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THE

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

OFFICERS

Jean Bailey Owen '39

President

Dorothy Holloran Addison '43

Vice-President

Florence Brinkxey '14

Vice-President

Mary Warren Read '29

Vice-President

Betty Jeanne Ellison Candler '49

Secretary

Betty Medlock '42

Treasurer

TRUSTEES

Catherine Baker Matthews '32
Frances Winship Walters Inst.

CHAIRMEN

Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson '12
Nominations

Dorothy Cremin Read '42

Special Events
Edwina Davis Christian '46

Vocational Guidance
Mary Wallace Kirk '11

Education
Elaine Stubbs Mitchell '41

Publications
Betty Jean Radford Moeller '47

Class Officers
Hallie Smith Walker ex '16

House
Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '22

Grounds
Clara Allen Reinero '23

Entertainment

STAFF

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs
Eloise Hardeman Ketchin

House Manager
Martha Weakley '51

Office Manager

MEMBER

AMERICAN ALUMNI
COUNCIL

The AGNES SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

Volume 31
Fall 1952

Number 1

The Alumnae House

Its Past l

Report on the Present 2

Hallie Smith Walker xl 6

Are You Sitting in the Shade? 4

Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '

Class News 7

About this issue: Hallie Smith Walker xl6. chairman of the House Commit-
tee, and Laurie Belle Stubbs Joh/is '22. chairman of the Garden Committee,
were asked to bring Quarterly readers up to date on Association property,
and they have done so in a way which should entertain alumnae of all
vintages. These hard-working chairmen are two of the score of efficient
volunteers who make up the Executive Board of the Association.

Make-up and cover by Leone Bowers Hamilton '26

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40, Editor

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly is published four times a yean
(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,i
50 cents. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office of Decatur,
Georgia, under Act of August 24, 1912.

THE ALUMNAE HOUSE

ITS PAST

THIRTY ^ EARS is no great age for a house, but
Agnes Scott's Anna Young Alumnae House is believed
to be the oldest of its kind in the United States. Com-
pleted in 1922, it was the only one known to exist in
1924 wherj \ assar made a national survey in prepara-
tion for building its own.

The Alumnae House was named for Anna \ oung
'10. beloved alumna and professor of mathematics,
who died in 1922.

Building costs totaled about 820.000. of which
815.000 was supplied by the College and $5000 by
the alumnae. L pstairs were six bedrooms I as there
are today) including the one set aside for the use of
College guests, and a utility room equipped with sew-
ing machines and ironing facilities.

The Office was downstairs in a tiny room 8 bv 12
feet in area. At that time all the alumnae records
could have been kept in a shoebox. whereas today
thev comprise some 40.000 cards and stencils, a dozen
filing cabinet drawers. tv\o ten-foot shelves of scrap-
books and bound volumes of The Quarterly and a
great many odd memorabilia. The space necessary for
these, plus the typewriters, addressing machine, work-
tables and other equipment demanded bv the growing
volume of Association work, was later found in one
of the rooms upstairs and the Office transferred there,
the small downstairs space becoming a reception room.

A great feature of the new house was the Silhouette
Tea Room, which alumnae had formerly operated in
the basement of the Science Hall. Attractively located
at the back of the house, lighted by large pairs of
windows on three sides, the Tea Room remained for
more than twenty years a favorite campus spot. In
the 1940's, a combination of circumstances diminished
its usefulness and foreshadowed its end. The College
bookstore in Buttrick largely replaced it as a snack
enter. Food and labor costs rose, threatening the
xistence of all small restaurants because their volume
of business could not keep up with overhead. Campus

life was changing; Agnes Scott was no longer the
closed little community of other years; the students
sought out restaurants in Decatur and Atlanta. Alum-
nae Board members tried valiantly to keep the Tea
Room alive, because it was an asset to the campus as
a place for banquets and to the house as a convenience
for guests. Finally in 1950, when the new college din-
ing hall was completed and day students were wel-
comed there for lunch, the Tea Room's last resource
disappeared and it was forced to close. The Associa-
tion looks back with pride on its more than two dec-
ades of service.

^ hile the business of the Tea Room had been dwin-
dling, that of the Office had been overflowing the
upstairs quarters. The Tea Room area was assigned
to the Office and movable bookshelves installed as
partitions, without alteration in the actual structure
of the large room.

When the Alumnae House was completed. Agnes
Scott alumnae clubs and individuals, notably members
of Miss \ oung's family, eagerly began giving generous
contributions for its furnishing. Various classes under-
took to furnish the bedrooms. Beautiful pieces were
bought fur the downstairs area. Silver, linen and china
were laid in for use in the small dining room, and
the large kitchen and pantry were adequately equipped.

The annual alumnae tea for the freshmen, held in the fall.

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In the first guest book of the Alumnae House, still
carefully preserved, are the signatures of those who
attended the housewarming January 27. 1922. The
first signature is that of Anna Young"s mother. In the
scores of names which follow are those of the people
who made Agnes Scott great some of them now dead,
but main still working and giving for the advance-
ment of the College.

That guest book was kept until it was filled, and it
contains several famous names. One signature of
1924-25 was not notable when its writer scribbled
"Peggy Mitchell. Atlanta Journal" across the page,
but the author of Gone With the Wind was a dozen
years later probably the most widely known of all who
had signed the book.

The Alumnae House still keeps a guest book for
the celebrities who stay there: in the current volume
Robert Frost and Pearl Buck are both on the first page.
The College maintains a special guest room in the
house for lecturers and other distinguished visitors.

The four alumnae guest rooms which are now avail-
able are more popular than ever before. The 1917
room, beautifully decorated in 1950, is possibly the
most luxurious spot on the campus. In 1949 the Resi-
dence Committee installed twin Hollywood beds in the
other rooms and redecorated the whole upstairs area.
I Funds for such major improvements are usually
raised and donated by an alumnae club. I Alumnae
and the parents and friends of students stay in these
rooms when they visit the campus. Many alumnae
make the Alumnae House their hotel when they came
to Atlanta, and some use it as a quiet refuge when
they need a week or two away from home responsibili-
ties. They may take their meals in the College dining
hall and enter into campus life as they wish; everybody
is glad to see them, and their reunions with favorite
faculty members are a familiar sight in the dining room
or on the quadrangle.

The Alumnae House dining room and kitchen are
still used for small dinners given by alumnae, faculty
members or students, the giver of the party securing
her own kitchen help and refreshments but having the
use of all the china, crystal, silver and other equip-
ment which has always been available at the House.
The front parlor and the dining room are used under
a similar arrangement for teas, small receptions, and
other gatherings including the regular meetings of two
local alumnae clubs.

report on THE PRESENT

Hallie Smith Walker ex-' 16

THERE MUST BE MANY of you alumnae who
haven't visited the Alumnae House for years. Would
you like to refresh your memory and see also what has
been accomplished in the interim?

Let's knock at the handsome white colonial door,
shall we? On entering, the overall picture is one of
quiet dignity made charming with soft colors and
bright chintz. The house decor is traditional, and to
keep the everchanging house committees on the right
path we decorate under the surveillance of a good
decorator.

The color scheme for the downstairs is taken from
the lovely colonial wallpaper hung in the entrance
hall, red roses in soft shades and rich green foliage
on a gray background. The hall, like all the other
rooms downstairs, except the office, is carpeted in
gray green rugs. A console with a large mirror hung
above it completes the hall furnishings.

To the right as you enter is the coat room. In our
dreams for the future we see it as a small committee
room, and a place where house guests and speakers
for the various meetings may powder their noses or
straighten their ties. This room would have to have
drapes, chairs, and suitable accessories.

As you enter the living room your attention is
drawn immediately to the green plaque of Miss Anna
Young hanging over the mantel. Placed under the
plaque is a portrait light, and on either side are
handsome brass candlesticks. Combined with the fire-
place brasses this group makes an interesting focal
point.

The furnishings of the living room and dining room,
as I have said before, are traditional. They consist
of a fine Sheraton couch done in gray green, tripod
tables, and period chairs. A pair of lovely gilt-framed
mirrors grace one wall, a gift of an alumna. A love
seat done in gay red and green chintz ties the living
and dining room together, as the same chintz is used
for drapes in the dining area. The drapes in the living
room are rose silk hung beneath red velvet, soft style
cornices.

The dining room table is also a gift of an alumna.,
and it is beautiful. There are six Hepplewhite chair
with seats of rose striped in gray. A pair of sma

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feill lifer

:f room in the Alumnae House. The Tulip Room is of a
zher order than this one.

iperiod chests to hold our linen and silver are placed
ion either side of a mirrored door. All this combined
with accessories which accent the color scheme, and
fresh flower arrangements, or glossy magnolia leaves,
make our college home something to be proud of.

The Alumnae Office, which is the old Tea Room,
is painted a green that goes nicely with our garden
that looks so pretty through its large windows and
double doors.

I won't mention the kitchen, for really it is un-
mentionable, there is so much to restore after the
ravages of the Tea Room. It is utilitarian and still
iin continual use. but it is far from handsome.

Now, let's go upstairs. Although our stairs are
carpeted, our upstairs hall is bare. It looks nice now,
for this summer all the floors were sanded and re-
ifinished and all the rugs dry-cleaned. Our floor engi-
neer, however, advises us to carpet this floor as a
protective measure, for so much surface had to be
removed to even up the floors he would not advise
sanding again without strengthening the house.

Do you still long for glamor in your life? Well,
come spend the weekend in the Tulip Room. Bring
your husband (you can, you know) and have a second

honeymoon. The room will set the right mood with
its mauve wall paper, patterned with yellow tulips
edged with crisp Victorian white lace, a deep yellow
rug, and twin Hollywood beds done in pinwale green
corduroy. To this are added all those exciting acces-
sories in frothy, fragile white that we dream we will
certainly have some day when the children grow up.

Then there's the College Guest room, dignified and
comfortable, in rose and green. You know we could
have a sign on that door saying "Robert Frost slept
here." or Jan Struther, or Carl Sandburg, and many
other famous folk.

Right here, fellow sisters, my adjectives stop. We
have five more rooms upstairs. They have wonderful
beds and fragrant linens, and our hostess has a way
with ruffled organdy curtains and special touches,
but that stab you got when you tried to sit in the
once-upon-a-time easy chair was not your conscience,
and although we love polished floors we hate to see
you slip on the rugs.

The big room that used to be the office is in our
future dreams, too. We want to make it into a sitting-
bed room. At present it's holding out its arms for
help.

I must stop before I catch myself hinting! But I
do hope I have disturbed you enough to come to see
us the very next time you come to Atlanta. The House
will welcome you with open arms, and it will be con-
venient, cheaper, and fun for you.

P.S.: I have been reading this along with you and
find myself in the position of the woman who, after
hearing the preacher eulogize her late husband at his
funeral, tiptoed up to the casket to be sure it was her
beloved's body and not someone else. We all know
everything looks better on paper, but really we do
need your help. We need rugs in the bed rooms, easy
chairs, linens (always), blankets, and just plain hard
cash to keep it immaculate. At present it is being run
on a shoestring. Think it over and start a project for
this year.

COMING TO ATLANTA?

As an active alumna, you are entitled to stay at the Alumnae House for $2.00 a night. It's $3.00 for the luxurious
Tulip Room with private bath, for $2.00 more you may bring your husband. Just write Mrs. Eloise Ketchin.
Agnes Scott Alumnae House, Decatur. Ga., giving the day and hour of your proposed arrival and the length of
your stay. Write a few days in advance, so Mrs. Ketchin can notify you if the house is full.

Entertaining in Decatur? As an active alumna, you may use the Alumnae House as your clubhouse. Except for
food supplies and servants (you bring your own), it is fully equipped for entertaining. Call Mrs. Ketchin, DE. 1726,
for your reservation. Fees: 1-15 guests $3.00, 16-30 guests 5.00, 31-100 guests $10.00.

ARE YOU SITTING IN THE SHADE?

Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '22

THOSE OF YOU who were here around 1919-1921
will remember how we loved to listen to Margaret
McLaughlin Hogshead sing in her soft contralto,

I'se so sorry for ole Adam,

Jus' as sorry as kin be,

'Case he neber had no mammy . . .

I'm so sorry for ole Adam because he had a garden
and lost it.

We had a house ten good years before we could
afford an Alumnae Garden per se. "If you want the
past to come alive." said Miss Alexander in a Found-
er's Da\ r talk about the history of our Association,
"get assigned a subject that requires research in old
Alumnae Quarterlies and files."

When Eleanor Hutchens told me she wanted an
article about the garden I began such a research. It
was both an inspiration and a deflation! I am afraid
that as Nelle and Frances and I grubbed out Bermuda
grass, reset boxwood, or were all hung up pruning long
rose runners. I was prone to blame you for your lack
of interest in the garden as it is today. But bv the
time I had finished reading every report of Beautifica-
tion of Grounds committees since the first chairman.
Allie Candler Guy. gave hers. I was very humble:
for until you honored me by electing me chairman. I
hadn't done a single thing for the garden except enjoy
it. while those others had been accomplishing such
miracles of beauty. Believe me, Kipling is right :

such gardens are nut made

By singing, 'Oh. how beautiful'
And sitting in the shade.

I really feel that the first idea for an Alumnae
Garden is revealed in Allie's 1921 report. In February
the committee suggested that a plot be made for foun-
dation plantings of evergreen shrubs for all the build-
ings on the campus. This was done by Wachendorff
Bros., and the plantings were made around Inman
Hall and White House, with a view toward doing more
each winter to cover all the bare brick foundations
of the campus. Allie's recommendation "that a compe-
tent gardener be employed by the College to care for
these shrubs, as they become more valuable with
each year's growth if properly cared for," carries a
prophecy.

In February 1926 the Alumnae Association gave
the committee $50 to spend on shrubbery about the

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Tea Room entrance of the House. That same year
Florinne Brown Arnold, who was at that time hostess
of the Alumnae House, planted pansies and many-
bulbs in beds behind the house.

When Allie Candler Guy became president of the
Association Eileen Dodd Sams was named Grounds
Chairman. Eileen's report for 1928 has such a familiar
ring! "On account of the lack of funds the work of
the Committee on Beautifying Grounds and Buildings
has been seriously handicapped. However, the Asso-
ciation has been the recipient of a very lovely gift.
Miss Marie Schlev Brown of Michigan sent us, entirely
at her own expense, a collection of spruce and cedars
from her own state. These were set out by Wachen-
dorff in groups about the House." That same year
Eileen and her committee gave a flowering cherry
which was set between the House and Inman. The
cherry is still there and very beautiful; the cedars
continue to furnish contrast to the broadleafed ever-
greens: it was the four spruces that had to be felled
with the hatchet when they were killed by the "great
freeze ' that was colder than Michigan.

Then, in that report so apologetically begun. Eileen
gave words to her dreams: "We suggest that further
plantings made should be more of the varieties of
blooming shrubs. Beds of tulips, hyacinths, daffodils,
crocus, etc., might be effectively used. Even a formal
flower garden somewhere between the Alumnae House
and Inman Hall with gravel paths, trellises, and a lily
pond is not too impossible a feature and would add
greatly to the interest and beauty of the grounds.
These suggestions we leave to the incoming committee."

And that incoming committee had as a chairman
Louise Brown Hastings, with her unbounded enthusi-
asm, her expert knowledge of gardening, her winter
home almost within a stone's throw of the campus,
and not at all least a husband who was born into and
grew up in the best known nursery company in the
South. Louise headed the committee for the next six
years with seemingly tireless efforts and unflagging
zeal. The first two years were spent in furthering the
inherited task of landscaping the entire campus as a
unit. Louise never for a moment lost sight of the ulti-
mate goal, an Alumnae Garden. Her own words will
bring you a clearer picture : "Practically the entire ef-
fort of your Grounds Committee has been to further the

progress of the Alumnae Garden. . . . We are par-
ticularly anxious for alumnae groups everywhere to
know that this undertaking is really what its name
implies Alumnae Garden that it will belong to and
should be enjoyed by all. Then all should have some
part, great or small, in its completion.

"The primary object of this formal garden located
in the space between our house and Inman is to provide
a quiet retreat for our girls, where they may enjoy
the still depth of the silent lilied pool, surrounded by
a carpet of cool green, and reached by a refreshing
walk under a many-pillared archway of climbing
roses, and flanked by long beds of flowering plants
and bulbs, selected principally for spring and autumn
blooming, the whole set off by banks of appropriate
shrubs of charm and dignity. A complete unit in
itself, the Garden is designed to fit in and blend with
the general campus picture. . . . We believe the Garden,
when complete, will prove a source of real pleasure
and true inspiration . . . and it is with this in mind
we have undertaken this lasting and beautifying memo-
rial."

Louise secured the offer of the services of a profes-
sional landscape artist, "who would draw up blue
prints and assist in all the plantings free of charge,"
and in 1931: "We are happy to announce that our
major project for this year, the Alumnae Garden, is
well under way, and that completion of the initial
phase of the work is assured through the generosity
of the senior class of '31 in giving the beautiful formal
pool as a permanent memorial of their love and
affection."

Then the seniors of '32. delighted with the garden
that literally blossomed forth under their eyes, gave
the memorial planting of abelia and January jasmine
that entirely surrounds the grass plot around the pool.
That same year the Charlotte Club pledged money
for the erection of the pergola. Only the brick pillars
could be paid for that first year, but with an eye to
the future Louise and her committee planted twenty-
eight Mary Wallace roses which were soon running
riot and clamoring for a place to twine. Thus did our
garden grow!

Louise concludes her final report to the Association.
"Your chairman takes great pride in the development
of the Garden, and hopes that it will be allowed to
continue to grow and spread its beauty throughout
succeeding years by the loyal support oj alumnae
everywhere."

The report of the '41 committee includes, "Louise

Brown Hastings gave to the garden the beautiful cherry
laurel that now adorns our background plantings,"
so Louise did not lose interest when her job was com-
pleted. We alumnae should weave her a garland of
laurel for her part in our plan of beauty.

Frances Gilliland Stukes was next made Garden
Chairman, and what a lucky day for us! Frances has
been working in the garden ever since and I do mean
working. Her first report concludes. "We have not
left the Garden to the disinterested care of campus
workmen, but have spent many hot hours digging,
planting, and weeding." Later, when necessary main-
tenance tasks were carried on with the aid of students
working to raise their campaign pledges, Frances
supervised and worked along with them. Probably no
other alumna has worked in our garden over so long
a period of years so consistently, so faithfully, or so
lovingly as Frances.

\ou cant forget a garden
When you have planted seed;
When you have watched the weather
And know a rose's need.

Frances had as her committee Floise Gay Brawlev
and Mrs. Robert Holt. Mrs. Holt was a faculty wife,
not an alumna, but she gave the Alumnae Garden
many hours of her time. The committee borrowed the
money necessary for completing the rose trellis imme-
diately. Someone had compared the topless brick
columns all overgrown with a tangle of roses to "the
lonesome chimneys of burned out houses." a discord-
ant note in a garden symphony.

At the request of the committee the College was
helping lav a new walk to connect the front of the
alumnae grounds with the rest of the campus. The
committee conceived the idea of rooting boxwood to
border this walk and to line each side of the front
walk. These first cuttings rooted so well that in three
years' time they had rooted around three thousand at
no cost to the Association or the College, a very worth-
while contribution. This same committee served six
years, with Frances and Eloise saving of the chairman-
ship. "You take this one, I'll take that one." Frances
'35-37, Eloise "37-39, Frances '39-41 ; but the three
of them yvere such a good working team, who cared?

Eloise tells us in her 1937 report: "We did not
change the lines of the original planting, but with the
help of Monroe Landscaping Company and the co-
operation of the College and many friends, we added
eighty new boxwood along the side of the rose trellis
and ten large box. five on each side, as a background

for the benches the reunion classes of 1916 and 1917
plan to place this year. I wish to bring before the
Alumnae Board the fact that we now have a permanent
investment in our garden. This investment needs
regular care."

The next year, again with suggestions from Mon-
roe's, the long beds on each side of the trellis were
cut up into seven smaller ones, four circular and three
semi-circular, bordered with boxwood given by the
committee, thus providing more walkways in the
formal garden. Thus was our Garden as it is today.
They have wrought well, and now as Voltaire's Can-
dirle observes. // laul cullivei notre fardin.

That brings us to the war years when labor was so
hard to get. but like Mr. Finney's turnip our garden
grew, and it grew, and it grew! So did the grass
and the weeds and our maintenance problems. I am
certain that our gardeners at large were not "sitting
in the shade." but were making shells, or doing Red
Cross work, or away in the armed services. From '41
to '49 the Garden Chairmen were successively Jo Clark
Fleming. Eugenia Symms. Charlotte Hunter. Nell
Fattillo Kendall, and Vella Marie Behm Cowan. I do
not in any way minimize their labors or accomplish-
ments in thus grouping them together. It's just that
maintaining a garden, in the retelling, is so much less
glamorous than planting one. Not so to the gardener
himself, whose greatest satisfaction is in the cultivation.

When the "shovel and the hoe" were handed me
at the resignation of Vella Marie. I had no more
idea than most of you what I was undertaking. My
first major task on inheriting the Garden was to re-
place the decapitated boy who spouted water from his
headless body. About that time I appealed for garden
helpers who were willing to go down on their hands
and knees and pull out the surplus ivy that was chok-
ing out our big boxwood. One of the volunteers was

Jean Grey Morgan, secretary of the class of '31, the
original donors of the pool and fountain. That was
providence, not coincidence. She told me the class still
had a bank balance of forty-one dollars and that she
was sure the class would want to help repair their
own gift. After writing the class members to get their
approval she gave us the money, and that together
with other gifts designated for the Garden enabled
us to buy our little dancing girl for the pool. The
lovely little figure is cast in lead and. because lead is
not affected by freezes, will be more permanent.

Another volunteer worker that day was Nelle Cham-
lee Howard, and I eagerly secured her promise to
work on the Grounds Committee. Frances Stukes had
already promised to help me. I must confess that for
the next four years she was more my mentor and my
guide. The small boxwood seemed to be dying. She
knew much more about boxwood than I, but I was
eager to learn. A nursery expert told us among other
things that they were just plain hungry. By the time
we had restored their glossy greenness with the proper
vitamins, "Came the Freeze." Now our problem was
one of survival. What did you do in your own garden?
Buy replacements? We couldn't (no funds), but with
the mother of invention prodding us we began to root
new boxwood, transplanted volunteers coming up be-
neath the original specimen plantings, begged for gifts,
robbed our own gardens, and had faith in you. Alum-
nae. Both the Atlanta and Decatur clubs came with
succor. Nelle Howard brought her husband over and
regraded and reseeded the bare side of the front lawn.
Nelle has certainly worked with devotion.

If you were at Agnes Scott after the Garden was
made you know how the students love it. As thev pass
they often pause to store up a bit of beauty for their
work-filled hours; the faculty is lavish in praise; visi-
tors often loiter on the shaded benches in the boxwood
nooks; and in her biography of Peter Marshall, Cath-
erine Wood Marshall "36 has immorta-
lized our Garden, calling the rose arbor
and the lily pool by name.

\ our present chairman has realized to
the fullest the pure joy of helping to keep
our Alumnae Garden "a thing of beauty,"
a joy that I hope you will "come and share
with me."

\& ith the kiss of the sun for pardon
And the song of the birds for mirth.
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.

The Alumnae Garden. The author of
this article with two of her co-workers,
Nelle Chamlee Howard and Frances Gilli-
land Stukes.

DEATHS

ACADEMY

INSTITUTE

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Janie McBryde Williams died Jan. ei
11. tl

Mary Schorb Kell died March 25.

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1908 Jane Hays Brown died May 5. t6

1910 Bessie Powell Stubbs died March a
28.

1918 Alvin E. Foster, husband of a
Margaret Leyburn Foster, father of e '
Betty Jane Foster '51, and brother-
in-law of Ellen Douglass Leyburn '27, ri
died Sept. 17. V

1 920 Lulie Harris Henderson died 2
July 2, after an illness of a year.
Five children and three grandchil-
dren survive her. (

1921 Caroline Agee Rowan died Sept.

22, 1951. ^

Lucille Smith Bishop's mother died "L

last April. *
1 926 Florence Perkins Ferry's fa
ther died in August.

1930 Robert Sydney Cope, father of ic

Mary Cope Sweat and Emily Cope c

Fennell '28, died June 20. it

1933 Mrs. A. G. Etheredge, mother I

of Helen Etheredge Griffin '31, died ^

June 7. fi

1936 Naomi Cooper Gale's father, i>

William C. Cooper, was killed in an rr

automobile accident June 20. n

1941 Pattie Patterson Johnson's fa- J

ther died Feb. 16. G

1943 Dr. W. R. Craig, father of Jo- b
ella Craig Good, died in March. s '

1944 Charles M. Beckham, husband "
of June Lanier Beckham, died Aug.
12.

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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. Contributions to the Alum-
nae hind 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.

NTRODUCTION

GROWTH PRESUPPOSES CHANGE, not of a revolutionary character but change that is a
natural maturing, a necessary adjustment to the demands of life. Agnes Scott is a live, grow-
ing institution and the changes reflected in the story told in the following pages, both by pic-
tures and the written word, will interest you as indications of that growth.

Today life offers more opportunity and more challenge to women than ever before. They
must still be wives and mothers, but they may also be scientists, soldiers, artists, and states-
men. The demands of their education, intellectuallv. technicallv. and socially, are enormous
and unique. Agnes Scott is preparing women for this enlarged role. Without sacrifice of those
enduring values that made great her past, and with reaffirmation of her belief in the liberal
arts as the foundation for the best and most satisfying life, she is lengthening her cords and
strengthening her stakes.

Any attempt at a presentation of the College in a magazine of this size has, of necessity,
to be selective and therefore partial. So, regretfullv turning our back on much that is alluring,
we direct vour thought to a few outstanding features that characterize Agnes Scott Today.
Our contributors who have written the story for vou are representative of alumnae, facultv.
and the student bodv. They have shown a great spirit of cooperation and have taken time out
from heavy schedules to make this contribution. Our heartiest thanks go to them.

Marybeth Little '48, College Board Editor of Mademoiselle and a guest editor of that maga-
zine when she was a senior in college, has written delightfullv of Agnes Scott's coveted position
in relation to the men's colleges that surround her. and the absence of the old "either-or"
debate since here is the chance to have vour cake and eat it. too. Dr. Margret Trotter of the
English Department gives an attractive blueprint of Agnes Scott's and Emory's new plan for
closer cooperation and exchange of students which is stimulating to facultv and students alike.

The fine Arts at Agnes Scott are in a healthy state as Roberta Winter '27 has admirablv
shown in her account of them, and also bv her own accomplishment in the Speech Depart-
ment. Creative activity is abroad on the campus and fascinating work is being done in all
branches of the arts. Arresting to recent campus visitors are the John Bulow Campbell
Science Hall and the Bradley Observatory. Both are indicative of today's emphasis on science
and are centers of campus as w 7 ell as off-campus influence. The exciting things that have been
and are being done in that field are told by Edwina Davis Christian '46, who is science reporter
for the Atlanta Journal.

Environment is a telling factor in the life of an institution as well as in that of an indivi-
dual, and one of the great assets of the college is its proximity to Atlanta. Kathryn Johnson
'47, of the Associated Press, agrees with that opinion and sets forth a delectable list of the
city's cultural offerings. She also emphasizes the opportunity Atlanta affords to the student
in sociologv and other kindred subjects. But Marion Merritt '53, a senior and a former guest
editor of Mademoiselle, (we seem to have the habit of supplving them) is right when she says
that it is not all studv at Agnes Scott. She gives vou, first hand and from the vantage point of
the student, the social life of the College: the good times, the freedoms, the rich friendships,
the democratic ideals. For there is a kind of Agnes Scott magic and all who are ever on the
campus discover something in common.

But however absorbing and engaging each student body may be, Agnes Scott never ceases
to be mindful of her alumnae and to rejoice with permissible pride in their accomplishments.
To complete the picture, to justify the story we point to a new department inaugurated in
this issue: Alumnae Achievement.

Thus we give you, however sketchily, Agnes Scott as she is today, a college where the
pattern of life is both beautiful and wise.

Mary Wallace Kirk '11, Chairman Education Committee

The AGNES SCOTT Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga.
Volume 31 Number 2 Winter 1953

AGNES SCOTT TODAY

Introduction 1

The Story In Pictures 3

No Bitter Either-Or At Agnes Scott Marybeth Little '48 7

Agnes Scott And Emory Have A Plan Of Cooperation 9

Margret G. Trotter

There Is A New Emphasis On The Fine Arts Roberta Winter '27 11

Science Moves To The Fore Edrvina Davis Christian '46 14

Atlanta Is A Growing Class Room Kathryn Johnson '47 15

No, It's Not All Study Marion Merritt '53 17

Alumnae Achievement 20

Class News 22

COVER Our appreciation goes to Mr. Ferdinand Warren, outstanding American artist
and head of the Art Department, for permission to reproduce his delightful Georgia
landscape.

This Winter issue of The Quarterly is the work of the Education Committee of the Alumnae Association. Its mem-
bers Lucile Alexander '11, Leone Bowers Hamilton '26, and Mary King Critchell '37 have given generously and
creatively of their thought and time.

Mary Wallace Kirk '11 Editor

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PHE OTHER DAY a pretty but rather bewildered
een-ager came into my office. She was looking for
idvice on choosing a college. I cleared away a snow-
Irift of college catalogues that had piled up on the
inlv guest chair and she plumped down. "I'm a senior
n high school," she said, "and I always thought I'd
;o to a coed college. But last week my brother came
lome on leave and he got me all stirred up." She
wiveled lightly to the right and left, happily oblivious
i the chair's dissonance. "He went to a big university,
iut he told me he'd met lots of women's college women
ince he graduated and that he thought they had a lot
riore on the ball than most of the coeds he'd dated in
chool. He said he was tired of all-the-time party girls
nd bunnies who never spoke up in class or did any-
hing big for fear of what the boys would think. Any-
ray he showed me an article he'd seen in a magazine
md told me to think about it."

We in College Board had also read Lynn White,
r.'s article in Harper's, "Do Women's Colleges Turn
)ut Spinsters?" in which he quotes a 39c marital ad-
antage for the woman's college graduate and explains.
' . . . despite its claims to sex equality, coeducation as
t now operates in America is socially and psychologi-
ally designed to produce women who are merely
locile . . . When an American man is looking for a
ute date, just something cuddly, he is in one state of
nind; when he starts searching for a wife, he is looking
or this, but something more . . . men have increasing-
y been looking for wives endowed with that essential
[uality which our women's colleges, because of the
vay they are organized, are best able to encourage and
levelop in their students: self confidence based on
elf respect." On top of reading White's piece, I'd
ust gotten back from a trip to a coed school where
lot a single girl had interrupted her knitting long
enough to ask a question in the seminar I attended
ind where the girl who was managing editor of the
>aper told me, "When I was put up for editor. I
cratched. It's bad enough being brighter than a fellow
vithout letting him know you know it."

As I learned more about my rather typical visitor
ind what she wanted out of college, I realized she was
i girl with lots of energy and interests that would
[uickly be channeled into campus extra-currics and
>ne who desired and deserved a top-notch education.

But she was deathly afraid of a manless four years
i who wouldn't be? ) and she thought she faced a bitter
either-or.

I showed her advance proof of an article for MADE-
MOISELLE'S January issue titled. "Where Do the
Top Students Go?" This is a report on an independent
survey made by two professors, an attempt to determine
which colleges and what kinds of colleges produce
scholars. Women's colleges outdid the coeds' in turning
out prospective women Who's Whos. There is a list
of outstanding women's colleges, as evaluated in this
survey. Four of the top nine have a very lively social
and academic relationship with nearby men's colleges:
Bryn Mawr, Barnard. Radcliffe. and Agnes Scott.
This seems significant and to my visitor it was fas-
cinating. All the advantages of separate education and
sovereign extra-curricular organizations plus a healthy
easy exchange of ideas and good times. We talked
about the distinctive features of the top colleges with
this system, and trying hard not to be biased, I told
her all I could about Agnes Scott and the men's col-
leges that are cheek-to-cheek to trolley distance from
our campus:

At most women's colleges, social life means packing
your bag and scooting off for an all too occasional
weekend at a men's college; and the intellectual stimu-
lation of a boy's point of view is pretty well reduced
to limited conversations between train arrival, partv
rounding, train departure. On the other hand the coed
schools that encourage the academic and allow women
to head up extra curries are few and far between. For-
tunately there are a few colleges for women where
both the good of the coed school and the good of a
woman's college are combined. Agnes Scott is one
and in many ways Agnes Scott is unique even among
her cousins. We're not a grudgingly-founded, just-
tolerated adjunct of a men's college. We're an inde-
pendent college with a pick-and-choose agreement with
other institutions.

Atlanta is a beehive of students. Emory University's
2172 undergraduates in professional fields. Georgia
Tech's 3775 future engineers, Columbia Seminary's
200 apprentices to the ministry and hundreds of other
students from various colleges make this a city of
youthful excitement, idea interchange and fun.

Without giving up the freedom to resort to morning

pigtails instead of evening curlers during exam week,
Agnes Scott students can take classes with men on
their own campus or at Emory University's. Without
giving up their right to top posts in their own student
government, newspaper and other extra-curricular
activities, Agnes Scott girls can confer with comparable
groups and leaders at other schools, learn from dis-
cussing one another's problems and solutions. ( Chances
are at a coed college a girl would be secretary, not
president, of student government; woman's page editor,
not editor-in-chief, of the campus sheet.) Without
facing the problems inherent in a Greek system, Agnes
Scott girls can enjoy fraternity parties at Emory and
Tech. Without having to take the time and money
necessary for weekend jaunts, Agnes Scott girls can
enjoy cheering Tech's football team, dancing to name
bands on special weekends, informally sipping cokes
or sitting around listening to records with dates any
weekend of the year and almost any evening in the
week.

Emory and Agnes Scott have coalesced chapters of
Phi Sigma (biology) and student division of the
American Chemical Society. French club devotees and
debaters often have joint meetings and Agnes Scott's
Mortar Board and Tech and Emory's ODK chapters
have an annual get together. Other cooperative high-
lights recent alumnae recall are Savoyarding with Tech
men in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, working with
other colleges on sociological surveys at the request of
municipal government commissions, practicing for
weeks on Atlanta-wide oratorios, meeting with Negro
student leaders to discuss common problems at Inter-
collegiate Council, playing flirtation scenes in Black-
friar productions with Tech and Emory contempor-
aries (NOT willing but portly papas).

One of the newest projects that brings together
not only men and women students but students of dif-
ferent races is the International Student News Center,
which has its publicity office on the Agnes Scott cam-'
pus. Made up of world-minded Agnes Scott, Tech,
Emory, Morehouse and other Atlanta area colleges,
ISNC serves as a news exchange between North and
South American students. The Atlanta group reads
college newspapers from all over, chooses news stories

and editorials that reveal North American student life,
translates them into Spanish and sends out a digest
to Central and South American universities. Praised
by the National Student Association and encouraged
by college newspaper editors across this country, they
hope to make this student news exchange a reciprocal
affair.

Certainly Miss Scandrett's pink slips have always
disappeared faster than anticipated, Atlanta churches
long ago set up collegiate classes and social groups and
Agnes Scott and Emory have for a decade opened their
classrooms to each other. But not until recently has
our nodding acquaintance with the other Atlanta col-
leges developed into a real friend- and partnership.

Now from the first fiddle scrape at the Agnes Scott-
Emory freshman square dance to the time when as
graduate and job applicant the Agnes Scott girl writes
for an Emory-dotted transcript, each Agnes Scott stu-
dent can live a coed date and classroom life. But during
those four years she has had the advantage of another
schools facilities without losing the closeness to her
Agnes Scott professors which we alumnae feel is one
of the great things about our small college. And she
has had the chance to develop in a world like the real
world where friendship with women and leadership
in women's activities are important, where men are
loved and respected as individuals, not feared or
catered to as a collective black ball on all enterprise.
Each student now has an easier social give-and-take
and a wider understanding of college and community
life. But at the same time, each student has retained a
valuable membership in a distinctive college, has not
been submerged in a large impersonal education
machine.

The teen-ager in my office was surprised as may
be many alumnae of a not recent vintage. Fact is, if the
word really gets around, we may have to give our ad-
missions committee aspirin as well as moral support.
Agnes Scott as a recognized top college in the nation
and as one of the few women's colleges with the
stimulation of coed life plus the prestige and ad-
vantages of a sovereign college of and for women, is
something rare and coveted indeed.

Marybelh Little '48

AGNES SCOTT AND EMORY HAVE A NEW PLAN OF COOPERATION

ALUMNAE OF AGNES SCOTT will remember the
marble buildings and beautiful wooded campus of
Emory, one of Agnes Scott's closest academic neigh-
bors. Emory is a Methodist university. This year on
its main campus in Atlanta, some two miles from
Agnes Scott, are 2.650 students, most of them men.
Emory has professional schools of business adminis-
tration, library science, dentistry, nursing, law, medi-
cine, and theology. Emory has also a growing graduate
school and an undergraduate College of Arts and
Sciences. Former Agnes Scott students have pleasant
memories of dances and Dooley Frolics shared with
Emory students. Some also have shared classes on the
pine-scented Emory campus and know that the two
institutions have been intellectual as well as social
neighbors for some time.

In fact there has been a formal understanding be-
tween them for a baker's dozen years. In 1939 an
agreement entered into by both institutions enabled
students of either to attend classes at the other and
paved the way for additional types of cooperation.
This year a new program of heightened cooperation
has just been initiated. It is time to look back and see
how the institutions have been working together as a
result of the first agreement and what happy develop-
ments we may anticipate from the new one.

Since 1939 students of both institutions have had
access to the combined libraries of the University
Center institutions, totalling more than a million
volumes. This pooling of resources has been of profit
to both student groups.

Students have joined forces in extracurricular acti-
vities from time to time. In 1950-51 when Miss Roberta
Winter, our director of dramatics, was absent on
leave. Mr. George Neely of Emory directed the dra-
matic associations of both institutions. A cooperative
plan has since been devised by which Miss Winter and
Mr. Neely will alternate in directing plays that will
be produced on both campuses. Another pleasant
association has been provided by the Emory chapter
of Phi Sigma, a national honor society for biology
majors. Eligible Agnes Scott girls belong and serve
as hostesses on our campus for at least one of the
meetings during the year. Programs are both social
and scientific. A tradition of some years' standing is
the joint Emory- Agnes Scott square dance for fresh-
men during Orientation Week. It is planned by student
leaders from both campuses and in conjunction with
their deans; both institutions share the expenses and
the fun.

