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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 

I ice-President J 



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. 

, , , , . Alumna Trustee 

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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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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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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, 



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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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Agnes Scott 

MUMNAE QUARTERLY 

mes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Volume 27 , No. 3 

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. 



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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. 



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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. 



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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. 



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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 



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. 
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Act of August 24. 1912. 



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Agnes Scott 

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 



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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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Frances Winship Walters 

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 

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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 

(Continued from Page 19) 

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 
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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 



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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 



Any alumna may obtain one or more of these reading lists from the Alumnae Office on request, without charge. Gathered by the . 
Education Committee of the Association, they are designed for either individual or club use. For a reading course planned for general 
intellectual development, alumnae are advised by the Committee to write to the Great Books Foundation, 20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago. 



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 



Four faculty members have expressed their willingness to suggest material to alumnae who write directly to them, stating their 
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 




Wide World Photo 



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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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. 

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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. 



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Delia McRae Montgomery 

Annie Newton 

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Mary Louise Haygood Trotti 
Patti Hubbard Stacy 
Bertha Hudson Whitaker 
Susie Johnson 
Tracy L'Engle 
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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 



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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 
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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 



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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 






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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 



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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 



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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 



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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 



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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 



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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. 



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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. 



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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. 



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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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CAMPUS EVENTS 

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 



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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 



Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '22 

Grounds 



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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 



Eleanor N. Hutchens '40 

Director of Alumnae Affairs 

Emily Higgins Bradley '45 

Office Manager 

Ruth Hunt Morris '49 
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 
not only to the philosopher but also to the rest of 



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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 



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ine Hood Burns 
Wallace Kirk 
Lee Kelly 

Elizabeth Radford 
Wells Parsons 

osia Willingham Anderson 
le Boothe Jenkins 
le Brown Arnold 
laldwell Wilson 
e Collins Smith 
"ields 
ag Akers 
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 



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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 



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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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[yn Cole Gregory 
Davis Alt 
n Derrick 

Duls Starrett 
: Dunbar Moseley 
iah Edwards Ingram 
ie Florence Eubanks Donehoo 

Jane Evans Lichliter 

Fountain Edwards 

 Green 

1 Griffin Scoville 
; Harman Mauldin 
beth Heaton Mullino 
erine Hertzka 
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 



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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 



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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 



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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 



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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 



Mi 



ss Edna Ruth Hanley 



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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 

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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 



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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 



[4] 



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. 



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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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