mary Allen Reding, Jean Bailey Owen, Eliza-
beth Furlow Brown, Julia Sewell Carter, and
Rachel Campbell Gibson.

Registering with the Class of '40 were Lillie Belle
Drake, Eleanor Hutchens, Kathleen Jones Dur-
den, Mary Reins Burge, Elizabeth Alderman Vin-
son, Mary Caroline Lee Mackay, Eloise Weeks
Gibson, Ernestine Cass McGee, and Nell Moss
Roberts.

Gene Slack Morse represented the Class of '41.
Present from the Class of '42 were Betty Med-

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<-'12 have a family chat at the faculty-alumnae
iffee.

>ck, Anne Chambless Bateman, Lois Ions Nichols,
lary Kirkpatrick Reed, and Betty Robertson

Schear.

From the Class of 1943 were Dorothy Holloran
Addison, Mary Anne Atkins Paschal, and Alice Cle-
ments Shinall. From '44 were Ann Katherine Sul-
livan Huffmaster, Mary Elizabeth Walker Blount,
and Katheryn Thompson Mangum. From 1945
were Mary Neely Norris King, Jean Newton Mc-
Cord, Martha Jean Gower Woolsey, Emily Higgins
Bradley, and Molly Milam.

Representing the Class of '46 were Emily Ann
Bradford Batts, Jane Bowman, Marjorie Naab
Bolen, fane Anne Newton Marquess, Betty Wein-
schenk, Ruth Ryner Lay, Bettye Lee Phelps Dou-
glas, Sally Sue Stephenson, Anne Register, and
Vickie Alexander.

Virginia Dickson, Betty Routsos, Doris Riddick,
Dorothy Galloway, Carroll Taylor, Betty Jean
Radford, and Jane Meadows Oliver were present
for the Class of '47.

From the Class of 1948 were Sheely Little Schenk
and Roberta Maclagan Wingard.

vents At The College
his Month And Next

ebruary 1 : Richard Peter McKeon, Distin-
guished Service Professor of Greek and philo-
sophy at the University of Chicago and former
dean of the Division of Humanities. Presented
by the Department of Philosophy through cour-
tesy of the University Center in Georgia. Mac-
lean Auditorium, Presser Hall, 8:30 p.m. No
charge.

ebruary 12: Agnes Scott College Dance Group
presentation, Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall, 8:30
p.m. Admission 60 cents.

sbruary 14-17: Religious Emphasis Week. Don-
ald Miller, professor of New Testament, Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. for the
third successive year. Gaines Chapel, Presser
Hall, 10:00 a.m.

eb

ruary

Handel's Messiah. Presented by

the Agnes Scott College Glee Club and Chorus.
Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall, 3:30 p.m. No
charge.

[arch 19: Ancient Maya, an exhibit presented
through April 2 by the Department of Art.
Room 321, Buttrick Hall, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
except Sunday. No charge.

March 30: Sirarpie Der Nersessian, professor of
Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Dumbarton
Oaks, Washington, and former head of the Art
Department of Wellesley College. Presented by
the Atlanta Society of the Archaeological Insti-
tute of America. Maclean Auditorium, Presser
Hall, 8:00 p.m. No charge.

The President's Voice

Alumnae in 31 cities who would like to hear the
voice of their president, Betty Lou Houck Smith
'35, may do so by calling the local Time of Day
service. Her excellent speech has made her the
choice of the service to record its announcements
in Asheville, N. C, Augusta, Ga., Beaumont,
Texas, Charleston, S. C, Charleston, W. Va., Chi-
cago, 111., Columbia, S. C, Des Moines, Iowa,
Fort Worth, Texas, Galveston, Texas, Greensboro,
N. C, Greenville, S. C, Indianapolis, Ind., Madi-
son, Wis., Memphis, Tenn., Miami, Fla., Mobile,
Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Nashville, Tenn., New
York, N. Y., Norfolk, Va., Orlando, Fla., Racine,
Wis., Raleigh, N. C, St. Joseph, Mo., San An-
tonio, Texas, San Francisco, Calif., Savannah, Ga.,
South Bend, Ind., Topeka, Kans., and Washing-
ton, D. C.

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Agnes Scott Clubs Meet Dr. Alston;
Founder's Day Plans Initiated

Alumnae clubs and unorganized groups in seven-
teen cities outside of the Atlanta area met in the
last four months of 1948 with Dr. Wallace M.
Alston, vice-president of the College, who will suc-
ceed Dr. McCain as president by 1951. Dr. Alston
also spoke at meetings of the three Atlanta and
Decatur clubs, and Dean Carrie Scandrett '24 went
to Columbia, S. C, as guest of the club there.
Alumnae President Betty Lou Houck Smith '35
had tea with a small group in New York.

One alumna in each city, on the request of the
Alumnae Office, arranged for the meeting with
Dr. Alston, not a single one declining to undertake
the responsibility. The gatherings were reported
as successful without exception, usually having
lasted several hours as planned entertainment gave
way to informal conversation. Back at the College,
Dr. Alston said that the sessions had given him
invaluable insight into the nature of Agnes Scott
and its needs. He looked forward to still more en-
lightenment: visits were scheduled for him early
in 1949 to New York, Mobile, New Orleans, Baton
Rouge, Houston, Austin, Boston, Washington,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, W. Va., and
Macon. After the middle of March, he will begin
teaching philosophy at the College.

Decatur-Atlanta

The Atlanta, Decatur, and Atlanta Junior clubs
met monthly, for the most part centering their
programs around the College itself. Dr. McCain
and Dr. Alston spoke to all three. The Atlanta
club, offering its members a mixture of Agnes
Scott news and current world affairs, at its Novem-
ber session presented students from the three fine
arts departments at the College. Voice students
sang, two members of Blackfriars gave a one-act
comedy, and three art students traced the prac-
tical work of their department from the first
drawing in beginners' class to a finished oil paint-
ing, illustrating with actual examples of the work
as they talked. Prospective students are invited
to all Atlanta Club meetings, which are held on
the third Tuesday of the month.

Before the national elections, a Pi Alpha Phi
debate trio entertained the Atlanta Junior and

Decatur clubs with arguments for three of the
contending parties.

The Atlanta Junior Club, meeting at 8 p.m. on
the second Tuesday in the Alumnae House, anc
made up of alumnae in Greater Atlanta who attend
ed Agnes Scott in the Class of 1940 or later, was
planning intensive work after January 1 to secure
100 per cent contribution to the College Campaigr
from its potential members. By mid-December,
twenty members of the club had given or pledgee
a total of $1,400. Many were working on in
dividual money-making projects suggested and or
ganized by the club: knitting, the sale of Christ
mas cards, baby-sitting, typing, and other spare
time pursuits.

The Decatur Club meets on the fourth Mon
day afternoon in the Alumnae House.

As 1948 ended, the Alumnae Office was pre
paring material to aid clubs and unorganized
groups in holding Founder's Day meetings on
February 22.

Anniston

At the Anniston meeting Sept. 18 were Mary
Evelyn Arnold Barker '24, Iona Cater '34, Addie
McCaa Butler '19, Mary Adelaide Robinson Rob
erts, Inst., Nellie Tyler Bennett '42, Rosa White
Harn '29, Miriam Boyd Fisher '30, and Julia Har
vard Warnock '44.

Montgomery

Among those attending the alumnae meeting in
Montgomery, Alabama, on September 23, were
Mickey Jones Ingalls '43, Margaret Booth, Inst.
Elizabeth Little Letton '33, Olive Weeks Collin;
'32, Mildred Duncan '31, Elizabeth Moore Ellii
'41, Elmore Bellingrath Bartlett '31, Emma Legg
Jones Smith '18, Claude Martin Lee '17, France;
Espy Cooper '35.

Richmond

Those attending the alumnae breakfast at the
Training School in Richmond, Va., in October
were Rachel Henderlite '28, Margie Wakefield '27
Maryanna Hollandsworth '48, Mary Stuart Hatcf
'48, Susan Neville '48, Mary Ann Craig '47, Via

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dnia Barksdale '47, Sarah Walker '46, Stratton Lee
46.

Alumnae attending the luncheon in Richmond,
/a., on Oct. 9, were Page Ackerman '33, Carrie
^ena McMuIlen Bright '34, Dean McKoin Bush-
>ng '36, Barton Jackson Cathey '37, Florence Gra-
lam '40, Marjorie Lowe Haley '23, Mary Junkin

28, Rachel Henderlite '28, Louise Gardner Mal-
ory '46, Sallie Peake '30, Nannie Campbell Roache
23, Margie Wakefield, Mardie Hopper Brown '43,
Minnie Hamilton Mallinson '48, Helga Stixrud
46, Stratton Lee '46, Sarah Walker '46, Mary
stuart Hatch '48, Marianna Hollandsworth '48,

lizabeth Julia Chapman Pirkle '26, Glassed Beale
jmalley '47.

Charlotte

Alumnae who attended the meeting in Char-
otte, N. C, on Oct. 5 were Frances Medlin Walker
30, Elizabeth Sutton Gray '32, Rebecca Whaley
lountree '20, Jane Bailey Hall Hefner '30, Gene
Caldwell Dellinger '38, Ora Glenn Rogerts '16,
fackie Burns Bain '45, Mattie Winn Wright, Inst.,
\lice Cowles Barringer, Inst., Virginia McCurdy
rlarris '36, Mary K. Jones Campbell, Inst., Sara
Sloan Shoonmaker '39, Mary Boyd Jones '33, Belle
Stowe Abernethy '30, Mabel Stowe Query '43, Mar-
garet Ladd May '25, Mary Brock Mallard Reynolds
19, Mary Rountree '45, Ailsie Cross '17, Marion
3arr Hanner '45, Eloise Gaines Wilburn '28, Lula
Campbell Ivey '22, Lucy Timmerman '23, Louisa
Duls '26, Anne Kyle McLaughlin '17, Mary Louise
VlcGuire Plonk, '16, Sue Ethel Rae Rone '19,
Dlyde McDaniel Jackson '10, Shirley Gately Ibach
43, Mary Margaret Stowe Hunter '36, Anne Gilley-
en Quarles, Inst., Carrie Latimer Duvall '36, Mar-
garet Ogden Stewart '30, Alice Caldwell Davidson
48, Romola Davis Hardy '20, Olive Spencer Jones

29, Frances Miller Felts '36, Mabel Ardrey Stew-
trt, Inst., Sarah Till Davis '22, Maria Rose '25,
Dorothy Bradley '34, Virginia Alexander Gaines,
nst., Mary Jones Campbell, Inst. Thelma Al-
right, former faculty member, also was present.

Winston-Salem

Among those attending the alumnae luncheon
m Oct. 6, in Winston-Salem, N. C, were Sarah
3oals Spinks '07, Ruth Anderson O'Neal '18,
Vferiel Bull Mitchell '36, Jeannette Archer Neal
22, Elizabeth Norfleet Miller '27, Diana Dyer '32,

harlotte Hunter '29, Lillian May McAlpine But-

ner '24, Marjorie McAlpine Moore '19, Cleo Mc-
Laurine Baldridge '27, Caroline Gray Truslow '41,
Anne Hoyt Jolley '46, Carolyn Nash Hathaway '30,
and Miss Marion Blair, former faculty member.

Tampa

Present at the meeting with Dr. Alston in Tampa
Oct. 12 were Ethlyn Coggin Miller '44, Julia Mose-
ley Rich '40, Helen Ford Lake '36, Esther Byrnes
Higginbotham '39, Nell Frye Johnston '16, Elise
Tilghman '44, Grace Anderson Cooper '40, Mattie
Henderson Harris, Inst., Frances West '15, Nellie
Blackburn Airth, Inst., Laurie Caldwell Tucker
'17, Edna Runnette Chubbuck, Inst., and Mary
Louise Robinson Black '33.

Orlando

The thirteen alumnae who were "present at the
alumnae luncheon in Orlando,' Fla. on Oct. 13,
were Lucile Smith Bishop '21, Elizabeth Ruprecht
Boyd '41, Jeanne Lee Butt '42, Joyce Roper Mc-
Key '38, Grace Bargeron Rambo '24, Edith Love-
joy Wilson, Inst., Mary Jarman Nelson '25, Mary
Virginia Brown Cappleman '40, Mary Hyer Dale
'15, Anne Stine Hughes '47, Eleanor Frances Hop-
kins Griffin '27, Imogene Allen Booth '23, Kath-
erine Leary Holland '30.

Jacksonville

Alumnae present at the luncheon in Jackson-
ville, Fla., on Oct. 15, at the Yacht Club were
Sarah Joyce Cunningham Carpenter '39, Montene
Melson Mason '45, Mary Dean Lott Lee '42, Ruth
Allgood Camp '41, Tommy Ruth Blackmon Waldo
'38, Frances Norman Young '38, Gertrude Briese-
nick Ross '15, Ann Gellerstedt Turlington '42,
Mary Trammed '30, Sallie Broome Clark, Inst.,
Margaret Wood Watson '25, Helen Merrill Slap-
pey, Acad., Jacqueline Rolston Shires '25.

Tallahassee

Meeting for the luncheon in Tallahassee, Fla.,
on Oct. 16, were Margaret Yancey '48, Helen
Etheredge Griffin '33, Ermine Malone Owenby
'28, Margaret Powell Flowers '44, Anne Eidson
'47, Mildred Hooten Keen '33, Mamie J. Bierly,
Inst., Olive Hardwick Cross '18, Hazel Solomon
Beazley '40, Laura Haygood Roberts, Inst., Emma
Hargrove Chastain '19, Katherine Philips Long
'44, Emily Rowe '36, Celetta Powell Jones '46,
Sara May Love '34, Elizabeth Lynn '27, Frances
Sledd Blake '19.

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Greensboro

Those attending the alumnae luncheon in
Greensboro, N. C, on Nov. 15 were Lela Boyles
Smith '32, Frances W. Good '30, Lila Peck Walker
'42, Polly Frink Bunnell '42, Virginia Williams
Goodwin '36, Mildred Harris '21, Barbara Frink
Hatch '45, Cora Strong, Inst., Anne Frierson
Smoak '43, Jean McAlister '21, Vera Pruet LeCraw
'35.

Durham

At the Durham meeting Nov. 16 Dr. Alston met
Florence Brinkley '14, Frances Brown '28, Eliza-
beth Bolton '33, Ella Lambeth Rankin, Spec, Al-
lene Ramage '26, Mary Whitaker Flowers, Acad.,
Ruth Slack Smith '12, and Florrie Guy Funk '41.

Chapel Hill

Alumnae present at the meeting in Chapel Hill,
N. C.j on Nov. 18 were Porter Cowles Pickell '33,
Rita Adams '49, Gay Currie '42, Kathryn Hill
Whitfield '44, Sarah Watson Emery '33, Ann Hat-
good Martin '47, Bettye M. Smith '46, Shirley
Graves Cochrane '46, Lila Williams Rose '10,
Rosemary May Kent '33, Elizabeth Enloe Mc-
Carthy '21, Anne Rogers '47, and Susan Rose Saun-
ders '26.

Tuscumbia
The fifteen alumnae who attended the lunch-
eon at Tuscumbia, Alabama, on Nov. 29 were
Katie Frank Gilchrist '24, Mary Lynes Martin '26,
Martha Nathan Drisdale '19, Helen Hendricks
Martin '30, Mary Green Morrow '21, Enid Middle-
ton Howard '37, Mary Hollingsworth Hatfield '39,
Hazel Rogers Marks, Martha Roberts McBurney
'42, Irene Foscue Patton '07, Mary Wilson Under-
wood '21, Joy Trump Hamlet '22, Ruby Lee Estes
Ware '18, Carolyn Payne Brugh '30, and Mary
Wallace Kirk '11.

Memphis

At the Memphis alumnae tea to meet Dr. Alston
Dec. 1 were Blanche Herring Wilbur '22, Eva Wil-
liams Jemison '46, Mary Catherine Vinsant Grymes
'46, Helen Armitage Allen '46, Margaret Rowt
Jones '19, Rose Harwood Taylor '18, Eleanor Cas-
tles Osteen '31, Mary Shewmaker '28, Julia Jameson
'22, Melville Jameson '21, Anna Leigh McCorkle
'18, and Alice M. Virden '23.

Nashville

In Nashville for the meeting with Dr. Alston
Dec. 3 were Oliver Graves Bowen '28, Mallie White
Regen '34, Cornelia Stuckey Walker '42, Lavalette

Sloan Tucker '13, Anna Marie Landless Cate '21
India Jones Mizell '21, Evlyn Josephs Phifer '29
Elizabeth Moore Weaver '36, Florence Ellis Gif
ford '41, June Thomason Lindgren '47, Mar)
Frances Hale Jackson '19, Shannon Preston Cum
ming '30, Eudora Campbell Haynie, Acad., Elk
Smith Hayes '25, Mary Cunningham Cayce '28, ant
Nell Tarpley Miller '35.

Chattanooga

The Chattanooga Club, in addition to a join
dinner meeting with Emory University alumni ir
honor of Dr. Alston, held a tea November 3 foj
prospective students. A Chattanooga student ai
Agnes Scott spoke at the meeting and answerec
questions put to her by the high school guests
The club displayed Agnes Scott material, obtainec
from the Registrar's Office.

Alumnae who met Dr. Alston in Chattanoog;
Dec. 4 are Kathrine Pitman Brown '26, Harriet
Stimson Davis '40, Mary Henderson Hill '36, Geor
gia Haunt '40, Fidesah Edwards Ingram '35, Fannk
B. Harris Jones '37, Anne McCallie '31, Margare
McCallie '09, Frances Thatcher Moses '17, Moll)
Jones Monroe '37, Dora Porter Prosterman '31
Martie Buffalow Rust '42, Alice Sharp Strang
Inst., Louise Ware Venable '31, Helen Browr
Webb '14, and Margaret Winslett '20.

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ACULTY

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STAFF

Dr. Wallace M. Alston, vice-president and pro-
essor of philosophy, besides the visits to alumnae
lubs and groups recounted elsewhere in The
Quarterly, attended meetings of the Southern As-
ociation of Colleges and Secondary Schools, in
flggmphis, and the Association of American Col-
eges, in New York. He planned to serve from
an. 31 to Feb. 4 as the 1949 Seminary Lecturer at
Uistin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin,
rexas.

Dr. Elizabeth Barineau, assistant professor of
rench, received the Ph.D. at the University of
Chicago last summer, her thesis a critical edition of
.es Orientates of Victor Hugo. She attended the
leeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language
association at Florida State University, Tallahas-
ee, in November.

Dr. William A. Calder, professor of physics and
stronomy, spoke, to the Barnard Astronomical
ociety of Nashville in December.

Dr. S. A. Cartledge, visiting professor in Bible,
ttended a seminar on textual criticism at the
Jniversity of Chicago in October. He stayed with
innette Carter Colwell '27 and President Colwell.

Dr. Emily S. Dexter, associate professor of philo-
Dphy and education, delivered at the meeting of
he Georgia Psychological Association in Novem-
ber a paper which has been accepted for publica-
ion in the Journal of Social Psychology. She was
uoted last fall in the national Albert E. Wiggam
isychology column as the authority on the ques-
ion, Should college students try to secure room-
lates of their own mental ability? Her answer:
7he smart should, the dull should not.

Eugenie Dozier, instructor in physical education,
rranged the educational program for the conven-
ion of the American Society of Teachers of Danc-
Qg last August in New York. She was reelected
hairman of the educational committee.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, assistant professor of
panish, was a speaker at the centennial celebra-
ion of Bessie Tift College in October.

Dr. Henry Chandlee Forman's new book, The
[rchiiecture of the Old South (Harvard Univer-
ity Press), has been reviewed as "a brilliant and

sweeping investigation of old European styles as
they were first copied and then adapted to colonial
America ... a handsome, instructive and fas-
cinating volume." Professor Forman, who is head
of the art department, illustrated it himself.

Dr. W. J. Frierson, professor of chemistry, at-
tended the meeting of the American Chemical
Society in St. Louis early last September.

Dr. Paul L. Garber, professor of Bible, delivered
lectures at the annual meeting of the National
Association of Biblical Instructors in New York
and at All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta.
Book reviews written by him have appeared in
Interpretation and The Presbyterian Outlook; he
has been busy preparing for the annual conference
of Georgia Presbyterian students in February, and
he has carried on manifold activities related to class
and student advisory work. His kindness in giving
up a Saturday afternoon to operate the College
motion picture projector enabled the Alumnae
Weekend committee to include German puppet
movies on its children's party program.

Librarian Edna Hanley and Assistant Phyllis
Downing attended the Southeastern Library Asso-
ciation meeting in October. Miss Hanley reviewed
Library Buildings for Library Service in the Nov.
1 Library Journal.

Betty Hayes, Tea Room Manager, has an-
nounced her engagement to Paul Harwell, of De-
catur and Waynesboro, the wedding to be early
in the spring. She will leave her position at the
Tea Room in February.

Dr. Emma May Laney, associate professor of
English, says the notice of her last summer's visit
to New York, appearing in the Spring Quarterly,
brought her many pleasant contacts with alumnae.
Among these was tea with Martha Elliott Elliott
'34 in her New York apartment. Miss Laney spent
Christmas at her brother's home in Florida.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Lyburn, associate professor
of English, will have an article, "Recurrent Words
in The Prelude," the result of her last summer's
work, in the Journal of English Literary History.
She attended the SAMLA meeting in Tallahassee.
Social Forces published "A Note on the Condition-
ing Influences of Regional Culture" by her in De-
cember.

President J. R. McCain and Dr. Alston were
in New York early in January, for the Association
of American Colleges meeting, and met with the

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Alumnae Club there. Dr. McCain introduced the
new vice-president to the officers of the General
Education Board and the Carnegie Corporation
and other leaders in education.

Dr. Mildred R. Mell, professor of economics and
sociology, was on a panel discussing "Economic
Stability and the Government Budget" for the
League of Women Voters regional conference in
Atlanta November 30. She has been elected a
member of the board of the Community Planning
Council of Fulton and DeKalb counties.

Dr. Margaret Phythian, professor of French,
has instituted a French table in the College dining
loom. Conducted by Mile. Berthe Landru, of
Paris, who is staying at the Alumnae House and
assisting with the Tea Room, the table brings to-
gether students who wish to improve their con-
versational French. Only once has a word of Eng-
lish intruded, by mistake, and even Wesley, who
serves the table, is fluent with his merci and il n'y
a pas de quoi. Students have fixed a fine for them-
selves to penalize lapses into English.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and
political science, read a paper, "The Slavery Ques-
tion in the Presbyterian Church in the Old South-
west," at the Southern Historical Association meet-
ing in November at Jackson, Miss.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathema-
tics, who has been secretary-treasurer for the South-
eastern section of the Mathematical Association of
America for 17 years, attended its meeting and
that of the American Mathematical Association in
Madison, Wis., in September and spoke to the
regional secretaries. In December he attended the
economic mobilization course of the Industrial
College of the Armed Forces.

Dean Carrie Scandrett plans a trip to Europe
next summer.

Dr. Catherine Sims, associate professor of his-
tory and political science, continues her well-at-
tended monthly book reviews at Rich's. All three
local alumnae clubs have scheduled talks by her,
as have several study groups in Atlanta. She will
speak at the meeting of Alpha Kappa Gamma, a
teachers' organization, in February on current prob-
lems.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of
economics and sociology, had an article, "How to
Study the South," in the September issue of The
Southern Packet. According to the editor's note,

Founder's Day Broadcast
Tuesday, February 22

6:45-7:00 P. M., EST
On WBS (750 on the dial)

the article is drawn from "knowledge gained fo
her forthcoming book, Fifty Years of Southeri
Writing."

J. C. Tart, business manager-treasurer, wen
hunting near Savannah in the Christmas holidays

Dr. Margret G. Trotter, assistant professor o
English, attended the South Atlantic Modern Lar
guage Association meeting in Tallahassee Noverr
ber 26 and 27.

Llewellyn Wilburn, associate professor of phys:
cal education, attended the meeting of the execu
tive board of the National Section on Women'
Athletics in New York at the end of Decembei
She will have charge of the Southern district o
the National Section on Women's Athletics at th
meeting of the American Association for Health
Physical Education and Recreation in AshevilR
N. C, February 23-25. She has a new address h
Decatur: 115 Adams Street.

Roberta Winter, instructor in speech and direc
tor of Blackfriars, used plays presented last fal
by The Stage, a stock company, as weekly labora
tory work for her class in play production. Th
class attended each Wednesday matinee, went bade
stage for interviews with actors, stage manager
and director, and studied the production of eacl
play. Some of the personnel of The Stage, in turn
came to Agnes Scott and offered suggestions t<
students at workshop sessions.

The Linguistic Society of America has publishe<
Dr. Elizabeth Zenn's dissertation, The Neute
Plural in Latin Lyric Verse. She is assistant pro
fessor of classical languages and literatures.

Dr. Alma Sydenstricker, professor of Bible
emeritus, is in Batesville, Ark., where her address i
928 East Boswell Street. In a letter to Miss Laney oi
the occasion of the successful campus fund cam
paign, she wrote: "How I wish I might hav
shared the enthusiasm of the event! However jus
when I was planning to go to Decatur a group o
women from the other churches asked me to opei
a Bible class to meet once a week when the
could attend. I agreed to do this. To my surpris]
our S. S. room is full and others are asking t<
enter. Last Sunday the Men's Bible Class of th

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lethodist church asked me to teach them. After
ass they requested me to open an evening class
>r men during the week. Of course I couldn't
ly 'No,' for I am glad to continue usefulness as
>ng as possible . . ."

Fifteen new appointments and seven promotions
ere announced for the faculty and staff last fall
y President McCain as the College prepared to
pen for its sixtieth session.

Dr. Wallace M. Alston, whose election as vice-
resident and professor of philosophy was an-
ounced in May, assumed his new duties in Sep-
:mber and spoke at the opening exercises.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith joined the faculty as
isociate professor of economics and sociology,
rating to Agnes Scott from Meredith College in
.aleigh, N. C. Dr. Smith is a graduate of Cum-
erland University, received the M.A. degree from
eorge Peabody College for Teachers, and took the
h.D. at the University of North Carolina.

Advanced to the rank of professor of French
om that of associate professor was Dr. Margaret
aylor Phythian '16, who succeeded Lucile Alex-
ider '11 as head of the department on Professor
lexander's retirement. Dr. Elizabeth Barineau,
f the French Department, and Dr. Elizabeth
enn, of the Department of Classical Languages
id Literatures, both formerly instructors, were
amed assistant professors.

Elizabeth Plummer Carter, a graduate of Bay-
>r University, was appointed instructor in Eng-
sh and assistant to the dean of students. Char-
>tte Hunter '29, former assistant dean of stu-
snts and English instructor, left Agnes Scott at
le end of the last session to become dean of stu-
ents at Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C.

Lillie Belle Drake '40 entered the Spanish De-
artment as an instructor. She has done graduate
ork at Middlebury College, the University of
hicago, and the University of Mexico. Another
umna, Mary Virginia Allen '35, came from the
iculties of the University of Richmond and St.
atherine's School to be an instructor in French
id German. She holds the M.A. from Middle-
ury College and has studied at the University of
oulouse, France.

Dr. S. A. Cartledge and Dr. Felix B. Gear of
olumbia Theological Seminary are visiting pre-
ssors in the Bible Department, teaching courses
rmerly offered by Dr. D. J. Gumming, who

has returned to duties with the Presbyterian For-
eign Missions Committee.

Laura Steele '37, formerly secretary to President
McCain, was appointed assistant registrar, with
Jane Bowman '46 joining the staff as secretary
to Dr. McCain and Dr. Alston.

Given the rank of instructor were Betty Jean
Radford '47, in the Biology Department, and
Eloise Lyndon Rudy '45, in physics, both of whom
were formerly assistants. Betty Bowman '44, for-
merly secretary to Dean Scandrett, was made assis-
tant to the dean of students.

Additional appointments: Helena Williams,
graduate of the Woman's College of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina and formerly of the physi-
cal education department of Chatham Hall,
Chatham, Va., assistant in physical education; Lil-
lian Newman, B.S. in L.S. from George Peabody
College for Teachers, assistant in the Library;
Marguerite Born Hornsby '47, bookstore man-
ager; Joyce Fryer, graduate of Georgia Baptist
Hospital, nurse; Anne Treadwell '48, assistant in
the Chemistry Department; Susan Pope '48 and
Sheely Little Shenk '48, assistants in the Library;
Jennings Payne '48, secretary to the business man-
ager-treasurer, J. C. Tart.

# * #

The office of the president announced at the

beginning of the second quarter the addition of
seven members to the faculty and staff.

Robert B. Piatt, instructor in biology at Emory
University, joins the Biology Department as in-
structor in botany. Mr. Piatt assumes the teaching
duties of H. T. Cox, former associate professor of
biology, who left Agnes Scott to become head of
the biology department of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute.

Another new faculty member is Mrs. Richard
T. Morenus, instructor in English.

Dr. Chester Morse of Decatur, husband of Gene
Slack '41, has replaced Dr. Eugenia Jones as col-
lege physician.

Mrs. Gerald R. Sutterfield, who received her
education at St. Mary's preparatory school and
Duke Lhiiversity, has joined the library staff. Her
husband is serving his internship now at the Craw-
ford Long hospital.

Jane Meadows Oliver '47 is an assistant to the
dean of students.

Nellie Scott, another Agnes Scott graduate in
the class of '47, has joined the alumnae office staff.

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DEATHS
Institute

Rittie Burress Long's husband died
June.

Ernest Samuel Moorer, husband of Em
Divver Moorer, who died two years a;
died in September.

Miriam Donaldson Scott died last Fi
ruary.

Bell Dunnington Sloan's husband died 1
January.

Mary Bratton Holt McAloney died I
March 28.

May Lemon Smith died in November.

Mary Catherine Patterson Williams <i
last February.

1920

Harriett Beach Rudolph died recently

1930

F'rances Messer's mother died last si
mer.

1933

Anne Hudmon Reed and Mary Hudi
Simmons lost their father last Angus

1942

Mary Jane Bonham Constantinoff's fa
died last spring.

1945

Liz McWhorter was killed in Octc
when the Potomac River steamer
which she was a passenger collided
an oil tanker in heavy fog off Old I
Comfort, Va. Liz was in Washingtoi
a month's training to do special wor
the cost of living index for the U. S.
reau of Labor Statistics.

1948

Mary Elizabeth Jackson's mother dif
December.

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MEMORANDA

THE CAMPAIGN. Many of us can't give in one
lump the substantial sums needed from us. Sys-
tematic saving, or the mailing of $10 or so every
few weeks, will ease this difficulty. But the ef-
fort simply cannot be successful by means of one-
time small gifts. Let's keep the Campaign in our
budgets and on our calendars for a gift the first
of each month.

CLASS REUNIONS. The Classes of 1906-9,
1925-8, and 1944-8 are scheduled to meet on the
campus Saturday, June 4. These thirteen classes
may be joined by 1924, which is thinking of an
extra reunion to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
All active alumnae, whether of these classes or
not, will be invited to the Trustees' Luncheon
that day. Mark the first weekend in June on
your calendar.

FOUNDER'S DAY. The annual broadcast will be
Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 6:45 p.m. EST over WSB
(750). If you live where there are more than
15 alumnae, someone in your city has been asked
to arrange a meeting. You will be invited. If
you live where there are fewer than 15 (see the
Geographical Section of The Alumnae Register),
why not get them together yourself? The Office
will be glad to send you the same material it
sends to the larger groups. Note to television set
owners: there will be an Agnes Scott program
on WSB-TV at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23.
Again, mark your calendar.

CLASS NEWS. We can't print it if we don't get
it. Deadlines are Feb. 10 for the Spring issue,
May 10 for the Summer, Sept. 10 for the Fall,
Dec. 10 for the Winter. Mark your calendar at
the 5th of these months and send in a penny post-
card about yourself and other alumnae.

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The Alumnae Association of Acnes Scott College

Officers

Beity Lou Houck Smith '35

President

Araminta Edwards Pate '25

Vice-President

Kenneth Maner Powell '27

Vice-President

Pernette Adams Carter '20

Jane Taylor White '42

Betty Medlock '42

Vice-President

Secretary

Isabelle Leonard Spearman '29

Residence

Molly Jones Monroe '37

Villa Marie Behm Cowan '35

Garden

Jean Bailey Owen '39

Special Events

Hayden Sanford Sams '39

Entertainment

Mary Wallace Kirk '11

Trustees

Eliza King Pasciiall '38

Alumna Trustee

Frances Winsiiip Walters Inst.

Alumna Trustee

Virginia Wood '35

Vocational Guidance

Frances Radford Mauldin '43

Class Officers

Staff

Chairmen

Jane Guthrie Rhodes '38

Publications

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Emily Hiccins Bradley '45

House and Office Manager

Julia Pratt Smith Slack ex-'12

House Decorations

Margaret Milam '45

Office Assistant

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SPRINC, 1949

Agnes Scott Astronomy Center of the South 2

The Liability of the Privileged 3

Wallace McPherson Alston

Alumna's Gift of $100,000 Adds Momentum to Campaign 7

Alumnae Abroad

Liberal Education and Interpreting Democracy 8

Betty Jean O'Brien

Introducing Democracy to the Japanese 10

Mary Jane King

At Home on the Permafrost 12

Eugenia Bridges Trawicky

Germany The Last Ten Years 14

Ursula Mayer von Tessin

In England Now 15

Ruth Scandrett Hardy

From France to Egypt 17

Jeannette Marchal-Herenger

Atmosphere Free and Favouring 18

Marybeth Little

Agnes Scott Meeting Anticipated in Africa 20

Charline Fleece Haherstadt

Rio de Janeiro A Satisfying Home Town 21

Charity Crocker

Alumnae Clubs 22

Class News 23

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40, Editor

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Agnes Scott

Astronomy Center of the South

Agnes Scott's acquisition of what will be the best
telescope used by any woman's college in the
world was announced early in January, when final
details of the purchase of a thirty-inch reflector
were settled.

Celestial sights never before seen from Georgia
will be visible from Agnes Scott when the tele-
scope is mounted. Pluto and the moons of Uranus
will be among these "discoveries" for Georgians
as a matter of fact, for Southeasterners; the tele-
scope will be the largest south of Washington and
east of Arizona. According to Professor W. A.
Calder of the Physics and Astronomy Department,
it will probably be the best used anywhere for in-
struction rather than research.

Professor Calder's work toward making Agnes
Scott an astronomy center began with his forma-
tion last year of the Atlanta Astronomers' Club,
an amateur group meeting on the campus and
drawing large numbers of men, women and chil-
dren from the Atlanta area as well as students and
faculty members.- Some members made their own
telescopes, in the basement of Science Hall; others
just relaxed and enjoyed the makeshift Calder
Planetarium. Gradually the group's activities be-
came recognized as a new interest in Atlanta, and
on one Sunday both of the city's newspapers car-
ried major stories about it.

With the arrival of the big telescope, Agnes
Scott's position as astronomy center of the South-
east will be established. It is planned to share its
use, of course, with visiting students and on special
occasions with the general public.

The securing of the telescope, which ordinarily
would have been out of financial range for the Col-
lege, came as a result of Professor Calder's vigilance
and his quickness in recognizing a bargain. When
it went on sale, he promptly started in pursuit of it
and, readily supported by President McCain, closed
the transaction.

One item now remains to make Agnes Scott's
regional leadership in the field effective: an ob-
servatory to house the telescope. The College is
hoping someone will give the necessary $65,000 to

build one in the present campaign.

Whoever should be the donor would be gettin
perhaps the very best buy available in the way c
memorials: for only $65,000, the outstanding ol
servatory of the southeastern United States!
name will be familiar in this country and at leas
known to astronomers everywhere; thus its builde
will perpetuate his own name, or that of the pei
son memorialized, with an effectiveness hardly poi
sible with $65,000 used in any other way. Furthei
more and most givers think primarily of the goo
to be done by their gifts the addition to the edt
cation facilities of the South will be far more no
able than a gift of $65,000 could ordinarily be ej
pected to effect.

The new telescope. This picture was taken bi
fore its purchase by Agnes Scott.

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This was the Investiture sermon deliver-
ed to the Class of 1949 by the next presi-
dent of Agnes Scott. The Quarterly asked
permission to print it as an article of es-
pecial interest to alumnae.

rhe Liability of the Privileged

iy Wallace McPherson Alston
^ice-President and Professor of Philosophy

Text: "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him
lall be much required". Luke 12:48

The Investiture occasion is one of our most dis-
nctive and meaningful traditions at Agnes Scott,
'he Investiture service marks the public assump-
on of status and the acceptance of responsibility
y the members of our senior class. After witness-
lg my first capping ceremony at Agnes Scott Col-
:ge, I am convinced that the subject chosen for this
:rmon gathers up what I want to try to say to the
lembers of our senior class, and to all who are
worshipping in the chapel with us this morning,
"he subject of this Investiture message is "The Lia-
ility of the Privileged".

"Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shail
<e much required." These words reflect the hu-
lan situation that probably caused Jesus more
oncern and brought Him more disappointment
han any other, the unwillingness of privileged peo-
ile to face the responsibilities that privilege re-
(uires of them. Moreover, the text states succinct-
y His clear conviction about the liability of the
>rivileged. He was convinced that it is so, not be-
ause men may or may not want it to be so, or
hink it ought to be, but because the universe is a
noral universe, and because God is a just and in-
elligent God. He is confronting us with the inex-
>rable fact that the person whom God trusts is
leld accountable commensurately.

Let no false modesty or self-deception blind your
:yes to the fact that all of you are privileged peo-
ale. God has trusted many of you with good in-
leritance. Some of you can trace your family
lines back through generations of men and women

who stood for something and who accomplished
much. Your name and your family connections
give you entree to a circle of choice friends and ac-
quaintances. You enjoy the advantages that hered-
ity confers upon the favored and you as individ-
uals have done absolutely nothing to deserve such
treatment! Then, God has trusted some of you
with the privileges that money makes possible.
Perhaps few are regarded as wealthy, but most of
you have had opportunities for travel, for self-
cultivation, for associations that bring enrichment
and pleasure, and for maintaining a standard of
living denied to people all around you. Further-
more, God has blessed some of you with unusual
physical, mental, social, and spiritual gifts. I say
this not to flatter you, but that you may realize
the obligation that such endowment entails. Then,
the fact that you are seniors at Agnes Scott means
that you are stewards of privilege. What does In-
vestiture mean if not the public recognition of the
fact that we look up to you here in this college
community as those entrusted with status and lead-
ership? You of our senior class have been thrust
out ahead of us and have been invested with privi-
lege and responsibility. Remember, "Unto whom-
soever much is given, of him shall be much re-
quired". There is, indeed, a liability of the privi-
leged, and nothing is more immediately important
than a recognition and an assumption of this obli-
gation by those who have been trusted.

It ought to be obvious that if we are going to
make any headway whatever in recognizing and
accepting the obligations that privilege imposes,
we must resist certain tendencies peculiar to privi-

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lege. These tendencies are subtle, and unless we
fortify ourselves against them, we will awaken one
day to discover that we have been swept along, un-
willingly perhaps, but along none the less. I want
to discuss three such tendencies against which we
need to set ourselves resolutely.

I

For one thing, there is the tendency of privi-
lege to lead ns to a false evaluation of ourselves.

In his Epistle to the Romans, Paul tells his
friends not to think of themselves more highly than
they ought to think, and in the Galatian letter, he
writes, "If a man think himself to be something,
when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself." How
easy it is for a person to think more highly of him-
self than he ought to think; indeed, to think him-
self to be something that he really is not at all,
when he stands in a place of privilege! If an in-
dividual estimates himself on the basis of his
money, his inheritance, his brilliance, his training,
his popularity or the position that he occupies
you can be fairly certain that he will not get a true
view of himself.

One of the things that distressed Jesus about the
privileged folk of His day, the Pharisees, was just
this: they took refuge in their privileges and were
thereby prevented from accurate self-appraisal.
They were protected from self-judgment by their
position. Jesus said of them, "They . . . love the
chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the syna-
gogues, and the salutations in the market places,
and to be called of men, Rabbi". I am sure that
Jesus would be equally disturbed about some of us
who take refuge in privilege, whose self-appraisal
is hindered by the frontage that our heredity, or
natural endowment, or status affords.

This tendency of all forms of privilege to inflate
our egotism would be more amusing if it were not
so pathetic, and sometimes tragic, in its conse-
quences. Pin a badge on some people and they are
uncontrollable. Give them a little money, or elect
them to the third vice-presidency of something or
other, and Andrew H. Brown, of "Amos 'n Andy"
fame, seems scarcely an extravagant caricature of
their condition. Take away their emoluments
their degrees, their costumes, offices and insignia
and they drop from the perch they have assumed
with a dull thud.

Do you remember how unforgettably James M.

Barrie pictured people who evaluate themselves ii
terms of their privileges, in his play "The Admit
able Crichton"? In the London home of an Eng
lish lord, we see a picture of social discriminations
in which setting the characters of the play are seer
artificially. Time passes, and we are permitted t<
witness a scene where this household is shipwreck
ed on a south sea island. There rank, discrimina
tion, and privileged position have been swept awa
by the exigencies of the situation. Now the person
in the play have no artificial setting to which the
can run. They are revealed in their true light
As the story discloses, it is no longer the proud Ion
who is the real man in the play, but the butler
The lord and his daughters are seen for what the
are intrinsically, just mediocre people, petted anc
spoiled, who have gotten by because they stood be
hind their privileged position and put up a gooc
show. It is the butler who manifests courage anc
ingenuity and who displays qualities of genuine
character.

One observer at the Nuremberg trials made a re
mark that has impressed me. He wrote that he hac
rediscovered something elemental at Nuremburj
about our human situation that a man is just ;
man after all, that he is what he is when his posi
tion is taken away from him, when his medals anc
badges are stripped off. The prisoners at Nurem
berg ungroomed, misshapen, un-attractive anc
uninteresting obviously required brilliant uni
forms, medals, attendants, and the glamorous at
mosphere of position to make them seem importan
and formidable. It is the person who matters, no
the trappings and adornments. Of course, this if
true, and no one of us ought ever to forget it.

Take this matter to heart lest you one day be
come a victim of the tendency to hide your inade
quacies and weaknesses behind external privilege
The most effective way to do this is to submit tc
the searching Presence of Jesus Christ, in whose
fellowship no sham is tolerable. Take yourself ir
hand by allowing Him to take you in hand, reveal
ing you to yourself and correcting your false ap
praisal of yourself, while at the same time showing
you what possibilities of genuine worth there an
in your hidden self.

II

Then, there is the tendency of privilege to shut
us off from the need of people all around us.

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Let us be honest about this matter. Like a great
fall, tall and thick, our privileged position shelters
nd protects us from so much of the heartbreak
nd hurt of the masses of humanity that, unless we
re careful, we will lose touch with the bleeding
I'orld that God has trusted us to succor.

In the village of Selbourne, England, the visitor
s shown the row of trees which Gilbert White,
ninister and author, planted around the parson-
ge to shut out the view of the slaughter house,
rhat row of trees is a symbol, a stark, dangerous
ymbol of the tendency of privilege to protect it-
elf against suffering and woe out in a world of less
ortunate men and women. Of Goethe it was said
hat "he kept well out of sight of stripped and
rounded and half-dead men". Goethe found such
hings unpleasant and, able as he was to do so, he
ived his life in sheltered places. So do most of us.
/Vho among us really knows how less fortunate
>eople live right here in greater Atlanta? Who
;nows about the neglected and underprivileged
ioys and girls here in this metropolitan area? Who
eally knows about the drunkenness, the broken
lomes, the crime, the dishonesty, and the exploita-
ion right here in our midst?

I realize, of course, that you have come to Agnes
icott College for an education. I am aware how
11-consuming such an enterprise must be. I ap-
>reciate the fact that, in a sense, you must be shel-
ered and protected in order to concentrate upon
our studies. On the other hand, I think it im-
lortant to emphasize the fact that we are not an
solated nunnery. We ought consciously to keep
he channels open to the needs of people all around
is. We ought to open the windows and doors of
iur lives to current issues, to contemporary prob-
ems, to an understanding of the foibles, heart-
dies, successes and failures of men and women.
Vny education that fails to bring people of privi-
ege into the main stream of life is less than ade-
(uate.

The Pharisees whom Jesus denounced so scath-
ngly were not reprobates. Far from it; they were
he most rigidly decent and orthodox people of
heir day. They were not mean, cruel, or incapable
if good. They were simply enclosed by the wall
hat privilege erects and were shut off from the
nasses of needy people thereby. They had lost the
omnion touch. Sympathy had died out of their
learts. They never intended to do it. They did

not even know that it had happened.

While campaigning for Irish home rule, William
E. Gladstone, a privileged man if ever there was
one, said that the privileged people of England
had been on the wrong side of every social issue
for the preceding fifty years. That is a severe in-
dictment that ought to give us pause. What was
the matter with those privileged Englishmen?
Were they malicious? I think not. Were they
stupid? I venture to say that some of the most in-
telligent and competent leaders that England has
produced were among those privileged people
whom Gladstone indicted. Why were the privi-
leged people of England on the wrong side of every
social issue for fifty years in the nineteenth cen-
tury? If Gladstone was right, I suggest that it was
due to the tendency of privilege to form a waH
around those who belong to her, shutting out the
sights and the cries of human misery. It is one
thing to read about needy humanity in books or to
see human misfortune out of the corner of your
eyes as you go on "slumming expeditions", so-
called. It is quite another thing to face it, to feel
it, to have its weight on your heart, to realize your
complicity and your responsibility for it.

Baron Von Hugel, in one of the letters dealing
with suffering in his Selected Letters, wrote,
"Chrisitanity taught us to care . . . Caring js the
greatest thing; caring matters most". :C*aHng, sa"kl;
Von Hugel, is the cure for fastidiousness, for smug-
ness, for complacency. We Christians aught Uo;
learn to care for people, no matter how 'difficult,'
or demanding, or unappreciative, or repulsive"- tK?sg"
people appear. r '""'.

It seems to me that people like ourselves ought
to find something very personal and relevant in the
experience of Moses. Moses, brought up in an
Egyptian palace, splendidly educated, a privileged
man if ever there was one, came to the time when
he realized that his privilege meant liability. "And
it came to pass in those days, when Moses was
grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and
looked on their burdens". (Exodus 2:11) Re-
member, too, that Jesus left Nazareth at the age of
thirty and went out to look on the burdens of His
people. For Him, the cross was the inevitable logic
of the sense of obligation that privilege fastened
upon His soul. "For their sakes, I sanctify my-
self", He prayed on the night before the crucifixion.

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In life and in death, He was one with those for
whom He had liability the liability that privilege
always imposes.

Ill

Furthermore, there is the tendency of privilege
to let ns off with only a fractional part of the con-
tribution that we are capable of making.

One of the most subtle temptations that assail
a gifted person is the temptation to get by with less
than his best. He can win applause by giving of
himself his time, money, and ability in limited
measure, since what he contributes will overshadow
the efforts of one-talent people. By comparing
himself with others and by reminding himself that
he is doing as much as or more than they, the privi-
leged individual salves his conscience while he con-
tinues to put back into life only a fractional part
of what he is capable of doing and far less than he
takes out. There is something selfish and unworthy
about a person who is willing to accept applause for
that which costs him nothing.

In his Inside U. S. A., John Gunther reminds us
that America is run by its propertied class. Gun-
ther does not quarrel particularly with this situa-
tion, but he does make the emphatic assertion that
the failure of this privileged class is the greatest
single impediment to unity, and the chief factor in
our national life making for discontent. If only
our competent, gifted, favored citizens understood
that 'unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall
t>e mucL* required"!

I am thinking of this tendency of privilege as it
relates to you of this senior class. Some of you will
be tempted this year to get by without really giving
your best to your studies, to campus life, and to
your friends. Your status will protect you to some
extent; opportunities that you have had will stand
you in good stead if you want to "cut the corners";
the endowment of mind and heart with which God
has trusted you may become a refuge to prevent
you from doing your utmost.

Take to heart the words of the Master who said,
"Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be
much required". There is a liability of the privi-
leged that we ought to recognize and accept. Privi-
leged people are held accountable proportionately.

What is needed to get privileged people to accept

responsibility commensurate with their endow
ment? Do not suppose that this can be done simpl
by passing laws or by making rules and regulations
If we tried that here on the campus, of course yoi
would not respond to it. You might obey stolidly
but your heart would not be in it. Then, too
threats and coercion are unsatisfactory incentives
Often the privileged person resents such attempts t<
compel him to accept obligations that seem distaste
ful to him. Moreover, scolding and exhorting ar
usually of little effect. Perhaps Professor Palmer'
story, told often to his classes at Harvard, is illumi
nating at this point. Professor Palmer used to tel
the story of a little boy lying in bed late in thi
morning. His mother came to his room and asked
"Aren't you ashamed to be lying in bed like this?'
His answer was, "Yes, Mother, I am ashamed, but
would rather be ashamed than get up."

There are two motives that seem to me particu
larly effective in awakening and energizing privi
leged people. One is to expose them to humar
need that has a claim upon them. Do you recal
what it was that moved Hobab, the son of Reue
the Midianite, to accompany Moses and the chil
dren of Israel into the wilderness? Hobab was ;
skilled shepherd who knew the country into whicl
the people of Israel were venturing. Moses en
deavored to induce Hobab to go with them to servi
as their guide. Moses promised him that it wouk
be personally profitable to him if he would come
"I will not go," said Hobab. "I will go home"
Then Moses urged that they needed him as theii
guide through the wilderness, that he knew th(
way and that their ignorance required his skill anc
knowledge. With this claim of need placed square
ly before him, Hobab changed his mind and wen
with Moses to lead the Hebrews from Sinai.

Then there are people entrusted with privilegi
who are capable not only of understanding, but o
responding to the sort of appeal that the Apostle
Paul made to those to whom he ministered. Mon
than once, I am sure, Paul said to his friends, "Re
member the Lord Jesus who, though he was rich
yet for your sakes became poor, that ye througl
his poverty might be rich." In his little book "Oi
the Edge of the Primeval Forest", Albert Schweit
zer tells why at the age of thirty he left his pro
fessorship, his organ, and his literary work to be
come a medical missionary in Equatorial Africa

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To pay the debt I owe humanity", Schweitzer has
written. His answer to his patients at the hospital
at Lambarene who ask, "Why are you here?" is
consistently, "Because Jesus sent me". For the
sake of Christ, men and women will frequently dare
to assume responsibilities that money, flattery,
threats, laws, codes, and promises are powerless to
induce them to shoulder.

Henri Bergson has much to say about the "mo-
rality of aspiration" which he defines as a type of
conduct motivated by some inner loyalty that con-
strains the individual to attempt "some vital varia-
tion." The call of Christ to you is that you will per-
mit Him to be your Lord and Master, that from the
throne in your heart He may guide you to life that
is life, indeed.

Alumna's Gift of $100,000
Adds Momentum to Campaign

"The best news of the present campaign" burst
upon alumnae who met for Founder's Day on Feb-
ruary 22, when by telegram and radio the clubs
heard that Annie Louise Harrison Waterman had
promised to give $100,000 in endowment for the
Department of Speech.

Mrs. Waterman, an Institute alumna and a mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees, is giving the endow-
ment in order to strengthen Agnes Scott's work in
teaching its students good diction. The hope is
that the establishment of the Annie Louise Harri-
son Waterman Chair of Speech will lead to the
bestowal of distinctively good speech on all candi-
dates for the Agnes Scott degree.

The gift will mean that $390,000 remains to be
raised by the end of 1949 if the College is to receive
the $500,000 offered it last year.

While her fellow Agnes Scott alumnae were ex-
claiming to each other their appreciation of her
jreat generosity and vision, Mrs. Waterman her-
self was quietly at home in Mobile nursing two
rhicken pox cases her grandchildren, Annie Lou-
ise and John Waterman. A third grandchild,
rhaddeus Harrison Waterman, named for her
Eather, was only a few days old and was at home
with his mother, safe from the contagion.

Stimulated by her gift, many clubs at their
Founder's Day meetings initiated efforts of various
iorts to increase giving from their areas. Mean-
while, the intensive work of the Atlanta, Decatur,
ind Junior Atlanta alumnae clubs continued as
nembers carried on their drive to make more than
i thousand personal calls in behalf of the cam-
oaign.

Still, giving would have to proceed at the rate of
about $1,200 a day counting Sundays and holi-
days if the College was to be successful. This
pace had yet to be met by the thousands of alumnae
on whose massed gifts the fate of the campaign
depended.

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Liberal Education and
Interpreting Democracy

The author, who returned a few month
ago after nearly four years abroad with
the Red Cross and the Army, is now head
ing the volunteer Agnes Scott Campaign
drive in Decatur.

by Betty Jean O'Brien '40

There seems to me no apparent reason why
European travel should make one an authority on
any subject, except possibly the present condition
of "Wagon-Lits" or the best way to get more
francs on the black market. I have read with some-
what more horror than delight the frequent re-
ports with such negative titles as "Why the Oc-
cupation has Failed" and "Nero had Nothing on
Us" that have been written by returning U.S. dig-
nitaries fresh from a rapid two-week tour of the
occupied zone of Germany, seen at first-hand from
the window of a general's staff car, and including
such vital trouble spots as Berchtesgaden, Garmisch,
and Salzburg. These fresh-from-the-front reports
have led me to be chary in making any general
statements concerning Europeans in general, any
nation in particular, their habits, folkways, condi-
tion, and, above all, their relations with any other
nation, especially the United States.

But out of the confusion of impressions gained
from many and varied experiences in the various
countries of Europe arose a definitely delineated
conviction that: Americans, as a nation in general,
and as individuals most particularly, have been
elected or rather drafted into a position of world
leadership amounting to domination; that each of
us who came into contact with Europeans had be-
come, willy-nilly, representatives and examples of
the democracy in America of which they hear so
much. They watch us with a sort of despairing
hope that we can and will bring in the millenium.
And this hope has given them an intensely critical
eye. In former days when we were only tourists
laden with U.S. greenbacks, they saw our foibles
with a tolerant and forbearing eye; now that we
are in a sense missionaries of the ideal way of life
we receive a microscopic and critical scrutiny

which etches all our faults with indelible acid 01
the mind of the European "man-in-the-street.'
Therefore, each 'of us who comes in contact in air;
manner, however slight, with any person not o
American citizenship has a terrific responsibility
thrust upon him. We must become ambassadors o
good will in every sense of that hackneyed phrase
Further, we must be not only able but willing
when called upon, to interpret democracy, Ameri
can style, with its peculiarities, exceptions, anc
contradictions.

It was amazing to me to find how concernec
with the every attitude of the American public
were the people of Europe with whom I talked. ]
can speak authoritatively only of the two nations
in which I lived England for fourteen month;
and Germany for two and a half years. My favor
ite example of the distance to which concern foi
what the American thinks has drawn the English
man out of his traditional reserve is a scene tha
took place in early 1946, in a railway carriage or
the London, North Eastern Railway, to Cambridge
The European railway carriage is an intimate six
or four-man section, almost completely separatee
from the rest of the car. By mutual consent, im
posed by crowded living conditions and the almos
fanatical desire of the Briton to mind his own busi
ness, these carriages are practically conversation
less, except for nearly inaudible murmurs betweer
members of some family group. As the Frenchmai
observed, in a Terence Rattigan play then showirii
in London, "When an Englishman gets into a rail
way carriage, he sits down and dies." With this ir
mind, I had just sunk down with a grateful sigh
anticipatory of two hours of silence after eighl
hectic hours in London American Red Cross club
when I was startled to hear a perfectly audible, not

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o say resonant,.voice inquiring, "Do you think the
Jnited States will remain in the United Nations?"
\fter summoning my stunned faculties, I attempt-
id with many falterings and contradictions to as-
ure the gentleman of my conviction that the U.S.
A'as definitely and firmly committed to an active
ole in the activities of the United Nations Organi-
ation; that we had no intention of repeating the
iisastrous mistakes of 1920, and that we as a nation
lad arrived at the realization that keeping a peace
vas every bit as difficult and expensive as waging
i war. Having spoken my piece in what I hoped
vas an unobtrusive voice, and expecting to look
iround to receive the stony English stares that blast
ind wither the public boor or bore, I was met with
he undivided and evidently favorable attention
if the rest of the people in the carriage. And no
ooner had I subsided, than a lady on the opposite
ide inquired about food rationing in the U.S., a
entleman next her wanted to know whether we
tad completely demobilized as yet, and by the time
if my arrival at Cambridge, I had conducted an im-
iromptu lecture and discussion group which had
ieen enthusiastically participated in by all of my
arriage-mates. The freedom with which they ask-
d me questions and the wide range they covered
/ere due partially to the Red Cross uniform I wore
nd the universal respect in which it is held in
ireat Britain and partly to their experience with
tie open friendliness of the ubiquitous American
f.I., but the curiosity displayed was thoroughly
ypical of all the British people and could be satis-
^ed most adequately by direct personal contact be-
ween non-VIP's (Very Important Persons).

On another occasion I was collecting books for
ly seven Army libraries in Mannheim from the
,rmy library depot in Heidelberg, being assisted
y my driver (an ex-Luftwaffe corporal), two Ger-
mn secretaries who worked in the depot, and a
Dung, but exceedingly clever, English-speaking
German boy who was visiting one of the girls. (Let
le add that all this assistance was neither neces-
iry nor efficient, but the Germans seem to believe
lat no one in a position of command should do
ny manual labor whatever, even the unshelving of
ooks; shades of my student days!) Since there was

Negro truck battalion stationed in Mannheim,
id one of my libraries was located there, we had
:quired several collections of works by Negro
Jthors and also several Negro biographies. As I

was setting these to one side with the observation
that they were for the Negro troops, the clever
youth spoke up: "Why don't you go ahead and
call them 'Jigs'? That's all they are." When I
remonstrated with him, he remarked, "Well, Miss
O'Brien, I thought you were from the South where
they had those Jim Crow laws." Since it appeared
that he had been well indoctrinated by one of the
more enlightened representatives of democracy
abroad, I was slightly baffled as to how to proceed,
when my driver, who understood only a little Eng-
lish, earnestly inquired of me in German whether
Joe Louis had been allowed by the American offi-
cials to give Max Schmeling a foul blow in order
to keep the world's heavyweight championship in
1938. Turning with cowardly relief from the com-
plex problem to the simple, I stated unhesitatingly
that no such thing had occurred, that every point
in a championship match was watched by thou-
sands of critical eyes, and that there had never been
any questions as to the legality of that fight. They
all nodded their heads, satisfied that the final word
had been spoken. I discovered later that the "foul
blow" story had been given by Schmeling to his
Fuehrer and the "Deutsche Volk" as an excuse for
having been vanquished by a member of a "non-
Aryan, inferior" race, and that the movies disprov-
ing any suggestion of a foul had never been shown
in Germany.

These two widely-separated examples have been
chosen to give some idea of the broad range of in-
formation and opinion which Europeans expect
average Americans traveling abroad to be able to
supply accurately, unhesitatingly, and at a mom-
ent's notice. They also illustrate how wide and
deep is the abyss which our nation may open by
failing to supply this information at the right time
and in the most effective manner. To me they il-
lustrate vividly the incalculable value of the liberal
education I had received: languages, history,
science, economics, literature all those I had used
again and again. It was not the education of for-
mal facts alone but the habits of thought, the in-
sistence on keeping an open and logical mind
which came to my rescue again and again when I
was tempted to be dogmatic, or lazy in answering
questions, or to condemn and castigate some con-
trary opinion or theory brought to my attention.
The "liberal" part of the phrase seemed to assume

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an especial emphasis, for conditions and circum-
stances hitherto unencountered were constantly
making adjustment and adaptation mandatory.
And it further appeared that those other Americans
who had assimilated this type of education made
the best informal envoys to the seeking peoples of
Europe. Because the "one world" that seemed so
visionary a few short years ago is present right now

in the physical sense if not at all in the political,
.and the housewife of today is frequently the min-
ister without portfolio of tomorrow. It is desper-
ately urgent that Agnes Scott and similar institu-
tions continue producing graduates who can be-s
come representatives of democracy with a minimum
of adjustment and a maximum of effect; who are
indeed potential citizens of the world.

Introducing Democracy
To the Japanese

The author, formerly Alumnae Secre-
tary at Agnes Scott, took a master's degree
at Columbia University in 1948 and went
to Japan last fall.

by Mary Jane King '37

"Nichiyobi senkyo ni itte kudasai! Okasan,
dozo. Okasan ni agete kudasai. . Okusan ni agete
kudasai . . . Sunday, to the polls, go please. Moth-
er, please take this. To your mother, give this
please. To your wife, give this please."

Virginia Geiger (another Military Government
education officer) and I are destined to remember
those Japanese words. Along with fifteen or so
Japanese women leaders in Kagoshima City on the
island of Kyushu, we distributed handbills to all
comers from a truck plastered with signs about the
January 23rd national elections. The handbills
proclaimed the close relation between the kitchen
and the government. Children swarmed around,
holding up one hand for a paper, hiding a fist full
behind them. The women on the truck sang songs
they had written and spoke to the crowds through
a microphone. It was part of a campaign they
themselves had planned to urge intelligent voting
instead of careless writing in of the easiest name.
For Ginny and me, it was part of two weeks' inten-
sive work explaining civic responsibility and ways
of developing political intelligence.

On the day before elections, we started with our
two girl interpreters in a Japanese railway coach

on a five-day field trip to the southern tips of the
Satsuma and Osumi peninsulas of Kagoshima pre-
fecture. From the train windows we sailed the
handbills out to women working in the rice pad-
dies and distributed them to crowds at each vil-
lage station. As we rode, the girls taught us a
classical Japanese song about the cherry blossoms,
Sakura. All of the occupants of the car smiled with
amusement and pleasure and soon were humming
it too.

Our transportation for this trip included horse-
drawn carriage, police car (pre-1941), ferry boat,
and foot (seven miles). We stopped in Japanese
operated hotels and in a doctor's private home,
taking several scalding baths a day and sleeping
on the floor, Japanese style. Food was Army Gra-
tion, supplemented by forbidden but irresistible
Japanese hospitality sukiyaki, tempera lobstei
and shrimp, eggs, and green tea. Izachiki village
adopted us as its own. As in any small town, it
was customary to speak to everyone. The mayor
(and local wine merchant) saw that we had every
convenience and courtesy the town could afford,
At a dinner party we had the honor seats, given for
the first time in that village to mere women. Chil-

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ren, by scores, crowded the yard and climbed
ees to peer at us through the windows.

We met the PTA to discuss its organization, pur-
oses, and activities. With women's and youth
roups and the general public we discussed social
roblems and community organization. We in-
jected four schools in the vicinity and held con-
;rences with the faculties of two others, discussing
mitation, health, coeducation, pupil records, emo-
onal atmosphere, etc. Ginny gave professional
elp to the English language teachers. We talked
) the pupils about health habits and taught them
> sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat."

As we walked between two villages, the people
E Magomi hamlet, situated midway, invited us to
op in the afternoon and speak to their Fujin Kai,

paper organization claiming most of the women
i each community in Japan. We were glad for a
:w minutes' rest, a cup of tea, and mecons, Japa-
ese tangerines which surpass any citrus fruit we
ave at home.

In public .meetings MG officers resort to horse-
lay, if necessary, to break through the emotional
gidity of the audience and secure informal dis-
rssion. Ginny and I pitted Iowa against Georgia
ad her size against mine for laughs. I have not
it penetrated the secret of Japanese laughter. But

never failing source of humor is any discussion
I age. In Japan, age signifies experience and
jmpetence and demands respect. The first ques-
on any audience asks is your age. Mr. Johnson
ould be horrified to' hear my version of "Swanee
iver" or "Old Black Joe", but at least I have the
iscretion not to attempt Mozart's Alleluia a cap-
ella. Even the most isolated rural Japanese vil-
ige frequently produces someone familiar with
erman opera and lieder.

Not infrequently the Japanese audience has its
idividual who speaks sukoshi English and enjoys
racticing it in public. The prize case was the man
ho asked Ginny in fluent English if either of us
as from Rhode Island. When she said not, he
ated that there were many Rhode Islanders at his
ouse in the back yard!

The Japanese language is intriguing in spite of
s difficulty. Americans returning from the occu-
ition will probably want to form alumni clubs
) keep up their interest in Japan and Japanese,
he widely used Japanese phrases seem well on the
ay to becoming a part of American slang. I'm

sure that I'll never relinquish the useful "Ah, so
descat?" which, with its endless variety of intona-
tions capable of expressing anything from mild
boredom to complete awe, is much superior to its
English equivalent, "Is that so?"

Members of the Agnes Scott contingent of the
League of Women Voters will be interested, per-
haps, in the voting figures. Sixty-eight per cent of
Kagoshima prefecture's women voted, and a post-
election survey showed that most had made some
effort to inform themselves. The percentage of
men voting was eighty-one per cent, and the na-
tional average for both was sixty-nine per cent.

Civil education work includes adult and social
education as well as school education, as indicated
in the above description of a typical field trip.
Most of our time is spent in the field visiting
schools and organizations, planning with small
groups of teachers or leaders. But there are the
inevitable speeches to heterogeneous masses of peo-
ple, most of whom will nod their heads with genu-

The author in Japanese bridal costume.

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ine or simulated interest in a recital of principles
and practical applications of "demo-crassy" in ex-
change for a two-hour view of an American in op-
eration. Trips usually entail riding several hours
over "impossible" roads in a jeep. The discomfort
is balanced by incredibly beautiful views of moun-
tains, sea, and fields, by the camaraderie shared
with the Japanese interpreter and driver, and by
the eagerness of the children who line the roads
to wave and shout "Huddo, okay, gudabye" to the
Americans. Days in the office mean countless in-
terviews with students, private individuals, and
prefectural government officials endless problems
and small favors.

At Home on
The Permafrost

By Eugenia Bridges Trawicky '40

We are living three miles from Fairbanks, which
is located in the interior of Alaska. Fairbanks is a
small town of 8500 people, excluding Ladd Field
Air Base, which is reported to have approximately
10,000 men stationed there. Barney, my husband,
is doing research on permanently frozen ground
(called "permafrost") in relation to construction
of buildings, air fields, and highways. We live in
the Permafrost Research Area, and incidentally,
the house in which we are living is a test structure,
having been built on timber piling, while our only
neighbor lives in a house which was built on con-
crete slabs. These houses are checked weekly to
determine how much they heave and settle in the
permafrost.

You read that Alaska is the last frontier, and you
can well imagine that it is when you look out your
kitchen window and see a red fox slinking down
the road. There are two foxes who live in the
Area. They have been named "Susie" and "Red"
and aren't very popular because they play havoc
with some of the electrical instruments used to
make recordings. Moose have been seen wander-
ing through our garden, and last spring our neigh-
bor was surprised and startled to find a big brown

The enormity of educating Japan for democrati
living after centuries of a primitive social syster
and the daily sight of intolerable living condition
being borne with little complaint threaten us wit
discouragement and depression. But the satisfae
tion from seeing progress, however slow, the mult
tude of things to be done next, the close contac
with a strange culture, however static, and th
wonderful spirit of individual Japanese keep v
interested in the job. In a sense, the problems c
our work here are the crucial problems of our tint
with which Americans at home are as much coi
cerned as we. For me, it is exciting and interes
ing to be on one of the frontiers.

bear grinning at him with all teeth showing
Friend Neighbor had inadvertently wandered int
a choice berry-picking ground!

The mosquitoes are worth mentioning for the
are undoubtedly some of the biggest you will eve
encounter. They are quite plentiful all summe
especially around swamps, wooded areas, rivers, an
the Trawicky abode. They make fishing a chor
rather than a pleasure, and most fishermen wea
heavy nets over helmets to protect themselves.

You will find in Fairbanks all kinds of people-
from all parts of the United States. There are ol
timers known as "Sourdoughs" who have lived i
Alaska for many years, some of them having corn
up to mine gold in the early 1900's. There are als
many transient workers who are lured here by th
promise of high wages. It is true that wages ai
higher here, but living costs are also very high, an
if you can make ends meet you still have a problei
of finding a place in which to live, so it is not vei
profitable for most people to make the trip unle:
they plan to stay longer than one season. Speakin
of high costs, I was very surprised to find, when w
arrived here three years ago, that a hamburger
worth fifty cents, a haircut costs $1.50, and a grap
fruit costs thirty cents. Fortunately for us, we ai
able to shop at the Ladd Field commissary, whic
helps to keep us partly solvent.

The University of Alaska is located near ot
home. It is a small school of three hundred sti
dents. It has been the handiwork of one man, D
Charles Bunnell, whose hard work over a period c
twenty five years has kept the University alive an
growing. Governor Gruening, in his address to th
Territoiial Legislature in Juneau last week, aske

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The Trawickys Ruck, Barney, Peter, and the
uthor.

or a large appropriation to be used in establishing
he University on a more sound financial basis and
o enable the school to do more research in various
ields.

This year the University has a Little Theater
iroup which is being directed by John Bridges, a
oung graduate of the University of North Caro-
ina. Last weekend they presented The Male.
Inimal, by Elliot Nugent and James Thurber. I
uention this because it is one of the few outlets for
ntertainment in Fairbanks. The AAUW and the
r airbanks Woman's Club do sponsor several con-
erts a year, and these are always well attended,
rhere are a couple of movie houses and a bowling
lley (plus forty odd bars), but that comprises the
yhole of outside entertainment to be found here,
rhis is an excellent place for pursuing one's hob-
)ies. We read during the winter months and
pend three short summer months taking colored
ihotos of the sunsets, clouds, mountains, flowers,
nd people.

The Winter Carnival is a high spot of the year,
rhere are dog races, Eskimo dances, election of a
Carnival King and Queen, and various tournament
vents, similar to those found in the Carnivals held
ach year in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
,ast March, the children especially liked the rein-
leer rides, the reindeer having been flown from
Lotzebue for the Carnival.

If you like ivory, you would be impressed by the
killed carvings done by Eskimos, especially those
Eskimos living on King Island. It is interesting to
.now, by the way, that the Eskimo resents being
onfused with the Alaskan Indian, for the Eskimo

is of a higher type civilization and comes from an
entirely different background. The Indians are
supposed to have descended from tribes which were
pushed north in the past by stronger and hardier
Indians in the States and Canada. It is obvious
that the Eskimo has a distinct mongoloid heredity
clearly seen in physical characteristics, such as the
shape of the eyes.

There is still much gold mining being done
around Fairbanks, which was originally a gold rush
town. Today much of the mining is done by large
companies, one of the largest being the Fairbanks
Exploration Company, a subsidiary of the U.S.
Smelting, Mining and Refining Company.

The Alaska Railroad terminates here and it is
possible to travel by rail from Fairbanks to Seward,
which is on the coast, where you may board a ship
for the states. Most of interior traveling is done by
plane. There are numerous "bush" pilots who fly
anywhere in the Territory carrying mail, cargo, and
passengers. There have even been instances where
bush pilots have helped deliver babies in their
planes.

Most Alaskans favor Statehood, although there
are moneyed interests who are fighting it because
the resultant taxes would cost them some of their
profits. We are hoping that Congress will pass the
bill making Alaska the 49th state, for until then
there will continue to be the pressing problem of
poor transportation, overcrowded schools, inade-
quate housing, and multitudinous health problems
such as the high rate of tuberculosis found among
the Indians and the lack of proper sewage disposal
which plagues everyone living here.

