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The 

AGIB8 SCOTT 

Alumnae Quarterly 



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1952 



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 



il I, 

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 



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Janie McBryde Williams died Jan. ei 
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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. 

1 945 Margaret Milam Inserni's fa- 
ther died June 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. 

An increasingly important influence in Agnes Scott's 



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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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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 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 

MEMBER 

AMERICAN ALUMNI 
COUNCIL 



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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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. 



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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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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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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 



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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 



4 



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. 



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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. 

Leonardo da Vixci 



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THE 

ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION 

OF 

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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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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Dr. Katharine McBride, President of Bryn Mawr 
College. 



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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 
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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,' 

SPECIALS 

Mildred Baldwin Leigb 
Lila Longley Hicke 
Bernice Wing Lee 



Is there an Agnes Scott "type 



"? 

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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