For years faculty members have been meeting to
talk shop together. The Emory Humanities Club in-
vites Agnes Scott to participate in its monthly meet-
ings, and Agnes Scott faculty members in the scientific
fields have been welcomed at the programs of the
Emory chapter of Sigma Xi. honorary science frater-
nity.

Some of our students have taken advantage of the
opportunity to attend classes at Emory, and some
Emory students attend classes at Agnes Scott. We are

able to offer a major in business economics through
our association with Emory', enabling Agnes Scott
students to avail themselves of a valuable field of study
not yet ordinarily offered by women's colleges. A
sizeable group of our students have been attracted
by this opportunity. A few physics and mathematics
students were able to obtain advanced work not avail-
able here and ease an almost insuperable difficulty in
schedule.

Some of our advanced students worked with Sir
Richard Livingstone, the noted classical scholar from
Oxford University, when he was visiting professor at
Emory. Others have recently had the opportunity of
a course with Herbert S. Deighton, the British his-
torian.

Professors as well as students commute. Mr. Neely's
service at Agnes Scott has already been mentioned.
Under Dr. Sam P. Wiggins of Agnes Scott and Dr.
John Goodlad of Emory there is a combined program
in teacher education, both men teaching at both insti-
tutions and working together on the sequence of pro-
fessional courses. Dr. Wiggins explains that the cul-
minating "seminar in teaching which is concurrent
with student teaching, combines Agnes Scott and
Emory into one." A committee on teacher education,
known as the Agnes Scott-Emory Committee which in-
cludes members from Agnes Scott and Emory in the
fields of science, social science, and the humanities is
w r orking for continuing improvement in both the pro-
fessional and general education of prospective teach-
ers. Since these students must do their practice teaching
in public schools of the Atlanta area, some forty-
selected public school teachers of the area were pre-
pared as supervisors in a special six weeks' workshop
at Emorv. They received tuition scholarships for the
course which were granted by Agnes Scott and Emory
jointly. Because of the wide recognition of the Agnes
Scott-Emory program of teacher education we have
been invited to join six other institutions in advance
research in this field four teachers' colleges and two
liberal arts colleges. These are Ball State Teachers
College. Danbury State Teachers College, Northern
Illinois State Teachers College. Teachers College of
Columbia University, Queens College (New York).
and Pennsylvania State College. During 1952-53 Mr.
Goodlad has been granted leave of absence by Emorv
to do research. He has a Ford Foundation fellowship
which will enable him to investigate teacher education
in other liberal arts colleges in this area, and his
findings will benefit both Emorv and Agnes Scott.

Agnes Scott is beginning to attract men as stu-
dents. During the war years when certain courses were
crowded some Emory men obtained needed work on
our campus. Now they appear for courses not offered
at Emory; astronomy, fine arts, play writing, music
theory, education.

As in the case of our own students, the number
from Emory seemed negligible in terms of the under-
graduate student body, but this was not surprising in
view of the difficulties in space and time. Also, the

schedules of the two institutions were not geared to
fit one another. Thus the 1939 agreement by which
Dr. McCain succeeded in wisely bringing the two
institutions closer together left unsolved some impor-
tant problems. Changing conditions too. made some
aspects of it no longer applicable.

In the spring of 1952 a permanent Liaison Com-
mittee was formed consisting of President Alston. Dean
Stukes. and Dr. Ellen Douglass Leyburn 1 representing
Agnes Scott, and from Emory Dean Colwell, Dean
Ward of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Dr.
Samuel M. Shiver, Jr.. representing the faculty. Their
recommendations have been ratified by the administra-
tion and trustees of both institutions, and as a result
an improved plan of cooperation is already partially
in effect.

The new plan will simplify bookkeeping, since the
institutions will collect no more tuition fees from one
another's students, except that our girls will pay the
usual fee when they attend the Emory summer school.
Even then thev will be exempt from the matriculation
fee Emory collects from new students. By winter,
groups representing both institutions will have met to
work out together the knotty problems of class sche-
dules, annual calendar, and transportation (which is
recognized as a joint responsibility).

The Liaison Committee has made certain recom-
mendations for allocating course offerings so that
each institution will be able to provide its students
with all the essential courses and each will also develop
in certain specified directions so that by avoiding
duplication a greater number of fields and a more
complete program can be offered by the two institutions
together than would be possible for either alone. We
already have the beginnings of such a program. At
present our girls can obtain geology or library science
if they go to Emory, and Emory students have access
to astronomy if they come here. Agnes Scott plans
to initiate and develop courses in cultural anthropologv
which will be of value to both institutions. A second
type of allocation will occur when both institutions
offer beginning courses in a field, but one will offer
more of the advanced courses than the other; Emorv
does so now in economics and political science, and
we are rapidly developing in music and art. A third

kind of allocation affects departments which each
institution feels are necessary in meeting certain
graduation requirements: education, modern Ian
guages, classics. Bible and religion, and philosophy
Close cooperation between the faculty members teach-'
ing in these fields and actual sharing of professors,
as Dr. Goodlad and Dr. Wiggins have demonstrated,
could benefit both Emory and Agnes Scott. For all
practical purposes there is now one education depart-
ment serving both institutions better than two separate
departments in that particular field could do.

In addition to such departmental plans, there is the
plan to include qualified Agnes Scott faculty members
in the teaching staff of the graduate institutes in the
humanities and in other fields now being planned by
Emory. Extracurricular cooperation in such activities
as music and drama is to be extended, and both fac-
ulties will be brought pleasantly together for an annual
dinner.

It is good to record that Dr. Edith Harn. Dr.
Katharine Omwake. and Mr. C. Benton Kline taught in
the 1952 summer school at Emory, and Dr. Walter
Posey has taught on the Emory campus for several
years. In the winter quarter Dr. Lorin Roberts of our
biology department will teach at Emorv. exchanging
with an Emorv professor who is to teach bacteriology
on our campus. These are not examples of full-fledged
interdepartmental planning, but they are evidences of
fertile ground in which a coordinated program might
flower.

The new cooperation does not alter either institution
basically. The two are not merging, only planning to
work together more fruitfully. Emory is free, if she
wishes, to extend her coeducation and grant B.A.
degrees to women. Agnes Scott is free to devote herself
primarily to the needs of women as Emory has been
devoted primarily to those of men. Emory will con-
tinue as the institution granting graduate degrees.
As at present, the two libraries will serve both student
groups.

Yet an important step has been taken. Among the
rewards will be economy, increased breadth of intel-
lectual opportunity, and. for faculty members and stu-
dents alike, the stimulating sense of belonging to a
larger community.

Margret G. Trotter

1 I am greatly indebted to Dr. Leyburn's report of the work of this committee in her article, "Cooperation with Emory,"
Summer. 1952, Quarterly, and to Dr. Alston and Dean Stukes for their generous information and help.

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THERE IS A NEW EMPHASIS ON THE FINE ARTS

ART, MUSIC. DRAMA and writing: all of these sub-
jects have been considered essential to the liberal
curriculum at Agnes Scott since the founding of the
College; but today the programs in these subjects are
more attractive than ever. There is evidence of fresh
strength, greater awareness, and wider achievement
that alumnae returning to the College will not miss.

The Art Department has been the source of ideas
that give a new look to the campus and a more de-
finite style to related details. Original paintings or fine
reproductions add a pleasanter aspect to parlors and
offices. Bulletin boards demand attention with gay
color and clever arrangement. Rooms in dormitories
are decorated with taste and imagination, often around
a picture drawn from the Louise Lewis Collection of
some thirty-five important prints. Programs, posters,
decorations for social affairs are all showing student
consciousness of color, line, and composition. Art
students are frequently called upon to contribute to
other campus projects. Costumes for the 1952 May
Day were designed by an art major; authentic Spanish
grill work painted by an art student gave atmosphere
to a setting for a Blackfriars play by the Sierras. Three
seniors were asked to exhibit their paintings in the
gallery of the Tower Restaurant last summer, and thus
took the new look beyond the campus!

The Art Department has been bringing an increas-
ing number of exhibitions of original works of art to
the campus. A showing of the works of Mr. Warren
and Miss Huper, a child art show, a "design for living"
exhibition have all brought hundreds of visitors to
fourth floor Buttrick. Of great interest was the latest
exhibition of the work of seventeen active alumnae
artists. Leone Bowers Hamilton of the Class of '26
helped to collect and arrange the exciting painting,
sculpture, and crafts displayed, and her own compe-
tence and versatility were apparent in her entries.
Anna Hunter (1914) entered an oil. Go Doicn Moses;
Neel Kendrick Whitmire 11925). framed tiles of
Charleston; Mariema Miller (1933), pieces of jewelry.
Most of the exhibitors were from quite recent years,
witnessing in vigorous terms to the burst of life ex-
pressing itself so strongly in the world of art todav
with experimental, unconventional, non-objective
canvases.

The north corridor of third floor Buttrick is often,
as now, the setting for an exhibition for which there is
not room in the art studios. What was once a dusty

garret on fourth floor now holds open wide red doors
to a gallery of real charm, decorated, lighted, and
arranged to show paintings, sculpture, and mobiles.
Oversize black coffee tables and bright upholstered
couches and chairs invite visitors to linger and enjoy
art publications, metal or ceramic objects, and always
plants, a jar of grasses and branches, a vase of flowers,
or a twisting root illustrating in natural beauty those
principles of composition and design found also in the
works of art about the room. The gallery has been the
setting for talk-filled teas and coffees; and the lights
burn late at night while the Art faculty conduct classes
in painting and drawing, sculpture and crafts to mem-
bers of the faculty and others in the community
interested in furthering their art. "* ''

These members of the Art faculty are busv with
community affairs and with their own worK. Mr.
Warren, whose paintings hang permanently in various
museums including the Metropolitan, is frequently in
demand to serve on juries to select paintings for reg-
ional and national exhibitions. Miss Huper, who has
won prizes in watercolor. gouache, and sculpture, is
regularly conducting classes with the Decatur Woman's
Club. Both will show their work in exhibitions through-
out the country in 1953.

Any Agnes Scott Bulletin will show that the College
has always felt a responsibility to the Fine Arts; but
recently the program of the Art Department, with new
opportunities for creative expression and understand-
ing in modern painting, architecture, sculpture, and
interior design has emphasized appreciation for con-
temporary furniture, ceramics, silver, and industrial
arts.

Music at Agnes Scott is also in quite a healthy state.
Always stressed as a cultural essential, the program
has increasingly developed scholarly opportunities for
serious students. In 1951 a music major carried out an
honors program of research in the classical symphony ;
she is at present doing graduate work at Juilliard. A
music major of 1952 is continuing study at West-
minster Choir School. A 1953 major is another honors
student, carrying on research on J. S. Bach and the
Lutheran liturgy. This year there are seventeen junior
and senior majors among the ninety or so students
enrolled in voice, organ, piano, and violin. From
Presser floats an agreeable bedlam of practice that
conquers even the "soundproof" studios. At the end
of every quarter, all students who are taking applied

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music for credit are given a ten-minute audition for
criticism and comment by at least three faculty mem-
bers. All students with music majors are encouraged
to give solo or joint recitals before graduation.

The large music faculty are active in the music life
of the community. Mr. McDowell is minister of music
at St. Mark's Methodist Church, lecturer for the
Symphony Guild, and a member of the Board of
Directors of the Atlanta Opera Company. Mr. Martin
is organist and choir director at Peachtree Road Pres-
byterian Church and staff organist for the Protestant
Radio Center. He serves as vice-president of the Geor-
gia chapter of the American Guild of Organists, of
which Mrs. Bryan is secretary. All members of the
staff teach privately, give concerts, accompany or
direct ensembles, thus maintaining strong ties between
the/inusica' life on the campus and the many musical
activities in' the Atlanta area.

' Students too are active off campus. A Guild Student
Group of the American Guild of Organists served as
host and provided the program for the Januarv meet-
ing of the Georgia chapter of that body on the campus.
A student music club is to be affiliated with the Georgia
chapter of the National Federated Music Clubs. Mam-
students are active in local church choirs. One is
organist at Oakhurst Baptist Church, another at Avon-
dale Baptist Church; a third is soloist at the Church
of the Incarnation in Atlanta.

Choral groups are larger and more active than ever,
and their programs are outstanding in qualitv and
performance. A Brahms anthem for Commencement,
a selection from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, the Rex
Gloriae by Gaines, with Dr. Alston narrating: these
have all proved thrilling to audiences in Gaines Chapel.
Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols was the choice
for the Christmas concert this year; and the Spring
concert will offer a one-act Mozart opera and a com-
panion piece.

Alumnae would be tempted by the courses offered in
music. They include church music classes in conduct-
ing, literature for the church, and the various liturgies.

Good music at Agnes Scott is not new; its impor-
tance has always been emphasized; nowadays offerings
and activities are more comprehensive, more full of
zest than ever.

Drama too is a phase of the Fine Arts not over-
looked at Agnes Scott. Courses in speech and play
production and activities in Blackfriars bring examples
of dramatic literature to actual theatrical expression.
At a Drama Appreciation Hour in November were

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heard excerpts from Sophocles. Shakespeare, Chekhov,
and Synge; at a speech chapel program last spring
were seen short plays by Molnar, Bottomley. and
Conkle.

Blackfriars, still an extracurricular activity, this fall
presented the frothy Spanish farce Take Two From
One, bringing back local alumnae to give delightful
interpretations of character bits to support the student
cast; this will be balanced in April with a Greek drama, i
presented for the convention of Eta Sigma Phi, national i
classical society. Although men are borrowed fromi
neighboring dramatic groups for all productions, the
club looks for plays that give acting opportunities to
women rather than to men. Productions have beeni
given fresh sparkle this year by the technical work ofi
Janet Loring. instructor in speech and drama, who
is designing and executing the sets. A quick shiftf
from a scene on board a luxury cruiser to the drawingi
room of an apartment in Madrid was met with applause >
that was well deserved. This new staff member, com-)
petent in stagecraft and experienced in radio, should
greatly increase the scope of the speech and drama
offerings.

Though a class in plavwriting does not materialize
every year, the course is offered, and original scripts
thought ready for tryout are produced by Blackfriars.
One such script was chosen for production bv the
Arts Forum of University of North Carolina Woman's
College last year.

While the emphasis continues to be on qualitv
rather than on number of offerings, the speech and
drama program is in a state of readiness to develop
along several lines and to offer finally a major appro-
priate to a liberal program.

Dance is an area of Fine Arts brought into focus at
least once each year in a program of ballet or modern
numbers.

Agnes Scott has long recognized the value of dance;
today increasing opportunities on the campus prepare
serious students to continue with professional or
graduate study after college. One term of dance isi
required of all students. New students are given a
placement test to determine whether their former
training has prepared them for Dance Group.

This group has grown from eleven members to)
include some fifty students and even a few alumnae.
The weekly meetings are used to study, plan, audi
practice the annual program under the direction ofi
Eugenie Dozier, student of Fokine, Nijinska, St. Denis,
Weidman, and others. In past years she has directed

Les Sylphides, Giselle, and Swan Lake; Rape of the
Lock was an original composition; this year's program
will feature Rodeo. In all these productions, Dance
Group studies or prepares the book, the score, the
choreography, the pantomime, and the decor. Advice
in research from the English Department, consulta-
tions with the Music Department, assistance from the
speech faculty and the Art Department all contribute
to the final program. As accompaniment to The Sleep-
ing Beauty, Glee Club sang the entire score last year.
The Group had been the only one in America to dance
all four acts of Swan Lake until Sadler's Wells brought
this ballet to the U. S. in 1950.

Members of Dance Group have danced with the
Atlanta Civic Ballet and are now appearing with the
Atlanta Ballet Theatre; and male dancers from these
or similar groups take the men's roles in the Group's
productions.

This discussion would seem incomplete without re-
ference to creative writing. The English department
offers work in both fiction and poetry; two significant
developments of recent years are the Directed Writing
course in which the student chooses the type of writing
she wishes to follow, and the opportunity to carry out
an honors program in creative writing.

Folio, the department's writing club for freshmen,
attracts, holds, and encourages those students who
really want to work at this art. A mimeographed
anthology each year collects the best samples from the
writing of the fifteen to twenty members. BOZ is the
lively student writing club into which freshmen grad-
uate. Although the number of students engaging in

writing is small, the work has not been insignficant.

Three Agnes Scott students in the' last six years
have been summer guest editors of Mademoiselle,
where an alumna (who published her second volume
of verse while she was a senior) is now College Board
Editor. From the Directed Writing class came a novel
submitted in the Dodd Mead contest in 1952. Two
students have followed an honors program in writing:
one producing a group of short stories with a mill
town as locale; the other writing a novel based on
experiences during a summer as a student living in
England under the Putney plan.

The North Carolina Arts Forum has accepted for
discussion by famous writers not only the play prev-
iously mentioned but also a poem and stories on two
occasions.

An Agnes Scott story received merit rating in the
Atlantic College Contest in 1951 and won a first prize
of fifty dollars in the Georgia Writers Association the
same year. Summer issues of the Georgia Review have
carried short stories by an Agnes Scott faculty member
as well as by a student.

Creative writing instructors Janef Preston and Mar-
gret Trotter both like to write as time allows and have
published poetry and fiction. The emphasis in this
field is not so much new as sustained and varied.

Alumnae can be assured that Agnes Scott students
today are offered in a liberal curriculum those oppor-
tunities which will develop appreciation and ability in
art, music, drama, dance, and writing.

Roberta Winter '27

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SCIENCE MOVES TO THE FORE

AGNES SCOTT, like the nation as a whole, is ever
increasing its emphasis on science. In Atlanta the
College is an impetus to the advancement of science,
not only among students but the public as well.

The Bradley Observatory, erected on the campus in
1949, houses the 30-inch Beck telescope, one of the
most powerful in the United States.

Also impressive is another campus monument to
science, the John Bulow Campbell Science Hall, named
in honor of a former trustee of the College.

Extended programs of the college's departments of
chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics are great-
ly stimulating interest in science.

The departments of biology, chemistry and physics
are located in the science hall, completed in 1951. It is
one of the most modern and efficient buildings in the
country for the teaching of science. There are 77 rooms,
including a large assembly room with facilities for
visual aid, laboratories, lecture rooms, a museum,
reading rooms and offices.

Astronomers, students from other institutions, civic
groups, and sightseers flock to the observatory. Tours
of the building, conducted by Dr. W. A. Calder, pro-
fessor of physics and astronomy, are frequent. They
are doing much to spread the good name of Agnes
Scott and its manifest interest in science.

In addition to the telescope the observatory con-
tains a planetarium, lecture rooms, photographic dark
room, optical shop for making telescopes, laboratory
space and a library. The modern astronomer has all
the equipment necessary for study.

Under Dr. Calder' s leadership the Atlanta Astron-
omy Club was organized. It is composed of about 50
amateur astronomers and professional scientists. They
meet at the observatory once a month.

Many members bring their own telescopes, some of
which they made themselves, and set them up on the
observation tower atop the building. Dr. Calder, who
now serves as adviser to the club, helps guide thej:
work.

An indication of the club's growing influence is the
formation of a Junior Astronomy Club and special
study groups. Youngsters in the Atlanta area make up
the junior club. They meet at the homes of various
members and often visit the observatory. The study
groups one for advanced astronomers, the other for
beginners are being sponsored by the adult club.
These groups also meet at the observatory.

Agnes Scott's advances in the field of astronomy
have become so outstanding that astronomy teachers
in other institutions are taking sharp notice. For in-
stance an astronomy teacher at Randolph-Macon will
visit the College next spring as part of her study in
connection with a Ford Foundation Faculty Fellow-
ship. The teacher, Miss A. Margaret Risley, was given
the award to study views of astronomers and how as-

tronomy is taught in the liberal arts college. Her cor-
relative work will be done at Harvard University.

Honors students in the Chemistry Department have
the opportunity to participate in a project of interest
to atomic scientists at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Dr. William
Joe Frierson, professor of chemistry at Agnes Scott,
started the study at the College in 1948. For three
summers, those of '50, '51 and '52, he took part in the
program at Oak Ridge.

The work involves a study of paper chromatography,
a new and better method of analysis for the qualitative
and quantitative separation of elements. He is carrying
on the research at Agnes Scott while other scientists
work on the project in England.

Four honors students have helped him with his re-
search. Dr. Frierson and a former student were co-
authors in the school year 1948-1949 of a paper on the
subject. It was published in a national chemistry jour-
nal. Students find working on so important and practi-
cal a research endeavor most stimulating.

Another phase of Agnes Scott's science program is
a cooperative arrangement with Atlanta city schools,
the U. S. Public Health Service, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Emory University, and several industries
in Atlanta. Under the plan Atlanta high school stu-
dents are working on projects at the College. In the
chemistry department one student is helping Dr. Frier-
son with his paper chromatography research and will
enter her work in the annual Science Talent Search,
sponsored by Westinghouse.

In addition the program provides for Agnes Scott
science teachers to address high school groups and to
serve as consultants to high school students and teach-
ers. Because of this work Agnes Scott has a hand in
the city's annual science fair, held under the auspices
of local public schools. Students who have worked on
science projects at Agnes Scott proudly display their
accomplishments at the fair.

Concerning honors work in other fields, one student's
project in mathematics was so outstanding that she
was asked to address a group of leading mathemati-
cians.

Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of mathematics,
and Dr. Anna Josephine Bridgman, associate profes-
sor of Biology, both in charge of their respective
departments, are contributing effectively to the overall
program along with Dr. Frierson and Dr. Calder.

Under the guidance of these able and well qualified
professors and their staffs, and with the excellent faci-
lities available for scientific work, Agnes Scott is
exhibiting increasing leadership in the scientific field.
The College today holds a place with larger and per-
haps more widely known institutions which offer
notable scientific advantages, and her graduates who
majored in science are making sound contributions in
the scientific realm.

Edxvina Davis Christian '46

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ATLANTA IS A GROWING CLASSROOM

AGNES SCOTT TODAY looks outward and moves
about in the world. Not a little responsible for this
is the exceptionally favored community in which the
College is located. Busy, modern, alert Atlanta is a
growing classroom relating the work of the classroom
with practical experience and a city richly progressing
in cultural resources.

What an awareness in Atlanta have Agnes Scott
students for direct study of some of the most signifi-
cant problems of American society today race re-
lations, industrial relations, political and economic
growth of the South! Atlanta is representative of big
changes occurring throughout the South. Industrial
and economic changes are phenomenal. It is a land
where the "war" now means the late global conflict
and not the Civil War and that is change indeed.
Nearly any college professor can tell you that the
students of today are not so much interested in where
the South has been as where it is going.

There is a ferment in the South today. Thousands
have been displaced from the land to crowd into the
cities. There is an ever rising level of income for all
the Souths people and a consequent pressure for im-
provement. Into the region with its vast mineral,
human and agricultural resources have poured millions
of industrial dollars for new plants and payrolls. This
industrialization is linked with the Souths predomin-
antly agricultural-rural economy. And Atlanta is the
pulse of this new industrial South progressing South,
if you like and offers a laboratory for its study.

There is study too, in the role of the Negro whose
economic status has increased greatly in the past de-
cade. Today Atlanta has one of the largest Negro
university systems in the w r orld. The Atlanta University
Center has seven colleges all privately endowed and
the prestige of the Center is incalculable.

The League of Women Voters with headquarters
in Atlanta functions on campus as a link with govern-
ment and political trends in a rapidly changing world.
The student may feel closer to her campus elections
than to those of her nation, and ignorant of the under-
currents of the campaign. Yet, new at the voting game.
she can bring to it the curiosity, impartiality, and in-
terest of a young voter, unhampered by former allian-
ces and beliefs. Whether she can vote or not, she can
read campaign speeches, compare parties and person-
alities and study major issues. Atlanta, a capital city
deeply interested in her state and national politics,

offers needed and rightful preparation for the student
who is to become a citizen of the nation and the world.

Agnes Scott has distinct advantage in its proximity
to Atlanta whose cultural offerings center the very best
the South offers. Atlanta knows Agnes Scott as a
neighbor in cultural sharing and both profit by close
ties. As the college is aware of its responsibility to
the community and Agnes Scott's lectures and concerts
are open to the public, so are Atlanta s offerings in
music and all the arts a widened horizon in the cul-
tural life of the College.

Agnes Scott students have wide choice in the fine
music abundant in Atlanta and participate in the full,
rounded season presented by the Atlanta Music Club.
The Club presents two series of concerts each season,
and a large bloc of tickets for the All-Star Concert
Series are annually reserved for Agnes Scott students.
These series cover the whole range of concert music
and give to Atlanta that preeminence in the musical
world which cities of larger population envy. The Club
directs a comprehensive educational program whose
influence has widened until it now serves, one way or
another, all the people of Atlanta and bears a creative
part in culture of Atlanta and the South.

Agnes Scott looks forward to the season's unofficial
holidavs. the blooming of the dogwood trees and the
appearance of the Metropolitan Opera, two great
springtime events that usually coincide. The Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Henry Sopkin.
brings blessings of greater musical understanding and
appreciation to students in its symphonic music. The
Atlanta Civic Opera Company presents an annual
series of light operas and the Decatur Piano Ensemble
composed of twenty women pianists from all parts of
greater Atlanta present polished renditions of all-
classical arrangements. During the study year, the
concerts and operas offered by the Glee Clubs of
Emory University, Agnes Scott and Georgia Tech are
cordially shared with each other. The celebrated Emory
singers are noted for their Christmas carol singing and
presentation of Negro spirituals.

For those interested in Negro music, there is the
Christmas Carol Service by the Atlanta University
Glee Clubs and the nationally famous "Big Bethel"
choir whose colorful annual production of "Heaven
Bound" utilizes many of the old spirituals in the form
of the miracle play.

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cultural life are Atlanta's churches which present
special music at Christmas, Easter Choral celebrations
and seasonal cantatas.

Agnes Scott students enjoy current offerings of the
legitimate theatre and the Atlanta Theatre Guild cur-
rently presents four productions each year, choosing
principally Broadway hit plays. The Atlanta Civic
Theatre offers entertainment in a well-trained troupe
of Atlanta thespians. In the Peachtree Arts Theatre's
presentation of art and foreign pictures students find
correlation of academic study with non-academic
activity.

In the dance, too, are valid education experiences
which Atlanta offers to Agnes Scott students. The At-
lanta Civic Ballet maintains professional standards and
the Southern Ballet is a company under the talented
team of professional dancers. Pittman Corry and Karen
Conrad, who direct the choreography for all ballets
and perform as featured members of the cast.

Atlanta's art is like a growing plant, strong, vital and
branching off in many directions. Agnes Scott finds
in Atlanta broad avenues of art endeavor as in the
High Museum of Art with its twofold purpose, the
collection of works of art both past and present and
the education of the public in the formation of good
taste in art. The Museum's collection of original paint-
ings represent schools of Italian Primitives, Italian.
Flemish, French. English and American. The students"
annual Southeastern Art Exhibit brings a bit of Green-
wich Village to Atlanta for two weeks with their
Spring Sidewalk show.

Atlanta has much that is profitable to students parti-
cularlv interested in art. Georgia Tech. Oglethorpe
University and the Atlanta Division of the University
of Georgia offer art lectures and exhibitions through-
out the year. The painting of the Cyclorama is a

graphic portrayal of July 22, 1864, day of reckoning
during the War Between the States.

Students find, too, enjoyable art experience in the
many Atlanta churches whose stained glass medieval
windows were done by Henry Lee Willet in the ancient
manner of hand-blown pot metal glass.

To those interested in Southern history, Atlanta has
a Historical Society whose sole purpose is the preser-
vation and dissemination of the history of the Atlanta
area. All foreign editions of Gone With the Wind are
a feature of the book collection. A Romanesque stone
castle houses the Georgia Department of Archives and
Historv and the Georgia State Capital Museum is
recognized as the best state museum in the United
States. Two museums of import, the Wesley and Emory-
University Museums are located near Agnes Scott on
the Campus of Emory Lniversity.

Atlanta is a well-directed meeting place as well as
nucleus for many fine writers. Both main newspapers,
The Constitution and The Journal, carry regular book
review sections and a full page on music and arts in
Sunday editions.

Aside from Atlanta's excellent new Atlanta Public
Librarv. Agnes Scott students have extensive use of
inter-library services among the institutions com-
prising the University Center in Georgia, under the
Union Catalogue of the holdings of 16 libraries in the
Atlanta-Athens area. Atlanta's two large department
stores afford students graphic presentations of recent
literary works of all types by talented reviewers.

No college lives in a vacuum and the trends of the
wider society of which it is a part are alwavs reflected
in a live institution of higher learning. Agnes Scott
keenlv aware of the modern world that swirls about it,
shares in the broadening culture Atlanta offers.

Kathryn Johnson '47

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NO, IT'S NOT ALL STUDY

TALK ABOUT COLLEGE begins about the time of
graduation from high school, when the proud senior
is attending parties and dances, and rehearsing, to the
tune of "Pomp and Circumstance," that last trip down
the old auditorium aisle. It seems that all of a sudden
the talk over telephones, at "spend-the-night" parties,
and in advisers' offices is mostly about the big and
somewhat frightening question of College. From older
friends, from brothers and sisters, from every avail-
able source as well as from harried registrar's offices
the prospective freshman is gleaning, squirrel-like,
information about the colleges of the nation. After what
is offered in the curriculum has been settled, if the
freshman-to-be is a boy, the next questions he asks
are, "What's the athletic program? What kind of a
job can 1 get when I graduate?" If she's a girl, and
that's who we are interested in, the questions generally
are, "Who will I meet? What are the girls like? Will
I know boys, too? Are the rules very strict?"

Now, if, in the course of her information hunt, our
prospective college girl should ask her mother, or
Great-aunt Dora, or Mrs. Jones across the street about
Agnes Scott she may be in for the misconception of
her young life.

Time was when Agnes Scott girls wore long black
bloomers on the hockey field, and were severely repri-
manded for such serious offenses as sitting on the
ground. Once upon a time a young lady was literally
wept over in the dread sanctum of the Dean's office
when she had her hair cut and permanently waved!
Stories like that make great telling, they make a big
impression as well as a big laugh, and they will probably
make our teen-ager wonder how her mother or Great-
aunt Dora or Mrs. Jones across the street, ever survived
the ordeal. In order that she may not be misled, and
that mama's memories may be jolted a little, and
that Agnes Scott may be proved non-static, there are
certain points that can be put forth. Social advantages
and privileges at Agnes Scott today will be considered
pleasingly liberal to most alumnae, and pleasingly far
from Grandmas day. It all amounts to this: at Agnes
Scott it is considered entirely logical to have fun while
getting an education, and in fact the administration
sees to it that you do have fun.

To answer our teen-ager's questions about her social
life at Agnes Scott, she needs to be told the two things
that mold that social life first, Agnes Scott's standing
as a college, and secondly, its location. She may not
at first see the relationship of these things to her
friendships and dates, but the social life of all colleges
naturally develops out of these factors.

Agnes Scott is first and last a top-ranking academic
institution. We close shop at noon Saturday but during
the week we work. Quiet hours are observed, busy
signs are observed, "Sorry, I've got to study" is a good
and unquestioned excuse. But the days don't drag.
For most of us, they aren't long enough. However, there
is time for social life along with study. A necessary

number of hours a day with books or in the lab usually
mean that recreation time is doubly delightful. All of
us take a whole afternoon off or spend a whole night
"playing". And there is time during the day to let
off steam or just flop.

Most girls find the general feeling to be that if a
girl goes to Agnes Scott she's a friend of yours, there
are no crowds and cliques. One criticism brings out
ten defenders, but really confidence-and-share-the-
birthday-cake-friends-for-life narrow down to six or
ten. \ou go home with them for the week-end, are
bridesmaid in their weddings, and swap pictures of
your grand-children. You have in common with them
four years of daily living, and more than that, the
knowledge that the years in college have changed you
from a teen-ager to a person. They have seen you grow
into a person, after four years, and you have seen them.
They can usually explain you better than you can ex-
plain yourself. Your backgrounds, your home towns,
your tastes in everything may be different but together
you find the real basis of friendship intimately
shared experience and spiritual and intellectual growth.

This same principle applies to friends among the
faculty. The student knows all of her instructors, her
freshman adviser, and can see members of the adminis-
tration who leave their doors and certain hours open
for the students. The result is usually one or more
true friends who can fit you in between conferences
and classes and spend an hour hearing your troubles
with math or just talking about most anything from
photography to religion. These contacts with fine minds
and more important, keen interest in the student cou-
pled with friendship and maturity, are valued by the
students more than the courses these faculty members
teach.

If you wish you can make your leisure hours count
toward something in which you are really interested.
If you're nuts about politics, you give The New York
Times a once-over, or you get involved in an im-
promptu debate over coffee after supper. If you're a
goner at the smell of grease-paint or printer's ink, if
you want to help a church, if you like to sing, or
dance, play basketball, swim, or what have you, you
head for the campus organization that has what you
want. As a consequence, you make friends who share
your interests.

The girls are friendly, but they don't trample on
each others' privacy. If you want to shut your door
and be by yourself to think things over you can go to
the little devotional room on campus, or just hang
up your busy sign while your roommate goes to the
library or to a meeting. You're entitled to your own
religion, your own vote in student government, and
your own way of doing your hair, and nobody tries to
make you conform. After classes or when your eyes
get tired, you can wander down the hall and find a
crowd in someone's room knitting, playing records, or
just talking, and you're welcome to pull up a cushion

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and join in. In the smoker you're invited to be a
fourth in the bridge game or in the discussion on
"what makes boys act that way?"

Agnes Scott's location is chiefly responsible for
molding its social life during the week-end. The ad-
vantages of Atlanta its symphony programs, the
concert series, the opera season, stores and shops,
restaurants and first-run movie theatres draw Agnes
Scott girls away from campus. The boys' campuses
that surround Agnes Scott are a great factor. Emory
with its liberal arts college, its medical, law, and dental
graduate schools is about a mile away. Columbia
Seminary for theolog students is nearer. Tech is
farther away, but there are plenty of cars with engineer
stickers on campus every weekend. Boys frequently
come from colleges nearby like Georgia, Auburn.
Sewanee, Davidson and Alabama. Home-town boys
get stationed at Fort McPherson or Benning, and call
for dates for themselves or for friends. There are
plenty of men. The largest number of them come from
the schools right at our doorstep, Tech. Emory, and
Columbia. And there's much to be said for these
young men who drone away on the campuses near
Agnes Scott; they have their points. They have to meet
high standards to get in these all-male schools. They
have to be conscientious and ambitious to stick it out,
and most of them have promising futures. Not seeing
girls all the time makes them appreciative. They're
pretty nice guys, and, it's said, make dandy husbands.

Now, before our teen-ager packs her bag and takes
the fastest transportation hitherward. she should be
told that in spite of the apparently inexhaustible re-
servoir of men, it must be said that there are girls at
Agnes Scott who don't date. Usually they didn't date in
high school. Often they are young for their age, and
haven't caught on to the arts of grooming, posture,
and other lore that make girls attractive and make
boys ask, "Who's that?" Some are genuine book-
worms and don't have time for boys. More often, they
are girls who haven't made a real effort to pretty them-
selves up and ask the roommate to stir around and
find a date. However, they don't feel that their more
popular friends classify them as "dateless," and with-
draw into a shell or a little group of similar shut-ins.
The administration sees to it that they meet boys.
Their friends on the hall are ready with the bobby
pins and a dress to wear if they will make the first
efforts. Many do make those efforts, start reading
fashion magazines, take to giving their hair a good
brushing every night, stop eating four rolls at dinner,
and start dating. Some don't, but a one-woman opinion
poll confirmed my own belief that if you want to date,
and are willing to work on yourself and aren't afraid
of blind dates, you can start signing those pink slips
in the dean's office on Saturday night.

Which brings us around to our teen-ager's last
question, which might have been her first, "Are the
rules strict?" Some alumnae may remember that not
so many years ago young women were more closely
supervised, not only in schools, but in their own
homes than they are today. Then, as now, the rules of
Agnes Scott generally were in line with what was

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considered the best tradition of the times. Mothers
now think that young men can be trusted with their
daughters, so does Agnes Scott. The College in many
respects resembles a home in its social life. The
activities on campus are comparable to recreation at
home. Agnes Scott girls give dances and parties on
campus, and the social regulations are like those of a
home. The older daughters are given more privileges
than the younger.

The freshman is often a misinformation bureau
about college rules. During her first two quarters at
school, the freshman is fairly well restricted. She must
have someone with her, a senior or her junior sponsor,
who knows the city and who knows the ways of college
boys. She can not date as much as upperclassmen, be-
cause she has not yet learned to regulate her time.
The regulations at first seem terribly confusing. Sign-
ing in and signing out have not yet become mechanical
for her, and she does not yet realize that the rules are
made for her, not against her. Consequently, the sub-
ject of much of her conversation is the intricacies that
she has to go through. By the time she has spread the
word that college is terribly strict, she is enjoying
upperclassmen privileges. On the other hand, sopho-
mores, juniors, and seniors, who admittedly have
more privileges than they can possibly use, take them
so much for granted that they seldom mention them.
After two quarters of being shown the ropes, the
students are given date privileges according to classes.
By observing the regulations, they keep these privileges
for themselves. A class which has a good record is
usually given the privilege of the next class before the
year is over. In general, sophomores may date three
times a week, and juniors and seniors at their dis-
cretion. Time limits must be observed, but for some-
thing special, late permission is given, sometimes into
the wee hours. The honor system, administered by the
students, and the paper work handled in the dean's
office, form the basis. A student takes upon herself the
responsibility of keeping up with herself, and with
remarkably few exceptions, it works satisfactorily.
The regulations are made by the students, they are
flexible, and they are based on good judgment.

There is no need for a prospective freshman to worry
about getting lost and staying that way when she
first comes. She should calm herself on that score if
she decides to come to Agnes Scott. Tech gives a dance
for her, and so does Emory. Her Junior Sponsor is
ready to stand by with information and introductions.
Several parties are given for her on campus, and her
date will be provided on request. The fraternities at
Tech and Emory rush, and before she has gotten her
name in the registrar's book she will be signed up to
wear a name tag and smile pretty and tell the boys to
pledge. As a matter of fact, upperclassmen sometimes
get jealous of the freshmen because they get all the
attention.

So if any teen-ager should ask you, tell her from
me that "No, it's not all study ! " In fact, I think she'll
have a good time.