We think Alaska is a wonderful place in which to
live. There are many young people who agree
with us, for more and more of them are making it
their permanent home. Alaska does have numer-
ous undeveloped resources and we feel as if we are
explorers of a sort, with "permafrost" underfoot.
It is rather exciting to be living here, although it
sometimes grows monotonous during the long dark
winter months. However, we are here to stay for
a while. If you should ever visit Fairbanks, do look
us up. This is a good vacation land, and we would
enjoy seeing any Agnes Scott alumnae or faculty.

Even if we are far away, we enjoy reading what
the College is doing, and we are hoping the present
campaign will be a huge success. Best to you and
Agnes Scott.

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Germany

The Last Ten Years

by Ursula Mayer von Tessin
Special, 1937-38

I was pleased to see Agnes Scott still remem-
bers a little German girl who spent the happiest
time of her youth in your country, at Agnes Scott,
11 years ago.

Do you remember the time I returned to my
country, 1938? All during the year at Agnes
Scott I really believed in the peaceful intents of our
government. Returning, I saw there was no chance
anymore to keep our government from war; I saw
your papers were right, so my confidence was
rapidly disturbed. I think this was the greatest
disappointment in my life.

In 1939 I finished school in Germany. I had de-
cided to study individual gymnastics. So I studied
at Freiburg (Black Forest) from 1940-42. Finish-
ing the school, I was obliged to work at a military
hospital at Strasbourg, until I got married in
March 1944. My husband, who owned a weaving
plant at Tubingen, was dismissed from the army be-
ceause of a head wound. I was happy to know him
out of danger; three of my brothers-in-law were
killed at Russia at that time. In March 1945 our
little boy, Wolf, was born, so we had a real family
and we were very lucky. However, two weeks after
our baby's birth my husband was killed when air-
planes attacked his car while he was about to go on
a business trip a few miles from Tubingen.

So a very sad and sorrowful time had started.
Two weeks later our city was occupied by French
troops. My baby got seriously ill, pneumonia as a
result of the long hours we spent in the cellar be-
fore the occupation. Our house and the factory
were occupied by Moroccan troops. Fortunately
the baby recovered soon. After some weeks the
troops left the plant.

Can you imagine the job of getting such a thing
to run again? There were very hard months of
work and serious study to even get to know the
way of production and everything belonging to it,
to get to know every corner of my property and

gradually to become a business woman. My moth
er-in-law took care of my baby except the time
nursed him. Fortunately I soon had good news
from Stuttgart. My parents' house as well as my
father's hospital were hardly disturbed and my
brothers returned from war. Yet food was very
rare everywhere. I hated to go to town at Stutt
gart. People looked worse every time, most of the
city was destroyed, depression was to find in every
face.

At Tubingen we had about the same conditions;
yet Stuttgart is my home town, so it's much harder
to see the beloved city suffering and Tubingen
had lost only few houses.

Well, work was the best remedy for my grief and
I started to love my work, feeling able to do it
right well. We started with thirty persons after
war, and it was hard enough to find out enough
first material to employ them. Now we occupy
about eighty persons. We ought to have 120; how-
ever, this is furthermore a matter of wool and cot-
ton imports. Perhaps our yarn sometimes con-
tains Georgia cotton, grown on the red earth of the

Ursula von Tessin

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iouth. Currency reform last summer has normal-
zed somewhat our turbulent commercial condi-
ions, after a lost war. Currency reform also im-
>roved food supply; however, it's still almost im-
>ossible to exist with "cards". A pound of meat
luring four weeks, that's not too much; milk,
vheat, flour, eggs, butter and any form of grease
re very rare. There are enough potatoes this year
the first year since the war everybody at least can
at as much potatoes as he wants to. I know it is
omewhat hard to describe the condition in Ger-
nany. According to my mind, it is just impossible
o give a real picture of the state you are in when
ou cannot even buy a toothbrush anymore. Really,

cannot remember having seen one in a shop be-
ween 1946 and June 1948.

Let me go on telling about my life; probably
ou've read lots of better reports about my country,
n summer 1946 a cousin of my husband returned
rom French prisonship. We got to know each

: rom France to Egypt

>y Jeannette Marchal-Herenger
ipecial, 1938-39

I would have many, many things to write if I
hould tell you what has been life for me, after I
eft Agnes Scott. It would be too long, not very
nteresting. And I have forgotten all the little
Lnglish I ever knew; so it would be awful! Please
ry to be very indulgent: I have not spoken Eng-
ish for years! (just after the war, when the Ameri-
an soldiers were in France; no more, after!) So,
vhen you happen to see a very big mistake, just
lose your eyes, jump over it, and do as if it was
lerfectly correct English. Will you?

Let me tell you, before all, how happy I was
/hen I heard from Agnes Scott, after long years of
?ar and silence. You cannot imagine what your
ollege has been for me during those sad years;

thought of it as of a wonderful thing of the past,
/Inch helped me much when everything was so
lull and dark in France.

I shall not tell you much about that time; I was
hen in France, and maybe you can imagine that
ife was not particularly agreeable. I knew what
old, hunger, and fear, are. But I have no right to
omplain, since all the people I love are still alive.

I left France in October 1945, and went to

other, we soon fell in love, and we were married in
September 1946. So Wolf and I came to Kilchberg,
a little village three miles from Tubingen, where
the family of my husband owns a beautiful old
castle. My husband and Wolf got to be the best of
friends. I really was happy to have a family again,
and a loving father for Wolf. In summer 1947
Peter was born. Wolf is not contented yet; he
wishes also a little sister; however, not I! I still
go to business every morning and every afternoon.
My husband now shares the work with me and I
really am perfectly contented. If only the world
would get to be more peaceful. This is our great-
est fright, since we are situated just between the
east and the west of the world.

Now this is the conclusion of the last ten years.
We cannot get over the dread of losing what is
dearest to us, and yet we live again after those
dreadful years, since life goes on and still has left
us an active mind and a loving heart.

Egypt, as a teacher in the Alexandria French Lycee.
It was just marvelous for me to leave my country;
don't think I don't love it, but I was terribly tired
of being there with so many troubles in everyday
life. I w ? ill never (even if I should reach 99 years!)
forget my first days in Egypt. It was really won-
derful to see true shoes in the stores, true cloth;
to see groceries with all the things one could dream
of. And even more wonderful to be able to buy
dresses or stockings, white soap and chocolate,
leather-soled shoes and bananas! You have been in
America during all the war; then, even with much
imagination, you cannot know what it has been
for me! And I don't speak of the first day when
I entered a tea-room in Alexandrie. You have no
idea of what it is: even in plentiful, rich America,
there are no stores like these, with huge quantities
of candies, and thousands of sorts of "gateaux",
cakes, pies, ice creams! Well, I had practically for-
gotten the taste of a "chou a la creme" and I could
have cried thinking of the empty stores of France,
of all the children who had never tasted chocolate,
of all the old people who wanted so much some
sweets . . .

My thoughts about the country where I live
now? Well, it would be very long to tell you the
things I saw in Egypt since I am here. But I can
say that I like this country very, very much. Partly
because of very personal things . . . here I got

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married, in November 1946, to the headmaster of
the lycee. My son was born in Alexandria last
June. I have my home here, where I spent the hap-
piest days. I know that all these facts probably
add much to my sympathy for Egypt! However,
there are other reasons.

I like the sunshine, the sweetness of winters, the
beauty of the sea. I had time to visit Upper
Egypt two years ago. I had dreamt of Lugsor,
Assouan, when I was twelve years old, studying in
school history of the Pharoahs. So that trip was
especially beautiful. I have no time here to de-
scribe that country; I just hope you can see it some
day. 1 like also the landscape of Egyptian country,
in the delta, with the palm trees, the brilliant
green of fields, the women in their black veils, the
villages, the scenes which make one think of life
centuries ago . . .But Egypt is interesting also for
its modern side, its present growing. It is in the
same time very old and very modern. People arc
often very interesting. Here in Alexandria, most
of the 800,000 inhabitants are, of course, Moslem
Arabs. But there are also many Greeks, Jews,
Italians, some French people, and others from all
parts of the world; many wealthy families; beauti-
ful houses; all these people like luxury and litera-
ture; like music, lectures, give great parties where
women wear the most up-to-date dresses, made in
Paris, and the most beautiful jewels you ever saw
in your dreams! Most of them are terribly fond
of cards, and play bridge every day, since in rich
society women have nothing to do, and don't have
any idea of how to cook an egg: they have as many

servants as they want, and probably don't know
how to fix a bottom!

But there is also the real Egyptian people, whc
speak Arab language, have Arab traditions, whc
are deeply religious, hard to know, because mam
of them would like to make their country rich
and powerful, but without any help of any foreign
er most especially any non-Moslem. I am ter
jibly sorry I don't know Arabic well enough to be
able to read their newspapers, understand theii
speeches. (I just know very little Arabic: enough
to be understood by the servants, and especially b)
the lovely black nurse of my son!)

Life is very hard here for too many poor families
for the farmers, or workers. Some day, it will be
better; life is very sweet, wonderfully easy, for the
others, and for my chance, I am among them. How
long will this last?

I will not leave you without speaking of one
thing, which bothers me much. I know your col
lege needs money for the new buildings; I got, here
the booklet, and different letters. But, for spite
of my wishing to help, it is impossible. I can not
send any money; it is forbidden, and practically
impossible. Egyptian government forbids any
kind of financial "transactions". Maybe it will be
possible later; I am terribly sorry, because I would
be happy to give something for a place I love. As
soon as it is allowed, I promise to think of you.
So never imagine that I forget Agnes Scott and
don't want to answer to its campaign! All my life,
I will be thankful to Agnes Scott, and to you, for
all the beautiful days you gave me.

In England Now

by Ruth Scandrett Hardy '22

The autlior, holder of a Washington ad-
ministrative post before her marriage to
an Englishman several years ago, was back
for her class reunion last June when she
visited her sister, Dean Carrie Scandrett
'24.

I would like to be able to write an essay on mat-
ters of general interest in the United Kingdom, or
just in England. They are many, particularly to
an American who spent almost twenty years in ad-
ministering labor laws, State and Federal, and in
investigating working conditions in all sections
of the United States. My information is not pre-
cise enough and my observation covers too nar-
row a field to permit a comment on national af-
fairs. Two general statements are valid. The

capacity of the British to preserve the past, deal
with the present, and plan for the future, all
without fuss and bother, is astounding. And no-
where, in my opinion, is the tradition of civil
liberty, which we share with the British, more
firmly practiced than in this constitutional (at
present, socialist) monarchy.

My factual information is limited to house-
hold affairs and to what I see. I am not going tfi
write about rationing, despite my thorough knowl-

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dge of that subject. Every American must know
bout British austerity. Food in our household
s considerably augmented by parcels from friends
nd family in America, and unrationed foods are
more plentiful and more varied than when I
ame to England three years ago. I have great
atisfaction in feeling well enough dressed in any
lothes, John prefers old clothes, and we replen-
shed our stock of essential clothing, within mone-
ary exchange limitations, when we visited the
Jnited States in 1948. The small allowance of
asoline makes it difficult to keep the battery of
he car charged, but it makes bicycling more
)leasant. About housing, I could write at length
nd with feeling. In The London Times I read
ast week that 582,881 houses have been com-
peted since the war, providing for three million
lersons. We are not among them, and fully half
ny time is spent in search of a house. When we
ind one, and our furniture is out of storage and
n repair, a garden is under cultivation, and
ome egg-producing hens are at hand, perhaps I
hall have an opportunity to examine what goes
in in general.

We now come to what I see. That is an aspect
if life in England which brings considerable satis-
action, coupled with the fact that there is time to
ook. This is a gift that John has, and I profit by.

The country is amazingly varied, within our
adius on a bicycle, some twenty miles. There are
he sandy heaths, with pine, birch, heather, and
orse; there is the chalk ridge which runs from east
o west through Guildford, Farnham and on to
Vinchester, and beyond to Salisbury Plain. This
ormed one of the great trackways, the Pilgrims
Vay, prehistoric in its antiquity. The soil on the
ower slopes is rich and fertile. It is all intersected
iy country lanes bordered with trees and hedges of
awthorn, holly, rhododendron, or beech and
uiet enough for us to enjoy the song of the birds
-larks in the fields, blackbirds, thrushes, robins,
its great and small in the trees and hedges.

There is much to interest the historian and de-
ight those who love ancient things. The wall of
he great Roman city of Silchester still stands,
hough within nothing remains to show that the
ite was ever occupied. The church, it is said, is
n the site of a Roman temple. This part of
lampshire, and nearby Surrey and Berkshire, are
ich in timber-framed cottages of the 16th century

and possibly earlier. The church at Crondall was
built by the Normans in the 12th century, and lo-
cal parish registers going back to this period and
occasionally even earlier, are relatively common-
place. Against this background, stately Bramshill
House of the Jacobean period and the mansions of
the Georgian period seem modern. I forego com-
ment on the more recent additions of barracks and
aerodromes.

Our holidays are spent aboard a boat, anchored
in a creek that flows into the Helford River, in
Cornwall, near Frenchmen's Creek. To travel
there and back, about 500 miles, requires our gaso-
line ration for six months. We drive across Salis-
bury Plain and along the Dorset coast to Devon,
then across Bodmin Moor to the Cornish coast. It
is the Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels, and dur-
ing the icy winter of 1947 I read, or reread, most of
them with happy recollections of the country, the
villages, and the people.

I was prepared to find England a green and
pleasant land, with many things of interest to see.
I was somewhat surprised to find the climate ex-
cellent (that is, it suits me), the rainfall not ex-
cessive, and the people cordial and informal.
Everywhere I have been made welcome, even in the
Yeobridge of With Malice Toward Some, where we
have spent Christmas and Easter holidays.

There is a sturdy, trustworthy quality about the
people I meet casually in the country and in the
shops which explains how the Battle of Britain was
won and why there is no black market of appreci-
able extent. One would not know readily, from
their conversation, the pride they have in their
country and their attachment to its soil and its
customs. The usual comment is, "Dreadful cli-
mate," "always raining," "this (or that) must seem
poor to an American," and the universal complaints
about taxes, prices, and government. Many fami-
lies are emigrating to Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa, Canada, and some to the United
States. I have talked with a number of them.
They go with reluctance, as well as with hope, and
I begin to understand how such widely separated
areas of the world are inhabited by people who
continue to speak the English language.

This threatens to become an essay. I need not
say that I remain an American citizen. Only a
foreigner would write as kindly about England as
the English feel.

[17]

Atmosphere

Free and Favouring

When Marybeth Little left Agnes Scott last June
wearing the Hopkins Jewel, she had published
two volumes of poetry, sung the lead in "The Mi-
kado" and senior opera, been lecture association
chairman and May Queen, made honor roll grades,
served as a guest editor of Mademoiselle magazine,
and written a weekly column in The Agnes Scott
News. This year, studying at the University of
Zurich, she apparently has lost none of her mo-
mentum.

by Marybeth Little '48

"Just keep in mind that you're an American, a
Texan, and a lady, and everything Will be all
right." And with that father-daughter advice in the
pocket, passport in the purse, and long red woolies
in my trunk, off I scampered to Europe, September
1948.

Thomas Mann speaks of the "free and favouring
atmosphere of Zurich, a metropolis not in size but
in situation and mission, always friendly to all
European avant-garde ventures". Approximately
the size of Atlanta, Zurich has a grand opera com-
pany, a professional theater, a symphony orchestra,
an art museum, and the like all permanent, well-
supported, excellent. Zurich is built around the
end of a lake and on both sides of a many-bridged
river, and is surrounded by mountains. A preserva-
tion of the old with a use of the functional new
makes the city itself both charming and comfort-
able, and simply roaming the town is walking
through history with seven-league boots. Medie-
val, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and modern
architecture are vis-a-vis. Charlemagne, Zwingli
the Reformer, Lavater whom Goethe visited, the
great authors Meyer and Keller, and countless other
famous j:>eople lived here. Every day I walk past
the place where Wagner wrote the Ring cycle, and
where James Joyce died. Then there are the gera-
nium-collared windows, the cobblestone streets, hot
chocolate after ice skating, the five-century-old
roofs and chimney-pots, white gulls and swans
against dark water, church bells and shadows of the
lowers, all which continue to remain for me noth-
ing less than miracles.

Switzerland's largest University and her Georgia
Tech stand side by side, and the several thousand
students enjoy the fullest academic and social
intermixture. Everybody is a day student, and
trolleys and footwork have certainly revealed a side

of life we ex-boarders missed. Students have had
the equivalent of two years of our college work
before they enter the University and (except for
the unhappy Americans under our special pro-
gram for credit) do not take exams until the end
of their university work, three to six years. In
general, they study during their long intersemester
vacations and simply enjoy stimulating coffee-con-
versations, personal intellectual interests, and dark
to dawn Student Balls during the terms. Class-
room behavior is also different from ours: they
stamp their feet when the professor enters and
leaves the lecture room or when he says something
they especially like; they noisily scrape their feet
to embarrass latecomers. There is almost no per-
sonal contact between the faculty and students,
with the interesting exception of the English de-
partment, where the professors evidently have ab-
sorbed some of the informality of English and
American universities. Being here in 1949 is really
marvelous for us students studying German litera-
ture, because it is the two-hundreth celebration of
Goethe's birthday, and many of his plays will be
performed, even the complete Faust. Large dis-
counts are given students by theaters, concert halls,
cinemas, and bookstores; and there are special
cheap restaurants and recreational places. All in
all, Zurich offers many opportunities to her young
people from all over the world.

Unfortunately for us who want to learn to speak
German, the Zurich people speak a dialect among
themselves which compares to German about as
Chaucerian English does to the modern. Naturally
German is the academic, stage, and written lan-
guage. In addition they all know French. The
Uni-Bar (which has the social significance of our
Book Store) sounds like the Tower of Babel but
one can occasionally catch drifts of heated discus-

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ons. Surprisingly frequent lopics-at-random are
Jew Orleans jazz, T. S. Eliot, Rita Hayworth, Hem-
igway, and Truman. Zurich is very America-
Diiscious, and English is now the language in
ishion.

Wish you could know my Swiss family (a young
juple and little boy seven years old), some Swiss
iends, three Frenchmen, two Germans, two
.merican Negroes, two Scottish girls, a Persian,
nd a Russian these in particular. Dancing with
German who was a prisoner of war in Texas,
earing a discussion of a certain battle among
merican and German friends, visiting a family in
.lsace, in that little country which is the bewilder-
i child of bickering divorce, these are experi-
:ices I would like to share. And, too, the things
ley say: a French boy, "Sometimes I am afraid
merica might capitulate to Communism before
ranee, because although France is an old and dis-
ised body, she has antibodies that America as a
3ung and healthy nation has not developed" . . .
German, "It is hard for me to understand a lot
E things; Nazism was all I ever knew" ... a Czech,
It is sad to be young in Europe, because it has
othing but its past".

There are perhaps over 150 American students
i Zurich. We celebrated Thanksgiving with a
>ecial Anglican church service, a flagwaving ban-
uet, and a dance; we also had a typically American
hristmas party and invited foreign students,
hristmas here was very interesting, you might say
begins on the sixth of December when "Samich-
us" come to the boys or girls with either candy or
vitches. Parents can order "Samichlauses" of vari-
degrees of costume and retinue, and the whole
remony has a Judgment Day atmosphere, insur-
g the good behavior of the children afterward, at
ast until the evening of the twenty-fourth 'when
e little Christ Child brings the tree and gifts to
1 the family. Being with my Swiss Family Gerber
itil the day after Christmas was exciting; and of
iurse collecting recipes and customs to take home
a principal extracurricular activity.
Which leads me to but a brief resume of travels,
fear German literature at the University is hav-
g a fierce struggle against applied geography,
ap as textbook, wanderlust as guide. Just hope
e result will be a happy balance. Cherbourg's
een hills and war ruins were my first view of
rrope. And then Paris: we simply rushed through

the centuries trying to see what every tourist should
see, and I was duly confused and awed; remember
best the hot-chestnut vendors, the treelined boule-
vards, the formal gardens, moneychangers, book-
stalls on the Seine, berets, grillwork balconies, and
the long loaves of bread. Shall spend a week there
in March with some French friends . . . The Stras-
bourg cathedral and university and the nearby
town of Sesenheim, all which played such a great
part in the life of the young Goethe, made an un-
forgettable impression ... In Switzerland have
weekended in Geneva, Bern, Basel, Luzern, Inter-
laken and Jungfrau, Altdorf (Wilhelm Tell's
hometown), Lausanne, and St. Moritz. To resist
describing these beautiful, quaint, each-so-different
places is maddening . . . During the Christmas va-
cation went to Avignon (Palais des Papes), Nimes
and Aries (famous for their Roman ruins; walked
through a pre-Christian aqueduct across a valley),
Les Baux (enchanting Pompeii of the Middle Ages
and Renaissance), Marseilles (fabulous mixture of
peoples, shellfish, and Moroccan wares), Nice
(where I expressed my enthusiasm for everything
French by acquiring the modish flu of the season),
and Monte Carlo (where I saw Winston Churchill
playing roulette). Was bewitched by the atmos-
phere of the Provence, and by the exotic beauty of
the Cote d'Azur; was horrified by the contrast be-
tween the splendor of the past and squalor of the
present when I saw wizened children living tene-
ment-fashion in Renaissance palaces, playing with-
out laughter in ruins of a Roman amphitheater
. . . During the spring vacation plan to go with a
Swiss student group to Milan, Padua, Venice, Bo-
logna, Florence, Rome, Pisa, and Genoa, and later
hope to join an American group with special per-
mission to go to Munich and Vienna.

Even at this moment, running off magic place
names like these, I feel that I'm writing fiction or
dreaming. Only the sobering awareness of loom-
ing tests and papers keeps me from even believing
I should send this angel-express with Saint Peter's
postmark. Interest in exchange students is grow-
ing in the States and in Europe I hope this may
eventually affect some of our students and alumnae.
All that Agnes Scott gives so enlarges one's appre-
ciation of everything one lives and breathes here,
that every day I thank my lucky stars even if I do
have to explain that Dixie accent in my deutschl

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Agnes Scott Meeting
Anticipated in Africa

by Charline Fleece Halverstadt '37

Although I am certainly "far from the reach of
thy sheltering arms," still the contacts and ties that
I have with you mean even more to me here in the
Belgian Congo. Perhaps it would surprise you to
know that we have a potential Agnes Scott Club
away off here "in the bush". You just never can
tell where another alumna will pop up! There
are six of us on the mission now, Virginia Grey
Pruitt, Winifred Kellersberger Vass, Mary McCann
Hudson, Peggy Stixrud McCutcheon, Anne Wilds
McLean, and myself. We hope to have a meeting
in the fall when we gather for our annual Mission
Meeting.

I have heard that a prominent woman said that
she loved to return to the college which she attend-
ed and sit in her old chapel seat and think about
how much happier she was than she ever dreamed
she would be when she had sat in that seat as a
girl. Since coming to Africa, I, too, have found
joys of which I never dreamed and have attempted
to do things which I would never have dreamed
that I would try! I have entertained ten unexpect-
ed dinner guests without a tremor, (at least none
visible to the naked eye), made potato chips out of
plantains, and apple sauce out of mangoes, created
a Christmas tree from a skeleton tree and a few
cedar branches; and, to crown it all, I, who always
said that I would never try to teach, have taught (?)
Bible, music, art, phonetics, sewing, knitting, and
now, readin', ritin', and 'rithmetic at Central
School for Missionaries' Children. This last job is
for just one month; so perhaps the children's de-
velopment won't be permanently retarded. (Some
of you teachers please notice that we are in need of
another teacher for next year. Mary Mac Hudson
is here now and would be glad to see another
A.S.C. girl join her.)

When the war ended, my husband and I were in
California with our six-year-old boy, a worn-out
car, discharge papers, and several well-worn Navy

uniforms. Having already broken most of out
home ties, it seemed the perfect opportunity to se(
if the Lord really had a place for us in Foreign
Mission work. We found that He had been pre
paring it and us for some time, and on Decembei
8, 1946, we soared above that famous skyline in a
Clipper bound for the Belgian Congo. Jim became
the treasurer of the American Presbyterian Congo
Mission and I, automatically, became a missionary,
too. A missionary's life is not just exactly as I had
imagined it, but it is certainly the most stimulating
and most satisfying life in the world. It's also a lot
of other things like discouraging (at times), ex-
hausting (lots of times), and interesting (at all
times). It is anything, in fact, but dull!

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We live in Luluabourg, a city of six hundred
Europeans and twenty thousand natives. Here
irimitiveness and modern civilization go hand in

nd. Huge DC-4's roll in and out of our airport
everal times each week, while smoke from a fire
milt by a native serves as a wind signal. Our
tores carry everything from ball point pens to

nd grist mills, and one often sees a native man
itting in front of his one-room mud and stick hut
ewing on a Singer sewing machine. In our kitchen
i a modern refrigerator, but all of the water for
he house is carried by native carriers from a near-
ly spring. We find these incongruities in the peo-
ile as well. A clerk who speaks two or three lan-
uages will still claim that the person who was
truck by lightning was killed because someone
lade medicine against him. The strong hold that
hese native beliefs have on them makes it very
ard to build real, strong Christian character. They
o easily take on our ways and even our beliefs; but
o much of it is superficial, while their faith in na-
ive medicine is deeply imbedded.

One interesting aspect of our life in Luluabourg

is the opportunity to meet and know people from
many other countries. Some of them live here,
while others are just passing through on their way
into the interior. We have entertained two Swed-
ish Boy Scouts, a Russian singer, several Norwegian
families, and some British fliers who all but land-
ed their small plane on our front lawn. We also
enjoy our Swiss, Belgian, and Portuguese friends
from town. Upon several occasions three lan-
guages were being spoken in our living room at the
same time! I would now feel right at home at the
tower of Babel! French is, of course the official
language here, although most of our mission work
is done in the native tongue. Trying to learn two
languages is quite a tax on my poor brain. When-
ever I open my mouth the wrong one always comes
out!

How much has happened to us all since we
walked along together in our long, black robes at
Commencement! Some of us have traveled many
miles, but not so far as to weaken the ties of friend-
ship which we formed during our years together
at Agnes Scott.

lio de Janeiro -

K Satisfying Home Town

>y Charity Crocker ex-'43

Brazil would be too broad a subject, so I shall
estrict my comments to Rio de Janeiro, the capi-
al city and my home.

It is satisfying to live in a place that can be rec-
>mmended without reservation to any type of
>rospective visitor. Rio's natural beauty cannot
>e surpassed. It combines massive granite moun-
ains rising from the water's edge with a succession
if white beaches and a magnificent harbor. Then
dd a year-round warm climate, a modern city
atisfying both businessman and vacationer, a
riendly population given to a carnival frenzy once
. year and a good-humoured approach to hard-
hips, and it is no wonder that it casts a spell

bringing back many a person who "passed
through".

Rio is unique; charming for its old buildings and
traditions, surprising for its daring modernism.
Brazilian atmosphere cements foreign influences:
up-to-date American conveniences and entertain-
ment together with European goods and culture.
It is no wonder that many Brazilians speak or read
a language other than the native Portuguese.

There is an often quoted word in Portuguese
"saudades" which Brazilians claim is untranslat-
ab'e and can only be rendered vaguely as a nostal-
gia or longing such as that felt by a Brazilian when
far from his native soil.

r2ii

ALUMNAE CLUBS

Alumnae at the Baton Rouge meeting with Dr.
Alston Jan. 28 were Frances Tucker Owen '42,
Dot Almond Fowler '45, Delia Stone Melton '28,
Mabel McKowen, Inst., Frances Kell Munson '15,
May McKowen Taylor '06, Ethel Freeland Darden
'29, Marguerite Sentell Fleshman '22, Sarah Mc-
Kowen Blackshear '11, Cornelia Cross John '10,
and Eugenia Mason Patrick '46.

At the Austin meeting with Dr. Alston Jan. 31
were Nancy Gribble Nelson '41, Maudie Van Dyk<;
Jennings '46, Katherine Patton Carssow '40, Re-
becca A. Saunders '21, and Bippy Cook '45.

At the meeting with Dr. Alston in New Orleans
Jan. 27 were Mary Branan Dunwody, Inst., Caro-
line Caldwell Jordan '10, Grace Carr Clark '27,
Helen Comfort Sanders '24, Carmen Graves Sarre
'17, feanne Hale Shepard '46, Georgia Little
Owens '25, Mary Matthews Starr '37, Gail Nelson
Blain '33, Miriam Thompson '32, Sarah Turner
Ryan '36, Lilly Weeks McLean '36, and Jane Also-
brook '48.

Alumnae in Houston who met Dr. Alston Jan.
29 are Josephine Barry Brown '30, Mary Adele
Botts Pedan '32, Jacquelyn Burns Bain '45, Nellie
Margaret Gilroy Gustafson '37, Dr. Goldie Suttle
Ham '19, Martha Evelyn Hill Armstrong '33, Mil-
dred Hutcheson Rouse '30, Leila Joiner Cooper
'27, Mary Upshaw Jones Thompson '34, Cornelia
Elizabeth Keeton Barnes '33, Margaret Earle Mc-
Connell '20, Dr. Mary Ann McKinley '25, Ruth
Moore Randolph '34, Mary Norwood Weir '11,
Henrietta Ruhmann '44, Laura Stevens '35, Erna
Wilk Sasshead, Raemond Wilson Craig '30.

At the meeting with Dr. Alston in Washington,
D. C. Feb. 12 were Emilie Harvey Massicot '30,
Maud Foster Jackson '23, Edna Jones Watson, Inst.,
Willie Wellborn, Inst, Patricia Collings Andretta
'28, Mary Harris Yongue '23, Alice Norman Pate
'19, Charlotte Thompson Aiken '17, Clarice Chase
Marshall, Acad., Kittie Burress Long, Inst., Elise
McLaurin Gibson '29, Barbara Brown Fugate '40,
Flora Young Mobley '34, Eleanor Sessoms '35, Eliza-
beth Dawson Scofield '30, Kenneth Maner Powell
'27, Emily MacMoreland Midkifl '39, Virginia Kyle
Dean '39, Jackie Ulma Stearns '42, Virginia Tucker
'48, Kate Ellis '47, Jane Baggs Key '48, Yolanda
Bernabe de Montealegre '44.

Jeanne Robinson '45, Alice Gordon Pender '46,

Betty Waitt White '41, Bryant Holsenbeck Moon
'43, Geachy Kaufman Cutrufelli '34, Nancy G
Rogers '34, Louise Cousar '48, Marie Baker '30
Elizabeth Lightcap '33, and Mary Lillian Fairl)
Hupper '38.

At the Philadelphia meeting with Dr. Alston
Feb. 15 were Jean Ramspeck Harper, Inst., Caro
lyn Forman '40, Zoe Wells Lambert '38, Mar)
Leukel Keister '40, Adelaide Benson Campbell '39,
Modesta Hance Dalgliesh '42, Mary Cargill '46,
Christina Yates '47, Betty Franks '45, Katharine
Wilson Davies '32, Lucille Cairns George '37, Helen
C. Fox '29, Katherine Leary Holland '30, Gladys
Austin Mann '-29, Frances Harper Sala '22, and
Frances M. O'Brien '34.

In Boston for the alumnae meeting with Dr.
Alston on Founder's Day were Margaret Sheftall
Chester '42, India Hunt Balch '17, Margaret Pow
ell Gay '24, Edith Gould '45, Betty Gash '29, Mary
Jane Schumaker '46, Ruth Craig Hinkel '24, Han
sell Cousar Palme '45, Philippa Gilchrist '23,
Sterly Lebey Wilder '43, Virginia F. Prettyman
Cleminette Downing Rutenber '30, Mary Nell Oz-
merit Pingree '47, Julia Tomlinson Ingram '21,
Mary Ball Oliver '41, Margaret Erwin Walker '42,
Rebecca Green Hinds, Inst., and Hettye McCurdy,
Inst.

At the Baltimore meeting with Dr. Alston Feb.
24 were Frances Harper Sala '22, Gertrude Samuels
'23, Mary McCulloch Templeton '40, Alvahn
Holmes '18, Mary Florence McKee Anderson '44,
and Lucile Caldwell '25.

Club Handbook Available

A Handbook for Clubs was published by the
Alumnae Association shortly before Founder's Day
and is available to alumnae who are considering
the formation of Agnes Scott clubs in their locali-
ties.

The Handbook, almost entirely the work ol
Pernette Adams Carter '29, gives full and practical
advice on founding and maintaining a club which
will be of significance to its members and to the
College. A set of suggested by-laws is appended.

Mrs. Carter, who is Alumnae Association Vice-
President in charge of club promotion, has been a
leader in the founding and development of the out-
standing Charlotte, N. C, Agnes Scott Club.

[22

Class News

>EATHS
919

essamine Booth Fleming's husband died
ist October.

923

Christine Sinclair Parsons' husband died
ist year.

934

,ib Winn Wilson's father died in Febru-

935

Elizabeth Heaton Mullino's mother died
an. 10.

936

)r. Peter Marshall, husband of Sarah
'atherine Wood, died in January. As
haplain of the United States Senate he
as known for his prayers "at" as well
s "for" the law makers. In his last Sen-
te prayer lie pleaded for wisdom on the
art of senators, asking", "When differ-
nces arise, as they will, may Thy serv-
nts be not disturbed as being misunder-
tood, but rather be disturbed at not
nderstanding." Dr. Marshall had ac-
epted the invitation from Christian As-
ociation to be Religious Emphasis Week
peaker at the College in February.

Vnn Coffee Packer's mother died last
ear.

940

Vnn Enloe's mother died in January.

Virginia McWhorter Freeman's brother,
,t. Col. W. Hugh McWhorter, was kill-
d when his plane, an Army C-47, crash-
d into a mountain-side near Tacoma,
Vash., Jan. 7.

941

inn Henry's father died last November.

/fartha Moody Laseter's father died last
une.

Campus Calendar

April 4, 5, 6: John Philip Gili.in, head of the
Division of Anthropology in the Sociology Depart-
ment of the University of North Carolina. Mac-
lean Chapel, Presser Hall: 1 1 a.m. each of the three
days, 8:30 p.m. April 5 and fi. No charge.

April 5: Douglas Bush, professor of English at
Harvard University. Buttrick Hall, 12 noon,
"Science and the Victorian Poets" to Victorian
Poetry class; Maclean Chapel, Presser Hall, 8 p.m.,
"Science and Modern Poetry". No charge.

April 7: Blackfriars play: No Way Out, by
Owen Davis. Gaines Auditorium, Presser Hall,
8:30. Admission SI. 20, 60 cents.

April 23: Glee Club Concert. Presser Hall,
8 p.m., no charge.

April 27: Water Pageant. Gymnasium, 8 p.m.

May 7. May Day Festival. May Day Dell, 5
p.m. Admission 50 cents.

June 4: ALUMNAE DAY. Trustees' Lunch-
eon at 1 p.m., class reunion dinners in evening.
Annual Association meeting in afternoon.

June 5: Baccalaureate Sunday. Dr. Marshall
Dendy, First Presbyterian Church, Orlando, Fla.
Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall, 1 1 a.m.

[une 6: Commencement. Mills B. Lane, Jr.,
president, Citizens and Southern National Bank,
speaker. Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall, 10 a.m.

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The Alumnae Association of Acnes Scott College

Officers

Betty Lou Houck Smith '35

Kenneth Maner Powell '27

Vice-President

I'ernette Adams Carter '29

Vice-President

Dorothy Holloran Addison '43

Vice-President

Jane Taylor White '42

Betty Medlock '42

Grace Fischer Trimble '32

Mary Sayward Rogers '28

Laurie BrxLE Stubbs Johns '2

Residence

Garden

Jean Bailey Owen

Special Events

Hayden Sanford Sams '39

Entertainment

Mary Wallace Kirk '11

Trustees

Eliza Kinc Paschall

Alumna Trustee

Frances Winship Walters Inst.

Alumna Trustee

Virginia Wood '35

Vocational Guidance

Frances Radford Mauldin '43

Class Officers

Eliza King Paschall '38

Staff

Nominating

Chairmen

Jane Guthrie Rhodes '38

Publications

Julia Pratt Smith Slack ex-'12

House Decorations

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Emily Higgins Bradley '45

House and Office Manager

Ruth Hunt Morris '49

Office Assistant

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ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

<rnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Volume 27, No. 4

SUMMER, 1949

State of the Campaign 2

./. R. McCain

Dedication of Infirmary 3

Mrs. Evans Chosen Trustee of College 4

The Honors Program

Frees Able Seniors for Research,

Writing: the 1949 Group 5

Honors Reading at Agnes Scott 8

George P. Hayes

Wanted Agnes Scott Material 13

Edna R. Hun ley

Phi Beta Kappa Elects Three Alumnae 17

Alumnae Here and There 18

The Annual Meeting 20

Faculty and Staff 26

Class News -. . 28

Alumnae Club Directory Inside Back Cover

College Calendar Back Cover

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40, Editor

[1]

State of the

CAMPAIGN

When Miss Eleanor Hutchens requested me to
[jrepare a message for the Summer Quarterly, I
thought that perhaps I should share with our
alumnae some of the educational conferences
which I have attended during recent months.
These would include items such as, "practical ways
in which college students may help in crime pre-
vention"; "new vocational opportunities which
are developing for women"; "the role of the col-
lege in raising standards for secondary and ele-
mentary schools"; "the relation of Christian col-
leges to world missions and world peace".

While I have attended discussions of these and
many other such topics and have shared in some
of the programs, and while I feel that Agnes Scott
should be more alert in local, national, and world
problems, I really could not get my mind adjusted
to writing an article about any one of these sub-
jects just now.

The fact that we are in the midst of a very im-
portant and very absorbing campaign really puts
most other ideas and occupations in a second place
for the present. We have had two previous cam-
paigns for a total of $1,500,000 each, but in both
cases we had 5 years in which to secure our sub-
scriptions and get the payments. In our present ef-
fort for the same amount, we originally had but
one year and a half; and this has been fortunately
extended so as to make a total of two and one-half
years, that is to December 31, 1950, provided we
get the subscriptions by December 31 of this year.

We still lack $225,000 of getting the amount
which we pledged ourselves to secure for endow-
ment. We have over-subscribed to some extent the

amount which we were allowed to use for build-
ings or other permanent improvements, and yet
there are some other physical improvements which
we feel obliged to secure if possible. These would
provide for the payment on our new telescope
which has been engaged, the erecting of a good
observatory, the furniture and equipment for our
new Infirmary, the payment of the cost for the
sunken garden, and some provision for furnishing
the dining hall and kitchen which we are to build.
The endowment to which we are committed may
be either general or undesignated funds or may in-
clude scholarship gifts. During the whole of this
campaign we have followed the policy of putting
undesignated gifts into general endowment, which
is used primarily for the paying of salaries of
teachers and officers. This is certainly a number
one need of the College.

In order to secure and hold some of our hem
students it is needful for us to provide student
funds. It would be very helpful and will relieve
the general budget of the College if we can have
endowed funds to provide the needed student aid.
An individual scholarship may be set up and
named for $1,000 or more. We have 55 such en-
dowed funds at the present time, ranging in size
from $1,000 to $100,000.

While only about 15 per cent of our alumnae
have sent gifts to date, I have confidence that sev-
eral times this number will participate either with
cash gifts or with subscriptions made payable
either in 1949 or 1950.

In the six previous campaigns which I have
shared with you during my 34 years at Agnes
Scott, our alumnae have been our best encour-
agers and most consistent givers. If this is true in
my seventh and last campaign for Agnes Scott,!
firmly believe that we will have a decided victor)
and a long step forward in the service which Agnes
Scott can render to its whole constituency.

We are most grateful to the donors and to Gel
for the splendid gifts which have already beer
made and for the marked improvements which are
already under way.

Cordially,

J. R. McCAIN,

President.

)edication of Infirmary
Jeld at Commencement

vgnes Scott's newest building, the 1200,000
inces Winship Walters Infirmary, was dedicated
le 4 in the presence of the donor, officials of

College, and an audience of students, faculty
mbers and friends.

Jnveiled at the same ceremony was a portrait of
nces Winship Walters by Mme. Elizabeth
Riniatoff, the artist who was painting President
nklin D. Roosevelt at the time of his death,
e picture, given to the College by Robert W.
)odruff, will hang in the Infirmary, as will a
liable piece of tapestry done by Mrs. Walters
self and presented to the College,
resident J. R. McCain conducted the dedica-
i service, at which Harrison Jones, chairman of

board of the Coca-Cola Company and a life-
g friend of Mrs. Walters, delivered the princi-

address. Mrs. Walters made the formal gift of

Building to George Winship, chairman of the
ird of trustees, who accepted it with a brief
ech paying tribute to her years of generosity
rard the College. The Agnes Scott Choir sang,
I Vice-President Wallace Alston pronounced
prayer of dedication. Julia McCullough,
ighter of Mary Crenshaw McCullough '28, was
sen by Mrs. Walters to unveil the portrait.
Hie beautiful new Infirmary, standing next to

Gymnasium and across the street from the
ne house in which so many generations of
les Scott students have had their winter colds,
lelieved to be the best of any college in the
ntry. Designed in harmony with other col-
ate gothic buildings on the campus, its two
ies overlook a landscaped area intended to be-
le one of the beauty spots of the College
unds. The bedrooms will accommodate thirty
ients, double the number for which the old in-
nary was prepared. Quarters for the College
'sician and two resident nurses, an office, treat-
it rooms, laboratory equipment, X-ray and
al metabolism test facilities, and a kitchen com-
te the first floor, which with a normal number
latients will be sufficient without the use of the

bedrooms on the second floor. Funds are still need-
ed for the furnishing of the building and the
landscaping.

The old infirmary, now standing in its fifth lo-
cation on the campus, will be used to house stu-
dents until the proposed new dormitory, Hopkins
Hall, renders the use of cottages unnecessary.

Other campus buildings are seeing an active
summer. Gaines Cottage, beloved of many alum-

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From the portrait by Mme. Elizabeth Shoumatoff,
presented to Agnes Scott by Robert Woodruff and
unveiled in the new Infirmary.

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nae whose "crowds" captured it for a year or more,
has been moved from its place beside Inman and
settled facing South Candler Street, between Ans-
ley and Lupton. Construction of the new dining
hall will begin soon next to Inman.

Rebekah, last of the three main dormitories to
be renovated, is undergoing a complete transfor-
mation inside. Main and Inman had been modern-
ized previously, with funds provided in the 1939
Campaign and held for the purpose through the
war.

The new observatory, for which a donor still has
not been found, is a subject of hopeful speculation

as plans are completed and surveys made at the
proposed location in the woods south of the main
campus.

Photo courtesy The Atlanta journal

Five alumnae were present to see their daughters
receive the degree at Agnes Scott in June. Begin-
ning at top, they were: Julia Hagood Cuthhertson
'20, with Marie; Lidie Whitney Lee, Academy,
with Lorton; Frances Sledd Blake '19 and Julia;
Emily Arnold. Perry '24 and Mary Frances; Mary-
ellen Harvey Newton '16 and Reese. Marie was
president of the Athletic Association and a mem-
ber of Mortar Board, Lorton was editor of The
Agnes Scott Neivs, Julia was an honors student
and a Phi Beta Kappa, and Reese was president of
the Class of '49 all four years, winner of the Claude
Bennett Trophy for the best acti?ig of the year, and
a Mortar Board. Reese will continue to head the
class in its alumna status. Margaret Brown Davis
ex-'19 ivas unable to come for June's graduation.

Picture courtesy The Atlanta Constitution

Julianne Cook of Atlanta, wearing the 1949 Hop
kins Jewel, piles Commencement regalia on th
wall at the front of Presser to receive congratu
la t ions.

Mrs. Evons Chosen
Trustee of College

Mrs. Lettie Pate Evans of Hot Springs, Va., wa
elected a corporate member of the board of trui
tees of Agnes Scott at the annual meeting of th
trustees in May. She succeeds Dr. Richard Orm
Flinn of Atlanta, who died last year.

Mrs. Evans, a well-known philanthropist, S(
cured the guarantee of funds to build Letitia Pat
Evans Hall, which will house all the dining an
kitchen facilities of the College. The beautiful ne
building will be erected in the coming year an
will stand between Inman and Science halls.

The new trustee has been active in various phi
anthropic projects including the Williamsburg re
toration and the enlargement of Emory Hospital.

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Honors Program Frees Able Seniors
or Independent Research, Writing

Every spring at Agnes Scott, members of the ju-
or class whose academic records indicate superior
ility are invited to "read for honors" to partici-
te in the program which the College has devel-
ied over the last ten years for gifted seniors who
sh to work independently. Most of those invited
cide to take advantage of the opportunity; a few
cline, usually because they prefer not to center
e senior year's work upon an intensive project.
The honors program differs with the different
partments. In general, however, the first quarter
spent in exploration of the field for a problem

subject appealing to the student, the second in
iearch and writing on the chosen topic, and the
ird in a comprehensive review of the entire field.
:sults of the special study are embodied in a
per which, if accepted by the department, is
und and placed in the College Library. In May
; honors student takes written and oral examina-
ms on the whole field. During the first two quar-
s the student has been under the guidance of a
:mber of the department, a professor chosen by
r. Others in the department share in the compre-
nsive preparation of the last quarter and, with
/ited members of the faculty from other fields.
: as examiners in the oral session which com-

tes the program. Honors students carry ten or
elve hours of regular academic work each quar-

but do not take examinations on their courses
May.

Dnly students who have read for honors may re-
ve the B.A. degree "with high honor," and of
:se only the ones whose academic work has been
the highest quality.
In 1948-49, eleven seniors of a class of 122 read

honors in seven fields: English, chemistry, psy-
)logy, inter-American relations, Latin, mathe-
tics, and Spanish. A list of their topics shows
: variety in scope and in approach which the
)gram makes possible in allowing the student
follow her individual tastes and interests:

ENGLISH.

Kate Durr Elmore, of Montgomery, Ala., wrote
on the changing poetic idiom as shown in Pope
and Wordsworth. Her work was done under the di-
rection of Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, who in re-
cent years has pursued independent research on
Wordsworth and who conducts courses in eight-
eenth-century literature.

Ruth Hunt Morris, of New Bern, N. C, with Dr.
George P. Hayes as adviser, investigated poetic
imagery and themes in Othello, analyzing major
themes expressed in the imagery and their relation
to the total structure of the drama. Her paper as-
sumed that the full import of the tragedy is to be
seen in the reiteration of images as they are related
to the changing emotional states of the play.

The five honors students in English gather around
Professor George P. Hayes in one of their joint
conferences. Left to right, standing: Doris Sullivan,
Annie Charles Smith, Hunt Morris, Kate Elmore.
Seated: Nancy Parks.

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For the honors student in science, research means
absorbing hours in the laboratory. Professor W.
Joe Frierson~watch.es Mary Jo Ammons pursue her
experiments in chemistry.

Nancy Parks, of Durham, N. C, undertook the
most unusual project in English: the writing of a
series of six short stories dealing with life in a
Southern cotton mill town. Entitled The Liiit
Dodgers, the collection is unified by the. appear-' 1
ance of some characters in more than one story and
by the use of a common locale. Guiding her work
was Dr. Margret Trotter, who in June published
her own second short story in The Saturday Eve-
ning Post.

A second Shakespeare student was Annie Charles
Smith of Christiansburg, Va., who under Mr.
Hayes' direction wrote on the religious element in
Hamlet the evidences of Christianity both in the
play itself (the observance of religious customs,
the use of Biblical imagery and references, etc.)
and in the religious experiences and growth in the
character of Hamlet himself.

To Doris Sullivan of Decatur came the unusual
privilege of interviewing-, the subject of her re-
search: Robert Frost, who visited Agnes Scott in
March. The finding of her honors paper was that

Frost's poetry has permanent value because of it
revelation of the lasting truths of life through hi
chosen symbol New England. Dr. Emma Ma
Laney, a friend of Frost for years, directed th
work.

CHEMISTRY.

Chromatography, an analytical procedure b
which substances are separated because of diffei
ences in their degrees of adsorption on an adsorl
ing medium, was the subject investigated by Mar
Jo Ammons of Augusta. With the guidance of Di
W. J. Frierson, she worked toward development c
a new qualitative method of analysis of the con
mon inorganic cations which would be simpler t
carry out and would give more accurate resuli
than the method of separation by a series of prec
pitations now in common use. Her results showe
definite promise for the success of the new methot

Harriotte Winchester and Professor Henry Robi
son consult on a problem in mathematics.

PSYCHOLOGY.

Julia Blake, of Tallahassee, Fla., wrote her papi
on the dynamics of personality formation -d
process of adjustment and maladjustment, i
tempting to explain the way in which personali
develops and the reasons for the development
different types of personality in different peopl
she devoted a large portion of her treatise to tl
development of maladjustment, with emphasis (
its minor forms. Her adviser was Dr. Katharii
Omwake.

INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

Nan Johnson of Jacksonville, Fla., who plans
work toward a State Department job by serving
an officer in the army, made a study of the raa\
merit for the collectivization of the Monroe D(

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\ch honors student has her own carrell in the
brary stacks. Here Julia Blake makes notes for
r thesis in psychology.

ne. Her search, directed by Dr. Catherine Sims,
is for the motivating forces and the success and
lure of the effort to make the principles of the
>ctrine the joint responsibility of all the Pan-
nerican nations. A double major in Spanish and
itory-political science gave her background for
i research.
LATIN.

Katherine Geffcken of Dunwoody, Ga., made an
:ensive study of Horace, with special emphasis on
i theory of art and poetry, and produced a paper
titled "Horace: A Harmony of Theory and
actice." Her thesis was that Horace's theory is
lid and meaningful because it was the logical
tgrowth of his own nature and personality and
cause it was successfully put into practice in his
r n works. Dr. Kathryn Glick directed her re-
irch.

MATHEMATICS.

"Since I am doing my honors work in mathe-
Uics, most people know as little about the sub-
:t of my paper after I tell them as they did be-
"e," lamented Harriotte Winchester of Macon in

Katherine Geffcken and Professor Kathryn Glick
in a cheerful moment with Horace.

response to a query. "Nevertheless this year I
have been studying different types of geometry and
my paper concerns homothetic properties of geo-
metric figures from the standpoint of plane geo-
metry, projective geometry and homothetic geo-
metry." She did her work with the guidance of Dr.
Henry Robinson.

SPANISH.

Don Quixote as a universal and national book
was the topic discussed by Edith Stowe of Char-
lotte, N. C, whose paper was written entirely in
Spanish. Under the direction of Dr. Muriel Ham,
she took up the background of the period which
influenced Cervantes in his writing, the evidences
of national and universal thought, and the criti-
cism through the centuries which might be taken
to prove the existence of these two characteristics.

Editli Stowe and Professor Muriel Ham making a
bibliographical decision for Edith's paper.

From an address at the annual Honors Dinner

Honors Reading
At Agnes Scott

By George P. Hayes
Professor of English

The ideas of honors reading has a distinguished
history which carries us back to England at the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century. The introduc-
tion of the distinction between pass work and hon-
ors work gradually revolutionized the intellectual
atmosphere of Oxford University. So great is the
prestige of the honors program there and elsewhere
in English universities that, according to Ayde-
lotte, graduation with first or second honors is nec-
essary for an intellectual career and a good basis for
prediction of success in later life. From England the
idea spread to this country, particularly after
World War I, and at present about three-fourths of
the colleges and universities on the approved list
of the Association of American Universities dis-
tinguish between a pass and an honors degree.
Thus the honors reading program may be called
the apex of our educational pyramid, the heart of
the liberal college.

Before the honors program was set up, gifted stu-
dents were often inclined to taper off in their
work in senior year instead of bringing it to a sig-
nificant culmination. The general idea behind the
program is to free the gifted student from petty
day-by-day assignments; let her know that she is no
longer

slave to a bell and vassal to an hour;
give her an area of knowledge to work up for her-
self, an area which she has chosen as one suited to
her individual interests and aptitudes; rely on the
dynamic conception of human nature which recog-
nizes that the primary task in all education is to
awaken the inner activity, the desire, the initiative
of the student; give her a sense of freedom, of intel-
lectual adventuring "on her own" and invite her to

accept intellectual responsibility; let her set he
own pace, define the limits of her subject and wor
up what she thinks important; offer her the chanc
to learn what it means "to wrestle with a topic an
a bibliography" (Aydelotte); give her time fo
quiet brooding and leisurely assimilation, time t
center all her powers upon a single subject; encoui
age her to think for herself, to develop a critics
and independent habit of mind and to express hei
self effectively and if possible with some distiiu
tion: do these things, and in return the studen
will find that true study, like the best teaching, i
action and is fired with passion. She will devot
herself to struggling with great tasks. She will no
merely do more work than before but also work o
superior quality and significance. She will brin
her studies to a head instead of leaving them a
mere disjecta membra of courses and credits. An
she will discover, in the words of Janef Prestor
"intellectual and spiritual allegiances which wi]
continually renew the life within."

The honors examinations at the end of the pre
gram are, and by right ought to be, an ordea'
However, as Virgil said to Dante when they facei
the fire of Purgatory,

Here may be torment, but not death.

It should be borne in mind, too, that while th
honors student will look forward to the examins
tions with apprehension, she will look back upoi
them afterward with pleasure. At least one honor
student said last May that the writing of her e>
aminations was one of the most thrilling exper
ences of her life.

The honors program necessarily involves special
zation, concentration. One philosophical justifies
tion for specializing is given by Whitehead whe
he says, "Mankind is naturally specialist. Whei
ever you exclude specialism in education, you d(
stroy life." On the other hand, "One way of er
couraging general mental activity is to foster
special devotion" (Italics mine).

One type of specialization, which does not bj
long in a liberal college, consists of making trivia
discoveries in an excessively narrow field. Sue
"original research," as it is improperly called, i
often of a pre-professional or vocational charactei
Its effect upon the student is dessicating and stult
fying rather than liberating.

A type of specialization appropriate to the libers
college may well begin with mastery at a give]

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int in a given subject but will often carry the
dent into one or more cognate fields or depart-
nts and will thus bring about what Aydelotte
Is a "cross-fertilization of ideas." Such research
1 involve seeing a problem from many sides,
nprehending it in its inter-relations, synthesizing
well as analyzing, and grasping its broadest phil-
iphic implications. To borrow a phrase from
leodore Greene, the completion of such research
ans "intellectual maturity."

rhe process of mastering any subject has been
ided by Whitehead into the three stages of ro-
nce, precision and generalization.

The stage of romance may be figured forth by
: youthful Keats going through the newly dis-
'ered Faerie Queene, "as a young horse would
ough a spring meadow ramping," or by the ex-
ience of the astronomer in Keats' sonnet "when
tew planet swims into his ken," or by the revela-
n of the wonders of the infinitely little in a
croscope. The stage of romance is the initial and
;er exploring of a new field "with a wild sur-
ie," the excitement of immersing oneself in un-
niliar material and pursuing its implications. It
i stage of free roving, of imaginative freshness,
ninated by a> "tumultous desire for merging per-
lality in something beyond itself" (Whitehead),
is a period of wonder and of freedom.

X leads naturally into the second stage, of pre-
ion and discipline. The student's determination
master a subject which has aroused her interest
ds her to impose upon herself, of her own free
1, a discipline which alone can bring an increase
power and wisdom. The second stage, then, in-
ves the application of a technique, the acquisi-
n of exact knowledge, the systematic develop-
nt of inferences, a patient weighing, testing and
alysis of data, and the precise formulation of re-
ts.

At this point the second stage merges into the
rd, that of imaginative synthesis, when the stu-
nt learns to "realize the nature of responsible
neralization." Then in the light of that generali-
ion the details which she has mastered, the tech-
jue and self-discipline which she has acquired,
ce on a new significance and give her an increase
personal power. At this moment, too, the sense
freedom characteristic of the first stage of ro-
ince and subordinate in the second stage of pre-

cision becomes dominant again but on a higher
plane.

The student now has a few vital and hardly won
generalizations in mind and a firm grasp on their
implications and their applicability in a variety of
situations. At this point it is most important not to
allow her ideas to remain inert in the mind. She
should put them at once to some sort of use try
them out on her friends, for example and thus
bring it about that they transform her very man-
ner of thought, her entire intelligence. She should
learn to distinguish, in Aydelotte's phrase, between
an abstract formula and a living point of view.
Says Whitehead, "The habit of the active utiliza-
tion of well understood principles is the final pos-
session of wisdom."

Nor does she rest even here. For the scientist,
continues Whitehead, does not merely want to
know. "He acquires knowledge to appease his pas-
sion for discovery. He does not discover in order
to know, he knows in order to discover." Hence un-
der the motive power supplied by the sense of ro-
mance which has been revivified by her generaliza-
tion, she is already embarked on a new voyage of
discovery, but, as I have said, on a higher plane
than before, and so she goes on and on, ever spiral-
ing upward.

While you are pursuing this endless quest, what
fruits accrue to you? Dante tells us that the saved
in Paradise are of varying degrees of brightness de-
pending on their varying capacities of seeing God:
the keener the vision the greater the love, and the
greater the love the greater the joy. Vision . . . love
joy-
Vision gives possession of the object including
possession of it by the imagination, "often the key
to reality" (Wriston). The imaginative possession
of a work of art has been described by Henri Fo-
cillon in words which might perhaps apply also to
the scientist's imaginative possession of his subject:
"the lover of a work of art that is, the man of
true sensitivity and wisdom loves it for itself
alone, whole-heartedly, and in his unshakable be-
lief that he may seize hold of it and possess its very
essence he weaves about it the mesh of his inmost
dreams."

Vision of the object leads to love of it, and love
leads to joy in it. And as man is by nature a social
animal, he must needs share his delight with oth-
ers. One of the supreme pleasures of study, of life

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Interviewing the subject of her honors thesis was a special stimulus to Doris Sullivan at the time of Robe
Frost's visit to Agnes Scott early in the spring. In this picture they stajid before a Frost exhibit in th
Library.

in a graduate school for example, is eager con-
verse with one's fellows, particularly with those in
the same line of study, when the passion of the
mind and the passion of friendship intermingle.
On the other hand, as Howard Lowry says, "One
of the deepest 7 forms- of human loneliness is the
loneliness-.af seeing beauty and grandeur by one-
self scenery, painting, and famous historical
places. There is something acutely miserable about
coming suddenly on a fine passage in a book with-
out being able to hand it at once to all your best
friends." - L'owry continues: "The best talk I ever
heard about dinner tables or in Oxford common
rooms, where talk is famous, was the bright social
up-pouring of men who had filled their mental
reservoirs alone. To be a great companion you
must first be a great solitary."

Haying; first been great solitaries, we are then

entitled to the fruits of leisure that sort of lei
ure which has been best described by Jacques Mai
tain: "Only that leisure ... is suitable to what
most human in man, and is of greater worth tha
work itself, which consists of an expansion of 01
inner activities in enjoying the fruits of knowled^
and beauty" (Italics mine). That is doubtless wh;
Aristotle means when he says that we work in orde
that we may have leisure. And now a final word o
the role of the teacher in the honors reading pn
gram. In the course of the year it will become ii
creasingly secondary. The teacher, says Whiteheai
should exhibit himself to the student "in his ow
true character that is, as an ignorant man thinl
ing, actively utilising his small share of know
edge." He will hope to elicit enthusiasm from tt
student "by resonance from his own personality
and to create "the^enviroinuentof a larger know

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ge and a firmer purpose," "thought" as Carlyle
ys, "kindling itself at the fire of living thought."
d adapt the words of Emily Dickinson, the teach-
will aspire to communicate not merely the facts,
t the incandescence, of scholarship. He is there
avoid that waste of time and energy which is na-
re's way of evolution. Maritain adds that the
icher's art, like the doctor's, cooperates with na-
re and is subservient to it.

The relationship between teacher and student is
>ort of reversal of the method used in grafting,
stead of splicing a wild and vigorous shoot upon

old stock, we graft the knowledge and experi-
ce of age upon the zest and imaginative vitality

youth and thus bring forth fruit more abun-
ntly. According to a charming Elizabethan poem,

Crabbed Age and Youth

Cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance,
Age is full of care:
Youth like summer morn,
Age like winter weather.

And the poem concludes, logically enough,

Age, I do abhor thee;
Youth, I do adore thee.

Yet in the honors reading program Age and Youth
can live together, to the profit of both. For strange-
ly enough, the students may think, we teachers
receive much from them. Not merely does their
youth renew our age. They have insights that have
never come to us, which will help us forward, too.
In the course of our discussions a spark will occa-
sionally fall from heaven which we together

eekly conferences with the advising professor help to chart the course of honors work, which otherwise
oceeds entirely on the initiative of the student. Here Nan Johnson and Dr. Catherine Sims discuss
tree material for Nan's researches on recent developments related to the Monroe Doctrine.

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teacher and student fan eagerly and tend till it
burns with a strong steady flame. These flashes of
insight, when together we rise from accidents to
universals, culminate in an engaging of the will, an
energizing activity, which in turn leads to new in-
sights and the determination of the whole bent of
personality.

Gradually they, who may at first lean heavily
upon us, learn to arrive at independent judgments
of their own. We teachers shall not have accom-
plished our mission till they have freed themselves
from us. As freshmen, sophomores, juniors their
relation to the teacher was like that of Everyman
to Knowledge, who said,

I will go with thee and be thy guide.
In thy most need to go by thy side.

On the other hand when they graduate from col-
lege they will be, like Newton in Wordsworth's
image,

Voyaging through strange seas o Thought, alone for ever.
As honors students they move from the first of
these positions toward the second. And at the end
of the year we can say to them what Virgil, the
symbol of Reason, said to Dante after they had
passed through the pains of Purgatory and were
arrived at the Earthly Paradise:

Forth art thou from the steep ways, forth art thou from
(he narrow. See there the sun, which is shining on thy
front . . . Expect no more or word or sign from me . . .
Thee over thyself I crown and mitre.
The relationship between teacher and student
may be expressed after the following manner, for
which I am indebted to the great classical scholar
of Harvard, Werner Jaeger. At the end of his treat-
ise on ethics Aristotle great humanist as well as
great scientist wrote: "Man must not, as the poets
tell us, strive for human things, nor, because he is
mortal, attend only to mortal things, but he should,
as far as possible, make himself divine" or pursue
a divine life. "This is done according to Aristotle
by the 'divine part of man', the intellect." "Aris-

totle is thinking of the contemplative life of th
philosopher and the vision of God in which hi
ideal of the philosophical life reaches its climax.
Many centuries later Dante found this famou
passage from Artistotle's Ethics in the Commer
tary of Thomas Aquinas and loved it. It meant t
him that man's supreme duty is to acquire the sc
ence and art of bringing human nature to its higf
est fulfilment, or as Lowry expresses it, "the thril
ing doctrine ... of man's best self coming to ii
full perfection and awareness." When Dante make
his journey through Hell he meets there, to hi
surprise and sorrow, his former teacher, Brunett
Latini. "Are you here, Ser Brunetto?" Dante o
claims, deeply moved. But his loyalty and grat
tude are unshaken. Remembering the passage in hi
Aristotle, Dante says, "On earth you taught m
how man makes himself divine." He means tha
Latini has fulfilled his task as teacher "in th
true sense of Aristotle and St. Thomas. He ha
shown Dante in his youth the path which leads t
the eternal things" to that which abides.

President McCain congratulates 1949's three hig
honor graduates, Harriotte Winchester, Mary ]
Amnions, and Katherine Geffcken.

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Vanted - Agnes Scott Material
or The Library Collection

' Edna R. Hanley
orarian

\n important collection in any college library is
it of the publications of the institution and of
faculty, alumnae and students. During the past
teen years considerable material has been collect-
by us at Agnes Scott and is kept together in one
rt of the Library stacks. An appeal was made in
12 to the alumnae for assistance in building up
| files. The results were very rewarding and
w, because of the stimulus given at that time,
are making another appeal. Miss Louise Mc-
nney, President McCain and Miss Frances
>och have contributed programs, annuals, college
lletins, clippings, etc. Among alumnae who have
'en are Polly Stone Buck, Mary Virginia Allen,
>is Eve Rozier, Grace W. Hardie, Marjorie Cole
tniels, Carrie Scandrett, and Penelope Brown
men.

Mnemosynean

The earliest student publication at Agnes. Scott
s The Mnemosynean. The first issue was pub-
hed in 1891 with Kate Logan Good as editor,
lfortunately there are no copies of this volume
file in the Library. The issues which we have

vol. 2, no. 8, June 1893

vol 3, nos. 7 and 9, March and June 1894

vol. 4, no. 1, Sept. 1894

vol. 7, nos. 3 and 17, Dec. 1897 and Apr. 1898

vol. 8, nos. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, Jan., Feb., Apr., May,

June 1899
The editors of this first student publication

1891-92
1892-93
1893-94
1894-95
1895-96
1896-97

Kate Logan Good

Eloise Martin

Mary Barnett Martin

Esther Boyle Baptist

Carolina Haygood Harris

Cora Strong and M. Eugenia Mande-

ville Watkins

1897-98 Lucile Alexander and Nellie Mande-

ville Henderson
1898-99 Evelyn Ramspeck Glenn and Annie

Gash
Do these names refresh your memory, or give
any clue to the possible location of some of these
volumes?

Aurora

The second publication was The Aurora, first
published in 1897 as an annual and continued as
an annual for 1898 and 1899. From Miss McKin-
ney and Miss Alexander we learn that because of
a scarlet fever epidemic the Institute was closed in
March 1900 for the remainder of the year and no
annual was published.

In 1900-01 The Aurora appeared as a monthly
publication, edited by the two literary societies.
Undoubtedly at this time the publication of The
Mnemosynean was discontinued, but the number-
ing of the volumes was continued with The Au-
rora. The following information with regard to
the editors has been gathered from The Silhouette:
vol.10 1900-01 Marie L. Wilson

Martha Cobb Howard Spear
Emily Winn
Martha Hansell Merrill
May McKowen Taylor

Sarah Boals Spinks
Mary Dillard Nettles
Ruth Marison Wisdom
Mildred Thomson
Geraldine Hood Burns
Antoinette Blackburn Rust
Emma Jones Smith
Charlotte Jackson Mitchell
Emma Jones Smith
Louise Wilson Williams
India Hunt Balch

vol. 11

1901-02

vol.12

1902-03

vol.13

1903-04

vol.14

1904-05

vol.15

1905-06

vol.16

1906-07

vol.17

1907-08

vol.18

1908-09

vol.19

1909-10

vol.20

1910-11

vol.21

1911-12

vol.22

1912-13

vol.23

1913-14

vol.24

1914-15

vol.25

1915-16

vol.26

1916-17

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Olive Hardwick Cross
Dorothy Thigpen Shea
Laura Stockton Molly Dowling
Rachel Rushton Upham
Elizabeth Wilson
Lucile Little Morgan
Janice Brown

Elizabeth Cheatham Palmer
Grace Ogden Moore
Roberta Winter
Emily Kingsberry
Mary Rembert Ellis Shelton
Raemond Wilson Craig
Ellene Winn
Sarah Lane Smith Pratt
Gilchrist Powell Shirley
Virginia Prettyman
Anna Humber Little
Lita Goss

Elizabeth Espy Hooks
Carol Hale Hollibaugh
Julia Sewell Carter
Mary Matthews Scott
Sabine Brumby
Neva Jackson Webb
Jean Moore Tedesco
Anastasia Carlos Hoffmann
Inge Probstein
Shirley Graves Cochrane
Sophia Pedakis Papador
Alice Davidson
(incorrectly numbered 56) 1948-49
Katherine Geffcken

Of The Aurora we have the following files:

vol.10 no.5 April 1901

vol.13 no.l May 1904

vol.14 nos.1,3,8 Oct., Dec. 1904, May 1905

vol.19 nos.1,2,3,7 Oct., Nov., Dec. 1909, April

1910
vol.20 nos.1-6 Nov. 1910 April 1911
vol.21 nos.2-4 Nov. 1911 Jan. 1912
vol.23 no.7 May 1914
vol.28 nos.1-2
vol.30 nos.1-3
vol.31 nos.1-2

vols. 27, 29, 32 through the current volume 58
are complete.

For the year 1905-06 we have no copies of any
student publications on file. Can anyone give in-
formation as to whether The Silhouette or The

vol.27

1917-18

vol.28

1918-19

vol.29

1919-20

vol.30

1920-21

vol.31

1921-22

vol.32

1922-23

vol.33

1923-24

vol.34

1924-25

vol.35

1925-26

vol.36

1926-27

vol.37

1927-28

vol.38

1928-29

vol.39

1929-30

vol.40

1930-31

vol.41

1931-32

vol.42

1932-33

vol.43

1933-34

vol.44

1934-35

vol.45

1935-36

vol.46

1936-37

vol.47

1937-38

vol.48

1938-39

vol.49

1939-40

vol.50

1940-41

vol.51

1941-42

vol.52

1942-43

vol.53

1943-44

vol.54

1944-45

vol.55

1945-46

vol.56

1946-47

vol.57

1947-48

vol.58

(incorr

Aurora was published that year, and who the edi
tors were?

Silhouette

The Silhouette was first published in 1902. Th
title was suggested by Miss Anna Lytle, one of th
teachers of English. The following quotation
from the 1902 Silhouette: "The greatest achieve
ment of the Junior Class (Class of 1903) was tha
of giving to Agnes Scott 'The Silhouette'. Whe
the question of having an annual arose amon
the students, the Juniors with characteristic ze<
took the responsibility upon themselves and th:
little book will always be cherished as in a peculia
sense their own". An annual has been publishe
each year since then with the apparent exceptio
of the years 1906 and 1919. Of The Silhouette w
desire copies for the following years: 1904, 1901
1906, 1915, 1919, 1923, 1928, and 1944.

The following are the, Silhouette editors of tl
years for which the Library has copies:

1902 Meta Barker, Emily Winn

1903 Laura Candler Wilds

1907 Elizabeth Curry Winn

1908 Elva Drake Drake, Mary Dillard Nettle

1909 Eugenia Fuller Estes, Annette McDona'
Suarez

1910 Mattie Hunter Marshall, Mildred Thoi
son

1911 Mary Wallace Kirk, Sadie Gober Temp

1912 Ruth Slack Smith

1913 Olivia Bogacki Hill, Frances Dukes
Wynne

1914 Sarah G. Hansell Cousar

1915 Kate L. Richardson Wicker

1916 Eloise Gay Brawley

1917 Mary Spottswood Payne

1918 Catherine Reed Rolhe, Lois Eve Rozier

1920 Louise Slack Hooker

1921 Frances Markley Roberts

1922 Laura Oliver Fuller

1923 Alice Virden

1924 Polly Stone Buck

1925 Margery Speake

1926 Nan Lingle

1927 Rachel Henderlite

1928 Bayliss McShane

1929 Marion Green Johnston

1930 Margaret Ogden Stewart

1931 Shirley McPhaul Whitfield

1932 Penelope Brown Barnett

1933 Caroline Lingle Lester

1934 Elinor Hamilton Hightower

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Caroline Long Sanford

Shirley Christian Ledgerwood

Barton Jackson Cathey

Virginia Watson Logan

Adelaide Benson Campbell

Lutie Moore Cotter

Gene Slack Morse

Julia Ann Patch Drummond

Ruth Lineback Von Arx

Ann Jacob

Elaine Kuniansky Gutstadt

Peggy Willmon Robinson

Eleanor Calley Story

Margaret Yancey

Tilly Alexander

! Agonistic and Agnes Scott News

aring the year 1915-16 the need was felt for a
ge weekly publication. The promoters of this

were Spottswood Payne and Anne Kyle Mc-
jhlin. The first issue to appear was dated Feb-
y 11, 1916, and was under the editorship of

ie Caldwell Tucker. The Library has a copy
lis first issue, but other issues in the volume
acking. For a partial file of the second volume
ire indebted to Lois Eve Rozier; however,
bers 4, 12 and 19 are lacking. The listing be-
includes the names of the editors for the vari-
years, with the copies in the Library.

1. 1 1916 Laurie Caldwell Tucker no. 1
1. 2 1916-17 Lois Eve Rozier nos. 1-3. 6-11.

13-18, 20-25
1. 3 1917-18 Margaret Rowe Jones no. 15
I. 4 1918-19 ?
1. 5 1919-20 Frances Markley Roberts no.

11 Jan. 24, 1920
1. 6 1920-21 Nell Buchanan Starcher and

Polly Stone Buck No. 1 (Sept.

21, 1920) through no. 6 (Nov.

2, 1920), incorrectly marked as

volume 5
I. 6 1920-21 Nell Buchanan Starcher nos. 7

through 21
f. 7 1921-22 Eleanor Hyde nos. 1, 3-5, 7,

9-18, 22
I. 8 1922-23 Mary Hemphill Greene nos. 1,

2, 4-7, 10, 15
l. 9 1923-24 Mary Hemphill Greene nos.

1-16
1. 10 1924-25 Dorothy Keith Hunter nos.

2-18, 20-21, 23-24

vol.11 1925-26 Louisa Duls nos. 1, 3, 7, 8, 12,

17-19, 21, 23, 25
vol.12 1926-27 Frances Buchanan complete
vol.13 1927-28 Carolyn Essig Frederick nos. 1,

2, 4-8, 10, 13-24
vol.14 1928-29 Elizabeth Merritt Johnston

complete
vol.15 1929-30 Alice Jernigan Dowling nos. 1,

7, 12, 21.
vol.16 1930-31 Julia Thompson Smith nos. 1-

10, 12-17, 19-22
vol.17 1931-32 Betty Bonham nos. 1-15, 17-21
vol.18 1932-33 Elizabeth Lynch complete
vol.19 1933-34 Mary Hamilton McKnight

complete
vol.20 1934-35 Loice Richards complete
vol.21 1935-36 Lulu Ames complete
vol.22 1936-37 Laura Steele complete
vol.23 1937-38 Hortense Jones Kelly nos. 1-8,

10-22
vol.24 1938-39 Mary Frances Guthrie Brooks

complete
vol.25 1939-40 Eleanor Hutchens complete
vol.26 1940-41 Elaine Stubbs Mitchell com-
plete
vol.27 1941-42 Bee Bradfield Sherman com-
plete
vol.28 1942-43 Martha Dale Moses complete
vol.29 1943-44 Madeline Rose Hosmer Bren-
ner complete
vol.30 1944-45 Leila Holmes complete
vol.31 1945-46 Martha Baker complete
vol.32 1946-47 Joanne Benton complete
vol.33 1947-48 Harriet Gregory complete
vol.34 1948-49 Lorton Lee complete

Of the thirty-four volumes of Agonistic and Ag-
nes Scott News, we have seventeen complete files
in the library. Recently these have been bound,
and we are most anxious to complete the entire
files and have them bound.

Students' Handbook

It is not known when the Students' Handbook
was first published. The first copy in the Library
is dated 1914, contains forty pages, and measures
three and one-half inches by six inches. The first
issues were "presented by the Young Women's
Christian Association of Agnes Scott College" and

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we have copies of the following:

1914-15 Mary Hamilton '15, Chairman
1917-18 Agnes Scott Donaldson '17, Chairman
1918-19 Katherine Seay '18, Chairman
1920-21 Virginia McLaughlin '20, Chairman
1921-22 Mary McLellan Manly '22, Chairman
1922-23 Quenelle Harrold Sheffield '23,

Chairman
1923-24 Beulah Davidson Parsons '24, Chair-
man
1924-25 Frances Lincoln Moss '25, Chairman
1927-28 Leila Anderson '28, Chairman

Is there anyone who will inform us as to when
the first Student Handbook was published? Of
course we shall be delighted to have copies of the
missing issues: 1915-16, 1916-17, 1919-20, 1925-26,
1926-27.

The first copy of the "Students' Handbook of
Information" to be published by the Student Gov-
ernment Association is dated 1922-23. It is the
same size as our current issue but contains thirty
pages in comparison with the one for 1948-49 con-
taining 127 pages.

Listed below are copies in the Library with
names of the presidents of Student Government:

1922-23 Hilda McConnell Adams

1923-24 Carrie Scandrett

1925-26 Virginia Browning

1926-27 Elsa Jacobsen Morris

1927-28 Janet MacDonald

1928-29 Elinore Morgan McComb

1929-30 Martha Stackhouse Grafton

1930-31 Ellen Davis Laws

1931-32 Andrewena Robinson Davis

1932-33 Margaret Ridley Beggs

1933-34 Mary McDonald Sledd

1934-35 Alberta Palmour McMillan

1935-36 Adelaide Stevens Ware

1936-37 Alice Hannah Brown

1937-38 Laura Coit Jones

1938-39 Mary Ellen Whetsell Timmons

1939-40 Henrietta Thompson

1940-41 Frances Breg Marsden

1941-42 Virginia Montgomery

1942-43 Frances Radford Mauldin

1943-44 Anne Ward

1944-45 Margaret Milam

1946-47 Jane Meadows Oliver

1947-48 Amelia Davis

1948-49 Nancy Parks

1949-50 Sarah Tucker

Copies for 1924-25 and 1945-46 are needed.

Alumnae Writings

The Library is interested in acquiring all pu
lished work of Agnes Scott alumnae magazi
articles as well as books. We now have writings
Evelyn Hanna, Mary Knight, Margaret Phythi;
Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Janef Preston, Robei
Winter, and others.

The Louise McKinney Book Award

In the fall of 1931, Miss Louise McKinney a
Miss Janef Preston, two members of the Engl
faculty, conceived the idea of a book contest
the purpose of stimulating reading and book c
lecting among the students of Agnes Scott. T
idea had come from an article by Edward Newti
the famous book collector of Philadelphia, in I
October 1931 Atlantic Monthly, in which he t<
of the circumstances under which he came to of
a prize to the Swarthmore College senior who m;
the best collection of books in the college year a
of the conditions which were imposed: that th
should be at least fifteen books in the collect]
and that the student should own them not dj
physically but spiritually.

At Agnes Scott the offer was open to any i
dent, not necessarily a senior. The first year it
awarded at Commencement simply as the B<
Prize. The next year it was called the Richard
Bury Prize, named for the thirteenth century bo
lover and book collector whose essay "The Love
Books: the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury," f
printed in 1473, was an enthusiastic Latin eul
of books and learning.

After Miss McKinney's retirement members
the faculty with Miss Emma May Laney as ch
man collected a permanent endowment of |1(
the income of which is given annually to the
dent who, in the opinion of the judges, acqu
during the current year the most interesting
discriminating personal library and who rev
real understanding of her books. The name of
prize was changed to the Louise McKinney B
Award, in honor of Miss McKinney, professor
eritus of English, who during her years of teacl
awakened in many Agnes Scott students a lov
reading and a delight in the ownership of boo

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rhe following is the list of the winners of the
ird since 1932:

932 Virginia Prettyman

933 no award made
934

935

936 Julia Patterson Sewell

937 Elizabeth Warden

938 Mary Ann Kernan, honorable mention of
Ann Worthy Johnson

939 Henrietta Blackwell

940 Carolyn Forman, honorable mention of
Frances Breg and Nicole Giard

MI Pattie Patterson, honorable mention of
Elaine Stubbs and Claire Purcell

M2 Anastasia Carlos, honorable mention of
Mary Olive Thomas

1943 Laura Cumming, honorable mention of
Sara Jean Clark

1944 Shirley Graves, honorable mention of Cee-
vah Rosenthal and Frances DuBose

1945 Marie Beeson, honorable mention of Vir-
ginia Bowie and Beth Daniel

1946 Mary Beth Little, honorable mention of
Ruth Simpson and Angela Pardington

1947 Angela Pardington

1948 Hunt Morris, honorable mention of
Martha Stowell

1949 Kate Elmore

Our records do not indicate if an award was
made for the years 1934 and 1935. If anyone has
information with regard to awards for either of
these two years, Miss Preston or I shall be grateful
for it.

hi Beta Kappa Elects Three Alumnae
>r Outstanding Achievement

hree alumnae were named to honorary mem-
hip in Phi Beta Kappa by the Agnes Scott
)ter at its annual election in April,
ige Ackerman '33, Katharine Woltz Green '33,
Clyde Pettus '07 were singled out by the so-
| as alumnae whose work had been distinctive
J graduation.

ige Ackerman's scholarly work with rare books,
er career as a librarian, was emphasized in the
ion read at the announcement service in Pres-
flall. Now with the Union Theological Semi-
in Richmond, Va., she was formerly cata-
er of a special collection at Columbia Theol-
il Seminary in Decatur. She holds an Army
itorious Award for her contribution to war-
morale in organizing and administering the
ry at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., during
war. This fall she will go to the University of
fornia at Los Angeles to assume charge of the
ry of the University's new graduate school of
1 service.

l honor graduate with the Class of 1933, Kitty
tz Green was recognized at the exercises as an
ma "who has steadily brought her powers of
i to bear in her work in education and in

civic affairs, especially as a national officer of
Mortar Board and as president of the Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association." She served as a section di-
rector and later as national treasurer of Mortar
Board, and was president of the Association in
1944-45.

Clyde Pettus, associate professor in the school of
library science at Emory University, has published
widely in the field of library science. She has been
prominent also as an officer in national, regional
and state library associations.

Fourteen undergraduates, members of the Class
of 1949, were chosen by Phi Beta Kappa in the
April election:

Mary Jo Amnions, Augusta, Ga.; Julia Blake,
Tallahassee, Fla.; Sue Tidwell Dixon, Atlanta:
Kate Durr Elmore, Montgomery, Ala.; Katherine
Geffcken, Dunwoody, Ga.; Nan Johnson, Jackson-
ville, Fla.; Ruth Hunt Morris, New Bern, N. C;
Nancy Parks, Durham, N. C; Mary Price, Salt
Lake City, Utah; Charlsie Smith, Christianburg,
Va.; Edith Stowe, Charlotte, N. C; Doris Sullivan,
Decatur; Olive Wilkinson, Newnan, Ga.; Harriotte
Winchester, Macon, Ga.

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ALUMNAE HERE AND THERE

Mrs. Hamilton and four of the pictures she exhibited in Atlanta. Her collection represented three peril
of development in art. Shown with her own work was that of four of her students, one of them an Ag,
Scott alumna, Peggy Van Hook ex-'47.

LeOne Bowers Hamilton '26, recognized Georgia
artist and teacher of art, in April presented selec-
tions from her own work and that of four of her
students in an exhibit at the art gallery of the Uni-
versity of Georgia's Atlanta Division.

All done in the 1940's, but' showing through
many changes the same colors that appeared in her
first exhibition in Birmingham, Ala., when she was
fifteen, "Redd" Hamilton's pictures represented
three distinct periods of development.

There was a still life: a bowl, a plate, a pitcher,
and a vase, placed on a table with a background of

folded drapery. This was rendered in a traditi
ally academic way and looked so natural that
observer felt as if he could reach out and grasp
objects. Color photography, Redd explained dr
would produce the same result.

In the second group were creative expressii
with such titles as City Farm, Red Urn, Dictati
Lumber Yard, and This Is Our Town. The 1
named is the picture of the Decatur depot sho
at the upper left. These pieces of work were m
exciting in line and more personal in interpre
tion. Although the painter had reproduced the

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cts before her, yet lines, areas, and volumes had
:en manipulated to enhance the design. The
ings done to lend interest were those which could
: learned by any ardent student: not exactly
iles followed, but a clever arranging which the
tist had learned.

Harder to understand and not so easy to imitate
tre the paintings of the third group, which were
itirely personal expressions stemming from ob-
cts and scenes. In this group were City Mill, Old
rst, Recess, They Insisted That I Stay to Break-
st, and a still life in one movement. Recess, shown
the upper right, in the photograph, was a study
ade from two children seen at the fountain in the
tool yard at recess period. The medium was
iaque water color, color tensions (the pull of one
lor against another) being used, instead of shad-
g, to create volume. Old First is the Methodist
urch in Decatur and was an oil painting in which
/ender and pink tones predominated. These pic-
res were a result of the artist's being conscious of
e boundaries established by the four edges of the
rface worked on and of each area in its relation-
ip to that picture plane.

Red Hamilton, who is studying this summer in
assachusetts with Hans Hoffmann, a teacher of
stract art work, is a former member of the Agnes
3tt Art Department. Recently she has taught ele-
;ntary school children under the program of the
:catur Recreation Board, taking a selected group
soapstone carving, etching, and crafts in general
well as for painting. The work of her pupils at a
:Kalb County school, Hooper Alexander, where
; taught all grades, will be exhibited at the De-
tlb County Fair this fall.

Students of college age and older meet in her
rrie for evening lessons, genial sessions in which
: development of technique to further individual
pression and style is pursued. For about a month
t year, this group went to Athens once a week to
idy with Carl R. Holty, a visiting scholar at the
liversity.

At Agnes Scott, she has worked with the College
nee Group in costume design and execution for
Dductions of Les Sylphides, Rhapsody in Blue,
ingarian Rhapsody, Giselle, Swan Lake, and
ppelia.

Her daughter, Sarah Crewe Hamilton, will enter
nes Scott this fall.

Amelia Adams Harrington, Inst., chairman of
Red Cross volunteer services in Atlanta and 1948
woman of the year in civic service, placed a con-
tributor's pin on Thomas L. Thomas when he was
in Atlanta for a concert at Agnes Scott in March.

Maryellen Harvey Newton '16 spoke at the vic-
tory dinner for the recent Red Cross drive workers
of DeKalb County April 15 at Emory University.
She thanked the campaign workers for bringing
the county quota of $30,000 over the top.

Sarah Belle Brodnax Hansell '23 went to San
Francisco in March to attend the national confer-
ence of the Young Women's Christian Association.

The family of Louise Brown Hastings '23,
known for its plantation hospitality, was the "How
America Lives" family of the month in the April,
1949, Ladies Home Journal. The article begins:
"Louise Hastings is mistress of a 1513-acre planta-
tion in the Gone With the Wind country near
Atlanta. There's scarcely a week without a guest
in the chintz-hung guest room. . . . But along with
that, she's a clubwoman and lecturer. . . ."

Nancy Evans '24 has been named resident head
of King settlement house in New Orleans. She
received her master's from the University of Ken-
tucky and did further work at Tulane School of
Social Work.

The work of Dell Bernhardt Wilson '24 in voca-
tional guidance at the Valdese, N. C, High School
is singled out by a writer for the April, 1949,
Ladies' Home Journal as an example for other
communities to follow.

"Patent Pending Pfeiffer's Plastic Page Protec-
tor" is the head for an article in the April 1 Atlan-
ta Constitution about Sally Shields Pfeiffer's cook-
book protector, an idea which is being used widely
over the nation, so widely in fact that Sally '27
now has a distributor to handle sales. The article

(Continued on Page 24)

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THE ANNUAL MEETING

Minutes

The annual meeting of the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Association was held on Saturday, June 4th, in
Gaines Ghapel, immediately following the Trus-
tees' luncheon.

Betty Lou Houck Smith, President, called the
meeting to order, and then presented Dr. McCain,
who gave some of the highlights of the Campaign.
He told of the dining hall and observatory to be
erected, and of the infirmary, nearing completion,
which was to be dedicated that afternoon. He said
that money necessary for important endowment
was yet to be secured. The Alumnae Association
President called attention to the fact that only a
small percentage of the alumnae have already
given.

She next introduced Dr. Alston, who gave inter-
esting impressions of his visits to alumnae in many
cities. He expressed his feeling that a better inter-
pretation of the Colleges is needed by alumnae, as
well as stronger organization.

The President welcomed the graduating senior
class as new members of the Alumnae Association.
She announced the loss of two valuable staff mem-
bers, Emily Higgins Bradley and Molly Milam,
and the employment of the following staff mem-
bers: Agnes Waters ex-'45 Office Manager; Hunt
Morris '49 Office Assistant; Mrs. Marie Webb
House Hostess; Miss Berthe Landru House Main-
tenance Manager; Mrs. Annie S. Otwell Tea
Room Manager.

Eleanor Hutchens, Director of Alumnae Affairs,
reported next that the Alumnae Association has
made advances in many realms. (See full text be-
ginning on next page.)

The Nominating Committee next presented its
slate of new officers for the two-year period 1949-
1951. There were 262 members who voted on the

slate as it stood. The President then recognized th
new members of the Executive Board:
Vice-President Kenneth Maner Powell '27
Vice-President Dorothy Holloran Addison '43
Treasurer Betty Medlock '42
Tea Room Chairman Mary Sayward Rogers '2
Grounds Chairman Laurie Belle Stubbs Johr.

'22
Residence Chairman Grace Fincher Trimbl

'32
Nominating Committee Chairman Eliza Kin

Paschall '38
Education Committee Chairman Mary Wallac

Kirk '11
Reelection of Frances Winship Walters as
alumna trustee was ratified.

The meeting was then adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Jane Taylor White
Recording Secretary

Elections

Odd-year elections at the annual meeting of th
Association in June placed four new members o
the Executive Board and retained four others.

Dorothy Holloran Addison '43, under who!
leadership the Atlanta Junior Agnes Scott Clu
last year became the first alumnae group to o
ganize an effort for the College Campaign,
elected a Vice-President of the Association. Hi
chief duty will be the chairmanship of the Houf
Committee, composed of the heads of the Hous
Decorations, Residence, Tea Room, and Groun(
committees, which coordinates plans and expend
tures for the improvement of the Alumnae Hous
She succeeds Araminta Edwards Pate '25.

As Tea Room Chairman, succeeding Mol
Jones Monroe '37, Mary Sayward Rogers '28 w;

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amed to the Board. Her most recent service to the
ssociation was as chairman of the 1949 class re-
nions at Commencement time.

Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '22, who as an officer
1 the Atlanta Agnes Scott Club was one of the
aders responsible for its banner 1948-49 season,
as chosen to replace Vella Marie Behm Cowan
5 as Grounds Chairman.

Successor to Isabelle Leonard Spearman ex-'29
; Residence Chairman is Grace Fincher Trimble
2, a former head of the Tea Room Committee.

Eliza King Paschall '38, already on the Board as
l Alumna Trustee, was elected Nominating Com-
ittee Chairman. She succeeds Catherine Baker
[atthews '32, who completed the unexpired term
' Charlotte Hunter '29.

Reelected to their posts on the Board were:
enneth Maner Powell '27, Vice-President; Betty
'edlock '42, Treasurer; and Mary Wallace Kirk
1, Education Committee Chairman.

Members of the Board who will continue in of-
:e, their terms expiring in 1950, are: Betty Lou
ouck Smith '35, President; Pernette Adams Car-
r '29, Vice-President; Jane Taylor White '42,
cretary; Jane Guthrie Rhodes '38, Publications
aairman; Julia Pratt Smith Slack ex-'12, House
ecorations Chairman; Jean Bailey Owen '39,
>ecial Events Chairman; Hayden Sanford Sams
9, Entertainment Chairman; Virginia Wood '35,
jcational Guidance Chairman; and Frances Rad-
rd Mauldin '43, Class Council Chairman.
Joining the Board by virtue of their presidencies

the three local Agnes Scott clubs are Lillian Le-
mte Haddock '29, Atlanta Club; Polly Jones
ckson '33, Decatur Club; aird Minnewil Story
cNeal '46, Atlanta Junior Club.
Frances Winship Walters, Institute, remains on
e Board as an Alumna Trustee.

)irector's Report

The alumnae of Agnes Scott this year have de-
ted nearly all the energies of their Association
the Campaign for the College. Yet, mainly
rough the good work of members of the Execu-
e Board conspicuous advances have been made

in several phases of the national organization's
normal program. These steps of progress and the
Campaign effort have combined to bring us closer
to the realization of our chief purpose, which is to
form an effective bond of mutual interest and sup-
port between the College and the body of its
alumnae.

The Campaign

At the beginning of the fiscal year 1948-49, the
College undertook the financial maintenance of
the Association in order that the Alumnae Fund
might be suspended while the staff and the Execu-
tive Board applied themselves to the raising of
$300,000 toward the $4,000,000 necessary to win
the Campaign and thus obtain an additional
$500,000 offered anonymously by a friend of Ag-
nes Scott. The College also paid the expense of
publishing a new Alumnae Register, the first in
ten years, which was compiled by the staff and
distributed without charge to all alumnae last fall.
Since then, the staff has prepared and dispatched
seven general mailings urging alumnae to contrib-
ute; and the Association, with its President as gen-
eral chairman of the Campaign, has sponsored in-
dividual solicitation of which the outstanding ex-
ample has been the Atlanta-Decatur drive of Feb-
ruary and March, when more than 1,000 personal
calls were made under the direction of Katharine
Woltz Green '33. A committee of alumnae hus-
bands, headed by Mr. Henry E. Newton, has
sought the support of all husbands in the drive. At
present, with six months remaining before the
deadline, $70,000 of the $225,000 lacking in the
over-all Campaign is still to be raised by alumnae.
More than half of our total has come in two mag-
nificent gifts from alumnae of the Institute: $100,-
000 given by Annie Louise Harrison Waterman
for the endowment of a Department of Speech, and
$80,000 given by Frances Winship Walters for the
completion of the new Infirmary, toward which
she had previously contributed $100,000. The oth-
er $50,000 from alumnae has come in gifts ranging
from $1 to $3,000 and in many cases represents the
highest order of sacrifice and devotion to the aims
of Agnes Scott and the cause of liberal education.
We still have much to do, for only 1,000 of us
have given, whereas we hoped that 3,000 would

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join in the effort; but this $50,000 which has come,
in the first seven months of general solicitation, is
half as much as we gave in the three-year period of
the last Campaign, when pledges extended over
five years; and the number of alumnae who have
given this sum is 58 per cent of the number who
gave last time. In addition, our gifts count more
heavily toward meeting the needs of the College;
for this has been the least expensive campaign
ever waged by Agnes Scott. We must press on
wholeheartedly to match the splendid spirit of our
leading givers and to make the future of Agnes
Scott secure.

Alumnae Clubs

Perhaps the greatest forward strides taken in
regular Alumnae Association work this year have
been in the realm of alumnae clubs. A vice-presi-
dent of the Association was appointed to stimulate
and develop club work with emphasis on a closer
connection with the College and a clearer concep-
tion of the clubs as representing its interests in
their communities. She has corresponded with act-
ing and potential club leaders, has produced a
Handbook for Clubs which is an important mile-
stone in the compilation and publication of ma-
terial on the organizational techniques of the As-
sociation, and has set in motion a plan for the ap-
pointment of regional club leaders. The Alumnae
Office, meanwhile, helped to arrange by mail Ag-
nes Scott meetings in fifty cities in the course of
the year the largest number on record. A source
of particular pride were the visits made by Vice-
President Wallace Alston to alumnae in cities
ranging geographically from Austin, Texas, to
Boston, Massachusetts, and from Tampa, Florida,
to Charleston, West Virginia, visits which gave
hundreds of alumnae outside of the Atlanta area
an opportunity to meet and talk with the future
president of the College. Other gratifying develop-
ments have been the great resurgence of the At-
lanta Club; the pioneering of the Atlanta Junior
Club in enlisting its members in the Campaign ef-
fort and providing ways for them to earn the
amounts of their pledges individually; the vigorous
growth of the Chattanooga Club, and the election
of officers in cities which never had organized
groups before. This year's experience seems to jus-

tify our hope that alumnae clubs soon will be th<
effective arms of the Association that they shoulc
be.

Another signal advance was made in the voca
tional guidance program this year. A very active
committee enrolled thirteen outstanding womer
from as many vocational or professional fields tc
come to the campus on three consecutive evenings
and advise students on choosing and getting the
right job. For the first time in the history of these
conferences, student attendance was entirely satis
factory. We seem finally to have hit upon a work
ing formula. In the first place, the series was intro
duced with a masterly chapel talk by a nationally
prominent career woman: Miss Jennie Palen of the
firm of Haskins and Sells, New York, a leading ac
countant and a recognized poet. Second, we invitee
the evening consultants to dinner at the College
and with the aid of Mortar Board selected seven
students to dine with each of them and to accora
pany her to the conference, which was held infor
mally at the Alumnae House. Total attendance
was about four times that of last year, and the
president of Mortar Board said afterward that the
members of her chapter felt the conferences had
been the best in their memory.

House, Tea Room, Garden

The physical property of the Association the
House, the Tea Room, and the Garden has been
competently managed by the four committees con
cerned with its maintenance this year. At the end
of the last fiscal year a surplus of $639 was turned
over to the College Campaign by the Alumnae As
sociation with the proviso that it be used for the
improvement of the Alumnae House. (The Col
lege had announced previously that such a desig
nation might be attached to Campaign gifts.) Most
of this sum was voted by the Executive Board tc
the Residence Committee for the purchase of twin
beds to be installed in four of the upstairs bed
rooms. These eight beds, bought at cost, are nov
in use and have greatly enhanced the attractive
ness and comfort of the rooms offered visiting
alumnae. The next move by the committee prob
ably will be the redecoration of the second flooi
by means of other Campaign gifts designated foi
the House. A Vice-President of the Association hai

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een appointed to head a committee to decide how
ie money shall be allocated among the various
reas needing renovation.

Last January the Tea Room Committee was
iced with a crisis when Betty Hayes, manager of
le Tea Room, resigned to be married. The com-
littee interviewed numerous applicants for her
lace and chose Mrs. Annie S. Otwell, who has fill-
d the position for the last three months and who
'ill continue there next year. The Executive
loard, on the recommendation of the committee,
uled that the practice of permitting persons other
lan alumnae or members of the College commu-
ity to entertain in the House be discontinued, so
aat, unlike Miss Hayes, Mrs. Otwell and her staff
o no outside catering.

The Garden Committee, working under the
andicaps of labor difficulties and a limited bud-
et, has been relieved of the routine upkeep of its
Toperty by the College, at the request of the
'resident of the Association. Before this arrange-
lent was made, necessary maintenance tasks were
arried on with the aid of students working to
aise their Campaign pledges and with the constant
upport and help of Frances Gilliland Stukes '24.
?he chief improvement effected by the commit-
;e chairman was the planting of pansies and tulips
a the circular and crescent beds. The College has
greed to experiment next year with complete
are of the Garden under the supervision of the
hairman.

the modern world. The weekend closed with a
party for alumnae children. The committee feels
that much remains to be done in making Agnes
Scott Alumnae Weekend the major event it is in
comparable institutions, and the chairman is plan-
ning to build next year's program on the most
successful experiments of this year.

Under the heading of Special Events also came
the local celebration of Founder's Day, for the
first time including a television program as well
as the traditional radio broadcast over Radio Sta-
tion WSB, which generously gave the early-eve-
ning time. The presidents of the College, the As-
sociation, and the senior class took part, with an
alumna trustee, a professor emeritus, and students
under the direction of members of the Department
of Music. The committee completed its year with
plans for the Trustees' Luncheon at Commence-
ment time.

Entertainment

The Entertainment Committee functioned
smoothly throughout the year, giving a tea for all
freshmen at the Alumnae House early in the fall,
serving refreshments on two occasions at Alumnae
Weekend, and planning the dessert-coffee in the
Alumnae Garden for faculty members and seniors
and their friends and families at Commencement.

ipecial Events

The Special Events Committee this year rees-
ablished Alumnae Weekend, which had been dis-
ontinued at the beginning of the war. The two-
lay program in November was designed to ac-
[uaint returning alumnae with recent develop-
nents at Agnes Scott and to give them opportuni-
ies for renewing friendships with faculty members
nd with each other. Classes were opened to them,
pecial chapel programs presented, and talks given
>y officials of the College and the Association.
l"alks by Ruth Slack Smith '12, dean of under-
;raduate instruction at the Woman's College of
)uke University, and Dr. Catherine Sims, of the
)epartment of History and Political Science at
Vgnes Scott, presented two phases of education in

Class Council

The Class Council, composed of officers of all
the classes, was represented this year for the first
time on the Executive Board by its chairman. Its
members received a report of the June meeting of
the Council and an outline of plans for this year
late in the summer. This spring, they sent letters to
all graduates and interested non-graduates who
had not yet contributed to the Campaign, urging
that they give. About 200 new pledges were re-
ceived in the month immediately following the
dispatch of these letters. In preparation for reun-
ion, Mary Sayward Rogers '28 was asked to be
chairman of the event and accepted. She wrote to
reunion class members, inviting them to come
back to the campus, and made all plans for activi-
ties in the Alumnae House on the day of reunion.

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Education

The work of the Education Committee con-
tinued this year with the presentation of the
Alumnae Appraisal, a summary of alumnae com-
ment on the College program, to President Mc-
Cain, with the request that he prepare an article
setting forth the Administration's position on ma-
jor suggestions contained in the appraisal. This
article appeared in the Winter issue of The Alum-
nae Quarterly. Now in progress is a comparative
study by the committee of the requirements for the
Bachelor of Arts degree at seven women's liberal
arts colleges: Agnes Scott, Bryn Mawr, Goucher,
Mount Holyoke, Randolph-Macon, Vassar, and
Wellesley. In the course of the year the committee
also helped in planning the program for Alumnae
Weekend and continued to supply reading lists
compiled by members of the faculty to individual
alumnae on request. It is expected that aid to alum-

nae clubs in planning programs on education will
be renewed in the coming year at the close of the
Campaign.

This report is made in behalf of the Executive
Board as well as for the staff of the Association,
but I should like to make personal acknowledg-
ment to the members of the Board who have work-
ed so well and so pleasantly with us through the
year, under the lively leadership of their president,
and to the members of the College administration
and faculty, who have responded unfailingly and
generously to our requests for their time, talents,
and counsel. We shall continue our endeavors to
make the Alumnae Office worthy of its delightful
position between the College and the eight thou-
sand women over the world who once studied here.
Respectfully submitted,
Eleanor N. Hutchens

ALUMNAE HERE AND THERE

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explains that her idea for the plastic protector,
which fits over the recipe page being read by the
greasy-handed cook, "stems from two sources first
because she likes to cook herself, and second, be-
cause she has a creative mind." Her stories have
appeared in American Magazine, in Parents Maga-
zine and in newspapers. She is a former president
of the New England Press Women. Her present
address is Apt. 4-A, Peachtree-Brookhaven Apts.,
Brookhaven, Ga. Daughter Peggy is in school at
Washington Seminary.

In Doris Lockerman's April 25 Atlanta Consti-
tution column was mention of four alumnae. Writ-
ing "to all women", the columnist says: "The At-
lanta Legal Aid Society has just celebrated its
twenty-fifth anniversary and it might be a good
time to notice that women lawyers have been con-
spicuously useful in that serviceable organization!
Frances (Craighead) Dwyer ('28), its director for
four years, has actually aided it for 1 1 years. The
others Patricia Collins (Andretta '28), now in the
office of the Attorney General in Washington;
Lucille Dennison Keenan ('37), Irene Garretson

Nichols ('28), Association of Women Lawyers, and
Carolyn Pennisi, both of the latter past Presidents
of the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers-
have made noteworthy contributions. It is one
legal field, it seems, where men are willing even
eager to let women take the helm."

The discovery by Bettina Bush Carter '29 of
hapten to combat erythroblastosis (RH negative
blood type factor trouble in expectant mothers)
was the subject of an April 15 Atlanta Journal
article. Bettina is an immunologist at the Institute
of Pathology, Western Pennsylvania hospital, Pitts-
burgh. She explained in the interview that "treat-
ing infants after they are stricken is like shutting
the garage door after the car is stolen. We rea-
soned that it would be better to treat the mother,
and hence the child, before birth." She said that
the only source of hapten is human blood. About
two doses of RH hapten can be made from a pint
of blood. According to the article, within a few
months it may be available commercially. Mean-
while, qualified pathologists in universities or hos-
pitals can make it by following instructions which
Mrs. Carter will send them. She is included in the
May 1949 Monthly Supplement of the Interna-
tional Who's Who.

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In the Jan. 4, 1949, Manila Bulletin is an article
saying tribute to Augusta Roberts '29, who as an
\merican YWCA executive has spent two years
working with Philippine youth. The writer says:
'Miss Roberts represents to the Filipino people
A^ith whom she has had contact in work or in
iocial relations the very best of America good
fellowship, cheerfulness, thoughtfulness, gallantry,
irarposive work, Christian kindliness and gentle-
less. She has taught our young men and women
:he essence of true leadership based on honesty of
xirpose, moral and intellectual courage, and con-
;ideration of the other fellow. She has a way of
eaching people which is both painless and pleas-
tnt. She has a way of bringing out latent gifts of
ndividuals in a natural and gracious manner."

Eugenia Johnson '31 has had interesting travels
n the past two years. She returned last fall from
luty in Brussels and after six weeks in Albany,
}a., went to Rio de Janeiro, where she is private
ecretary to the ambassador in Brazil.

Isabel McCain Brown '37 and Bill have been
:hosen notable Presbyterians of 1949. In the March
' Presbyterian Outlook they are praised for their
ervice in the coal fields of Eastern Kentucky. The
irticle says, "A few years ago this young couple
tartled everybody by doing the almost unheard of
hing and, by the worldly standards which have
nfiltrated the church, 'stepped down' from an
:stablished church to take on two hard, isolated,
nconspicuous fields that nobody else would take,
rhis field was located in a coal camp which had
>een an outpost of the Hazard church where Bill
vas pastor. This they did in the face of strenuous
>rotests from their families, from leaders in the
hazard church and many other friends."

Laura Winchester '47 received the $1,000 Anne
^ouise Barrett Fellowship at the Wellesley Honors
Day program March 18. She will study biochemis-
ry at the University of Michigan, taking work for
ler Ph. D. She has done her thesis under Philippa
jilchrist '23 at Wellesley. Her sister, Harriotte
Winchester '49, visited her during spring holidays
ind was there when the award was made. Harriotte
vill be studying astronomy there next year.

Ruth Richardson '48 has spent a year in Europe:
first in England, then in Paris while studying at
the Alliance Francaise, then down to Rome for
Easter, and back to England and Scotland. After
a trip to the French Alps she returned to Paris and
the Alliance for summer study. She writes of visits
to St. Peter's, walking down the Appian Way and
through the Roman Forum; seeing the tomb of
Romulus, the palace of Augustus, the Temple of
Vesta, and the Colosseum. Describing her train trip
from Paris to Rome she writes: "We left Paris at
8:00 p.m. Between then and the time we got to
Rome at 10:30 the next night, I saw the full moon
shining on the Rhone, dawn coming up over the
Alps, beautiful villas along the Mediterranean, the
leaning tower of Pisa, the statue of Christopher
Columbus in Genoa, sunset over the Mediterra-
nean, and then a total eclipse of the moon (the
first I'd ever seen.)" Ruth plans to enter New York
University in September to study physiotherapy.
She has put oil her departure twice already but
plans really to sail for America Sept. 2.

Margaret Murchison '41 is a representative of
Steuben Glass, Inc., New York. On a visit to
Atlanta in April she was a guest of Rich's, where
she was in the Steuben room for consultation. In
an interview she explained that the sand, potash
and lead oxide are not just thrown together in the
making of crystal; the formula now used is one
that 50,000 chemists have tinkered with through
the years. She said: "Making crystal today by hand
is almost the same as it was back in the twelfth
century. There've been a few innovations, but the
basic tools and the basic processes are almost the
same. 'Off-hand' is the Steuben method for blow-
ing the molten substance into a drinking glass
(or anything else). It takes six or seven men work-
ing in one little room to complete the blowing
process for one piece of crystal-to-be. Each worker
has a specific duty gathering and blowing the
'metal' as they call it. They work together with
clock-like precision so the article enters the oven
at exactly the right moment. When it enters the
oven, it is still reddish looking, but it hardens and
cools and comes out as clear as crystal."

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Faculty and Staff

Dr. Elizabeth Barinf.au, assistant professor of
French, delivered a report of her research on the
Orien tales of Victor Hugo at a general conference
of the University Center in Georgia held in Athens
April 27-29.

Dr. William A. Calder, professor of physics and
astronomy, hopes to spend the latter part of the
summer watching the construction of the new ob-
servatory in the woods near Harrison Hut. With
that in mind, the Calders have decided to stay
around Decatur and have bought a cottage at Pine
Lake which has the advantages of swimming and
hiking in the Stone Mountain area. Professor Cal-
der recently rewrote his chapter in Amateur Tele-
scope-Making, Advanced for its new edition, and
the May issue of Sky and Telescope carried an ac-
count of his homemade planetarium at Agnes
Scott.

Dr. Samuel A. Cartledge, visiting professor of
Bible, is teaching at the Winona Lake Summer
School of Theology, in Indiana, and planning a
family vacation in the Middle West and Canada.

Melissa A. Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish,
in recent months has published two articles in His-
pania, journal of the American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese: "Tribute to
Julio Afranio Peixoto" and "Brazilian Literature
and Culture Interpreted by Afranio Peixoto". Her
translation into modern English of the first part of
Os Lusiados, the national Portuguese epic written
by Luiz de Camoes in 1572, is being used at the
University of Minnesota and several colleges. At
the general conference of the University Center in
Georgia April 28-30 at Athens, she read a paper en-
titled "Influence of the National Portuguese Epic
on Modern Literatures."

Lillie Belle Drake, instructor in Spanish, is
spending the first part of the summer studying at
the Spanish School of Middlebury College in Ver-
mont. She hopes to have a month in Mexico be-
fore returning to Agnes Scott in the fall.

Dr. Florene J. Dunstan, assistant professor of
Spanish, has received a Carnegie grant to do re-

search in Rio de Janeiro, where she will settle
down for six weeks of work after stopping at
Lima, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo.

Dr. W. J. Frierson, professor of chemistry, di-
vided his plans for June between the Southeastern
Regional Meeting of the American Chemical So-
ciety at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Presbyterian
Educational Association of the South in Montreat,
N. C.

Dr. Paul L. Garber, professor of Bible, will
study at the University of Chicago, Yale Univer-
sity, and Johns Hopkins University this summer,
working on a grant from the University Center on
research contributing toward the model recon-
struction of Solomon's Temple. In March he was
elected vice-president of the Southern Section of
the National Association of Biblical Instructors.

Dr. Emma May Laney, associate professor of
English, spent June at Highlands, N. C, and plan-
ned to visit her sister in Denver in July and Au-
gust.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, associate profes-
sor of English, is using a University Center grant
to spend the summer working on Swift at the Hun-
tington Library in San Marino, Calif. Her paper
"Bishop Berkeley, Metaphysician as Moralist" was
published in The Age of Johnson, a Festschrift for
Chauncey Brewster Tinker of Yale, in the spring.
At the University Center conference in Athens she
read a paper, "Recurrent Words in The Prelude,"
and presided at one session of the humanities
group.

Priscilla Lobeck, instructor in art, after a sum-
mer spent painting at Miami and Martha's Vine-
yard will go to the State University of Iowa, where
she has received a fellowship for study toward the
M. F. A. She has a gouache painting in the circuit
exhibit of the Association of Georgia Artists.

Dr. Mary Stuart MacDougall, professor ol
biology, is spending the summer in work on hei
forthcoming zoology textbook. A revision of Biol-
ogy, The Science of Life will appear in 1951. Al
the University Center conference in Athens sh(
gave a paper, "The Female Gamete of Plasmod

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jm." She was chairman of the judges for the biol-
gy exhibits at the meeting of the Georgia Acad-
my of Science in April and attended the South-
astern Biologists meeting in Knoxville the same
ion th.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president, gave the com-
lencement addresses at Millsaps College and Bel-
aven College in May. He planned to attend con-
:rences at Montreat in June and to campaign for
le College for the rest of the summer "as time
nd prospects may permit."

Lillian Newman, assistant in the Library, will
ttend a library institute in Nashville early in Au
ust.

Dr. Katharine Omwake, associate professor of
sychology, is teaching this summer at George
Washington University. In May she spoke on "Per-
mality Adjustment and Frustration" to the As-
>ciation of Women Veterans in Atlanta.

i Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and
olitical science, published a paper, "The Presby-
irian Minister in the Early Southwest," in the
Durnal of the Presbyterian Historical Society for
'ecember. Under the auspices of the Lecture Bu-
:au of the American Association of Colleges, he
elivered a series of addresses on "The Democratic
/ay of American Life" at Evansville College,
vansville, Ind., and at Carthage College, Car-
tage, 111., in February. Before the Mississippi Val-
y Historical Society, meeting at Madison, Wis., in
pril, he read a paper on "The Presbyterian
hurch as a Modifying Force in the Lower Mis-
ssippi Valley." This summer he is teaching in the
raduate School of Emory University.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathemat-
s, was reelected this spring for the sixteenth year
the office of secretary-treasurer of the South-
istern Section of the Mathematical Association of
merica. The Robinsons planned to spend part of
le summer in Hendersonville, N. C, and part in
avel, ending with the September meetings of the
athematical organizations at Boulder, Colo.

Dr. Catherine Sims, associate professor of his-
>ry and political science, spoke at the Honors
ay Convocation at Georgia State College for

Women and in the course of the spring made nu-
merous other talks before groups in Atlanta. At
the University Center conference in Athens, she
read a paper on a research subject in the field of
English constitutional history. She has recently be-
come a member of the board of directors of the
Visiting Nurse Association in Atlanta. Her plans
for the summer include a week at Daytona Beach
in June and two weeks in New York and New Eng-
land in September.

Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of
economics and sociology, has received a Carnegie
grant to work at Chapel Hill this summer. She
will be making revisions in her book on Southern
writing, which is expected to be in the university
press by September.

J. C. Tart, business manager-treasurer, is pass-
ing a busy summer on the campus supervising,
among other projects, the renovation of Rebekah
Scott and the moving of Gaines Cottage to South
Candler Street to make room for the new dining
hall.

Dr. Marcret G. Trotter, assistant professor of
English, had a short story in The Saturday Eve-
ning Post for June 11. At the University Center
meeting in Athens she presented a paper dealing
with her research on Gabriel Harvey and his Ital-
ian books the partial result of general work on
Italian books in Renaissance England. Having
taught the last few summers, she is enjoying this
vacation at home in Decatur, writing, reading, and
relaxing.

Llewellyn Wilblrn, associate professor of phy-
sical education, is at the Highlands Country Club,
Highlands, N. C, for her third summer as hostess
there.

Roberta Winter, instructor in speech, was elect-
ed president of the Georgia Speech Association in
March and was one of the judges of the year's act-
ing by Emory University and Georgia Tech stu-
dents.

Dr. Elizabeth G. Zenn, assistant professor of
classical languages and literatures, is spending the
summer abroad at the American Academy in
Rome.

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Class News

DEATHS
Institute

Mary Battey, Lady Marston, died in Lon-
don last spring.

Effie Corinne Bugg Few died a year ago.

Sarah King Harrison died in February.

Emma Wing Houston died last year.

Academy

Adele Frohsin Tarna's father, Jonas
Frohsin, died in April.

1907

Elizabeth Curry Winn's husband died in
February.

Amelia George DuFay died in January.
She had lived in Decatur, 111., for 28
years.

1909

Elizabeth Lusb-y Clary died in January.

1914

Ellen Allen Irsch died in November.

1919

Louise Marshburn Riley died in October.

Martha Nathan Drisdale's son died of in-
juries suffered in an automobile accident
in January. He was a junior at Vander-
bilt.

1920

Notice of Harriet Beach Rudolph's death
has' reached the Alumnae Office.

Ruth Crowell Choate's mother died re-
cently.

1938

Laura Coit Jones was killed by a train
near Smyrna, Ga., July 18. She is sur-
vived by her husband, Boisfeuillet Jones,
dean of administration at Emory Uni-
versity, and two children, Laura Coit, 4,
and Boisfeuillet, Jr., 2. Mildred Coit
Oates ex-'39 is her sister.

INSTITUTE

Elizabeth Adair Streater is staying at the
home of her son, Wallace Streater of
Decatur, after an illness.

Amelie Adams Harrington visited friends
in Palm Beach during the winter.

Adeline Arnoldi Loridans' husband was
hospitalized in April by an accident.

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Mary Mack Ardrey, one of the two mem-
bers of the first graduating class of Agnes
Scott Institute in 1893, recently celebratea
tier golden xoedding anniversary at Fori
Mill, S. C. She and Mr. Ardrey, wearing
their wedding clothes of fifty years ago
received at an open house with thei
three children and five of their six grand
children. Several of the wedding guest
were among the friends and relatives win
attended.

Class of '25 at reunion. Left to right: Sarah Tate Tumlin, Doroth
Keith Hunter, Agatha Beaver Bradley, Lucile Gause Fryxell, and Emil
Ann Spivey Simmons. J

ass of '26. Left to right: Polly Perkins Ferry, Elizabeth Moore Harris,
d Sarah Slaughter.

Class of '27 . Clockwise from front left: Roberta Winter. Charlotte Buck-
land. Georgia Mae Burns Bristow, Louise Lovejoy Jackson, Lucia Nim-
mons, Ellen Douglass Leyburn, Louise Plumb Stephens, Margaret Rus-
sell, Evelyn Satterwlnte, Emily Stead, and Caroline McKinney Clarke.

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Class of '28. Clockwise from left: Mary Sayward Rogers, Ted Wallaci
Crum, Dorothy Harper Nix, Anna McCollum Fleming, Olive Grave\
Bow en, Bee Keith, Madelaine Dunseith Alston, Dorothy Brown, Alict
Hunter Rasnake, Mary Jane McCoy Gardner, Elizabeth McEntire, am
Martha Overton.

Class of '44. Clockwise from extreme left: Betty Bowman, Mary Car
Townsend, Anne Sale, Adelaide Humphreys, Johnnie Mae Tipper
Betty Vecsey, Elizabeth Harvard, Betty Dickson Druary, Robin Taylo
Horneffer, Julia Hanmrd Warnock.

iss of '45. Clockwise from this end of table: Leila Holmes, Kittle Kay
lham, Marjorie Patterson, Ruth Gray Walker, Marion Leathers Dan-
's, Joan Stevenson Wing, Beth Daniel, Minnie Mack Simons, Molly
lam, Betty Dams Shingler, Sylvia McConnel Carter, Eloise Lyndon
\dy, Martha Jean Gower Woolsey, Emily Higgins Bradley, Nulla Nor-
King, and Bettye Ashcraft Senter.

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ass of '47. Clockwise from extreme left: Jane Meadows Oliver, Caro-
>e Squires Rankin, Betty Jean Radford, Nellie Scott, Virginia Dickson,
ithryn Johnson, and Glassell Beale Smailey.

Class of '-fS. Left to right: Doc Dunn, Betty Jean Brown, Cha
Simms Wilson, Dabney Adams, Pris Hatch, Ruth Bastin Slentz,
Tissy Rutland Sanders.

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College Calendar

September 21: Opening exercises. Gaines Auditorium, Presser
Hall, 1 1 A.M.

November 4: James P. Warburg, author and leading economist.
His most recent book is Last Call for Common Sense. Gaines Audi-
torium, Presser Hall, 8:30 P.M.

November 5: Senior Investiture, Gaines Auditorium, Presser
Hall, 12.

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FALL 1949

The Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott College

Officers

Betty Lou Houck Smith '35

President

Kenneth Maner Powell '27

Vice-President

Pernette Adams Carter '29

Vice-President

Dorothy Holloran Addison '43

Vice-President

Jane Taylor White '42

Betty Medlock '42

Secretary

Treasurer

Trustees

Eliza King Paschall '38
Frances Winship Walters Inst.

Chairmen

Jane Guthrie Rhodes '38

Publications

Julia Pratt Smith Slack ex-'12

House Decorations

Grace Fincher Trimble '32

Mary Sayward Rogers '28

Residence

Tea Room

Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '22

Grounds

Jean Bailey Owen '39

Special Events

Hayden Sanford Sams '39

Entertainment

Mary Wallace Kirk '11

Virginia Wood '35

Education

Vocational Guidance

Frances Radford Mauldin '43

Class Officers

Eliza King Paschall '38

Nominations

Staff

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Agnes Waters Scofield ex-'45

Office Manager

Ruth Hunt Morris '49
Residence Manager and Office Assistant

Member American Alumni Council

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly is published four times a year (November, February, April and July) by th(
Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott College at Decatur, Georgia. Contributors to the Alumnae Fund receive th(
magazine. Yearly subscription, $2.00. Single copy, 50 cents. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office o
Decatur, Georgia, under Act of August 24, 1912.

The
AG1S SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

\gnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

Volume 28, No. 1
Fall 1949

The Frost Collection 3

Jane Guthrie Rhodes

"Southern Harvest" g

Beatrice Shamos Albert

White House A Bit of History 9

Louise McKinney

Faculty Reading Lists \q

Three Great Brazilians \\

Florene Dunstan

Print Handwriting 15

Madeline Hosmer Brenner

New Granddaughters ig

Is It Too Much Trouble ? j 7

Eliza King Paschall

Campus Birthday Party 19

Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg

Alumnae Here and There 21

Laura Coit Jones '38 21

Faculty and Staff 22

Class News 25

Givers to the Alumnae Campaign 46
Eleanor N. Hutchens '40, Editor

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THE ALUMNAE CAMPAIGN

$246441.87 Given

By

1430 Alumnae

out of a

$300 9 000.00 Quota

For

7,09,1 Alumnae

Pledging Deadline: December 31, 1949
Paying Deadline: December 31, 1950

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"Jane Mac" needs no introduction to any but the
most recent alumnae. Well known in Atlanta ad-
vertising circles as one of the best copy writers in
these parts a few years ago, she retired from the busi-
ness world after her marriage and for a memorable
space was editor of The Alumnae Quarterly. As this
article shows, she can turn anything even a library
"ivant list" into a delightful personal essay.

The Frost Collection

by Jane Guthrie Rhodes '38

It's Sunday morning and hot! You've just re-
urned with your brood from Sunday School, divested
l iem of their Sunday best, reinstated them in blue-
3ans and sent them out to the back yard. You're in
le kitchen mixing a meatloaf and groaning .
r hy on earth had you planned to have meatloaf to-
ay of all days? . . . when the telephone rings. You
rab a paper towel, wipe your hands as you go, and
ick up the receiver, expecting to hear the voice of a
iend or fellow-laborer in the field of bringing up
lildren. Instead, it's the voice of Miss Edna Ruth
anley, Agnes Scott's super-efficient librarian, ringing
3lls in your memory of the far, far distant past
hen Mama was a college girl with nothing to do
it read books and think. Remember?

"Jane," comes the quiet nostalgic voice, "I wonder
you'd have time to run down to the Library for
minute. There's something here I'd like for you

id all the alumnae to know about. I want it written

) for The Quarterly."

"Yes, Ma'm," you reply as automatically as in
mr college days. Hurriedly, you place the meat-
af in the oven, slip into your Sunday dress again
id rouse Father from the Sunday papers.
"Goodby, I'm going," you announce gaily.
"Where?" is the startled reply.
"Back to college! Watch the children." And away
u drive down South Candler with no little heads
tween you and the rearview mirror and nothing
the back seat but absolute silence.
Parking in front of the Library, you notice how
serted the campus looks in the summertime. They're
ing something to Rebekah Scott, too. Piles of plaster
it beneath each window. As Miss Hanley unlocks
: familiar doors, you walk again into that beauti-
, beautiful place where you took the children once

just to show them what a real library looks like. With
a backward glance at the great stone fireplace, the red
and blue leather chairs, the soaring Gothic ceiling of
the main reading room, you are ushered into Miss
Hanley 's office which is still your favorite inner
sanctum with its rich carpet, mellowed furniture and
books everywhere.

As Miss Hanley seats herself at her orderly desk,
you whip open a notebook and wait expectantly, your
eyes on a painting by Miss Louise Lewis.

"Now, as you know," Miss Hanley begins, extracting
a sheaf of papers, "through the generosity of Miss
Emma May Laney and the kindness of the poet.
Agnes Scott's Library has been able to add to its
growing collection of Robert Frost a number of first
editions and limited editions of his work, all of them
inscribed with short poems or notes in his hand-
writing. The impressive collection given to Miss
Laney by the poet has been given to us by her. In-
cluded are the valuable collector's item, a first edition
of North of Boston (1914) as first published in Eng-
land, inscribed with a quatrain of verse; A Way Out
( 1929) with the poet's apology for a 'damaged copy'
of his 'only prose play so far'; the recently published
A Masque of Reason, wherein Job and his wife con-
verse with God; Collected Poems (1930) 'his poems
in the form he has most enjoyed seeing them in', a
copy which appears to have been used by the poet;
and other volumes.

"In addition, the Library has been able to obtain
a copy of the fourth variant of Mr. Frost's first book,
A Boy's Will, published in England in 1913. We need
a copy of each of the first three variants. His second
book, North of Boston, published in England in 1914,
had six variants. We own a copy of the sixth variant
and would like copies of the other five variants, in-
cluding one of 150 sheets bound in this country. The

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latter is very scarce. In 1914 Holt purchased 150
unbound sheets and issued them with a cancelled title
leaf, bearing the Holt imprint."

"Miss Hanley," you interrupt humbly, "what is a
variant?"

"Oh! Well . . . here is a book I want you to take
home that will explain everything. On Page 22, for
instance, is a description of the variants of the first
edition of North of Boston, the book we were just
talking about. Note the Collation," Miss Hanley says
and points to a paragraph that looks exactly like
this:

COLLATION

Flyleaf; (i) half-title; (ii) blank; (iii) title page
as above; (iv) / First edition, 1914/; (v) dedi-
cation:/ To/E.M.F./This Book of People/; (yi)
blank; vii, eight line poem, "The Pasture"; (viii)
blank; ix, Contents; (x) note;/ Mending Wall _
takes up the theme where; A Tuft of Flowers in
A Boy's Will / laid it down./; 11 (144) text;
(144) at bottom/ Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson
& Co./ at Paul's Work, Edinburgh/; flyleaf.

"It's really very simple," Miss Hanley continues
as you experience the same kind of sinking feeling
you used to have in math class, "and here is a de-
scription of the binding of the first issue."

BINDING

Green buckram; front cover bordered with a
blind rule and lettered in gilt;/ North of Boston/
(oval dot) /Robert Frost/; Spine stamped in gilt/
(rule) / North / of / Boston/(oval dot)/Robert/
Frost/D. Nutt/(rule)/; back cover blank.

"But, Miss Hanley," you interrupt again, "do you
mean that even little gold dots on the backs spines
of books are important?"

"Certainly. So are typographical errors and lines
printed upside down. They often happen in First
Editions. Now," Miss Hanley continues, "the first
American edition of A Boy's Will was published here
in 1915 and consisted of 750 copies. We have one
of the first copies of this imprint. However, it is in
very bad state. If any of the alumnae happen to
own one of these copies and would like to offer
it to the Library, we would be most grateful.

"In addition to these published works, there are
certain small broadsides and the Christmas cards. In
1929, 275 copies of the Christmas cards were printed
bearing four different imprints. Agnes Scott has one
of these imprints. The Christmas card in 1934 en-
titled Two Tramps in Mud Time was in an edition

of 775 copies bearing six different imprints. Agnes
Scott has two of these. The Christmas card for 1935,
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep, was in an edition of
1,235 copies of eight imprints. Agnes Scott has one.

"There were Christmas cards for 1937, 1938, 1939,
1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 and
1948. For the years 1944 through 1948, the Agnes
Scott collection has one of each of the imprints pub-
lished. It may be that some of the alumnae have
cards for the years we lack."

As Miss Hanley continues, a spark of rebellion be-
gins to glow within you. You recall with sudden pride
the battered old copy of Frost on your bookshelf at
home the one you wouldn't exchange for a dozen
first editions because you know just where to lay
your finger on certain lines that explain so simply
and completely your certain moods. You remember,
too, how Mr. Frost looked last spring walking down
South Candler with Miss Laney, on his seventh lecture
visit to Agnes Scott. How you turned the car around,
back seat full of children and all, and drove back
to speak to him. How straight he looked at you
when you complimented him on his last lecture. How
sincere were his humility and interest in you as
a person. Why, you think to yourself, Mr. Frost
would be absolutely amazed at all this emphasis on
the way a book looks instead of what it says.

"Miss Hanley," you interrupt one more time, "what
does it matter as long as we have a copy of every-
thing Robert Frost wrote!" Later, when you have
contracted First Edition Fever, you wonder at the
patience and understanding of Miss Hanley's answer.

"I know how it must seem to you," she replies,
"but that's what libraries are for. Now, let's go up
to the Cage and look at some of the things we've been
talking about."

Selecting a ring of keys from her desk, Miss Hanley
rises and you follow her out of the office door,
through the main reading room, up stairs and more
stairs, through doors that must be unlocked before
you can pass and finally after ascending a spiral
stairway and unlocking the door at the top of it
you stand in the Library's sanctuary the Cage.

The Cage is made of wire from ceiling to floor and
it, too, must be unlocked before you can enter. In
side are rows of precious books and boxes of price'
less papers, letters, photographs which see the ligh
of day only when put on exhibit downstairs. Here ir
one little pen are some of the most beautiful book

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you've ever seen. Books that speak of a communion
between author and engraver. Printed on exquisite
papers, pointed with color, even their typefaces re-
flecting the spirit of their contents here are books
to hold and cherish.

Robert Frost's Witness Tree, you notice, is printed
an rough textured paper as becomes a witness tree.
\nd all of the Christmas cards are achingly beauti-
ful. You strain for a glimpse of their contents as
Vliss Hanley leafs through them. Reading a poem as
t was first printed is a thrilling experience, you dis-
:over. You wish you could spend the rest of the day
n the Cage, just browsing. But . . . the books you are
o be entrusted with are already gathered, and it's
ime to go.

Descending the stairs, Miss Hanley comments on the
act that Mr. Frost's first play, A Way Out, appeared
a The Seven Arts magazine, February, 1917, v.l:no.4,
>sue and that our Library lacks a copy of this issue.
ur Robert Frost collection also includes two trans-
itions of his poetry into foreign languages, his in-
oductions to other books, photographs of the poet
nd an original etching done by Wilfred Shaw, his
:tters to Miss Laney and holograph copies of poems.

"A recent project in the Library," states Miss Han-
)y, "has been the getting together of books contain-
lg critical material about Mr. Frost. We have
arious bibliographies, lists which have been published
ad the books by Lawrance Thompson, Gorham Mun-
>n, Sidney Cox, Caroline Ford and an abstract of
Ph.D. thesis by Mrs. Roberts. We are also collecting
le critical articles which appeared in various literary
lurnals. We have some of his readings on records."
Back in her office again, Miss Hanley says, "Now

addition to the books I am letting you take home,
ire are papers concerning the Robert Frost Collection

Agnes Scott Library, a Chronology of Published
soks and the Robert Frost Want List. By the way,
) you have a good safe place to keep all of this
it of the reach of the children?"

You have been racking your brains about this very
oblem. "There must be some place," you answer
ipefully.

"Well," Miss Hanley says as you part at the Library
or, "let the alumnae know about our splendid
)bert Frost collection and tell them to be on the look-
it for the things we need, will you?"
"Yes, Ma'm," you reply happily, "and thanks for
wonderful morning!" You drive home dreamily,

with your mind in another world and your precious
cargo on the seat beside you. But as you enter the
driveway of the house that was once new you are
wrenched back to reality. A ladder has been placed
against the house and No. 1 sits astride the roof
waving cheerfully. No. 2 has tied a rope around No.
3's middle and is slowly but surely hoisting him up
into the tree house. Smoke from something burning
the meatloaf! rolls from the windows. And Father
is nowhere to be seen.

You make a dash for the house intent, not on
rescues, but on the bookcase. Where is that old volume
by Willa Cather you unearthed in a second-hand book-
store? Ah, here it is and it just might be a First
Edition!

1913
1914,

1915.

1916.
1923.
1923.
1924.

1924.
1928.
1929.
1929.
1930.

1934.
1934.
1935.

1936.

1936.

1936.

1937.
1939.

1942.

Robert Frost Material
Agnes Scott College Library Want List

A BOY'S WILL. 1 each of first 3 variants.
NORTH OF BOSTON. 1 each of five variants,

including one of 150 sheets bound in this

country.
A BOY'S WILL. American edition. Our copy

in poor condition.
MOUNTAIN INTERVAL.
SELECTED POEMS. First edition.
SELECTED POEMS. First English edition.
NEW- HAMPSHIRE. 150 sheets published by

Grant Richards, Limited, London.
AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT. 175 copies.
WEST RUNNING BROOK. First edition.
THE COW'S IN THE CORN.
THE LOVELY SHALL BE CHOOSERS.
COLLECTED POEMS. Limited edition, one

of numbered copies, and a copy of English

edition, 1000 copies.
SELECTED POEMS. Trade edition.
SELECTED POEMS. Student's edition.
THREE POEMS. 125 copies of which none

are for sale.
FROM SNOW TO SNOW. Pamphlet distribut-
ed at NEA, February 1936.
FROM SNOW TO SNOW. Trade edition,

bound in light brown cloth.
A FURTHER RANGE. First edition. "First

printing."
A FURTHER RANGE. English edition.
COLLECTED POEMS. First edition of this

date.
A WITNESS TREE.

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Beatrice Shamos Albert was a Phi Beta Kappa
and a distinguished art student at Agnes Scott,
and her work survives on the campus in the form
of drawings for Miss MacDougall's biology text-
book and at least one cherished painting on a
faculty member's wall. The epic you are about
to' read below is now culminating in national
recognition: her work was described and shown

pictorially ivith that of six other art potters in
The New York Times Magazine of November 6,
the same publication having in October referred
to the Albert ware as "by far the most interesting
newcomer" in the field. Samples of it are now
on exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art, New
York; the Detroit Institute of Art; and the
Philadelphia Art Alliance.

"Southern Harvest"

by Beatrice Shamos Albert '41

If you haven't already met SOUTHERN HARVEST
by Albert in one of the downtown stores of your city.
I would like to introduce it to you. SOUTHERN
HARVEST is a set of ceramic dinnerware and ac-
cessories glazed in green or oatmeal color with terra
cotta trim of contrasting matter texture. The design
has been variously called modern, simple, free form,
rustic, sophisticated, functional, smooth, and man-

Photograph by Mollie Shamos

sized. But I prefer to leave the adjectives to the ad
men; because I am so busy designing, and helping
my husband plan and supervise the processes at the
Albert Pottery in Chamblee, Georgia, where SOUTH-
ERN, HARVEST in manufactured.

The plant is housed in a 5,000-square-foot building
fronting the railroad just outside Atlanta and em-
ploys fourteen people in addition to Joe and me. The
product is composed of a controlled mixture of five
raw materials all mined within a 200-mile radius, and
is made by a routinized hand process. The clays are

mixed liquid in a tank, shaped in plaster molds,
trimmed and polished by hand, dipped in a glaze
coat, and fired to 2160 degrees F for twenty hours.
The ware emerges from the kiln completed, hard and
glassy, impervious to liquids, resistant to scratching,
and ovenproof, and is sorted, packed, and shipped
to stores throughout the country. By this process we
produce and ship about 1,000 pieces of assorted
shapes a day.

The idea for the Albert Pottery began in 1945
when, just out of the Army, Joe decided to brush up
with a little research work in ceramics at the New
York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
in the Alleghany mountains. Both his B.S. and M.S.
work had been in ceramic engineering at Georgia
Tech and University of Alabama. Alfred is one of
the very few schools in the country which has a fine
school of design in connection with its engineering
school. And I took advantage of this opportunity to
follow up my painting courses at Agnes Scott and
study ceramic design. The year at Alfred was a
wonderfully fruitful and stimulating experience. The
official attitude was one of intolerance toward dil-
letantism and insistence on combining technologically
sound methods with practical creative design. I had
courses in painting and sculpture, and laboratories
in pottery making with invaluable criticisms and in-
formal discourses by Charles M. Harder, head of the
department. It was completely fascinating and we
worked in the laboratories until late every night.

Joe was working on production processes and chief-
ly on glazes, which is a highly complex technical field
requiring endless experimentation and research.

It was during this time that we formed the idea
of producing pottery on a commercial scale. We be-
lieved that there was a market for well designed pottery
in a moderate price range. Much beautiful pottery
was being made, but chiefly by individual studio
potters at necessarily high prices. Joe was convinced

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that by establishing a small production unit he could
profitably produce good pottery at prices to suit
moderate incomes. And it was economically sound to
locate such a plant in Atlanta, which was our home,
for many reasons, but mainly that most of the raw
materials used by the whole ceramic industry are
mined in the South.

After a brief stopover in New York to explore
further the market possibilities, we returned to At-
lanta in the summer. Georgia Tech was generous in
allowing Joe to use their laboratories for preliminary
work. But it was apparent that we would need our own
space before any serious progress could be made.
Industrial space was at the height of its scarcity in
those early post war days, and so we proceeded to
build. Joe supervised construction himself while
continuing his body and glaze development at Georgia
Tech.

In the meantime I had set up a workshop in the
basement of my mother's home in Decatur, and be-
gan work on plaster models for some asymmetrical
forms that could be done without the use of a power
wheel. Among the forms I completed in this im-
provised shop was the model for the long massive
bowl which is now on a tour of museums with some
other selected works from the 13th National Ceramic
Exhibition of the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts.

By April of 1947 the building was ready to occupy.'
About a month before, our plans to buy a small house
in Chamblee were upset by the indefinite delay in con-
struction of that housing development. Dismayed at
the prospect of traveling 12 miles to work, we at the
last minute took over the office space and built a one
room apartment right in the factory. We pine panelled
it, installed a 30 foot strip of high windows, .with. 30
feet of shelves below for books, records and pottery,
and built a 12 foot sliding-door closet opposite. We
5Ut a desk at one end and kitchen equipment at the
)ther hidden by a pull-down bamboo screen, and
itudio beds in between. We used every push-in pull-
sut device we could think of until we were quite com-
ortably and pleasantly entrenched. We became grate-
ul for this arrangement because the many months of
ntensive work that followed would have been very
lifficult without the convenience that it offered.

Joe began to assemble the equipment and continued >
vork on the body and glaze. I continued with the
nodels and molds and worked out the style of decora-
ion and glaze application. Joe built a small test kiln
or this preliminary work. By the end of the summer
mr first samples were ready. A trip to New York

Photograph by The Atlanta Journal

with these samples to arrange distribution assured
Joe that he might go ahead with a 60-foot continuous
tunnel kiln, the most modern and efficient type of
kiln with the highest capacity per footage. Because
of the large backlog which most machinery engineer-
ing companies enjoyed at that time we were faced
with a longer wait than we liked, as we were hoping
to be in production by the beginning of 1948.

So Joe bought the plans and engineered the con-
struction of the kiln himself. The accurate operation
of the firing is of prime importance in determining
the quality and uniformity of the ware. This need
for precision, the narrow margin of time, and the
large investment involved provided much food for
worry while the work progressed. It was completed
in January and the trial run was a success. It yielded
three full sets of samples which we launched in Los
Angeles, Chicago, and New York at the winter mer-
chandise shows.

We were in production and the real work began.
No matter how careful the preliminary work is, it
is impossible to simulate perfectly all the conditions
of production. The transfer from small to very large
quantities, from laboratory to production equipment,
constitutes variables that make much adjustment neo-

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essary. Where we had had perfect performance we
began to get blistering, crawling, dunting, crazing.
All this had to be controlled. But the major job was
the training of personnel. Up to this time Joe and
I had been working alone with the exception of some
students who helped with the trial run of the new
kiln. We started now with 8 completely green people.
There followed a period of sorting and selecting for
capable and dependable people. The kiln must run
round the clock being constantly fed and unloaded.
Joe stayed up all night many a time when the night
operator failed to come in. But eventually the group
stabilized and we could tackle the serious work of
perfecting techniques, cutting down handling, doing
time studies, until today each finisher can produce
300 pieces a day with more ease and skill than she
could formerly do 50.

Last fall we expanded our distribution facilities to

cover the Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest and
increased our staff to fourteen and our production
to its present level.

We are constantly adding new items to the line
and improving the efficiency of production and the
quality of the ware. But with the major bugs out
and a conscientious and well trained crew, we have
found it possible to move from our factory apartment
to an apartment in a nearby new development and
to relax into a more bourgeois routine.

I hope to find time now for some individual potting
which, though different from designing for produc-
tion, can provide a rich stimulus for ideas adaptable
to production methods. Since the giant factories
with their enormous mechanized equipment find
change costly and risky, it is left for the little factories,
if they are to survive in a highly competitive market,
to pioneer and set the trends.

Mollie Shamos

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Insisting to the last that she never was much of a
writer, Miss McKinney agreed this fall to salute White
House, after being subjected to a touching appeal
pointing out the pathos of its possibly passing out
of use unnoticed. The dean of campus raconteurs
now shares some of her recollections with Quarterly
readers.

The White House

A Bit of History

By Louise McKinney
Professor of English, Emeritus

This year, for the first time, the White House will
not be used as a dormitory. As it was the first
campus building, its passing into retirement should
be marked by some recognition of its service.

In September of 1889, the year that marked the
opening of Agnes Scott Institute, there were two
buildings comprising the outfit: a stucco house on the
corner of what is now Church Street and Howard
Avenue, along the Georgia railroad; and a large
frame building on the other side of the railroad oc-
cupying the present site of Agnes Scott Hall, or Main
as we generally call it. The first was the home of
the two teachers, Miss Nannette Hopkins and Miss
Vlattie Cook, and several girls; and the second was
he school building, where the classes were held.

During the first year, 1889-90, the few men in-
erested in the enterprise Dr. Gaines, Col. Scott, Mr.
ilurphey Candler and several others began to en-
arge the plans. The result was that Col. Scott gave
he money for a completely new building, Agnes Scott
fall, that was opened in September '91. The school
ras then called Agnes Scott Institute in honor of
ol. Scott's mother. Before this it had been known
s Decatur Female Seminary! Meanwhile the former
chool building was moved to the place it now oc-
upies as the White House, and somewhat later the
ouse that had been our first dormitory was moved
rom its original site and now faces North McDonough
itreet.

About 1895, or maybe earlier, the boarding depart-
lent had grown to such an extent that the Board
f Trustees was compelled to acquire property outside
ie Institute grounds, so they purchased two cottages,

about where Inman now stands. One was used as an
infirmary, and the other (which we called the Green
Cottage for no other reason than that it was painted
green) was occupied by a group of teachers and
later a few girls (Mary Cox, of blessed memory, lived
in the kitchen and was maid for the cottagers).

In December about 1902, just as the Institute was
closing for Christmas, on a very cold day, we ex-
perienced our first real excitement the Green Cot-
tage burned! As I was sitting in my classroom wait-
ing for the dismissal bell I heard some commotion
in the hall, and when I went into the hall, there was
George known as "King George" by the girls because
of his regal manner, his efficiency, and the fact that
they could not get around him actually in a hurry!
He stopped long enough to answer my question, saying.
"Just the Green Cottage burning!" As it was my home
I felt compelled to go to the fire and help a few
men with a hose save the house. I did not succeed!