Marion Merritt '53

ABUNDANT IS THE WORD FOR THIS LIFE

THE PICTURES on pages 3-6 are thoroughly typical glimpses of Agnes Scott today, but even they
do not encompass its true color and variety. For one thing, they do not present the vigorous extra-
curricular organizations that give student life much of its drive and excitement and prepare for
future leadership. They do not convey the friendships between student and student, student and pro-
fessor. They leave out of account the outdoor athletics, the shopping trips to Atlanta, the community
ties that churchgoing develops, the year's high points of excitement such as the coming of Robert
I Frost, the Faculty Revue, Junior Joint, Investiture, May Day, the last day in Inman before Christ-
i mas holidays and the first day after. But in their kaleidoscopic way they bring you much that is new
I at Agnes Scott and much that you will remember. They do not really require captions, but if you'd
I like to confirm your guesses here are some explanations, beginning with page 3 and taking the
I pictures from left to right, starting at top.

emerging from the elevator in Main

signing out in the D. O.

the fall dance with Emory freshmen

Atlanta's own symphony orchestra

Municipal Auditorium, scene of many concerts

physics lab: the coelostat telescope

art lab on third Buttrick

she practices at the console where great organists give concerts

a carrel of her own in the Library stacks: the honors student's reward

Dance Group: practice for the annual ballet

speech class: she'll hear her own errors on the tape in a moment

the college switchboard is student-operated

the bookstore in Buttrick

dance group again

the Alumnae Office couldn't run without student aid (the two at right)

the alumnae art exhibit: they're talking of another one for next year

dormitory scene, posed: look at that table!

mail still comes twice a day here

the day students' lounge in Buttrick Hall

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ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT

Editor's note: Our presentation of Agnes Scott today with
its stress upon current advantages has brought into sharp
focus the continuity and effectiveness of Agnes Scott's
offerings throughout the years. Evidence of this is found
in the broad and varied achievements of her alumnae.
Digging into files has opened up a fascinating and pride-
ful field of research. Embarrassed by lack of space in
which to record our findings we can only make a begin-
ning, but we are happy to announce that the department
of Alumnae Achievement which we are inaugurating in
this issue will be continued in future Quarterlies.

Atlanta's Woman of the Year in Education for 1952 is associate professor of biochemistry at Emory
University and has been teaching in its medical school since before women were admitted as students.
EVAGELINE PAPAGEORGE '28 She holds the Ph - D - from the University of Michigan
and is known professionally for her research and publications in the field of nutrition.

Florence is an English literature scholar, an educational administrator, and one of the Agnes Scott grad-
uates listed in Who's Who. Dean of the Woman's College of Duke University, professor of English, and

ROBERTA FLORENCE BRINKLEY '14 S^^^^^SSoS^I

and the vice-president of the Southern Association of Colleges for Women. Among her books are I
Arthurian Legend in the 17th Century, English Poetry of the 17th Century, English Prose of the 17th
Century, and Nathan Field, the Actor Playwright.

Another Who's Who, Marian is Agnes Scott's most successful fiction writer. She is the author of seven novels

MARIAN McCAMY SIMS '20 an t d , of many sh Tt si f es f in J p f ai m ines -P lus

articles generously written for The Agnes Scott Alumnae
Quarterly. Her stories appear frequently in the leading magazines, as they have for years. Her first novel
appeared in 1934.

An agricultural economist, Margaret ten years ago became principal social scientist and principal
statistician in the Division of Population and Rural Life, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. Department

MARGARET J ARMAN HAGOOD x '29 of Agri i c ^ ltu i re - S1 \ e f f^ and co-author of

several books and has held national office in
her professional associations. Her Ph. D. is from the University of North Carolina.

Lorine is listed in Who's Who for her achievements as a psychologist. Holder of a doctor's degree, she \
has written seven books, some of them on psychological and socio- I HP I Kl P DP I I CTTP ' 1
logical problems and others including biographies and a survey LUKINt rKUbl lb X lo
of opportunities for young writers.

TOM Ml E DORA BARKER X ' 1 As author of books and articles on librarianship and as
director of Emory University's Division of Librarianship, this Who's Who alumna is a national figure in her
profession.

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A. recent issue of Time magazine said that A Man Called Peter, Catherine's "warm, clear-eyed" biography
rATurnikic \*/r\r\r\ nAnruAl i 'oz of her husband, had been second only to the

CATHER NE WOOD MARSHALL 36 R .,, , . 1Q[;o c , , ,

Bible as a best seller m 1952. She had pre-
viously edited a collection of his sermons and prayers, Mr. Jones, Meet the Master.

LEILA ANDERSON Zo "Jack" Anderson went from church work into a YWCA career and in
1948 became executive of the YWCA's national college and university division. Her work has taken her
to countries over the world.

Lieutenant Commander Sybil Grant, one of relatively few women in the U. S. to hold that rank, has had
3 Navy career of national importance. Among her assignments have been
one as administrator of the Naval Academy Preparatory School and another
as head of the Women Officers' Indoctrination Unit.

SYBIL GRANT '34

National prizes and other recognition for her work in advertising have dotted the career of Rosalind
Williams, advertising manager of Davison-Paxon Co. Except for a time as an executive staffer with
_ _ . . _ IAKICC \A/II I | a uc /or an advertising firm in Atlanta, she has been with
ROSALIND JANES WILLIAMS Zb Davison's about 23 years. Her work, however, has
oeen used by advertisers over the nation.

A.uthor of two religious books and numerous leaflets and articles, Janie McGaughey is one of the top

^eligious workers in the U. S. She is head of woman's work for

he Presbyterian Church U. S. and holds an honorary doctorate

rom Southwestern at Memphis. A chair of Bible at Stillman College is named for her.

JANIE McGAUGHEY '13

JULIA BLUNDELL ADLER OO Judy is a director of the Whitman school of interior design
n New York City. She is a designer of textile and wall paper. The scholarship in art for 1931-1932 was
awarded to her at Agnes Scott. She attended Parsons School of Design in 1934 and studied at Cooper
Jnion. Judy is a member of Committee on art education for the Museum of Modern Art, N. Y. C.

FRANCES FREEBORN PAULEY Z/ A long career in volunteer service led Frances to
he current presidency of the Georgia League of Women Voters, a large and vigorous League which has
endered incalculable service to the electorate of the state.

One of a distinguished list of physicians among Agnes Scott alumnae, India Hunt Balch was the first
IKiniA I II IMT RAI f""l-l '17 woman member of the University of Virginia medical faculty

and is now in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Another Agnes Scott alumna in Who's Who, Jessica Daves Parker is editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine
hus holding one of the highest positions in her field. JESSICA DAVES PARKER X '14

admitted in 1939 to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court, Pat later became legal assistant to the

PATRICIA COLLINS ANDRETTA '28 At,omeY General ^ in ]

\ppeals, Department of Justice, with the title of judge.

first woman member of the Board of Immigration

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CAMPUS PATCHWORK

This is a highly experimental way of presenting the whole campus while avoiding the disadvantages
of the aerial view as photographed from an airplane. Direct sunlight strikes the front of Main and
its neighbors for only a short time out of the year a few days in summer, when foliage is so thick
that most other buildings are obscured. The distance of the Bradley Observatory from the front of the
campus excludes it from a picture made at an altitude low enough to show the campus clearly; and
the oblong shape of the campus, with most of the major buildings facing the short northern side,
renders it a difficult subject for aerial photography.

The Committee in charge of this issue of The Quarterly pondered these facts and decided to try photo-
graphing the buildings separately and in small groups and fitting the pictures together to make a

composite campus whole. The disadvantages
of this system will be apparent to you as you
examine the result on the two inside covers,
but it does bring you, if you have not been
back to Agnes Scott recently, the relative po-
sitions of the buildings today. The photographs
were made by Franklin Jacks, the montage by
Leone Bowers Hamilton '26.

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OFFICERS

Jean Bailey Owen '39

President

Dorothy Holloran Addison '43

Vice-President

Florence Brinkxey '14

Vice-President

Mary Warren Read '29

Vice-President

Betty Jeanne Ellison Candler '49

Secretary

Betty Medlock. '42

Treasurer

TRUSTEES

Catherine Baker Matthews '32
Frances Winshd? Walters Inst.

CHAIRMEN

Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson '12
Nominations

Dorothy Cremin Read '42

Special Events
Edwina Davis Christian '46

Vocational Guidance
Mary Wallace Kirk. '11

Education
Elaine Stubbs Mitchell '41

Publications
Betty Jean Radford Moeller '47

Class Officers
Hallie Smith Walker ex '16

House
Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns '22

Grounds
Clara Allen Reinero '23

Entertainment

STAFF

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs
Eloise Hardeman Ketchin

House Manager
Martha Weakley '51

Office Manager

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AMERICAN ALUMNI
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The AGNES SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

Volume 31
Spring 1953

Number 3

EXPERIMENT IN RELIGIOUS DRAMA 1

Neva Jackson Webb

COLLEGE PUBLICITY 3

Eleanor Hutchens

CLUB NEWS 7

ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT 10

Ruth Slack Smith

CAMPUS NEWS 12

CLASS NEWS 14

Eloise Hardeman Ketchin

COVER

The Quarterly is indebted to Miss Marie Huper, assistant professor of art,
for her skillful linoleum block impression of the McCain Library. A magna
cum laude graduate of the University of Iowa, from which she holds the
B.F.A. and MA. degrees, Miss Huper has taught there, in Canada and at
the University of Tennessee, and has held other connections as an illustrator
and designer. Her work in several art media, including sculpture, has been
widely exhibited and has won numerous prizes.

Eleanor N. Hutchens '40, Editor
Leone Bowers Hamilton '26, Art Editor

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.

NEVA JACKSON WEBB '42

An outstanding Blackfriars performer in college, Neva Webb has continued to
develop her interest in dramatics since graduation. She taught school before
her marriage, then returned to Atlanta when her husband joined the Emory
faculty. A year of teaching speech at Agnes Scott and prominence in a lively
Emory - Agnes Scott faculty drama group, in addition to the undertaking described
in this article, have highlighted her recent activities in the field.

EXPERIMENT IN RELIGIOUS DRAMA

THE PAST YEAR I've been busy with dramatics and
with learning modem dance, as a part of drama. After
reading articles by Fred Eastman I became enthusi-
astic about religious drama. Eastman reviewed the
barren, hastih -thrown-together church drama in Amer-
ica and cited religious drama in ancient Greece, where
writing, acting, and dance were a source of spiritual
strength and vision. I thought it would be exciting
to try to develop some good drama in our church.
With the help of interested friends I directed several
plays. Chief among these were "The Prodigal Son,'"
an original play for children, and an old English mir-
acle play.

My latest project was presented July fifth at Mon-
treat, N. C, for the Woman's Conference of the Pres-
byterian Church. U. S. The occasion was the unveil-
ing of a portrait of Mrs. W. C. Winsborough, founder
of the Women of the Church. I was intrigued with the
play, "He Came Seeing," by Mary P. Hamlin, and
decided to present it; also to write a prologue which
would unveil the portrait and connect the play to the
Women of the Church.

The play depicts the story of the blind boy whom
Jesus healed by having him wash in the pool of
Siloam. The boy becomes an independent thinker,
rhe play portrays the personality change which con-
tact with Jesus worked in him and brings out the
nisunderstanding and blind fear which he then finds
n society and organized religion.

Having chosen the play, I next sought an artist
Ivho would be original in plotting colors, scenery,
ostumes. The very artist was found, Leone Bowers
Jamilton '26, in Decatur. She was imaginative and
jractical, intense and patient. In May we went to
vlontreat for a day. which we spent in the auditorium
isualizing what we wanted. She made sketches, notes,
neasurements. began to plan the Palestinian street

scene. Later she dyed huge piles of old curtains purple,
yellow, gray and brown. 1 he day of the play these
were stretched and tacked over the stage screens we
found there. Outside stairs to a house were con-
structed from cardboard and scrap lumber and painted
yellow to match the house. On one drapery, she cut
out and sewed materials of different textures to form
a unique "'Tree of Life" design.

Finding the cast for the play was more difficult than
finding the artist. The first group I asked included
several preachers and wives, who read the play aloud,
made helpful comments, but didn't have time to act in
it. One Sunday the young people in our church
( seniors and college freshmen ) read the play as their
program. They were enthusiastic about working on
it. so we began.

The biggest thrill of the play was seeing the change
which took place in the young people. We started
with improvisations. For example, the group or groups
pretend they are on a street in Jerusalem. Suddenly
a young man. formerlv blind, comes by, dripping wet
but with a radiant face. The onlookers make up
excited words and actions as they follow the boy to
his home. Improvisations made the situation more
real. The young people agreed they had never before
thought of how a blind beggar feels, or of how honest,
upright people might hate and fear Jesus.

I worked v/ith the main characters individually.
Although the scene where the blind boy plunges in
the pool of Siloam. rubs his eyes and sees for the first
time does not occur in the play, we improvised it
several times, as the emotion built up in the actor.
I gave the main characters speech lessons for tone,
vowels, consonants to try to overcome southern ac-
cents. Frequently we began practices with physical
exercises, arm movements, walks, to help them become
less stiff, more controlled in movement.

Learning lines was left until feeling for the play
had come through and the action worked out. One
weekend we all journeyed up to Montreat to acclimate
the cast to the auditorium, while I wrote out the stage
action.

So the play got under way. In the meantime, I was
agonizing * over the prologue and how to unveil the
portrait in a dramatic way. After discarding several
plans the idea emerged of connecting the women of
this church with women in all the ages, fighting for
freedom of body and mind. In a small Oriental
land came the challenging person of Jesus, Who gave
impetus to the struggle for abundant life. The Women
of the Church organization was a part of the struggle,
coming as it did from the Women's Rights Movement
of the nineteenth century. Sometimes this vision is lost:

"Who is to help our darkness,
And who our apathy
In dullness, in darkness, what can renew
The vision of power within?"

Its purpose was to help women everywhere live

fuller, better lives,

"To let the Spirit of Jesus grow-
In us, in joy, in love."

As I thought and felt about this I wrote sections of
blank verse. Somehow I wanted my dream of religious
dance to be included, for religious dance contributes
to the fullness of life.

After looking at the material Frank Drew, an actor
and poet, agreed to direct it. Our plan was to use a
speaking choir and to incorporate appropriate move-
ment. I was to act as leader for the chorus.

Getting the cast for this was discouraging. After
asking a number of people I at last got together a
group of eight women from our church and the De-
catur church. Four had excellent voices; none had
dance training.

The speaking choir's lines took only fifteen minutes
to give, but we practised two hours three times a week
for about a month. Frank at first worked only on our
getting feeling for it and the fullest meaning from the
lines. We sat in a row, facing him. and read it aloud.
He selected high and low voices, divided up the parts,
using sometimes one voice, sometimes one group, then
again every voice. Sometimes we spoke in fullest tones,
sometimes we chanted so as to nearly sing. He did
fearless things with our voices. For instance the word

* Note on agonizing: Sam says this means "crying, moaning
and groaning, writing and rewriting, beating on the bed,
getting up at five o'clock in the morning, fussing at hus-
band."

'"fear" was drawn out to last several seconds. In the
word "power" the "p" was exploded and the voice
pitched low.

The next week at the end of a rehearsal he had usi
stand on the stage for the first time. That was all we
had to do just read it from the stage. It was a hard
enough step for some who had never been on a stage
before. The next time, he began to group us. Then
we began to do limbering-up exercises. I showed some
of the slow, sustained movements we had worked out,
such as kneeling, turning, lifting arms, extending handsl
in prayer. We began practicing those. Then he askedl
the group to improvise movements while he read the
words.

Leone Hamilton sketched during one practice andi

showed us where movements were monotonous on

grouping unbalanced. The last week Roberta Win-i

ter '27. drama director at Agnes Scott, stepped in and

helped with grouping. Leone bought tobacco-cloth,

dyed it in deepening shades from pale yellow to deep

brown, made each costume. Oriental in line. We were

to represent Woman in all ages, yet lead up to the*

play. During our lines a light was thrown on the

portrait which was placed on an easel on the stage,

in darkness. The lights on us dimmed when we slowly

left the stage, knelt towards the audience, chanting the

words.

"In a small' Orien' - - tal land',

Came God (long drawn out)

Came God (getting softer)

Came God (very soft and sustained)

There was a second of darkness, then for the first time'i

the lights shone full on the rich-colored scenery.

Lighting" was planned by Mr. Hoyt King, who, with)
true artistic feeling, devotes hours to wiring, cutting
gelatins, building stands, to get an exact effect. Hel
joined the group of thirty which drove to Montreat i
one weekend, worked all day Saturday, gave the play
Saturday night and drove back to Atlanta on Sunday, j
My husband. Leone and her husband and two children
completed the efficient stage crew.

Before the performance all the cast prayed that wei
could do our best, ''share what we have with thei
audience." The actors were primed that night. We
sensed the audience thrill at the dramatic speaking
choir, felt their interest during the play and their emo- (
tion at its end.

It was a spiritual experience. We felt a growth mi
thinking, a release of personalitv and a binding-to-
gether in the effort.

COLLEGE PUBLICITY PROGRAM

by ELEANOR N. HUTCHENS '40
Director of Publicity

NOW AND THEN one of you suggests to me that
you would be interested in the details of Agnes Scott"s
publicity program. I should like to outline that pro-
gram to you and explain the purposes which guide it.
Please bear in mind that this article deals with pub-
licity in its strictest sense that is, as the dissemi-
nation of facts to the public through various news
media. Public relations is a much larger field.

First the mechanics of our program: how it works.
[ts operation may be divided into several parts: home-
town releases, local releases, special releases, and as-
sistance to press and radio representatives seeking
lews on their own initiative.

At the beginning of the year each student fills out
i card which asks for, among other things, the names
jf her hometown newspapers and a list of her student
activities. This card is on file in the publicity office
ind provides us with background information for
stories to be sent to her local newspapers. When she
s elected to an office, or is accepted by a club or an
lonor society, or wins a sports competition, or is
iwarded an honor scholarship, or makes honor roll.
)r graduates, a short news story reporting the fact
;oes to her home town paper or papers. This story
irst states the item of news and then gives her other
\gnes Scott activities and her home address. Its style
s simple and short, with no embellishments to make
ler fellow townsmen suspect that a close relative is
"esponsible for its appearance in the paper and in
:act it bears a Decatur dateline to show that it came
rom the College.

Like other colleges, we send out hundreds of these
stories each year. Their uses are, first, to indicate in
i small way the nature of life at Agnes Scott and a
ist of one student's activities and honors can be a
$ood reflection of that and, second, to serve the stu-
lent by letting her friends know where she is and
what she is doing so that when she goes home they
won't ask her how things are at Flora MacDonald.
rhe student can control these releases about herself.
:ither by asking us to send one we may have over-
ooked or by asking us not to send one.

THE SECOND MAIN DIVISION of our publicity
work is the sending of releases to news outlets in the
Atlanta area. This metropolitan area has two large
daily newspapers, five weeklies, nine radio stations
and three television stations. Our local releases go
to all of them. These releases cover everything of
public interest that goes on at Agnes Scott: lectures,
plays, concerts, art exhibits, the ballet, special aca-
demic occasions, student elections, faculty achieve-
ments, conventions, outstanding athletic events, and
so on through a long list.

Some of these releases are not used; some are cut
to fit the space available in the newspaper: some are
rewritten under a fixed policy of the paper, and it is
in the rewriting that most errors of fact are made.
For the most part although there are occasional no-
table exceptions newspapers do their best to check
factual detail in their stories. However, in rewriting
a release they sometimes unconsciously misinterpret
something in it and come out with what looks like a
careless or deliberate misstatement. Newspaper publi-
cation is a high-speed operation, and some slips of
this kind are inevitable. As for the cutting or total
omission of stories, it is entirely up to the editors
to decide how thev will use their space. I have never
felt that a self-respecting institution of higher learn-
ing should try to push its way into the newspapers
by importunity, special pressure, or the manufacture
of news. That my view in this matter is conservative.
I know; last fall when I called an Atlanta paper to
say that Agnes Scott students were to hold a campus
political rally and vote on the presidential candidates,
the reporter took it for granted that I had thought
up the project myself, purely as a publicity device,
and he congratulated me on my cunning in having
scheduled it earlier than the Emory one so as to get
the better space accorded a fresh story. I do not
know whether he ever believed my assurances that
the students were entirely responsible for the under-
taking, that a student organization was sponsoring it
as a means of stimulating informed interest in the
national election, and that I had not even known that

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Emory was making similar plans.

In addition to these routine stories there are oc-
casional "features", usually released to one outlet only,
about campus personalities who for some reason are
newsworthy, or about the background of some cam-
pus event, or perhaps based on a poll or a survey.

Sometimes the papers decide that a story is worth
a picture, and they send a photographer to the cam-
pus. In the preliminary telephone call, when I have
outlined the story and its picture possibilities, the city
editor or the picture editor determines exactly what
kind of picture he wants. His instructions are written
on the photographer's job card, and the photographer
has no authority to deviate from them. Nor may I
dictate anything about the picture except on grounds
of taste or accuracy. If five students are participating
in an activity and the newspaper wants only three
in the picture, my choice lies between having three
or having no picture. I make the choice according
to accuracy; if showing only three students means a
misrepresentation of the activity, there is no picture.
Otherwise there is. Now and then someone protests
that this is unjust to the other two girls, but such a
protest can be founded only on the assumption that
it is an honor to have one's picture in the paper, and
I do not feel that that assumption is sound. Another
charge of injustice that is made from time to time is
that the Atlanta papers show partiality to Atlanta stu-
dents. There is nothing sinister in this. The simple
reason is that Atlanta papers are read by Atlanta
people, that they strive to interest their readers, and
that Atlanta people are interested in Atlanta people.
The principle is the same as that which impels a stu-
dent s hometown editor to use a story to the effect
that she has made Cotillion Club but not be faintly
interested in her roommate's election to the most im-
portant offices on campus.

OCCASIONALLY SOMETHING happens on the cam-
pus which justifies wider distribution than the two
kinds of release I have discussed. When we inaugu-
rate a president, for instance, news stories are sent in
advance to national wire services, news magazines,
radio networks, and the education editors of large
city dailies, as well as to countless education journals
and other special publications. Or when we have news
that is of national interest to a special group, such
as scientists or church people, we assemble a list of
appropriate outlets and send releases to them. There
is still another sort of publicity that is done by direct
mail to interested individuals; we have a music mail-
ing list, an art mailing list, and of course a mailing

list of all Agnes Scott alumnae. To the various small
publications in Atlanta which list cultural events, we
send a calendar of campus offerings each quarter.
Then of course there are many minor details of pub-
licity such as trying to see that Agnes Scott is in-
cluded among points of interest listed in Atlanta and
Georgia guidebooks and maps or rounding up par-
ticipants for a television program.

Sometimes the newspapers send their own reporter
to the campus, and the duty of the publicity office is
to help them see the people they want to see and to
get the facts they need. We are always glad to have
the press with us, for there is nothing we wish to
conceal about the College or the campus. However,
in the interests of taste and accuracy, we do insist
that reporters work with the publicity office. This is
a private, not a public, institution; and for the pro-
tection of the students and the good name of th
College we take advantage of that fact to avoid, inso-
far as is possible, the dangers of irresponsible report
ing. We do not withhold from the press any news
of public concern, no matter what disasters befall us
As a matter of fact, some of the most realistic report
ing of campus life springs from misfortune: a year
or two ago when Main Building was damaged in a
storm the story was covered by a reporter who was
an Agnes Scott graduate, and her description of what
people were doing when the blow descended gave a
better picture of the campus than could ever be ap>|
pended to an ordinary news release: the dean of stu-i
dents attending a concert in Presser, girls studying
in the dormitory, others returning from dates. A re
porter less at home here (or less well educated!), if]
unaccompanied by a guide from the publicity office,
might have written not what he did see but what he
expected to see hysterical girls fainting, screaming
rushing out into the stormy night and so on. There
is another reason we prefer to be on hand when re
porters visit us, and that is the fact that interviews
with inexperienced people can have treacherous possi-i
bilities. Things they say jokingly may be taken dow
as serious statements, one sentence may be lifted from
its context to make a meaning that was never meant,i
or the opinion of an individual student may be repre
sented as the general student view. In the last casej
our precaution is to try to require that the opinion
not be printed without the name and address of the
student, so that if it is printed the public may visual
ize her as one person rather than as the composite ofj
all Agnes Scott girls.

NOW THE PURPOSE of all this policy and planning
ind work is simply to interpret the College as truly
js possible to the public. As everyone knows, public

aith is essential to the work of a private college.
\gnes Scott is doing an outstanding job, and it is the
luty of the publicity office to try to tell the public

hat that job is and how we are doing it. It is not
easy to publicize a good sound liberal arts program.
\. curriculum full of gadgets and catchpenny courses
s much easier to get into the papers because of its
lovelty. Furthermore it is not easy to maintain a
oroper balance in publicity concerning a woman's col-
lege which is doing serious academic work. There
s still a large segment of press and public which is
anwilling to believe for a moment that young women
vish to acquire learning.

Uur program of publicity, although developed inde-
pendently, follows the same lines as those of other lead-
ng women's colleges. There are three approaches to
publicity, which may be identified as "name in print
egardless," "name in print only after censorship,"
Hid "name in print with facts which help the public
o understand the College or one phase of its life."
This last means patient interpretation over many years
o build up a total impression. All good colleges have
his policy, and all despair from time to time when
ome totally uncharacertistic event eclipses a year's
vorK. The president of Wellesley said once that at
;he end of a year of great academic progress tor
Wellesley. in which many significant things had hap-
)ened, the only event that had made the national
oress was the annual hoop-rolling contest, which was
von by a Harvard student disguised as a Wellesley
enior. I know by reading Vassar's alumnae maga-
ine that last year saw notable achievement there, but
he national wire services only told me two unintelli-
gible tales of quarrels among the faculty, both of

which proved later to have been largely fiction. Other
colleges which have graduated thousands of fine citi-
zens have received sudden countrywide recognition for
having one Communist alumna. One of the best sum-
maries of our problem I have seen recently is in a
report of the Mount Holyoke publicity department to
the faculty, made in question and answer style. To
the question "Why isn't Mount Holyoke in LIFE
magazine?" a query of rather more moment to stu-
dents than to faculty, I should think the Mount
Holyoke publicity director answers, "Partly because
Mount Holyoke activities don't look quite the same
to us and to Mr. Luce." Nevertheless, when we can
find opportunities to bring the name of Agnes Scott
before a national audience in a meaningful or even
merely innocuous way we try to take full advantage
of them.

THE BEST PUBLICITY is earned by the College in
the performance of its ordinary task. You know that
recently Agnes Scott was listed among the top ten
women's colleges in the country for the production
of scholars. Our office tried to see to it that that
listing reached as many publications as might use it.
But no publicity director on earth could earn that
story or one to equal it in effectiveness. It was earned
over many years by the faculty of this College and
by the administration which assembled that faculty
and chose the students who would study here.

Some of you are annoyed sometimes when you travel
to other parts of the country and are asked by unin-
formed persons just where Agnes Scott is. Well, how
many of you know for sure the state and the city where
Vassar is located?

The important question is, "What is Agnes Scott?"
You can help answer that, and make Agnes Scott
favorably known wherever you go.

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CLUB NEWS

FOUNDER'S DAY 1953 drew Agnes Scott alumnae
together in more than a score of cities, and all the
returns weren't in when this report went to press.
Congratulations were due to all the club presidents
who obtained radio time for the Agnes Scott broad-
cast on 19 stations in ten states and the District of
Columbia!

The program, like last year's, was a panel discussion
on a question of general interest pertaining to edu-
cation: Should a college concern itself with the moral
development of its students, or should it confine itself
to intellectual equipment? Two professors, an alumna
and a student agreed that attention to moral problems
lis a part of the duty of the college.

It was a good Founder's Day, on the whole, with
more clubs meeting and more deciding to undertake
projects for the College or the Association.

The Anderson. S. C group, a vigorous club built
from only 16 alumnae living there, met for supper at
the country club, elected officers, and planned a tea
for prospective students next fall. Anderson has a
good record: the radio broadcast all three years, an
annual prospective students' tea. a club gift to the
McCain Library Fund.

The Atlanta. Atlanta Junior, and Decatur clubs held
a joint meeting in the new Agnes Scott science hall,
where the chemistry department entertained the mem-
bers and their husbands with startling demonstrations
of molecular action. The three clubs united in sup-
port of an Atlanta fashion show, which last year made
$330 for the Alumnae House and Garden. Both At-
lanta and Decatur have given parties for prospective
students this vear. and all three clubs have held
monthly meetings. The Junior Club is also sponsoring
the sale of Secrets of Southern Cooking, by alumna
Ethel Farmer Hunter, while the Decatur Club has pre-
sented 26 needed teacups to the Alumnae House and
has as its secondary money-raising project the saving
of soap coupons for cash premiums. Decatur pro-
duced a purple-covered member directory; Atlanta
mailed the coming year's program to all potential
members in the fall.

The flourishing Baltimore Club held three meetings
last year and sent $41.00, the proceeds of a benefit
bridge party, to the Alumnae Fund. Four meetings
were planned for this year, with a fall program an-

nouncing them to be sent to all local alumnae. The
first, a social gathering, brought seven members to-
gether; the second, a meeting at which color slides
of the campus were shown by Sybil Corbett. alumnae
field representative, drew eleven. Both were accom-
panied by publicity in the Baltimore press. The Foun-
der's Day meeting was next on the schedule, to be
followed by another bridge benefit in April.

Baton Rouge held its annual Founder's Day meet-
ing, listened to the radio broadcast, and read the
letters from the College sent for the occasion. Ten
alumnae were present.

Birmingham met Feb. 25 and had as its speaker
Dr. Catherine Sims, associate professor of history and
political science at Agnes Scott, who spoke on recent
developments in the Far East. The club planned a
party for prospective students in March, with Sybil
Corbett, alumnae representative, as speaker. Publicity
for the February meeting was good, and about 30
alumnae attended.

Bristol alumnae sponsored a rousing Founder's Day
meeting with President Wallace Alston, who was in
town for a church program, as speaker. About 20
alumnae and guests from Bristol. Johnson City and
Kingsport were on hand.

Chapel Hill had an evening meeting with 16 present
and listened to the radio broadcast. The College let-
ters were read.

The ever-vigorous Charlotte Club, having wound up
last vear with a tea for prospective students and a
family picnic in May. started the current season off
with a purple-backed program listing alumnae in Char-
lotte. Charlotte alumnae living elsewhere. Charlotte
students and faculty members now at Agnes Scott,
former Agnes Scott faculty members now in Char-
lotte, and alumnae living in the vicinity of Charlotte.
At the October meeting, three new graduates presented
skits illustrating recent changes at the College and
showed a set of campus color slides to the 30 present.
The club decided that its project for the year would
be the raising of a gift for the Alumnae House. In
November about 60 alumnae turned out for a tea in
honor of Emeritus President J. R. McCain. The
Founder's Day meeting brought a reading by Roberta
Winter "27. drama director at Agnes Scott. In Alarch,
Agnes Scott girls home for spring holidays were en-

tertained with prospective students. Publicity for all
events was excellent.

The Chattanooga Club, whose continuing project is
a student aid fund, held a well-publicized and well-
attended tea for prospective students in October, with
Emeritus President J. R. McCain as speaker. Present
were 23 alumnae, five guests, and 31 high school
girls. The Founder's Day meeting featured an an-
nouncement that the $300 goal for the student aid
fund had been reached.

Columbus gave a successful tea for high school
students in November, with the alumnae field repre
sentative present. Publicity was well organized and
effective.

Decatur: for the outstanding achievements of this
club, see Atlanta. The three local clubs cooperate so
well that a joint report seems more informative than
separate ones.

Greensboro held a prospective students' tea lastl
spring and plans another this year. The Founder's

Dr. William Calder, professor of astronomy, submitted
these pictures in reply to the frequent assertion that we
live in a century of despair, bowed down under the|
materialistic heritage forced upon us by science. "Com-
pare," says Dr. Calder, "the faces of Agnes Scott students'
with those of the philosophical young ladies of 1500! Our
students look out upon a world incomparably richer, ini
opportunities for really satisfying living." The professor;
himself is giving the victory sign at the extreme right.

Observatory photograph by Reid Crow .

Dav gathering heard the College letters and resulted
in a good newspaper account which included mention
of the Mademoiselle "top ten" story and President
Alston's election to the presidency of the Southern
Association of Colleges for Women.

If there were a competition in club publicity, Green-
ville, S. C, would take the prize for coverage of a
single meeting. The Greenville Piedmont ran pictures
separate of the three officers and gave a detailed
account of subjects discussed at the Founder's Day
meeting, which included Agnes Scott history, current
honors won by the College and by its alumnae, faculty
publications and the building of Hopkins Hall. Any
reader of this well-written and accurate story would
emerge with a good basic knowledge of the College
and its work. Earlier in the year the Greenville Club
held a prospective students' meeting with the alumnae
representative also with good newspaper coverage.

Hampton-Newport News- Warwick. Va.. enjoyed an
alumna's talk on Institute days at its Founder's Day
event, and concluded the meeting with a speech on
the Alumnae Fund. The club's goal is 100'c contri-
bution to the Fund by its members.

Houston held a November get-acquainted meeting,
and the nine present looked at current Agnes Scott
literature and passed around a mimeographed list of
all known alumnae in the vicinity. The Founder's
Day meeting was scheduled for Feb. 23.

Jackson. Miss., met for Founders Day and planned
an April meeting for the alumnae representative and
prospective students.

Jacksonville organized last spring and elected a full
slate of officers, including one in charge of work with
prospective students.

Ten alumnae attended the Lexington, Ky., Foun-
der's Dav luncheon. The College letters made up the
program.

Los Angeles took advantage of President Alston's
presence at the meeting of the Association of American
Colleges there to hold a gathering in his honor. A
dozen alumnae and several husbands and other guests
were present.

Louisville had a good Founder's Day meeting with
about 15 present and adopted as its project 100%

local contribution to the Alumnae Fund.

Macon had a well-organized and nicely publicized
meeting in January for the alumnae representative
and prospective students.

Memphis had a good meeting in October in honor
of Dr. Paul Garber, head of the Bible department,
who was there for a series of lectures.

Nashville, which last spring held an excellent pros-
pective students' meeting, with good publicity, had a
Founder's Day luncheon with nine present. They lis-
tened to the broadcast and read the College letters.

New Orleans held its opening meeting in November,
with 14 present, and discussed ways and means for the
club project raising a scholarship fund. The Foun-
der's Day meeting was a morning coffee for Eleanor
Hutchens. director of alumnae affairs.

New York has launched an experiment with small
units, to meet separately through the year and com-
bine for one annual all-city gathering. The West-
chester-Fairfield group got under way in February
with a meeting full of exciting discussion, elected
officers, and planned its next event for mid-March.

Richmond held a meeting in the fall with Svbil
Corbett, alumnae representative, as speaker.

Five of San Antonio's ten alumnae met for Foun-
der s Dav and enjoyed talking about recent campus
news.

Shreveport had a well-planned meeting for pros-
pective students in October, showing color slides bor-
rowed from the Alumnae Office to 13 prospective stu-
dents. A quiz on the Alumnae Fund was read, and
the club decided to sell Secrets of Southern Cooking
as its project. The Founder's Day luncheon meeting,
later fully reported in the press, featured a letter from
Catherine Marshall '36, author of A Man Called Peter,

Washington, like New \ ork. is thinking of dividing
itself into sections. The October meeting featured color
slides of the campus, with 18 present. The Northern
Virginia section has reported two meetings resulting
in a decision to tackle the local prospective student
job. with the aid of Agnes Scott materials sent by the
College. Plans for the all-citv Founder's Dav meeting
included as speakers two young alumnae holding in-
teresting jobs in and near the Capital.

ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT

The Education Committee, in charge of the last issue of The Quarterly,
inaugurated this department and provided a volunteer editor to
continue it as a "prideful field of research." The information for
her selections is drawn from Alumnae Association files and certain
records in the McCain Library. Suggestions for future entries will
be welcomed by Ruth Slack Smith '12.

A lifetime ambition was realized when Jean gave up teaching in high school, entered medical school,
I FAN Mr A I ISTFR '91 an< ^ receive d her M.D. She is practicing in her hometown of Greens-
boro, N. C, which recently chose her its Woman of the Year. She has
served as president of the Guilford County Medical Society and is now president of the staff of Central
Carolina Convalescent Hospital.

ANNIE LOUISE HARRISON WATERMAN Inst. is another "First Lady," having
been voted that honor in 1951 because of her outstanding work in the civic, religious and cultural life of
Mobile. Among her early achievements was the establishment of the Mobile Boys' Club and the first Juvenile
Court in the South. Another honor conferred upon her was election as a Trustee of Agnes Scott College.

Upon her graduation from Agnes Scott, Frances received a fellowship for graduate study at Yale. On the
basis of her excellent work there she was awarded a Fulbright fellow-
ship and this year is studying at the University of Paris. rKAINLbo (wLAKK. D I

Dr. Ware has received recognition for her achievements as a social worker, an author and a teacher. She
LOU ISE \A/ARE '17 * s *' le aut h r of Jacob Riis, Police Reporter, Reformer and Useful Citizen, and

George Foster Peabcdy, Banker, Philanthropist, Publicist. At present she is
professor of sociology and chairman of that department at Adelphi College, and also consultant in mental
hygiene for the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children in New York City.

BETTINA BUSH JACKSON X 29 spent four years in research m the West Penn Hospital,
Pittsburgh, developing "Hapten", an extract which "may save the lives of countless babies born of mothers
with Rh negative blood". She received her Ph.D. degree in immunology at the University of Pittsburgh and
is head of the department of Serology of the Institute of Pathology of the West Penn Hospital.

No matter where she works, Jerry seems to find something exciting and interesting. -One of her first assign-
ments after graduating from the Emory Library School was with a county book-truck. Then she was com-
munity librarian in Norris, Tenn. and out of her experiences there came the inspiration to write a book, The
Story of a Dam. She has just returned from Melbourne, Australia, after serving three years as director of
the U. S. Information Library, and is now librarian of the Savannah GERALD I NF I FMAY '99
Public Library.

MAKY KN loH 22 As a world traveler and foreign correspondent extraordinary for UP, Mary

had many exciting experiences. Add to that working as a Hollywood extra and as a hostess for an airliner
and you have much interesting material for the articles, stories and books which she has had published.
The list of books includes On My Own and Red Blight, and recent articles have appeared in the Atlanta papers
and the Reader's Digest. At present Mary is editing Facts and lecturing in various parts of the country.

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ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT

Even in college days there was a foreshadowing of Marybeth's future career, for some of her poetry was

MARY BETH LITTLE WE IN STEIN '48 P ublished then and she was invited to be a

guest college editor of Mademoiselle. After grad-
uation she spent a year in Europe pursuing some of her varied interests. She returned to work with Made-
moiselle and is now college board editor of that magazine.

Sally's interests and activities are many travel, gardening, ASC Alumnae Club, civic and business af-
fairs. Her work with the Y.W.C.A. has been out-
standing: she has served on the National Board, SARAH BROADNAX HANSELL '23
as president of the Atlanta branch, and as chairman of the building funds campaign which was successful
in raising over $500,000 for a new Y.W.C.A. building. She was chosen Atlanta's Woman of the Yecrr in
Social Welfare in 1944, and more recently was elected a bank director.