In January the occupants were moved over to what
is now the White House, then an eight-room house,
formerly a boarding house. The rooms were very
large, at least twenty by twenty, heated by small coal
grates; the halls were wide and long and draughty,
and not heated at all; and the winter was long and
cold. But somehow the occupants survived, and the
next year were very comfortable with steam heat and
bath rooms. During that first summer the place had
been enlarged to its present dimensions and most of
those large rooms had been divided into two smaller
rooms. One large room downstairs had been kept
as a study hall for the students living there. Later
this room became the dining room for those of us

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who lived on that side of the campus, for by this
time Inman Hall had been built. A few years later
the passage way between Inman and the White House
was built. After the decision to have a second dining
room the plan of the entire first floor was changed
to its present form, and the second floor was used
for bedrooms and the College physician's waiting
room and office.

At one time even the third floor was used for bed-
rooms. But this arrangement did not please either
those who lived in these rooms or the authorities; so
they were closed and that floor was used for storage
rooms, except the room occupied by our cook, Addie.
who was large and prosperous looking, every inch a
good cook. The tower always seemed a little menacing
to some of us. What if a high wind struck it? One
morning we felt that the worst had happened; but
it was only Addie falling down the stairs!

All the rooms on the first floor had windows down
to the floor, opening on the porch extending around
the sides of the house. These windows had been pro-
vided with floor catches for the lower sash and stu-
dents had been warned always to lock this sash and
open the upper at night. At that time we were outside
the campus, so we felt very much exposed to the
public. (For a good many years the streetcar ran
right through the present campus, the terminal being
immediately in front of the White House, and the
ground owned by the Institute was surrounded by a

very high fence. Later, because students protested
against being fenced in, this eyesore was removed and
we were hedged in instead ! ) One night a girl screamed
that there was a man in her room. When I rushed
across the hall he had disappeared, but the window
was up about two or three feet. She had evidently
failed to lock the lower sash. The next morning none
of the men on the campus believed for a minute that
any man would be venturesome enough to enter a
girls' dormitory. What if he didn't know that girls
lived there? At any rate we got a special night
watchman! An indulgence of course! But at least
we felt safe. Later one of the men, our bookkeeper,
had a room over there, but he had a narrow escape:
the ceiling fell one night when he was asleep in his
chair and scared him so that he fell out of it. At
the time of the famous Atlanta riot, which lasted for
several days, among the many fantastic rumors that
came to our ears was one that the rioters were march-
ing to Decatur, or threatening to; so Dr. Armistead
of the English department spent several nights with
us, also for our protection. I think he had a pistol!

As to how it got its name, the White House: it was
just one of those casual, unimaginative things, obvi-
ously based on the fact of its being painted white. But
for many years it has served a real purpose for Agnes
Scott College, so the community feels a little bit
wistful to see it going into "innocuous desuetude;" ori
maybe its days are numbered and it may disappear en-
tirely. Who knows?

Faculty Reading Lists

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Philosophy of the Christian Religion

Astronomy

Philosophy

Latin America

Greek Drama

Shakespeare

Russia

The English Novel )

Modern Poetry )

Education

Mr. Alston
Mr. Calder
Miss Dexter
Mrs. Dunstan
Miss Glick
Mr. Hayes
Miss Jackson

Miss Laney
Miss Leyburn

Minority Groups |

Economics )

The French Novel

American History

Nineteenth Century English Poetry ,

The Writing of the Short Story '

American Government )

European Governments )

The Theatre

Miss Mell

Miss Phythian
Mr. Posey

Miss Preston

Miss Smith
Miss Winter

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needs: Mrs. Adolf Lapp, on children's exercises and music for dancing; Paul Garber, on religion and the Bible; Henry Robinson, on
statistics, finance, and other fields of mathematics; and Mrs. Roff Sims, on current affairs.

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I Make the Acquaintance of

Mrs. Dunstans research in South America last sum-
mer was conducted on what surely must have been
one of the most glamorous journeys ever made in an
academic cause. Her interest in their compatriots
won her interviews with national leaders in several
fields and several capitals and opened the most im-
pressive homes on the continent to her. This article
sketches what we should know about a trio who are
to Brazilians what Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln
are to us.

Three Great Brazilians

by Dr. Florene Duns tan
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Since 1932 when I wrote my master's thesis at
Southern Methodist University on Ruy Barbosa, and
incidentally had a difficult time securing information
in this country. I have been convinced that biography
;an be of great value in creating understanding be-
ween people. The history of Brazil in one of its
nost vital periods can be understood through acquain-
ance with three of its great citizens three men whose
:areers offer interesting parallels with our own Jef-
erson and Lincoln. When the opportunity came last
ummer to spend nine weeks in South America, on a
Carnegie grant-in-aid, doing biographical research,

decided to do further work on Ruy Barbosa and to
earn what I could about two of his contemporaries,
oaquim Nabuco and the Baron Rio Branco, since
de three of them played such an important part in
ic history of Brazil in the latter part of the Empire
nd the first years of the Republic. A nation as large
s Brazil which achieved its independence from a
European power ( 1822) , established an empire (1822) ,
bolished slavery (1888), became a republic (1889),
nd made some thirty treaties in fixing its boundaries.
11 without recourse to war. must have had some able
:aders. And a study of these three men reveals a
iumvirate of patriots who were international and
ven universal in their ideals. Since 1949 is the cen-
nnial year of the birth of Ruy and Nabuco, this
immer proved a most propitious time for study
f these individuals.

The subject of the opening lecture in the official
slebration was J oaquim Nabuco and Ruy Barbosa:
wo Parallel Careers. It took place in Itamaraty, the
dutiful building which houses all the offices dealing
ith Brazil's foreign affairs, with the minister of
ireign affairs, Dr. Raul Fernandez, as host. My
ster-in-law and I were fortunate enough to be in-
ted and we met many members of Rio's cultural
-oups, many of the leading writers and professional

men, several ambassadors from other countries to
Brazil, members of the families of the two men whose
birth was being celebrated, and finally President Dutra,
who was presented to us by Carolina Nabuco, daugh-
ter of Joaquim Nabuco, sister of the present ambas-
sador from Brazil to the United States, and a dis-
tinguished writer in her own name.

November 5, which marks the centenary of Ruy
Barbosa's birth, has been declared a national holiday:
the government has announced the publication of a
special edition of his complete works; lecture series
will be given in the principal cities of Brazil, sponsored
by the Academy of Letters; and a special monument
will be erected in his honor. On August 19, the birth-
day of Joaquim Nabuco, a commemorative stamp was
announced; new biographies were published; and leg-
islative and cultural circles held sessions to honor this
Brazilian who had identified himself with the un-
derprivileged class in his fight for the abolition of
slavery and who had served his country with distinc-
tion in England and in the United States, becoming
known as one of the architects of modern Pan Amer-
icanism. The centennial of the birth of Baron Rio
Branco was held in 1945 and many publications were
available which had been prepared for the observance
of that date.

The basic part of my research was done first by
securing and then reading authoritative biographies
of each one of the three men to be studied. Then
followed work in several libraries, public and private,
attendance at weekly lectures on one of the men.
innumerable conversations with persons who were par-
ticularly interested in at least one of the men. and
interviews with various members of their families.
Without exception I was received most cordially every-
where I went; and when my hosts learned of my in-
terest in their illustrious compatriots they did every-
thing possible to facilitate my securing the desired

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information. Even President Dutra, when I called on
him in the president's palace, asked if I was receiving
cooperation in my work.

The question may now be in order, "What did you
learn?" To which I hasten to reply, "Very much,"
and I should like to mention briefly some of the out-
standing things about each of these three Brazilians
who merit wider acquaintance in this country.

Ruy Barbosa was born on Nov. 5, 1849, in Sao Sal-
vador de Bahia, the Virginia of Brazil. This year the
city is celebrating its four hundredth anniversary and
the one hundredth anniversary of Ruy's birth. His
father was a physician of sterling character, but with
little financial ability, who had a strong influence on
the boy's development. Ruy was an avid student from
his earliest years and became the most learned citizen
Brazil ever produced. His fine home in Rio has been
preserved as it was during his lifetime and is main-
tained as a museum by the government. His extensive
library shows annotations by him in practically all of
the books, in the language in which the book was
written, and reveals the fact that he mastered thor-
oughly the contents of the entire library.

He wrote and spoke fluently English, French, Italian,
and Spanish. He translated idiomatically German,
Greek, and Latin, and is considered the greatest of
all writers of Portuguese classical prose. He was one
of the great orators of all time, and he dominated
the Hague Conference in 1907 by the sheer force of
his character, intellect, and oratorical skill.

Throughout his entire life Ruy was a crusader for
freedom. He worked assiduously, along with Joaquim
Nabuco, Castro Alves, and others for the abolition
of slavery in Brazil; the first impetus toward popular
education came from him; and his devotion to free-
dom of conscience and religious liberty bore fruit
when, at the time of the proclamation of the Republic,
he penned the decree for separation of church and
state. He was appointed to draft the first constitution
for the Brazilian Republic and chose the constitution
of the United States as a model, although he favored
some aspects of England's parliamentary system. He
designed the Brazilian flag and coat-of-arms, and was
the first man to campaign throughout the country
for the presidency of Brazil, in true North American
style. His campaign was one of education and he
won popular support by a vast majority, but through
manipulations at the ballot boxes his rival was de-
clared winner five days before the completion of the
counting of the ballots.

In 1892 when Marshal Floriano, known as the
"Iron Marshal," assumed dictatorial powers, he order-
ed the arbitrary arrest and exile of forty-eight citizens.
This flagrant violation of constitutional rights caused
Ruy to protest before the Supreme Court. Relations
between him and the president became strained, and
he found it necessary to flee to England. During his
three-year stay in England, he studied the English
system of government; taught English, having erected
a sign which read, "English taught by a Brazilian";
and initiated the pro-Dreyfus campaign in his Letters
From England. He had become interested in the case
from a legal standpoint and was convinced of the
lack of proof of guilt. It was after this article by Ruy
appeared that Emile Zola produced his formidable
]' Accuse. Dreyfus himself asserted later in Geneva that
the first voice raised in the world in his behalf was that
of Ruy Barbosa.

Returning to Brazil in 1895 he served his country
vigorously and unselfishly. In 1918 when Brazil cele-
brated, with great splendor and pomp, the fiftieth
year of Ruy Barbosa's entry into public life, he re-
ceived insignia, inscribed testimonials, and other hon-
ors from many foreign governments, scientific societies,
and from men of letters of many nations. Georges
Clemenceau called him an idealiste hwmanitaire, and
Gabriel Hanotaux, the French historian and statesman,
said, "Ruy Barbosa represents a moment in universal
history." The genuine test of a man's work is, of
course, the test of historical perspective, and Ruy
Barbosa has become even greater with the passing
of the years.

Joaquim Nabuco was from an aristocratic, cultured
family of sugar plantation owners from Recife. One
day, when he was only seven years old, a young run-
away slave ran up to him and fell on his knees, tear-
fully begging the lad to buy him. This experience
made a deep impression on Joaquim, and he began
to see, even at that early age, the evils of such a sys-
tem. When he became a law student, the crying in-
justice of the slave system fired his indignation and
he became one of the intellectual champions of aboli-
tion, serving the cause vehemently through the passion
of his speeches and the effectiveness of his pen. His
fiery book, Abolition (0 Abolicionismo) , became the
Bible for the movement and he was tireless in his
campaign for abolition although he was often accused
of being a traitor to his own class. When the Brazilian
Congress finally voted to abolish slavery in 1888
Joaquim Nabuco was carried through the streets of
Rio on his admirers' shoulders.

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When the Republic was proclaimed in 1889, Nabuco,
who believed that the monarchy would be best for
Brazil, went into a ten-year period of "literary exile,"
and during that time he wrote his classic biography,
My Spiritual Education (Minha Formacao), which
has been compared to The Education of Henry Adams,
and which gives an incomparable picture of the slave-
holding days and of Brazilian society under the Em-
peror Don Pedro II.

In 1905 the minister of foreign affairs, Baron Rio
Branco, named Joaquim Nabuco as the first ambas-
sador to the United States, and he soon became a
well-known figure in Washington, being a special fav-
orite of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was known
as the most handsome ambassador in the capital, and
sightseeing buses used to go out of their way to
oass the Brazilian Embassy. The guide would wave
bis arm and shout, "That's the place where Joaquim
Vabuco lives, the greatest South American in the
vorld."

Nabuco advocated closer relations between Brazil
ind the United States, and he is credited with having
aid the basis for the traditional friendship which has
:xisted up to the present between Brazil and the
Jnited States, a friendship which has had deep sig-
lificance to our country on several occasions.

His daughter, Carolina, a novelist of note whose last
lovel won the 1946 prize given by the Academy of
otters, has written an excellent biography of her
ather. She is a handsome woman, greatly beloved
nd admired throughout Brazil. A charming con-
ersationalist, she speaks English with an Oxford ac-
ent because she learned it when her father was
linister from Brazil to England. Joaquim Nabuco,
ie first ambassador's namesake, is a parish priest
l Rio, and another son, Jose Thomas, is a distinguish-
d lawyer who is also president of the Instituto Brazil-
.stados Unidos, a cultural organization encouraged
y our State Department to foster closer cultural
elations between these two countries.

The baron of Rio Branco, Jose Maria da Silva
aranhos, the third person on my list for study this
immer, was given the title of baron during the
sign of Dom Pedro II. When the Republic was pro-
laimed (November 15, 1889), all titles of nobility
ere abolished, but Rio Branco's personality was so
Dmpletely identified with his title that he continued
) be called the Baron Rio Branco until his death. He
as well known and admired throughout Brazil, even
y the school children, who pointed with pride to his

picture in newspapers, magazines, and school books.
Rio Branco was born in Rio de Janeiro, on April
20. 1845. His father, Viscount Rio Branco, an able
foreign minister of the Empire, early identified him-
self with the question of abolition and is responsible
for the law which freed children born of slaves, known
today as the Rio Branco Law. His son followed in
his footsteps, becoming an even greater foreign min-
ister and an ardent worker for abolition.

He studied law at Sao Paulo for three years and
then transferred for his fourth year to Recife. Ruy
Barbosa was a first year student at Recife that year,
but there is no evidence of there having been more
than mere acquaintance between them.

Their friendship began in 1889, when Ruy Barbosa
in an editorial in the Diario de Noticias called the
attention of the nation to the section on Brazil which
Rio Branco had written for the Grande Encyclopedic,
edited by Levasseur. Ruy Barbosa took time from
a vigorous political campaign to point out that the
prestige of Brazil abroad had been greatly heightened
by the service of the Baron. This spontaneous gesture
of good will on the part of Ruy Barbosa, one of
Brazil's leading figures, toward a man who was serv-
ing well, but who was not too well known throughout
Brazil, touched Rio Branco deeply. Their friendship
grew because of mutual intellectual interests and
a deep feeling of patriotism on the part of both men.
and endured many vicissitudes. After serving his
country well in Brazil and in Europe, the Baron was
appointed in 1902 minister of foreign affairs. He
served with such distinction that Itamaraty is often
referred to as the "House of Rio Branco." He was
at the helm of Brazil's ship of state when she was
involved in litigation with each of the adjoining coun-
tries over unsettled borders. At the beginning of this
century Brazil was also having difficulty with Britain,
France, and Holland, because of the frontier with the
Guianas. Brazil came perilously close to war, especial-
ly with Bolivia and Argentina, because of border trou-
bles, but Rio Branco was able to settle all of these
problems by arbitration. In each instance he proposed
arbitration and then proceeded to build up his coun-
try's position through exhaustive historical research.
In one case, the dispute with Argentina over the
Misiones territory, President Cleveland was the arbiter,
and Rio Branco spent several months in Washington
preparing the material. In the dispute with Britain
over British Guiana the King of Italy was asked to
arbitrate and Rio Branco appointed Joaquim Nabuco,

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who was at that time minister to England, as his spe-
cial representative. With one exception, all of the
areas in question were awarded to Brazil and thus
the national territory was greatly increased and arbi-
tration as a national policy was established.

The baron of Rio Branco was a man of tremen-
dous vitality and a lucid, argumentative mind. He
was a very popular man, with a zest for life, and many
anecdotes are told about his love of good food and
his absent-mindedness about other things when he
was concentrating on one particular problem.

His one great passion was Brazil. As a historian,
statesman, geographer, and diplomat he served his
country well and is due no small part of the credit
for the increased prestige of Brazil at home and
abroad. He enjoyed the respect and admiration of the
entire country. Today the principal avenue in Rio,
with its beautiful mosaic side walks, is known as
the Avenida Rio Branco; statues honoring him have
been erected in most of the cities of Brazil; and at
Itamaraty the office of the foreign minister is known
as the Rio Branco room. The school in which Brazilian
diplomats train is known as the Rio Branco School.

In trying to evaluate these three men, it has been
necessary to study the historical background and to
learn something of the social, political, and economic
problems faced by Brazil. In doing this work I real-
ized that my first problem would be that of getting
acquainted with some contemporary Brazilians. I was
fortunate indeed to be invited, during the first week
of my visit to Rio, to the home of Gilberto Freyre,
Brazil's foremost sociologist and one of Latin Ameri-
ca's most penetrating and influential thinkers. Gilberto
(he is one of three or four persons in that small
aristocracy of fame who are known throughout Brazil
by their first names) offered to help me in getting
acquainted with some of the people I wished to know.
His notes of introduction were like magic in opening
any door, and it was through him that I met many
persons who assisted me graciously. Among these
were Carolina Nabuco and other members of her
family ; Dr. Americo Lacombe, director of the Barbosa
House and author of several books on Ruy; Dona
Ana Amelia, Founder and Director of Student House
and one of the most popular poets in Brazil; Dr.
Heldisa Torres, archaeologist and director of the
Museum of Natural History, and many others.

Another friend who was most helpful and whom
I had already met when she was visiting her rela-
tives, Dr. and Mrs. I. W. Brock of Emory University,

was Dona Eunice Weaver, internationally known for
her work of rehabilitation of the lepers and in the
care of the lepers' families. She arranged many in-
terviews for me including the one with President Dutra.

Other personalities with whom I became acquainted
were Erico Verisimo and Dona Jeronyma Mesquita.
The former is one of the most talented and popular
novelists in Brazil. Because of the historical back-
ground of many of his novels he has been called the
"Margaret Mitchell of Brazil." He is a great admirer
of this country, having travelled extensively here and
having given lectures in many North American uni-
versities. Erico lives in Port Algere and I had a most
delightful chat with him at his office. He is a most
interesting person to talk with, in his early forties,
friendly, and equally at home speaking English and
Portuguese. He has a keen sense of humor and is
rather good looking. He is planning a trip to Europe
within the next year or two and plans to return by the
United States.

Dona Jeronyma Mesquita, a leader in a cultural
and social affairs of Rio, founder of the Girl Scouts
of Brazil, and formerly a personal friend of Madame
Curie, was most helpful. It was through her that we
met Mrs. Getulio Vargas, who invited us to have lunch
with her and to see the splendid social work she is do-
ing with the newsboys of Rio.

These new friends in Brazil have given me a
deeper appreciation of our neighbors to the South
and I am looking forward to further study of the lives
of these three outstanding Brazilians, as well as to
strengthening the ties of friendship with many contem-
porary Brazilians.

Round Up Your Friends

ALMME WEEKEND
February 10-11

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As a senior at Agnes Scott, Madeline Rose Hosmer
Brenner was the only person ever to be editor of both
The Agnes Scott Neivs and The Emory Wheel. She
spent several years with the Associated Press bureau
in Atlanta, married a United Press man, and just now
is occupied with a two-month-old son.

Print Handwriting

by Madeline Hosmer Brenner '44

Remember when you were a freshman and red plaid
skirts were all the rage?

You wrote home to Mother that you simply had to
have one of same and would she please whip it up
on the trusty Singer.

A couple of weeks later comes the package. And
what did you breathlessly lift out of the tissue paper?

A red plaid shirt. Not the sKirt you wanted but
a sHirt.

All because Mother couldn't read your writing.
Your modern-day hieroglyphics had snarled you up
again.

Maybe your illegible writing is still getting you into
messes. The children puzzle over your note explaining
that you've gone to a bargain sale. Or the boss
scratches his head over your memo about the whing-
doodle salesman who called while he was out.

The children may grow tolerant of your handwrit-
ing whimsies. But the boss is liable to blow his top
if he can't read the memo.

Seriously, handwriting is important. So important
that a lot of bosses have been laying the cash on the
barrel head lately to change employees' scribblings
to legible print the same print your Johnny and Mary
learn in school.

Taking grown-ups back to the first grade has been
my business for the last year.

The idea is simple. In the business world, illegible
writing often means dollars lost. Illegible writing re-
mits from the loops and wiggles of what we call
'cursive" writing connected writing. So you elimi-
late the unnecessary connecting loops between letters.
Result legible and speedy print.

It's also an ancient idea. For print is as old as the

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written word. Early writing was print. When the
alphabet finally emerged from the picture-on-the-cave-
wall stage, letters were not connected. It wasn't until
somewhere in the sixteenth or seventeenth century that
people began connecting letters and handwriting be-
came illegible.

A lazy copper plate engraver is responsible for the
sad plight our handwriting is now in. The old boy
was making plates for a copy book so that Peter Peas-
ant could learn to write. He gave no instructions
for making the letters simply illustrated the alphabet.

The copper plate process was used to make the
plates from which these early copy books were printed.
And it was a difficult process. The stylus used in
making the letters was difficult to remove from the
copper once pressed in.

So our lazy engraver hit on what he thought was
a bright idea. He'd make one letter, then instead of

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pulling the stylus out and starting all over again,
he'd simply drag the stylus to the starting point for the
next letter. These "drag lines," of course, soon be-
came part of the letters and eventually became the
loops and wiggles that make connected writing so
illegible.

English educators knocked out the loops and re-
vived un-connected print for the school room around
35 years ago. The idea crossed the Atlantic and made
its way into American schools in the 1920's.

One of the pioneers in re-introducing print to Amer-
ican education was my mother, Madeline Flint Hosmer.
She wrote a series of grammar school texts on print
handwriting and taught a couple of thousand school
marms how to teach it to the young.

Soon business men became interested. If children
are taught print because it's legible and speedy why
shouldn't grown-ups print? What's good enough for
first and second graders ought to be good enough for
the rest of us.

So Mother started working on a print handwriting
training course for business. Before it was finished,
she died.

Last year, my father and I began playing with the
print-for-business idea again. Months of writing and
rewriting produced a 36-page work book with which
adults can be taught print handwriting in a maximum
of three hours.

Department stores were first on the list. And after
puzzling over some of the sales slips that come back
with your monthly bill, you'll agree that department
stores certainly need a lesson in legible writing !

From January to June, I held print handwriting
clinics for the training departments of some of the
country's largest department stores.

In four to six two-hour sessions I taught the train-
ing department personnel the simplicity of print writ-
ing and how to teach it. They learned print in two
to three hours; learning how to teach it took longer.
Then, after the clinic, they trot back to their stores
and teach Sam the Shoe Salesman and Hattie in House-
wares how to make their sales slips legible.

Teaching an employee takes about three hours and
saves the store many, many dollars by producing
business records that can be read.

Now other businesses are interested: hotels, news-
paper classified ad departments, a city directory firm,
a telephone answering service.

We've even gone into the correspondence school

field for individuals who want to improve their writ-
ing. One inquiry came from an 80-year-old New Eng-
land lady who decided the time had come to do some-
thing about her handwriting! She's doing fine.

Not so my husband. His chirography remains
slightly less than legible except on the one occasion
when I wanted it to be illegible.

I needed two sales checks one an illegible scrawl,
the other readable print to illustrate an ad.

This should be easy, I thought. I'll do the legible
one, and Bernie whose handwriting shows why print
is so necessary can scratch out the illegible check.

So what happens? The man gets self-conscious and
proceeds to turn out the most legible writing possible.
We tried again. Still legible. On the next try I
stood by his side and jiggled his elbow as he wrote.
Result a beautiful scrawl! Husbands can be so dif-
ficult.

New Granddaughters

New Granddaughters on the campus this year num- .
ber seventeen. The daughters in the class of 1953
and their mothers are: Evelyn Bassett, Edith Melton
Bassett '24; Mary Birmingham, Mary Caldwell Wade
Birmingham '15; Ann Cooper, Leila Joiner Cooper
'27; Florence Hand, Christine Turner Hand '25;
Peggy Hooker, Mary Louise Slack Hooker '20; Pat-
ton Martin, Helen Hendricks Martin '30; Kate Par-
ramore, Dinah Roberts Parramore '22; Peggy Ringel,
Louise Pfeiffer Ringel '26; Edith Sewell, Margaret
Bland Sewell '20; Jane Williams, Lois Jennings Wil-
liams '25; Mrs. Carolou Ligon Millar, Ladelle Sher-
man Ligon '26; Kitty Goff, Catherine Nash Goff '24;
Mary Adelaide Hamilton, Sarah Elizabeth Smith
Hamilton, Academy; Sarah Crewe Hamilton, Leone
Bowers Hamilton '26; Marion Merritt, Marion Mc-
Henry Park Merritt '21; Diane Morris, Virginia Broy-
les Morris '39. Patricia Cortelyou, Sarah Eunice
Patton Cortelyou '18, entered the sophomore class
this fall.

ALIIME WEEKEND
February 1011

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Eliza King Paschall, a Phi Beta Kappa and student
leader in college, is now president of the Atlanta
League of Women Voters and chairman of the Atlanta
Theater Guild Advisory Board. As immediate past
president of the Alumnae Association, she is currently
serving as an alumna trustee of Agnes Scott.

Is It Too Much Trouble?

by Eliza King Paschall '38

Are you perfectly satisfied with the government of
your town, and your state? Let's not even consider
Congress and the UN for the moment. Is your school
board to your liking? Does your city council really
represent you? Are you proud of your local courts?

If not, what are you doing about it?

Are you one of those parasitic residents residents,
not citizens of a community who draws herself up
and says, "I don't vote; politics are so dirty and all
politicians are crooks"? If you are, then stop being
a hypocrite and pretending you believe in democracy.
Be honest and say, "It's too much trouble. I'm too
lazy. I'd rather turn over the business of democracy
to a lot of dirty crooks than take the trouble to par-
ticipate in it myself."

I am sick unto death of people who blame the state
of the world on the dishonesty or the ignorance of
others while doing nothing about correcting their own
dishonesty and ignorance. If we believe in democracy,
let us at least discharge the first basic obligation of
voting. If we don't believe in democracy, then let us
get busy and figure out some other way of governing
ourselves and stop wasting so much energy and time
and money trying to make democracy work.

The city of Atlanta recently elected an entire group
af municipal officers for the next four years. We all
Datted ourselves on the back, elated over the "record
/ote," of less than half of those who had taken the
:rouble to register. Add those who were eligible to
register and didn't and you get rule by a fairly small
ninority. In the final analysis, the government of
my community does represent that community. If
t's bad government because not enough of the "good
:itizens" have taken part in electing it, it still represents
he community. It represents very well those "good
:itizens" who are guilty of civic negligence in the
vorst degree.

Besides voting, what can you do? Remember that
public officials are the servants of the people and are
subject not only to their will but all too often to
their whim. Have you ever expressed your opinion
on any public issue to any public official? Have
you ever written your Congressman about a bill before
Congress? Have you ever sat in on a meeting of city
council, just to see what it is like and to let the
members know that citizens are interested in what
they are doing? Perhaps you have criticized some
office holder when you have disagreed with him, but
have you ever taken the trouble to praise one when
you agreed with him or approved of some action he
took?

If you've got a good man in office, he needs the
moral support of those who think he is good. He
needs to know that of the great mass of citizens who
never express themselves in between elections, there
are those who appreciate honest, efficient, fair govern-
ment. Again let me use Atlanta as an example. Sev-
eral years ago the people of Fulton County (Atlanta)
voted in favor of a county manager, to be appointed
by the county commissioners, who are in turn elected
by the citizens. There has been much criticism recent-
ly of the manager system, criticism from those who
find they can no longer get the special consideration
possible under the old system, criticism from a mi-
nority who do not represent the community but who
have been so vocal that they sound pretty important.
As a result of a little cooperation among the League
of Women Voters, the Chamber of Commerce and other
civic organizations, the commissioners are now hearing
from some of the individuals and groups who think
the manager system is a good thing and appreciate
their efforts of the commission to make it work.

Now that I have mentioned the League of Women
Voters, I may as well say that working with that or-

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ganization is one of the most effective ways of
promoting democracy. You have no idea until you
try it how much attention politicians will pay to a
bunch of women, particularly a bunch who represent
no special interests. You will be amazed at the in-
fluence you can exert, simply by your presence at
public meetings, much more by any opinions you
might have on public issues.

But while I recommended highly to you the League
working in one already established or helping get
one started in your town this is not a plea for LWV
membership. Church women, PTA's, Legion auxiliar-
ies any group which is sincere and honest and sets
out to educate itself on community affairs can set
the tone for those affairs. We cannot afford the
luxury of laziness or stupidity right now. Nor can
we afford the luxury of procrastination. We cannot
"think about that tomorrow." We are living, in what
we claim is a democratic state, today, and how we

live in it today will determine how we live in it to-
morrow. The election is today, not tomorrow, and you
vote yes or no, not "maybe" or "I don't know" or "I
haven't had time to decide yet."

I hate to think that the sort of government we have
in many communities right now is the best we can
manage. I prefer to think that it is there by default
and that the people who have integrity and intelli-
gence will rise up and assert their democratic rights
and direct their governments.

Reread the Declaration of Independence. You might
even try reading the Constitution of the United States.
It's not very long. Read the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, written and adopted by UN. Then
announce to the world that there are some things
more important than clean silver and ironed sheets.

Prove that you believe in democracy by becoming
a part of it.

1950

Agnes Scott Calendar

$1.10

The Agnes Scott Chapter of Mortar Board offers these
attractive engagement books, illustrated with campus scenes.
Send order and check to Mortar Board, Agnes Scott College,
Decatur, Georgia.

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Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg, president of the Class
of 1930, fell into a trap when she casually related the
story of Alva Hopes birthday to the editor of The
Quarterly. An immediate request for the story in
written form by June 10 resulted in months of
agonized evasion under relentless prodding by the
editor. Finally she gave up and in September pro-
duced this account, ivhich should interest everybody
who ever lived in Inman either before or after the
summer of 1948.

Campus Birthday Party

by Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg '30

Birthday celebrations are usually a problem for a
pre-teen girl. Last spring Alva Hope decided she
would have her party a day late so she could have
a luncheon for all the girls in her fourth grade. Of
course a few other friends were invited too. The
nicest place for the luncheon, she thought, was the
Alumnae House Tea Room at Agnes Scott. Ten-year-
olds are impressed by the name of the College, and
to be invited to eat on the campus was an important
svent in their lives.

When the luncheon was finished, the gifts opened
and exclaimed over, the lure of the Alumnae Garden
Irew fourteen eager girls outside. After some of their
energy was exhausted in running around the pool,
we began a brief tour of the campus. Only four of
:he girls had ever been on the campus, and all were
urious to see it thoroughly.

Since I had spent my sophomore, junior, and sen-
or years in Inman, I wanted to show that building
o them. I was curious myself to see what changes
lad been made in the building since it was remodeled
n the summer of 1948. We entered the back door
learest the walk way and I was amazed to see the
vails a soft ivory color and the back stairway painted
o harmonize with the walls. Greater surprises were
ret in store; for the hall had hardwood floors, modern
:eiling lights, a new ceiling that would absorb the
iound of running feet and other usual dormitory
loises, ivory painted walls and woodwork, new shades
it the windows by the walk, nice ironing boards at
he end by the windows, and a sprinkler system on the
:eiling in case of a fire. As we walked down the
lall toward my old room we noticed that the rooms
vere decorated in pastel colors with light colored
voodwork. I explained to the girls that when I

was in Inman all the walls were white and the wood-
work was dark oak in color. The change was most
impressive.

As we entered my old room I saw it was no longer
21 but 123. Betty Cheney was one of the freshmen
who used that room, and she explained that with the
renovation of the rooms had come the renovation of
the numbering system as well. The room above hers
on second floor would be 223, and on third floor 323.
That numbering I am sure facilitates the work of the
girls who answer the telephones. By the way, they have
telephones on each floor now instead of the two we
used to have on second floor.

The rooms have certainly undergone changes, but
there is one item that remains unchanged through the
years modesty curtains. A nice ceiling light has re-
placed the two long wires that came from the ceiling
and ended in two student lamps hung on a hook
on the window frames when not in use at the study
table, the dresser, or by the student's bed. Lamps
are provided in the rooms, but they are the attractive
kind the girls would bring from home or buy after
they got to college. Three double base outlets have
been provided for these.

No longer do the students have to crowd their
clothes up in one long dresser drawer and keep their
cosmetics in one small drawer; each roommate now
has a dresser to herself. Some of the rooms have
new dressers, but the two in my old room had been
refinished in a light walnut instead of the dark color
of former years. Towel racks and shelves have re-
placed the old washstands we used to have. Probably
the most comfortable change is in the beds, for the
new ones have grand springs and mattresses and do
not even look like ours, which resembled iron cots
instead of beds.

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The color of the walls in my old room is a soft
yellow, and Miss Cheney and her roommate had car-
ried out a color scheme in green and yellow. They
had draperies over the windows, while in my day we
used green voile tie-back curtains. We had to try to
do something to soften the strain of looking at drab
white walls. I am thrilled over the change in my
old room, and I think the fourteen ten-year-olds were
too when I described it to them as they viewed the
present attractive room.

The study table is still a part of the room's furnish-
ings, but it has been made more interesting with
the pretty blotter placed on it by the Athletic Asso-
ciation. The Christian Association has put on the
door of every room a map of all the churches in De-
catur and Atlanta which Agnes Scott students usually
attend each year.

Our tour of Inman continuing, we discovered as
we walked down the hall that the lavatory on that
wing was no longer next to the lobby but was adjacent
to the back stairway hall. A double room had been
converted into the bathroom with black and white
tile floor and white tile walls with black tile trim.
Instead of the old tubs of my day with the claw-and-
ball legs to keep them off the floor, there was a
beautiful white built-in tub. Then there were two tile
showers. Five wash basins were on the side where
the long windows formerly were placed. The windows
now are smaller and are above nice wall mirrors.
There are several wall sockets which the girls can
use for their electric hair driers.

The lobby came next on our tour, and it has
surely been transformed into a more interesting place.
Its walls and woodwork are ivory; and the pretty
drapes at the windows, as well as the matching ma-
terial used to separate the two halls from the lobby,
have certainly added to its attractiveness. New lights
have been installed and there is a new ceiling too.
The sprinkler system for fire protection is used
throughout the building. The hardwood floors, the
refinished furniture, the piano, pictures on the walls,
and flowers on the tables have given the appearance
of a living room instead of a lobby. On one wall
was a long mirror which the girls could use before

leaving the building for a party or a date. That
would have been a very real help in my day even
though part of that time our dresses were up to our
knees in length.

Some of the girls wanted to see what the second
floor was like, so they ascended the stairs to find that
the hall going to the roof of the front porch had been
made into a pleasant reading room. A blue rug was
on the floor, and there were rocking chairs, as
well as straight chairs, and tables for the girls to
use. Book shelves were there containing a dictionary
and Encyclopedia Americana.

As we left Inman I glanced to see if The Book had
been changed from its former place in the lobby.
That alone had remained in its place through the
years.

Since May Day was only a few days off, the girls
were anxious to see the Dell. The queen's throne was
in place, and the four who had seen last year's May
Day illustrated for the others where the queen and
her maids would sit.

From the Dell we went to the Library. Its still
beauty made an impression on the girls as they
walked slowly and quietly around the large reading
room. One of the students on duty had the same
birthday as Alva Hope, April 22, and she thrilled
the honoree by adding that another girl on the
campus celebrated that day also.

As we started toward Main one of the girls asked
if they could see where the college girls had their
dates. They were duly impressed with the parlors
and were particularly interested to know that some
of them had been classrooms when I was in college.

Time was escaping and parents were waiting in
front of the Alumnae House for their children, so our
tour had to end. Walking across the campus I heard
some interesting remarks. One girl said, "My aunt
went to [another college] and I guess I will have to
go there. I'd like to come to Agnes Scott." Another
said, "My aunt graduated from Agnes Scott, and I
want to too." Several others said that they wanted
to go to Agnes Scott when they finished high school.
I felt that the idea for the party's locale had been
a completely successful one.

When you're in Atlanta

Stay at the Alumnae HouseJ

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Alumnae Here and There

Mildred Thomson '10 is president of the American
Association of Mental Deficiency, the sixth woman
president in that group's 74-year existence. The As-
sociation has a membership of doctors, psychiatrists,
psychologists, educators, social workers, and admin-
istrators of institutions or state programs for the
mentally ill. She has been teaching and doing organi-
zational work with mentally deficient children in Min-
neapolis.

Lorraine Beauchamp Harris '26's paintings were
displayed in a one-man exhibit in October at the
Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston, S. C. Among her
collections of portraits, landscapes, and still lifes was
he portrait of her oldest daughter, which was awarded
:irst prize in the 1949 annual state exhibition. The
irtist is represented in the permanent collection of the
Jniversity of Georgia and in numerous private col-
ections. Married to the Rev. William Frederick Harris,
.orraine has two girls and a boy and is living in
fork, S. C.

Maya Riviere '28 is the author of a two-volume
bibliography for the National Council of Rehabilita-
ion, of which she is executive secretary. The biblio-
;raphy, Rehabilitation of the Handicapped, includes
laterial from 1940 to 1946 providing methods and
rocedures for administrators and workers engaged
i aiding the disabled. The Livingston Press, publisher
f the work, operates for the furtherance of activities
f rehabilitation, "the restoration of the handicapped
) the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational, and
sonomic usefulness of which they are capable."

Mary Williamson Hooker '31 was recently appointed
irector of public relations for the New York Tuber-
ilosis and Health Association. Previous to this
opointment she was with Cecil and Presbrey as di-
Jctor of fashion publicity.

Virginia McWhorter Freeman "40 has been ap-
Dinted executive secretary of the DeKalb County
ed Cross chapter. She has been with the chapter
nee 1946 as Junior Red Cross director. In making
e announcement of her appointment the board said,
rhe DeKalb County chapter considers itself for-
nate in securing the services of Mrs. Freeman for
is responsible position."

Mary Dozier Pallotta '44 was recently appointed

assistant counsel of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
A member of the Georgia Bar Association and the
Sigma Delta Gamma woman's legal sorority, Mrs.
Pallotta has served as a volunteer attorney for the
Legal Aid Society before which she was associated
with the law firm of White and Case in New York
City. The Legal Aid Society, of which Frances Craig-
head Dwyer '28 is general counsel, as a Community
Fund Agency gives free legal assistance to citizens
of Fulton and DeKalb counties who are financially
unable to employ counsel.

Laura Coit Jones '38

News of the death of Laura Coit Jones on July 18
was a great shock to her host of friends.

It is not often one can speak truthfully of a "host
of friends," for few people have that many. But Laura
had those qualities which make for enduring friendship
and she gave generously of them all.

Her career at Agnes Scott was typical of her life
of service and leadership. Her election as president
of student government and a member of Mortar Board
was a logical climax to a record of four years of lead-
ership in class and college community activities.

Upon graduation, as director of youth activities for
the National Youth Administration for Georgia, she
had the responsibility for building a program unique
in youth agencies at that time. Its purpose was to
make good citizens as well as good workers of the
young Americans working for NYA. She resigned
shortly before her marriage to Boisfeuillet Jones, who
was then assistant administrator and later administra-
tor of NYA in Georgia.

If I were going to suggest a memorial to Laura, I
think it would be that we all pay a little more at-
tention to those human relations which somehow she
always found time for but which most of us "never
get around to." For I think more than anyone else
I have ever known, Laura Coit Jones gave genuinely
and generously of herself, and found the giving to be
its own reward.

Eliza King Paschall '38

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Faculty and Staff

Stimulated by direct contact with foreign peoples
and cultures, the campus is feeling its classroom and
extra-curricular life enriched by the experiences of
those of the college community who spent the sum-
mer abroad. Several students had European vaca-
tions, as well as the faculty members whose journeys
are reported here.

Dr. Elizabeth Zenn, assistant professor of classical
languages and literatures, studied at the American
Academy in Rome and found time to visit excavations,
ruins, and points of interest in Naples, Rome, Florence,
and Milan despite the inevitable 2-to-5-p.m. siesta
when all of Italy goes to sleep. Language study was,
of course, a continual project during the summer, what
with speaking Italian and endeavoring to master poetic
Italian, which it seems is quite a language in its own
right. The plays offered were a joy to classical stu-
dents, since the opportunity is rare to see any but
the most well-known. One of these, the Cyclops of
Euripides, Miss Zenn saw in the ruins of the theater
at the Roman port of Ostia. Probably a great many
of the spectators were wishing for a copy of the
Greek text which Miss Zenn had perused before the
play foreseeing the difficulty of following the poetic
Italian of the actors.

Dean Carrie Scandrett sailed on the French liner
De Grasse in June with Miss Helen Carlson, dean at
Barnard College and former member of the French
Department at Agnes Scott. Landing at Le Havre, they
spent two weeks in Paris, with side trips to places
including Chartres and Fontainebleau, after which
Miss Scandrett crossed the channel to visit her sister,
Ruth Scandrett Hardy '22, in Hampshire until August.

Probably the most tangible reproduction of his
European experiences was brought back by Dr. Henry
Chandlee Forman, head of the Art Department, in
the form of $600 worth of water color film slides
and movies. With a Bolsey 35 mm camera and a
Cine kodak, Mr. Forman took unusual shots of sights
picturesque and historic and painted 22 water
colors primarily of Italian scenes, all to be used for
the improvement of teaching of the fine arts and
archaeology back at Agnes Scott. A projection showing
of the slides has been given for a faculty group,
and the water colors were on exhibit the first two
weeks of November in the Buttrick Art Gallery. Ac-
companied by his family, Mr. Forman visited Eng-
land. France. Switzerland, Malta, Portugal, and Italy,

making particular arrangements to see various art
shows being held : Bellini in Venice, Gaugin in Paris,
and Lorenzo il Magnifico in Florence. Mr. Forman
enjoys describing most a scene not from Art but from
Nature: the panorama stretching before the spectator
standing on the ruins of the Greek theater at Taor-
mina, Sicily, 1000 feet above the Mediterranean,
with Mount Etna rising in the distance across the sea.
Instead of further knowledge through books and lec-
tures in graduate study the Art Department is en-
livened by first-hand impressions of the originals
discussed in its courses.

Mary Virginia Allen, instructor in French and
German, used a Carnegie grant for research at the
French School of Middlebury College last summer,
investigating the theater of Henri-Rene Lenormand
in relation to modern psychology.

Dr. Wallace Alston, vice-president and professor
of philosophy, delivered a series of lectures at Prince-
ton Theological Seminary last summer which are
shortly to be published in book form.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman, associate professor of
biology, spent the summer at Woods Hole doing re-
search in protozoology.

Melissa A. Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish,
received a medal from the government of Portugal in
recognition of superior accomplishment in original
research in Portuguese literature and for the promul-
gation of Portuguese culture in the United States. The
presentation was made August 18 in Cambridge, Mass.,
in the presence of the Portuguese consular staff and
representatives of Harvard University, where Miss
Cilley was working with original Portuguese manu-
scripts. She is founder of the Portuguese sections of
the Modern Language Association of America and
the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and
will read a paper on Julio Dantas, contemporary
dramatist, before the latter group at the meeting
of the S.A.M.L.A. at Davidson College November 25|

Dr. Elizabeth Crigler, associate professor of
chemistry, began her summer with a trip to Oak
Ridge, Tenn., for the regional meeting of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society. There she enjoyed visits with
four Agnes Scott graduates: Mary Ann Courtenay
'46, Isabel Asbury and Anna George Dobbins, '47,
and Barbara Blair '48, who had their own home and
garden "and were fast gaining experience in coopera-
tive management and living." In the course of her
travels during the rest of the. summer she set foot

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on eleven New England college and university cam-
puses and managed to return to one of her favorite
haunts the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins.

June Davis, assistant in biology, studied marine
algae at Woods Hole last summer.

Dr. Emily S. Dexter, associate professor of philo-
sophy and education, taught at Piedmont College un-
til mid-July, took a northeastern tour which included
New England and Quebec, and read proof on an article
shortly to appear in a psychology journal.

Dr. Florene Dunstan's summer is reported else-
where in this issue of The Quarterly. Her 14,000-
mile trip, partially financed by a Carnegie grant-in-aid,
took her to five South American capitals, where thanks
in part to U. S. State Department heralding she was
received by citizens of national prominence.

Alice Flournoy, assistant in biology, studied at
the Mountain Lake Biological Station last summer.

Dr. W. J. Frierson, professor of chemistry, attended
the American Chemical Society's Southeastern meeting
at Oak Ridge, the Presbyterian Educational Associa-
tion of the South at Montreat, N. C, and the Queens
College Workshop in Charlotte. In the course of the
summer he also wrote an article, "Partition Chromato-
graphy Applied to the Separation of Inorganic Ions,"
to be published in the November issue of the Journal
of Chemical Education.

Dr. Paul L. Garber, professor of Bible, put in a
summer and fall characteristic of his energy and
variety of interests. The Quarterly obtained the
schedule in detail, as the apotheosis of professorial
vacationing:

lune 22-29 Presbyterian Educational Association, Montreat,
N. C. where I was a member of the program committee for
the Bible Teachers' section and chairman of the Associa-
tion's Findings Committee.

luly 7-23 In residence at the Oriental Institute, University
of Chicago, on research program.

Fuly 24-25 At Harvard University Semitic Museum studying
the Schick models of Solomon's temple.

fuly 26-August 12 In residence at the Oriental Seminary,
Johns Hopkins University, on research program under
the direction of Professor William F. Albright.

Vugust 15-19^Teaching "The Letters of Paul" in the Bible
Conference, Bonclarken Conference Grounds, Hender-
sonville, N. C.

August 19-24 Hazen Conference on Religion and Higher Edu-
cation, Swannanoa. N. C, where I was member of the
program committee.

iept. 2-5 Served as adult adviser to the Westminster Fellow-
ship Council, Synod of Georgia, in retreat at Lake
Burton, Clayton, Georgia.

iept. 20-22 Represented the College at the Synod of Ala-
bama and at the centennial observance and inaugura-

^ tion of President P. N. Rhodes, Southwestern at Memphis.

rom Sept. 25, supplying the pulpit of the Oglethorpe Presby-
terian Church, until they secure a minister.

'rom Oct. 2, teaching the Parents-of-Preschool-Children's Sun-
day School Class, Decatur Presbyterian Church.

Oct. 7-8 Teaching at the Salem Conference, Student YM
and Y.W.. State of Georgia.

Oct. and Nov. Teaching in the Atlanta Presbyterian Leader-
ship School, Monday nights.

October issue, The Journal of Bible and Religion, will contain
my paper, "Some Suggested Visual Aids for Class-room
Use,' read before the National Association of Biblical
Instructors, New York, December 27, 1948.

Nancy Groseclose, instructor in biology, did
advanced work in physiology at the Mountain Lake
Biological Station last summer.

Edna Ruth Hanley, librarian, motored at various
times last summer through Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
York, Alabama and Virginia. Her only lament was
that the heat wave in New York City kept her from
visiting many second-hand book stores.

Lewis H. Johnson, associate professor of music,
attended the 40th reunion of his class at Pomona Col-
lege in California. All members of a quartet in which
he sang as a student were there, and the group per-
formed several numbers it had used on tour four
decades ago.

Dr. Emma May Laney, associate professor of Eng-
lish, reports that her summer took her from moun-
tain to mountain: the top of Brushy Face in North
Carolina in June, the top of Mount Evans on a
July-August visit to Denver. Intellectually she ex-
plored further the poetry of Auden and the novels of
Virginia Woolf. She spoke on modern poetry at the
November meeting of the Atlanta Agnes Scott Alum-
nae Club.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn, associate professor
of English, has had an article on "Radiance in The
White Doe of Rylstone" accepted for publication
in Studies in Philology and will read a paper on "The
Theme of Loneliness in the Plays of Synge" at the
S.A.M.L.A. meeting in November. Her summer's work
on a University Center research grant, at the Hunt-
ington Library in California, resulted in an article,
"Certain Problems of Satiric Allegory in Gullivers
Travels," to be published in The Huntington Library
Quarterly. She represented the Agnes Scott chapter
at the Phi Beta Kappa Triennial Council Meeting in
Madison, Wis., early in September.

Dr. Mary Stuart MacDougall, professor of
biology, is teaching her advanced classes in Ansley
House while recuperating from a hip fracture suffered
early in September.

Dr. Mildred R. Mell, professor of economics and
sociology, worked last summer on the tax system of
Georgia and proposals for tax revision, partly as
chairman of the Tax Revision Committee of the Geor-
gia League of Women Voters. She also studied budgets

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of the social agencies which are members of the Com-
munity Chest, serving on the Budget Committee of
the Chest.

Susan Pope, assistant in the Library, flew to New
York late in June as a guest of Glamour magazine,
having placed as one of ten runners-up in a national
competition on career wardrobes.

Janef Preston, assistant professor of English,
spent part of the summer at the Kenyon School of
English in Gambier, Ohio.

Dr. Catherine Sims, associate professor of history
and political science, reviewed Nineteen Eighty-Four
and The Vital Center at the October meeting of the
Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae Club. Numerous other
speaking engagements were on her fall calendar, after
a summer spent mostly in Atlanta but including trips
to Florida, New York and New England.

Annie Mae F. Smith, supervisor of dormitories,
drove through the West last summer with friends from
Florida, missing practically none of the grander
sights. She was in Spearfish, South Dakota, for the
Passion Play; made a desert crossing beginning at
3:30 a.m. "with no harm done to man or car"; and
flew back to Atlanta from Omaha in one afternoon.

Dr. Florence E. Smith, associate professor of
history and political science, continued work on the
life of Torrigiano, a Renaissance sculptor, in the li-
braries at Emory and the University of Georgia. Dr.

Catherine Torrance, professor emeritus of classical
languages and literatures, made an excellent transla-
tion for her of a Latin letter which Torrigiano wrote
to Wolsey, a letter which has never been published
in English. Miss Smith also enjoyed playing with a
small orchestra conducted every Monday evening by
Arthur Curry, father of Mrs. Ernest Runyon.

Dr. Margret Trotter, assistant professor of Eng-
lish, was among 100 Wellesley alumnae attending a
three-day conference on constructive forces in educa-
tion, part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the
college, in October. With a grant from the University
Center for imaginative writing, she spent the summer
at home in Decatur working on a piece of fiction
"which I hope will ultimately be publishable; I learned
a great deal from this most valuable experience."
She will present a short paper at the S.A.M.L.A.
meeting in November.

Isabella Wilson, assistant dean of students, en-
joyed a visit in Newton, Mass., with the family of j
Clay Lewis, her fiance. There followed a trip through
other sections of New England and a week with Sam
and Neva Jackson Webb '42 in Lake Luzerne, N. Y.

Roberta Winter, instructor in speech, wrote a
one-act play this summer which she is still polishing.
Other activities included a week in New York con-
ducting her sister Ditty (Mary Winter Wright ex-'31)
to shows and sights. Miss Winter is president of the
Georgia Speech Association this year.

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[24]

Class News

DEATHS
Institute

Ethel Farmer Hunter's husband d
in June.

Notice has reached the Alumnae Off
of the death of Clara Hays Long

Margaret Laing died August 1
in the Six Mile Hospital in Soi
Carolina.

Edith Lovejoy Wilson died July
at the home of her sister, Mary Lo!
joy Bothwell, in Decatur. The sisti
had just returned from a trip to 1
Northwest and Canada.

Stella Puleston Arrington died
cently.

Maggie Sheats Caldwell, mother
Laurie Caldwell Tucker '17, died 1
spring.

Academy

Maude Clay Meyer died last Nove
ber.

191]

Florinne Brown Arnold's husba
was killed in a trolley accident
July.

1915

Fannie Marcus Revson's husband di
in May.

1921

Elizabeth Williams died in Februai
1925

Trances Tennent Ellis' father died
May.

1930

lizabeth Reid Harrison's mother di
September 13.

Uice Garretson Bolles' husband w
billed in a plane crash in August.

944

lartha Rhodes Bennett's father d
ast December.

Givers to the Alumnae Campaign

INSTITUTE

Orra Hopkins

Cora Strong

Annie Jean Gash

Emma Wesley

Virginia Alexander Gaines

Mary C. Barker

Kittie Burroughs Long

Jeannette Craig Woods

Jean Ramspeck Harper

Rttsha Wesley

Meta Barker

Marion Bucher

Eilleen Gober

Grace Hardie

Audrey Turner Bennett

Emily Winn

Laura Candler Wilds

Lois Johnson Aycock

Kathleen Kirkpatrick Daniel

Annie Shapard

Emma Askew Clark

Lulie Morrow Croft

Arlene Almand Foster

Mabel Ardrey Stewart

Thyrza Askew

Octavia Aubrey Howard

Stella Austin Stannard

Bessie Baker Milikin

Alice Beck Dale

Sallie Broome Clarke

Eleanor Bryce Ezell

Vashti Buchanan McLain

Kittie Burress Long

Daisy Caldwell McGinty

Willie Bell Campbell Marshburn

Claude Candler McKinney

Margaret Cannon Howell

Mary Ellen Cook Hamilton

Georgia Crane Clarke

Elva Crenshaw

Mary Louise Crenshaw Palmour

Annie Cromartie Council

Mary David McWilliams

Mary Dortch Forman

Annie Emery Flinn

Julia Jordan Emery

Ethel Farmer Hunter

Olivia Fewell Taylor

Melrose Franklin Kennedy

Roba Goss Ansley

Marie Gower Conyers

Annie Green Chandler

Mae Griggs Parsons

Clare Harden Barber

Annie Louise Harrison Waterman

Bessie Harwell Dennis

Sue Harwell Champion

Alice Hocker Drake

Ellerbee Holt Fowler

Kittie Huie Aderhold

Louise Hurst Howald

Irene Ingram Sage

[46]

(As of October 15)

Kate Logan Good

Midge McAden Cothran

Hettye McCurdy

Delia McRae Montgomery

Annie Newton

Lillian Ozmer Treadwell

Mary Payne Bullard

Marion Peel Calhoun

Gertrude Pollard

Evelyn Ramspeck Glenn

Vera Reins Kamper

Louise Scott Sams

Amy Seay Lawton

Corinne Simril

Henrietta Smith Bradley

Florence Stokes Henry

Julia Stokes

Susie Thomas Jenkins

Lucy Thomson

Kate Steele Vickers

Estelle Webb Shadburn

Annie Wiley Preston

Frances Winship Walters

Ethel Woolf

Bessie Young Brown

Susan Young Eagan

89 givers; $186,583.50

ACADEMY

Mildred Beatty Miller
Lillian Burns Chastain
Helen Camp Richardson
Eudora Campbell Haynie
Lena Christian Richardson
Laura Belle Gilbert Eaton
Julia Green Heinz
Maccie Haas Harrison
Bessie Hancock Coleman
Mary Louise Haygood Trotti
Patti Hubbard Stacy
Bertha Hudson Whitaker
Susie Johnson
Tracy L'Engle
Lois McPherson McDougall
Marion Phinizy Black
Mary Russell Green
Laura Sawtelle Palmer
Elizabeth Tuller Nicolson
Hallie Tumlin Jones
Lidie Whitner Lee
Margaret Wright Alston
22 givers; $402.00

1906

Ida Lee Hill Irvin
May McKowen Taylor
Ethyl Flemister Fite
3 givers; |172.00

1907

Irene Foscue Patton

Clyde Pettus

Hattie Lee West Candler

3 givers; $112.00

1908

Lizzabel Saxon
Sadie Magill
Ethel Reid
3 givers; $85.00

1909

Louise Davidson
Margaret McCallie
Mattie Newton Traylor
Anne Waddell Bethea
Lillie Bachman Harris
Virginia Barker Hughes
Annie Ludlow Cannon
Jean Powel McCroskey
Roberta Zachry Ingle
9 givers; $1525.50

1910

Jennie Anderson

Flora Crowe Whitmire

Emma Louise Eldridge Ferguson

Eleanor Frierson

Mattie Hunter Marshall

Clyde McDaniel Jackson

Lucy Reagan Redwine

Annie Smith Moore

Mildred Thomson

Beulah Adamson

Tommie Barker

Emma Binns Major

Marian Brumby Hammond

Lucy Johnson Ozmer

14 givers; $919.00

1911

Lucile Alexander

Adelaide Cunningham

Geraldine Hood Burns

Mary Wallace Kirk

Gladys Lee Kelly

Louise Wells Parsons

Theodosia Willingham Anderson

Kathrine Boothe Jenkins

Florinne Brown Arnold

Lida Caldwell Wilson

Blanche Collins Smith

Anne Fields

Ida King Akers

Gussie O'Neal Johnson

14 givers; $1427.00

1912

Antoinette Blackburn Rust
Cornelia Cooper
Martha Hall Young
May Joe Lott Bunkley
Marie Maclntyre Alexander
Fannie Mayson Donaldson

Annie Chapin McLane
Janette Newton Hart
Ruth Slack Smith
Carol Stearns Wey
Lucy Fitzhugh Maxfiekl
12 givers; $1014.00

1913

Allie Candler Guy

Kate Clark

Mary Lois Enzor Bynum

Elizabeth Joiner Williams

Janie McGaughey

Emma Pope Moss Dieckmann

Eleanor Pinkston Stokes

Margaret Roberts Graham

Lavalette Sloan Tucker

Elizabeth Dunwody Hall

Rebie Harwell Hill

Josephine Stoney McDougall

Julia Pratt Smith Slack

12 givers; $477.00

1914

Bertha Adams
Ruth Blue Barnes
Mary Brown Florence
Mildred Holmes Dickert
Annie Tait Jenkins
Kathleen Kennedy
Essie Roberts Dupre
Martha Rogers Noble
Margaret Brown Bachman
Flo-Wilma Curtner Dobson
Ruth McElmurray Cothran
11 givers; $216.00

1915

Marion Black Cantelou
Annie Pope Bryan Scott
Mary Hyer Dale
Sallie May King
Catherine Parker
irace Reid

(Cate Richardson Wicker
VTary West Thatcher
Uicile Daley

Frances Farley Thornton
Vlinnie Hall Scarbrough
Jladys McMillan Gunn
2 givers; $3230.00

916

-aura Cooper Christopher
iloise Gay Brawley
)ra Glenn Roberts
vlaryellen Harvey Newton
lay Harvison Smith
Hharis Hood Barwick
-eila Johnson Moore
Margaret Phythian
lary Glenn Roberts
lagara Waldron Crosby
ilara Whips Dunn

Omah Buchanan Albaugh
Florine Griffin Carmichael
Rebekah Lackey Codding
Ethel Pharr
Janie Rogers Allen
Lovenah Vinson Brown
Elizabeth Walker Hunter
18 givers; $737.00

1917

Louise Ash

Laurie Caldwell Tucker

Agnes Scott Donaldson

Jane Harwell Rutland

India Hunt Balch

Willie Belle Jackson McWhorter

Katharine Lindamood Catlett

Janet Newton

Sarah Patton Cortelyou

Mary Spottswood Payne

Margaret Pruden Lester

Ellen Ramsay Phillips

Louise Roach Fuller

Virginia Scott Pegues

Augusta Skeen Cooper

Frances Thatcher Moses

Vallie White Hamilton

Agnes Ball

Mynelle Blue Grove

Grace Coffin Armstrong

Ailsie Cross

Ida Belle Feldman

Eva Mae Futch Yost

Mary Lewis Holt

Margaret Phillips Boyd

Maude Shute Squires

26 givers; $3272.00

1918

Ruth Anderson O'Neal

Elva Brehm Florrid

Belle Cooper

Ruby Lee Estes Ware

Alvahn Holmes

Emma Jones Smith

Caroline Larendon

Margaret Leyburn Foster

Carolina Randolph

Katherine Seay

Evamaie Willingham Park

Emma Kate Anderson

Bessie Harvey Pew

Virginia Haugh Franklin

Katherine Jones Patton

Lucile Kaye Kraft

Helen Ledbetter Jenkins

Catherine Montgomery Williamson

Mary Helen Sizer Taber

19 givers; $1647.00

1919

Blanche Copeland Jones
Lucy Durr Dunn
Lois Eve Rozier

Louise Felker Mizell
Mary Dwight Ford Kennedy
Frances Glasgow Patterson
Sutlle Ham Hanson
Julia Ingram Hazzard
Alice Norman Pate
Elizabeth Pruden Fagan
Ethel Rea Rowe
Margaret Rowe Jones
Fiances Sledd Blake
Lulu Smith Westcott
Marguerite Watts Cooper
Llewellyn Wilburn
Margaret Brown Davis
Elizabeth Dimmock Bloodworth
Hattie Finney Glenn
Annie Gray Lindgren
Elizabeth Lawrence Brobston
Emily Miller Smith
Dorothy Mitchell Ellis
23 givers; $2637.00

1920

Margaret Bland Sewell
Romola Davis Hardy
Julia Hagood Cuthbertson
Elizabeth Lovett
Lois Maclntyre Beall
Marion MacPhail
Virginia McLaughlin
Laura Molloy Dowling
Margery Moore Macaulay
Elizabeth Moss Harris
Elizabeth Reid LeBey
Mary Louise Slack Hooker
Margaret Berryhill Reece
Eloise Buston Sluss
Alice Cannon Guille
Victoria Miller Johns
16 givers; $965.50

1921

Margaret Bell Hanna
Myrtle Blackmon
Thelma Brown Aiken
Eleanor Carpenter
Lois Compton Jennings
Mary Robb Finney Bass
Sarah Fulton
Aimee Glover Little
Helen Hall Hopkins
Eugenia Johnston Griffin
Anna Marie Landless Cate
Frances Markley Roberts
Jean McAlister
Sarah McCurdy Evans
Charlotte Newton
Janef Preston
Eula Russell Kelly
Julie Saunders Dickerson
Helen Wayt Cocks
Virginia Crank Everett
Mildred Harris
Julia Heaton Coleman
Gladys McDaniel Hastings

[47]

Caroline Montgomery Branch
Mabel Price Cathcart
Kathleen Stanton Truesdell
26 givers; $1253.00

1922

Jeannette Archer Neal

Mary Barton

Cama Burgess Clarkson

Sue Cureton

Edythe Davis Croley

Mary Floding Brooks

Otto Gilbert Williams

Ivylyn Girardeau

Ruth Hall Bryant

Catherine Haugh Smith

Marion Hull Morris

Lilburne Ivey Tuttle

Julia Jameson

Juanita Kelly

Mary Lamar Knight

Elizabeth Nichols Lowndes

Ruth Pirkle Berkeley

Ruth Scandrett Hardy

Harriet Scott Bowen

Margaret Smith Lyon

Althea Stephens Parmenter

Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns

Joy Trump Hamlet

Ruth Virden

Elizabeth Wilson

Sarah Alston Lawton

Kathleen Belcher Gaines

Isabel Bennett McCready

Helen Burkhalter Quattlebaum

Lula Groves Campbell Ivey

Caroline Farquhar

Louise Harle

Mary Elizabeth Nisbit Marty

Helene Norwood Lammers

34 givers; $1146.00

1923

Clara Mae Allen Reinero
Margaret Brenner Awtrey
Sally Brodnax Hansell
Nannie Campbell Roache
Minnie Clarke Cordle
Lucile Dodd Sams
Helen Faw Mull
Maud Foster Jackson
Philippa Gilchrist
Emily Guille Henegar
Quenelle Harrold Sheffield
Lucie Howard Carter
Eleanor Hyde
Eloise Knight Jones
Lucile Little Morgan
Edith Emily McCallie
Elizabeth McClure McGeachy
Anna Hall McDougall Terry
Mary Stewart McLeod
Margaret Ransom Sheffield

Catherine Shields Potts

Alice Virden

Maybeth Carnes Robertson

Lena Feldman

Caroline Moody Jordan

Margaret Parker Turner

Dorothy Scott

Frances Stuart Key

Nell Veal Zipfel

Margaretta Womelsdorf Lumpkin

30 givers; $1919.00

1924

Frances Amis
Emily Arnold Perry
Rebecca Bivings Rogers
Helen Lane Comfort Sanders
Marguerite Dobbs Maddox
Martha Eakes Matthews
Katie Frank Gilchrist
Frances Gilliland Stukes
Evelyn King Wilkins
Sarah Kinman
Vivian Little
Mary Mann Boon
Margaret McDow MacDougall
Cora Morton Durrett
Frances Myers Dickely
Catherine Nash Goff
Margaret Powell Gay
Carrie Scandrett
Daisy Frances Smith
Polly Stone Buck
Annie Wilson Terry
Annadawn Watson Edwards
Alberta Bieser Havis
Selma Gordon Furman
Mildred McFall
Ruth Spence Spear
Dorothy Walker Brannon
27 givers; $1650.00

1925

Mary Brown Campbell
Louise Buchanan Proctor
Elizabeth Cheatham Palmer
Agatha Deaver Bradley
Lucile Gause Fryxell
Louise Hannah Melson
Mary Elizabeth Keesler Dalton
Eunice Kell Simmons
Frances Lincoln Moss
Martha Lin Manly Hogshead
Anne LeConte McKay
Lillian Middlebrooks Smears
Ruth Owen
Clyde Passmore
Julia Pope
Floy Sadler

Carolyn Smith Whipple
Emily Ann Spivey Simmons
Sarah Tate Tumlin
Susan Tennent Ellis
Mary Ben Wright Erwin

Anna May Dieckmann Montgomery
Memory Tucker Merritt
23 givers; $732.00

1926

Helen Bates Law

Lois Bolles Knox

Edyth Carpenter Shuey

Edythe Coleman Paris

Louisa Duls

Ellen Fain Bowen

Mary Freeman Curtis

Edith Gilchrist Berry

Juanita Greer White

Mary Ella Hammond McDowell

Charlotte Higgs Andrews

Hazel Huff Monaghan

Sterling Johnson

Mary Elizabeth Knox Happoldt

Elizabeth Little Meriwether

Catherine Mock Hodgin

Dorothy Owen Alexander

Polly Perkins Ferry

Louise Pfeiffer Ringel

Kathrine Pitman Brown

Mary Allene Ramage

Nellie Bass Richardson

Elizabeth Shaw McClamroch

Sarah Slaughter

Sarah Smith Merry

Margaret Tufts

Ladie Sue Wallace Nolen

Margaret Whitington Davis

Rosalie Wootten Deck

Mary Ella Zellars Davison

Louise Stokes Hutchison

Norma Tucker Sturtevant

Peggy Whittemore Flowers

33 givers; $1088.00

1927

Reba Bayless Boyer
Emma Bernhardt
Maurine Bledsoe Bramlett
Charlotte Buckland
Georgia Burns Bristow
Annette Carter Colwell
Lillian Clement Adams
Willie May Coleman Duncan
Martha Crowe Eddins
Frances Dobbs Cross
Eugenie Dozier
Emilie Ehrlich Strasburger
Katherine Gilliland Higgins
Ida Landau Sherman
Ellen Douglass Leyburn
Elizabeth Lilly Swedenberg
Louise Lovejoy Jackson
Elizabeth Lynn
Kenneth Maner Powell
Caroline McKinney Clark
Lucia Nimmons
Elizabeth Norfleet Miller
Stella Pittman Dunkin

[48]

Louise Plumb Stephens
Miriam Preston St. Clair
Virginia Sevier Hanna
Sarah Shields Pfeiffer
Emily Stead
Edith Strickland Jones
Elizabeth Vary
Margie Wakefield
Mary Weems Rogers
Roberta Winter
Edna Anderson Noblin
Martha Childress Ferris
Grace Etheredge
Kathryn Johnson
38 givers; $1366.50

1928

Harriet Alexander Kilpatrick
Elizabeth Cole Shaw
Patricia Collins Andretta
Frances Craighead Dwyer
Mary Crenshaw McCullough
Betsey Davidson Smith
Eloise Gaines Wilburn
Irene Garretson Nichols
Louise Girardeau Cook
Sarah Glenn Boyd
Elizabeth Grier Edmunds
Muriel Griffin
Rachel Henderlite
Josephine Houston Dick
Elizabeth Hudson McCulloch
Alice Hunter Rasnake
Mildred Jennings
Anais Jones Ramey
Kathryn Kalmon Nussbaum
Irene Lowrance Wright
fanet MacDonald
Ellott May McLellon Rushton
Julia Napier North
Martha Lou Overton
ivangeline Papageorge
Mary Shewmaker
/irginia Skeen Norton
Srace Ball Sanders
vfadelaine Dunseith Alston
?rances New McRae
Mary Stegall Stipp
il givers; $1795.00

929

'ernette Adams Carter

; ara Frances Anderson Ramsay

rherese Barksdale Vinsonhaler

Helon Brown Williams

ara Carter Massee

ally Cothran Lambeth

lary Ficklen Barnett

fancy Fitzgerald Bray

fargaret Garretson Ford

ietty Gash

dice Glenn Lowry

larion Green Johnston

earl Hastings Baughman

Elizabeth Hatchett
Charlotte Hunter
Katherine Hunter Branch
Dorothy Hutton Mount
Sara Johnston Carter
Lillian LeConte Haddock
Mabel Marshall Whitehouse
Alice McDonald Richardson
Edith McGranahan Smith T
Julia McLendon Robeson
Esther Nisbet Anderson
Eleanor Lee Norris MacKinnon
Mary Prim Fowler
Helen Ridley Hartley
Martha Selman Jacobs
Sarah Southerland
Olive Spencer Jones
Mary Warren Read
Violet Weeks Miller
Ruth Worth
Mary Ansley Howland
Clara Askew Crawford
Bettina Bush Carter
Isabelle Leonard Spearman
Elsie McNair Maddox
Rosalinde Moncrief Jordan
Josephine Pou Vainer
Evelyn Wood Owen
41 givers; $3245.50
deceased; given by husband

1930

Ruth Bradford Crayton

Frances Brown Milton

Gladney Cureton

Clarene Dorsey

Augusta Dunbar

Anne Ehrlich Solomon

Elizabeth Flinn Eckert

Alice Garretson Bolles

Anna Katherine Golucke Conyers

Jane Bailey Hall Hefner

Mary McCallie Ware

Frances Messer

Blanche Miller Rigby

Emily Moore Couch

Lynn Moore Hardy

Carolyn Nash Hathaway

Margaret Ogden Stewart

Carrington Owen

Sallie Peake

Shannon Preston Cumming

Helen Respess Bevier

Lillian Russell McBath

Virginia Shaffner Pleasants

Janice Catherine Simpson

Martha Stackhouse Grafton

Sara Townsend Pittman

Mary Trammell

Anne Dowdell Turner

Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg

Harriet B. Williams

Raemond Wilson Craig

Emily Campbell

Elizabeth Dodd Thomas
33 givers; $1179.00

1931

Margaret Askew Smith
Laura Brown Logan
Sara Lou Bullock
Marjorie Daniel Cole
Mildred Duncan
Ruth Dunwody
Ruth Etheredge Griffin
Marion Fielder Martin
Jean Grey Morgan
Dorothy Grubb Rivers
Carolyn Heyman Goodstein
Sarah Hill Brown
Chapin Hudson Hankins
Myra Jervey Hoyle
Elise Jones

Dorothy Kethley Klughaupt
Eunice Lawrence Moorefield
Anne McCallie
Jane McLaughlin Titus
Shirley McPhaul Whitfield
Louise Miller Elliott
Fiances Murray Hedberg
Fanny Niles Bolton
Clara Knox Nunnally Roberts
Ruth Pringle Pipkin
Kitty Reid Carson
Elizabeth Simpson Wilson
Martha Sprinkle Rafferty
Mary Sprinkle Allen
Laelius Stallings Davis
Cornelia Taylor Stubbs
Ruth Taylor
Julia Thompson Smith
Martha Tower Dance
Louise Ware Venable
Martha Watson Smith
Elizabeth Woolfolk Moye
Octavia Howard Smith
Caroline Jones Johnson
Mary Winter Wright
40 givers; $1261.00

1932

Catherine Baker Matthews
Varnelle Braddy Ferryman
Harriotte Brantley
Penelope Brown Barnett
Mary Louise Cawthon
Margaret Deaver
Diana Dyer Wilson
Grace Fincher Trimble
Marjorie Gamble
Virginia Gray Pruitt
Ruth Green
Elena Greenfield
Elizabeth Hughes
La Myra Kane Swanson
Mary Miller Brown
Betty Peeples Brannen
Margaret Ridgely Bachmann

[49]

Flora Riley Bynum
Louise Stakely
Olive Weeks Collins
Martha Williamson Riggs
Grace Woodward Palmour
Mary Claire Oliver Cox
Alice Quarlcs Henderson
Katherine Spitz Guthman
25 givers; $2982.00

1933

Page Ackerman
Willa Beckham Lowrance
Margaret Alice Belote Morse
Judy Blundell Adler
Nellie Brown Davenport
Alice Bullard Nagle
Sarah Cooper Freyer
Eugenia Edwards Mackenzie
Martha Eskridge Love
Helen Etheredge Griffin
Mary Belle Evans
Mary Lillias Garretson
Margaret Glass Womeldorf
Lucile Heath McDonald
Mildred Hooten Keen
Polly Jones Jackson
Nancy Kamper Miller
Roberta Kilpatrick Stubblebine
Blanche Lindsey Camp
Caroline Lingle Lester
Elizabeth K. Lynch
Vivian Martin Buchanan
Marie Moss Brandon
Gail Nelson Blain
Frances Oglesby Hills
Margaret Ridley Beggs
Lelitia Rockmore Lange
Sarah Shadburn Heath
Laura Spivey Massie
Margaret Telford St. Amant
Mary Fiances Torrance Fleming
Amelia Wolf Bond
Katharine Woltz Green
Elizabeth Bolton
Porter Cowles Pickell
LaTrelle Robertson Duncan
36 givers; $3913.00

1934

Ruth Barnett Kaye
Aloe Risse Barron Leitch
Helen Boyd McConnell
Nelle Chamlee Howard
Plant Ellis Brown
Martha England Gunn
Margaret Friend Stewart
Lucy Goss Herbert
Sybil Grant
Mary Grist Whitehead
Elinor Hamilton Hightower
Jane MacMillan Tharpe
Louise McCain Boyce
Mary McDonald Sledd

Carrie Lena McMullen Bright
Ruth Moore Randolph
Hyta Plowden Mederer
Florence Preston Bockhorst
Virginia Prettyman
Carolyn Russell Nelson
Mary Sloan Laird
Rudene Taffar
Mabel Barton Talmage
Tennessee Tipton Butler
Bella Wilson
Elizabeth Winn Wilson
Mary Evelyn Winterbottom
Johnnie May York Rumble
Flora Young Mobley
Wanelle Lott
Sara May Love
Mallie White Regen
Eleanor Williams Knox
33 givers; $1382.00

1935

Mary Virginia Allen
Vella Marie Behm Cowan
Dorothea Blackshear Brady
Marian Calhoun Murray
Carolyn Cole Gregory
Sara Davis Alt
Helen Derrick
Betty Fountain Edwards
Mary Green
Anne Harman Mauldin
Elizabeth Heaton Mullino
Betty Lou Houck Smith
Anna Humber Little
Josephine Jennings Brown
Frances McCalla Ingles
Julia McClatchey Brooke
Ida Lois McDaniel
Clara Morrison Backer
Alberta Palmour McMillan
Nell Pattillo Kendall
Grace Robinson Wynn
Amy Underwood Trowell
Laura Whitner Dorsey
Hester Anne Withers Boyd
Jacqueline Woolfolk Mathes
Elizabeth Young Williams
Genevieve Dorman
27 givers; $963.00

1936

Lena Armstrong
Elizabeth Baethke
Catherine Bates
Ernelle Blair Fife
Meriel Bull Mitchell
Elizabeth Burson Wilson
Ann Coffee Packer
Bazalyn Coley Wynatt
Margaret Cooper Williams
Catherine Cunningham Richards
Elizabeth Fonnan
Virginia Gaines Ragland

Helen Handte Morse

Frances James Donohue

Agnes Jamison McKoy

Augusta King Brumby

Carrie Latimer Duvall

Sara Lawrence

Kathryn Leipold Johnson

Sue McClure Parker

Sarah Frances McDonald

Dean McKoin Bushong

Frances Miller Felts

Sarah Nichols Judge

Myra O'Neal Enloe

Mary Richardson Gauthier

Lavinia Scott St. Clair

Adelaide Stevens Ware

Mary Margaret Stowe Hunter

Eugenia Symms

Miriam Talmage Vann

Marie Townsend

Sarah Traynham

Mary Vines Wright

Lilly Weeks McLean

Carolyn White Burrill

Rebecca Whitley Nunan

Virginia Williams Goodwin

Sara Catherine Wood Marshall

Sarah Burnette Thomason

Carolyn Clements Logue

Emily Dodge

Martha Edmonds Allen

Florrie Erb Bruton

Adeline Rountree Turman

45 givers; $1087.00

1937

Eloisa Alexander LeConte

Louise Brown Smith

Lucille Cairns George

Lucile Dennison Keenan

Michele Furlow Oliver

Annie Laura Galloway Phillips

Mary Gillespie Thompson

Fannie B. Harris Jones

Dorothy Jester

Kitty Jones Malone

Molly Jones Monroe

Mary King

Florence Little

Vivienne Long McCain

Mary Malone Martin

Isabel McCain Brown

Ora Muse

Mary Alice Newton Bishop

Ellen O'Donnell Gartner

Elizabeth Perrin Powell

Kathryn Printup Mitchell

Marie Stalker Smith

Frances Steele Gordy

Laura Steele

Martha Summers Lamberson

Mildred Tilly

Eula Turner Kuchler

Margaret Watson

[50]

Jessie Williams Howell
Betty Willis Whitehead
Frances Wilson Hurst
Frances Balkcom
Barbara Hertwig Meschter
Elizabeth Moore Weaver
Vivienne Trice Ansley
Chrysanthy Tuntas Demetry
36 givers; $928.50

1938

Jean Adams Weersing
Tommy Ruth Bla :kmon Waldo
Elizabeth Blackshear Flinn
Elsie Blackstone Veatch
Kathciine Brittingham Hunter
Martha Peek Brown Miller
Susan Bryan Cooke
Jean Chalmers Smith

* Laura Coit Jones
Mildred Davis Adams
Goudyloch Erwin Dyer
Mary Lillian Fairly Hupper
Norma Faurot Oakes

Mary Elizabeth Galloway Blount

Ann Worthy Johnson

Winifred Kellersberger Vass

Mary Anne Reman

Eliza King Paschall

Jeanne Matthews Darlington

Elizabeth McCord Lawler

Margaret Morrison Blumberg

Primrose Noble Phelps

Joyce Roper McKey

Virginia Suttenfield

Grace Tazewell Flowers

Anne Thompson Rose

Jane Turner Smith

Elizabeth Warden

Virginia Watson Logan

Elsie West Meehan

Lydia Whitner Black

Annie Hastie Mclnnis

Kennon Henderson Patton

Lily Hoffman Ford

34 givers; SI 101.00

* deceased

1939

Alice Adams

Jean Bailey Owen

Rachel Campbell Gibson

Lelia Carson Watlington

Virginia Cofer Avery

Sarah Joyce Cunningham Carpenter

Jane Dryfoos Bijur

Catherine Farrar

Mary Virginia Farrar Shearouse

Dorothy Graham Gilmer

Mary Frances Guthrie Brooks

Eleanor Hall

Jane Hamilton Ray

Mary Hollingsworth Hatfield

Cora Kay Hutchins Blackwelder
Phyllis Johnson O'Neal
Virginia Kyle Dean
Helen Lichten Solomonson
Douglas Lyle Rowlett
Emily MacMoreland Midkiff
Emma McMullcn Doom
Mary Wells McNeill
Helen Moses Regenstein
Amelia Nickels Calhoun
Julia Porter Scurry
Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger
Hayden Sanford Sams
Aileen Shortley Whipple
Alice Anna Sill
Penny Simonton Boothe
Mary Frances Thompson
Elinor Tyler Richardson
Ann Watkins Ansley
Cary Wheeler Bowers
Mary Ellen Whetsell Timmons
Caroline Armistead Martin
Ethelyn Boswell Purdie
Mildred Brown Claiborne
Jane Carithers Wellington
Margaret Edmunds
Sara Beaty Sloan Schoonmaker
Cornelia Whitner Campbell
42 givers; $1231.00

1940

Frances Abbot Bums

Betty Alderman Vinson

Grace Elizabeth Anderson Cooper

Evelyn Baty Landis

Anna Margaret Bond Brannon

Eugenia Bridges Trawicky

Jeanette Carroll Smith

Helen Carson

Ernestine Cass McGee

Elizabeth Davis Moore

Lillie Belle Drake

Anne Enloe

Carolyn Formal!

Marian Franklin Anderson

Mary Lang Gill Olson

Wilma Griffith Clapp

Polly Heaslett Badger

Gary Home Petrey

Eleanor Hutchens

Kathleen Jones Durden

Mildred Joseph Colyer

Caroline Lee Mackay

Eloise Lennard Smith

Virginia McWhorter Freeman

Mary Frances Moore Culpepper

Julia Moseley

Jane Moses Ranwez

Nell Moss Roberts

Barbara Murlin Pendleton
Betty Jean O'Brien Jackson
Katherine Patton Carssow
Nell Pinner Sannella
Margaret Ratchford
Mary Reins Burge

Isabella Robertson White

Ruth Slack Roach

Hazel Solomon Beazley

Louise Sullivan Fry

Mary McC. Templeton

Emilie Thomas Gibson

Henrietta Thompson Wilkinson

Emily Underwood Gault

Violet Jane Watkins

Eloise Weeks Gibson

Margaret Barnes

Mary Kate Burruss Proctor

Eva Copeland

Margaret Currie Ellwood

Martha Fite Wink

Betty Ann Hubbard Courtney

51 givers; $1310.62

1941

Frances Alston Lewis
Stuart Arbuckle Osteen
Elizabeth Barrett Alldredge
Miriam Bedinger Williamson
June Boykin Tindall
Frances Breg Marsden
Sabine Brumby
Gladys Burks Bielaski
Harriette Cochran
Virginia Collier Dennis
Freda Copeland Hoffman
Jean Dennison Brooks
Florence Ellis Gifford
Margaret Falkinburg Myers
Louise Franklin Livingston
Caroline Gray Truslow
Edith Henegar Bronson
Ann Henry
Elizabeth Irby Milam
Aileen Kasper Borrish
Elizabeth Kendrick Woolford
Helen Klugh McRae
Betty Kyle Langenwalter
Marcia Mansfield Fox
Anne Martin
Valgerda Nielsen Dent
Mollie Oliver
Pattie Patterson Johnson
Marion Philips Comento
Marion Phillips Richards
Sue Phillips Morgan
Elta Robinson Posey
Louise Sams Hardy
Lillian Schwencke Cook
Susan Self Teat
Gene Slack Morse
Elizabeth Stevenson
Carolyn Strozier
Elaine Stubbs Mitchell
Ellen Stuart Patton
Tommay Turner Peacock
Grace Walker Winn
Mary Madison Wisdom
Anita Woolfolk Cleveland
Ruth Ashburn Kline

[51]

Nancy Gribble Nelson
Sara Lee Jackson
47 givers; $908.00

1942

Martha Arant Allgood
Jean Beutell Abrams
Betty Ann Brooks
Martie Buffalow Rust
Frances Butt Singer
Anne Chambless Bateman
Sylvia Cohn Levy
Sarah Copeland Little
Dorothy Cremin
Billie Davis Nelson
Dale Drennan Hicks
Susan Dyer Oliver
Mary Lightfoot Elcan Nichols
Polly Frink Bunnell
Lillian Gudenrath Massey
Virginia Hale Murray
Neva Jackson Webb
Jeanne Lee Butt
11a Belle Levie Bagwell
Caroline Long Armstrong
Mary Dean Lott Lee
Susanna McWhorter Reckard
Betty Medlock
Virginia Montgomery
Dorothy Nabers Allen
Mary Louise Palmour Barber
Louise Pruitt Jones
Claire Purcell Smith
Mary Elizabeth Robertson Perry
Elizabeth Russell Stelling
Margaret Sheftall Chester
Jane Shelby Clay
Margaret Smith Wagnon
Jane Stillwell Espy
Betty Sunderland Bent
Jane Taylor White
Frances Tucker Owen
Ailene Barron Penick
Betty Nash Story
Theodosia Ripley Landis
Ruth Smith Wilson
Nancy Wimpfheimer Wolff
42 givers; $1006.50

1943

Emiiy Anderson Hightower
Betty Bates

Flora Campbell McLain
Alice Clements Shinall
Maryann Cochran Abbott
Joella Craig Good
Laura dimming Northey
Martha Dale Moses
Margaret Downie Hutchings
Betty DuBose Skiles
Anne Frierson Smoak
Nancy Green
Susan Guthrie
Helen Hale Lawton

Elizabeth Hartsfield
Betty Henderson Cameron
Ann Hilsman Knight
Nancy Hirsh Rosengarten
Dorothy Holloran Addison
Bryant Holsenbeck Moore
Mardia Hopper Brown
Ruth Kuniansky Willner
Sterly Lebey Wilder
Ruth Lineback von Arx
Anne Paisley Boyd
Frances Radford Mauldin
Ruby Rosser Davis
Clara Rountree Couch
Anne Scott Wilkinson
Margaret Shaw Allred
Martha Ann Smith Roberts
Susan Spurlock Wilkins
Regina Stokes Barnes
Mabel Stowe Query
Kay Wright Philips
Mary Blakemore Johnston
Nancy Fellenz Affeldt
Jane Gwin Stipe
Charlotte Shepeard Lennon
Jean Tucker
Mary Wolford
41 givers; $959.00

1944

Clare Bedinger Baldwin

Claire Bennett Kelly

Yolanda Bernabe Montealegre

Betty Bowman

Eloise Gay Brawley

Louise Breedin Griffith

Mary Carr Townsend

Jean Clarkson

Carolyn Daniel Payne

Barbara Jane Daniels

Betty Dickson Druary

Marv Dozier Pallotta

Mary Louise Duffee Philips

Elizabeth Edwards Wilson

Patricia Evans

Ruth Farrior

Pauline Garvin Keen

Zena Harris Temkin

Elizabeth Harvard

Julia Harvard Warnock

Kathryn Hill Whitfield

Madeline Hosmer Brenner

Adelaide Humphreys

Ann Jacob

Catherine Kollock Thoroman

June Lanier Beckman

Martha Ray Lasseter Storey

Lois Martin Busby

Mary Maxwell Hutcheson

Aurie Montgomery Miller

Katherine Philips Long

Bobbie Powell Flowers

Anne Sale

Betty Pope Scott Noble

Marjorie Smith Stephens

Anna Sullivan Huffmaster

Robin Taylor Horneffer

Katheryne Thompson Mangum

Elise Tilghman

Betty Vecsey

Billy Walker Shellack

Anne Ward

Jeanne White

Smiley Williams

Jo Young Sullivan

Virginia Barr McFarland

Ann Bumstead Phillips

Evelyn Cheek Stevenson

Imogene Gower

Kay Wilkinson Orr

50 givers; $1068.00

1945

Ruth Anderson Stall

Bettye Ashcraft Senter

Anabel Bleckley Bickford

Virginia Bowie

Elizabeth Carpenter Bardin

Virginia Carter Caldwell

Hansell Cousar Palme

Margaret Dale Smith

Beth Daniel

Anne Equen Ballard

Pauline Ertz Wechsler

Joyce Freeman Marting

Barbara Frink Allen

Betty Glenn Stow

Martha Jean Gower Woolsey

Ruth Gray Walker

Elizabeth Gribble Cook

Emily Higgins Bradley

Dorothy Hunter

Dottie Kahn Prunhuber

Frances King Mann

Susan Kirtley White

Jane Kreiling Mell

Elaine Kuniansky Gutstadt

Mary Louise Law

Marion Leathers Daniels

Eloise Lyndon Rudy

Martha Jane Mack Simons

Jean McCurry Wood

Montene Melson Mason

Molly Milam

Scott Newell Newton

Mary Neely Norris King

Martha Patterson

Inge Probstein

Jeanne Robinson

Ceevah Rosenthal

Bess Sheppard Poole

Julia Slack Hunter

Joan Stevenson Wing

Ann Strickland

Lois Sullivan Kay

Bonnie Turner Buchanan

Dot Lee Webb McKee

Kate Webb Clary

Wendy Whittle Hoge

Frances Woodall Shank

[52]

Betty Campell Wiggins
Ruth Doggett
Betty Franks
Beverly King Pollock
Juanita Lanier Porter
Alice Mann
Rounelle Martin
Margaret Shepherd Yates
Agnes Waters Scofield
56 givers; $1015.00

1946

Jeanne Addison Masengill
Mary Lillian Allen Wilkes
Margaret Bear Moore
Jane Bowman
Emily Ann Bradford Batts
Kathryn Burnett Gatewood
Mary Cargill
Jean Chewning Lewis
Mary Ann Courtenay
. Edwina Davis
Eleanor Davis Scott
Dot DeVane Redfearn
Conradine Eraser Riddle
Jean Fuller Hall
Gloria Gaines
Alice Gordon Pender
Shirley Graves Cochrane
Ellen Hayes
Elizabeth Horn
Betty Howell
Anne Hoyt Jolley
Louise Isaacson Bernard
Lura Johnston Watkins
Eugenia Jones Howard
Marjorie Karlson
Stratton Lee
Ruth Limbert
Betty Long Sale
Mildred McCain Kinnaird
Margaret Mizell Dean
Anne Murrell
Marjorie Naab Bolen
Anne Noell Fowler
Elizabeth Osborne Rollins
Betty Patrick Merritt
Peg Perez Westall
Celetta Powell Jones
Anne Register
Louise Reid
Eleanor Reynolds
Mary Russell Mitchell
Mary Jane Schumacher
Ruth Simpson
Bettye Smith
Jean Stewart
Minnewil Story McNeal
Margurite Toole
Peggy Trice Hall
Lucy Turner Knight
Maud Van Dyke Jennings
Mary Catherine Vinsant Grymes
Rite Watson
Verna Weems Macbeth

Betty Weinschenk
Winifred Wilkinson
Eva Williams Jemison
Peggy Willmon Robinson
LaNelle Wright Humphries
Betty Jane Hancock Moore
Carolyn Lewis Hodges
Grace Love
Jean Rooney
Jacqueline Sterchi Hall
63 givers: 1009.50

1947

Marie Adams Conyers

Louisa Aichel Mcintosh

Mary Frances Anderson

Betty Andrews

Isabel Asbury

Virginia Barksdale

Joanne Benton

Glassell Beale Smalley

Margaret Bond

Marguerite Born Hornsby

Eleanor Calley Story

Jane Cooke

Helen Currie

Virginia Dickson

Anna George Dobbins

Anne Eidson Owen

Nelson Fisher

Mary Jane Fuller

Dorothy Galloway

Lilaine Harris

Mary Emily Harris

Genet Heery Barron

Charlotte Hevener

Louise Hoyt Minor

Sue Hutchens Henson

Marianne Jeffries Williams

Kathryn Johnson

Margaret Kelly Wells

Doris Kissling

Mary Brown Mahon

Marguerite Mattison Rice

Margaret McManus Landham

Jane Meadows Oliver

Florence Paisley

Angela Pardington

Bet Patterson King

Sophia Pedakis Papador

Helen Pope

Betty Jean Radford Moeller

Ellen Rosenblatt Caswell

Lorenna Ross

Nellie Scott

Nancy Shelton Parrott

Barbara Smith Hull

Barbara Sproesser

Caroline Squires Rankin

June Thomason Lindgren

Betty Turner Marrow

May Turner

Dorothy Wadlington Singleton

Mary Walker Williams

Laura Winchester

Christina Yates

Betty Zeigler de la Mater

Margaret Cochran Stewart

Peggy Gregg Scott

Ann Martin

57 givers; $1594.00

1948

Dabney Adams

Ginny Andrews

Jane Barker Secord

Martha Beacham

Barbara Blair

Elizabeth Blair Carter

Betty Jean Brown

Flora Bryant

Julia Ann Coleman Parham

Mary Alice Compton

Lulu Croft

Susan Daugherty

Amelia Davis

Nancy Deal Weaver

Adele Dieckmann

June Driskill

Elizabeth Dunn

Anne Elcan

Anne Ezzard

Rose Mary Griffin Wilson

Jane Hailey Boyd

Kathleen Hewson

Caroline Hodges Roberts

Martha Humber

Mary Elizabeth Jackson

Beth Jones Crabill

Mildred Claire Jones Colvin

Margie Klein Thomson

Marybeth Little

Mary Sheely Little Schenk

Roberta Maclagan Wingard

Lady Major

Mary Manly Ryman

Lou McLaurin

Jenn Payne Miller

Susan Pope

Evelyn Puckett Woodward

Billie Mae Redd

Harriet Reid

Ruth Richardson

Anna Clark Rogers

Jane Rushin Hungerford

Teresa Rutland Sanders

Zollie Saxon

Rebekah Scott Bryan

Anne Shepherd McKee

Mary Gene Sims

Jackie Stewart

Anne Treadwell

Virginia Tucker

Pagie Violette

Lida Walker Askew

Barbara Waugaman

Sara Catherine Wilkinson

Suzanne Willson

[53]

Emily Wright Cumming
Margaret Yancey
Marian Yancey
Dorothy Ann Chapman
Nancy Haislip Cammack
Minnie Hamilton Mallinson
Cathryn Anne Henderson
Ann McCurdy Hughes
Ann Patterson Puckett
Barbara Whipple
65 givers; $1303.00

1949 NON-GRADUATES

Josephine Snow

Betty Ann Whitaker Kelly

2 givers; $30.00

Members of the graduating class of

1949 contributed 100% during their

senior year.

SPECIALS

Jeanne Countryman

Ann Stansbury Mackenzie

2 givers; $8.00

OTHER FRIENDS

Anonymous
James L. Bible
Mary G. Bright
Mrs. Elijah A. Brown
Mrs. J. Bulow Campbell
Annemarie Eaton
Elza C. Harne
Eula Jarnagin
Mrs. W. J. Powell
Mrs. Mary V. Toby

Chattanooga Club
Chicago Club
Decatur Club
Tallahassee Club
14 givers; $286.25

Totals:

1430 givers
$246,141.87

[54]

ArULUuIlitS to approximately two hundred alumnae whose gifts have
come in since the preceding pages went to the printer. A new list will
appear early in December. Anyone whose pledge or contribution was sent
in before October 15 and whose name does not appear on the present roster
is asked to notify the Alumnae Office. Accidental omissions will occur in
spite of the great care taken to guard against them.

The Office wishes also to express appreciation and thanks to alumnae who
have written to say that they are deeply interested in the Campaign although
serious financial straits make it impossible for them to give.

[55]

STUDENT SELECTION. Doris Sullivan '49,
Alumnae Representative, will come at your
invitation if you are not TOO far away
to talk to promising high school girls in
your city.

HIGH SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT. Are future
college students getting what they need?
If college graduates in the locality don't
guard the interests of these students, no
one else is likely to.

PERSONAL GROWTH. College educates people
to go on educating themselves. Reading
lists prepared by Agnes Scott faculty mem-
bers may be used by clubs as well as by
individuals.

A SHARE IN THE COLLEGE. Through your
club you can identify yourself with Agnes
Scott its spirit and its aspirations and
take part in its work.

JUST VISITING. If you enjoyed your friends
in college, you'll find refreshment with the
Agnes Scott alumnae in your city.

ALUMNAE CLUBS bring Agnes Scott to
you. YOU TOO can start one/

CHATTANOOGA entertained Doris Sullivan and prospective students in October . . . The three clubs in
DECATUR and ATLANTA, among them, heard President McCain and Faculty Members Alston,
Dunstan, Laney and Sims. MIAMI had Mr. Alston as speaker in November . . . BIRMINGHAM
started a person-to-person drive for the Campaign, met with Alumnae President Betty Lou Houck
Smith '35 and with Mr. Alston, in September . . . CHARLOTTE had Betty Lou up to speak in October,
entertained Doris and prospective students in November . . . DALTON held a meeting for Doris
and students in November . . . WINSTON-SALEM gave a tea for her and invited students in November
. . . Alumnae in several places made contact with the high schools in advance for her.

* The Alumnae Office will send you, on request, a list of alumnae in your city and a Handbook for Clubs outlining the
simple procedure of organizing.

Return Postage Guaranteed by Alumnae Quarterly, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

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EVENTS 01 CAMPUS

Nov. 20 "Houses USA," a pictorial history of home architecture from the 17th century
to today, goes on display in 321 Buttrick Hall. Open until Dec. 3. No charge;
9 to 5.

Nov. 23 & 24 Eastward in Eden presented by Blackfriars. A play based on the love
story of Emily Dickinson. Gaines Auditorium, Presser Hall, 8:30 p.m. Call
the College switchboard, DE. 2571, about tickets.

Dec. 11 Christmas carol service by the College Choir. Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall,
4:30 p.m. No charge.

Dec. 13 Junior Agnes Scott Club of Atlanta invites other alumnae to hear Mr. Dieck-
mann play and comment on Christmas music. Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall, 8
p.m. No charge.

Jan. 24 Margaret Webster Shakespeare company in play to be announced, presented
by Lecture Association. Gaines Auditorium, Presser Hall, 8 p.m. Call College
switchboard, DE. 2571, about tickets.

Feb. 10 The Gondoliers, presented by the Glee Club. Gaines Auditorium, Presser Hall,
8:30 p.m. Call College switchboard about tickets.

Feb. 10-11 ALUMNAE WEEKEND. Program not yet completed.

Feb . 21 The Rape of the Lock, original ballet by Celia Spiro, a junior at Agnes Scott.
Presented by Dance Group, Presser Hall. Call College switchboard about tickets.

The

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AGUES SCOTT

Alumnae Quarterly

Objective Attained

WINTER 1950

The Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott College

Officers

Betty Lou Houck Smith, 35

President

Kenneth Maner Powell '27

Vice-President

Pernette Adams Carter '29

Vice-President

Dorothy Holloran Addison '43

Vice-President

Grace Finch er Trimble '32

Jane Taylor White '42

Betty Medlock '42

Secretary-

Treasurer

Trustees

Eliza King Paschall '38
Frances Winship Walters Inst.

Chairmen

Jane Guthrie Rhodes '38

Publications

Julia Pratt Smith Slack ex-'12

House Decorations

Mary Sayward Rocers '28

Residence

Tea Room

Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '22

Grounds

Jean Bailey Owen '39

Special Events

Hayden Sanford Sams '39

Entertainment

Mary Wallace Kirk '11

Virginia Wood '35

Education

Vocational Guidance

Frances Radford Mauldin '43

Class Officers

Eliza King Paschall '38

Nominations

Staff

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Emily Higgins Bradley '45

Office Manager

Ruth Hunt Morris '49
Residence Manager and Office Assistant

Member American Alumni Council

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly is published four times a year (November, February, April and July) by th
Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott College at Decatur, Georgia. Contributors to the Alumnae Fund receive th
magazine. Yearly subscription, $2.00. Single copy, 50 cents. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office o
Decatur, Georgia, under Act of August 24, 1912.

The
AGfflS SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

Volume 28, Number 2
Winter, 1950

AT PRESS TIME

Plans for offering home-
making instruction at Agnes
Scott are under discussion
by the faculty and admini-
stration. Alumnae are in-
invited to send their sugges-
tions by March 1 to the
Alumnae Office.

End of the Eighth 2

A Time for Inventory 3

Wallace M. Alston

Present Requirements 8

S. Guerry Stukes

THE CROOKED CORRIDOR

The Climate of Writing n

Elizabeth Stevenson

Truth and Flavor 14

Ellen Douglass Leyburn

Mr. Jones, Meet the Master 16

Hitherto-Hidden Worlds ] 7

Marybeth Little

Class News 20

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40 Editor

[1]

End of the Eighth

At the first chapel after the Christmas holidays,
President J. R. McCain opened the usual devotional
service and then began to tell the students and faculty
of Agnes Scott that the eighth fund campaign for
the College had succeeded.

Speaking quietly but with evident pleasure, he
reviewed the history of the drive, beginning with the
anonymous offer of $500,000 and proceeding to the
campus campaign, the work of the alumnae and their
husbands, the large special gifts, and the final mo-
ment on the afternoon of December 31 when the
total of $1,000,000 was reached. Not stopping for ap-
plause, which his audience was burning to give, he
went on to pay tribute to the groups and individuals
who had had a part in the effort. As he finished with
a grateful observation on the outcome and prepared
to announce the closing hymn, loud and determined
clapping began in a back row of the faculty section
and spread over the chapel. Seizing the moment, Vice-
President Wallace Alston rose from this section and
went down the aisle requesting permission to speak.

"The success of this campaign is a great, a tre-
mendous personal achievement for our President,"
he said. "None of it could have been done without
him; he is responsible for the whole victory."

The college community rose to its feet in a body
and gave Dr. McCain a powerful and prolonged ova-
tion expressing not only its recognition of his suc-
cess in the 1949 Campaign but its feeling for him as
a beloved leader who in his complete modesty would
have given credit for his achievement to everyone ex-
cept himself. At last the applause ceased and students
and faculty stood awaiting his next words.

"We will conclude our worship with Hymn 642,"
he said.

The campaign which ended with a rush of alumnae
gifts on the last day of 1949 had begun in the previous
year, when a friend of the College who chose to re-
main anonymous offered a gift of $500,000 to further
its work. Agnes Scott had postponed for several years
the fund drive made inevitable for nearly all independ-
ent colleges by increased costs and diminished interest
rates; now it set to work to raise $500,000 in endow-
ment and

One of the first contributions was the $81,000 which
Frances Winship Walters added to her original $100,-
000 gift for a new Infirmary. Another encouragement
was the response of the campus community, which
gave 100% in number and 200% in amount, pledging
twice its $20,000 quota. Alumnae sent about $12,000
in answer to the first appeal mailed to them, a brochure
called "Greatness in a College."

As 1949 opened, the "relaxed campaign" for which
President McCain had hoped began to take on tension:
the million mark seemed very far away and the dead-
line very near. The first great news of the year was
the Founder's Day announcement that Annie Louise
Harrison Waterman had promised to give $100,000
for the endowment of a Department of Speech.

Late in the spring, the building half of the goal was
suddenly achieved when friends of Mrs. Lettie Pate
Evans of Hot Springs, Va., promised about $400,000
for a magnificent and urgently needed new dining
hall, toward which Mrs. Evans personally gave a sub-
stantial sum.

As the summer wore away, prospects for success
seemed to darken. Fewer than 900 alumnae had given
by mid-August. They had not been solicited urgently;
no additional personnel had been (nor was subsequent-
ly) employed for the task of presenting the campaign
case to the 6,500 former students in the active mailing
files of the Alumnae Office. It had been resolved to make
this the least expensive campaign ever conducted for
Agnes Scott, in order that the largest possible part of
every dollar raised might go into the permanent re-
sources of the College. This resolve was kept to the
end.

In the fall the Alumnae Office planned a heavy sched-
ule of appeals for the final months. More than 50,000
pieces of mail went out from the Office before Christ-
mas. In addition, class officers wrote for the second
time to remind their classmates that the deadline was
close and the need dire. The number of alumnae givers
rose 50% in the last eight weeks of the drive. Final
statistics on their participation are not yet available

A complete account of scholarships and other en
dowment funds set up by the campaign is now ir
preparation and will be given in the next issue of The
Quarterly.

[2]

THE INVESTITURE ADDRESS

A Time for Inventory

by Wallace M. Alston
Vice-President and Professor of Philosophj

Investiture has become one of Agnes Scott's most
cherished traditions. The first investiture ceremony
was held in 1913 in the home of Dr. Gaines. Since
that time, the capping ceremony has been observed
annually. This service, marked by simplicity and
dignity, has long been regarded as one of our most
distinctive and meaningful college events.

What does investiture mean to us on this campus?
It is, of course, the occasion when our seniors are
recognized and honored by the college community,
rhis day marks the public assumption of the privileges
and obligations of seniority. Moreover, investiture
is a time for inventory. I cannot imagine that any
member of our senior class could experience this high
lour without engaging in honest self-examination. It
Is a good time (is it not?) for each one of you who
ire seniors to take stock to take stock of your suc-
lesses and failures, your privileges and responsibilities,
rour intellectual development thus far, your habits
if study, your friendships, your spiritual growth, your
>pportunities for service and leadership. Fortunately,
nvestiture is held in the fall of the year. This means
hat there is still time to do something about the reso-
itions and vows that may conceivably result from a
irocess of private inventory.

It seems obvious that an investiture speaker might
veil regard this ceremony as a strategic time for taking
nventory of the assets and liabilities of the sort of
ducation that Agnes Scott is undertaking to offer
ter students. This is the task that I would like to set
or myself in the address of this hour. What are we
s a college trying to do with, for, and through you?
low well are we succeeding?

At the outset, let us be specific as to what Agnes
cott purports to be and to do. We are a small,
hristian, liberal arts college for women. We have
eliberately determined that our task is to offer the
est possible educational advantages under positive
ihristian influences. The College undertakes "to pre-
are Christian women to be a power in blessing the
'orld and glorifying God." We are committed to a

liberal arts training. What this means supremely is
that we regard living as our business. We are per-
suaded that the liberal arts training such as we offer
at this institution is the best preparation for life.

Some years ago Mile. Adelina Patti, the celebrated
singer, in giving the location of her Welsh castle in the
district of Brecknockshire, said that it was "twenty-
three miles from everywhere and very beautiful." I
am fully aware that many people today regard a liberal
arts education as being vague, indefinite, impractical,
and, in large measure, irrelevant. There are those who
contend that a liberal arts education, like Mile. Patti's
Welsh castle, is "twenty-three miles from everywhere
and very beautiful." My answer to that is to say that
if any particular liberal arts program is visionary,
vague, and unrelated to life, it is a caricature of the
real thing. I am convinced that a liberal arts college,
true to its purpose and enlightened in the prosecution
of its task, is making the most relevant contribution
to practical, effective, abundant living that can be
offered by an educational institution in the contem-
porary world. I agree fully with Toyohiko Kagawa's
terse suggestion when he was asked about the future
of some of the educational institutions in Japan. Ka-
gawa said, "Let them be pertinent!" I have no de-
fense for any other brand of liberal arts training. A
college education ought not to be "twenty-three miles
from everywhere and very beautiful." It ought to
touch life touch it vitally and determinatively.

What is Agnes Scott undertaking to do for you who
are seniors of the Class of 1950? What are we trying
to do with, for, and through students who enroll here
year after year? It seems to me that a sentence from
the pen of Lord Morley gathers up what I want to
say to you just now. Morley wrote, "We learn in
this great business of ours the business of living
how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart." If
you want to remember the essence of this investiture
message, you will find it contained in this brief state-
ment.

[3]

We are trying here at Agnes Scott to help people
to become all that they are capable of being. We are
concerned about the enrichment of the whole person-
ality of a student. The Agnes Scott ideal includes high
intellectual attainment, simple religious faith, physical
well-being, and the development of attractive, poised,
mature personality. We believe that we have an obliga-
tion to contribute to a well-rounded development rather
than to a warped, one-sided concentration of emphasis
upon any single aspect of growth.

Christian character means far more here on this
campus than a distinguished family tree, a sizeable
bank account, extraordinary personal gifts, or even
brilliance of mind. We fail, indeed, unless here at
Agnes Scott strong character-building influences are
made available to a growing life. This college is un-
ashamedly committed to the Christian interpretation
of life, and throughout its sixty years has been dedi-
cated to the glory of God. We believe the atmosphere
here on this campus is conducive to the development
of strong, mature, useful Christian character. Hand
in hand with processes that liberate the mind and
spirit of a student go corresponding opportunities for
developing self-mastery and for making a dedication
of life to great ends.

President Kenneth Sills of Bowdoin College has
written that a liberal arts education "has always dealt,
deals now, and will deal in the future with the freedom
of the mind" concerning itself largely with getting
rid of the two great enemies of the freedom of the
mind, ignorance and prejudice. The type of education
offered at Agnes Scott is predicated upon the convic-
tion that a mind trained to think is essential if life is
to be unfettered, rich, and full. A liberal arts college
tries to put at the disposal of the student the wealth
of the ages, all the while attempting to guide the effort
to acquire a working knowledge of the clues and the
tools essential to an appreciation of the intellectual and
spiritual treasures that so many people are neglecting.
John Erskine spoke our language when he said that
people like ourselves have a moral obligation to be in-
telligent. We would probably not hesitate to add that
there is something tragic about mental and spiritual
impoverishment in a world of treasure. Certainly, one
of the functions of a liberal arts institution is to un-
dertake to reveal, interpret, and assist the student to
appropriate some of this wealth of the mind and spirit.
Over the state library at Columbus, Ohio, is this
inscription: "My treasures are within." Surely this

ought to be characteristic of every Agnes Scott student.
Do you remember Mr. Rosen in Willa Cather's Obscure
Destinies? The author writes of Mr. Rosen, "All
countries were beautiful to Mr. Rosen. He carried
a country of his own in his mind and was able to un-
fold it like a tent in any wilderness." The real world,
the world in which we live, is not only a world of
economic, national, racial, and class tensions and
strifes. The real world is also a world of books, of
art, of great music a world of ideas, of values, of
harmony, color, order, variety. What right have we
to be bored, restless, irritable, intellectual and spiritual
paupers in the midst of such wealth? What more sig-
nificant thing can a college do than to relate the mind
and spirit of a student to the resources that bring a
deep, abiding satisfaction, not only now but through
all the years to come?

II

Then, too, a very definite part of our task here at
Agnes Scott is gathered up in Lord Morley's state-
ment that we learn in this great business of living
how to do.

We ought never to forget the close integration of
learning and living indeed, of learning and making
a living! In some academic quarters this may sound
like heresy, but it is, it seems to me, part and parcel
of a true liberal arts conception. I believe we who
are committed to the liberal arts point of view in edu-
cation have made a great mistake in allowing those
who differ with us to represent our attitude toward the
workaday vocational necessities as one of indifference.
The Fortune Survey of Higher Education that appeared
in September makes factually clear what has been
evident for a long time, namely, that a liberal arts
education does not rank very high in the estimation,
of large segments of the American public. If you
study this important survey you will discover that
the primary reason for this sentiment is that people
generally are concerned to have their sons and daugh-
ters trained "to get along in the world" and they
assume that a liberal arts college is neither particularly
concerned with the whole matter of vocation nor pre-
pared to contribute helpfully in equipping young peo-
ple to face the stern realities of making a living. In
answer to the question as to what parents want theii
sons and daughters to get out of a college education,
66 per cent of the replies for sons and 48 per cent foi
daughters were in terms of "preparation for a bettei
job. a trade or profession, greater earning power.'
You see, it is generally assumed that at least in the

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matter of vocational preparation, a liberal arts college
like Agnes Scott is "twenty-three miles from every-
where and very beautiful."

Now, actually, this is not the truth. If liberal arts
education is primarily concerned with this business of
living, then it is simply impossible for us to wash our
hands of vocational preparation. As a matter of
fact, we have not done that, in spite of all that has
been said to the contrary.

Integral to an adequate philosophy of liberal arts
sducation is the recognition that intellectual curiosity,
intellectual resourcefulness, and a well-rounded, grow-
ing personality are among the most valuable voca-
tional assets that an individual can have. In a world
like this where citizenship of an intelligent and re-
sponsible sort is so necessary, surely liberal arts train-
ing has some contribution to make. In these days when
:he general level of intelligence is being raised, when
information is so widely disseminated, and cultural
opportunities more available than ever before, un-
questionably a liberal arts training is relevant to
arofessional and business competence to the making
}f a living and all that that involves.

In his recent report to the Presbyterian (U. S. and
J. S. A.) Synods of Kentucky, President Walter A.
Proves, of Centre College, had this to say: "This
(vocational) emphasis will receive rightful recognition
)nce it is seen that the liberal arts college has the
ipecific job of helping to find and to educate the men
ind women needed for leadership at crucial points in
he organization of a democratic society. These are
he men and women to be charged with particular re-
sponsibilities in the church, in the government at all
evels, in business and industry, in labor, in the
nany scientific fields, in education, elementary, middle
ind higher, in the old line professions, and even in
nany places in the vast maze of technological problems
irising in our modern world. Thus the job of the
iberal arts college is just as specialized as that of any
echnological institution. It is specifically designed for
hose whose work is going to be concerned primarily
tfith people rather than things. A look into the cata-
ogue of any liberal arts college reveals something of
his specialized training. Politics and law, economics
ind business administration, medicine and its related
ields, theology and its branches, education at all levels,
lomemaking and journalism are the fields for which
he liberal arts program is considered the essential
>reparation. This does not mean that the graduate of
he liberal arts college is prepared to practice law or

enter politics, to enter the Christian ministry, or to
be a journalist, but it does mean that the liberal arts
in a special way are a preparation for these specializa-
tions. This is so because the problems of these fields
of activity are essentially those stressed in the liberal
arts pattern. Similarly, the diversity of problems en-
tailed in modern society is something for which the
liberal arts program is better fitted than any other.
But note that emphasis is upon problems, which means
that the demand is for sound intellectual training with
as wide an experience as possible."

I would not for one moment favor a revision of
the curriculum at Agnes Scott to include numerous
so-called "gadget courses." What I do believe is that
we have a right and, indeed, a duty to interpret liberal
arts training in terms of practical living, to say un-
equivocally that we do have a vocational function,
and to accept our responsibility in making this func-
tion as adequate as we are able. In the rapidly chang-
ing world of business, technology, and social order, a
narrowly specialized training may conceivably become
obsolete before a student finishes his college course.
Broad basic work in college, with emphasis, if you
please, upon the humanities, is not only good intel-
lectual discipline and the vehicle through which culture
is acquired; it is the best possible vocational prepara-
tion for the present and for the future in such a world
as ours. We need to realize that the liberal arts have
always been closely linked with the business of living.
So far as I am able to see, the future of liberal arts
education depends in large measure upon the extent
to which those who are administrators and teachers
may be able to interpret the place of liberal arts studies
and procedures in terms of the life of the individual
and the community. Culture never has and never
will function in a vacuum. One of the great needs of
our time is to bring culture to bear upon the practical
tasks and problems of life. When that is done, the
liberal arts college will enter upon a new period of
significance in the contemporary scene.

To be sure, we at Agnes Scott are concerned to help
you who are our students to prepare yourselves for
useful living. We want not only to furnish the tools
and to relate you to the wealth of the world; we are
not merely interested in giving you a basic preparation
for certain types of vocational endeavor, not least of
which is homemaking. We believe it is our task and
our privilege to keep before you a vision of the need
of the world and to challenge you through every means
at our disposal to devote yourselves in sevice to God

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and to mankind. Would that we might find ways
and means of sending each student who enrolls at
Agnes Scott out into the world with idealism, unselfish
devotion to the cause of truth, and a deep sense of
obligation to God to make life count to the utmost.
We are interested to help you, in this great business of
living, to do.

Ill

Again, if Lord Morley is right, we are concerned
in this great business of ours the business of living
to learn how to do without. In terms of our task
here at Agnes Scott, what could that possibly mean?

Our lives are badly cluttered with things. Through
many years now John Dewey has been saying that
the chief American trait is externalism. Our lives are
preoccupied with superficial things and with the in-
strumentalities for attaining them. Yet, Dewey has
been insisting, in gaining these things we are in danger
of being smothered by them and we are not made happy
by the possession of them. In a book dealing with
the American mind, Harford Luccock, of Yale, cites
a peculiar accident in a building occupied by a five
and ten-cent store. Under the weight of all the cheap
rubbish the floor caved in and rained an avalanche of
gimcracks upon the people below. There were no
fatalities, but living human beings were almost buried
in the stuff. Says Professor Luccock, this is a symbol
of what is happening to the American mind.

In Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle compares the
happiness of a person's life to a fraction. The numer-
ator represents what we have; the denominator what
we desire. If a man has $1,000 and wants $4,000, by
Carlyle's reasoning he is one-fourth contented. Carlyle
adds, "Life can be increased in value not so much
by increasing your numerator as by lessening your
denominator." Who will deny that in our complicated,
high-tensioned, superficial modern life little has been
done to lessen the denominator while every conceiva-
ble effort has been made to increase the numerator by
adding things to life. With all our efforts at increasing
life's numerator, we have not increased human hap-
piness or contentment. The lives of many people have
been cluttered and sated with things, but they are
poor, indeed. Men and women with splendid capacities
have been pampered and spoiled.

Not only is it true that our lives are badly cluttered
with things, but it is also true that our days, weeks,
and months have grown altogether too complex and
over-crowded with commitments and engagements of
various kinds. We feel pushed, crowded, strained and

breathless. We are conscious of being too busy to be
good members of our families or good citizens of our
communities, too busy to become good students, too
busy to enjoy music, good reading, and art, too busy
to be good friends and neighbors, to busy to pray,
too busy to think.

f believe it is not necessary to linger upon a more
complete statement of our modern plight. I take it we
are all very much aware of the need for selection of
the very thing that Lord Morley had in mind when
he spoke of learning to "do without" This is in-
cumbent upon us not only because of financial in-
ability, but more particularly because of the demands
of physical, mental, and spiritual health. We must
learn to select what we want most and devote our
money, our time, and our energies to the appropria-
tion of the most desirable objects and ends, or else
the very existence and the compelling demands of
second-rate interests will force privation upon us. An
essential aspect of education, then, is the cultivation
of taste, the development of discrimination, the re-
finement of desire. I can think of no more important
function of a real education that takes living for its
business than that of trying to help people to bring
some order out of the chaos of their lives.

Thomas R. Kelly in his little book, A Testament of
Devotion, insists that most of us are giving a false
explanation of the complexity of our lives. We blame
it, he says, upon the complex environment. Our com-
plex living, we think, is due to the complex world in
which we live, with its devices and gadgets which give
us "more stimulation per square hour than used to be
given per square day to our grandmothers." This
stimulation by the outward order leads us to turn
wistfully, Kelly says, to thoughts of a quiet South Sea
island existence or the horse and buggy days of our
grandparents who went jingle bells, jingle bells over
the snow to spend a day with their grandparents on
the farm. The trouble is within. A realistic simplifica-
tion must be undertaken. The only possible solution
is to help people to discover and value some things
that mean so much more than others that they are
willing to eliminate the least desirable in the interest
of the best. People need help in determining criteria
for selection. They need assistance in the actual pro-
cesses and practices of cultivating a taste for the
finest. What is required is that their outward lives
shall become simplified on the basis of an educated
desire and an inner integration.

It seems to me that this is one of the most important

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contributions that a college like this can make to a stu-
dent. If you of this senior class graduate from Agnes
Scott, having found a standard of values that will en-
able you with a considerable measure of consistency
to tell the difference between mediocrity and excellence,
novelty and originality, the enduring and the ephe-
meral you will have found something for which you
will be grateful as long as you live. You simply cannot
do everything, nor have everything, nor go everywhere,
nor be everybody. Effective living involves finding
some trustworthy principles of selection and then de-
veloping the habit of applying them. It is essential in
your reading, your vocational life, your friendships,
the choice of a life mate, the determination of your
loyalties that you learn to give up some things in
the interest of the things that mean most to you. This
is what it means to learn to do without.

IV

Then, if Lord Morley is right, this business of
living involves learning how to depart! Does it seem
strange to anyone that this should be mentioned to
college students on an investiture day? "Is it pos-
sible,'* you ask, "that a school like Agnes Scott would
believe in this twentieth century that the education
of young people should concern itself with the inevita-
bles of life specifically, with the whole matter of one's
death?"

My answer to an inquiry of that sort is an un-
equivocal "Yes!". I believe with all my soul that
a Christian liberal arts training ought to provide a
philosophy of life that faces the deep truths of human
existence and that helps the student to find answers
that will stand up to all of the experiences of life now
and through the years to come, ff the business of a
school like this is to aid people in the fine art of
living, if we are to be realists in facing the facts of
life as they are, if we are to help young people to deal
with these facts in ways that will enable them to
develop strong, resourceful, constructive personalities
then, in the words of Lord Morley, we ought to be
concerned to learn how "to depart."

In The Open Self, a recent volume written by Charles
Morris of the philosophy department at the University
of Chicago, there is a strong insistence that one
of the primary responsibilities of educated people is
"to pull themselves together intellectually." This means
what it has always meant integration about some
strong central convictions. Too many modern intel-
lectuals are like Coleridge, who once said of his

youth, "My head was with Spinoza, though my whole
heart remained with Paul and John." Here at Agnes
Scott we are trying to help people to "pull themselves
together," to integrate their thinking around the great
Christian verities. Through sixty years Agnes Scott
has been doing this and will continue to do it be-
cause of the conviction that these Christian truths con-
stitute basic reality, and that this integration is the
best possible preparation for life here and for life
hereafter. This, we believe, is the way to learn "to
depart"!

Moreover, Tagore, the Indian mystic, put his finger
on a significant aspect of this task when he prayed,
"Thou hast pressed the signet of eternity upon many
a fleeting moment of my life." The Gospel of John in
our New Testament is trying to tell us about that
sort of thing. There is found the intriguing doctrine
of eternal life commending not primarily length of
days, but a quality of life that begins here and now
when Jesus Christ becomes Lord and Saviour. Eternal
life, according to the Gospel of John, is that quality
of life that begins in time and that continues beyond
death. What we really are trying to do in an institu-
tion like this, with the help of God, is to press the
signet of eternity upon many a fleeting moment of
your common lives. Here together, we are trying to
live lives of significance and of enduring worth in
the midst of time. I wonder if there is any effort on
earth more valuable.

And this final word. In one of his books, Henry
Nelson Wieman has an eloquent passage pointing out
that to plumb the depths of the world's reality "one
must stake his dearest goods upon a venture." With
all our cleverness, there are times when we stand like
little children in the presence of some of life's in-
scrutables. Then, as Carlyle once said, the person who
seeks to give easy explanations, accounting for every-
thing by stodgy little formulas, makes himself as
ridiculous as the man who walks abroad in full day-
light with a lantern, insisting on guiding you with it
though the sun is shining. As one faces life's great
inevitables, surrounded as they are with mystery and
involving as they do a venture into the unknown
Plato's Phaedo suggests the one thing that the wisdom
of a cultivated spirit determines that a person shall
do. The part of wisdom then is to take the best that
one knows and "embarking on that as on a raft, risk
the voyage of life." That, I think, is the way to live,
the way to prepare to depart.

This "noble risk of a desertion unto God." as Clem-

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ent of Alexandria called it, is perhaps the most signifi-
cant single act in a human life. Then, a person makes
his peace with life and with death, whenever and
however it may come. Through that choice a witness
to one's fundamental faith in life, and in the eternal
purposes of God is given to the world. It is too much
to ask that Agnes Scott might offer the full-orbed
philosophy of life, the incentive, and the summons
whereby young people may respond to the realities,
even the inevitables of human existence, with magnifi-
cent confidence? I think Owen Seaman's words are

spoken to us all on this investiture day:

"Ye that have faith to look with fearless eyes
Upon the tragedy of a world at strife,
And know, that out of death and night, shall rise
The dawn of ampler life.

"Rejoice! Whatever anguish rend your heart,
That God hath given you this priceless dower,
To live in these great times, and have your part
In Freedom's coming hour.

"That ye may tell your sons, who see the light
High in the heavens their heritage to take.

T saw the powers of darkness put to flight!
I saw the morning break!'"

Present Requirements

by S. Guerry Stukes
Dean of the Faculty, Registrar, Professor of Psychology and Education

The Curriculum Committee of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation has requested a statement concerning our ad-
mission and degree requirements. Since the catalogue
description seems very clear it is assumed that what
is really wanted is some explanation as to why Agnes
Scott holds these particular requirements. It must
be understood that* an answer to such a question in-
volves personal opinions, and such opinions may be
worthless.

First we must understand something about college
requirements in general. We will not deal with the
history of these requirements, but it is an interesting
story from the time when they centered around Greek
and Latin to the present when languages have been
dropped to a minor place in the requirements of most
institutions. At the present time requirements are de-
termined primarily by the following factors: tradition,
the prevailing philosophy of education, and insistent
needs of the time. Of course there are many secondary
factors which have influence, and many local condi-
tions which account for some minor requirements.
But, in general, the three factors mentioned above are
the important ones.

Tradition has been a potent factor in the liberal
arts colleges because these are the old colleges of our
country. Subjects introduced in the requirements in
an early period because of evident utilitarian values
have persisted in our curricula even though such
values have largely disappeared. This persistence is
due to the force of tradition as opposed to change. We

are not implying that tradition is to be disregarded,
or that any body of knowledge ever loses all values.
We are simply calling attention to the force of tradi-
tion in maintaining requirements once they are estab-
lished.

It is not necessary to deal at length with current
philosophies of education, or insistent needs of the
time. All realize the force of these factors, especially
in shaping the requirements of our newer institutions
such as teachers colleges, and colleges predominantly
vocational or semi-vocational in their aims and ob-
jectives. These are not bound by tradition. Their
curricula can be determined by a current concept of
needs and values. These factors, however, present
just as serious problems as does the factor of tradition.
How can we determine needs in a changing world?
There' is no guarantee that an education to meet needs
of today will be of the slightest value in meeting needs
of tomorrow.

Even this superficial statement of factors affecting
requirements today should lead us to consider obliga-
tions resting upon us who are interested in a liberal
arts education. We must consider the value of general
education prior to later specialization, and must seek
the ways and means of bringing to our young people
those values which have persisted through the ages,
and which we have every reason to believe will con-
tinue to persist as long as people are people. At
the same time we must give due place to current
needs, and yet not be overwhelmed by them. It is
one thing to train a mind to meet some present need;

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another to educate a person by giving him something
to live by even in a world of constant change.

Turning to our own college, we will first mention
entrance requirements. We frankly believe that there
are only two problems about which we may disagree,
and only one of special significance. That is the
problem of the foreign language requirement. The
alumnae probably do not realize that many changes
have been made in these requirements in recent years.
At the present time these call for three years of Latin,
or for two years of Latin and two years of a modern
language. This requirement must be tied up with the
degree requirement which calls for only one year of
a language presented for entrance, or two years of a
language begun in college.

To be perfectly frank, the foreign language require-
ment is difficult to enforce, and perhaps needs to be
given serious consideration. The difficulty is found in
the fact that Latin has been dropped by so large a
percentage of our high schools. We will not discuss
the factors responsible. We must deal squarely with
the situation as it exists. Unfortunately we are not
free lo plan requirements on the basis of our beliefs
in the relative values of different types of preparation
for college. We find ourselves forced to deal realistic-
ally with the high school curricula. A solution may
De found if the college and secondary school people
could realize that we are dealing with the common
process of education, and that each must share in
his process. It might be possible to work out a
orinciple of cooperative sharing the college to take
up where the high school leaves off. On such a basis
he college would have to require more foreign langu-
age if the high school failed in its part of the job
of education. The great difficulty would be found
n reaching an agreement concerning the nature of
he job to be done.

The other problem in entrance requirements about
which we may disagree is concerned with the number
)f vocational units which may be accepted. The
"Vgnes Scott catalogue makes it clear that if the ap-
plicant has a good record, and presents the regularly
irescribed units, the College will accept one vocational
mit, or two such units in unusual circumstances. As
i general thing these units are in home economics
ind commercial work. It is true that some colleges
iccept more than two vocational units. We believe,
lowever, that preparation for college will be weakened
f more time is given to vocational training in high
chool.

Our catalogue makes another significant statement
in connection with entrance requirements. This is
to the effect that a student of real promise may be
admitted even though she does not meet the prescribed
requirements. This could be dangerous, but it has
actually been administered in a most conservative
manner. We have fallen back on this statement to
justify some forced exceptions in the foreign language
requirement. These exceptions have been few until
the present time. Now they are increasing. In every
instance, however, the student has been required to
complete additional language credits in college.

When we come to degree requirements we believe
we are in line with good and sound educational policy.
We have two specific requirements which every student
must meet. Every one must take one year of English
and one of Bible. It is not necessary to state the
reasons for these requirements.

The catalogue statement of degree requirements fol-
lows with the list of "Group Requirements." These
are based on our belief that every student should have
a good introduction to the main divisions of human
experience and learning. We believe, further, that this
is best accomplished by thoroughly typical courses
in each field. It is our conviction that this is a better
plan than that of survey courses.

Here we might well pause and consider briefly the
opposing views in regard to survey courses. We must
bear in mind the main objective of freshman and
sophomore work the introduction of the student to
the important fields of thought. Some believe that
this is best accomplished by survey courses. Thus
they propose for an introduction to science certain
survey courses in the biological and physical sciences.
In the same way they propose courses in world litera-
ture, survey courses in the social sciences, etc. Many
believe that such courses are too general, too inclusive,
and apt to be superficial. (These courses are mentioned
simply for sake of illustration.) We realize that there
are arguments on both sides and we admit a strong
tendency towards the general or survey type of course
today.

And now let us notice our group requirements in
more detail. We accept the usual division of human
learning into three fields: language and literature,
science, social science. In each of these fields we re-
quire two year-courses. As far as possible we require
the student to complete these requirements in the
freshman and sophomore years.

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Attention should be called to two post-war emphases.
One is "General Education." We believe our group re-
quirements are in line with trends in this direction.
The other is on required courses. There is a marked
tendency to eliminate choices and require specific
courses to be taken in the first two years. It is our
belief that freedom of selection within groups should
be maintained. This freedom in itself should mean
something to students.

The final phase of requirements to be considered
is that of major requirements. Having introduced the
student to the various fields of human learning, we
believe she should be required to achieve some degree
of proficiency in one subject. And so we require the
major in the junior and senior years. Our changes in
recent years have been from major and minor to
major and related hours.

Since the Curriculum Committee of the College is
to make a study of our major requirements during
the coming year it is not wise to make a fuller state-
ment at this time. However, it may be helpful to
mention the trend towards cutting across subject mat-
ter fields in helping a student plan her major work.
For instance, we now offer a major in science which
includes courses in the three laboratory sciences. This

major is valuable for pre-medical students, and for
students planning to teach science in high schools.
Other majors introduced in recent years are the majors
in classics, in history and political science, and in
psychology and sociology. Perhaps this trend should
continue until we have a greater number of inter-
departmental majors such as history and literature,
history and economics, modern languages, etc. Such
majors are to be found in some of our colleges. To
be strong, however, they must take up most of the
time of the junior and senior years, and thus they
would tend to take away the freedom of an elective
system.

This brief statement shows the principal problems
of the present time in connection with college require-
ments: the foreign language requirement in high
school and in college; the problem of the number of
courses required in the freshman and sophomore
years in order to give the student at least a fair intro-
duction to the great fields of learning; the nature
of these courses for they constitute the "general edu-
cation" which is stressed at the present time; the de-
gree of concentration which should be required in the
major field; the majors which a college such as ours
should offer. These seem to be the pressing problems
as far as requirements are concerned.

LIBERAL EDUCATION TODAY

Are you interested in knowing what is being written now on liberal education? The Education
Committee of the Alumnae Association wishes from time to time to call your attention to recent
books in the field, for your personal reading or for use in club programs. The Committee is currently
recommending these:

Bell, Bernard Iddings, Crisis in Education,
Whittlesley

Moberly, Sir Walter, Crisis in the University,
Macmillan

Livingstone, Sir Richard, Some Thoughts on
University Education, Macmillan

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A Review of THE CROOKED CORRIDOR

A book of literary criticism by an unknown author,
an author who is neither a recognized scholar nor an
established critic, is extremely unlikely to be accepted
and brought out by a leading publishing house.

Elizabeth Stevenson, ivhose 1941 B.A. from Agnes
Scott is her only degree and whose regular gainful
employment is as an assistant in the Atlanta public
library, has beaten the odds. The Crooked Corridor,
a study of Henry James, was published in November
by Macmillan Company, who proudly commented:

"Miss Stevenson has written a book that is terse,
clear, precise, and with its own flavor. Her judg-
ment and critical acumen are of a high order. Her
book should prove a discovery and a pleasure to all
readers who wish to learn more about the art of one
of our greatest literary geniuses. It cannot be recom-
mended too highly as the perfect foundation for any
further study of his ivork."

The publishers added that an expert reader had
called The Crooked Corridor "precise, perceptive,
large-minded and lively."

Betty Stevenson, as her college friends know her.

was introduced to the work of Henry James as a
freshman at Agnes Scott, in the English class of Dr.
Ellen Douglass Leyburn '27. The Alumnae Quarterly
considers itself almost unbelievably fortunate in hav-
ing secured, for this issue, a review of the book
written by the person who first brought the author
and her subject together, and an account of the writing
process by the author herself.

Reviews of The Crooked Corridor in regional and
national publications have been favorable almost with-
out exception. But even if they hadn't, the author
says, she would have been rendered impervious to
all slanders by the gracious letter she received from
William James, son of the philosopher and nephew
of the writer, who congratulated her warmly on the
depth of her insight into his uncle's nature.

The book may be obtained at local bookstores or
by order from The MacMiUan Company, 60 Fifth
Avenue, New York, 11, N. Y., for $2.75.

The Climate of Writing

by Elizabeth Stevenson '41
Author of The Crooked Corridor

For three years I was prey to one idea. I ate,
Irank. and slept this idea. In other words, I wrote
i book. Now that the book is published, dismissed,
$one from me to make its own way in the world, I
ind it curious to try to trace the way I came. I look
it myself as a person who lived in a special writer's
veather for those months and years. I was both more
conscious of the world and more indifferent to it than
. had been in the years I worked in another climate,
hat of the office worker. A part of my problem at
he beginning was to make a change in the inner per-
on, to disavow one mental climate and learn to live
n another.

For a half dozen years I had worked in a bank,
n the accounting department of a telephone company,
n three different departments of the federal govern-
aent acquiring skills entirely different from those
leeded for study. My situation during these years
tad had the virtue for me of plunging me into a
rorld of experience and of personalities. I worked
nth people of unassorted, unassimilable natures, the
ery virtue which Henry James upheld (although I

did not know it as yet and the benefit of which I
might not at the time have appreciated ) . I was taking
on an experience of life, it mattered not of what kind,
but of a proper thickness.

I had read James for years, first casually and then
during these years of office work with a gradually in-
creasing intensity. In the first place I found his books
made a world I could walk into, different from the one
I inhabited. In this sense he was a relief. In the sec-
ond place, he did not wear thin. I found with in-
creasing interest that his crises were true crises, that
his novels were life wound up to a high pitch, but
life nevertheless, and that he demanded of his heroes
hard, true decisions; that his world was not only dec-
orative it mattered.

It was in January of 1945 that I let myself gather
together hints and stray desires and conclude them
into a resounding resolution that I should write
something myself about Henry James. Since I had
first read James I had resented the world's careless
opinion of him, that he was formidable and elaborate
but basically petty and unimportant. The thought that

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I might do something to mend the world's opinion
of him had horrified me at first, but it had persisted. I
remember a circumstance of the time when I was try-
ing to make a decision. I had taken a course in eco-
nomics at night and had quit at the half-way mark.
I happened to be carrying The Spoils of Poynton
about with me at the time. One particular burst of
emotion might be put this way: if I didn't understand
economics, at least I understood Henry James. I read
him more fiercely now, at lunch, before and after
work, reading and re-reading him to see what I could
make of him, to find out intellectually why, instinctive-
ly, I regarded him as of major importance.

I began to take notes about this time. I remember
a drug store in the building where I worked for the
War Production Board, a drug store filled with the
din of government and war-time gossip, as the scene
of momentous jottings down of things I fondly
thought basic in James. In my notes I tried to put
down, crudely at first, why it was that I had continued
to read Henry James, what kind of bricks and straw
made up his houses, why these structures of his still
stand in the new climate of the middle of the twentieth
century, and also what he failed to give the reader that
other writers, Fydor Dostoievsky or Herman Melville,
did indubitably give. I was very serious and very
conscientious, and also frightened at what I was set-
ting out to do. But at least familiarity did not engender
contempt. I was confirmed in my first rapturous, un-
reasoning liking for my writer, and I continued to
think well of him. I shouldn't have written the book
if I had found him to be a fraud.

Yet even at this time I did not quite seriously
believe that I should in sober truth write a book.
When the war ended and the government work came
to an end, I was faced with an immediate alternative:
be a coward, be safe, go on with the eight hour
day, and put off indefinitely the book or, do the op-
posite: be a gambler, try to write the book which as
yet I was not convinced that I could or would do. I
chose the second alternative, fortified slenderly by my
terminal pay and stimulated by the knowledge that
this sum would not last long.

It was a month before I set down one word on
paper. Then during the second month I wrote per-
haps nine or ten pages. At the beginning of the third
month I read this beginning over and forthwith de-
stroyed it. I went with a guilty conscience to Florida
for a week. I had no way of knowing but that this
flight might be the end of the experiment. I had a
restless week. Somehow, I came home a little more

grim. I said to myself: the book may never be pub-
lished, never read, it may not be at all worth the
writing, but I do not know these things as yet. In
any case, I shall carry through the experiment to the
end. I shall at least ivrite the book, good or bad.

It was at this time that I saw the need of routine.
This most perilous, delicate kind of work needs some
bonds put upon it for it to get done at all. Amidst
much backsliding I developed a fairly unchangeable
routine. Every morning after I washed the breakfast
dishes, I sat down to write at 8 o'clock. I forced
myself to write, ideas or no ideas, until 11 o'clock.
Even if I destroyed the morning's work, or used only
part of it, or had not the ghost of a notion how to
begin that piece of work, I came to believe that this
was the right way, the only way, at least for me.
Often enough work begun cold would, under the
stimulus of pen-pushing, kindle into something worth
keeping. I did in time develop the habit of work, if
not any equanimity about it.

My lunch I had in solitude, usually in the kitchen,
one or another of the novels laid flat beside my plate.
In the afternoon I relaxed into reading (more read-
ing), note-taking, walking, house cleaning, or some-
times yard work as a good anti-mental antidote. My
work had the loneliness and the benefit of an empty

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house during the day. During the summer months
I did most of my reading outside where for the first
time in what seemed years I began to awake to the
movement of trees, to the fact not hearsay report of
bird songs, to the subtle changes of light and shade
in the southern sky.

I found that routine, necessary as it was, was
not all. First of all in order to write I found that 1
had to shed the skin that I had grown for another
kind of work. A writer has to be thinner skinned
than is desirable for the wear and tear of office work.
I had to unlearn what I had with difficulty learned
for accommodation to a different world. I began
gradually to slip this bark of protection from im-
pressions. I began to awake to the fact that people
on buses and walking the streets had faces. I began
to notice, as I have mentioned, trees, birds, leaf
shapes, and the curious cat nature of my one day-
time companion. I found that all outward appearances
were grist to the writer's mill.

I don't at all think that the writer isolates himself
from life. He takes up a position of looking at life,
of course, but at the same time opens himself to
life in a way impossible to the worker in many other
fields who must preserve his emotional strength, his
will, and his energies for a struggle. The writer lets
the world engulf him. It is his material. I didn't
find it a contradiction at all to become more aware
of the natural and social world surrounding me in
order to write better about what that busy world con-
siders an esoteric subject.

When I look back at that time of daily work, I
see it becoming a continuing routine, monotonous
except for the fact that each day something new to
the world had to be wrung out from one's "innards"
and set down on paper. It was not exactly a happy
time, a writer is too inclined to misery over the day's
ineptitudes, but possibly it was a time of content-
ment; for here in this always slightly miserable and
uneasy routine, I was doing what I had chosen to do
and what I continued to think important for me to do.

I see now two important outside influences upon
this climate of work. Only I who lived in this climate
might see the connections. The first was the anti-
human, anti-social world of the natural. During the
summer I began to write the book, I had several trips
into the mountains of North Carolina. Just why going
up into the higher altitudes, and rising high above the
cultivated areas into the untended forests, I should
feel relief I do not know. But the relief was unmis-
takable and worked with precision. I can spot the

exact moment of the unburdening on one particular
road. Beyond Franklin the highway to Sylva turns
in a loop to begin its climb over the first range of
mountains between Atlanta and Asheville. I remember
the particular curve in the road, the particular farm
house perched upon its narrow shelf, its attendant
corn rows clinging precariously to the mountain side,
and the particular smell of the evergreens growing
more plentifully here through the hardwoods in the
keener, cleaner air. It is strange that the best treat-
ment of the element of the artificial in my author came
to me on such a curve of such a mountain road. I
said to myself: he is artificial, or rather his world
is; well then, face that fact; build from it; see what
it signifies.

For the other influence upon my writing weather,
I had to go to the opposite kind of scene: that of
the largest, busiest city and a troupe of players
working away in a theatre in the center of it, un-
conscious of city, and of the distractions surrounding
them, conscious only of the all-amusing, all-absorbing
work.

It was from watching ballet that I learned that all
the arts are one. It was from a group of dancers that
I learned what I call the professional attitude. It
encompasses a great many things personal to my
experience of watching them practice their craft. It
happened that during the time I was reading for the
book and beginning to write it, I began taking yearly
trips to New York where I watched not only per-
formances but rehearsals, long, difficult, exhausting
rehearsals, of ballet.

What I see when I close my eyes to think of the
chalk-dusty rehearsal room are seemingly vagrant pic-
tures: a dancer stooping to tie her slipper a move-
ment of unconscious grace; the ballet master beating
out again and again a tempo body and mind caught
up into utmost concentration; tired harlequins getting
off the floor where they had been resting to attack
again and again a part of the dance design not yet
right spontaneous gaiety flowering in the midst of
toil as great as that of dockworkers ; yet these pictures
hold the key to an insight into my craft as well as
theirs. They, unconscious tutors, taught me much:
how not to waste time, how to ignore the frills of a
problem and cut straight to its center, how to enjoy
one's work, how beauty (not ever mentioned) con-
sists not of surface finish, but of structure, arrange-
ment, the bones of the work. They taught me to look
past sets, past costumes, past themes to the pure
movement and there to judge the ballet's worth. They

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taught me to see in their innocent zest for their work
that good manners, elegance, the ritual of the task
are not just added onto the whole but are flesh of
its flesh.

Each time I returned from a bout of ballet to
sit down to my familiar desk overlooking the hickory
tree beyond my window and try once more to find
words to fit an idea, I found that these dancers had
given me something of their courage and something
of their joy. They made me understand myself. I felt
for them a kind of fellowship of the arts.