MARTHA STACK HOUSE GRAFTON '30 is now dean of Mary Baldwin College, where
she has served as assistant dean, teacher of history, dean of instruction and acting president. Her leader-
ship in the field of education has been recognized by the fact that she has been elected president of the
Southern Association of Academic Deans and more recently president of the Southern Association of Col-
leges for Women, one of the few women to be so honored. Her twin daughters are in their sophomore year
at Agnes Scott.

In March 1953 the Alumni Association of the New York School of Social Work bestowed a distinct honor
on Ceevah in selecting her to receive the Norma and Murray Hearn Social Action Award. She was cited

for "distinguished performance in the field of social action",
LbtVAH KUbtN I M/\L 4j specifically for her work in rehabilitating victims of epilepsy.
She was employed at the Neurological Institute of Columbia in 1949 as a social worker and soon began
promoting the idea that epileptics should have a place in business and industry, basing her campaign on
an intensive independent research into the problems of epilepsy. She secured the interest of social agencies
and grants were negotiated through the New York State Mental Hygiene Commission to help finance the
program.

For many years SOPHIE HAAS GIMBEL AcQQ. has appeared in feature articles in such
magazines as Time and Look as well as in those in the fashion field. She ranks as one of the country's
top designers of custom and ready-to-wear clothes. As head of Saks Fifth Avenue's Salon Moderne she is
an artist, a super-saleswoman and a successful business woman.

DOROTHY SMITH '30 Dorothy's activities include teaching, study abroad, service in the
WAVES, and six years with the United Nations Secretariat. Her work with the UN began as a precis-writer
after the passing of an exacting examination in French. She is now an editor of the official records, many
of which are in French, and writes, "In spite of all the controversies within and about the UN, I still enjoy
my work."

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CAMPUS NEWS

ALUMNAE AND OTHER friends of Agnes Scott have
been quick to help with the building and furnishing
of Hopkins Hall, the new freshman dormitory for
which ground was broken last month.

All $500 memorial rooms have been spoken for;
it is hoped that the remaining $1000 ones will be
claimed within the next couple of months. The build-
ing is scheduled for completion in late August. A
nameplate honoring the donor or anyone the donor
designates will mark the rooms for which gifts are
made.

In addition a number of alumnae and friends have
sent smaller contributions to President Alston for the
building. Each of these is a welcome and needed aid
toward the $40,000 or so which still remains to be
raised. No general campaign is afoot among alumnae
because it is understood that they gave what they
could to Agnes Scott for this year through the current
Alumnae Fund, which was well under way several
months before the necessity for immediate construc-
tion of Hopkins Hall arose. All alumnae have, how-
ever, been informed of the individual memorial plans
and the need for completion funds so that they may
make any gift, large or small, which they would like
to invest in Hopkins Hall.

The advisability of going ahead with the 50-bed
dormitory became apparent in early fall with a sharp
rise in applications from qualified students. For some
time it has been an aim of the administration to in-
crease the proportion of boarding students in the
total student body, thereby raising the percentage who
could be given the full experience of campus life.
With the increase in applications l credit for which is
due partly to effective work by alumnae), the oppor-
tunity presented itself.

The wisdom of the move was confirmed a few
months after the Hopkins Hall announcement when
Emory University decided to become coeducational
throughout. This change is expected to attract some
girls who would otherwise have been day students at
Agnes Scott, but is not expected to have great effect
on the boarding contingent: Emory will be competing
for girls with other strong coeducational institutions
like Duke and Vanderbilt. it is thought, rather than

with the top colleges for women.

Hopkins Hall is going up and registrations are piling
in. If you know a student who is thinking of entering
Agnes Scott, advise her to complete her plans quickly.
And if you know anyone who would like to help give
50 freshmen the full life of a resident student at Agnes
Scott each year, please encourage him or her to send
President Alston something anything from $1 to
$40,000 for Hopkins Hall.

THE AGNES SCOTT of 1935-6 will be appearing in
what is expected to be a major movie of this or next
year, if plans for the screening of A Man Called Peter
materializes as anticipated.

Twentieth Century-Fox has announced that several
of the opening scenes will be laid at Agnes Scott,
where Catherine Wood '36 was a student when she
met her future husband, the Rev. Peter Marshall. Her
biography of him, the book from which the motion
picture will be made, has been on the bestseller list
of The New York Times longer than any other non-
fiction work and longer than any volume of fiction
except one.

Her new book, just published this spring, is God
Loves iou, a volume of stories and sermons for chil-
dren which has been receiving favorable reviews in
major periodicals.

THE FEB. 12 speech at Agnes Scott by Sir Gladwyn
Jebb, Britain's permanent representative to the United
Nations, earned a twelve-inch story in The London
Times for Feb. 13 and a rejoinder, also in The Times,
the following week.

Sir Gladwyn Jebb"s address, "The United Nations
in the World Today,'" was a defense of the UN against
contradictory charges that it is designed as a "super-
state"' capable of interfering with national sovereignty
and. on the other hand, that it has become so feeble
and insignificant as not to be worth the money spent
on it. He also rejected the arguments of those who
would expel Russia from the UN. pointing out that
(a) this would be illegal under the Charter and (b) the

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West would not be better off in the loss of the oppor-
tunity to debate openly with Russia in the presence
of those nations who are not committed to either side.
He expressed the opinion that Vishinsky's brusque re-
jection of the Indian plan for a Korean armistice had
done more to rally the free world and to convince it
of the ill will of Soviet Russia than any other action
of recent times.

Taking up the "belief in some quarters" that the
UN is permeated by Soviet agents and disloyal Ameri-
cans, he pointed out that both the Senate sub-com-
mittee and the grand jury which looked into the ques-
tion stated that their investigations bore solely on U. S.
internal security, not on UN policy; and that, of some
2000 Americans checked, only 40 or 50 even came
under suspicion of disloyalty, still less of being actively-
engaged in subversion; and finally that, in any case,
the employees of the UN Secretariat do not deal with

i any secret or classified material and therefore have

I no scope for espionage.

"Let us at least acknowledge the fact," he concluded,
"that even if the United Nations in New York pro-
vides a platform for clever Soviet propagandists (and
they are not always so clever), it also provides a plat-
form for propagandists of the West and of the Free
World. It is here above all that statesmen of the Free
World attempt to discover their own policies and coin
the phrases wherewith they may hope to wean the
peoples away from the insidious and specious slogans
of World Communism. Do not let us, therefore, in
sheer frustration, abandon a weapon which has so
many great potentialities, and above all let us not for-
get that, as democracies, it behooves our two countries
at any rate so to conduct ourselves in the World As-
sembly that the purity of our motives may be discerned
and acknowledged, and that those hallowed conceptions
of freedom and justice may once again recover their
ancient mastery over the minds of men."

On Feb. 21 there appeared in The London Times
a letter from a member of the House of Lords, com-
menting on the address and urging that Britain "stand
up clearly and openly in the linked Nations for what
is right, and move that China be admitted a member
of the organization." Feeling that the Peking gov-
ernment was entitled under the Charter to member-
ship. Lord Elibank quoted opinion to the effect that
General MacArthur's threat to the Yalu power stations
and Manchuria had brought China into the Korean
war. and he deplored what he called the Washington
"guessing competition" on the Korean problem.

Photograph by Carolyn Cart

& Constitution Magazine

Robert Frost paid his cherished annual visit to the campus in
January. Here he discusses poetry at President Alston's house
with students Sidney Newton of Denver, Colo., Suanne Sauer-
Brun of Atlanta, and Margaret Williamson of Monticello, Ark.

DR. ELLEN DOUGLASS LEYBURN "27. associate
professor of English, has won two major fellowships
for further pursuit of her research in allegorical satire.

The Huntington Library Fellowship, awarded to a
very small number of scholars each year, will enable
her to spend the 1953-54 session working in the inter-
nationally important collection of 16th-18th Century
material at San Marino, Calif. She has already spent
two summers at the Huntington.

Dr. Leyburn was one of about 250 college teachers
to be named winners of this springs Faculty Fellow-
ships for the Advancement of Education, awarded
under the Ford Foundation program. This substantial
grant was made also on the basis of her research in
progress.

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Mrs.,

Atlanta, Georgia

RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED BY ALUMNAE QUARTERLY, AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA

THE ACRES SCOTT

ALUM HE QUARTERLY

SUMMER 1953

THE

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

OFFICERS

JEAN BAILEY OWEN '39

President

GRACE FINCHER TRIMBLE '32

Vice-President

FLORENCE BRINKLEY '14

Vice-President

MARY WARREN READ '29

Vice-President

BETTY JEANNE ELLISON CANDLER '49

Secretary

SARAH HANCOCK '50

Treasurer

TRUSTEES

CATHERINE BAKER MATTHEWS '32
FRANCES WINSHIP WALTERS Inst,

CHAIRMEN

CATHERINE BAKER MATTHEWS '32

Nominations
DOROTHY CREMIN READ '42

Special Events
EDWINA DAVIS CHRISTIAN '46

Vocational Guidance
MARY WALLACE KIRK '1 1

Education
ELAINE STUBBS MITCHELL '41

Publications
BETTY JEAN RADFORD MOELLER '47

Class Officers
SARA SHADBURN HEATH '33

House
LOUISE BROWN HASTINGS '23

Grounds
CLARA ALLEN REINERO '23

Entertainment

STAFF

ELEANOR N. HUTCHENS '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs
ELOISE HARDEMAN KETCHIN

House Manager

MEMBER

AMERICAN ALUMNI
COUNCIL

The AGNES SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College. Decatur. Georgia

Volume 31
Summer

Number 4

AN INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL BRADLEY 1

ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT

ANNUAL REPORT

HOUSE GIFTS

Dorothy Cremin Read

Ruth Slack Smith

Jean Bailey Owen
Hollie Smith Walker

THE MYSTERIOUS REUNION SYSTEM

CLASS NEWS

Eloise Hardemon Ketchin

COVER

The 1953 May Court, with a
scene from May Day below.

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.

AN INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL BRADLEY

DOROTHY CREMIN READ '42, a feature writer and member of the city news staff of
The Atlanta Journal, centers her avocational interests upon military history. Recently
she interviewed a man who has held a top position in the military history of our time.
This is her story of that interview.

IT ISN'T THE LONG HOURS that make a top gen-
eral's life difficult. It's the constant pressure.

Gen. Omar N. Bradley, scheduled to be replaced by
Admiral Arthur Radford as chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, can testify to that.

The man who has been officially designated the na-
tion's number one soldier for the past four years said
he is "looking forward to some rest and a chance to
be with my family."

The circle of five stars on his shoulders has carried
no guarantee of a 40-hour week for the soft-spoken
officer from Missouri.

"I work 10 to 15 hours a day here," he said with
a gesture that took in his Pentagon office. "And I
take home work two or three nights a week."

But it's the pressure that gets you, not the amount
of time you put in, he pointed out.

The general beamed as he reached for a book in
a glass-fronted case.

"Have to be packing up soon." he said happily.
General Bradley's books are new. He hasn't had time
to read them. "I'm going to read a lot after August
16," he vowed. His retirement is to become effective
on that date.

"I've been around here (the Pentagon) eight years
and in combat two and a half," he explained.

That's quite a while to carry such a heavy load,
in one general's opinion. Lnder the Army's 30-year
retirement provision, General Bradley could have left
the service immediately after World War II, but he
was called to serve as chief of staff of the army and
then in the all-important post of chairman of the joint
chiefs.

Even his retirement will not be given entirely to
reading and the joys of the spirit, however. The gen-
eral, who will receive his regular Army pay and honors
until he dies, will become chairman of the board of
the Bulova research laboratories and will direct proj-
ects closely associated with national defense.

But he seemed prepared to welcome any change

after the official Washington whirl.

Phones buzzed constantly, if discreetly, as he talked.
A thick report lay on his desk waiting to be read and
it was no less formidable because it was printed on
paper tinted a delicate shade of green.

This officer, who led so many Georgians and other
Americans into the battles of the Normandy beaches
and beyond, looks a little more weary and with just
cause than he did in those hectic days when he
became famous as the "GI's General."

But he is still the proprietor of the famous, gentle
Bradley Smile.

Talking to him, you get the impression that the
kind hazel eyes and the smile provide a facade for a
brain that is shrewd, quick and determined.

For some of the new and strange theories pro-
pounded by a growing number of armchair strategists,
he has the same seemingly boundless tolerance which
saw him through some difficult times in World War II.

Commenting on three of the most colorful and con-
troversial generals of World War II Montgomery,
Patton and Rommel, General Bradley refused to single
out one as superior to the others. "They were all
good."

Of Patton, who was once his superior and later
served under his command, he said:

"George was one of those unique people who had
the feel of the battle."

This battle field sixth sense in General Bradlev's
opinion is not a talent a future general is born with.
Rather, it is a faculty he develops after long practice
in reading intelligence reports and considering other
factors.

"It is partly subconscious, too," the five-star general
believes.

The disputed breakdown in supplies in the fall of
1944, which halted the American advance and. some
authorities contend, prolonged the war by up to eight
months, was caused largely by a too-thorough destruc-
tion of railroad bridges, he stated.

"A bridge with all its spans destroyed and completely
knocked out looks pretty at the time," he explained,
"but when you have to rebuild it. you begin to wish
you had destroyed only one span.'

A noted military historian in his own right his "A
Soldier's Story" is one of the frankest and clearest
books to come out of World War II the general
offered encouragement to students of the battles of
eight years ago.

Their job will be made easier by the work of Major
General Orlando Ward and his staff who are preparing
the military history of the U.S. Army in World War
II. This history, which is three-fifths completed, is
to comprise 20 volumes. They present a remarkable
contrast to the Army records of World War I which
take up a whole building and present a mystic maze
to the uninitiated.

"We are determined not to let things swamp us as
they did last time." the general said firmly.

Another telephone sounded off in the carpeted office
with the deep leather chairs.

Finding a designated point in the Pentagon has been
the subject of jokes since the five-sided building was
constructed. Apparently, however, the higher an offi-
cer's rank, the easier his office is to locate.

The office of the chairman the boss of Americani
defense is close to the Potomac River entrance and
only a few paces from the receptionist's desk.

And anyway, everyone knows where General Brad-
ley abides.

The Negro cab driver who supplied the transpor-
tation back to Washington said he was a former Pen-
tagon guard.

"You see those windows up there," he pointed im-.
portantly. "That's General Bradley s office. He's thei
nicest man in the building. You know, if the general
passed you in the hall 50 times a day, he'd always
speak. That's the kind of man he is."

HOPKINS HALL

will be dedicated Wednesday, September 30

at 10:30 A.M.

You are invited!

ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT

As this issue of the Quarterly goes to press we are especially interested in
the announcements of fellowships and scholarships awarded at the end of
the academic year. We do not have a complete list of awards received
by Agnes Scott alumnae; but we are listing those of whom we have heard,
since such grants are made in recognition of past achievement and the prom-
ise of future advancement. Ruth Slack Smith '12.

FORD FELLOWSHIPS

for advancement of teaching:

Emily Spivey Simmons '25 teaches in the Marietta High School. This is not her first award, for
ilast year she received a fellowship for six weeks study in the Westinghouse Summer Science Program for
Teachers.

Ellen DouglaSS Leybum '27 received her M.A. from Radcliffe and her Ph.D. from Yale and
is now associate professor of English at Agnes Scott. In addition to her teaching she is actively interested
in scholarly research and writing.

Berdie FergUSOn Hogan '29 received her M.S. from Emory and has been teaching science
in high school.

Louise btakely oZ. received her M.S. from Emory, has done laboratory work and is now teaching
science in the Henry Grady High School in Atlanta.

Miriam Thompson '32 is head of the Language Arts department in the College Park High School.
She is planning to study at the University of Pennsylvania in the special field of American literature as it
reflects American history.

Ann Henry 4 I who has been teaching history and government in the Macon, Ga., high school, plans
to study Eighteenth-Century American history, spending half the year in New England and the other half
in Virginia.

FULBRIGHT AWARDS

for study abroad:

Caroline Crea OZ spent last year working on her M.A. in English at Radcliffe and plans to use
her Fulbright award to study English literature at the University of Southampton.

Priscilla Sheppard '53 is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board, was editor of The
Agnes Scott News and was a major in history, writing her honors thesis on "The Grand Alliance," a study
of the influence of the personal relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill on the diplomatic and military
course of World War II. She plans to study Anglo-American relations at the University of London.

HUNTINGTON FELLOWSHIP

for research:

Ellen DouglaSS Leybum '27 received both a Ford and a Huntington award and decided to
accept the latter. She will spend the winter seeking further information about satiric allegory in the Hunt-
ington Library in San Marino, Calif.

GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD

scholarship for graduate study:

PriSCllla bheppard 53 was also granted this scholarship but chose to accept the Fulbright award
for study abroad.

ANNUAL REPORT

AS VOTING MEMBERS of the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Association you have, during 1952-53, employed upon
a part-time basis a Director of Alumnae Affairs and
an office staff assistant, and a hostess for the Alumnae
house on full time. This adds up to 2% persons.

You also commanded the services of a group of
volunteer officers who compose your Executive Board:
A president, three vice-presidents, secretary, treasurer,
two alumnae trustees, nine committee chairmen and
three local alumnae club presidents.

The president has acted as presiding officer at Board
meetings and has been called upon from time to time
to represent the alumnae at campus events.

One of the vice-presidents is responsible for stimu-
lating the growth and organization of local clubs
wherever there are enough alumnae concentrated to
make this feasible. Mary Warren Read (Mrs. Joseph)
has held that post this year and found that it entails
much letter writing and at times brings discouraging
replies. She has met with success, however, in the
prospect of some clubs to be formed this coming fall.

Our out-of-town vice-president is Dr. Florence Brink-
ley of Duke University, Durham, N. C. She is respon-
sible for constitutional changes and has this year made
a detailed study of the constitution with a view to
suggesting possible changes.

The third vice-president, Dorothy Holloran Addi-
son, is chairman of the Property Committee and has
three Board members working, as committee chairmen
of separate activities, under her. She is responsible for
for saying, "No, the money isn't there."

Those alumnae present at the Annual Meeting which
look place on June 6th this year were, according to,
our constitution, empowered to carry out the business
of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Association and have,
therefore, heard the following report.

authorizing expenditures on alumnae property orl
The secretary keeps detailed minutes of Board meet-
ings, the Annual Meeting and carries on the official!
correspondence of the Executive Board. Betty Jeannei
Ellison Candler holds this office and has kept records!
that may be passed along with pride to future officers.i
The treasurer, Betty Medlock Lackey, works with!
the Alumnae Budget and is chairman of the Finance!
Committee, not to mention having to be familiar with!
the eternal government forms which even our modest
non-profit organization must fill out. This "modesti
organization" this year more than met its budget with
a total of $11,300 collected.

Our Alumnae Trustees are Frances Winship Walters
and Catherine Baker Matthews. They represent ouri
interests at meetings of the College Board of Trustees.
The nine committees:

1. The Class Council chairman, Betty Jeanne Rad-
ford Moeller, another out-of-towner, pulled the bonds!
of common interest shared by alumnae tighter through
letters to all class presidents and secretaries urging
them to keep news coming in and alumnae getting
together. These letters were composed by the chair-
man, typed and mimeographed in the Alumnae Office
then mailed to her for signature and mailing.

2. Our Education chairman, Mary Wallace Kirk,*
and her committee this year have put out an Alumnae
Quarterly devoted to the subject of Agnes Scott todayi

1953 GRANDDAUGHTERS. This year's senior class included the ten granddaughters shown below in cap and gown. Left to 1
right^ roughly, are Sarah Smith Hamilton, Acad., and Mary; Leone Bowers Hamilton '26 and Sarah Crewe; Catherine Nash
Goff '24 (in white) and Kitty (at her left); below them, Anne DeWitt George and her grandmother, Fannie Orr Carter, Inst.;
above, Evelyn and Edith Melton Bassett x24; below her, Marion Park Merritt x21 and Marion; Dinah Roberts Parramore '19
with Li I la Kate behind her; Christine Turner Hand x24 and Florence, looking over her shoulder; right rear, Peggy and Louise.
Slack Hooker '20; right front, Leila Joiner Cooper '27 and Ann. This picture is always the hardest of the year to get: imagine
catching ten new graduates and their mothers in the melee after Commencement exercises!

hich you will remember as one of the highlights of
he year.

3. We have a year-round Nominating Committee
leaded by Fannie G. Mayson Donaldson to whom
he president is always especially grateful for being
spared the problem of recruiting the right person for
he job when vacancies occur in the middle of a tern 1
f office.

4. Elaine Stubbs Mitchell is Publications chairman
md this year has assisted Eleanor Hutchens with vari-
dus editing problems in the production of the Quar-
terly.

5. The Special Events Committee is headed by Dor-
othy Cremin Read who wrote and directed the Foun-
ders' Dav Radio Program with its subject, the place
colleges like ours can fill in the field of public moral-
ity. Nineteen radio stations in 11 states used transcrip-
tions of this program and thus spread the voice of
Agnes Scott far and wide. Special Events also plans
for the Commencement Luncheon in conjunction with
the Entertainment Committee.

6. The Vocational Guidance chairman. Edwina
Davis Christian, with her committee staged the annual
Career Coffee Conferences for the senior students
bringing alumnae now working in various interesting
fields to the campus to describe their work and give
pointers on how to go about launching a career.

7. The Property vice-president works with the three
following chairmen to coordinate the work on and with
the property owned by the Alumnae Association, name-
ly the Alumnae House and Garden. Clara May Allen
Reinero has master-minded the September Tea for
freshmen given in the House and one of the nicest
parties we have ever had. She also helped with the
Career Coffees and with the Special Events chairman
planned the luncheon at the Annual Business Meeting.

8. Hallie Smith Walker is chairman of the House
Committee. She, with her committee, has supervised
repair work on the interior of the Alumnae House,
made needed purchases as funds were available, and
striven long and hard to get the money to do what
iwas needed. From last July through May of this year
the House served 164 guests who spent a total of 175
nights. Twenty-eight meetings were held and six
parties.

9. Laura Belle Stubbs Johns has been chairman
of the Grounds Committee and has wrestled with the
problem of maintenance, and new plantings also, out
of what is never enough money to do the job, since
the House and Garden are not provided for in the
general Alumnae Budget but get along on income from
room rental in the House and special gifts to the House

or Garden. There is no way of giving figures on the
number who have enjoyed the Alumnae Garden as we
can on the House since the little girl on the fountain
is the nearest we come to a resident hostess; but if
she would speak her statistics would surprise you.

The president would like to commend each member
of the Board for jobs splendidly and unselfishly ac-
complished this year. The acts mentioned are neces-
sarily only single examples of the work done all the
year through by the committees and their chairmen.
A great deal more might be accomplished with greater
funds and more people. We shall not weary you with
a recital of our dreams for the Alumnae Association
and what it might do for the college and the alumnae,
only urge you to accept and enjoy the assignments of
volunteer work you may be called upon as voting mem-
bers of the association to take next year.

Respectfullv submitted.

JEAN BAILEY OWEN
President

By HALLIE SMITH WALKER xl6
House Chairman, 1952-53

AS MY CHAIRMANSHIP of the House Committee
drew to a close in June, I began taking stock of the
fine gifts the Alumnae House received in the course
of the year and what an imposing list it is!

First, fifty dollars from Annie Galloway Phillips
which was twice blessed, for it brought renewed hope
when we thought we were forgotten.

Next, all the way from Germany, a real work of
art a tablecloth hand made especially for the Alum-
nae House by Liselotte Roennecke Kaiser.

Bee Miller Rigby, on a visit to the House, left as a
parting gift a pair of featherweight percale pillow-
cases. How welcome they were, the housewives among
vou will know.

In the late spring three alumnae clubs overjoyed us
with generous checks for improvements which were
gravely needed. The Charlotte Club sent $75.00, the
Atlanta Club $85.00 and the Decatur Club $50.00!
Already, as a result, the House has begun to blossom
out in comfort and beautv. Charlotte s money bought
two small wing chairs for bedrooms and Annie Gallo-
way Phillips' check purchased another bedroom easv
chair. It's wonderful to know that all the broken
springs are gone and that when you come to see us
you can sit in comfort.

I agree with Cibber that "words are but empty
thanks." Here's hoping, though, that this special
thank-you will be that word fitly spoken that is like
"apples of gold in pictures of silver" you deserve it!

THE MYSTERIOUS REUNION SYSTEM

TO MANY OF US, one of the most mystifying aspects
of alumnae life is the setting of reunion dates. Why,
for instance, did 1944 have a reunion this year, with
its 10th anniversary only one year off? Conversely,
why does 1928 have a reunion set for next year
although it celebrated its 25th in considerable style
this year?

These questions do have rational answers. The
mentally energetic reader may enjoy puzzling out the
solution from the table on the opposite page. For
those who, as Professor Henry Robinson lamented in
The Quarterly not long ago, recoil instantly from a
set of figures with protestations of complete mathe-
matical innocence, here is an attempt at verbal ex-
planation.

It is desirable to bring back simultaneously four
classes who were at Agnes Scott together. Your college
friends were not all necessarily members of your class.
By sharing reunion dates with the classes that were at
college with you, you gain the opportunity of seeing
these non-classmate friends again.

When classes are brought back in groups of four,
only one of each group if any can in a given year
observe a "milestone'' (5th, 10th. etc.) anniversary, be-
cause those anniversaries fall five years apart. In 1954,
the Class of 1929 happens to be scheduled for a re-
union. It happens also that 1954 will be 1929's 25th
anniversary. That's nice. But the classes of 26, '27,
and '28 will be back with '29, celebrating such incon-
sequential anniversaries as their 28th, 27th, and 26th
respectively. Also scheduled for reunion in 1954 are
the classes of '45, '46, '47, and '48 for none of which
1954 means anything as a conventional anniversary.
All of this irrelevance is an inevitable mathematical
result of bringing coeval classes back together.

This system, known as the Dix Reunion Plan, is
in wide use by alumni associations over the country.
To meet its chief deficiency, the failure to provide
"milestone" reunions automatically, three methods
have been evolved by various associations: (1) ignor-
ing the milestones; (2) scheduling a milestone reunion
for each class every five years in addition to Dix
reunions, even though this nearly doubles the frequency
of reunion and thus cuts down average attendance at
each gathering; (3) giving special milestone classes
5th, 10th. 15th. 20th, 25th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th
an option as to whether they will hold special reunion.

This third method is the one chosen by the Agnes
Scott Alumnae Association. For instance, in 1953 the
Class of 1928 was reminded through its president that
its silver anniversary was at hand; the president polled 1
the class and got favorable views on a special reunion
and the reunion was held, although the Dix plan die
not provide for one. The queries in the right-hanc
columns on the opposite page concern such special re
unions, which will be held if the classes want them
The triumphant exclamations in the same columns show
classes which happen to hit milestone reunions unden
the Dix plan.

Explanation of three small points perhaps will com
plete the unraveling of the enigma. You may notice
that in 1949 and 1958 only three classes in a group
appear to be scheduled. Not so; one class in each
1949 group has had another reunion since then, so
that 1949 was not its last reunion, and one class ir
each 1958 group will first have a reunion in 1954, sc
that 1958 will not be its next reunion year. Also, i
may worry you that the four-year grouping rule seem
to have been suspended for the classes at the bottorr
of the second column. Be reassured; those were th>
first-year reunions every class holds after graduation
and 1955 (see third column) will bring them snugl)
into the system. Finally, you may spot the fact that
while in most cases five years elapse between Dix re
unions, sometimes the interval is only four. Th<
reason for this is that the plan does not bring bacl
the same four coeval classes every time: e.g., 1929-32
came back in 1950, 1930-33 will come back in 195
(leaving 1929 to drop back for a 1926-29 reunion ii
1954), and so on until 1969, when 1929-32 agair
will be back together.

You may wish to keep these pages for reference
The table opposite will show you, of course, whe^
your next reunion falls and what other classes wil|
be back the same year.

It may be that after this explanation you still d
not think the Dix plan as good as the regular five
year schedule. Some colleges have made this decisioi
and discontinued the plan. If you think Agnes Scot
should do so, write your opinion to your class presi
dent (you'll find her name and address in the Clas
News section ) , who is responsible for all reunion busi
ness for your class and who represents you on th
Class Council, which in turn determines reunion plan
for all classes.

LAST DIX

NEXT DIX

LAST DIX

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REMARKS

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REMARKS

1950

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JOBS ON CAMPUS

There are several openings at Agnes Scott for the com-
ing year, all requiring typing skill but leading into
executive work. If you are interested in joining the
administrative staff with an eye to a career in this
work, send your qualifications at once to the Director
of Alumnae Affairs. Serious intentions and some ex-
perience are necessary. Details will be sent to those
whose qualifications seem suitable.

Mrs., C. F.
Atlanta, Georgia

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IA

THE AGNES SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

FALL 1953

THE

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

OFFICERS

JEAN BAILEY OWEN '39

President

GRACE FINCHER TRIMBLE '32

Vice-President

FLORENCE BRINKLEY '14

Vice-President

MARY WARREN READ '29

Vice-President

BETTY JEANNE ELLISON CANDLER '49

Secretary

SARAH HANCOCK '50

Treasurer

TRUSTEES

CATHERINE BAKER MATTHEWS '32
FRANCES WINSHIP WALTERS Inst.

CHAIRMEN

CATHERINE BAKER MATTHEWS '32

Nominations
DOROTHY CREMIN READ '42

Special Events
EDWINA DAVIS CHRISTIAN '46

Vocational Guidance
MARY WALLACE KIRK 'II

Education
ELAINE STUBBS MITCHELL '41

Publications
BETTY JEAN RADFORD MOELLER '47

Class Officers
SARA SHADBURN HEATH '33

House
LOUISE BROWN HASTINGS '23

Grounds
CLARA ALLEN REINERO '23

Entertainment

STAFF

ELEANOR N. HUTCHENS '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs
ELOISE HARDEMAN KETCHIN

House Manager

MEMBER

AMERICAN ALUMNI
COUNCIL

The AGNES SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
Volume 32 Number 1

Fall 1953

DEDICATION OF HOPKINS HALL
ALUMNAE AND HOPKINS HALL

Jean Bailey Owen

MY PERSONAL IMPRESSION OF MISS HOPKINS 2

Carrie Scandrett

MISS HOPKINS' PERMANENT CONTRIBUTION

James Ross McCain

CAMPUS NEWS

THE CONSERVING OF THE BEST

Goodrich C. White

ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT 10

Ruth Slack Smith

ANNIE LOUISE HARRISON WATERMAN 11

CLASS NEWS 11

CLUB DIRECTORY Inside Back Cover

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.

}N THE LAST DAY of Septem-
ber, a sunny fall morning, Hop-
uns Hall was dedicated Agnes
kott's first new dormitory in
]bout 40 years. It houses fifty
reshmen and brings the board-
ng contingent up to 425. (There
ire 90 day students this year,
naking the total enrollment 515.)
Because the words that were
spoken on the occasion were full
}f the flavor and history of Agnes
kott, and in particular because
hey brought Miss Hopkins back
;o distinctly to those who had
cnown her and made her a living
sersonality to those who had not,
he speeches are presented here.

Dedication of HOPKINS HALL

10:30 A.M., Wednesday, September 30, 1953

Invocation President Wallace M. Alston

Introductory Statement

Presentation of the key by Mr. Robert B. Logan of the firm of
Logan and Williams, Architects, to Mr. Otis A. Barge, of
Barge-Thompson, the builders.

Presentation of the key by Mr. Otis A. Barge to Mrs. Edward
Wallace Owen, President of the National Agnes Scott
Alumnae Association.

Presentation of the key by Mrs. Edward Wallace Owen to Mr.
George W. Winship, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of
Agnes Scott College.

Reading of Memorials Miss Eleanor Hutchens, Alumnae Di-
rector.

Address, "The Permanent Contribution of Miss Nannette Hop-
kins to Agnes Scott." President-emeritus James Ross Mc-
Cain.

"My Personal Impression of Miss Hopkins" Dean Carrie
Scandrett.

Prayer of Dedication Dean S. Guerry Stukes.

Left This picture of Miss Hopkins, taken about 1913, and the one on Page 3 were
sent by Lavalette Sloan Tucker '13 for use in connection with the dedication. Below: Dean
Scandrett pays tribute to her predecessor.

ALUMNAE AND HOPKINS HALL

by JEAN BAILEY OWEN '39, President, Agnes Scott Alumnae Association

I HOLD THIS KEY for a few moments in the name
of hundreds of alumnae who, over nearly fifteen years,
have made this building possible. My momentary pos-
session of it is purely symbolic, and not even as ap-
propriate as might be desired. Augusta Skeen, Mrs.
Samuel Inman Cooper, would have been a much more
fitting custodian inasmuch as it was she who directed
the original alumnae campaign from 1939 to 1942.
She was unable to attend today but we want her and
all of you to know that her efforts are still appreciated.

In 1939 when the campaign was launched a golden
era in luxurous living was about to begin on this
campus. If you read the Agnes Scott News of that
period describing the new building you would know
it to be so. It was going to cost a huge one hundred
thousand dollars! It ought to be a dream of a dormi-
tory! War. building restrictions and astronomical
price rises made it just that a dream. But the col-
lege administration and trustees, in a splendid example
of keeping faith with those of us who made and paid
those five-year-long pledges, touched not a penny. As

a Senior in 1939, I was a little wistful at the end of
the student campaign thinking I had just barely missed
living in the new dormitory, not imagining that a long
world-wide war, a Republican president, and many
graduating classes would arrive before the dream was
realized.

You students to whom four years sounds like the Ice
Age, and you alumnae, who dislike to count the years
between class reunions, dwell on these fourteen years.
Take pride in the faith of your college. Have faith
in the fifty Freshmen students, charter residents of
Hopkins Hall, whose next four years will build the
foundation for a greater faith in Agnes Scott and
dream still more dreams for the future of this college.

And now, Mr. Logan who interpreted our long
dream in blue prints and building specifications and
Mr. Barge who translated it into brick and stone and
steel, have passed the key to me as proxy for the alum-
nae. I. in turn, pass it on to Mr. Winship, chairman
of the Board of Trustees, symbolic as it is of pledges
kept and dreams fulfilled.

MY PERSONAL IMPRESSION OF MISS HOPKINS

by Carrie Scandrett '24, Dean of Students

RARELY DOES ONE have the privilege that is mine
today: the opportunity, as we honor Miss Hopkins, of
trying to put into words what Miss Hopkins meant
rather, means to me. I assure you that I approach
this opportunity with a feeling of complete inadequacy
because, for me, Miss Hopkins cannot be put into ^
words. I shall, however, in all humbleness, attempt
to give the impressions I have of her. They are based

upon my association with Miss Hopkins during my
college years as one of her "girls" as she always
called us and, later, during the 12 or so years I
worked under and with her in the Dean's Office.

When I think of Miss Hopkins there comes to
in) mind such qualities as strength and gentleness,
selflessness and self-control, dignity, poise, charm,
graciousness, a delightful sense of humor.

Although she was so gentle, quiet, and soft-spoken
there was ever that certainty of action based on cour-
age of conviction.

Miss Hopkins gave of herself completely to Agnes
Scott. No demand it made on her time and strength
was ever too great.

Miss Hopkins had a rare gift of listening and the
equally rare gift of changing with changing times
yet she. at all times, held for each one of us the highest
standards for work and play.

Combined with these qualities was a genuine sense
of fun. I can hear her laughing now as she talked
about the comic strips in the morning paper or the
predicaments of Amos and Andy which she had heard
the night before over the radio "her girls." the alum-
nae, had given her.

She thoroughly enjoyed the Sunday morning break-
fasts of waffles and coffee with Miss Alexander and
Miss Phythian in West Lawn; the strawberry short-
cake with Miss Daugherty on the porch of the infirm-
ary, which is now Mary Sweet; the mid-morning cup
of coffee in response to the tap on the radiator from
Miss Miller, whose room was just over her office. The
Agnes Scott tradition of coffee drinking I am sure
must have originated with Miss Hopkins.

Deeply rooted as her life was in the college, she
was also keenly aware of world affairs. Woodrow Wil-
son's picture hung on her office wall. But on her desk
was a picture of the great English Bible scholar and
preacher. Campbell Morgan, for Miss Hopkins was
deeply spiritual, too. One of the places from which
she was most missed during her illness and after her
death was the front row seat in chapel where she sat
each chapel period. The passage she most frequently
read at vespers was the 13th Chapter of I Corinthians.
The hymn was "Love Divine. All Loves Excelling."
She usually closed her prayers with the phrase "in the
all-prevailing name of Jesus."

Everybody on the campus felt her influence and
had real affection for her.

It was well expressed by Mary Cox, whom so manv
of us remember, who came to Agnes Scott in its open-

ing years as a personal maid to two students and
stayed on at the college, even until after Miss Hop-
kins' death, as the maid on first floor Inman. When
asked why she had never married. Mary Cox replied.
"Miss Hopkins never married; and what is good
enough for Miss Hopkins is good enough for me."

Miss Hopkins at her desk in Main, about 1913.

Her "girls" felt the affection, appreciation, and
admiration that Mary Cox expressed, and their feel-
ing takes visible form in the building which we are
dedicating today.

Our desire is through it to perpetuate her influence
in the College whose ideals and life she so largelv
shaped.

In its simple, dignified beauty it seems a fitting
tribute.

MISS HOPKINS' PERMANENT CONTRIBUTION

by James Ross McCain, President Emeritus

THIS MORNING WE are thinking of the first person
ever employed by the institution that is now Agnes
Scott College, and who was in her fiftieth year of con-
nection with it when she passed away. During that
half-century, she personified the College more fully
than any other person who has shared in its growth
and development. This is a strong statement, but ab-
solutelv true.

She was born in Augusta County. Virginia, on De-
cember 21. 1860, ninety-three years ago. the year in
which Lincoln was elected president of this country.
Her father was a noted and beloved physician, and
her mother was a beautiful and spiritually-minded
leader in church work. Miss Hopkins graduated from
Hollins Seminary I now Hollins College) which at that
time was doing preparatorv work for college. She
taught first at Louisa. \ a., and later at Valley Sem-
inary in Waynesboro, Va.