I was then more able to go on, week after week,
groping to put a form to my notion of what Henry
James' books had come to mean to me. And as I
worked those weeks, months, and years, in an uneasy
equipoise of routine and freedom, I had a curious
sensation, that this that I was doing was not just
a question of my will alone. It was not only that I
was making something of this idea of mine, but that
the idea was in some way making me over. Writing
is thus a double discipline. It is not just a simple
matter of saying: I choose this subject I shall write

a book about it. It happens more strangely. The sub-
ject to which one is strongly magnetized exerts a
steady counter-pressure upon its manipulator. As
I wrote my book, I found that my subject was in
a manner reshaping me. Certain ideas I had, not
only about writing, but ideas of a deeper import alto-
gether, were changing some strengthened, some
abandoned, others recognized for the first time as
belonging to me.

I found when I had finished the book that the
way I had come had affected me in my ego more
drastically than I had imagined any such schedule of
work could do. I had not perhaps caught quite the
hare I had set out to catch. No writer ever writes
exactly the book he had planned. Yet the doing of it
matters more than he had expected. The climate of
writing is not just a convenient umbrella. One is not
so much sheltered as exposed. And there is an inter-
action, an exchange, between the maker and the thing
made. A piece of the writer gets into the book cer-
tainly, but also something of that book, the weather
of the time of the writing of the book, gets into the
writer and never leaves him.

Truth and Flavor

by Ellen Douglass Leyburn '27
Associate Professor of English

An English teacher is supposed to be an authority
on everything from the pronunciation of Chaucer to
the prosody of Hopkins, including the worth or worth-
lessness of current literary fashions with centers as
diverse as T. S. Eliot and Thomas Wolfe. Conse-
quently, I have often been asked during the last de-
cade, "Why is everybody reading Henry James now-
adays?" I wish I had a copy of The Crooked Corridor
to put into the hands of every inquirer. This critical
study should mean an increase in readers of James
as distinguished from talkers about him, such as the
one overheard at The Heiress saying, "James is very
much in vogue now; but I don't care for him because
he wrote just ghost stories!" Not only would the
present study dispel such a notion in itself; but it would
send its own readers on to Henry James, for its object
seems to me to be to win a more understanding reading
for the novelist.

Not that the book is written from the point of view
of a cult. Indeed, it pays Henry James the compliment
of just appraisal, making clear what he does not at-
tempt to do ("Given the man that James was, with no
knowledge or interest in the primitive or in the natural,
with no desire to explain mankind by the special plead-
ing of a religious, economic, or political theory, there
is left for consideration his proper world, that of per-
sonal and social relationships in a highly organized
civilization.") as well as what he fails to do in his
proper province ("He fails to show the tragic flaw,
as the Greek drama had and Shakespeare had, as a
rift splitting open one human being.") Like Johnson
on Shakespeare, the author feels that "we must con-
fess the faults of our favourite to gain credit to our
praise of his excellencies." Happily, she also makes
triumphantly clear what James does accomplish.

Clarity is perhaps both the greatest virtue of the

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book and a near weakness. The lucidity is so limpid
as to seem oversimplification. But it is hard to take
issue with any of the firm statements: "The Wings of
the Dove [is] the author's greatest story." "Miles and
Flora, the two children of The Turn of the Screw
. . . are precocious and beautiful, but hard, and with
the particular horror of this story, they are children
who are not just bad but are evil." Usually the more
abruptly final the judgments sound, the more pene-
trating they seem; and one is grateful for their driving
through the clutter of devious theorizing about him to
the straightforwardness at the core of James himself.
The whole book has a wonderful quality of freshness
which is very appropriate to James, who valued most
of all the sense of life, valued it the more intensely be-
cause he perceived it in relation to a stable and some-
times suffocating society: "In a large sense James'
novels are all about one passion, the passion for life."
Miss Stevenson commits herself to the discovery of
James's essential vitality much as he committed him-
self to the discovery of the meaning of the very es-
sence of the human being in his conflict with the
world. She seems in proper affinity with her subject
when she says: "The nature of the principal character
in the novels is that of a conscious, exploring imagina-
:ion, with the social and human phenomena of the
world' as the field of exploration," and again, "Each
me of the three is the essential Jamesian individual,
in expanding, growing, fervent ego, reaching out to
ife and the display of life offered." She speaks of the
Famesian necessity of being saturated with something,
if the need of a "thick" world. Up to a point, she is
lerself saturated with James and gives herself up to
lis thickness; but she does not lose herself and her
lower of analysis in it. Something of her own relation
o James she must certainly be conveying when she
says, "the vibration of his being between the two ex-
remes, of the endlessness of things to be known and
he definiteness of things to be done, exercised him
md refined him as an artist, and as a man wearied
lim all his long lifetime of work. Yet it is in this
iwareness of the extremes of art, its two faces, that
lis work has vitality, even in its excesses." His analysis
iroceeds with an absolute intellectual control of the
nalerials through the seven chapters whose titles reveal
heir purposes: "The Man," "Scope," "Theme: The
Collision of the Individual and Society," "Variations
lpon the Theme," "Attitudes," "Means," "The House

of Life and the Palace of Art." Yet one feels the
origin of the whole study to have been James's seizing
upon the imagination of the author; and this imagina-
tive rapport is sustained throughout in artistic con-
junction in the necessary critical detachment.

Each chapter is illuminating either in new light
or in the intensification of familiar perceptions by the
refracting of the light from another imaginative angle.
Some of the insights I think inadequately developed.
James's sense of metaphor, for instance, is treated with
tantalizing brevity; and the effect of his "sawdust
and orange-peel phase" upon the novels is scarcely
more than hinted in the discussion of point of view,
how far he was to "go behind" his characters. In fact,
I had with this book the rare experience of wishing it
longer than it is. It is so good a little book that it
should perhaps have been a big one. But the writer
obviously shares James's view : "His premise for good
work was limitation. But it was limitation self-im-
posed." The limitation she has imposed on herself
in length is brevity; the limitation in audience is the
general cultivated reader at the threshold of an ac-
quaintance with James. She refuses to be led outside
these limitations into a lengthy analysis that might
appeal only to the person already as steeped in James
as she is herself. She prefers to set going trains of
thought, to give a few crisply pointed illustrations, and
to leave the reader to the excitement of exploring the
soundness of the analysis in James himself. This
exploration she regards as essential: "To appreciate
James with justice . . . one should undergo some of
his labor, one should trace the working of certain of
the difficult means. One should follow the 'corridor'
to its destination, which James called the 'logical
centre.' "

An array of quotations displayed as gems of style
seems to me quite meaningless. But perhaps the quota-
tions used in suggesting the ideas of the study will
have demonstrated that a very real part of the effect
of the book is its style. It is as far as possible from
any attempt to imitate the Jamesian manner; but it is
written with a regard for the way a sentence falls
on the ear that is appropriate in a sudy of James.
When I told Miss Stevenson that I was enjoying read-
ing the book, her reply was, "I hope you find some
truth and flavor in it." Truth and flavor are just the
qualities I do find in it in abundant measure.

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MR. JONES, MEET THE MASTER

Sarah Catherine Wood met Peter Marshall when she
was a student at Agnes Scott and married him a
few months after her graduation. Twelve years and
two months later, just a few weeks before he was
to have come to conduct religious emphasis week at
Agnes Scott, Dr. Peter Marshall, chaplain of the Senate
and pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church in Washington, died of a heart attack.

His career from the pastorate of Westminster Pres-
byterian Church in Atlanta, where "Scat" Wood met
him, to national prominence as a preacher, had been
followed with interest by Agnes Scott alumnae who
remembered the power of his sermons and the pic-
turesqueness of his Scottish accent and his red hair
from the days when as students they had gone to
hear him at the Westminster Church. His short, point-
ed prayers in the Senate were sent to newspapers
everywhere by the war services, so germane and witty
were they in the setting of Capitol Hill. Washington-
ians lined up for blocks on Sunday mornings in the
hope of getting into his church to hear him. His
death was mourned nationally as the passing of an
important modern religious figure.

Catherine Wood Marshall after her husband's
death went through more than 500 sermons left by
him, seeking a selection which would typify his work.
Publishers became interested; the sermons were
chosen; a title was decided upon after much thought;
and in November of 1949, less than a year from the
date of his death, Peter Marshall's book Mr. Jones,
Meet the Master, edited with an introduction by
Catherine Marshall, was brought out by Fleming H.
Revell Company.

The first printing was sold out before publication
date. The second was distributed to bookstores across

the country less than ten days after the date of publi-
cation, and still they could not keep it in stock. A
book of sermons was becoming a best seller.

Betty Lou Houck Smith '35, president of the Alum-
nae Association, had made a trip to Washington
shortly before the book appeared and had talked to
its editor, whom she had known in college. On her
return to Atlanta she initiated arrangements for an
autographing tea at Rich's department store in honor
of Mrs. Marshall and alerted the Atlanta newspapers
to the possibilities of the story.

Early in December Rich's entertained Mrs. Marshall
at luncheon, with friends from Agnes Scott and Co-
lumbia Seminary and representatives of the publisher,
and followed this event with a tea to which all active
Agnes Scott alumnae in the Atlanta area had re-
ceived individual invitations. Members of the Class
of 1936, her graduation year, were present as hostesses.
The general public came too, and hundreds stood
in line over a two-hour period to obtain her autograph
on three copies of the book.

Other autograph sessions ensued at various book-
stores in Atlanta. On her last day before leaving for
another round in Birmingham, Catherine came out
to a small gathering of faculty friends at Agnes
Scott. She talked of her present work, teaching Bible
at the National Cathedral School in Washington, and
of her nine-year-old son, Peter. On the subject of
having produced a best seller she said:

"I'd be amazed, except that I have felt a sense of
destiny in it from the beginning. I am simply playing
a part in something big that God is doing. With the
book Peter's work and Peter himself are marching

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Hitherto-Hidden Worlds

by Marybeth Little '48

When I dashed off the first account of my year
in Europe, "Atmosphere: Free and Favoring," way
back in February I was still in the whirl of Viennese-
waltzing at student balls, ice skating at St. Moritz,
seeing Churchill at Monte Carlo, shopping on the
Rue de la Paix, struggling to fathom learned lectures
auf deusch, and even skiing (broke no bones but
both skiis in a last petrifying swoop). My days were
full of new people, new places, new ways.

The beauty of the landscape and the architecture
and my love for individuals in each country are still
uppermost in my memories; but the new life vvas a
new language, and new worlds of thought and interest
opened to me like serious compelling books I could
strangely read.

Intersemester vacations in European schools are
long; so in the spring I went to Italy, Germany, and
Austria. After that I returned to the university with
a much more sober outlook, but no less keen delight
in discoveries immune or irrelevant to the past war
or impending economic and political crises.

Fifteen nationalities were represented in our group
that toured Italy and because they had to, and
anything they could do I could try anyway, we covered
the peninsula for thirty dollars staying at unmen-
tionable hotels and eating ravioli and oranges three
times a day. But we saw Milan, Florence, Siena,
Genoa, Pisa, Rome, and even Naples, Pompeii, and
Capri. I wouldn't recommend this bohemian system;
but now that it's over, it was fun, and I remember
the lovelier aspects: cathedrals, monasteries, art gal-
leries, exquisite Roman and Renaissance remains,
white oxen carrying water jars or pulling primitive
plows, olive and lemon orchards, vineyards, and the
seople themselves whose fluid emotions can make
:hem the finest or the worst.

In Bologna we saw a Communist parade and many
olacards against the Atlantic Pact. Florence, the heart
sf the Renaissance and home of Dante, Michelangelo,
md the Medicis, was my favorite. Rome was intensely
nteresting, but one cannot absorb centuries in a few

days. And then too I didn't find the timeless serenity
in contemplating broken columns I had been led to
expect. We are the wrong generation for ruins; we
think in human rather than in artistic terms. The
Colosseum was for me populated with bleeding ghosts.
Worst, there is not so much difference in the way
a bombed-out building looks and one ravaged by
time, and many stood side by side. The Vatican is
truly wonderful, and I waved my white handkerchief
with thousands of others on a Sunday morning when
the Pope appeared in his window with a gesture of
blessing. Then there was the time I was accidentally
locked within the gates of Pompeii as the guide and
party left and the sun was sinking. ... In Naples
several urchins came up, all smiles and friendliness,
spouting reams of English obscenity (most of which
being military, I mercifully didn't understand), not
realizing that their acquired language was scarcely
of the conversational variety. So we knew the Yanks
had been there too.

Munich was heartbreaking. My main memory of
this city is the eternal dust blowing from the rubble.
The Germans I talked to seemed busy, resigned,
terribly tired. The bookstores (and I think this is
typical) were doing the most thriving business. The
cabarets had witty skits mocking their own political
stupidity and the hopelessness of the situation. Most
profess complete ignorance of concentration camps
and atrocities. I think their patriotism and almost
overdeveloped sense of duty in addition to their
meager notion of and experience in democracy swept
them into Nazism. They are a wonderful people:
clever, industrious, inherently moral, fond of their
children, books, gardens, neighborhood orchestras.
This has been a terrible half century for Germany,
and they are confused novices at self government; the
allied countries must be patient.

Having visited Hitler's "Eagle's Nest," Berchtes-
gaden, and then the delightful Austrian city of Salz-
burg, I was on my way to Vienna when our passports
and papers were checked by American soldiers be-

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fore we were to have entered the Russian zone. It
seems mine were not in Apfelkuchen-order, and al-
though I objected strenously, they said if they didn't
take me the Russians would. So in full military escort
I meekly marched down the long length of the train
and spent the next twenty-four hours in three American
army camps before I was allowed to travel farther.
This rather dreadful experience turned out to be
one of the most enlightening of all.

Any occupation army has a dirty job, and I feel
sure ours is no worse than others throughout history.
But I was disturbed to see a lot of boys who should
represent America over there taking out their adoles-
cent exuberance on people whose language and cus-
toms most have made no attempt to understand. Sur-
prised to see an American girl in camp, they all had
to tell me their tales of woe; many were complaining
about being there. The others were complaining about
the complaining. Shopwindows are filled with pretty
things Germans and Austrians cannot afford. I kept
thinking of the South during the Reconstruction and
of the slight bitterness that still remains in some parts
against thoughtless carpetbaggers. I wish we Ameri-
cans, tourist or army, could realize how closely those
people watch us, and how they imagine personal faults
to be national ones, and on the other hand can be
swayed just as much by a nice little guy who realizes
he is a diplomat just about as important as those in
striped trousers and frock coats.

Vienna, shabby and down at the heel, has lost none
of her nostalgic charm. Seeing Russian soldiers was
a shivery sort of thrill. French, English, American
and Russian zones are not rigidly defined in the busi-
ness section. I was there Easter weekend, and every-
one's behavior seemd to reflect a little of the gentle,
season. The Austrians feel they should be treated as
a liberated country, not an occupied one, but they
are very polite, vivacious, and partial to Americans.

In June I went again to Paris for a week to absorb
the atmosphere, since I had already taken in most
of the sightseeing musts. I stayed in the Latin Quarter
but was crushed to find that invariably the pernod-
sippers with the longest beards were American students
gone native. I learned that the French are much more
rational than emotional ; they overlook quirks in emo-
tional behavior because they accept all of life with
equanimity. Existentialism permeates every phase of
intellectual life and is, I decided, quite the normal
child of a country wearied of war.

The school year was sparked by several memorable

occasions. On Founders Day hundreds of students
gathered for a torchlight parade; we marched through
the streets of Zurich singing German, French, and
American ( ! ) songs and climaxed the evening by
casting our brands on a bonfire. At the awarding of
honors, boys belonging to fencing and singing societies
wore their colorful uniforms with small pill-box caps,
saber and boots and carried cornucopias overflowing
with summer flowers. To raise money to help refugee
students, to whom the university had promised help
in a rally of protest against Communist occupation of
eastern Europe, each student contributed one day of
manual labor on a road constructing project which
the city officials granted to the Student Government.
The money earned thereby helped the vast numbers of
Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, and Polish students who
had managed to escape. But the realization that
Europe is still seething with terror and anguish came
closer than that to me. Herr and Frau Gerber and j
Peti (my Swiss family) temporarily adopted a tiny
two-year-old Hungarian Jewish refugee for the six
months it took her parents to work to obtain money
for passage to Australia.

In July, after traveling through France, Italy, and
Switzerland, my parents and sister Norah Anne ('50)
joined me in Zurich the day school was over to begin
the grand tour family style.

Luxembourg we found faded and shabby. Frankly,
I think Mrs. Pearl Mesta is going to be mighty
homesick for Washington.

Belgium has rebuilt remarkably; they are used to
it, they say. Since Belgium still has the Congo, she
is richer than her companion nations whose colonial
possessions have slipped away one by one. Flemish
art and architecture at Bruges and Antwerp, Waterloo,
and lace making and a Sunday morning bird market,
in Bruxelles interested us particularly.

Holland is still suffering from the aftermath of war
and occupation; shattered blocks still scar nearly
every city and we saw fields just being recovered, the
Germans having broken dykes upon retreat. But to
satisfy the average tourist there are still windmills, open
marketing of round red Edam cheese, canal networks
like streets through the towns, galleries of Rembrandt
and Yermeer, bulb fields, and wooden shoes.

From there we flew to Copenhagen, where I sup-
pose we had the most "fun" of all. Denmark is a
lovely country, a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale
come to life. Denmark's four million people enjoy

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at the same time a monarchy and a highly developed
socialism which has fairly wiped out poverty and
ensures every Dane prenatal and lifetime health care
and an old age pension even if there is an additional
income. We were fascinated by the Danish china, the
castles (including Elsinore), museums of Viking
armor and ships, not to mention Copenhagen itself
with its distinctive taffy-twist towers.

From there we flew to Scotland. The hill-cresting
castle in the heart of Edinburgh is hallowed to many
a Scotsman because Mary Queen of Scots lived there
and there Bonnie Prince Charlie was born. We took a
steamer down Loch Lomond and also visited St. An-
drews, the little gray university city on the North Sea
where many a Reformation martyr was killed and
where now golfers from all over the world meet al
the Royal and Ancient Club. We were fortunate in
seeing many clan tartans and highland dances and were
completely converted to the beauty of the kilt and bag-
pipe.

On our first day in London we went to Hyde Park
to hear the soapboxers ranting on everything Com-
munism, Fascism, Free freland, Socialism, what have
you. Truly the country of free speech; a man simply
can get a box and start orating his grievance or
Dropounding his party principles. Even in our own
family there was a little feudin' and a-fightin'. No
one can be immune to politics in England, least of
all Americans, many of whom just decided not only
the cars and steering wheels, but even the political
party were on the wrong side of the road. And
many Americans have been irritated by an apparent
ingratitude toward Uncle Sam's aid. Well, I heard
i lot of people all over Europe say that the Marshall
Plan is payment for the use of their battlefield, and
n addition, the priming for the commercial kill. But
he average taxpayer feels it is heart-given charity
ind does not like being backbitten.

The British suffered a great deal in the war. Huge
sections of London are still rubble, but apartment
louses are going up everywhere and a lot more re-
building has been done than meets the eye. Because
10 one can buy over a dollar meal, and because that
:annot include Argentine or American beef or tropical
ruits, a lot of tourists complained. We Americans
ire pampered; the Britisher can still have but twenty-

cents' worth of meat per week, and their prices are
higher than ours. I think that examples of present
antipathy toward us spring from their pride in tradi-
tion and not unkind envy which is natural in their
unnatural economically subservient condition.

In Europe there is much that is lovely and much
that is saddening, much they have in terms of the past
and of culture we as a young nation cannot possess,
and there is much in comfortable living and hope we
have that they envy. 1 have come home convinced
that people should be appreciated for their differences
and that tolerance and international friendship are
concepts not just to be talked about, but to be
embodied and projected by each one of us. Lin Yu-
tang said that if governments would appropriate money
to send all their citizens abroad to travel and study,
we would spend but a fraction of the terrible amount
necessitated by armaments and wars. Christian ethics
through education is our only solution.

Reassembling and condensing experiences, impres-
sions, and ideas derived from such a year is next to
impossible. But to sum it up, I had a wonderful
time, learned and felt m^ny things; and I hope that
at long last when governments give up everything
else in despair they will try the sage Chinese philoso-
pher's advice and we can all grand-tour a pattern for
peace.

STILL AVAILABLE

Faculty reading lists on Philosophy of the Christian
Religion, Astronomy, Philosophy, Latin America,
Greek Drama, Shakespeare, Russia, The English Nov-
el, Modern Poetry, Education, Minority Groups.
Economics, The French Novel, American History,
Nineteenth Century English Poetry, The Writing of
the Short Story, American Government, European
Governments, The Theatre. Send request to the
Alumnae Office. Inquiries will be answered individu-
ally by Dr. Paul Garber (on Religion and the Bible),
Mrs. Adolf Lapp (on Children's Exercises and Music
for Dancing), Dr. Henry Robinson (on Statistics, Fi-
nance, and Other Fields of Mathematics), and Dr.
Catherine Sims (on Current Affairs).

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Class News

DEATHS
Institute

Hilda Schaefer Edsall died October 1
at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New
York City.

Harriette Winn Revere's husband died
last May.

Academy

The Office received notice in October
of the death of Marguerite Gardner.

1912

Lucy Fitzhugh Maxfield's mother died
last fall.

1914

Mary Bradshaw Norment died Sep-
tember 12.

1924

Polly Stone Buck and Norman lost
their oldest daughter, Caroline, in
January.

1927

Martha Chapin Adamson died re-
cently after a heart attack while va-
cationing in Bermuda.

1930

Jane Eaves Brooks died December 2.
Mary Fairfax McCallie Ware's fath-
er, Dr. S. J. McCallie, died October
18. Dr. McCallie was cofounder of
McCallie School for Boys in Chatta-
nooga. He was also the father of Alice
McCallie Pressly '36 and Ellen Doug-
las McCallie Cochrane '38.

1936

Mary Walker Fox's father died Janu-
ary 4. His other daughter is Lida
Walker Askew '48.

1945

Beth Daniel's father died in January.

1946

Anne Register's mother died January
3.

INSTITUTE

Reunion for classes of '9U and '95 this
June 3rd.

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Y e h. 28 Gregory Vlastos, professor of philosophy at Cornell University, speaks on "Individual and
Community," Presser Hall, 10:15 A.M. Discussion in Murphey Candler Building, 4:45
P.M. No charge.

Mar. 28 Ora J. Hale, professor of European history at the University of Virginia, speaks on "Stal-
ingrad, the Turning Point in History," Maclean Auditorium, Presser Hall, 8:00 P.M.
No charge.

Ap r . 11 H. S. Ede, art critic. Presser Hall, 8:30.

May 6 May Day, 5:00 P.M. Senior Opera in evening. High school students invited for day on
campus.

June 3 ALUMNAE DAY. Trustees' Luncheon, 1:00 P.M., Rebekah Scott. Annual meeting of
Alumnae Association immediately afterward. Class reunion dinners in evening.

June 4 Baccalaureate Service. Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall, 11 A.M.

June 5 Commencement. Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall, 10 A.M.

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SPRING 1950

The Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott College

Officers

Betty Lou Houck Smith '35

President

Kenneth Maner Powell '27

Vice-President

Pernette Adams Carter '29

Vice-President

Dorothy Holloran Addison '43

Vice-President

Grace Fincher Trimble '32

Jane Taylor White '42

Betty Medlock '42

Secretary

Treasurer

Trustees

Eliza King Paschall '38
Frances Winship Walters Inst.

Chairmen

Jane Guthrie Rhodes '38

Publications

Julia Pratt Smith Slack ex-'12

House Decorations

Mary Sayward Rogers '28

Residence

Tea Room

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Grounds

Jean Bailey Owen '39

Special Events

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Entertainment

Mary Wallace Kirk '11

Virginia Wood '35

Education

Vocational Guidance

Frances Radford Mauldin '43

Class Officers

Eliza King Paschall '38

Nominations

Staff

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Office Manager

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Residence Manager and Office Assistant

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The
AG1S SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

Volume 28, Number 3

Spring, 1950

Come to Reunion! 2

Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg

Philosophy and the Philosopher 3

M. Kathryn Glick

Hand-Picking the Freshmen - 8

Doris Sullivan

Recommended Reading 10

Education Committee

Becoming a New Yorker n

Bet Patterson King

Association Notes 14

Founder's Day Meetings 16

Alumnae Hostess 19

Givers to the Alumnae Campaign (final list) 20

Class Campaign Records 29

Class News 30

Helon Brown Williams 44

Helen Ridley Hartley

Funds and Scholarships 50

(given in the Eighth Campaign)

Alumnae Club Directory.... ...Inside Back Cover

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40 Editor

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COME TO REUNION!

To the Classes of

1894 1910 1929 1948

1895 1911 1930 1949

1912 1931

1913 1932

Reunion time for us is June 3, 1950. We want this to be a great occasion, and you can do your
part by returning to the campus for Commencement. Get your crowd together and let the Alumnae
Office know that you want to room near each other. This information must be in the Office by May
15.

Here is the schedule of events for the weekend:
Saturday, 11:30 A.M.: Meeting of all Class Officers in the Alumnae House.

1:00 P.M.: The Trustees' Luncheon for seniors and active alumnae in

Rebekah Scott.

Immediately afterward: Annual meeting of the Alumnae Association, open

to all active members.

Immediately afterward: Dedication of the new Observatory.

4:30 P.M.: Class Day.

6:30 P.M.: Reunion Dinners, $2.00 a plate, informal, in the Alumnae
House for all members of our classes whether graduates or non-graduates.

8:30 P.M.: Program by the Speech Department.

Immediately afterward : The Senior Class book burning in front of Main.

Sunday, 11:00 A.M.: The Baccalaureate Service in Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall.
Speaker: Dr. Frederick H. Olert, Detroit, Michigan.
6:30 P.M.: The Alumnae Garden Coffee for Faculty and Seniors.

Monday, 10:00 A.M.: Commencement, Gaines Chapel, Presser Hall.
Speaker: Congressman Walter Judd of Minnesota.

The campus has undergone many changes since most of us were in college, and it's worth trying
hard to get back and see them. Right now a new central dining hall is going up next to Inman and
the Observatory is almost finished. And only '49 knows the beautiful new Infirmary!

Start planning with your friends now. The Office will send your reservation forms soon, and w>

I

hope to have all of you back.

Sincerely,

Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg
President, Class of 1930
Chairman, Reunion Committee

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This was the address at this year's Honors Banquet, the annual
occasion when the seniors who are reading for honors gather with
their faculty advisers and report individually on the independent
work they are doing. The main address of the evening has come
to be one of the major annual expressions on scholarship each year at
Agnes Scott.

Philosophy and the Philosopher

by M. Kathryn Glick
Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures

We have eaten and drunk and some of us have
been merry and to that extent have been good Epicur-
eans. But lest some of you be insulted by being re-
ferred to as 'pigs from Epicurus' sty' to use Horace's
words, let me assure you that Epicurus had some
worthwhile things to say. One precept was to do
nothing which might cause either remorse or regret.
Now if I had followed that teaching, I would by hook
or crook have eluded Mr. Posey and not have agreed
to attempt this talk to you and so have escaped con-
siderable mental anguish.

One of the most admirable things about Epicurus
was the emphasis which he placed upon friendship.
I am relying heavily upon friendship this evening.
I have brought a goodly fellowship of friends with me
friends whom I love dearly, associate with almost
constantly, and without whom I think I could not
live at all. These friends are Greeks and Romans.
They are dead, in the accepted sense of that word,
but they are the most vital people I know. Because
I respect them highly and respect you, I decided to
let them do most of the talking. I brought several
of them because they would not understand this
strange custom of ours of having one person do most
of the talking at such a gathering as this. They too
have varied interests: there are several poets, a mathe-
matician, a playwright, a statesman, a scientist, and
many philosophers. I believe you will find them con-
genial because they are unanimously agreed also that
the life of the mind is the most important business
of man.

We shall talk to you about philosophy and the
philosopher. We shall use the terms in the Attic
sense, i.e., love of wisdom and lover of wisdom. Plato
says that "the philosopher is a man ready and eager
to taste every kind of knowledge, who addresses him-
self to its pursuit joyfully and with an insatiable ap-
petite."

Wisdom, which the philosopher loves and pursues
is something beyond knowledge. It comes perhaps
with the action of the reason upon knowledge. In
its fullest sense, it approximates truth.

As for Reason, "it is," says Aristotle, "the highest
thing in us and the world with which Reason deals
is the highest thing we know." "Reason is divine,"
says Plato, "and the soul and Reason are one."

I think I could not talk to you about anything else
for we seem to be living. in an age which has largely
lost sight of wisdom and the means by which we
achieve it, namely, reason. We are living in a world
which is strangely afraid of ideas. We are either
afraid to use our minds, or ashamed to use them, or
consider such activity a waste of time. This fear of
the use of our own intellects leads us to be afraid
of all ideas. So rather than stand firm and look the
ideas of other people in the face and weigh and analyze
them, we become panicky at such ideas as Communism.
This leads to the further evil of unreasonable suppres-
sion and censorship. So, in our panic, liberal maga-
zines are banned from public schools; professors are
fired from universities because we fear what they may
teach. There was a headline in this morning's Con-
stitution which read: "FOR FINANCES' SAKE COL-
LEGES MUST ERASE 'RED THINKING'." Most
people have a very hazy idea of what they mean by
communism; it is too often just a term of reproach
for any person or idea of which we disapprove. But
for this very reason it is dangerous. I quake in my
boots often when I think of the dangerous and subver-
sive subject matter which I must teach! There is Plato,
but I comfort myself with the thought that the red
baiters will shrug him off with something like 'he is just
one of those pagan Greeks and didn't know any better
no one reads him anyway.' But then I also teach New
Testament Greek. There is nothing dangerous about
the Greek. But the Gospel of Luke, for instance, is

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filled with so-called dangerous ideas. If we began
to take him literally, we should certainly have a revolu-
tion. So I hope for my own sake and that of the
Bible Department and for the College itself that some
of these Investigators never find out what is in that
Gospel of Luke! We allow fear of an idea to paralyze
our national life in practically all of its aspects, as
Mr. Warburg so ably showed us in his recent lecture.
Men are brought to trial not for subversive actions,
but for what we fear may be subversive thoughts. In
an editorial in a recent issue of The Saturday Review
of Literature, Professor Commager asks "What Ideas
Are Safe." He concludes, of course, as Socrates and
Plato did long ago, that no ideas are necessarily
safe and that if we try to make them safe, we kill the
power to produce ideas. The philosopher must pur-
sue wisdom or truth, if you like and be willing to
follow wherever the argument may lead. That alone
can free us from this paralyzing fear.

And I am concerned not only because this fear
of ideas manifests itself so generally in our country
as a whole, but I'm even more troubled because an
unreasonable fear of the intellect and of reason shows
itself every now and then here on our own campus.

This fear of reason or lack of respect for it shows
itself in various ways in college: in the girl who is
ashamed to be caught studying and to admit that
she uses her mind; conversely, in the girl who works
only for grades; in the tendency to exalt some vague
quality such as popularity or personality to leader-
ship over intelligence, as if there could be any sound
leadership without intelligence of a high type. Plato
says, "No law or ordinance whatever has the right
to sovereignty over knowledge; it is a sin that Reason
should be the subject or servant of anyone; its place
is to be ruler of all." (Laws, 875) . This fear or lack
of respect for reason shows itself, to be specific, in
the relative positions of honor in which Phi Beta
Kappa and Mortar Board are held by a majority of
students. And again in the attempt every now and
then to set up a conflict between the soul and the
Reason or the spirit and the intellect, if you prefer.
My friends are unanimous in thinking them one. And
finally, this fear of the intellect shows itself in the
hesitancy of some students to undertake the Honors
Program, as well as in the tendency of part of the
student body to set apart those who do.

When fear and lack of respect for the life of the
mind show themselves on college campuses which
should be the cradles and exercising grounds for rea-

son and the intellect, it is no wonder that conditions are
as they are in the country at large.

I am proud of you students who have chosen to
pursue the path of reason in the particular way which
the Honors Program demands. I wish there were
many more of you. What you are learning concerns
not only your college life or your senior year, but
to improve your use of reason is valuable for all of
life. This is just a proving ground. Plato says, "Let
each one of us leave every other kind of knowledge and
seek and follow one thing only, if peradventure he
may be able to learn and may find someone who will
make him able to learn and discern between good
and evil, and so to choose always and everywhere
the better life as he has opportunity. He should con-
sider the bearing of all these things which have been
inentioned severally and collectively upon virtue;
(When I use this word virtue, think wisdom which
is its largest factor. Virtue as used in this sense is
that quality which sets one thing apart from every-
thing else and is the essence of any particular thing
as saltiness is the virtue of salt. Wisdom is the virtue
of man and the virtuous man is the wise man.) he
should know what the effect of beauty is when com-
bined with poverty or wealth in a particular soul, and
what are the good and evil consequences of noble and
humble birth, of public and private station, of strength
and weakness, of cleverness and dullness, and of all
the natural and acquired gifts of the soul, and the
operation of them when conjoined; he will then look
at the nature of the soul, and from the consideration
of all these qualities he will be able to determine
which is the better and which is the worse; and so he
will choose, giving the name of evil to the life which
will make his soul more unjust, and good to the life
which will make his soul more just; all else he will
disregard." (Republic, X). It is no narrow intellect-
ualism to which we are exhorting you.

You need not be ashamed to be caught using youi
minds. My friends say that it is the highest and
most distinctive part of you. Listen to Aristotle: "the
function of man is an activity of the soul in accord-
ance with reason." (Nicomachean Ethics, i. 7. 1099).
Furthermore, Socrates held that sin is ignorance and
I am sure he would not disapprove of my reversing
the statement and saying that ignorance is sin. Not
only is the intellectual life natural, honorable, and
obligatory, but it is also pleasant. Aristotle also says
"to be learning something is the greatest of pleasures
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mankind, however small their capacity for it."
(Poetics, 1448b). And finally it affords you comfort.
Cicero says "Philosophy, therefore, can never be
praised worthily enough, since he who obeys her can
spend every part of his life without uneasiness." [De
Senectute, sec. 2 1. You need not apologize for the
way of life you have chosen.

Part of our fear and uncertainty steins, it seems to
me, from a faulty answer to the question "What is the
right life for a man?" The Greeks and many of the
Romans would be strangely uncomfortable in this life
of ours. They would be confused, I think, at our
headlong rush after the material things and at the
emphasis which we place upon our conception of the
practical. Their discomfort would be due to the fact
that they differed radically from us in the answer
which they gave to the question "What is the right
life for a man?" Aristotle says "to be always seeking
after the useful does not become free and exalted
souls." (Politics, 1338b).

Plato and Aristotle have been doing most of the
talking. Lest you get the impression that it was only
more or less specialized philosophers after all who
held these convictions about the importance of the
life of the mind, we shall hear from some of the
others.

From the time of Homer on, the Greeks placed great
emphasis upon wisdom and reason and rendered them
respect. Again and again, Homer, in speaking of
the education of his heroes, says that they were taught
to be ever the best: not how to make the most money,
but how to live in accordance with the best in Man.
And the best (the most distinctive qualities of man)
always includes reason. While wisdom is not so all
important in Homer as perhaps in Plato, it is still
important. Two of the most prominent men in the
Iliad are Nestor and Odysseus. They represent two
types of wisdom. Nestor is an old man at the time
of the Troj an war and wise from experience. Agamem-
non, in the course of the poem, wishes for ten men,
not like Ajax, one of the greatest fighters, but like
Nestor. Odysseus, however, is much younger and one
of the active heroes. He is the Homeric wise man
and he is called wise Odysseus because of the extra-
ordinary keenness of his mind. He is present at all
meetings on policy and is regularly chosen for enter-
prises which call for great intelligence. While our
conception of wisdom may not be Odysseus, the em-
phasis is still on the use of the intellect. Achilles
exhibits still another type of wisdom or quality of

wisdom much honored by the Greeks namely, a prop-
er recognition of the position of man and an unques-
tioning obedience to the gods. Had Achilles not been
wise, he would never have been a favorite of Athena
in the Iliad nor the model of Athenian young men
for many years after the time of Homer. Odysseus
is, of course, the chief hero in the Odyssey where
again emphasis is placed constantly upon his wisdom
and his use of his mind.

Homer was for hundreds of years the only or the
chief teacher of the Greeks and again of the Romans.
Horace writes to one of his young friends: "While
you, Lollius, study rhetoric at Rome, I have been
reading afresh at Praeneste the writer of the Trojan
War; who tells us what is fair and what is foul,
what is helpful, what not, more plainly than Chrysip-
pus and Crantor . . . The story in which it is told
how, because of Paris' love Greece clashed in tedious
war with a foreign land, embraces the passions of
foolish kings and peoples . . . Again, of the power
and worth of wisdom he has set before us an instruc-
tive pattern in Ulysses, that tamer of Troy, who looked
with discerning eyes upon the cities and manners of
many men, and while for self and comrades he strove
for a return across the broad seas, many hardships he
endured, but could never be overwhelmed by ad-
versity. You know the Sirens' songs and Circe's cups;
if, along with his comrades, he had drunk of these
in folly and greed, he would have become the shape-
less and witless vassal of a harlot mistress would
have lived as an unclean dog or a sow that loves the
mire." (Epist. 1.2.1-26).

Through all the plays of Sophocles, the praise of
reason and wisdom runs almost like a refrain. "The
very unifying theme of his play, the Ajax, is the
antagonism of Ajax and Odysseus that is, of physical
and even spiritual daring against intellectual great-
ness." (Kitto, H.D.F., Greek Tragedy, London, 1939.
p. 122). In the course of the play, Agamemnon is
made to say:

'Tis not the big

Broad-shouldered men upon whom we most rely;

No, 'tis the wise who are masters everywhere.

In the Oedipus Rex while Jocasta and Oedipus
are both caught in a horrible net of circumstances and
while in the end they both meet disaster, Jocasta who
advocates: "Nothing can be forecast clearly: it is best
to live at random" is blotted out; Oedipus, the es-
sence almost of thought and intelligence, remains Oedi-
pus, triumphant in his ruin. (Kitto, op. cit., p. 141).

With Homer and Sophocles we must judge of the

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importance of reason and wisdom by the general at-
titude shown towards them in their works. With
Socrates, the case for reason is set forth more di-
rectly. Livingstone says that "if Reason was ever
incarnate on earth, it was in the person of Socrates,
and those who wish to see her face can see it in him.
(Livingstone, R. W., Portrait oj Socrates, Oxford, 1938,
p. xxxix). John Stuart Mill called Socrates "a man
unique in history, of a kind at all times needed, and
seldom more than now." This is more true in our
own time than it was in that of Mill as I shall try to
show you.

Socrates was an Athenian citizen. He lived through
the most glorious period of Athenian history. He also
lived through a long and disastrous war in which he
saw his state yield to hysteria and commit terrible
atrocities against other peoples. He saw her defeat
by the greatest military power of the time Sparta a
state interested in little except how to produce and
train good soldiers and one which was willing to resort
to certain communistic measures to achieve her goal;
a state which did not welcome travellers within her
own borders and limited the movement of her own
citizens.

He also lived through a period of political chaos.
Within ten years he saw his government pass from
unrestricted democracy to moderate oligarchy to
limited democracy; back to unrestricted democracy
and finally, at the end of the war, to the rule of the
so-called Thirty Tyrants eight months of ruthless
despotism, confiscations of property, and lawless exe-
cutions of the worst type. Then again the government
shifted back to the democracy which was to condemn
him to death on the charge that "Socrates is guilty of
not believing in the gods in whom the state believes,
and of introducing other strange divinities; and he is
also guilty of corrupting the young." (Plato, Apology,
24).

Socrates also lived during a time of great intellec-
tual upheaval when accepted ideas of religion and
morality were being questioned on every side.

He played the part of an average Athenian citizen
during these years, both as a soldier and in a civil
capacity in which he did what he could to check the
disastrous actions of both the democracy and the
Thirty Tyrants. I tell you this about Socrates to show
you that he was no philosopher in an ivory tower and
also to show you that he was very familiar with mass
hysteria and political neuroses. I believe that he is
peculiarly fitted to speak to our own time.

Socrates was a great teacher though he had no
formal schooling. His method was question and an-
swer. He taught on the street corners, at the gym-
nasium, the dinner table wherever men were gath-
ered. He talked to ordinary men, young and old, on
subjects of universal interest. "He was," says Xeno-
phon, "always discussing human life considering the
meaning of religion and irreligion, beauty and ugliness,
justice and injustice, reason and unreason, courage
and cowardice, the character of the state and the
citizen, government and the capacity for it, and those
other subjects, knowledge of which marked the true
man, while ignorance of them was really servile."
[Memorabilia L.1.16). He was careful about defini-
tions and analysis. He sometimes took a current
word like education, liberalism, or nationalism and
analyzed, examined, and questioned to see what men
really meant by it and whether their opinions were
valid. He would have a very good time today in
discussing such words as communism perhaps with
Mr. Talmadge; treason, statism perhaps with Mr.
Dulles; and democracy with almost any group in our
society.

Socrates knew that self-satisfaction with our opin-
ions was a fatal obstacle to knowledge of truth. For
that reason he claims that the wisest man is the man
who knows that he does not know anything. He calls
himself the gad-fly of the Athenians, which they might
in their annoyance easily kill but "then you would
sleep on for the remainder of your lives, unless God
in his care for you sent you another gad-fly." (Apol-
ogy, 18).

Socrates represents himself as a mid-wife who as-
sists with the birth of ideas because he knew also that
activity in the learner's mind is fundamental in educa-
tion, and that nothing is learned which does not be-
come part of his own experience. This is exactly what
we are discovering, as this Honors Program which we
are following demonstrates.

He also knew that ideas cannot be suppressed but
must be faced. He said to the Athenians who were
trying him: "If you think that by killing men you
can prevent some one from censuring you for living
wrongly, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape
which is either possible or honorable: the easiest and
the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to
be improving yourselves." (Apology, 30).

In answering an imaginary suggestion that he might
not be put to death if he would keep quiet, he replies:
"Men of Athens, I have the warmest affection for

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you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and
while I have life and strength I shall never cease from
the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting
anyone whom I meet and saying to him after my man-
ner: you, my friend, a citizen of the great and
mighty and wise city of Athens are you not ashamed
of devoting yourself to acquiring the greatest amount
of money and honor and reputation, and caring so
little about wisdom and truth and the greatest im-
provement of the soul, which you never regard or heed
at all? And if the person with whom I am arguing
says: Yes, but I do care; then I do not leave him
or let him go at once; but I proceed to interrogate
and examine and cross-examine him, and if I think
he has no virtue in him, but only says that he has,
I reproach him with undervaluing the greater, and
overvaluing the less. And this I shall do to every
one whom I meet, young and old, citizen and alien,
but especially to the citizens, for they are my brothers.
For know that this is the command of God; and I
believe that no greater good has ever happened in
the state than my service to God. For I do nothing
but go about persuading you all, young and old alike,
not to take thought for your persons or your proper-
ties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest
improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is
not given by money, but that from virtue comes
money and every other good of man, private as well
as public." (Apology, 17). And again to a similar
question "If I say again that daily to discourse about
virtue, and of those other things about which you hear
me examining myself and others, is the greatest good
of man, and that the unexamined life is not worth
living, you are still less likely to believe me." (Apo-

m, 28),

Socrates is worth our consideration also because he
bad the courage to follow wherever the argument
night lead him. In prison, a day or two before he
was to drink the hemlock, he said to Crito "I am
md always have been a man to obey nothing in my
lature except the reasoning, which upon reflection ap-
>ears to me to be the best ... The principles which

have hitherto honored and revered I still honor, and
mless we can find other and better principles, I am
:ertain not to agree with you; No, not even if the
)ower of the multitude could inflict many more im-
prisonments, confiscations, and deaths, frightening us
ike children with hobgoblin terrors." (Crito, 6).

Socrates could remain true to his principles because

of his faith that "no evil can happen to a good, i.e.,
a wise man, either in life or after death." (Apology
33).

Just what then does this use of the reason or the
philosophic life involve? Many of the qualities I have
already indicated to you: the purpose, adventuresome-
ness, fearlessness and conviction of a Socrates; the all-
enduring quality of an Odysseus.

Plato postulates also, eagerness, joy, wonder, and
an insatiable curiosity.

The philosophic life must also be broad. I have
tried to show you repeatedly that the wise man is
also an active man. But this life must be broad in
another sense: Plato says there must be no secret
corner of illiberality.

Another quality which is a sine qua non of the life
of the philosopher is imagination. It is a quality
which all of Plato's work shows to a preeminent de-
gree. The most vivid statement of the quality, how-
ever, which I know comes from Lucretius. He is speak-
ing of his master, Epicurus: "And so it was that the
lively force of his mind won its way, and he passed
on far beyond the fiery walls of the universe, and in
mind and spirit traversed the boundless whole; whence
in victory he brings us tidings what can come to be
and what cannot, yes and in what way each thing
has its power limited, and its deep-set boundary
stone." (De Rerum Natura, I 72-77).

It requires hard and almost unceasing work. But,
says Epicharmus, "The price at which God sells us all
good things is labor."

There should also be some lightness of manner in
the philosopher. Socrates' whole method shows us
the effectiveness of this quality. Horace too, practical
philosopher and moralist, a most companionable
friend, whose saneness, wit, and urbanity are the de-
spair of all who seek to imitate him, says "what for-
bids us to tell the truth with a smile?"

Finally, and very important is the quality of humil-
ity. Socrates is summing up the account of his efforts
to prove the oracle of Apollo wrong in its assertion
that he (Socrates) is the wisest of men. He says:
"But the truth is, men of Athens, that God only is
wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the
wisdom of men is worth little or nothing; he is not
speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name by
way of illustration, as if he said, He is the wisest,
who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth
worth nothing." (Apology, 23).

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Doris Sullivan is the first field representative sent out by Agnes
Scott in more than a decade. Her work has been greatly strengthened
by the aid of alumnae in the cities and towns she has visited.

Hand-Picking the Freshmen

by Doris Sullivan '49
Alumnae Representative

In youthful fantasies I pictured myself as a suc-
cessful career woman in every field from modeling
and the stage to novel-writing and politics. At Agnes
Scott my visions became somewhat narrowed in range,
but still varied and imaginative. But never, even in
my wildest moments of vocation-dreaming did I vis-
ualize myself as a traveling salesman.

Since the first of September, as alumnae represen-
tative for the alma mater, I have acquired some of
the distinctive charac-
teristics of that trade.
The strategically packed
suitcase, the automobile
littered with Agnes Scott
literature, and a con-
stantly changing mail-
ing address have defi-
nitely marked me. Re-
peated warnings from
helpful people every-
where ensure that I
"never drive at night"
and "never pick up a
rider not even a member of the family."

These recent months have been extremely educa-
tional, especially in the field of automobile mechanics.
I never knew it was unnecessary, much less undesir-
able, to purchase oil each time the gas tank was re-
fueled. Varying traffic regulations and "DETOUR
Bridge Out" signs have also been a constant call for
alert driving. However, with the kind help of Mr.
Tart and service station attendants all over the South,
I have managed to steer clear of too many major pre-
dicaments. Highway signs, gas mileage, and storage
garages had been only the vaguest of realities to me
until September 1. Since that time I have been made
aware of a whole new world.

From an educational point of view, I have also
learned much about this business of officially repre-
senting Agnes Scott. Actually the job is almost as
new to the College as to me. Some years ago Penelope
Brown Barnett, Alberta Palmour McMillan, and Elea-
nor Hamilton Hightower each held the position for
a year or two. However, all records of their endeavors
have disappeared, so that the building of a new foun-
dation has been necessary this year. With the com-
bined forces of McCain-Alston-Stukes-Steele-Hutchens
and Sullivan plus the excellent help of many alumnae
we have formulated a general, if flexible, procedure.
Contact Point Number One is the high school and
in planning a trip we write to the public and private
school for an appointment to talk with the principal or
guidance counselor, or individual girls interested in
Agnes Scott, or perhaps a large group of juniors and
seniors. Our second approach is through churches,
and we call on pastors and religious education workers
who often suggest possible prospects.

Our third channel, and a vital one, is found in
our loyal alumnae everywhere. In some places we
have called on indivduals to suggest girls, while in
larger towns alumnae have planned informal teas to
which high school students are invited. This social
contact has proven to be of untold value. Actually
our alumnae are our strongest source and our best
advertisement. In any business the finished product
speaks for itself.

As a part of this new work we are in the process
of building up a collection of color slides in order to
present a vivid and representative view of Agnes Scott
life. When complete, the group will include campus
scenes, pictures of some of the faculty and administra-
tion, and views of many outstanding activities of the
year.

Association with high school students has been an

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Education in itself, and I am continually amazed at
heir unlimited energy and enthusiasm. In many cases,
lowever. there is a deplorable ignorance on the subject
)f college. Exceptions are found in scattered schools
vhere guidance programs are attempting to stimulate
:ollege-consciousness. Our homes, schools, and
jhurches should all be doing more to guide young peo-
>le in planning intelligently for the college experience,
ilost high school students have high ambitions and
ilans for after-college careers. We must realize that
hese plans may undergo several periods of change,
mt the ideal and the ambition are there. There is a
urprising interest in actual academic courses, and
[ueries concerning required and elective subjects are
ommon. Of course there are the frequently recurring
uestions concerning social life. "How many dates a
reek?'' "How many weekends off campus?" "How
ear are Georgia Tech and Emory?" and "Do you have
d study all the time? Is it very hard?"

The most frustrating element in this work rises
rom the fact that the territory is so great and time is

limited. Even if the field is confined to the South-
ast, the task is still difficult. We launched our effort
y concentrating on the seventeen schools in the At-
mta area. In many of these schools our good name
> very ably maintained by some of our teaching altim-
ae.

My first out-of-town trip took me to Chattanooga
) meet with our alumnae club and see students. On
te return trip, the Dalton alumnae assisted our ef-
jrts by inviting high school students to an informal
leeting with alumnae. My next journey carried me
lto North Carolina, where good Charlotte and Win-
:on-Salem alumnae entertained prospective high
;hool students and Agnes Scotters in Salisbury, Con-
)rd, and High Point were most cooperative. Of
Durse the home territory is always a ripe field for
:tivity; and consequently we have tried to make a
ither thorough coverage of Georgia. Throughout the
ate in towns and cities, I have visited in high schools
rge and small to talk with girls about college plans.

1 Columbus, Macon, and Augusta there were more
;Iightful alumnae meetings with students on hand,
reenville, South Carolina, claims a goodly number
f Agnes Scott citizens, and their help as well as the
operation of Anderson, South Carolina, alumnae
as valuable during a trip through the western see-
on of that state.

My most distant journey from "the sheltering
ms" was scheduled around meetings of the Wash-

ington, Baltimore, and Richmond clubs for Founder's
Day. The occasion proved an excellent opportunity
for visiting both public and private schools in those
areas. It was a rather disillusioning experience to
find that the name Agnes Scott is not so significant to
either administration or students in Washington and
Baltimore as it is in regions nearer home. However,
I found both groups happy to learn of our academic
standing and impressed by the College as it is pictured
in the color slides.

This work in public relations for Agnes Scott has
forcefully taught me the importance of our alumnae
everywhere, and our need for their help and loyalty.
Alumnae represent the alma mater to all those with
whom they come in contact who know they attended
Agnes Scott. As groups and as individuals, alumnae
can increase the power of representation by seeking
and informing good prospects and by generally making
Agnes Scott known wherever they are.

There is certainly nothing monotonous about this
job unless it be the sound of my own voice. By nature
of the work, my greatest activity consists in talking,
and that about Agnes Scott. However, such a task is
hardly like work at all because I have the utmost
confidence in the product I sell. I believe in Agnes
Scott.

I believe in Agnes Scott because it is unique in its
purpose, which is best characterized by its four-fold
ideal. Through the years its purpose has been "to
offer the best possible educational advantages under
positive Christian influences." And likewise through
the years there has been a constant effort on the part
of administration and faculty to maintain standards
of "high intellectual attainment." Certainly we agree
that an atmosphere of intellectual stimulation prevails
for which a strong faculty is responsible. Not only
in class, but in personal association faculty members
inspire mental development. Through the honors pro-
gram a number of students are given an opportunity
to explore one field more thoroughly than in class
and to work with more individual freedom. The whole
curriculum is planned in an attempt to give students a
broad liberal education.

The ideal of the development of a "simple religious
faith" is rooted in Agnes Scott's past and is found
at present in opportunities for worship and service
and an emphasis on spiritual reality. Although no
student is forced to participate in religious activities,
a Christian atmosphere is maintained which stresses
the importance of development of the individual.

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The aim toward physical well-being is pursued
through a wide range of athletic activities as well as
through the care of the college physician and her
staff. The new Frances Winship Walters Infirmary
has greatly facilitated the work of the physical educa-
tion department. The student Athletic Association has
the major responsibility for the athletic program on
campus, and students have an opportunity to learn
and develop individual skills as well as team work
and sportsmanship.

The social life and development of the personality
is not the least of the interests at Agnes Scott. Valu-
able personality development results from informal
associations with other students and with faculty mem-
bers. A large number of varied extracurricular ac-
tivities provide outlet for diverse interests as well as
the development of new talents. And of course social
interest lies in Agnes Scott's accessibility to nearby
institutions such as Georgia Tech and Emory Uni-
versity. Surely there is ample opportunity at Agnes
Scott for a well-balanced development of the mind,
spirit, body, and personality.

Its location is strikingly advantageous. Agnes Scott
is fortunate in being situated in a suburban area De-
catur, and at the same time accessible to a city At-
lanta. Atlanta offers cultural opportunities in the way
of theaters, concerts, and opera season as well as
intellectual stimulation derived from the University
Center and the participation of other educational insti-
tutions in the area. Furthermore we are in the heart
of the South, a region distinctive in its tradition as
well as in its progress.

Through the years Agnes Scott's purpose has been
distinctive and lofty because of its heritage. Col-
onel Scott, Dr. Gaines, Miss Hopkins and many, many

others possessed the vision to see the needs and op-
portunities of the institution they hoped to build.
Actually Agnes Scott is young. It was in 1906 that
the first college degrees were awarded; only forty-
four years ago. However, those years have been
marked by spectacular growth in material and spirit-
ual assets, while at the same time the highest of
standards have been maintained. While we are proud
of our alma mater for this growth, for her buildings,
faculty, curriculum and her heritage we realize there
is still much development and progress to be hoped
*for in the years to come.

Over sixty years ago our founders realized the value
of women's education. They believed that "if you
educate a woman you may train a whole family.' :
Certainly this fact remains; but today we can see ar
ever greater challenge in the education of women be
cause of the increased influence of women in the
world stemming from the fact that woman has taker
her place in all realms of business and society. Witl
an emphasis on the individual the Agnes Scott educa
tions attempts to educate women for the business o
living as well as the business of making a living. Agne;
Scott "believes that every graduate should make ;
worthy contribution to the community in which shi
lives, thinking effectively for herself and maintaining
an educated and rational viewpoint toward problem:
of the day." It is toward this end that the daily rounc
of duties and pleasures, activity and play are directed
For over sixty years it has been this purpose that ha
formed the Agnes Scott we see today.

I believe in Agnes Scott. We must all believe ii
Agnes Scott and its purpose even as we believe ii
ourselves, for it is a part of us and has "stampei
eternity upon many a fleeting moment of our days.'

Recommended Reading

(Titles selected by the Education Committee)

The Meeting of Emt and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding.
F. S. C. Northrop, professor of philosophy and master of Silliman College in Yale
University. Macmillan Co., 1946, New York.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Forty- fourth Annual Report.
522 Fifth Avenue, New York. William F. Fell, publisher.

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Now and then The Quarterly picks out an alumna known to the
campus for her writing ability and asks her to do an article on life
as it is happening to her. This essay triumphantly justifies the idea,
as have some others in the past. Incidentally, LCI Nosmo came
March 9 and turned out to be Sara Middleton.

Becoming a New Yorker

by Bet Patterson King '47

In 1946 we said, "New York what a glorious place
to spend a summer!"

In 1947: "Of course we wouldn't want to live here
indefinitely, but New York has educational and cul-
tural advantages galore, and it's great to be right in
the midst of them for a year or two."

In 1948: "What a monstrous, abnormal growth it
is on the face of the earth, this city! Let's go to New
Zealand, or Okinawa, or Paris, or Arizona."

In 1949: "Er . . . uh, whatta ya say we stay on
here next year? This place sort of grows on you,
doesn't it?"

We know it's a dreadful place to live, and dangerous
even in peacetime, a perfect target in war. Try to
cross the street even with a favorable light, and know
that a whole herd of sleek, powerful taxicabs waits
poised to leap at you if the light should change before
you reach the other side. If you're alone, female, and
young, trust the drivers to gun their motors fright-
eningly as you pass each of the red and yellow mon-
sters. Go out for some "fresh air" and know as you
return that your lungs are coated with another layer
of fairly fresh soot. Go shopping between Thanks-
giving and Christmas and expose yourself to concus-
sion, strangulation, suffocation, and expostulation.
They say it is also dangerous to walk alone through
Central Park at night or through another park in
the daytime. I have walked alone through Central
Park at night and been unhindered, though I should
have expected nothing pleasanter than murder, ac-
cording to a maiden lady who heard of my adventure.
Some of the city's dangers are exaggerated by New
Yorkers; others, like taxicabs and sooty air, go un-
noticed by this hardy breed who know no better than
to go on living here.

This strange creature, the New Yorker, is one of
the city's most puzzling phenomena. In rare times
of self-examination we shudder a bit to know that,
creepingly, we are becoming more and more like him

as we share his cramped quarters, this little isle. Being
always in sight and under foot of thousands of other
persons, he has built around himself a wall of lonely
reserve, and if you try to break it by starting a
friendly conversation, he knows at once you are from
out-of-town. Taxi drivers are different. It is part of
their tradition to talk to you about everything they
think, especially about New Joisey drivers. But other
New Yorkers do not know their neighbors. Once
break through their wall and you will find that, to
their surprise, they are pouring out their inmost
thoughts, their daily observations, their secret springs
of action. Present them with a blind man, even one
with an obviously fake seeing-eye dog. or a fainting
woman, and they become all solicitude and earnest
care and geneious charity.

They are utterly provincial. To them the South
has three aspects: Southern accents, lynchings, Flor-
ida. If they are public school bred, they know the
city's degree-factories and have heard of Harvard and
Wellesley. If they are prep school bred, they have
been to Harvard or Wellesley and know about the
city's colleges. Before I understood this peculiar in-
sularity, I was cowed into lowering my head and mut-
tering, "Agnes Scott College, in Decatur, Georgia, near
Atlanta," when one of them condescended to ask me
what school / went to. Sometimes I added timidly but
a wee bit belligerently, "It's a good college." Now I
know them better, and I cow them by thrusting
back my shoulders and replying in a clear, firm,
incontrovertible voice, "Agnes Scott.*' No explana-
tion. No geography. That makes them squirm and
say. 'You know, really, we New Yorkers are quite
provincial. Where is Agnes Scott?" Now in a su-
perior position, I acknowledge their provincialism
and don't mind explaining anything they want to
know about my college.

In Atlanta I used to worry about the racial dis-
crimination sanctioned by law and followed up per-

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sonally by street-car operators. In New York I can
relax, knowing there will be absolutely no discrimina-
tion either by fellow subway passengers or by bus
drivers: they are surly and rude to everybody. I
marvel that football talent scouts have not yet learned
to haunt the subway stations, instead of wasting their
time at high school scoreboards, in their search for
promising linemen. If a veteran New Yorker could
be taught to run interference for a halfback, instead
of for himself alone, the nation's fans would see
such musclework, such strategy as they never dreamed
before. Once having been jostled into a car, I have
not learned to pounce upon a seat quickly enough to
precede the most decrepit of New York men.

Why do we stay in this huge lunatic asylum where
nobody knows how to relax, where the faces are
mostly either grim or empty, where it costs a fortune
to rent a cubbyhole where sometimes the water doesn't
run and other times the refrigerator turns into an
oven (this without warning)? Why do we do it?

Why we can do it is easy to answer: Ware, my
husband, makes it possible. I'll try farther along to
think of some of the things that keep us here, but
just now I shall write of Ware, who keeps life livable
even in the caverns of New York. I should like to
amend Darwin's theory to suggest that the fittest
and their wives survive, for I am surviving right
well, only by the fitness of my husband. Of hardy
Midwest pioneer stock, he is strong enough to make
his way through the most turbulent of subway crowds
while I, squaw-like, follow, trying to stay in his wake
before the gap between us closes with masses of hu-
manity or, more serious, sliding subway doors. When
he sets his lips to whistle the piercing summons he
learned in the Minnesota woods (no fingers, mind
you), taxicabs screech to a stop for blocks in every
direction. What's more, he wears a clerical collar
that elicits signs of respect from many taxi drivers
and all policemen and makes it easier for us both to
get through traffic. Workmen and little children salute
him, "Good day, Father," and once a small boy on
the subway jumped up and said, "Here's a seat for
you, Fodder," not giving so much as a glance at
"Mudder"' who stood nearby. He walks past an ex-
hibition and gets a free pass. He is a very privileged
character, and he seldom bothers to explain that he
is really a bit Reformed and only an expectant Father.
To help set the record straight we sometimes walk
the streets hand in hand but succeed only in bringing
dark doubts to the hearts of the faithful.

besides being strong and fortunately costumed, my

husband has a wonderful inquisitivity about what
makes the city, or a watch, or a person, tick. He steps
right into a situation and asks the bus driver how much
the new coin machines cost, the street worker what
those lengths of pipe are for, the ad reader what
kind of apartment he wants. New Yorkers cannot
comprehend that a person can want to know something
for general, not specific, information. They suspect
him of being at best a Russian spy, at worst a scout
from the rival establishment across the street. They
parry his questions suspiciously until he gives up or
they are won over and pour out, not only what he
wants to know, but also what they think about O'Dwyer
and the Dodgers and the new Ford car. He almost
always hears something interesting, and occasionally
we make real, lasting friends from these chance street
and restaurant conversations. New York becomes
warmer and New Yorkers more human because of my
husband. In fact, as I recall, I met my husband
through one of those "chance conversations" of his
in New York.

And then my husband knows when it's time to get
away from it all. Instead of spending lots of money
for honeymoon accommodations at a resort hotel,
he invested a reasonable amount in a compact tent
(nylon, waterproof, fireproof, insect-proof), a roomy
sleeping bag, and knapsacks. Off we went into the
Adirondacks for two weeks of canoeing and camping.
Since then, when we've had a couple of days to spare,
we have had the equipment for overnight camping
trips to Bear Mountain or the far end of Long Is-
land. In a few hours we can be completely out of
sight and sound and thought of urbanity. We have
surprised many deer, and walked along a rocky
ridge on top of the world in a terrifying thunder-
storm, and taken a color picture of a sunfish nest.
When we can't go camping, we can at least take the
Staten Island ferry and pretend we're on an ocean
voyage, or fly a kite in Central Park and believe we're
in the country.

Most of the time we are cooped right here in the,
midst of it all. What makes us willing to stay? The
greatness of it is one thing I'd mention first. I was
never impressed so profoundly as I expected to be by
the tall buildings, although I still catch my breath as
I look up the sheer height of the Empire State from
just below, or follow with my eyes from afar the
pointed lines of the Chrysler Building. Winston-
Salem's one skyscraper, lacking only about eighty
stories of being as high as the world's tallest building,
is still an impressive sight to me. In New York

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I have stopped caring whether this or that is the
greatest thing of its kind in the world. I have stared
at many great persons here. I can say I have supped
with Mrs. Roosevelt ( and 350 others ) , dined with
Henry Wallace (and 1,000 others), applauded Nehru
(with a sidewalk full of others), and sat with Truman
and Dewey and a million others at an air show. But
at Agnes Scott I lunched with Mary Ellen Chase and
six others, with Carl Sandburg and five others. I
dined with Robert Frost and ten others and I had a
coke with Reinhold Niebuhr and Miss Hanley. In
New York I have ridden in the same elevator a
hundred times with Niebuhr but never managed to
drop by the coke machine with him. I maintain that
Agnes Scott is a much better place than New York
to get really accpiainted with the great, but that New
York is a better place to get infected with greatness,
because the great only drop down for visits upon
Agnes Scott, and they grow here. For two years I
worked in the greatest missionary librarv in the
world, and the great came through the doors to work
with me. I watched them day by day, and I watched
the theological greats who rode in the elevator with
me but seldom visited my library ; and I knew, as I
never could have known at Agnes Scott, that these
great persons are necessarily everydav persons, not
at all of a different order from me. Some have more
brains, some have more industry, all have more learn-
ing, but they are all very, very human and often dis-
couraged and sometimes a bit peevish. Mr. Hayes,
if he reads this, will throw back his head and laugh
"Oh, she thinks if she rides in an elevator with the
great, she has a chance to be great too. 1 ' He will know
how silly a thought that is, and how true.

What made me feel really at home here, more than
anything else, was the sense of belonging to certain
groups. I do not mean joining organizations. I tried
the Phi Beta Kappa. Mortar Board, and Agnes Scott
alumnae societies in pursuit of amalgamation; and
Ware and I enjoyed being members of a large non-
denominational church and of its young peoples
group for two years, but even that membership did
not make us a part of the New York community. In
Decatur and Atlanta I had come closer to the off-
campus world as a Sunday school teacher, but in our
New York church the teachers were expected to have
at least a master's degree in religious education. For
eight amazing months last year I found my niche
in the community, teaching English to refugees two
nights a week. In this endeavor I really began to
belong to New York city. I began to understand the

problems of the thousands of residents here who
have come from concentration camps in Germany,
who have fled to New York in a ten-year trek from
Berlin to Shanghai to San Francisco and finally here.
A woman student wore her Auschwitz number tattooed
on her forearm. A man had been in Buchenwald.
There were engineers in their sixties, too old to begin
work anew here in a strange language with new
customs, watching their wives go out day by day to
work in the garment industry. There was a brilliant
architect of twenty-nine, coming to New York at a
time when brilliant young American architects could
find no work in their field. There were old men and
women, slow to learn, embarrassed at their mistakes,
doggedly working at a senseless language, grateful
enough for haven in a new country to try to become
citizens. We laughed and sang and played games to-
gether, and sometimes we reminisced and were sad to-
gether. I am sure their neighbors sometimes wonder
where they got those Southern accents!

Now Ware and I have moved out of the university
neighborhood and live in a real New York section,
and I feel a heightened sense of belonging that I never
could feel in a "student apartment." Also he has a
church job, and we are beginning to grow into the
life of a certain East Midtown community. Our parish-
ioners live on Park and Madison and Lexington Ave-
nues and are a privileged group, different from any
church membership I have known before. They have
their own prejudices and needs and strengths, and
it's fun to get to know them and work with them.

On Thursday afternoons I go to another section
of Lexington Avenue and get a touch of a different
kind of life. A new set of "parishioners," also from
Madison and Park and thereabouts, scampers into a
church classroom for the last hour of school, and I
am supposed to teach fourteen third and fourth grade
boys of East Harlem something about God. I have
had three sessions with them, and so far they have
been teaching me about boys and I haven't had a
chance to get a word in edgewise about God. I am
beginning to understand a bit about another segment
of New York, and though I'm not convinced that
1 "belong" in that classroom, it helps me feel a sense
of belonging to this great and complex citv.

A final thought, appealing and appalling at the
same time, is that by the time this chronicle gets into
print, one of those rare beings, a native New Yorker,
should have joined the King family. Li'l Nosmo (ten-
tative name only ) will belong to us and to New York
too; and that, I suppose, is the last best tie of all.

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Association Notes

Alumnae Weekend

The second Alumnae Weekend since the war, held
February 10 and 11, brought scores of Agnes Scot-
ters back to the campus for a varied program planned
by Jean Bailey Owen '39, Special Events Chairman,
and her committee.

H.M.S. Pinafore, by the Agnes Scott and Georgia
Tech glee clubs, opened the festivities on Friday
night in Presser Hall. Warren Lee Terry, the Gilbert
and Sullivan veteran from New York whom several
generations of alumnae remember as the imported
comic lead in Agnes Scott performances, came down
to help with final rehearsals and the production
lived up in quality to its importance as Mr. Johnson's
last G&S presentation. (He retires in June, as does
Mr. Dieckmann. )

A surprising number of alumnae turned up in 8:30
and 9:30 classes Saturday morning. Many more joined
them at chapel time, when Morris Abram spoke on
the Southern college graduate's responsibilities as a
citizen. Mr. Abram, a Rhodes scholar now practicing
law in Atlanta, was on campus Friday and Saturday
for a series of talks and discussions on the subject,
his visit made possible by a gift from John Ward of
Mobile, father of Anne Ward '44. His remarks on
Saturday were chiefly concerned with racial issues,
which he said probably would come to a head soon
as a result of one or more of several segregation cases
now on the way to the Supreme Court. His advice:
try to prevent violence by planning with Negro leader-
ship for a sensible reception of the change by both
races; "speak in a reasonable voice." An hour of
vigorous discussion followed his talk, most of it
questions and answers by alumnae in the audience
who were pondering ways to outgrow their own emo-
tional patterns concerning race relations. This discus-
sion, like last year's equally brisk one on liberal vs.
vocational education, was the high point of the Week-
end for those who had planned the program in the
prayerful hope that visiting alumnae would be respon-
sive and interested. Again, faculty members who at-
tended went away in a glow at the ability of their
former students to grapple with facts and ideas and
to put their own conclusions clearly and well.

Dr. Wallace M. Alston, future president of the Col-

lege, spoke briefly to the gathering with the usual
result: a feeling on the part of his hearers that Agnes
Scott would remain in good hands when Dr. McCain
retires in 1951.

After a luncheon which crowded the Alumnae House
to overflowing (several campus people gave up their
places to alumnae who arrived hopefully without reser-
vations ) . the Weekend closed with a student-conducted
tour of the campus.

Career Conference

Virginia Wood '35, Vocational Guidance Chairman,
and her committee staged their second completely suc-
cessful conference for student jobhunters-to-be as the
winter quarter opened, January 17-19. Miss Mary
Ralston, assistant personnel director of the First Wis-
consin National Bank in Milwaukee, made the key-
note chapel speech. Some of her observations on wom-
en in employment gained national publicity for the
College when they were reported by a wire service,
and the students testified to her helpfulnss by sustain-
ed applause at the end of the address.

The three informal evening conferences at the Alum-
nae House were planned differently this year. Instead
of bringing experts in different branches of three large
fields, the committee decided to devote the first night
to the choosing and capture of the job; the second
to various part-time jobs (primarily for students who
will be married before or shortly after graduation
15 per cent of the senior class is already in the bonds! ;
and the third to the extensive field which claims more
Agnes Scott graduates than any other single kind of
work social service, including church, welfare, gov-
ernment agency, Community Chest, and other en-
deavors. The turnout was gratifying, and student ques-
tioning continued well into the night at each session.

The Alumnae Fountain

As alumnae know who have visited the campus in
the last three years or so, the lad who decorates the
garden fountain has suffered decapitation and been
further injured about the back and legs. Laurie Belle
Stubbs Johns '22, Grounds Chairman, has at the re-
quest of the Executive Board undertaken to replace
him.

Funds have been voted by the Board from member-

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ship contributions made by the Class of 1949 and
have been augmented by funds from the treasury of
the Class of 1931, which gave the pool.

The chairman, whose hard work this spring is
showing up beautifully as shifted shrubs take hold,
ind hyacinths declare their colors, hopes to have the
lew figure up for inspection by Commencement time.
The present choice is a little girl.

Color Slides of the Campus

Any Agnes Scott alumnae club may borrow from
he Alumnae Office a set of 15 color slides of campus
>cenes, for use as part of a meeting program. They

show buildings new and old, glimpses of student life,
and various faculty members. It is hoped to enlarge the
collection gradually. Miss Mary Boney, instructor in
Bible, has made an excellent job of the camera work
and has kindly allowed the Alumnae Association to
duplicate her films for club use. They are 2x2 inches,
35 mm., and require the usual kind of slide projector
and screen.

Know Anybody?

The Association hopes to obtain a full-time residence
manager for the Alumnae House by next fall. If you
know an alumna who would and could fill the post
well, please notify the Office at once.

FUNDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Given in the Eighth Campaign

Kate Durr Elmore Fund $25,000.

Mary Scott Scully Scholarship (increased to) 10,000

Mary Livingston Beatie Scholarship Fund 5,375

Agnes Raoul Glenn Fund 5,000

J. 0. Bowen Fund 3,000

Augusta Skeen Cooper Scholarship Fund 2,000

Jodele Tanner Science Fund 1,926.49

Lucile Alexander Scholarship 1,500

Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cunningham 1,500
Leonard and Catharine Jean McMillan Bellingrath Memorial 1,000

John A. and Sallie Burgess Scholarship Fund 1,000

Annie Ludlow Cannon Fund 1,000

James Ballard Dyer Scholarship Fund 1,000

Gallant-Belk Scholarship 1,000

Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Lanier 1,000

McKowen Fund 1 000

Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pauley l'oOO

Col. Robert Durant Harden Memorial 50

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Founder's Day Meetings

Agnes Scott alumnae in 18 cities reported Founder's
Day meetings before this issue of The Quarterly went
to press. Several other groups which had signified in-
tentions to hold the traditional gathering, and pre-
sumably did, had not been heard from when the
deadline arrived.

The Alumnae Office notified all clubs that the WSB
broadcast would be held as usual, with President Mc-
Cain, Vice-President Alston,' and Sarah Shields Pfeiffer
'27 as the speakers this year and the College Choir
providing music. Notices also went to one alumna in
each town containing a sufficient number of Agnes
Scotters to justify the forming of a club, with the sug-
gestion that she take the initiative in arranging a
meeting. Available program material was listed and
a card enclosed for requests. Letters from President
McCain and Alumnae Director Eleanor Hutchens, and
a suggested program from the Education Committee,
were sent with card files of the alumnae in each locality.
In five cases, the Office arranged to have speakers
from the College address meetings at the request of
the clubs.

Here are the reports received by press time:

Asheville

Place of meeting: Home of Marion Green John-
ston '29

Description of meeting: Informal tea with discus-
sion endorsing Homemaking Courses to be of-
fered for credit, Marion Green Johnston, Chair-
man.

Present: Maurine Bledsoe Bramlett '27, Marion
Green Johnston '29, Helen Moore '18, Katherine
Wright Kress '32.

program of the College to the students.
Plans for next meeting: Founder's Day, 1951.

Baltimore

Place of meeting: Mount Vernon Apartments

Officers elected for year 1950-51 :
President: Alvahn Holmes '18
Secretary: Frances Harper Sala '22

Description of meeting: A dinner meeting with 8
present. The group decided to organize Baltimore
alumnae with plans to meet several times a year.
Doris Sullivan, field representative, met with the
club, informed them of recent changes in the
College program and showed slides of the campus.

Birmingham

Place of meeting: Highland Terrace Garden

Officers for 1950-51:

President: Lucy Durr Dunn '19
Vice-president: Janet Liddell Philippi '47
Secretary: Florence Kleybecker Keller '33
Program Chairman : Vallie Young White Hamil-
ton '17
Notification Chairman: Jane Clark Petitt '32

Description of meeting: Luncheon meeting with
Lucy Durr Dunn presiding. Miss Llewellyn Wil-
burn '19, associate professor of physical educa-
tion at the College, addressed the group on recent
changes and improvements in the College program
and on the campus.

Plans for next meeting: Tentative plans for a May
meeting with a faculty member from the College
as speaker.

Augusta

Place of Meeting: Shad-O-Hill Tearoom

Officers elected for year 1950-51:
President : Frances Woodall '45
Secretary: Mary Jo Ammons '49

Description of meeting: A tea for alumnae and
high school students in Augusta and the vicinity.
Doris Sullivan, field representative, presented the

Chapel Hill-Durham

Place of meeting: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, N. C.

Representative elected for year 1950-51: Porter
Cowles Pickell '33

Description of meeting: "Brief get-acquainted ses-
sion before dinner. Susan Rose Saunders '26 read
the letters from Dr. McCain and Eleanor Hutch-
ens, being frequently interrupted as phrases in
the letters reminded some of the people of their

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own experiences. Ruth Slack Smith '12 [Dean
of Undergraduate Instruction at Duke University
Woman's College] gave a background talk and
led a discussion of women in the world today,
their responsibilities and privileges and the part
that colleges are playing in training women for
these responsibilities. The trends in education of
women the specialty schools such as Marjorie
Webster, Stephens, and Katherine Gibbs as against
the traditional liberal arts school and whether
we are going in the right direction came in for
quite a lively discussion."

Club suggestions for work of the Association: An
exploration of alumnae sentiment on including
the Department of the Home in the regular cur-
riculum; pro and con discussions from an alum-
nae level on whether Agnes Scott, as representa-
tive of the small liberal arts woman's college, is
doing the best and the whole job of equipping
graduates for life after college.

Plans for next meeting: It was agreed that the
group would like to meet on a twice a year basis.
First project will be to obtain names and ad-
dresses of all alumnae in Chapel Hill and Dur-
ham. A meeting with alumnae in Raleigh and
other nearby towns was discussed.

Present: Betty Bolton '33, R. Florence Brinkley '14,
Frances Brown '28, Porter Cowles Pickell '29,
Gay Currie '42, Shirley Graves Cochrane '46,
Leila Holmes '45, Leila Joiner Cooper '27, Sterly
Lebey Wilder '43, Ethel McKay Holmes '15, Rose-
mary May Kent '33, Primrose Noble Phelps '38,
Lib Osborne Rollins '46, Anne Rogers '47, Susan
Rose Saunders '26, Sarah Watson Emery '33,
Bobbe Whipple '48, Lila Williams Rose '10.

Charlotte

Dr. William A. Calder, professor of physics and
astronomy, was speaker. Club report not yet re-
ceived.

Chattanooga

Place of meeting: Read House
Officers elected for year 1950-51:

President: Ann Stansbury MacKenzie, Spec.

Vice-president: Mary Helen Sizer Taber '18

Secretary: Anne McCallie '31

Treasurer: Kathrine Pitman Brown '26

Description of meeting: Luncheon meeting. Frances
Thatcher Moses '17 read the script of the Found-

er's Day broadcast, inserting "quips and jests" in
lieu of the musical numbers, and then Dr. Mc-
Cain's letter.

Present: Betsy Banks Stoneburner '40, Martha Buf-
falow Rust '42, Jeanne Eakin Salyer '43, Fidesah
Edwards Ingram '35, Josephine Marbut Stanley
'25. Anne McCallie '31. Kathrine Pitman Brown
'26, Mary Helen Sizer Taber '18, Ann Stans-
bury MacKenzie, Spec, Sarah Stansell Felts '21,
Frances Thatcher Moses '17.

Greenville, S. C.

Place of meeting: Hotel Greenville

Description of meeting: Luncheon meeting prin-
cipally for fellowship, Maryann Cochran Abbott
'43, acting president. Dr. McCain's letter was
read; nominations for new officers were made
with plans to mail a written ballot to all Green-
ville alumnae in March.

Present: Ruth Anderson Stall '45, Maryann Coch-
ran Abbott '43, Virginia Corr White '41, Carolyn
Essig Frederick '28, Lib Farmer Brown '45, Mary
Hutchinson Jackson '35, Dorothy Keith Hunter
'25, Mary McCalla Poe '47, Kitty McKoy '49,
Martha Redwine Rountree '35, Alice Reins Boyd
'38, Marjorie Wilson Ligon '43. Martha Ray
Lasseter Storey '44 and Ila Belle Levie Bagwell
'42 of Spartanburg met with the group.

Hampton-Newport News

Place of meeting: Home of Elsie West Meehan '38

Description of meeting: Letters of Dr. McCain and
Eleanor Hutchens were read, and the proposed
Department of the Home was discussed. The Club
then enjoyed color slides of the campus, showing
new buildings and recent improvements.

Representative elected for the year 1950-51:
Davis Nelson '42.

Billie

Present: Billie Davis Nelson '42, Margaret Hart-
sook Emmons '42, Kitty Houston Sheild '27,
Helen Sisson Morrison '29, Elsie West Meehan
'38.

Lexington, Ky.

Place of meeting: Phoenix Hotel

Representatives elected for year 1950-51: Lillian
Clement Adams '27 and Ruth Slack Roach '40.

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Description of meeting: A luncheon meeting with
the program consisting of the letters from Dr.
McCain and the Alumnae Office followed by a
discussion of the educational system in Lexington.

Plans for next meeting: A luncheon meeting in May.

Present: Sarah Bond Wilder '25, Laura Brown
Logan '31, Dorothy Cassel Fraser '34, Lillian
Clement Adams '27, Gilberta Knight Davis '29,
Mabel Marshall Whitehouse '29, Ruth Slack
Roach '40.

Los Angeles

Place of meeting: Bullocks-Wilshire Tearoom

Officers elected for year 1950-51 :

Chairman: Margaret Colville Carmack '22
Secretary: Page Ackerman '33

Description of meeting: A tea.

Present: Page Ackerman '33, Santa Monica; Stella
Austin Stannard, Inst., Hollywood; Margaret Col-
ville Carmack '22, Santa Monica; Ida Belle Feld-
man '17, Los Angeles; Alice Greenlee Grollman
'25, Beverly Hills; Dorothy Grubb Rivers '31,
Glendale; Blanche Guff in Alsobrook '28, Long
Beach; Martha Ivey Farrell '26, Manhattan Beach;
Eunice Lawrence Moorefield '31, Los Angeles;
Anne Lilly Swedenberg '27, Los Angeles; Mar-
jorie Rainey Lindsey '38. Long Beach; Margaret
Young Reeves '23, Glendale.

LOUISVILLE

Lanie Harris Kinnaird '47 was elected president.
A complete list of alumnae in Louisville and the
surrounding area is being compiled, and tenta-
tive plans were made for meeting quarterly.

Lynchburg, Va.

Place of meeting: Home of Catherine Mitchell
Lynn '27

Officers elected for year 1950-51 :

Chairman: Catherine Mitchell Lynn '27
Secretary -Treasurer: Anne Murrell Courtney '46

Description of meeting: A tea and organizational
meeting at which letters from Dr. McCain and
Eleanor Hutchens were read.

Plans for next meeting: Tentative plans for a meet-
ing in May.

Present: Gladys Camp Brannan '16, Catherine
Mitchell Lynn '27, Anne Murrell Courtney '46,
Elizabeth Roark Ellington '28, Phyllis Roby Snead
'27, Mary Venetia Smith Bryan '38, Elizabeth
Watts Whitehouse '38.

Richmond, Va.

Place of meeting: Presbyterian Assembly's Train-
ing School

Officers elected for year 1950-51:

President: Louise Gardner Mallory '46 '
Vice-president: Barton Jackson Cathey '37
Secretary : Margie Wakefield '27
Treasurer: Sallie Peake '30

Description of meeting: Business meeting including
a report of the Book Review sponsored to raise
money for the club's pledge to the Campaign,
the appointment of a nominating committee, and
the adoption of a recommendation to enlarge
the Executive Committee. The main feature of
the Founder's Day meeting was a visit of Doris
Sullivan, the College field representative, who
told the club about her program of- work, retailed
recent news of the College, and showed color
slides of the campus.

Plans for next meeting: Tentative plans for a tea
in June, inviting Richmond girls now attending
Agnes Scott and their mothers.

Present: Ann Anderson '49, Eleanor Bear '49, Kath-
leen Buchanan Cabell '47, Gerry Cottongim Rich-
ards '45, Lee Cousar '49, Mary Ann Craig '47,
Louise Gardner Mallory '46, Florence Graham
'40, Mary Stuart Hatch '48, Rachel Henderlite
'28, Sarah Hill Brown '31, Marianna Hollands-
worth Donnell '48, Evelyn King Wilkins '24,
Mildred McCain Kinnaird '46, Dean McKoin Bus-
hong '36, Carrie Lena McMullen Bright '34, Sal-
lie Peake '30, Shirley Simmons '49, Doris Sullivan
'49, Margie Wakefield '27, Olive Wilkinson '49.

Tallahassee

Description of meeting: A dinner meeting with Elin
Haraldsdottir, a sophomore student at Florida
State University from Iceland, as guest speaker.
She discussed the educational system of her
country. Elizabeth Lynn '27 is chairman of the
group.

Present: Dabney Adams '48, Laura Haygood Rob-
erts, Inst., Marion Hodges Anthony '29, Mamie
Johnson Bierly, Inst., Elizabeth Lynn '27, Emily

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Rowe '36. Although unable to be present, Attie
Alford '24, Jean Chewning Lewis '46, and Mar-
garet Yancey '48 helped with arrangements for
the dinner party.

Washington

Tampa

Place of meeting: Cricket Tea Room

Officers elected for year 1950-51:

President: Louise Crawford Barnes '34
Secretary: Laurie Caldwell Tucker '17

Description of meeting: A luncheon meeting with
reminiscences and discussion of Agnes Scott's
plans for the future. Approval of adding De-
partment of the Home course.

Plans for next meeting: Founder's Day, 1951.

Present: Nina Anderson Thomas '11, Louise Craw-
ford Barnes '34, Laurie Caldwell Tucker '17. Nell
Frye Johnston '16, Anna Hall McDougall Terrv
'23. 5

Place of meeting: Iron Gate Inn

Description of meeting: Luncheon meeting with
Virginia Kyle Dean '39 presiding. Report of the
high percentage of Campaign contributors in
the Washington Club. Doris Sullivan, field repre-
sentative, discussed the situation she has found
in visiting high schools and interesting prospec-
tive students in Agnes Scott.

Wisconsin

Place of meeting: Home of Margaret Sheftall Ches-
ter '42

Description of meeting: A tea with five of the
Wisconsin alumnae present. The letters from Dr.
McCain and Eleanor Hutchens were read.

Present: Nancy Fellenz Affeldt '43, West Allis;
Pat Perry Braun '43, Sheboygan; Suzanne Ring
Uehling '17, West Allis; Margaret Sheftall Ches-
ter '42 and Dorothy Thigpen Shea '19, Milwaukee.

Alumnae Hostess

Is there an active, unencumbered alumna of mature
years who would like to preside over the Alumnae House?

The Association hopes to install a full-time hostess in
the House next fall, when the offices of the Director and the
staff will be moved into the area now occupied by the Tea
Room. (The Tea Room is to be discontinued because the new
College Dining Hall will take over most of its functions.)

The hostess, or residence
manager, will receive guests at
the House, plan social enter-
tainments, and supervise main-
tenance of the House and its
grounds, in cooperation with the
Residence, Entertainment,
House Decorations, and
Grounds Committees.

Any alumna who is inter-
ested in the position is invited
to write at once to the Director
of Alumnae Affairs giving all relevant information. It is
hoped that the hostess may be appointed by the middle of
May.

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Givers to the Alumnae Campaign

(Final List)

INSTITUTE

Mary Mack Ardrey
Orra Hopkins
Winifred Quarterman
Cora Strong
Annie Jean Gash
Mary Elizabeth Jones
Emma Wesley
Virginia Alexander Gaines
Mary C. Barker
Jeannette Craig Woods
Jean Ramspeck Harper
Rusha Wesley
Adeline Arnold Loridans
Meta Barker

Laura Caldwell Edmonds
Bell Dunnington Sloan
Marion Bucher
Eilleen Gober
Grace Hardie
Audrey Turner Bennett
Emily Winn
Laura Candler Wilds
Mattie Duncan Johnson
Lois Johnson Aycock
Kathleen Kirkpatrick Daniel
Annie Shapard
Mattie Tilly McKee
Emma Askew Clark
Lulie Morrow Croft
Arlene Almand Foster
Mabel Ardrey Stewart
Thyrza Askew
Octavia Aubrey Howard
Annie Aunspaugh Aiken
Stella Austin Stannard
Bessie Baker Milikin
Alice Beck Dale
Bertha Brawner Ingram
Sallie Broome Clarke
Eleanor Bryce Ezell
Vashti Buchanan McLain
Alberta Burress Trotter
Kittie Burress Long
Daisy Caldwell McGinty
Willie Bell Campbell Marshburn
Claude Candler McKinney
Margaret Cannon Howell
Eliza Carter Home
Alice Coffin Smith
Lorine Colmery Armstrong
Mary Ellen Cook Hamilton
Maury Lee Cowles Weisiger
Georgia Crane Clarke
Elva Crenshaw

Mary Louise Crenshaw Palmour
Annie Cromartie Council
Mary David McWilliams
Gussie Davidson Rhodes
Mary Dortch Forman
Annie Dunlap

Annie Emery Flinn
Julia Jordan Emery
Ethel Farmer Hunter
Olivia Fewell Taylor
Melrose Franklin Kennedy
Anne Gilleylen Quarles
Jewell Gloer Teasley
Roba Goss Ansley
Marie Gower Conyers
Annie Green Chandler
Mae Griggs Parsons
Ida Cah Hamilton
Alice Hanna Findley
Clare Harden Barber
Edith Hardy Harvey
Annie Louise Harrison Waterman
Bessie Harwell Dennis
Sue Harwell Champion
Alice Hocker Drake
Grace Hollis Lowrance
Ellerbee Holt Fowler
Ada Hooper Keith
Rubie Hudson
Kittie Huie Aderhold
Louise Hurst Howald
Irene Ingram Sage
Lillian Johnson Hunnicutt
Maud Johnson Magill
Sallie Key

Florence Light Roberts
Kate Logan Good
Midge McAden Cothran
Hettye McCurdy
|ennie McPhaul Myers
Mary McPherson Alston
Delia McRae Montgomery
Effie Means McFadden
Hattie Minis
Ethel Moore
Carrye Morgan Orr
Ellabelle Morrison Carlton
Annie Newton
Lillian Ozmer Treadwell
Mary Payne Bullard
Willie Peek Almand
Marion Peel Calhoun
Gertrude Pollard
Evelyn Ramspeck Glenn
Emily Reid
Vera Reins Kamper
Claire Scott Johnston
Louise Scott Sams
Amy Seay Lawson
Corinne Simril
Henrietta Smith Bradley
Jessie Smith Young
Florence Stokes Henry
Julia Stokes
Nina Stribling Wood
Daisy Strong
Susie Thomas Jenkins
Lucy Thomson
Annie Trotti Wilson

Louise Van Harlingen Ingersall

Kate Steele Vickers

Edith Ward

Estelle Webb Shadburn

Juliet Webb Huttou

Annie Wiley Preston

Margaret Wilson McCully

Marie Wilson

Frances Winship Walters

Sarah Wolfe Keerans

Ethel Woolf

Bessie Young Brown

Susan Young Eagan

136 givers; $191,504.50

ACADEMY

Augusta Arnold Barrow
Lillian Beatty Schuhman
Mildred Beatty Miller

Grace Bell Murray
Constance Berry Currie
Lillian Burns Chastain
Helen Camp Richardson
Eudora Campbell Haynie
Clarice Chase Marshall
Lena Christian Richardson
Louise Gaines Oates
Laura Belle Gilbert Eaton
Julia Green Heinz
Maccie Haas Harrison
Bessie Hancock Coleman
Elma Harwell

Mary Louise Haygood Trotti
Patti Hubbard Stacy
Bertha Hudson Whitaker
Elonia Hutchinson Persons
Susie Johnson
Tracy L'Engle
Elsie Lutz Lee
Lois McPherson McDougall
Marion Phinizy Black
Mary Russell Green
Laura Sawtelle Palmer
Sarah Smith Hamilton
Marcella Steedman Smith
Eliza Stickley Kimbrough
Elizabeth Tuller Nicolson
Hallie Tumlin Jones
Lidie Whitner Lee
Anna Willingham Young
Margaret Wright Alston
35 givers; $676.00

1906

Ida Lee Hill Irvin
Annie Graham King
May McKowen Taylor
Ethyl Flemister Fite
4 givers; $1182.00

1907

Sarah Boals Spinks
Elizabeth Curry Winn
Irene Foscue Patton
Clyde Pettus
Jeannette Shapard
Hattie Lee West Candler
6 givers; $157.00

1908

Sophie Drake Drake

Lizzabel Saxon

Sadie Magill

Ethel Reid

Bessie Sentelle Martin

5 givers; $190.00

1909

Louise Davidson
Adalene Dortch Griggs
Margaret McCallie
Mattie Newton Traylor
Anne Waddell Bethea
Lillie Bachman Harris
Virginia Barker Hughes
Frankie Enzor
Annie Ludlow Cannon
Annette McDonald Suarez
Jean Powel McCroskey
Roberta Zachry Ingle
12 givers; $1694.50

1910

Jennie Anderson
Flora Crowe Whitmire
Emma Louise Eldridge Fer;
Eleanor Frierson
Mattie Hunter Marshall
Clyde McDaniel Jackson
Lucy Reagan Redwine
Annie Smith Moore
Mildred Thomson
Lila Williams Rose
Beulah Adamson
Tommie Barker
Emma Binns Major
Marian Brumby Hammond
Caroline Caldwell Jordan
Mary Edith Donnelly Meeh
Allie Felker Nunnally
Lucy Johnson Ozmer
Eva Johnston Bourne
Isabel Nunnally Knight
Keturah White Marshall
21 givers; $1264.00

1911

Lucile Alexander
Adelaide Cunningham

[20]

ine Hood Burns
Wallace Kirk
Lee Kelly

Elizabeth Radford
Wells Parsons

osia Willingham Anderson
le Boothe Jenkins
le Brown Arnold
laldwell Wilson
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"ields
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lacDonald Muse
McKowen Blackshear
loore

O'Neal Johnson
rs; 11742.00

:tte Blackburn Rust
a Cooper
Srpsswell Croft
Fargason Racey

Hall Young
le Lott Bunkley
Maclntyre Alexander
G. Mayson Donaldson
;hapin McLane
Newton Hart
lack Smith
teams Wey
itzhugh Maxfield
furphy Elder
'ratt Smith Slack
eager McGaughey
SI 684.00

andler Guy
.lark

Dukes Wynne
ois Enzor Bynum
h Joiner Williams
IcGaughey
Pope Moss Dieckmann

Pinkston Stokes
st Roberts Graham
te Sloan Tucker
Smith Taylor
each Fuqua
th Dunwody Hall
Harwell Hill
i.endrick Jarvis
ne Stoney McDougall
rs; $637.00

Adams
lue Barnes
Brinkley
Jrown Webb
trown Florence
arke Murphey
lansell Cousar
I Holmes Dickert
rait Jenkins

Kathleen Kennedy
Zollie McArthur Saxon
Annie McLarty Krone
Essie Roberts Dupre
Martha Rogers Noble
Margaret Brown Bachman
Flo-Wilma Curtner Dobson
Nell DuPree Floyd
Ruth McElmurray C.othran
Annie Schroder Siceloff
19 givers; $378.00

1915

Marion Black Cantelou
Martha Brenner Shryock
Gertrude Briesenick Ross
Annie Pope Bryan Scott
Mary Evelyn Hamilton
Mary Hyer Dale
Sallie May King
Henrietta Lambdin Turner
Catherine Parker
Grace Reid

Kate Richardson Wicker
Mary West Thatcher
Lucile Daley
Frances Farley Thornton
Minnie Hall Scarbrough
Fannie Marcus Revson
Gladys McMillan Gunn
Almedia Sadler Duncan
18 givers; $3609.00

1916

Mary Bryan Winn
Elizabeth Burke Burdett
Laura Cooper Christopher
Margaret Fields Wilkinson
Eloise Gay Brawley
Ora Glenn Roberts
Evelyn Goode Brock
Maryellen Harvey Newton
Ray Harvison Smith
Charis Hood Barwick
Leila Johnson Moore
Margaret Phythian
Mary Glenn Roberts
Martha Ross Boyce
Anna Sykes Bryars
Magara Waldron Crosby
Clara Whips Dunn
Elizabeth Bogle Weil
Martha Bradshaw Rountree
Omah Buchanan Albaugh
Florence Day Ellis
Mildred Doe Scogin
Florine Griffin Carmichael
Rebekah Lackey Codding
Mary Louise McGuire Plonk
Alvice Myatt Sharpe
Ethel Pharr
Janie Rogers Allen
Elizabeth Taylor
Lovenah Vinson Brown
Elizabeth Walker Hunter
31 givers; $922.00

1917

Gjertrud Amundsen Siqueland
Louise Ash

Laurie Caldwell Tucker
Martha Prince Dennison
Isabel Dew

Agnes Scott Donaldson
Gladys Gaines Held
Elizabeth Gammon Davis
Charlotte Hammond Kennedy
Jane Harwell Rutland
India Hunt Balch
Willie Belle Jackson McWhorter
Katharine Lindamood Catlett
Mary Mclver Luster
Janet Newton
Mary Spottswood Payne
Regina Pinkston
Margaret Pruden Lester
Ellen Ramsay Phillips
Louise Roach Fuller
Virginia Scott Pegues
Katherine Simpson
Augusta Skeen Cooper
Frances Thatcher Moses
Emma Louise Ware
Sarah Caroline Webster
Georgiana White Miller
Vallie White Hamilton
Virginia Allen Potter
Julia Anderson McNeely
Agnes Ball
Mynelle Blue Grove
Grace Coffin Armstrong
Ailsie Cross

Elizabeth DeWald Schiff
Effie Doe Black
Ida Belle Feldman
Eva Mae Futch Yost
Mary Lewis Holt
Florence Kellogg Donehoo
Margaret Phillips Boyd
Maude Shute Squires
Mary Thomas Stephenson
Frances White Oliver
44 givers; $3461.00

1918

Julia Abbot Neely

Hallie Alexander Turner

Ruth Anderson O'Neal

Elva Brehm Florrid

Belle Cooper

Ruby Lee Estes Ware

Lois Grier Moore

Rose Harwood Taylor

Susan B. Hecker

Alvahn Holmes

Helen Hood Coleman

Emma Jones Smith

Virginia Lancaster McGowan

Caroline Larendon

Margaret Leyburn Foster

Samille Lowe Skeen

Mary Lyle Phillips

Emma Porter Pope

Carolina Randolph

Katherine Seay

Evamaie Willingham Park

Emma Kate Anderson

Bessie Harvey Pew

Virginia Haugh Franklin

Katherine Jones Patton

Lucile Kaye Kraft

Helen Ledbetter Jenkins

Catherine Montgomery Williamson

Sarah Patton Cortelyou

Mary Helen Sizer Taber

30 givers; $2682.00

1919

Blanche Copeland Jones

Lucy Durr Dunn

Claire Elliot McKay

Lois Eve Rozier

Louise Felker Mizell

Mary Dwight Ford Kennerly

Frances Glasgow Patterson

Katherine Godbee Smith

Suttle Ham Hanson

Anna Harrell Ballard

Julia Ingram Hazzard

Mary Brock Mallard Reynolds

Virginia Newton

Alice Norman Pate

Elizabeth Pruden Fagan

Ethel Rea Rone

Margaret Rowe Jones

Frances Sledd Blake

Lulu Smith Westcott

Marguerite Watts Cooper

Llewellyn Wilburn

Margaret Barry Owen

Margaret Brown Davis

Dorothy Bullock Fuller

Elizabeth Dimmock Bloodworth

Hattie Finney Glenn

Annie Gray Lindgren

Elizabeth Lawrence Brobston

Emily Miller Smith

Dorothy Mitchell Ellis

30 givers; $2844.00

1920

Margaret Bland Sewell
Mary Burnett Thorington
Alice Cooper Bell
Romola Davis Hardy
Sarah Davis Mann
Julia Hagood Cuthbertson
Louise Johnson Blalock
Emilie Keyes Evans
Elizabeth Lovett
Lois Maclntyre Beall
Marion MacPhail
Gertrude Manly McFai land
Virginia McLaughlin
Laura Molloy Dowling
Margery Moore Macaulay
Elizabeth Moss Harris
Eugenia Peed Erwin
Elizabeth Reid LeBey

[21]

Margaret Shive Bellingrath
Mary Louise Slack Hooker
Pauline Van Pelt Claunch
Helen Williamson
Rosalind Wurm Council
Margaret Berryhill Reece
Eloise Buston Sluss
Alice Cannon Guille
Edwina Holt
Mary Jones Ryley
Victoria Miller Johns
Lurline Torbert Shealy
Margaret Woods Happel
31 givers; $1231.50

1921

Margaret Bell Hanna

Myrtle Blackmon

Thelraa Brown Aiken

Eleanor Carpenter

Lois Compton Jennings

Cora Connett Ozenberger

Marguerite Cousins Holley

Elizabeth Enloe MacCarthy

Mary Robb Finney Bass

Sarah Fulton

Aimee Glover Little

Helen Hall Hopkins

Mariwil Hanes Hulsey

Eugenia Johnston Griffin

Alice Lake Jones

Anna Marie Landless Cate

Frances Markley Roberts

Jean McAlister

Fannie McCaa McLaughlin

Sarah McCurdy Evans

Charlotte Newton

Janef Preston

Rachel Rushton Upham

Eula Russell Kelly

Julie Saunders Dickerson

Sarah Stansell Felts

Margaret Wade

Marguerite Watkins Goodman

Helen Wayt Cocks

Ida Brittain Milner

Marjorie Busha Haley

Virginia Crank Everett

Alice Gillespy Lawson

Frances Hamilton Lambeth

Mildred Harris

Julia Heaton Coleman

Melville Jameson

Gladys McDaniel Hastings

Caroline Montgomery Branch

Adelaide Park Webster

Isabel Pope

Mabel Price Cathcart

Kathleen Stanton Truesdell

Julia Tomlinson Ingram

44 givers; $1688.50

1922

Jeannette Archer Neal
Helen Barton Claytor
Mary Barton
Elizabeth Brown

Eleanor Buchanan Starcher
Cama Burgess Clarkson
Sue Cureton
Edythe Davis Croley
Eunice Dean Major
Mary Floding Brooks
Otto Gilbert Williams
Ivylyn Girardeau
Ruth Hall Bryant
Frances Harper Sala
Catherine Haugh Smith
Marion Hull Morris
Lilburne Ivey Tuttle
Julia Jameson
Juanita Kelly
Mary Lamar Knight
Mary McLellan Manly
Lucia Murchison
Elizabeth Nichols Lowndes
Laura Oliver Fuller
Ruth Pirkle Berkeley
Emma Proctor Newton
Ruth Scandrett Hardy
Harriet Scott Bowen
Margaret Smith Lyon
Althea Stephens Parmenter
Louie Stephens Hays
Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns
Emily Thomas Johnston
Sara Till Davis
Joy Trump Hamlet
Ruth Virden
Ethel Ware
Alice Whipple Lyons
Elizabeth Wilson
Sarah Alston Lawton
Kathleen Belcher Gaines
Isabel Bennett McCready
Helen Burkhalter Quattlebaum
Lula Groves Campbell Ivey
Hallie Cranford Daugherty
Caroline Farquhar
Louise Harle
Edith Mabry Barnett
Lillie Maril Jacobs
Jane Nesbit Gaines
Mary Elizabeth Nisbit Marty
Helene Norwood Lammers
Lois Polhill Smith
Dinah Roberts Parramour
54 givers; $1704.00

1923

Clara Mae Allen Reinero
Imogene Allen Booth
Ruth Almond Ward
Hazel Bordeaux Lyon
Dorothy Bowron Collins
Margaret Brenner Awtrey
Sally Brodnax Hansell
Nannie Campbell Roache
Minnie Clarke Cordle
Eileen Dodd Sams
Christine Evans Murray

Helen Faw Mull
Elizabeth Flake Cole
Maud Foster Jackson
Philippa Gilchrist
Emily Guille Henegar
Mary Harris Yongue
Quenelle Harrold Sheffield
Elizabeth Hoke Smith
Viola Hollis Oakley
Lucie Howard Carter
Eleanor Hyde
Eloise Knight Jones
Jane Knight Lowe
Lucile Little Morgan
Elizabeth Lockhart Davis
Josephine Logan Hamilton
Edith McCallie
Lois McClain Stancill
Elizabeth McClure McGeachy
Hilda McConnell Adams
Anna Hall McDougall Terry
Martha Mcintosh Nail
Mary Stewart McLeod
Anna Meade Minnigerode
Susye Mims Lazenby
Margaret Ransom Sheffield
Catherine Shields Potts
Alice Virden
Cecile Bowden Mayfield
Maybeth Carnes Robertson
Rebecca Dick
Lena Feldman
Mildred Ham Darsey
Emma Hermann Lowe
Ruby Mae Hudson Summerlin
Caroline Moody Jordan
Sara Moore Kelly
Margaret Parker Turner
Gertrude Samuels
Dorothy Scott
Frances Stuart Key
Nell Veal Zipfel
Jessie Watts Rustin
Margaretta Womelsdorf Lumpkin
Margaret Yeager Brackney
56 givers; $2980.00

1924

Frances Amis
Emily Arnold Perry
Elizabeth Askew Patterson
Grace Bargeron Rambo
Rebecca Bivings Rogers
Janice Brown

Helen Lane Comfort Sanders
Marguerite Dobbs Maddox
Martha Eakes Matthews
Emmie Ficklen Harper
Katie Frank Gilchrist
Frances Gilliland Stukes
Mary Greene

Margaret Griffin Williams
Victoria Howie Kerr
Evelyn King Wilkins
Sarah Kinman
Vivian Little

Mary Mann Boon
Lillian McAlpine Butner
Margaret McDow MacDoug;
Cora Morton Durrett
Frances Myers Dickely
Catherine Nash Goff
Virginia Ordway
Weenona Peck Booth
Margaret Powell Gay
Cora Richardson
Carrie Scandrett
Daisy Frances Smith
Polly Stone Buck
Annie Wilson Terry
Annadawn Watson Edwards
Alberta Bieser Havis
Elizabeth Dabney Grobien
Eunice Evans Brownlee
Selma Gordon Furman
Marguerite Lindsey Booth
Mildred McFall
Edith Melton Bassett
Mary Mosier Colter
Ruth Spence Spear
Augusta Thomas Lanier
Dorothy Walker Brannon
44 givers; $2021.00

1925

Frances Bitzer F.dson
Mary Bess Bowdoin
Mary Brown Campbell
Louise Buchanan Proctor
Elizabeth Cheatham Palme
Agatha Deaver Bradley
Josephine Douglas Harwel
Ruth Drane Williams
Isabel Ferguson
Lucile Gause Fryxell
Ruth Guff in Griffin
Louise Hannah Melson
Mary Elizabeth Keesler Da]
Eunice Kell Simmons
Margaret Ladd May
Frances Lincoln Moss
Georgia Little Owens
Martha Lin Manly Hogshes
Anne LeConte McKay
Mary Ann McKinney
Lillian Middlebrooks Smear
Frances Moore
Ruth Owen
Clyde Passmore
Mildred Pitner Randall
Julia Pope

Catherine Randolph Russe
Maria Rose
Floy Sadler

Carolyn Smith Whipple
Emily Ann Spivey SimmoE
Sarah Tate Tumlin
Frances Tennent Ellis
Pocahontas Wight Edmund
Mary Ben Wright Erwin
Emily Zellars McNeill
Anna May Dieckmann Mor

[22]

ian Gregory Bussey
herine Hadley Kelley
s Jennings Williams
i Moore Sandifer
jy Nichols Burwell
*inia Perkins Nelson
.nces Singletary Daughtry
rgaret Thomasson Taylor
mory Tucker Merritt
nces White
givers; $12fi5.00

en Bates Law

s Bolles Knox

'garet Bull

th Carpenter Shuey

the Coleman Paris

ices Cooper Stone

isa Duls

:n Fain Bowen

a Ferrell Gentry

ry Freeman Curtis

th Gilchrist Berry

nita Greer White

ry Ella Hammond McDowell

iche Haslam Hollingsworth

rlotte Higgs Andrews

:el Huff Monaghan

ling Johnson

ry Knox Happoldt

abeth Little Meriwether

herine Mock Hodgin

ce Ogden Moore

othy Owen Alexander

jinia Peeler Green

:ence Perkins Ferry

ise Pfeiffer Ringel

hrine Pitman Brown

:ne Ramage Fitzgerald

lie Bass Richardson

abeth Shaw McClamroch

ih Slaughter

ih Smith Merry

'ia Swann

rgaret Tufts

ie Sue Wallace Nolen

garet Whitington Davis

jinia Wing Power

alie Wootten Deck

:y Ella Zellars Davison

abeth Doggett Johnson

ie Dunn Clark

ia Ryttenberg Hirschberg

abeth Snow Tilly

lise Stokes Hutchison

ma Tucker Sturtevant

gy Whittemore Flowers

givers; 1471.00

7

ia Bayless Boyer

na Bernhardt

irine Bledsoe Bramlett

:phine Bridgman

trlotte Buckland

Georgia Burns Bristow
Grace Carr Clark
Annette Carter Colwell
Dorothy Chamberlain
Susan Clayton Fuller
Lillian Clement Adams
Willie May Coleman Duncan
Mildred Cowan Wright
Martha Crowe Eddins
Marion Daniel Blue
Mary Davis Johnson
Frances Dobbs Cross
Eugenie Dozier
Mabel Dumas Crenshaw
Emilie Ehrlich Strasburger
Katherine Gilliland Higgins
Venie Belle Grant Jones
Ann Heys Nash
Katherine Houston Sheild
Ida Landau Sherman
Helen Lewis Lindsley
Ellen Douglass Leyburn
Elizabeth Lilly Swedenberg
Louise Lovejoy Jackson
Elizabeth Lynn
Kenneth Maner Powell
Caroline McKinney Clark
Lucia Nimmons
Elizabeth Norfleet Miller
Stella Pittman Dunkin
Louise Plumb Stephens
Miriam Preston St. Clair
Virginia Sevier Hanna
Sarah Shields Pfeiffer
Willie White Smith
Emily Stead
Edith Strickland Jones
Elizabeth Vary
Margie Wakefield
Mary Weems Rogers
Roberta Winter
Grace Zachry McCreery
Edna Anderson Noblin
Martha Childress Ferris
Margaret Edmondson Noonan
Grace Etheredge
Kathryn Johnson
52 givers; $2075.50

1928

Sallie Abernethy
Harriet Alexander Kilpatrick
Miriam Anderson Dowdy
Myrtle Bledsoe Wharton
Elizabeth Cole Shaw
Patricia Collins Andretta
Lucy Mai Cook Means
Emily Cope Fennell
Frances Craighead Dwyer
Mary Crenshaw McCullough
Sarah Currie Harry
Betsey Davidson Smith
Mary Dobyns Houston
Eloise Gaines Wilburn
Irene Garretson Nichols
Louise Girardeau Cook
Sarah Glenn Boyd

Elizabeth Grier Edmunds
Muriel Griffin
Annie Harper Nix
Rachel Henderlite
Mary Hough Clark
Josephine Houston Dick
Elizabeth Hudson McCulloch
Alice Hunter Rasnake
Mildred Jennings
Anais Jones Ramey
Kathryn Kalmon Nussbaum
Irene Lowrance Wright
Janet MacDonald
Ermine Malone Owenby
Mary Jane McCoy Gardner
Elizabeth McEntire
Ellott May McLellon Rushton
Lilla Mills Hawes
Julia Napier North
Martha Lou Overton
Evangeline Papageorge
Elizabeth Roark Ellington
Mary Sayward Rogers
Mary Shepherd Soper
Mary Shewmaker
Virginia Skeen Norton
Louise Sydnor McCormick
Lillian White Nash
Grace Ball Sanders
Madelaine Dunseith Alston
Gladys Jennings Lord
Frances New McRae
Nannie Graham Sanders
Mary Stegall Stipp
51 givers; $2719.00

1929

Pernette Adams Carter
Sara Frances Anderson Ramsay
Gladys Austin Mann
Therese Barksdale Vinsonhaler
Martha Bradford Thurmond
Lticile Bridgman Leitch
Dorothy Brown Cantrell
Hazel Brown Ricks
Helon Brown Williams
Virginia Cameron Taylor
Sara Carter Massee
Dorothy Cheek Callaway
Sally Cothran Lambeth
Sara Douglass Thomas
Mary Ficklen Barnett
Nancy Fitzgerald Bray
Ethel F"reeland Darden
Lenore Gardner McMillan
Margaret Garretson Ford
Betty Gash
El ise Gibson
Alice Glenn Lowry
Marion Green Johnston
Pearl Hastings Baughman
Elizabeth Hatchett
Cara Hinrnan
Charlotte Hunter
Katherine Hunter Branch
Dorothy Hutton Mount

Sara Johnston Carter

Mary Alice Julian

Mary Lanier Swann

Lillian LeConte Haddock

Katherine Lott Marbut

Mabel Marshall White-house

Alice McDonald Richardson

Edith McGranahan Smith 1

Julia McLendon Robeson

Elinore Morgan McComb

Elizabeth Moss Mitchell

Esther Nisbet Anderson

Eleanor Lee Norris MacKinnon

Katherine Pasco

Mary Prim Fowler

Helen Ridley Hartley

Martha Selman Jacobs

Mary Helen Sisson Morrison

Sarah Southerland

Olive Spencer Jones

Mary Gladys Steffner Kincaid

Susanne Stone Eady

Mary Warren Read

Violet Weeks Miller

Frances Welsh

Ruth Worth

Mary Ansley Howland

Clara Askew Crawford

Bernice Branch Leslie

Manila Broadhurst Holderness

Bettina Bush Carter

Amanda Groves

Ella Hollingswoth Wilkerson

Evelyn Knight Richards

Isabelle Leonard Spearman

Grace McLaurin Blake

Elsie McNair Maddox

Rosalinde Moncrief Jordan

Josephine Pou Varner

Harriett Rylander Ansley

Marjorie Shealy Range

Evelyn Wood Owen

71 givers; $4884.00

*deceased; given by husband

1930

Walterette Arwood Tanner

Marie Baker

Josephine Barry Brown

Ruth Bradford Clayton

Elizabeth Branch Johnson

Fiances Brown Milton

Lois Combs Kropa

Katherine Crawford Adams

Gladney Cureton

Elizabeth Dawson Scofield

Clarene Dorsey

Clemminette Downing Rutenber

Dorothy Dudley McLanahan

Augusta Dunbar

Anne Ehrlich Solomon

Elizabeth Flinn Eckert

Alice Garretson Bolles

Anna Katherine Golucke Conyers

Mary Jane Goodrich Green

Mildred Greenleaf Walker

[23]

Jane Bailey Hall Hefner

Elizabeth Hamilton Jacobs

Emilie Harvey Massicot

Ineil Heard Kelley

Helen Hendricks Martin

Katherine Leary Holland

Ruth Mallory Burch

Mary McCallie Ware

Helon McLaurin Berry

Ruth McLean Wright

Frances Medlin Walker

Frances Messer

Blanche Miller Rigby

Emily Moore Couch

Lynn Moore Hardy

Carolyn Nash Hathaway

Margaret Ogden Stewart

Carrington Owen

Sallie Peake

Shannon Preston Cumming

Helen Respess Bevier

Lillian Russell McBath

Virginia Shaffner Pleasants

Janice Simpson

Nancy Simpson Porter

Dorothy Smith

Martha Stackhouse Grafton

Belle Stowe Abernethy

Mary Terry

Mary Louise Thames Cartledge

Lillian Thomas

Harriett Todd Gallant

Sara Townsend Pittman

Mary Trammell

Anne Dowdell Turner

Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg

Evalyn Wilder

Harriet B. Williams

Raemond Wilson Craig

Missouri Woolford Raine

Octavia Young Harvey

Emily Campbell

Lilian Cook McFarland

Elizabeth Dodd Thomas

Mary Heeth McDermott

Sarah Marsh Shapard

Sue Jane Mauney Ramseur

Frances McCoy

Mary Stull Carson

69 givers; $2050.50

1931

Margaret Askew Smith
Laura Brown Logan
Sara Lou Bullock
Nancy Crockett Minns
Marjorie Daniel Cole
Ellen Davis Laws
Mildred Duncan
Ruth Dunwody
Ruth Etheredge Griffin
Marion Fielder Martin
Jean Grey Morgan
Dorothy Grubb Rivers
Ruth Hall Christensen
Carolyn Heyman Goodstein

Sarah Hill Brown

Chapin Hudson Hankins

Myra Jervey Hoyle

Elise Jones

Dorothy Kethley Klughaupt

Eunice Lawrence Moorefield

Anne McCallie

Jane McLaughlin Titus

Shirley McPhaul Whitfield

Louise Miller Elliott

Katherine Morrow Norem

Frances Murray Hedberg

Fanny Niles Bolton

Clara Knox Nunnally Roberts

Ruth Pringle Pipkin

Katharine Purdie

Kitty Reid Carson

Jeannette Shaw Harp

Elizabeth Simpson Wilson

Harriet Smith

Martha Sprinkle Rafferty

Mary Sprinkle Allen

Laelius Stallings Davis

Cornelia Taylor Stubbs

Ruth Taylor

Julia Thompson Smith

Martha Tower Dance

Louise Ware Venable

Martha Watson Smith

Margaret Weeks

Ellene Winn

Elizabeth Woolfolk Moye

Octavia Howard Smith

Caroline Jones Johnson

Martha Ransom Johnston

Mary Winter Wright

50 givers; $1601.00

1932

Virginia Allen Woods
Catherine Baker Matthews
Varnelle Braddy Perryman
Harriotte Brantley
Penelope Brown Barnett
Mary Louise Cawthon
Margaret Deaver
Diana Dyer Wilson
Mary Effie Elliot
Grace Fincher Trimble
Marjorie Gamble
Susan Love Glenn
Virginia Gray Pruitt
Ruth Green
Elena Greenfield
Julia Grimmet Fortson
Mildred Hall Cornwell
Louise Hollingsworth Jackson
Sara Hollis Baker
Anne Hopkins Ayres
Elizabeth Hughes Jackson
LaMvra Kane Swanson
Margaret Kleiber Jackson
Marguerite Link Gatling
Martha Logan Henderson
Clyde Lovejoy Stevens
Mary Miller Brown
Lila Norfleet Davis

Betty Peeples Brannen
Margaret Ridgely Bachmann
Flora Riley Bynum
Elizabeth Skeen Dawsey
Louise Stakely
Nell Starr Tate
Anna Sutton Gray
Olive Weeks Collins
Martha Williamson Riggs
Louise Winslow Taft
Grace Woodward Palmour
Mary Claire Oliver Cox
Alice Quarles Henderson
Jane Shelby Clay
Katherine Spitz Guthman
43 givers; $3310.00

1933

Page Ackerman

Mary Alexander Parker

Bernice Beaty Cole

VVilla Beckham Lowrance

Margaret Bell Burt

Margaret Alice Belote Morse

Judy Blundell Adler

Nellie Brown Davenport

Alice Bullard Nagle

Evelyn Campbell

Sarah Cooper Freyer

Jewell Coxwell

Eugenia Edwards Mackenzie

Martha Eskridge Love

Helen Etheredge Griffin

May Belle Evans

Bessie Meade Friend Drake

Mary Lillias Garretson

Margaret Glass Womeldorf

Virginia Heard Feder

Lucile Heath McDonald

Mildred Hooten Keen

Mary Hope Fling

Polly Jones Jackson

Nancy Kamper Miller

Roberta Kilpatrick Stubblebine

Blanche Lindsey Camp

Caroline Lingle Lester

Margaret Loranz

Elizabeth K. Lynch

Vivian Martin Buchanan

Mildred Miller Davis

Ada Mitchell Hoagland

Marie Moss Brandon

Gail Nelson Blain

Frances Oglesby Hills

Margaret Ridley Beggs

Mary Louise Robinson Black

Letitia Rockmore Lange

Sarah Shadburn Heath

Margaret Smith Kingdon

Laura Spivey Massie

Douschka Sweets Akerman

Marlyn Tate Lester

Margaret Telford St. Amant

Mary Frances Torrance Fleming

Marie Whittle Welleslager

Amelia Wolf Bond

Katharine Woltz Green
Elizabeth Bolton
Porter Cowles Pickell
Thelma rirestone Hogg
LaTrelle Robertson Duncan
53 givers; $4227.50

1934

Ruth Barnett Kaye
Aloe Risse Barron Leitch
Helen Boyd McConnell
lona Cater

Nelle Chamlee Howard
Pauline Cureton Perry
Plant Ellis Brown
Martha England Gunn
Margaret Friend Stewart
Pauline Gordon Woods
Lucy Goss Herbert
Sybil Grant
Mary Grist Whitehead
Alma Groves Jeter
Elinor Hamilton Hightower
Lillian Herring Rosas
Elizabeth Johnson Thompson
Isabel Lowrance Brooksher
Jane MacMillan Tharpe
Kathryn Maness Unsworth
Louise McCain Boyce
Mary McDonald Sledd
Carrie Lena McMullen Bright
Ruth Moore Randolph
Hyta Plowden Mederer
Florence Preston Bockhorst
Virginia Prettyman
Charlotte Reid Herlihy
Carolyn Russell Nelson
Louise Schuessler Patterson
Mary Lou Schuman Simpso:
Martha Skeen Gould
Mary Sloan Laird
Rudene Taffar Young
Mabel Barton Talmage
Tennessee Tipton Butler
Bella Wilson Lewis
Elizabeth Winn Wilson
Mary Evelyn Winterbottom
Johnnie May York Rumble
Flora Young Mobley
Dorothy Bradley
Marguerite Kennedy Griesemi
Wanelle Lott
Sara May Love
Mary Walton Berry
Mallie White Regen
Eleanor Williams Knox

* Felice Williams
49 givers; $1904.00

* Deceased

1935

Elizabeth Alexander Higgins
Mary Virginia Allen
Vella Marie Behm Cowan
Dorothea Blackshear Brady
Marian Calhoun Murray
Marjorie Carmichael Kontz

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Davis Alt
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Duls Starrett
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iah Edwards Ingram
ie Florence Eubanks Donehoo

Jane Evans Lichliter

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beth Heaton Mullino
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i Lou Houck Smith
t Humber Little
ihine Jennings Brown
ces McCalla Ingles
lyn McCallum

McClatchey Brooke
Lois McDaniel
i Morrison Backer
rta Palmour McMillan
i Parke Hopkins

Pattillo Kendall

ha Redwine Rountree

e Robinson Wynn

ie Simpson Rutland

a Elizabeth Squires Doughman

Zach Thompson

Ired Thompson Raven
ibeth Thrasher Baldwin
n Turner White

Underwood Trowell
a Whitner Dorsey
er Anne Withers Boyd
inia Wood

iteline Woolfolk Mathes
beth Young Williams
tha A damson
:vieve Dorman

Goodwin Harbin
nor Sessoms
ivers; $1679.00

ie Ahles Puleston
i Ames

Armstrong
beth Baethke
erine Bates
lie Blair Fife
el Bull Mitchell
beth Burson Wilson
! Chamlee Booth

Coffee Packer

lyn Coley Wynatt

jaret Cooper Williams

erine Cunningham Richards

Cureton Prowell

Frances Estes
beth Forman

From Poliakoff
inia Gaines Ragland
n Handte Morse
)' Henderson Hill
ces James Donohue
:s Jamison McKoy

Ethelyn Johnson Roberts
Augusta King Brumby
Carrie Latimer Duvall
Sara Lawrence
Kathryn Leipold Johnson
Gertrude Lozier Hutchinson
Dorothy Lyons Johnson
Alice McCallie Pressly
Sue McClure Parker
Frances McCully
Sarah Frances McDonald
Dean McKoin Bushong
Sally McRee Maxwell
Frances Miller Felts
.Rosa Miller Barnes
Sarah Nichols Judge
Myra O'Neal Enloe
Mary Richardson Gauthier
Gregory Rowlett Weidman
Lavinia Scott St. Clair
Sarah Spencer Gramling
Adelaide Stevens Ware
Mary Margaret Stowe Hunter
Eugenia Symms
Miriam Talmage Vann
Marie Townsend
Sarah Traynham
Mary Vines Wright
Mary Walker Fox
Lilly Weeks McLean
Carolyn White Burrill
Nell White Larsen
Rebecca Whitley Nunan
Virginia Williams Goodwin
Sara Catherine Wood Marshall
Mary Beasley White
Jane Blair Roberson
Ida Buist Rigby
Sarah Burnette Thomason
Carolyne Clements Logue
Emily Dodge
Martha Edmonds Allen
Florrie Erb Bruton
Marjorie Hollingsworth
Marilyn Morrow
Sadie Morrow Hughes
Adeline Rountree Turman
Mary Alice Shelton Felt
Helen Tucker Thompson
71 givers; $1875.50

1937

Eloisa Alexander LeConte
Lucile Barnett Mirman
Edith Belser Wearn
Louise Brown Smith
Lucille Cairns George
Ann Cox Williams

Kathleen Daniel Spicer
Lucile Dennison Keenan
Jane Estes

Michelle Furlow Oliver
Annie Laura Galloway Phillips
Mary Gillespie Thompson
Fannie B. Harris Jones
Ruth Hunt Little
Barton Jackson Cathey

Dorothy Jester
Kitty Jones Malone
Molly Jones Monroe
Rachel Kennedy Lowthian
Mary King
Mary Kneale Avrett
Florence Lasseter Rambo
Florence Little
Vivienne Long McCain
Mary Malone Martin
Mary Catherine Matthews Starr
Kay Maxwell
Isabel McCain Brown
Frances McDonald Moore
Enid Middleton Howard
Ora Muse

Mary Alice Newton Bishop
Ellen O'Donnell Gartner
Kathryn Printup Mitchell
Marie Stalker Smith
Frances Steele Gordy
Laura Steele

Martha Summers Lamberson
Alice Taylor Wilcox
Mary Jane Tigert Thompson
Mildred Tilly
Eula Turner Kuchler
Margaret Watson
Jessie Williams Howell
Betty Willis Whitehead
Mary Willis Smith
Frances Wilson Hurst
Frances Balkcom
Millicent Caldwell Jones
Meredith Crickmer Cartel-
Barbara Hertwig Meschter
Elizabeth Moore Weaver
Elizabeth Perrin Powell

* Helen Ramsey
Vivienne Trice Ansley
Chrysanthy Tuntas Demetrv
56 givers; $1338.00

* Deceased; given by mother.

1938

Jean Adams Weersing
Jean Austin Meacham
Josephine Bertolli Abbissinio
Tommy Ruth Bla ;kmon Waldo
Elizabeth Blackshear Flinn
Elsie Blackstone Veatch
Katherine Brittingham Hunter
Martha Peek Brown Miller
Susan Bryan Cooke
Frances Castleberry
Myrl Chafin Hansard
Jean Chalmers Smith

* Laura Coit Jones
Mildred Davis Adams
Goudyloch Erwin Dyer
Mary Lillian Fairly Hupper
Mary Elizabeth Galloway Blount
Jane Guthrie Rhodes

Carol Hale Hollibaugh
Ann Worthy Johnson
Winifred Kellersberger Vass
Ola Kelly Ausley

Mary Anne Kernan
Eliza King Paschall
Margaret Lipscomb Martin
Jeanne Matthews Darlington
Elizabeth McCord Lawler
Lettie McKay Van Landingham
Nancy Moorer Cantey
Margaret Morrison Blumberg
Primrose Noble Phelps
kathryn Peacock Springer
Marjorie Rainey Lindsey
Joyce Roper McKey
Mary Smith Bryan
Virginia Suttenfield
Grace Tazewell Flowers
Julia Telford
Anne Thompson Rose
Doris Tucker
Jane Turner Smith
Elizabeth Warden Marshall
Virginia Watson Logan
Mary Belle Weir Norris
Zoe Wells Lambert
Elsie West Meehan
Lydia Whitner Black
Louise Young Garrett
Maltha Agee Hedges
Lillian Croft
Norma Faurot Oakes
Kathryn Fitzpatrick O'Callaghan
Annie Hastie Mclnnis
Kennon Henderson Patton
Lily Hoffman Ford
Betty Mathis
Ellen McCallie Cochrane
57 givers; $1841.00
* deceased

1939

Alice Adams

Mary Allen Reding

Jean Bailey Owen

Henrietta Blackwell Ketcham

Alice Caldwell Melton

Catherine Caldwell Wallace

Rachel Campbell Gibson

Caroline Carmichael Wheeler

Lelia Carson Watlington

Alice Cheeseman

Virginia Cofer Avery

Sarah Joyce Cunningham Carpentei

Jane Dryfoos Bijur

Catherine Farrar Davis

Mary Virginia Farrar Shearouse

Susan Goodwyn Garner

Dorothy Graham Gilmer

Mary Frances Guthrie Brooks

Eleanor Hall

Jane Moore Hamilton Ray

Mary Hollingsworth Hatfield

Cora Kay Hutchins Blackwelder

Phyllis Johnson O'Neal

Elizabeth Kenney Knight

Helen Kirkpatrick Carmack

Eunice Knox Williams

Virginia Kyle Dean

Helen Lichten Solomonson

Douglas Lyle Rowlett

[25]

Emily MacMorland Midkiff
Martha Marshall Dykes
Emma McMullen Doom
Mary Wells McNeill
Marie Merritt Rollins
Helen Moses Regenstein
Mary Moss Sinback
Amelia Nickels Calhoun
Lou Pate

Julia Porter Scurry
Betty Price Medaglia
Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger
Jeanne Redwine Hunter
Hayden Sanford Sams
Aileen Shortley Whipple
Alice Anna Sill
Penny Simonton Boothe
Mary Frances Thompson
Virginia Tumlin Guffin
Elinor Tyler Richardson
Florence Wade Crenshaw
Ann Watkins Ansley
Cary Wheeler Bowers
Mary Ellen Whetsell Timmons
Dixie Woodford Scanling
Caroline Armistead Martin
Ethelyn Boswell Purdie
Mildred Brown Claiborne
Jane Carithers Wellington
Margaret Edmunds
Ruth Hertszka
Josephine Larkins
Rebecca Love Kidd
Margaret Pleasants Jones
Sara Beaty Sloan Shoonmaker
Ruth Tate Boozer
Cornelia Whitner Campbell
66 givers; $1657.00

1940

Frances Abbot Burns
Betty Alderman Vinson
Grace Elizabeth Anderson Cooper
Evelyn Baty Landis
Anna Margaret Bond Brannon
Eugenia Bridges Trawicky
Barbara Brown Fugate
Jeanette Carroll Smith
Helen Carson
Ernestine Cass McGee
Mary Elizabeth Chalmers Orsborn
Elizabeth Davis Moore
Lillie Belle Drake
Grace Duggan Jordan
Anne Enloe
Carolyn Forman
Mary Evelyn Francis Ault
Marian Franklin Anderson
Mary Lang Gill Olson
Florence Graham
Sam Olive Griffin McGinnis
Wilma Griffith Clapp
Polly Heaslett Badger
Margaret Hopkins Martin
Gary Home Petrey
Louise Hughston Sievers
Georgia Hunt

Eleanor Hutchens
Kathleen Jones Durden
Lenora Jones Griffin
Mildred Joseph Colyer
Caroline Lee Mackay
Sara Lee Mattingly
Eloise Lennard Smith
Sally Matthews Bixler
Eloise McCall Guyton
Virginia McWhorter Freeman
Mary Frances Moore Culpepper
Julia Moseley
Jane Moses Ranwez
Nell Moss Roberts
Barbara Murlin Pendleton
Betty Jean O'Brien Jackson
Esthete Ogden Blakeslee
Beth Paris Moremen
Katherine Patton Carssow
Nell Pinner Sannella
Margaret Ratchford
Mary Reins Burge
Isabella Robertson White
Ruth Slack Roach
Hazel Solomon Beazley
Edith Stover McFee
Louise Sullivan Fry
Mary McC. Templeton
Emilie Thomas Gibson
Henrietta Thompson Wilkinson
Emily Underwood Gault
Grace Ward Anderson
Violet Jane Watkins
Eloise Weeks Gibson
Frances Woodall Shank
Josephine Allen Winston
Margaret Barnes
Mary Kate Burruss Proctor
Eva Copeland
Margaret Currie Ellwood
Nell Echols Burks
Martha Fite Wink
Betty Ann Hubbard Courtney
Irene Phillips Richardson
Myrtis Trimble Stout
72 givers; $1867.50

1941

Ruth Allgood Camp
Frances Alston Lewis
Stuart Arbuckle Osteen
Elizabeth Barrett Alldredge
Rowena Barringer Stubbs
Miriam Bedinger Williamson
Martha Boone Shaver
June Boykin Tindall
Frances Breg Marsden
Sabine Brumby
Gladys Burks Bielaski
Harriette Cochran
Virginia Collier Dennis
Freda Copeland Hoffman
Virginia Corr White
Jean Dennison Brooks
Martha Dunn Kerby
Florence Ellis Gifford

Margaret Falkinburg Myers

Louise Franklin Livingston

Caroline Gray Truslow

Florrie Guy Funk

Ann Henry

Elizabeth Irby Milam

Aileen Kasper Borrish

Elizabeth Kendrick Woolford

Helen Klugh McRae

Betty Kyle Langenwalter

Julia Lancaster

Marcia Mansfield Fox

Anne Martin

Margaret McGarity Green

Martha Moody Laseter

Louise Musser Kell

Valgerda Nielsen Dent

Mollie Oliver

Pattie Patterson Johnson

Marion Philips Comento

Marion Phillips Richards

Sue Phillips Morgan

Elta Robinson Posey

Louise Sams Hardy

Lillian Schwencke Cook

Susan Self Teat

Gene Slack Morse

Nina May Snead deMontmollin

Elizabeth Stevenson

Carolyn Strozier

Ellen Stuart Patton

Elaine Stubbs Mitchell

Tommay Turner Peacock

Ida Jane Vaughan Price

Betty Waitt White

Grace Walker Winn

Mary Madison Wisdom

Anita Woolfolk Cleveland

Ruth Ashburn Kline

Dorothy Debele Purvis

Ruby Evans Andrews

Nancy Gribble Nelson

Edith Henegar Bronson

Sara Lee Jackson

Margaret Lentz Sheer

Nellie Richardson Dyal

Freck Sproles

65 givers; $1251.00

1942

Rebekah Andrews McNeill

Martha Arant Allgood

Jean Beutell Abrams

Betty Ann Brooks

Martie Buffalow Rust

Frances Butt Singer

Anne Chambless Bateman

Sylvia Cohn Levy

Sarah Copeland Little

Dorothy Cremin Read

Gay Currie

Billie Davis Nelson

Martha Dillard Anderson

Dale Drennan Hicks

Susan Dyer Oliver

Mary Lightfoot Elcan Nichols

Frances Ellis Green

Mary Ann Faw

Polly Frink Bunnell
Ann Gellerstedt Turlington
Lillian Gish Alfriend
Margery Gray Wheeler
Kathryn Greene Gunter
Lillian Gudenrath Massey
Virginia Hale Murray
Julia Harry Bennett
Margaret Hartsook Emmon
Doris Henson Vaughn
Neva Jackson Webb
Jeanne Lee Butt
I la Belle Levie Bagwell
Caroline Long Armstrong
Mary Dean Lott Lee
Mary McQuown Wynn
Susanna McWhorter Reckarc
Betty Medlock
Virginia Montgomery
Dorothy Nabers Allen
Elise Nance Bridges
Mary Louise Palmour Barbc
Julia Ann Patch Drummonc
Louise Pruitt Jones
Claire Purcell Smith
Pat Reasoner Anson
Mary Elizabeth Robertson P
Elizabeth Russell Stelling
Margaret Sheftall Chester
Elise Smith Bischoff
Margaret Smith Wagnon
Jackie Stearns
Jane Stillwell Espy
Betty Sunderland Bent
Jane Taylor White
Frances Tucker Owen
Dorothy Webster Woodruff
Myree Wells Maas
Annie Wilds McLeod
Ailene Barron Penick
Jane Coughlan Huff
Betty Nash Story
Elizabeth Redmond Wood
Theodosia Ripley Landis
Evelyn Saye Williams
Myrtle Seckinger
Ruth Smith Wilson
Eleanor Stockdale Pratt
Nancy Wimpfheimer Wolff
67 givers; $1317.50

1943

Emily Anderson Hightower
Mary Anne Atkins Paschal
Mamie Sue Barker Woolf
Betty Bates

Betty Brougher Campbell
Flora Campbell McLain
Hester Chafin
Alice Clements Shinall
Maryann Cochran Abbott
Joella Craig Good
Laura dimming Northey
Martha Dale Moses
Jane Dinsmore Adair
Margaret Downie Hutching

[26]

i DuBose Skiles

Flowers Price

: Frierson Smoak

:y Green

i Guthrie

n Hale Lawton

beth Hartsfield

Henderson Cameron
Hilsman Knight
y Hirsh Rosengarten
thy Holloran Addison
it Holsenbeck Moore
!ia Hopper Brown
ces Kaiser

Kuniansky Willner

Lancaster Codington
/ Lebey Wilder

Lineback von Arx
nia Lucas Harrington

Paisley Boyd
'erry Braun
:es Radford Mauldin

Rosser Davis

Rountree Couch

Scott Wilkinson
aret Shaw Allied
la Ann Smith Roberts
i Spurlock Wilkins
itokes Barnes
1 Stowe Query

Ward Danielson
>rie Weismann Zeidman
ira Wilber Gerland
Wright Philips

Branch Black Hanscll

Blakemore Johnston

/ Fellenz Affeldt

:y Gately Ibach

Gwin Stipe

:hy Moore Bohannon

otte Shepeard Lennon

Steadman McMurphy
Tucker
Wolford
/ers; 1279.00

Arnold

Bedinger Baldwin
Bennett Kelly
da Bernabe Montealegre
Bowman

I Breedin Griffith
Burress Tucker
fn Calhoun Davis
Carr Townsend
Clarkson Rogers
ra Connally Rogers
'n Daniel Payne
ra Jane Daniels
Dickson Druary
Douglas
Dozier Pallotta
Louise Duffee Philips
eth Edwards Wilson
ia Evans
Farrior

Sara Florence
Pauline Garvin Keen
Bunny Gray Click
Olive Hansen Brooks
Zena Harris Temkin
Elizabeth Harvard Dowda
Julia Harvard Warnock
Kathryn Hill Whitfield
Madeline Hosmer Brenner
Miriam House Kirkland
Adelaide Humphreys
Ann Jacob

Catherine Kollock Thoroman
Ruth Kolthoff Kirkman
Harriett Kuniansky Ross
June Lanier Beckman
Martha Ray Lasseter Storey
Lois Martin Busby
Mary Maxwell Hutcheson
Quincy Mills Jones
Aurie Montgomery Miller
Marjorie Patterson Graybcal
Katherine Philips Long
Bobbie Powell Flowers
Anne Sale

Betty Pope Scott Noble
Marjorie Smith Stephens
Anna Sullivan Huffmaster
Robin Taylor Horneffer
Katheryne Thompson Mangum
Elise Tilghman
Marjorie Tippins Johnson
Martha Marie Trimble Wapensky
Betty Vecsey
Billy Walker Schellack
Miriam Walker
Anne Ward
Jeanne White
Smiley William Stofiel
Squee Woolford
Jo Young Sullivan
Betty Bacon Skinner
Mary Ann Barfield Bloodworth
Virginia Barr McFarland
Eloise Brawley
Ann Bumstead Phillips
Evelyn Cheek Stevenson
tmogene Gower
Martha Liddell Donald
Laverne Stunner Paxton
Kay Wilkinson Orr
Elisabeth Williams
72 givers; $1419.00

1945

Ruth Anderson Stall
Bettye Ashcraft Senter
Mary Barbara Azar
Anabel Bleckley Bickford
Virginia Bowie
Louise Cantrell
Elizabeth Carpenter Bardin
Virginia Carter Caldwell
Hansell Cousar Palme
Mary dimming Fitzhugh
Margaret Dale Smith

Beth Daniel

Cordelia DeVane Rush

Katherine Anne Edelblut Rox

Anne Equen Ballard

Pauline Ertz Wechsler

Penny Espey

Jane Everett Knox

Lib Farmer Brown

Joyce Freeman Marting

Barbara Frink Allen

Carolyn Fuller Hill

Betty Glenn Stow

Martha Jean Gower Woolsey

Ruth Gray Walker

Elizabeth Gribble Cook

Florence Harrison North

Emily Higgins Bradley

Jean Hood Booth

Dorothy Hunter

Mary Alice Hunter Ratliff

Dottie Kahn Prunhuber

Kiltie Kay Pelham

Frances King Mann

Susan Kirtley White

Jane Kreiling Mell

Elaine Kuniansky Gutstadt

Mary Louise Law

Marion Leathers Daniels

Eloise Lyndon Rudy

Margaret Mace Hannah

Martha Jane Mack Simons

Bettic Manning

Sylvia McConnel Carter

Jean McCurry Wood

Montene Melson Mason

Molly Milam

Sue Mitchell

Scott Newell Newton

Mary Neely Norris King

Beth Park

Martha Patterson

Inge Probstein

Jeanne Robinson

Ceevah Rosenthal

Bess Sheppard Poole

Julia Slack Hunter

Joan Stevenson Wing

Ann Strickland

Frances Stukes Skardon

Lois Sullivan Kay

Mary Turner Buchanan

Ann Webb Elisberg

Dot Lee Webb McKee

Kate Webb Clary

Wendy Whittle Hoge

Frances Wooddall

Marian Barr Hanner

Betty Campell Wiggins

Ruth Doggett

Betty Franks

Edith Gould

Beverly King Pollock

Juanita Lanier Porter

Alice Mann

Rounelle Martin

Earline Milstead

Nancy Moses McCullough

Isabel Rogers

Margaret Shepherd Yates
Emily Singletary
Agnes Waters Scofield
82 givers; $1462.00

1946

Jeanne Addison Masengill

Vicky Alexander

Mary Lillian Allen Wilkes

Margaret Bear Moore

Jane Bowman

Emily Ann Bradford Batts

Kathryn Burnett Gatewood

Mary Cargill

Jean Chewning Lewis

Mary Ann Courtenay

Edwina Davis

Eleanor Davis Scott

Pattie Dean

Dot DeVane Redfearn

Mary Duckworth Gellerstedt

Mary Mell Fleming
Conradine Fraser Riddle

Jean Fuller Hall
Gloria Gaines Klugh

Louise Gardner Mallory
Joyce Gilleland Dickinson
Alice Gordon Pender
Shirley Graves Cochrane

Jeanne Hale Shepherd

Nancy Hardy

Ellen Hay&s

Elizabeth Horn

Betty Howell

Anne Hoyt Jolley

Louise Isaacson Bernard

Lura Johnston Watkins

Eugenia Jones Howard

Marjorie Karlson

Barbara Kincaid Trimble

Anne Lee McRae

Stratton Lee

Ruth Limbert

Betty Long Sale

Mildred McCain Kinnaird

Mary McConkey

Margaret Mizell Dean

Anne Murrell Courtney

Marjorie Naab Bolen

Jane Anne Newton Marquess

Anne Noell Fowler

Elizabeth Osborne Rollins

Mary Partee

Betty Patrick Merritt

Peg Perez Wcstall

Martha Polk Rogers

Celetta Powell Jones

Harding Ragland Sadler

Anne Register

Louise Reid

Eleanor Reynolds

Mary Russell Mitchell
Ruth Ryner Lay
Mary Jane Schumacher
Ruth Simpson
Bettye Smith
Jane Smith

[27]

Dorothy Spragens Trice
Sally Sue Stephenson Marshall
Jean Stewart
Helga Stixrud
Minnewil Story McNeal
Martha Sunkes Thomas
Marguerite Toole
Peggy Trice Hall
Lucy Turner Knight
Maud Van Dyke Jennings
Mary Catherine Vinsant Grymes
Rite Watson Jones
Verna Weems Macbeth
Betty Weinschenk
Winifred Wilkinson
Eva Williams Jemison
Peggy Willmon Robinson
LaNelle Wright Humphries
Carolyn Hall Medley
Betty Jane Hancock Moore
Margaret Henegar
Carolyn Lewis Hodges
Grace Love
Gilmore Noble Dye
Jean Rooney
Carolyn Ryle Arnold
Ruth Setel Brock
Jacqueline Sterchi Hall
Martha Stevenson Fabian
Rosanne Wilce Pearcy
91 givers; $1468.50

1947

Marie Adams Conyers

Louisa Aichel Mcintosh

Mary Frances Anderson

Betty Andrews Lee

Isabel Asbury

Virginia Barksdale

Glassell Beale Smalley

Alice Beardsley

Marie Beeson

Dale Bennett Pedrick

Joanne Benton Shepherd

Margaret Bond

Marguerite Born Hornsby

Eleanor Calley Story

Jane Cooke

Betty Crabill Rogers

Helen Currie

Virginia Dickson

Anna George Dobbins

Dorothy Dunstan Brown

Anne Eidson Owen

Kate Ellis

Ruth Ellis

Jean Estes Broyles

Nelson Fisher

Frances Ford Smith

Mary Jane Fuller Floyd

Dorothy Galloway

Ruth Glindmeyer Moorman

Anne Hagerty Estes

Agnes Harnsberger

Lilaine Harris Kinnaird

Mary Emily Harris

Genet Heery Barron

Charlotte Hevener

Peggy Pat Home

Louise Hoyt Minor

Sue Hutchens Henson

Anne Jackson

Marianne Jeffries Williams

Kathryn Johnson

Rosemary Jones Cox

Margaret Kelly Wells

Margaret Kinard

Doris Kissling

Marion Knight Watkins

Lidie Lee

Janet Liddell Phillippi

Mary Brown Mahon Ellis

Marguerite Mattison Rice

Gloria McKee

Margaret McManus Landham

Jane Meadows Oliver

Edith Merrin Simmons

Alice Newman Johnson

Virginia Owens Mitchell

Florence Paisley

Angela Pardington

Bet Patterson King

Sophia Pedakis Papador

Helen Pope

Betty Jean Radford Moeller

Jean Rentz

Doris Riddick

Ellen Rosenblatt Caswell

Lorenna Ross

Betty Routsos

Nellie Scott

Nancy Shelton Parrott

Frances Sholes Higgins

Barbara Smith Hull

Barbara Sproesser

Caroline Squires Rankin

Carroll Taylor Parker

June Thomason Lindgren

Betty Turner Marrow

May Turner

Dorothy Wadlington Singleton

Belh Walton Callaway

Jean Williams

Mary Walker Williams

Barbara Wilson Montague

Laura Winchester

Christina Yates

Betty Zeigler de la Mater

Margaret Cochran Stewart

Peggy Gregg Scott

Mary Jane Love

Ann Martin

Ethel Ragan

Anne Herndon Rogers

91 givers; $2144.00

1948

Dabney Adams
Jane Alsobrook
Ginny Andrews
Rose Ellen Armstrong
Jane Barker Secord
Ruth Bastin Slentz
Martha Beacham Jackson
Barbara Blair
Elizabeth Blair Carter

Ruth Blair

Lela Anne Brewer

Betty Jean Brown Ray

Flora Bryant

Sally Bussey Capers

(ane Campbell

Julia Ann Coleman Parham

Mary Alice Compton

Martha Ann Cook

Lulu Croft

Claire Cunningham Schooley

Susan Daugherty

Alice Davidson

Amelia Davis

Nancy Deal Weaver

Adele Dieckmann

Betty Jo Doyle Fischer

June Driskill

Elizabeth Dunn

Anne Elcan Mann

Carol Equen

Anne Ezzard

Edith Feagle Voigt

Harriet Gregory

Rose Mary Griffin Wilson

Jane Hailey Boyd

Mary Stuart Hatch

Anne Henderson Love

Virginia Henry

Kathleen Hewson

Caroline Hodges Roberts

Nan Honour Watson

Martha Humber

June Irving

Mary Elizabeth Jackson Etheridge

Beth Jones Crabill

Mildred Claire Jones Colvin

Margie Klein Thomson

Rebecca Lacy

Marybeth Little

Mary Sheely Little Schenk

Roberta Maclagan Wingard

Lady Major

Mary Manlv Rv.maj

Lou McLaurin Stewart

Mae Comer Osborne

Jenn Payne Miller

Susan Pope

Evelyn Puckett Woodward

Billie Mae Redd

Harriet Reid

Margaret Anne Richards Terry

Ruth Richardson

Anna Clark Rogers

Jane Rushin Hungerford

Teressa Rutland Sanders

Zollie Saxon Johnson

Rebekah Scott Bryan

Anne Shepherd McKee

Mary Gene Sims Dykes

June Smith Athey

Dorothy Stewart Gilliam

Jackie Stewart

Anne Treadwell

Virginia Tucker Hill

Pagie Violette

Lida Walker Askew

Barbara Waugaman

Sara Catherine Wilkinson

Tattie Mae Williams

Suzanne Willson

Emily Wright Cumming

Margaret Yancey

Marian Yancey

Jane Baggs

Betty Bateman

Dorothy Ann Chapman Seatc

Nancy Haislip Cammack

Minnie Hamilton Mallinson

Ann McCurdy Hughes

Vannesse Orr Rowe

Ann Patterson Puckett

Barbara Whipple

Pat Willmon Thomas

93 givers; $1673.00

1949 NON-GRADUATES

Gene Akin Martin

Beverly Baldwin Albea

Alice Jean Caswell Wilkins

Eleanor Compton

Louise Gehrken

Caroline Little

Betsey Marsh

Josephine Snow

Bettv Ann Whitaker Kelly

Jeannette Willcoxon

10 givers; $108.00

Members of the graduating
of 1949 contributed 100% d
their Senior year.