In 1889 a small group of Decatur citizens, headed
by Dr. Frank H. Gaines and Col. George W. Scott,
determined to start a school for girls in this com-
munity. They raised the sum of $5,000 in order to
assist with financing the first year, rented a house,
named the school Decatur Female Seminary, enrolled
63 students, and were ready to employ teachers. Dr.
Gaines thought that the best teachers might be found
in Virginia, and he was authorized to make the trip
to secure a principal. He had in mind a Presbyterian
minister for the place, but the person he sought was
unable to come. He remarked to Dr. Gaines. "If I
were going to start a school and wanted it to be a
great success, I would try to get Miss Nannette Hop-
kins for its head." Dr. Gaines had never heard of her.
but went at once to Staunton, her home, to see if she
would come to Georgia.

Miss Hopkins was planning to go to Vassar College
with a view to completing her college work and secur-
ing her B.A. degree; but Dr. Gaines was so persuasive
and the idea of starting a new school so intriguing that
she decided to come to Decatur. I am sure that we
may very reverently conclude that the Lord sent her
for this work. She thought that she would teach here
for a year or two and then go on for her degree. She
was never able to complete this part of her life plan.

The Decatur school was so interesting and absorbing
of her time and thought that she never left it for even
a year of vacation or rest until her retirement 19 years
later.

Miss Hopkins was principal of Decatur Female Sem-
inary and also teacher of several academic subjects.
She had one assistant in this work for her 63 pupils,
with two others who helped with piano and art. Dr.
Gaines, who was chairman of the board of trustees,
taught Bible in the school and helped in the general
planning.

Her successful handling of the new school made a
strong impression on Col. George W. Scott, a trustee
of the school and the leading citizen in the community.
He thought that Miss Hopkins was very much like his
own mother, and he soon discovered that the school
was developing character as well as teaching books.
In the spring of 1890, he called Dr. Gaines into his
parlor one day and said. "Mr. Gaines, the Lord has
greatly prospered me in my business and I don't want
it to harden my heart. I have decided to give $40,000
to provide a home for our school. ' He was interested
in having the school to become a memorial for his
mother, Mrs. Agnes Scott.

Miss Hopkins had a great thrill in helping to plan
for a fine new building. She and Col. Scott worked
together in outlining what should tie included, and
they added one feature after another until Main Hall,
as we know it now, was completed and furnished at a
cost of $112,500 instead of the proposed $40,000. It
was the finest school building in Georgia and one of
the best in the South.

By 1897. Agnes Scott Institute, as it was then called,
had increased so much in size and its business prob-
lems were so numerous, that the trustees persuaded
Dr. Gaines to give up his pastorate and to become the
full-time president of the institution. Miss Hopkins
then became the Lady Principal, with less responsi-
bility for outside contacts, and increasing devotion to
moulding the lives of the girls committed to her.

During the first eight years of the school, Dr. Gaines
represented the trustees and Miss Hopkins the faculty
in drawing up and in promoting two of the most im-
portant documents in the history of the College. They

4

for the
rnished
ssociare

helped to set the pattern for the institution that was
to follow, and are still actively cherished.

The first of these was the Agnes Scott Ideal, which
is as follows:

1. A liberal curriculum, fully abreast of the best institutions
in this country.

2. The Bible a text-book.

3. Thoroughly qualified and consecrated teachers.

4. A high standard of scholarship.

5. All the influences of the school conducive to the forma-
tion and development of Christian character.

6. The glory of God the chief end of all.

The second document was signed by two faculty
members and by six trustees. It was intended to be
the working program for attaining the Ideal which
had been announced. All the early school leaders be-
lieved that prayer is practical and effective, and they
used it as definitely as they applied work for the win-
ning of objectives. The Prayer Covenant is as follows:

We, the undersigned, believing the promise of our Lord con-
cerning prayer (Matt. 18:19). and having at heart the largest
success of the Agnes Scott Institute in its great work for the

glory of God, do hereby enter into covenant with each other
to offer daily prayer in our closets for the following specific
objects:

1. For each other in our work in and for the Institute.

2. For the Board of Trustees and Faculty.

3. That God would convert every unconverted pupil before
leaving the Institute.

4. That He would graciously build up in faith, and prepare
for the highest usefulness, all who are His.

5. That He would baptize the institution with the Holy
Spirit, and make it a great fountain of blessing.

6. That He would give it so much of endowment and pros-
perity as He sees would be for His own glory.

7. That He would have the institution constantly in His own
holy care and keeping, that His name may be glorified."

In 1906 Agnes Scott Institute was discontinued. It
was reorganized as Agnes Scott College, and its pre-
paratory work was assigned to Agnes Scott Academy.
Miss Hopkins gave up her supervision of the Academy
and became Dean of the College. This position she
held until her death. The duties of her office involved
both academic responsibility and the guiding of stu-
dent affairs. At this time, the Student Government As-

sociation was set up under her direction, and she
worked closely with it and helped to make its influ-
ence felt in all phases of the life of campus, in con-
trast to the honor councils in most colleges for men,
where generally the honor system covered only a few
major offenses.

In recognition of the unusual service rendered by
Miss Hopkins to the cause of Christian education in
general as well as on the Agnes Scott campus, she was
elected as a representative of the Synod of Georgia cm
the Board of Trustees for Agnes Scott, and she was a
helpful member of that important group.

She received two honorary doctor's degrees for what
she accomplished for education in general in Georgia
and in the South.

No recognition or public offices could draw Miss
Hopkins away from the campus for any extended
length of time. She loved every square foot of it and
gave herself to making it worth-while. Until her last
illness, she had gone nine years without missing a
day from her duties.

Very few individuals have had the privilege of start-
ing an institution and continuing with it to the full ma-
turity of its development, but Miss Hopkins had this
experience. The school was a tiny grammar school
when she became its leader. She still led as it became
successively a good preparatory school, a junior col-
lege, and a senior college. As more and more recog-
nition came, she was in the forefront of the achieve-
ments which won approval from others membership
in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools, approval by the Association of American Uni-
versities, membership in the American Association of
University Women, a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a
chapter of Mortar Board and numerous other signal
honors. She was not carried along by them, but was
leading others into greater things. Without any aca-
demic degree and never with time for advanced study,
merely through the force of her quiet personality and
by her keen loyalty to standards and to spiritual values,
she became the one whom Agnes Scott people delighted
to honor as one of the best educated of all a truly
great woman.

CAMPUS NEWS

EIGHT NEW FACULTY members and several admin-
istrative staff replacements are among the faculty-staff
complement with which Agnes Scott began its 65th
session in September.

JOHN LOUIS ADAMS, principal violinist in the
Atlanta Symphony and former member of the Roches-
ter Philharmonic orchestra, joined the music depart-
ment as assistant professor. He holds the Bachelor of
Music degree from DePauw University and the Master
of Music from Eastman School of Music.

DR. HELEN JORDAN. Ph.D. from the University
of California, is an instructor in biology. Other new
instructors are CATHERINE CHANCE '50 and
FRANCES CLARK '51, both winners of Fulbright
awards for study abroad and holders of the M.A. in
French; and LOIS E. BARR, M.A. in English.

PROFESSOR D. R. McMILLAN. chairman of the
Emory University physics department, is teaching one
course at Agnes Scott this year; Professor Emeritus
STERLING BRINKLEY of Emory is visiting professor
of education for the fall quarter; and also visiting dur-
ing the quarter is Associate Professor J. 0. BAYLEN
of the history staff of the University of New Mexico
(Highlands).

Back at the College are PROFESSOR JOHN I.
G00DLAD, director of the teacher education program,
who has been away for a year on a Ford Foundation
grant; MARY BONEY, assistant professor of Bible.
who has been on leave for graduate study for a year;
DORIS SULLIVAN '49, former alumnae admissions
representative, now senior resident of Hopkins Hall
and an assistant dean of students; and ANN COOPER
'53, alumnae admissions representative.

On leave for the 1953-54 session are DR. ELIZA-
BETH BARINEAU, visiting associate professor of
French at the University of Chicago; DR. WALTER
B. POSEY, professor of history and political science,
in Europe for a year's teaching; DR. ELLEN DOUG-
LASS LEYBURN, winner of a Huntington Fellowship
for research in California in the field of English liter-
ature; and NANCY GROSECLOSE, who is continu-
ing work toward the doctorate in biology at the Uni-
versity of Virginia.

OTHER FACULTY NEWS:

Dr. Janet Alexander, college physician, was chosen
by her alma mater. Erskine College, as recipient of its
Sullivan Award for outstanding service. Dr. Alex-

ander practiced 30 years in Pakistan before coming
to Agnes Scott.

Dr. Josephine Bridgman '27 is now head of the
biology department. Last summer she was appointed
a research participant in the biology division of the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Edna Hanley Byers, college librarian, was a lec-
turer in library science at the L'niversity of Michigan
last summer, giving a course in the planning and
equipping of library buildings. Her book on the sub-
ject is in wide use by library schools, and she is na-
tionally known as a consultant for colleges about to
build new libraries.

Dr. Margaret DesChamps, assistant professor of
history and political science, spent the summer doing
research at Duke University under grants awarded by
Duke and the University Center in Georgia.

Leslie Gaylord, assistant professor of mathematics,
plans to take a party to Europe next summer. Inter-
ested alumnae should write to her very soon.

Marie Huper, assistant professor of art, was hon-
ored with an exhibition of her paintings and sculp-
ture at the University of Tennessee in March. She
spent part of the summer teaching in Toronto, Canada,
and in the fall conducted a one-day workship in Char-
lotte, N. C.

Dr. Catherine Sims, associate professor of history
and political science and acting head of the depart-
ment this year, has been appointed to the national
committee which screens candidates for Fulbright
awards. She will attend biweekly committee hearings
in New York from Dec. 1 to Jan. 12 at the office
of the Institute of International Education which
screens and nominates applicants for the State Depart-
ment scholarships.

Ferdinand Warren, professor of art. spent the sum-
mer experimenting in the encaustic technique, under
a grant from the University Center in Georgia, and
has had several exhibits this fall featuring his new
work. Last year he was represented in exhibitions at
the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Corcoran
Gallery in Washington, at the National Academy of
Design, and with the American Watercolor Society.

Recent and forthcoming faculty publications:
Elizabeth Barineau:

Critical edition of Les Orientates of Victor Hugo.
Vol. I. Paris: Marcel Didier, 1952.

Josephine Bridgman:

"Radiation Studies on Tillina magna." ( Paper in

process)
Melissa Cilley

"Hispanic Culture,'' The Neiv Hampshire Quarterly,

February, 1953.
Margaret DesChamps:

"The Presbyterian Church in the South Atlantic

States. 1801-1861: A Bibliography," Journal of the

Presbyterian Historical Society, XXX (September.

1952), 193-207.

"Presbyterians and Others in the South." Journal

oj the Presbyterian Historical Society, XXXI

(March. 1953), 25-40.

Florene J. Dunstan :

"Paradox in Spain," Commission, January, 1953, 14.

"Methods Must Be Skillfully Used," The Teacher,

January, 1953, 16.
W. J. Frierson:

"Paper Chromatography of Inorganic Substances,"

Chemical and Engineering News. October. 1952.

"Elution Chromatography with Thick Filter Paper,"

Analytical Chemistry.
Paul L. Garber:

"A Recommendation of Solomon's Temple," Arch-

aelogy, V (Autumn, 1952), 165-172. illustrated.
Netta E. Gray:

"A Taxonomic Revision of Podocarpus. VII. The
African species of Podocarpus: Section Afrocarpus,"
Journal Arnold Arboretum, XXXIV 1 1953). 67-76.

Muriel Harn:

"Wieland Studies," (in honor of Professor William
Kurrelmeyer) Modern Language Notes, May, 1953.

Ellen Douglass Leyburn:

"Hudibras Considered as Satiric Allegory," Hunt-
ington Library Quarterly, XVI (February, 1953),
141-160.

Catherine Strateman Sims:

Expedicio billarum antiquitus. An Unpublished
Chapter of the Second Book of the Manner of
Holding Parliaments in England, by Henry Elsynge,
Clerk of the Parliaments. Scheduled for publication
this fall in Belgium by E. Nauwelaerts, Louvain.
among "etudes presentees a la Commission inter-
nationale pour IHistoire des Assemblees d'etats."

Wallace M. Alston:

Mirrors of the Soul, practical and devotional studies
of selected psalms. Used for study this year by the
Board of Women's Work. Presbyterian Church U.S.

DR. GOODRICH C. WHITE, president of Emory University and of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, made
the honors day address at Agnes Scott in September. The concluding paragraphs of his speech, one of the best and
most discerning tributes paid to the College latelv. are printed here. They constitute an appraisal of Agnes Scott
by a close neighbor and a good friend through years of cooperation between the two institutions.

I venture now to expand just a little on the words
I used in suggesting what had gone into the making
of the Agnes Scott of today. There has been, in her
development, singular clarity and definiteness of pur-
pose. And such purpose has been held to with extra-
ordinary fidelity, without deviation or wavering. From
the beginning, and through the years, as I have read
the record, there has been no uncertainty as to just
what kind of institution Agnes Scott was to be. just
what kind of service Agnes Scott sought to render.
This fixity of purpose has been altogether admirable,
even if it has at times seemed to carry with it an
unyielding rigidity that some may have been disposed
to criticize adversely. Such criticism should not have
troubled and I think has not troubled Agnes Scott.
Agnes Scott has pioneered in admirable ways. But
Agnes Scott has also been a bulwark against the "winds
of doctrine" and the shifting currents of change and
experiment in the educational world. Agnes Scott, if
I judge rightly, has refused to change just for the sake
of change. She has refused to experiment just because
other people were experimenting. This may annoy
some people. But we need some institutions that can
be rightly thought of as "conservative." For the con-
serving of the best in our educational heritage is one
of the great needs of our dav.

And it is the best for which Agnes Scott has stood.
She has held steadily to the ideals of liberal education
and to exacting standards of scholarship. There has
been no place for the shoddy or the superficial. Stead-
fastly refusing to be "all things to all men " I or to all
women I . with no ambitions for bigness, deliberately
limiting the areas of her work, she has emphasized
thoroughness, quality, excellence. So doing, she has
strengthened the hands and steadied the purposes of
others as they too have sought to find and to foster
those ideals and those values in the life of a college
that endure through flux and change and which we
must cherish in the face of all the uncertainties, the
hazards, and the threats of the world we know todav.

The day-by-day life and work of a college such as
this may seem to involve as does not all of life and
work much of routine and of drudgery. It may
seem sometimes to some people to be a bit remote
from the issues and the challenges of the disturbed
world that lies around. It may seem sometimes to be
a waste of time. But not so! Not so, if the routine
and the drudgery are shot through with purpose a
purpose of which even the newest Freshman can get
at least a little of the "feel."' Not so. if steadily the
day by day living and working together are contribut-
ing to growth in mind and heart. Not so, if learning
and teaching can be so managed that they become in
some measure at least adventure, even fun. Then there
will have been made a long start towards the goals of
informed and disciplined intelligence; of persisting
aspiration to excellence, with humility and sympathy
as we aspire; of sensitiveness to beauU in nature and
in art; of concern for human welfare: of a sense of
responsibility in decision and action; of generous and
gracious and poised personality; of serenity and
strength and courage rooted in a sure and unwaver-
ing faith in God and his purposes.

A start only; beginnings only, perhaps. For as I
have said, nothing is finished in college. But the
beginnings are of immeasurable importance.

Such things, wrought into the personalities of men
and women and expressing themselves in word and
deed these things are needed in the world today
today perhaps as never before. They are needed in
humble places and in everyday living as well as in
high places and in great enterprises. Thev cannot be
supplied by organizations or propaganda, by con-
gresses or conventions, by resolutions or by tactics
and least of all by armed might. They can come only
through education, interpreted in its broadest and its
best sense. To the attainment of these and like things
Agnes Scott is. if I understand her aright, wholly
dedicated. Thus to her all of us who value these
things are grateful.

ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT

Ruth Slack Smith '12, editor of this department,
will welcome suggestions as to alumnae whose
names and accomplishments should be recorded
here.

After receiving an MA. from Stanford University MILDRED THOMSON '10
began graduate work in psychology at Columbia.

She was called from her studies to help on a "temporary" job in Minnesota and has been there ever
since, teaching and doing organizational work for mentally deficient children. She has been head of
the Minnesota bureau for the mentally deficient and epileptic, and has been instrumental in organizing
social workers and county welfare boards and in securing more effective legislation for the mentally
deficient. Much of the material which she has written in this field has been nationally recognized and
used.

FRANCES CRAIGHEAD DWYER '28 began her post graduate career in the Latin depart-
ment at the University of Michigan, but gave that up to study law at Emory. In this field she is
entirely at home since both of her parents were lawyers and she married a lawyer. She has made a
signal success in her profession and has been active in community work as well. She has served as
general counsel for the Legal Aid Clinic, aided in writing Georgia's excellent child labor law, has
been a leader in Y.W.C.A., P.T.A., and other organizations, and in 1946 was chosen Atlanta's Woman
of the Year.

The class of 1932 has produced two outstanding leaders in Girl Scout work.

SARAH BOWMAN was recently appointed Executive Director of the Savannah River Girl Scout
Project, one of four critical areas designated by the National Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts. She
is doing a splendid job in community organization, leadership recruitment and training. DIANA DYER
WILSON has been active in scouting since graduation and has been delegated to attend many national
and international conferences. She is a member of the National Executive Committee and is Chair-
man of the National Field Committee of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

J ANb I /V\AL.D(JIN ALU Zo received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is Chairman
of the Division of Social Studies and professor of history at Hollins College. She has long been active
in the A.A.U.W., was president of the Roanoke Branch and the Virginia State Division, and recently
was appointed Chairman of the Social Studies Committee of the National A.A.U.W.

IVYLYN oIKAKDLAU 22 received an M.D. from Tulane University and, after internship and
further training, worked for twelve years in the Ackerman Hoyd Hospital in Jhansi, U. P., India. Dur-
ing her mother's illness she returned to this country and practiced medicine in Thomaston, Georgia.
In 1950 she went back to India to continue her medical work there.

Another alumna to receive a medical degree from UADV AKIM KK I/IMKI n\/ 'OC

Tulane and to serve in mission work in India is AAAKY AININ /V\C !\ I IN IN b Y 2D.

For a number of years she taught in the Women's Christian Medical College in the Punjab. Now she
is practicing obstetrics and gynecology in Houston, Texas.

A career in advertising and public relations seems a far cry from her early musical ambitions, but

MARY CATHERINE WILLIAMSON HOOKER '31

is making a success in this field and enjoying it thoroughly. After working in the publicity depart-
ment of Elizabeth Arden and for several publishing houses, she is now director of public relations for
the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association.

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Annie Louise Harrison Waterman, alumna, trustee and benefactor of Agnes Scott, died
Aug. 23 in Mobile. Ala., of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was stricken as she taught her Sun-
day School class at the Government Street Presbyterian Church.

In 1949 Mrs. Waterman made a pledge of $100,000 to the campaign then being carried
on by Agnes Scott, designating the gift as endowment for the department of speech. The
pledge was paid at the rate of $10,000 yearly until her death, when her will provided for
payment of the remainder in a lump sum.

One of Mobile's most prominent citizens (her death was the top front-page story of
The Mobile Register the next day I , Mrs. Waterman was a civic, cultural and religious
leader and a generous giver to charitable and welfare causes. She was named Mobile's
First Lady of the Year in 1950.

As a young woman. Mrs. Waterman led the movement which brought about the es-
tablishment of the first juvenile court in Alabama. She founded a boys' club and was in-
terested in a child dav care center, the building of which now bears her name. An ardent
supporter of cultural efforts in art. music and literature, she gave substantial assistance to
many students in those fields.

She was interested in writing and published collections of essays, the last of which was
a book written for her grandchildren.

She is survived by her son. Caroll. two granddaughters and two grandsons.

Mrs. Waterman visited Agnes Scott about twice a year for board meetings and was in-
terested in every phase of the College's life. Her gift to the speech department will form a
permanent living contribution to Agnes Scott and its thousands of future students.

CLASS NEWS Edited by Eloise Hardeman Ketchin

Deadline for news in this issue was September lit.
News received between that date and December 10 will
appear in the W inter Quarterly.

DEATHS

INSTITUTE
J. Willis Bagby, husband of Lucile
Shuford Bagby, died last fall.

Alda Johnson Holcombe died Au-
gust 16.
Katie Steele Vickers died August 16.

Elizabeth Adair Streater died De-
cember 30, 1952.

May Eugenia Pagett Bridges died
in May.

Mary Lovice Simpson died May 20.

Annie Louise Harrison Waterman,
trustee of Agnes Scott College, died
August 23.

Annie Beall Dobbs Bellinger died in
May 1952.

ACADEMY

Mrs. Richard Brevard Russell, Sr.,
mother of Mary Russell Green and
Carolyn Russell Nelson '34, and
grandmother of Nancy Green '43, died
August 30.

1912 Janette Newton Hart of the
class of 1912 died July 14, 1953. As
a college girl, Janette was lovable, full
of fun, a good student, and a leader
standing for the right. A few years
after graduation she married Richard
Hart and spent the rest of her life in
her native section of West Point, Gab-
bettville. and LaGrange, Ga. Five of
her six children have taken their
places in worthwhile work. The young-
est daughter is still in college. Jan-
ette's Agnes Scott classmates remem-

ber her especially at their reunion in
1947 at Ruth Slack Smith's home in
Durham. During the last years of her
life. Janette added teaching to home-
making. In 1952 she became ill, yet
was able to teach for a large part of
the school session of 1952-'5.3. Her
final illness lasted only a few weeks.

Cornelia Cooper.

1913 James Samuel Guy, husband
of Allie Candler Guy, father of Flor-
rie Guy Funk '41, and noted educator,
died August 16.

1915 News has reached the Office
that Frances Swaney is deceased.

1920
4.

Helen Williamson died August

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RETURN

BY ALUMNAE QUARTERLY, AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GEORGIA

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THE AGNES SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

THE

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

OFFICERS

JEAN BAILEY OWEN '39

President

GRACE FINCHER TRIMBLE '32

Vice-President

FLORENCE BRINKLEY '14

Vice-President

MARY WARREN READ '29

Vice-President

BETTY JEANNE ELLISON CANDLER '49

Secretary

SARAH HANCOCK '50

Treasurer

TRUSTEES

CATHERINE BAKER MATTHEWS '32
FRANCES WINSHIP WALTERS Inst.

CHAIRMEN

CATHERINE BAKER MATTHEWS '32

Nominations

DOROTHY CREMIN READ '42

Special Events
EDWINA DAVIS CHRISTIAN '46

Vocational Guidance
MARY WALLACE KIRK '11

Education
ELAINE STUBBS MITCHELL '41

Publications
BETTY JEAN RADFORD MOELLER '47

Class Officers
SARA SHADBURN HEATH '33

House
LOUISE BROWN HASTINGS '23

Grounds
CLARA ALLEN REINERO '23

Entertainment

STAFF

ELEANOR N. HUTCHENS '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs
ELOISE HARDEMAN KETCHIN

House Manager

MEMBER

AMERICAN ALUMNI
COUNCIL

The AGNES SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
Volume 32 Number 2

Winter 1954

NEWS OF THE COLLEGE

1

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ARE WITH US ALWAYS 3

Mildred Rutherford Mell

Josephine Bridgman

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BIOLOGY AND RELIGION

NEWS OF THE CLUBS

CLASS NEWS 9

ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT Inside Back Cover

COVER

The sketches and designs are reproduced from pages
in the notebooks of students in the art classes of Ferdi-
nand Warren and Marie Huper.

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.

NEWS OF THE COLLEGE

MRS. JAMES ROSS McCAIN, wife of the president
meritus of Agnes Scott, died December 28 after an
Hness of several months.

Mrs. McCain was the former Pauline Elizabeth Mar-
tin of Covington. She was graduated in 1902 from
Erskine College, of which her grandfather, her brother
and her nephew have served as president, and taught
chool until her marriage in 1906 to Dr. McCain, who
was then headmaster of the Darlington School at
Rome.

She was active in religious and civic affairs until she
became an invalid some years ago. Her interest in
lAgnes Scott, its faculty and its students continued,
and she was alwavs fullv informed on happenings and
people at the College. The warmth and immediacy
of her concern for all Agnes Scott matters expressed
itself in cordial telephone conversations with people
on the campus whom she never met. and in affection-
ate notes to all those who sent her greetings from time
to time. She was loved by many who had never spoken
face to face with her.

Besides Dr. McCain, she is survived by three daugh-
ters, all Agnes Scott graduates, and three sons, all
holders of doctor's degrees in different fields: Louise
(Mrs. Eugene I Boyce "34. Tallahassee. Fla; Isabel
(Mrs. William) Brown "37. Lothair, Ky. ; Mildred
I Mrs. Barrington I Kinnaird "46, Paris, Ky.; Dr. John
Ross McCain. Atlanta physician and member of the
Emory Medical School faculty ; Dr. Paul M. McCain,
president of Arkansas College. Batesville. Ark.; and
Dr. Charles R. McCain, pastor of the Canton, Miss..
Presbyterian Church. Also surviving are a brother.
Grier Martin of Atlanta, and sixteen grandchildren.

LETITIA PATE WHITEHEAD EVANS,
donor of the Agnes Scott dining hall, died Nov. 14 at
her home in Hot Springs, Virginia.

Mrs. Evans, a trustee of the College for several
years, left a bequest of 8100,000 for the maintenance
of the Letitia Pate Evans Dining Hall, which she
built at a cost of about 8500,000 in 1949-50.

She was a consistent and generous benefactor of
educational institutions. Emory University. Georgia
Institute of Technology, and half a dozen other schools
and colleges were aided by her both in her lifetime
and through her will.

The income from her bequest to Agnes Scott will
be used in the maintenance and operation of the dining
hall and thus will help to ease the yearly strain on
College resources which results from a steady increase
in costs.

DR. RICHARD LEE HENDERSON, now dean of education at Eastern Montana College of Education, will come
to Agnes Scott as professor of education next fall. He will teach in the undergraduate program in education at the Col-
lege and will direct some graduate work and in-service teacher education at Emory University.

Agnes Scott and Emory have a joint program of teacher education which enables students to obtain public school
teaching certification upon graduation from college.

Dr: Henderson holds the B.A. cum laude from the University of Rochester, the M.A. in English from Harvard Uni-
versity, and the Ph.D. in education from the University of Chicago. His published work consists of articles in educa-
tion journals.

For the spring and winter quarters of the current year, Roy E. Dwyer is visiting instructor in education. He holds
the B.S from State Teachers College, California. Pa., and the M.Ed, from the University of Miami, and is now work-
ing twoard the Ed.D. at the University of Florida.

PROFESSOR W. JOE FRIERSON'S research in paper
chromatography, a new technique of chemical analy-
sis, received signal recognition this year when the
A. D. Little Corp. of Cambridge, Mass.. made a grant
sufficient to cover all expenses for the 1953-51 re-
search, including part-time laboratory assistance.

The corporation is a chemical consultant and engi-
neering firm which undertakes research for industries.

CEEVAH ROSENTHAL '45 is among the Ten Young

Women of the Year se-
lected by Mademoiselle
magazine for its 1953
Merit Awards. The honor
came in recognition of
her work in behalf of
epileptics, reported in The
Quarterly last spring. She
organized the Committee
for Rehabilitation and Re-
search in Epilepsy and on
her own initiative obtain-
ed financial support and stimulated the development
of a program for epileptics the first of its kind in
this country. It combines medical treatment, research,
vocational training and social adjustment.

Her co-winners in the Mademoiselle selection were
Audrey Hepburn, actress; Ilona Karmel, writer: Dr.
Eugenie Clark, scientist; Carmel Carrington Marr.
lawyer; Lorraine Budny. fashion designer; Rosalind
Wiener, councilwoman; Tenley Albright, figure skater;
Maria Callas. singer; and the recently unearthed Aph-
rodite now on display in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art.

CATHERINE WOOD MARSHALL '36 has been
named to alumnae membership in Phi Beta Kappa by
the Agnes Scott chapter and will be initiated in April.
Alumnae membership in Phi Beta Kappa is awarded
for high intellectual achievement since graduation
from college. Besides A Man Called Peter, a best seller
for more than two years, Mrs. Marshall has published
three other volumes: Mr. Jones, Meet the Master, an
edition of her husband's sermons and prayers; God
Loves You, a collection of stories and prayers for
children; and Let's Keep Christmas, published in
November 1953.

She will speak in chapel at Agnes Scott April 2.

"PICK A HUSBAND who has plenty of self-confi-
dence" if you want to combine marriage and a career,
Agnes Scott students were advised last month bv Doris
Lockerman, former associate editor of The Atlanta
Constitution and leader in Atlanta civic work.

Mrs. Lockerman was convocation speaker for the
Alumnae Association's Career Conference series.
Pointing out that fully half of all employed women
in the country are married, and that wives who work I
do so either from necessity or because they honestly
prefer a job to household chores, she said that a hus-
band with full confidence in his own ability would
be proud of his wife's rather than sensitive about it.

Two Career Coffees, held on successive evenings
at the Alumnae House, brought to the students seven
consultants on types of work selected by students in |
a poll: art. science, social service and assignments
overseas.

MORE THAN 50,000 will come to Agnes Scott
through the will of the late Dr. Elizabeth Fuller Jack-
son, associate professor of history at the College from
1923 until her death in 1952.

In addition to the bulk of her estate. Miss Jackson
left a specific bequest for the installation of an elevator
in the six-story Library stacks and willed the College
her furniture, of which a number of handsome pieces
are being used in Hopkins Hall.

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Edna Hanley Byers, College librarian, is vastly pleased
with the new elevator, serving six floors of stacks,
which was provided for the library under the will of
the late Dr. Elizabeth Fuller Jackson.

MILDRED RUTHERFORD MELL, Professor of Economics and Sociology

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

ARE WITH US ALWAYS

THE AUTHORS of one of the currently popular texts
in economics begin their first chapter as follows:
No one, no matter what his wishes may be. can escape
the great economic problems of his day. Such problems
are part of the social environment. Some are always with
us. like taxes; others come and go. like inflation in recent
years and depression in the 1930"s. They take up space
in the newspapers and time on radio and television; they
are a subject of conversation at social gatherings. Economic
problems play a part in national elections, and in inter-
national relations. National governments and international
agencies spend time and money to solve them or in trying
to solve them.

Equally significant problems are ever present for
the housewife, as she talks about the price of bacon
with a stranger, momentarily her intimate confidant,
while the two examine the wares found in the display
cases of the busy super-market. Or a little later, this
same housewife, having watched the mounting cash
register, having seen a ten-dollar bill melt away, and
having stored her scanty bagful of groceries in her
kitchen cabinets, finds a residue of uneasiness in the
back of her mind. Whether this uneasiness comes from
the problem of stretching the family income, if she is
married, or stretching her own income, if she is un-
married, it is an economic one and intimately related
to all those economic problems which the text-book
writers cite as basic in the lives of all of us.

Gone are the days when ignorance and muddled
thinking were thought to make a woman more "femi-
nine" and attractive. The "helpless" female can't af-
ford to be economically illiterate when, statistically
speaking at least, she is the most important spender
of our national income. As she becomes self-conscious
about her economic role of buyer for the family, and
as to an increasing extent she has income from work-
ing or from owning property, the college trained wo-
man inevitably tries to relate her personal finances
to the larger economic pattern. She reads the news-
papers, listens to the radio, or watches television. She
cannot fail to realize that the economic state of the

nation and the world sets the stage for a satisfacton
or an unsatisfactory economic base for her own life.
But why? And how? The intelligent woman seeks to
get some sort of answers to such questions as guides
to her in spending, saving, and investing income.

Of course, if she has managed to save something
to be invested, she can turn to the investment special-
ists who are ready to give advice or to take over the
whole problem for her. But even if she prefers to use
such help instead of going it on her own. she finds
increased satisfaction in the process if she has basic
understanding of the whole situation enough to enable
her to pass intelligent judgment on the advice she
is given.

Having funds to invest these days is for most of
us a major accomplishment dependent both upon the
size of our incomes and the way we spend them. Hap-
hazard spending cannot guarantee results which bring
much satisfaction, nor can it guarantee savings to be
invested. So there would be no need to develop good
judgment in the investing of funds unless there had
been good judgment in the spending of income. Sav-
ing, spending, investing are just various aspects of
the same set of activities and wisdom gained in one
reinforces the store of wisdom available in the others.

In the sort of environment in which our spending,
saving, and investing are done real wisdom comes
only when the individual, through understanding how
our economy operates, understands the relationship
of the individual to the whole. One of the real values
which a college education brings us is the habit of
getting from books or the printed word what we need
and want to enable us to live more intelligently. Be-
lieving that Agnes Scott Alumnae like the rest of us
are concerned about economic affairs, the editor of
our Alumnae Quarterly asked me to make some sugges-
tions about easily accessible sources of knowledge
which would help in the easing of these worries. I am
listing some of these and commenting upon them. As

the publishing of books and pamphlets is an endless
process, the individual reader starting with my sug-
gestions probably will be led into discovering excellent
material for herself.

Re-emphasizing my belief that the intelligent woman
likes to view her own special problems in the larger
setting, there are two rather new books which will
help her to do that without being too technical and
without taking too much time. A new 1953 book pub-
lished by Scott, Foresman and Company is by Robert
D. Patton of Ohio State University and is called THE
AMERICAN ECONOMY. The title in full explains
why I am suggesting it. It is: "The European back-
grounds, the dynamic growth, the present status, and
some urgent problems of the American Economy."
It is entertainingly written and attractively illustrated
even though it is a text. The roots of most of the news
in the morning paper can be found in it. Another
readable and useful little book published by Prentice-
Hall is "The Origins and Development of the Ameri-
can Economy" written by E. A. J. Johnson and H. E.
Kroos. This covers a lot of territory concisely and
will prove helpful for a rapid review by those who
studied economics while in college. In addition to
these two books there are some more "popular"
ones, for example the very readable books written b\
Frederick Lewis Allen whose latest, THE GREAT
CHANGE, is one of the current best sellers.

Even more "popular" material is available in pam-
phlet form. The big industries send out some of this
in their public relations programs. A good example
is a small booklet called AMERICAN BATTLE FOR
ABUNDANCE which was issued in 1947 by General
Motors and is a graphic story of what mass production
means in the American economy. A somewhat similar
pamphlet which is much broader in scope and more
concerned with the meaning of our productive process
is POWER, MACHINES, AND PLENTY, one of the
Public Affairs Committee pamphlets based on Dew-
hurst's famous survey made for the Twentieth Century
Fund. This and other similar pamphlets which will
be suggested as useful can be obtained from the Pub-
lic Affairs Committee, Inc., 22 East 38th Street, New
York, and are kept on file in most libraries. An es-
pecially good pamphlet has just been issued by Mc-
Graw-Hill Publishing Company (330 West 42nd
Street, New York ) and may be had for the asking.
Its title is: PROSPERITY IN THE U. S. A. Two other
Public Affairs Pamphlets which also give material
helpful in getting general, basic economic understand-
ing are: THE AMERICAN WAY (concerned with

the problem of business freedom or government con-
trol) ; AMERICA'S STAKE IN WORLD TRADE (a
timely discussion of international economic relations) .

Because money is basic to many of the personal de-
cisions we make, and these are inevitably made within
our national monetary system, we need to have at
least a speaking acquaintance with it as a mechanism
invented to help us attain certain ends. HOW MONEY
WORKS and HOW TO CHECK INFLATION are
Public Affairs Pamphlets which attempt to give the
uninitiated as clear and accurate an understanding as
possible without too many details. Someone with an
inquiring mind may wish to dig deeper in this field.
There is surely a mass of material, some good, some
not so good. THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM,
a pamphlet published by the Federal Reserve Board,
is remarkably good and would make a useful and in-
teresting addition to the two Public Affairs Pamphlets.

Even though understanding our complex monetary
system makes more intelligent decisions possible when
we face our personal monetary problems, these de-
cisions for most of us are not only important but dif-
ficult. Realizing this. J. K. Lasser and Sylvia F. Porter
wrote a little book in a simple, clear style called MAN-
AGING YOUR MONEY, and it was published this
year by Henry Holt and Company. An earlier volume
of theirs ( published by Simon and Shuster in 1948
for $1.00) is also good. It is entitled HOW TO LIVE
WITHIN YOUR INCOME. A textbook which is cur-
rently used in college courses would be a good refer-
ence book for any woman to own if she has the desire
to have a handy source of guidance when specific
problems are being faced. This textbook is PER-
SONAL FINANCE by E. F. Donaldson, published by
the Ronald Press and sold for $4.50. In addition to
these books, two more Public Affairs Pamphlets will
be helpful. These are: MORE FOR YOUR MONEY
by C. W. Moffett, and WOMEN AND THEIR MONEY
by M. S. Stewart. These books and pamphlets cover
most of the problems which arise out of the whole
process of spending, saving, and investing our in-
comes. Better still through using good, hard common
sense the authors make the solution of the problems
seem challenging instead of drab and wearing. Budg-
eting is shown to be a way to get the greatest degree
of satisfaction out of the use of personal income,
rather than a way of holding in check wayward de-
sires for things which grandmother got along without!
Planning security for the years ahead becomes a part
of the whole pattern of satisfaction-yielding use of in-
come. Saving and investing for future income, in-
stead of seeming to be pinch-pennny joy killers, are

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shown as comparable to spending in the satisfaction
they bring and the interest they hold for beginners
and old-timers alike.

Perhaps saving and investing through insurance is
more frequently used than any other method, but an
intelligent decision to take out insurance would prove
to be wise more frequently than a haphazard decision
would. The college woman can make good use of two
pamphlets which are easily obtainable. The Institute
of Life Insurance (488 Madison Avenue, New York)
has issued an excellent HANDBOOK OF LIFE IN-
SURANCE by R. W. Kelsey and A. C. Daniels. It
will send this upon request. In the foreword the hope
is expressed that every reader "will gain better under-
standing of his personal stake in this form of financial
security" from studying the little booklet. It certainly
will help the reader to do just that. BUYING YOUR
OWN LIFE INSURANCE by Maxwell S. Stewart is
another one of the Public Affairs Pamphlets and
evaluates insurance somewhat more objectively, of
course, than the HANDBOOK of the industry does.
For one dollar a more detailed, objective guide to
insurance can be gotten from the American Institute
for Economic Research. This is a pamphlet by G. R.
Upchurch and E. C. Harwood entitled LIFE INSUR-
ANCE AND ANNUITIES FROM THE BUYER'S
POINT OF VIEW.

In teaching economics, a never ending problem is
to find ways and means to arouse the student's in-
terest, but there always seems to be ready-made in-
terest when stocks and bonds are discussed. This is
particularly true if the stock market is involved in
the discussion. Perhaps that interest is due to a sort
of romance which seems to be attached to buying

stock, cutting coupons, watching the vagaries of the
stock markets, etc. This atmosphere of romance gives
way to hard reality when the uninformed and un-
wary find themselves suffering the disappointments
of the gullible. There is a useful Public Affairs Pam-
phlet, GYPS AND SWINDLES by W. T. Foster,
which gives warning to the uninitiated. Better still,
there are books which seek to help the uninitiated to
learn what to do or at least where to turn for guidance.
One of the less expensive of these books is ABC OF
INVESTING by R. C. Effinger, published by Harper
for $1.50. This is good but no better than another
Harper book. THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR by
Benjamin Graham. A 1951 book published by Mac-
Millan is one of the best and most usable of all the
books which have been written especially for the in-
experienced investor who knows little about different
kinds of investments. This is INVESTMENTS FOR
PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE by R. U. Cooper. It is
somewhat more general in character than the other
two, but perhaps because of that is more worthwhile.
Lasser and Porter in their little book MANAGING
YOUR MONEY say: "How to finance not only day-
to-day needs, but also future dreams, is an objective
of families everywhere, in every income group, in
every circumstance." I am sure they are right,
and I am sure that Agnes Scott Alumnae are not ex-
ceptions to the rule, so I hope many will find help
along the way in the material I have suggested. Being
a teacher, I cannot help but hope that Agnes Scott
Alumnae will get more meaningful help because they
take the time and make the effort to solve their parti-
cular problems more effectively by trying to see them
within the framework of the American economy.

The old Science Hall, up ami down whose dark wooden stairs many a student
had toiled, ivas removed last summer. These pictures, taken before and after
from almost the same spot, show the change in that part of the campus. Look-
ing from tlie opposite direction, one has a handsome side view of the Letitia
Pate Evans Dining Hall.

BIOLOGY AND RELIGION

JOSEPHINE BRIDGMAN, Professor of Biology

FOLLOWING THE PRECEDENT set by other mem-
bers of the faculty, and at the request of the Chapel
Planning committee, I shall try to tell you what 1
consider to be the relation of biology to religion.

Biology impinges on religion in at least two areas.
The first of these is in an understanding which a
knowledge of biology can give of the pattern of the
living world. I should like to come back to this and
go on to the second area which I might call that of
the quickened conscience. It is my belief that biology
points the way to Christian action in a number of
fields and makes the life of a Christian more demand-
ing. Knowledge in any area brings responsibility. In
a primitive society to be one's brothers' keeper might
actually mean a responsibility to one or two brothers,
but today one's brothers are everywhere, from the
Negro slums to the Congo, from European universities
to the battle fronts in Korea and Laos; and several
thousands of our brothers formerly lived in Nagasaki
and Hiroshima. Let me suggest just three areas in
which I think biological information should quicken
the conscience. The first of these is in the problems
connected with race. To your parents and grandpar-
ents who honestly believed that the Negro was in-
ferior, the paternalistic answer of their generation
seemed fairly satisfactory. Bot today when anybody
w : ho can read an elementary biology book knows that
there is no basis for this comfortable theory, the
problem requires new thinking. It seems to me that
this is one of the most pressing problems before all of
us today. It is one where the dicta of science and of
Christianity are in perfect agreement, and are per-
fectly clear; and yet many of us are dragging our
feet, and many secular groups are facing the problem
and acting with more courage than organized Chris-
tianity. As Christians with an education which makes
the old answers untenable we should be busy explor-
ing new pathways to understanding between the races.
Many thoughtful people are greatly concerned about
the backlog of bitterness which must be building up
in the minds and hearts of a people constantly denied
the equality of treatment guaranteed them by the Con-
stitution and certainly implicit in Christianity and

the exploitation of that bitterness by professional
leftists whose motives have nothing to do with the
Constitution or with Christianity.

Another area in which biology might quicken the
conscience is in our feeling of responsibility for our
neighbor's health. There is so much information read-
ily available to us which could improve the health of
underprivileged people methods of prevention and
cure of disease, knowledge of dietary requirements,
better agricultural methods which might mean the
difference between starvation and plenty. Much of
this is a closed book to many of the people who need
the help most. Surely this knowledge is a responsibility
to people whose greatest worry about diet is the threat
of too much cheese in the menu.* \ou say, Oh. this
is a matter that takes times education is a slow
process. And it is. But suppose you were on the other
side of the picture suppose you were hungry, or
your father had some disease which might be cured
by modern medicine wouldn't you feel that com-
mon decency demanded all possible speed in the
sending of this education?

The third and last area for conscience-searching
which I feel that I should mention is that of the
biological effects of radiation weapons now available.
The former use of these weapons has been of grave
concern to many Americans. The New Yorker, ordi-
narily a light-hearted magazine, devoted an entire
issue to John Hersey's documentary account of the
effects of the bombing of Hiroshima. This, I should
think, is must reading for any serious adult. The
scientists who know most about atomic energy have
repeatedly urged that it not be used against human
populations. I think perhaps I might be forgiven if
I throw in here a little defense of science and scien-
tists. It is very popular nowadays to blame science
with all modern ills. Because science has devised
methods of destruction we should therefore abandon
science. The fallacy here lies in imputing technologi-
cal design to science. Pure science has only one pur-
pose, which is the discovery of natural law. These
laws, once discovered, may be turned by man to good
or to ill. Electricity may be used for electrocution, or

*The reference is to current student joke about Collejre meals. Kd.

it may produce light, knowledge about disease may
be used to prevent illness, or it may be used in biolo-
gical warfare. In every case the use is determined by
the citizen, not the scientists. A recent article in The
Saturdav Review of Literature pictured the scientist
as a sort of split personality, seeking truth with one
hand and designing destruction with the other. It is
of course true that a scientist, outside his laboratory,
has a role to play as a citizen, and in this role he
may hope to influence public opinion and the course
of government. But the voice is small; few of us even
knew that the scientists who designed the first atomic
bomb, thinking of it as a defensive weapon of the
last resort, urged that it not be used against the Jap-
anese.

If it has been the chemists and physicists whose
work has led to the actual release of these new forces,
it is the biologists who have a piece to say about the
effects of radiations on human life. We can scarcelv
overstate the case against the use of such agents. It
is radiations which we use in the laboratory to produce
abnormalities. This is the standard way of changing
the germ of plasm of an individual. Recent reports,
still unpublished, from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in-
dicate that babies born to mothers who were pregnant
at the time of the bombing were in many cases de-
formed, idiots, microcephalics, etc. And since human
heredity operates slowlv through the years the com-
plete story will not be told for many generations. It
may be that a military situation could be so critical
as to demand the use of weapons now much more
powerful than in 1945, but it is difficult for the Chris-
tian conscience to condone such action.

The other field in which I think biology may make
a contribution to religion is a little happier for our
consideration. This is the chapter that biology can
write about the pattern of the living world. The
thought of the revelation of God to be found in na-
ture has been a favorite topic of writers and thinkers
through the years of human historv. The author of

Genesis says that God came to Adam and Eve as thev
walked in the Garden. David in the 19lh Psalm cries
out, "The heavens declare the glorv of God and the
firmament showeth his handiwork." The author of
Job. in the drama recorded there, has God say to
Man. "'Where wast thou when I laid the foundations
nf the earth?" Man has always felt a revelation of
God in nature, and modern man. with his increasing
knowledge of the world, has a much broader oppor-
tunitx to approach God through his creation. Obser-
vation, enhanced by training and greatly increased by
the range of microscopic magnification, reveals de-
tails in complexity in organization and function little
dreamed by the untutored layman. The microscopic
intricacy of pattern displayed in one simple leaf mat
be a revelation to one who has scarcelx recognized
the gross difference between a maple and an oak.
Even so lowly a creature as an earthworm may be-
come an object of interest if one knows enough about
its anatomy, physiology and behavior. These are home-
ly illustrations taken from the limitless wealth of
material available in the living world. To the inquiring
mind there are never-ending revelations of pattern,
patterns of beaut) and symmetry of elegant detail
which can be followed through every level of magni-
fication down to the last limits of the electron micro-
scope. To a Christian philosophy this revelation of
design in the living world is a revelation of a tiny
segment of the mind of the Creator. For a Christian
to study science is to widen the area where he can
follow the Creators thoughts, and a stud) of the natu-
ral world may easily become a search for God.

One of the modern poets has expressed this thinking
of many biologists when he says:

Day and night I wander widely through the wilder-
ness of thought,
But my one unchanged obsession, wheresoe'er my

feet have trod,
Is a keen, enormous, haunting, never-sated thirst for
God.

NEWS OF THE CLUBS

FOUNDER'S DAY is just ahead, and Agnes Scott
alumnae clubs are making varied plans for its celebra-
ton. As this is written, announcements of the 1954
radio program are about to go out to club presidents,
who will try to obtain local radio time for the 15-
minute broadcast. The committee in charge of the
program hopes that "What is Academic Freedom?"

will have more listeners than any previous production.
Taking part in the discussion will be Dr. George P.
Hayes, professor of English; Dr. Catherine Sims,
acting professor of historv and political science;
Florrie Fleming of Augusta, Ga., senior, and Nancy
Brock of Greenville. S. C. freshman.

ANDERSON, S. C. planned a tea for prospective
students in January, when Ann Cooper, field repre-
sentative, was to be in town.

ATLANTA, JUNIOR ATLANTA. SOUTHWEST
ATLANTA, and DECATUR, four lively groups within
reach of the sheltering arms, are in the midst of an
active year. In the fall the four clubs held a joint
meeting in the Agnes Scott science hall to hear a
scholarly review of the school segregation question
previous court decisions, present conditions, major
points of difference between those who favor segrega-
tion and those who oppose it. Each club holds its
own monthly meetings and has its own project. At-
lanta held a highly successful tea for prospective stu-
dents. Decatur was raising money with soap coupons,
Junior Atlanta was stressing individual contributions
to the Alumnae Fund, and Southwest Atlanta was
selling Readers Digest subscriptions. At the end of
last year the Atlanta club gave $115 to the Alumnae
House and Garden, and Decatur gave $75 to be used
as the Executive Board of the Association should
decide. Each of the four clubs has a year's program
of speakers for its meetings.

BIRMINGHAM had a lively tea for prospective stu-
dents last spring and another this year. The club has
succeeded in bringing the number of Birmingham girls
at Agnes Scott up from zero to a respectable level
in the last few years. This year's tea was a Christmas
affair, with the Birmingham Agnes Scott students
present to give first-hand nformation.

CHARLOTTE, which crowned its achievements last
year with a gift of $75 to the Alumnae House, has
had an active autumn which began with a meeting in
October. Doris Sullivan '49. former alumnae repre-
sentative and now assistant dean of students, spoke
and showed slides of the campus. At this meeting the
club launched a fund in memory of Eloise Gaines
Wilburn '28, one of its leading members, who was
killed Oct. 18 in an automobile accident. The fund,
which is being used to buy books for the College
library, has now more than doubled by virtue of con-
tributions from Eloise's college friends and fellow
club members. Charlotte will have Dean Scandrett as
its speaker on Founder's Day.

CHATTANOOGA, which continues to build its stu-
dent loan fund, honored President Wallace Alston at
a luncheon in June and in November held a tea for
prospective students, with Dean Scandrett as speaker.
A luncheon is planned for Founder's Day.

LEXINGTON, Ky., plans a Founder's Day meeting,
according to its report of last year's gathering.

LONG ISLAND formed a club this year, one of
several groups in the New York area, and planned
to join the Greenwich club in a visit to the United
Nations.

NEW ORLEANS has met regularly this year and
has begun a scholarship fund which it hopes to com-
plete I $1000 makes a regular college scholarship,
listed in the Catalogue I through club projects and
individual contributions. One of its meetings was a
tea for Dean Scandrett. who was in New Orleans for
a conference.

NEW YORK has been busily dividing itself nto
geographical clubs which will meet separately through
the year and have one joint annual gathering. The
club is making efforts to introduce Agnes Scott to
school counselors in the area.

RICHMOND had Ann Cooper, alumnae field repre-
sentative, as its speaker in October. New officers
were elected at the November meeting.

SHREVEPORT had a tea for prospective students
in October and sent money to buy a chair for Hop-
kins Hall.

WASHINGTON joined the Associated Alumnae
Clubs of Washington this year and arranged a booth
at the organizations college night for high school
students, with former alumnae representative Sybil
Corbett Riddle '52, Ensign Helen Jean Robarts '52,
and Anne Thomson '53 present to disseminate infor-
mation about Agnes Scott. The November meeting
was a tea honoring past presidents of the club, and
was publicized by press and radio. In January, thirtv
members appeared on television! The program was
wonderful publicity for the College, consisting partly
of questions and answers about Agnes Scott and the
club. Dean Scandrett will speak at the Founder's Day
meeting. Feb. 20.

WESTCHESTER-FAIRFIELD, or GREENWICH.
Conn., is a flourishing group whose every meeting is
fully covered by a considerable number of local news-
papers in the area a real feat, publicizing Agnes
Scott so far awav. The club is raising a scholarship
fund and at last report was planning a trip to the
United Nations.

8

William Ross Harper, husband of
Jean Ramspeck Harper and father of
Marian Harper Kellogg '20 and Fran-
ces Harper Sala '22, died Oct. 18.

Daisy Wesley Spurlock, sister of
Emma Wesley and mother of Susan
Spurlock Wilkins '43, died Nov. 30.

Dorothy Dyrenforth Luman died
Nov. 2.

1 922 Laurie Bell Stubbs Johns'
nephew, William Alston Tennent, was
killed in a jet plane crash Dec. 6.

I VZo Peggy Story Ranson Shef-
field died Nov. 25.

I z.ZOJohn Girardeau Wilson, hus-
band of Helen Clark Wilson, died in
September.

1 928 Edgar R. Craighead, father
of Frances Craighead Dwyer, died
Dec. 8.

1936 Irving S. Bull, father of
Meriel Bull Mitchell, died in Oct.
1952.

I 74U Grace Ward Anderson
her mother in July 1952.

lost

1 944 Mary Maxwell Hutcheson's
mother died last February.

I 7 jU Frank Bernard Linton, bro-
ther of Betty Jo Linton Alexander,
died in the fall of 1953.

AGNES SCOTT

1LUMNAE QUARTERLY

Spring.

1954

R T

M USIC

P II ILOS

THE

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

OF

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

OFFICERS

JEAN BAILEY OWEN '39-

President

GRACE FINCHER TRIMBLE '32

Vice-President

FLORENCE BR1NKLEY 7 H

Vice-President

MARY WARREN READ '29

Vice-President

BETTY J EANNEELlTsON CANDLER J 49

Secretary

SARAH HANCOCK '50

Treasurer

TRUSTEES

CATHERINE BAKER MATTHEWS '32
FRANSES W1NSHIP WALTERS Inst.

CHAIRMEN

CATHERINE BAKER MATTHEWS '32
Nominations

DOROTHY CREMIN READ '42

Special Events

EDWINA DAVIS CHRISTIAN '46 ""

Vocational Guidance

- MARY WALLACE KIRK '11

Education

ELAINE STUBBS MITCHELL '4\~

Publications

BETTY JEAN RADFORD MOELLER '47
Class Officers

NELLE CHAMLEE HOWARD '34

House

LOUISE BROWN HASTINGS '23

Grounds

CLARA ALLEN REINERO '23

Entertainment

STAFF

ELEANOR N. HUTCHENS '40

Director of Alumnae Affairs

ELOISE HARDEMAN KETCH1N

House Manager

MEMBER

AMERICAN ALUMNI
COUNCIL

the AGNES SCOTT

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

-Mcjnei S^cott College, ^Decatur, Cjeorgia

SPRING 1954

VOLUME 32

NUMBER 3

The Agnes Seott Alumnae Quarterly is published four times a year (November, February, April and
July) by the Alumnae Association of Agues Seott College at Decatur, Georgia. Contributors to the
Alumnae Fund receive the magazine. } early 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.

1

(editorial

by Mary Wallace Kirk

ONE of the functions of the Education Committee is to act as liaison between the
College and its alumnae in the realm of academic offerings. In partial fulfillment of
that objective the committee takes pleasure in presenting in this issue of The Quarterly
three departments Art, Music, Philosophy. As all things change so have these de-
partments, and in recent years expansion has also laid its demands upon them. There-
fore, an account of their "insistent present", which contains both past and future,
should be of significant interest.

The committee is deeply indebted to Mr. Ferdinand Warren, head of the De-
partment of Art, to Mr. Michael McDowell, head of the Department of Music, and
to Mr. C. Benton Kline, Jr., assistant professor of Philosophy, for so graciously con-
tributing the three articles on their respective subjects, to President Wallace M.
Alston for his inspiring Foreword, to the students of the Department of Art for
their attractive drawings, again to Mr. Warren for designing the format of this
issue, and to Eleanor Hutchens. Editor of The Quarterly, for her advice and valiant
assistance at all times.

Education Committee
Lucile Alexander
Leone Bowers Hamilton
Ruth Slack Smith
Mary King Critchell
Mary Wallace Kirk. Chairman

the AGNES SCOTT

ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

Spring ,954

Contents

Editorial 2

Mary Wallace Kirk

Rembrandt, "The Sibyl" 4

An Aristocracy of Competence 5

Wallace M. Alston

Bursting at the Seams 7

Ferdinand Warren

Growing Noises 11

Michael McDowell

Philosophy at Agnes Scott 15

C. Benton Kline, Jr.

Class News 18

Eloise Hardeman Ketchin

Calendar of Art and Music Events, 1953-54 . . . .27

Club Directory 28

COVER The cover design and illustrations are reproduced from pen and
ink drawings made especially for this issue by Katherine Hefner *54 as
part of an art class assignment.

3

REMBRANDT, The Sibyl, Oil Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

REMBRANDT

and

TINTORETTO

Through the courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art two art
masterpieces are to be exhibited at Agnes Scott from April 15 to May
15, with a special reception May 2. "The Sibyl," from the Metro-
politan's Rembrandt collection, and "Portrait of a Man," by Tin-
toretto, will be on view with accompanying reproductions and other
materials on the two artists in the gallery on third floor Buttrick.

Jsntroduct

ion

An Aristocracy of Competence

b\ Wallace M. Alston

PROFESSOR JOHN McMURRAY, of the Uni-
versity of London, calls Plato's Republic "The fairest
and falsest of all Utopias." In this remarkable writing,
Plato develops the analogy of the perfect man in the
perfect state. As he presents an analysis of the human
mind, Plato finds the rational or reasoning principle,
the spirit or will, and the appetite or passion. This
threefold division is applied to the commonwealth which
Plato regards as analogous to, and a sort of exhibition
of a good and virtuous man. Plato classifies the mem-
bers of his ideal republic under three divisions: coun-
selors, or an aristocracy of intelligence ; guardians, or
the military ; and artisans, the common people.

One does not have much difficulty finding the weak
places in the Platonic scheme. There are, nevertheless,
some keen insights and some enduring recognitions in
the Republic. One of the most important of these in-
sights is that the commonwealth, the world indeed,
needs the leadership of men and women of intelligence
an aristocracy of competence, if you please. The best
qualified people, Plato insists, ought to be discovered,
commandeered, and given the opportunity to use their
intelligence and training for the common welfare.

We still need an aristocracy of intelligence not, of
course, a petted, coddled little group whom we will set
free from ordinary responsibilities in order to show
favor or preferment to them. What we do need, how-
ever, within the framework of our democracy, is to dis-
cover ways to mobilize and challenge the folk who are
endowed and trained to think an aristocracy of intel-
ligence, if you will, but one that is imbued with a strong
sense of social responsibility.

The word "aristocracy" has become somewhat de-
cadent and decrepit. As a matter of fact, it is a good
word, the virility and relevance of which we might do
well to recover. It comes from two Greek words:
aristos, meaning "best," and kratein, "to be strong."
A true aristocrat is one who, realizing endowment,
deliberately offers himself in service to others. Aristo-
crats have often been despised or distrusted because
they have exploited their position, or have held them-
selves aloof from the needs of common people, or have
undertaken to dominate others, or have simply used

their cleverness to make their own status secure. The
kind of aristocracy that we need today within a demo-
cratic framework is an aristocracy of competence pos-
sessing a strong sense of social responsibility.

Let me suggest some achievements that would seem
to be requisite in a leadership that might deserve to be
known as an aristocracy of competence within a frame-
work of democracy.

For one thuiff, there is the need for a strong sense of
objective reality in a day of relativities. Intellectual
leaders generally appear to be unimpressed today by the
sort of realization that caused Arthur Hugh Clough to
write :

It fortifies my soul to know
That, if I perish, truth is so.

Plato's philosophers, who composed the governing
group, were recognized as authentic intellectual, moral,
and spiritual leaders by virtue of their devotion to the
world of ideas, or forms. Their authority as leaders was
derived. They were qualified persons, but they were
instruments through whom truth, goodness, and beauty
were mediated to the common life of men.

Our intellectual and cultural climate is subjective
and relativistic. It is doubtful whether men will regard
truth as a sacred prize to be discovered and as a trust to
be valued and shared, when the truth is seen to be so
exclusively the creation of clever people. Whether a
thorough-going relativism in ethics and religion will
result in a leadership imbued with a strong sense of
mission is quite doubtful. Is truth made anew by every
generation, by each separate individual, indeed? It
matters little how competent men and women may be
in their endowment and training, if they determine that
goodness, truth, and beauty are merely values that men
project into the world ; a different sort of enterprise is
presented from that envisaged by Plato when he made
his plea for an aristocracy of competence.

Moreover, there is the need for disciplined insight
and the ability to think in a day of confusion. Some time
ago President Ralph C. Hutchinson, of Lafayette Col-
lege, wrote that a veritable "cult of confusion" exists
in America. Not only are people by and large confessing

bewilderment, but our leaders themselves admit to a
confusion that is disconcerting, to say the least.

The sort of intellectual guidance that people require
today must come from men and women who know what
the facts in the various aspects of learning are and who
have a respect for tested realities. Experimentation is
good, but it must not be random and chaotic. There is
good sense in requiring that any person who would be-
come proficient in his field should at least know what
has been done before he came upon the scene. There is
no virtue in mere novelty, and those who are looking
for short cuts should definitely be discouraged by their
fellows in all fields that lay claim to educational and
cultural leadership.

John Ruskin said a relevant thing when he insisted
that "the right to own anything is dependent upon the
willingness to pay a fair price for it." Creativity and
originality come not through novelty and the attempt to
by-pass the disciplines of intellectual endeavor, but
through persistence, habitual and unremitting labor,
and through the conventional channels. The only aristo-
cracy of intelligence that deserves general approval and
support will be one to whom the past with its accom-
plishments is known, and one who accepts the necessity
of hard work and patient, painful intellectual endeavor.

Then, poise and sanity in this day of intellectual,
moral and spiritual instability constitute a "must" for
leaders worthy of respect and loyalty. There are many
indications in our contemporary scene of the unsteadi-
ness and emotionalism of people. We make a serious
mistake if we assume that most folk think logically and
make decisions upon the basis of the evidence pro and
con that has been judiciously weighed. The fact is that
the average person thinks very little, if at all. He is a
hero worshipper. He is swayed by the tides of popular
sentiment and by the power of a personality. He seems
at times to move by "fits and starts."

Leaders are sorely needed, men and women who can
speak clearly, think logically, maintain perspective,
chart a course of action, and inspire confidence in those
who look to them for responsible direction.

Moreover, in a genuine aristocracy of competence,
there would be a sense of concern and liability in a day

of irresponsibility. There is, indeed, a liability of the
privileged, and nothing is more immediately important
than a recognition and an assumption of this obligation
by those who have been trusted.

Certain tendencies peculiar to privilege must be re-
sisted by people of endowment and opportunity. There
is, for example, the tendency of privilege to lead a
person to a false evaluation of himself. If an individual
estimates himself on the basis of his money, or his
heredity, his brilliance, training, popularity, or the
position that he occupies, he will scarcely get a true
view of himself. There is also the tendency of privilege
to shut a person off from the needs of people all around
him. There is danger as well as obvious advantage in
such protection. And there is the tendency of privilege
to let a person off with only a fractional part of the
contribution that he is capable of making. By comparing
himself with others and by reminding himself that he is
doing as much or more than they, the privileged indi-
vidual salves his conscience when he continues to put
back into life only a part of what he is capable of doing
and for less than he takes out.

Privileged people need to learn that they are held
accountable proportionately and that there is a liability
of the privileged that must be acknowledged and
accepted if they are to lay claim to the loyalty of people
by and large whom they would influence.

This desire for an aristocracy of competence is not an
armchair academic matter. It should not be dismissed
as a nostalgic yearning for an impossibility. Plato's
insight that the commonwealth must be guided by its
best trained, most sensitive, most responsible citizens, is
an essential if our democratic form of government is
ever to be made effective. The alternative is to increase
mediocrity and control by the inefficient.

The initiative rests measurably with educated and
privileged people. It is in large measure a matter of
attitude and inner spirit, of motive and commitment.
College men and women could make the difference be-
tween hope and despair for our race. An aristocracy of
competence, baptized with humility and charged with a
sense of mission, could supply the leadership now
desperately lacking.

-Art

Bursting at the Seams

by Ferdinand Warren

"THE ART DEPARTMENT is bursting at the seams." This comment was made
recently by Dr. Alston at a meeting held to find ways of providing additional space for
Agnes Scott's growing Art Department. Over the past two years the enrollment in all
Art courses has increased 50% and more, an excellent indication of growth since all such
courses are elective.

We believe that this increase is due in large measure to the growing interest in Art
which has its roots in the vital and greatly improved creative Art Education programs
in the public schools. An Art program that is tuned to the creative instinct of the
individual is the basis for sound development ; and it is the obligation of the Liberal
Arts College to carry further this Art education, there-by making its contribution to the
total program of building a society which some day may boast of a real understanding
and appreciation of the Fine Arts. It is only by such a program extending from kinder-
garten through college that the goal may eventually be achieved.

Furthermore there is a new awakening in Art of national scope. Thousands of
amateur painters are trying their bands at creative work. Psychologists agree that
creative Art plays an important part in the growth of the individual ; such outstanding
people as President Eisenhower and England's Sir Winston Churchill find in the
creative experience an outlet for their emotions. Art is not just pictures on the walls or
in buildings far away Art is a way of life.

The Art Department of Agnes Scott likes to think of Art not only as great master-
pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture of the past, but as Art related to life, as
the living expression of the civilization in which it is produced. We today are creating
and producing Art that will, in future years, reflect our present culture. Our paintings,
our sculpture, our skyscrapers, our literature, music and poems, our every day objects
such as automobiles and movies are all a part of the total picture.

We ore offering Art Introduction, Art History and Criticism, courses in Creative
Work in painting and sculpture with opportunities for those with special talent to
continue in advanced study. An Art Major provides a well balanced program in both
Art History and practice, for Art History cannot be taught so successfully without
the laboratory experience as it can be when the student has the opportunity of participat-
ing in a creative activity.

Courses in design give the student an opportunity for wide appreciation of "Art
in Living," including design in the home, in every day objects, in clothing. Since design
is always with us, to be able to tell the good from the bad is to develop a fine critical
discrimination.

The Art History courses provide the student with a wide knowledge and back-
ground of Art. These include the study of Art of all civilizations from prehistoric times
to the present day, and are, again, related to life.

The students of Art are given practical experience through close cooperation with

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other departments in the production of plays. Participation in May Day is always a
high spot for those interested in art. Designing costumes, scenery painting, and work
on props are some of the special opportunities available. Illustrations for "Aurora,"
posters and announcements offer the student additional practical experience as well as
actual participation in these extra-curricular activities.

Each student of Art is required to create her own personal Christmas card. Stu-
dents are encouraged to equip and decorate their dormitory rooms in a personal manner,
thus making the Art experience a living and vital one.

For years it has been a student art project to design the printed program for May
Day, and many people even on the campus are not aware of the part played by art
students in making the performance itself the pictorial delight it is. Costumes and stage
groupings are the product of thought and work by the students of art, whose taste and
skill are manifested in an increasing number of campus activities each year.

The Agnes Scott Dance Group's performance of "The Firebird" in March pro-
vided an excellent project for an art student, who designed the sets and costumes as a
substitute for writing a term paper in one of her art classes.

The Louise Lewis Collection of good reproductions was until this year distributed
through a rental arrangement which permitted a student to keep a picture in her room
for several months. So many students now buy their own prints, however, that this year
the collection has been hung along the hallways of principal buildings.

Each year many special Art activities are brought to the campus by the Art Depart-
ment. Scheduled for the current year have been frequent exhibitions of student work,
loan exhibitions of national character such as the exhibition of Graphic Arts by the
National Association of Women Artists. This exhibition contained a variety of media
etchings, lithographs, serigraph prints, linoleum and wood block prints. Another out-
standing national exhibition was the International Business Machines collection of
contemporary water colors. The department has had several exhibitions of work by
Agnes Scott Alumnae, which were well attended and stimulated considerable interest.
Scheduled to begin April 15 is a loan exhibition of original paintings by The Great
Masters, made possible by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It will include works by
Rembrandt and Tintoretto. Bringing such outstanding works of art to this area should
prove to be of unusual interest. The department also has scheduled regular Life
Magazine exhibitions. These are photographic recordings from all parts of the world,
selected and scheduled to integrate closely with Art History courses. All these special
activities are open to the entire student body, faculty, and community.

The Art Department is proud to announce that the Agnes Scott permanent col-
lection of Art has been increased this year by several new items. The National Academy
of Design, New York, has presented to the College eight charming paintings water
colors and oils by William T. Richards, N.A., and Walter Shirlaw. These are excellent
examples of Nineteenth Century painting. The department is negotiating with the
National Academy for a gift of an important contemporary work. This we hope will be
forthcoming in the near future. Mr. Alfred Holbrook, Director of the University of
Georgia Museum of Art, has recently presented to Agnes Scott one of his large oil
paintings, indicating his interest in helping Agnes Scott build a fine collection of Art.
In addition to these gifts, the College has purchased a small oil painting by Mrs. Ray-
mond Bishop, who was formerly an instructor of Art at Agnes Scott.

It is hoped that an Art fund will be established in the near future, which will
make it possible for the College to enlarge its permanent collection by important works
of Art, and that friends of Agnes Scott will have a part in this growing collection
through their gifts and contributions.

Frequently art students from the college are invited to exhibit their work in At-

lanta. Recently the Atlanta Public Library showed paintings, watercolors, oils, and
mobiles by the Art classes.

Most colorful occasions at Agnes Scott have been the opening receptions of im-
portant Art exhibitions, which hundreds of interested Art lovers have attended. These
occasions have drawn people not only from the Atlanta and Decatur area but from
Athens, Gainesville, Augusta, Columbus, and many other cities. Hundreds of pattering
footsteps in the halls of Buttrick are frequently heard as school children from nearby
public schools, escorted by their teachers, view and enjoy these exhibits, and members
often given gallery talks to interested groups. We believe these special activities
are a valuable contribution to the cultural development of the community.

"Bursting at the seams" is definitely the predicament in which the Department
finds itself at this moment. To "burst at the seams" and temporarily repair those seams
only to have them burst again is not healthy growth. The future in Art for Agnes
Scott is promising and encouraging. With our physical plant and limitations pressing
and enclosing us, we are forced to dream. Dreaming has always been associated with
artists and other creative people. Such giants as Edison, Wright, Leonardo DaVinci,
were all called dreamers, and today their dreams are realized. We are confident that our
dreams can come true.

As Agnes Scott grows and continues to grow, each arm or department must grow
proportionately to keep pace with the whole. First of our dreams is for even better and
stronger Art courses and closer integration of these courses with other departments.
At present, Art History courses are related to courses in Bible, literature, history, and
philosophy, and we would welcome a closer cooperation with other departments. In a
Liberal Arts College such as Agnes Scott, some Fine Arts knowledge and experience
should be a part of the total program of studies for all students. A course integrated
with music, philosophy, literature, and history in a vital and meaningful way would
provide the student with a background of related subjects that would enrich her
experience and prepare her for more enjoyable life after college.

In an effort to broaden and strengthen their Art offerings Agnes Scott College
and Emory University Art faculties have been making an extensive study aimed at a
cooperative program. The faculty recommendations are now in the hands of the Agnes
Scott-Emory Liaison Committee.

The department would also welcome an opportunity to offer the student a creative
experience in Ceramics as part of a regular studio Art course. A workshop course,
including ceramics, offered as an extra-curricular activity for students and faculty,
would be a worthwhile endeavor. Almost daily, requests from students and faculty
are made for creative opportunities in this medium.

We of the Art Department envision as a reality an Art Building which would

provide adequate class rooms, studios, lecture room, and workshop. It is quite possible
that such a building could house speech department classes and a rehearsal stage. It
should have an Art Gallery and a reception hall, so badly needed for important functions
of the College. A lounge and an Art library are also necessary to an efficient department.

The Visual Arts are an important and vital part of the growth of the individual,
particularly in this era of mechanized wonders. The Arts have long awaited their
rightful place in education. The cultural development of the individual must keep
pace with the technological advances of today, or we shall continue to develop lop-sided
personalities. Today too few people recognize Art as an important subject that comes
as close to our every day lives as economics.

Ideally situated in the Atlanta area in close proximity to Emory, Columbia Semi-
nary, and Georgia Tech, Agnes Scott stands as an ideal and accessible place for an Art
and cultural center. Centrally located Agnes Scott can make a major contribution
through the Fine Arts to the total cultural program. At present Agnes Scott is the
only College in the area offering Art Appreciation, Art History and creative courses
in Art. All of this is in our favor and makes Agnes Scott College most desirable for an
Art Center.

Our Art Department's dream is a dream worthwhile a large one, but one which
can come true. Today, when one stands on the campus quadrangle and looks toward
the South, the dome of Bradley Observatory comes to view. A little nearer one sees the
new John Bulow Campbell Science Hall and to the left the beautiful Letitia Pate Evans
Dining Hall, which is proud of its new neighbor, the beautiful dormitory, Hopkins
Hall. As one glances to the West, one sees the stately Presser Hall and directly north of
Presser, across Buttrick Drive, a most desirable spot a spot which both Dr. McCain
and Dr. Alston have often referred to as the spot for an Art Building.

Agnes Scott is dreaming and looking to that day when one can complete the picture
from the quadrangle and see westward on this now lonely spot a stately building which
will be known as the Fine Arts Building.

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Growing Noises

by Michael McDourll

"WHAT DOES all this noise mean," says the visitor to his wife. "What is going on
here?" The hypothetical visitor and his wife have just entered the lobby of Presser Hall
and both of them are trying to see the lovely interior architecture of the building but
each finds his thoughts distracted by a conglomeration of sounds, which, for lack of a
more exact term, they call noise. From Gaines Chapel comes the full, resonant sound
of the organ as a student practices a modern French Toccata. Mrs. Visitor keeps trying
to hear it but she can't separate this sound from a Beethoven Sonata coming from
another studio. Unable to think clearly about the situation she walks down the hall,
pulling her husband along with her. The sound gets louder. Two studios are pouring forth
sounds of the Grieg Piano Concerto and a Chopin Etude, and from somewhere comes
the distinct sound of another organ. A stairway nearby is a tempting sight and an
escape seems at hand. As the two ascend to the second floor new and stranger sounds
greet them.

From somewhere there comes the sound of a lovely voice singing a Mozart Aria,
but where is that violin? and what is it playing? The doors to Maclean Auditorium
look solid and sound-proof so in they go. But now they have located that other organ
and once inside Maclean all other noises are swallowed up in the tones of a Bach Fugue.

Retreat to the basement was done too hastily for thought. It's too late now. They
might as well face it. This is worse than they could possibly imagine. About fifteen
studios are pouring forth piano music in all keys, all rhythms and with great vigor.
There is even another organ! Through the glass window in the door they are looking
with interest at the new looking wood which seems to be the source of the sound.
Occasionally the shutters open and they can easily see a mass of pipes of all sizes, the
smallest looking suspiciously like a pencil.

Now, it is rather difficult to explain all this sound to such visitors. They can't see
the musical trees for the forest, and the forest is very dense. They didn't catch the skill-
ful entrance to the coda of the Beethoven Sonata or the excellent rhythmic control
show r n by the young organist at the climax of the Toccata. It takes a pair of trained
ears to separate all this sound into its component parts, to know exactly what is going
on, to be able to tell if there is progress in the technique of this student or that. In
fact, it takes trained ears to know that these are growing noises of a music department
and as such they are music, nay, "sweet music," to those involved in the process. Just
as the farmer looks at the barren ground in March and thinks he sees fields of grain,
or the mechanic views a mass of strange looking gadgets and sees a finished automobile,
a teacher can hear these sounds and imagine a line organist performing in a large
church, an excellent pianist giving a recital, and perhaps an inspired choral conductor
leading a performance of a magnificent cantata.

This outpouring of sound is not the only activity that is going on in Presser Hall
as our visitors would have discovered if they had not become frightened and left in a
hurry. Down in room number four there is a large class of about thirty-five students.
Some of them are leaning eagerly toward the front as if to catch the sounds coming
from the phonograph a little ahead of their neighbors. They have already discussed this
Haydn symphony, they have seen a diagram of its basic form outlined on the black-
board and now they are following it with their ears as it unfolds neatly and clearly

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according to schedule. They are feeling the immense vitality and good humor of a near-
perfect work of art.

In another classroom a student is conducting the session. She has prepared herself
for this moment by carefully studying the scores of several church anthems and now,
with the other members of the class as her chorus, she is conducting these selections.
When she has finished, the class will criticize what she has done and the teacher will
direct their attention to some of the more subtle aspects of conducting which may
have escaped her attention. This same group has just finished in the preceeding quarter
a comprehensive survey of church music literature.

If our visitors had lingered a while longer, they would have seen one of the sections
of freshman theory hard at work, heads bent down in great concentration, taking
dictation of melodies which the teacher is playing on the piano. Some of them have the
confident look of one who knows exactly what to do, while a few have the anguished
look of uncertainty. It isn't easy as any freshman can tell you and to complete the
work satisfactorily is no small accomplishment. The juniors and seniors are more likely
to wear their anguished look while the instructor plays the invention or fugue just
completed by them. After working all week-end on this composition and in the mean-
time becoming rather enchanted with the sound of their own talents, it is terribly
frustrating to have it put under the microscope of criticism, but a word of praise is an
uncommonly sweet sound and they begin to understand how very difficult it is to
achieve something satisfactory, to say nothing of something perfect, when creating any-
thing original in music.

Putting all these sounds and sights together one can see the pattern of a thriving,
vigorous music department, one in which students and faculty are active and busy in the
limitless areas of music. It is different from all other music departments and yet so much
like them. The similarities are easy to catch at a glance, and they vary only in degree
at different colleges. There are the same classrooms with young, intelligent faces, and
the teachers are discussing many of the same problems, using the blackboards in much
the same manner. It is necssary to go beyond these more obvious sights and sounds to
find out the purpose and ideals motivating all this activity in order to more fully under-
stand a department or a school of music.