1950 NON-GRADUATES

Carolyn Goodman

Gloria Konemann

Mary Jane Perry Green

Mary Roberts Davis

Faye Tynes

Mary Anne Wagstaff Richards

Leila Walker

7 givers; $68.00

SPECIALS

Martha Bishop
Joan Bright Aycock
Jeanne Countryman
Eva Finklestein Silver
Lila Longley Hicks
Carrie Sinclair
Ann Stansbury MacKenzie
7 givers; $154.00

ALUMNAE CLUBS

Chattanooga Club

Chicago Club

Decatur Club

Hampton-Newport News Clul

Richmond Club

Tallahassee Club

$185.93

OTHER FRIENDS

Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Anders,

James L. Bible

Mary G. Bright

Mrs. Elijah A. Brown

Mrs. J. Bulow Campbell

Annemarie Eaton

Eula Jarnagin

Mrs. W. J. Powell

Mrs. Mary V. Toby

$241.00

Totals:

2230 givers
$272,788.43

[28]

Class Campaign Records

Total

Total

Graduates

% Graduates

Class Living Graduates Contributing

Contributing

Contributing

Amount

Inst.

48

136

29

60 f ;<

$191,504.50

Acad.

35

676.00

1906

5

4

3

60 %

1,182.00

1907

4

6

4

100 %

157.00

1908

6

5

2

33.;

-%

190.00

1909

10

12

5

50

%

1,694.50

1910

13

21

10

76.c

>%

1.264.00

1911

12

18

8

66.7

%

1,742.00

1912

12

16

12

100 ',

1,684.00

1913

14

16

11

78.6%

637.00

1914

22

19

14

63.6%

378.00

1915

22

18

12

54.5%

3,609.00

1916

30

31

17

56.6',

922.00

1917

36

44

28

77.7',

3,461.00

1918

30

30

21

70 %

2,682.00

1919

35

30

21

60 %

2,844.00

1920

41

31

23

56.1%

1,231.50

1921

55

44

29

52.1%

1,688.50

1922

58

54

39

67.1%

1,704.00

1923

61

56

39

63.9%,

2,980.00

1924

56

44

33

58.9%,

2,021.00

1925

75

47

36

48 %,

1,265.00

1926

74

45

38

51.4%

1,471.00

1927

102

52

47

46.1%

2,075.50

1928

100

51

45

45 %

2,719.00

1929

94

71

55

58.5%

4,884.00

1930

93

69

61

65.6%,

2.050.50

1931

75

50

46

61.3%

1,601.00

1932

83

43

39

47 %

3,310.00

1933

97

53

49

50.5 %

4,227.50

1934

86

49

41

47.7%

1,904.00

1935

86

49

45

oZ.o /o

1,679.00

1936

103

71

57

55.3%

1,875.50

1937

85

56

47

55.3%

1,338.00

1938

84

57

48

57.1%

1,841.00

1939

92

66

54

58.7%

1,657.00

1940

97

72

62

63.9%

1,867.50

1941

101

65

56

55.4%

1,251.00

1942

93

67

57

61.3%

1,317.50

1943

80

58

48

60 %

1,279.00

1944

94

72

61

64.8%

1,419.00

1945

100

82

67

67 %

1,462.00

1946

124

91

79

63.7%

1,468.50

1947

115

91

85

73.9%

2,144.00

1948

114

93

83

72.8%

1,673.00

ex-49

10

108.00

ex-50

7

68.00

Specials

7

154.00

Alumnae Club

s

185.93

Total alumna ,

fivers

2220

272,547.43

Other friends

10

241.00

TOTALS

2817

2230

1666

59.1

07
7c

$272,788.43

Class News

DEATHS
Institute

Florence Burgess Eckford died las
June.

Academy

Alma Poole Arnall died in Atlant;
January 30.

1919

Marjorie McAlpine Moore and Liliai
McAlpine Butner '24 recently los
their father, a long-time missionar;
to China.

1924

Beulah Davidson Parsons died Feb
ruary 5, after an extended illness
Rev.E. P. Kendall, husband of Nel
Pattillo Kendall '35, officiated at th
services.

1934

Felice Williams died March 1 at th
home of her brother in Salisbury, Mc

1941

Dorothy Peteet Mitchell's father die<
February 1 in Atlanta.

1946

Harding Ragland Sadler and Liz Rag
land, ex'51, lost their father in Fel:
ruary.

HELON BROWN WILLIAMS

4

The Williams family in 1946, nine months before Helon's death. Junie
and Quendie are sitting between their parents. Brownie and Bish standing.
(Actual names: June Hoes, Ann Quendrid, Mary Brown, and Ebissa
Grainger II.)

As the twenty-first reunion of the
Class of 1929 draws near, we pause
in memory of our classmate, Helon
Brown Williams, president of her
alumnae class until her death on June
20, 1947.

Helon's passing was one of those
sudden events which, inexplicably,
often take away one whose talents
can least be spared. Rarely are so
many qualities of excellence com-
bined in one person. Beauty and
goodness she wore like a mantle for
all newcomers to see. Longer ac-
quaintance revealed a gaiety, an
evenness of temper, a graciousness,
and withal a humility that were the
measure of her fineness. Add to these
qualities leadership, and there is
drawn a picture of one who was an
exemplification of the Agnes Scott
ideal of educated, Christian woman-
hood.

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Helon walked at the head of her
graduation procession the tallest girl
in '29, its president, and as wearer
of the Hopkins Jewell its foremost
member. As Agnes Scott loved her,
so she gave the College her unflag-
ging loyalty and devotion as student
and alumna.

Married January 1, 1930, to Wil-
liam H. Williams, she became the
mother of four children, the eldest of
whom expects to enter Agnes Scott
this fall. Adherence to the ideals of
service which marked her undergrad-
uate life continued into her post-col-
lege activities as wife, mother, and
citizen. Church, YWCA, PTA, and
Girl Scouts all claimed her interest.

Helon's unique attribute, I think,
was her ability to find the common
denominator between herself and all
whose lives she entered, even casual-
ly. She never lost the common touch,

though her walk in life led often
among high places. Her husband
epitomizes this quality in a recent
letter: "Helon loved people and they
loved her. Her ability to see the
worthwhileness in a person and ig-
nore the rest was unique. She had a
sixth sense about the inherent char-
acter of people that neither posses-
sion nor lack of money or position
could cover up. She had friends
among the simple and the fancy folk,
the rich, the poor, the business and
social leaders, and those without
prestige or influence." This, too, was
the girl we remember from 1925-29.
In the remembering, twenty-one
years afterward, we are grateful that
she was with us for four years, and
that for eighteen years more her
loveliness and strength made their
imprint on her world.

Helen Ridley Hartley '29

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MES SCOTT

Alumnae Quarterly

SUMMER 1950

The Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott College

Officers

Catherine Baker Matthews '32

President

Kenneth Maner Powell '27

Vice-President

Frances Thatcher Moses '17

Vice-President

Dorothy Holloran Addison '43

Vice-President

Sara Shadburn Heath '33

Betty Medlock '42

Secretary-

Treasurer

Frances Radford Mauldin '43

Vocational Guidance

Mary Wallace Kirk '11

Education

Elaine Stubbs Mitchell '41

Publications

Cary Wheeler Bowers '39

Class Officers

Julia Pratt Smith Slack ex '12

House Decorations

Grace Fincher Trimble '32

Residence

Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '22

Grounds

Trustees

Mary McDonald Sledd '34

Entertainment

Betty Lou Houck Smith '35
Frances Winship Walters Inst.

Staff

Chairmen

Eliza King Paschall '38

Nominations

Sara Carter Massee '29

Special Events

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Emily Higgins Bradley '45

Office Manager

Eloise Hardeman Ketchin Acad.

House Manager

Member American Alumni Council

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly is published four times a year (November, February, April and July) by the
Alumnae Association of Agnes Scott College at Decatur, Georgia. Contributors to the Alumnae Fund receive the
magazine. Yearly subscription, $2.00. Single copy, 50 cents. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office of
Decatur, Georgia, under Act of August 24, 1912.

The
AGIS SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

Volume 28, Number 4
Summer, 1950

The Alumnae Fund 2

Betty Medlock

Storing the Well, and the Open Mind ___ 3
Mary Stuart MacDougall

Recommmended Reading 6

Education Committee

Eighty-Five Years of Music ... 7

Jeanne Osborne Gibbs

Faculty and Staff 9

The Association 12

Class News 16

Alumnae Club Directory Inside Back Cover

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40 Editor

[1]

The Alumnae Fund

is being revived this year to a limited extent, after its suspension for the Campaign period.

Alumnae who have received The Quarterly and other membership prerequisites for one year or more
since giving to the Campaign, and whose gifts to the Campaign were $5.00 or less, have received by
mail a request that they contribute to the 1950-51 Fund. The Finance Committee of the Association hopes
that these Campaign givers will understand the necessity of making a further contribution to meet the
expense of their continuance as active members. (It now costs the Association $5.00 a year to serve each
active member.)

Alumnae who did not contribute to the Campaign also have been invited to join the Association by
making a gift to the Fund.

Campaign contributors who gave more than $5.00 or who have not had the privileges of active mem-
bership for a full year since contributing will be continued in active membership for 1950-51. If any
of these alumnae, however, feel that they would like to send an additional gift now, it will be gratefully
received. The College is giving partial support to the Association for the coming year in order that
alumnae who gave sacrifically to the Campaign need not be asked to give again so soon. Thus all con-
tributions to the Alumnae Fund this year will aid the College directly by reducing the support necessary.

We have done our best to work out an equitable plan for this transition period between the end
of the Campaign and the full resumption of the Alumnae Fund. If this statement fails to make the plan
clear, or if there are any questions about the details of Association finances, we shall be glad to answer
letters of inquiry. Part of our job as volunteer elected representatives is to acquaint all alumnae with
the financial status and procedures of their Association.

The Finance Committee
Betty Medlock '42, Chairman

[2]

This was the 1950 Phi Beta Kappa address at Agnes Scott, delivered
in. chapel on the day eight seniors were named to membership in the
society.

Storing the Well,

and the Open Mind

By Mary Stuart MacDougall
Professor of Biology

For the short time at my disposal this morning, I
have chosen a double subject, "Storing the Well and
the Open Mind." On occasions like this the speaker
is often said to use the thoughts of others, or to work
over the ideas of others, or to utter platitudes. In spite
of this, however, I shall use, without apology, three
quotations, two of them saying what I most sincerely
believe, and a third with which I disagree just as
sincerely.

I chose this subject because it is becoming increas-
ingly clear that, although the kind of education women
ought to have has always been under fire, recently
much pressure has been brought to bear upon the
administrators in liberal arts colleges for women that
a change be made in the curriculum, and this pressure
comes, in some cases at least, from alumnae. They
have questioned the necessity for taking this or that
subject, or really delving below the surface in a special
field, and even in our present student body are indi-
viduals who have a contempt for learning facts (I
ought to know! )

And so I come to my first quotation, the longest of
the three, but which states better than I possibly could,
the necessity for storing the intellectual well: I refer
to The Road to Xanadu, by John Livingston Lowes,
a former professor of English at Harvard. This study
of poetic creation shows with rare insight, I think,
the subtle process of synthesis. The quotation reads:

". . . For there enter into imaginative creation three
factors that reciprocally interplay: the Well, and the
Vision, and the Will. Without the Vision, the chaos
of elements remains a chaos, and the Form sleeps for-
ever in the vast chambers of unborn designs. Yet in
that chaos only could creative Vision ever see this
Form. Not without the cooperant Will, obedient to the
Vision, may the pattern perceived in the huddle attain
objective reality. Yet, manifold though the ways of

creative faculty may be, the upshot is one; from the
empire of chaos a new tract of the cosmos has been
retrieved; a nebula has been compacted it may
be! into a star.

". . . These factors of the creative process . . . are
not the monopoly of poetry. Through their conjunction
the imagination in the field of science, for example,
is slowly drawing the immense confusion of phenom-
ena within the unfolding conception of an ordered
universe. And its operations are essentially the same.
For years, through intense and unremitting observa-
tion, Darwin had been accumulating masses of facts
which pointed to a momentous conclusion. But they
pointed to a maze of baffling inconsistencies. Then
all at once the flash of vision came . . . And then and
only then, with infinite toil and exposition, was slowly
framed from the obdurate facts the great statement of
the theory of evolution. The leap of the imagination,
in the garden at Woolsthorpe on a day in 1665, from
the fall of an apple, to an architectonic conception
cosmic in its scope and grandeur is one of the dra-
matic moments in the history of human thought. But
in that pregnant moment there flashed together the
daring observations and conjectures of a long period
of years; and upon the instant of illumination followed
other years of rigorous and protracted labor, before
the Principia appeared. Once more there was the long,
slow storing of the Well; once more the flash of amaz-
ing vision through a fortuitous suggestion; once more
the exacting task of translating vision into actual-
ity . . ."

I have said before from this platform that one of
the most satisfying experiences one can have is sud-
denly to grasp the meaning of what seemed until then
unrelated facts. I think that you will agree that Prof.
Lowes has given good reasons for the storing of the
well as a means of being an intelligent and under-
standing person.

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During the war, many scientific projects were set
up to achieve certain goals. These required scientists
working in groups. Some were successful; some were
not. I think this statement by Prof. Lowes gives a
real reason for the fact that the great fundamental
discoveries will always be made by individuals with
well stored minds. Groups will be able to accomplish
great things but the basic discoveries must be made
by a Newton, or a Darwin, people with well stored
minds and imagination to seize upon an idea that
might come from these facts.

What has all of this to do with the open mind? A
great deal, I think. I spoke of the demand for changes
in the curriculum of liberal arts colleges for women.
The changes demanded, so far as I can discover, are
to insure a more practical education. The aims stated
are that women must be fitted for the lives that they
will lead. I should like to examine this question to
some extent.

Through the years I have read and listened to much
nonsense about the education of women. A grain of
truth is in some of these statements but the false ideas
built upon it are, to my way of thinking, tragic.

Recently I was shocked to read a review of a book
written by the president of one of our western colleges
for women, Educating Our Daughters. I don't dare
read the book because f am almost sure that I would
feel an urge to write another book refuting some of
the statements made in this one. Since no publisher
is likely to be interested in the opinions of a biology
professor on the education of women, I had better let
it alone. But the quotations in the review are useful
to me here. He says in part:

"Woman's lot these days is not a happy one, and her
education is to blame. Her colleges, founded in the
first blush of feminism, were modeled after men's,
and the belief persisted that 'higher education' is
something like spinach which can be absorbed without
reference to the gender of the absorbent." He goes
on to say that women have "clung to the biologically
fantastic notion that to be different from men is to
be inferior to them."

He admits that a new crisis comes when women
reach 40 or 60 and their children are grown. His idea
is that they then resort to "bridge, chatter, shopping
expeditions, aimless clubs, and, in extreme cases, to
alcohol, to gain an illusory sense of activity."

After remarking that coeducation is not even co,
he states that colleges must give women a vision of
the family and the reward it offers. It must teach

them to apply themselves when the family is grown,
to extend their housekeeping beyond their homes to
their towns, states, and the nation. He agrees with
the feminists that "women are people," yet he holds
to the supplementary truth that people are "either
men or women," and he says that "one of the first
tasks of the women's colleges is to educate women to
be proud of what they are."

Now, I am honestly trying to be objective about
all of this, and I do not mean to be flippant, even
though I am amused, when I say that it is no earth
shaking discovery that the population of the earth
is made up of men and women, a fact known to the
most primitive savages. I say to you in all earnestness
that if you wait until you are 40 or 50 years of age
to "extend your housekeeping" as he puts it, it will
be too late. The only way on earth to keep a mind
young is through use. I am not a scoffer at the funda-
mental reasons that called forth Kaiser Wilhelm's old
cliche as to the sphere of women "kuche, kinder,
kirche." It is right that women should be preeminent
in these three departments, the kitchen, the children
and the church, but, to my mind, there is a great deal
more. I would not agree to the limitations that the
Kaiser had in mind because to serve well in these
things takes an understanding intelligence. I call your
attention to the fact that the people who know all of
the answers as to what a woman's education should
include are stressing the practical pursuits of house-
keeping, even though this is not always admitted. No
one admires a well ordered home more than I do, and
I know that skills not really needed formerly are
necessary in these days of the high cost of labor. But I
submit that it takes intelligence and understanding to
run the kind of home that you are likely to help main-
tain. You should certainly be intelligent about the laws
under which you live, the environment in which your
children will be educated; in short, you should have
the information that will help you to make a good
citizen as well as a good homemaker. But there is
even more. Recently I had occasion to look up the
history of ancient man. One can trace the upward
climb from Pithecanthropus, to Cro-Magnon, to Homo
sapiens of today, and the steady rise of his culture
from the use of a few tools in Paleolithic times to
the complex cultures of today; but about the develop-
ment of his higher nature, biology is silent. From
burial customs, we know that the Neanderthals be-
lieved in life after death, but we know little more.
And that is how I feel about the education of women.
The demand, almost vociferous now, that women shall

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be educated along one special line is, I sincerely
believe, dangerous. For about the development of that
inner citadel, Iter own inner life, the planners are
silent. Yet not only her own happiness, but the happi-
ness of all near to her, may be dependent upon the re-
sources of the spirit she may have. For obvious reasons,
building these resources, the right of every human be-
ing, are in some ways more important for women than
for men. We are told by physicians that there is an in-
creasing number of people, even those blessed with
material things, who in middle life come to dead cen-
ter. They have no resources to fall back upon after the
children are gone.

Now I hope that those of you now engaged in the
storing of the intellectual well will not be discouraged
when I tell you that it is obvious that many people
with diplomas are not educated. There are many col-
lege graduates who cannot entertain themselves and
who cannot be alone. They spend much time in furi-
ous search of entertainment.

A side of education often talked about but little
understood is the subjective personal enjoyment one
should gain as new horizons appear.

The most interesting book that I have read this
winter concerns the history of three remarkable women,
the Peabody sisters of Boston. They were brought up
in an intelligent atmosphere, and, although each of
them lived a very different life, the intellectual habits
formed in youth paid rich dividends in their later
years. Elizabeth, the eldest, a close friend and as-
sociate of Emerson's, at 56 was instrumental in found-
ing kindergartens all over the country. This was long
after she had ceased to be an assistant in the school of
Mr. Alcott, the father of "Little Women." At 90 she
was still writing on many subjects and going strong.

Mary, who married Horace Mann, was his able as-
sistant in all of his work, did most of the translations
from foreign languages that he needed, reared a fam-
ily of children, and, when they were grown, and Hor-
ace Mann had died, wrote her first novel at the age
of 70. It is interesting to note in passing that the
material for that book was gathered in her youth when
she lived for a time in a Spanish community and ob-
served the master-slave relationship. Sophia, the
youngest, married Nathaniel Hawthorne, reared her
family, kept up her art work, and, after Hawthorne
died, developed portrait painting. The most remark-
able thing about these women is that they lived in the
Victorian Age.

Recently Lincoln Barnett, who also wrote The Uni-
verse and Dr. Einstein, wrote an article on J. Robert

Oppenheimer, now president of the Institute for Ad-
vanced Studies at Princeton. I regard Dr. Oppenheimer
as one of the greatest of living Americans. Barnett
says of him that he has a DaVincian range of interests
and of knowledge. He is a linguist who finds himself
at home in half a dozen languages, including the
Sanskrit, and, in addition, he is described as being a
"graceful executive and diplomat, astute and imagi-
native in his public role as a leader of the nation's
atomic scientists."

I mention him because I recently read a speech.
"The Open Mind," which was delivered before the
Rochester Institute of International Affairs. In this
address, Oppenheimer tells how shocked he was by
the ideas of the president of a college in one of the
prairie states who came to him with what he considered
a problem, which was that the students and teachers
in his college were mostly farmers, used to planting
seed, waiting for growth, and then the harvest, and
his complaint was that they believed in time and
nature!

Oppenheimer also believes in time and nature, and
in his speech he said that he hoped that in the conduct
of foreign affairs, the quest for freedom and a peace-
ful world, time and nature might be enlisted, and
hence the need for an open mind. After reviewing
the efforts that have been made for the international
control of atomic energy, he points out that a climate
must be provided for the exercise of reason, the growth
of new experience, new insight, and new understand-
ing.

I have brought all of this in just to explain why I
think that the following quotation from that address
is of real importance to you when the values of your
training are up for examination.

"When time is run, and the future becomes history,
it will be clear how little of it we today foresaw or
could foresee. How then can we preserve the sensi-
tiveness which could take advantage of all that it had
in store? The problem is not only to face the somber
and grim elements of the future, but to keep them
from obscuring it . . . the spirit in which our foreign
affairs are conducted will, in the large, reflect the
understanding and desires of our people . . . the style
and perceptiveness, the openmindedness which we need
to conduct our affairs can only pervade . . . complex
organizations, consisting of men of varied talent, taste
and character if it be of deep and widespread public
understanding."

I think that it is very true that we cannot really
look very far into the future. The "widespread public

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understanding" Dr. Oppenheimer mentions will not
come about if only half of the population is concerned
with the complex problems likely to confront you in
the future. And in that future I covet for you a well
stored and open mind that you will surely need if you
are to be an understanding and intelligent person.

I think that most of you know now the rewards of
having a family and a home of your own. What was
said to be a "fantastic biologicil notion of inferiority"
is not biological at all but tradition and custom. I
could prove this if I had time, for every biological
fact refutes the notion of inferiority of either sex. It
depends upon what you mean by inferiority.

What you should be proud of is not only that you
are women but that you can, if your life demands it,
fulfil your duties as a wife, a mother, as a member of
your community, as well as the nation, earn your own
living if need be, and still have an intellectual life of
your own. You do not know what kind of man you
will marry, what kind of home, if any, you will have ;
you do not know what kind of place your future world
will be, yet in it you must live. I say without hesi-
tation that if we keep in mind all of the things that
a liberal arts education can teach and give, all of these
other things will be added unto you. You cannot know
the value of your liberal arts education until you reach
middle life, and that is a very good reason for giving
"time and nature" a chance to prove its value. If I
did not believe all of this, I would consider my 30
years at Agnes Scott a complete failure. You have
around you examples of all the things that I have been
saying. Without taking into account such national fig-
ures as Mrs. Gilbreth, of Cheaper by the Dozen fame,
I ask you to look at the faculty homes. In some of
them are young children and a satisfying family life;
in others there are only women. But all of these homes

are centers of stimulating fellowship, and this is due
in no small measure to the fact that in them are college
women who know how to put first things first. The
mechanical tasks, which don't stretch the mind very
much, are done efficiently and well as a result of in-
telligent planning. These tasks take their proper places
and do not obscure the business of happy, busy lives.
Our college has been greatly enriched over the years
by a series of splendid public lectures. In one of them
Hugh Walpole called attention to the fact that most
Americans seemed to feel that to be successful they
"had to take a course in everything." What he was
talking about was learning novel writing, and he
doubted if that could be learned from a course. I
wonder if this pressure for a change of curriculum
in colleges for women comes from a deep seated con-
viction that "taking a course" would solve things. If
it does, and I am not asserting the fact, then we
really have lost track of what an education is for,
that it is a foundation for the business of living.

Our way of life and our College are the flowering
of centuries of effort and thought. Men and women
of the ancient worlds, Egypt, Greece, Rome, of all
regions, of all faiths, have contributed to the ideas
and ideals that animate our thinking. You are the
heirs of the past, a part of the future; never forget
that.

Life is a mixture of joy and sorrow, success and
failure. See to it that you appreciate your opportunity,
so long denied women in the past; see to it that the
intellectual well is stored in your college days in such
a manner that you may face the future with the confi-
dence of an understanding person; keep always a
questioning mind and a flexible one; and may God
walk with you.

Recommended Reading

(Titles selected by the Education Committee of the Alumnae Association, but contents
not necessarily reflecting its opinion)

And Madly Teach; A layman looks at public school education. M. B. Smith. Regnery,

1949.

Education of a Humanist. Albert L. Guerard. Harvard University Press, 1949.

Educating, Our Daughters. Lynn White, Jr., president of Mills College. Harper, 1950.

[6]

Eighty-Five Years of Music

Mr. Dieckmann and Mr. Johnson Retire
By Jeanne Osborne Gibbs '42

You meet a former Agnes Scott classmate on the
street. She says, ''Have you heard Mr. Dieckmann and
Mr. Johnson retired this year?"

A line of nostalgic pictures files through your head,
like children playing follow the leader. You hear the
tinkle of a piano from the top floor of Main, playing
accompaniment to the silent aria of flowering shrubs
on the campus in spring; you can feel the challenging
surge of the organ playing "Rejoice, Ye Pure in
Heart" as teachers and classmates, looking strangely
dignified, file by in an academic procession; you
hear the nervous, birdlike melodies of a Gilbert and
Sullivan operetta; you see rows of white-clad girls
singing Christmas carols in a picture frame of palms
and gladiolas.

When you think of Christian W. Dieckmann and
Lewis H. Johnson, you think of the wizardry that
conjures music from ivory and wood and the baton
that brings from a silent, poised chorus an avalanche
of sound.

These two beloved professors, whose life history
is so closely connected with that of the college, have
meant all these things and many more to Agnes Scott
students. That period of spiritual respite from mental
turmoil, morning chapel, will not seem quite the same
without Mr. Dieckmann at the organ; nor will May
Day with its music "custom-made" by him. The pic-
tures of former students that line the walls of Mr.
Johnson's studio, all bearing the word "appreciation"
in their inscriptions, could testify that the girls will
miss the confidant and friend they had in "Pop"
Johnson.

Not that their work will end. The word "retire" now-
adays means the beginning of real living. It is hard
for Mr. Dieckmann to remember all the incidents of
his forty-five years with the college. "Why?" he mused.
"I guess it's because we all ought to change and grow
so that we no longer think of the past. I'm not the
same person I was then. I believe that throughout
eternity we will continue to grow in understanding
of those things that interest us here."

Retirement from teaching will give him much-
wanted time for composition, private teaching, and
his duties as organist and choir director of the Luth-
eran Church of the Redeemer.

Mr. Johnson is a person whose joy in his work
never ends. Although he may have been physically
fatigued, his wife recollects, his spirit has never been
tired during all his forty years of vocal and choral
teaching at Agnes Scott. "He will have no lonely or
uninteresting old age," she predicts. "He enjoys his
memories and goes through them like a drama." They
will live at Delray Beach, Florida, where he hopes to
fish, build boats, raise an orange and grapefruit tree,
and perhaps have a few vocal pupils on the side. Both
he and Mrs. Johnson think that one never grows too
old to appreciate the efforts of others.

Early experiences forecast what kinds of persons
these two musicians would be. Mr. Dieckmann began
the study of chemistry and seriously considered it as his
career before changing to music. "It may sound like
a paradox," he said, "but actually there is a similarity
between chemistry and music. Both require systematic
thinking, particularly playing Bach, which takes fine
headwork."

Mr. Johnson began his career as a singer inaus-
piciously. As a small boy with a high soprano voice,
he and an alto companion were to sing at a school
function. As they made their preliminary bows, the
companion, suddenly terrified, dashed from the stage.
The hapless Lewis, thus deserted, scurried under the
nearest table. His companion recaptured, he was pulled
from under the table and the two, with new courage,
began to sing and were the hit of the show. From that
moment he knew he would be a singer.

Both, natives of Ohio, enjoyed thorough founda-
tional training. Mr. Dieckmann gives credit for "what-
ever he is in the world of music," to Dr. Sidney C.
Durst, who taught him piano, organ, harmony, coun-
terpoint, orchestration, and composition. He attended
the Auditorium School of Music and the Metropolitan
School of Music in Cincinnati. He also particularly
remembers Rosseter G. Cole, who conducted harmony
classes at Columbia University summer school. In 1918
he took the fellowship degree in the American Guild
of Organists, later serving several times as dean of
the Georgia Chapter.

Mr. Johnson received a certificate in vocal work
from Pomona College, Claremont, Cal., which he re-

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visited in an alumni quartet several years ago. After
not singing together for forty years and without re-
hearsal, the quartet went through a third of its reper-
toire and was the highlight of alumni day at the
college.

He also studied at the Institute of Musical Art in
New York City, now the Juilliard School of Music, and
was a student of William Nelson Burritt, whose assist-
ant he later became. Just before he came to Agnes
Scott in 1910, he was the leading tenor of St. George's
Episcopal Church in New York City. A highlight in
his memory is a summer of study in Germany in 1913
with Alexander Heinemann.

Both have been active in musical circles outside of
their work as professor of music and associate pro-
fessor of music respectively. Mr. Dieckmann is an au-
thority in theory and harmony and is known nationally
for his compositions, including anthems, canticles, or-
gan numbers, and songs. He wrote the music for the
best-loved hymn at Agnes Scott, "God of the Marching
Centuries." Among his other works are choruses,
"Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis," "Benedictus es,
Domine," and "The Lord's Prayer;" songs, "Forever
and a Day," "The Throttle," "The Prayer Perfect;"
organ numbers, "Caprice," "Processional," "A Song
of Sunshine," "Christmas Eve," and "A Song of Hap-
piness." His newest anthem, published this spring, is,
"Jesus, Like a Shepherd Lead Us."

He has presided at the console of organs in at least
seven Atlanta churches. Believing that a person should
think music, he composes in a room bare of musical
instruments.

Mr. Johnson, during his first two years at Agnes
Scott, sang with the Porter-Johnson Concert Company,
with Mrs. Johnson as accompanist, which traveled un-
der the auspices of Alkahest Celebrity Bureau. He has
been tenor soloist and director of Atlanta church
choirs, presented the College Special Chorus in light
concerts at Army and Navy camps near Atlanta dur-
ing the war, and is song leader of the Decatur Civitan
club and a member of the National Association of
Teachers of Singing, the Atlanta Music club, and the
Georgia Trail Club. Hiking is his hobby.

The atmosphere of Agnes Scott was apparently con-
ducive to romance, for both teachers met their future
wives on the graceful colonnade or beneath the red
brick portals of Main. Mr. Dieckmann married Emma
Pope Moss, of Marietta, Ga., who taught in the English
department of the College and now teaches at Decatur
Girls High. They have a daughter, Adele, a high honor

graduate of Agnes Scott, who teaches Latin and plays
the organ at the Northfield School for Girls, E. North-
field, Mass.

Mr. Johnson married Gussie O'Neal, his student-ac-
companist, who continued to teach music and direct
the Glee Club for fifteen years. It was she who staged
and directed Pinafore, the first Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta produced here, originating a custom which
has continued each year under Mr. Johnson's direction.
"My life at Agnes Scott as student, teacher, alumna,
and faculty wife has been like a four-part harmony,"
Mrs. Johnson says. The Johnsons have a son, Maurice
O'Neal.

Mr. Dieckmann, according to his wife, is a person of
deep intellect who is interested in many things. He has
a collection of topographical maps of the United States,
studies the birds that come to the feeding station out-
side his study window, and keeps well up with con-
temporary fiction. Although home-loving, he likes
to travel in the mountains occasionally. "He is a very
thoughtful, considerate person," Mrs. Dieckmann said;
"not at all temperamental." Mr. Dieckmann believes
that music should make a person better and that tem-
perament is simply childishness.

Mr. Johnson finds an affinity between his love of
constructing things such as kitchen cabinets, stage
settings, etc., and building young voices. He gets more
pleasure out of laying the groundwork than doing
the polishing. His pupils have often confided in him
their personal problems because, as he explains, music
is such an emotional thing; if a person has a conflict,
he breaks down while trying to sing. Then the next
step is to tell "Pop" Johnson just what the trouble is. j

Their retirement will by no means mark a conclu-
sion to their interest in the College. Years of artistic
intuition, experience, and thought about the problems
of their profession have molded their intellects to a
keen, constructive originality.

Mr. Dieckmann hopes that some day the organ in
Presser will come to the full flower of its use. "It is a
fine organ," he said, "the possibilities of which have
not yet been fully realized." He still cannot quite be-
lieve Presser Hall, with its two beautiful chapels and
its soundproof studios and practice rooms, is a reality.

Mr. Johnson would like to see every Agnes Scott
student taught the principles of good vocal production
for both speaking and singing. Believing that many
Agnes Scott alumnae are and will be called upon for
leadership in clubs and organizations, he hopes to see
the College enlarge its program of vocal training.

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Faculty and Staff

A Scholarly Vacation is in Progress for Most, Taking
Some to Foreign Universities

A large proportion of the Agnes Scott community
migrated to Europe this summer for study, work,
pleasure, or a combination of purposes. All through
the spring, students and faculty members were com-
paring vaccination results and typhoid reactions, haul-
ing each other into Atlanta for passport identification,
and debating whether to take three suitcases and be
safe or one and be sorry ... or vice versa.

Dr. Wallace M. Alston, vice-president and pro-
fessor of philosophy, sailed June 8 for a tour of leading
universities abroad. Three weeks in England and Scot-
land were to be followed by more than a month on
the Continent. He planned to visit Holland. Belgium.
Western Germany. Switzerland. Italy and France, in-
terviewing educational and religious leaders in an
effort to learn of trends in both fields.

Dr. Elizabeth Barineau, assistant professor of
French, took a Youth Argosy plane on June 20 to Lux-
embourg. Three weeks in Paris will enable her to
confer on the publication of her doctoral thesis and
to make short side trips with her companions, a friend
who is an art historian and Priscilla Lobeck, for-
mer member of the Agnes Scott art department. Then
she will visit various regions of France and work
toward familiarizing herself with them from a literary
standpoint.

Melissa A. Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish,
left with her mother early in June on a trip around
the world. They flew from San Francisco to Portugal
by way of Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Siam, India,
the Near East including the Holy Land, Greece, Italy,
France, and Spain. Miss Cilley will lecture on com-
parative literature at the LTniversidade de Coimbra,
Portugal, and will do research in Portugal and Spain
with Madrid as headquarters. In France she was to
see several of her former students from the Colegio
Internacional in Madrid who are exiled from Spain
because they are wives of Protestant ministers.

Rebekah McDuffie Clarke, who resigned her
position in the music department at the end of the
year and will direct five choirs in Tampa beginning
next fall, flew from New York to Luxembourg the first
week of June in a group of 40 musicians who were
going to study in Montreux, Switzerland. She was to

see the Passion Play (as was Mr. Alston), to meet
Betty Bowman '44's brother in Heidelberg, and to visit
France, England, Scotland, Holland, and Belgium, re-
turning from Luxembourg in July.

Lillie Belle Drake '40, instructor in Spanish, left
by plane from New Orleans late in June for the Uni-
versity of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, where she was
to take three courses during the six-week summer ses-
sion. The work would be background for a study of
the South American novel, and credits would be trans-
ferred to Middlebury toward her doctorate. She plan-
ned several trips to other west South American coun-
tries before returning August 20.

Leslie Gaylord, assistant professor of mathematics,
sailed with a party in June for her first conducted
tour of Europe since the war. (Numbers of alumnae
wanted to join the group after it was completed; those
who are interested in going next summer should write
to Miss Gaylord in September.) Six Agnes Scott stu-
dents and seven alumnae Jane Bowman '46. Helen
Crawford '49, Reese Newton '49, Edwina Davis '46,
Barbara Blair '48, Alice Davidson '48, and Pris Hatch
'48 were in her flock. They were to visit England,
Holland, Belgium. Switzerland. Italy, and France, re-
turning in August.

Eleanor Hutchens '40, director of publicity and
alumnae affairs, sailed to England in June for six
weeks' study at Oxford in the field of modern English
literature. She planned to be back at Agnes Scott late
in August.

Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn '27, associate pro-
fessor of English, left by plane June 8 for Ireland and
England, where with the aid of a Carnegie grant she
was to continue her study of Swift. Most of her time
would be spent in London, a short period being al-
lotted to Dublin. Her purpose was to become familiar
with the great collections important in Swift scholar-
ship. She planned to return August 29.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman '27, associate professor
of biology, stopped in Virginia for a short visit with
her sister Lucile '29, and with friends in Maine before
going to the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods
Hole to work on some problems of protozoan behavior.

Melissa A. Cilley, assistant professor of Spanish,

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is the author of two articles published last November:
"Egas Moniz," in Contemporary World Literature,
and "Julio Dantas" in The South Atlantic Bulletin.
Work on the second Portuguese author was done in
the libraries of Harvard University under a Carnegie
grant. This year is the tenth anniversary of the found-
ing of the Portuguese section of the Modern Language
Association of America, which Miss Cilley organized
and which has grown rapidly to include some of the
most eminent scholars in the United States.

Dr. Emily S. Dexter, associate professor of philos-
ophy and education, planned to teach at Piedmont Col-
lege until mid-July and then to study in Vermont for
a month at a workshop session. On her way back she
will stop for the annual meeting of the American
Psychological Association at Pennsylvania State Col-
lege. The board of directors of the International Coun-
cil of Women Psychologists, of which Miss Dexter is
one of seven members, will meet there too.

Dr. Florene Dunstan, assistant professor of Span-
ish, planned a visit of several days at the Brazilian
Embassy in Washington as the guest of Carolina Na-
buco, famous Brazilian novelist and sister of the am-
bassador. In July she was to attend the Baptist World
Alliance in Cleveland.

Dr. Paul L. Garber, professor of Bible, and his
family have moved from the campus to 423 Glenndale
Avenue, Decatur. Their old house behind Buttrick
will be torn down to make way for the new science
hall. After a winter of rather strenuous "temporary"
church "and Sunday school work (which stretched
from a week to eight months), he planned to teach
the required undergraduate course in Bible at Emory
this summer "and to keep an eye on Woman's Work
in Atlanta Presbytery," of which he is chairman. His
work of the last several years, the Howland-Garber
model reconstruction of Solomon's Temple, will be
unveiled at Agnes Scott on the evening of October 17.
A film-strip on the Temple which Dr. Garber will
edit this summer will be ready for distribution at that
time.

Leslie Gaylord, assistant professor of mathematics,
has a new address: 106 Glenn Circle, Decatur.

Frances K. Gooch, associate professor of English,
was active during the winter in the work of the Georgia
and the Southern speech associations, presiding over
sessions at both meetings and presenting programs.
She planned to complete the writing of her family
history, "The Gooch Family in the South," this sum-
mer. In her Agnes Scott classes last year were three
Emory students, taking advantage of the cooperative

program of the University Center.

Edna Hanley, librarian, was one of eight univer-
sity and college librarians in the United States voted
the best consultants by members of the Association of
College Reference Librarians. She was the only South-
erner and the only woman among the eight and re-
ceived the third highest number of votes.

Dr. Muriel Harn, professor of German and Span-
ish, made a valuable Campaign gift to the Library:
the Weimar edition of Goethe, comprising more than
a hundred volumes and now out of print.

Dr. George P. Hayes, professor of English, is teach-
ing at Georgia Tech this summer.

Dr. Elizabeth Fuller Jackson, associate pro-
fessor of history, says she will be delighted to see any
alumnae at her home in Decatur, 354 South McDon-
ough Street, where she and her mother are spending
a quiet summer.

Dr. Mildred Mell, professor of economics and so-
ciology, was largely responsible for the League of
Women Voters of Georgia pamphlet "Taxes, Taxes,
and Still More Taxes," and for two mimeographed
reports on tax revision for Georgia, one outlining a
proposed program of tax revision which the League
might try to get through the Legislature. She is chair-
man of the League's Tax Revision Committee and in
the course of the winter made several talks to various
groups on the subject, including one radio broadcast.
This summer she is starting on a revision of her
earlier study of the population of Atlanta, intending
to use 1950 census data and to place special emphasis
upon the Negro population of Fulton and DeKalb
Counties. The work will take her to Chapel Hill and
to Washington for an investigation of new and prom-
ising statistical techniques for population research.

Dr. Walter B. Posey, professor of history and
political science, planned to teach for six weeks at
the University of Maryland and then use a Carnegie
grant for research on the Baptist Church in the Old
Southwest.

Dr. Catherine Sims, associate professor of history,
is in her new home at 149 Beverly Road, N. E., and
plans a summer including a little research with ma-
terials secured by microfilm and inter-library loan.
A trip to New York and eastern Canada will come
later. Last winter she made a number of talks on
current problems in international relations to a variety
of groups and delivered book reviews both oral and
written. Her civic activities included election as secre-
tary of the Visiting Nurse Association of Metropolitan
Atlanta.

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Dr. Anna Greene Smith, associate professor of
economics and sociology, is teaching this summer at
the University of North Carolina, with plans to go to
Washington later to work in the Congressional Library
on new materials on the South.

Dean S. G. Stukes is spending his summer at the
College, hard at work on admissions and other prob-
lems. He represented Agnes Scott last winter at the
meetings of the Southern Association of Colleges in
Houston and the Southern University Conference in
Birmingham. He spent several days in Washington
in connection with the work of the National Nomi-
nating Committee of the Red Cross.

Dr. Margret G. Trotter, assistant professor of
English, taught for a month this summer at Ball State
Teachers College in Muncie. Indiana and planned to
spend the rest of the vacation writing at home in
Decatur.

Roberta Winter '27, instructor in speech, began
a year's leave of absence for study at New York Uni-
versity after a busy winter with Blackfriars, the presi-
dency of the Georgia Speech Association, and various
appearances before speech and other groups.

Additions for 1950-51

Five new members of the Music Department will be
among additions to the Agnes Scott faculty and staff
when the 1950-51 sessions opens September 20.

Michael A. McDowell, Jr., present head of the
music department at the Atlanta Division of the Uni-
versity of Georgia, will succeed Professor Christian
W. Dieckmann as head of
Agnes Scott's department.
Holder of the Ph. B. from
Emory University and the
A. M. in music from Har-
vard, Mr. McDowell has
studied also in Germany,
at the Leipzig Conserva-
tory, and at the Juilliard
School of Music in New
York. He has been a
member of the University
of Georgia faculty for 18 years. His appointment to
Agnes Scott came after the interviewing of consultants
from Eastern universities and colleges and the investi-
gation of a number of candidates by the College. He
is primarily a pianist and teacher of piano.

Roxie Hagopian, coming as associate professor of
music, has a rich background in voice and choral work.
A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory with the Bachelor

of Music degree, she has held three fellowships at
Juilliard Graduate School and one granted by the
school for the study of opera in Dresden. She has the
B. A. in German from Rollins College and the M. A.
in French from Southwestern University. Her profes-
sional experience has included four years of opera
in Dusseldorf and concert, radio and oratorio per-
formances in this country. She has taught at Rollins,
Southwestern, Seton Hill College, and Daniel Baker
College.

Also an associate professor will be Raymond J.
Martin, organist, who for the last several years has
headed the music department at Brenau College. He
has the B. S. from Juilliard and the Master of Sacred
Music degree from Union Theological Seminary in
New York. He has been active in choir and organ
work with churches in and near New York and during
the war served as a navy chaplain's assistant.

Irene Leftwich Harris of Decatur, known to
Agnes Scott audiences for her brilliance as a concert
pianist, will join the department as instructor in piano
and will assist with music appreciation programs.
She has been connected with the University of Georgia
at its Atlanta Division. Chappell White, B. A. Emory
University, B. M. Westminster College, now working
toward the M. A. at Princeton University, will be
instructor in violin. He is the son of the president
of Emory.

Florence Bishop will join the art department as
an instructor. A graduate of Acadia University in
Nova Scotia, she later attended the American People's
School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League,
both in New York. Her paintings and watercolors have
taken prizes in outstanding American exhibits.

Neva Jackson Webb '42, well remembered by Agnes
Scott contemporaries for her Blackfriars triumphs,
will hold an instructorship in speech.

Anita Albright, Auburn graduate and former
WAVE, will come from the Auburn dean's office to
be assistant dean at Agnes Scott, with a summer's
graduate work at Columbia intervening. Betty
Barnes, a graduate of G.S.W.C. who later went to
Katherine Gibbs, will be assistant to the dean.

Assisting in the chemistry department will be Julia
Goode '50 and Mrs. W. W. Hatcher, a June graduate
of King College. Harriotte Winchester '49 will be
an assistant in the Library, and "Splinter" Board
Howell of the same class will manage the Book Store.

Dr. Chester Morse, husband of Gene Slack Morse
'41, will be welcomed back to the campus in the part-
time capacity of college physician.

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The Association

Minutes

The annual meeting of the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Association was held on Saturday, June 3, in Gaines
Chapel, immediately following the Trustees' Luncheon.
The meeting was called to order by the President,
who then asked the Vice-President to take the chair.
The President asked that the Treasurer be empowered
to buy a gavel for the use of the Alumnae Association
President. This movement was seconded and passed
by the Association.

The President welcomed the newest members of
the Alumnae Association, the class of 1950. She then
thanked the Board and the Association for their co-
operation during her tenure of office, and expressed
her pleasure in the work, particularly in renewing ac-
quaintance with many Agnes Scott friends, and in
making new ones. She announced that the new Brad-
ley Observatory would be dedicated at 3:30, and that
those planning to attend the Baccalaureate Service on
Sunday must be present at 10:45 to claim their seats,
at 9:45 on Monday for Commencement.

The President then read the Nominating Commit-
tee's slate of officers for next year, and the Association
members voted, by ballot. The ballots were passed in
to be counted.

The President spoke of the exceptionally fine work
done by Eleanor Hutchens as Director of Alumnae
Affairs, and announced firmly that the work of the
Alumnae Association could not have been done with-
out her during the past two years.

The Director next gave her report, summarizing
the work of the past year.

The President told the Association members that

they were invited to see several interesting manu-
scripts on display in the library, including some of
Mr. Dieckman's.

The Treasurer moved that the retiring President be
confirmed as a member of the Board of Trustees, and
this move was passed by the Association.

The Secretary moved, on behalf of Eliza King Pas-
chal!, who was unable to be present, that the Alumnae
Association extend to Betty Lou Houck Smith, retiring
President, its recognition and appreciation of her
magnificent leadership and untiring labors in the suc-
cessfully completed Agnes Scott campaign.

The result of the voting was announced next, and
the following officers were congratulated by the Presi-
dent:

President Catherine Baker Matthews

Vice-President Frances Thatcher Moses

Secretary Sara Shadburn Heath

Vocational Guidance Chairman Frances Badford
Mauldin

Class Council Chairman Cary Wheeler Bowers

Entertainment Chairman Mary McDonald Sledd

Special Events Chairman Sara Carter Massee

Trustees Bepresentative Betty Lou Houck Smith

Publications Chairman Elaine Stubbs Mitchell.

There being no further business, the meeting was
adjourned.

Bespectfully submitted,

Jane Taylor White
Becording Secretary.

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Elections

Catherine Baker Matthews '32 was elected President
of the Alumnae Association for 1950-52 at the annual
meeting on June 3 in Presser Hall. She succeeds Betty
Lou Houck Smith '35, who was voted a two-year term
as Alumna Trustee.

The new President has an outstanding record of
service to the Association, perhaps her most notable
achievement being the revival of interest in the Atlanta
Agnes Scott Club in 1948-49. Her leadership has been
characterized by the intelligence and hard work
which draw other people into active participation with
her. She is married to Allen A. (Al) Matthews, Jr.
They and their three children live at 4020 Randall
Mill Road, N. W., Atlanta.

Succeeding Pernette Adams Carter '29 as Vice-
President in charge of clubs was Frances Thatcher
Moses '17, mother of two Agnes Scott alumnae and
herself a consistently active member of the Association.
Her most recent work has been with the Chattanooga
Agnes Scott Club.

Sara Shadburn Heath '33, still another club stalwart,
became Secretary of the Association succeeding Jane
Taylor White '42. She was president of the Decatur
group two years ago.

Important committees of the Executive Board will
be headed in the next two years by Sara Carter Massee
'29, Special Events Chairman; Frances Radford Maul-
din '43, Vocational Guidance Chairman; Cary Wheeler
Bowers '39, Class Council Chairman; Mary McDonald
Sledd '34, Entertainment Chairman; and Elaine Stubbs
Mitchell '41, Publications Chairman. They take over
the duties of Jean Bailey Owen '39 (who however
remains on the Board as president of the Atlanta
Club), Virginia Wood '35, Frances Radford Mauldin
'43 (who stays on the Board in another capacity, as
shown), Hayden Sanford Sams '39, and Jane Guthrie
Rhodes '38. Remaining on the Board are those elected
last year to two year terms: Kenneth Maner Powell
'27, Vice President; Dorothy Holloran Addison '43,
Vice-President; Betty Medlock '42, Treasurer; Julia
Pratt Smith Slack ex-T2, House Decorations Chair-
man; Grace Fincher Trimble '32, Residence Chairman;
Mary Say ward Rogers '28, Tea Room Chairman;
Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '22, Grounds Chairman;
Mary Wallace Kirk '11, Education Chairman; and
Eliza King Paschall '38, Nominations Chairman. Com-
pleting the Board will be Caroline Lee Mackay '40,
president of the Decatur Club, and Ruth Ryner Lay
'46, president of the Atlanta Junior Club.

Report of the Director

The Campaign

Among the achievements of the Agnes Scott Alum-
nae Association for 1949-50, the most notable was
of course its share in the successful conclusion of the
Campaign for the College. In every way total amount
of contributions, size of average gift, and percentage
of alumnae contributing our response to the Cam-
paign was the best in the history of the College. Sixty
per cent of all living Agnes Scott graduates made
donations. The graduates of two classes, 1907 and
1912, were 100 per cent in giving. Those of six others
were 70 per cent or better, and these high ratios were
not confined to classes with small membership: the
Classes of 1947 and 1948 had the highest percentage
of the thirty-year period beginning with 1918. And
although they were not alumnae when the campus
campaign was held, we are proud to welcome the Class
of 1949 to its first reunion and the Class of 1950 to
its first Association meeting: both were 100 per cent
in the student drive a year and a half ago. Officers of
all classes contributed intelligent leadership to the
Alumnae Campaign.

Surely the record of the Association in this latest
call to the colors reflects the increased interest and
understanding generated by the operation of the
Alumnae Fund and the consequent expansion of As-
sociation activities in the last five years. The Alumnae
Fund, which enables us to give annually to our Col-
lege as we do to our churches and our community
projects, will be revived partially this year and fully
in 1951. The College has agreed to help support the
Association for one more year in order that new
solicitation may not be started when many alumnae
are still paying on their Campaign pledges.

Alumnae Clubs

Second on the roll of things accomplished in the
year just past is the continued development of alumnae
club work. Thirty-two clubs or unorganized alumnae
groups reported one or more meetings in the course
of the year, the proportion of organized clubs rising
considerably. Alumnae in twenty-three cities enter-
tained Doris Sullivan, the new alumnae representative,

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and helped her to meet high school students whom
the alumnae chose as good Agnes Scott material. Fac-
ulty members addressed a dozen or more meetings.
The stimulation of club work will remain one of the
chief objectives of the Association not, let it be
clearly understood, for the sake of the mere existence
of clubs, but in order that Agnes Scott alumnae may
work corporately in their communities for the ad-
vancement of education both public and private.

House and Garden

The Executive Board this year has given much at-
tention to the Anna Young Alumnae House and its
grounds. Four of the bedrooms have been renovated,
and the fifth will be completely redecorated this sum-
mer by the Class of 1917. The garden has been greatly
improved, both in the care and rearrangement of
plants and in the replacement of the broken fountain
figure with a charming piece of sculpture called "The
Dancing Girl." When the Letitia Pate Evans Dining
Hall is completed, the length of the rose arbor with
the fountain at the far end will form the view from
the windows of one of the special dining rooms. The
Silhouette Tea Room will be closed at the end of this
session, its long usefulness at an end with the opening
of the new dining hall, and the offices will be installed
in its space. With the employment of a full-time hos-
tess and the remodeling of rooms formerly used as
offices, the entire second floor and front first floor of
the house will be devoted to the reception of guests
and to social activities of the Association, the College,
and the alumnae.

Vocational Guidance

The major annual projects of the Association were
carried out most effectively this year. Our chief service
to students, the Vocational Guidance Conference, drew
the largest attendance on record and was applauded
for its practical helpfulness in imparting information
and confidence for choosing and finding jobs. Miss
Mary Ralston, assistant personnel director of the First
Wisconsin National Bank of Milwaukee, came down
to make the keynote address on opportunities for

women. Three evening career coffees were held in the
Alumnae House, with several authorities from the
business and professional world of Atlanta forming a
panel each evening. At the first coffee, which dealt
with deciding on the right field of work and applying
for a job in it, personnel officials held sample inter-
views with students. Part-time jobs, a subject of espe-
cial interest to students who plan to be married soon
after graduation, were discussed on the second evening.
The third session took up in some detail the general
field in which more seniors at Agnes Scott are inter-
ested than any other: social service, in forms ranging
from church to government work. Agnes Scott alum-
nae and other experts in the different fields kindly
came to the campus and gave their time and advice to
make these coffees successful.

Alumnae Weekend

Alumnae Weekend, which last year was struggling
to regain its prewar significance, this year over-
whelmed the luncheon planners and drew goodly num-
bers for attendance at regular classes in Buttrick, at
the sessions in Presser, and on the campus tour guided
by students. Mr. Morris Abram of Atlanta as guest
speaker created lively discussion of the Southern col-
lege graduate's role as a citizen.

Founder's Day

Founder's Day, with its radio program and its meet-
ings across the country, was satisfyingly traditional.
Once again, Radio Station WSB graciously gave the
valuable evening time, leaders of the College spoke of
future progress in an interview with an alumna, and
the student Glee Club sang. Special material went out
to alumnae clubs and to unorganized groups, and pro-
grams were duly prepared therefrom. As in the previ-
ous two years, the Education Committee made sug-
gestions for a study of local school systems and col-
lege requirements suggestions which we hope will
flower eventually into a regular annual program for
all clubs, in order that the interests of high school
students who wish to attend first-rank colleges may
be protected and advanced.

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Entertainment

Social activities of the Association this year have
been traditional too: the tea for freshmen in the fall,
the luncheon at Alumnae Weekend, and the dessert-
coffee scheduled for tomorrow afternoon in the Alum-
nae Garden. The series of teas which used to be held
for seniors in the spring was telescoped this year into
one feverish half-hour at assembly time, when the
Class of 1950 submitted in groups to three different
speeches by staff members each of whom made the
same speech three times in thirty minutes. We hope
that its attendance at the annual meeting today will
bring the class a more coherent conception of the
organization into which it will step on Monday morn-

Quarterly

The Alumnae Quarterly this year has had the
largest readership in its history, thanks to the more
than two thousand Campaign contributors. With the
aid of class secretaries in reporting personal news,
and with that of gifted individuals among alumnae
and faculty, the usual four issues have been launched
in the hope that they contain proper proportions of
the particular and the general with emphasis always
on the one common bond among its subscribers: Agnes
Scott College and the kind of education it gives.

Many Hands and Brains

It is a matter of regret to me that this condensed
report cannot carry the names of all the Agnes Scott
people alumnae, faculty, staff, and students whose
generous efforts have combined to make possible the
year of achievement which it recounts. Even to name
them in groups is to leave out some individuals whose
work has been invaluable. First of all, the Executive
Board of the Association has set a magnificent ex-
ample of leadership and hard work. As its members
know, the success of positive Association work de-
pends on the full acceptance of responsibility and
initiative in her realm by each officer and committee
chairman of the Board. The performance of this year's
Board members has been of the highest quality, and
I should like to express here my pride in having
worked with them and my appreciation for their ex-
cellence.

The future of much that is essential to the good
life in America hangs on the development of volun-
teer service, chiefly by able women who have time to
spare for it. Alumnae work has come to be one of the
most important fields of volunteer service, its objective
the preservation of high standards in women's edu-
cation. Recognizing this objective, more and more
Agnes Scott alumnae are giving their volunteer time
to the work of their college. Of the more than two
thousand who contributed to the Campaign, many
earned the money in part-time activities which included
baby-sitting, knitting, and the sale of dresses and
Christmas cards. Scores of others helped to organize
club meetings or undertook the job of bringing to-
gether the Alumnae Representative and the best high
school students in their communities. A large number
lent a capable hand in Association functions on the
campus, their contributions ranging in variety from
the rounding up of flowers and the lettering of place
cards to the introduction of speakers and the registra-
tion of guests. Many have spent hours over the type-
writer, corresponding with classmates about the Cam-
paign, reunions, and class news, or writing articles
for The Quarterly.

The active support of faculty members, administra-
tive officers, and students in the program of the As-
sociation has given it an added effectiveness which
could have sprung from no other source. Speaking at
club meetings in several cases giving up a holiday
to do so; compiling bibliographies; and giving help
and expert advice whenever they were called upon, the
officers and teachers of the College have ris^n to
every appeal. The response of the students has been
no less generous. The freshman tea, the Vocational
Guidance Conference, the Alumnae Weekend tour, the
nursery kept in Murphey Candler Building during
meetings of the Decatur Agnes Scott Club, and the
indoctrination of the senior class could not possibly
have succeeded without the organizational ability and
the willing hard work of the students.

Thus the achievements of the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Association in the year 1949-50 have been the work
of many hands and brains. Any vision of future great-
ness in our work must presuppose more and more such
hands and brains turned to this continuous task of
building Agnes Scott and thereby holding firm one
fortress for the unfettered mind and spirit.

Respectfully submitted.

Eleanor N. Hutchens

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Class News

Class News for this issue of The Quart e
printers before Commencement. Thus ne

DEATHS

Institute

Annie Kirk Dowdell Turner's hu;
band, Dr. W. A. Turner, died
Newnan in February. Dr. Turne
was the father of Anne Turner '3
and Susan Turner White '35.

Mary Payne Bullard's daughter, Eli:
abeth Bullard Dinklage, died last Sej
tember.

1908

Louise Shipp Chick died April 16 i
San Diego, where she was in goveri
ment service. Louise was secretai
of the class of 1908.

1920

Frank Manly, father of Gertrui
Manly McFarland '20 and Martha L
Manly Hogshead '25, died March I
in Dalton. Mr. Manly was the gran,
father of Mary Manly Ryman '48.

1939

Douglas Lyle Rowlett died in College
Park April 27 after a sudden throat
hemorrhage.

1947

Lil Field Williams' brother and sister-
in-law were killed in an automobile
accident in Texas in April.

Classes of '10, '11, '12, & '13 at Reunion. Clockwise from center fore-
ground: Allie Candler Guy '13 {in white dress) , Janie McGaughey '13, Eliza-
beth Dunwody Hall '13, Margaret Roberts Graham, '13, Julia Pratt Smith
Slack '12, Hazel Murphy Elder '12, Cornelia Cooper '12, Lucy Reagan Red-
wine '10, Eleanor Frier son '10, Em Eldridge Ferguson '10, Flora Crowe Whit-
mire '10, Mattie Hunter Marshall '10, Gussie O'Neal Johnson '11, Adelaide
Cunningham '11, Emma Pope Moss Dieckmann '13, Eleanor Pinkston Stokes
'13, Lily Joiner Williams '13, and Frances Dukes Wynne '13.

Class of 1929 AT Reunion. Clockwise from center foreground: Virginia
Branch Leslie, Esther Nisbet Anderson, Mary Gladys Steffner Kincaid, Alice
Glenn Lowry, Frances Welsh, Pernette Adams Carter, Letty Pope, Mary
Warren Read, Mary Prim Fowler, Violet Weeks Miller, Lenore Gardner
McMillan, Katherine Lott Marbut, Ethel Freeland Darden, Elise Gibson,
Olive Spencer Jones, Edith McGranahan Smith T, Kitty Hunter Branch,
Helen Ridley Hartley (not visible), and Martha Bradford Thurmond.

Class of 1930 at Reunion. Clockwise from extreme left: Clarene Dorsey,
Frances Messer, Blanche Miller Rigby, Anna Katherine Golucke Conyers,
Ineil Heard Kelley, Ruth Bradford Crayton, Octavia Young Harvey, (not
visible Evelyn Wilder, Anne Ehrlich Solomon, Mary Louise Thames Cart-
ledge, Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg, Emily Harvey Massicot), Shannon
Prestan dimming, Gladney Cureton, Lillian Thomas, Katherine Crawford
Adams, Emily Moore Couch I not visible), lone Gueth Brodmerkel, Mary
T rain m ell, and Mary McCallie Ware.

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Class of 1931 at Reunion. Clockwise from lower left: Mildred Duncai
(in white dress with back to camera), Ellene Winn, Julia Thompson Smith
Carolyn Heyman Goodstein, Elizabeth Simpson Wilson, Marion Fielder Mai
tin, Ruth Etheredge Griffin, Clara Knox Nunnally Roberts, Martha Nort,
Watson Smith (facing camera), Shirley McPhaul Whitfield, Margaret Week
(not visible), Sara Lou Bullock, Laelius Stallings Davis, Jeannette Shat
Harp, Adele Arbuckle Logan, Elizabeth Woolfolk Moye, Myra Jervey Hoyh
Ruth Dumvody, Jean Grey Morgan (lace dress in center foreground) , an
Elise Jones.

Class of 1932 at Reunion. Left to right: Louise Stakely, Kathleen Bowen
Stark, Grace Fincher Trimble, Alma Fraser Hotverton Cleveland, Margaret
Ridgely Bachmann, Lila Norjleet Davis, Mary Miller Brown, Jura Taffar
Cole, Louise H ollingsworth Jackson, Mary Dunbar Weidner, Olive Weeks
"ollins, and Catherine Baker Matthews.

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Douglas Lyle Rowlett '39

Like a sudden cloud, the death of
Douglas Lyle Rowlett on April 27
veiled a glowing light and cast a chill
shadow over all who knew and loved
her. It was unpresaged, unthinkable,
and tragically unaccountable.

Born near the close of World War
I, and named for the soldier-father
who died in Prance, Douglas grew
from infancy to girlhood with the easy
grace that characterized all she did.
She had the rarest and finest beauty,
stemming not from mere form and
feature but from warmth of heart,
mind, and personality. Her inner radi-
ance was felt instantly and remem-
bered indefinitely. Mediocrity had no
part in her, but neither did competi-
tion. She did everything in a superior
manner, but nothing with a manner of
superiority. She was completely self-
less.

An enthusiastic camper, swimmer,
and rider, she enjoyed all sports. Pos-
sessed of unusual intellect, she made
honor roll; of outstanding leadership,

was elected to Mortar Board,
wrote fluently and well, winni
prizes before and during high scho
At Agnes Scott she majored in Er
lish, belonged to B. O. Z., contribut
to "Aurora", and worked on the papr
She had a personal sense of citize
ship and a deep interest in good go
eminent and good education. Her a
tide "To the Educators of My Chil
ren," in the Winter 1948 Alumn;
Quarterly, should be a creed for e
parents and all teachers.

But it was her Christian influenc
permeating her whole life, and hi
spiritual strength, giving her bo1
purpose and fulfillment, which set h<
apart. Thus it was that she becair
the president of Christian Associatk
during its first year of existence ar
the leader under which that organ
zation emerged from the former n
ligious unit on the campus a branc
of the Y.W.C.A. into the broad*
organization, uniting all the religioi
forces of the College. Capable an
efficient, she was also warmly humai
She welcomed the freshmen and, ph<
nomenally, knew them all by nair
within a week.

Graduation in June was followed I
marriage in July; but for Dougla
education was continuous; she neve
stopped learning nor teaching. Sh
found time to study at the Universit
of Oklahoma, to found and operate
nursery school, to head with her hus
band a Sunday School department
Her three children, Jane, 9; Frances
6; and Roy, 4, testify to her joyous
loving, and intelligent motherhood
That she should be taken from then
and from all who loved her is one o
the inexplicable mysteries which mus
await revelation in another world. W
can only feel a humility and gladnes
that her path touched ours.

The theme for Christian Associatioi
during her presidency was: "I an
come that ye might have life, am
have it more abundantly." That i:
what she did.

Cora Kay Hutchins Blackwelde:
'39

Class of 1948 at Reunion. Clockivise from left: Doc Dunn (in striped dress),
Rose Mary Griffin Wilson, Lady Major. Ruth Bastin Slentz, Tissy Rutland
Sanders, Betty Kitts Kidd, Lida Walker Askew, Bobbe Whipple, and Marybeth
Little.

Class of 1949 at Reunion. Clockwise from extreme left: Hunt Morris (
white suit), Harriotte Winchester, Gene Akin Martin, Henrietta Johnsc
Margaret Brewer, Reesie Newton, Doris Sullivan, Marie Cuthbertson, Ti
Alexander, Julianne Cook, Ann Hayes Berry, (not visible Mary Jo A
mons, Louisa Beale, B. J. Ellison Candler, Betty Wood Smith, Mary Aich
Lorton Lee), Mary Ramseur, Mary Heinz, Kate Durr Elmore.

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