Here at Agnes Scott College, we believe firmly that music as an art and a language
is worthwhile regardless of its potential value as a means of earning a living. It presents
to the student an almost limitless field of interest that contains the sterner principles
of logic with the warmer, more emotional qualities of art. In its basic, scientific struc-
ture the study of music requires a discipline of mind that any college should welcome
as a part of its curriculum. It is here that music is like mathematics or like architecture,
holding ones interest from pure logic and reason. As an art, a medium for the expression
of human feelings, emotions and aspirations it is the equal of poetry or fine prose. Its
universality of language presents no barriers that call for translations and it speaks
directly to the mind and heart of an American as to a Russian. Its literature is vast and
extends in time far beyond the beginnings of modern languages, in fact it goes back to
the days when the human race first discovered it had a voice. As a distillation of the
best in past civilizations it belongs with sculpture, painting, poetry and architecture.
We feel that it is good for serious students to spend time discovering the past eras of
music just as they spend time discovering the political and economic aspects of older
civilizations. None of these elements stands alone as the mirror of the past but is a part
of the complete picture. No music was ever created in a vacuum nor was any political
history lived by men whose interests excluded the things of the spirit. It is this part of
music, with its roots deep in the everyday life of the past as well as of the present, that we
believe should be made available to all students at Agnes Scott College. They may, or
may not have any desire to understand the basic concepts of music, but they should have
available the means for understanding this phase of the cultural heritage of western
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civilization. Students will find these opportunities in the course offerings in history and
literature.

Perhaps there is no phase of music which presents more difficulties to the student
than "theory." The reason for this is easy to understand when one considers the fact that
the theories underlying our system of music are the least obvious of its facets and most
difficult to understand. Why do these tones sound well together and another group of
tones do not? What is there in the diatonic scale that demands certain treatment? and
what is that treatment? The answer to these and other similar questions makes up the
study of theory. Our belief is that a student will best understand the problems and the
various answers to them through dealing directly with musical materials themselves.
It is perfectly all right to read books about the subject hut no book or series of books
will take the place of actual experience in composition as a key to the understanding of
these problems. Many fingers which fly with ease over a keyboard will become hesitant
and uncertain when confronted with manuscript paper and pencil. This field of music-
is open to all students but, as you can imagine, we are not overwhelmed with non-
musical students, in fact it is very rare that a non-musical student even knows that this
difficult subject exists. Quite a few students, however, whose major subject is in other
fields but whose background has included serious music study will elect these courses
of study for the best reason in the world, because they are interested in the subject.

In the field of applied music our aim is to provide the talented and interested
student with instruction which will be worthy of our college standards. Our primarj
concern is with the gifted student and her progress. But we not only make available
instruction by the same faculty for the less-talented-but-interested student, we encourage
it. Many students have developed enough skill while in college to give themselves a
feeling of security in performing music of moderate difficulty, and think what this
means to such students as an introduction to worlds of genuine satisfaction in hearing
music and performing for one's own delight. As it happens with the more talented
student, we are aware of the limitations of time. Four years is not really a very long
time, but it is enough to open new worlds, to kindle ambitions that may burn brighter
and deeper with the years. It is this that is likely to give the teacher the greatest satis-
faction and bring the greatest reward to the student.

\ ou must remember that all this activity is carried on within the scope of the B.A.
degree which makes considerable demands on students here at Agnes Scott. There are
many students who receive absolutely no college credit for their applied music study.
They pursue their music study in addition to a full schedule of college courses. But
there is much satisfaction in knowing that students of music come to us in full knowl-
edge of the requirements and do so voluntarily, so we feel that the interest and the
desire must be there at least in some degree. However, such activities as Glee Club and
Orchestra fill a great place in extending the benefits of music to the entire student body,
without making strenuous demands on their time.

Although the music faculty is one of the largest in the college, we feel constantly
the pressure of meeting the needs of the students. In practically every one of the applied
music fields which we offer, registration is uncomfortably crowded and in several cases
we have had to refuse applications. We would like to be able to take all students who
want to study and perhaps a more satisfactory solution will be found. In the case of
organ instruction, we were limited not only by the instructors' time but also by limited
practice facilities. This is now greatly relieved by the new practice organ in the base-
ment of Presser. We still have plenty of pianos for teaching and practice, but so many
of them are of more interest historically than they are musically. You would recognize
all of them for thev are living out a graceful old age in modern surroundings. The
tremendous task and expense of replacing them must be undertaken over a long period.
But if any one of you wants to help in this matter, you will find us in a very receptive
mood for suggestions.

You should be on the campus on the nights of the larger concerts in the Atlanta

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Auditorium. It would be a big surprise to you to know how many of the students have
season tickets to these events, or manage to get single tickets at the last minute. It takes
three or four busses, of the large size, packed and jammed to the doors to accommodate
the crowds. And when the Metropolitan Opera Company comes on its annual visit this
year you may count on an even larger attendance. As you know, Atlanta enjoys a
particularly fine musical season and all these events will find at least some students or
faculty members from the college in the audience.

It may surprise you somewhat to know that on a number of occasions you will find
music lovers from Atlanta and Decatur driving out to Presser Hall for concerts
there. Organ recitals, piano recitals, two-piano programs, violin and voice programs
by faculty members are a regular part of the college and community life. It is surprising
how many Atlantans think it is a longer distance from Atlanta to Presser Hall than
it is from Presser Hall to Atlanta. By this, I simply mean that it isn't easy to entice
audiences from Atlanta to come out to Presser Hall. It is a "state of mind" problem,
quite understandable when one realizes how much there is in Atlanta in the realm of
concerts. It is therefore very gratifying to have them come as they do to the programs at
the college. The annual Christmas Carol program by the Glee Club is always a great
attraction and it always comes at a time when many other Christmas programs are com-
peting for audiences. Organ programs will find not only a large audience but almost full
representation of the Organ Guild membership. Two-piano concerts are a great favorite
and can be counted on for an excellent audience. Several years ago, Aaron Copland, one
of America's leading composers and lecturers, drew a standing-room audience for his
lecture in Gaines Chapel.

A feature that is less conspicuous but just as important to the department is the
quarterly auditions for all music students. Just before the end of the quarter, all students
of applied music are required to perform for faculty members. In spite of the nervous
wringing of hands by the students, they would probably be the first to admit the benefits
of this "trial" by performance. The faculty members, acting as critics, will find this
week a very heavy one but they will also admit the satisfaction they feel in seeing their
work bear fruit and feeling the sure development of a musical talent. The final audi-
tion in the spring quarter takes the form of a series of recitals with high heels and
evening dresses. Its resemblance to a marathon is purely coincidental for it is the one
in which every student presents her most pretentious repertoire and naturally it takes
a longer time. And don't forget that from late February until the end of school the
seniors are presenting graduating recitals, while the more ambitious juniors and sopho-
mores often find time to present programs of their own.

The annual May Day celebration has been so long established and has been so
consistently entertaining that one of our largest audiences always appears for this. The
college orchestra provides the musical program for this and, in spite of perspiring fingers
under the warm spring sun or capricious winds that do mischievous tricks to the flimsy
sheets of music, they give an excellent account of themselves. The spring concert by the
Glee Club is a beautiful and delightful occasion with choral numbers and individual
solos. Last year it took the form of an opera, "Bastien and Bastienne" by Mozart. The
young and well disciplined voices sounded lovely in this work.

Whether this rambling account of activities in the music department interests you or
not, you certainly are entitled to know what is going on and we feel that perhaps you
may be a little curious. Every spring we send forth graduates, and we will admit it is
with reluctance, but then every September there is the pleasure of seeing a new group
arrive. It is like a wheel continuously revolving, a cycle that never stops. Sometimes the
wheel needs a slight push or perhaps a heavy push and you are the ones on whom we
have to call when wheels need that extra shoulder. Just remember that the roads leading
to Agnes Scott are in good condition and we would like to know that your interest in
us includes visits to our programs and other activities.

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Philosophy at Agnes Scott

by C. Benton Kline, Jr.

PHILOSOPHY IS not new at Agnes Scott. Since the earliest days of the College
there has been a department named at least in part Philosophy. A very early catalog
shows four courses in the Department of Philosophy: Ethics, Psychology, Political
Economy, and Sociology. Later the department was called "Philosophy and Education"
and included all the work in psychology as well. This arrangement continued until
1949. During most of this period Dr. S. Guerry Stukes and later Dr. Emily S. Dexter
taught the courses in philosophy.

In 1949, a separate department of philosophy was constituted with the coming of
Dr. Wallace M. Alston to the College. In the past five years the work offered has been
expanded greatly until now we offer 13 courses totalling 60 quarter hours of credit.
Since the fall of 1951, when the writer came to Agnes Scott, a major has been offered
in philosophy, and the first student to major in the department graduated last June.

One of the debated questions among philosophy teachers is the character of the
introductory course. One may start on philosophy through problems: what is truth?
what is the nature of reality? what is the real nature of man? Or one may begin with
the methods of sound thinking: how may a term be defined? when is an argument
sound? how can I prove my thesis? Or one may proceed historically, beginning with
earliest Greek thought and moving on to Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Des-
cartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel.

President Alston chose to make the basic course a year's course in a survey of the
history of philosophy. The course, at first open only to juniors and seniors, now enrolls
sophomores as well and counts toward the group requirement in history. We believe
that a sound understanding of the history of Western philosophy is basic to any further
work in philosophy ; a study of major contemporary problems can only be complete when
it draws upon the history of the problems and the answers given to them. We also feel
that the historical introduction fulfills a genuine purpose in the liberal arts curriculum,
for it has more correlative value than either of the other types. A knowledge of Greek
philosophy enriches the understanding of the New Testament world ; an acquaintance
with St. Thomas Aquinas enlightens the student of Dante; the philosophy of the
Enlightenment is a background to nineteenth century British and American literature.

In addition to this course which we regard as the basic course, we are offering other
courses at the introductory level. We have a beginning course in Problems of Philosophy,
which is intended for students who want to know about the field of philosophy and
cannot take a year course. In this course the field of philosophy is surveyed more from
the contemporary angle in terms of major areas of human questioning. Systems of
thought are introduced as answers to these questions.

A third introductory course is Ways of Thinking, which is an introduction to
logic. This course had not been offered at Agnes Scott until 1951-52. There are those
who think that such a course does not belong in a woman's college, and we must admit
that early response to the offering here was not encouraging. But this year the course
is full, and already there are some testimonials to its therapeutic value in campus dis-
cussions. Seriously, we have offered this course in the conviction that in the contemporary
world where we are bombarded with deliverances through the mass media of communi-
cation, anyone needs guidance in sorting out the sound reasoning from the shoddy and
in detecting sophistry and demagoguery.

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In life men and women are as much concerned with valuing as with understand-
ing.' The philosophy of value includes Ethics, which deals with the nature of the good
and the good life, and Aesthetics, which deals with the nature of beauty. Miss Dexter
offers a course in each of these fields. A specific application of ethical theory is to be
found in Political Philosophy, a course which we introduced last year. In this course
we try to integrate the historical approach, studying classics of political thought such
as the Republic of Plato, Locke's Second Essay, Rousseau's Social Contract, and the
systematic approach, constructing a theory of political organization and life.

Increasingly among philosophers the importance of the Christian heritage in
Western thought is being realized. Yale University, for example, now has in its
philosophy department at least one man who is trained in the distinctively Christian
tradition. In a college like Agnes Scott, committed to the Christian tradition in educa-
tion, that heritage deserves emphasis. President Alston initiated a course in the Philosophy
of the Christian Religion and continues to teach it each year. This course serves for
many students as a final summation in the spring quarter of the senior year.

Last year we added a course in the History of Christian Thought, which was plan-
ned for two quarters but ran for three because of the interest shown in it. Here we seek
the background for contemporary Christian thought and expression in the long dialogue
of the church with itself over the meaning of the Christian faith.

All of these courses are open to students without prerequisites. Most of them are
intended as allied work for students majoring in other departments, although they
are also integral to major work in Philosophy. We are also offering work at a more
advanced level, courses which require some previous work in philosophy.

In the case of American Philosophy, the prerequisite is introductory work in
philosophy or in American literature. Miss Dexter teaches this course, which serves
to introduce students to the distinctively American contributions to Western thought,
to thinkers like William James, Josiah Royce, and John Dewey.

Also a part of the advanced work are more specialized, seminar-type courses on
Plato and Augustine, Kant and His Successors, Pragmatism and Contemporary Phi-
losophy. These courses are being offered for the first time this current session. Some are
enrolling students from Columbia Seminary as well as Agnes Scott students.

This is our background and present situation. The program of the department is
still in transition, but the major plan of our work is established. The future will be a
matter of development and addition, not of fundamental change. It is our purpose to
continue the historical approach as basic and to continue the interest in Christian thought
as an integral part of the Philosophy program. Expansion will come first in the area
of value theory, for we believe that the philosophy of ethical and aesthetic value
is a necessary foundation for our common value judgments in history, in the social
studies, in literary criticism, in art and music, both at the academic level and in ordinary
life. Expansion must also come in the number and range of advanced historical courses,
probably on an alternate year basis. Finally, we want to add, when possible, some
systematic work in areas other than value theorv.

Let me add a concluding word about the place of philosophy in the curriculum of
a liberal arts college for women like Agnes Scott. Like all other departments or areas
of study, we are primarily concerned not with the preparation of students for graduate
work but with a terminal four-year liberal arts education. We are convinced that
philosophy provides a valuable major field of concentration in such a program, and that
it can and does offer significant aid to other fields of concentration. At the same time we
do not feel that our program in philosophy will be inadequate as a preparation for
graduate school. Our emphasis upon the historical approach we conceive to be the best
both culturally and professionally. Our aim is to open up for students the richness of
our Western heritage of thought in order to illuminate and put in perspective our
contemporary thinking.

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The propaedeutic to all beautiful art, regarded in the highest degree
of its perfection, seems to lie, not in precepts, but in the culture of
the mental powers by means of those elements of knowledge called
[the humanities], probably because humanity on the one side
indicates the universal feeling of sympathy and on the other faculty
of being able to communicate universally our inmost [feelings].
For these properties taken together constitute the characteristic social
spirit of humanity by which it is distinguished from the limitations
of animal life.

IMMANUEL KANT: Critique of Aesthetic Judgment

The eve which is called the window of the soul is the chief means
whereby the understanding may most fully and abundantly appre-
ciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second inasmuch
as it acquires its importance from the fact that it hears the things
which the eye has seen. If you historians, poets, or mathematicians
have never seen things with your eyes you would be ill able to describe
them in your writings.

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THE

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

OFFICERS

MARY WARREN READ '29

President
GRACE FINCHER TRIMBLE '32

Vice-President
FLORENCE BRINKLEY '14

Vice-President
VELLA MARIE BEHM COWAN '35

Vice-President
MARJORIE NAAB BOLEN '46

Secretary
BETTY MEDLOCK LACKEY '42

Treasurer

TRUSTEES

JEAN BAILEY OWEN '39

FRANCES WINSHIP WALTERS INST.

CHAIRMEN

CATHERINE BAKER MATTHEWS '32

Nominations
FRANCES CRAIGHEAD DWYER '28

Special Events
EDWINA DAVIS CHRISTIAN '46

Vocational Guidance
MARY WALLACE KIRK '1 1

Education
LEONE BOWERS HAMILTON '26

Publications
BELLA WILSON LEWIS '34

Class Officers
NELLE CHAMLEE HOWARD '34

House
LOUISE BROWN HASTINGS '23

Grounds
MARIE SIMPSON RUTLAND '35

Entertainment

LOCAL
CLUB PRESIDENTS

MARY PRIM FOWLER '29

Atlanta
ERNELLE RUTH BLAIR FIFE '36

Decatur
REESE NEWTON SMITH '49

Atlanta Junior
SYLVIA McCONNEL CARTER '45

Southwest Atlanta

STAFF

ANN WORTHY JOHNSON '38

Director of Alumnae Affairs
ELOISE HARDEMAN KETCHIN

House Manager
MARY C. CHAPMAN

Secretary to the Director

MEMBER

AMERICAN ALUMNI
COUNCIL

The AGNES SCOTT
Alumnae Quarterly

Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

Volume 32

Summer 1954

Number 4

College News

1953-54 Alumnae Fund Report

The New Alumnae Fund

Class News

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The cover picture

was taken at Commencement, 1954, looking from the steps of Presser
Hall toward S. McDonough Street. Photograph by Tracy O'Neal

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly is published four times a year
(November, February. April and July) by the Alumnae Association of
Agnes Scott at Decatur. Georgia. Contributors to the Alumnae Fund
receive the magazine. Yearly subscription, S2.00; Single copy, 50 cents.
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office of Decatur, Georgia,
under Act of August 24, 1912.

COLLEGE
NEWS

THE FORD FOUNDATION'S Fund for the Ad-
vancement of Education has granted $137,000 tor
financing a unique program of school-college coopera-
tion in which Agnes Scott is participating. Goal of
this experiment is the enrichment of the curriculum
in the last two years at the Westminster Schools and
the first ttvo years at Agnes Scott, Emory, and Ogle-
thorpe. Mr. W. Edward McNair of the Agnes Scott
faculty has been chosen as director oC the program
and committees from the colleges involved have begun
work on a seven-year plan for implementing this co-
operation. Representatives of Atlanta, Fulton County
and DeKalb County public school systems will meet

regularly, for informational purposes, with the Plan-
ning Committee of this "Atlanta Experiment in Artic-
ulation and Enrichment."

I'll rv freshmen enjoyed the beauty and comfort of
Hopkins Hall, new dormitory adjacent to Inman and
the Alumnae Garden. Special gifts dedicated sixteen
of the rooms in which these bronze commemorative
plaques have been placed. Two are shown, illustrating
the kinds of dedication alumnae are doing in these
rooms: Catherine Mock Hoduin '26. honors a facultv
member; sisters, Violet Weeks Miller '29, Margaret
Glassell Weeks '31, Olive Weeks Collins '32, Lilly
Weeks McLean '36 honor their mother.

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Commencement 1954 saw 80 graduates addressed by
Dr. Katharine McBride, President of Bryn Mawr
College.

Tracy O'Neal

Granddaughters of the class of '54 numbered 10.

Left to right front row. Catherine Shields
Potts '23 and Harriette; Elizabeth Pruden Fagan
'19 and Joen ; Jane Hall Hefner '30 and Katherine;
Eloise Knight Jones '23 and Carol. Back Roiv: Caro-
line and Clara May Allen Reinero '23 ; Frances Glas-
gow Patterson '19 and Ann; Caroline McKinney
Clarke '27, Louise McKinney Hill, and Claude Cand-
ler McKinney, Inst. three generations; Josephine
Pou Varner '29 and Joanne; Elizabeth Roark Elling-
ton '28 and Betty. Annie Johnson Sylvester '25 and
Anne were absent because of a virus attack which
struck Anne on Commencement weekend.

CONSTANT DISCUSSIONS, never idle, ..ecu,
regarding Agnes Scott's high standard of scholarship.
The groups of human beings which make up the col-
lege community and those which harbor immediate
concern for the college ever base their ultimate judg-
ment of Agnes Scott on scholastic achievements. Of
the eighty graduates of the class of 1954, five grad-
uated with High Honor, nine with Honor, and twelve
attained Senior Honors. Two, Florence Fleming and
Nancy Lee, received Woodrow Wilson fellowships
for graduate study next year; nationally, there were
1200 candidates for these awards and only 25 were
given to women students. Members of the faculty con-
tinued scholarly pursuits doing research, publishing,
studying, filling visiting-teacher posts at other insti-
tutions and actively participating in academic organiza-
tions. Two, Miss Lois Barr and Miss Roberta Win-
ter, earned their Ph.D. degrees this year. Alumnae
carried Agnes Scott's reputation for scholarship liter-
ally around the world, working on fellowships, teach-
ing, and publishing. Two, Mary Virginia Allen '35
and Sarah Catherine Wood Marshall (Mrs. Peter)
were initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, Catherine at
Agnes Scott and Mary Virginia at the University of
Virginia. Recognition of the standards of the college
and of its president as a person came with the award-
ing of the LL.D. degree to Wallace McPherson Alston
by our good neighbor, Emory University.
THREE ALUMNAE are among six newly elected
trustees of Agnes Scott, as announced by President
Alston June 7. Sarah Catherine Wood Marshall
(Airs. Peter) '36 will serve a four-year term as a
corporate trustee. Diana Dyer Wilson (Mrs. Wil-
liam T. ) '32 was chosen bv the board for a similar
term and Jean Bailey Owen (Mrs. Edward W. ) '39,
immediate past president of the Alumnae Association,
was elected for two years as alumnae trustee. Three
other new trustees are Dr. Harry Fifield, Atlanta,
filling the unexpired term of the late T. Guy Wool-
ford, and two synodical trustees, Dr. Chester Frist,
Mobile, Ala., and Dr. D. P. McGeachy, Jr., Clear-
water, Fla. Reelected to the board were Dr. J. R.
McCain. Decatur. Ga.; J. J. Scott. Scottdale, Ga.:
Miss Mary Wallace Kirk '11, Tuscumbia, Ala., and
Dr. P. D. Miller, Atlanta.

AS OUR ALUMNAE Association begins its 60th
year, it will be guided by the good heads and
hearts of the executive board you elected at the an-
nual meeting, a luncheon at the college June 5. The
members of the board (listed on the back of the front
cover) with the leadership of National President Mary
Warren Read (Mrs. Joseph C. ) '29, are even now,
undaunted by the summer's heat, carrying out plans

to make the Association's service to the college an in-
tegral part of the optimistic future of Agnes Scott.
I hej share Dr. Alston's expressed conviction that
"Agnes Scott belongs to those who believe in what
she stands for and in what she undertakes to do."

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ON THE STEPS between Buttrick and Presser,
Eleanor N. Hutchens '40, right, swaps ideas about
the college and the alumnae association with Ann
Worthy Johnson '38, left. Eleanor resigned Jul) 1
after seven most fruitful years as Director of Alumnae
Affairs and Director of Publicity for the college to
pursue studies in English for the Ph.D. degree at the
University of Pennsylvania. Ann Worthy, her suc-
cessor, received the M. A. degree in English at the
University of North Carolina, was an editor at the
UNC Press for two years, and for the past eleven
years has been with the American Red Cross, serving
overseas and in eight southeastern states as a field
representative.

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THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY ALUMNAE FUND -$28,733.15

1953-54

IN 1944, the Alumnae Association discontinued the
dues system and inaugurated the Alumnae Fund a
plan of annual giving by which alumnae might sup-
port Agnes Scott regularly according to their varying
means and interests. About $6,000 was raised in that
first year.

IN 1953-54, alumnae gave ^3S,7^3. 1 5 to the College,
designated as follows:

Unrestricted Funds $11,002.75

Hopkins Hall 6,396.90

Foreign Students 822.50

Scholarships 460.00

Special funds 10,051.00

"Special funds" included scholarships and other en-
dowments named for individuals, club gifts, gifts to
departments, and gifts to the Alumnae House and
Garden. About $6,000, or three-fifths of the Spina]
Funds total, was given by three alumnae who are
building scholarships beginning at $1,000.
The average gift was $16.00, individual gifts ranging
from $1.00 to more than $3,000.

The list below is the honorable roster of those who
shared in giving the magnificent 1953-54 Alumnae
Fund.

INSTITUTE

Orra Hopkins

Cora Strong

Winifred Quarterman

Emma Laura Wesley

Ethel Alexander Gaines

Jeannette Craig Woods

Jean Ramspeck Harper

Meta Barker

Laura Caldw?ll Edmonds

Bell Dunnington Sloan

Eilleen Gober

Grace Hardie

Emily Winn

Laura Candler Wilds

Annie McNeill Shapard

Emma Askew Clark

Mabel McKowen

Lila Eugenia Arnold Morris

Thyrza S. Askew

Octavia Aubrey Howard

Annie Aunspaugh Aiken

Stella Austin Stannacd

Eleanor Brice Ezell

Daisy Caldwell MeGinty

Claude Candler McKinney

Alice Coffin Smith

Mary Ellen Cook Hamilton

Georgia Crane Clarke

Mary Dortch Forman

Annie Emery Flinn

Ethel Farmer Hunter

Olivia Fewell Taylor

Jewell Gloer Teasley

Roba Goss Ansley

Marie Gower Conyers

Rebecca Frances Green Hinds

Ida Cah Hamilton

Bessie Alexander Harwell Dennis

Margaret Hobson

Alice Walton Hocker Drake

Orie Jenkins

Lillian Johnson Hunnicutt

Lillie Ora Lathrop

Katherine Logan Good

Leila Mabel

Hettye McCurdy

Mary McPherson Alston

Delia McCrae Montgomery

Ardele Mills Farnsworth

Hattie Mims

Lois Nash Kiser

Annie Newton

Lena Orr McCray

Lillian Ozmer Tread well

Gertrude Pollard

Davella Blair Ramsey Gorham

Evelyn Ramspeck Glenn

Katherine Reid

Mary Carter Schaefer Marks

Louise Scott Sams

Mice Sharp Strang

Bonner Simms Turner

Florence Stokes Henry

Eugenia Thornton

Juliet Webb Hutton

Edith West

Annie Shannon Wiley Preston

Margaret Wilson McCully

Marie L. Wilson

Frances Winship Walters

Susan Young Eagan

ACADEMY

Augusta Arnold Barrow
Lillian Beatty Parent
Mildred Beatty Miller
Helen Camp Richards^ i
Eudora Campbell Ilaynie
Frances Crumley Johnston
Julia Emery Green Heinz,
Maccie Haas Harrison
Bessie Hancock Celeman
Eloise Hardeman KetL-hin
Elma Harwell
Patti Hubbard Stac/
Bertha Hudson Whitaker
Susie E. Johnson
Minnie Lee McCaskill Slinson
Jean Robson Rooney
Mary Russell Green
Laura Sawtelle Palmar
Ai^.rEriret Wright Alston

1906

Mary A. Crocheron Whorton

Annie G. King

May McKowen Taylor

1907

M. Elizabeth Curry Winn
Clyde Pettus
Jeannette Shapard

1908

Sophie Elva Drake
Ethel Reid
Lizzabel Saxon
Bessie Sentell Martin

1909

Louise Elizabeth Davidson
Adalene Dortch Griggs
Lutie Pope Head
Margaret McCallie
Anne Waddell Ber,hea
Lillie Bell Baehmun Harris
Virginia Barker Hujnes
Nell Coats Pentecost
Frankie Enzor
Annette McDonald Suarez
Jean Powel McCroskey

1910

Jennie Eleanor Anderson
Flora M. Crowe W'ntriire
Emma Eldridge Ferguson
Eleanor Frierson
Mattie Louise Hunter Marshall
Clyde MeDaniel Jackson

Lucy Reagan Redwine
Mildred Thompson
Annie Smith Moore
Tommie Doia Barker
Allie Knox Felker Nunnally
Lucy Johnson Oznr?r
Isabel Nunnally Knight

1911

Lucile Alexander
Eleanor Preston Coleman

Burchard
Adelaide L. Cunningham
Geraldine Hood Burnu
Mary Wallace Kirk
Gladys Lee Kelly
Erma Montgomery Mize
Mary Elizabeth Radford
Julia Thompson Gibson
Louise Wells Parson
Theodosia Willinghatn Anderson
Hattie Bardwell Arnold
Florinne Brown Arnold
Anne G. Fields
Eliza D. McDonald Muse
Gussie O'Neal Johnson

1912

Antoinette Blackburn Rust
Cornelia E. Cooper
Mary Crosswell Croft
Nellie Fargarson Racey
Martha Hall Young
May Joe Lott Bunkley
Marie Maclntyre Alexander
Fannie G. Mayson Donaldsn
Annie Chapin McLane
Ruth Slack Smith
Carol Stea'.ns W.^y
Cordelia Dowdell Wolf
Lucy Eitzhugh Maxfieid
Maibel Gregg Carpenter
Hazel June Murphy Elder
Julia Pratt Smith Slack

1913

Allie Candler Guy
Kate Clark
Mary Enzor Bynum
Elizabeth Joiner Williams
Emma Pope Moss Dieckmann
Eleanor Pinkston Stokes
Margaret Roberts Graham
Lavalette Sloan Tucker
Ruth Brown Moore
Elizabeth Dunwoody Hall
Sara A. Williams

1914

Bertha M, Adams

Ruth Blue Barnes

R. Florence Brinkley

Helen Mawbray Brown Webb

Mary Rebecca Brown Florence

Annie Tait Jenkins

Kathleen Kennedy
Nell DuPre Floyd
Robina Gallacher Hume
Ruth McElmurray Cothran

1915

Marion P. Black Cantelou
Martha Brenner Shryock
Annie Pope Bryan Scott
Mary B. Hyer Dale
Sallie May King
Henrietta Lambdin Turner
Grace Reid

Kate Richardson Wicker
Mary Nancy West Thatcher
Lorinda Farley Thornton
A 1 media Sadler Duncan

1916

Mary Bryan Winn
Laura Cooper Christopher
Nell Frye Johnston
Maryellen Harvey Newton
Charis Hood Barwick
Leila Johnson Moore
Margaret T. Phythian
Mary Glenn Roberts
Magara Waldron Crosby-
Clara Whips Dunn
Omah Buchanan Albaugh
Vivien Hart Henderson
Rebekah Lackey Codding
Mary Louise McGuire Plonk
Janie B. Rogers Allen

1917

Amelia Alexander Greenawalt
Louise M. Ash
Isabel S. Dew-
Agnes Scott Donaldson
Elizabeth Gammon Davis
India Hunt Balch
Annie Lee Barker
Mary Mclver Luster
Regina Pinkston
Margaret Pruden Lester
Louise Roach Fuller
Virginia Scott Pegues
Katharine Baker Simpson
Augusta Skeen Cooper
Frances Thatcher Moses
Sarah Caroline Webster
Georgiana White Miller
Vallie Young White Hamilton
Virginia Allen Potter
Agnes Ball

Grace Coffin Armstrong
Ailsie Mayo Cross
Effie Wrenn Doe Black
Florence Kellogg Donehoo
Elizabeth Kinnear Reese
Maude Shute Squires
Ernestine Theis Smith
Frances White Oliver

1918

Hallie Alexander Turner
Elva Brehm Florrid
Ruby Lee Estes Ware
Lois Frances Grier Moore
Alvahn Holmes
Caroline M. Larendon
Margaret Leyburn Foster
Lalla Samille Lowe Skeen
Emma Porter Pope
Carolina It. Randolph
Katherine L. Seay
Evamaie Willingham Park

E. Katherine Anderson
Bessie Harvey Pew
Virginia Haugh Franklin
Katherine Jones Patton
Helen Ledbetter Jenkins
Catherine Montgomery

Williamson

1919

Blanche Copeland Jones

Lucy Durr Dunn

Lois Eve Rozier

Louise Felker Mizell

Frances Glasgow Patterson

Katherine Louise Godbee Smith

Goldie Suttle Ham Hanson

Mary Brock Mallard Reynolds

Virginia Newton

Alice Norman Pate

Elizabeth Pruden Fagan

Ethel Rea Rone

Margaret Rowe Jones

Julia Lake Skinner

Kellersberger
Lulu Smith Weseott
Marguerite Watts Cooper
Llewellyn Wilburn
Elizabeth Witherspoon Patterson
Elizabeth Dimmock Bloodworth
Emily Jameson Miller Smith
Margaret Miller Childers
Pauline Smathers

1920

Louise Abney Beach
Margaret Bland Sewell
Mary Burnett Thonngton
Romola Davis Hardy
Julia Hagood Cuthbertson
Lulie Harris Henderson
Ann Houston Shires
Emilie Keyes Evans
Lois Maclntyre Beall
Gertrude Manley McFarland
Elizabeth Marsh Hill
Virginia McLaughlin
Margery Moore Macaulay
Elizabeth Moss Harris

F. Elizabeth Reid LeKey
Louise Slack Hooker

1921

Margaret Bell Hanna
Myrtle Blackmon
Thelma Brown Aiken
Lois Compton Jennings
Mary Finney Bass
Betty Floding Morgan
Sarah Fulton
Aimee Glover Little
Helen Hall Hopkins
Eugenia Johnston Griffin
Alice Jones

Anna Marie Landress Cate
Frances Charlotte Markley

Roberts
Jean McAlister
Charlotte Newton
Janef Preston
Julia Watkins Huber
Helen Wayt Cocks
Mildred Harris
Isabel Pope

Edith Roark Van Sickle
Kathleen Stanton Truesdell
Julia Elizabeth Tomlinson

Ingram

1922

Elizabeth Brown

Cama Burgess Clarkson

Sue Cureton

Edythe Davis Croley

Eunice Dean Major

Otto Gilbert Williams

Catherine Haugh Smith

Julia Jameson

Lucia Murchison

Ruth Janet Pirkle Berkeley

Ruth Scandrett Hardy

Laurie Belle Stubbs Johns

Emma Julia Thomas Johnston

Helen Burkhalter Quattlebaum

Hallie Cranford Daugherty

Louise Harle

Jane Nesbit Gaines

Helene Norwood Lammers

Lois Polhill Smith

Dinah Roberts Parramore

1923

Clara May Allen Reinero
Imogene Allen Booth
Dorothy Bowron Collins
Margaret Freida Brenner

Awtrey
Nannie Campbell Roache
Eileen Dodd Sams
Christine Evans Murray
Helen Faw Mull
Maud Foster Jackson
Philippa Gilchrist
Mary Goodrich Stead
Emily C.uille Henegar
Quennelle Harrold Sheffield
Viola Hollis Oakley
Jane Knight Lowe
Lucile Little Morgan
Josephine Bell Logan Hamilton
Lois McClain Stancil
Hilda McConnell Adams
Martha Mcintosh Nail
Mary Stewart McLeod
Sarah Ranson Hahn
Lena Feldman
Jeannye Hall Lemon
Mildred Ham Darsey
Emma Hermann Lowe
Ruby Mae Hudson Summerlin
Caroline Moody Jordan
Sara Olive Moore Kelly
Dorothy Scott
Margaret ta Womelsdorf

Lumpkin

1924

Frances Amis

Janice Stewart Brown

Virginia Burt Evans

Helen Lane Comfort Sanders

Marguerite Dobbs Maddox

Martha Eakes Matthews

Katie Frank Gilchrist

Frances Gilliland Stukes

Margaret Griffin Williams

Emma Kate Higgs Vaughan

Barrun Hyatt Kinney

Evelyn King Wilkins

Mary Mann Boon

Margaret McDow MacDougall

Cora Frazer Morton Durrett

Catherine Nash Goff

Margaret Powell Gay

Cora L. Richardson

Daisy Frances Smith

Polly Stone Buck

Annie Wilson Terry

Mary Evelyn Arnold Barker

Evelyn Byrd Hoge

Eunice Evans Brownlee

Selma L. Gordon Furman

Marguerite Lindsay Booth

Rosalie Long Speight

Edith Melton Bassett

Annie Will Miller Klugh

Louise Pappenheimer

Finsterwald
Elvie Ann Wilson Wiley

1925

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Mary Bess Bowdoin

Mary Phlegar Brown Campbell

Louise Buchanan Proctor

Mary Palmer Caldwell

McFarland
Elizabeth Cheatham Palmer
Agatha Deaver Bradley
Ruth Diane Williams
Isabel Ferguson Hargadine
Lucile Gause Fryxell
Alice Greenlee Grollman
Ruth Guffin Griffin
Sallie Horton Lay
Margaret Hyatt Walker
Mary Keesler Dalton
Margaret Ladd May
Josephine Marbut Stanley
Anne LeConte McKay
Clyde Passmore Dyson
Julia F. Pope
Floy Sadler Maier
Carolyn Smith Whipple
Emily Spivey Simmons
Sarah Tate Tumi in
Frances Tennent Ellis
Mary Ben Wright Erwin
Lulawill Brown Ellis
Elizabeth Fore Crawford

1926

Helen Bates Law

Lois Bolles Knox

Leone Bowers Hamilton

Mary Dudley Brown Hanes

Betty Chapman Pirkle

Edythe Coleman Paris

Louisa Duls

Ellen Fain Bo wen

Mary Freeman Curtis

Edith Gilchrist Berry

Juanita Greer White

Virginia Grimes Evans

Mary Ella Hammond McDowell

Helena Hermance Kilgour

Hazel Huff Monaghan

Sterling Johnson

Mary Elizabeth Knox Happoldt

Elizabeth Little Meriwether

Helen Clark Martin Wilson

Catherine Mock Hodgin

Grace Augusta Ogden Moore

Dorothy Owen Alexander

Florence Perkins Ferry

Allene Ramage Fitzgerald

Susan Shadburn Watkins

Elizabeth Shaw McClamroch

Sarah Slaughter

Sarah Smith Merry

Olivia Swann

Margaret Tufts

Ladie Sue Wallace Nolan

Margaret Whiting ton Davis

Virginia Wing Power

Rosalie Wootten Deck

Sarah Cowan Dean

Olive Hall Shadgett

Susan Rose Saunders

Louise Stokes Hutchison

Norma Tucker Sturterant

Peggy Whittemore Flowers

1927

Reba Bayless Boyer
Maurine Bledsoe Bramlett
Josephine Bridgman
Charlotte Buckland
Georgia Mae Burns Bristow
Grace Carr Clark
Lillian Clement Adams
Willie May Coleman Duncan
Mildred Cowan Wright
Martha Crowe Eddins
Mabel Dumas Crenshaw
Katharine Gilliland Higgins
Mary R. Hedrick
Lelia Joiner Cooper
Ida Landau Sherman
Louise Leonard McLeod
Helen Lewis Lindsley
Ellen Douglass Leyburn
Elizabeth Lilly Swedenberg
H. Louise Lovejoy Jackson
Lamar Lowe Connell
Kenneth Maner Powell
Carolina McCall Chapin
Caroline McKinney Clarke
Pauline McLeod Logue
Lucia Nimmons McMahan
Elizabeth Norfleet Miller
Louise Plumb Stephens
Miriam Preston St. Clair
Evelyn Satter white
Virginia Sevier Hanna
Sarah Shields Pfeiffer
Emily Stead

Edith S. Strickland Jones
Elizabeth A. Vary-
Margie Wakefield
Roberta Winter
Edna Anderson Nobin
Martha Rose Childress Ferris
Grace Etheredge
Theodosia Hollingswoith Duskin
Lora Lee Turner Bostwick
Louise Woodard Clifton

1928

Sallie Abernethy

Harriet Alexander Kilpatrick

Martha Brown Morrison

Elizabeth Cole Shaw

Dorothy Coleman Cohen

Patricia Collins Andretta

Frances Craighead Dwyer

Mary Crenshaw McCullough

Carolyn Essig Frederick

Elizabeth Fuller Veltre

Eloise Gaines Wilburn

Irene Garretson Nichols

Louise Girardeau Cook

Sarah Glenn Boyd

Olive Graves Bowen

Muriel Griffin

Annie Dorothy Harper Nix

Rachel Henderlite

Mary Mackey Hough Clark

Alice Hunter Rasnake

Irene Lowrance Wright

Janet L. MacDonald

Mary Bell McConkey Taylor

Mary Jane McCoy Gardner

Elizabeth McEntire

Sarah L. McFadyen Brown

Julia Napier North

Martha Lou Overton

Margaret Rice

Elizabeth Roark Ellington

Mary Sayward Rogers

Mary Waller Shepherd Soper

Mary Shewmaker

Lillian White Nash

Alice Evelyn Barnett Kennedy

Madelaine Dunseith Alston

Frances New McRae

Ruth Thomas Stemmons

1929

Pernette Adams Carter

Sara Frances Anderson Ramsay

Gladys Austin Mann

Lillie Ruth Bellingrath Pruitt

Martha Bradford Thurmond

Miriam Broach Jordan

Dorothy Brown Cantrell

Hazel Brown Ricks

Virginia Cameron Taylor

Sara Carter Massee

Dorothy Cheek Callaway

Sally Cothran Lambeth

Sara Douglass Thomas

Mary Ficklen Barnett

Nancy Fitzgerald Bray

Ethel Freeland Darden

Betty Gash

Elise Gibson

Alice Glenn Lowrv

Marion Green Johnston

Elizabeth Hatchett

Hazel Hood

Katherine Hunter Branch

Dorothy Hutton Mount

Elaine Jacobsen Lewis

Sara Johnston Carter

Mary Alice Juhan

Mary Lanier Swann

M. Geraldine LeMay

Katherine Lott Marbut

Alice McDonald Richardson

Edith McGranahan Smith T

Elizabeth Moss Mitchell

Julia Muliss Wyer

Eleanor Lee Norris MacKinnon

Rachel Paxon Hayes

Letty Pope

Mary Prim Fowler

Helen Ridley Hartley

Sarah Rikard

Martha Selman Jacobs

Lois Smith Humphries

Olive Spencer Jones

Mary Gladys Steffner Kincaid

Susanne Stone Eady

Mary Warren Read

Violet Weeks Miller

Frances Welsh

Ruth Worth

Mary Ansley Howland

Amanda Groves

Ernestine Hirsch Stern

Ellamay Hollings worth

Wilkerson
Isabelle Leonard Spearman
Mary Lou McCall Reddock
Elsie McNair Maddox
Josephine Pou Varner

1930

Walterette Arwood Tanner

Louise Baker Knight

M. Ruth Bradford Crayton

Elizabeth Branch Johnson

Cleminette Downing Rutenber

Anne Ehrlich Solomon

Elizabeth Flinn Eckert

Anna Kathrine Golucke Conyers

Mildred Greenleaf Walker

Edith Hughes Stipe

Katherine Leary Holland

Ruth McLean Wright

Frances Medlin Walker

Blanche Miller Rigby

Emily Paula Moore Couch

Carolyn Nash Hathaway

F. Carrington Owen

Sallie W. Peake

Shannon Preston dimming

Helen Respess Bevier

Virginia Shaffner Pleasants

Janice Simpson

Martha Stackhouse Grafton

Belle Stowe Abernathy

Mary Louise Thames Cartledge

Sara Townsend Pittman

Mary Trammell

Anne Dowdell Turner
Crystal Hope Wellborn Gregg
Evalyn Wilder
Harriet Williams
Pauline Willoughby Wood
Raymond Wilson Craig
Octavia Young Harvey
Charley Will Caudle Carter
Lilian Cook McFarland
Muriel David Lagomarsino
Marian Martin Wainwright

1931

Sara Lou Bullock
Marjorie Daniel Cole
Ellen Davis Laws
Mildred Duncan
Ruth Dunwody
Marion Fielder Martin
Jean Grey Morgan
Dorothy Grubb Rivers
Carolyn Hey man Goody tein
Myra Jervey Hoyle
Elise Jones

Dorothy Kethley Klughaupt
Anne McCallie
Shirley McPhaul Whitfield
Ruth Pringle Pipkin
Katharine Purdie
Julia Rowan Brown
Jeannette Shaw Harp
Elizabeth Simpson Wilson
Martha Sprinkle Rafferty
Mary Sprinkle Allen
Laelius Stallings Davis
Cornelia Taylor Stubhs
Julia Thompson Smith
Cornelia Wallace
Martha North Watson Smith
Margaret Weeks
Elizabeth Woolfolk Moye
Caroline Elizabeth Jones

Johnson
Alice Quarles Henderson
Mary Winter Wright

1932

Catherine Baker Matthews

Sarah Bowman

Varnelle Braddy Perryman

Penelope Brown Barnett

Mary Louise Cawthon

Margaret Deaver

Mary Dunbar Weidner

Diana Dyer Wilson

Grace Fincher Trimble

Marjorie Gamble

Susan Love Glenn

Ruth Conant Green

Elena Greenfield

Julia Grimmet Fortson

Louise Hollingsworth Jackson

Alma Howerton Cleveland

Elizabeth Hughes Jackson

LaMyra Kane Swanson

Clyde Lovejoy Stevens

Margaret Maness Mixon

Mary Miller Brown

Lila Ross Norfleet Davis

Louise Stakely

Velma Taylor Wells

Miriam Thompson

Olive Weeks Collins

Eliza Mathews Booth

Mary Oliver Cox

Helen Conley Ray

1933

Page Ackerman

Margaret Bell Bun

Margaret Belote Morse

Julia Blundell Adler

Evelyn Campbell

Sarah Cooper Freyer

Jewell Coxwell

Eugenia Edwards McKenzie

Helen Etheredge Griffin

May Belle Evans

Betty Fleming Virgin

Mildred Hooten Keen

Polly Jones Jackson

Roberta Kilpatrick Stubblebine

Blanche Lindsey Camp

Caroline Lingle Lester

Elizabeth Lynch

Vivian Martin Buchanan

Rosemary May Kent

Marie Moss McDavid

Eugenia Norris Hughes

Margaret Ridley Beggs

Mary Louise Robinson Black

Letitia Rockmore Lange

Sara Shadburn Heath

Laura Spivey Massie

Marlyn Elizabeth Tate Leter

Rosalind Ware Reynolds

Katharine Woltz Green
Mary Boyd Jone s
Porter Cowles Pickell
Thelma Firestone Hogg
Dorothy Morganroth Bates

1934

Helen Boyd McConnell

Iona Cater

Nelle Chamlee Howard

Martha Elliott Elliott

Margaret Friend Stewart

Pauline Gordon Woods

Mary Grist Whitehead

Elinor Hamilton Hightower

Elizabeth Johnson Thompson

Louise McCain Boyce

Mary McDonald Sledd

Carrie Lena McMullen Bright

Hyta Plowden Mederer

Dorothy Potts Weiss

Gladys Pratt Entrican

Florence Preston Bockhorst

Virginia Pretty man

Charlotte Reid Herlihy

Carolyn Russell Nelson

5 AGNES SCOTT

Louise Schuessler Patterson

Mary Louise Schuman Simpson

Ruth Shippey Austin

Rosa Shuey Day

Mabel Talmage

Isabella Wilson Lewis

Elizabeth Winn Wilson

Sara May Love

Laura Ross Venning

Mallie White Regen

Eleanor Williams Knox

1935

Elizabeth Alexander Higgins
Vella Marie Behm Cowan
Mary Lillian Deason
Mary Jane Evans Liehliter
Betty Fountain Edwards
Mary Green Wohlford
Anne Harman Mauldin
Katherine Hertzka
Betty Lou Houck Smith
Frances McCalla Ingles
Carolyn McCallum
Julia McClatchey Brooke
Ida Lois McDaniel
Marguerite Morris Saunders
Nina Parke Hopkins
Nell Pattillo Kendall
Grace Robinson Wynn
Marie Simpson Rutland
Suzanne Smith Miller
Elizabeth Thrasher Baldwin
Susan Turner White
Mary Borden Parker
Jane Goodwin Harbin

1936

Lulu Ames

Elizabeth Baethke

Catherine Bates

Ernelle Blair Fife

Meriel Bull Mitchell

Shirley Christian Ledgerwood

Margaret Cooper Williams

Maxine Crisler Johnston

Sara Cureton Prowell

Marion Derrick Gilbert

Elizabeth Forman

Lois Hart

Agnes Jamison McKoy

Carrie Phinney Latimer Duvall

Gertrude Lozier Hutchinson

Lenna Sue McClure Parker

Dean McKoin Bushong

Sallie McRee Maxwell

Sarah Nichols Judge

Myra O'Neal Enloe

Mary Margaret Stowe Hunter

Eugenia Symms

Marie Townsend

Mary Vines Wright

Mary Walker Fox

Lilly Weeks McLean

Rebecca Whitley Nunan

Virginia Williams Goodwin

Catherine Wood Marshall

Jane Blair Roberson

Florrie Lee Erb Bruton

Jean Hicks Pitts

Marjorie Hollingsworth

Louisa Roberts LeRoux

Reba Frances Rogers Griffith

Mary Alice Shelton Felt

1937

Eloisa Alexander LeConte
Lucile Barnett Mirman

Louise Brown Smith

Lucille Cairns George

Frances Cary Taylor

Kathleen Daniel Spicer

Lucile Denm'son Keenan

Michelle Fnrlow Oliver

Annie Laura Galloway Phillips

Mary Gillespie Thompson

Fannie B. Harris JoneB

Ruth Hunt Little

Barton Jackson Cat hey

Dorothy Jester

Mary Johnson

Molly Jones Monroe

Rachel Kennedy Lowthian

Mary King Critchell

Florence Lasseter Ramlvo

Vivienne Long McCain

Mary Malone Martin

Katherine Louise Maxwell

Isabel McCain Brown

Frances McDonald Moore

Enid Middleton Howard

Mary Alice Newton Bishop

Kathryn Printup Mitchell

Marie Stalker Smith

Laura Steele

Alice E. Taylor Wilcox

Mildred Tilly

Lillian Whitehurst Corhett

Betty Willis Whitehead

Frances Wilson Hurst

Barbara Hertwig Meschter

Elizabeth Perrin Powell

Mary Pitner Winkleman

Vivienne Trice Ansley

1938

Jean Barry Adams Weersing
Nell Allison Sheldon
Tommy Ruth Blackmon Waldo
Elsie Blackstone Veatch
Katherine Brittingham Hunter
Frances Castleberry
Jean Chalmers Smith
Goudyloch Erwin Dyer
Mary Lillian Fairley Hupper
Mary E. Galloway Blount
Martha Alice Green Earle
Jane Guthrie Rhodrs
Ann Worthy Johnson
Winifred Kellersberger Vass
Mary Anne Kernan
Eliza King Paschall
Elizabeth McCord Lawler
Lettie McKay Van Landingbam
Nancy Moorer Cantey
Gladys Sue Rogers Brown
Joyce Roper McKey
Elise Seay

Grace Tazewell Flowers
Anne Thompson Rose
Elizabeth Warden Marshall
E. Virginia Watson Logan
Sarah Ruth Arechavala Tyler
Nettie Mae Austin Kelley
Doris Dunn Hills
Kennon Henderson Patton
Lily Hoffman Ford

1939

Mary Rice Allen Reding
Jean Bailey Owen
Adelaide Benson Campbell
Alice Caldwell Melton
Caroline Carmichael Wheeler
Lelia Carson Watlington
Virginia Cofer Avery
Sarah Joyce Cunningham

Carpenter
Lucy Hill Doty Davis
Catherine Farrar Davis
Susan Goodwin Garner
Dorothy Graham Gilmer
Mary Frances Guthrie Brooks
Eleanor T. Hall
Jane Moore Hamilton Ray
Emily C. Harris Swanson
Mary' Hollingsworth Hatfield
Cora Kay Hutchins Blackwelder
Kathleen Kennedy Dibble
Elizabeth Kenney Knight
Virginia Kyle Dean
Helen Lichten Solomonson
Emily MacMoreland Wood
Ella Hunter Mallard Ninestein
Martha Marshall Dykes
Emma McMullen Doom
Mary Wells McNeil]
Helen Moses Regenstein
Julia Porter Scurry
Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger
Hay den San ford Sams
Aileen Short ley Whipple
Alice Sill

Mary Pennel Simonton Boothe
Selma Steinbach Elrod
Mary Frances Thompson
Elinor Tyler Richardson
Georgianne Wheaton Bower
Cary Wheeler Bowers
Mary Ellen Whetsell Timmons
Margaret Willis Dressier
Jane Carhhers Wellington
Ruth Hertzka
Margaret Pleasants Jones
Bettie Winn Sams Daniel

1940

Elizabeth Alderman Vinson
Grace Anderson Cooper
Evelyn Baty Landis
Susie Blackmon Armour
Barbara Brown Fugate
Mary Virginia Bniwn

Cappleman
Inez Calcutt Woods
Jeanette Carroll Smith
Helen Carson
Ernestine Cass McGee
Mary Elizabeth Chalmers

Orslxjrn
Lillie Belle Drake Hindaly
Rebecca Drucker Robinson
Anne Enloe
Carolyn Forman Piel
Annette Franklin King
Marian Franklin Anderson
Mary Lang Gill Olsen
Florence Graham
Wilma Griffith Clapp
Polly Heaslett Badger
Margaret Hopkins Martin
Eleanor Hutchens
Eloise Lennard Smith
Virginia McWhorter Freeman
Virginia Milner Carter
Sophie Montgomery Crane
Lutie Moore Cotter
Nell Moss Roberts
Barbara Lee Murlin Pendleton
Beth Paris Moremen
Nell Pinner Sannella
Margaret Ratchford Stilwell
Mary Reins Burge
Isabella Robertson White
Ruth Slack Roach
Hazel Solomon Beazley
Louise Sullivan Fry
Mary McC. Templeton
Henrietta Thompson Wilkinson
Grace Ward Anderson
V. J. Watkins
Eloise Weeks Gibson
Margaret Barnes Carey
Mary Kate Burruss Proctor
Frances Morgan Williams
Eugenia Williams Schmidt

1941

Mary Stuart Arbuckle Osteen
Elizabeth Barrett Alldredge
Miriam Bedinger Williamson
Frances Breg Marsden
Ni na Broughton Gaines
Sabine Brumby
Charlene Burke Armstrong
G. Gentry Burks Bielaski
Harriett* Cochran Mershon
Florence Ellis Gifford
Louise Franklin Livingston
Caroline Gray Truslow
Florrie Guy Funk
Helen Hardie Smith
Ann Henry

Mary Dinsmore Ivy Chenault
Aileen Kasper Borrish
Helen Klugh McRae
Marria Mansfield Fox
Marjorie Merlin Cohen
Martha Moody Laseter
Pattie Patterson Johnson
Marion Phillips Comento
Sue Phillips Morgan
Elta Robinson Posey
Louise Sams Hardy
Lillian Schwencke Cook
Susan Self Teat
Gene Slack Morse
Elizabeth Stevenson
Carolvn Strozier
Elaine Stubbs Mitchell
Gay Swagerty Guptill
Ida Jane Vaughan Price
Grace Walker Winn
Mary Madison Wisdom
Anita Woolfolk Cleveland
Ruth Ashburn Kline
Edith Henegar Bronson
Sara Lee Jackson

1942

Martha Arant Allgood
Mary Jane Bonham

Stevenhagen
Martha Buff alow Rust
Anne Chambless Bateman
Sylvia Cohn Levy
Dorothy Cremin Read
Billie Davis Nelson
Susan Dyer Oliver
Mary Lightfoot Elcan Nichols
Margaret Erwin Walker
Lillian Gish Alfriend
Virginia Hale Murray
Neva Jackson Webb
Caroline Long Armstrong
Mary Dean Lott Lee
Betty Medlock Lackey
Dorothy Miller

Virginia Montgomery McCall
Dorothy Nabers Allen
Elise Nance Bridges
Caroline Newbold Swails
Mary Elizabeth Robertson Perry
Helen Schukraft Sutherland
Mary Seagle Edelbut
Margaret Sheftall Chester
Margaret Smith Wagnon
Jackie Stearns Potts
Jane Taylor White
Frances Tucker Owen
Alta Webster Payne
Myree Elizabeth Wells Maas
Olivia White Cave
Mae Crumbley Stubblebine
Virginia Franklin Miller
Betty Redmond Wood
Marie Louise Scott
Evelyn Saye Williams

1943

Emily Anderson Hightower

Flora Campbell McLain

Alice Clements Shinall

Mary Ann Cochran Abbott

Joella Craig Good

Laura Gumming Northey

Jane Dinsmore Lowe

Betty DuBose Skiles

Anne Frierson Smoak

Nancy Green

Susan Guthrie Fu

Helen Hale Law ton

M. Elizabeth Hartsfield

Sberman
Betty Henderson Cameron
Dorothy Holloran Addison
Bryant Holsenbeck Moore
Mardia Hopper Brown
Sally Sue Howe Haines
Frances Elkan Kaiser
Wallace Lyons Griffin
Marjorie Patterson Graybeal
Anne Paisley Boyd
Patricia Perry Braun
Frances Radford Mauldin
Ruby Rosser Davis
Clara Rountree Couch
Anne Scott Wilkinson
Helen V. Smith Woodward
Martha Ann Smith Roberts
Aileen Still Hendley
Mary Ward Danielson
Marjorie Weismann Zeidman
Barbara Wilber Gerland
Kay Wright Philips
Netta Jones Ingalls
Jean Tucker

1944

Claire Bennett Kelly
Marguerite Bless Mclnnis
Louise Breedin Griffiths
Carolyn Calhoun Davis
Mary Carr Townsend
Barbara Connally Rogers
Barbara Daniels
Agnes Douglas Kuentzel
Mary Louise Duffee Philips
Elizabeth Edwards Wilson
Patricia Evans
Ruth Farrior
Pauline Garvin Keen
Zena Harris Temkin
Elizabeth Harvard Dowda
Julia Harvard Warnock
Madeline Rose Hosmer Brenner
Ann Jacob

Catherine Kollock Thoroman
Ruth Kolthoff Kirkman
Martha Ray Lasseter Storey
Lois Martin Busby
Mary Maxwell Hutcheson
Quincy Mills Jones

8

Aurie Montgomery Miller
Camilla Moore Merts
Katherine Philips Long
Martha Rhodes Bennett
Anne Sale
Betty Scott Noble
Robin Taylor Horneffer
Katheryne Thompson Mangum
Johnnie Mae Tippen
Marjorie Tippins Johnson
Martha Marie Trimble

Wapensky
\*iruitii;i Tuggle
Betty J. Vecsey

Mary Elizabeth Walker Shellack
Anne Ward Amacher
Betty Williams Stoffel
Oneida Woolford
Josephine Young Sullivan
Betty Bacon Skinner
Eloise Gay Brawley Murray
Ethlyn Coggin Miller
Elinor Gershon Smith
Mary Frances Hill Bell
Henrietta Ruhmann
Katherine Wilkinson Orr

1945

Ruth Anderson Stall

Martha Arnold Shames

Bettye Ashcraft Senter

Elizabeth Blincoe Edge

Virginia Bowie

Frances Brougher Christenberry

Louise Cantrell

Jeanne Carlson Parker

Virginia Carter Caldwell

Geraldino Cottingim Richards

Hansell Cousar Palme

Mary dimming Fitzhugb

Elizabeth Daniel Owens

Harriet te Daugherty Howard

Elizabeth Davis Shingler

Dorothy Dyrenforth Gay

Katherine Edelblut Rox

Pat Elam

Anne Eouen Ballard

Pauline Ertz Wechsler

Helen Elizabeth Forester

Joyce Freeman Marting

Barbara Frink Allen

Martha Jean Gower Woolsey

Ruth Gray Walker

Bippy Gribble Cook

Jean Hood Booth

Kittie Kay Pelham

Frances King Mann

Jane Kreiling Mell

Marion Leathers Daniels

Martha Jane Mack Simons

Sylvia McConnel Carter

Jean McCurrv Wood

Montene Melson Mason

Molly Milam Inserni

Mary Neely Norris King

Martha Patterson

Ceevah Rosenthal

Julia Slack Hunter

Joan Stevenson Wing

Lois Sullivan Kay

Ann Campbell

Betty Campbell Wiggins

Beverly King Pollock

Juanita Lanier Porter

Alice Mann Niedrach

Irene McCain McFarland

Farline Milstead Winchell

Marilyn Schroder Timmerman

Marearet Shepherd Yates

Emily Singlet ary Phillips

1946

Victoria Alexander

Mary Lillian Allen Wilkes

Lucile Beaver

Emily Ann Bradford Batts

Mary Cargill

Mary Ann Courenay Davidson

Edwina Davis Christian

Eleanor Davis Scott

Pattie Dean Curry

Conradine Fraser Riddle

Jean Fuller Hall

Gloria Gaines Klugh

Alice Gordon Pender

Ellen Hayes

Bonnie Hope

Elizabeth Horn Johnson

Lura Johnston Watkins

Peggy Jones Miller

Marjorie Karlson

Barbara Kincaid Trimble

Stratton Lee Peacock

Mildred McCain Kinnaird

Mary McConkey Reimer

Margaret Mizell Dean
Marjorie Naab Bolen
Annette Neville Clark
Jane Ann Newton Marquess
Anne Noell Fowler
Elizabeth Osborne Rollins
Peggy Perez Westall
Bettye Lee Phelps Douglas
Celetta Powell Jones
Rosalind Price Sasser
Harding Ragland Sadler
Anne Register Jones
Louise Reid

Eleanor Reynolds Verdery
Mary Russell Mitchell
Ruth Ryner Lay
Mary Jane Schumacher

Bullard
Ruth Simpson Blanton
Bettye Smith Satterthwaite
Dorothy Sprageus Trice
Helga Stixrad Rose
Minnewil Story McNeal
Peggy Trice Hall
Lucy Turner Knight
Maud Van Dyke Jennings
Mary Catherine Vinsant Grymes
Verna Vail Weems Macbeth
Betty Weinschenk Mundy
Winifred Wilkinson
Eva Williams Jemison
Elisabeth Woodward Ellis
Ann Gilmore Noble Dye
Jean Rooney

1947

Marie Adams Conyers
Louisa Aichel Mcintosh
Mary Frances Anderson

Wendt
Betty Andrews Lee
Isabel Asbury Oliver
Virginia Barksdale Lancaster
Glassell Beale Smalley
Marie Beeson Ingraham
Kathleen Buchanan Cabell
Eleanor Calley Story
Charlotte Clarkson Jones
Jane Ruth Cooke
Betty Crabill Rogers
Helen Catherine Currie
Virginia Dickson Philips
Anna George Dobbins
Anne Eidson Owen
Ruth Ellis
Nelson Fisher
Mary Jane Fuller Floyd
Dorothy Galloway Fontaine
Mynelle Grove Harris
Anne Hagerty Estes
Agnes Harnsberger Rogers
Mary Emily Harris
Genet Heery Barron
Peggy Pat Home Martin
Ann Hough Hopkins
Louise Hoyt Minor
Sue Hutchens Henson
Marianne Jefferies Williams
Anne Johnson Coogler
Kathryn Johnson
Rosemary Jones Cox
Margaret Kelly Wells
Theresa Kemp Setz
Janet Liddell Phillippi
Mary Ann Martin Pickard
Marguerite Mattison Rice
Mary McCalla Poe
Margaret McManus Landham
Jane Meadows Oliver
Edith Merrin Simmons
Alice Newman Johnson
Virginia Owens Mitchell
Betty Lou Patterson King
Dorothy Peace Ramsaur
Betty Jean Radford Moeller
Jean Rentz Doucher
Doris Riddick Berry
Ellen Rosenblatt Caswell
Lorenna Ross Brown
Nellie Scott Pritchett
Nancy Shelton Parrott
Frances Sholes Higgins
Sarah Smith Austin
Barbara Sproesser Eiland
Carroll Taylor Parker
Dorothy Wadlington Singleton
Beth Walton Callaway
Barbara Wilson Montague
Laura Winchester Rahm
Betty Mann Jackson
Ann Hagood Barlow

1948

Dabney Adams

Jane Alsobrook Miller

Virginia Andrews
Ruth Bastin Slentz
Barbara Blair
Elizabeth Blair Carter
Betty Jean Brown Ray
Mary Alice Compton
Martha Ann Cook Sanders
Edna Claire Cunningham

Schooley
Jean da Silva Ricketts
Susan Daugherty
Alice Davidson
Nancy Deal Weaver
Betty Jo Doyle Fischer
Virginia Drake Blass
June Driskill Meredith
Elizabeth Dunn
Grace Durant Tyson
Anne Elcan Mann
Carol Equen Miller
Anne Ezzard
Edith Feagle Voigt
Nancy Geer Alexander
Helen Goldman Alperin
Rose Mary Griffin Wilson
Kathleen Hew r son
Caroline Hodges Roberts
Amanda Hulsey Thompson
June Irvine Torbert
Beth Jones Crabill
Mildred Claire Jones Colvin
Bette Anne Kitts Kidd
Marybeth Little Weinstein
Alice Whipple Lyons Brooks
Roberta Maclagan Wingard
Lady Major
Ellen Morrison Fulton
Mae Comer Osborne
Evelyn Puckett Woodward
Margaret Anne Richards Terry
Ruth Richardson
Anna Clark Rogers Sawyer
Jane Rushin Hungerford
Teressa Rutland Sanders
Zollie Anne Saxon Johnson
Rebekah Scott Bryan
Anne Shepherd McKee
Charlien Simms Wilson
Mary Gene Sims Dykes
June Smith A they
Dorothy Stewart Gilliam
Anne Treadwell Suratt
Lida Walker Askew
Barbara Waugaman Thompson
Sara Catherine Wilkinson
Tattie Mae Williams
Margaret Yancey Kirkman
Marian Yancey Carroll
Nancy Haislip Cammack
Ann Patterson Puckett
Barbara Whipple Bitter

1949

Mary Aichel Samford

Mary Jo Amnions Jones

Miriam Arnold Newman

M. Fay Ball Rhodes

Louisa Beale McGaughey

Betty Blackmon Kinnett

Martha Ann Board Howell

Frances Brannan Hamrick

Bobbie Cathcart Hopkins

Helen Christian Shurhut

Julianne Cook Ashmead

Alice Crenshaw Moore

Jo Culp Williams

Marie Cuthbertson Faulkner

Betsy Deal Smith

Nancy Dendy Ryle

Jane Efurd Watkins

Betty Jeanne Ellison Candler

Kate Elmore

Ann Faucette

Katherine Geffcken

Martha Goddard Lovell

Jean Harper

Anne Hayes Berry

Mary Hays Babcock

Mary Heinz Langston

Nancy Huey Kelly

Henrietta Johnson

Nan Johnson

Mary Frances Jones Woolsey

Joan Lawrence

Lorton Lee

Ruby Lehmann Cowley

Rebecca Lever

Harriet Lurton Major

Katherine McKoy

Polly Miles Sayer

Ruth Hunt Morris

Dorothy Morrison

Nancy Parks Anderson

Cathie Phillips

Mary Helen Phillips Hearn
Lynn Phillips Mathews
Billie Powell Lemmon
Dot Quillian Reeves
Frances Robeson Amsler
Betty Jo Sauer
Carmen Shaver Brown
Shirley Simmons Duncan
Edith Stowe Barkley
Rachel Stubbs Farris
Doris Sullivan Tippens
Sarah Katharine Thomson
Sue Tidwell Dixon
Newell Turner Parr
Virginia Vining Skelton
Valeria Von Lehe Williams
Martha Warlick Brame
Julia Weathers Wynne
Elizabeth Williams Henry
Harriot te Winchester Hurley
Gene Akin Martin
Beverly Baldwin Albea
Alice Jean Caswell Wilkin?
Jean Fraser Duke
Louise Gehrken Howie
Caroline Little Witcher
Josephine Snow Lee
Jeannette Willcoxon Peterson

1950

Betty Asbill

Sara Jane Camphell Harris

Miriam Carroll Specht

Jo- Ann Christopher

Betty Cole Van Houten

Beryl Crews

Betty Jane Crowther

Dorothy Davis Yarbrough

Elizabeth Dunlap

Helen Edward?

Jean Edwards Crouch

Charlotte Evans

Claire Foster Moore

Ann Gebhardt

Julia Goode

Ann Griggs Foster

Mary Ann Hachtel

Anne Haden Howe

Sarah Hancock

Louise Harant Bennett

Marie Heng

Margaret Hopkins Williams

Lillian Lasseter Pearson

Adele Lee Dowd

Norah Anne Little Green

Evelyn Long Gaines

Alline Marshall

Todd McCain Reagan

Sue McSpadden Fisher

Dorothy Medlock Bond

Mary Frances Morris

Jean Niven Baker

Jean Osborn Sawyer

Pat Overton Webb

Genie Dean Paschal Harvey

Vivienne Patterson

Polly Anna Philips Harris

Betty Phillips Lindsay

Patty R. Phillips

Joann Piastre

Emily Ann Reid Williams

Virginia Skinner Jones

Eugenia Louise Staples

Martha Stowell Rhodes

Sally Thompson

Isabel Truslow Fine

Sarah Tucker

Willa Wagner Beach

Terrell Warburton

Mary Louise Warlick Niblock

Nancy Wilkinson

Ann Williamson Camphell

Mary Ida Wilson

Ann Windham

Catherine Chance

Dorothy Floyd

Jo Ann McCall Cobb

Miriam Mitchell Ingram

Phyllis Narmore Matthews

1951

Dorothy Adams Knight
Betty Averill Durie
Noel Barnes Williams
Su Boney Milner
Anne Brooke Milner
Barbara Caldwell
Regina Cantrall Banick
Nancy Cassin Smith
Frances Clark
Mary George Cline Lind
Patricia Ann Cooper
Julia Cuthbertson
Anna Da Vault Haley
Virpinia Feddeman Kerner
Marjorie Felder
Nell Floyd Hall
Betty Jane Foster

Deadwyler
Freddie Hachtel
Cornelia Hale

Dorothy Jean Harrison King
Winifred Horton Martin
Nancy Lu Hudson
Ellen Hull

Sara Beth Jackson Hertwig
Geraldine Keef Moreland
Charlotte Key
Anne Kincaid
Jeanne Kline Mallory
Jane LaMaster
Mary Caroline Lindsay Ford
Jeanette Mattox
Eleanor McCarty Cheney
Jimmie Ann McGee Col lings
Sarah McKee
Jackie Sue Messer
Joan Miller Houston
Carol Munger
Katherine Nelson
Mary Anna Opden Bryan
Marjorie Orr Brantley
Barbara Quattlebaum Parr
Wilton Rice Dunn
Mary Roberts Davis
Elaine Schubert
Annelle Simpson Kelly
Jenelle Spear
Celia Spiro

Barbara Stainton Robinson
Martha Ann Stegar Deadmore
Marjorie Stukes
Ruth Vineyard
Kitty Warren Ball
Martha Weakley
Bettie Wilson
Marie Woods
Betty Ziegler Dunn
Nancy Anderson Benson
Nan Ford Stevens
Betty Hollifield Leonard
Kay Laufer Morgan
Dolores Martin
Jacqueline Palmer Underwood

1952

Charlotte Allsmiller Crossland
Margaret Andes Okarma
Katie Berdanis
Ann Boyer Wilkerson

Mary Jane Brewer

Barbara Brown

Billie Bryan

June Carpenter Bryant

Sybil Corbett Riddle

Landis Cotten Gunn

Catherine Crowe

Katharine Currie

Alk-na Doggett

Theresa Dokos Hutchison

Louise Dunaway

Claire Eaton Franklin

Sarah Emma Evans Blair

Kathren Freeman

Phyllis Galphin Buchanan

Kathryn Gentry Westbury

Barbara Grace Palmour

Jo Ann Hall

Susan Hancock

Shirley Heath

Ann Herman

Carolyn Holtrey Holt

Betty Holland Boney

Helen Huie Bahr

Mary Lee Hunnieut

Margaret Inman

Louise Jett

Margaret Ann Kaufmann

Helen Frances Land Led better

Marparetta Lumpkin Shaw

Mary Frances Martin Rolader

Mary McDonald

Sylvia Moutos

Betty Moyer Keeter

Ann Parker Lee

Edith Petrie

Jane Puckett Chumhlcy

Catherine Redles

Helen Jean Robart? Sea ton

Miriam Runyon

Adelaide Ryall Beall

Kassie Simmons Ellis

Carol Solomon

Patricia Thomason Smallwood

Marie Underwood

Sally Veale Daniel

Lorna Wiggins

Sylvia Williams Ingram

Florence Worthy Griner

Lillian Beall Lumpkin

Hilda I. Priviteri

1953

Charlotte Allain

Allardyce Armstrong Hamill

Evelyn Bassett

Pat Baumgarten

Ann Baxter

Frances Blakeney

Bertie Bond

Suanne Bowers Sauerhrun

Constance Byrd

Peggy Carlos

Mary Jo Chapman

Doris Lillian Clingman Hopper

Frances Ellen Coley

Eunice Connally

Sarah Frances Cook

Ann Cooper

Virpinia Corry

Margaret Raleigh Cousar

Jane Lillian Dalhouse Hailey

Ann Carter DeWitt George

Donya Dixon

Susan Walton Dodson

Donna Anne Dugger

Frances Carol Edwards

Mary Frances Evans

Mary Anne Garrard Jernigan

Frances Ginn

Catherine Goff Beckham

Patricia Ann Green

Ruth Dahl Gudmundson

Mary Adelaide Hamilton

Sarah Crewe Hamilton

Florence May Hand Warren

Virginia Claire Hays

Keller Henderson Bumgardm-r

Betsy Hill

Betsy Lee Hodpes

Honorine Jane Hook

Peggy Hooker

Mary Holland Archibald

Ellen Hunter Winn

Carol Lou Jacob

Barbara Ann Johnston Bennett

Ann Jones

Ann Wortley Jones Sims

Rosalyn Kenneday

Jacqueline King Bozeman

Sarah Ann Leathers

Mary Mills Lindsey McBurney

Nancy Loemker

Despo Matheson

Betty Marie McLellan Carter

Margaret McRae Edwards

Evelyn Farmer Merrill

Marion Poulain Merritt Wall

Adaline Miller Royce

Belle Neel Miller McMaster

Patricia Marie Morgan

Lilla Kate Parramore

Sue Peterson

Dorothv Anne PotU

Ruth Brown Reeves Dill

Mary Beth Robinson Stuart

Louise Ross

Nancy Ruffner

Ruth Runyon

Shirley Samuels Bowden

Bonnie Sanders

Rita May Scott

Priscilla Sheppard

Marie Stowers Davie

Natalie Stratton Howard

Lindy Ann Taylor Barnett

Margaret Thomason Lawrence

Carolyn Adele Thompson

Schaudies
Anne Thomson
Charline Tritton Shanks
Helen Marie Tucker Smith
Norma Want:
Vivian Lucille Weaver
Barbara West Dickens
Roberta Williams
Mary Ann Wyatt
Rene Dudney
Carlene Nickel El rod
Mary' Rinley Warren
Norma Waldrep Cassels
Dorothy Weston Senter
Jane William? Coleman

1954

Helen Howie French

1955

Lucile Bmokshaw

1956

Mary Anne Fesler Wheeler
Virginia Earl Vickery Jon,'

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Coming in the Fall Quarterly:

Dr. George P. Hayes discusses the essence of individ-
uality, and Zena Harris Temkin '44, reports states
of mind among her classmates ''ten years after."
This issue was sent to all alumnae as a report on
the great progress of the 1953-54 Alumnae Fund and
as an initial request for contrihutions to the 1954-55
Fund. Midsummer thought for all alumnae: please
do remember you will receive subsequent issues of
the Quarterlv as you become an active member of the
Alumnae Association by your annual gift to the college.

THE NEW ALUMNAE FUND APPEAL

1954-55

WHEN YOU OPEN this Quarterly, the new Fund
year will have begun.

It opens with great hopes all founded on your par-
ticipation for Agnes Scott's best annual gift year.
The envelope opposite this page is for your use in
sending in your gift. The amount? Whatever you can
give and want to give for the coming year to higher
education.

You probably give to your church and to several
good public causes, because you believe in them. Are
you ready to back up with equal promptness and gene-
rosity your belief in Agnes Scott and first-rate liberal
education? Do you think the world needs more liberal
arts graduates, more people who succesfully combine
intellectual and religious strength? The Alumnae
Fund is your annual chance to translate your belief
into action.

Whatever the size of your gift, it will be welcome and
will be used toward a greater Agnes Scott. Just send
it, and send it as soon as you can. "She gives twice
who gives quickly'' as everyone knows who has ever
been responsible for conducting a fund drive. Your
support is needed and is eagerly anticipated.

V ou may direct the use of your gift in any one of
several ways. UNRESTRICTED FUNDS are used
by the administration for the general work of the
College. FACULTY SALARIES must go up.
SCHOLARSHIPS must continue to bring the ablest
girls to Agnes Scott. FOREIGN STUDENTS add
to the value of an Agnes Scott education for Americans
and help the United States interpret itself abroad. You
may have a SPECIAL INTEREST in a certain
project :

Hopkins Hall Memorial Room ($1,000)

McCain Library Endowment Fund

McDougald Science Museum

Agnes Scott Art Collection

Alumnae House or Garden (for this, make
check pavable to Alumnae Property Com-
mittee I

Scholarships in Tribute to
Lucile Alexander

Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cunningham
Louise Hale
Betty Hollis
Alary D. Sheppard
Jodele Tanner
Martha Merrill Thompson

Or Your Own Scholarship, which can be
founded with a gift of $1,000 or more
and augmented each year as you wish.

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CLASS NEWS

Edited by Eloise Hardeman Ketchin

Deadline for news in this issue was May 10, '54. News
received between that date and September 10, '45, will
appear in the Fall Quarterly.

DEATHS

INSTITUTE

William Edwin Holt, husband of
Amanda Caldwell Holt, died March 6.

Mary Danner Frazer died in March
1953.

1911 Neal Johnson, son of Gussie
O'Neal Johnson and Lewis, died in
April.

1912 Martha Willis Branch died
Feb. 20.

1923 Dr. Charles S. Sydnor, hus-
band of Ada Elizabeth Brown Syd-
nor and dean of the Arts and Science
Graduate School, Duke University,
died March 2.

Mrs. George W. Little, mother of
Lucile Little Morgan and Georgia
Little Owens '25, died April 1.

1929 Maj. Gen. Earl T. Ricks.
deputy chief of the National Guard
Bureau and husband of Hazel Ricks,
died in January.

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